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Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this

week coming to you live from New York City!

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Aniches Incki, 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.

Starting with fact number one, and that's my fact this week, my fact is Carl Sagan spent

two years suing Apple computers for calling him a butt head.

That's going to be hard because you have to prove that you're not a butt head.

Yeah, absolutely. So for listeners who don't know who Carl Sagan is, he is of course the great

scientist, he did the TV show Cosmos, the Golden Disk on the Voyager, he was the person who

dreamt that up, he's one of the greatest public science speakers of all time, if not the best.

Is he a New Yorker? Is he?

Is Born in Brooklyn? Yeah. Born in the same little village that the three

studios were born in. So this was in 1993. So basically what happened is that Apple computers

were releasing the power Macintosh 7,100 and when they were putting it together and they had

to talk to the media and stuff, they had a code name that they used which was Carl Sagan.

And the joke in the team was that the idea was they wanted to sell billions and

of the new computer. So Sagan found out about this and he said, he wrote them a letter saying,

you absolutely can't do this, you're using my name to profit with your company and I don't want

you to do that. Can you please stop? So they did stop but what they did instead was rename the

code name BHA which stood for butt head astronomer. And he thought that's defamation of characters.

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