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No Such Thing As A Fish

177: No Such Thing As A Barking Spy

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Live from the Wilderness Festival, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the invention of crowd barriers, bombs that lecture their victims, and Volkswagen's biggest product [hint: it's not cars].

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish A Weekly Podcast this

0:20.1

week coming to you from the wilderness festival!

0:28.5

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

0:33.6

Anacisinsky, and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite

0:37.9

facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.

0:42.4

We're going to start with my fact this week.

0:45.0

My fact is that in 1957 America developed a shouting bomb that would lecture the enemy

0:51.4

for three minutes as it dropped from the sky.

0:56.9

When I get down there you're in Saffron, Mr. This was a very rogue one mentioned and

1:04.2

a new scientist article.

1:05.5

I haven't been able to approve its existence outside of this one article.

1:09.2

Yeah, there's no mention online at all is there?

1:11.8

It's almost as if I made it up.

1:14.6

I read also that apparently it would give instructions to the soldiers on the ground as

1:19.6

well.

1:20.6

As a bomb came down you'd be able to hear what to do if you were soldier.

1:23.5

It's like run.

1:24.5

How long does it take three minutes to shout that?

1:28.2

What I couldn't ascertain is does this bomb go off or is it merely a propaganda tool?

1:32.7

The idea is that it would be dropped from a plane from about 60,000 feet high and then

1:37.9

parachutes would deploy and then as it was making its ascent or descent rather to the ground.

1:43.4

That's correct.

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