Hi everyone, before we start this week's show, I want to introduce to you our special guest,

and that is... Hello!

No, not you, Dan.

I want to introduce our special guest, his name is Paul Smith, and he is the lead singer of one of

my very, very most favorite bands in a whole world, Maximo Park. And actually, he has an

album about this very day. Yes, it's called Diagrams. You can get it at PaulSmithMusic.eu.

It's an awesome album, and we actually know Paul because we did his podcast last year to promote

our book, The Book of the Year, and our new book has come out exactly the same time as his album,

so we thought, why not reunite? Let's make it an annual thing. We'll make it an annual thing. So,

if you want to buy that book to help us get another one so we can meet Paul again,

do go to Amazon or no such thing as a fish.com. There's links there. We'd love it if you'd get

our book as well. I'm with the podcast.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you

from the QI offices in Covern, Garden. My name is Dan Shriver, and I'm sitting here with Anichezinski,

Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin, and special guest. It's the lead singer of Maximo Park,

Paul Smith. And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

from the last seven days. And in a particular order, here we go. Starting with fact number one,

and that is Paul. The studio that made a hard day's night demanded the Beatles' voices be dubbed,

because their thought Americans wouldn't understand their accents. So good. And just for context,

they were massive at that point, weren't they, in America? They were. And that's why the film was

actually commissioned, united artists, give them, I think it was £200,000, and I don't know what

the equivalent of that is these days, but it's still not a great deal to make a feature film.

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