Hi everyone just before we started this show we wanted to remind you of something that you should already be well aware of which is that our esteemed colleagues and co-podcasters Dan Schreiber and Andrew Hunter Murray have both written books and they are truly fantastic books.

So if you have anyone in your life who is a fish fan who God forbid thinks that Dan and Andy are the superior half of Fish

Perhaps that person is you then why not get them for Christmas a book by Dan and a book by Andy. Dan has written The Theory of Everything

else, and honestly, when I read it, on every page I thought, how have you been hogging

these facts for this book, rather than sharing them on the

podcast it is so selfish but it's made for a brilliant book stunning

revelations on every page. Andy has written the last day and the sanctuary.

They're both thrillers, they're real page turners.

There are fantastic twists and turns and of course they're making some very

intelligent points about society today.

So get both of those for anyone you know who's a big

fan of Dan and Andy. But Anna what if the people listening to this prefer

this half of the podcast, the James and Anna half of the podcast what are those people going to do?

Oh you mean the 95 other percent of our listeners? Oh I don't know James have we done anything

interesting lately? We have indeed I don't know if you recall because it was before you went on maternity leave,

but we wrote a book called Everything to Play For, the QI Book of Sports,

and it is another book that is jammed full of facts. Do you know why ancient Egyptian

athletes remove their spleons, why pool balls no longer explode on impact, how bumslepping

improves team performance.

All that and more you can learn in our book,

which is called everything to play for,

the QI book of sport.

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