Speaker 1: Quest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Patsy's been having some trouble this week with her lot Ordie,
Speaker 1: who's doing the dreaded times table. Do you remember how
Speaker 1: much pressure you had to get that right? We used
Speaker 1: to just give me sleepless nights about worrying about trying
Speaker 1: to revise and learn my seven times table and the
Speaker 1: eight times table. Fact, let's do a spot test now,
Speaker 1: were Jack and Pats eight times three?
Speaker 3: Jack Post twenty four? Well done?
Speaker 1: Oh that's an easy one.
Speaker 3: Okay, eleven times seven, Pats seventy seven.
Speaker 1: The everone knows I always found the seven and the
Speaker 1: eighths the hardest. The other one was that the tens
Speaker 1: and the fives were the easiest, and the two times table.
Speaker 1: All right, Patsy seven times.
Speaker 3: Seven seven, seven's four forty nine. That's slow, Jack Post
Speaker 3: nine times eight. This is not sixty.
Speaker 2: Your work quick.
Speaker 3: You can work back with six fifty four.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I get embarrassed by just how low the bar
Speaker 1: is to do what you did sixty four.
Speaker 3: All I can understand why Aldie was getting tense with you.
Speaker 2: Pat.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's sake.
Speaker 1: Some calls right now, call in Now if you in
Speaker 1: the last year have used your knowledge of the times
Speaker 1: table in your line of work, Simon's up first.
Speaker 2: Every day of the week, I've got to work at
Speaker 2: quantities for material and all that sort of thing for
Speaker 2: the jobs.
Speaker 3: So what do you do.
Speaker 2: Say I'm a carpenter, right, Okay, as a kid, you'd
Speaker 2: think I'll go into a train where they to use
Speaker 2: my brain. Well that's back, fine.
Speaker 3: Well we actually did do that. You don't really brain
Speaker 3: in this job.
Speaker 1: You just sort of sit here and mumble press play
Speaker 1: and the songs playing, and that's it. Rinch repeat a carpenter.
Speaker 1: So how about the times table them? Because obviously understand
Speaker 1: you measuring the angles and measure twice cut once, but
Speaker 1: the times table when is seven times seven coming into
Speaker 1: making a door?
Speaker 2: Well, not so much as the door. When you're ordering
Speaker 2: the curials, you' gott to work at your square meterie,
Speaker 2: so you have the time to link by the hide
Speaker 2: or the hight by the width, and that gives you
Speaker 2: your quantities total, and then you're going to try and
Speaker 2: order from that.
Speaker 1: Do you know if I spent an hour trying to
Speaker 1: do what you do, so goodness would ruin your business?
Speaker 1: Within the hour, the so called doors turning up they
Speaker 1: were oblong or.
Speaker 2: He as a trader, you make a good radio host.
Speaker 1: All right, there's so carpentry. We can take that one
Speaker 1: if it says there's more calls as well. Andrew, First
Speaker 1: of all, tell us what you do for living?
Speaker 3: What's your trade?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: I'm a baker? Is that every single day, every single dough,
Speaker 2: every single hour, every single minute, every single minute, every
Speaker 2: single minute. The times table, they're times table.
Speaker 3: What's that going to do with bread?
Speaker 2: All right? Tave to you on thirty two vas before
Speaker 2: go on a tray? How many trades do you need?
Speaker 3: And you do it all in your head?
Speaker 2: Andrew, I wouldn't say that most of it. I do
Speaker 2: double check. That's if we get it wrong, we get
Speaker 2: it wrong.
Speaker 3: All right, carpentry, bacers.
Speaker 1: Quite a few trades so far, work worked out still
Speaker 1: using the times table, ben times table.
Speaker 3: First of all, what's your trade? What do you do
Speaker 3: for living? Mate?
Speaker 4: Working? Florestry?
Speaker 3: Forestry? What's that going to do with the times table?
Speaker 4: So we get there, deliveries of flowers and the tubs
Speaker 4: come in or generally with four bunches of flowers in
Speaker 4: each tub. So as an example, yesterday we received eighty tubs.
Speaker 4: Eighty tubs times four, that's threads and twenty flowers or
Speaker 4: bunches of flowers.
Speaker 3: And we'll have to take your word for that.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're doing all day then is the
Speaker 1: various flowers and you're giving up all the bunches. You've
Speaker 1: got to do the maths in your head, yep.
Speaker 4: So they've got to obviously double check that what they've
Speaker 4: ordered has come in. So even though in that eighty
Speaker 4: bunch you might have five red, forty white, you'll have
Speaker 4: twenty tubs of pink and then maybe fifteen types of purple.
Speaker 3: Is it's actually ben This actually feels like homework for kids? Does?
Speaker 3: It's been the forest?
Speaker 1: As four bunches and twelve of them are red.
Speaker 3: How many pink are they?
Speaker 1: Turns out every job uses their timetables, apart from this job.
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