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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Live from Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss meteorwrongs, avian arsonists and the Norman Conquest of America.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast.

0:15.0

This week coming to you live from Dave's Lester Comedy Festival.

0:18.0

My name is Dan Schreiber and please welcome to the stage.

0:20.4

It's Anichezinski, James Harkin and Andy Murray.

0:22.9

And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.

0:41.9

Starting with my fact, my fact this week is that when something thought to be a meteorite actually turns out to be an ordinary rock, it's called a meteor wrong.

0:52.9

What was that?

0:54.9

So we were sent that fact in by someone called Molly Christie.

0:58.9

She listens to the show, she sent it in.

1:00.9

I was looking into it. It's not obviously a official scientific terminology, but if you look into it, I've read AMAs on Reddit with meteorite experts.

1:09.9

They all call it the meteorite.

1:10.9

Yeah, it is quite a common thing. I went to the Natural History Museum a few years ago and there's a kind of a department there that if you have any weird stuff that you find in your garden or whatever and you're not sure what it is,

1:20.9

you can send it to them.

1:21.9

They do call them meteorongs and they think that actually when people think they find meteorites, it's almost always a meteorong.

1:27.9

It's very rare that you actually do find a real one.

1:30.9

So the Natural History Museum has a room of meteorongs which are basically just rocks.

1:34.9

Yeah, pretty much.

1:35.9

Pretty much.

1:36.9

Yeah, there was a guy who was saying that he's at a University of Minnesota in America and he's called Calvin Alexander, his university professor.

1:47.9

And he's been asking people for I think 30 years to come to him if they found a meteorite.

1:52.9

They think they found a meteorite.

1:54.9

And he says he's seen thousands more than 5,000 meteorongs.

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