229: No Such Thing As The Great Modesto

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and Alex discuss gold in the sewers, Robert Burn's homemade ink, and why Sweden's highest point isn't any more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.6	to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:23.8	My name is Dad Shriver and I'm sitting here with Andrew Huttobari, James Harkin and Alex
0:29.0	Bell and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts
0:33.4	from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:38.4	Starting with you, Alex.
0:40.2	My fact this week is that the Swiss flush about $2 million worth of gold down the toilet
0:46.5	every year.
0:47.5	Are they hiding it because it's Nazi gold and they're embarrassed about the fact they
0:51.5	have it?
0:52.5	Time to mention the Nazis, like three seconds.
0:59.5	No, it's lots and lots of tiny, tiny gold particles.
1:03.4	It's a waste result of the manufacturing process of watches they think.
1:08.4	They're not entirely sure what it comes from.
1:10.4	All they know is that they've been analysing the content of sewage and it's got a really
1:15.1	weirdly high-pcentive gold in it.
1:16.6	Can they collect it?
1:17.6	They're trying to come up with a way of getting it that's cost-effective but at the
1:21.6	moment it's too expensive.
1:23.2	How crazy that it's costing too much to get 1.8 million.
1:26.8	Yeah, except for the gold.
1:28.8	And so when you think it's tiny, tiny particles in the water so it's like panning for gold.
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