Pod Insights No Such Thing As A Fish Little Fish: The Cat Is Banging On The Door About this episode Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts, including soccer, snacks and Stonehenge. We discover which of us has an alter-ego called 'Struggle Cop'. And we name eight more Friend of the Podcast fact custodians.
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0:28 Speaker 01 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Little Fish. This is the bonus Monday episode where we put down our favorite facts from the last seven days and we go through the facts that you have sent us via [email protected] . Thank you, everyone who has done so. We've had an amazing collection of facts sent in this week. Let's get to it. Who wants to get going?
0:49 Speaker 02 I've got one.
0:50 Speaker 01 Andy.
0:51 Speaker 03 Bring that energy, Andy. Bring that energy.
0:56 Speaker 02 This is from Stephen Turner, and it's a very good email. It combines a good fact and then a bit of abuse and then a bit of praise.
1:05 Speaker 01 Right.
1:05 Speaker 03 Okay.
1:05 Speaker 02 A bit of everything.
1:06 Speaker 03 Do you want to miss out the middle bit?
1:09 Speaker 02 I think you need it. It's abuse of me, though, so don't worry.
1:12 Speaker 01 Maybe miss the fact. I'm happy with just pure abuse.
1:16 Speaker 02 Okay, Stephen writes, "Good Stevening." "My name is Stephen, and although this is my standard chat-up line, it barely works in real life as it is predicated on knowing my name beforehand." I think that's fair.
1:28 Speaker 01 And only meeting people at night.
1:31 Speaker 03 Honestly, I thought he meant, "I want to give you a good Stevening." And I thought, "That's a bit too forward, I think."
1:39 Speaker 02 It's very forward.
1:40 Speaker 01 But at least applicable to daytime as well as night.
1:43 Speaker 02 I think we can all agree it's not one for the ages, chat-up wise. Don't stop using it, Stephen. Anyway, he says, "I've just learned an interesting fact and thought I'd share it with you guys as it can be reworded in that famous, slightly irritating QI and Fish way." All right.
2:00 Speaker 02 And then he says, "The A303 was not built close to Stonehenge. Stonehenge was built close to the A303."
2:10 Speaker 03 Now, okay, I'm happy to put up with the abuse and the slightly dodgy chat-up lines, because that is a great fact.
2:18 Speaker 01 That is fantastic. Yeah.
2:20 Speaker 02 He says, "It turns out the A303 follows an ancient trade route and has been in use for thousands of years. I recall a few years ago, Andy buffoonishly repeated a fake fact about the motorway in Cornwall following the migration routes of Ice Age mammoths or something, so I thought I'd double-check. I have checked it as well, Stephen, and I think it's about 50/50, because there is this ancient route. It was used several thousand years ago. Stonehenge was built about 5,000 years ago, and it's quite hard to tell when a trade route was first used, because initially you'd just be following like a chalk path at the top of a ridge or something."
2:56 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. I mean, who knows? They could have been built around the same time. Like, which was built first, the M6 or T-Bay services?
3:05 Speaker 02 I think, naturally, if you build the trade route, you want something to look at along the way. Basically, Stonehenge might be that kind of service station.
3:14 Speaker 01 Yes.
3:15 Speaker 02 Or one of those giant prawn statues they have in Australia for something to look at.
3:19 Speaker 03 Or like, you know, those big billboards that ask you a quiz question?
3:23 Speaker 02 Exactly.
3:23 Speaker 03 Yeah. If we look five miles down the road, there might be a sign, like an ancient sign, saying, "How many stones do you think there are in Stonehenge?"
3:32 Speaker 01 Well, we've covered Stonehenge and the theories of what it might be multiple times on this show. Like, one great one was that it was a giant Glockenspiel. The other one is that it had nothing to do with ritualistic stuff, but it was built as a sort of a team exercise on a business outing.
3:49 Speaker 03 You know what, Dan? I reckon that our theory that it's a giant motorway service station is as applicable as any of those other theories that you've just said.
3:58 Speaker 01 Absolutely. Yeah. Probably as much science behind it as well. But that's great. I'm kind of in love with Stephen's email and tone. And I think we've, I don't think we've done justice to his pick-up line. I think he could probably sell it.
4:11 Speaker 02 No, we've all been given a good Stephen-ing, haven't we?
4:15 Speaker 03 Okay, here is another fact. This one is from Kaziah Farthing and Kaziah tells us about Swindon Wildcats. So Swindon Wildcats are a hockey team, an ice hockey team. And this year, not one, but two father and son duos played on the same roster.
4:33 Speaker 02 Two father and son duos?
4:35 Speaker 03 Absolutely. So it's completely unique. It's never happened before. There's an example of one father-son. Gordie Howe and his sons played in 1979, but like for this to happen twice in the same team is never really heard before.
4:49 Speaker 02 Now, James, you know a lot about sports. Is it the case that a sporting team which has a father and son duo on it? Is it the case that the sport in question is not enormously oversubscribed with people wanting to play it? Because normally sports have a very specific age range of players that they're going for.
5:09 Speaker 03 I see what you mean.
5:09 Speaker 02 And you need to be 19.
5:10 Speaker 03 But there are some like football players who play, like Cristiano Ronaldo's still playing football and he's, he might be like 41 or something now. Like he's around 40 for sure. Uh, and absolutely footballers tend to be a little bit promiscuous when they're younger men. So it's not impossible that he could have a child who was playing football at this age.
5:31 Speaker 02 Yeah. Are you suggesting there's a footballer out there who could have his own squad?
5:35 Speaker 03 Yes.
5:35 Speaker 02 Or at least a five-a-side team?
5:37 Speaker 03 There is a footballer whose progeny are on the same team.
5:41 Speaker 02 Okay.
5:41 Speaker 03 And that is Hazana Parnell and her daughter, Ramaya Osborne, who played in the same team in this year's FA Cup. They played for Hensford in the FA Cup second round qualifying match against Bromsgrove Sporting. Uh, and not only with this mother and daughter on the same team, but the, uh, mother provided an assist for the daughters to score. So kind of the mother crossed it in and the daughter scored it. Uh, and the daughter, Ramaya, said, uh, we're both so connected. I see her visions and she can see mine.
6:17 Speaker 02 Wow.
6:18 Speaker 03 Which feels like cheating to me, actually.
6:20 Speaker 02 Yeah, that is cheating. You're not allowed to use telepathy on the pitch from my limited knowledge of the game.
6:26 Speaker 03 But there you go. So that's, and that is not an under subscribed sport, football.
6:30 Speaker 01 No, exactly. You know, we recently had Melanie Bracewell on the podcast.
6:35 Speaker 03 Yeah.
6:35 Speaker 02 Yeah.
6:36 Speaker 01 If you had her Wikipedia page, it's just absolutely riddled with New Zealand cricketers. Her whole family.
6:43 Speaker 02 What?
6:44 Speaker 01 Her, her relatives, notable relatives are including two uncles who both played test match cricket for New Zealand, or at least one of them did and played like 40 matches. Two of her cousins are current cricketers in New Zealand. That, that should have been her world and she does play netball and volleyball and things like that, but.
7:01 Speaker 03 Imagine the disappointments in the family when they found out that she was going to be like coming on QI and stuff instead of playing in the World Cup.
7:09 Speaker 01 Yes. Um, hey, why don't I move us on to another fact? We've got a fantastic one here from Tanya Thamkuru Fat. It's a surname that I've definitely butchered, Tanya. Canadians have special crisps to eat during storms.
7:27 Speaker 01 This is so good. Yeah. Okay. So, uh, she, she sent the fact which says, I learnt that in Canada, there's a tradition of eating storm crisps. And it's such a popular tradition that there are chips made specifically to eat while hunkering down at home during these storms. So I looked into it. This is true. This originates back in 2014 when there was a radio broadcaster called Stephanie Dommett, who was on the radio talking about an incoming storm. And she said she had an intention to purchase certain chips and dips to prepare for the storm. And they started talking about this as storm chips and this has become an actual thing.
8:04 Speaker 02 I don't think that's a proper tradition. I'm sorry to cut across you, Dan. I just think.
8:08 Speaker 01 No, no, no. It's a growing, it's a growing thing.
8:11 Speaker 02 Are they especially strong crisps?
8:13 Speaker 01 The tradition is, the tradition is that you would buy crisps, but there is now a company that has trademarked storm chips and produces storm chip bags that you can buy in the shop. So it's very specifically for it. Now I asked a Canadian friend of mine whether or not he had done it or heard of it. He said no, but he looked into it. And he can sees it's very predominant in a different bit of Canada.
8:34 Speaker 02 Okay, guys, guys, what's everyone's storm crisp? This is like my version of desert island discs.
8:39 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
8:40 Speaker 02 You're going to be trapped in a never ending storm in your home and it's never ever going to end. And you can only have one kind of crisp.
8:47 Speaker 03 Okay. Shall I tell you mine?
8:49 Speaker 02 Yes, please.
8:49 Speaker 03 Um, hula hoops.
8:51 Speaker 02 Original, uh, salted barbecue.
8:53 Speaker 03 Oh, the flavour doesn't really matter.
8:56 Speaker 02 Okay.
8:57 Speaker 03 And that's because if you have like a tube, it has a very special sort of aerodynamic signature, which will, you know, like one of the best paper aeropages you can make is like just a circle of paper. And when the air rushes through it, it keeps it up in the air. And so I think that I could like make these hula hoops sort of hover in front of my mouth and then eat them like a Pac-Man.
9:21 Speaker 02 Right. That's impeccable reasoning. That's incredible. It's such good reasoning that I cannot think you have not thought about this before.
9:28 Speaker 03 I, I.
9:30 Speaker 02 Like all of the aerodynamic properties.
9:31 Speaker 03 Can I just say?
9:32 Speaker 02 Storm outside your house.
9:33 Speaker 03 Andy, we've been doing this show for like over 10 years.
9:36 Speaker 02 Yeah.
9:37 Speaker 03 All this says is that you have no trust in my sense of whimsy, that you think I can't just make this up on the spot.
9:43 Speaker 02 Did you like cheat and look at the notes for this before, James? I just feel like there's no way that whimsy is coming up on the spur of the moment. I feel like it's, who's under your desk? Is there a writer under your desk handing you up bits of whimsy? Have you got Michael McIntyre down there?
9:59 Speaker 01 Um, I just like sensations Thai sweet chili. I just want to eat it. I'm not trying to make it float.
10:05 Speaker 02 I would use those pickled onion monster munch and gear together the teeth or the claws on each one and build a rudimentary clock. That's what I'd do.
10:14 Speaker 03 Yes. Very good, Andy, yeah?
10:16 Speaker 02 Thank you.
10:18 Speaker 01 You saw the padding he did, James, earlier, trying to work out how you were writing. He was writing that in his head while he was doing all that.
10:24 Speaker 02 I've got Jasper Carrot here and he's been racking his brains.
10:28 Speaker 03 Here is a fact from Siddhartha Basu, uh, who gives us a little bit more grist for Andy's book of things that sound like they're named after the thing they are, but actually are named after a person or the other way around. We're still working on the title, but this, this is a bit of news from the last few weeks, because Marco Rubio, the American politician, tweeted, "Today, another transformer explosion at the German dam in Bolivar State caused another massive blackout." And he was complaining about what he thought was a problem in Venezuela due to the government, to which he got a reply
11:11 Speaker 03 saying, "Senator Marco Rubio, an important transformer exploded in Bolivar. If that, you're correct. However, it was not in a dam, and it was not German. My name is German dam. I am one of the journalists who published the information."
11:27 Speaker 02 Wow.
11:30 Speaker 03 What he had done was seen the name German, I suppose you pronounce it German dam, and thought that it was an actual dam, but actually it was just the name of this reporter.
11:40 Speaker 02 Beautiful.
11:42 Speaker 03 So it doesn't quite fit in your book, but maybe as part of the intro or like an appendix?
11:48 Speaker 02 I think we can have a chapter for, for that, like unusual cases. I don't know if you guys, I don't think I've told you this. I've actually made a document on my desktop now.
11:57 Speaker 03 Have you?
11:58 Speaker 02 Yeah, and it's got, is now, thanks to your contribution there, James, got six entries in it.
12:03 Speaker 03 Wow.
12:03 Speaker 01 Have we heard all five other ones on the show over the years?
12:07 Speaker 02 Yeah, you have French's mustard, German chocolate cake. Oh, German chocolate cake and German dam, that could, they can go together. The children's python, the outer bridge, which is named after someone called Outer Bridge, and Valentine's meat juice.
12:20 Speaker 03 You know how you have pitched about 200,000 different sitcoms on this show? None of them has yet to be made.
12:29 Speaker 02 Yeah.
12:30 Speaker 03 Do you have a document open for each one of those? And if so, what is your memory storage plan?
12:41 Speaker 02 I've not written them down because I assume, maybe this is naive, but I assume that someone's going to get in touch. I know that we get big shots listening to us. I can tell that from the state of the inbox. And I just assume that one day a Spielberg or maybe a Nolan will get in touch. Maybe Christopher Nolan, having done the Odyssey, will say, actually, I think we should do Clown Priest, the series and make that the next big thing.
13:02 Speaker 03 I reckon what happened is Edgar Wright was writing that email to you and he heard the episode when you said he wasn't cool and he just went, nah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get McIntyre instead.
13:12 Speaker 02 You're absolutely right. What was the one? Because he would be perfect for that one. What was it? It was something cop. Do you remember that?
13:19 Speaker 03 They were all something cop.
13:20 Speaker 01 They're all cop. Tiberius Cop was one.
13:24 Speaker 02 That's it.
13:25 Speaker 01 There was the Tetris cop or something like that.
13:28 Speaker 02 Yes, there is. Yeah, Dibley.
13:34 Speaker 02 I just know that these are good ideas. That's the terrible thing. I don't know why they're not being made.
13:38 Speaker 03 I think maybe it's because we're not in the era of the cop drama right now. Like, many of your ideas are like balloon cop or candle cop or whatever, right? But there's not many of those shows being made right now.
13:51 Speaker 02 It's more like, like Line of Duty is procedural.
13:54 Speaker 03 Yeah.
13:55 Speaker 02 And this is very much more, what if there was a cop who was also the Emperor Tiberius and there's no procedure there?
14:02 Speaker 03 Yeah.
14:02 Speaker 02 You're right.
14:03 Speaker 03 I think that's what people like. People like a crime and it's solved, but we see all the workings going on in the background. It's not so much about the cop having a wacky personality trait these days.
14:15 Speaker 01 I want to see a series about a struggling author who's been trying to sell multiple cop TV shows.
14:23 Speaker 02 Whoa, struggling is loaded language, Dan.
14:28 Speaker 01 Loaded like the gun of struggle cop.
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16:01 Speaker 01 This is from Stav Berman, who writes, "And this, give it a chance, let it breathe. On October 21st, 1988, a falling poodle caused the death of three people in Buenos Aires. The poodle, who ironically was called Catchy, fell 13 stories, landing on and instantly killing a 75-year-old.
16:24 Speaker 03 Oh, no.
16:25 Speaker 01 In the ensuing commotion, a 46-year-old onlooker got hit by a bus that they didn't see coming. And then, an unidentified man, who witnessed all of this, suffered a heart attack from the stress and died on the way to hospital. So it was a poodle led to three very different deaths in one go.
16:44 Speaker 03 This is like Final Destination.
16:45 Speaker 02 Or something.
16:46 Speaker 01 It really feels like it. And I tried to look at it. I tried to debunk it. You know, I looked into Snopes and because this does, it does smell of it, right?
16:53 Speaker 02 Yeah.
16:54 Speaker 01 And nowhere, as far as I can see, has debunked it, but it has appeared in multiple places, Reuters and the Canberra Times newspaper. That big newspaper. I'm sure it's massive in Canberra.
17:09 Speaker 02 Did we know why it was falling?
17:10 Speaker 01 They don't know.
17:10 Speaker 02 You don't know anything more?
17:12 Speaker 01 No, no, no, no. They, they say we have absolutely no idea. It fell off a 13th floor balcony. So maybe it was something to do with superstition and bad luck. That can often make you fall off a building.
17:26 Speaker 02 Yeah.
17:27 Speaker 01 13th floor. So why buildings often don't have a 13th floor to avoid this kind of situation?
17:32 Speaker 03 I mean, that's quite sad. Yeah. Can I give you a more whimsical animal one?
17:36 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah.
17:37 Speaker 03 Uh, this one came from Stephen Corcoran and it's just a sentence that in 2024, a Portuguese plane was grounded for four days. After 130 hamsters escaped on board.
17:50 Speaker 03 As far as I could see, there were no deaths involved in this one. Basically, they were in the cargo hold and they managed to escape and they ran riot. And it took them days to get them all out because they had to find 132 hamsters inside this aeroplane. And the aeroplane holds are pretty big and eventually they managed to get them on the fourth day.
18:11 Speaker 02 It's bloody hard to get a hamster out from a tight place.
18:17 Speaker 03 Okay.
18:18 Speaker 01 Okay. All right, Richard Gere.
18:23 Speaker 03 What on earth?
18:24 Speaker 01 Where have you, which tight place have you experienced a hamster in?
18:29 Speaker 02 I just mean, they, they like, they like narrow, there's nothing I can say now. There's nothing I can say that makes it sound like I haven't been indulging in unnatural practices. I simply mean they like narrow, constricted spaces. They crawl into tunnels and holes. And I used to have hamsters when I was little and, and they would get, if they got loose around the house and they got under the dishwasher or behind a bookcase or something.
18:52 Speaker 03 Or up your ass.
18:53 Speaker 02 Yeah, all right. Okay. Okay. It was just very hard to get them out. You had to lure them out. And of course they were labelled, they were labelled, weren't they, James? They were labelled one to 70 and then 72 to 133. So everybody thought there was one hamster left.
19:11 Speaker 03 That would be genius.
19:13 Speaker 01 Cool. We should, uh, we should wrap up here on this side. That is it for your fact.
19:17 Speaker 03 Sorry, one second, guys. The cat is banging on the door. It might need a shit.
19:21 Speaker 02 Right.
19:24 Speaker 03 Sorry.
19:24 Speaker 02 I could hear it banging.
19:25 Speaker 03 Could you? Yeah, yeah.
19:27 Speaker 02 Yeah.
19:27 Speaker 03 Trying to get in the room because I closed the door. So, um, I thought there was a chance it could be a proper emergency, but she just went for her food and now she's looking at me like I'm a dick.
19:38 Speaker 02 The cat is banging on the door is quite a good way of saying that you need a poo.
19:44 Speaker 01 Yes.
19:46 Speaker 02 The flap cannot hold the cat for long.
19:51 Speaker 03 Okay.
19:52 Speaker 01 Can you, yeah, I'm just, there's a gardener outside chopping and can you guys hear it?
19:59 Speaker 03 Do you need a poo as well?
20:02 Speaker 01 The gardener is chopping.
20:05 Speaker 02 The log is about to tumble to the ground.
20:12 Speaker 03 Oh dear.
20:13 Speaker 01 All right.
20:14 Speaker 02 I'm, I'm, I'm so sorry, guys. There's a, there's a huge chocolate bar that's being, that's trying to force, it's being forced into the room. I've just got to go. Excuse me.
20:27 Speaker 01 All right, here we go. Okay, that is all of your facts for this episode. However, before we wrap up, we need to hand out some facts. That's right. If you are a member of Club Fish, the highest tier, which is friend of the podcast, you will become owner of one of the facts from our archive. That's 12 years of headline facts and you will be the custodian of one of them. As well as that, you're going to be sent a digital certificate. So check it out. But for now, let's hand some out. So who wants to go first?
20:54 Speaker 03 I'll go first. Uh, this fact now belongs to Elliot and Elliot, your fact this week is that male turkeys blush when they see female turkeys.
21:06 Speaker 02 Oh.
21:08 Speaker 03 Christmas Eve one.
21:10 Speaker 01 Yep.
21:10 Speaker 03 Romantic, so Valentine's Day-y as well. Thanksgiving-y because of turkeys as well.
21:16 Speaker 01 It's quite an all-rounder, this fact, isn't it?
21:20 Speaker 03 But I think what it is, is like turkeys, they have the wattle, which is like the reddish bit of skin that's below the chin. And they also have a red sort of, what's it called? The comb.
21:32 Speaker 02 Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:34 Speaker 03 But these things, they get darker in colour when the blood rushes to them. And for turkeys, that happens when a male sees a female.
21:43 Speaker 01 Very cool.
21:44 Speaker 02 I've got one that goes out to Andrew, and it's that, the composer of Jingle Bells also wrote the song, We Conquer or Die.
21:57 Speaker 02 I think this was a guy called James Lord Pierpont, and I believe fought in the US Civil War for the South and wrote various punchy battle hymns. And that was, that was his sort of light relief, I suppose, was Jingle Bells.
22:16 Speaker 03 Unless there's like an underlying meaning behind Jingle Bells that we don't know about.
22:21 Speaker 02 Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, the South was being betrayed, that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah.
22:27 Speaker 02 The original lyrics.
22:30 Speaker 01 I go on here for Tim Oxenford, and this is the fact that Franz Kafka once convinced his whole family that Einstein's theory of relativity would cure his tuberculosis.
22:41 Speaker 03 Wow.
22:42 Speaker 02 Yeah.
22:44 Speaker 03 I love Kafka. He's one of my favourite authors. And he like, he just worked in like a bureaucratic office, didn't he, which he really hated. And then he would just go home and write these incredible stories.
22:55 Speaker 02 And then didn't really become famous, one of them, I think, in life?
22:58 Speaker 03 No, I don't think so.
22:59 Speaker 02 Or didn't publish a huge amount?
23:00 Speaker 01 When he asked for his papers to be burned after his death, but the person who was given that task went, nah, I'm going to publish them. So we actually found out a lot about his writings against his wishes.
23:11 Speaker 03 I especially loved reading them when I was working in offices. Like, I reckon for anyone who works in like an office job, reading Kafka is just, it really sort of makes you think, well, maybe this is not so bad.
23:23 Speaker 02 That's very high end, James. I gotta say, other people would recommend watching The Office, maybe the American version of The Office, if you want a bit of cultural diversity. But for you, straight in, no, no, no, read Kafka. That's great.
23:33 Speaker 03 I actually think Ricky Gervais is like a modern day Franz Kafka.
23:37 Speaker 01 Yeah, interesting.
23:38 Speaker 02 As yet unafflicted with tuberculosis.
23:42 Speaker 02 And we pray that continues.
23:44 Speaker 03 Okay, here's another fact. This one now belongs to Shaun Belton. Shaun, your fact is that dead geckos still stick to walls for at least half an hour.
23:55 Speaker 02 That's a nice fact. And you can print out the certificate we sent you, Shaun, and you can stick this to your wall.
23:59 Speaker 03 With a gecko.
24:00 Speaker 02 Yeah, exactly.
24:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, I remember that. I remember this fact. It was so exciting at the time. It was a really exciting new scientific finding.
24:08 Speaker 01 Uh, here's another one. This goes out to Cara Chrysostomel, and the fact is, in 2013, a group of people tried to crowdfund London's first UFO museum. Their target was $1 million. They only managed to raise, however, $370.
24:28 Speaker 03 Wow.
24:29 Speaker 02 That's not good.
24:30 Speaker 01 It's a big gap in the fundraising, yeah.
24:33 Speaker 03 When did we do this fact? Would this have been probably 2015, maybe?
24:37 Speaker 02 Just about. It was just, I think it was just about then, yeah.
24:40 Speaker 03 But we wouldn't have known then what we know now, which is that aliens do exist and Trump is about to
24:45 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah.
24:46 Speaker 03 Release all of the information.
24:47 Speaker 02 Gotta do anything to distract from the Epstein files, won't he? Sorry.
24:54 Speaker 03 Imagine if he releases all of the UFO data and it turns out that the aliens have just been sending each other emails about Epstein's Island.
25:04 Speaker 01 I don't remember too much about this, other than it was, it was a big attempt and they, they just had to pull out of it. I don't think London has a UFO museum since this, uh, since this happened.
25:14 Speaker 03 No, I think we would know about it if there was one.
25:16 Speaker 01 No, there was, there was a big thing where Blackpool was almost turned into a Eric Von Daniken, Chariots of the Gods theme park, basically.
25:24 Speaker 02 The whole, the whole of Blackpool, Dan?
25:26 Speaker 01 Such a huge section of Blackpool's workforce. We're going to be working for this theme park. And it got pulled at the end because they thought, this is nuts. What are we doing?
25:36 Speaker 02 Not at the end, right near the beginning, I bet it got pulled. It wasn't like they'd nearly turned all of Blackpool into an Eric Von Daniken chariot.
25:43 Speaker 03 To be fair, Andy, if you pull something and stop doing it, then that is the end, right?
25:48 Speaker 02 That's true. It's like whenever you have lost an object, you always find it in the last place you look, because then you stop looking. Yep, yep.
25:53 Speaker 03 When was it, Dan, that they did this?
25:55 Speaker 01 It was only a few years ago.
25:56 Speaker 03 Ah, okay. Cause I used to go to Blackpool as a kid all the time and I would have dreamed of seeing that kind of theme park there.
26:04 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
26:05 Speaker 01 Yeah, I mean, as a kid, that's, it's a perfect. What's that, Andy?
26:09 Speaker 02 This is 2021. Chariots of the Gods ditched at Blackpool Central. The developers behind the 300 million pound visitor attraction have decided not to name the showcase indoor theme park after the 1968 pseudoscience book. Oh, sorry, Dan, that's devastating for you.
26:25 Speaker 01 I know it's pseudoscience.
26:27 Speaker 02 Okay.
26:27 Speaker 01 Okay.
26:28 Speaker 03 Sorry, listener, he just winked when he said that.
26:35 Speaker 03 So, actually, so it sounds like they did make it, but they just didn't name it after him?
26:39 Speaker 02 Yes, and listen to this. The contents of the venue and its attractions, which include a flying theatre, will still be based on Von Daniken's book.
26:49 Speaker 01 Is there an apology coming my way from you, Andy? Or are we just gonna ignore the takedown you gave me before verifying I was right?
26:56 Speaker 02 I think we'll just press on.
26:57 Speaker 03 Okay, so this fact is now in, in the custodianship of Finn. Finn, your fact is that cows have friends and they get sad if you separate them.
27:11 Speaker 01 Ah.
27:12 Speaker 03 Or Alex Bell, fact from when he was on the show.
27:15 Speaker 01 Do you remember on tour, we got to meet the scientist who discovered that cows with names give more milk than cows without names?
27:23 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah.
27:24 Speaker 01 That was a very exciting moment. It feels like this is in the same territory as study.
27:28 Speaker 03 Yeah, I think it was.
27:30 Speaker 02 Here's one more, and this goes out to Web Jedi. What a great name. And the fact is, it's illegal to take a selfie with a tiger in New York City.
27:42 Speaker 03 Wow.
27:43 Speaker 02 A bit surprised about that.
27:45 Speaker 03 Yeah. But we must have found the actual ordinance, because online you do get a lot of these things where it's like, it's illegal to do this in this town or whatever, and often they're made up.
27:56 Speaker 01 Personal tiger ownership is quite big in the States, right?
27:59 Speaker 03 Yeah.
27:59 Speaker 01 Like, I think Mike Tyson had one. New York City does feel like an odd place, particularly Manhattan, to have a tiger.
28:07 Speaker 03 Yeah, but obviously, between this show going out and this moment, we've had the whole tiger king and...
28:13 Speaker 02 Yes.
28:14 Speaker 03 Um, but yeah, interesting. Don't take selfies with tigers. I assume it's still against the rules. So if you're listening in New York City, don't do it, guys.
28:24 Speaker 02 Put that tiger down. Here's one that goes out to Christopher. Christopher, your fact is that the active ingredient in the first ever homeopathy treatment was the blood of Thomas Becket.
28:35 Speaker 01 Whoa.
28:36 Speaker 02 Um, for international listeners, Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury.
28:42 Speaker 03 Yeah.
28:43 Speaker 02 I suppose, do we need to explain what an Archbishop? No, we don't. Okay.
28:46 Speaker 03 Who will free me of this meddlesome priest?
28:48 Speaker 02 Ah, and he was killed by some knights at the, at the wishing of the king. And then the king had to do a lot of penance.
28:57 Speaker 03 But was it of the wishing of the king? Or did he just say, oh, I, I hope someone gets rid of this Archbishop? And then the knights went, did he just say we need to kill Thomas Becket?
29:09 Speaker 02 It's one of those classic, um, miscommunications in an office environment. If you work in an office, I'd recommend you read the story of Thomas Becket.
29:18 Speaker 03 Uh, and the idea is he was venerated at the time and, uh, all the Catholics in the country thought that he would become a saint, which indeed he did. Uh, and what they did was they took his blood and so that everyone could get a little bit of it, they put a tiny bit in some water and then gave everyone some of the water. And we supposed that that's very similar to how homeopathy works.
29:39 Speaker 01 I guess the big question is, yeah, I guess the big question is, what works better for tuberculosis? Einstein's theory of relativity or the blood of Thomas Becket?
29:50 Speaker 02 Hmm.
29:51 Speaker 03 I think equal.
29:52 Speaker 02 Mythbusters, Mythbusters did that, didn't they?
29:54 Speaker 01 They did. Sorry. That's actually a classic app. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, guys. All right. Well, listen, um, we're going to have to wrap up, but congratulations to Web Jedi, to Finn, Cara, Christopher, Sean, Tim, Andrew and Elliot. You are now the custodians of all of these great facts. You will be getting a digital certificate that you can put up on your wall with a dead gecko holding it up. And, uh, if you want to become a part of this as well, I suggest you go to patreon.com slash no such thing as a fish, cause that is where you'll find the gateway to Club Fish. There's lots of different tiers, but at the highest one, friend of the podcast, that is where you can be given your own fact. But do check out the other tiers because there's so many great things that we're doing on there at the moment, from drop us a line
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