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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss medieval knights, 1001 nights, and French day trippers.

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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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