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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Science, History, Comedy, Nature

4.718.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Episode 50: Live at the Soho Theatre, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss the history of striptease, Hitler-shaped kettles, how to win a goat, and Anna's favourite table.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, and welcome to another episode of No Stop Sinner's A Fish A Weed Weed Podcast.

0:18.8

This week coming to you from the Soho Theater in Central London, my name is Dan Schreiber.

0:23.3

I'm sitting here with the three regular elves, it's James Harkin, Andy Murray and Aniches

0:27.8

and Zinski. And once again, we've got around the microphone with our four favorite facts

0:31.2

from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go. James.

0:36.8

Okay, my fact this week is that the 2012 law prohibiting nudity in San Francisco was

0:43.9

proposed by a politician called Scott Wiener.

0:49.7

Keeping it high, Brown. Yeah. Yeah, just like that, just like funny names, really.

0:55.8

Yeah, that's my favorite thing. It's also that nominative determinism thing, isn't it?

0:59.8

Yeah. We've actually met the person who coined nominative determinism.

1:03.8

Really? Yes, it's Mr. Determinism.

1:05.8

Yes, Mr. Determinism. No, it's a British guy called John Hoyland. Sadly, he passed away last year.

1:10.8

But he used to write for new sciences and he coined it and he coined it because he saw on the

1:15.6

same day two things when he was out in the shops. The first thing was he saw a book that

1:20.2

had come out on the Arctic by Mr. Snowman. And in that very same day, he read a scientific

1:26.3

paper on incontinence by J.W. Splat. And D. Weedon.

1:32.0

Yeah. Weedon and Splat. It's quite famous paper, that's it.

1:37.2

Yeah, wait, Mr. Snowman. Yeah, Mr. Snowman.

1:41.1

Is that a name? Does anyone here know anyone called Snowman? I don't think it's it.

1:45.3

How can it be a name?

1:47.5

Wendy often denies the existence of people introduced to him if he doesn't agree with

1:50.8

her name.

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