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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

🗓️ 6 May 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Live from Edinburgh, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss jet plane catapults, the Hemline Index, and the world’s most expensive toilet paper.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode.

0:13.9

And no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast.

0:16.6

This week coming to you from Edinburgh.

0:18.5

My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:19.8

Please welcome to the stage its Anichesinski, Jent Tarkin and Andy Murray.

0:23.9

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

0:36.1

the last seven days and in a particular order.

0:38.8

Here we go.

0:39.8

Starting with you, Andrew Hunter Murray.

0:42.0

My fact this week is that Antarctica exports used toilet paper.

0:46.1

Who wants it?

0:47.8

I see why they want to get rid of it.

0:49.5

I want to know who wants it the other end.

0:51.2

Well, it's not so much that anyone else wants it.

0:53.7

It's that they can't leave it there.

0:56.7

So there are loads of different research bases in Antarctica.

1:00.0

They used to do very bad things.

1:02.0

They used to just dump it into the sea.

1:03.6

And that can obviously be very bad or introduces foreign microorganisms which can then have

1:08.8

knock on effects on the holiacus system.

1:10.7

So some people incinerate it now.

1:12.8

But there are companies which do tourism to Antarctica and they export feces and urine and

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