71: No Such Thing As A Somersaulting Long Jumper

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 24 July 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss humans versus horses, where to get new eyelids, and why you should never drink with Alfred Hitchcock.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish this week coming
0:24.5	to you from the literary arena in the latitude festival my name is Dan Schreiber I'm sitting
0:30.2	here with three other QILs its Aniches Innski Andy Murray and James Harkin and once again
0:35.6	we've gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven
0:39.0	days and in a particular order here we go and we're going to start with my fact this week
0:44.3	my fact this week is that the world record for horse long jump is shorter than the world
0:50.6	record for human long jump that just can't even be true that just is so obviously not true
0:57.4	it's unbelievable no it's absolutely true but here's the weird thing horse long jump did anyone
1:02.8	know that existed it was an Olympic sport for one year I have a question about the horse long
1:08.1	jump yeah did they have to do it with a human on their back yes well then of course they're gonna
1:12.6	like if you put a if you put a horse on a human's eye that's not a fair comparison though you
1:18.2	need to put so it'd be like strapping a child to your back maybe or okay which wouldn't be allowed
1:23.8	I guess no but listen horses okay how many how many people here just by show a hand a surprise
1:28.5	that humans can jump further than horses yeah pretty much everyone yeah and when you say
1:33.8	surprised none of them believe you okay so this is absolutely true you can go online to Wikipedia
1:40.2	so this was in the 1900s so you're niche sources for these so 1900 at the Olympics they did the
1:50.3	horse drum the guy riding the horse was called constant van Langhendonk and his horse was called
1:57.9	extra dry and he jumped as far as he jumped about six meters and that's not actually the horse
2:05.0	record so that was just their first ever attempt at the Olympics everyone said let's not do that
2:09.4	again let's move on let's never speak about this but the world record as it stands was set in
2:13.3	1975 by horse the horse was called something no what was it called something the horse was actually
2:20.6	called something that was the actual name of the horse by mr. Andre Ferreira and they jumped
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