17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 11 July 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Episode 17: This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing), Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) & Chief Gnome John Lloyd (@qikipedia) discuss Elgar's football chants, Arsenal's response to 9/11, how connecting trains can affect a match, and more... Liking football not required

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0:00.0	We run it on QI a few years ago, which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:04.3	Yeah, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:05.7	No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
0:09.9	It says it right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.
0:18.1	Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast
0:22.7	coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:25.6	My name is Dan Schriver, I'm sitting here with three other elves who've got James Harkin,
0:29.7	Anich Zinski, and on fact checking duties and emery.
0:33.6	And we also have a special guest today.
0:35.4	It's the creator of QI, it's the chief gnome himself, Mr. John Lloyd.
0:40.4	Today's episode is a special one.
0:42.2	It is a tie-in for the final of the 2014 Brazilian World Cup,
0:46.6	and we are going to be talking about nothing but football.
0:49.7	Now, this is going to be quite interesting, given that none of us know anything about football.
0:53.3	But we've done our research, and so we once again gathered round our microphones,
0:56.8	and these are the best football facts that we found out from the last seven days.
1:00.4	So no particular order, here we go.
1:03.7	Okay, fact number one, Anich.
1:05.9	Yep, my fact is that the first known football chant was composed by Elgar.
1:10.2	The first gnome football chant.
1:11.8	That was another name.
1:12.6	It was another name, the chief gnome.
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