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00:30Well, howdy partner, welcome to QI for some highfalutin', rootin', tootin', sharpshootin' in our Wild West special. Yee-haw! Let's meet our lawless varmints.
00:44What in tarnation? It's Eshan Akbar.
00:50Wanted, dead or alive? It's Alex Brooker.
00:56Sheldon Jehoshaphat, it's Joe Brand.
01:00And yippee-ki-yay, Mother Superior, it's Alan Davis.
01:10Their buzzers are from our own rodeo radio. Eshan goes...
01:15Oh, nice. Alex goes...
01:25This is great.
01:33Are you just getting overexcited?
01:36I need that chair for other people.
01:37Joe goes...
01:42How I am.
01:50And Alan goes...
01:51Three wheels on my way, and I'm still rolling along.
01:57Right, let's mosey on down to question one.
02:01Stop me when you know what I'm talking about, OK?
02:05They used whips, they wore leather chaps, big boots, even bigger hats, used lassoos, invented the rodeo, were mostly boys who herded cows in the 18th century.
02:18Two wheels on my wagon.
02:22LAUGHTER
02:24Er, cowboys.
02:26CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:29CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:31It's not cowboys?
02:33No, it's not cowboys.
02:34Cowgirls.
02:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:37I mean, let's just go for cows.
02:51LAUGHTER
02:52So most of the things that we associate with the all-American cowboy originate from the Mexican vaquero.
02:57Cattle hand, so vaca, meaning cow.
02:59It comes from Spain, starts in about the 15th century, well established by the 17th century.
03:04So the cowboy that we think of, which is honestly mostly from the movies, comes to the US in the 19th century when they begin to get these big cattle ranching regions.
03:14Now, you've all got some bits and pieces to put on, a little bit of dressing up today.
03:19Yeah.
03:20OK.
03:21Oh, yes.
03:22There we go.
03:23Yeah.
03:24Now we're talking the good stuff.
03:26Oh, they're spurs, Sandy, they're spurs.
03:28Yes, yes.
03:29They're very sharp.
03:30Am I meant to put that on?
03:31LAUGHTER
03:33I'm going to say, Joe, if you just wear that, you will definitely win.
03:37I'm just kidding.
03:38LAUGHTER
03:39What kind of hat are you wearing, Alex?
03:41What is it called?
03:42It's not a trick question.
03:44Cowboy hat.
03:45You look like a sort of, I don't know, a mad mystic woman who's going to...
03:50LAUGHTER
03:52What were the hats called? Anybody?
03:53Ten-gallon hat.
03:54Ten-gallon hat.
03:55Do you think it had ten gallons in it?
03:57Yes.
03:58No.
03:59It actually came from the vaqueros' sombrero, and it really didn't become popular until the 1920s,
04:05which is, like, way after the Wild West.
04:08Most cowboys wore bowler hats.
04:10They were called them derby hats.
04:11And, of course, they didn't hold ten gallons.
04:13Maybe it came from the Spanish tan-galan, meaning so gallant.
04:17Probably, it's just an exaggeration.
04:19So, we had a go at making a hat that could actually hold ten gallons.
04:24LAUGHTER
04:25Now, this...
04:26Whoa!
04:27LAUGHTER
04:28APPLAUSE
04:36It looks like you're about to go on a hen-do and drink out of that.
04:39LAUGHTER
04:40I'm on if you are.
04:41Yeah.
04:42Weirdly, this is actually only five gallons.
04:44Do you want to try it on?
04:45If it had been ten gallons, it would have been as tall as me.
04:48So, tiny, then?
04:49LAUGHTER
04:50Oh, that's...
04:51Fantastic.
04:52You'd have to run it off a steamship.
04:54LAUGHTER
04:59The other thing they had, of course, is they had whips and lassoos,
05:01but they had this thing, when they were lassoing, you had to be incredibly careful,
05:05because the rope was very, very strong, and you could get your thumb trapped in the rope
05:11if you didn't throw it properly, and it would come clean off.
05:14Oh!
05:15I don't know why I'm looking at you.
05:16LAUGHTER
05:17APPLAUSE
05:26I tell you what, I'd have made a shit cowboy.
05:29LAUGHTER
05:30They'd be like, he still ain't learnt with the rope.
05:32He took the thumb, he took the other two buggers.
05:35LAUGHTER
05:36It was called rodeo thumb.
05:37Rodeo thumb?
05:38I know, you wouldn't think it'd be that strong, would you, the rope?
05:41I know.
05:42I know, absolutely.
05:43What is one of the things in the movies, though, about the way in which cowboys are pretty much always depicted?
05:48They're always having a row, wouldn't they?
05:50Yes.
05:51They're always there, in the pub.
05:53There were some football fans.
05:54LAUGHTER
05:55So, almost always depicted as white men, but it wasn't true.
05:59About a third of cowhands were indigenous Mexicans, or mixed-raced mestizos, and about a quarter were black.
06:06There was a guy called Nate Love.
06:08He was known as Deadwood Dick.
06:10LAUGHTER
06:11They've already called that one.
06:13LAUGHTER
06:14LAUGHTER
06:15He became a cowboy after he was freed from slavery, and he has an amazing autobiography.
06:21It's the only complete story of a black cowboy.
06:24He's amazing.
06:25He drank with Billy the Kid.
06:26He got shot 14 times.
06:27He once lassoed a train.
06:30Wow!
06:31Yeah.
06:32He'd just met his future wife, and he was absolutely drunk on love, I imagine.
06:35Yeah.
06:36And he was dragged into a ditch, and he wrote in his autobiography,
06:39Roping a live engine is by long odds worse than roping wild buffalo.
06:44But my love was as strong as ever, and I thank my lucky star.
06:47She did not see me, as they dragged me out of the ditch.
06:50LAUGHTER
06:51Wow.
06:52The thing is, if you've survived being shot 14 times...
06:54Yeah.
06:55..you'd back yourself lassoing a train, wouldn't you?
06:57Yeah, exactly.
06:58You were actually 50 cent at that point.
07:00LAUGHTER
07:02I've had a 50 cent reference to a QI audience.
07:05LAUGHTER
07:06You love that.
07:07The QI audience and the 50 cent.
07:0950 cent.
07:10LAUGHTER
07:11OK, here's another question.
07:12Where did the famous gunfight between the Clanton gang and Wyatt Earp's gang take place?
07:18Well, I wanted to make a noise, so I'm going to say the OK Corral.
07:22APPLAUSE
07:23So, we're looking here, Ike Clanton on the left, a wrong'un, and Wyatt Earp, who, at that time of the photograph, was a marshal in Dodge City in Kansas.
07:38So, we've got the bad guys against the law guys, and we talk about the OK Corral, but where did it actually take place?
07:45Croydon.
07:46LAUGHTER
07:47The OK Corral was near Tombstone, wasn't it?
07:50Yeah.
07:51It actually took place in an empty lot next to a photo studio, and it should be called the Gunfight outside Fly's Photographic Studio.
07:59LAUGHTER
08:02In fact, that picture that we showed of Clanton in Tombstone was almost certainly taken at Fly's Photographic Studio.
08:09So, the gunfight did take place 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona, but when the newspapers wrote about it, the first thing they wrote was,
08:15there was a fight on Fremont Street, and that lasted for about 50 years, and then Wyatt Earp published his biography in 1931,
08:23and that's when it became the fight at the OK Corral.
08:26So, it is remembered as a shootout between a group of lawmen and a gang of outlaws, although lots of the lawmen were a bit dodgy themselves.
08:34Here's the thing about it, there were 30 shots fired in the 30-second fight.
08:38How many people do you think died? They were only six feet apart, these people.
08:42The two gangs.
08:43All of them?
08:44No, three. They must have been really shit shots.
08:46Oh, God!
08:47LAUGHTER
08:48Six feet apart, 30 shots, 30 seconds, three dead people. Doesn't seem like a very good...
08:52Who was shooting Brooker?
08:54LAUGHTER
08:58Brookeroo!
08:59We're back there, we're back there!
09:01I'd have been in 30 seconds, I'd have still been trying to get it out of the old stuff.
09:05Get this out for me, mate, we're just...
09:07I'll only hear you pull the trigger, mate.
09:09LAUGHTER
09:12Now, here's some Wild West legends, can you tell me how they got their nicknames?
09:17So, this is Wild Bill Hickok.
09:20Oh, is that how you say it?
09:21What did you think it was?
09:22Wild Bill Hickok.
09:23Yes.
09:24Oh!
09:25I mean, depends if he's wearing the chaps.
09:28LAUGHTER
09:29Highcock sounds like a condition.
09:31Yeah, it does.
09:32LAUGHTER
09:33Guilty!
09:34LAUGHTER
09:35My little brother, when he was about six, he thought he was called Wild Bill Hiccups.
09:43LAUGHTER
09:46So, his real name was James Butler Hickok.
09:48We're not sure, but it's possibly to do with a bit of teasing.
09:51So, some people said that he had a long nose and quite protruding lips and he looked a bit like a duck.
09:57Duck Bill?
09:58Yes.
09:59His nickname was Duck Bill and he decided he didn't like Duck Bill, but he would okay if it was Wild Bill.
10:06Has he not realised he's got, like, the wrong hat on for a cowboy?
10:10LAUGHTER
10:11I'm Cossack.
10:12Wild Bill Cossack.
10:13LAUGHTER
10:14Shut up, Duk Bill!
10:15Fuck you, man!
10:16I ain't Duk Bill!
10:17I'm Cossack!
10:18LAUGHTER
10:19LAUGHTER
10:20I'm starting to think on Wikipedia and you is going to be Duk Bill.
10:25LAUGHTER
10:27He did have a really boring brother called Lorenzo who used to be known as Tame Bill.
10:32Tame Bill.
10:33LAUGHTER
10:34But it did kind of predict what was going to happen while Bill was shot in the back while playing
10:39cards when he was just 39.
10:41And old Lorenzo, Tame Bill, lived into his 80s.
10:43I'm just saying it.
10:44The next one is called Big Nose Kate.
10:47Oh.
10:48LAUGHTER
10:49Which one do you think is Big Nose Kate?
10:51LAUGHTER
10:52Definitely normal noses so far.
10:54I know, right?
10:55It seems like you've got to go to VAR on this.
10:57LAUGHTER
10:58Is it referring to another part of their announcement?
11:03LAUGHTER
11:04So, which one do you think?
11:06One is her sister Wilma and one is Big Nose Kate.
11:09Kate's on the left.
11:10Kate is on the left, yes.
11:12I mean, some people say it's because she used to stick her nose in other people's business.
11:16She was the long-term companion of Doc Holliday.
11:20She was with him at the gunfight at the OK Corral, or the photographic studio,
11:24watching from a nearby window.
11:26I'd do that.
11:27Would you?
11:28Just watch.
11:29I'd go to the window if I heard a gunfight.
11:31Yeah.
11:32She worked as a sporting woman.
11:33Anybody?
11:34Is that like a brass?
11:35Is that a prostitute?
11:36It is a prostitute.
11:37Yes.
11:38Yes.
11:39Is that like a brass?
11:40LAUGHTER
11:41What a team we are.
11:45Get that on a BBC poster.
11:46LAUGHTER
11:47APPLAUSE
11:48The BBC.
11:49For everyone.
11:50LAUGHTER
11:51There are other ones.
11:52Richard Rattlesnake Dick Barter.
11:53Oh!
11:54What?
11:55Rattlesnake Dick.
11:56Rattlesnake Dick.
11:57Rattlesnake Dick.
11:58Rattlesnake Dick.
11:59Rattlesnake Dick.
12:00Rattlesnake Dick.
12:01What a nickname that is.
12:02That is good.
12:03At the urinal.
12:04I can hear him.
12:05LAUGHTER
12:06Who are the Rattlesnake mine?
12:07Where he kept telling everyone tell people you,
12:08That is good,
12:11Who are the written?
12:12The Rattlesnake Dick.
12:13There are one,
12:14Richard Rattlesnake Dick.
12:16Richard Rattlesnake Dick.
12:17What a nickname that is.
12:18That is good.
12:19The urinal.
12:20I can hear him.
12:22LAUGHTER
12:24I reckon Richard's came to the toilet again.
12:25Yeah.
12:27You're the rattlesnake mine where he kept telling everybody he was going to make his fortune.
12:38Okay, next question. What use is a square wagon wheel?
12:43Stop me rolling away.
12:45That is a very good point. But in this case wagon is a person's name.
12:49So in 1997 there was a professor called Stan Wagon at Macalester College in Minnesota
12:55and he made a functioning square wheeled tricycle, okay?
13:00This is not him. This is a man who, I don't know, in a suit.
13:04And he's called Stan Wagon?
13:07The guy who invented it is called Stan Wagon.
13:10Did JK Rowling name him? Like what?
13:13So in order for a wheel to work at all, the centre has to be level, right?
13:18So the easiest way is to make a round wheel.
13:20But if you make a specific track, so you can see he's on a very specific track here,
13:24then the wheels can be any shape pretty much, apart from triangles really.
13:28So look at this, right? This is a rather brilliant bus.
13:31It doesn't go anywhere because it's got square wheels.
13:34However, if you make a surface like this, which has got what these humps are called inverted catineries,
13:43and basically, look, along it goes like that. I know!
13:48So the reason this is interesting, there's an engineer called Gerard Font,
13:53and he thinks because stones with very similar curves were found in Giza,
13:57this method may have been what helped people to roll the blocks into place for the pyramids.
14:02So I guess you can see it's kind of pointless, but it's also interesting.
14:06Yeah.
14:07How did they do that?
14:08But that road there looks like every 20 miles an hour there near a school anyway.
14:11Yeah, that is so true.
14:14Isn't it fascinating? Wouldn't it be great to have a car with square wheels?
14:17I just really like it.
14:18I really don't think it would.
14:19No?
14:20I'm desperate for one speed bump, here we go.
14:23Yeah, here we go.
14:24It comes into its own.
14:25Oh, well, it's just me.
14:26I like a square wagon wheel, that's just the way I roll.
14:30Oh, nice.
14:31Come on.
14:32I like it.
14:33Thank you, I appreciate that.
14:34Right, let's move on to a question about wondrous wealth.
14:35In which state was the first American gold rush?
14:38Wasn't it?
14:39Like carbon?
14:40Yeah.
14:41Yeah.
14:42Yeah.
14:43Yeah.
14:44Yeah.
14:45Yeah.
14:46Yeah.
14:47Oh.
14:48Oh.
14:49Oh.
14:50Oh.
14:51Oh.
14:52Oh.
14:53Oh.
14:54Oh.
14:55Oh.
14:56Arizona.
14:57Nevada.
14:58We're talking about 1799, the United States is newly formed.
15:09Oh, so it's got to be over to the east.
15:11Yeah.
15:12New York State.
15:13We have another 46 to go, so I'm going to stop you there.
15:20North Carolina was the very first time.
15:22So there was a child playing called Conrad Reed, and he found a nugget of gold described
15:27as the size of a shoe, and for three years the family used it as a doorstop.
15:32So 1799, they find this thing, they keep it as a doorstop for three years, and then his
15:38father thought, I wonder what I could get for it.
15:40And he took it along to a silversmith, and he got $3.50.
15:44It was actually worth $3,600.
15:46Wow.
15:47He's adding away.
15:48I mean, this is at the time, right?
15:50Yeah.
15:51They found out that they had been rooked, so they thought, oh, let's go look for some
15:55more, and over the next 20 years they found $100,000 worth of gold.
15:59This is $100,000 at the time.
16:01I mean, we're talking millions.
16:02Damn.
16:03Yeah.
16:04And basically it was just what they could find in the river.
16:06There were no actual mineshafts dug until the 1830s.
16:09So the geezer who bought it off and didn't go, by the way, just out of interest, where'd
16:12you...
16:13Yeah.
16:14Have you got any...
16:15The California gold rush doesn't come until 1849.
16:18What is the most successful method that people used to make their fortune in the California
16:25gold rush?
16:26Probably selling things to the gold rushers.
16:29Sell supplies to the prospectors, absolutely.
16:31The very first American millionaire was a journalist, and also a shopkeeper called Sam
16:35London, and someone came into his store with a lump of gold, and instead of looking for
16:39gold himself, he bought all of the shovels and pickaxes and so on, and went out into
16:44the town shouting, there's gold in them there hills, and everybody came.
16:48He bought pans for 20 cents, which he then sold for $15.
16:52There are accounts of single lemons selling for a dollar, which is about $40 today, because
16:58people were frightened about getting scurvy.
17:00A single pair of boots today, in our money, $2,300, and one farmer earned the equivalent
17:07of $160,000 in 1849, just selling onions.
17:10Like Disney, they get you with the merch, didn't they?
17:13Yeah.
17:14Once you're there.
17:15A shop every five metres.
17:16They know.
17:17Now, who has been unfairly called a glutton for as long as we can remember?
17:23Is it me?
17:24Can I just say, you're looking very beautiful.
17:32Fuck off.
17:33Yeah.
17:34Genuinely true, I told a friend of mine that I wanted to go on a weight loss kick, and she
17:41said to me, yeah, but you're so handsome, that's got nothing to do with it.
17:44She was in her own way, in a woman's way, saying, yeah, you should.
17:47My stepdad, Keith, went on a diet, and he's a big old geezer, and he just wasn't losing
17:54any weight, and my mum went, he's trying so hard, bless him, and he ain't losing any
17:58weight.
17:59And then one day, he said he was going out to get the papers, and when I looked back
18:03on the CCTV on the door, I saw him around the side of the house smashing fish and chips.
18:08It's the sort of thing where I could have gone up to him privately and gone, yeah, mate,
18:13look, I know you've been smashing the fish and chips on the side.
18:15Mm-mm-mm.
18:16Not me.
18:17I wait until everyone was in the house.
18:19My wife, my mum, my in-laws, and I got the iPad out, and I went, here's the evidence.
18:25I don't know which is weirder, him doing that, are you watching it?
18:30So are you doing that a Zen pic thing, then?
18:35No.
18:36I considered it.
18:37I'm just trying to go, just trying to be in a calorie deficit, really, and it's not working,
18:42so...
18:43Oh, you poor thing, it's very boring, doing calorie...
18:47Oh, that's why I've stopped.
18:49There you go.
18:51We are talking about the wildlife of the Wild West.
18:55Anybody think of it's a W?
18:57particular creature in the Wild West?
19:00A warthog.
19:01No.
19:02LAUGHTER
19:05I can't think of a single movie where a cowboy goes,
19:07oh, my Lord, it's a warthog.
19:10We've got three different versions of The Lion King.
19:13LAUGHTER
19:15So, not a wallaby, then?
19:17No, no, no.
19:19The Wolverine was...
19:21Well, how would we get...
19:23How the...?
19:24Isn't it magnificent, do you not think?
19:26It's range reached down the American West as far as California's Sierra Nevada.
19:30I thought it was Hugh Jackman.
19:32Yes, I did I.
19:33LAUGHTER
19:34I think it's been to a dentist in Turkey as well.
19:38LAUGHTER
19:39Don't you think it looks weird when people's teeth are that perfect?
19:44Yes, it looks so weird.
19:46That's why mine are all yellow with bits of green stuff in them.
19:50LAUGHTER
19:51LAUGHTER
19:52It's nice to keep a bit of salad for later.
19:54LAUGHTER
19:55So, these are most closely related to Martins, which is a weasel-like carnivore.
20:00They were called gulo-gulo, their Latin name meaning glutton-glutton,
20:04but it's a mistranslation.
20:06So, the old Norwegian for a wolverine was fjellfrås, which means mountain cat.
20:12It was translated into German as a rather similar sounding vjellfrås, which means eats a lot.
20:18Oh.
20:19It's not fair.
20:20One nickname sticks.
20:21I know, right?
20:23LAUGHTER
20:24There are stories that it eats so much it forces its feces out of its body to make more space.
20:29LAUGHTER
20:31We've all been near Boxing Day.
20:34LAUGHTER
20:35Join an after eight. Hang on, I've got to go to the loo.
20:38LAUGHTER
20:40Does anybody eat after eights at any other time, other than Boxing Day, just after lunch?
20:45I have some on my coffee table, so I have it pretty much every night.
20:48How's that net deficit going?
20:50LAUGHTER
20:52Every time you meet someone who says, oh, I'm trying to lose weight.
20:58And then the next sentence, yeah, I always have after eight.
21:01LAUGHTER
21:02It's not the whole thing, just one.
21:05No-one has one after eight.
21:06I have one.
21:07It's the single most moorish thing in the world.
21:09I've got really good self-control, actually.
21:11LAUGHTER
21:14Well, I can't think why there's a problem.
21:17LAUGHTER
21:19So they are amazing creatures. They're really adapted to snowy, mountainous conditions.
21:23But what is incredible about them, so when they step onto the snow,
21:26their paws spread out to twice the original size.
21:29So it's like having built-in snowshoes.
21:31And each paw has got five extremely sharp claws.
21:34So they can climb a sheer cliff or an icefall or whatever.
21:37They have an extraordinary keen sense of smell.
21:40So they can smell prey 20 feet under the snow.
21:44Why might that be a good thing?
21:46Cos that's where prey hides.
21:48Home.
21:49It's where prey hibernates.
21:51Oh, how annoying.
21:52Yeah, they never even see it coming.
21:54And they also use snow, a bit like refrigerators, for keeping food fresh.
21:58They have special teeth.
21:59These are not from Turkey, these are their own teeth.
22:01Special teeth at the back of the jaws, which are rotated 90 degrees to the rest
22:06so that they can crunch frozen food.
22:08That's something you could get, that, darling.
22:10And then...
22:11What is happening?
22:13You wouldn't have to defrost.
22:16Yeah.
22:17Just go straight in.
22:18Iceland.
22:19Boom.
22:20Yeah, boom.
22:21I want nice food.
22:23I'm not that desperate.
22:25Well, that's good.
22:27OK, time for general ignorance.
22:30Fingers on buzzers, please.
22:32Which US state inspired the writers of the hit song, Take Me Home Country Roads?
22:39West Virginia?
22:41I mean, it's like I open a trap door, isn't it?
22:49So, anybody remember who sang it?
22:52John Denver.
22:53John Denver.
22:54Colorado, then.
22:55No.
22:56Kentucky.
22:57Let's do some states.
22:58North Dakota.
22:59North Dakota.
23:01No.
23:02South Dakota.
23:03We've run out of Dakotas now, so that's good.
23:06Hawaii.
23:07Pennsylvania.
23:08So, it was written by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nyvert.
23:12Tennessee.
23:13And they've got the...
23:14Mississippi.
23:15Michigan.
23:16Texas.
23:17Oregon.
23:18Ohio.
23:19Nevada.
23:20Georgia.
23:21Washington.
23:22Argonne.
23:23It begins with M.
23:24Michigan.
23:25Missouri.
23:26Mississippi.
23:27Massachusetts.
23:28Uh, Mumbai.
23:29Maryland.
23:30Maryland.
23:31Oh!
23:32Maryland!
23:33Where's the cookies?
23:34Where the cookies come from?
23:35Do you only have one?
23:36Yeah!
23:37No way!
23:38You've got one Maryland cookie.
23:39One afternoon.
23:40Cake or tart?
23:41One custard cream.
23:42One vodka.
23:43One vodka.
23:44One vodka.
23:45Nice.
23:46A breakaway.
23:47A penguin.
23:48All lined up.
23:49One vodka.
23:50One vodka.
23:51One vodka.
23:52One vodka.
23:53One vodka.
23:54One vodka.
23:55One vodka.
23:56One vodka.
23:57One vodka.
23:58One vodka.
23:59One vodka.
24:00One vodka.
24:01One vodka.
24:02Nice.
24:03A breakaway.
24:04A penguin.
24:05All lined up.
24:06God, now Alan's going to be naming biscuits all night.
24:09Big wafer.
24:10A jammy dodger.
24:11Neither John Denver nor Bill nor Taffy who wrote the song had ever been to West Virginia when
24:21they recorded this song and they chose it because it's got loads of poetic sounding landmarks like the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River.
24:28But they're mostly actually in Virginia.
24:30I mean really the song should be called It's About the West of Virginia.
24:33Right.
24:34There was a brief while they thought about using Massachusetts to fill in a four syllable gap in the song.
24:39You know the wonderful song Moon River by Johnny Mercer?
24:42It's got a great line in it.
24:43My Huckleberry Friend.
24:44It's one of the kind of great lyrics of all time.
24:46And Huckleberry was a placeholder by Johnny Mercer when he was writing it because he wanted that sound.
24:51And he thought I'll just put that in for a moment and then they recorded it and it has now become one of the great lyrics of all time.
24:57I never knew what apple bottom jeans were.
25:00Ah.
25:01Yeah.
25:02Food sweep the floor.
25:03Yeah.
25:04Have you ever heard you know that?
25:05No.
25:06I was looking at her.
25:09She got the floor.
25:11Nothing enough.
25:12She got low, low, low, low, low.
25:15Do you have one of those buzzers to stop people listening?
25:18Sorry?
25:19It's the young people's turn now.
25:21And as soon as some young people turn up we'll let them out.
25:26Right.
25:27Which company was formed in 1850 by Henry Wells and William G Fargo?
25:39Wells Fargo.
25:41They did set up Wells Fargo but not in 1850.
25:50Oh.
25:51Yeah.
25:521852 they set that up.
25:54What did they set up first?
25:56Fargo and Wells.
25:58It's still going.
25:59It's one of the most famous companies in the world.
26:03McDonald's.
26:04Coca-Cola.
26:05It's American Express.
26:06Oh.
26:07Yes.
26:08Along with a man called John Butterworth in 1850 they set up American Express to deliver goods around the East Coast.
26:17And the Wells Fargo Company was created to move goods around the West.
26:22Basically it was profiting from the gold rush.
26:25American Express.
26:26Extraordinary.
26:27By the end of the Civil War 900 offices in 10 states.
26:30Almost 10,000 miles of railway and express routes.
26:33The largest empire of stagecoaches in the world.
26:36And they made an absolute fortune.
26:39In fact when Fargo died his home was so expensive to maintain they knocked it down.
26:45Whoa.
26:46Yeah.
26:47The largest city in North Dakota is called Fargo.
26:49Also named after him.
26:50But I'm a huge fan of Henry Wells.
26:53Is that him on the right?
26:54On the left.
26:55Henry Wells is on the left.
26:56I like the other one.
26:57Do you?
26:58Oh.
26:59Yeah.
27:00Why is that?
27:01You don't have to get off with him.
27:02It's what they do.
27:03Well I think Joe you will like Henry Wells.
27:05He believed in the education of women.
27:08And you have to understand how rare this is.
27:10Pfft.
27:15He described the education of women as the dream of his life.
27:19He said it is commonly said that women's mind is not capable of attaining to a higher order of discipline.
27:26Not acknowledging this let me say give her the opportunity.
27:31Yeah.
27:32I bet he did.
27:33He probably did.
27:34Even today Wells Fargo the fourth largest bank in the United States still continues.
27:47All of which brings us to the end of the line so let's see who's cut the mustard and who couldn't teach a hen to cluck.
27:52In last place tonight has gone a bit ugly for Ishan with minus 47.
27:53In third place with minus 29 who is pretty bad Alan.
27:55In second place is quite good Alan.
27:56In second place is quite good for Jay with minus 29 who is pretty bad Alan.
27:57In second place is quite good for Jay with minus 27.
27:58In second place is quite good for Jay with minus 27.
27:59In third place is quite good for Jay with minus 27.
28:00In third place with minus 29 who is pretty bad Alan.
28:05In second place is quite good for Jay with minus 27.
28:06And our winner putting the OK in the OK corral with minus 19 it's Alex.
28:12Yeah.
28:13What's that going on the wrong name?
28:22I think we're all done with that.
28:27We've got a lot of fun.
28:28We've got a lot of fun today.
28:30And our winner, putting the OK in the OK corral, with minus 19, it's Alex.
28:43Thank you to Alex, Ishan, Joe and Alan. And I leave you with this, not from the Wild West,
28:48but from May West. I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone
28:53without men who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress. Thank you, good night.
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