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00:00¡Gracias!
00:30¡Gracias!
01:00¡Gracias!
01:02Yippee-ki-yay, Mother Superior,
01:04it's Alan Davis.
01:10Their buzzers are
01:12from our own rodeo radio.
01:14Eshan goes...
01:22Oh, nice.
01:24Alex goes...
01:26This is great.
01:34Are you just getting overexcited?
01:36I need that chair for other people.
01:40Joe goes...
01:50And Alan goes...
01:52Three wheels on my way
01:54Now I'm still rolling along
02:02Right, let's mosey on down to question one.
02:04Stop me when you know what I'm talking about.
02:06Okay, they used whips,
02:08they wore leather chaps,
02:10big boots, even bigger hats,
02:12used lassoes, invented the rodeo,
02:14were mostly boys
02:16who herded cows in the 18th century.
02:20Two wheels on my wagon
02:26Cowboys.
02:32It's not cowboys.
02:34No, it's not cowboys.
02:35Cowgirls.
02:42Cow-thems.
02:50I mean, let's just go for cows.
02:52So most of the things that we associate
02:54with the all-American cowboy
02:56originate from the Mexican vaquero.
02:58A cattle hand, so vaca meaning cow.
03:00It comes from Spain, starts in about
03:02the 15th century,
03:04well established by the 17th century.
03:06So the cowboy that we think of,
03:08which is honestly mostly from the movies,
03:10comes to the US in the 19th century
03:12when they begin to get these big cattle ranching regions.
03:14Now, you've all got some bits and pieces to put on.
03:16A little bit of dressing up today.
03:18Yeah.
03:20Okay.
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.
03:30Have I meant to put that on?
03:35I'm going to say, Joe,
03:36if you just wear that, you will definitely win.
03:38I'm just going to...
03:40What kind of hat are you wearing, Alex?
03:42What is it called?
03:43It's not a trick question, Danny, is it?
03:45Cowboy hat.
03:46You look like a sort of, I don't know,
03:48a mad mystic woman who's going to...
03:53What were the hats called? Anybody?
03:54Ten-gallon hat.
03:55Ten-gallon hat.
03:56Do you think it had ten gallons in it?
03:58Yes.
03:59No.
04:00It actually came from the vaqueros' sombrero,
04:03and it really didn't become popular until the 1920s,
04:06which is, like, way after the Wild West.
04:08Most cowboys wore bowler hats.
04:10They were called them derby hats.
04:12And, of course, they didn't hold ten gallons.
04:14Maybe it came from the Spanish tan-galan, meaning so gallant.
04:18Probably, it's just an exaggeration.
04:20So we had a go at making a hat that could actually hold ten gallons.
04:25It looks like you're about to go on a hen-do and drink out of that.
04:39I'm on if you are.
04:41Weirdly, this is actually only five gallons. Do 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.
04:52Could have a funnel off a steamship.
04:54LAUGHTER
04:55The other thing they had, of course, is they had whips and lassoos.
05:02But they had this thing when they were lassoing, you had to be incredibly careful
05:06because the rope was very, very strong, and you could get your thumb trapped
05:11in the rope if you didn't throw it properly, and it would come clean off.
05:15Oh.
05:16I don't know why I'm looking at you.
05:17LAUGHTER
05:18APPLAUSE
05:27I tell you what, I'd have made a shit cowboy.
05:30LAUGHTER
05:31They'd be like, he still ain't learnt with the rope.
05:33He took the thumb, he took the other two buggers.
05:36It was called rodeo thumb.
05:38Rodeo thumb?
05:39I know, you wouldn't think it would be that strong, would you, the rope?
05:42I know, absolutely.
05:44What is one of the things in the movies, though, about the way in which cowboys are
05:48pretty much always depicted?
05:49They were always having a row, weren't they?
05:51Yes.
05:52They were always there in the pub.
05:54There were some football fans.
05:55Yeah.
05:56LAUGHTER
05:57So, almost always depicted as white men.
05:59But it wasn't true.
06:00About a third of cowhands were indigenous Mexicans, or mixed-raced mestizos,
06:05and about a quarter were black.
06:07There was a guy called Nate Love.
06:09He was known as Deadwood Dick.
06:11LAUGHTER
06:12He 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, and whiskey.
06:36Yeah.
06:37And he was dragged into a ditch, and he wrote in his autobiography,
06:40Roping a live engine is by long odds worse than roping wild buffalo.
06:44But my love was as strong as ever, and I thanked my lucky star.
06:47She did not see me, as they dragged me out of the ditch.
06:52Wow.
06:53Well, please, if you've survived being shot 14 times...
06:55Yeah.
06:56..you'd back yourself lassoing a train, wouldn't you?
06:58Yeah, exactly.
06:59You were actually 50 cent at that point, weren't you?
07:01LAUGHTER
07:02I've got a new 50 cent reference to a QI audience.
07:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:06You all know that.
07:07It's a big crossover.
07:08The QI audience and the 50 cent.
07:1050 cent.
07:11OK, here's another question.
07:13Where did the famous gunfight between the Clanton gang and Wyatt Earp's gang take place?
07:19Well, I wanted to make a noise, so I'm going to say the OK Corral.
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.
07:39So 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.
07:46The 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.
08:00LAUGHTER
08:03In fact, that picture that we showed of Clanton in Tombstone was almost certainly taken at Fly's Photographic Studio.
08:10So the gunfight did take place 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona, but when the newspapers wrote about it, the first thing they wrote was there was a fight on Fremont Street,
08:18and that lasted for about 50 years, and then Wyatt Earp published his biography in 1931, and that's when it became the fight at the OK Corral.
08:27So 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. How many people do you think died?
08:40They were only six feet apart, these people. The two gangs. All of them? No, three. They must have been really shit shots.
08:46Oh, God.
08:48Six feet apart, 30 shots, 30 seconds, three dead people. Doesn't seem like a very good...
08:53Who was shooting Brooker?
08:54LAUGHTER
08:55LAUGHTER
08:59Brookeroo!
09:00What about that? What about that?
09:02I'd have been in 30 seconds, I'd have still been trying to get it out of the old stuff.
09:05LAUGHTER
09:06Get this out for me, mate, would you?
09:08I'll hold it, you pull the trigger, mate.
09:10LAUGHTER
09:13Now, here's some Wild West legends. Can you tell me how they got their nicknames?
09:18So, this is Wild Bill Hickok. Oh, is that how you say it?
09:22What did you think it was?
09:23Wild Bill Hickok.
09:24Yes.
09:25Oh.
09:26I mean, depends if he's wearing the chaps.
09:29LAUGHTER
09:31Hickok sounds out of condition.
09:32Yeah, it does.
09:33LAUGHTER
09:35Guilty!
09:36LAUGHTER
09:39My little brother, when he was about six, he thought he was called Wild Bill Hickups.
09:44LAUGHTER
09:46So, his real name was James Butler Hickok.
09:49We'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
09:56and he looked a bit like a duck.
09:58LAUGHTER
09:59Duck Bill?
10:00Yes.
10:01His nickname was Duck Bill, and he decided he didn't like Duck Bill,
10:05but he would OK if he was Wild Bill.
10:07Has he not realised he's got, like, the wrong hat on for a cowboy?
10:11LAUGHTER
10:12I'm Cossack.
10:13Wild Bill Cossack.
10:14Shut up, Duck Bill!
10:16Fuck you, man!
10:17It ain't Duck Bill!
10:18Cut it!
10:19LAUGHTER
10:20LAUGHTER
10:21I'm starting to think on Wikipedia, and you is going to be Duck Bill.
10:26LAUGHTER
10:27LAUGHTER
10:29He did have a really boring brother called Lorenzo, who used to be known as Tame Bill.
10:33Tame Bill.
10:34LAUGHTER
10:35LAUGHTER
10:36But it did kind of predict what was going to happen while Bill was shot in the back
10:39while playing cards when he was just 39.
10:41And old Lorenzo Tame Bill lived into his 80s.
10:44I'm just saying it.
10:45The next one is called Big Nose Kate.
10:48Oh.
10:49LAUGHTER
10:50Which one do you think is Big Nose Kate?
10:52LAUGHTER
10:53I know, right?
10:54It's like you've got to go to VAR on this.
10:57LAUGHTER
10:58Is it referring to another part of their anatomy?
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.
11:27I'd do that.
11:28Would you just watch?
11:29LAUGHTER
11:30I'd go to the window if I heard a gunfight.
11:32Yeah.
11:33She worked as a sporting woman.
11:34Anybody?
11:35Is that like a brass?
11:36Is that a prostitute?
11:37It is a prostitute, yes.
11:38Yes, she is.
11:39Is that like a brass?
11:40LAUGHTER
11:41What a team we are.
11:46Get that on a BBC poster.
11:50LAUGHTER
11:59The BBC, for everyone.
12:02LAUGHTER
12:06There are other ones.
12:07Richard Rattlesnake, Dick Barter.
12:09Ooh!
12:10What?
12:11Rattlesnake.
12:12Rattlesnake, Dick.
12:13Rattlesnake, Dick.
12:14Rattlesnake, Dick.
12:15What a nickname that is.
12:16That is good.
12:17At the urinal.
12:18I can hear him.
12:19LAUGHTER
12:24Rocking Richard's going to the toilet again, isn't he?
12:26Yeah.
12:27LAUGHTER
12:28Got Richard there again.
12:31LAUGHTER
12:32The Rattlesnake Mine, where he kept telling everybody he was going to make his fortune.
12:38OK, next question.
12:39What use is a square wagon wheel?
12:43Stopped me rolling away.
12:45That is a very good point.
12:47But 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.
12:59OK?
13:00This is not him, this is a man who, I don't know, in a suit.
13:04LAUGHTER
13:05And he's called Stan Wagon?
13:07The guy who invented it is called Stan Wagon.
13:10Did J.K. Rowling name him?
13:11LAUGHTER
13:13So in order for a wheel to work at all, the centre has to be level, right?
13:18And so 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,
13:25then the wheels can be any shape, pretty much, apart from triangles, really.
13:28So look at this, right?
13:30This is a rather brilliant bus, but it 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 catenaries,
13:44and basically, look, along it goes like that.
13:48I know!
13:49So the reason this is interesting, there's an engineer called Gerard Font,
13:54and he thinks because stones with very similar curves were found in Giza,
13:58this method may have been what helped people to roll the blocks into place for the pyramids.
14:03So I guess you can see it's kind of pointless, but it's also interesting.
14:07Yeah.
14:08How did they do that?
14:09But that road there looks like every 20 mile an hour there near a school anyway.
14:12Yeah, that is so true.
14:13LAUGHTER
14:15Isn't it fascinating?
14:16Wouldn't it be great to have a car with square wheels?
14:18I just really like it.
14:19I really don't think it would.
14:20No?
14:21LAUGHTER
14:26Just from one speed bump, here we go.
14:28Yeah, here we go.
14:29It comes into its own.
14:31Oh well, it's just me.
14:32I like a square wagon wheel, that's just the way I roll.
14:35LAUGHTER
14:36Oh, nice.
14:37Come on.
14:38I like it.
14:39Thank you, I appreciate that.
14:40Right, let's move on to a question about wondrous wealth.
14:43In which state was the first American gold rush?
14:47Wasn't it like California?
14:49Like California?
14:50Oh!
14:51Ooh!
14:52Ooh!
14:53Ooh!
14:54Ooh!
14:55Oh!
14:56Ooh!
14:57Arizona.
14:58Nevada.
14:59LAUGHTER
15:00We're talking about 1799, the United States is newly formed.
15:04Oh, so it's got to be over to the east.
15:05Yeah.
15:06New York State!
15:07We have another 46 to go, so I'm going to stop you there.
15:08North Carolina was the very first time.
15:09So there was a child playing called Conrad Reed and he found a nugget of gold described as the size of a shoe and for three years the family used it as a doorstop.
15:16So 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 and he took it along to a silversmith and he got $3.50.
15:31It was actually worth $3,600.
15:32Oh!
15:33I mean, this is at the time, right?
15:34Yeah.
15:35They found out that they had been rooked so they thought, oh, let's go look for some more and over the next 20 years they found $100,000 worth of gold.
15:41This is $100,000 worth of gold.
15:44This is $100,000 worth of gold.
15:46This is $100,000 worth of gold.
15:47This is $100,000 worth of gold.
15:49For three years the family used it as a doorstop for three years and then his father thought, I wonder what I could get for it.
15:52And he took it along to a silversmith and he got $3.50.
15:56It was actually worth $3,600.
15:59It was $100,000 worth of gold.
16:00This 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 you...?
16:13Yeah, have you got any...?
16:15The California gold rush doesn't come until 1849.
16:19What is the most successful method that people used to make their fortune in the California gold 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 Brannan.
16:35And someone came into his store with a lump of gold and instead of looking for gold himself,
16:40he bought all of the shovels and pickaxes and so on and went out into the town shouting,
16:45There's gold in them there hills!
16:47And 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,
16:58because people were frightened about getting scurvy.
17:00A single pair of boots today in our money, $2,300.
17:04And one farmer earned the equivalent of $160,000 in 1849, just selling onions.
17:11Like Disney, they get you with the merch, didn't they?
17:13Yeah.
17:14Once you're there and shop every five metres.
17:16They know.
17:18Now, who has been unfairly called a glutton for as long as we can remember?
17:23Is it me?
17:24LAUGHTER
17:30Can I just say, you're looking very beautiful.
17:33Fuck off.
17:34Yeah.
17:37Genuinely true, I told a friend of mine that I wanted to go on a weight loss kick
17:41and she said to me, yeah, but you're so handsome.
17:43That's got nothing to do with it.
17:45She was in her own way, in a woman's way, saying, yeah, you should.
17:48LAUGHTER
17:51My stepdad, Keith, went on a diet and he's a big old geezer
17:54and he just wasn't losing any weight.
17:56And my mum went, he's trying so hard, bless him,
17:58and he ain't losing any weight.
18:00And then one day, he said he was going out to get the papers
18:03and when I looked back on the CCTV on the door,
18:06I saw him around the side of the house smashing fish and chips.
18:09LAUGHTER
18:10It's the sort of thing where I could have gone up to him privately and gone,
18:12here, mate, look, I know you've been smashing the fish and chips on the side.
18:15Mm-mm-mm.
18:16Not me, I wait until everyone was in the house.
18:19LAUGHTER
18:20My wife, my mum, my in-laws,
18:23and I got the iPad out and I went, here's the evidence.
18:26LAUGHTER
18:28I don't know which is weirder, him doing that, are you watching it?
18:31LAUGHTER
18:33So are you doing that a Zen pic thing, then?
18:36No.
18:37I considered it, I'm just trying to go...
18:39I'm just trying to be in a calorie deficit, really.
18:41And, erm, it's not working, so...
18:44LAUGHTER
18:45Oh, you poor thing, it's very boring, doing calorie...
18:48Oh, that's why I've stopped.
18:50LAUGHTER
18:51There you go.
18:52We are talking about the wild life of the Wild West.
18:56Anybody think of it's a W?
18:58Particular creature in the Wild West.
19:00A warthog. No.
19:02LAUGHTER
19:03Think of a single movie where a cowboy goes,
19:08Oh, my Lord, it's a warthog.
19:10LAUGHTER
19:11We've got three different versions of the Lion King.
19:13LAUGHTER
19:14So, not a wallaby, then?
19:17No, no, er...
19:19The Wolverine was...
19:21Well, how would we get...
19:22How the...?
19:23Isn't it magnificent, do you not think?
19:26Its range reached down the American West as far as California's Sierra Nevada?
19:31I thought it was Hugh Jackman.
19:33Yes, I did, I.
19:34LAUGHTER
19:35I think it's been to a dentist in Turkey as well.
19:39LAUGHTER
19:40Don't you think it looks weird when people's teeth are that perfect?
19:45Yes, it looks so weird.
19:47That's why mine are all yellow with bits of green stuff in them.
19:51LAUGHTER
19:52It's nice to keep a bit of salad for later.
19:55LAUGHTER
19:56So, these are most closely related to Martins, which is a weasel-like carnivore.
20:01They were called gulo-gulo, their Latin name meaning glutton-glutton,
20:05but it's a mistranslation.
20:07So, the old Norwegian for a Wolverine was fjellfrås, which means mountain cat.
20:13It was translated into German as a rather similar sounding vjellfrås,
20:17which means eats a lot.
20:19Oh.
20:20It's not fair.
20:21One nickname sticks.
20:22I know, right?
20:23LAUGHTER
20:24There are stories that it eats so much it forces its feces out of its body
20:28to make more space.
20:30LAUGHTER
20:32We've all been near Boxing Day.
20:34LAUGHTER
20:36Well, then after eight, hang on, I've got to go to the loo.
20:39LAUGHTER
20:42Does anybody eat after eights at any other time other than Boxing Day,
20:45just after lunch?
20:46I have some on my coffee table, so I have it pretty much every night.
20:48How's that net deficit going?
20:51LAUGHTER
20:55Every time you meet someone who says,
20:57oh, I'm trying to lose weight,
20:59and then the next sentence, you know, I always have after eights.
21:02LAUGHTER
21:03The whole thing, just one?
21:05No-one has one after eight.
21:07I have one.
21:08It's the single most moorish thing in the world.
21:09Yeah.
21:10I've got really good self-control, actually.
21:12LAUGHTER
21:15Well, I can't think why there's a problem.
21:17LAUGHTER
21:19So they are amazing creatures.
21:21They're really adapted to snowy, mountainous conditions.
21:24But what is incredible about them, so when they step onto the snow,
21:27their paws spread out to twice the original size.
21:30So it's like having built-in snowshoes.
21:32And each paw has got five extremely sharp claws.
21:35So they can climb a sheer cliff or an icefall or whatever.
21:38They have an extraordinary keen sense of smell.
21:41So they can smell prey 20 feet under the snow.
21:45Why might that be a good thing?
21:47Because that's where prey hides.
21:49Time.
21:50It'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.
22:00These are not from Turkey.
22:01These are their own teeth.
22:02Special teeth at the back of the jaws,
22:04which are rotated 90 degrees to the rest,
22:07so that they can crunch frozen food.
22:09That's something you could get, that, darling.
22:11And then...
22:12What is happening?!
22:14You wouldn't have to defrost.
22:17Yeah.
22:18Just go straight in.
22:19Iceland.
22:20Boom.
22:21Yeah, boom.
22:22I want nice food.
22:24I'm not that desperate.
22:26Well, that's good.
22:27Um...
22:28OK, time for general ignorance.
22:29Fingers on buzzers, please.
22:30Which US state inspired the writers of the hit song,
22:32Take Me Home Country Roads?
22:37West Virginia?
22:42I 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.
22:59No.
23:00South Dakota.
23:01We've run out of Dakotas now.
23:02Hawaii.
23:03Pennsylvania.
23:04So, it was written by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nyvert.
23:08And they got the...
23:09Mississippi.
23:10Michigan.
23:11Texas.
23:12Oregon.
23:13Ohio.
23:14Nevada.
23:15Georgia.
23:16Washington.
23:17Argonne.
23:18Begins with M.
23:19Michigan.
23:20Missouri.
23:21Mississippi.
23:22Massachusetts.
23:23Massachusetts.
23:24Massachusetts.
23:25Mumbai.
23:26Maryland.
23:27Maryland.
23:28Oh!
23:29Where's the cookies?
23:30Where the cookies come from?
23:31Do you only have one?
23:32Yeah.
23:33Yeah.
23:34No way.
23:35We've got one Maryland cookie.
23:36One Maryland cookie.
23:37One Maryland cookie.
23:38One Maryland cookie.
23:39One half-break.
23:40A maple tart.
23:41One custard cream.
23:42One warm.
23:43One warm.
23:44One warm.
23:45One warm.
23:46One warm.
23:47One warm.
23:48One warm.
23:49One warm.
23:50One warm.
23:51A breakaway.
23:52A penguin.
23:53All lined up.
23:54A breakaway.
23:55A breakaway.
23:56A maple tart.
23:57One custard cream.
23:58One warm.
23:59One warm.
24:00One Viscount Biscuit.
24:01Nice.
24:02A breakaway.
24:03A penguin.
24:04All lined up.
24:07God.
24:08Now Alan's going to be naming biscuits all night though.
24:11A pink wafer.
24:12A jammy dodger.
24:13A Gary Fooley.
24:16Neither John Denver nor Bill nor Taffy who wrote the song had ever been to West Virginia when they recorded this song.
24:23And they chose it because it's got loads of poetic sounding landmarks like the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River.
24:29But they're mostly actually in Virginia.
24:31I mean really the song should be called It's About the West of Virginia.
24:34Right.
24:35There 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.
24:52Ba ba ba ba ba.
24:53And he thought I'll just put that in for a moment.
24:55And then they recorded it and it has now become one of the great lyrics of all time.
24:58I never knew what apple bottom jeans were.
25:01Oh.
25:02Yeah.
25:03Boots with the flow.
25:04Yeah.
25:05Have you ever heard you know that?
25:06No.
25:07I was looking at her.
25:10She got the flow.
25:12She got low, low, low, low, low.
25:16Do you have one of those puzzles to stop people listening?
25:19Sorry?
25:20It's the young people's turn now.
25:21And as soon as some young people turn up we'll let them out.
25:30Right.
25:31Which company was formed in 1850 by Henry Wells and William G Fargo?
25:38Yo.
25:39Wells Fargo.
25:40Oh.
25:41They did set up Wells Fargo but not in 1850.
25:50Oh.
25:51Yeah.
25:52Oh.
25:53Yeah.
25:541852 they set that up.
25:55What did they set up first?
25:56Fargo and Wells.
25:57It's still going.
25:58It's one of the most famous companies in the world.
25:59McDonald's.
26:00Coca-Cola.
26:01It's American Express.
26:02Oh.
26:03Yes.
26:04Along with a man called John Butterworth in 1850 they set up American Express to deliver goods around the East Coast and the Wells Fargo Company was created to move goods around the West.
26:24Basically it was profiting from the gold rush.
26:26American Express.
26:27Extraordinary.
26:28By the end of the Civil War 900 offices in 10 states.
26:31Almost 10,000 miles of railway and express routes.
26:34The largest empire of stagecoaches in the world.
26:37And they made an absolute fortune.
26:40In 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?
27:01He's got to get off with him.
27:02It's what they do.
27:03Well I think Joe you will like Henry Wells.
27:06He believed in the education of women and you have to understand how rare this is.
27:10He described the education of women as the dream of his life.
27:20He said it is commonly said that women's mind is not capable of attaining to a higher order of discipline.
27:27Not acknowledging this let me say give her the opportunity.
27:31Yeah.
27:32Fantastic.
27:33APPLAUSE
27:34But when did he say get us a cup of tea love?
27:40I bet he did.
27:43He probably did.
27:44Even today Wells Fargo the fourth largest bank in the United States has still continued.
27:48All of which brings us to the end of the line.
27:50So let's see who's cut the mustard and who couldn't teach a hen to cluck.
27:55Couldn't you just do that last bit in an American accent?
27:57OK.
27:58All of which brings us to the end of the line.
27:59So let's see who's cut the mustard and who couldn't teach a hen to cluck.
28:03LAUGHTER
28:13In last place tonight has gone a bit ugly for Ishan with minus 47.
28:16In third place with minus 29, who was pretty bad, Alan.
28:21In second place is quite good for Jay with minus 27.
28:28Y nuestro winner, poner el ok en el ok corral, con menos 19, es Alex.
28:43Gracias a Alex, Ishaan, Joe y Alan, y yo con esto, no de la WIlde West, pero de la WIlde West.
28:49No hay tiempo para los broads que quieren ir al mundo, sin los hombres que van a hacer el zapato de tu vestir.
28:55Gracias, good night.
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