309: No Such Thing As The Best Bubble

No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss get-fit schemes, bubble extremes, Norma Jeane, and an olm's routine.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.8	to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:23.1	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anichesitsky, Andrew Hunter Murray and James
0:28.0	Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite
0:31.9	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:37.4	Starting with you, Andy.
0:39.4	My fact is that there is a 16th century exercise manual which recommends exercises including
0:44.5	running, tennis and loud reading.
0:47.7	So two of those sounded quite sensible, running and loud reading.
0:51.5	No, it's about tennis.
0:53.5	Not good for you.
0:55.1	So this was actually posted on Twitter by a colleague Justin Pollard who was a historian
1:01.2	and it was an article which was based on something found by Joan Fitzpatrick who was reading
1:06.9	a dietary by Sir Thomas Elliott.
1:10.1	It does sound like someone with a speech impediment saying the word diary there.
1:14.0	It is a dietary and it's called the Castle of Health so it's about all these different
1:20.9	ways that you can gain health in your life and there is a category of exercise called
1:26.0	Strong or Violent Exercise where he recommends all these things you can do like digging heavy
1:31.1	soil or doing resistance training which is like he, I don't know if he invented this but
1:36.2	basically you have to lift up your arms to the sides while your friend is trying to hold
1:41.3	them in place.
1:42.3	I don't think he invented most of it because it was all from Galen, wasn't it, and from
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