Hi everyone, welcome to this week's episode of No Such Things a Fish, where we decided that we would help a new up and coming comedian who is our guest today. Andy, can you remember their name? I can't quite recall.

He's called Michael Paulin? Michael Paulin. Yeah, that's what I'm reading here. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, it's Michael Palin.

It's only bloody Michael Palin. It's only bloody Michael Palin. From everything, from Monty Python onwards. We are so excited to have Michael on the show. We hope you'll enjoy this one. We certainly did recording as you're about to hear. He's amazing. It was such a fun episode. He has a new book out. A lot of the facts that you hear at the start of this podcast will be recounted in that book, but there is so much more besides. And that book is called simply Michael Palin in Venezuela.

Michael Palin in Venezuela does exactly what it says on the tin. It's a brilliant book. Dan has read it from cover to cover

multiple times and he tells us that it's an incredible book. So you should definitely go out and

get that. And if you want to know anything more about Michael, then go to his website. It's

Michael Palin.com. And there's so much on there. Like you just can't, you'll be on there for weeks. Absolutely. And we have Clubfish, which is our super secret private, exclusive, extraordinary members club. You can get, add free episodes of fish. You can get bonus bits of fish. There is a longer version of the episode with Michael Palin, as with every other one. You can get Fish XL. There's so much other stuff and goodies on there. Go and check it out. It's at patreon.com slash no such thing as a fish. But in the meantime, please do enjoy this episode of No Such Thing as a Fish with Michael Palin. And why not check out some of the other stuff he's done? I've heard it's quite good. I think so. I think so.

On with the podcast.

On with the show.

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn.

My name is Dan Shriver. I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin, and Michael Palin.

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days, and in no particular order, here we go.

Starting with fact number one, and that is Michael.

In the Venezuelan Andes, there's a town called Merida, and it has two entries in the Guinness Book of Records.

One is the tallest cable car in the world, and the other is the eladaria Colomoto, which is an

ice cream parlor, which has the record number of ice cream varieties on sale.

860, including avocado, garlic and trout. Can you imagine that?

A trout ice cream, please?

Trout ice cream. Oh, daddy, can I have a trout ice cream? Mushroom and wine, gurkin, chili, shellfishes of some time.

You went to Venezuela.

Have you been to this town and to this specific ice cream parlor?

Well, I haven't been to the ice cream parlor.

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