102: No Such Thing As A Water Mortar

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Live from the Gulbenkian theatre in Canterbury, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss silly string, arrows in the air, frightened marmosets and the battle of the keyboards.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, tiny thing, the sound quality on this podcast is terrible.
0:05.0	Really sorry about that.
0:06.6	We had a few issues in the venue on the night.
0:09.2	Hope you can tolerate it, nonetheless.
0:12.2	Okay, on with the show.
0:13.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish Weekly Podcast.
0:32.6	This week coming to you from Canterbury.
0:34.6	My name is Dan Schreiber and please welcome to the stage as the three regulars, Anna Chazinski,
0:39.4	James Harkin and Andy Murray.
0:43.4	Thank you.
0:47.2	This is great.
0:50.4	And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts
0:55.8	and in no particular order, here we go, starting with you, James Harkin.
1:01.4	Okay, my fact this week is that the first water balloons were made out of socks.
1:07.4	Sort of cotton.
1:10.4	Oh, no cotton made out of rubber, rubber socks.
1:14.4	Your socks have not made out of rubber.
1:17.4	This was invented by a guy called Edgar Ellington and he was trying to come up with a thing
1:23.0	that could kind of treat trench foot.
1:25.0	So the idea that you would get your feet very wet and it could cause problems.
1:28.2	He wanted to stop that and so he wanted to make socks that were made out of rubber,
1:31.8	out of latex.
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