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No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the invention of ball pits, a fisherman's unluckiest fruit, and how the internet was nearly called The Information Mine.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:18.6	to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:21.4	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Aniches Zinsky and
0:26.0	James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:30.4	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:35.2	Starting with you, Andy.
0:37.1	My fact is that the first ever ball pit was inspired by a jar of pickled onions.
0:42.3	Yeah, it was a guy who had a massive jar of pickled onions and his son fell into it one
0:47.7	day and while they were fishing him out they noticed, oh he's having a great time.
0:52.3	No, it's not that.
0:53.3	It's a guy called Eric McMillan who invented it, it was called a ball crawl back in the
0:58.3	good old days and he was the subject of a Guardian Longread recently, they did these great
1:04.9	long essays and it's all about playgrounds and how playgrounds were developed and the
1:09.2	original playgrounds and who first thought of doing all this weird stuff for children
1:13.2	to play in because they had to be invented and he was this kind of visionary who invented
1:19.0	all these different methods of playing and one of the things he was working on was a place
1:22.9	called SeaWorlds Captain Kids in San Diego in 1976 and he and his colleague were looking
1:29.0	at a jar of pickled onions and they thought I think that could work.
1:32.5	So he's seen as the father of soft play because this wasn't the only thing that he created.
1:38.0	Soft play, I go to a lot these days with my son and they're amazing gymnasiums of balls
1:43.3	and big. We are so those two amazing.
1:48.3	I don't know if he's been taking it.
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