Pod Insights No Such Thing As A Fish Little Fish: Get To The Bus! About this episode Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts including jellyfish and Jesse Jackson. James sets the record straight over some slander that occurred while he was on holiday. And we name eight more Friend of the Podcast custodians.
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0:57 Speaker 03 Hello and welcome to another episode of Little Fish. My name is James Harkin. I am joined by Daniel Schreiber.
1:17 Speaker 04 Hello.
1:18 Speaker 03 Andrew Hunter Murray.
1:19 Speaker 05 Hello.
1:20 Speaker 03 And we are here with a whole load of your facts. You've been sending them in to [email protected] , and he has whittled them down to the very, very best. We're going to choose the ones to read out, and then we're going to chat about them. Then we'll do some more stuff at the end, then we'll all go home. You guys are probably already at home. Never mind, let's go. Who's got a fact?
1:39 Speaker 05 I've got one.
1:40 Speaker 04 Go for it.
1:41 Speaker 05 All right. This one comes in from Fergal Finley, and Fergal says, "My fact is that sliced bread was invented on the 7th of July, 1928, whereas National Treasure David Attenborough was born on the 8th of May, 1926. Therefore, sliced bread is in fact the best thing since David Attenborough."
2:04 Speaker 04 Hmm.
2:05 Speaker 05 And we're off the blocks.
2:06 Speaker 04 So that's a, that's a very small window of David Attenborough being the best thing.
2:12 Speaker 05 Yeah, and he was only a baby at the time, actually.
2:14 Speaker 04 Hadn't really achieved too much at that point.
2:15 Speaker 05 Very little.
2:16 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah.
2:17 Speaker 03 He probably crawled around, sort of pointing at his pet tortoise going, "Here we are."
2:23 Speaker 05 Just a nice fact about sliced bread and David Attenborough being about the same age.
2:26 Speaker 03 Yeah, I think it's always surprising how new sliced bread is.
2:30 Speaker 05 Yeah.
2:30 Speaker 03 And the famous fact is that it was advertised as the best thing since wrapped bread.
2:35 Speaker 05 Yes, that's so good.
2:37 Speaker 03 And the idea being that you would slice your own bread, obviously, but wrapped bread was good because it would keep it fresh.
2:43 Speaker 05 And it stayed softer.
2:43 Speaker 03 And to stay softer, you wouldn't want to have sliced bread before that because it would just go stale really quickly. So once wrapped bread came in, then you could start slicing it. There was no point having it before then.
2:54 Speaker 05 And thankfully, no one has ever sliced David Attenborough.
2:56 Speaker 03 At time of recording.
2:57 Speaker 05 At time of recording.
3:00 Speaker 04 Very nice. I've got one here from David Byrne. Now, I'm hoping this is David Byrne, lead singer of The Talking Heads.
3:07 Speaker 03 Maybe.
3:08 Speaker 04 I mean, he would listen to something like this.
3:10 Speaker 03 Do you think?
3:11 Speaker 04 Yeah, he's a real nerd.
3:13 Speaker 03 Is he?
3:13 Speaker 04 Oh, it's wonderful.
3:14 Speaker 03 Wow.
3:15 Speaker 04 Yeah.
3:15 Speaker 03 David, write it.
3:16 Speaker 04 But other David, who this might be, I'm sure you're awesome too, so.
3:20 Speaker 05 David's had been talking.
3:22 Speaker 04 It's been saying.
3:25 Speaker 04 He says, "My fact is, for the original Predator film, the studio had to hire a bodyguard to follow Sonny Landom around to protect other people from Sonny, as he'd been getting into too many fights on the set."
3:38 Speaker 03 Oh, who does he play? Is he like one of the soldiers?
3:42 Speaker 04 Yeah, he's one of the main guys. So you've got Arnold Schwarzenegger, you've got Jesse Jackson.
3:48 Speaker 03 But he didn't play the Predator.
3:49 Speaker 04 No, he didn't.
3:51 Speaker 03 Jesse Jackson?
3:51 Speaker 04 Sorry, yeah, I said the wrong name.
3:52 Speaker 03 The civil rights hero.
3:56 Speaker 04 Yeah, you had Jesse Jackson.
3:57 Speaker 05 Wow. MLK has a cameo, doesn't he?
4:01 Speaker 04 He does, and playing the role of Predator in the suit, Mother Teresa. So it's a real, it's a real hell of a cast. No, Jesse Ventura is who I meant to say.
4:10 Speaker 03 Okay, okay.
4:11 Speaker 04 What's interesting is that this guy, Sonny, he actually ran for governor in Kentucky. And had he have got that, he would have been the third cast member who made it into politics as a governor in America.
4:23 Speaker 05 Oh, because Schwarzenegger did.
4:24 Speaker 04 Schwarzenegger did, and Jesse Ventura did as well. Yeah. So he didn't, he didn't make it, unfortunately.
4:29 Speaker 03 And he was just very fighty and aggressive.
4:31 Speaker 04 He was very aggressive. And he is a big guy and he was totally fine on the set. It turned out it wasn't needed, but the studio for insurance purposes thought we'd better protect this guy from killing everyone else on set. What's interesting as well is someone famous was meant to be the Predator. So if you don't know this movie, it was like an eighties action film, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and there was this monster, it looks a bit like Alien.
4:57 Speaker 03 But he's kind of mostly invisible, wasn't it?
4:59 Speaker 05 Yes, it was always a bit of a problem for the film that the baddie is mostly not visible.
5:03 Speaker 03 But then he kind of comes visible sometimes. Is that right?
5:06 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah, yeah. He can turn it on and off.
5:08 Speaker 04 And they use, I think, infrared to see him, the body, or is that how he saw?
5:12 Speaker 03 No, he sees them because they get in the mud and they get really cold and he can't see them anymore. Spoiler alert.
5:18 Speaker 04 Spoiler alert.
5:19 Speaker 05 Right at the ending, that's when Arnie's the only one left. Yeah.
5:22 Speaker 03 Yeah.
5:22 Speaker 04 Right. So the original person though, who was inside the Predator, so that you do get to see at some point, was Jean-Claude Van Damme.
5:27 Speaker 05 No.
5:28 Speaker 04 Yeah.
5:29 Speaker 03 Was it?
5:29 Speaker 04 Yeah. And he got fired from the set and there's a lot of reasons that that might have happened.
5:34 Speaker 05 Well, he had an argument on set with Rosa Parks, I believe, who was one of the other Marines.
5:40 Speaker 03 Get to the bus.
5:44 Speaker 03 That's from that film, is get to the chopper.
5:46 Speaker 04 Get to the chopper.
5:48 Speaker 05 Wonderful.
5:48 Speaker 04 But yeah, one of the reasons was is that he kept doing kickboxing in the suit and they were like, it's just too much.
5:54 Speaker 05 Right.
5:55 Speaker 04 It's like Tinky Winky getting fired from Telly Ties.
5:57 Speaker 05 That's very funny.
5:59 Speaker 03 Okay, very good. Here is a fact from Michael Bartmeyer and I'm gonna actually take his fact and then give you a different wording of it.
6:08 Speaker 04 Okay.
6:09 Speaker 03 Or maybe a question, actually. So how old do you think is the oldest ever immortal jellyfish?
6:17 Speaker 05 Oh, uh, I'll say 121 years.
6:24 Speaker 03 Okay.
6:25 Speaker 04 Big bang, right from the go.
6:28 Speaker 04 Right from the origin.
6:29 Speaker 03 Came out of the explosion of the universe.
6:31 Speaker 04 Part of it.
6:32 Speaker 03 Whoa, what is this? Um, I'm glad you didn't go the other way of trying to spoil the game because you would have won it. So Michael writes that the problem with immortal jellyfish is they won't stop dying. Uh, and he read this in, uh, from Maria Pier Miglietta, who's an associate professor of marine biology at Texas A&M. Uh, and the thing is that theoretically immortal jellyfish can live forever. They become adults and then when they get in a bit of danger, they become children again. And then they go adult child, adult child, and they can theoretically do it forever. But in laboratory conditions, it's almost impossible to keep them alive. Uh, and the reason is you've got to have exactly the right amount of flow of water.
7:17 Speaker 03 They're really small and delicate. If you put too much water in, they just fall apart. And if you don't put enough in, they kind of sink down to the bottom and fall apart. And the longest ever that anyone's maintained a colony of them, uh, was a, a guy called Shin Kabota at Kyoto University. And they managed to keep the colony alive for about two years, but that was lots of different ones. And I don't think that anyone's ever been able to keep an immortal jellyfish alive for more than about a month.
7:49 Speaker 03 Isn't that amazing? That's very funny.
7:53 Speaker 05 Cause I think we wondered when we covered them on QI all those years ago, why are we not wading through them? If they are genuinely immortal, like why are the oceans not just teeming with them?
8:02 Speaker 03 Yes, yeah. Well, it turns out that just, you, if you just look at them, they explode.
8:08 Speaker 05 That's brilliant.
8:09 Speaker 04 Are we going to do anything to alter the name, do you think?
8:12 Speaker 03 What? Well, they are immortal in theory.
8:13 Speaker 04 Okay, in theory.
8:14 Speaker 03 You could call them the theoretically immortal jellyfish.
8:16 Speaker 05 That's cool, isn't it?
8:17 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
8:19 Speaker 05 That's brilliant.
8:20 Speaker 03 Just one more thing about them. There's a candidate in the Singaporean elections, uh, called Teryptopsis dorini, T O N Ming. Uh, and the first two words of that name is the Latin for a immortal jellyfish. And basically. He's always in every election, but he loses in every election. You know, a bit like Count Binface.
8:42 Speaker 04 Brilliant.
8:43 Speaker 03 And so he's changed his first name to the immortal jellyfish Latin name because he's a perennial candidate.
8:48 Speaker 04 Very nice.
8:49 Speaker 05 But always completely falls apart. That's lovely. That's brilliant. Um, I have a nautical, oceanic, sea life based one as well, actually.
8:58 Speaker 03 Yes, please.
8:58 Speaker 05 This comes in from Trevor Lambert. And it's that, uh, Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. For our international listeners, those are both places in the UK.
9:08 Speaker 03 It's by the sea.
9:09 Speaker 05 It's by the sea.
9:11 Speaker 03 It's a place where you might go and retire once the city life is.
9:15 Speaker 05 Absolutely.
9:15 Speaker 03 Too much for you.
9:16 Speaker 05 Yeah, charming coastal place and they have three river crossings, right? That's not the fact.
9:21 Speaker 03 The river Yar goes through there.
9:22 Speaker 05 The river Yar, Great Yarmouth is at the mouth of the Yar, right?
9:26 Speaker 04 Oh, Yar mouth. Great.
9:28 Speaker 05 Yeah, my mouth is telling you that.
9:35 Speaker 05 They have a bridge, which they have a third one. It just opened up in 2024. So this is pretty new, exciting stuff. Cause it's avoided a lot of trouble. I used to have to go right around the houses and now it's made it a life a lot easier for a lot of people, this new bridge. Uh, and Norfolk County Council ran a vote for the name and it was either going to be the Queen's Gate or the Britannia Bridge or the Yar Bridge or the Herring Bridge, right? Herring Bridge won. Now that's because Great Yarmouth was a great town for the herring industry, really important. You know, the women who worked in the fishing industry, they were vital to it, like.
10:05 Speaker 03 Herring girls.
10:07 Speaker 05 Herring girls. It was one of the most important fishing ports in the whole UK. It was a really important town for that. Anyway. Unfortunately, most of the votes saying this should be called the Herring Bridge arrived after comedian, Richard Herring told all his followers, name a bridge after me. And then most of the votes came in after that.
10:24 Speaker 03 So even though they set up the vote saying this bridge is named after the herring industry.
10:30 Speaker 05 Yeah.
10:30 Speaker 03 We know that the reason this bridge is called the Herring Bridge, did it, did it win in the end?
10:34 Speaker 05 Yeah, one.
10:35 Speaker 03 Then the reason it's called that is because of Richard Herring.
10:38 Speaker 05 Yeah.
10:38 Speaker 04 So are you going to get him to write the foreword to your book?
10:40 Speaker 03 Yes.
10:42 Speaker 04 That's, that's amazing.
10:44 Speaker 05 He's an example of the thing.
10:45 Speaker 04 You know, an example.
10:46 Speaker 05 Yeah, that's pretty spooky. Yeah. So anyway, there you go. And they cost 120 million quid and it's named after Richard Herring, probably.
10:55 Speaker 05 That's quite something.
10:56 Speaker 04 That is cool.
10:57 Speaker 05 Yeah.
10:57 Speaker 04 Yeah.
10:58 Speaker 05 There you go.
10:58 Speaker 04 Um, okay, still on nautical. Shall we stay in the ocean?
11:01 Speaker 05 Yeah.
11:01 Speaker 04 Kay Stone writes, knowing how fond you all are about the weird animal organ called the cloaca, thought you might enjoy this article published in the New York Times. And she's given a small excerpt here, which says, when danger calls, some animals bare their teeth, others take to the sky or curl into protective balls. But the remora, a fish that often hitches a ride on a larger marine animal like a sea turtle or whale, sometimes follows a less dignified strategy. It disappears inside a manta ray's rear end. And this is a new discovery. The remora, uh, does what is known as cloacal diving. And, uh, according to a scientist who looked into this called Catherine McDonald, it does not look like the manta ray likes it. Um.
11:45 Speaker 05 When you climb up a manta, but you say it's just banter, that's remora.
11:49 Speaker 03 Yeah, nice.
11:50 Speaker 04 It's very good.
11:51 Speaker 05 It's not.
11:52 Speaker 03 It's not bad.
11:52 Speaker 05 It's not bad.
11:53 Speaker 03 No.
11:54 Speaker 05 It's not bad.
11:56 Speaker 04 I didn't say it was. My face just said that.
11:58 Speaker 05 You looked bad. Yeah.
12:01 Speaker 04 Yeah. So, um, yeah, this is a, this is a new discovery, but the, uh, the remora, pretty, pretty fascinating, uh, animal. It's, it's used for fishing as well, the remora.
12:09 Speaker 05 Is it?
12:10 Speaker 04 Yeah. It's a really interesting process because you would attach the remora to your fishing line. You lower it down, it sucks onto the animal below and then you bring it back up.
12:19 Speaker 05 Wow.
12:20 Speaker 04 So it's a sort of reusable bit of bait because you can then take it off and put it back in.
12:24 Speaker 05 That's incredible. The bait sort of eats the fish in a way.
12:27 Speaker 04 Yeah. Or just holds on to enough of it.
12:29 Speaker 05 Yeah.
12:29 Speaker 04 So like a turtle, for example, if you're looking to get turtles, you might put, you might put a couple of remoras, you might put a few of them.
12:35 Speaker 05 No.
12:36 Speaker 04 That's what this is.
12:36 Speaker 05 It can support the weight of a turtle.
12:38 Speaker 04 Yeah.
12:38 Speaker 05 Give over.
12:39 Speaker 04 That's what it says.
12:40 Speaker 05 Give over. I've never heard such cobblers.
12:43 Speaker 04 Well, it's, there's, it's cited in a book from 1787.
12:46 Speaker 05 Oh, wow. Okay. Well, yeah, yeah.
12:51 Speaker 05 If it's 300 year old knowledge, then it can't be wrong, can it?
12:55 Speaker 03 Okay, speaking of fishing.
12:57 Speaker 05 Oh, yeah.
12:58 Speaker 03 I have a fact here from Mark Fisher.
13:00 Speaker 05 Beautiful segue.
13:01 Speaker 03 And Mark Fisher has given me a fact. I say given me because I think this is one especially for me. And Mark says that it takes six containers to get 100,000 hundreds and thousands.
13:14 Speaker 03 And Mark attaches the calculations, which I won't subject you all to. But for Americans, these are sprinkles that you put on like fairy cakes and stuff. And Mark has taken a load of them, put them on some scales, weighed how much they each weigh. And then worked out how many you get in each container and then worked out how many you get, how many you would need in order to get 100,000. And the answer is six. And looking at the working out, I absolutely believe him.
13:44 Speaker 05 Oh, it's so nice when a fact is not harken. It's surprising.
13:47 Speaker 03 No, feel very happy with this. I think the maths is all good. But fancy a game?
13:52 Speaker 05 Yeah.
13:52 Speaker 03 Um, realising that Americans call hundreds and thousands sprinkles. We call them hundreds and thousands.
13:59 Speaker 05 Yeah.
13:59 Speaker 03 I've looked at what they're called in lots of other languages. And I want you to tell me whether the following is the translation of a word for hundreds of thousands in another language, or an item you can buy on Gwyneth Paltrow's website, goop.com.
14:16 Speaker 05 Okay.
14:17 Speaker 03 So, Smile Makers. Someone's banging away next door.
14:23 Speaker 05 Sounds like someone's been on goop.com already.
14:27 Speaker 05 Uh, I'm gonna say hundreds and thousands are Smile Makers.
14:33 Speaker 04 Well, I'll go for goop then.
14:35 Speaker 03 Dan is correct. Goop.com. Next one, that's Star Bullets.
14:39 Speaker 04 Hundreds and thousands.
14:40 Speaker 03 It's goop.
14:41 Speaker 04 Yes.
14:42 Speaker 03 Mouse droppings.
14:43 Speaker 05 And he's all gonna be from goop.com.
14:46 Speaker 03 You're gonna go on a sex toy website and buy some mouse droppings?
14:51 Speaker 05 Goop.com, final answer.
14:58 Speaker 04 Hundreds of thousands then.
15:00 Speaker 03 It is. They're called mizenstrontjes in Belgian-Dutch.
15:05 Speaker 04 That's brilliant.
15:06 Speaker 03 And I messaged Leven to ask if that was true and he said a hundred percent. They're called mouse shit really, is what they call them. Love Pearls.
15:14 Speaker 04 Oh, well, yeah, I've got those.
15:17 Speaker 03 It is the German word, liebesspellen, for hundreds of thousands.
15:23 Speaker 04 Oh, wow.
15:24 Speaker 03 And finally, viva la volva.
15:27 Speaker 05 Hundreds of thousands.
15:28 Speaker 04 Hundreds of thousands. That was on my son's fifth birthday cake.
15:33 Speaker 03 Can you believe she's got a sex toy called viva la volva?
15:36 Speaker 04 Well, her husband, yes, Chris Martin, former husband.
15:40 Speaker 05 Yeah.
15:40 Speaker 04 He had an album that was called.
15:42 Speaker 03 Viva la vida.
15:43 Speaker 04 Yeah.
15:43 Speaker 05 Oh, that's very clever.
15:44 Speaker 04 That is good.
15:45 Speaker 05 That's fun. I think that's fun.
15:46 Speaker 03 I wasn't keeping scars.
15:48 Speaker 05 I don't think anyone.
15:49 Speaker 03 Has.
15:51 Speaker 05 I would just say, they're not called hundreds of thousands.
15:54 Speaker 03 Hundreds and thousands.
15:55 Speaker 05 That's what I'm saying. They're not called hundreds of thousands. They're not claiming there are hundreds of thousands in every one. I mean, if they were being really accurate, they'd call it 16,000 roughly.
16:04 Speaker 03 I know what you mean. But I suppose if you call them hundreds and thousands, then the word hundreds becomes a little bit obsolete. Because having a thousand implies that there's at least a hundred.
16:18 Speaker 05 That's true. It's a bad name. Love Pearls is much better.
16:56 Speaker 05 Here's one from Sarah Logan. This is about something that uses water. So it's very interesting. They sort of group themselves, the facts. Like, we had a load of naval fish-based ones in the same week, and they just sort of bunched together.
17:09 Speaker 03 Do you think it's that, or do you think you're just shoehorning them into that category?
17:14 Speaker 05 Can't be that. Can't be that. Let's go to Sarah's fact. Sarah Logan writes, um, she listened to a very old episode recently where we were excited to learn about the song played at the end of a Samsung wash cycle, uh, "Di Forella" by Schubert.
17:29 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
17:30 Speaker 05 And that does, it's about some kind of fish, isn't it? I think it is. It's the trout.
17:34 Speaker 03 Oh, is it? I think it might be. You definitely did one called the trout. I don't know if it's the same one.
17:39 Speaker 05 Well, the bizarre thing is, there are many models of Fisher and Pakel top-loading washing machines that with the right prompting will play you the New Zealand National Anthem.
17:47 Speaker 03 What?
17:48 Speaker 05 Isn't that good?
17:49 Speaker 03 Yeah.
17:49 Speaker 05 It's just an Easter egg. They've got a couple of national anthems loaded in. But if you get the right buttons on your right washing machine, it'll play you "Go On, New Zealand", or whatever the National Anthem's called.
18:00 Speaker 03 "Go On, New Zealand"?
18:01 Speaker 05 I don't know it. I don't know the name.
18:03 Speaker 03 Do they have, do they have them all? Do you know?
18:06 Speaker 05 Is, no, I think it's just "Go On, New Zealand".
18:09 Speaker 03 "Deutschland, Deutschland, du berales".
18:10 Speaker 05 That's the one.
18:12 Speaker 03 That's the one you've got, of course.
18:16 Speaker 03 Have we established that you're quite into Hitler at the moment, or in previous episodes?
18:20 Speaker 05 I don't think I'm, I don't think I'm into Hitler, I wouldn't say.
18:23 Speaker 03 No.
18:24 Speaker 05 But I'm a second world history buff. I'll go that far. Dan's got all the stuff in his shed.
18:29 Speaker 04 Nice try, buddy. Nice try.
18:32 Speaker 03 One more fact before we go on to custodianship?
18:35 Speaker 04 Yeah. Um, I've got one here from Sebastian Bro, who says, "My favourite fact is that the heat released in the Manukurgen impact crater was so intense that it took between 1,600 and 5,000 years before the melted rocks cooled."
18:52 Speaker 05 Yeah.
18:53 Speaker 03 Is that the dinosaur one in Mexico?
18:55 Speaker 05 It was.
18:55 Speaker 04 I thought that was called Chick-fil-A. That's the, that's the big one. But this was, this was during the, the time of the dinosaurs.
19:01 Speaker 05 Oh, okay.
19:02 Speaker 04 It was near the end of the Triassic period. It was an asteroid. That was five kilometres wide and it hit what is now Canada today. And it kind of create, you can see it from outer space and it's kind of one of those shots that a lot of astronauts on the ISS like to get a shot of. Because there's a visible ring of water.
19:19 Speaker 03 It's the annular lake.
19:20 Speaker 04 Yes.
19:21 Speaker 03 I do know this one. Yeah, yeah.
19:23 Speaker 04 The Eye of Quebec.
19:24 Speaker 03 And the, it's an island because the, the land raised as well. And then I think the humans diverted some water there or something. But what happened is you've got an island with a lake around it. And the area of the island is larger than the area of the lake that it's in.
19:42 Speaker 05 Uh, don't like it. Don't like, what do you mean? No, what do you mean?
19:46 Speaker 03 If you take your cup that's on that round coaster.
19:48 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:49 Speaker 03 The area of the bottom of the cup is bigger than the area that you can see of the coaster.
19:53 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice.
19:55 Speaker 03 Isn't that cool? I think I'm almost certain it's that one.
19:57 Speaker 05 Eye of Quebec is so metal. So cool.
20:01 Speaker 04 And yeah, really amazing that that distance of time for something.
20:04 Speaker 05 It was cooling down for 5,000 years.
20:06 Speaker 04 Up to 5,000 years. Yeah. And, and this, this was a fact that Sebastian sent in.
20:12 Speaker 05 I'd give it 5,000 years if I were you.
20:14 Speaker 04 By the way, I think it was because the, it wasn't the asteroid itself, the rocks from that that was hot. I think it's what it exposed underneath and it sort of melted that.
20:22 Speaker 03 Okay.
20:23 Speaker 04 And created that. But yeah, this, this fact Sebastian found it from this guy's website. He's called Crater Explorer. And it's a fascinating website. I highly recommend if you're interested in this kind of stuff to go because it's quite old school. So it's one of those sites where this guy's just put everything on there.
20:40 Speaker 03 He's the crater creator.
20:41 Speaker 04 Curator, creator.
20:43 Speaker 03 Curator.
20:44 Speaker 04 Of creators.
20:44 Speaker 05 Content crater.
20:47 Speaker 03 Doesn't quite work, does it?
20:48 Speaker 05 No. Crater curator. Works like a charm. Yeah.
20:52 Speaker 04 We'll go with that.
20:53 Speaker 03 What does he go with?
20:54 Speaker 04 Crater Explorer.
20:55 Speaker 03 Yeah, probably why. He probably tried all these other ones and they didn't quite work.
20:59 Speaker 04 Yeah.
21:00 Speaker 05 Wow.
21:01 Speaker 03 Okay. Well, thank you very much for that fact, Dan. Thank you for all your facts, Andy. But actually, thank you most of all to the people at home who sent the facts in. And we are going to thank you back by giving you some of our old facts in the form of our curatorship. If you would like one of these facts, then all you have to do is go to patreon.com slash clubfish. Join at the top level, which is friend of the podcast, and we will give you your own fact. Okay. Which of you guys is going to give us the first curatorship today?
21:30 Speaker 05 I'll dish one out to Randall Cleaver.
21:34 Speaker 05 And it's that every second, a star in the universe explodes.
21:39 Speaker 03 I think it'd be tired by now.
21:41 Speaker 05 Very good.
21:42 Speaker 03 No, it's a different star each time.
21:44 Speaker 05 It's a different star every time.
21:45 Speaker 03 Do you know Beetlejuice is going to explode soon?
21:48 Speaker 05 I didn't know that.
21:48 Speaker 03 Do you expect?
21:49 Speaker 04 What does that mean for us?
21:50 Speaker 03 Um, might be a good light show in the sky.
21:54 Speaker 04 Wow.
21:55 Speaker 05 But when we say it's going to explode soon, does that mean that the light will reach us in kind of 400 years?
21:59 Speaker 03 Uh, well, we don't know if it's exploded 500 years ago.
22:03 Speaker 05 Right.
22:03 Speaker 03 The light hasn't reached us yet, but certainly it's well overdue and it's doing some funky stuff.
22:08 Speaker 05 Oh.
22:09 Speaker 03 Like sending off different colors and stuff that we think that it might go soon. And when it does, it'll be worldwide news because it's one of the most obvious stars in the sky.
22:16 Speaker 04 Yeah.
22:17 Speaker 03 It'll be a supernova.
22:18 Speaker 05 But it might have happened 400 years ago, but we don't know.
22:20 Speaker 03 Absolutely.
22:21 Speaker 05 That's exciting.
22:22 Speaker 04 Do they think possibly within our lifetime?
22:25 Speaker 03 It could happen tomorrow.
22:26 Speaker 04 Oh my goodness.
22:27 Speaker 03 It could happen before this show goes out, it could have happened. Or probably after we've all long gone.
22:33 Speaker 04 Wow. Will it be a bright sky?
22:36 Speaker 03 It'll be very noticeable. You might be able to see it in daytime.
22:40 Speaker 05 Oh, that's cool. That is very cool.
22:41 Speaker 04 That is cool.
22:42 Speaker 05 Yeah. Wow. That's a great fact.
22:44 Speaker 04 That is an amazing fact. Um, here, let's give another one out. Um, James, why don't you do this one?
22:51 Speaker 03 Okay, this next one is under the curatorship of Fiona Maguire Jennings. Now, that isn't hard at all. I don't know why you didn't want to read that out. Uh, the fact is that the Tlatel Camila cannibals of ancient Mexico ate the human flesh with chili sauce.
23:08 Speaker 05 Really nice.
23:09 Speaker 03 Great.
23:10 Speaker 05 Really nice.
23:13 Speaker 03 It's supposed to taste like pork, isn't it? Human flesh.
23:16 Speaker 05 Is it now?
23:16 Speaker 03 Long pig.
23:17 Speaker 05 Oh, I've heard long pig. Yeah, yeah, yeah. James, you must have tried it at some point on your travels.
23:24 Speaker 05 You've tried all so much creative stuff.
23:26 Speaker 03 Can I just say, as I edited, um, the Jamie Martin podcast earlier this week.
23:32 Speaker 05 Yep.
23:32 Speaker 03 And just for the record, I have not eaten a dog's penis.
23:35 Speaker 05 Well, you might have. Have you ever been to a Greg's?
23:39 Speaker 03 No, I've never been to a Greg's.
23:41 Speaker 05 Oh, then you may have avoided it altogether.
23:45 Speaker 03 They do vegan dogs' penises, don't they?
23:48 Speaker 03 In fact, I cut it from the main show, so if you're watching this, you might not remember it. It's in the Excel version, which you'll only get if you're a member of the middle tier of Clubfish.
23:58 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:00 Speaker 03 I have eaten Bull's testicles, which is what you are half remembering.
24:04 Speaker 04 Was it Andy?
24:06 Speaker 03 No, I think it was Anna who said that I'd eaten maybe the penis of a Labrador.
24:11 Speaker 04 Wow, she went for a specific breed. What a false memory to have of James that you're just happy to put out on a podcast. James has eaten Labrador dick, Labradoodle dick?
24:22 Speaker 03 Labradoodle?
24:22 Speaker 04 Was it Labrador?
24:23 Speaker 03 A Labrador's doodle.
24:26 Speaker 03 I think that's how she introduces me to her friends. She's like, oh, my friend James is coming around. Oh, yeah. Oh, you'll remember him. It's the one who I, oh dear.
24:35 Speaker 05 Oh, my God.
24:36 Speaker 04 All right, let's do another one.
24:37 Speaker 05 There's nothing wrong with Greg's.
24:41 Speaker 05 All right, let's do another one. Dan, do you want to?
24:42 Speaker 04 Yeah, this is Emma Wood. You are now the custodian of dogs aren't allowed.
24:49 Speaker 05 We're doing a two hour radius of change this place.
24:53 Speaker 04 Dogs aren't allowed at Selwyn College, Cambridge, so the master's Basset Hound has been reclassified as a very large cat.
25:02 Speaker 05 Lovely.
25:02 Speaker 03 That's really good.
25:03 Speaker 05 Lovely.
25:04 Speaker 03 And was this the one also with Byron's bear, maybe?
25:09 Speaker 04 Oh, the same college. Cambridge was the same.
25:12 Speaker 03 Yeah, I don't know what college he went to, but.
25:14 Speaker 05 He was at Cambridge, yeah. But I don't, I don't think he was at Selwyn.
25:17 Speaker 03 Similarly, he wasn't allowed some animal, but he was allowed a bear. Is that right?
25:21 Speaker 05 Something like it. That's the story. I've never known how true it is and I've never, I never wanted to check. You know, it's one of those too good to check ones.
25:28 Speaker 03 Yeah.
25:28 Speaker 04 Yeah.
25:28 Speaker 05 If you know what I mean.
25:29 Speaker 04 Well, at what point can you keep a bear in theory until it turns on you?
25:33 Speaker 03 Have you ever watched Gentle Ben?
25:35 Speaker 04 No, what's that?
25:36 Speaker 03 It's a TV show, maybe, or a movie? No, it's a TV show, I think, from America about a family that has a bear. But he's very gentle, hence the name.
25:44 Speaker 05 And it doesn't turn on them.
25:45 Speaker 03 Well, season seven is called Fishers Ben.
25:50 Speaker 03 At that stage, things do go a bit awry.
25:52 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah.
25:53 Speaker 03 I know, it doesn't turn on them.
25:54 Speaker 05 Um, should we have another one?
25:55 Speaker 03 Yes.
25:56 Speaker 05 This one goes out to Janus Vermac. Janus, your fact is, according to the diary of the first chief of MI6, this is how the first day went. Quotes, "Went to the office, saw no one, nor was there anything to do there."
26:12 Speaker 03 Oh, they're good, those spies, aren't they?
26:13 Speaker 05 Yeah.
26:18 Speaker 03 As soon as he left, they all were hiding behind the plum pots going, "Ha ha!"
26:22 Speaker 04 That should be it. He should walk into an empty office every day and if he spots anyone, they're fired.
26:26 Speaker 05 Yeah, brilliant.
26:27 Speaker 04 You know, good at your job, buddy. This was, um, this, I love this fact.
26:31 Speaker 03 Mansfield Cummings, was it?
26:32 Speaker 04 It was, it was called, yeah, Mansfield Cummings. And this was a book that when I first started QI, I bought this book just called See, which was all about him. And I, it was the most enjoyable thing of just finding all these incredible facts about this one human. Something we love doing on FISH all the time. Um, he used to have a wooden leg and go around on a scooter. And I think he was busted when he went into Germany once, trying to pretend to be a soldier, but didn't speak a word of German.
26:59 Speaker 05 Yes, that was.
26:59 Speaker 04 And was busted immediately when they said hello to him.
27:02 Speaker 03 You'd think you'd at least learn hello.
27:04 Speaker 04 You'd think you'd have that.
27:05 Speaker 05 Yeah, I mean, it's hello.
27:08 Speaker 05 It's not.
27:11 Speaker 03 He never went in with "Bonjour." Oh, shit!
27:17 Speaker 05 Oh, lovely.
27:18 Speaker 03 Okay, here is one more. This one is going out to Connie Ball. And Connie, your fact is that there is a distillery in Kentucky that claims playing Bruce Springsteen to the whiskey improves the aging process.
27:33 Speaker 05 Very nice.
27:34 Speaker 04 Very nice.
27:34 Speaker 03 Yeah.
27:35 Speaker 04 That happens a lot now. You hear a lot of these studies where rock and roll is used or.
27:40 Speaker 03 I remember they played metal to sperms for the IBF process.
27:44 Speaker 05 Wow.
27:44 Speaker 04 Yeah, there was also in Japan, I think it was called Rising Beethoven Bread, something like that, where you would play Beethoven to the bread and, yeah.
27:53 Speaker 05 Wait, why didn't they call it Beethoven? Why do I have to do all the work around here?
27:58 Speaker 03 Hovis is not the name of a bread company in Japan.
28:02 Speaker 05 Well, oh god, do I, but just, do you know what I mean?
28:06 Speaker 03 What about Beethoven?
28:07 Speaker 05 Beethoven?
28:08 Speaker 04 There we go.
28:09 Speaker 05 That's better.
28:10 Speaker 03 Beethoven, there's a lot to do here, isn't there?
28:12 Speaker 04 Who thought this name would give so much to the world of bread and ovens?
28:17 Speaker 05 It's just ridiculous, isn't it? You know, we're out here every day creating value that's not being picked up.
28:24 Speaker 03 If these people were still trading, because I'm sure they're not, and they heard this, do you think they'd think, oh, we should, we need to change our name, guys?
28:31 Speaker 05 Biggest forehead slap of all time.
28:32 Speaker 04 Yeah.
28:32 Speaker 03 Do you think?
28:33 Speaker 04 They're probably saying, maybe if you had the brains of these guys, we would still be operating, honey.
28:40 Speaker 04 Rising Beethoven Brad. What a dumb name.
28:43 Speaker 05 Baked oven. Perfect. Let's have another. This one goes out to Rupert Davis. Rupert doesn't actually have Patreon, but, but he's 10. It has been arranged on his behalf.
29:00 Speaker 03 And Hope you enjoyed all the dog penis talk.
29:03 Speaker 05 Sorry, sorry Rupert. Sorry Rupert's parents.
29:06 Speaker 03 Sorry, everyone who's listening.
29:08 Speaker 05 Absolutely. Yeah. But Rupert, your fact now and forever is that there is a statue of Nikola Tesla in Silicon Valley, which radiates free wifi.
29:20 Speaker 03 Yeah.
29:20 Speaker 05 I'm sure it's still there. And this is just a great fact about Nikola Tesla, the mad, the mad scientist, the original mad scientist, almost.
29:28 Speaker 04 Yeah.
29:29 Speaker 05 Yeah.
29:29 Speaker 04 Very, very cool.
29:30 Speaker 03 Lover of pigeons.
29:32 Speaker 05 Lover of pigeons.
29:32 Speaker 03 Inventor of death rays and purveyor of wifi.
29:37 Speaker 05 The man who invented the 20th century, as he's sometimes known. Congratulations Rupert.
29:41 Speaker 04 We got another one here. This is going out to Jason Kidd. I wonder if that's Jason Kidd, the basketball player.
29:49 Speaker 05 Probably.
29:49 Speaker 04 Nah. A third of people in Britain have written almost nothing by hand in the last six months.
29:57 Speaker 03 Wow.
29:58 Speaker 05 This fact went out in 2017. Do we reckon there's been a great renaissance in handwriting since then?
30:03 Speaker 03 I suppose not.
30:04 Speaker 05 I think it might be more people who have written very little by hand in the last six months since, since then.
30:09 Speaker 03 Okay, one more, I think, for today. And that fact is now under the custodianship of Tom Viart. And Tom, your fact is that the first man to swim the English Channel later had a show where he floated in a tank for two hours.
30:26 Speaker 05 Wonderful.
30:28 Speaker 05 Matthew Webb?
30:29 Speaker 03 Yeah, Captain Webb.
30:30 Speaker 05 Captain Webb.
30:31 Speaker 03 Or was it David Blaine? I can't remember.
30:34 Speaker 05 Did he drown?
30:35 Speaker 03 Captain Webb.
30:36 Speaker 05 I feel like Captain Webb eventually drowned doing something.
30:39 Speaker 03 Did he?
30:39 Speaker 05 Yeah.
30:40 Speaker 03 I'm not really sure about that. The first thing that came into my head was the first person who went over the Niagara Falls, or first man, maybe, who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, died after slipping on an orange peel.
30:50 Speaker 05 Yes.
30:52 Speaker 03 Archibald Leach. But Captain Webb, I don't know whether he died or not. I know that he basically just went on doing swimming tricks for quite a while. And obviously, you can't sell tickets to people to see you swimming long distances because
31:05 Speaker 05 Right, because they need to be on the boat.
31:07 Speaker 03 They have to follow you, right? So you have to do lots of acrobatics and stuff, I think.
31:12 Speaker 05 I've just checked. I'm afraid he did drown.
31:14 Speaker 03 Did he?
31:14 Speaker 05 Over Niagara Falls.
31:16 Speaker 03 Did he? That's probably why the Niagara Falls thing came into my head.
31:19 Speaker 05 Yes. And I'm just gonna say it's Bobby Leach, not Archibald Leach. Archibald Leach was Cary Grant. That was his real name.
31:25 Speaker 03 You know what? All these facts are in my head, but they just all mix up in different ways.
31:30 Speaker 04 I love that as a show. You can't bring the English Channel to the stage, but you can bring a little tank of water and show what you look like in the water. It's amazing.
31:38 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:39 Speaker 04 Amazing innovation.
31:40 Speaker 05 And I can confirm that audiences like to see someone struggling and treading water for an extended period of time, because I sometimes do the intros and outros for this show.
31:51 Speaker 03 And it might be time for another one of those now. So, thank you so much to Tom, Jason, Rupert, Connie, Janus, Emma, Fiona and Randall. Thank you so much for becoming custodians of facts and for supporting No Such Things As A Fish on Patreon. If you would like to do so too, go to patreon.com/clubfish and you can become a friend of the podcast there. Or if you would like us to read out some of your facts, send them to podcast at qi.com and Andy will save all the best ones for himself and send all the other ones to the rest of us, bastard. And then we will read them out on Little Fish. Thank you again for listening. Thank you, Andy and Dan for being here.
32:32 Speaker 04 Thank you, James.
32:33 Speaker 05 Thank you.
32:34 Speaker 03 About time someone thanked me. Goodbye.
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