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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

🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Live from Newport, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss tweeting chickens, litigious hyenas and peer-reviewed romantic comedies.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode.

0:17.8

A no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Newport.

0:23.0

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

0:25.6

It's Anich Zinski, James Harkin and Andy Murray.

0:34.6

And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days

0:40.2

and in a particular order here we go starting with you, James Harkin.

0:44.6

Okay my fact this week is that Grumpy from the Seven Dwarfs is not nearly grumpy enough.

0:51.6

Sounds like an opinion.

0:54.6

It is an opinion I'd say. It's the opinion of some researchers from Duke University and North Carolina

1:00.6

and what they did is they looked in a load of movies that arraigned at children so they would be rated you in the UK.

1:06.6

They split all the characters up in class so you have your upper class, your middle class and your lower class

1:11.6

and they decided that the depiction of working class was unrealistic and that the Seven Dwarfs would not be singing cheerfully as they walked down to the mind.

1:23.6

So James, who were the scientists?

1:25.6

Yeah they were just people at Duke University and North Carolina.

1:28.6

To be honest they are cartoons aren't they?

1:31.6

You don't really expect them to be all that kind of realistic.

1:34.6

But scientists don't like it when you get things wrong.

1:36.6

In the Lion King they're hyenas in the Lion King and the bad guys

1:40.6

and some of the artists for the film spent two days observing hyenas in the hills above the campus of where they were.

1:47.6

And the scientists who were with them said look, hyenas are good guys.

1:51.6

Don't depict them as Indians as evil people and they did and then one of them sued.

1:56.6

What are the hyenas?

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