Club Fish - Drop Us A Line - March 2025

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Speaker 4 Suffs, the new musical has made Tony award-winning history on Broadway. We demand to be honest.
Winner, best score. We demand to be seen.
Winner, best book. We demand to be quality.

Speaker 4 It's a theatrical masterpiece that's thrilling, inspiring, dazzlingly entertaining, and unquestionably the most emotionally stirring musical this season.

Speaker 4 Suffs, playing the Orpheum Theater, October 22nd through November 9th. Tickets at BroadwaySF.com.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We take no responsibility for any offense caused in the reading out and responding to those emails.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 7 Hi.

Speaker 8 Oh, hey, Andy. Hey, everybody.

Speaker 9 I forgot to do my interruption.

Speaker 10 Do it again. No.
Oh.

Speaker 11 So, welcome to drop us a line, everyone.

Speaker 13 Thanks for joining.

Speaker 14 Thanks for being in Club Fish, you know?

Speaker 16 We don't thank you guys enough, you Club Fish members, and we're so glad you're here.

Speaker 19 Agreed. Yeah.

Speaker 21 And you've been writing to us, some of you.

Speaker 9 Anna also agreed.

Speaker 19 She nodded, but she just didn't say anything.

Speaker 22 Very slightly.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 24 So, you've been writing to us some great emails,

Speaker 25 and we're going to read them out back to you now.

Speaker 11 Great.

Speaker 26 It's a circular system, it's very efficient, it's very sustainable.

Speaker 9 It's very well, you printed all these emails out, I noticed.

Speaker 29 Yeah, but on double-sided

Speaker 10 double-sided, so I'm doing my bit.

Speaker 31 Yeah,

Speaker 32 size 25 font.

Speaker 3 So we've had some great stuff.

Speaker 37 Can we start with a really cool thing?

Speaker 13 We've sent a bingo card for our own show.

Speaker 34 Cool. Have you seen this yet? No.
No.

Speaker 38 This is from Roz Kromhoff,

Speaker 29 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.

Speaker 41 Wow.

Speaker 42 I know.

Speaker 38 She's working on something and she said, don't give the game away.

Speaker 19 Okay.

Speaker 22 Can I ask a related question?

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Why is Sonic the Hedgehog called Sonic the the Hedgehog?

Speaker 9 Why? Because he goes faster than the speed of sound.

Speaker 15 I made that up. And also, that is not a related question.

Speaker 46 You used the word Sonic.

Speaker 37 I used the word Sonic.

Speaker 47 Pretty related.

Speaker 29 I don't think that's a good enough reason to derail email one of the show.

Speaker 3 I thought I can't save this for later. Otherwise, it'll be really irrelevant.

Speaker 9 The bad guy in Sonic the Hedgehog is called Dr. Robotnik.
Yeah. And Robotnik in Russian means just a worker, right?

Speaker 9 But in

Speaker 9 the Hedgehog bad guy, he's like the boss guy. He's not really a robotnik.
He's like, you know, a boss nik.

Speaker 3 Do you think Sonic the Hedgehog is capitalist propaganda then? Saying, actually, if you put the worker in charge, everything goes to shit.

Speaker 9 Maybe.

Speaker 3 What did the emails have to say about this, Andy?

Speaker 28 So we've been sent this bingo card by Ross.

Speaker 7 Is Sonic chat on there?

Speaker 11 It's a bit devastating, to be honest.

Speaker 29 It's really good.

Speaker 23 So is it one of those things?

Speaker 9 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

Speaker 9 predictably say them.

Speaker 43 It's agony.

Speaker 25 I'm just seeing if we've, if we've, I don't think we've crossed any of them so far.

Speaker 50 Andy, can you explain how you play it? I actually don't know how you would play this.

Speaker 31 Well, you get a bingo card.

Speaker 11 We would all have one of these. And if James brings up golf, you cross that off.

Speaker 28 And then when you make a line all the way through, you say bingo.

Speaker 50 And does everyone have a different...

Speaker 21 Everyone's got a different card.

Speaker 11 But this is just an example card.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 43 So James says, How interesting, and does not, in fact, sound interested.

Speaker 42 My god, yes, I know, and I hadn't realized that until I read this.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 53 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 9 Is it disinterested or uninterested?

Speaker 19 I think it's uninterested.

Speaker 43 Uninterested, disinterested is when you're neutral on an issue, isn't it?

Speaker 9 Interesting, when you don't want to.

Speaker 54 Sneaky host book plug.

Speaker 27 Oh, yeah. There's a lot.

Speaker 28 Andy uses an old-fashioned curse word.

Speaker 37 Brackets, oh, crumbs.

Speaker 28 Devastating.

Speaker 16 Dan calls someone a character.

Speaker 36 Oh.

Speaker 19 Okay. How do I do that?

Speaker 33 I think you do a bit.

Speaker 29 I think it's when someone is a sex case, but you're being a bit polite about it.

Speaker 45 Does that come up a lot?

Speaker 7 Sex cases.

Speaker 30 But sort of histories, you know, historical people will often have facets to their personality which are very discomforting.

Speaker 39 Oh, okay, a character.

Speaker 32 That does, I feel like I say, like, oh, he's an interesting cookie.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think that might be an unfair interpretation of this person.

Speaker 9 I feel like I'll be like, this guy was such a character.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 54 Okay, fair enough. Fair enough.

Speaker 11 Anna says, obviously.

Speaker 37 Apparently, that is

Speaker 56 a big thing for you, Anna.

Speaker 42 Shit, really. Yeah.

Speaker 50 You're doing quite an extended solo word. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, really what when one of you says something do i go obviously yeah kind of yeah

Speaker 3 i should stop doing that

Speaker 50 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

Speaker 11 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

Speaker 50 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

Speaker 48 there we go

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 54 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.

Speaker 31 This week you spoke about L.

Speaker 25 Frank Baum's doughnut mishap, and James commented that he could eat 50 doughnuts in four days.

Speaker 26 That's what I thought I could do.

Speaker 19 I'm not going to back down on that quite yet.

Speaker 29 Three at every meal for four days?

Speaker 28 You can have some savory ones, some sweet ones.

Speaker 17 Fine.

Speaker 39 Okay, good. Yeah.

Speaker 28 I wondered if you're aware, writes Katie, of the annual Krispy Krem Challenge in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Speaker 11 The challenge is to run two and a half miles.

Speaker 38 James, you've done sort of half marathons and things, haven't you?

Speaker 44 You could do that. Yeah, I could do that for sure.

Speaker 39 Eat 12 doughnuts.

Speaker 20 I could definitely do that. And then run the two and a half miles back

Speaker 18 in under one hour.

Speaker 19 Wow. Okay, that's doable for sure.

Speaker 37 I think that's doable. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 This year's winner, Nick Scudder, completed it in 30 minutes.

Speaker 38 That's very impressive.

Speaker 43 This event raises money for a local children's hospital.

Speaker 51 Is James up for the challenge?

Speaker 32 Yeah, I'm up for that. Great.
When does it happen?

Speaker 52 It's in North Carolina in the first weekend of February.

Speaker 48 Oh, wow.

Speaker 9 Well, I've got a year to get into training.

Speaker 7 I can eat 50 doughnuts every four days, and that should get me there.

Speaker 37 Perfect.

Speaker 22 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

Speaker 42 totem pole no it's a hut

Speaker 3 oh the craig's Hut. Yeah, yeah, sorry.
I thought you said the Craigshart.

Speaker 28 The second fact he says is my wife Ellen has hand-served the most Clydesdale mayors in Australia for the last three years.

Speaker 7 That's disgusting.

Speaker 7 We do not need to know that.

Speaker 59 She is the stud mistress at Aurunga Clydesdale's.

Speaker 19 Oh my god, so it is that. It is like she was a waiter at a restaurant on and she hand-served it.

Speaker 9 And I thought when you said mayors, you said actually said mayors.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I think you said that as well. It's worse.

Speaker 48 Mayors is worse.

Speaker 9 I genuinely thought she was masturbating the head of government of this town.

Speaker 33 Gold chains clanking away.

Speaker 7 So I just think that's a great, great email.

Speaker 33 And I wrote back saying, thank you.

Speaker 30 We'll try and get that in sometime.

Speaker 24 And he says, I have photos, decent ones.

Speaker 24 It turns out that it's...

Speaker 57 I think that's leading the females out to be...

Speaker 37 to be seen seen today.

Speaker 44 Right.

Speaker 12 So you don't have to get involved with anything.

Speaker 50 Right, okay.

Speaker 50 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

Speaker 33 yeah he is

Speaker 19 the laureate of old and

Speaker 29 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

Speaker 9 Which one of us gets it?

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's been 10 years, Ashley.

Speaker 2 This is going to hurt.

Speaker 53 Regarding the pronunciation of Alan and Robin Sticky's last day,

Speaker 53 I've heard you all repeatedly pronouncing the E at the end, making sticky rhyme with sticky.

Speaker 34 Sorry.

Speaker 23 Andy's gone.

Speaker 42 Well, we had a good run.

Speaker 46 If you're saying it this way for comedic effect, please disregard this note.

Speaker 24 If not, allow me to point out the E at the end of Thicky

Speaker 37 is silent.

Speaker 42 Alan Thicky even had a late-night talk show in the 80s called Thicky Thicky of the Night,

Speaker 53 The title of which would have made no sense if his name rhymed with Thicky.

Speaker 9 Does he have anything to say about the weekend?

Speaker 46 I think that was really helpful.

Speaker 27 Yeah, thank you, Ashley.

Speaker 30 I've written back and said, no, don't worry.

Speaker 23 What a shame to have missed that one episode.

Speaker 7 We've just been living with that.

Speaker 23 That's why you need to listen to all the episodes.

Speaker 24 Absolutely.

Speaker 27 Oh, here's a weird thing.

Speaker 57 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.

Speaker 25 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.

Speaker 13 So we have mentioned that.

Speaker 12 You mentioned it, Anna, in episode 49. I looked it up.

Speaker 39 Oh.

Speaker 16 But the email is from Andy Murray.

Speaker 59 Okay.

Speaker 38 That's terrifying stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 17 He says, says, not that one or that one.

Speaker 7 There you go.

Speaker 39 You know, there's a third, third Andy Murray. Have I told you this?

Speaker 49 That guy.

Speaker 15 No.

Speaker 26 Sorry, there's a fourth Andy Murray. Oh, wow.
He's the head of the Stop the War Coalition back in the old days.

Speaker 25 He's a very prominent communist.

Speaker 29 And I was once introduced as him for a live event.

Speaker 24 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.

Speaker 38 And I had to stand up and say, no, I'm not.

Speaker 33 Close health improviser.

Speaker 9 I should have gone straight up there and said, Okay, guys, we're all together.

Speaker 32 We're in it together, but just give me a room, give me an object.

Speaker 9 On camera inside, yes, okay.

Speaker 50 I got a text message the other day from an old friend of ours, Richard Turner, who

Speaker 50 was co-creator of Museum and Curiosity and producer.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 32 So he had a funeral.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 He had produced Tiger Bastables, which is a thing that Tony and Rich had made back in the day.

Speaker 50 But the funeral was organized by many who have only known Tony more recently, so they might not have known about him.

Speaker 50 But Mark, Tony's lifelong partner, must have told them to get hold of Mike Mansfield.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 9 That's amazing.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 53 He might have thought there was a reason.

Speaker 19 That's very

Speaker 9 pot in his diary from somewhere.

Speaker 33 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 You better go to this.

Speaker 41 That's great.

Speaker 36 That's so good.

Speaker 11 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.

Speaker 57 It turns out there has been some progress on this front.

Speaker 26 Someone we know, someone who was a guest of ours recently, has done this and swallowed a pill bot and filmed the whole thing.

Speaker 50 So it's going to be like, what's his name?

Speaker 15 Matt Parker.

Speaker 18 Matt Parker or John Knoxville?

Speaker 31 No, no, the

Speaker 39 Tom Scott.

Speaker 31 Right nationality, Anna.

Speaker 37 Oh, did you say? American.

Speaker 56 Not Johnsville. Kankarine.

Speaker 16 Adam Savage.

Speaker 48 Oh, Mythbuster.

Speaker 8 Mythbuster came on stage in

Speaker 56 Melbourne.

Speaker 10 Brisbane.

Speaker 37 In Brisbane.

Speaker 50 Yeah, came on stage as part of the fish tour. Surprise guest at the end of the show.

Speaker 38 So he's done that.

Speaker 39 Cool.

Speaker 39 It's fine.

Speaker 31 Christy sends effect about holding your coffee.

Speaker 11 To stop it sloshing out of the cup, you should hold your cup with a claw grip or walk backwards.

Speaker 38 Okay.

Speaker 51 Those are the two options. I've heard that.

Speaker 3 Walking backwards doesn't sound like a way to stop anything spilling.

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 38 No. Turns out it's behind you.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 24 Oh, wow.

Speaker 24 What is that that then?

Speaker 9 It's a number.

Speaker 9 And I believe,

Speaker 9 I'm completely going off memory here, but I think it's one and then 13 or 17 zeros

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 39 Nice.

Speaker 11 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.

Speaker 37 But I just thought that's very cool. And have we talked about fish-based tattoos before?

Speaker 39 I feel like we have done.

Speaker 37 Have we asked listeners if they've got any?

Speaker 21 I'd love it if we had some ink out there.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 44 Oh, cool.

Speaker 56 Great.

Speaker 3 So quite a quite big tattoo, it sounds like for her.

Speaker 18 She's got very long legs.

Speaker 54 Maybe.

Speaker 24 You assume it's on the leg.

Speaker 19 You know, might be a spinal thing.

Speaker 9 Could be a lot of people do 666 on their forehead.

Speaker 36 Yeah.

Speaker 7 So you could do the entire.

Speaker 16 That's really nice.

Speaker 37 Um, so I think that's great.

Speaker 28 So, if we've inspired you to get a tattoo, please uh write in and send us photos.

Speaker 50 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've never seen one on tour, that would usually be the place during a signing, right?

Speaker 31 Maybe we're not cool enough for people to get tattoos.

Speaker 44 Yeah, I feel like

Speaker 9 our list is too sensible for that.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I feel like we've got to cue the inbox being poisoned with some really repulsive pictures.

Speaker 57 I got a tattoo of President Garfield's anus on my anus.

Speaker 46 Oh, President Garfield's anus. It's on the bingo card.

Speaker 33 Amazing.

Speaker 30 We should all get matching tattoos, like they did at the end of Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 30 I mean, we've been working on this for longer than they were making Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 38 Wait, Frodo and the and the other hobbies?

Speaker 3 Everyone did.

Speaker 31 Apart from, I think, maybe someone like Sam who got his stunt double to get a tattoo on him instead.

Speaker 3 It was the guy who played.

Speaker 19 And my axe. Oh, Jonathan Reese Mayer.
Yeah, he does. Oh, his stunt double.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 9 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

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 29 A really old spoiler without warning.

Speaker 14 It's on the bingo card.

Speaker 8 Is it?

Speaker 48 Yep.

Speaker 26 Have you seen it or did you just invent that end book?

Speaker 3 No, that's basically what he gets on a boat and he sort of goes to

Speaker 3 another world, right?

Speaker 11 Sails into the west.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I think that's a that's basically ruins, isn't it?

Speaker 37 Okay, so we have ruined it.

Speaker 30 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.

Speaker 31 Oh, yeah, brilliant.

Speaker 9 Oh, he was so good. All right.

Speaker 44 Best dab ever. Okay, well,

Speaker 59 buckle in.

Speaker 39 Strap up.

Speaker 59 Strap on. Strap on.

Speaker 22 I was at your recent show in Christchurch.

Speaker 54 In fact, I went up on stage and was the lucky winner of James' sexy quiz.

Speaker 37 Right.

Speaker 31 Andy wasn't there because he had more important things to do.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 28 Wow.

Speaker 16 I'm sorry to miss it.

Speaker 28 Andy wasn't there because he had more important things to do, rude.

Speaker 25 So you had Josh Thompson fill in for him on the night.

Speaker 9 Yeah, he was so good.

Speaker 17 Did you know, Q Sinister Music, that Josh Thompson has links to the Nazis?

Speaker 24 Uh-oh, guys.

Speaker 9 Okay. As in he hates them.

Speaker 31 No.

Speaker 25 Josh went to Timaru Boys High School.

Speaker 22 Timaru is a city south of Christchurch.

Speaker 17 And on the grounds is a tree that was given by Hitler.

Speaker 19 Really?

Speaker 19 Yep.

Speaker 31 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.

Speaker 29 When he returned, it was planted at the local high school and is still there today.

Speaker 37 That's a great fact.

Speaker 3 That's so good. Yeah.
And I guess Josh blacklisted from the show.

Speaker 17 Heather Morgan, your most recent episode, 563, is not the first time James has shown his card three Hoovers.

Speaker 25 James suggested that most penis injuries come from vacuum cleaners.

Speaker 44 In an earlier episode from a few months ago, the listeners, they really don't let you get away with anything.

Speaker 25 James implied some sort of relationship between himself and his Henry Hoover.

Speaker 44 Yeah, I don't own a Henry Hoover.

Speaker 18 Not anymore. No.

Speaker 7 The restraining order exactly. The human rights lawyer took it away.

Speaker 18 This is a Michael Mansfield QC hearing for Henry.

Speaker 56 Yeah,

Speaker 9 fair enough. I just think it's a funny trope.

Speaker 32 It's funny.

Speaker 44 It is a funny trope, yeah.

Speaker 9 And so it just is the first thing that comes to my head when someone talks about Hoovers.

Speaker 9 It's the first joke that comes into my mind. And I very rarely go to the second joke.

Speaker 18 We've never heard it.

Speaker 7 What exactly is the second joke?

Speaker 25 Here's something about we mentioned conductors who don't use their hands.

Speaker 8 And you mentioned Leonard Bernstein doing his eyebrows.

Speaker 33 Yeah, he was.

Speaker 19 Is it Leonard Bernstein? Here we go.

Speaker 47 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 28 Because he was in the film, the famous film, right?

Speaker 44 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 Well, Rose from Utah writes.

Speaker 30 Bagpipe pipe majors always conduct without their hands because they are facing the other way from the band.

Speaker 31 So using their hands would be a bit, you know, they're facing the wrong way for that.

Speaker 25 So they keep time with their feet.

Speaker 46 Dancing.

Speaker 9 Is that like a marching exactly?

Speaker 12 It's great single pipe back.

Speaker 28 Because yeah, the conductor is right at the front, who's marching.

Speaker 26 Maybe there'll be a bat on, but that's sometimes more decorative.

Speaker 9 He should walk backwards because then he won't spill his tea.

Speaker 24 Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 44 So thank you for that. That's a great one.

Speaker 39 Great one, Rose.

Speaker 40 Oh, James.

Speaker 38 Yes, Andrew? There's one for you here.

Speaker 41 Great. Martin Green.

Speaker 31 He's about golf.

Speaker 19 Oh, Green.

Speaker 41 Well, you're going to be in the rough in a minute.

Speaker 56 I got my Hoover back from the Airbnb.

Speaker 7 You stayed in.

Speaker 40 Oh, my God.

Speaker 37 This is something you said a few weeks ago.

Speaker 28 It was that Courtney Pike was the angling correspondent for the Suffolk Gazette.

Speaker 9 Yes, I've had some correspondence about this. Yeah, apparently I got tricked by a gag.

Speaker 14 It's a joke website, the Suffolk Gazette.

Speaker 44 And I didn't,

Speaker 17 you know.

Speaker 50 But you meant, you did it. That was a massive list that you did.

Speaker 26 So if one was wrong, then was it all wrong?

Speaker 44 No, it wasn't all wrong.

Speaker 23 So just one wrong. So, yeah, that's going to happen.

Speaker 48 That's going to happen.

Speaker 3 That's Dan's approach to fact-finding.

Speaker 55 Customer service at its finest.

Speaker 7 It's going to look good.

Speaker 7 I know, I know.

Speaker 51 I just, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, so I did a big, long list, and Cottony Pike.

Speaker 9 I actually only saw the pike bit when I did the list.

Speaker 9 And then Andy pointed out Cottony Pike is also a phrase.

Speaker 9 And then I thought, what a brilliant name. And it turned out that it's so brilliant because someone thought of it.

Speaker 15 Yeah. Well, fair enough.

Speaker 26 But as Dan says, it's going to happen.

Speaker 15 No one's hurt.

Speaker 50 In that case, no one's hurt.

Speaker 16 That one's just funny. It's like the time, I mean, we've all, gosh, we've all done this.

Speaker 58 Do you remember my big flub?

Speaker 50 I do because you insisted we do an advert at the top of the next show to correct it. Do you remember that?

Speaker 31 The April Fool's one about the elephants in Cornwall. Yeah.

Speaker 39 Oh, boy.

Speaker 18 I don't remember this.

Speaker 49 What did you say?

Speaker 30 It was saying that all the major roads in Cornwall today follow the routes of migration elephants

Speaker 37 during the last ice age.

Speaker 43 And that's a joke.

Speaker 19 I should have realized it's not true because there aren't any major roads in Cornwall, sadly.

Speaker 32 But you were devastated at the time.

Speaker 15 Oh, God, I was so gussy.

Speaker 32 You literally did an apology at the top of the show.

Speaker 19 Quite exactly.

Speaker 21 I should have just said it's going to happen.

Speaker 18 Oh, well, let's have a Corkney Pike apology next week.

Speaker 42 Get onto it immediately.

Speaker 41 Here's a great bonus fact about someone we mentioned a little while ago.

Speaker 44 So

Speaker 16 we mentioned Dick Sweat, an American politician.

Speaker 19 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 18 Remember him?

Speaker 25 Izumi Kajimoto writes, I went to university with the former US ambassador to Denmark.

Speaker 24 Two additional facts.

Speaker 26 One, he was a triathlete.

Speaker 38 Dick Sweat is a jock.

Speaker 18 Okay.

Speaker 26 Two, his roommate's name was Timber Dick.

Speaker 47 No,

Speaker 9 not a real name. That's a nickname, isn't it?

Speaker 39 I don't know.

Speaker 38 I have not looked it up.

Speaker 9 I mean, it sounds plausible.

Speaker 31 Timber passed away tragically, but had a notable career and family. Ten kids.

Speaker 7 Wow, you wouldn't have thought that would be possible, would you?

Speaker 18 With

Speaker 18 his assets.

Speaker 24 Congratulations, Timber, and thank you, Izumi.

Speaker 48 Timber!

Speaker 19 This never happens, I swear.

Speaker 39 Andrew X writes, formerly Andrew Twitter.

Speaker 45 Sorry.

Speaker 48 Sorry.

Speaker 9 You said it's that Andrew the 10th.

Speaker 24 It's Pope Andrew X

Speaker 44 rights.

Speaker 25 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.

Speaker 14 This could potentially kill them by pumping cold blood to their core and giving them a heart attack.

Speaker 25 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.

Speaker 41 And I think we can all get behind that.

Speaker 7 Is this the kind of thing we say at the top of next week's episode? Or is that?

Speaker 18 Don't face your.

Speaker 51 If your friend is in the ice,

Speaker 18 don't get your podcast out.

Speaker 23 I know there was something about this on F Son of Fish recently.

Speaker 7 No, I've got to listen from the start. Otherwise, I want to understand it.

Speaker 34 It's not thicky.

Speaker 55 I've just got to send them a quick email about the thicky dick.

Speaker 18 So, yeah, I think we're happy to set the record straight on that. I mean, it's nuanced.

Speaker 50 Well, in that case, it worked, right?

Speaker 23 In that case, it did work. So, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 32 Quite famously. So, there we go.

Speaker 24 One last one.

Speaker 37 Yeah. This is good news.

Speaker 39 Woohoo. We're going to be rich.

Speaker 38 Woohoo.

Speaker 18 Yeah. Lovely.

Speaker 11 David John Welsh writes,

Speaker 9 I'm a Nigerian prince.

Speaker 30 Although you probably no longer need the money after the successful multi-million dollar lawsuit with Lim Manuel Miranda,

Speaker 29 we invented Hamilton the Musical, basically, months before he came onto the scene with his musical Hamilton.

Speaker 44 Not quite right, but yeah.

Speaker 25 I'm writing to inform you of another potential lawsuit.

Speaker 39 Brilliant. Yeah.

Speaker 57 I often listen to old episodes of fish on my commute, usually at random.

Speaker 11 Imagine my surprise then on hearing the unbroadcastable material from 2014.

Speaker 36 The unbroadcastable.

Speaker 19 I think that was a compilation, a first compilation, probably, where it was a reveal, here's the worst of fish.

Speaker 39 Yeah, it just started.

Speaker 27 I know.

Speaker 3 Can't believe we had enough of unbroadcastable material. Yeah.

Speaker 31 I was surprised to hear you all basically pitch, Is It Cake?

Speaker 30 a full eight years before that show made its way onto netflix really way

Speaker 18 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

Speaker 23 it was

Speaker 22 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

Speaker 8 i don't remember what keiko did

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 12 Anyway, here's the quotes.

Speaker 3 But it was based on Keiko the whale.

Speaker 20 Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 14 Here are these quotes from this episode from 10 years ago.

Speaker 31 Andy says, be the bush.

Speaker 11 It's just a load of bushes and you have to guess which one is a person.

Speaker 26 Dan says, camouflage the TV series, which of these is not a tree.

Speaker 37 So that's...

Speaker 29 That's very similar to, is it cake, where you're presented with an object and it's either cake or not.

Speaker 12 Yeah, it's basically the same format. It is.

Speaker 34 Yeah.

Speaker 11 As the person who brought this to your attention, I will expect you will want to offer me a large cash reward.

Speaker 28 I appreciate the sentiment, but I will settle for just knowing from where Keiko produces his or her cake.

Speaker 24 So thank you, David.

Speaker 29 I reckon probably a damaged blowhole.

Speaker 34 Oh my god.

Speaker 15 So that's thank you so much, everybody.

Speaker 37 That's our lot today.

Speaker 58 And just keep sleuthing them into the inbox.

Speaker 6 We love getting them.

Speaker 24 Podcast at QI.com.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Or any suggestion for how we can make millions.
Yeah.

Speaker 32 Yeah. That would be useful.

Speaker 59 We're up for it.

Speaker 25 And just, I mean, thanks so much for your correspondence.

Speaker 50 And.

Speaker 3 So it's very sarcastic, isn't it?

Speaker 30 What with the way I speak?

Speaker 3 Just with the thank you specifically. It's very hard to do sincerely.

Speaker 19 Yeah, sorry, yeah.

Speaker 21 Thank you.

Speaker 22 Guys, thank you.

Speaker 3 No, that sounds worse. Yeah, it's not, but once someone tells you you sound sarcastic, you can only sound one more sarcastic.

Speaker 39 No, no, no. Thanks for nothing.

Speaker 44 That was really good, Andy.

Speaker 15 Interesting.

Speaker 26 How interesting.

Speaker 49 Bye.

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