No Such Thing As The Turin Towelette

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss bear toys, bare humans, and a museum that is barely there.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast
0:22.8	of Best of the Half-Eauer series on Saturday on Midday.
0:46.5	We're our four favorite facts of the last seven days.
0:49.9	And in about that regular honor, here we go!
0:54.9	Oh!
0:55.9	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:02.3	OK, calm the fuck down, everyone.
1:04.3	LAUGHTER
1:07.3	Starting with fact number one, and that is James.
1:10.9	OK, my fact this week is that in 1954,
1:15.0	it became illegal to bathe completely naked in East Germany.
1:19.7	So, natureists started going to the beach wearing nothing but a tie.
1:24.0	LAUGHTER
1:30.7	So, just before, well what, we've actually said this before,
1:34.0	Hitler banned natureism in the Nazi government,
1:37.0	but almost immediately unbanned it, because it was so unpopular.
1:41.2	And then it kind of became part of the Nazi tradition that, you know,
1:46.2	we're going to allow people to be naked if they want to be, to be nudist, if they want.
1:51.0	And so, when East Germany became a country,
1:53.8	and they wanted to be away from the fascists and with the communists,
1:56.8	they saw natureism as like this fascist symbol from the past,
2:01.2	and so they decided to ban it.
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