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No Such Thing As A Fish

57: No Such Thing As A Hoverhorse

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss supersmog, horses on treadmills and impossible colours.

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0:00.0

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

0:16.2

to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

0:18.8

My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:19.8

I'm sitting with Anich Zinski, James Harkin and Andy Murray and once again we have gathered

0:24.6

around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular

0:29.1

order, here we go.

0:31.6

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

0:33.7

My fact this week is that monorails were originally horse drawn.

0:38.4

That's really great.

0:40.1

It's like the ultra mudden with not very mudden at all.

0:43.6

Yeah, exactly.

0:44.6

It's the future, but there's a horse attack.

0:46.4

It's like everything.

0:48.7

I always want to...

0:49.7

Spaceships of the same thing, I think.

0:51.3

Yeah, exactly.

0:52.3

I've always wanted to know if like back in that period there were books that were just

0:55.0

called like when will I get my hover horse?

0:57.6

Like, they hadn't yet known about the next bit of technology.

1:02.0

Yeah, the thing I really love about it is all the main new inventions coming out of that

1:07.6

time.

1:08.6

Even household stuff that was run on QI that vacuum cleaners used to be horse drawn as

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