146: No Such Thing As A Queen Orca

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 6 January 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Andy and special guest Sara Pascoe discuss sympathetic pregnancy, the world's most famous umbrellas and the surprisingly romantic life of coral.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.3	to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:22.1	My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray,
0:26.1	and Sarah Pasco and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:30.8	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:35.7	Starting with you, James Harkin.
0:37.3	Okay my fact this week is that the first man to use an umbrella in London was pelted with
0:43.2	rubbish for doing so.
0:45.0	But fortunately he had an umbrella.
0:48.0	Was that why he took it out?
0:49.5	He didn't although according to his biographer when one person threw rubbish at him, he
0:55.2	uses an umbrella to give the man a right good thrashing.
0:58.3	Oh really?
0:59.3	Yeah.
1:00.3	Wow.
1:01.3	So that should be the fact.
1:03.2	The first ever outing of an umbrella was used to beat a man.
1:06.6	Oh yeah.
1:07.6	That's quite cool.
1:08.6	I should read you it.
1:09.6	No so what?
1:10.6	So yeah so this is a guy called Jonas Hamwe and he had been to France.
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