Hi everybody, Andy here. Just before this week's show starts, if you're enjoying No Such Thing as a Fish and you'd like bonus episodes of fish and add free episodes of fish, you can join our super secret special club, which is called Clubfish.

To find out more and to get a free trial period, just go to patreon.com slash no such thing as a fish

or join on Apple. On with the show. Hello and welcome to you from the QI offices in Hoberne. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Tashinsky, and James Harkin.

And once again, we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days.

And in no particular order, here we go.

Starting with fact number one, and that is Anna.

My fact this week is that when Socrates lost feeling in his penis, he asked his friend to sacrifice a cock.

Wow.

When you say sacrifice is cock, does that mean he swaps it over for Socrates's like a battery swap?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Have you rubbed it?

Have you put it in the right way around?

It's like a literal organ donor.

Yeah, this is very immature wording of a very serious story about someone who had to commit suicide.

So it's 399 BC.

Wow. I didn't actually read the story.

He was executed by himself. Yeah.

I think that is a difference.

It is so bizarre.

Yeah, I don't know if we do this anymore in any countries that the state sentenced him to suicide,

which I don't know if you can call it suicide when the state,

but they gave him the hemlock and he took it anyway.

...