NSTAAF International Factball: USA v Russia

No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 22 June 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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USA v Russia: The QI Elves in association with www.visitengland.com bring you the eleventh episode of this No Such Thing As A Fish Factball special - the only football podcast that has absolutely nothing to do with football. Today Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Alex Edelman (@alex_edelman) and Anna Ptaszynski (@qikipedia) pit Italy against Switzerland to find out which is the most Quite Interesting country.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish Presents International Factball.
0:06.4	This is a football podcast, probably the only one out there that makes absolutely no mention of football whatsoever.
0:12.3	Brought to you by the QILs in association with VisitingLin.com.
0:16.2	My name is Dan, I'm sitting here with James and Anna and we have a special guest today which is Alex Edelman, our comedian friend,
0:23.4	who's had a lot of Twitter interest in getting you back onto the podcast.
0:27.7	But popular demand from his mum.
0:30.4	So today's match is USA vs Russia and we begin with the USA.
0:36.2	Alex you must have some USA facts.
0:39.3	Oh I have plenty of USA facts.
0:40.8	Oh my god we've actually got a bit of a proper personal battle going on today because James,
0:45.2	your wife, Polina is Russian and Alex you are from the greatest country on the planet.
0:51.3	So there we go. So this is going to be interesting. How do you want it? Come on.
0:54.7	First killer facts of that America.
0:56.4	All right my first killer fact about America is that they lost the cold war.
1:02.4	But one the space war. So my first killer fact about America is that there was something called the
1:08.4	Great Rraft which was a series of log jams several hundred miles long started in the 1100s.
1:15.1	How does I can't even visualize that how that would work?
1:18.3	Well I think it's interesting to imagine because obviously nobody was around or
1:22.3	were native Americans around but a bunch of dead trees clogged up a river and kept piling
1:27.4	backwards and backwards and backwards and backwards and eventually there was just this thing.
1:31.2	There are a lot of invasive species that were carried by that river overflowing its banks into
1:35.8	little lakes that don't belong there. But only there because this giant dam flooded these plains
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