150: No Such Thing As A Helium Filled Pufferfish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the bits of Earth on the Moon, venom-swiping slugs, and when Mount Rushmore will finally be finished.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.9	to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:22.8	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with James Harkin, Anichezinski and Drew Murray,
0:28.6	and once again we have gathered around the microphones.
0:31.4	Come on, come on, come on!
0:32.9	I think it's Drew Hunter Murray, it's not that, it's not that.
0:37.1	I've hesitate, we have to say, last week, it's lightning, I want to stick with that, please
0:41.7	never Drew.
0:45.9	And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from
0:50.1	the last seven days and in a particular order, here we go.
0:54.6	Starting with my fact, my fact this week is that, in the final
0:58.5	years of its construction, Mount Rushmore was built by baseball players.
1:03.1	Nice.
1:04.1	Did they run out of dynamite?
1:05.1	And they said, well, we've got to just get a bunch of guys with bad stuff.
1:09.7	No, so, Mount Rushmore was constructed between 1927 and 1941 in the first early stages and
1:17.8	actually right up until about 1938.
1:19.8	It was being led by a guy called Gutson Borglum and Gutson Borglum had a sun working on it
1:24.8	called Lincoln and Lincoln was obsessed with baseball and he really wanted to put a
1:28.2	baseball team together.
1:29.5	So from 1938, when he started hiring all the people to work on it, one of the things
1:34.7	that he required you to be able to do was play baseball so that you could be part of the
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