250: No Such Thing As The Mysterious Chamber

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss demolishing the Great Pyramid of Giza, with the WWF logo is a panda, and psychopathic teenage angst.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.9	to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:22.7	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin and
0:27.1	Anna Chazinski and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:31.4	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:36.2	Starting with you, Andy.
0:37.8	My fact is that in 1833 the pyramid at Giza was almost dismantled by the Pasha of Egypt
0:45.4	so that he could use the stones to build a dam.
0:48.1	That's brilliant.
0:49.1	That's amazing.
0:50.1	And why did he not do it in the end?
0:52.2	He was talked out of it.
0:55.0	Someone said he sure you want to destroy the most ancient site in the world.
0:59.8	So this was in 1833 and it was when Egypt was Ottoman ruled so it wasn't a local Egyptian
1:05.5	ruler exactly and he was called Muhammad Ali Pasha and he did a sort of cost benefit analysis
1:12.5	or he commissioned one from a civil servant to see how much it would cost and the civil
1:17.3	servant was a Frenchman and he thought maybe it wasn't a good idea for the pyramid
1:22.2	to be destroyed.
1:23.3	And his name was Linole, Louis Maurice Adolf Linole and he was really young.
1:27.2	It was one of his first jobs but I think he, you know, the story goes that he thought
1:31.0	maybe this isn't a great idea.
1:32.8	So he came up with this cost benefit analysis which said look this is going to be quite
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