165: No Such Thing As A Spider The Size Of A Sheep

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the Wright brothers’ first flight, China’s latest speed limits, and why poo on a table may be further away than it appears.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.1	to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:23.0	My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting here with Andrew Huntamari, Annotch Zinsky and
0:27.3	James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:31.7	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:36.5	Starting with fact number one and that's my fact.
0:39.1	My fact this week is that the Chinese government are planning on giving their national anthem
0:44.3	a speed limit.
0:47.0	So this is a plan at the moment.
0:51.1	They haven't enforced it yet.
0:52.4	Apparently in the next month or so a paper will be proposed to enforce this.
0:56.9	They believe that the anthem is being abused by the people singing it.
1:01.6	Really?
1:02.6	Yeah, they've called it a damaging situation.
1:04.9	They're saying it's not universally respected and cherished.
1:08.2	People are laughing when they're singing.
1:09.6	They're singing too fast.
1:11.2	They're singing too slow.
1:12.2	Are they singing too furious?
1:13.2	Yeah, they're singing.
1:16.0	So the song is called March of the Volunteers.
1:19.4	Right.
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