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379: No Such Thing As A Ping Pong Ballbag

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss fighting fire with fire, moon minerals, incontinent snakes and the weirdness of watermelons

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0:00.0

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

0:20.5

to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.

0:24.2

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Toshinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray,

0:28.6

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

0:32.6

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

0:38.6

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

0:41.3

My fact this week is that firefighters use ping pong balls to put out wildfires.

0:47.5

Do they fire the ping pong balls from enormous ping pong bats?

0:52.9

You're thinking here perhaps that the ping pong balls are also enormous are you Andy?

0:57.7

Oh yeah.

0:58.7

Were you thinking that the wind from waving the bats might put out the fire?

1:04.2

Well I was thinking of one massive one per wildfire and he just loaded up with water and

1:09.4

then he dropped it on.

1:10.4

Yeah, they filled with water.

1:12.5

They're not and I should just clarify for the listener Andy is wrong as well, that is

1:16.5

not how they do it.

1:17.9

What this is in fact is these are little ping pong balls, they call them ping pong balls

1:22.4

I couldn't officially find if they were taken from a ping pong ball bag but they look

1:26.2

exactly the same and they are very what's the ping pong ball back that you were laughing

1:31.0

at ball back James I saw I wasn't I was laughing at the idea that someone might have invented

1:36.0

a specific bag.

1:37.0

It's a curry ping pong balls and according to Dan's definition nothing is a ping pong ball

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