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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

🗓️ 1 July 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Live from the Udderbelly Festival, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss houses made for burgling, flimsy warships and graffiti in the sky.

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0:00.0

Do you know what that woulda won't work as it is?

0:04.3

Do you know what that woulda woulda?

0:11.5

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish A Weekly Podcast coming to you from the Otter Belly in London, South Bank. My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:21.0

Please welcome to the stage in his Etich Zitsky, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin!

0:30.0

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

0:54.2

Starting with my fact this week, my fact is that the way to defeat the British Royal Navy's most advanced destroyer ship is to put it in warm water.

1:06.5

So the British have spent a billion on six massive destroyer ships. These are ships that in their press release said this is the most advanced technology.

1:16.0

These are the most advanced ships of all time going into the oceans. It turns out that their engines can't take warm water.

1:24.3

And so if they go to the Persian Gulf, for example, the whole ship just breaks.

1:29.2

It's just completely break.

1:30.3

Would we ever want to go to the Persian Gulf? It's dangerous there.

1:34.8

Yeah.

1:35.6

We should just start was in Iceland.

1:37.6

Yeah.

1:39.8

The defence was that they weren't anticipating having to go somewhere like the Gulf.

1:43.2

So John Hunson, who's a managing director of BAE system, said the operating profile at the time was that there would not be continuous operations in the Gulf.

1:52.7

As if that was just out of the question at the time that we'd end up there.

1:56.5

So yeah, they didn't expect to have to go anywhere.

1:59.0

There was a response from the MOD. They said this is quote from the FT article.

2:03.3

The MOD added that the ships remained one of the most capable warships on the planet.

2:09.0

But only parts of the planet.

2:11.3

The Rolls Royce booksman said this is not the fault of Rolls Royce. It is the laws of physics.

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