The host runs the show's proverb game for the young people: guess whether a saying is secular wisdom (name its country of origin) or from Solomon (name the Proverbs chapter). Rounds include the sluggard and the lion (Proverbs 22), the tree-climbing proverb (secular, Ghana), 'the eyes of man are never satisfied' (Proverbs 27), the hot-tempered friend (Proverbs 22), the rooster (secular, Tanzania), the prudent seeing danger (Proverbs 27), the fly and the closed mouth (secular, Cameroon), digging pits (secular, Russia), and the snake charmer (Ecclesiastes 10). Suri's malapropism 'specular' becomes a running joke, and Suri wins the scoring with 1,204 points. Ben plugs the LFTP app beta via the complaint line.
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