132: No Such Thing As A Creepy Weather Forecaster

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss computer-playing cars, fratricidal kookaburras and what paper was first used for.

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0:00.0	Hi guys, just before we start this show, we wanted to let you know about last week's show,
0:04.8	on which you might remember we had a few facts about Leonardo da Vinci that we were slightly suspicious
0:09.8	about, and we just asked someone if they could get in touch and provide us with a reliable source,
0:14.0	so that all these things that sounded too good to be true could be verified as true, and
0:19.2	someone did get in touch to tell us that they weren't true. I'm afraid Leonardo da Vinci
0:24.8	doesn't seem to have had a long and lustrous career as a chef, he may not have even made the
0:30.0	giant whisk. We fell for a hoax. This is a hoax book that was written in the 1980s, it's called
0:37.0	Not
0:39.1	a Cochina, to Leonardo da Vinci, and it's full of lies, cruel lies that were then repeated in biography,
0:45.4	after book, after History Magazine, throughout the decade solely for the purpose of making me look
0:51.6	like an idiot. Thanks so much to Pedro Almada, who was the person who emailed in to tell us about
0:57.0	that original text, and who also managed to avoid writing in huge capital letters, you total and
1:03.5	utter gullible morons. Very grateful to him for being so restrained on that front and for letting
1:08.4	us know, and I'm so sorry to the rest of you for saying these things that turned out not to be true,
1:14.8	won't happen again. I promise the upcoming podcast is almost entirely true. Okay, on with the show.
1:22.2	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from
1:42.6	the QI offices in Covern Garden. My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here next to Andrew
1:47.6	Hunter Murray, Aniches Zinsky, and James Harkin, and once again we have gathered around the microphones with
1:53.1	our four favorite facts from the last seven days, and in a particular order, here we go. Starting with
1:58.8	you, James Harkin. Okay, my fact this week is that the least creepy job is that of a weather
2:05.9	forecastor. According to you, according to a new paper from this year, in the journal New
2:15.4	Ideas in Psychology called On the Nature of Creepiness, by two scientists called Francis
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