No Such Thing As A Didgeridoo in a Bar

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss immobile fish, inedible sandwiches and incredible traffic jams.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.6	to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
0:23.3	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna
0:27.9	Chuchinski and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:32.4	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with you Andy.
0:39.5	My fact is that along with their drink New Yorkers in bars used to be served a sandwich full
0:44.8	of rubber.
0:45.8	What?
0:46.8	Yummy.
0:47.8	Yum yum yum.
0:49.8	Why on earth would that be?
0:51.5	Well, this is a sort of legal loophole that bars had to jump through in order to serve
0:58.1	their customers.
0:59.1	So, this is all to do with something called the Reigns Law, basically.
1:03.2	People were trying to curb public drunkenness in the 1890s in America and in particular in
1:08.0	New York and this politician called John Reigns got this law passed which was designed
1:12.4	to put nasty bars out of business.
1:14.8	So there were various, you know, the cost of a liquor license tripled and you had to keep
1:20.1	your curtains open on a Sunday so that police officers could post all sorts of things.
1:26.6	The law was partly designed to shut down Sunday drinking and that was very annoying for
1:30.4	people and for bars because it was the most profitable day of the week and it was most
1:33.3	people's only day off.
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