23: No Such Thing As A Yawning Psychopath

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Episode 23: This week in the QI office Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Anna (@nosuchthing) and Alex (@alexbell) discuss a scream louder than the Big Bang, pigeon-shooting physicists, accidental porn, yawning your soul away, and why a beard in battle is a bad idea.

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0:00.0	We run it on QI a few years ago.
0:01.6	Yeah.
0:02.1	Which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:04.4	You have a nice, such thing as a fish.
0:05.6	No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
0:09.9	He says it right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.
0:12.5	Hello!
0:19.0	Welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you
0:23.0	from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:25.2	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:26.4	I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Anacizinsky and Alex Bell.
0:30.1	And once again, we've gathered around the microphone with our favorite facts from the last seven
0:33.7	days and in no particular order, here we go.
0:37.1	Okay, let's start with fact number one, Anacizinsky.
0:42.1	So my fact is that Alexander the Great banned Beards in battle to combat beard pulling.
0:49.5	How long were the Beards?
0:51.1	I'm not sure actually.
0:52.1	I do know they were fashionable before that.
0:54.1	So he actually was a proponent of Beards before one battle where he was leading the Macedonians
1:00.0	and it was his troops versus the Persians and the Persians started grabbing his troops,
1:06.0	Beards, and pulling them off their horses and killing them all, taking them prisoner.
1:09.8	And there's one anecdote of one of the opposing troops grabs a guy's beard and holds it
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