216: No Such Thing As A Lobster War

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Live from Perth, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the most annoying man in history, the regretful inventor of the Australian labradoodle, and how lobsters nearly started a war.

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0:00.0	I'm not going to be a part of this.
0:04.4	I'm not going to be a part of this.
0:18.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast.
0:26.1	This week coming to you live from Perth Australia.
0:35.8	My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Andrew Hunter Murray, James
0:43.2	Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from
0:47.8	the last seven days and in no particular order. Here we go starting with you Chazinski.
0:54.4	Yeah my fact this week is that in the 1960s Brazil and France almost went to war with each other
1:00.8	over whether Lobsters crawl or swim.
1:05.9	What a just war it would have been.
1:09.6	Who's side of you on? Who's side are you on?
1:12.8	I think they crawl. I think they swim. Yeah I will see you on the battlefield.
1:18.7	I assume they do both right?
1:22.6	Yeah the classic sweatsiland corner.
1:25.4	No so it is a problem that they do both because this is the fact that in 1961 a French fisherman
1:32.3	found the water off the coast of Brazil was full of Lobsters and they wanted to fish them so
1:37.4	they could get money from selling the Lobsters and so they side fishing them but Brazil claimed
1:42.7	exclusive rights to sea creatures that were walking along the continental shelf within a
1:48.6	certain like diameter radius of Brazil. So if creatures were walking in that area then Brazil had
1:55.6	a right to them and no one else did but if they were swimming in that area then they did not so this
2:00.4	huge argument came forward about what they were walking or swimming and the French said that they
2:06.1	were swimming so they were open to anyone because Lobsters do sometimes swim and so they said we're
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