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00:00Howdy, partner! Welcome to QI for some highfalutin', rootin', tootin', sharpshootin' in our Wild West special, Yee-Haw!
00:06Let's meet our lawless varmints.
00:09What in tarnation? It's Eshan Akbar.
00:15Wanted, dead or alive? It's Alex Brooker.
00:21Sheldon Jehoshaphat, it's Joe Brand.
00:26And yippee-ki-yay! Mother Superior, it's Alan Davis.
00:30They're buzzers are from our own rodeo radio.
00:38Eshan goes...
00:47Oh, nice.
00:49Alex goes...
00:52This is great.
00:54Are you just getting overexcited? I need that chair for other people, don't you?
01:03Joe goes...
01:06Oh, yeah.
01:15And Alan goes...
01:16Three wheels on my way.
01:19Now I'm still rolling along.
01:22Right, let's mosey on down to question one. Stop me when you know what I'm talking about.
01:31OK, they used whips, they wore leather chaps, big boots, even bigger hats, used lassoes, invented the rodeo,
01:38were mostly boys who herded cows in the 18th century.
01:44Two wheels on my way.
01:46Two wheels on my way.
01:50Cowboys.
01:57It's not cowboys?
01:58No, it's not cowboys.
01:59Cowgirls.
02:00Cow-them's.
02:03I mean, let's just go for cows.
02:16So most of the things that we associate with the all-American cowboy originate from the Mexican vaquero.
02:22The cattle hand, so vaca, meaning cow.
02:24It comes from Spain, starts in about the 15th century, well established by the 17th century.
02:30So the cowboy that we think of, which is honestly mostly from the movies,
02:34comes to the US in the 19th century when they begin to get these big cattle ranching regions.
02:40Now, you've all got some bits and pieces to put on, a little bit of dressing up today.
02:45Yeah.
02:46OK.
02:47Oh, yes.
02:48There we go.
02:49Now we're talking the good stuff.
02:51Oh, there's spurs, Sandy, there's spurs.
02:53Yes, yes.
02:54They're very sharp.
02:55Am I meant to put that on?
02:56LAUGHTER
02:59I'm going to say, Joe, if you just wear that, you will definitely win.
03:02I'm just...
03:03LAUGHTER
03:04What kind of hat are you wearing, Alex?
03:06What is it called?
03:07It's not a trick question.
03:08Cowboy hat.
03:09Cowboy hat.
03:10You look like a sort of, I don't know, a mad mystic woman who's going to...
03:14LAUGHTER
03:16What were the hats called, anybody?
03:18Ten-gallon hat.
03:19Ten-gallon hat.
03:20Do you think it had ten gallons in it?
03:22Yes.
03:23No.
03:24It actually came from the vaqueros' sombrero, and it really didn't become popular until
03:29the 1920s, which is, like, way after the Wild West.
03:33Most cowboys wore bowler hats.
03:34They were called them derby hats.
03:36And, of course, they didn't hold ten gallons.
03:38Maybe it came from the Spanish tan-galan, meaning so gallant.
03:42Probably, it's just an exaggeration.
03:44So, we had a go at making a hat that could actually hold ten gallons.
03:49LAUGHTER
03:50Now, this...
03:51Whoa!
03:52LAUGHTER
03:53It looks like you were about to go on a hen-do and drink out of that.
04:04LAUGHTER
04:05I'm on if you are.
04:06Yeah.
04:07Weirdly, this is actually only five gallons.
04:08Do you want to try it on?
04:09If it had been ten gallons, it would have been as tall as me.
04:12So, tiny, then?
04:14LAUGHTER
04:15Oh, that's...
04:16That's fantastic.
04:17You could have to funnel off a steamship.
04:20LAUGHTER
04:23Aww...
04:24The other thing they had, of course, is they had whips and lassoos,
04:26but they had this thing when they were lassoing,
04:28you had to be incredibly careful,
04:30because the rope was very, very strong,
04:33and you could get your thumb trapped in the rope
04:36if you didn't throw it properly, and it would come clean off.
04:39Oh!
04:40I don't know why I'm looking at you.
04:41LAUGHTER
04:45I tell you what, I'd have made a shit cowboy.
04:53LAUGHTER
04:55They'd be like, he still ain't learnt with the rope,
04:57it took the thumb, it took the other two bugs, isn't it?
04:59LAUGHTER
05:00It was called rodeo thumb.
05:02Rodeo thumb!
05:03I know, you wouldn't think it'd be that strong, would you, the rope?
05:06The rope.
05:07I know, absolutely.
05:08What is one of the things in the movies, though,
05:10about the way in which cowboys are pretty much always depicted?
05:13They were always having a row, weren't they?
05:15Yes.
05:16They were always there in the pub.
05:17There were some football fans.
05:19LAUGHTER
05:21So, almost always depicted as white men,
05:23but it wasn't true.
05:24About a third of cowhands were indigenous Mexicans,
05:27or mixed-raced mestizos,
05:29and about a quarter were black.
05:31There was a guy called Nate Love.
05:32He was known as Deadwood Dick.
05:34LAUGHTER
05:35He became a cowboy after he was freed from slavery,
05:43and he has an amazing autobiography,
05:45it's the only complete story of a black cowboy.
05:48He's amazing, he drank with Billy the Kid,
05:50he got shot 14 times,
05:52he once lassoed a train.
05:54Wow!
05:55Yeah.
05:56He'd just met his future wife,
05:57and he was absolutely drunk on love, I imagine,
06:00and whiskey.
06:01Yeah.
06:02And he was dragged into a ditch,
06:03and he wrote in his autobiography,
06:04Roping a live engine is by long odds
06:06worse than roping wild buffalo,
06:08but my love was as strong as ever,
06:10and I thank my lucky star,
06:11she did not see me,
06:13as they dragged me out of the ditch.
06:15LAUGHTER
06:16Wow.
06:17The truth is,
06:18if you've survived being shot 14 times...
06:19Yeah.
06:20..you'd back yourself lassoing a train,
06:21wouldn't you?
06:22Yeah, exactly.
06:23You were missing 50 Cent at that point,
06:24weren't you?
06:25LAUGHTER
06:26I've had a 50 Cent reference to a QI audience.
06:29Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:30You would love that.
06:31A crossover,
06:32the QI audience and the 50 Cent.
06:3450 Cent.
06:35LAUGHTER
06:36OK, here's another question.
06:37Where did the famous gunfight
06:39between the Clanton gang
06:40and Wyatt Earp's gang take place?
06:43Well, I wanted to make a noise,
06:44so I'm going to say
06:46the OK Corral.
06:48CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:54So, we're looking here,
06:55Ike Clanton on the left,
06:56a wrong'un,
06:57and Wyatt Earp,
06:59who, at that time of the photograph,
07:01was a marshal in Dodge City in Kansas.
07:03So, we've got the bad guys against the law guys,
07:06and we talk about the OK Corral,
07:08but where did it actually take place?
07:10Croydon.
07:11LAUGHTER
07:12The OK Corral was near Tombstone, wasn't it?
07:15Yeah.
07:16It actually took place in an empty lot
07:18next to a photo studio,
07:20and it should be called
07:21The Gunfight Outside Fly's Photographic Studio.
07:24LAUGHTER
07:26In fact, that picture that we showed of Clanton
07:29in Tombstone was almost certainly taken
07:31at Fly's Photographic Studio.
07:33So, The Gunfight did take place 1881
07:35in Tombstone, Arizona,
07:36but when the newspapers wrote about it,
07:38the first thing they wrote was,
07:40there was a fight on Fremont Street,
07:42and that lasted for about 50 years,
07:44and then Wyatt Earp published his biography in 1931,
07:48and that's when it became the fight at the OK Corral.
07:51So, it is remembered as a shootout
07:52between a group of lawmen and a gang of outlaws,
07:55although lots of the lawmen were a bit dodgy themselves.
07:58Here's the thing about it,
07:59there were 30 shots fired in the 30-second fight.
08:02How many people do you think died?
08:04They were only six feet apart, these people.
08:06All of them?
08:07No, three.
08:08They must have been really shit shots.
08:10Oh, God!
08:12Six feet apart, 30 shots, 30 seconds,
08:15three dead people.
08:16Doesn't seem like a very good...
08:17Who was shooting Brooker?
08:22Brooker Lee!
08:23What about that?
08:24What about that?
08:25What about that?
08:26I'd have been in 30 seconds,
08:27I'd have still been trying to get it out of the old stuff.
08:29Anyway, so get this out for me, mate.
08:31We're just...
08:32I'll only get you pulled the trigger, mate.
08:37Now, here's some Wild West legends.
08:39Can you tell me how they got their nicknames?
08:42So, this is Wild Bill Hickok.
08:44Oh, is that how you say it?
08:46What did you think it was?
08:47Wild Bill Hickok.
08:48Yes.
08:49Oh!
08:50I mean, depends if he's wearing the chaps, I don't know.
08:55Hickok sounds out of condition.
08:56Yeah, it does.
08:59Guilty!
09:03My little brother, when he was about six,
09:06he thought he was called Wild Bill Hickups.
09:11So, his real name was James Butler Hickok.
09:13We're not sure, but it's possibly to do with a bit of teasing.
09:15So, some people said that he had a long nose
09:18and quite protruding lips, and he looked a bit like a duck.
09:22Duck Bill?
09:23Yes.
09:25His nickname was Duck Bill,
09:26and he decided he didn't like Duck Bill,
09:28but he would okay if he was Wild Bill.
09:30Has he not realised he's got, like, the wrong hat on for a cowboy?
09:34I'm Cossack!
09:35Wild Bill Cossack!
09:36Shut up, Duck Bill!
09:37Fuck you, man!
09:38I ain't Duck Bill!
09:39I'm Cossack!
09:40I'm starting to think on Wikipedia, and you is going to be Duck Bill!
09:49He did have a really boring brother called Lorenzo, who used to be known as Tame Bill.
09:57Tame Bill!
09:58Which I quite know.
10:00But it did kind of predict what was going to happen while Bill was shot in the back while playing cards when he was just 39.
10:05And old Lorenzo, Tame Bill, lived into his 80s.
10:08I'm just saying it.
10:09The next one is called Big Nose Kate.
10:11Oh.
10:13Which one do you think is Big Nose Kate?
10:17Hopefully normal noses so far.
10:18I know, right?
10:19It's like you've got to go to VAR on this and get the lines out.
10:25Is it referring to another part of their announcement?
10:29So, which one do you think?
10:30So, one is her sister Wilma, and one is Big Nose Kate.
10:33Kate's on the left.
10:35Kate is on the left, yes.
10:36I mean, some people say it's because she used to stick her nose in other people's business.
10:40She was the long-term companion of Doc Holliday.
10:44She was with him at the gunfight at the OK Corral, or the photographic studio, watching from a nearby window.
10:51I'd do that.
10:52Would you? Just watch.
10:54I'd go to the window if I heard a gunfight.
10:56Yeah.
10:57She worked as a sporting woman. Anybody?
10:59Is that a prostitute?
11:01It is a prostitute, yes.
11:02Yes, she is.
11:03Is that like a brass?
11:04What did you say?
11:06What a team we are.
11:10Get that on a BBC poster.
11:12For BBC.
11:13For everyone.
11:14For...
11:15There are other ones. Richard Rattlesnake Dick Barter.
11:17Oh!
11:18What?
11:19Rattlesnake Dick.
11:20Rattlesnake Dick.
11:21Rattlesnake Dick.
11:22Rattlesnake Dick.
11:23Rattlesnake Dick.
11:24Rattlesnake Dick.
11:25What a nickname that is.
11:26That is good.
11:27At the urinal.
11:28I can hear him.
11:29I can hear him.
11:30I can hear him.
11:31Richard's going to the toilet again, isn't he?
11:32Yeah.
11:33Got Richard there again.
11:34Got Richard there again.
11:35You got the rattlesnake mine where he kept telling everybody he was going to make his fortune.
11:49OK.
11:50Next question.
11:51What use is a square wagon wheel?
11:52It stopped me rolling away.
11:53That is a very good point.
11:54But in this case, wagon is a person's name.
11:56So, in 1997, there was a professor called Stan Wagon at McAllister University.
11:59He was a professor called Stan Wagon at McAllister University.
12:01He was a professor called Stan Wagon at McAllister University.
12:04The guy who invented his called Stan Wagon, the guy who invented his called Stan Wagon.
12:07Now, what use is a square wagon wheel?
12:08Stopped me rolling away.
12:09That is a very good point.
12:10But in this case, wagon is a person's name.
12:14So, in 1997, there was a professor called Stan Wagon at McAllister College in Minnesota,
12:20and he made a functioning square wheeled tricycle, OK?
12:25This is not him.
12:26This is a man who, I don't know, in a suit.
12:28And he's called Stan Wagon?
12:32The guy who invented it is called Stan Wagon.
12:35Did J.K. Rowling name him?
12:36Like, what?
12:39So, in order for a wheel to work at all,
12:41the centre has to be level, right?
12:43And so the easiest way is to make a round wheel.
12:45But if you make a specific track,
12:48so you can see he's on a very specific track here,
12:50then the wheels can be any shape, pretty much,
12:51apart from triangles, really.
12:54So look at this, right?
12:54This is a rather brilliant bus,
12:56but it doesn't go anywhere because it's got square wheels.
12:59However, if you make a surface like this,
13:04which has got what these humps are called inverted catenaries,
13:09and basically, look, along it goes like that.
13:13I know, so the reason this is interesting,
13:16there's an engineer called Gerard Font,
13:18and he thinks because stones with very similar curves
13:22were found in Giza,
13:23this method may have been what helped people
13:26to roll the blocks into place for the pyramids.
13:28So I guess you can see it's kind of pointless,
13:31but it's also interesting.
13:32Yeah. How did they do that?
13:33But that road there looks like every 20 mile an hour
13:36there near a school anyway.
13:37Yeah, that is so true.
13:40Isn't it fascinating?
13:41Wouldn't it be great to have a car with square wheels?
13:43I just really like it.
13:44I really don't think it would.
13:45No?
13:51That's for one speed bump, here we go.
13:53Yeah, here we go.
13:54Now it comes into its own.
13:55Oh, well, it's just me.
13:57I like a square wagon wheel,
13:59that's just the way I roll.
14:00Oh, nice.
14:02Come on.
14:03I like it.
14:04Thank you, Ishan, I appreciate that.
14:05Right, let's move on to a question about wondrous wealth.
14:08In which state was the first American gold rush?
14:13Wasn't it like California?
14:15Arizona.
14:16Oh!
14:16Oh!
14:17Oh!
14:18Oh!
14:19Oh!
14:20Oh!
14:21Arizona.
14:22Nevada.
14:23Oh!
14:24We're talking about 1799, the United States is newly formed.
14:29Oh, so it's got to be over to the east.
14:31Yeah.
14:32New York state.
14:33We're talking about 1799, the United States is newly formed.
14:35Oh, so it's got to be over to the east.
14:36Yeah.
14:37New York state.
14:38We have another 46 to go, so I'm going to stop you there.
14:45North Carolina was the very first time.
14:48So there was a child playing called Conrad Reed and he found a nugget of gold described
14:53as the size of a shoe and for three years the family used it as a doorstop.
14:59So 1799, they find this thing, they keep it as a doorstop for three years and then his
15:03father thought, I wonder what I could get for it and he took it along to a silversmith
15:06and he got $3.50. It was actually worth $3,600.
15:11Oh!
15:12I mean, this is at the time, right?
15:15Yeah.
15:16They found out that they had been rooked, so they thought, oh, let's go look for some
15:20more and over the next 20 years they found $100,000 worth of gold.
15:25This is $100,000 at the time.
15:26I mean, we're talking millions.
15:27Damn!
15:28Yeah.
15:29And basically it was just what they could find in the river.
15:30There were no actual mineshafts dug until the 1830s.
15:34So the geezer who bought it off and didn't go, by the way, just out of interest, where
15:38do you...
15:39Yeah, have you got any...
15:40The California gold rush doesn't come until 1849.
15:44What is the most successful method that people used to make their fortune in the
15:50California?
15:51Gold rush.
15:52Probably selling things to the gold rushers.
15:54Sell supplies to the prospectors.
15:56Absolutely.
15:57The very first American millionaire was a journalist and also a shopkeeper called Sam Brannan.
16:01And someone came into his store with a lump of gold and instead of looking for gold himself,
16:06he bought all of the shovels and pickaxes and so on and went out into the town shouting,
16:10there's gold in them there, hills.
16:12And everybody came.
16:13He bought pans for 20 cents, which he then sold for $15.
16:18There are accounts of single lemons selling for a dollar, which is about $40 today because
16:24people were frightened about getting scurvy.
16:26A single pair of boots today in our money, $2,300.
16:30And one farmer earned the equivalent of $160,000 in 1849 just selling onions.
16:36Like Disney, they get you with the merch, don't they?
16:39Yeah.
16:40Once you're there.
16:41Shop every five metres.
16:42They know.
16:43Now, who has been unfairly called a glutton for as long as we can remember?
16:48Is it me?
16:50Can I just say, you're looking very beautiful.
16:58Fuck off.
16:59Yeah.
17:00Genuinely true, I told a friend of mine that I wanted to go on a weight loss kick and she
17:06said to me, yeah, but you're so handsome.
17:08That's got nothing to do with it.
17:10She was in her own way, in a woman's way, saying, yeah, you should.
17:16My stepdad, Keith, went on a diet and he's a big old geezer and he just wasn't losing
17:21any weight.
17:22And my mum went, he's trying so hard, bless him, and he ain't losing any weight.
17:25And then one day, he said he was going out to get the papers.
17:28And when I looked back on the CCTV on the door, I saw him around the side of the house smashing
17:33fish and chips.
17:34LAUGHTER
17:35It's the sort of thing where I could have gone up to him privately and gone, mate,
17:38look, I know you've been smashing the fish and chips on the side.
17:41Mm-mm-mm.
17:42Not me.
17:43I waited until everyone was in the house.
17:44LAUGHTER
17:45My wife, my mum, my in-laws, and I got the iPad out and I went, here's the evidence.
17:51LAUGHTER
17:53I don't know which is weirder, him doing that, are you watching it?
17:56LAUGHTER
17:58So, are you doing that a Zen pic thing, then?
18:01No.
18:02I considered it, I'm just trying to go, just trying to be in a calorie deficit, really.
18:07And, erm, it's not working, so...
18:09LAUGHTER
18:10Oh, you poor thing, it's very boring, doing calorie...
18:13Oh, that's why I've stopped.
18:15LAUGHTER
18:16OK.
18:17We are talking about the wild life of the Wild West.
18:21Anybody think if it's a W, particular creature in the Wild West?
18:25A warthog.
18:26No.
18:27LAUGHTER
18:30I can't think of a single movie where a cowboy goes,
18:33Oh, my Lord, it's a warthog.
18:35LAUGHTER
18:36We've got three different versions of the Lion King.
18:38LAUGHTER
18:40So, not a wallaby, then?
18:42No, no, no.
18:44Er...
18:45The Wolverine was...
18:46Well, how would we get that?
18:47How the...?
18:48Isn't it magnificent?
18:50Do you not think?
18:51Its range reached down the American West as far as California's Sierra Nevada?
18:56I thought it was Hugh Jackman.
18:58Yes, I did I.
18:59LAUGHTER
19:00I think it's been to a dentist in Turkey as well.
19:03LAUGHTER
19:04Don't you think it looks weird when people's teeth are that perfect?
19:09Yes!
19:10It looks so weird.
19:11Yeah.
19:12That's why mine are all yellow with bits of green stuff in them.
19:16LAUGHTER
19:17It's nice to keep a bit of salad for later.
19:19LAUGHTER
19:20So, these are most closely related to Martins, which is a weasel-like carnivore.
19:25They were called gulo-gulo, their Latin name meaning glutton-glutton, but it's a mistranslation.
19:32So, the old Norwegian for a Wolverine was fjellfrås, which means mountain cat.
19:38It was translated into German as a rather similar sounding vjellfrås, which means eats a lot.
19:44Oh.
19:45It's not fair.
19:46One nickname sticks.
19:47I know, right?
19:48LAUGHTER
19:49There are stories that it eats so much it forces its feces out of its body to make more space.
19:54LAUGHTER
19:55We've all been near Boxing Day.
19:58LAUGHTER
19:59Well, then after eight, hang on, I've got to go to the loo.
20:03LAUGHTER
20:04Does anybody eat after eights at any other time, other than Boxing Day, just after lunch?
20:10I have some on my coffee table, so I have it pretty much every night.
20:13How's that net deficit going?
20:15LAUGHTER
20:16APPLAUSE
20:18Every time you meet someone who says,
20:22Oh, I'm trying to lose weight.
20:24And then the next sentence, yeah, I always have after eight.
20:27LAUGHTER
20:28The whole thing, just one.
20:30No-one has one after eight.
20:32It's the single most moorish thing in the world.
20:34I've got really good self-control, actually.
20:36LAUGHTER
20:39Well, I can't think why there's a problem.
20:42LAUGHTER
20:44So they are amazing creatures, they're really adapted to snowy, mountainous conditions.
20:48But what is incredible about them, so when they step onto the snow, their paws spread out to twice the original size.
20:54So it's like having built-in snowshoes.
20:57And each paw has got five extremely sharp claws.
21:00So they can climb a sheer cliff or an icefall or whatever.
21:03They have an extraordinary keen sense of smell.
21:06So they can smell prey 20 feet under the snow.
21:09Why might that be a good thing?
21:12Because that's where prey hides.
21:14It's where prey hibernates.
21:16Oh, how annoying.
21:17Yeah, they never even see it coming.
21:19And they also use snow, a bit like refrigerators, for keeping food fresh.
21:23They have special teeth.
21:25These are not from Turkey, these are their own teeth.
21:27Special teeth at the back of the jaws, which are rotated 90 degrees to the rest, so that they can crunch frozen food.
21:34That's something you could get, that, darling.
21:36And then...
21:37What is happening?
21:39LAUGHTER
21:40You wouldn't have to defrost.
21:42Yeah, just go straight in.
21:44Iceland.
21:45Boom.
21:46Yeah, boom.
21:47LAUGHTER
21:48I want nice food.
21:49I'm not that desperate.
21:51Well, that's good.
21:53LAUGHTER
21:54OK, time for general ignorance.
21:57Fingers on buzzers, please.
21:59Which US state inspired the writers of the hit song,
22:02Take Me Home Country Roads?
22:05West Virginia?
22:07BUZZER
22:12I mean, it's like I open a trap door, isn't it?
22:15LAUGHTER
22:16So, anybody remember who sang it?
22:18John Denver.
22:19John Denver.
22:20Colorado, then.
22:21No.
22:22Kentucky, let's do some states.
22:24LAUGHTER
22:25North Dakota.
22:26No.
22:27South Dakota.
22:29We've run out of Dakotas now.
22:31Hawaii.
22:32Pennsylvania.
22:33So, it was written by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nyvert.
22:37And they've got the...
22:39Mississippi.
22:40Michigan.
22:41New Mexico.
22:42Texas.
22:43Oregon.
22:44Ohio.
22:45Nevada.
22:46Georgia.
22:47Washington.
22:48Argonne.
22:49Begins with M.
22:50Michigan.
22:51Missouri.
22:52Mississippi.
22:53Massachusetts.
22:54Massachusetts.
22:55Mumbai.
22:56Mumbai.
22:57LAUGHTER
23:00Maryland.
23:01Oh!
23:02Where are the cookies?
23:03Where the cookies come from?
23:07Do you only have one?
23:09Yeah.
23:10APPLAUSE
23:12Yeah.
23:14No way.
23:16One Maryland cookie.
23:18One after eight.
23:20Maple Tuff.
23:21One custard cream.
23:23One vodka.
23:24One vodka.
23:25One vodka biscuit.
23:26Nice.
23:27A breakaway.
23:28A penguin.
23:29All lined up.
23:30LAUGHTER
23:31God, now Alan's going to be naming biscuits all night.
23:35LAUGHTER
23:36A pink wafer.
23:37A jammy dodger.
23:38LAUGHTER
23:39Neither John Denver, nor Bill, nor Taffy, who wrote the song,
23:44had ever been to West Virginia when they recorded this song,
23:48and they chose it because it's got loads of poetic sounding landmarks
23:51like the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River,
23:54but they're mostly actually in Virginia.
23:56I mean, really, the song should be called It's About The West Of Virginia.
23:59Right.
24:00There was a brief while they thought about using Massachusetts
24:02to fill in a four-syllable gap in the song.
24:04Do you know the wonderful song Moon River by Johnny Massa?
24:07It's got a great line in it.
24:08My Huckleberry Friend.
24:09It's one of the kind of great lyrics of all time.
24:11And Huckleberry was a placeholder by Johnny Massa when he was writing it
24:15because he wanted that sound.
24:17Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
24:18And he thought, I'll just put that in for a moment,
24:20and then they recorded it and it has now become one of the great lyrics of all time.
24:23It's like I never knew what apple-bottomed jeans were.
24:25Oh!
24:26Yeah!
24:27Who'd sweep the floor?
24:29Yeah, yeah.
24:30Have you ever... Do you know that?
24:31No.
24:32I was looking at her.
24:35She got the flow.
24:37She got low, low, low, low.
24:40Do you have one of those buzzers to stop people auditioning?
24:44Sorry?
24:45It's the young people's turn now.
24:49And as soon as some young people turn up, we'll let them know.
24:57Right.
24:58Which company was formed in 1850 by Henry Wells and William G Fargo?
25:05Well, it's Fargo.
25:07They did set up Wells Fargo, but not in 1850.
25:16Oh.
25:17Yeah.
25:181852, they set that up.
25:19What did they set up first?
25:22Fargo and Wells.
25:29It's still going.
25:30It's one of the most famous companies in the world.
25:32McDonald's.
25:33Coca-Cola.
25:34It's American Express.
25:36Oh.
25:37Yes!
25:38Along with a man called John Butterworth, in 1850, they set up American Express to deliver
25:43goods around the East Coast.
25:45And the Wells Fargo Company was created to move goods around the West.
25:49Basically, it was profiting from the gold rush.
25:51American Express.
25:52Extraordinary.
25:53By the end of the Civil War, 900 offices in 10 states.
25:56Almost 10,000 miles of railway and express routes.
25:59The largest empire of stagecoaches in the world.
26:02And they made an absolute fortune.
26:05In fact, when Fargo died, his home was so expensive to maintain, they knocked it down.
26:10Whoa!
26:11Yeah.
26:12The city in North Dakota is called Fargo, also named after him.
26:15But I'm a huge fan of Henry Wells.
26:18Is that him on the right?
26:19On the left.
26:20Henry Wells is on the left.
26:21I like the other one.
26:22Do you?
26:23Oh.
26:24Why is that?
26:25You don't have to get off with them.
26:26It's just a lot more attractive.
26:27It's what they do.
26:28Well, I think, Joe, you will like Henry Wells.
26:31He believed in the education of women.
26:33And you have to understand how rare this is.
26:35Urgh!
26:41He described the education of women as the dream of his life.
26:45He said,
26:46He's only said that women's mind is not capable of attaining to a higher order of discipline.
26:51Not acknowledging this, let me say, give her the opportunity.
26:56Yeah.
26:57Fantastic.
26:58APPLAUSE
27:03Get us a cup of tea, love.
27:05I bet he did.
27:08He probably did.
27:09Even today, Wells Fargo, fourth largest bank in the United States, has still continued.
27:13All of which brings us to the end of the line.
27:15So let's see who's cut the mustard and who couldn't teach a hen to cluck.
27:18Couldn't you just do that last bit in an American accent?
27:21Uh, OK.
27:22All of which brings us to the end of the line.
27:24So let's see who's cut the mustard and who couldn't teach a hen to cluck.
27:36In last place tonight, it's gone a bit ugly for Ishan with minus 47.
27:39CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
27:42In third place with minus 29, it was pretty bad, Alan.
27:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
27:49In second place is quite good for Joe with minus 27.
27:52CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
27:54And our winner, putting the OK in the OK corral, with minus 19, it's Alex.
27:59CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
28:00Thank you to Alex, Ishan, Joe and Alan.
28:09And I leave you with this, not from the Wild West, but from May West.
28:14I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone without men who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress.
28:21Good night.
28:22APPLAUSE
28:23APPLAUSE
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