253: No Such Thing As Dolphins At The United Nations

No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss talking NASA dolphins, Robert Louis Stevenson's death and how any parents have a favourite child.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.4	to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden. My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here
0:25.1	with Aniches Zenski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered
0:29.9	around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
0:35.1	here we go. Starting with you, James. Okay, my fact this week is that the Emperor of the Incas
0:41.3	only ever wore an outfit once after which it was immediately burned. I'd be that.
0:48.6	Yeah. Why are you wearing the same jumper as you love the last three weeks? No, I've worn
0:52.8	21 different jumper so the last three weeks. So this was the he was called Sapper Inca and he
1:02.0	wore special clothes that no one else was allowed to wear. Is there a theory as to why he couldn't
1:06.0	wear them twice? Would we not know? We don't really know. I think it's just because he's so
1:10.0	important and it's the ostentatious show of wealth isn't it? And his clothes were seen as divine
1:16.1	because he was seen as divine. It is a bit like the Dutch as of Cambridge. If you reuse
1:22.5	as an outfit the newspaper say oh she's recycling her clothes as opposed to only wearing everything
1:27.3	once. Do you think they burn it after she uses them? Maybe. Maybe the ones you really like she
1:32.4	squirrels away so she can wear them again. I don't know. How did they record their information,
1:37.5	the Incas? Yeah, so that is interesting. Unlike a lot of the Mesoamericans who we don't really have
1:42.9	any information apart from ceramics or cloths or textiles. We have a bit about the Incas because
1:48.9	they did talk to the Spanish. They were the last Mesoamericans that were there before the Spanish
1:53.7	wiped them out. I didn't quite wipe them out but basically a lot of them died. So we know what they
1:58.7	did by what the Spanish said. Although it should be said that the Spanish did lie a lot.
2:04.4	Yeah, why wouldn't they defeat it exactly? Exactly. So maybe this is not true but.
2:09.1	So when the Spanish came actually it was an extraordinary thing that happened first of all. So it
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