At 54 mins the question about tense - I have the answer. Always always write your research up as done in the past tense. We did rather than we will , our research has found rather than our research will show etc
From what I can hear, the lady asks 'Who's published a paper already?'. Probably the question wasn't pertinent to this discussion, which I believe wasn't. Also, if it is the same lady who has been asking the previous comments, then Simon and her seem to be on quite good terms, so it might not be necessarily rude. But yeah, looks a bit rude on the surface.