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159: No Such Thing As An Edible Jockey

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss falcon sex caps, a 73-year-old superhuman swimmer, and the morning routine of a seahorse.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, just a quick announcement before we begin this week's show, which is that we are going on tour

0:05.0

We are going all over the country and there are tickets available now

0:09.4

We're gonna nodding him. We're gonna Manchester London Lester Dunstable Birmingham Coventry. Yeah, and there are more dates coming up

0:16.0

Aren't there there are indeed, but we're not allowed to say where they are yet

0:18.7

But there'll be a bit further from the center of England than those places that dance just mentioned

0:23.9

Yeah, it's gonna be so much fun. We've putting together this whole fantastic first half full of stupid games and extra

0:29.7

Bits and interactive bits and in the second half we're gonna record an episode of the podcast

0:34.8

Yep, so if you want to see any or all preferably all of that then go to qi.com slash fish events and you can get your tickets there

0:41.0

Okay, on with the show

0:43.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish a weekly podcast coming to you from the qi offices in Covent Garden

1:04.8

My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Anitzenski and Andrew Hunter Murray

1:10.5

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days

1:16.0

And in no particular order, here we go

1:18.9

Starting with you, James

1:20.9

Okay, my fact this week is that in 1966 the Chinese press reported that a 73 year old chairman Mao had swam 15 kilometers of the Yangtze River in 65 minutes

1:33.3

That's twice the speed that Michael Phelps has ever swam

1:37.6

75 imagine what he could do at 40 73 73

1:43.0

It's amazing that you're given a number and you just remember a different number

1:46.8

No, I confused it with 65 minutes

1:49.2

So I took the seven from the year and I took the five from the minute swam 73 kilometers in 15 minutes

1:58.7

He swam 1966 kilometers and 65 seconds

2:03.5

Okay, can you set the numbers again?

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