231: No Such Thing As A 24-Minute Podcast

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss the first ever stripper to jump out of a cake, the Queen of Sweden's business cards, and why holding your breath underwater is cheating.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:23.4	to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.
0:26.6	My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Alex Bell and James
0:31.6	Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:35.7	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:40.4	Starting with you Chazinski.
0:42.4	My fact is that the world record for the longest time spent holding one's breath is exactly
0:47.5	the same length as this podcast episode.
0:50.2	Wow, how long can we possibly know how long this episode is going to be?
0:53.9	My magic powers and knowledge that you're a good editor have told me.
0:58.8	So tell me how long do I have to edit to?
1:01.2	So you have to edit to 24 minutes and three seconds.
1:04.6	Okay.
1:05.6	That's okay and this is a record that was set by Alex Seguirur in 2016 and he's a champion
1:10.3	in the sport of static apnea.
1:12.2	I can't believe it's a sport.
1:13.9	It's a sport.
1:14.9	It's a sport.
1:15.9	It's the sport of lying face down in a swimming pool and holding your breath while remaining
1:20.2	still.
1:21.2	I can get on board with for the Olympics.
1:24.2	We should say that this record that he broke is looked down upon by some static apneasts
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