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303: No Such Thing As Suckling's Column

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss 11th century rental eels, Nelson's lesser-known brother, and how to break into Alcatraz.

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0:00.0

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

0:19.9

to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.

0:22.9

My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Aniches Inzky, and

0:27.6

James Harkin, and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite

0:31.8

facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.

0:36.8

Starting with fact number one, that's my fact.

0:39.4

My fact is in 1996, a windsurfer successfully broke into Alcatraz prison while it was hosting

0:45.5

a movie premiere of The Rock, a film about people trying to break into Alcatraz.

0:50.9

Wow, that's good.

0:52.2

So he broke into the prison.

0:55.2

This is a guy called Jeff Bunch and he was a windsurfer who was on the outskirts of it

1:00.1

and he wanted to go, so he wore a sort of tuxedo over his wetsuit and he got to the island.

1:05.6

Over his wetsuit.

1:06.6

I know, a bit weird, right?

1:07.8

I guess he didn't plan on falling in, so if you don't fall in, you're dry.

1:10.8

I guess so.

1:12.8

And it's the idea, right?

1:13.8

That is sensible, actually.

1:14.8

Yeah, yeah.

1:15.8

Yeah, because actually James Bond does it the wrong way, doesn't he?

1:18.7

Like he has wetsuit over his tuxedo, doesn't he?

1:21.4

That's true.

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