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🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 54 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 |
0:18.8 | to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden. |
0:21.6 | My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anatishinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray, and |
0:25.9 | James Harkin. |
0:26.9 | And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts |
0:30.6 | from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go. |
0:36.1 | Starting with fact number one, and that is my fact, my fact this week is that to combat |
0:40.6 | people sleeping during church, priests used to employ a sluggard waker who would walk |
0:46.2 | around the congregation poking people awake with a very long stick. |
0:50.4 | Brilliant. |
0:51.4 | Yeah, this is an amazing thing. |
0:53.4 | I was reading that job, Andy. |
0:55.0 | I think it sounds quite fun. |
0:56.3 | Yeah, it does. |
0:57.3 | You wouldn't make many friends, but you're not in the business to make friends. |
1:00.2 | Oh, no. |
1:01.2 | In the business to keep people awake, listen to the sermon. |
1:03.2 | Exactly. |
1:04.2 | I reckon you'd be great at it, yeah. |
1:05.2 | Why? |
1:06.2 | You've just got authority about you and we all respect you so much. |
1:08.8 | I think I like that, I suppose, yeah, I would be a pretty, like, you think I like correcting |
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