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0:40 Speaker 01 Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Little Fish. This is the show where we go through your incredible facts that you have sent to [email protected] , and we chat about them for a little while, and then we do some other stuff at the end. I am James Harkin. I am sat somewhere in the UK, in my house, and Andy and Dan are also elsewhere in the UK, and we're going to chat right now. So, guys, one of you, give me a fact.
1:08 Speaker 02 I'll go on here. This has been sent to us by Meg O'Connor, who says, "Perhaps you are already aware, but Santa Claus is not the mayor of the North Pole." I think we all assumed he didn't have a mayoral role.
1:22 Speaker 01 And wasn't there, there was a politician called Santa Claus, and I think he lived in North Pole, but, and I thought he was the mayor, actually, so in fairness, I would have fallen for this one.
1:32 Speaker 02 Well, he's a council member of the North Pole government. It's actually, of course, Larry Turgeon, who is the mayor of the North Pole. And this is North Pole, Alaska. I hadn't, I hadn't heard of this before.
1:47 Speaker 01 I actually send my letters to Larry Turgeon when I want to get something for Christmas.
1:54 Speaker 03 If you want a dropped curb in the North Pole area, he's the man to go to. So there's, as you say, James, there is a Santa Claus. And for all the kiddies listening, this is a different Santa Claus. This is someone who lives in a place called North Pole, Alaska. His real name was Thomas O'Connor. He legally changed it to Santa Claus in 2005.
2:16 Speaker 03 He, as well as being a politician, is an Anglican monk. He is a proponent of free healthcare, medical marijuana and wealth tax. And yeah, he lives in North Pole, Alaska, which has a population of about two and a half thousand. Bob Ross used to live there. You know, the painter in America, Bob Ross?
2:35 Speaker 01 Yeah.
2:35 Speaker 03 Yeah.
2:36 Speaker 01 He sounds very liberal, this Santa Claus, don't you think?
2:40 Speaker 03 I think, yeah.
2:40 Speaker 01 With his marijuana.
2:41 Speaker 03 I would have thought someone who flies around the world giving things out for free once a year to most boys and girls. It's not really means tested. There's a little bit of naughty or nice, but the bar is pretty low.
2:53 Speaker 01 So do you think he's a socialist?
2:53 Speaker 03 Yeah.
2:54 Speaker 01 I was thinking, he sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you are woke.
2:58 Speaker 03 Beautiful.
3:02 Speaker 01 That's what I was leading up to with that whole.
3:04 Speaker 03 That's really good. That's really good. I think we're all thinking the same thing, though. Release the naughty list. Release the naughty list, Santa.
3:14 Speaker 01 I have been on that naughty list, I have to admit, but it's just incidental.
3:18 Speaker 03 I never went on the sleigh. I want to make that very clear.
3:24 Speaker 03 I've got one.
3:24 Speaker 01 Yeah, go on, Andy.
3:25 Speaker 03 Here's one from Andrew Lawasa. I work in movie trailers. Brackets, the audio visual medium, not the vehicles. Ah. Lovely. We're off the blocks. And my fact is that the most prized award in the industry isn't best trailer or agency of the year, but it's an award for the best trailer for the worst movie, which is dubbed the golden fleece. And I just absolutely love this. Basically, there's this golden trailer awards ceremony, which is all about the trailer, movie trailers. Confusingly, its logo is a little picture of a trailer, the vehicle, but it's about the advert, it's about the two minute long adverts you get for films, right? Okay. Right. The golden trailer awards. And there is this award, the golden fleece, where if
4:10 Speaker 03 you've made an absolute dog of a film, but you turn in a really good trailer, you can win it.
4:15 Speaker 01 That's amazing. I think cold trailers these days are a bit weak. I gotta say, I think the golden age of the trailer is perhaps behind us.
4:25 Speaker 03 Really?
4:26 Speaker 01 Well, when was the last time you saw a really innovative trailer?
4:29 Speaker 03 There's a film called Free Fire. It's set in a single warehouse. It's a big shootout. You know, only one person can make off with the money.
4:34 Speaker 01 Did like someone like Edgar Wright do it or like some? Edgar Wright? Or was it, um, what's his name? It was someone cool.
4:42 Speaker 02 Well, it's pretty big slime on Edgar Wright when you say someone cool.
4:49 Speaker 02 Andy, do you happen to know if these award ceremonies, do they have categories like most misleading trailer?
4:56 Speaker 03 I think it's, no, I think it's, that's the only one where it's like best trailer for worst film. All the others are kind of other elements of the trailer process, which are not, the film is bad. This award ceremony was set up by these two sisters, the Brady sisters, Evelyn and Monica. They'd just got out of film school in 1997. They really wanted to make a feature film, but they couldn't get the money together for it. So they thought, let's make the trailer first. And that'll get investors to put all the money into the film, but they didn't know anyone who made trailers either. I don't know what film school is for, if you come out of it not knowing anyone who makes trailers, but whatever. So they made the awards show to try and lure in companies which make trailers. So they could make the trailer and then get the money for their film. And they're still doing the awards. They haven't made, they still haven't made the film.
5:40 Speaker 01 That's so clever. Ben Wheatley was Free Fire.
5:44 Speaker 03 Oh.
5:45 Speaker 01 Which to me, him and Edgar Wright are the same person.
5:48 Speaker 02 Yeah, I think, I think he's probably cool.
5:50 Speaker 01 I've got another, um, movie based one here, if you wanna hear it. So this is a fact from Jesse Nell, and it's about someone called Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the abort guidance system, which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. Now, she worked on this system on the day she was in labor. So she was very heavily pregnant. She was in work. She took the papers with all of the maths home with her. Then she went to hospital, gave birth to a child and then came back and said, yeah, I've solved it. It's okay.
6:25 Speaker 02 Wow. Yes, this is ringing a bell because as you know, I'm a big Apollo 13 connoisseur, but also the surname.
6:34 Speaker 01 Um, well, her surname is not that important to the fact. The reason that it rings a bell, Dan, might be the reason that I said it was to do with movies.
6:44 Speaker 02 Yeah.
6:45 Speaker 01 A particular actor, which I know you're a big fan of. Uh, Jack Black was the child.
6:51 Speaker 02 Yeah, that's right.
6:54 Speaker 01 Um, yeah, Jack Black was the child who came as a result of that birth when she disappeared, when she was working on the Apollo 13.
7:03 Speaker 03 So would that, that would be quite exciting if you were in labor and people were doing big countdowns all around you and you kept having to say, no, no, no, no, no, don't, don't stop counting down, you know, because you, there's a baby coming.
7:13 Speaker 01 I see what you mean. Yeah. She didn't give birth inside the center where all of the stuff. She went to a hospital.
7:20 Speaker 02 Yeah. And also generally there's no countdown in birth. I don't know if that's a different experience for you, Andy, but um.
7:30 Speaker 01 Are you joking? Because when I, when my wife gave birth, I was in charge of the music. Like they always give the dad something to do. So they gave me this Bluetooth speaker that I had to work out how to do. And then I had to put the music on and I put my favorite track, which is the countdown theme tune.
7:49 Speaker 02 Wow.
7:50 Speaker 01 That's not true, Dan.
7:51 Speaker 02 Oh, I, I thought it might have been on the list.
7:53 Speaker 03 Were you in charge of the music?
7:54 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah. Like I genuinely think that they did that in order to give me something to do. Otherwise I'm going to be sat there fretting. So like, you know how hard it is to get a Bluetooth speaker to attach to your phone?
8:05 Speaker 02 Yes.
8:06 Speaker 01 I was like, I'm, I'm struggling here, guys. I'm struggling. Give me some air. Give me some gas.
8:12 Speaker 02 I got to do the music as well for, on my third child, it was a Bluetooth music system. But for the first child, the few days before, they said, you've got to burn a CD and bring it in.
8:23 Speaker 01 Oh, lovely.
8:23 Speaker 02 This is 2017. There's no CDs to burn anymore. Like, where are you getting that from? And my father-in-law, Will, he did it up in his office. Fenneller and I picked five songs that we were very happy for our son to be born to. And it got to the end of the CD, we thought it'd loop back around, and suddenly this 10-minute-long Bob Dylan track comes on, because he thought, I want my grandson being born to Dylan. And we just had to sit through it. Anyway, and yours was just a countdown.
8:52 Speaker 01 No, mine was Angel, after whom my daughter was born.
8:56 Speaker 02 Ah, lovely.
8:56 Speaker 01 The Belgian pop star. But anyway, enough about our lives.
9:01 Speaker 02 Yeah.
9:01 Speaker 01 Give us some facts.
9:02 Speaker 02 I've got another one here. This is from Cherie Bluebond. When the Nazis ran a contest for a baby who exemplified the Aryan ideal, they picked a Jewish child. This is fascinating.
9:18 Speaker 01 Who's child?
9:20 Speaker 02 This child was called Hesse Levinson's Taft, and she was on the cover of Nazi Magazine. And she appeared on it without her parents' consent or knowledge. What had happened was, there was a competition to find a child who could, you know, have the look of an Aryan, who would seem to be the ultimate Aryan, to be put on the front of this cover. And they went to this photographer, who, as a sort of sinister little joke, he slipped in this photo of Hesse Levinson's Taft, knowing that she was Jewish. And this picture was picked, supposedly personally, by Goebbels. She had no idea about it. Obviously, she's a baby. Her parents had no idea about it. And one day, a cleaner was over at the
10:03 Speaker 02 house, and she was dusting the mantelpiece, and she saw that photo, and she went, isn't that the ultimate Aryan baby that I saw on the front cover of Nazi Magazine?
10:12 Speaker 01 Was the magazine called Nazi Magazine?
10:15 Speaker 02 That's what it says it's called here.
10:17 Speaker 01 You have to be careful if it says if there's a free gift because gift in German is poison.
10:22 Speaker 03 Oh, very nice.
10:24 Speaker 02 Hmm.
10:25 Speaker 03 Interesting.
10:25 Speaker 01 But also this cleaner after the war, she said, oh, that reminds me of the Nazi magazine that I used to subscribe to, did she?
10:32 Speaker 02 So I think the war was still going on. So this was, this was while Hitler was in power and um, I think actually that might be the New York Times article titled on cover of Nazi magazine. So I'm sure it had a different title, but apparently there were five or six magazines that were pro-Nazi that you could get in the newsstands at the time.
10:51 Speaker 03 I thought they all were at the time. I'm sure most magazines in the 30s had a pro-Nazi line.
10:55 Speaker 02 Yeah. So anyway, they saw her and they said, what is this doing here? They questioned the photographer. He gave his reasoning and they were terrified for most of their life at that point because they thought if the Germans found out that this was a Jewish baby, they would actively hunt down the baby. And so they lived in fear. She barely went out for walks, but she survived. And the reason this story has been sent to us is as a part of an obituary. She died just this year, age 91.
11:21 Speaker 03 Wow.
11:22 Speaker 01 Very cool.
11:23 Speaker 03 Um, I've got another one here.
11:25 Speaker 01 Yeah.
11:26 Speaker 03 You guys know I like a transport infrastructure fact.
11:29 Speaker 01 We do, Andy. Yeah, we're aware of that.
11:31 Speaker 03 Someone else who likes it.
11:32 Speaker 01 Synchrocity of your life.
11:36 Speaker 03 So I've been to two separate bus museums in the last month.
11:38 Speaker 01 It's amazing. You wait for one bus museum.
11:44 Speaker 03 Fantastic. Anyway, uh, this comes from Martin Kaiser, who says, one of my truly favorite facts is that the southernmost station on the London Underground is on the Northern Line and the northernmost station is not.
11:58 Speaker 01 Okay, that's quite fun.
12:00 Speaker 03 It's quite fun.
12:01 Speaker 02 Right.
12:01 Speaker 03 It's um, the southernmost station is Morden, which is on the Northern Line.
12:06 Speaker 01 Yeah.
12:06 Speaker 03 And the northernmost station on the Northern Line is High Barnet, but there are three other lines that go further north. Uh, and I believe it's. Chesham?
12:16 Speaker 01 Metropolitan Line does.
12:18 Speaker 03 Correct. Chesham is on the Metropolitan Line.
12:21 Speaker 01 Are we playing this game?
12:23 Speaker 03 Yep. Central is a northern station on the Central Line.
12:26 Speaker 01 On the Central Line, yeah, it's gonna be the one that's just past Staid and Boys. Is it Epping?
12:30 Speaker 03 It's Epping. Very good.
12:33 Speaker 01 And what will the other one be?
12:36 Speaker 03 Piccadilly.
12:37 Speaker 01 Oh, what? Cockfosters?
12:39 Speaker 03 I guess it would be, yes. I didn't write that one down eccentrically. Right. He's such an eccentric.
12:50 Speaker 01 Do you wanna hear like this? You know how I did that really good joke earlier? Do you want me to really flush it right down the toilet with one of the worst jokes I've ever heard?
12:57 Speaker 03 Yeah.
12:58 Speaker 01 And I went on the Piccadilly Line the other day to go to Cockfosters, but I got off one stop too early. Awkward.
13:07 Speaker 03 Oh, really? Nice. So there's a place called Oakwood, uh, for this overseas, yeah. Jen, I've got a museum to go to with you and I can't wait. I'll see you there. You have to come along now.
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14:24 Speaker 01 Here is a fact. You know, guys, that I'm a big fan of sport. It's just one of those idiosyncrasies that I have.
14:33 Speaker 03 Okay.
14:34 Speaker 01 Grant Mitchell wrote in, I don't know if it's the fictional character from EastEnders.
14:41 Speaker 03 It's gotta be.
14:42 Speaker 01 Or not. But Grant wrote with a football fact and he said that in the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons, there were two players in the Red Star FC team, which is a French football team, named Pierre-Yves Crow. They were born within nine months of each other and both left Red Star on July 1, 2017. So they had the exact same name. Grant only knows this because, he says, he obsessively updated his pro-evolution soccer game with new transfers every half-season.
15:14 Speaker 03 Grant, welcome to the club. Beneath that hard man exterior on EastEnders, there lurks the soul of a real nerd. That's lovely.
15:25 Speaker 01 So there you go. There's quite a few times in history where you've had players with the same name. So in the 1970s, Scarborough Football Club had two players called Harry Dunn, but they were called Harry Dunn and Harry A. Dunn. But Harry A. Dunn didn't have a middle name. They just added the A just so that people would know the difference between the two Duns.
15:45 Speaker 03 Lovely, lovely.
15:46 Speaker 01 Locomotive Moscow, between 2002 and 2003, they had two players called Sergey of Chinnikov. So what would you do in a Russian team if you have two people with the same name?
15:57 Speaker 03 I'd make all the other nine players change their names to Sergey of Chinnikov.
16:02 Speaker 01 No, that's not what happened.
16:04 Speaker 03 Really?
16:04 Speaker 01 Imagine, imagine this football team was in a Dostoevsky novel. How would you tell the difference between them?
16:11 Speaker 03 Do you add like a, like a son, like a...
16:15 Speaker 01 Yeah, pretty much that. So in Russia, you have your normal surname, but you also have your patronymic. So these two players were known as Sergey Ivanovich of Chinnikov and Sergey Vladimirovich of Chinnikov. So they were known by their full sort of like Russian 19th century novel name.
16:35 Speaker 03 That's gonna be a very busy back of shirt. I mean, that's, you're gonna need a small font, I think. And I'm looking through my binoculars, I can see it's of Chinnikov, but which one?
16:45 Speaker 01 You wouldn't know this, Andy, but when you buy a football shirt, if you want a name on, you have to pay for the number of letters.
16:52 Speaker 02 What a swind.
16:53 Speaker 03 They're expensive already, I gather.
16:55 Speaker 01 They are. And so if you like, really like a player with a really long surname, like Hunter Murray, it's going to cost you a fortune. But if you like a short name like Harkin, it's going to be much cheaper.
17:06 Speaker 02 Yeah.
17:07 Speaker 03 Interesting. That's very good to know. Of course, I'm just going to say Hunter is my middle name, Murray is my surname. So Murray and Harkin would have the same price. And Schreiber is the one who extracts the real cash from the customer.
17:17 Speaker 01 Never mind, Tschitschinsky.
17:18 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:22 Speaker 03 Shall I do another one?
17:24 Speaker 01 Yeah, go on.
17:25 Speaker 03 Here's one about Australia's second Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin.
17:30 Speaker 02 Ah, yes.
17:31 Speaker 03 I know we're all thinking of the same fact, but I'm going to read it out anyway.
17:34 Speaker 02 Okay.
17:35 Speaker 03 This fact is coming from Oliver Frederick, who writes that when he was Prime Minister, Deakin had a secret second job. He had taken on a gig being a journalist, writing secret political commentary on the Australian Parliament. He wrote 600 columns. It was nearly a million words he'd written, which was him slagging off his colleagues, slagging off the then Prime Minister. And he got paid, I think, more than he got as an MP to be a journalist, writing about MPs. And it continued after he was made Prime Minister?
18:05 Speaker 01 Really?
18:06 Speaker 03 He kept writing columns.
18:08 Speaker 01 So was he slagging himself off?
18:10 Speaker 03 He was slagging himself off at various points. It's just inspired. It's so good.
18:15 Speaker 01 That's amazing.
18:16 Speaker 03 I think that's a work. I think that should be, that's a Netflix series waiting to happen.
18:20 Speaker 01 It reminds me of that, um, do you remember they used to do like the secret footballer and the secret whatever?
18:26 Speaker 03 Yes, yeah, secret banker and the secret estate agent. And yeah, yeah.
18:29 Speaker 01 I think the secret footballer like literally got revealed yesterday or something.
18:33 Speaker 03 I'm looking and it's off Chinnikov, but which one?
18:40 Speaker 01 I think it was Dave Kitson, who like, you have to be a pretty good football nerd to remember him, but he was a proper footballer, yeah.
18:48 Speaker 03 Wow.
18:48 Speaker 02 Yeah. Do you know other writing that Alfred Deacon did? So I actually wrote about him in my Theory of Everything Else book, because he, prior to becoming Prime Minister, was a spiritualist and ghostwritten with John Bunyan, wrote the sequel to The Pilgrim's Progress.
19:06 Speaker 03 Brilliant. A book that was going out for a sequel. Yeah. In the 600 years since, people were just saying, where's PP2?
19:15 Speaker 02 So he had 49 sessions contacting his spirit and taking down dictation for the sequel, which he published, and he used to go around all of Australia doing spiritual acts. And he used to book people who claimed that they were possessed by other great dead historical characters. Imagine a TED conference, but instead of a living celebrity walking on stage, I walk on stage and say, I will now inhabit the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, who will give you a talk on the benefits of his political party. And then it would be this chat going on. He used to run all that sort of stuff.
19:48 Speaker 01 That feels like a good idea for a chat show.
19:50 Speaker 02 Yes.
19:51 Speaker 01 Like the new Alan Carr sort of chat show, but with the spirit of people. You only need to book one guest.
19:58 Speaker 03 And it's hosted by the spirit of Michael Parkinson.
20:01 Speaker 01 Yes.
20:02 Speaker 02 Through Alan Carr, yeah. Yes.
20:05 Speaker 03 It's a very nice idea.
20:07 Speaker 01 Okay, well, what an amazing fact and what an amazing bunch of facts we've had this week. Absolutely fantastic. But we can't let you go, dear listener, until we have given away some of our facts to friends of the podcast on Patreon. This is what we do. If you are of the top tier on Patreon, then you get to become a custodian of facts. And it is right here that we bestow those custodianships. So Dan, why don't you give us the first one today?
20:33 Speaker 02 Yeah, sure. So congratulations to Jamie Breeze, because you are now the custodian of the fact that, according to the Vatican, the greatest album of all time is Revolver by The Beatles.
20:46 Speaker 01 Rubbish.
20:47 Speaker 02 Ridiculous. It's obviously Abbey Road. I don't know what the Vatican's playing out there.
20:52 Speaker 01 To be honest, this was before Lily Allen's latest album came out, so.
20:56 Speaker 02 Yes. Yeah, they couldn't have predicted that unfortunately. Yeah, this was a fact by me and it was released through one of the Vatican's newspapers, much like how the Nazi will have Nazi magazine. They've got Vatican Daily.
21:12 Speaker 01 Very embarrassing when they had the Catholic Child of the Year and it turned out to be a Wiccan.
21:22 Speaker 02 Yeah, and so that was voted number one. Very cool.
21:25 Speaker 01 Very nice. Andy, let's have another one.
21:28 Speaker 03 Yeah, here's a fact. This one goes out to Mylene Pendland and it's that for the first 50 years of the Olympics, the only event was the 200 metre sprint.
21:41 Speaker 03 That's just a good, what a, what a nice Olympics that would be. Brisk, over, quickly.
21:46 Speaker 02 Yes.
21:46 Speaker 01 Good for the Jamaican team, like, because they're just gonna win every year.
21:50 Speaker 03 Yes, absolutely. And they were rather unfairly excluded from the ancient Olympics.
21:56 Speaker 02 Yeah.
21:56 Speaker 03 For some time.
21:58 Speaker 01 I've run on the track where they took place.
22:01 Speaker 03 So have I.
22:02 Speaker 01 The 200 metre track.
22:04 Speaker 03 Yes, you and I have been at different times.
22:07 Speaker 01 Yeah, well, we, we didn't, we didn't actually say what our times were.
22:11 Speaker 03 No.
22:13 Speaker 03 That's very good. I remember you all said holidays.
22:16 Speaker 01 No, I know that my time will have been, because they started off sprinting and then 200 metres is a lot further than you think it's gonna be.
22:24 Speaker 02 Yeah.
22:24 Speaker 03 I think I did it in about, I think it was either 15 or 16 seconds.
22:29 Speaker 01 Oh, so the world record.
22:30 Speaker 03 Yeah.
22:31 Speaker 01 Yeah, so the current world record will be about 19 seconds.
22:34 Speaker 03 Well, yeah.
22:36 Speaker 02 That's pretty good, Andy. That's pretty good.
22:39 Speaker 03 Well, I feel silly. I should have timed it, really.
22:42 Speaker 02 Did you get your wife to time you, Andy? And she was just being really generous. She was like, 14, 14 and a half.
22:49 Speaker 03 Yeah, you know, your time slows down at the speeds I was doing. So 14 did go on for a long time, actually.
22:56 Speaker 01 Okay, here is another one. This fact is now under the custodianship of David Bravos. And David, your fact is that ants' nests can be infested by smaller ants.
23:11 Speaker 03 Lovely.
23:12 Speaker 01 Lovely fact. That's from Leven Skilla, our good friend. Was this a live show that we did? Maybe the one we did in the Atomium?
23:20 Speaker 03 It was exactly that, I think. It's so weird how you can remember a very specific location from a fact. And that I have such a clear memory is this amazing structure in Brussels that's shaped like, is it an iron atom? It's one of the atoms. And there are these huge balls connected by pipes. And the balls are big enough that they can host a small theatre. And that's where we played a gig. That's probably still one of the coolest gigs we've ever played.
23:43 Speaker 02 And it was our first overseas gig, so it's sort of quite memorable for us in that respect as well. But yeah, that was an extraordinary one.
23:49 Speaker 01 I remember coming off stage thinking that the audience hadn't enjoyed themselves very much. And being told, oh no, that's just what Belgian audiences are like. They, you know, they just don't like to interrupt you by laughing.
24:03 Speaker 03 Was it my wife who told you that, James? Because she's, I can confirm, she's very good at softening the blow of things like this.
24:11 Speaker 03 Of course you were going that speed.
24:13 Speaker 02 Okay, I've got one here. This is now going out to Melissa. Congratulations. Your fact is that in Cambodia, a teenage Khmer girl's parents might build her a love hut, where she can sleep with as many men as she likes until she finds the right one.
24:29 Speaker 01 Okay, which one of you two came up with this fact?
24:33 Speaker 03 This was Anna.
24:35 Speaker 01 Yeah, classic Anna.
24:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, classic Anna.
24:37 Speaker 02 Classic Anna.
24:38 Speaker 03 Yeah. Why is it, why is it classic Anna?
24:40 Speaker 01 Well, because.
24:40 Speaker 02 Anthropology.
24:41 Speaker 01 Anthropology. And also she just likes to sleep with as many men as she likes until she finds the right one.
24:49 Speaker 03 Do you think Anna's listened to a single episode since she went off on Mat Leaf?
24:51 Speaker 01 Absolutely not. No, she did actually. She has listened to the, definitely listened to the Mary Beard one.
24:57 Speaker 02 Hmm, the first one that she missed, basically. I think there was like two, two before.
25:04 Speaker 01 And she, she asked me to isolate Mary's microphone and just listen to her bit. She didn't listen to us.
25:13 Speaker 01 Andy, give us one more.
25:15 Speaker 03 Here's one that goes out to Tim Johnston. Tim, your fact from now and forever is that the longest canyon in the world is 50% longer than the Grand Canyon and we didn't know about it until August 2013.
25:30 Speaker 01 Wow.
25:31 Speaker 03 Which is pretty mental.
25:33 Speaker 01 Where is it?
25:34 Speaker 03 I think it's in Greenland. I think it's under the enormous ice sheet in Greenland, which is why you wouldn't know about it unless you develop the technology to look under the ice sheet without disturbing it. It's under about a mile or two of ice.
25:48 Speaker 01 So interestingly, it's soon going to be the longest canyon in the US as well as
25:57 Speaker 01 actually, I don't think the Grand Canyon, it might be the biggest, but it's definitely not the deepest canyon in America. There's a few canyons that, yeah, there's a few canyons that are quite a lot deeper than the Grand Canyon.
26:08 Speaker 03 But it's very broad, isn't it? It's so broad that you can hardly see across it, I believe. I've never been. Have you been, James?
26:15 Speaker 01 I have been, yeah. We flew a helicopter through the canyon and it was absolutely awesome and had like a champagne breakfast, which is a thing they do, you know, it wasn't a special thing for us, it's a thing they do.
26:28 Speaker 03 On the helicopter?
26:29 Speaker 01 No, the helicopter drops you down and then you have what they call is a champagne breakfast, but it's actually a plastic glass with a little bit of champagne in and a turned up sandwich. And then you get back on the helicopter again, but it is pretty cool.
26:43 Speaker 03 I was just saying, you couldn't serve a full breakfast on a helicopter. I don't know if anyone's ever tried to have a full English on a helicopter, but I'm not going to make it my mission to do that.
26:51 Speaker 01 Yeah, you reckon you could like chuck a sausage up and then the blades will chop it into perfect circles?
26:57 Speaker 03 Absolutely.
26:58 Speaker 01 If you lived in a cartoon, that's exactly what would happen. Okay, here is another fact. This one now belongs to Hattie Farrell. And Hattie, your fact is that in 2008, the University of Bath invented a 3D printer which could copy itself. Nobody knows how many there are now.
27:20 Speaker 01 And I think my, this was one of my facts, and I think my implication was that once you've come up with a machine that can make another machine, presumably that machine is just gonna make another, which makes another, which makes another, and eventually we'd be wading through
27:33 Speaker 02 No doubt.
27:34 Speaker 01 printing printers.
27:35 Speaker 02 I think that's definitely what's happened.
27:38 Speaker 01 I think what actually happened is they did make millions and millions and millions of these, but each one was used to make checkers boards.
27:44 Speaker 02 There we go.
27:47 Speaker 03 Sorry, it took me a while to catch up with that one.
27:51 Speaker 01 We're on Zoom, so I thought that was a delay, but it was just a bit of a slow getting the joke.
27:57 Speaker 03 Brilliant fact.
27:58 Speaker 02 Brilliant. All right, here's another one. It goes out to James Relf. The fact is, to avoid hitting electric wires, the San Francisco Fire Department's ladders are made of wood.
28:09 Speaker 01 Interesting. That's quite, I would say that that is not true, right?
28:16 Speaker 02 Well, it's your fact, mate.
28:17 Speaker 01 I know it is, I know, but now that I read it, they're not gonna hit the electric wires any less, they're just gonna conduct the electricity less, right?
28:25 Speaker 03 What you should have said is to avoid electrocuting firefighters.
28:28 Speaker 01 Yeah, I'm just dishing myself out a harkening.
28:32 Speaker 03 Should we do another one?
28:33 Speaker 01 Yeah.
28:34 Speaker 03 Here's one last one. This one goes out to Merrill McQueen. Congratulations, Merrill, friend of the podcast. Your fact is that astronauts don't snore. They don't snore.
28:44 Speaker 01 None of them.
28:46 Speaker 03 I think it's that they, they only hire people who don't snore.
28:49 Speaker 02 I think that's part of the process of betting who's going to space.
28:53 Speaker 01 Oh, interesting.
28:55 Speaker 03 Yeah. You have to clear, you have to clear all the other stages. You have to become like a navy pilot, then you have to become this other kind of pilot, then you have to do the training, then you have to go in the swimming pool for like six weeks, then finally the sleepover. And if you, if you snore at the sleepover, you're straight out on the street.
29:09 Speaker 01 That's so funny.
29:10 Speaker 02 Yeah. Oh, great fact. Great, great fact. Whose fact was that? Mine?
29:13 Speaker 03 Great.
29:14 Speaker 01 Okay. Okay, enough of our facts given to you and enough of your facts given to us. It is time to end the show. And so please, if you have some more facts, do send them to podcast at Q I dot com. And it will go through that inbox and you will pluck out the very, very best and we will use them in a future episode. If you'd like to become a friend of the podcast, you can go to Patreon dot com. There's all sorts of fun stuff, or you can even just join up for free and you'll get some news about No Such Things As Fish and some little freebies. That is it for us. Goodbye from me. Goodbye from Andy. Bye. Goodbye from Dan. So long. We'll see you on Friday. Bye.
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