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🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this |
0:20.0 | week coming to you live from Rammuth! |
0:28.7 | My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Aniches Zinsky and Drew Hunter Murray and James |
0:34.8 | Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts |
0:39.7 | from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go. |
0:45.1 | Starting with fact number one and that's my fact this week, my fact is after the author |
0:50.7 | George Elliott died, her family spent 50 years publicly denying that she had a massive |
0:57.0 | right hand. Where to start with the questions? |
1:03.4 | Did she? Well basically before she was famous this was in the 1840s she was talking to |
1:09.9 | a neighbour, she was in her mid-20s pre-fame and she stretched out her right hand and with |
1:15.4 | some pride demonstrated how massive it was. So I look how big this is and it was big she |
1:21.2 | said because in her teenage years she was making butter and cheese on her family's |
1:25.3 | farm so she was doing all the churning that she needed to do and as a result she built |
1:29.2 | up this massive hand. So it wasn't even by birth like she built it herself and she said |
1:37.3 | that it was so big her hand, comparative to the left hand that she had that it left her |
1:42.0 | kind of lopsided because the weight of it. She did say that. |
1:46.4 | She did to this in this anecdote so this is the problem it was an anecdote that was said |
1:50.7 | before she was famous and when she died 28 months after she died a biography was released |
1:56.5 | where someone had gone to the local town and so on and it interviewed neighbours and the |
2:00.8 | neighbours said yeah she was this person with a massive hand that she told me about. |
2:04.9 | It sounds like something that was made up by the neighbour doesn't it? |
2:07.6 | Well this is why the family was very furiously denying it. They were saying it was not, she |
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