Skriker,
unfortunately you'd lose your bet.
In Italy computer scientists can certainly READ English, but we are not exposed very often to spoken English. ALL the TV is dubbed in Italian, and the same goes for movie theaters. As a result it may actually be very difficult for them to follow English content. As an example of what I am talking about, here there's a translation of the very first comment in the thread:
"Thank you guys, I love you!!!
What a pleasure is listening to your interviews in Italian, after having spent the summer trying to grasp as much as possible from interviews given by people with the widest range of accents and slangs!"
As Carlo says, Channel9 is stuffed with English material to keep you very busy: hopefully you won't be bothered too much if we try to do something from time to time for people speaking Italian,Japanese, Chinese, etc etc

thanks
V.