101: No Such Thing As A Giant Robot Michael Jackson

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Live from the Birmingham mac theatre, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss hedgehogs climbing walls, robots roaming deserts and cows wearing bras.

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0:00.0	I'm not sure if I can do it.
0:04.5	I'm not sure if I can do it.
0:08.5	I'm not sure if I can do it.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast.
0:17.6	This week coming to you from the Birmingham Mac, my name is Dan Shriver,
0:21.0	and please welcome to the stage. It's the three regular elves, Andy Murray,
0:24.5	Anich Zinsky and James Harkin.
0:33.0	And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts
0:37.5	from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.
0:41.0	Starting with you, James Harkin.
0:43.3	Okay, my fact this week is that in 2005, there were plans to make a 50-foot tall robot Michael Jackson
0:51.8	that would roam around the Nevada desert.
0:56.8	How, how, how, how advanced were these plans?
1:01.3	They were pretty advanced.
1:03.3	Michael Jackson was going to do a residency in Vegas and they wanted to advertise it.
1:07.3	And this was their big idea. They were going to do a massive robot.
1:10.8	He was going to wander around the desert. He was going to fire lasers out of his eye.
1:15.8	And the idea is as you were flying into, to Vegas Airport, the first thing you see when you came into Vegas
1:21.3	was a massive Michael Jackson.
1:23.3	Well, this was a couple of months after he had been acquitted on charges of child molestation.
1:27.8	And for some reason, raising money was a problem for this project.
1:33.3	I think then they scaled down a bit, didn't they?
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