295: No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette

No Such Thing As A Fish

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4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Live from Boston, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Bastard baguettes Saddam Hussein's campaign song, and the first ever criminal to be put in Boston's stocks.

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0:00.0	APPLAUSE
0:20.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Boston!
0:30.0	APPLAUSE
0:36.0	My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anichesinski, Andrew Huntson Murray and James Harkin
0:42.0	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!
0:50.0	Starting with fact number one and that is my fact.
0:54.0	And just before you start fact number one, we actually played a little bit of the stars and stripes theme tune, theme two, the stars and stripes.
1:04.0	As I believe you call it.
1:10.0	Okay, the national anthem.
1:14.0	We actually got a sent effect before the show on this subject by Gadget Gav who said that if in Boston if you start singing or playing the national anthem,
1:22.0	you have to then go on with it all the way to the end on pain of a hundred dollar fine.
1:28.0	So if you wouldn't mind just...
1:32.0	I'm so sorry.
1:36.0	As far as I know the lyrics.
1:38.0	Great theme tune though guys, honestly.
1:44.0	Okay, it is time for fact number one and that is my fact. My fact this week is that the first criminal in Boston to be sent to the stocks.
1:52.0	Was the man who'd actually built the stocks.
1:56.0	And he was found guilty of overcharging for the building of those stocks.
2:02.0	This is a wonderful fact. This was back in 1639 and it was a guy called Edward Palmer and it's exactly as the factors on the tin.
2:10.0	It's a guy who did the labor when he went to Infoys. He invoice for £1.13 shillings and seven pens and they thought that was unacceptable.
2:18.0	So immediately once it was open he was the first person charged.
2:22.0	He got £5 as well, didn't he?
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