3: No Such Thing As The Middle Ages

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We ran it on QI a few years ago.

Yeah.

Which was there's no such thing as a fish.

There's no such thing as a fish.

No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.

It says it right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish.

This is a special episode in which rather than having strictly just the QIL sitting around the microphone this week, we've got two special guests.

We have a comedian from Brooklyn, New York, originally from Boston, Alex Edelman.

Hi.

Who amongst interesting things that you've got going on is you've got a current text relationship with Lindsay Lohan.

You once severely angered Neil Armstrong in a lift.

Yep.

What else is there?

There's plenty more of this stuff.

And we're also joined by the historical consultant from the horrible histories tv series greg jenner who outside of that if you hang out with greg jenner as alex will know at any kind of social event is mobbed like a rock star basically yeah you just have groupies he has fans coming up to him are you having a relationship with any um american celebrity females sadly not uh george washington's total i guess an american relationship

uh so also joining us we have james harkin uh and uh doing all the fact checking as we go along today is anna chaczynski Oh, and I'm Dan.

So we should start by saying that this is the first time you've been to the office, Greg, to the QI offices.

This is not the first time Alex has been.

Alex is, you're almost like a part of the family now.

I'm going to try to cut down because I...

Well, and you're going back to America tomorrow.

I don't think that counts.

I'm trying to cut down.

But I'll be back.

I'll be back at the end of this month.

Basically, as soon as Alex comes in the office, that's the end of work for the Death of TI.

Well, you know, the thing is, this office is

like what I would like the inside of my mind to look like.

Just neatly ordered and filled with facts all categorized.

Like literally I feel like you could find any fact in this office.

Because there's a lot.

Well there's just a lot of books.

There's a lot of folders.

We've got the internet.

And everyone's got

to say, I was going to say technically it could just be a closet with a laptop and

that would still hold true.

So okay, well so as this is a special one, maybe we'll start with yeah, we'll start with you Greg.

Oh good, at least the third one.

Yeah yeah yeah let's uh let's begin with the sort of rambling incoherent.

Yeah, I wrote the expert, that's what I would say.

The expert.

Well, just give us what it's your favourite thing that's kind of on your mind this week

that you've learned.

This is my first week off after writing my book, my first of a book.

So I've been talking about it.

I think it comes out next year.

Are you allowed to say anything about the book?

Yeah, I can see the title.

Yes.

It's called One Million Years in a Day.

Stone Age to Phone Age is the range.

And it's sort of structured around a modern satellite age.

That's so great.

Stone Age to Phone Age.

The group is just

a people.

No, I thought

something I just put in the book and I thought was quite an interesting fact, really, is that the earliest known dentistry is 9,000 years old.

This is back in sort of Neolithic, really.

It's like mammoths were walking the earth with dentures.

Slightly, yeah, yeah.

So we're talking here in, I suppose, modern-day Pakistan is what we call it.

It's a place called Meghar, I suppose.

My pronunciation is not great, but archaeologists have found teeth which have been drilled.

And they've been sort of, you you know, the earliest really sort of fillings or early drilling technique using a bow drill, which is, you know, just a sort of whittling, a bit of sharp stick, which is a technique used really for jewellery.

So not even teeth cleaning, because I knew that the Egyptians had horse-hair toothbrushes.

Well, yeah.

Even reparative dentistry goes back that far.

So this would be medicinal dentistry.

This would be pain relief.

Yeah, I guess it's an obvious thing because people would have been in so much pain, wouldn't they?

Yeah.

Although I remember reading that

like sugar, cane sugar came in relatively late, so people didn't have as bad teeth in the Neolithic time as they have today.

It's interesting actually, there's been a couple of major studies in the past couple of years that are showing that's not really true actually.

There's an awful lot of dental

wear and tear, but also it's sugar-based actually, because there's quite a lot of sugar in natural fruits and so forth.

And obviously, if you're not brushing your teeth every day, it will build up.

Is it complex sugars that really do harm, though?

Yeah, I mean, the worst dentistry in history, I think, if you were gonna if you were sort of elected an era, I would say probably the 18th century, the Georgians.

The 18th century is where dentistry begins as a modern discipline, but it's also where, really, dentistry teeth were at their worst.

If you look at portraits, no one smiles

until the first ever smile.

I can't remember, as a female artist, a French female artist.

I think it's in Le Bran, I think maybe.

Did you check that out?

Marie LeBron, perhaps.

It's a really famous painting, and it's very controversial because I think it's a self-portrait, and I think she's grinning.

Wow.

And is the reason you didn't grin before?

Because your teeth were so bad.

My teeth were awful.

Who was it who used urine for mouthwash?

Was that?

The Romans.

Wow.

Wow.

Super just as me.

The Romans brushed their teeth to a certain extent.

They used rags.

I mean, the Egyptians didn't do dental surgery particularly.

They were very good dentists.

In fact, the first known dentists in human history, the first named dentists are Egyptian.

They found, I think, in 2006, I think they found a tomb with three named dentists on the wall, sort of, you know, written in.

Like a company name.

Shines for Shoremen and

dentists to the pharaohs.

And they were, they were royal dentists.

So they they were sort of official dentists to a pharaoh, and

these three guys were clearly sort of official tooth prodders.

There was a recent meta-study done on Egyptian mummies.

I think 40%, if I remember the curve, I might be wrong, but I think 40% had serious dental disease.

Wow.

And dental disease can kill you.

My father's a physician, and he says something really interesting: that historically, the people who get the worst care are the famous and the wealthy.

Because

he's being ironic.

What he's saying is

typically famous people have been killed by over-medicating or over-operating or too much complex treatment.

Like, as soon as they, like, the body will repair itself.

We talked in an earlier podcast about James Garfield, who

prodded

dirty fingers in the wound and stuff like that.

My father gave a TED talk on it, which is actually really interesting.

Yeah, his name is Elizarman.

And so, I wonder if those Pharaohs were receiving, A, a lot of dental attention or B, getting such rich food that they were.

Well, that's the big question.

So, the quality of food obviously is going to affect things.

I mean, Ertzy, the ice man found in Tyrulean Alps, he had really, really messed up teeth.

What was the fact that you were saying about the baseball player?

I can't remember his name, but it was a baseball player who

had to be taken out of the game because he bit himself on his own ass.

And what happened was he slid into the final base and his false teeth fell out.

Oh, and you landed on them.

I'm sure you know about it.

So, what we were saying, though, is that he must have been in his 20s, right?

But yet, there he was with a full set of false teeth because that was a thing that happened had his teeth he knocked out it was the 1920s apparently he's not his he was called clarence blethen and he's now called clarence climax blethen i don't really understand why he's born

he had a really particular gimmick yeah yeah

no teeth you say

oh alex i have to tell you just as an american and a baseball fan yeah if you don't know this it's my favorite baseball fact so do you know lou gehrick i know the disease exactly

he really should have seen that one coming yeah

so this is what's fantastic about it turns out that Lou Gehrig didn't die of Lou Gehrig's disease so the disease named after him he didn't have there's an interesting Wikipedia list of people who have been killed by already deceased people my favorite one is someone killed not by a deceased person but by a deceased animal a really notorious poacher in Montana this is a story that people in Montana like to tell and like this poacher outside of Helena he was he was really famous for shooting deer and people told him that there was one particular deer that he'd never be able to get, and he wounded it a whole bunch of times.

And finally, he spotted it on a bluff

over him, and he shot it, and he turned around to celebrate.

The deer bounced all the way down and landed on him and killed him.

And the deer survived.

Yeah, the guy didn't.

We should move on to another fact.

Just quickly to satisfy you, obviously, Greg was right.

I mean, he's a historian, about the first ever smile in a portrait.

It was in 1787.

This is quite funny.

The court gossip sheet at the time said, an affectation which artists, art lovers, and persons of taste have been united in condemning and which finds no precedent among the ancients is that in smiling she shows her teeth.

So, you know, pretty outrageous.

I saw an amazing collection of photos from a period pre-smile where they did all the grim kind of straight-face looking.

And it's outtake photos where the families crack up and they're laughing.

And it's so interesting because it's the first time where you see the real personalities.

and this is so interesting

yes where they're just they're properly laughing out loud and clearly the person's like well this is unusable

like you don't look creepy and you don't look sullen yeah

Michael smiled

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All right, let's move on to our second fact.

I want to throw in my fact here, particularly because I want to hear your thoughts on this, Craig.

It's a theory from a guy called Dr.

Hans Ulrich Niemitz, which is that the Middle Ages never happened.

Oh, wow.

Wow.

So it's a thing called Phantom Time Theory.

It's basically his alleges that it was just made up.

Are you sure that the guy is Dr.

Hans Ulrich?

Yeah, I know.

A lot of people believe it.

You know, obviously a lot of idiots believe it.

But

according to them, 614 to 911 AD did not happen.

Did not happen.

We're going through it now.

What is the basis for this theory?

This is madness.

He thinks it's a conspiracy of the calendar.

Brilliant.

Yeah.

And so, what his suggestion is, as well, is that the things that were supposed to have happened in the Middle Ages, people at the time removed them from that bit of history and created a fiction of these 300 years.

I think he said Charlemagne just never existed.

Wow.

He was a fictional character.

So basically, half of the things that you do for a living just

is a fictional.

Yeah.

I'll give you some direct sort of from this article.

It seems that historians are plagued by a plethora of falsified documents from the Middle Ages.

Some documents forged by the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages were created hundreds of years before their great moments arrived, after which they were embraced by medieval society.

This implying that whoever produced these forgeries must have very skillfully anticipated the future.

Or there was some discrepancy in calculating dates.

Wowzers.

So, where does he stand on the Vikings?

Because they burned.

Why Vikings?

They've not burned down Lindisfine, they didn't know what happened.

Lindisfline wasn't attacked, it was just he just didn't happen, and no Charlemagne and

Alfred the Great, no Crusades.

He says that maybe Alfred the Great was in a different period of time.

Maybe the Vikings, you know, maybe they were just the year before.

The year before.

So he stops at 9-11, does he?

Because 9-11 is the first time.

He stops at 9-11.

No, he stops at 9-11.

No one has conspiracy theorists.

9-11 is the year that the Vikings conquer Normandy and become the Normans.

It's Rollo, King Rollo, who founds the Norman dynasty.

9-11 is the Vikings become Normans, and the Normans, of course, become William the Conqueror, and that becomes our first dynasty of English medieval kings.

So 9-11 is a good year.

But this goes with the thing that you like, Dan, which is that if you come up with an idea or a conspiracy, then you can always seem to fit in

facts into whatever your theory is.

And you can imagine if you said to him,

what about the Vikings?

He would have an answer.

He won't have an answer, yeah.

There's no chronology in the Bible, isn't it?

People who sort of try to find patterns in the Bible and you sort of go, you do realise it's been retranslated loads of times.

So, all right, final question then.

Is there any truth that the Middle Ages

didn't happen?

I would be deeply, deeply upset if

you're going to say that it didn't happen.

Would you really?

Yeah, I would actually.

But I mean, but what was it?

I would spend a lot of my life on it existing.

No, I mean, I'd be intrigued.

I mean, it's true, we should be very deeply suspicious and sceptical of the past.

And one of the things that historians do is we rigorously interrogate documents, and we'd always try to disprove them.

You try to apply that sort of scientific methodology of saying, How do we know this is true?

And that's what great scholarship is, but you don't destroy all things,

you're just trying to question them and say, Okay, and obviously, there were problems with forgeries.

A monastery, for example, would be given land and they would lose the document, and then a king would turn up, going, Brilliant, I'm having your land back.

And they'd be like, No, no, no, this is ours, we've always had it.

So they'd forge a document, yeah, and then we get the forgery from there.

I read that, um, you know, Andorra, the country, yeah, they have a constitution, um, but it's in a safe in Andorra somewhere, and a lot of historians think that it's fake.

Really?

You heard that before?

No, I haven't.

Faking what's in, like, it doesn't exist at all.

As in, yeah, it's a modern reproduction because

they don't have the historical basis that they think they have.

Because it was one of those states that came in to buffer from the

15th century wars, yeah, the Italian wars.

If it were to be true, this phantom time thing, which is 110% not,

Then what it would mean is, I mean, no new scholarship is emerging, and new scholarship is emerging all the time.

Yeah, it is.

So it would be insane.

But it would also kick off our, we would really interrupt with our carbon dating.

Yeah, I was just thinking.

We use historical documents to try and ally up with carbon dating, and you use carbon dating to try and ally up with historical documents.

You try and play them off against each other and try and find a cross-reference.

And that way, if they both agree, you kind of go, all right, maybe that's legit.

And with Richard III discovery in the car park recently,

the carbon dating there can sort of give you that specificity scientifically, which then legitimises the documents that told us he was there.

So then we can kind of go, ah, these docs are these are okay.

Maybe we can look at them closely for something else.

So that's a way of verifying.

That's a way of verifying.

Because you're using the scientific method to sort of say, okay, the archaeology is legit, so maybe the history's okay.

Physicists like to use really old lead for their experiments because it's quite it doesn't react with as many things, but that means that they're trying to use a lot of archaeological items to make their experiments.

Have you heard about that?

Yeah, I've heard about it briefly.

I don't know if that's, I mean, it was supposed to make sense, wouldn't it?

Maybe.

Yeah.

But then, yeah, it's not really great to steal someone else's stuff.

This is Richard III.

Can I borrow that?

Sorry.

I've got an experiment on and just, you know, need an old king.

I mentioned that James was right, that there is a theory, which in fact sounds quite well founded, that the Andorran Constitution is a forgery.

Although this is in a book, so apparently it came from Charlemagne.

It was signed at the Independence of Andorra.

It was this document.

Oh, we all know Charlemagne didn't exist.

I think we've established that.

Although I am reading it in a book where they've spelt it, it's a book, it's Andorra Business Law Handbook, but they've spelt Charlemagne.

Charlemagne.

He's a dog.

He was a dog with a terrible skin reading.

I don't know how trustworthy that is.

Okay.

Alright, so we're going to go on to,

we'll do Alex's fact.

Now, Alex, my fact is it's about the most medically indispensable sea creature in the United States is the horseshoe crab.

Are you aware of the

wide, wide claim to make, isn't it?

Yeah, how does that work?

Well, so the horseshoe crab lives in the very bacteria-rich

coastline, shallow waters in the ocean.

So in the early 20s, they were sort of seen as a nuisance, and they were ground up and used as fertilizer and stuff and fed to pigs.

And now,

every year, a half million horseshoe crabs are harvested, and they're brought into factories by one of five companies all along the eastern coast of the United States, and they're bled alive, and their blood is baby blue.

And if you can find a picture, it's incredibly interesting.

And this blood, it detects any

dangerous bacterial endotoxins, even at a concentration of one part per trillion.

So the FDA requires that all drugs, all new drugs that are brought to market, be run through this horseshoe crab blood.

So that every single person in the United States who's ever had an injection of any kind has had a drug that's been tested in this LAL test.

Wow, that's amazing.

That is incredible.

It's unbelievable.

And the blood per quart is $15,000.

So they don't kill the crabs.

So that's like, so people will

bleed them and then they take them on a boat all the way out to sea so they don't re-harvest crabs that they've already bled.

They have like a great holiday crew.

You guys have done a really good thing.

Well, they dump these guys really far out and they notice that less less and less of them are coming back.

While you don't kill something when you take a lot of its blood, it does make it more lethargic and less likely to mate.

But yeah, so that's to me is

I think that's really cool.

Yeah.

That they have basically the best immune system of anyone.

They do.

We can use it.

Do you know?

My favorite crab.

Have you heard of the samurai crab?

No, but that sounds like a movie.

It's very exciting.

Sorry, Stevens.

Basically,

it attacks sideways.

Yeah, yeah.

There was a superstition that samurai warriors, when they died, were reincarnated as these crabs because a lot of these crabs that came up had the pattern on their shell of a samurai face.

And

it became an evolutionary thing, so it was the samurai pattern that became the

ones that looked like a samurai back into the ocean.

Are there other stories of animals selectively surviving like that?

Well, I think dogs are supposed to be a bit like that, and cats and

cats.

Cats domesticated themselves.

Yeah, because cats, when they meow, they don't meow to other cats, they only do it to humans.

Really?

They've selected to meow just so that we would think they're little babies, I think.

We've domesticated dogs.

We, you know, deliberately took wolves and went, please stop biting me.

I'd like you to be a dog, please.

And the amazing thing is that you can domesticate an animal really, really quickly.

There was a Russian scientist who did it in the 50s with foxes.

I think it was, what was his name?

I think it was B, I think Beliadinov or something like that.

He took foxes, feral, wild, angry foxes, trying to eat his face, and he just bred them and bread them and bread them, always taking the most docile cubs and bringing them together.

Beliaev.

Beliaev.

Beliaev.

Beliaev.

But he bred them together so that you ended up with these sort of more increasingly docile creatures.

But the extraordinary thing that he discovered was that when you breed for physical characteristics, it also creates a personality change.

They became more sort of dog-like, more sort of fluffy-tailed, and more sort of willing to follow around.

But they also changed their face.

More obsequious.

But they did get.

Obsequious foxes.

Obsequious fox.

But they would also change their personality and demeanour and the fact they'll respond to calls and so on.

And he did that in like 10 generations.

That's all it took.

You know, there's been an awful lot of genetic testing recently because we can now do DNA analysis on animals.

And we found that actually dogs are much older than we thought.

So do we think that we got them for companionship or fighting?

It's probably hunting and companionship.

Because we had pet bear.

There's definitely at least one pet bear that's been found in the Stone Age.

Byron had a pet bear.

Byron did have a pet bear.

Byron had a pet bear?

He took it to Cambridge with him.

He took it to Cambridge.

Because he wasn't allowed a dog, so he was a bit of a dick.

He's going, fine, I can have a bear.

Is this before or after he founded the hamburger chain, or is that

the most ridiculous?

I'll wait.

Someone kept a pet scorpion in a jar on his desk.

I read this in one of your books.

I read that in one of the QI books, which are available and fine bookstores everywhere.

Probably the same books as Greg's book will be available in next year.

All the bookshops.

Talk about obsequious.

But extraordinary, back to the sort of dog thing, the extraordinary thing is we obviously domesticated dogs because, to do that, you have to sort of take a wild, feral wolf that is trying to kill you and gradually tame it.

But it's not taming, it's breeding it.

You take the run to volita and the run to villa, you bring them together, and gradually you breed them and you create a new animal, and that is the dog.

The amazing thing is that the oldest dog breed in the world is only sort of a thousand years old or something.

Roman dogs don't exist anymore.

So when you find the Roman dog at Pompeii, which we have found one, that breed no longer exists, doesn't exist anymore.

Wow.

Is it because they die out?

Well, the breeding programmes change and you have sort of different needs for them, and animals are constantly evolving and changing, and we breed them in different ways.

George Washington bred dogs.

George Washington bred the American foxhound.

He took a French foxhound from the Marquis de Lafayette and an English foxhound and he bred them together and created the American foxhound.

Wow.

And he was really obsessed with this.

He was sort of a typical 18th century gentleman and was like, I'm going to breed an animal.

But the amazing thing is cats domesticated themselves.

The oldest known cat I think is from Shiloboros, I think in Cyprus.

I think it's about 9,000 years old.

Is there any truth to the story when people attach cats to their shields and the Egyptians were?

Yes, I love this.

This is the battle of Pelusium, I think, off the top of my head.

Because the Egyptians believed cats to be holy and revered.

They had huge cat funeral monuments with like millions of buried cats that they would.

If your cat died, you shaved off your eyebrows and you would take your cat to this holy city of cats.

They found a load of mummies, didn't they?

Mummified cats.

Like a million of them.

Mummies were a huge one recently.

Yeah, yeah.

And the city, I think, was called Bubastis, named after the, I think, I might have made that up.

There's definitely a city.

And they would bury the cats and they'd shave off their eyes.

It was working over time, by the way.

Sorry, sorry.

Well, they never want to interrupt.

So I'd put a thousand tabs up with information.

We're great.

I can't wait till the end of the session.

That's called Bubastis.

Bubastis.

Okay, good.

I wasn't making up some random names.

But they worship cats.

And there's a famous story that a Roman soldier was in his chariot and he ran over a cat and he was killed by an angry mob.

But then in the Middle Ages, people thought that cats were evil, didn't they?

They thought they had no soul, they thought they were witches' familiars.

They used to be burned alive as well, Louis XIV, I think.

Yeah, he did go into a burning ceremony, didn't he?

They used to be stoned, they were eaten alive, eaten alive, eating alive.

How do you eat cats?

There's a lot of declawing involved.

Yeah, you just grab it,

I guess you hold out the later to just start chomping.

I don't know.

Oh, God.

They've gone from gods to being evil, and now we just put them on the internet and laugh at them.

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We worship kittens.

Okay, listen now.

I'm going to quickly do my last fact.

I found that we have 28 people that we know slept with Queen Elizabeth I,

and that they were all women.

Whoa!

What?

So what you mean when you say slept with?

Slept in the same bedroom.

Yeah.

Well, does that sound right to you?

Same bedroom.

In the same bedroom.

Yeah, same bedroom.

The interesting thing about Queen Elizabeth, I actually made a documentary for Channel 5 Views ago that was awfully ridiculous, where we sort of went, did she have a love child?

Yeah.

Did she?

Well, Well,

there was rumours she did, and the Spanish used it, it's propaganda.

And obviously, I don't think she did.

But

I listened to first, she probably couldn't spend more than five minutes of her life alone.

She was constantly surrounded by people everywhere she went.

She was born a princess, she was always going to be a princess, and then she was a queen, and then she died.

So you'd have ladies in waiting who, of course, would sleep in the same room as her, and you'd have sort of truckle beds at the bottom of the bed usually they would sleep in, or more beds.

More of a sort of a pull-out little oh, like the cupboard.

Yeah, almost like under the beds, like a little, you know, but these people didn't really have any kind of private space, but the queen can never go, like, I want some alone time, maybe, but we don't have any records for that.

And you know what else?

I don't think this time period ever existed.

So,

what does this fact mean then?

Does it mean that she slept with way more than that?

Basically, it's a way of bringing up this interesting fact that the monarchs would have sleeping partners for companionship and for safety and whatever.

I read that Gandhi used to sleep with naked female virgins

to test his chastity.

So they would lay next to him in bed.

Wow.

Yeah, and just so he could be like, look how awesome I am.

Look at nothing.

I don't want to knock Gandhi on our show, but I'll not Gandhi, fuck it, that's weird.

No, but

maybe he was caught the first time by his wife.

She's like, oh my god, you're having a very, he's like, no, no, honey, hey, I am testing my chastity.

She's like, you're going to...

So he's like, yeah, I'll do it every night.

But there's a nice story.

I think it's in the Bible.

You might be able to help us more here, our Resident Jew, but it's King David, I think, has a woman called, is it Abbishag?

Abishag.

I think

she's the official human water bottle.

He gets really old, he gets really clean.

Yeah, and just a woman that he cuddles with.

Exactly, and she's a young, beautiful, beautiful virgin, and she gets in the bed with him, and her job is to warm him up at night.

She's the one who's the hot woman.

It has an interesting translation to 20th century care of U.S.

presidents.

This is mentioned in my father's TEDMed talk, which I didn't mean to plug this much,

considering it's probably only got like 20 views because of the TEDMED talk.

We'll post this talk a little bit.

Yeah, don't post it.

But Eisenhower had a lot of heart attacks.

Just like constantly having heart attacks.

Like he would wake up and he would go to a doctor and the doctor's like, yeah, he had a heart attack last night.

And like,

he was prescribed a prescription that he snuggled with Mamie Eisenhower.

But that basically was his, like, it was a fair prescription for a long time that literally to have like a cuddle buddy would calm him down would calm anybody down.

But like it was it was prevailed it's been prevailing knowledge up until pretty recently that having someone to like snuggle like teddy bears there was there are some papers that in New England they used to circulate a lot because I guess New England is where I'm from I'm from Boston is is like I guess teddy bears sort of started in Vermont and again I'm sure a QI question is whether or not Teddy Roosevelt yeah we think so do you really yeah do you think the sorry the teddy bear Teddy Roosevelt yeah yeah it's 1903 isn't it he refuses to shoot a bear is is that right?

He's hunting and he refuses to shoot a paper.

And Kermit Roosevelt was the first Westerner to shoot a panda or something.

Really stupid like that.

Really?

Might be wrong about that.

Just to interject: it wasn't just Kermit, it was Kermit and Theodore, Teddy's son, and they shot the panda together.

So they both agreed that they weren't.

They both shot.

Yeah, family auntie.

They both shot with their separate guns.

And they both claim to be the first Westerners to kill giant pandemics.

Isn't that touching?

That's

on that note.

That's so.

No, we should wrap up now, but if you want to ask any one of us any questions about the things we've spoken about today, you can get me on at Friday Land.

And yeah, I'm on at eggshaped.

Alex, what are you on?

I'm Alex underscore Edelman.

And this is all Twitter we're talking about, by the way.

Greg.

Greg shouted into the air.

Alex underscore Edelman.

He will appear.

Greg, we're.

Greg underscore Jenna.

Yeah, okay.

And Anna's not on Twitter, but she can be got on at at Wikipedia, which is the main QI Twitter page.

We're gonna have a bunch of photos, I guess, and a Ted Med clip up on the QI.

Oh, my father's gonna kill me.com/slash podcasts.

That's where you can find it.

Thanks so much for joining us, guys.

So, that was another edition of No Such Thing as a Fish.

I'm gonna call it special titled No Such Thing as the Middle Ages.

That's gonna be the

helpy like on the iTune thing.

Yeah,

cool.

All right, thanks everyone for listening.

Catch you next week.

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