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No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss drugs with colourful names, a prince with a colourful grotto, and a country without colour TV.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.0	to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
0:23.3	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anitashinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray, and
0:28.2	James Harkin, and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:32.5	facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go.
0:37.8	Starting with you, Anna.
0:40.1	My effect this week is that the world's first electricity power station was built to power
0:45.7	an artificial rainbow.
0:47.7	Wow.
0:48.7	That is cool.
0:49.7	It's the 1870s, late 1870s, 1877, 78, and we're in Bavaria.
0:56.7	Oh, nice.
0:57.7	It was built for this King, King Ludwig II known as the Fairy Tale King for reasons that
1:02.8	will become obvious during this section.
1:05.6	He used to be a frog, didn't he?
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:09.2	Yeah.
1:12.4	And he wanted to make himself this grotto.
1:15.1	He wanted to recreate these things called blue grottos, which are natural sea caves where
1:19.3	sunlight makes the water glow in all rainbow colours.
1:23.0	And so he decided, I've heard about this new invention electricity, and I think I'm
1:27.8	going to use it.
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