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116: No Such Thing As Notting Mountain

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss prehistoric butterflies, secret power stations, and Buddhist robots.

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0:00.0

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

0:15.8

coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

0:18.6

My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:19.6

I'm sitting here with Anich Zinski, Alex Bell and James Harkin and once again we have

0:24.6

gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days

0:28.8

and in no particular order, here we go.

0:31.6

Starting with you, Chazinski.

0:33.9

My fact this week is that the first performance enhancing drug to be used in baseball was

0:38.7

pulverized guinea pig testicles.

0:40.7

Yeah.

0:41.7

Pulverized is such a scary word.

0:44.2

It's such a good word.

0:45.2

It's such a good word.

0:46.2

Would you prefer them whole though?

0:47.2

I don't know, just the word.

0:49.4

Pulverized them.

0:50.4

I know.

0:51.4

I know.

0:52.4

They should have just gone with crushed as too many syllables.

0:55.2

Yeah.

0:56.2

But the baseball player in question was James Galvin, who was known as James Pud Galvin

1:01.4

because I think he squashed everyone like puddings maybe.

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