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No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Live from Oslo, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss medically-induced drunkenness, how to avoid being eaten by wolves on holiday, and what happens if you go clubbing with millipedes.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Oslo!
0:30.0	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anichesinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go!
0:48.0	So, starting with you, Andy, my fact is that there was once an Olympic sport where you had to dive into a pool and then glide along for a minute.
0:58.0	It was scrapped because the main factor was how heavy you were.
1:05.0	Don't you think though, like the main factor in the running race is how fast you are, so why is it not fair to how heavy you are?
1:13.0	Completely, that's fair. You can train to be heavy in the same way you can train to run fast really.
1:19.0	I guess so, you could see the window coming along before the game even starts, right?
1:23.0	He's got gold.
1:25.0	This was the thing called the plunge for distance, was the official name of it.
1:30.0	So basically, you dived in, you weren't allowed to move, you weren't allowed to swim at all, you had to keep your head under the surface of the water and then you were timed and they saw how far you would get in either 60 seconds or until you put your head up above the water.
1:42.0	Another thing is it's not a great spectator spot, is it?
1:47.0	It got called competitive floating.
1:52.0	It's the least spectatory sport imaginable.
1:57.0	It happened once in St. Louis in 1904.
2:02.0	There were lots of reviews at the time which were pretty negative.
2:05.0	People said the competitors merely throw themselves heavily in the water and float along like icebergs in the shipping lanes.
2:11.0	This was in St. Louis in 1904.
2:17.0	Yeah, that's right.
2:19.0	There were lots of great things that happened in that Olympics.
2:22.0	In the water polo, the Americans said that instead of having a fully inflated bowl, you could have it slightly unflated, if that's a word.
2:32.0	But actually, to score a goal, you had to hold the bowl underwater in the net rather than throwing it.
2:38.0	The Germans thought that this was complete nonsense. They called it soft water polo and refused to compete.
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