221: No Such Thing As A Fully Carpeted Country

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna, Andy and special guest Alan Davies discuss the street value of football sticker albums, anti-diving shin pads and instructional chat-up pamphlets for Argentinian footballers.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this
0:20.0	week coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:23.7	My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting here with Anich Zinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray,
0:28.0	James Harkin and special guest Alan Davies and once again we've gathered around the microphone
0:32.8	with our four favorite facts this time about the World Cup and in no particular order,
0:36.9	here we go.
0:37.9	Starting with you, Alan.
0:40.0	Austria qualified for the 1938 World Cup but then had to withdraw because it stopped
0:44.5	existing as a country.
0:46.0	It's a good excuse.
0:47.0	That's a good excuse.
0:48.0	It was the 30s, there was a lot of that kind of philosophy.
0:54.0	They made an existential crisis in the camp.
0:58.9	They're not sure they exist and on that basis they were drawn.
1:01.6	Also they have been annexed by Germany.
1:05.6	It's not a big deal guys but we won't be there.
1:10.4	Yeah, so that's Germany claimed Austria, right?
1:12.8	Yeah, but they had qualified.
1:14.2	You had to qualify in that year, in 38, while a lot of teams entered.
1:17.8	So they've gone to a lot of trouble only to be annexed in the preamble to the tournament.
1:23.3	Yeah.
1:24.3	And they were very good, weren't they, in that they would then sort of the German team
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