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Hi, Fish fans.

Anna here.

Just thought you lot deserved a little treat.

You've made it through the winter or the summer if you're in the other hemisphere.

You all deserve this gift of a free extra episode.

This is an episode of Drop Us a Line, which is usually a show that we release on our subscriber-only channel.

It is where Andy gets a little go at hosting.

So if you want to hear how that turns out, keep listening.

And it's where we respond to your listener feedback.

As you will know, as a listener, you're all far more interesting and amusing than we are.

And so we read out your emails and you get our responses to them.

We take no responsibility for any offense caused in the reading out and responding to those emails.

And if you like the sound of it, then do sign up to Clubfish, which is our subscriber-only channel where we release lots of episodes of Drop Us a Line.

We do at least two bits of bonus content per month, trying out various little new formats, giving you compilations, best bits that we've cut out of the main episodes, and of course, you get ad-free main episodes.

So sign up if you like the sound of it, or if you absolutely love adverts and you hate what you're about to hear, then definitely don't sign up.

Okay, on with the show.

Hi.

Oh, hey, Andy.

Hey, everybody.

I forgot to do my interruption.

Do it again.

No.

Oh.

So, welcome to drop us a line, everyone.

Thanks for joining.

Thanks for being in Club Fish, you know?

We don't thank you guys enough, you Club Fish members, and we're so glad you're here.

Agreed.

Yeah.

And you've been writing to us, some of you.

Anna also agreed.

She nodded, but she just didn't say anything.

Very slightly.

I thought it all sounded really sarcastic, and I know if you guys sound sarcastic, I'm going to sound the most sarcastic, so I better keep my mouth shut.

So, you've been writing to us some great emails,

and we're going to read them out back to you now.

Great.

It's a circular system, it's very efficient, it's very sustainable.

It's very well, you printed all these emails out, I noticed.

Yeah, but on double-sided

double-sided, so I'm doing my bit.

Yeah,

size 25 font.

So we've had some great stuff.

Can we start with a really cool thing?

We've sent a bingo card for our own show.

Cool.

Have you seen this yet?

No.

No.

This is from Roz Kromhoff,

who has been working on a couple of other Sonic projects related to us, which I'm not going to give away at the moment because I think they might come into play later soon.

Wow.

I know.

She's working on something and she said, don't give the game away.

Okay.

Can I ask a related question?

Yeah.

Why is Sonic the Hedgehog called Sonic the the Hedgehog?

Why?

Because he goes faster than the speed of sound.

I made that up.

And also, that is not a related question.

You used the word Sonic.

I used the word Sonic.

Pretty related.

I don't think that's a good enough reason to derail email one of the show.

I thought I can't save this for later.

Otherwise, it'll be really irrelevant.

The bad guy in Sonic the Hedgehog is called Dr.

Robotnik.

Yeah.

And Robotnik in Russian means just a worker, right?

But in

the Hedgehog bad guy, he's like the boss guy.

He's not really a robotnik.

He's like, you know, a boss nik.

Do you think Sonic the Hedgehog is capitalist propaganda then?

Saying, actually, if you put the worker in charge, everything goes to shit.

Maybe.

What did the emails have to say about this, Andy?

So we've been sent this bingo card by Ross.

Is Sonic chat on there?

It's a bit devastating, to be honest.

It's really good.

So is it one of those things?

It's like, you know, you watch a TV show and there are these memes that come up every couple of weeks and you cross them out if they

predictably say them.

It's agony.

I'm just seeing if we've, if we've, I don't think we've crossed any of them so far.

Andy, can you explain how you play it?

I actually don't know how you would play this.

Well, you get a bingo card.

We would all have one of these.

And if James brings up golf, you cross that off.

And then when you make a line all the way through, you say bingo.

And does everyone have a different...

Everyone's got a different card.

But this is just an example card.

Yeah.

So James says, How interesting, and does not, in fact, sound interested.

My god, yes, I know, and I hadn't realized that until I read this.

I do know I do that.

I say it when I'm moving on to something else, and I do mean it, but because I'm thinking about the next thing that I'm about to say, I know that's why it sounds disinterested.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Is it disinterested or uninterested?

I think it's uninterested.

Uninterested, disinterested is when you're neutral on an issue, isn't it?

Interesting, when you don't want to.

Sneaky host book plug.

Oh, yeah.

There's a lot.

Andy uses an old-fashioned curse word.

Brackets, oh, crumbs.

Devastating.

Dan calls someone a character.

Oh.

Okay.

How do I do that?

I think you do a bit.

I think it's when someone is a sex case, but you're being a bit polite about it.

Does that come up a lot?

Sex cases.

But sort of histories, you know, historical people will often have facets to their personality which are very discomforting.

Oh, okay, a character.

That does, I feel like I say, like, oh, he's an interesting cookie.

Yeah, I think that might be an unfair interpretation of this person.

I feel like I'll be like, this guy was such a character.

And then I don't think it's always followed up with, you know, he used to grope women on the train all the time.

Okay, fair enough.

Fair enough.

Anna says, obviously.

Apparently, that is

a big thing for you, Anna.

Shit, really.

Yeah.

You're doing quite an extended solo word.

Yeah.

Oh, really what when one of you says something do i go obviously yeah kind of yeah

i should stop doing that

let's look out for these as we go into the further into the inbox that's really fun thank you roz it's great oh it's quite fun hearing them because it's making us think about what we do i think it's probably making us think too much about what we do and it's going to collapse the show interesting

that's my line i just needed that on my bingo card bingo what happens when you win do you drink something do you dan dan demonstrates he is very much a wife guy is on here oh man

well that's not going to get a tick in any future episodes okay i'm still with my wife by the way and love her very much

there we go

you can't cheat i don't think you can do what dan's doing here and cheat by mentioning all the things across off your bingo card

anyway so that's great fun thank you very much rob awesome um katie miara writes uh I wanted to share something you might be interested in.

This week you spoke about L.

Frank Baum's doughnut mishap, and James commented that he could eat 50 doughnuts in four days.

That's what I thought I could do.

I'm not going to back down on that quite yet.

Three at every meal for four days?

You can have some savory ones, some sweet ones.

Fine.

Okay, good.

Yeah.

I wondered if you're aware, writes Katie, of the annual Krispy Krem Challenge in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The challenge is to run two and a half miles.

James, you've done sort of half marathons and things, haven't you?

You could do that.

Yeah, I could do that for sure.

Eat 12 doughnuts.

I could definitely do that.

And then run the two and a half miles back

in under one hour.

Wow.

Okay, that's doable for sure.

I think that's doable.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This year's winner, Nick Scudder, completed it in 30 minutes.

That's very impressive.

This event raises money for a local children's hospital.

Is James up for the challenge?

Yeah, I'm up for that.

Great.

When does it happen?

It's in North Carolina in the first weekend of February.

Oh, wow.

Well, I've got a year to get into training.

I can eat 50 doughnuts every four days, and that should get me there.

Perfect.

Henry Thorne writes, his email is called australia facts okay um he says have you heard of the man from snowy river a film yeah well it's it's isn't it an epic it's an epic poem as well right oh okay no i haven't heard of it well he just has two facts and the first is australia based and the second is more personal first fact the craig's hut most famously used in the man from snowy river was rebuilt in 2006 by a man called craig very nice because it was called craig's hut before that is it a park what is it a

totem pole no it's a hut

oh the craig's Hut.

Yeah, yeah, sorry.

I thought you said the Craigshart.

The second fact he says is my wife Ellen has hand-served the most Clydesdale mayors in Australia for the last three years.

That's disgusting.

We do not need to know that.

She is the stud mistress at Aurunga Clydesdale's.

Oh my god, so it is that.

It is like she was a waiter at a restaurant on and she hand-served it.

And I thought when you said mayors, you said actually said mayors.

Yeah, I think you said that as well.

It's worse.

Mayors is worse.

I genuinely thought she was masturbating the head of government of this town.

Gold chains clanking away.

So I just think that's a great, great email.

And I wrote back saying, thank you.

We'll try and get that in sometime.

And he says, I have photos, decent ones.

It turns out that it's...

I think that's leading the females out to be...

to be seen seen today.

Right.

So you don't have to get involved with anything.

Right, okay.

So Man from snowy river just to say it i'm embarrassed that i didn't clock it straight away but it is an epic poem it's by banjo patterson who also wrote clancy of the overflow but also waltzing matilda so he's a very famous old

yeah he is

the laureate of old and

yeah um didn't know that very nice ashley smith writes uh i used to be a voice slash speech coach and i've been meaning to send this note for ages

Which one of us gets it?

Yeah, it's been 10 years, Ashley.

This is going to hurt.

Regarding the pronunciation of Alan and Robin Sticky's last day,

I've heard you all repeatedly pronouncing the E at the end, making sticky rhyme with sticky.

Sorry.

Andy's gone.

Well, we had a good run.

If you're saying it this way for comedic effect, please disregard this note.

If not, allow me to point out the E at the end of Thicky

is silent.

Alan Thicky even had a late-night talk show in the 80s called Thicky Thicky of the Night,

The title of which would have made no sense if his name rhymed with Thicky.

Does he have anything to say about the weekend?

I think that was really helpful.

Yeah, thank you, Ashley.

I've written back and said, no, don't worry.

What a shame to have missed that one episode.

We've just been living with that.

That's why you need to listen to all the episodes.

Absolutely.

Oh, here's a weird thing.

I don't know if you've ever mentioned this on the podcast or QI, but I surely have to be wrong because this is a very strong fish fact.

But in case you haven't, there is an actual fake but huge coal mine beneath Birmingham University built in 1905, made to teach coal mining to students.

So we have mentioned that.

You mentioned it, Anna, in episode 49.

I looked it up.

Oh.

But the email is from Andy Murray.

Okay.

That's terrifying stuff.

Yeah.

He says, says, not that one or that one.

There you go.

You know, there's a third, third Andy Murray.

Have I told you this?

That guy.

No.

Sorry, there's a fourth Andy Murray.

Oh, wow.

He's the head of the Stop the War Coalition back in the old days.

He's a very prominent communist.

And I was once introduced as him for a live event.

I was doing a debate about war, I think.

And someone stood up and said, Andy Murray is a prominent communist and the head of the Stop the War Coalition.

And I had to stand up and say, no, I'm not.

Close health improviser.

I should have gone straight up there and said, Okay, guys, we're all together.

We're in it together, but just give me a room, give me an object.

On camera inside, yes, okay.

I got a text message the other day from an old friend of ours, Richard Turner, who

was co-creator of Museum and Curiosity and producer.

Yeah, um, he was a very good friend of Tony Slattery's, British comedian, for those who don't know him.

He passed away quite recently.

So he had a funeral.

So Rich messaged me this.

He said, I went to Tony's funeral and was sort of expecting a guy there to be called Mike Mansfield, who he knows.

He had produced Tiger Bastables, which is a thing that Tony and Rich had made back in the day.

But the funeral was organized by many who have only known Tony more recently, so they might not have known about him.

But Mark, Tony's lifelong partner, must have told them to get hold of Mike Mansfield.

Mike wasn't there, but I did happen to spot the world-famous human rights lawyer, Michael Mansfield KC, wandering around and looking a bit lost.

That's amazing.

Just the world-famous human rights lawyer not have better stuff to do than rock up to funerals where he doesn't even know the person.

He might have thought there was a reason.

That's very

pot in his diary from somewhere.

Yeah, exactly.

You better go to this.

That's great.

That's so good.

Sam Cavallaro writes, in the bonus droppers aligned of January 2025, Andy wondered if there was a TV show where they followed an endoscope through a person's body.

It turns out there has been some progress on this front.

Someone we know, someone who was a guest of ours recently, has done this and swallowed a pill bot and filmed the whole thing.

So it's going to be like, what's his name?

Matt Parker.

Matt Parker or John Knoxville?

No, no, the

Tom Scott.

Right nationality, Anna.

Oh, did you say?

American.

Not Johnsville.

Kankarine.

Adam Savage.

Oh, Mythbuster.

Mythbuster came on stage in

Melbourne.

Brisbane.

In Brisbane.

Yeah, came on stage as part of the fish tour.

Surprise guest at the end of the show.

So he's done that.

Cool.

It's fine.

Christy sends effect about holding your coffee.

To stop it sloshing out of the cup, you should hold your cup with a claw grip or walk backwards.

Okay.

Those are the two options.

I've heard that.

Walking backwards doesn't sound like a way to stop anything spilling.

No.

No.

Turns out it's behind you.

But she adds, I love this P.S.

On another note, a fish episode from years ago inspired me to get a tattoo of Belfegora's Prime.

Oh, wow.

What is that that then?

It's a number.

And I believe,

I'm completely going off memory here, but I think it's one and then 13 or 17 zeros

and then maybe 13 and then another load of zeros and then one.

Okay.

I think.

But whatever way it is, it's an unusual prime number, I think.

Nice.

Well, she says, I work in research and development and I would love some little demon to whisper ideas for inventions in my ear, which I think must be related to the story behind Belphagor's Prime.

But I just thought that's very cool.

And have we talked about fish-based tattoos before?

I feel like we have done.

Have we asked listeners if they've got any?

I'd love it if we had some ink out there.

We never do this, but I have my phone on me.

It's one and then a load of zeros and then six, six, six, then a load of zeros.

Oh, cool.

Great.

So quite a quite big tattoo, it sounds like for her.

She's got very long legs.

Maybe.

You assume it's on the leg.

You know, might be a spinal thing.

Could be a lot of people do 666 on their forehead.

Yeah.

So you could do the entire.

That's really nice.

Um, so I think that's great.

So, if we've inspired you to get a tattoo, please uh write in and send us photos.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've never seen one on tour, that would usually be the place during a signing, right?

Maybe we're not cool enough for people to get tattoos.

Yeah, I feel like

our list is too sensible for that.

Yeah, I feel like we've got to cue the inbox being poisoned with some really repulsive pictures.

I got a tattoo of President Garfield's anus on my anus.

Oh, President Garfield's anus.

It's on the bingo card.

Amazing.

We should all get matching tattoos, like they did at the end of Lord of the Rings.

I mean, we've been working on this for longer than they were making Lord of the Rings.

Wait, Frodo and the and the other hobbies?

Everyone did.

Apart from, I think, maybe someone like Sam who got his stunt double to get a tattoo on him instead.

It was the guy who played.

And my axe.

Oh, Jonathan Reese Mayer.

Yeah, he does.

Oh, his stunt double.

But I don't think that's turned into a bit of a joke that he got his stunt double to do.

And instead, I think the stunt double was part of that gang anyway.

okay to get it but no they all got matching sorry i match who's offering i genuinely thought you meant in the plot at the end of the film before frodo sails off to heaven or wherever he goes in one last i think jr tolkian was not really a tats guy you know the um you know the ring the one true ring yeah it has writing on the inside doesn't it yeah so you could have that writing on the inside of your ring

that's a lovely idea yeah that's a lovely idea many have pop that on by the way we're usually accused of spoiling the end of books and movies for which we're we apologize for, but I think Frodo sailing off into heaven at the end is we're okay this time.

A really old spoiler without warning.

It's on the bingo card.

Is it?

Yep.

Have you seen it or did you just invent that end book?

No, that's basically what he gets on a boat and he sort of goes to

another world, right?

Sails into the west.

Yeah.

I think that's a that's basically ruins, isn't it?

Okay, so we have ruined it.

Andrew Burson writes, this is about an episode, one of the recent ones, New Zealand ones, which I wasn't in, but you got Josh Thompson in.

Oh, yeah, brilliant.

Oh, he was so good.

All right.

Best dab ever.

Okay, well,

buckle in.

Strap up.

Strap on.

Strap on.

I was at your recent show in Christchurch.

In fact, I went up on stage and was the lucky winner of James' sexy quiz.

Right.

Andy wasn't there because he had more important things to do.

The quiz, by the way, you will remember, wasn't sexy all the way through the tour, but it just got really sexy that night.

Wow.

I'm sorry to miss it.

Andy wasn't there because he had more important things to do, rude.

So you had Josh Thompson fill in for him on the night.

Yeah, he was so good.

Did you know, Q Sinister Music, that Josh Thompson has links to the Nazis?

Uh-oh, guys.

Okay.

As in he hates them.

No.

Josh went to Timaru Boys High School.

Timaru is a city south of Christchurch.

And on the grounds is a tree that was given by Hitler.

Really?

Yep.

Because a former student, Jack Lovelock, won gold in the 1500 meters at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 and was gifted an oak tree, as were all other gold medal winners.

When he returned, it was planted at the local high school and is still there today.

That's a great fact.

That's so good.

Yeah.

And I guess Josh blacklisted from the show.

Heather Morgan, your most recent episode, 563, is not the first time James has shown his card three Hoovers.

James suggested that most penis injuries come from vacuum cleaners.

In an earlier episode from a few months ago, the listeners, they really don't let you get away with anything.

James implied some sort of relationship between himself and his Henry Hoover.

Yeah, I don't own a Henry Hoover.

Not anymore.

No.

The restraining order exactly.

The human rights lawyer took it away.

This is a Michael Mansfield QC hearing for Henry.

Yeah,

fair enough.

I just think it's a funny trope.

It's funny.

It is a funny trope, yeah.

And so it just is the first thing that comes to my head when someone talks about Hoovers.

It's the first joke that comes into my mind.

And I very rarely go to the second joke.

We've never heard it.

What exactly is the second joke?

Here's something about we mentioned conductors who don't use their hands.

And you mentioned Leonard Bernstein doing his eyebrows.

Yeah, he was.

Is it Leonard Bernstein?

Here we go.

Yeah, yeah.

Because he was in the film, the famous film, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Well, Rose from Utah writes.

Bagpipe pipe majors always conduct without their hands because they are facing the other way from the band.

So using their hands would be a bit, you know, they're facing the wrong way for that.

So they keep time with their feet.

Dancing.

Is that like a marching exactly?

It's great single pipe back.

Because yeah, the conductor is right at the front, who's marching.

Maybe there'll be a bat on, but that's sometimes more decorative.

He should walk backwards because then he won't spill his tea.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So thank you for that.

That's a great one.

Great one, Rose.

Oh, James.

Yes, Andrew?

There's one for you here.

Great.

Martin Green.

He's about golf.

Oh, Green.

Well, you're going to be in the rough in a minute.

I got my Hoover back from the Airbnb.

You stayed in.

Oh, my God.

This is something you said a few weeks ago.

It was that Courtney Pike was the angling correspondent for the Suffolk Gazette.

Yes, I've had some correspondence about this.

Yeah, apparently I got tricked by a gag.

It's a joke website, the Suffolk Gazette.

And I didn't,

you know.

But you meant, you did it.

That was a massive list that you did.

So if one was wrong, then was it all wrong?

No, it wasn't all wrong.

So just one wrong.

So, yeah, that's going to happen.

That's going to happen.

That's Dan's approach to fact-finding.

Customer service at its finest.

It's going to look good.

I know, I know.

I just, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so I did a big, long list, and Cottony Pike.

I actually only saw the pike bit when I did the list.

And then Andy pointed out Cottony Pike is also a phrase.

And then I thought, what a brilliant name.

And it turned out that it's so brilliant because someone thought of it.

Yeah.

Well, fair enough.

But as Dan says, it's going to happen.

No one's hurt.

In that case, no one's hurt.

That one's just funny.

It's like the time, I mean, we've all, gosh, we've all done this.

Do you remember my big flub?

I do because you insisted we do an advert at the top of the next show to correct it.

Do you remember that?

The April Fool's one about the elephants in Cornwall.

Yeah.

Oh, boy.

I don't remember this.

What did you say?

It was saying that all the major roads in Cornwall today follow the routes of migration elephants

during the last ice age.

And that's a joke.

I should have realized it's not true because there aren't any major roads in Cornwall, sadly.

But you were devastated at the time.

Oh, God, I was so gussy.

You literally did an apology at the top of the show.

Quite exactly.

I should have just said it's going to happen.

Oh, well, let's have a Corkney Pike apology next week.

Get onto it immediately.

Here's a great bonus fact about someone we mentioned a little while ago.

So

we mentioned Dick Sweat, an American politician.

Oh, yeah.

Remember him?

Izumi Kajimoto writes, I went to university with the former US ambassador to Denmark.

Two additional facts.

One, he was a triathlete.

Dick Sweat is a jock.

Okay.

Two, his roommate's name was Timber Dick.

No,

not a real name.

That's a nickname, isn't it?

I don't know.

I have not looked it up.

I mean, it sounds plausible.

Timber passed away tragically, but had a notable career and family.

Ten kids.

Wow, you wouldn't have thought that would be possible, would you?

With

his assets.

Congratulations, Timber, and thank you, Izumi.

Timber!

This never happens, I swear.

Andrew X writes, formerly Andrew Twitter.

Sorry.

Sorry.

You said it's that Andrew the 10th.

It's Pope Andrew X

rights.

I was a little bit worried about the advice you gave in the Valentine's Day episode that immediately doing CPR on a severely hypothermic, seemingly dead person is the right thing to do.

This could potentially kill them by pumping cold blood to their core and giving them a heart attack.

From my wilderness first responder training, I thought this was a definite no-no, but on checking, current advice seems to be a little more nuanced.

But you really need to be careful.

And I think we can all get behind that.

Is this the kind of thing we say at the top of next week's episode?

Or is that?

Don't face your.

If your friend is in the ice,

don't get your podcast out.

I know there was something about this on F Son of Fish recently.

No, I've got to listen from the start.

Otherwise, I want to understand it.

It's not thicky.

I've just got to send them a quick email about the thicky dick.

So, yeah, I think we're happy to set the record straight on that.

I mean, it's nuanced.

Well, in that case, it worked, right?

In that case, it did work.

So, yeah, yeah.

Quite famously.

So, there we go.

One last one.

Yeah.

This is good news.

Woohoo.

We're going to be rich.

Woohoo.

Yeah.

Lovely.

David John Welsh writes,

I'm a Nigerian prince.

Although you probably no longer need the money after the successful multi-million dollar lawsuit with Lim Manuel Miranda,

we invented Hamilton the Musical, basically, months before he came onto the scene with his musical Hamilton.

Not quite right, but yeah.

I'm writing to inform you of another potential lawsuit.

Brilliant.

Yeah.

I often listen to old episodes of fish on my commute, usually at random.

Imagine my surprise then on hearing the unbroadcastable material from 2014.

The unbroadcastable.

I think that was a compilation, a first compilation, probably, where it was a reveal, here's the worst of fish.

Yeah, it just started.

I know.

Can't believe we had enough of unbroadcastable material.

Yeah.

I was surprised to hear you all basically pitch, Is It Cake?

a full eight years before that show made its way onto netflix really way

so david adds some nuance here i'm afraid oh here we go okay so the item in your pitch wasn't cake it was bushes

it was

the episode i'd listened to right before it was the drop of the line in which you created keiko so you might oh do you remember the superhero keiko

i don't remember what keiko did

i know that it was the keiko the killer whale the whale but no superhero the superhero keiko was different was not a whale, I'm sure.

Anyway, here's the quotes.

But it was based on Keiko the whale.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Here are these quotes from this episode from 10 years ago.

Andy says, be the bush.

It's just a load of bushes and you have to guess which one is a person.

Dan says, camouflage the TV series, which of these is not a tree.

So that's...

That's very similar to, is it cake, where you're presented with an object and it's either cake or not.

Yeah, it's basically the same format.

It is.

Yeah.

As the person who brought this to your attention, I will expect you will want to offer me a large cash reward.

I appreciate the sentiment, but I will settle for just knowing from where Keiko produces his or her cake.

So thank you, David.

I reckon probably a damaged blowhole.

Oh my god.

So that's thank you so much, everybody.

That's our lot today.

And just keep sleuthing them into the inbox.

We love getting them.

Podcast at QI.com.

Yeah, if you've listened to an old episode and you find that we've predicted something that subsequently happened, we really love that stuff.

Yeah.

Or any suggestion for how we can make millions.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That would be useful.

We're up for it.

And just, I mean, thanks so much for your correspondence.

And.

So it's very sarcastic, isn't it?

What with the way I speak?

Just with the thank you specifically.

It's very hard to do sincerely.

Yeah, sorry, yeah.

Thank you.

Guys, thank you.

No, that sounds worse.

Yeah, it's not, but once someone tells you you sound sarcastic, you can only sound one more sarcastic.

No, no, no.

Thanks for nothing.

That was really good, Andy.

Interesting.

How interesting.

Bye.

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