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No Such Thing As A Fish

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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Live from Bath, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Calvin Coolidge's robotic horse, the inventor of email, and the language it's easiest to speak while drunk.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode.

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No such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you from the comedian in

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bath.

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My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:30.0

I'm sitting here with Aniches Isinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin.

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

0:37.6

the last seven days and in a particular order, here we go, starting with you, James Harkin.

0:44.0

Okay, my fat this week is that it's easier to speak Dutch if you're drunk.

0:51.0

As if you're a non-native speaker.

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Yeah, if you're Dutch, you tend not to have too many problems in general if you're Dutch.

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And you can't be absolutely hammered.

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You have to be very slightly one pint kind of drunk.

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And this is a study that's been done recently.

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They got 50 native German speakers to talk to a Dutch person in Dutch.

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And then they recorded it and they asked some Dutch people afterwards how did they do.

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And the drunk people did a little bit better.

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But unfortunately, I did read on Reddit, someone posted on Reddit that Dutch is basically

1:25.5

like a German got drunk and can't speak properly anymore.

1:30.0

So there's a lot of slurred sounds in this fleshly or leisurely.

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I didn't know you speak.

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And you're not even drinking.

1:39.0

Does anyone hear speak Dutch?

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