525: No Such Thing As A Clenched Shin

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Alex Bell discuss Porky, Hockey, Hippies and Nookie.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly
0:19.1	podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Anna Tashinsky,
0:25.9	James Harkin, and Alex Bell, and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our
0:30.4	four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular
0:34.1	order here we go starting with fact number one that is my fact my fact this week
0:40.3	is that the original voice of Porky Pig got fired for having a stutter.
0:45.8	That is so unfair.
0:47.5	It really is, isn't it?
0:49.1	Because they carried on with the stutter.
0:51.8	Did they then do auditions for people being like you have to stutter? Well they didn't really
0:54.9	need to do auditions because they had the great Mel Blank who is the finest voice of all time who eventually took over the role but the whole vocal
1:01.6	styling of Porky Pig was created by a guy
1:04.2	called Joe Doherty he's a guy who died 1978 he so he existed in like the early
1:11.0	1900s because Porky Pig was one of the original
1:13.2	looney tunes if not the oldest continuous one yeah exactly and so he did it for two
1:18.5	years but the issue was it was really messing up recording times because he couldn't
1:22.4	control his stutter he'd
1:23.4	get nervous.
1:24.4	Wait, so had they decided to give Porky Big a stutter and then deliberately chosen him or was it like
1:28.0	vice versa?
1:29.0	The first one.
1:30.0	The first one. The first one. The first one.
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