In short
A “Little Fish” episode (No Such Thing as a Fish spin-off) built from audience/inbox facts, ranging from sumo rituals and sports longevity to an accordion “graveyard” myth, CPR training for women, cancer drug delivery research, Welsh language quirks, and cartography errors in Australia. It also includes a long segment of “custodian” end-facts assigned to top-tier Club Fish members.
Guests
No named guests appear in the transcript as interviewees; the hosts are Anna, James, and Dan (and occasional references to other Fish/QI figures like Rufus Hound, Adam Dzynski, etc., but not as guests in this episode).
Key claims + examples
- Sumo tournaments consume ~4,000 kg salt/year; salt is ceremonial and ring-related.
- Pole vaulting linked to ~8.4 years longer life expectancy (study claim).
- “Accordion Graveyard” in Alvdalen, Sweden: myth/theory of ~10,000 accordions buried under a parking lot.
- New South Wales surf clubs use “CP her” bra/boob CPR dummies because women are ~10% less likely to receive CPR and ~50% less likely to get defibrillation.
- Pig-semen-derived exosomes (not whole sperm) proposed for retinoblastoma treatment in mice.
- Tasmania and Victoria share an ~85 m land border due to a mapping error (Boundary Islet).
Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.
Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOSumo Wrestlers and Salt
1:25 to 2:19
Discussion about sumo wrestling and its salt consumption.
Experiences with Sumo
2:19 to 4:55
Personal anecdotes related to sumo wrestling and the hosts' experiences.
“and Matthew says that each year professional sumo tournaments in Japan consume about 4 ,000 kilograms of salt.”
Life Expectancy in Sports
4:55 to 5:44
Exploration of life expectancy differences among various sports.
“I wouldn't let anyone do that in my house.”
Pole Vaulting and Longevity
5:44 to 6:41
Discussion on surprising life expectancy of pole vaulters.
“What an amazing sudden entry into the British.”
The Accordion Graveyard
6:41 to 8:15
Story about the myth of 10,000 accordions buried in Sweden.
“They must have got better since I last watched the pole vault for getting that high.”
CPR Training and Gender Bias
8:15 to 9:49
Exploring gender bias in CPR training and the initiative to address it.
“that 10 ,000 accordions are buried there.”
Innovative Cancer Treatment
9:49 to 12:10
Discussion on the use of pig semen for innovative cancer treatments.
“Do you think all kind of Egyptian pyramids were actually like people had too many?”
Welsh Names and Rugby
12:10 to 14:00
Exploration of Welsh names and their historical context in rugby.
“So it's David Beckham's ex-mistress who was on a reality show and excited a porcine fellow contestant.”
Exploring Welsh Names and Their Origins
14:00 to 15:10
Learn about the peculiarities of Welsh surnames and their historical context.
“Chris Perry writes in, here's a submission for Little Fish.”
Mapping Errors and Tasmania's Border
15:10 to 16:50
Discover the amusing history behind Tasmania's land border with Victoria.
“All right, Chris, just want to clarify that they could still say those sounds.”
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Toilet Tales and Podcasting
16:50 to 19:00
Hear about the unique experiences of recording a podcast in unusual locations, including toilets.
Big Questions About Cafe Toilets
19:00 to 20:00
Consider the drainage systems in cafes due to frequent restroom use.
“This is so tangential about toilets that I wonder every single day.”
Custodianship of Fun Facts
20:00 to 22:30
Listen as hosts hand over quirky facts to their listeners, with humorous commentary.
“And James who are you going to give a fact to?”
Fascinating Historical Facts
22:30 to 25:00
Explore interesting historical facts shared by the hosts and listeners.
“As in And so the reason he came on is I bumped into him on the street a couple of weeks before while I was walking down Maiden Lane, which is the road we used to record on.”
Conclusion and Final Thoughts
25:00 to 28:01
Wrap up the episode with final amusing insights and a fun closing fact.
“Well, that's okay because we have evidence that we thought of it first.”
California Condors and Glove Puppets
28:01 to 28:50
Learn about the unique method of raising California condors using glove puppets.
“But anyway, either way, your facts now, forever and forsaking all others, is that half of all California condors were raised by glove puppets.”
The First Novel and Its Unique Ending
28:51 to 29:26
Discover the surprising fact about the first novel that ended mid-sentence.
“This goes to Gemma Harton, and you are now the custodian of the fact that the first ever novel ended mid-sentence.”
Transcript
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1:13Dan Schreiber:Hello and welcome to Little Fish, the new show from No Such Thing as a Fish, The Makers Of, and this is my first time hosting it, and what do I say aside from that? You sound like we've got a gun to your head. that's how I feel every time I come in here first of all tell everyone the date and the headline on the piece of newspaper that you're holding and then you just have to say who we are what the show is yes then we'll get into some facts this is when we can't be bothered to do any more research for ourselves so instead we dip into our inbox and we have a look at all the great facts you've found for us and we're hoping this eventually becomes a self-making show and we don't need to do any more work ourselves um so thank you for providing some amazing facts this week in our inbox and who's got a good one to kick us off i've got a good one uh nice to see you all after a long week that we've had since the last one of these that we did yeah i barely remember what you guys look like well actually you it's cast your minds back all that time um we were talking about sumo wrestlers and i have a fact here about sumo uh from matthew bright and Matthew says that each year professional sumo tournaments in Japan consume about 4 ,000 kilograms of salt.
2:27Dan Schreiber:Is that because they throw salt? They throw salt, yeah. So this is what Matthew's worked out. So each tournament lasts 15 days and they're held six times a year and each tournament consumes about 650 kilograms of salt, according to a journalist, which Matthew found, and then if you work that all out, it's 4 ,000 kilograms. and the salt is like to purify the ring interesting and for like you say ceremonial reasons and yeah
2:56James Harkin:does it grit it as well does it give you good because a lot of it is about holding your stance you're absolutely right but the ring itself is like made it's got sand in it anyway i think which means it's quite well gritted but it can't hurt yeah especially on a cold day
3:14James Harkin:when it's on ice sumo on ice why has that not been done? I mean that has to be a thing doesn't it? we're getting a lot of sumo action in London at the moment there's a lot of exhibition matches that have been happening at places like the Royal Albert Hall have you ever been walking around London and just seen the sumo wrestlers? I saw a guy go pass on a bike oh wow that's cool
3:36Dan Schreiber:that's a cartoon, are you sure that wasn't a cartoon you saw?
3:38James Harkin:I'm pretty sure I saw him on a bike. It was just down the road. And yeah, they're all over. Well, certainly when they were in town, you would see them everywhere.
3:45Dan Schreiber:Was he on a child's bike? Tiny, tiny.
3:48James Harkin:It looked like that, probably. Yeah. I've seen the... I went to the final of the year of sumo in Tokyo when I was there, which was very cool. But it was the day we arrived and we were so jet lagged, we both fell asleep in the middle of the tournament. Ouch. I felt like people should have been throwing salt on us to keep us alive. Yeah, smelling salts. Yeah. Chuck those out. Yeah.
4:08Dan Schreiber:Do you guys throw salt over your shoulder for good luck when you use it? I do actually, yeah. Even though I know it's stupid and I'm not very superstitious generally. I just like, I think it's cool. It is cool.
4:19James Harkin:I have found myself in restaurants going, who's that cool guy? The salt thing. I wouldn't do it in a restaurant. It's when I'm cooking and I spill some. Okay, right. Like it's when you spill it, not when you put it on your food, right? Yes. What do you mean when you spill it? Like that's the idea with the... Oh. So you spill salt and that's very bad luck. and so you throw some over your shoulder into the devil's face.
4:39Dan Schreiber:Oh, we just did it whenever we salt anything, salt it and then toss it over your shoulder. Oh, I'm not that cool. Well, I've always been a few rungs above you, haven't I? But since being the person who cleans the house rather than my mother when I was a kid, when we all did it, I've realised it's an incredibly annoying habit. I wouldn't let anyone do that in my house. It's just salt on the floor the whole time. Yeah, that's true. But at least you're not slipping over and it's also purified spiritually. There you go. That's why there's no ghost in your house. Do you know that sumo wrestlers, if you're a sumo wrestler, you are associated with a 9.8 year negative lifespan compared to a non-sumo wrestler?
5:14It does make a bit of sense, doesn't it? It does. But actually, like most, obviously, most sports, if you do them, you have a longer lifespan. Yeah. Because, you know, if you're a gymnast, you have a 8.2 years higher life expectancy. And there is one sport.
5:32Dan Schreiber:Sorry, that's unbelievable. 8.2 year higher life expectancy. Is it too late? Somebody's not a gymnast. For you to be a gymnast, I'm afraid so, Anna. They're usually about 14, aren't they? Yeah, max.
5:44James Harkin:What an amazing sudden entry into the British.
5:49Dan Schreiber:Former podcaster, Adam Dzynski, quite last year to become the roly-poly specialist.
5:58There is one spot, according to this study that I read this in, that has a higher improvement of life expectancy. And I can't find out why, and it doesn't make any sense. But do you want to guess what it is? Yeah, okay. Curling. Curling, no. Skateboarding. Skateboarding, no. It is pole vaulting. What? Pole vaulters live on average 8.4 years longer than the rest of us.
6:24James Harkin:Must be something to do with the clean air they're getting access to at the top bit. Definitely that, yeah. Or maybe, you know, like there's something about special relativity if you're in space, like time slows down. Oh, yes.
6:37Dan Schreiber:You don't age. Of course. Time traveling. Wow. They must have got better since I last watched the pole vault for getting that high.
6:45James Harkin:It's really fun these days. They go up and they come down three years younger. But yeah, I don't know why that is. My guess is that probably compared to these other spots is quite a small sample size. Yeah, right. Great mystery to solve. Shall I do one? Yeah. All right. This is from Duncan Pierce. There are 10 ,000 accordions under a parking lot in a Swedish town called Alvdalen.
7:11Dan Schreiber:Dude, I feel like Andy gives you the hard ones to pronounce. I think so as well. And also often when we're doing the names of the custodians, every difficult one seems to land on you. It does. It's so weird. When you walk through this parking lot, does it go?
7:27Dan Schreiber:Wait, is that your accordion impression? Well, my accordion's very old. I see. It's got a few holes in it. Clearly. I can play the accordion. Can you? Yeah, yeah, I have an accordion. Can you? Have I ever... I didn't bring it on any shows or anything.
7:42James Harkin:I feel like we did something where I've heard you play it in the context of a potential live show piece. Yeah, maybe when we did like a pre-show or something. Yeah. I can't remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do have an accordion and it doesn't sound anything like that. Even when I play it, who's not that good at it? Why did we not let you play it? I should give you a bit more on this. Yeah, this is Duncan sends in saying he watched a documentary called The Accordion Graveyard in Alvdalen and the hosts try to uncover the prominent myth in the Swedish accordion community that 10 ,000 accordions are buried there.
8:19James Harkin:And they try to get to the bottom of this major myth about...
8:22Dan Schreiber:What's behind the myth? Why would they be buried there? Who's come up with accordion to whom? Brilliant. Lovely. Thank you.
8:29James Harkin:So there's a leading theory that the society has. It's that they are old Eastern European accordions, which were bought by Hagstrom in the 1930s. They were planning on renovating, but by the 1960s, the accordion market took a big dip. Oh, yeah. They weren't selling as well, and they had outsourced a lot of the industry to Asia. So they buried their inventory. the exact number of accordions doesn't know but the myth says that there is 10 ,000 and so they did this documentary and they found yeah what did they do? they dug it up like time team and they found them? yeah yeah they found remnants of a lot of them I don't think they found 10 ,000
9:09Dan Schreiber:well some of them would have decomposed wouldn't they? the less well made ones hold on so there were actually I thought this was a bullshit myth made up by this mad community of accordion aficionados and it's actually true there are 10 ,000 accordions buried under a parking lot.
9:23James Harkin:I feel like you would need that ending for the documentary to work. Oh yeah, do you reckon the doco makers went in the middle of the night and dug some holes and put some accordions in there? Very true. He cracked it. Very true. You'd hear them though in the night putting them in, wouldn't you?
9:39Dan Schreiber:Where's the mute button on this bastard? If you ever, in 10 ,000 years, if someone digs up that parking lot, they'll probably think like the king of tedious, annoying instruments was buried there. Yeah. You're so right. Do you think all kind of Egyptian pyramids were actually like people had too many? Too many bricks. She's put me in a pile. Not that pile. It's a slightly neater pile. Stop inside them. But yeah. All right. Moving on. Let's have a fact. Let's have a fact from Hayley Wilson. And she's titled this, Aussie bystanders spooked by boobs means women less likely to receive CPR than men.
10:18Dan Schreiber:and basically it's yes yes when you sort of think it back in your head it does make sense and her fact is that CPR training dummies with boobs on them are now being used at surf life-saving clubs in New South Wales because women are less likely to receive CPR they're 10 % less likely to receive it and 50 % less likely to receive defibrillation from bystanders in an emergency because reasons cited were people a bit scared of the boobs I think ironically these have been made for like slightly prudish people but probably going to be utilized by perverts yeah that's why I bought mine yeah they've all mysteriously disappeared it does say you don't use tongues for the kiss of life dad there's a good punchline the initiative is called CP her CP her H-E-R
11:17James Harkin:it should be called cp bra that's a better one good you should have been on the um pr team
11:23Dan Schreiber:they don't let me know the dolls anymore
11:27okay here is another one about body parts questionable uh it's by ori folga and ori says that eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice so many things in that bit of a headline really yeah this is an interesting thing i think because i read this article a week or two ago and immediately put it in my file of possible headlines for fish okay but now it's come in from a audience member i think that could be a problem in future if our audience gets better and better at finding facts we're going to have none left for ourselves we
12:05James Harkin:might become what anna said at the top of the show just entirely an audience fact show yeah lovely maybe so what this is is that there's a type of cancer called a retinoblastoma it's very hard to get the medicine to it and what they've managed to do is take advantage of the fact that sperm can penetrate eggs but instead of penetrating the eggs they penetrate the eye amazing and it's basically a part of the sperm called exosomes which are tiny little bubbles of fat which can send the proteins into the egg they've not tried this in humans yet but they think that it seems to work in mice and so why not try it in humans i don't think it's you actually get a pig sperm i think it's like you extract these proteins from it and then you attach those onto some agar jelly or something i don't know send it through that way yeah and whose job is it to masturbate the pig call rebecca loose that's an old call back that's a deep cut to pop culture from about 10 years ago yeah um when we first did this podcast 12 years ago that would have been on
13:14Dan Schreiber:the cutting edge of satire i feel like that's so recent still maybe it's because the only pop
13:19James Harkin:culture news i've known about for the last 20 years yeah well anytime he has a big moment uh like a documentary came out about his life, She's Back in the News. Who, David Beckham? Yeah, yeah. So it's David Beckham's ex-mistress who was on a reality show and excited a porcine fellow contestant. Yes, alleged ex-mistress. Yes. Yeah. She's not allowed in any showings of Peppa Pig.
13:47Dan Schreiber:Her and David Cameron go to the same help group, don't they? Right, next up.
13:53James Harkin:Yes, please. I got a little etymology one here. So, as you know, this will be butchered by me. Chris Perry writes in, here's a submission for Little Fish. If a Welsh rugby team was made up of Joneses, Jenkinses, Davises and Evanses, they would be the least Welsh rugby team ever. What? Yeah. They're the most common Welsh names, I think. Yeah, but not in the old Welsh alphabet, because the letters V, J and K do not appear in the old Welsh alphabet. bit and i've got a little chart here that you guys can see of how the uh the welsh language works you got a b c and then cha d double d e f double f g n g h i l go straight to l so we've
14:36Dan Schreiber:got no sounds like bra sizes doesn't it it does a little double d i think is pronounced like an f isn't it yeah like cardiff ends in double d in welsh yes yeah i think yeah very good on welsh but yeah the thing is with Welsh surnames is that they were they didn't traditionally have surnames in Wales but the British forced the surnames onto them and so they all just chose like Evans son of Evan or Jones son of John like that's why they've got so few surnames and they're all quite similar William son of William they were just yeah but they could still say those as in they still had the sounds in their language of those things they just look like different letters
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15:18James Harkin:Yeah, I think Chris was just enjoying the quirk of the letters that we'd recognize them today are so prominent in modern Welsh names.
15:26Dan Schreiber:All right, Chris, just want to clarify that they could still say those sounds. Yeah, we don't want the Welsh writing then.
15:32James Harkin:Yeah, he has, I should, for his defense, say naturally this is an interesting insight into Welsh language. And I would never suggest a Welsh rugby player called Jones is not truly Welsh, at least not to his or her face. Absolutely.
15:50Dan Schreiber:I've got another one here. It's from Alistair Patterson, who opens with, my stupid little fact is, which I'm going to say, don't do yourself down, Alistair. Let us be the judge of that. Yeah. So we're about to judge it. My stupid little fact is that the Australian island state of Tasmania technically shares an 85 metre land border with Victoria. Oh. I actually love stuff. I love cartography cock-ups. Yeah. Well, you've been to Tassie quite a lot of times, right? Yeah, I kept trying to find the land border. got very wet. Yeah. Is there a night? It's like Kangaroo Island belongs to both of them or something.
16:24Dan Schreiber:There is an island which wasn't supposed to be on the land border. It's called Boundary Islet. So they should have known based on the name. No, it didn't. It didn't used to be on the boundary. So in 1801, a guy called Captain John Black made a mapping error and he determined that this place, which is now called Boundary Islet, was slightly further north than it actually was. And so if it was further north enough, it would just be Victorian. And then they remeasured everything and they realized the isle was actually a bit further south and it's bisected by the border so they share it did they have like really hilarious things that happen that the people who live near the border or you know you can buy fireworks on one side and pornography on the other side or is it just an island where no one lives apart from a few sheep i'm afraid it's really an island where literally nothing whatsoever happens it's of no consequence whatsoever but maybe they'll find a huge oil well beneath it at some point does it have any like natural lie of the land that might be good for a podcast to play in like a little raised area where a podcast can do their show and then a little area where some audience can say yeah he didn't specify but i'm sure we could have something erected um and this is our next gig i think now we probably can't sell out the city of the house anymore that we've been insulting australians quite a lot over the last few months so we might have to play this island where no one lives is that so you can say we've sold out
17:42James Harkin:venues in victoria and tasmania two shows in one yeah that's great we did go to new zealand and the three of us did an episode in a toilet oh we did yeah or just next to the toilet so we are was that us three and he wasn't there yeah he wasn't there yeah so currently we are playing in mean doses is the uh is the bar it's called we're in their toilet with an exclusive episode because Buttons was there like this week right that's right he sent us a message yeah so Leon who was on an episode of one of our live tour shows in New Zealand when Andy was away he randomly was there and he sent us a video and it's still playing in the toilet because this is one
18:21Dan Schreiber:that we found I listened to a thing in years ago saying that it constantly played No Such Thing As A Fish in the toilets and so we recorded an episode there but they don't play that episode in the toilets do they? they still play our old episodes no they play that toilet wait do they just literally play that one over and over again if you're listening to this show and you think you've listened to every single episode of No Such Things Are Fish, unless you've been in that toilet, you are wrong. Yeah, that's true.
18:43James Harkin:They were playing it exclusively, but now they've put it on rotation with a few other episodes. I think maybe they got some complaints about the repetition. This is the ninth poo I've had in here where I'm listening to the same episode. They're like, no, no, that's a different episode. It's just Andy is still talking about his buck.
19:01Dan Schreiber:Can I say something? This is so tangential about toilets that I wonder every single day. And I just want to know if a listener has an answer. So I often work in a cafe, local cafe, and lots of people work in cafes. And I always think, do they have special drainage sewage systems? Because obviously what people do in cafes, they drink coffee. There's no way that every single person in that cafe isn't going to the toilet at some point and doing a huge turd, right? And then I always think, if this many people are doing that, they must have amazing toilets to not be blocked. And I just want to know if cafes, if that's a thing, if you run a cafe or if you own a cafe if you have to invest in really heavy duty sewage systems interesting no six things a fish asking all the big questions you don't hear this on the rest is politics do you I would love to have Rory Stewart's take on shitting in cafes anyway any more for any more I think that's enough that's good that's good well we'll finish on that good let us know that was lovely, lovely spending time with all of you here today and it is now time to give you a little gift, some of you a little gift so at the end of our Little Fish episodes we hand over a fact to very special members of our top tier of the secret club fish and so we're going to give some facts to people to be custodians of for the rest of eternity, aren't we?
20:25Dan Schreiber:And James who are you going to give a fact to? Okay, I can offer custodianship of this fact to timothy sit timothy sit well it's quite appropriate to your name because your fact is that the trailer for the longest movie ever made is 72 minutes long wow and i imagine you would have to sit through it timothy you wouldn't want to be standing
20:52James Harkin:no um all right here's another one this goes out to eric olofsson and your fact is in the middle Ages lots of churches had statues of Jesus which had moving arms so he could be taken down from the cross and carried around.
21:05Dan Schreiber:What's really cool about that is Eric Olafsson sounds like he's from the Middle Ages doesn't he? We're already very much on the line taking the piss out of Welsh surnames. I don't think we should go up to Scandinavia now. I'm sure Olafsson is a perfectly normal name. It just sounds pre-Norman. Yes. I do remember this one. This was one of my favourite facts we've ever done, actually. This was your fact, I think, Dan, wasn't it?
21:32James Harkin:That's right. It was Andy's.
21:34Dan Schreiber:I've never been able to tell the difference between the two. I will take the next fact, shall I? So here's a fact for Holly Miller. Okay. Holly Miller, guard this fact. Twice in its history, America has been run by a shepherd. Oh, nice. That's nice. Yeah, with their flock of sheep. Who would that have been? Which was the president who kept a sheep on his lawn? That was maybe Teddy Roosevelt, someone around the turn of the 20th century. But that doesn't necessarily mean he was a shepherd. Feels like it would be one of the early ones who was a shepherd. Yeah. I bet it wasn't Madison because we'd done him on the main show recently and we would remember that.
22:12Dan Schreiber:Yeah, it wasn't Madison, not a shepherd. But his wife was called Dolly, who was a sheep. That's a good point. That's very good. This is blowing wide open. Yeah, yeah. um i think ty henry tyler is it henry tyler no john john tyler well i think it was henry tyler
22:31James Harkin:um this was a very fun episode because we had rufus hound on we did and this was rufus's fact and do you remember in uh the old qi office where we recorded just below us was a barber shop and it just so happened that is where rufus used to get his mustache and beard and hair done and he said oh i've booked um a haircut and i need to go halfway through the recording of the episode yeah so weird yeah wild and so we paused it and he went away and he took a very long time and we think and i want to ask rufus this we think he went for an enormous poo and there was a problem with the sewage system because they're like we're not a cafe go do your poos in narrow rufus Jesus Yeah we've got a theory We've got a theory that he didn't do as much research as he hoped he could have done and he was feeling it during the episode and so when he went down he just did a lot more research because when he came back he was packed with facts as Rufus is about everything And his hair still looks shit
23:31Dan Schreiber:So
23:34James Harkin:He's a very presentable man for Rufus's hair Do you know how he came on the show as well? As in And so the reason he came on is I bumped into him on the street a couple of weeks before while I was walking down Maiden Lane, which is the road we used to record on. And I was walking and I heard a man yell from very far down the road, yellow shoe wanker. And at that point, I was wearing these yellow sport shoes that were like luminous. And he'd spotted me from like a hundred yards away. The whole street turned. but did you know him in that stage? I did, yeah. Like he was on Museum of Curiosity relatively early.
24:14James Harkin:And he used to do all the warm-ups at QI back in the day before the recordings. He did, yeah, yeah. And there were a couple of pilots that QI tried to do back in the day and Rufus was either a host or the panelist. I mean, of course he knew you. Like he wouldn't have known necessarily you always wear yellow shoes but he knows you're a wanker. Yeah, that's the bit that wasn't the contested bit. right time for another fact yes this one goes out to vanessa sterling vanessa your fact is that there is a village in russia where every single person knows how to tightrope walk yeah yeah i feel like some facts really stick out as a classic fish fact and for me that was one that i've remembered and thought about many times do you know why i think when we wrote our book the book of the year we considered writing another book do you remember we discussed it and we were going to call it the book of now yeah and the idea is that right now somewhere in the world this thing is happening and there are loads of things happening and one of them was in this village in russia right now everyone knows how to tightrope walk yeah yeah i still love the idea of that book it's that image you wake up in the morning right now when you wake up someone is tightrope walking here there's a yellow shoe wanker going down made in lane yeah great idea Well, we better not put it in the edit then
25:34Dan Schreiber:because someone will steal it if it's that good. Well, that's okay because we have evidence that we thought of it first. Oh, let someone else do the work again. I see.
25:42James Harkin:Publishers might be listening as well. We could sell our books here. I think all publishers have turned off this podcast since Andy started working on his books. I think literally everyone in the publishing industry in London has just gone, oh, you know what, I'm going to listen to Off Menu now. Yeah. We really haven't considered the actual career damage that man has done to us with his buddy cop TV shows.
26:03Dan Schreiber:Okay, next fact.
26:04James Harkin:All right, this one's going out to Max. Max, you know who you are. Your fact is when making model railways, people make coal out of larger bits of coal. Whose fact could that have been? Okay, hear me out, guys. Small coal cop.
26:30but actually i think this fact people have written into us on droppers line referencing this fact haven't they and i think wasn't it true that someone had a wedding and the favors that they gave to all the guests was um fake bits of coal like actually made out of chocolate cake or whatever chocolate coal really the reason was because they partly themed the wedding on fish
26:52Dan Schreiber:and this was like uh oh wow these facts and they sent us some of the coal didn't they there'll be some here for you Anna. Some of the chocolate cold?
27:00James Harkin:Yeah, we all got our own little pouch.
27:02Dan Schreiber:Wow, I can't believe you've waited this long to tell me. See, this is the kind of thing I came back for. Here is a fact. I'm going to say the fact first this time and then the person who's going to cuss at it. And this fact is that in Britain, pedestrians step to the right to avoid each other and in Japan they step to the left and nobody knows why. And I'm going to hand that fact over to Max Scupperson to be the custodian of that. very nice it's a weird one which way do you step i think i step in the same direction as a person walking towards me and then we both change our minds and step in the other direction and then both step in the other direction and then go oh sorry sorry sorry and then kind of slightly barge into each other and then you're making out and then i'm like dad's sister leave me alone
27:51James Harkin:is that a call back to so long ago wasn't it last last week's little fish but good She's a character now on the show. She'll enjoy that. James, you got another fact? Yes, I have. My last one for the day. This fact is under the custody of Keno. K-E-N-O. Could be Keno. Keno. But anyway, either way, your facts now, forever and forsaking all others, is that half of all California condors were raised by glove puppets. Oh, yeah.
28:22Dan Schreiber:This is great. This is a reintroduction program. Yeah. And I think one of the early ones, and it's been like a lot of other birds, they do similar things now, right? Yeah. Do you remember? Yeah. This is the idea that they attach very strongly to whoever raises them, and so you can't have a person, otherwise they'll be attached to that person, so the person dresses up as a condor. Do they imprint?
28:45James Harkin:Is that what it's called? Or is that different? Yeah, they imprint. Yeah.
28:49Dan Schreiber:All right, Dan, final fact to close with? Make it a good one.
28:51James Harkin:This goes to Gemma Harton, and you are now the custodian of the fact that the first ever novel ended mid-sentence.
28:59Dan Schreiber:Oh, yes. The Tale of Genji. Written by that lady ages ago. Oh, yeah. In that country far away. In that place. Yeah, foreign place.
29:09James Harkin:Eric Olufsen probably knows her. Probably friends with her. Or John Jones.
29:14Dan Schreiber:Yeah. Well, that's a cracking fact to end on. I would say that because it's one of mine. but all great facts guard them wisely and thank you so much to all of those new custodians so that is thank you to timothy sit god he must get annoyed with that um thank you to timothy eric holly vanessa max other max max scupperson kino and gemma thank you so much for joining us for this episode of little fish if you want to listen to an episode of the the big fish the real podcast no such thing as a fish we'll be back again on Friday if you want to listen to another fake podcast Little Fish we'll be back again on Monday and what else can you do?
29:56Dan Schreiber:What if they have some facts to send where would they send those? Guys if you've got some facts to send you should send them to podcast.qi.com and if you join up to the highest tier of club fish you might get custodianship of one of our facts and that's it from us that's from James from Dan and from me Anna and what do you say at the end of things? And then thank you for listening to this podcast. We'll see you again sometime. Goodbye.
30:26Dan Schreiber:It's harder than it looks, isn't it? It is.
30:28James Harkin:And not to be nitpicky, but it's not that you might get custodianship if you sign up. You definitely will. It's part of the deal.
30:34Dan Schreiber:You will get custodianship of one of our facts if you sign up to our top tier. Do you want me to do it again? Normally.
30:41James Harkin:Did Andy write your outro?
30:47Thank you.
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