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60: No Such Thing As An Unenjoyable Bowel Movement

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna, Andy and QI creator John Lloyd discuss Iceland's last McDonalds burger, the science of ignorance, and sea battles at Sadler's Wells.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, welcome to episode 60 of No Such Thing as a Fish. Just a quick announcement

0:06.1

before we begin. My microphone didn't work this week and as a result it has infected

0:11.8

the entire other four working microphones. So the show does sound good but as soon as

0:17.2

I start talking it's terrible. No change that. Yep so...

0:30.0

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

0:39.7

coming to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden. My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting

0:44.0

here with James Harkin, Anichesenski, Andy Murray and we have a special guest today.

0:48.8

It's the founder, creator of QI, it's Commander John Lloyd and once again we have gathered

0:53.6

around our microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in

0:57.3

a particular order here we go. Starting with you, James Harkin. Okay my fact this week

1:04.8

is that the final McDonald's burger ever sold in Iceland can currently be watched decomposing

1:12.1

on a webcam. Is that in accordance with a statement that might have been made last week?

1:18.1

I don't know what you're talking about. Yes, last week I may well have said that

1:22.9

Iceland has the most expensive McDonald's burgers but there has been no McDonald's in

1:28.0

Iceland since 2009 a fact that everyone has been very willing to point out. That doesn't

1:33.1

explain why they're so expensive because it's scarcity value. And so no more McDonald's

1:37.9

in Iceland and the last one they kept put it in a museum and now it's in a hostel under

1:43.0

a webcam. How's it looking? It's looking fine because burgers tend to not decompose

1:47.4

very much. Yeah so I read that because there's a some father who's got really outraged

1:52.8

didn't he? He put one of his kids McDonald's burgers in a jar or something and filmed it

1:58.0

over the course of weeks and weeks and months and months and said isn't this outrageous?

2:01.1

This hasn't rotted at all and McDonald's I think ended up I assume having to be the first

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