This Podcast may contain traces of the Peanut Podcast

We find out why Dan is considered to be so smooth, while he, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts . This week's subjects include Kidneys, Korea, peanuts and Peter Pan. And the gang announce eight more Friend of the Podcast custodians. Visit nosuchthingasafish.com http://nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Join Club Fish for ad-free episodes and exclusive bonus content at apple.co/nosuchthingasafish http://apple.co/nosuchthingasafish or nosuchthingasafish.com/patreon http://nosuchthingasafish.com/patreon Edited by James Harkin Produced by Leying Lee Team includes Tara Dorrell, Joe Mayo and Ethan Ruparelia

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• 0:00SCRIBE_speaker_0

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• 0:43James Harkin?

  Hello and welcome to another episode of Little Fish. My name is James Harkin, I am joined by Daniel Schreiber and Andrew Hunter Murray, and we are here to look at your best facts. We are the team from No Such Thing As A Fish, the famous podcast that goes around looking for facts and then talking about them. But in this show, we don't look for facts-

• 1:03SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Wow

• 1:03James Harkin?

  ... 'cause we're given them from the lovely viewers. So who's got a fact?

• 1:07SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I got a fact. This is from Luke Megan, and the fact is, "To make crunchy peanut butter, you first have to make smooth peanut butter, then add the crunchies back in."

• 1:18James Harkin?

  Is that true?

• 1:19SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, it is. I was into it.

• 1:21James Harkin?

  'Cause you would think you would just not smooth it quite enough, wouldn't you?

• 1:24SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's what-

• 1:25James Harkin?

  Yes

• 1:25SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... the assumption is. Like, are they doing that to orange juice? Are they popping the bits back in after?

• 1:28James Harkin?

  I, I don't know.

• 1:29SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I don't know either.

• 1:30James Harkin?

  I bet they are.

• 1:31SCRIBE_speaker_3

  There we go. This is huge. I found verification for this through a podcast called The Peanut Podcast.

• 1:38SCRIBE_speaker_1

  What's it about?

• 1:40James Harkin?

  It's about that cartoon with Charlie Brown in it.

• 1:42SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yes. Yeah, yeah. Um, no, it's a bunch of peanut experts, uh, getting together and some people work for peanut butter, you know, and others, and this came up on the show and it was revealed that, yeah, that is how they do it.

• 1:54James Harkin?

  Do you think at the start of this podcast we're gonna have to disclaimer that this podcast might contain small parts of The Peanut Podcast?

• 2:02SCRIBE_speaker_1

  If you're on a plane, please don't play this podcast episode out loud

• 2:06James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 2:07SCRIBE_speaker_1

  In, in case there's anyone on, on there with an airborne peanut podcast allergy.

• 2:13James Harkin?

  Uh, that's really good.

• 2:14SCRIBE_speaker_3

  It's cool. So cool.

• 2:15James Harkin?

  That's really awesome.

• 2:16SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 2:16James Harkin?

  Yeah, I didn't know that. I didn't know how that was made, and now I know. I will tell everyone-

• 2:20SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah

• 2:20James Harkin?

  ... whenever I see a bit of crunchy peanut butter.

• 2:23SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's wild.

• 2:24SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Yeah.

• 2:24SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 2:24SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Crazy. It's... I think it's almost more crazy there's a peanut podcast.

• 2:28SCRIBE_speaker_3

  No.

• 2:28SCRIBE_speaker_1

  I've now moved on to the next... Do you know what? Like, my frontier of what is normal has now-

• 2:32SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, yeah

• 2:33SCRIBE_speaker_1

  ... expanded to include-

• 2:34James Harkin?

  Yeah

• 2:34SCRIBE_speaker_1

  ... that peanut phase.

• 2:35James Harkin?

  The Overton window.

• 2:36SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Right.

• 2:37SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 2:37James Harkin?

  I'm gonna go out here and say it, Dan is a regular peanut butter eater, and Andy very rarely has peanut butter.

• 2:44SCRIBE_speaker_1

  How do you know that? It's the smears around the mouth, isn't it?

• 2:49James Harkin?

  It's just a feeling. Am I right or wrong?

• 2:52SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Correct and correct.

• 2:54SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Well, well, let's go deeper. Am I a smooth or a crunchy man?

• 2:57James Harkin?

  Oh, I think you're a smoothie.

• 2:59SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Smooth.

• 3:00SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I'm crunch all the way, baby.

• 3:01James Harkin?

  Well, no, no.

• 3:01SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Ooh.

• 3:01James Harkin?

  I was talking about your general persona-

• 3:04SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yes

• 3:04James Harkin?

  ... being so smooth.

• 3:05SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Sorry. Yes.

• 3:06SCRIBE_speaker_1

  And, and I was talking about your body.

• 3:08SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yes.

• 3:08SCRIBE_speaker_1

  As we know, it's very hairy, but only the e- exposed bit's completely hairless.

• 3:12SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yes, exactly.

• 3:13SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Like one of those shaved poodles, aren't you?

• 3:14SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I am. I am. That's where I get my haircuts actually, those poodle shots. I'm always in the window.

• 3:22SCRIBE_speaker_1

  In one of those slings.

• 3:24SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, the little sling.

• 3:26James Harkin?

  I don't know these poodle slings.

• 3:28SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Have you not seen dog, uh, h- hairdressers where they-

• 3:31James Harkin?

  I haven't.

• 3:32SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Oh. They, they, they-

• 3:33SCRIBE_speaker_3

  If there's a grooming shop they'll have a table up, you know, normal height table. That's not the interesting bit. But they put the dog on a table and then they put a kind of sling under its tummy-

• 3:41James Harkin?

  No

• 3:41SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... don't they? So I think so they can... I don't know. Or what, what is the sling there for?

• 3:44SCRIBE_speaker_1

  So it doesn't run away.

• 3:44SCRIBE_speaker_3

  So it doesn't run away.

• 3:46James Harkin?

  Is it like a hammock?

• 3:48SCRIBE_speaker_3

  It's like a hammock, but both ends of the dog stick out of it.

• 3:50James Harkin?

  'Cause of course, like hundreds of dogs used to die from falling off the top of those boxes before that, didn't they?

• 3:56SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Exactly.

• 3:58James Harkin?

  Andy, have you got something for us?

• 4:00SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Yes. You're not gonna like it.

• 4:03James Harkin?

  Maybe one that you do like?

• 4:05SCRIBE_speaker_1

  I like it.

• 4:05James Harkin?

  Oh, you like it. Oh, it's one that I personally am not gonna like.

• 4:08SCRIBE_speaker_1

  I think no, neither of you guys are gonna like it-

• 4:10SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Okay

• 4:10SCRIBE_speaker_1

  ... but I love it. From Karina Rain, about an Australian beach. Dan, of course, from Australia.

• 4:15SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Thank you.

• 4:16SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Have you ever been to North Queensland?

• 4:18SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Um, it's a big place. So yeah, but where, where?

• 4:21SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Have you ever been to Port Douglas?

• 4:23SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I've not. I know of it.

• 4:24SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Okay. Well, there is a beach in Port Douglas in tropical North Queensland in Australia that is called Four Mile Beach.

• 4:32James Harkin?

  Oh, yeah.

• 4:32SCRIBE_speaker_1

  But I'm afraid it is only two and a half miles long.

• 4:36James Harkin?

  Mm-hmm.

• 4:36SCRIBE_speaker_1

  And the theory is that it is named after the Four Mile family.

• 4:40James Harkin?

  Oh, is there a family called the Four Miles?

• 4:42SCRIBE_speaker_1

  It is a surname, Four Mile.

• 4:44James Harkin?

  Is it?

• 4:44SCRIBE_speaker_1

  But-

• 4:45SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Okay

• 4:45James Harkin?

  ... I think there's a few of those and might even be a few in Australia that are like 11 Kilometer Beach that is actually 12 kilometers long.

• 4:52SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 4:52James Harkin?

  There's quite a few like that I think.

• 4:55SCRIBE_speaker_1

  And the... There's also a bridge in Anglesey which is called Four Mile Bridge.

• 4:58James Harkin?

  Is there?

• 4:59SCRIBE_speaker_1

  As you'd expect, it's not four miles long. It's the... As allaboutanglesey.co.uk describes it-

• 5:05SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Mm

• 5:05SCRIBE_speaker_1

  ... it's a rather unimpressive low stone bridge.

• 5:08SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Okay.

• 5:09James Harkin?

  Oh.

• 5:09SCRIBE_speaker_1

  And it's so named because it's the fourth milestone from Holyhead.

• 5:13James Harkin?

  I didn't know this, and I think most people in America would know it-

• 5:17SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Yeah

• 5:17James Harkin?

  ... but I was really surprised. So if you are on a freeway in America, interstate-

• 5:23SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Mm

• 5:23James Harkin?

  ... and you go past junction 23-

• 5:26SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Mm-hmm

• 5:26James Harkin?

  ... what do you think the next junction is gonna be?

• 5:28SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Well, 24.

• 5:30James Harkin?

  Yeah. Or 22 if you're going in the other direction, right?

• 5:32SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, yeah.

• 5:32SCRIBE_speaker_1

  I suppose so. I hadn't thought of that, yeah.

• 5:33James Harkin?

  It turns out in many states the numbering isn't consecutive.

• 5:38SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Oh, God.

• 5:38James Harkin?

  And actually it's the number of miles down the road. So if you're at-

• 5:43SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, okay

• 5:43James Harkin?

  ... if you're at junction 23, it's 'cause you're 23 miles from the start of the road.

• 5:48SCRIBE_speaker_1

  That's-

• 5:48James Harkin?

  And so the next one might be junction 27.

• 5:50SCRIBE_speaker_1

  That's crazy.

• 5:51James Harkin?

  I- I've never heard that before. I guess, like, some Americans will be like, "Yeah, duh," but-

• 5:55SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, that's really cool

• 5:56James Harkin?

  ... as a British person, you would always think if you're at 22 and you need to get off at the next one, it's gonna be 23.

• 6:02SCRIBE_speaker_1

  Yeah. I think that's the worst system

• 6:05James Harkin?

  Well, in a way, for us it's bad

• 6:07SCRIBE_speaker_4

  For us it's bad

• 6:08James Harkin?

  But I guess it tells you more information than our junctioning system tells you

• 6:12SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah

• 6:12SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I suppose so, as long as I'm not looking for junction 24

• 6:16James Harkin?

  Yeah. In my In my example, there isn't a junction 24

• 6:20SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's what I'm saying. I'm like, I'll come off-

• 6:21SCRIBE_speaker_4

  We need to stop the car and go, "I'm sorry, honey, we've got to..."

• 6:23SCRIBE_speaker_3

  No, I'll come off at 27, go all the way around, get back on at 27 going the other way.

• 6:28SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 6:28SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Keep going. Find junction 23 again. Oh, we must have missed it. Right, come on. Go all the way around again. Right. Just, we're gonna go in the slow lane this time. Nice and careful.

• 6:37SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Nightmare. Who's giving you an address for a junction that doesn't exist, though?

• 6:41James Harkin?

  Well, you might be on the wrong road.

• 6:42SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, you're on the wrong road.

• 6:43SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I'm already on the wrong road.

• 6:44SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Okay, well

• 6:44SCRIBE_speaker_4

  'Cause of some bloody thing that happened with, like, junction, you know, one.

• 6:48SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah

• 6:48SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Or, you know, whatever.

• 6:49SCRIBE_speaker_3

  We've got bigger problems then, than their numbering system. Your ability to get on a road is...

• 6:54SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Everyone in the car is unhappy. That's all. Because of this silly system.

• 6:57SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, right.

• 6:57SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 6:57James Harkin?

  I blame the system.

• 6:59SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I do.

• 7:00James Harkin?

  Okay. Well, I think it's my turn for another fact. This is from Ashley Pritchard. Uh, and Ashley says, "My favorite fact comes from personal experience. If you donate a kidney as a living donor, your remaining kidney will grow to compensate for the loss."

• 7:15SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Pretty cool.

• 7:15SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Wow.

• 7:16SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Will it go, will it grow to double the size of your first kidney?

• 7:19James Harkin?

  No, it'll grow to between 20 and 40% of, of its original size.

• 7:25SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Still not big enough.

• 7:25James Harkin?

  Uh, but it'll continue to function as normal.

• 7:27SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Wow.

• 7:27James Harkin?

  And it's called compensatory hypertrophy.

• 7:31SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That is incredible.

• 7:32SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Really cool.

• 7:32James Harkin?

  I'm sure we said before that when you get a kidney, they keep the old ones in. So if you... Someone donates-

• 7:38SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah

• 7:38James Harkin?

  ... a kidney to you, you've then got three kidneys. And then if they donate another one-

• 7:42SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Oh

• 7:42James Harkin?

  ... you've got four, and that just keeps going.

• 7:43SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Really?

• 7:44James Harkin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 7:44SCRIBE_speaker_4

  It doesn't... It can't keep going forever.

• 7:47James Harkin?

  Well, until they stop.

• 7:47SCRIBE_speaker_4

  This man has all kidneys. That's why he died.

• 7:52SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, at some point when you're doing the surgery, you're going, which one is the kidney that I need to be-

• 7:57SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Well, it doesn't matter, 'cause you're just shoving another one in.

• 7:59James Harkin?

  Yeah, but what happens if you then get renal problems-

• 8:02SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Oh, yeah

• 8:02James Harkin?

  ... and they're like, "Okay, we need to put some, um, some cream on this kidney."

• 8:06SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 8:07James Harkin?

  I assume that's what they do.

• 8:08SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 8:08James Harkin?

  "We need to put some cream on this kidney to solve his renal issues."

• 8:11SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Perfectly simple procedure. Today, Mr. Harkin, we're just gonna open you up, pop a bit of cream on the affected kidney. Stick you up again. I know it sounds invasive. You'd think we'd have found a better way of, of giving you the medicine in pill form, but we can't.

• 8:23James Harkin?

  It only comes as a cream.

• 8:25SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 8:27SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Sudocrem's good though, isn't it? It's a wonderful product. Um, that's... Yeah, that's very cool. Are there other parts of the body... I guess there isn't. So if you lose... I mean, if you lose a hand, your other hand doesn't grow, obviously.

• 8:39James Harkin?

  Well, if you lose a tip of a finger before the age of, like, three or four, it regrows, I think.

• 8:43SCRIBE_speaker_4

  That's a crazy... Oh, yeah.

• 8:43James Harkin?

  It is mad.

• 8:44SCRIBE_speaker_4

  That is mad.

• 8:45SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah. Um, should I read out a fact?

• 8:46James Harkin?

  Yeah, go for it.

• 8:47SCRIBE_speaker_3

  All right.

• 8:47James Harkin?

  Go on.

• 8:47SCRIBE_speaker_3

  This comes in from Tom Wright, who says, "The musical genre yacht rock was invented as a joke for a Channel 101 web series in the early 2000s. But it suited the music so well, it was quickly adopted as a legit genre of music." Before I read the ending here, we all know yacht rock, right?

• 9:07James Harkin?

  So I didn't until we'd been researching the Y series of QI-

• 9:11SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, right

• 9:11James Harkin?

  ... and one of the other researchers came up with it. But it's basically very easygoing soft rock music that you might like on a yacht.

• 9:18SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, exactly. It's kind of like Steely Dan or the Doobie Brothers, all the kind of people I listen to. Yacht rock is my genre, really. Um-

• 9:25James Harkin?

  Well, that's why we call you Smooth Dan. 'Cause you listen to smooth music.

• 9:29SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, that makes sense, yeah. Um, but check this out. The people who invented the genre are still responsible for qualifying if the music is yacht rock or not.

• 9:40James Harkin?

  Yeah, because actually I think it's quite a vague thing, isn't it? Like, it's just something that when you hear it, you're like, "Oh, that'd be quite nice on a yacht."

• 9:48SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah. And it turns out that just if a band is a yacht rock style band, it doesn't mean that every bit of their music goes in.

• 9:54James Harkin?

  Oh.

• 9:54SCRIBE_speaker_3

  So interestingly, these guys have a yacht rock podcast. Um-

• 10:00James Harkin?

  Again.

• 10:00SCRIBE_speaker_3

  It's been a very exciting week for me of new discoveries in the podcast world.

• 10:04James Harkin?

  Do you ever think there might be too many podcasts?

• 10:06SCRIBE_speaker_3

  This one is-

• 10:07SCRIBE_speaker_4

  No, I love it

• 10:07SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... this one is wonderful. It, it could do... I'm not, I don't wanna knock the yacht rock, uh, pod, but, uh, it could do with a bit of sound balance. But what they do is people enter a song to be considered to be yacht rock.

• 10:19James Harkin?

  Mm-hmm.

• 10:20SCRIBE_speaker_3

  And they play the whole song in the background while they discuss the merits, and they grade it out of 100.

• 10:24SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Interesting.

• 10:25SCRIBE_speaker_3

  And I think if they get over a, if they get over a score of 50, it is deemed yacht, and if it's below, it's not.

• 10:31James Harkin?

  That's very clever.

• 10:32SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yacht or not.

• 10:32SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 10:32SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Lovely, lovely.

• 10:33James Harkin?

  It feels like they might have rights issues if they're playing entire songs.

• 10:36SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Feels like it.

• 10:37SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I wonder if that's why they're talking very loudly over the song as it goes along. But you get, like, five or six songs per episode, and it's the same-

• 10:44James Harkin?

  Yeah

• 10:44SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... four guys who created it as the official people.

• 10:46James Harkin?

  I got a question.

• 10:47SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 10:48James Harkin?

  Uh, as a musician, I feel that you might not want to be yacht rock. It's a bit like dad rock.

• 10:54SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 10:54SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 10:54James Harkin?

  Might be not very cool.

• 10:56SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I think it's a really good point.

• 10:56James Harkin?

  Bit like cozy fiction or whatever. It's called cozy crime fiction.

• 10:59SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 11:00SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 11:00James Harkin?

  People don't like to be called that.

• 11:01SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.

• 11:03SCRIBE_speaker_4

  There's, there's something a bit off-putting.

• 11:05SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 11:05SCRIBE_speaker_4

  You know, it sounds like you're a bit of an elitist maybe if you're writing it for people who own a yacht.

• 11:09SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Well, yeah, exactly. But it is also, um, it's, it's a retroactive thing.

• 11:13SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah, yeah.

• 11:14SCRIBE_speaker_3

  No one's, no one's actively... I mean, some bands, I'm sure, have started writing what they think qualifies as yacht rock. But, um-

• 11:19James Harkin?

  But you also have, like, different people who own yachts. Like, you have squillionaires who have yachts-

• 11:24SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah

• 11:24James Harkin?

  ... like mega yachts.

• 11:25SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Mm.

• 11:25James Harkin?

  And then you have wealthy boomers, let's say, who've worked very hard their whole life and have decided to buy a yacht. And then you've got attractive young people who go and have a yacht party.

• 11:35SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yes.

• 11:35James Harkin?

  So where does the... Like, let's say for instance, you've got a Jay-Z song-

• 11:40SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah

• 11:40James Harkin?

  ... that some people who are on a yacht might like. Does that count as yacht rock or not really?

• 11:44SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Not allowed, I'm afraid. They're all these 20-year-olds listening to Steely Dan.

• 11:49James Harkin?

  Okay.

• 11:50SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Um, but anyway.

• 11:51James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 11:52SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Give that podcast a listen if you fancy it, 'cause it was, it was fun.

• 11:55SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Well, I've got all of the Peanut podcasts to catch up on first. But I guess...

• 12:04SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Um, all right, here's another one I love this one. This is from Joey Rickert. "Forgive me if you've covered this content before, but every licensed masseur in South Korea for several centuries has been visually impaired."

• 12:18James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 12:19SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, that's interesting. So they can't perv?

• 12:22SCRIBE_speaker_4

  No.

• 12:24SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh.

• 12:24James Harkin?

  Interesting that your brain went there. I believe it's-

• 12:28SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, yeah

• 12:28James Harkin?

  ... I believe it's so that people who are visually impaired have a job that they can guarantee to get

• 12:34SCRIBE_speaker_4

  That's it, James. Per-

• 12:35James Harkin?

  And they're all perverts, of course.

• 12:39SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Um, but the thing is, it's not really observed. So there are maybe roughly 10,000 licensed masseurs-

• 12:48James Harkin?

  Mm

• 12:48SCRIBE_speaker_4

  ... in South Korea, okay-

• 12:49James Harkin?

  Uh-huh

• 12:49SCRIBE_speaker_4

  ... who are all blind or, or, or very visually impaired. But there are hundreds of thousands of sports massage places-

• 12:56James Harkin?

  Oh, yeah

• 12:56SCRIBE_speaker_4

  ... and people working there. Um, the national sports teams hire masseurs who are sighted. Um, so it's kind of on... It's, it's only honored in the breach. I mean, it's, it's just, it's completely disregarded. Most sighted masseurs don't do the technical three years in prison you can get.

• 13:11SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Whoa.

• 13:11James Harkin?

  Ooh.

• 13:11SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I know. Um, yeah-

• 13:14James Harkin?

  I believe there's been controversy about this.

• 13:16SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yes.

• 13:16James Harkin?

  I remember reading a while ago that people are complaining about it and want to overturn the rule.

• 13:23SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yes.

• 13:23James Harkin?

  And I can't remember if it's the visually impaired people or the sports massage people who did it, but I remember there being something.

• 13:30SCRIBE_speaker_4

  It's, it's the sighted. It's the people who are-

• 13:32James Harkin?

  Right

• 13:32SCRIBE_speaker_4

  ... doing the sort of unofficial massaging. Uh, so 2008, there was a chance that the law might be struck down in the Supreme Court. Um, several people died in masseur protests over who can or can't enter the trade.

• 13:44James Harkin?

  Wow.

• 13:44SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, my God.

• 13:45SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I know. But even in 2018, there was another wave of decision over it, and they confirmed again, "No, this is the rule." So it seems like it's just gonna keep on being the rule. Um, yeah, but, or the pervert, the sighted perverts want into the trade. Um, yeah.

• 13:59James Harkin?

  Okay. Here is a fact from Peter Pulsford. Uh, and Peter says, "Hi, enjoying your podcast here in HK." Uh, which I assume is High Street Kensington.

• 14:09SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's right.

• 14:10James Harkin?

  Or not really sure. Um, and Peter says, "A fun fact you probably have heard, but it tickles me, is that when you say the word nano-century fairly slowly, it takes about a nano-century."

• 14:25SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Cool.

• 14:26James Harkin?

  So nano is 10 to the minus 9.

• 14:28SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Oh.

• 14:28James Harkin?

  So it's naught point naught, naught, naught, naught, naught, naught, naught, naught, naught, eight times, and then one. And that proportion of 100 years, you get 3.156, which is pretty close to pi.

• 14:40SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Seconds?

• 14:40James Harkin?

  Seconds, yeah.

• 14:42SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Wow.

• 14:42James Harkin?

  Uh, and so if you say nano-century, then that would take just over three seconds.

• 14:50SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Hang on. I'm gonna try doing it exactly on the... Nano-century.

• 14:57SCRIBE_speaker_3

  You were, you were looking at the time as you did it.

• 15:00SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah. Is that not allowed?

• 15:01SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Say it without looking so that we can see what your speed is.

• 15:04SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Oh, I don't know.

• 15:04James Harkin?

  He's saying you're cheating.

• 15:05SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I'm saying you're cheating. You were fitting it, the word to the time.

• 15:08SCRIBE_speaker_4

  What's wrong with that? I was trying to get it right so I knew how to say it.

• 15:10SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, okay. I thought you were challenging to see whether or not a slow version of it is a nano-century.

• 15:15SCRIBE_speaker_4

  No, I, I believe the email.

• 15:16SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Okay. Well, this has felt like 4,000 nano-centuries. Um, we should move on.

• 15:22James Harkin?

  Um, Dan, have you got one for us?

• 15:23SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I do. This is from Scott Gabeline. My fact is about Meat Loaf. Several of the songs on Meat Loaf's iconic 1977 album, Bat Out of Hell, including the title track, were originally written for a musical based on Peter Pan. But the composer, Jim Steinman, could not get the necessary rights from the J.M. Barrie estate. Isn't that amazing?

• 15:48SCRIBE_speaker_4

  So they just repurposed the Peter Pan songs to be about a bat out of hell.

• 15:51James Harkin?

  As i- They must have changed the lyrics, right? 'Cause there's no way Bat Out of Hell, which is mentioned in the song-

• 15:57SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah

• 15:57James Harkin?

  ... that can't be about Peter Pan, right?

• 15:59SCRIBE_speaker_3

  No, exactly.

• 16:00SCRIBE_speaker_4

  They both fly though, don't they?

• 16:01James Harkin?

  They do.

• 16:02SCRIBE_speaker_4

  And they're in a mythical environment. Never Never Land.

• 16:04James Harkin?

  Like a bat out of hell. I can fly in a mythical environment. That's... I do see that might work.

• 16:11SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I'm seeing Broadway now all of a sudden. I am feeling it.

• 16:13SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah. I mean, that's, that's, that's an amazing fact, and it is very theatrical, uh, those songs.

• 16:17James Harkin?

  Are you not gonna tell us about a Meat Loaf podcast that you've been listening to?

• 16:20SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I don't want you guys... That's my personal favorite one. I hate it when my podcasts suddenly boom and everyone's a fan.

• 16:26SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 16:26SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's for me. Quickie from Mark N.

• 16:29James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 16:29SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 16:30SCRIBE_speaker_3

  My fact: smartphones aren't vegan. Okay?

• 16:34James Harkin?

  Oh, no.

• 16:35SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I know. Bad news.

• 16:36SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Stop eating them.

• 16:37SCRIBE_speaker_4

  If you're a vegan, stop eating them. If you open, if you open up a modern smartphone, you'll find it is writhing with meat.

• 16:42SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Is it?

• 16:43James Harkin?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 16:44SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I thought it was just Apple.

• 16:45SCRIBE_speaker_4

  No.

• 16:45SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Damn it.

• 16:46James Harkin?

  Oh, my God. Is there some kind of, like, um, cream they put inside it?

• 16:52SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Some kind of cream.

• 16:52James Harkin?

  Some kind of lubricating stuff? Do you know what-

• 16:54SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Do you know, it genuinely is

• 16:55James Harkin?

  ... yeah.

• 16:55SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 16:55SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, is it?

• 16:56SCRIBE_speaker_4

  It is.

• 16:56SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Okay.

• 16:56SCRIBE_speaker_4

  It's... So, right, I'm gonna... Look, just, I, I'm gonna read this. Semiconductor manufacturing requires stearic acid, stearic acid. Uh-

• 17:05SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Don't know that

• 17:05SCRIBE_speaker_4

  ... and the most abundant and cheap source of this is animal fats. There are plant-based alternatives, uh, but they have, uh, reduced effectiveness or increased cost. The acid itself is primarily used for creating thin film electrical insulators between nanoscopic capacitors... I mean, I'm so-

• 17:22James Harkin?

  That is cheating

• 17:22SCRIBE_speaker_4

  ... sorry.

• 17:22James Harkin?

  You were reading that. That's cheating.

• 17:26SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Um, or forming a barrier blocking atomic level deposition of metals when building chips to more accurately place metals. I'm teaching you guys to suck eggs. I know that-

• 17:34James Harkin?

  Yeah

• 17:34SCRIBE_speaker_4

  ... I know that we all kn- we all know this stuff.

• 17:36SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 17:37SCRIBE_speaker_4

  So yeah. But anyway, there you go. So, um, I mean, it's, it's pretty close to vegan, obviously.

• 17:42James Harkin?

  Yeah. There must be such tiny amounts in there.

• 17:45SCRIBE_speaker_4

  It's tiny.

• 17:45James Harkin?

  And I'm sure you can probably buy phones that are really, really, really vegan maybe, if you really try hard.

• 17:51SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I bet you can.

• 17:52SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Mm.

• 17:52SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I bet you can.

• 17:53James Harkin?

  Um-

• 17:53SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Unfortunately, Dan's used up the Apple joke now, so we can't, um- ... we can't... You were there so quickly. You've actually-

• 18:01SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I should've, I, I should've paused and let-

• 18:02SCRIBE_speaker_4

  It's happened too soon.

• 18:03SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah. I'm so sorry.

• 18:03SCRIBE_speaker_4

  We've reached our culminating point on that bit.

• 18:05James Harkin?

  Okay. Well, very good facts, as they all have been this week, as they all are every week. But now it is time for us to bestow custodianship of some of our facts onto some of our friends of the podcast. If you would like your own No Such Thing As A Fish fact, then go to patreon.com/nosuchthingasafish, and all the information is there. So who is our first new custodian today?

• 18:30SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Right. Here's one. It goes out to Johanna Donaha- Terrific name.

• 18:34SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 18:35SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Really pleasing to say.

• 18:36SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Johanna Denaha.

• 18:38SCRIBE_speaker_4

  That's what I said.

• 18:39SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I was just trying it out myself.

• 18:40SCRIBE_speaker_4

  It's good, isn't it?

• 18:41SCRIBE_speaker_3

  It's lovely.

• 18:41SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah. Johanna, your fact is the Swiss city of Lausanne has banned silent discos for being too loud.

• 18:51SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Um, and this is because people shout-

• 18:53James Harkin?

  Yeah

• 18:53SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... and sing along.

• 18:54James Harkin?

  And stomp.

• 18:55SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Maybe order things at the bar.

• 18:57James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 18:57SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Do they wee loudly?

• 18:59SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Ooh, yeah.

• 19:00SCRIBE_speaker_4

  No?

• 19:01SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's-

• 19:01James Harkin?

  Can you keep it down in there?

• 19:04SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Freeze. Piss cops.

• 19:06James Harkin?

  Piss cops.

• 19:07SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Wow.

• 19:08James Harkin?

  What?

• 19:09SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Uh, it's not-

• 19:09SCRIBE_speaker_4

  What do you think?

• 19:09SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... it's not your best cop drama idea you've pitched.

• 19:12James Harkin?

  Dan, I've used so many nouns. I'm down to really quite-

• 19:16SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Down to piss cop. You're in trouble.

• 19:21James Harkin?

  There we go.

• 19:22SCRIBE_speaker_4

  That's the tagline.

• 19:23James Harkin?

  That's the tagline.

• 19:24SCRIBE_speaker_3

  All right, I've been, I've, I've investing now. Okay, this next fact goes out to Margarita Kaminskite, believe is your name. And the fact is, the giant squid's brain is wrapped around its throat, so if it eats anything too large, it risks brain injury.

• 19:43SCRIBE_speaker_4

  That's wild.

• 19:44James Harkin?

  You risk brain injury trying to pronounce that name as well.

• 19:48SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Margarita, uh, please do get in touch with Dan directly, uh, to ask for an apology for how he pronounced your surname.

• 19:54SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I apologize in advance.

• 19:56SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Okay.

• 19:56SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That was a, a butchering. Um-

• 19:58SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Giant squid

• 19:59SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... but you got a great, you got a great fact. Quite a few animals, don't they, have a situation where things wrap around their head? I think it's the-

• 20:06James Harkin?

  Woodpeckers

• 20:06SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... woodpeckers.

• 20:07James Harkin?

  Yeah, the tongue does.

• 20:08SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's wild.

• 20:09SCRIBE_speaker_4

  There's that bat, the anoura fistulata, which has the very, very, very long tongue to get down the tubes of flowers.

• 20:15James Harkin?

  Oh, yeah.

• 20:15SCRIBE_speaker_4

  And it sort of has to keep its tongue, like, partly in its-

• 20:18James Harkin?

  Yeah, yeah

• 20:18SCRIBE_speaker_4

  ... in its thorax 'cause it's got this massive long tongue.

• 20:20James Harkin?

  Fistulata.

• 20:21SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Fistulata. I know.

• 20:23James Harkin?

  Tongue you now.

• 20:25SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, my God.

• 20:26SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Oh, my God.

• 20:31SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Oh.

• 20:31James Harkin?

  Okay.

• 20:31SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Guys, you're on terrific form today, and I just wanna apologize for piss cop.

• 20:37James Harkin?

  Okay. Uh, the next one... Oh, this is really difficult to pronounce. Um, the custodian of the next fact is JB. JB, that's your initials, and your fact is that in 2005, there were plans to make a 50-foot-tall robot Michael Jackson that would roam around the Nevada desert.

• 21:00SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Probably for the best-

• 21:02James Harkin?

  Interesting

• 21:02SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... probably for the best it wasn't created and then let loose.

• 21:07James Harkin?

  I think probably if it had been made, it might not still be extant.

• 21:11SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Mm-hmm.

• 21:12James Harkin?

  Although it would take a lot of people to dump that into the river wouldn't it?

• 21:17SCRIBE_speaker_3

  I think worth a crack though. Yes, this, the, your, your extra detail on this was that the plan was to have lasers shooting out of its eyes.

• 21:23James Harkin?

  Mm.

• 21:23SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Mm. Today, I know you probably could do that, couldn't you?

• 21:25SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Do you think?

• 21:26SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Well, they've got very good walking robots these days.

• 21:28SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 21:28SCRIBE_speaker_4

  And, um, you can program in that it should, it should walk around and, um-

• 21:32SCRIBE_speaker_3

  And so far they've all been sort of average height. A sort of a human height.

• 21:37SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 21:37SCRIBE_speaker_3

  We've not seen any 50-footers.

• 21:38SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Doesn't seem like you couldn't make a 50-footer, though.

• 21:40SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Why not?

• 21:41James Harkin?

  I think there are rules of physics that mean the taller you get, the more cumbersome things become.

• 21:46SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Right.

• 21:46SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah. Right. Okay, so that could be tricky.

• 21:49SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's interesting.

• 21:50James Harkin?

  Could be.

• 21:50SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 21:50James Harkin?

  I think more likely if I was a superintelligence, I'd be making tiny robots, but they all talk to each other.

• 21:57SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yes.

• 21:57James Harkin?

  Superintelligent swarm of tiny robots.

• 21:59SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Do they also have the brain of a, a dead celebrity pedophile or...?

• 22:03James Harkin?

  It's Bill Cosby, actually.

• 22:07SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Oh, God.

• 22:09SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, dear.

• 22:17SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, dear.

• 22:18SCRIBE_speaker_4

  So you've been sentenced to death. You can be killed by one of our two robots. There's either the giant Michael Jackson or the tiny Bill Cosby's.

• 22:26James Harkin?

  It's like a robot monster.

• 22:31SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Okay.

• 22:31SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Wow. All right. Let's have another fact. This one goes out to Aaron Moore, and it's that in the 16th century, people disliked hedgehogs because it was believed that they sucked cows' udders.

• 22:43James Harkin?

  Wow.

• 22:44SCRIBE_speaker_4

  And people obviously wanted, um, their milk.

• 22:46SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's very interesting.

• 22:47SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah. And, um, even later on, there was a book in the 19th century which said, "Look, it's actually, this is a myth. It's actually not possible for hedgehogs to drain cows' udders."

• 22:56SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Um, I'm gonna read another one out. This is for Bernadette Latimer. You are now the custodian of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer had an angry suit made, which he only wore when he was feeling irritable.

• 23:09James Harkin?

  That's a really nice idea, I think.

• 23:10SCRIBE_speaker_3

  It's a lovely idea.

• 23:11James Harkin?

  Especially if it was... I don't know what his was like. I can't remember what we said, but I think you would make it really colorful, maybe with some tassels on it. Just some kind of thing that would really cheer you up by just wearing it.

• 23:23SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Oh.

• 23:23SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Ah.

• 23:23SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I thought you meant to warn people that you might become violent.

• 23:26James Harkin?

  Oh, that's a good way of thinking about it.

• 23:26SCRIBE_speaker_3

  It kind of does a double purpose, doesn't it? It's sort of warning people, but for you it's, it's-

• 23:31SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah, true. Uh, apparently it was a bit like a sort of wooly onesie with shoes and a coat fitted onto it, so-

• 23:36SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's fun

• 23:37SCRIBE_speaker_4

  ... does sound quite fun, actually.

• 23:38SCRIBE_speaker_3

  It does.

• 23:38SCRIBE_speaker_4

  But if you're struggling to get out of it because you need a wee, for example, then you probably only get angrier.

• 23:44SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 23:44SCRIBE_speaker_4

  I'm not trying to drag it back to piss cop, I just really like that.

• 23:47SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Bring that rocket up. Yeah.

• 23:50James Harkin?

  Okay, here's the next one. This is now under the custodianship of Amelia Murphy. And Amelia, your fact is that in order for Spider-Man to climb buildings, he would need size 89 feet.

• 24:02SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Right.

• 24:02SCRIBE_speaker_4

  It's a funny premise.

• 24:03James Harkin?

  So I think this is the idea that some insects or reptiles can climb up walls, but they do so using van der Waals forces.

• 24:11SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Mm.

• 24:11James Harkin?

  Which means they have a very large surface area, uh, and tiny interactions between the foot and the wall can keep them attached. And in order for us to do it, to keep us attached at our weight, we would need that size feet.

• 24:24SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Mm.

• 24:24SCRIBE_speaker_4

  It's very funny. I actually don't know whether this is American foot sizes.

• 24:28SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Interesting.

• 24:29SCRIBE_speaker_4

  'Cause in America my- I've got something like a size 45 feet, which is crazy.

• 24:32James Harkin?

  No, that's European, right? America's the same as ours, plus one.

• 24:35SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Okay. So I've got size, I don't know, 10 or 11 feet.

• 24:38James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 24:38SCRIBE_speaker_4

  But in Europe... I don't know if this is a European Spider-Man we're talking about

• 24:42SCRIBE_speaker_3

  You would just need twice the size in clown shoes, basically.

• 24:45James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 24:45SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Very cool. I love those books. They, they-- there was a big flurry of them back in the early -

• 24:49James Harkin?

  Yeah

• 24:50SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... 2000s of, like, the physics of superheroes-

• 24:52James Harkin?

  Yeah

• 24:52SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... and all that. It's slightly disappeared.

• 24:54James Harkin?

  Well, because we don't really have that many superhero movies anymore. Like, they went quite out of fashion. They, they still exist-

• 25:01SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Do they?

• 25:01James Harkin?

  ... but it's not like the Marvel things that used to come out every single year-

• 25:04SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Oh, yeah

• 25:04James Harkin?

  ... were absolutely huge. They're not really the big box office hits anymore. Like, quite often you're getting, like, cerebral horror movies coming out that are doing quite well and stuff like that.

• 25:14SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 25:14SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Give Christopher Nolan's high-spec sci-fi like Dune.

• 25:17SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 25:17James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 25:18SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Mm. Still starring Tom Hollander, of course. Um, here's a fact for-

• 25:21SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Holland.

• 25:23SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Nope. I watched the ones Tom Hollander in.

• 25:26SCRIBE_speaker_3

  We have-- by the way, we have a, um, a reward chart at home for the boys, my three boys, and they have to build their way to the end, and what we've written that they've asked for-

• 25:35James Harkin?

  Yeah

• 25:35SCRIBE_speaker_3

  ... is their prize at the end if they get there. So-

• 25:37James Harkin?

  So you need a certain number of stars to get the prize?

• 25:39SCRIBE_speaker_3

  It's, like, 11 stars or something. And, um, so -

• 25:41James Harkin?

  But why not ten? Why not ten?

• 25:44SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's so upsetting.

• 25:45James Harkin?

  Or even a dozen. I wouldn't mind that. It's just such a random number.

• 25:49SCRIBE_speaker_3

  It's, like, 13 and a half stars or something. And, uh, and so Wilf has asked for-- he wants a WWE toy. Ted has asked for a Pokemon toy, and my youngest, Boodle, has just asked for Tom Holland.

• 26:01James Harkin?

  Oh, yeah?

• 26:01SCRIBE_speaker_3

  That's just what he wants.

• 26:03James Harkin?

  The historian.

• 26:03SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Tom Holland. Yes. He's, uh, he's-- I've been trying to get him to listen to the Peanut Podcast, but he's just obsessed with the rest of his history. Can't get him on it.

• 26:11SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Here's another one which goes out to Sarah. Sarah, your fact is the first water balloons were made out of socks.

• 26:18SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Mm.

• 26:19James Harkin?

  Wow.

• 26:20SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Pretty good.

• 26:21SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yes. I love that one.

• 26:21SCRIBE_speaker_4

  And this is another-- this is an invention fact, I think. It was about a guy who was trying to, um, treat trench foot in the First World War. Yeah, serious origin story for the, for the beloved silly water balloon.

• 26:32James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 26:33SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Uh, he made latex socks and put water in, and it didn't, it didn't really work very well. But it must have been a bit triggering for people who'd been in the war, getting sort of little grenades thrown at you.

• 26:42SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 26:42SCRIBE_speaker_4

  No?

• 26:43SCRIBE_speaker_3

  If it's colorful, then you'd know it's a balloon, I think, and that would be fun.

• 26:46SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah. You think it's fine? Okay.

• 26:47SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, I think so. I don't wanna put myself in that place and make an assumption.

• 26:50James Harkin?

  All those films like, um, news Pathé reels from-

• 26:55SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah

• 26:55James Harkin?

  ... the war, they're all in black and white, aren't they? So we don't know that they weren't multicolored grenades that were being thrown.

• 27:00SCRIBE_speaker_3

  No, I-- that's true.

• 27:01SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Good point.

• 27:01SCRIBE_speaker_3

  They might have been, yeah, bright pink and yellow grenades being chucked. That's absolutely true. Um, there's a follow-on fact, by the way, that we said in this show, which is that self-tying water balloons have been invented. And-

• 27:13James Harkin?

  Okay. They don't exist in my life. So have-- you know, they were invented, but have they just not taken, taken off?

• 27:20SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah, that's what I was questioning.

• 27:21James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 27:21SCRIBE_speaker_3

  You know, we've said it. We've said it's there.

• 27:23James Harkin?

  Self-tying water balloons.

• 27:25SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 27:25James Harkin?

  That's crazy.

• 27:26SCRIBE_speaker_3

  How does that work? Yeah. But none of us have heard of it since we said it on this podcast, so clearly it's not taken off in the way that-

• 27:33James Harkin?

  Wow.

• 27:33SCRIBE_speaker_3

  You know, sometimes we say these facts, and it feels like the future. This will-- you know, in two years this will be everyone's got self-tying water balloons.

• 27:38James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 27:39SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yes.

• 27:39James Harkin?

  By the way, water balloons are easier to tie than normal balloons because the weight of the water stretches the neck, which gives you more tying latex.

• 27:47SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Very true.

• 27:48SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah.

• 27:48SCRIBE_speaker_3

  So you need it for normal balloons is what you're saying.

• 27:50James Harkin?

  I would say so-

• 27:50SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah

• 27:50James Harkin?

  ... 'cause they're a right ballache to tie.

• 27:52SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Absolutely.

• 27:52SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Sure you get your finger caught in them.

• 27:54SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Do you just go around with the kid and the balloon with your fingers in there from then on?

• 27:58SCRIBE_speaker_4

  It's worse when it's a helium one- ... 'cause I'm up by around the ceiling of the party not able to enjoy myself. Can't even reach the cake.

• 28:05James Harkin?

  Three weeks later, you start slowly floating down.

• 28:10SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Or someone punctures and you go around the room.

• 28:14James Harkin?

  Do we have time for one more custodian?

• 28:15SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Let's do it. This is for Brian Muravsky. Your fact is you can't write in French on French computer keyboards.

• 28:24SCRIBE_speaker_4

  How interesting.

• 28:26SCRIBE_speaker_3

  And that's why France remains a completely pen and paper-based society these days.

• 28:33SCRIBE_speaker_4

  What are you talking about?

• 28:34James Harkin?

  What-- is this something to do with the various different accents that they have?

• 28:38SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Yeah. It's-

• 28:38James Harkin?

  Maybe you-- in those days you couldn't get a circumflex.

• 28:41SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Oh, that might be it.

• 28:43SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Was it? I don't remember it now.

• 28:45James Harkin?

  Well, if you're French, then send us a letter.

• 28:51James Harkin?

  And we'll read it out. Drop us a line.

• 28:53SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Is that why we get so few emails from the French?

• 28:55James Harkin?

  I think that must be.

• 28:56SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yeah.

• 28:56James Harkin?

  And that's why when we played France, we did that show in Paris, no one came.

• 29:02SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Oh, this is it. Yeah. Just the existing keyboard is-- was not terribly good for, for French to be written, and it was slightly things like accents on words, and it was not very intuitive or ergonomic. If you speak or write in French, there are certain letter combinations.

• 29:15James Harkin?

  I remember French keyboards, they begin with an A instead of a Q.

• 29:19SCRIBE_speaker_4

  AZERT.

• 29:19James Harkin?

  So they're AZERTY, aren't they?

• 29:21SCRIBE_speaker_4

  AZERTY.

• 29:21SCRIBE_speaker_3

  AZERTY.

• 29:21SCRIBE_speaker_4

  That's right. Yeah.

• 29:22James Harkin?

  And that's probably because Q is quite common in French, right? In any question word in French has got a Q in it.

• 29:28SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Mm.

• 29:28SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Yes.

• 29:29SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Q.

• 29:29James Harkin?

  Yeah.

• 29:29SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Q. Ooh, not oo, which means where. It's just O-U. Don't need a Q for that one.

• 29:35SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Mm.

• 29:35James Harkin?

  Yeah. Thanks, Andy.

• 29:37SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Too damn many emails. What do people say?

• 29:40James Harkin?

  That bubble subscription's really paying off.

• 29:44James Harkin?

  Okay. Well, thank you very much to our custodians for becoming friends of the podcast, by whom this week I refer, of course, to Brian, Sarah, Amelia, Bernadette, Aaron, JB, Margarita, and Johanna Denaha. Thank you so much also to the people who wrote in with facts, and if you have a fact yourself, then why not send it to us? Send it to Andy. His email address is [email protected]. He will pick the very best to be used in a future episode of Little Fish. If you would like to become a custodian, then go to patreon.com/clubfish. Uh, but actually, just keep coming back, listen to the shows, tell all your mates, enjoy the shows. Dan, anything else to say?

• 30:26SCRIBE_speaker_3

  Uh, the Peanut Podcast is available on all the podcasting, uh, threads, so go get that now, and, uh, Yacht or Not as well.

• 30:35James Harkin?

  Andy, anything you'd like to add?

• 30:37SCRIBE_speaker_4

  Uh, just look out for Piss Cops, I guess, coming soon to your TV.

• 30:40James Harkin?

  And I have nothing left to add except to say good bye.