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🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming |
0:19.5 | to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK. |
0:23.2 | My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin, and |
0:27.6 | it to Jensky and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite |
0:32.1 | facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go. Starting with you, Andy. |
0:39.6 | My fact is that Paris's first public transport system failed because wealthy passengers bought |
0:44.7 | all the seats for themselves and then persuaded the government to ban poor people. |
0:49.5 | Wow, incredible. |
0:52.4 | But if they were selling all the tickets surely that's not a failure. |
0:56.0 | Well, then the rich apparently does lost interest and then stopped using it and then no one was |
1:00.7 | using it. So it was a complete disaster. This is from an article on La Pomme's Quarterly which is |
1:06.4 | an amazing website. It's really brilliant. It's got so many fascinating things on it and it's |
1:11.3 | partly based on this brilliant sounding book about buses which is called Engine of Modernity |
1:16.7 | by Masha Belenky. Andy, have you already moved on from Fennicular Railways then? |
1:21.2 | I'm afraid so. |
1:25.8 | So this was called the Carrots and it was set up by Blaise Pascal. So we briefly actually |
1:35.3 | mentioned before that Blaise Pascal set up the first public transport system in Paris but I |
1:38.7 | didn't know what happened to it and it was basically a carriage with eight passengers and two |
1:43.4 | stuff and there were... I'm sorry, when was it? Did you say? Oh, I'm sorry, it was in 1662. |
1:49.0 | And who was Blaise Pascal again? He was a thinker mathematician, probability dude. |
1:54.7 | And what's Paris again? I'm sorry, who were you? |
2:01.6 | Anyway, the point is wealthy riders didn't like sharing with poor people. I think they weren't even... |
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