179: No Such Thing As Stare-Boxing

No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss mail-order portraits, the first ever Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the country with only five star hotels.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.4	to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.
0:23.5	My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with James Harkin, Alex Bell and Anichezinski
0:29.1	and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from
0:33.1	the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:37.9	Starting with my fact this week, my fact is 10% of the UFC is owned by the UAE.
0:46.8	That is quite surprising.
0:48.2	So the UFC stands for Ultimate Fighting Champions.
0:51.0	Yes, what does UAE stand for?
0:53.0	United Arab Emirates and 10% of the UFC is owned specifically by Abu Dhabi.
1:01.7	It is a company called Flash Entertainment which is owned by the government and in 2010 they
1:06.7	bought 10% of this company which last year or perhaps even early this year was sold
1:12.1	again for four billion.
1:13.9	It is a huge industry now and they have retained their 10%.
1:17.4	So yeah, a government is part of the Ultimate Hardcore Fighting Machine.
1:21.5	So let us explain what UFC is for the uninitiated like me.
1:26.3	Okay, well if you have been reading the news this week you will see that the biggest boxing
1:31.7	match for a very long time has happened between a man called Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather.
1:36.4	When you say has happened it has not happened yet in our universe has it?
1:39.7	That is true, we are recording this on a Monday, you are hearing this from a Friday onwards.
1:43.1	So yeah, it is a...
1:44.1	Let us take a pun, I think it is really sad that Conor McGregor died with intense events
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