79: No Such Thing As A Sad High Five

No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 18 September 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Live from The Edinburgh Festival, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss Scrabble's unlikely champion, why you shouldn't pick a fight a hairy frog & all the latest in itch news.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this
0:16.9	week coming to you from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
0:19.7	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:21.0	I'm joined once again by the three other elves.
0:23.2	Please welcome to the stage.
0:24.2	It's Andy Murray, James Harkin and Aniches Insky.
0:30.0	And once again we have gathered round with our four favorite facts from the last seven
0:39.8	days and in no particular order, here we go.
0:43.2	Starting with my fact this week, my fact this week is that the current French Scrabble
0:47.6	Champion doesn't speak a word of French.
0:52.2	This was in the news not too long ago so I feel like some people know it but I just found
0:55.8	that absolutely amazing.
0:56.8	Did he just randomly play letters which all turned out to be extent to the French Scrabble
1:00.8	Dictionary?
1:01.8	He memorized the French Scrabble Dictionary and then he just used that and even in the finals
1:07.4	he told the French guy, that's not a word.
1:11.8	Yeah, it's amazing character.
1:14.4	His name is Nigel Richards, he's from New Zealand.
1:17.4	Oh wow.
1:18.4	I read an article about him on shortlist.com entitled Why Nigel Richards is better than
1:25.8	Lionel Messi.
1:26.8	Well they do call him the Tiger Woods Scrabble don't they?
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