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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss popular plaques, pioneering puppets, pointy picks and powerful people.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

0:19.4

to you from one very disclosed location.

0:22.8

It is the QI offices in Covent Garden.

0:25.0

We are back.

0:26.3

My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:33.3

I am sitting here at a very comfortable 2m distance from Anitashinsky, Andrew Hunter-Mari,

0:33.3

and James Harkin.

0:34.3

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts

0:37.9

from the last seven days.

0:39.4

And in a particular order, here we go.

0:42.6

Starting with fact number one, and that is James.

0:45.4

Okay, my fact this week is that there is a type of glue that was developed specifically

0:50.6

to help strong men grab onto giant stone spheres.

0:54.8

So cool.

0:55.8

So strong men competitions.

0:59.5

This is where you see them, basically, literally giant boulders, don't you, up onto platforms.

1:04.2

Yeah, so if you imagine on British television between Christmas and New Year, there is

1:08.6

nothing else on TV apart from World Strongest Man, which is the best show ever, where they

1:13.4

get these enormous men like pulling trucks and doing all sorts of stuff.

1:17.8

But like you say, one of the things is called the Atlas Stones.

1:21.2

And there's a substance called Spide Attack that was invented by a part-time strongman

1:26.1

and part-time molecular biologist called Mike Caruso.

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