No Such Thing As A Clenched Shin
No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly |
| 0:19.1 | podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Anna Tashinsky, |
| 0:25.9 | James Harkin, and Alex Bell, and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our |
| 0:30.4 | four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular |
| 0:34.1 | order here we go starting with fact number one that is my fact my fact this week |
| 0:40.3 | is that the original voice of Porky Pig got fired for having a stutter. |
| 0:45.8 | That is so unfair. |
| 0:47.5 | It really is, isn't it? |
| 0:49.1 | Because they carried on with the stutter. |
| 0:51.8 | Did they then do auditions for people being like you have to stutter? Well they didn't really |
| 0:54.9 | need to do auditions because they had the great Mel Blank who is the finest voice of all time who eventually took over the role but the whole vocal |
| 1:01.6 | styling of Porky Pig was created by a guy |
| 1:04.2 | called Joe Doherty he's a guy who died 1978 he so he existed in like the early |
| 1:11.0 | 1900s because Porky Pig was one of the original |
| 1:13.2 | looney tunes if not the oldest continuous one yeah exactly and so he did it for two |
| 1:18.5 | years but the issue was it was really messing up recording times because he couldn't |
| 1:22.4 | control his stutter he'd |
| 1:23.4 | get nervous. |
| 1:24.4 | Wait, so had they decided to give Porky Big a stutter and then deliberately chosen him or was it like |
| 1:28.0 | vice versa? |
| 1:29.0 | The first one. |
| 1:30.0 | The first one. The first one. The first one. |
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