446: No Such Thing As A Ninja Wearing Clogs

No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Live from Glasgow, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss spiders in space, chickens in clogs, and famous physicists in films.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast
0:19.4	this week coming to you live from Glasgow. My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with
0:34.0	Anna Toshinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the
0:39.9	microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order
0:45.1	here we go starting with fact number one and that is Andy. My fact is that in 1907 a man named
0:53.2	Charles W. Aldrieve won a huge bet simply by walking 1,500 miles on water.
1:03.6	God for the mysterious fact. Was that a bet with Jesus? It was a bet with Jesus.
1:09.5	Yeah who got further so that's thinking no this is the guy here so just for the people in the
1:13.5	room this is him. Charles Aldrieve. Aldrieve was such a hero. He was nicknamed the human water spider
1:19.6	and he basically he had a career which just involved going around walking on water and crowds
1:28.4	absolutely aided up and this was 1907 and there was a big bet and he stood to gain
1:33.7	$5,000 which was obviously way more at the time. He was walking from Cincinnati to New Orleans
1:38.7	and he had to do it but every step had to be on water and he had these special shoes which were
1:45.8	massive obviously about four feet long and apparently took him five years to learn how to turn
1:52.8	properly. Really? It was a full he was well trained. It was really it was described as kind of like
1:58.8	walking through mud the way that he was propelling himself forward so he had as the listener
2:04.8	we'll have to picture it but it's a sort of like a long boat of a shoe and he would wear a Wellington
2:09.1	boot before he put his foot in and then he would put a sort of watertight sort of elastic around
2:14.2	it so that water couldn't get in. So if he flipped over he couldn't get out of it it was just he was
2:19.3	stuck. Very dangerous but he was a very dangerous guy like he was a showman so he used to do things
2:25.6	like take a stick of dynamite out of his back and he would light his cigar with the dynamite
2:31.1	and then chuck it into the water and giant shooting 20 meter tall foot waves would go into the
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