Happiness, bobble hats and time travelling calculators

0:00Hello there! You've come to the right place to try out today with Tony's, the podcast that's bursting with fun, facts and challenges. You can listen to a new episode right here, every single Tuesday for free. And if you want to get to our latest daily episodes, including our Sunday specials, where we hear from you, our listeners. Head to Tony's.com, slash podcast, and find out how. Now, on with the show. Hello listeners, it's Tuesday the 10th of March. I'm Tim. And I'm Sam, and it's time for today with Tony's, the brilliant show, even if I do say so myself, that's packed full of fun jokes, challenges and facts. Hey, Sam, remember I left you with a fabulous little fact yesterday? Yeah, I really would love to know the answer to this one. It was

1:01about the happiest country. Yeah, it was. I asked, what is the happiest country in the world? And you said Europe, but it wasn't Italy. I was thinking Italy to the pizza. Or France, because of the croissants. That makes me happy. It's not Germany, it's not Greece. No. What's left? I mean, there's loads left. Austria. I'm going to narrow it down. It's in Scandinavia. Oh, is it Norway? No, close next door to Norway. Sweden. No, the other side. Finland. Yay! It is. It is. It's Finland. That's right. Oh wow. Finland is voted the happiest country in the world. It is indeed, yeah. And after Finland, the second happiest country in the world is Denmark. And the third happiest country is Iceland. Interesting. Isn't there a lot of snow in those countries, Tim? Yeah, there is. And who isn't happy when they see snow? Yeah, do you know

2:04what that makes total sense? Sorry, Tim, did you just hear that? I'm sure I could just hear a bubbling sound somewhere. What sort of bubbling bucket he sound? Yes, you can hear it too, then. Yeah, I can, Sammy. And you know what that means, don't you, listeners? That's right. It means it's time for the big bubbling bucket of challenges. Yes, our bubbling bucket is full of games, fact stories and surprises. And every day, it sets us new challenges. But unless those challenges are really good at growing legs and climbing out of bubbling buckets, one of us needs to go and find them. So today, I nominate me to be the challenge finder. And I nominate you too, Sammy. Cool, two votes for me. So bucket, here we go. I hope you're ready. Because I'm going to take a run up here, Tim. Here I come. Hey, Tim, the bucket is full of bubble hats and knitted cats

3:06and welcome mats. Okay, I'm just going to wipe my feet on this welcome mat. It's quite useful. Oh, hang on. There's something underneath this welcome mat. It looks like it could be. Yes, it is. It's today's first challenge. Okay, I'm headed back already. Okay, everyone, today's first challenge. It's a new one. It's a fun one. It's acted out. Oh, okay, for this challenge, one of us will read a story while the other acts out the sound effects. Cool. And make sure you play along at home making the sound effects with us, listeners. Okay, who will be doing the sound effects today? Quick game of rock paper scissors to decide. Yeah, good idea, Sammy. Okay, ready? Yeah. Okay, so it's one, two, three, show. One, two, three, show. Yeah. Rock paper scissors, shoot. Oh, yes. My paper wraps your rock. Oh, well done, Tim. What do you want to do today?

4:11How about I make the sound effects today? And you read the story? Yep, absolutely. Sounds like a perfect plan to me. Okay. Okay, ready when you are, Tim? And remember, play along at home with us, too, listeners. Let's begin. Once upon a time, there was a girl called Emily who had a magic calculator. It was magic because when you typed in a number on it, you could time travel to that time. So one day into the calculator, Emily typed minus 1, 7, 8, 3, 4. Followed by lots of zeros. After typing the number, she had to press the E calls button. And then with a watch, she traveled back in time to 100 million years ago.

5:11She arrived and landed in a huge pile of leaves. And then decided to take a little stroll through the woods. It was just then that she remembered that she was thirsty. But thank goodness she brought a can of pop. She enjoyed it, but zipped the rubbish back in her bag. Because she didn't want a litter with the dinosaurs. She carried on her walk and thought maybe today was the day she was going to see a real life dinosaur. Overhead, she heard the flap of wings. But the flapping was a bit more vicious than that. And in front of her landed a teradactyl.

6:18The teradactyl smiled. It didn't of course speak English, but it held out his wing to shake hands with Emily. It offered her a flight into the sky to see the world full of dinosaurs. She said, yes please, I'd love to join you on a flight across the world. And off they flew into the distance. Emily enjoyed a magical day, seeing dinosaurs playing in the water, climbing mountains, eating their dinner. And when it was all over, she landed back with the teradactyl who told her to press enter on her magic calculator.

7:21The end. Oh, that was so funny, Tim. Wow, that was a great story. Imagine going time-traveling back when the dinosaurs were around. I know, and getting to fly with a friendly teradactyl. Yeah, that was fun. I tell you what Tim though, it's time for me to do some magic traveling now, but not back in time because I'm heading into the big bubbling bucket to find today's second challenge. Okay, bucket, get ready because here I come! Okay, let's have a look. There's no challenge under these bobble houses, though. No, they do look super cozy and warm, though. Ooh, maybe one of the knitted cats could be. Ah, yes, I've got it. This cute little black knitted cat is holding today's second challenge, Tim. Okay, I've got it, I'm on my way back.

8:26All right, everyone, today's second challenge is collective nouns. Oh, okay, I love this challenge, Sammy, because we always learn new facts to share with our friends, don't we? Yeah, we do. Okay, so the bucket is going to give us the names of three different things and the names of three different collective nouns. Do you remember what a collective noun is, everyone? Yeah, I do, I do, I do, I'll tell them. A collective noun is a word describing a group of the same kind of things, so like a group of dogs or lions and stars. Exactly, that's right, Tim. So today, we're going to be giving three things and then three collective nouns, and then we've got to try to work out which collective noun matches which thing. Okay, oh, look, Sam, here they are, three balls, we've just popped out of the bucket. Okay, I'll catch these first ones. Okay, I've got these three. What have you got? What are they? What are they? It looks like these could be our things, Tim. Each one's got a different word on it, and it says,

9:29okay, we've got geese, camels and seals. Oh, okay, I've definitely heard of one of those collective nouns. Have you? Wow, okay. Let's wait until we get our collective nouns, then I'll know if I'm going to be right. Oh, hang on here they go, quick. Here they go. You got it, you've got it. Yes, yes, yes, got them. Oh, well done, Tim. Okay, let me look. Yes, okay, these are our collective nouns. We've got Bob, Gagel and Caravan. Okay, so we've got geese, camels and seals as our things, and we've got Bob, Gagel and Caravan, and these are our collective nouns, so we've got to match those up. Oh, okay. I have heard of one of these before. Have you, which one? I'm not sure about any of them. Well, it's one of my favourites because for some reason it makes me laugh.

10:31It is, I believe, a gaggle of geese. Oh, okay, that sounds great. A gaggle of geese. I always picture loads of geese all like going along together with their heads up high and they're long next going, gaggling along. And that's why I remember a gaggle of geese. Oh, okay, cool. Well, I'm happy to try it. I'm sure you're right. I think I'm right. I'm 93% sure. Okay, book it. Is it a gaggle of geese? Yes, excellent. Well done, Tim. Oh, fantastic. Completely remembered that. That's so good. Well, now we're on our own, Sammy, so you're going to have to help me out. So we have got left, camels and seals and bob and caravan. Now, bob could be camels because they sort of bob along. They do. But then seals also bobbing and out of the water. That is true. Yeah.

11:32And I'll be honest, I've never seen a camel or a seal in a caravan. That is true. A caravan is something that travels and moves, isn't it? And camels in the desert, they do move across the desert in big groups. Like a caravan would move. They do, but seals move across the sea. What do we think, listeners? Maybe you can shout it out and help me and Sam. Ah, yeah, I've definitely heard caravan of camels and I've definitely heard bob of seals. Well, because caravan starts with a cuck and camels starts with a cuck and we did gaggle and geeks with both start with a g. Maybe that's right. Let's go for it then. Let's go for a caravan of camels. Okay, let's try it. Bucket, are we right? Caravan of camels? Yay! Fantastic! A caravan of camels, that's so cool! That is so cool, isn't it? So that means then

12:34the collective noun for a group of seals is a bob of seals. Bucket, is that right? Yes, fantastic! So Tim, if I say, oh, I can see a bob over there, it could either be someone called Bob or a group of seals. That's so funny. We did really well, we got them all right. We did. Well done, Sammy. Well done, everyone. Well done, everyone. And now I have three new collective nouns to tell all my friends. Oh, yes, that is fun, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, no! I can't be the end of the episode already. Oh, today's really flown by, isn't it? But the good news is, we get to stay here for just a little bit longer because before we go Tim, I've got a little joke for you. Cool, come on, what is it, Sammy? Okay, what do you call a cow that can play the piano? Oh, I don't know. What do you call a cow that can play the piano? Well Tim, I'll tell you

13:38I knew you were going to say that, Sammy. Don't forget, you'll find out tomorrow too, listeners. Maybe you know this joke already. Tune in tomorrow to see if you're correct. And for everyone else, we'll see you tomorrow as well. Bye! Bye, everyone. See you later. See you later, alligator. Bye. See you in a while. You bunch of crocodile. I really like that one. I think I'm going to remember a caravan of camels. Yeah, gaggle of geese. Do you know what my favourite ever collective noun is? A smack of jellyfish. Oh, that's good, but no. A murder of crows? No. Parliament of ours. A dazzle of zebras. Oh, yeah, that is good. They are quite dazzling aren't they? They are quite good. Thank you for listening to today with Tony's. We'll have another new episode for you right here

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