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00:29Well, howdy partner, welcome to QI
00:32for some highfalutin', rootin', tootin', sharpshootin'
00:34in our Wild West special, yee-haw!
00:36Let's meet our lawless varmints.
00:39What in tarnation?
00:40It's Eshan Akbar.
00:45Wanted, dead or alive?
00:46It's Alex Brooker.
00:51Sheldon Jehoshaphat, it's Joe Brand.
00:56And yippee-ki-yay, Mother Superior, it's Alan Davis.
00:59APPLAUSE
01:00Their buzzers are from our own rodeo radio.
01:08Eshan goes...
01:10Oh, nice.
01:19Alex goes...
01:20This is great.
01:24LAUGHTER
01:25Are you just getting over-excited now?
01:30I need that chair for other people, don't I?
01:33LAUGHTER
01:34Joe goes...
01:37Oh, yeah.
01:41MUSIC
01:42And Alan goes...
01:46Right, let's mosey on down to question one.
01:58Stop me when you know what I'm talking about, OK?
02:01Where they used whips, they wore leather chaps, big boots,
02:05even bigger hats, used lassoes, invented the rodeo,
02:09were mostly boys who herded cows in the 18th century.
02:14Two wheels on my wagon.
02:16LAUGHTER
02:20Cowboys.
02:21CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:27It's not cowboys?
02:28No, it's not cowboys.
02:29Cowgirls.
02:32LAUGHTER
02:37Cow-thems.
02:44I mean, let's just go for cows.
02:47So most of the things that we associate with the all-American cowboy
02:50originate from the Mexican vaquero.
02:52A cattle hand, so vaca, meaning cow.
02:54It comes from Spain, starts in about the 15th century,
02:57well established by the 17th century.
02:59So the cowboy that we think of,
03:01which is honestly mostly from the movies,
03:03comes to the US in the 19th century
03:05when they begin to get these big cattle ranching regions.
03:08Now, you've all got some bits and pieces to put on,
03:11a little bit of dressing up today.
03:13Yeah.
03:14OK.
03:15Oh, yeah.
03:16Oh, yeah.
03:17There we go.
03:18Yeah.
03:19Yeah, we're talking the good stuff.
03:21Oh, there's spurs, Sandy, there's spurs.
03:23Yes, yes.
03:24They're very sharp.
03:25Have I meant to put that on?
03:26LAUGHTER
03:29I'm going to say, Joe, if you just wear that,
03:31you will definitely win.
03:32I'm just...
03:34What kind of hat are you wearing, Alex?
03:36What is it called?
03:38It's not a trick question, do I?
03:39Cowboy hat.
03:40You look like a sort of, I don't know,
03:42a mad mystic woman who's going to...
03:47What were the hats called?
03:48Anybody?
03:49Ten-gallon hat.
03:50Ten-gallon hat.
03:51Do you think it had ten gallons in it?
03:53Yes.
03:54No.
03:55It actually came from the vaqueros' sombrero,
03:58and it really didn't become popular until the 1920s,
04:01which is, like, way after the Wild West.
04:03Most cowboys wore bowler hats.
04:05They were called them derby hats.
04:06And, of course, they didn't hold ten gallons.
04:08Maybe it came from the Spanish tangalan, meaning so gallant.
04:12Probably, it's just an exaggeration.
04:14So, we had a go at making a hat that could actually hold ten gallons.
04:20Now, this...
04:21Whoa!
04:22It looks like you're about to go on a hen-do and drink out of that.
04:34I'm on if you are.
04:36Yeah.
04:37Weirdly, this is actually only five gallons.
04:39Do you want to try it on?
04:40If it had been ten gallons, it would have been as tall as me.
04:43So, tiny, then?
04:44LAUGHTER
04:45Oh, that's...
04:46That's fantastic.
04:47That could run it off a steamship.
04:49LAUGHTER
04:54The other thing they had, of course, is they had whips and lassoos,
04:56but they had this thing, when they were lassoing,
04:59you had to be incredibly careful, because the rope was very, very strong,
05:03and you could get your thumb trapped in the rope
05:06if you didn't throw it properly, and it would come clean off.
05:09Oh.
05:10I don't know why I'm looking at you.
05:11LAUGHTER
05:22I tell you what, I'd have made a shit cowboy.
05:26They'd be like, he still ain't learnt with the rope,
05:27it took the thumb, it took the other two buggers.
05:31It was called rodeo thumb.
05:32Rodeo thumb?
05:33I know, you wouldn't think it would be that strong, would you, the rope?
05:36I know, absolutely.
05:38What is one of the things in the movies, though,
05:40about the way in which cowboys are pretty much always depicted?
05:43They were always having a row, weren't they?
05:45Yes.
05:46They were always there in the pub.
05:48There were some football fans.
05:49Yeah.
05:51So, almost always depicted as white men, but it wasn't true.
05:54About a third of cowhands were indigenous Mexicans,
05:57or mixed-raced mestizos, and about a quarter were black.
06:01There was a guy called Nate Love.
06:03He was known as Deadwood Dick.
06:04LAUGHTER
06:07They've all been called Deadwood.
06:08Oh.
06:11He became a cowboy after he was freed from slavery,
06:13and he has an amazing autobiography.
06:15It's the only complete story of a black cowboy.
06:18He's amazing.
06:19He drank with Billy the Kid.
06:20He got shot 14 times.
06:22He once lassoed a train.
06:25Wow!
06:26Yeah.
06:27He'd just met his future wife, and he was absolutely drunk on love,
06:30I imagine, and whiskey.
06:31Yeah.
06:32And he was dragged into a ditch, and he wrote in his autobiography,
06:34Roping a live engine is by long odds worse than roping wild buffalo,
06:38but my love was as strong as ever, and I thank my lucky star,
06:41she did not see me, as they dragged me out of the ditch.
06:45LAUGHTER
06:46Wow.
06:47The thing is, if you've survived being shot 14 times...
06:49Yeah.
06:50..you'd back yourself lassoing a train, wouldn't you?
06:52Yeah, exactly.
06:53Yeah, yeah.
06:54You were basically 50 cent at that point, weren't you?
06:55LAUGHTER
06:57I've had a 50 cent reference to a QI audience.
07:00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:01You would love that.
07:02The QI audience and the 50 cent.
07:0450 cent.
07:05LAUGHTER
07:06OK, here's another question.
07:07Where did the famous gunfight between the Clanton gang
07:10and Wyatt Earp's gang take place?
07:13Well, I wanted to make a noise, so I'm going to say the OK Corral.
07:18CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
07:25So we're looking here, Ike Clanton on the left, a wrong'un,
07:28and Wyatt Earp, who, at that time of the photograph,
07:31was a marshal in Dodge City in Kansas.
07:33So we've got the bad guys against the law guys,
07:36and we talk about the OK Corral,
07:38but where did it actually take place?
07:40Croydon.
07:41LAUGHTER
07:42The OK Corral was near Tombstone, wasn't it?
07:45Yeah.
07:46It actually took place in an empty lot next to a photo studio,
07:50and it should be called the gunfight outside Fly's photographic studio.
07:55LAUGHTER
07:57In fact, that picture that we showed of Clanton in Tombstone
08:01was almost certainly taken at Fly's photographic studio.
08:04So the gunfight did take place 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona,
08:07but when the newspapers wrote about it,
08:09the first thing they wrote was,
08:10there was a fight on Fremont Street,
08:12and that lasted for about 50 years,
08:14and then Wyatt Earp published his biography in 1931,
08:18and that's when it became the fight at the OK Corral.
08:21So it is remembered as a shootout between a group of lawmen
08:24and a gang of outlaws,
08:25although lots of the lawmen were a bit dodgy themselves.
08:28Here's the thing about it.
08:29There were 30 shots fired in the 30-second fight.
08:33How many people do you think died?
08:35They were only six feet apart, these people.
08:37All of them?
08:38No, three. They must have been really shit shots.
08:40Oh, God!
08:43Six feet apart, 30 shots, 30 seconds, three dead people.
08:46It doesn't seem like a very good...
08:47Who was shooting Brooker?
08:48LAUGHTER
08:53Brooker Lee!
08:54Put back there, put back there!
08:56It would have been in 30 seconds,
08:57I'd have still been trying to get it out of the old stuff.
08:59LAUGHTER
09:00Anyway, so get this out for me, mate, would you?
09:02LAUGHTER
09:03I'll hold it, you pull the trigger, mate.
09:04LAUGHTER
09:08Now, here's some Wild West legends.
09:09Can you tell me how they got their nicknames?
09:12So, this is Wild Bill Hickock.
09:15Oh, is that how you say it?
09:16What did you think it was?
09:17Wild Bill Hickock.
09:18Yes.
09:19Oh.
09:20I mean, depends if he's wearing the chaps.
09:23LAUGHTER
09:25Hickock sounds out of condition.
09:26Is that a condition?
09:27Yeah, it does.
09:28LAUGHTER
09:29Guilty!
09:34My little brother, when he was about six,
09:36he thought he was called Wild Bill Hick-ups.
09:39LAUGHTER
09:41So, his real name was James Butler Hickock.
09:43We're not sure, but it's possibly to do with a bit of teasing.
09:45So, some people said that he had a long nose and quite protruding lips,
09:50and he looked a bit like a duck.
09:52LAUGHTER
09:53Duck Bill?
09:54Yes.
09:55His nickname was Duck Bill, and he decided he didn't like Duck Bill,
09:59but he would OK if it was Wild Bill.
10:01Has he not realised he's got, like, the wrong hat on for a cowboy?
10:04LAUGHTER
10:05I'm Cossack.
10:06Wild Bill Cossack.
10:07LAUGHTER
10:08Shut up, Duck Bill!
10:10Fuck you, man!
10:11I ain't Duck Bill!
10:12I'm Cossack!
10:13LAUGHTER
10:14LAUGHTER
10:15I'm starting to think on Wikipedia, and you is going to be Duck Bill.
10:20LAUGHTER
10:21LAUGHTER
10:22He did have a really boring brother called Lorenzo,
10:26who used to be known as Tame Bill.
10:28Tame Bill.
10:29LAUGHTER
10:30But it did kind of predict what was going to happen
10:32while Bill was shot in the back while playing cards
10:34when he was just 39.
10:36And old Lorenzo, Tame Bill, lived into his 80s.
10:38I'm just saying.
10:39The next one is called Big Nose Kate.
10:42Oh.
10:43LAUGHTER
10:44Which one do you think is Big Nose?
10:46LAUGHTER
10:47It's probably normal noses so far.
10:49I know, right?
10:50It's like you've got to go to VAR on this.
10:52LAUGHTER
10:53Get the lines out.
10:54LAUGHTER
10:55LAUGHTER
10:56Is it referring to another part of their analysis?
10:58LAUGHTER
11:00So, which one do you think?
11:01One is her sister Wilma, and one is Big Nose Kate.
11:04Kate's on the left.
11:05Kate is on the left, yes.
11:07I mean, some people say it's because she used to stick her nose
11:09in other people's business.
11:11She was the long-term companion of Doc Holliday.
11:14She was with him at the gunfight at the OK Corral,
11:17or the photographic studio, watching from a nearby window.
11:21I'd do that.
11:22Would you? Just watch.
11:24I'd go to the window if I heard a gunfight.
11:26Yeah.
11:27She worked as a sporting woman.
11:28Anybody?
11:29Is that like a brass?
11:30Is that a prostitute?
11:31It is a prostitute, yes, yes.
11:33Is that like a brass?
11:35LAUGHTER
11:36What a team we are.
11:40Get out on a BBC poster.
11:43LAUGHTER
11:44APPLAUSE
11:53The BBC.
11:54For everyone.
11:55For everyone.
11:56LAUGHTER
12:01There are other ones.
12:02Richard Rattlesnake Dick Barter.
12:04Ooh!
12:05What?
12:06Rattlesnake Dick.
12:07Rattlesnake Dick.
12:08Rattlesnake Dick.
12:09What a nickname that is.
12:10That is good.
12:11What?
12:12At the urinal.
12:13I can hear him.
12:14LAUGHTER
12:19I reckon Richard's going to the toilet again, isn't he?
12:20Yeah.
12:21LAUGHTER
12:24Got Richard there again.
12:26LAUGHTER
12:29The Rattlesnake mine where he kept telling everybody
12:31he was going to make his fortune.
12:33OK.
12:34Next question.
12:35What use is a square wagon wheel?
12:38It stopped me rolling away.
12:40That is a very good point.
12:42But in this case wagon is a person's name.
12:44So in 1997 there was a professor called Stan Wagon
12:47at Macalester College in Minnesota
12:50and he made a functioning square wheeled tricycle.
12:54OK.
12:55This is not him.
12:56This is a man who, I don't know, in a suit.
12:58LAUGHTER
12:59And he's called Stan Wagon?
13:01The guy who invented it is called Stan Wagon.
13:04Did J.K. Rowling name him?
13:05LAUGHTER
13:06So in order for a wheel to work at all, the centre has to be level, right?
13:12So the easiest way is to make a round wheel.
13:14But if you make a specific track, so you can see he's on a very specific track here,
13:18then the wheels can be any shape pretty much, apart from triangles really.
13:22So look at this, right?
13:24This is a rather brilliant bus, but it doesn't go anywhere because it's got square wheels.
13:29However, if you make a surface like this, which has got what these humps are called inverted catenaries,
13:38and basically, look, along it goes like that.
13:43I know.
13:44So the reason this is interesting, there's an engineer called Gerard Font,
13:48and he thinks because stones with very similar curves were found in Giza,
13:53this method may have been what helped people to roll the blocks into place for the pyramids.
13:58So I guess you can see it's kind of pointless, but it's also interesting.
14:01Yeah.
14:02How did they do that?
14:03But that road there looks like every 20 mile an hour is only a school anyway.
14:07Yeah, that is so true.
14:08LAUGHTER
14:09Isn't it fascinating?
14:10Wouldn't it be great to have a car with square wheels?
14:12I just really like it.
14:13I really don't think it would.
14:14No?
14:15LAUGHTER
14:16That's for one speed bump.
14:17Here we go.
14:18Here we go.
14:19It comes into its own.
14:20Oh, well.
14:21It's just me.
14:22I like a square wagon wheel.
14:23That's just the way I roll.
14:24Oh, nice.
14:25Come on.
14:26I like it.
14:27Thank you, Ethan.
14:28I appreciate that.
14:29Right, let's move on to a question about wondrous wealth.
14:30In which state was the first American gold rush?
14:41Wasn't it like California?
14:42Oh.
14:43Oh.
14:44Oh.
14:45Oh.
14:46Oh.
14:47Oh.
14:48Oh.
14:49Oh.
14:50Oh.
14:51Arizona.
14:52Nevada.
14:53LAUGHTER
14:54We're talking about 1799, the United States is newly formed.
14:59Oh, so it's got to be over to the east.
15:00Yeah.
15:01New York State.
15:02With another 46 to go, so I'm going to stop you there.
15:03North Carolina was the very first time.
15:04So there was a child playing called Conrad Reed and he found a nugget of gold described as
15:06the size of a shoe, and for three years the family used it as a doorstop.
15:07So 1799, they find this thing, they keep it as a doorstop for three years and then his father thought, I wonder what I could get for it.
15:08And he took it along to Silverstone.
15:09He took it along to Silverstone.
15:10He took it along to Silverstone.
15:11Silverstone...
15:12three years and it was $0.50, and he got $3.50, which was actually worth $3,000.
15:18And so then we got $3.50.
15:20$2.50 with another 46 to go, so I'm going to stop you there.
15:23North Carolina was the very first time.
15:25So there was the child playing called Conrad Reed.
15:27And he found a nugget of gold described as the size of a shoe.
15:30And for three years the family used it as a doorstop.
15:33So 1799, they find this thing, they keep it as a doorstop for three years, and then his father thought, I wonder what I could get for it.
15:37And he took it along to Silverstone.
15:40It's actually worth $3,600.
15:43I mean, this is at the time, right?
15:46They found out that they had been rooked,
15:49so they thought, oh, let's go look for some more,
15:51and over the next 20 years they found $100,000 worth of gold.
15:55This is $100,000 at the time. I mean, we're talking millions.
15:58Damn. Yeah.
15:59And basically it was just what they could find in the river.
16:01There were no actual mineshafts dug until the 1830s.
16:05So the geezer who bought it off and didn't go,
16:07by the way, just out of interest, where'd you...?
16:09The California gold rush doesn't come until 1849.
16:14What is the most successful method that people used
16:18to make their fortune in the California gold rush?
16:21Probably selling things to the gold rushers.
16:24Sell supplies to the prospectors, absolutely.
16:26The very first American millionaire was a journalist
16:28and also a shopkeeper called Sam Brannan,
16:30and someone came into his store with a lump of gold
16:33and instead of looking for gold himself,
16:35he bought all of the shovels and pickaxes and so on
16:38and went out into the town shouting,
16:40there's gold in them there hills!
16:42And everybody came.
16:43He bought pans for 20 cents, which he then sold for $15.
16:47There are accounts of single lemons selling for a dollar,
16:51which is about $40 today,
16:53because people were frightened about getting scurvy.
16:55A single pair of boots today in our money, $2,300.
16:59And one farmer earned the equivalent of $160,000 in 1849,
17:04just selling onions.
17:05Like Disney, they get you with the merch, didn't they?
17:08Yeah.
17:09Once you're there, shop every five metres.
17:11They know.
17:12Now, who has been unfairly called a glutton
17:15for as long as we can remember?
17:17Is it me?
17:19LAUGHTER
17:21APPLAUSE
17:23Yeah!
17:25Can I just say, you're looking very beautiful.
17:27Fuck off.
17:28Yeah.
17:29LAUGHTER
17:31Genuinely true, I told a friend of mine
17:33that I wanted to go on a weight loss kick,
17:35and she said to me,
17:36yeah, but you're so handsome.
17:37That's got nothing to do with it.
17:39She was in her own way, in a woman's way,
17:41saying, yeah, you should.
17:42LAUGHTER
17:44My stepdad, Keith, went on a diet,
17:47and he's a big old geezer,
17:49and he just wasn't losing any weight,
17:50and my mum went,
17:51he's trying so hard, bless him,
17:52and he ain't losing any weight.
17:54And then one day,
17:56he said he was going out to get the papers,
17:58and when I looked back on the CCTV on the door,
18:00I saw him round the side of the house,
18:02and they were smashing fish and chips.
18:04LAUGHTER
18:05It's the sort of thing
18:06where I could have gone up to him privately,
18:07and gone,
18:08mate, look, I know you've been
18:09smashing the fish and chips on the side.
18:10Mm-mm-mm.
18:11Not me.
18:12I waited until everyone was in the house.
18:14LAUGHTER
18:15My wife, my mum, my in-laws,
18:18and I got the iPad out,
18:19and I went, here's the evidence.
18:21LAUGHTER
18:23I don't know which is weirder,
18:24him doing that, are you watching it?
18:26LAUGHTER
18:28So, are you doing that a Zen pic thing, then?
18:31No.
18:32I considered it.
18:33I'm just trying to go...
18:34I'm just trying to be in a calorie deficit, really.
18:36And, erm, it's not working, so...
18:38LAUGHTER
18:39Oh, you poor thing.
18:40It's very boring, doing calorie...
18:42Oh, that's why I've stopped.
18:44LAUGHTER
18:45OK.
18:46We are talking about the wild life of the Wild West.
18:50Anybody think of it's a W?
18:52Particular creature in the Wild West.
18:54A warthog.
18:55No.
18:56LAUGHTER
18:57I can't think of a single movie where a cowboy goes,
18:59Oh, my Lord, it's a warthog.
19:00LAUGHTER
19:01We've got three different versions of the Lion King.
19:02LAUGHTER
19:03So, not a wallaby, then?
19:04No, no, no.
19:05The Wolverine was...
19:06Well, how would we get there?
19:07How the...?
19:08Isn't it magnificent, do you not think?
19:09Its range reached down the American West as far as California's Sierra Nevada?
19:12I thought it was Hugh Jackman.
19:13Yeah, so did I.
19:14LAUGHTER
19:15I think it's been to a dentist in Turkey as well.
19:16LAUGHTER
19:17LAUGHTER
19:18Don't you think it looks really good?
19:19LAUGHTER
19:20LAUGHTER
19:21LAUGHTER
19:22So, not a wallaby then?
19:23No, no, no.
19:24The Wolverine was...
19:25How would we get there?
19:26How the...?
19:27Isn't it magnificent, do you not think?
19:28It's range reached down the American West as far as California's Sierra Nevada?
19:30I thought it was Hugh Jackman.
19:31Yeah, so did I.
19:32LAUGHTER
19:39It's weird when people's teeth are that perfect.
19:40Yes!
19:41It looks so weird.
19:42Yeah.
19:43That's why mine are all yellow with bits of green stuff in them.
19:46LAUGHTER
19:47It's nice to keep a bit of salad for later.
19:49LAUGHTER
19:50So, these are most closely related to Martins, which is a weasel-like carnivore.
19:55They were called gulo-gulo, their Latin name meaning glutton-glutton,
19:59but it's a mistranslation.
20:01So, the old Norwegian for a Wolverine was fjellfros, which means mountain cat.
20:07It was translated into German as a rather similar sounding weaselfras,
20:11which means eats a lot.
20:13Oh.
20:14It's not fair.
20:15One nickname sticks.
20:16I know, right?
20:17LAUGHTER
20:18There are stories that it eats so much it forces its faeces out of its body
20:22to make more space.
20:24LAUGHTER
20:25We've all been there boxing, though.
20:28LAUGHTER
20:29Well, then after eight, hang on, I've got to go to the loo.
20:33LAUGHTER
20:36Does anybody eat after eights at any other time, other than Boxing Day,
20:39just after lunch?
20:40I have some on my coffee table, so I have it pretty much every night.
20:43How's that net deficit going?
20:45LAUGHTER
20:50Every time you meet someone who says,
20:52oh, I'm trying to lose weight, and then the next sentence,
20:55you know, I always have after eights on my coffee table.
20:57LAUGHTER
20:58It's not the whole thing, just one.
21:00No-one has one after eight.
21:01I have one.
21:02It's the single most Moorish thing in the world.
21:04Yeah.
21:05I've got really good self-control, actually.
21:10Well, I can't think why there's a problem.
21:11LAUGHTER
21:14So, they are amazing creatures.
21:15They're really adapted to snowy, mountainous conditions.
21:18But what is incredible about them?
21:19So, when they step onto the snow, their paws spread out to twice the original size.
21:24So, it's like having built-in snowshoes.
21:26And each paw has got five extremely sharp claws.
21:29So, they can climb a sheer cliff or an icefall or whatever.
21:32They have an extraordinary keen sense of smell.
21:35So, they can smell prey 20 feet under the snow.
21:38Why might that be a good thing?
21:41Because that's where prey hides.
21:43Hides.
21:44It's where prey hibernates.
21:46Oh, how annoying.
21:47Yeah.
21:48They never even see it coming.
21:49And they also use snow, a bit like refrigerators, for keeping food fresh.
21:53They have special teeth.
21:54These are not from Turkey.
21:55These are their own teeth.
21:56Special teeth at the back of the jaws which are rotated 90 degrees to the rest
22:01so that they can crunch frozen food.
22:03That's something you could get, that, darling.
22:05What is happening?
22:08You wouldn't have to defrost.
22:11Yeah.
22:12Just go straight in.
22:13Iceland.
22:14Boom.
22:15Yeah, boom.
22:16I want nice food.
22:18I'm not that desperate.
22:20Well, that's good.
22:22OK, time for general ignorance.
22:26Fingers on buzzers, please.
22:28Which US state inspired the writers of the hit song,
22:31Take Me Home Country Roads?
22:35West Virginia?
22:36I mean, it's like I open a trap door, isn't it?
22:44So, anybody remember who sang it?
22:47John Denver.
22:48John Denver.
22:49Colorado, then.
22:50No.
22:51Kentucky.
22:52Let's do some states.
22:53North Dakota.
22:54No.
22:55South Dakota.
22:56South Dakota.
22:57We've run out of Dakotas now.
22:59Hawaii.
23:00Pennsylvania.
23:01So, it was written by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nyvert.
23:06And they've got the...
23:07Mississippi.
23:08Michigan.
23:09New Mexico.
23:10Texas.
23:11Oregon.
23:12Ohio.
23:13Nevada.
23:14Georgia.
23:15Washington.
23:16Argonne.
23:17Michigan.
23:18Missouri.
23:19Mississippi.
23:20Massachusetts.
23:21Massachusetts.
23:22Mumbai.
23:23Mumbai.
23:24Maryland.
23:25Maryland.
23:26Oh!
23:27Your favourite cookies!
23:28Where the cookies come from?
23:29Do you only have one?
23:30Yeah.
23:31Yeah.
23:32Yeah.
23:33Hello.
23:34No one.
23:35One Maryland cookie.
23:36One after-break.
23:37A maple tart.
23:38One custard cream.
23:39One...
23:40One vicarious biscuit.
23:41Nice.
23:42A breakaway.
23:43A penguin.
23:44All lined up.
23:45God.
23:46Now Alan's going to be naming biscuits all night though.
23:48A pink wafer.
23:49A jammy dodger.
23:50A Gary Freeman.
23:51Neither John Denver, nor Bill, nor Taffy, who wrote the song, had ended up a
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24:12nor Bill nor Taffy who wrote the song had ever been to West Virginia when they recorded this song and they chose it because
24:19It's got loads of poetic sounding landmarks like the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River
24:24But they're mostly actually in Virginia. I mean really the song should be called. It's about the West of Virginia
24:29There was a brief while they thought about using
24:31Massachusetts to fill in the four syllable gap in the song you know the wonderful song Moon River by Johnny Mercer
24:37It's got a great line in it. My Huckleberry friend. It's one of the kind of great lyrics of all time and
24:42Huckleberry was a placeholder by Johnny Mercer when he was writing it because he wanted that sound
24:46Ba ba ba ba ba ba and he thought I'll just put that in for a moment and then they recorded it and it has now become
24:52One of the great lyrics of all time. I never knew what apple bottom jeans were
24:55Oh
24:57Who'd sweep the floor
24:59Have you ever, do you know that?
25:01No
25:03I was looking at her
25:05She got the flow
25:07You know, she got low low low low low
25:10Do you have one of those buzzers to stop people auditioning?
25:14Sorry, it's the young people's turn now
25:19And as soon as some young people turn up
25:21Which company was formed in 1850 by henry wells and william g fargo?
25:33Oh
25:35Wells fargo
25:41They did set up wells fargo but not in 1850
25:45Oh yeah 1852 they set that up. What did they set up first?
25:52Fargo and wells
25:54It's still going it's one of the most famous companies in the world
26:02McDonald's coca-cola
26:04It's american express
26:09Along with a man called john butterworth in 1850
26:11They set up american express to deliver goods around the east coast
26:14And the wells fargo company was created to move goods around the west basically it was profiting from the gold rush
26:21American express extraordinary by the end of the civil war 900 offices in 10 states almost 10 000 miles of railway and express routes
26:29The largest empire of stagecoaches in the world and they made an absolute fortune
26:35In fact when fargo died his home was so expensive to maintain they knocked it down
26:40Whoa
26:41Yeah, the largest city in north dakota is called fargo also named after him but i'm a huge fan of henry wells
26:48Is that him on the right on the left henry wells is on the left. I like the other one
26:52Do oh yeah, why is that not to get off with him it's what they do
26:58Well, I think joe you will like henry wells he believed in the education of women and you have to understand how rare this is
27:05He described the education of women as the dream of his life
27:15He said it is commonly said that women's mind is not capable of attaining to a higher order of discipline
27:21Not acknowledging this let me say give her the opportunity
27:26Yeah
27:31But when did he say get us a cup of tea love
27:37I bet he did he probably did
27:39Even today wells fargo fourth largest bank in the united states it still continues all of which brings us to the end of the line
27:44So let's see who's cut the mustard and who couldn't teach ahead
27:47You just see that last bit in an american accent
27:51Uh, okay all of which brings us to the end of the line
27:54So let's see who's cut the mustard and who couldn't teach ahead of clock
27:57In last place tonight it's got a bit ugly for ishan with minus 47
28:12In third place with minus 29 it was pretty bad alan
28:19In second place it's quite good for joe with minus 27
28:21And our winner putting the okay in the okay corral with minus 19 it's alex
28:38Thank you to alex ishan joe and alan and i leave you with this not from the wild west but from may west
28:44I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone without men who do up the zipper on the back of your dress
28:50Thank you good night
29:18You
29:20Thank you
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