94: No Such Thing As Sexy Mucus Pajamas

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Speaker 10 Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast.

Speaker 13 This week, coming to you from the Up the Creek Comedy Club in Greenwich.

Speaker 15 My name is Dan Schreiber.

Speaker 16 I'm joined as ever by Anna Chaczynski, James Harkin, and Andy Murray.

Speaker 18 And once again, we have gathered around the microphones, but this time with your favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 19 I have a fact about the silver age of comics.

Speaker 20 Who's that from?

Speaker 4 Hey, hello.

Speaker 18 Should we do a Twitter fact while we're waiting for the microphone to get over?

Speaker 21 So this was sent in to us by John Winter Holt.

Speaker 24 There is a chemical called arsol.

Speaker 21 Nobody knows what it smells like yet.

Speaker 16 I tweeted him back to say, is that true?

Speaker 17 And he said, yeah, I study arsole for a living.

Speaker 21 Apparently true.

Speaker 23 So then he also told me that there's another one called Ars Pane, which is true as well.

Speaker 24 And he said there's, interestingly, there's a mineral found near the town of Cummington, Massachusetts, and that's been called Cummingtonite.

Speaker 29 There's one called

Speaker 20 Welshite. was Welshite, but it's named after a guy called somebody Welsh.

Speaker 32 Probably Welsh or something.

Speaker 34 There's a molecule called, I think it's nitrogen triiodide. It's one of the most crazy molecules you can get.
For a molecule, it's pretty crazy.

Speaker 34 But apparently it will blow up if a mosquito lands on it.

Speaker 34 Really? Yeah, it's the energy of a mosquito landing on it will make it explode.

Speaker 4 Wow. Is the mosquito alright?

Speaker 30 It's just a molecule, isn't it? It's probably fine. Yeah.

Speaker 34 Shall we go to the fact?

Speaker 32 What's your name? Charlie.

Speaker 33 Hi, Charlie.

Speaker 15 What's your fact, Charlie?

Speaker 36 This is a page of comics. In the late 50s, slash 60s, comics with gorillas on the front sold considerably more than comics without.

Speaker 8 DC Comics put gorillas on every single copy, even if there's no gorillas inside.

Speaker 37 That's so good! Amazing.

Speaker 32 Pretty good.

Speaker 5 Wow. That's good.

Speaker 17 So Superman would just be tackling a gorilla on the front, and then it had no relevance to the stories.

Speaker 4 A comic with Superman, and a gorilla was selling him a ticket, or like a zoo ticket, I think.

Speaker 30 Why would a gorilla be selling a zoo ticket?

Speaker 20 Just them colluding in their own imprisonment.

Speaker 39 Do you know what gorillas' favourite films are?

Speaker 5 No. No.

Speaker 34 This sounds like the statomics.

Speaker 39 Now, this was, I read this this weekend in the Sunday Times somewhere, and it's by a musician who's really famous, but I can't remember who it is because I don't know anything about music.

Speaker 39 But he's hung out with people who've studied gorillas, and they gave him a bunch of films, and they worked out which ones the gorillas, you know, like like asked with their hands to watch the most frequently.

Speaker 39 And what do you reckon the gorillas' favorite film is?

Speaker 4 Planet of the Apes.

Speaker 41 Very good. No.

Speaker 5 Planet of the Apes, yeah.

Speaker 4 Really?

Speaker 39 And then their second favorite was a film about Sasquatch, a Yeti. And so obviously, they feel very close to Yetis.
Maybe they are genetically somehow related, I think they think.

Speaker 33 And the third favorite was just Dan Stand-Up.

Speaker 39 They didn't subject them to that, James.

Speaker 42 No.

Speaker 33 The RSPCA would get involved.

Speaker 11 I watched the Mummy 3 on the weekend.

Speaker 8 There's a Mummy 3.

Speaker 21 There's a scene in it where there's just so much chaos going on.

Speaker 10 The terracotta warriors have become alive.

Speaker 16 There's this old Chinese group of skeletons that have come back up.

Speaker 11 It's chasing in the Argonaut style. And then suddenly these two giant Yetis come in, and the good guys go, uh-oh, Yetis.

Speaker 43 And the Yetis are like, We're good guys.

Speaker 13 And they go, Great.

Speaker 15 And then everyone just accepts it.

Speaker 31 It's just just fine we've got yeti allies now who are helping us do yetis in the myths about yetis do they attack people yeah yeah okay they can be kind as well they uh there's a

Speaker 19 i regret asking my original question

Speaker 16 There's a lady in Bhutan who claims that she lived and had children with a Yeti and the Yeti, they had about six children and then she said that she was going back to society.

Speaker 17 She wanted to bring the children with them.

Speaker 16 But the Yeti said that's not going to happen. So they went to Yeti court, and the Yeti won custody of the children, and that's why she doesn't have them.

Speaker 39 In Bhutan, this is a stretch of a link, but every government policy has to justify itself according to its World Happiness Index rating, doesn't it? Doesn't that Bhutan gross national happiness? Yeah.

Speaker 39 So every time you make a policy, you have to say how it's going to affect the gross national happiness. It's the only country where it's

Speaker 39 put that into policy.

Speaker 34 I've been to Bhutan. Yeah, I have been to Bhutan.
I remember I went to the National Museum because I wanted to see the world's biggest book.

Speaker 34 They claim to have the world's biggest book and it's a book about Bhutan.

Speaker 19 How convenient.

Speaker 34 And I was in the museum and

Speaker 34 they had a rat problem. Someone had seen a rat.
But because it was run by monks, because it's quite a you know a Buddhist country, they weren't allowed to hurt the rat in any way.

Speaker 34 So they weren't allowed to put poison down or they weren't allowed to put traps down or anything like that. So all the monks were just chasing this rat.

Speaker 38 Wow.

Speaker 15 What's the name of the very famous gorilla who's in, we talked about it on the

Speaker 23 Coco.

Speaker 17 Do you know what Coco's favorite movie is? I read this on the weekend bizarrely.

Speaker 34 Okay, so let's just say who Coco is. Yes.
So Coco is a gorilla who learned sign language, I think, right? Yeah. And learned more words in sign language than anyone else.

Speaker 5 Welcome.

Speaker 34 300 people just picked me up at that point.

Speaker 34 Yeah, and is often held up as the fact that animals might be able to learn language. Yeah.

Speaker 21 So favourite movie?

Speaker 14 Pretty woman.

Speaker 4 Really?

Speaker 5 Oh, no.

Speaker 39 So aspirational. Yeah.

Speaker 32 Well done, huh?

Speaker 16 By the way, Pretty Woman, the movie, they did a thing where the hotel that it was filmed in now offers a Pretty Woman package so you can go.

Speaker 37 Which is the worst message.

Speaker 25 I don't think they plot that through properly.

Speaker 4 Who's it for?

Speaker 7 It's for the couples, yeah. It's the couples.
Yeah.

Speaker 47 Well, I've got a fact about movies.

Speaker 48 This is a fact about the movie Leon.

Speaker 34 Whose fact is about Leon?

Speaker 47 Whose fact is about the film Leon?

Speaker 8 Oh, it's over there. Oh, hey, over there.

Speaker 34 If you put your hand up, Alex, I'll come and find you.

Speaker 34 In the meantime, I've got a fact that came from Twitter.

Speaker 34 And this is from someone called At Riptor.

Speaker 34 And the fact was that the 25th Amendment allows vice presidents to take over as president when the president incapacitated.

Speaker 34 It's happened three times, and each time the president was having a colonoscopy.

Speaker 19 Are those the only three times presidents have been incapacitated?

Speaker 26 Because I've noticed that several have been shot

Speaker 7 and killed.

Speaker 4 I'll keep going.

Speaker 34 No, since the amendment was made. There's a thing about colonoscopies that you can explode during a colonoscopy.

Speaker 37 Do you know that? What?

Speaker 34 Wow. Yeah, because you have a lot of gas buildup in your lower intestines, and sometimes they'll use like a cauterizing heat thing.

Speaker 34 If you've got a cut, they try and kind of burn it. And so, that heat and the gases can cause people to actually explode, yeah.

Speaker 39 Right, you would have thought, are they putting some kind of safeguards in place to stop this happening? Or is it just you know, 50-50, you'll either explode or

Speaker 39 that's kind of like what happens to trees, right?

Speaker 4 When they get colonoscopies,

Speaker 39 what do you mean? Similar kind of, you know, when trees are on fire, then sometimes it gets so hot and there's a build-up of gas inside them and they explode.

Speaker 39 There's really good videos of trees exploding all over the place.

Speaker 30 When lightning hits a tree, it can explode because all the water turns immediately to water vapor, and lots of it is near the middle. So it just goes out.

Speaker 5 It's cool.

Speaker 4 Not for the tree. It's bad for the tree.

Speaker 4 Do we have Leon's fact yet?

Speaker 41 Okay.

Speaker 41 So there's a scene in the movie Leon where there are loads of police cars parked outside a building.

Speaker 41 And while they were filming that scene, a man who had just robbed a shop ran onto the movie set, thought it was the real police, and handed himself a piece of

Speaker 49 Such amazing.

Speaker 10 Sorry, what's your name?

Speaker 4 Susie. Susie.

Speaker 37 That's an amazing girl.

Speaker 6 I mean, how long did they let the Girard continue?

Speaker 52 God, if they were method actors, they probably would have, right?

Speaker 10 Taken them to the station, then they would have got in trouble themselves.

Speaker 46 Gary Oldman's going to be arresting you today.

Speaker 48 Very exciting.

Speaker 15 Someone actually tweeted in, this is from Twitter earlier, that Gary Newman is actually three weeks younger than Gary Oldman, unfortunately.

Speaker 34 Didn't think that the facts about police.

Speaker 34 In ancient Egypt,

Speaker 34 the head of the police was called the chief of the hitters.

Speaker 39 That's why we've talked on the podcast about the world's oldest parking fine issued by traffic wardens,

Speaker 39 which

Speaker 39 was

Speaker 39 to be decapitated, I believe.

Speaker 5 Oh, no, no, no.

Speaker 6 Oh, no, it was to be impaled.

Speaker 39 It was to be impaled, wasn't it? Yeah, on a spike for crossing on the king's land. That was when, yeah, the king owned all of the roads.
So I think it was quite hard to get around.

Speaker 17 Yeah, and the first ever British parking ticket that was given was accidentally given to a doctor who was making an emergency call to a house.

Speaker 18 And so they had to override the parking ticket.

Speaker 32 So the first parking ticket was a cock-up, and they had to undo it.

Speaker 39 And I think the first American one was overridden as well. The first American one was a guy who said, I literally just went into the shop for five minutes and I've come back and my ticket's here.

Speaker 39 And he, you know, appealed and got it overridden.

Speaker 34 Has any parking ticket ever been successful no all the ones that i've ever got have been have i ever told you about the guy in london in i think it was the 60s or might have been early 70s who electrocuted his car so that when traffic wardens tried to put a ticket on them they got electrocuted

Speaker 37 Wow.

Speaker 34 He was in like the newspapers and stuff. He became really famous.

Speaker 31 When he was arrested, right?

Speaker 34 Yeah, well, he was arrested, but they let him off in the end because he'd become such a kind of core celebra.

Speaker 39 Surely electrocuting a policeman is a a bigger crime than parking on a double yellow line.

Speaker 34 Yeah, sorry, like not electrocuting, because the word electrocuting means killing by electricity. He electrified them, let's say, with like a little bit of a shot.

Speaker 36 They should have charged him?

Speaker 36 Yes.

Speaker 39 He's like an angle grinder man in Kent,

Speaker 39 who was that superhero. He called himself the real-life superhero and he went around with his angle grinder removing clamps from a cars that had been clamped.

Speaker 39 No one knew who he was for a long time until he did an interview with the newspaper and then people did.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 28 You know at the end of Iron Man when he says I'm Iron Man it's like whoa was he like I'm Iron Karen Granderman and they went

Speaker 39 I mean he could pronounce it so that helped.

Speaker 10 Thought I escaped that.

Speaker 13 I genuinely as well just ran with it and went, I'm just going to mush it up so hard.

Speaker 53 I was either like I'm Granderman and then it's just like.

Speaker 21 Shall we move on to another fact yeah yeah let's move on to our next fact okay so this is about a ghost army in World War II all right so while we're waiting for the mic to get over here's another Twitter one this is from Matthew Oglesby the new organist of Leeds Cathedral is David Pipe

Speaker 24 that's quite nice very good I'm a massive fan of nominative determinism

Speaker 34 did you meet the guy who coined the term yeah we met him very briefly

Speaker 33 Reginald a namey namey namy

Speaker 34 Yeah, Norman determinism.

Speaker 52 No. What was the...

Speaker 15 Remember you found the ultimate one, which was to do with...

Speaker 34 Oh, Henry Head. Yeah.

Speaker 34 Yeah, so there was a neuroscientist called Henry Head,

Speaker 34 and he discovered this thing called head zones. You don't have one in your head, but you do have one in the head of your genitals if you're a man.

Speaker 34 But he was the head of a journal called Brain.

Speaker 34 And when he left as head of the journal Brain, he was taken over by a guy called Brain.

Speaker 34 So Head was the head of Brain until he wasn't the head of Brain anymore, and he was taken over as the head of Brain by Brain, who became the head of Brain.

Speaker 4 So good! Yeah,

Speaker 26 that's the ultimate.

Speaker 4 I mean, no one knew what was going on in that organization.

Speaker 34 I saw one the other day, actually. It was, I tweeted about it, let me think.
It was a guy who'd written a book about swearing, and he was called Say Gadam.

Speaker 5 That's good.

Speaker 4 That's good, isn't it?

Speaker 34 S-A-I, his first name. Say Gadam.

Speaker 30 That's nice.

Speaker 45 Someone sent me one on Twitter the other day, which was a hurdler whose surname is Stumbleover.

Speaker 42 So good.

Speaker 39 I think he actually famously fell over a hurdle.

Speaker 2 She. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, potato patala.

Speaker 39 I think, didn't she stumble over a hurdle in quite an important Olympic event?

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 54 Okay, shall we go on to the back?

Speaker 28 Say your name and your fact, please.

Speaker 4 All right. I'm Nora.

Speaker 55 So my fact was that there was a ghost army in the Second World War where the Allies used rubber inflatable tanks and recorded troop sounds to trick the German army into thinking the enemy was there.

Speaker 17 What there's a ghost army?

Speaker 55 They called it a boss army because they didn't actually exist.

Speaker 33 Don't get excited, Dan.

Speaker 18 It's not like the end of Indiana Jones.

Speaker 34 I like the idea of having inflatable tanks because it means you blow up your own tanks.

Speaker 5 Nice.

Speaker 33 Do you know where the word tank comes from?

Speaker 2 No. No.

Speaker 39 So tank was originally a code word. It was never intended to be what tanks were called.

Speaker 39 And it was, I think Churchill was at the head of the organization which was, you know, pioneering tank making. And they were called something like land ships.

Speaker 39 It was called like the land ships organization or something like that in the First World War when they were developing them.

Speaker 39 And they just decided to call them tanks as a code word because they were going to send them into Russia disguised as water tanks.

Speaker 39 And first of all, they wanted to call them, they called them W's, they called them water compartments at first, but because war officers tended to abbreviate things,

Speaker 49 people kept going and urinating on the military vehicles.

Speaker 39 So they said we can't call them WCs.

Speaker 34 But they called them tanks because they wanted the Russians to think they were tanks of water.

Speaker 4 But yeah, the Russians were on arms in disguise.

Speaker 39 I know, I said Russians, and I hoped again, like Dan, that no one could know.

Speaker 33 You're just a little thing, like which side were you fighting?

Speaker 33 People made these mistakes all the time.

Speaker 34 Okay, I think we're going to have to keep moving on because we're short of time, aren't we?

Speaker 34 Okay, who is Jennifer Matthews?

Speaker 34 Jennifer Matthews is over here.

Speaker 56 So parrotfish wear pajamas, protective pajamas, at night time, and then they eat them in the morning.

Speaker 42 Wow.

Speaker 10 Yeah, I don't see anything special about them, I mean.

Speaker 42 No, that's it.

Speaker 33 We said interesting facts.

Speaker 4 No, that's amazing.

Speaker 56 So they secrete a mucus that has a hole in the front and the hole in the back so that water can flow through. And the mucus is apparently meant to stop predators from spanning them.

Speaker 56 And it means that they're protected overnight whilst they sleep, but it's a vital source of protein, so they eat it in the morning.

Speaker 14 Oh my god, no.

Speaker 4 That's amazing.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 11 It's not the sexiest pajamas of the world, is it?

Speaker 12 When you say, I'm just going to go slip into something more.

Speaker 33 I'm just going to slip into something more mucusy.

Speaker 33 How do you like your breakfast?

Speaker 34 And parrot fish, they're the guys who they

Speaker 34 make sun as well, do they?

Speaker 56 Yeah, they poop islands.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yep.

Speaker 4 Bit by bit.

Speaker 56 Well, for an average parrotfish, they poop 275 grams per day.

Speaker 56 But the biggest parrotfish can make 90 kilograms.

Speaker 4 90 kilograms a day?

Speaker 56 I don't actually know if it's a day.

Speaker 4 It might be per year.

Speaker 39 But the biggest parrotfish.

Speaker 7 That's quite a different.

Speaker 34 When you go to your doctor, they say you say,

Speaker 6 How much are you pooing?

Speaker 40 It's either twice a day or twice a year.

Speaker 58 How big an island have you produced?

Speaker 34 But yeah, that's the it's this white kind of white sand that they get in the Caribbean and stuff, don't they?

Speaker 56 Yeah, so they eat coral, and when they eat coral, they eat the the tissue of the coral and then they uh digest the calcium carbonate skeleton and poop the sand.

Speaker 56 And then uh but entire islands in the Caribbean have been made up by the sand.

Speaker 26 Wow.

Speaker 56 So you can basically lie in a pile of sand.

Speaker 6 I did that anyway.

Speaker 11 How do you know so much about parrotfish?

Speaker 56 I'm a marine biologist.

Speaker 7 Are you?

Speaker 38 Okay, nice.

Speaker 4 You don't get a wolf whistle for that in many ways.

Speaker 52 Shall we move on to?

Speaker 4 Let's keep going.

Speaker 57 Yeah, let's keep going. Okay, so...

Speaker 39 So this is about the new tallest building in London. Whose is that? Ah, I'll be there.

Speaker 4 Andy and Twitter one?

Speaker 7 Actually, this is really similar to the other thing we just had.

Speaker 19 The fringe-limbed tree frog.

Speaker 54 Fringe-limbed tree frog parents grow extra layers of skin to feed their tadpoles.

Speaker 2 And this is...

Speaker 48 I like this so much because it's reminded me of my favourite fact at the moment, which is that

Speaker 20 breast milk, mother's breast milk, is made from arsees.

Speaker 2 When you have a baby

Speaker 31 and you start producing breast milk, it's got fat cells in it, and the fat cells that are taken literally from the mother's bottom first.

Speaker 5 It's where they go from wow yeah no one else

Speaker 34 there's a lot of spiders who will eat their mother aren't there or there's at least a few of them really and so they'll they'll give birth to the live spiders inside them and they'll eat their way out

Speaker 7 spiders

Speaker 59 okay what's your name and what is your fact please so my name is Bapinda and my fact is that the new tallest building in London is going to be called Undershaft

Speaker 53 Amazing.

Speaker 7 It's really immature, sack, the gumbag before it's a table.

Speaker 15 So why is it being called that?

Speaker 39 I don't know. I just read it on The Guardian and then laughed a lot.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 52 That's literally the extent that I do my research as well.

Speaker 58 So don't worry about it.

Speaker 53 Actually, I was reading the other day, it's a building we've mentioned on the podcast before, but London, a building in London got voted the ugliest or the most horrible building around, and it's the walkie-talkie.

Speaker 48 And it was cited for being being so bad because it keeps blowing people over and melting cars.

Speaker 15 The angle of the building has this magnifying on it that it's just melting cars.

Speaker 8 And the wind that is trapping, it's literally blowing people onto the street.

Speaker 57 And people are furious.

Speaker 48 The architect who made it has designed another building in America, which also has melted cars.

Speaker 34 And he's not learning from his mistakes.

Speaker 39 He actually puts that on his CV now.

Speaker 33 He's all melting cars. Have you got a car you need melted?

Speaker 33 Just get me to design a multi-billion dollar building for you.

Speaker 39 Alex was actually telling me earlier that the shard in London goes down as deep, deeper than Nelson's column.

Speaker 7 Does it?

Speaker 52 I thought you were going to say it goes down deeper than it goes up.

Speaker 33 I thought he was going to say that as well. I was quite disappointed.

Speaker 34 The only thing that does do that is the Angel of the North. That goes

Speaker 34 pretty much exactly.

Speaker 33 It goes down deeper than the shard.

Speaker 30 And the underside is devil-shaped, isn't it?

Speaker 25 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 Messed up.

Speaker 39 Oh, wait, can I just say, because I find this really interesting, and I think I've never been allowed to say it on the podcast before, but we only recently discovered how tall Nelson's column was.

Speaker 39 So it's been up since Nelson, so 200 years, and they just measured it a couple of years ago, and they realized I think it's four meters higher than we thought, or it's maybe it's four feet.

Speaker 42 But isn't that weird?

Speaker 39 We've never measured Nelson's column.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's really

Speaker 4 big.

Speaker 30 You know, there are loads of Nelson's columns all over the place.

Speaker 47 Are there? I mean, not

Speaker 30 like millions.

Speaker 30 There are, I think, a good dozen of them all over the UK.

Speaker 20 And there's one in Norfolk, which is where he was from, I think.

Speaker 29 And

Speaker 38 it's just got an urn at the top of it, not Nelson.

Speaker 25 So there you go.

Speaker 30 But it is a Nelson's column.

Speaker 16 Nelson used to, I don't know if we ever put, I tried to get this on the podcast.

Speaker 22 I don't know if it ever made it on, but Nelson used to have a little hat for his eye.

Speaker 24 He just had a tiny hat for his eye and no one talks about it and they should.

Speaker 34 You literally tried to get that on every single week from

Speaker 21 because it was like, you know when you see American movies where they're like doing accounts and they had that sort of tennis hat that had the green that you could see through?

Speaker 28 Nelson had that on his eye, this little green thing, so that he could, because his eye got too much sun and he was like, I want to get less sun.

Speaker 22 So they created a little hat.

Speaker 7 I have a fact about Nelson.

Speaker 33 Okay, cool. Do you have it?

Speaker 2 It's from Brian.

Speaker 38 Brian, by the way, you there?

Speaker 4 Hey. Cool.

Speaker 33 We'll go for a Twitter fact first.

Speaker 34 Okay, we'll go for a Twitter fact.

Speaker 34 So this was sent to me by someone called Tim Worth89.

Speaker 34 And he said that in 1774, one newspaper estimated that out of the 872,564 married couples in England, only nine were entirely happy.

Speaker 40 You could read that as a whole nine were entirely happy.

Speaker 34 He sent me a clipping, an image of the clipping as well. It's so good.

Speaker 34 They had a breakdown of the whole 872,000.

Speaker 34 And it's like 1,300 the wives had eloped.

Speaker 34 2,300 the husband had run away. There was about 19,000 that were in a state of open war.

Speaker 50 Wow.

Speaker 34 16,000 had a lot of inward hatred about each other.

Speaker 39 Not that inward if they're telling the interviewer.

Speaker 34 And 51 couples were living in a state of indifferent hate.

Speaker 42 Whoa.

Speaker 6 Hang on.

Speaker 4 Indifferent hate.

Speaker 26 Yeah, that doesn't make any sense at all.

Speaker 25 What period was this?

Speaker 34 This was in 1774.

Speaker 39 This is, you know, between,

Speaker 39 it's for about 200 years, but between about 1675 and 1850, only about 370 couples in England got divorced.

Speaker 14 And everyone needed an act of parliament.

Speaker 4 Exactly.

Speaker 39 So every time. How exciting is that? It's almost worth getting divorced.
Every time you got divorced, they had to debate it in Parliament.

Speaker 33 I think they look good together.

Speaker 34 That was hardly Hillary Bennett.

Speaker 52 Shall we move on to the...

Speaker 33 Sorry, yeah, Nelson.

Speaker 4 Yeah, sorry. Yeah, so Nelson,

Speaker 60 in the Admiralty office, Nelson used to go for reports and stuff. And he had a small mahogany box to stand on, because firstly, he was quite short.

Speaker 60 And secondly, the Admirals sat on a raised platform to make them higher than everybody that would come before them to speak. So they maintained their authority.

Speaker 4 And yeah, he was the only person that ever had that concession. Wow.

Speaker 60 And I got to stand on that box, but I had to take my boots off first.

Speaker 5 Did he have to take that?

Speaker 39 Did he have to take his boots off first?

Speaker 26 Yeah, because I was going to say, I think that does reduce your authority.

Speaker 60 That would have negated the concession, wouldn't it really?

Speaker 4 Indeed.

Speaker 60 Stand up, take your boots off. Oh, same height.

Speaker 16 I think Jillian Anderson used to have to do that in the X-Files.

Speaker 17 Dana Scully.

Speaker 14 She used to have to stand on a box when they were filming.

Speaker 23 She's quite a bit smaller than David D'Akovny, and so for scenes where they were standing chatting, she would stand on a box. And yeah.

Speaker 23 That happens a lot in movies, I think.

Speaker 8 Oh, Charles and Lady Dye apparently did this as well.

Speaker 17 Ah, I have a Twitter fact about Charles and Lady Die, actually.

Speaker 21 So won't we lead into that?

Speaker 23 When Prince Charles married Lady Diana, the TV cables put in place for the wedding were run by a ferret

Speaker 54 And I googled it and it's true. What?

Speaker 2 Yeah, what do you mean?

Speaker 7 I don't mean he was physically with like a thing out of the tango. Alright camera two, let's go to this.

Speaker 5 All right,

Speaker 26 got a three

Speaker 34 It was it was they had to get cables I guess into main I'm guessing Westminster Abbey they have to go into small little holes and this is you tie it to a ferret and they run through and they

Speaker 34 yeah, I think British Aerospace have used it for for some kind of aerospace yeah they have I think for building aeroplanes for some reason that's what I thought that's what I was gonna say but I thought it sounded so ridiculous

Speaker 39 ferrets build aeroplanes um but I think they actually cancelled that eventually because they kept driving through the wires so I think they ended up being quite unreliable

Speaker 34 I seem to remember someone sent me a tweet um at bang I shot you sent me a tweet uh and it's almost the same as this it's like there was a ferret called Misty who ran cabling for the US Space Command for the Y2K center and her fee was a strawberry pop-tart.

Speaker 12 Who negotiated that?

Speaker 16 That sounds like she actually asked for that.

Speaker 34 Yeah. It reminds me this of there's a bridge over the Niagara River near the Niagara Falls and the problem with bridges is how do you get the first kind of thing over?

Speaker 34 So once you've got a bit of string over there, then you can pull something over and then you can pull something bigger over and bigger over and then you eventually have a bridge.

Speaker 34 But if it's a really big crevice.

Speaker 2 you use a bird.

Speaker 34 Well, it wasn't a bird, but it's close.

Speaker 37 Frisbee.

Speaker 50 Frisbee.

Speaker 34 No, it was a kite.

Speaker 4 A kite. Oh, nice.

Speaker 34 So they flew a kite up, and then it kind of went over, and then someone was on the other side, and they could grab the kite, and then you had a string over, and then they could attach a bit of wire onto that and pull it across, and then a bit of bigger wire.

Speaker 18 And then a tiny bit of wood, and then a little bit, bigger bit of wood, and then eventually a bridge.

Speaker 11 You can get a frisbee across Niagara Falls, I think.

Speaker 7 Can you?

Speaker 31 This is true.

Speaker 4 So, So, you know.

Speaker 39 How good are you at Frisbee? You can get it across Niagara Falls. You can make it hover in the air while it deposits building materials.

Speaker 2 It's incredible.

Speaker 46 You guys know the Aerobi super disc?

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 54 It's a great frisbee, guys.

Speaker 7 It's the one that's completely hollow.

Speaker 20 It's plastic and it's got a tough frame in the middle, so it keeps rigidity and stability. But it's rubber on the outside, so it doesn't hurt your hands.

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Speaker 30 It's the bees' knees and they can get you... They've thrown one across Niagara Falls.

Speaker 34 When have you ever had a friend to throw frisbees to?

Speaker 33 It does take a while to play when I'm playing with the Bobby Superless because it goes so far.

Speaker 39 Have you ever thought about getting a boomerang?

Speaker 34 Okay, let's move on with another fact. Who has a fact that's about penises and the London Underground?

Speaker 7 James, you're gonna need to narrow it down a bit.

Speaker 57 Hi, my name's Tom.

Speaker 44 So, when the new headquarters of the London Underground building was opened in 1929,

Speaker 44 the statue of the front of a naked boy was so controversial and there was such public outcry that the sculptor had to reduce the size of his penis by one and a half inches.

Speaker 7 Wow, from there we ask from what?

Speaker 42 Twelve is too much, ten and a half half would be fine.

Speaker 39 So, is it that the shorter the penis, the lower the rating of the film?

Speaker 34 It wasn't the film, it's the statue.

Speaker 39 Yeah, I'm sorry, I was extrapolating, but if that made it less obscene in the statue,

Speaker 39 it becomes less obscene the smaller the penis.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 5 yeah.

Speaker 34 Are you sensing an opening for some smallly endowed people?

Speaker 7 Don't say open. Don't say opening.

Speaker 19 What was the do you know any more about what the why why they had a statue of a naked boy in the first place?

Speaker 57 Yeah, yeah, kind of.

Speaker 44 So it was by Jacob Epstein, who is this avant-garde, quite brutalist sculptor, and it was one of his first major commissions. He has this quite long history of creating sculptures.

Speaker 44 Like he has one on what's now Zimbabwe House on the Strand. And that's also been massively defaced because it was just full of naked people and people didn't like that in Edwardian Britain.

Speaker 44 But this one, it was a kind of a compromise because there was public outcry, outcry, and the head of the tube at the time

Speaker 44 offered his resignation to keep the statue. It was that big a deal.

Speaker 44 And they wanted to keep the head, the CEO of the London Underground, but as a compromise, they said, okay, well, just trim the penis a little bit.

Speaker 10 Is that what happened to all ancient statues?

Speaker 11 Like, did David have a massive cock originally?

Speaker 7 They thought it was more civilized to have small weapons.

Speaker 34 They thought it was better to be small because if it was too big, you would lose heat and lose vigor.

Speaker 44 But this website had a picture of what had been done to the statue, and underneath it just said, Yeah, this has actually happened.

Speaker 44 And you thought the cuts to the London Underground today were controversial. Yay!

Speaker 26 That's very good.

Speaker 33 Hey,

Speaker 8 we should wrap up soon.

Speaker 22 So maybe let's just do a couple more.

Speaker 16 Why don't we do a Twitter one each that we all like?

Speaker 14 I'll start with mine.

Speaker 23 This was sent in by Jonathan Warlow. Claire Danes and all her movies were banned from the Philippines after she bad-mouthed it in an interview.

Speaker 15 So they just said no more Claire Danes movies.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I'm kind of using this as an excuse though to talk about the Philippines because my dad's a hairdresser and he also

Speaker 16 likes to sing Bee Gee's covers and he's got a really nice voice.

Speaker 13 And on the equivalent of Jonathan Ross there, they don't really have many people there to go on the show.

Speaker 17 So he often got asked to go on and sing Bee Gee's covers on this equivalent of Jonathan Ross called the Johnny Lytton Show.

Speaker 16 And he was on it one day and Imelder Imelda Marcos saw it and she's called him up and like sent a letter saying, I'd like to invite you to sing karaoke with me once a week.

Speaker 28 And you can't really say no to someone like Imelda Marcos.

Speaker 15 So he had to do it.

Speaker 23 This is the fact that I learned of him through the back of doing that, is that she said to him one day when they were mid-BG's song, Roger, I get so tired about people talking about my having the largest shoe collection all the time.

Speaker 23 No one talks about the fact that I have the largest collection of spoons.

Speaker 12 And she she apparently likes to brag that she has the largest collection of silverware in the world, and no one talks about it.

Speaker 28 All the shoes.

Speaker 52 She's like, oh, yeah, the fucking shoes.

Speaker 11 No one talks about

Speaker 10 the silverware.

Speaker 8 So, Anna, final facts?

Speaker 39 Yeah, so my favorite fact on Twitter actually was that

Speaker 39 this is from at Gulbatasaurus, and it was that the Korean term for grinding in a club is booby-booby.

Speaker 38 Apparently,

Speaker 18 Andy, what do you got?

Speaker 45 I really like the fact, and this is exactly how it was worded.

Speaker 29 It's from Mina Kozluka.

Speaker 45 Ottoman Emperor Abdul Havit made it illegal to use the words sibling, star, bedbug, and nose.

Speaker 20 And then in brackets, he had a weird nose.

Speaker 8 And James?

Speaker 34 Okay, this fact came from IDKT IDKT.

Speaker 34 And it is that in the olden days, to send paper money through the post, people used to tear it in two pieces and post the halves separately.

Speaker 34 I don't even know if it's true, but I just really like the ingenious idea of doing that.

Speaker 39 I've tried to present a seller tape-top £10 note to the news agents, and they didn't like it.

Speaker 34 There was a guy in China, he didn't trust banks, and so he buried all of his money underground, and then it all got eaten by worms.

Speaker 4 Oh, wow.

Speaker 34 And he managed to kind of save about a third of it that was all in pieces and took it to the bank in a big bag of soil.

Speaker 34 And then said, is there anything you can do with this? And they managed to like retrieve about a third of his money. So the very thing that he didn't trust ended up saving some of his cash.

Speaker 39 I bet he's convinced that the worms were working for the bank, though.

Speaker 4 I read ages ago that all astronauts, when they initially were going to the moon, that they were all given half notes of one dollar note in America, American money.

Speaker 24 They would get the half and they would have to present it back to NASA when they arrived.

Speaker 23 And so they could put the two halves together so that they could check whether or not aliens had cloned them and come back.

Speaker 33 The idea that the aliens would not have the technology to just keep hold of a half dollar bill.

Speaker 4 We can clone a human, but that half dollar bill, there's no way of doing that.

Speaker 10 All right, let's wrap it up on that.

Speaker 26 So,

Speaker 33 all right, that's it.

Speaker 52 That's all of your facts.

Speaker 53 Thank you so so much for listening. If you want to get in contact with us about the things that were said, don't get in contact with the people who said them.

Speaker 8 They're all on Twitter.

Speaker 52 You can reach them at their Twitter handles or you can track down the people who are in this room.

Speaker 7 We do have a list of their names and we will make it public.

Speaker 13 And we'll see you again next week with another episode.

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