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🗓️ 3 February 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the bits of Earth on the Moon, venom-swiping slugs, and when Mount Rushmore will finally be finished.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming |
| 0:19.9 | to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden. |
| 0:22.8 | My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with James Harkin, Anichezinski and Drew Murray, |
| 0:28.6 | and once again we have gathered around the microphones. |
| 0:31.4 | Come on, come on, come on! |
| 0:32.9 | I think it's Drew Hunter Murray, it's not that, it's not that. |
| 0:37.1 | I've hesitate, we have to say, last week, it's lightning, I want to stick with that, please |
| 0:41.7 | never Drew. |
| 0:45.9 | And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from |
| 0:50.1 | the last seven days and in a particular order, here we go. |
| 0:54.6 | Starting with my fact, my fact this week is that, in the final |
| 0:58.5 | years of its construction, Mount Rushmore was built by baseball players. |
| 1:03.1 | Nice. |
| 1:04.1 | Did they run out of dynamite? |
| 1:05.1 | And they said, well, we've got to just get a bunch of guys with bad stuff. |
| 1:09.7 | No, so, Mount Rushmore was constructed between 1927 and 1941 in the first early stages and |
| 1:17.8 | actually right up until about 1938. |
| 1:19.8 | It was being led by a guy called Gutson Borglum and Gutson Borglum had a sun working on it |
| 1:24.8 | called Lincoln and Lincoln was obsessed with baseball and he really wanted to put a |
| 1:28.2 | baseball team together. |
| 1:29.5 | So from 1938, when he started hiring all the people to work on it, one of the things |
| 1:34.7 | that he required you to be able to do was play baseball so that you could be part of the |
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