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Little Fish: Jurassic Bark is a “send us unbelievable facts” episode where the hosts debate whether claims are believable after extra research, then add related jokes and archive “custodian” shout-outs. Guests are Andrew Hunter-Murray, Dan Schreiber, and James Harkin (host). Key claims/examples: Silver Lake (Los Angeles) is named after Herman Silver, the LA water commissioner, not the water’s color. A hippopotamus supposedly has similar body-fat percentage to Usain Bolt’s peak (and Bolt would beat a hippo in a 100m). M&M size is disputed: one listener claims 138.4 “M&Ms tall,” and the hosts measure real candies to challenge online dimensions. The oldest living dog is linked to the canine transmissible venereal tumor (a cancer lineage traced back thousands of years). ISS coffee uses an “ISS Spresso” zero-G cup using capillary action. Also discussed: Bailey Bridge history (often misnamed as “Bailey” type), and a British Army staffing claim of 137% committed to operations/exercises.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOFact About Silver Lake
1:35 to 2:57
Discussion about the naming of Silver Lake in Los Angeles and the surprise element of fact-checking.
“Terrific fact is that there is an area in Los Angeles, which is known as Silver Lake, right?”
Hippos and Usain Bolt's Fat Percentage
2:57 to 4:25
Exploring the surprising fat percentage of hippos compared to Usain Bolt, and a hypothetical race.
“Give me an example In the moonlight the water is silvery Isn't it?”
M&M Height Comparison
4:25 to 7:31
Investigating the height of an M&M through humorous comparisons and calculations.
“Arguably, he's better than any human ever.”
Invisible Ancient Dog Tumor
7:31 to 10:37
Discussion about an ancient dog tumor that has lived on through generations of dogs.
“Who's needing that info before purchasing?”
Jurassic Bark Joke
10:37 to 14:00
A humorous take on bringing back an ancient dog through the concept of Jurassic Park.
“If I can't get a full 45 minutes without any swear words in, we might have to cut that.”
The Jurassic Bark Revelation
14:00 to 15:10
Discussion on the scientific debate surrounding ancient dog cells.
The Joke That Shocked
15:10 to 15:20
A standout joke about Jurassic Bark leaves the hosts stunned.
Coffee in Space: The ISS Spresso
15:20 to 17:40
Exploration of how coffee is consumed in zero gravity on the ISS.
“same cells oh interesting okay i mean they're not are they they're cells that have developed from those cells, as in the original ones are long gone.”
The Ingenious Bailey Bridge
17:40 to 21:20
History and uniqueness of the Bailey Bridge design during WWII.
“But if you come to that conclusion, then we're not going to stop you.”
The Art of Bridge Building
21:20 to 23:20
Discussing the challenges and experiences in bridge-building games.
“What amazing facts they were this week, indeed, as they are every week.”
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Interesting Facts from Listeners
23:50 to 26:20
Sharing fascinating facts submitted by listeners along with reactions.
“That we did years later, which was another one of yours.”
The Invention of Shredded Wheat
28:00 to 29:18
Learn about the quirky history of shredded wheat and its inventor.
“This is to Xander Sinji and the fact is the son of the man who invented shredded wheat invented round shredded wheat.”
Cultural Differences in Affection
29:18 to 30:26
Explore how cultural differences affect displays of affection among couples.
“And I can't tell you when I first moved there how distant...”
Changing Attitudes Towards Hugs
30:26 to 31:24
Discuss the evolution of personal boundaries and social interactions over the years.
“Yeah Very good We just don't need to show off about it, alright?”
Viewer Engagement and Community
31:24 to 32:15
Learn how listeners can engage with the show and contribute their facts.
“If you would like to send us some facts then send them to podcast.qi.com where Andy will go through them and pick out the very best ones for this show.”
Transcript
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1:13Hi everyone and welcome to this week's Little Fish. This is the show where you send us some unbelievable facts. We say whether we believe them or not and then we say whether you should believe them or not because we've done some extra research on them and then at the end we will do some extra other stuff. But in the meantime I am joined by Andrew Hunter-Murray, Dan Schreiber, my name is James Harkin and who is going to give us the first fact today? I'll do one. Go for it. All right. This is a fact from Simonida Popov. So thank you, Simonida, for writing in. Terrific fact is that there is an area in Los Angeles, which is known as Silver Lake, right?
1:49And it's named after the Silver Lake Reservoir nearby. And it is named not after the silver color of its water, but after Herman Silver. Oh, no. The LA Water Commissioner at the time the reservoir was built. That's quite early to get into the things that are named after people. people but you think that it's going to be things that their names are similar to. Yes. I thought the element of surprise is so important here. The longer I leave it in the episode the more likely you guys were thinking oh Andy's going to do his blooming book idea now. How much of a surprise is it to Little Fish listeners?
2:22Because we talk about it a lot on Drop Us a Line. We do it a lot in Little Fish as well. Do we? We do it in real life as well listener. The terrible thing is in the inbox of Drop Us a Line they're flooding in. Right. I'm now being bounced into doing this book by the sheer number well it sounds like it's more normal than we realize so actually what i might write is the book of things that are named not for people who were named after the thing that it sounds like it's named yeah yeah yeah yeah that's a good sequel book yeah well it's a competitor at the tills uh very nice any more on the on the lake or just no it's just called silver lake very good do lakes look silver i don't feel like i've seen a silver lake yeah Give me an example In the moonlight the water is silvery Isn't it?
3:05I think silvery is definitely a word that's often used To describe water I'm just thinking daytime It'll be blue to brown Blue to brown lake It doesn't add quite the panache It's not romantic is it? It's named after Stephen Blue and Arthur Brown
3:26Shall I read one here? This is from Jonas Mortensen of Denmark who says, long-time listener and fellow fact aficionado, during a Saturday low-energy TV watching with my kids watching some random nature documentary, I discovered that the hippopotamus has the same body fat percentage as Usain Bolt at his absolute peak. So, basically, sub 10%, less than 10 % fat. A hippopotamus is less than 10 % fat. They're all muscle, Andy, they're all muscle. They're incredibly muscly. Usain Bolt, I read was about 8 % body fat He probably went a bit lower than that That's low It's not like you It wouldn't be high would it The amazing thing was he did it Hippos are about 2-5 % fat Get out That's the data online It's interesting that's true of quite a lot of animals That are way less fatty than you think They're going to be That's really interesting So they're all muscle Here's the question we often get told hippos are faster than you realize because they get they charge at people a lot of deaths are a result of hippos in a hundred meter race who would win a hippo or usain bolt for me a hippo 100 okay is it from a dead start as in they stopped before because i can imagine usain bolt taking off very fast and winning he was actually surprisingly slow starter you're saying but like he was famous his start was if his start was as fast as some other 100 meter runners he would be even faster that's really funny sorry you're saying he was slow he's actually really slow guys oh he was honestly he was always a faster finisher than a starter that's very interesting how'd he do i stopped watching after the first two seconds
5:15yeah that's really i mean it's all comparative right he's better than us his slow start is probably quicker than my quick start oh absolutely yeah Yeah, he's better than us. Arguably, he's better than any human ever. Not at the start. Not at the start. Yeah, that's true. Okay, so I'm saying Usain Bolt will win over a hippo. You're saying Usain Bolt will win? Okay. Yeah, the answer is that Usain Bolt, at his fastest, reached 44.7 kilometers an hour. And a hippo gets to about 30. So actually, Usain Bolt, in that 100 meter sprint, would win. But put it over 800 meters. Maybe we've got ourselves a ball game.
5:52Oh, yeah. I mean, who knows? We've never tested it. I know Michael Phelps once swam against a shark, apparently. But a CGI shark. There's a CGI shark. We need a CGI hippo against a CGI at his peak, Usain Bolt. Yeah, okay. What's interesting is if these speeds are what they would be running at, Usain Bolt would pass the finishing line two seconds before a hippo. And the fact that you did, James, on the show ages ago is roughly two seconds is the amount of time that Usain Bolt's feet are touching the ground over a 100 meter sprint. Not sure quite what that says about the world. No. But when you sit back and think about it.
6:30Well, yeah, that's true. Usain Bolt's fastest speeds would occur in the 200 meters. Would they? Yeah. Because he's already going so quickly after the first 100. Yeah, because it gives him a chance to get up to speed. Because he's so slow off the blocks.
6:45Hangs about, doesn't he? anyone who watches athletics will be going james you're absolutely right he was famously a slow stance do we hear the gun go and then we hear his coach going you're saying it's good uh here is a fact um this is also about human beings and yours was about like fat content and stuff like that this is more about height uh and it's from oscar matalainen and oscar says after extensive research i have figured out that m &m is exactly 138.4 m &m's tall okay lovely that's lovely now i've done some research of my own and i looked on the internet about how tall m &m is and how big an m &m is and i don't think oscar's figures exactly stack up stack up very funny pun thank you i'm here all week but um the truth is that actually the figures that you get online of like how big an m &m is they vary quite a lot like on amazon it says one thing if like on newspapers they say other things and stuff whenever it's mentioned which is not that often on amazon because like often they'll give the dimensions of like a book that you're buying, you get individual M &M dimensions.
8:04Who's reading? Who's needing that info before purchasing? You don't want to order a bag of M &Ms and then they're all 10 feet across. We've all done that. Exactly. So what I have done is I brought us some M &Ms. Oh, nice. A little bit of Foley there. Dan, I've got you some peanut ones. Andy, I've got you some regular. Thank you. And we're going to measure them. Can I open them? Yeah, it's gonna be hard to measure them if you don't open them. Can I eat one or is it? Yeah, okay Okay, so if you give me one of the peanut ones We're looking at diameter, I suppose I thought you were stacking them top to bottom like putting them down flat Okay, well we can do it that way as well The one that you've got there is quite spherical Do you want to measure it?
8:49So I'm passing Andy a ruler It's just over a centimeter if I'm doing it longest the longest dimension. It's about 1.3 three okay well you've got the regular ones andy so let's go for that okay 1.3 centimeters yeah okay so according to the internet now this is another problem we have the internet is also unsure about how tall eminem is oh boy right um but the general consensus is that he's five for eight okay he mentions in some of his rap lyrics that he's shorter than that but it's not always clear in the lyrics if he's talking about himself or something else okay there's a problem with like going to first-hand sources sometimes yeah you don't know exactly what they're talking about so let's say he's 173 centimeters tall okay which is what the internet thinks and andy you think that your m &m is what size 1.3 1.3 centimeters then he is 133 0.07692 what were we trying to get up what was our correspondent saying he was got quite close actually 138 oh and but we found that the peanut ones are a little bit bigger than that still if i'm stacking mine flat this one was about i'd say 1.1 right about 1.1 i mean eminem will shrink as he gets older so we could that's eventually meet that's the amount we've just had um so going the stacking method the a h m s m the andrew hunter murray stacking method would be 157 oh okay okay so it's worse still um so yeah oscar your your extensive research i don't know if it was the same as ours as in actually getting the m ms but until we get the rapper in the room as well we can't do a full experiment but he's on he's on next week isn't he yeah he is yeah and He was very funny in the recording.
10:47Very funny. If I can't get a full 45 minutes without any swear words in, we might have to cut that. Oh, that's a shame. That's a shame. Okay. Here's a fact. From Stuart Dunster, who says, In 2024, the British Army was so busy that 137 % of its personnel were committed to operations or exercise. What does that mean? This is amazing. Basically, if you're in the army You can do a task like readiness training In parallel with other exercises Or commitments or whatever It's over time, basically, right? Kind of You need to be prepared to drop everything If you're called on to deploy But also carry on with the current exercise you're doing And it causes lots of work and paperwork And it's a huge pain Basically, it's a fun way of saying The army is under-resourced Which is not a fun fact, but there we go So when we say that there was like, let's say, let's say the Grand Old Duke of York had 10 ,000 men.
11:48Yeah. It might have only been 8 ,000, but some of them are doing two jobs. He'll only have been able to deploy 2 ,000 of those men. 100 percent. Yeah. Many of those will be in logistics and supply and all of that stuff. Yeah. Fun fact. Who was this fact from? You just said Stuart Dunster. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Brother of. Oh, Phil. Really? Really? Former guest on this podcast. Yes. Oh, nice. Very cool. Yeah. Well, hi, Stu. Wonder if we'll get one from Eminem's brother. I've got another one here which is from Julia Fisher the subject line of which is every word of this fact is dubious at best oh great why did you send this one to Dan Andy?
12:26I can't remember so this is the fact the oldest living dog is invisible and 11 ,000 years old yes now this is genuinely fascinating come on So this is the email from Julia Basically there is a kind of tumour That dogs can infect other dogs with Already unusual This has been discovered to be a tumour Which developed on a dog Which was alive 11 ,000 years ago That tumour then jumped from that original dog To a different dog But it was still made up of the cells Of the original dog Those cells have been continuously alive In the bodies of different dogs ever since It's only invisible to the naked eye Because it's tiny cells not magic or nothing i i she wrote nothing i just said nothing i have absolutely zero qualifications in any biology so please don't listen to me however i think this is correct that's stunning so this is called the canine transmissible venereal tumor and this is a tumor that is exchanged during mating with dogs so it's a genital based between disease between dogs yeah Just as you said, mating with dogs It's just It's a very minor difference But it just felt worth pointing out We know where your red lines are, James That's an important detail That's right Dog on dog Yeah, now what's interesting is This is one of only three known transmissible cancers I know one Yep Tasmanian devils Yes The devil facial tumour disease Yeah And then there's the Between Tasmanian devils again yes and then there's the syrian hamster which is the other one that gets it yeah um yeah so they're infectious agents and the tumors that form are not genetically related to the host dog so it is these cells from this dog 11 000 years ago yeah now the thing is is the question is was the dog 11 000 years old there's a lot of debate going on i think it might be 6 000 then they thought 11 000 and now they're saying maybe between 200 and 2 500 doesn't matter it's a long time ago And it's the same cells from this one dog Yeah We've got to remake the dog haven't we We've got to extract some of the cells Do a Richard Attenborough on it Get that dog Jurassic Bark it Oh yeah Jurassic Bark Give that man a raise Jurassic Bark That's cute Okay That's really good That was a rare example of a joke being so good That the two people in the room were shocked more than amused in my head i was just going oh god i can't cap that yeah yeah might as well just retire okay we're calling jokes cute i think i'm done slightly i called it cute because i was angry and insulted that i just couldn't come up with anything as good so i thought i'll try and bring yours down but it was really good coming through right well i don't think they're the same cells oh interesting okay i mean they're not are they they're cells that have developed from those cells, as in the original ones are long gone.
15:32Yeah. But they've replicated. Yes. I suppose the main thing being it's not genetically connected to that dog. So I guess that's the cheat. But yeah, brilliant, Julia. Amazing. Thank you. Jurassic World. We've done it, buddy. It's been done. Dog minion. What? There was one called Dominion. Yeah. It was there. Yeah. Let's come back to it.
16:02Let's do another fact. This one comes from Stav Berman. And Stav says, space coffee fact. Coffee on the ISS is made with a machine called the ISS Spresso. Lovely. It is drunk out of a specially designed zero-G espresso cup. Now, hang on. I would assume that a zero-G cup is just a cup with a lid. Am I wrong? Yes. Because any cup without a lid is not a zero-g cup. Right, okay, so you've got a cup with a lid. Yeah. Have you got a little hole that you can get the coffee out? You have to. So when you turn it upside down to pour it, what happens to the liquid? Good point. How's it coming out? Well, you have to suck it out.
16:43Yes. So you're sucking hot coffee? You're going to burn your mouth. Yeah, true. So this was a problem that was suffered by astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who was an Italian astronaut who went up to the ISS in April 2015. And they came up with this zero G espresso cup and it uses capillary channel flow. Oh. So that is capillary action is that liquid will go into a tiny tube. It'll move up a tiny tube against the flow of gravity. Or in fact, if there's no gravity against nothing, but it will flow inside a tiny tube. and that's because it kind of sticks to the edges of the tube a little bit and also it sticks to itself so once it starts going up it starts pulling more liquid up okay and this is a well-known sort of physics reaction thing that happens and they utilized it to make this coffee cup it's it's a shame it's a coffee cup because if they did tea they could just call it gravity yeah that's not as good as no no nothing's as good as jurassic bark your career's peaked that's it from now on let's grab a t i loved it i liked it i thought it was cute yeah it was a good joke but like it's a curve your career is a curve isn't it yeah you've just reached the very top of it yeah so obviously the next show is going to be really really good and which are quite as good as that one which it was it was still great so listener just listen in to all of dan's jokes from future listen to them get slowly and slowly worse than that yeah So what I should do is just stop talking, right?
18:17And just allow for the preservation. That's not what we are saying. Yeah, okay. But if you come to that conclusion, then we're not going to stop you. Yeah, okay. All right. That's a great fact. Yeah, thanks, Dav. Here's one from Evan M. Gildenblatt. This is about a rather special bridge between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. Right? It's called the Bailey Bridge. and the interesting thing about it is that it is named after a man named Clay Wade Bailey. Yeah, but you would expect that. Yeah, absolutely. But there is a type of bridge. If they'd have called it the Clay Bridge and it was made out of clay but it was named after him, that would be amazing.
18:59We'd have a ball game. But the interesting thing is it is not a Bailey type bridge, which is an existing very famous kind of bridge. There's a Bailey bridge and the Bailey bridge here is not a Bailey bridge. It's a cantilevered bridge. yeah okay and i just wanted to talk a bit about bailey bridges because they're so cool are they bailey uh was a guy called donald bailey and he was a civil servant in the british war office who made model bridges as a hobby okay second world war breaks out um and suddenly lots of bridges are going to be needed across europe when d-day happens the the germans if they're retreating will be blowing up a lot of bridges or and in italy like lots of places you need to get to they often made temporary bridges as well didn't they when they were moving well these were the bridges that uh that donald bailey proposed and designed so he literally drew the first model of it on the back of an envelope it was literally on the back of an envelope and he said i think this could work and basically it's like a just huge meccano so it's a slot you don't need you don't need much that's special equipment i think one thing they used to do is they used to have like tanks that were almost like in the shape of a bridge and you would drive your tank into the river and it would become the bridge and then everyone would drive over them that's clever there are some devices called i said called hobart's funnies which was specially especially weird they were the really weird machines for engineering in the war but over 200 miles of bailey bridge were built during the war i mean thousands of about 5 000 um are any still extant I think lots are Yeah I think lots are And Donald Bailey got knighted for it Field Marshal Montgomery said They would not have won the war Nearly as easily or well without Donald Bailey's bridges Because we did win it quite easily in the end Didn't we?
20:41Quite easily Bit of a push And yeah If you have enough engineers You can build a Bailey bridge in 32 minutes That is very cool That's really cool That's very cool You guys ever played that app Where you have to build a bridge? No You've got to build a bridge using various angles that you play. So you don't, you have to work out how you can create a construction that allows for a van to cross. And so it usually collapses because it's very hard to build a bridge. No, I have started recently playing a game called Euro Truck Simulator. But yeah. How far in are you? I'm still at Dover. A lot of paperwork.
21:19Since Brexit, that game has been a nightmare. It's an absolute nightmare. Okay, that is enough of your facts. What amazing facts they were this week, indeed, as they are every week. But now it is time to go through our archive, the one that Andy has painstakingly typed up over the years, and take those lines from his spreadsheet and hand them out to you, the listener. If you are a member of our Patreon at the top tier, which is friend of the podcast, you will become a custodian of a No Such Thing As A Fish fact. We will send you a digital certificate and we will mention your name on this show.
21:55so whose name are we going to mention first today dan it is britney bentley congratulations your fact is now the world's largest saw is used to cut through mountains in kazakhstan terrific terrific i wonder if it's still the world's largest saw yeah oh yes although can't get much bigger than a mountain cutting sword yeah yeah it's very cool if you look at pictures of it is wicked is it yeah how many trips back and forth would it need to make because presumably it's not the size of a mountain or is it a circular saw like dan's imagining like you know two people on either side of the saw sort of pulling it back like a lumberjack yeah like so tenzing and hillary were at the top if they just started at the top and slowly went down with a saw i think it might be a circular saw i think so it rings a bell yes it's a circular saw I've just checked I've just found an article Which begins Frodo's journey to Mordor In Lord of the Rings Would have been much easier If he'd had one of these things Yeah Also much easier If he had a helicopter Yeah Frodo's journey would have been Made so much easier By modern tech I've got a fact This one goes out To Wine Cat In Victorian speed walking competitions You were allowed to jog As necessary To relieve cramp Very good Yeah You know what I remember most About this episode is you guys had all researched stuff about speed walking and i'd research stuff about cramp and so i didn't have anything to say in this whole section really it's the first moment like that where i realized that actually we should maybe coordinate what we're researching a little and we're about a year into the podcast at this point because now listener what you don't know probably is that we send each other our headline facts and then we usually put a little steer as to which direction we might go in yeah we don't tell each other what we found but we tell each other which direction we're going so we all kind of talking on the same subject yes yeah exactly yeah this one is now under the custodianship of jonathan mundy and jonathan your fact is that the 2012 law prohibiting nudity in san francisco was proposed by a politician called scott weiner lovely how How interesting that I'm flashing forward to another nudist fact that we did.
24:20Flashing, yeah. That we did years later, which was another one of yours. So someone one day will be custodian of this. But the nudist in America. Yeah, Dick Bacon. Dick Bacon. The sort of nominative determinism of nudists, prominent nudists, is quite amazing. Yeah. And actually, in Germany, I think a couple of major nudists in the early days were the cocks. Yes. Yes. Mr. and Mrs. Koch. I can't remember their first names. But I think it's a real missed opportunity by San Francisco not to pass this law and to call it Wiener's Law. Because then they could have gone into your buck, Andy. Yes. Yeah, you've missed out of San Francisco.
25:01As a result, no one's ever heard of your city. All right, let's do another one now. This is Phil Wild. Phil Wild's fact is that so he could keep eating, Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus cut a semicircle out of his dining table. That was a little crescent which he'd put his stomach into so that he could be closer to the table. You know what that sounds like to me? It's like he had an extremely distendable stomach that as he ate would get bigger and bigger and bigger. Which does happen to a small extent, but not enough in my experience that you would need to cut a hole in your table. Yes, yeah.
25:37I think he was crazy, wasn't he? He did all sorts of mad stuff. He was an inventor. Was he? Yeah, he was a very important scientist and philosopher. He was part of the Lunar Society, which was the sort of the leading brains at the time of science, who would only meet when it was a full moon so that they could walk home later night, hence the Lunar Society. That's very clever. Here's one that goes out to Dominique Touraine. And this is, this is one of my facts, actually. It's one I'm very proud of, is that Volkswagen sells more sausages than cars. Very good. I think it's that you got given a free sausage A pack of sausages with every car you bought Was that it?
26:14I think there was like 8 in a pack So it meant that they sold 8 times more sausages Inevitably, yeah There's no way they can get around that No matter how fast the car guys work The sausage team are always going to be a step ahead of them However, can I say that I have got a Volkswagen In the last couple of years Last year in fact And no sausages came my way Really? Interesting Now that might be because you went electric, James So there's no exhaust pipe for the sausages to be stuffed up Is that how they deliver them? Yeah, probably Oh right, yeah They could have put them in the charging pot That's a really nice idea Because you've got that whole grid of charging points Yeah, yeah, yeah, perfect Perfect No, you're right I don't know why You could fit like six chipolatas in there You've said that before
27:04Okay, this next fact is under the custodianship of chris c chris your fact is the animal kingdom forgot how to have sex for 40 million years what's exciting about this is we did this fact very early on episode 50 and on our last australian tour we met the scientist who published this report he came on stage and was put into the hall of fame yeah um very cool yeah he he was in either adelaide or perth and yeah we got to meet him and he wrote a book about sharks which is out now oh yeah yeah shark guy yeah um and it's all about the fact that there was internal reproduction i think that happened many millions of years ago and then it disappears from the fossil record yes internal not within yourself.
27:55No. Well, it depends who you are, I suppose. Yeah, it's like dog on dog, basically. I understand. That's a brilliant fact. That's very cool, yeah. Alright, I've got another one here. This is to Xander Sinji and the fact is the son of the man who invented shredded wheat invented round shredded wheat. Beautiful. Brilliant. Beautiful. Perkins or Perky? Perky. Henry Perky, I think. Yeah. And his disappointing son. Although now, they're sort of a bit rounded, a bit square, aren't they? Are they? I haven't had a shredded wheat for at least 30 years. I was thinking of Weetabix. Disregard whatever I've just said.
28:37I was thinking of Weetabix, which have rounded ends. Shredded wheat have sharp... They're all like pillows, aren't they? They're like pillows. They've got sharp corners, but also rounded arches. I'm not doing a pillow fight with you.
28:49Yeah, and the thing is, you can only have two, supposedly. yeah like and if someone has three shredded wheats in the morning that shows that they're forced to be reckoned with really yeah yeah that's the old so isn't that that's james i'm looking at you here again a little bit thinking wheatabix like i'm sure we would like say oh you've had an extra wheatabix today how interesting like if someone hits a long shot in the golf course or something oh man i just it turns out i don't know the difference between trying to wheat and wheat I don't know, it might be. In Australia, it's called Weet-Bix.
29:19Oh, yeah. And I can't tell you when I first moved there how distant... It's like you're still in jet lag anytime you hear Weet-Bix. Yeah, yeah. It just doesn't make sense. It's like a glitch in the universe. I'm so sorry. I've just checked it. It's an old advertising slogan from the 1980s. Shredded wheat. Bet you can't eat three. Okay. And it was when David Cameron, our prime minister, was saying, do you want to go for another term in office? He said, no, it's like shredded wheat Two are wonderful, three might be too many As it was, he led a catastrophic referendum And was forced to resign halfway through his Second shredded wheat Now he's got all the time In the world to eat shredded wheat Meanwhile, you're stuck at the immigration queue As you're trying to get your virtual truck into Europe Should we do one more?
30:05I've got one more fact Here's another one Here's one last one that goes out to Tyler Whittam, with them possibly Hi Tyler, your name's definitely Tyler In the 1960s, a Canadian psychologist Visited cafes across the world Testing how much couples touched each other In Puerto Rico, it was 180 times an hour In Paris, 110 And in London, it was zero
30:31Yeah Very good We just don't need to show off about it, alright? I feel like I feel like we've become more International in the last 10 years since that fact so I reckon there's more touching in the UK these days. Oh, do you think so? Yeah, probably. Like, I reckon people give me way more hugs when I meet them now than they did 10 years ago. I think you have also dropped your guard a bit. You used to be a lot more standoffish about being hugged and you used to make it clear that that's not on the menu. Yeah. Whereas now I think you come across a bit more, you're wearing a floral shirt today. People are thinking, I can hug this guy.
31:05Excuse me. I wear this knowing that the audience don't know what I'm wearing. I'm sorry. Yeah, but you're not wearing anything else. yeah okay i i didn't i never thought about that as part of my personality i thought i was still as standoffish now as i ever have you've mellowed you softened yeah that's living in london isn't it yeah it is imagine if i lived in puerto rico okay that's the end of our facts given to you and in fact your facts given to us but we do want to say thank you to tyler zander chris Dominique, Phil, Jonathan, Winecat and Brittany for becoming our latest Friends of the Podcast custodians.
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