Little Fish: The Rat Ticklers Need Me

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0:53Andy Dawson:No, exciting eh? Oh my god. I'm even surprised she's still here, she's not been in touch with me for the last nine months. But if you would like to get involved in the pre-sale, that is for people who are members of Club Fish. So you need to go to patreon.com slash clubfish and find out more about it there. That's right, general sale opens at the end of the week, but you can access the ticket pre-sale now, as James says, if you join Club Fish at patreon.com slash clubfish. Okay, on with the podcast. On with the show.

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1:53at qi.com and now we're going to tell you some of the best ones. Who's got a fact?

1:57Andy Dawson:Okay, I've got one. This is from Henry Bix. Henry says that in 2016 a Gothenburg man apologised for removing a giant snow penis by replacing it with a much larger snow penis and this has led to a spin-off tradition and even a new political party. Oh, okay. Some questions. So many questions. Is that a sincere apology, replacing a penis with a much larger snow penis? Yeah, porque he was apologizing for removing the original one Right Oh, I see Ok, next question

2:31James Harkin:So please, I mean it Sorry, the man in the beanie hat Thank you The penis, just a bit more on that please Is it a vertical standing with two testes Or what are we talking?

2:45Andy Dawson:Ok, so the original was a flat drawing It was done on a river in Gothenburg y el gobierno no pudieron removearlo hasta que el aire cambió porque el aire fue tan alto y luego un local compañía ayudó a obtener un gran brush que se usó a clean windows en tall buildings y se usó a la gente ahora, la gente en internet se quedó muy, muy mad porque pensó que la gobierno había estado spending taxpayers' dollars robando esta penis y se set up Facebook pages diciendo que esto es disgusting y el hombre que hizo no fue de la gobierno y fue haciendo lo que pensaba era un buen deed y le dijo ok, fine y le went a la norte de la ciudad a un par de dos grandes snowblowers y le drew un enorme penis en el fondo 70 metros en length y la tradición, la tradición son 3D penises que son en un lugar en un lugar llamado Burros I think it es un buen uso de la gente de los taxistas para que ridas de un enorme penis que alguien ha traído en el fondo Call me Captain Government Pero, you know, there isn't a magical money tree, Andy Who's not getting the money?

3:55I think that's one of the core functions of a government, if I'm honest It's like, defence absolutely comes first Second, remove snow penises Third, ensure prosperity Those are my two top priorities And that's my political party

4:07Andy Dawson:Yeah Why is there a political party? The political party is the people who started doing this tradition In the town of Buros And they, the political thing They do put up these penises But actually they're kind of an art collective And they started a political party To see how easy it would be to set up a political party Which is like an art thing But then part of the art thing is also making these giant sculptures I should say that the information That I got all of this additional stuff from Is a YouTuber called Edlund Art Who did an amazing video about it Very cool

4:43James Harkin:There's a drawing of a penis on the moon as well

4:46Andy Dawson:Blow it up Blow it up I think it's big enough already Andy, I don't think you need to blow it up.

4:55James Harkin:This was the Moon Museum, I'm sure you guys have heard of it. So it was left up there by Apollo 12 and it was a group of artists. So there was David Novaros, John Chamberlain, but Andy Warhol was one of them. And it's this tiny little, it looks almost like a chip that you would put into a camera. And it's got little bits of art on it. Andy Warhol drew a penis and I think at the time he justified saying that it was a W and an A and if you're being very generous it kind of does look like that but really it's a cock and balls drawing

5:28Andy Dawson:Okay, well that will be useful if the aliens come they will know what to expect when they

5:34James Harkin:arrive in Sweden Let's have another den Okay, here's one from Magnus Silverwood Magnus writes, my fact is that Jupiter is not mostly y es en realidad, es en realidad, es un hidrógeno y es un hidrógeno que es un hidrógeno y es un hidrógeno y lo que Magnus finds muy interesante sobre esto, que es un en 1995,

6:01James Harkin:el espacio Galileo entró el orbit de Jupiter por la primera vez en el momento de noticierir lo que ha sido estimado como una una en 6 ,000 de event el colision de la cometa Shoemaker-Levy 9 as it crashed into the surface of Jupiter. So the collision threw up a lot of debris into the atmosphere, the composition of which was studied. And they also opened a small observation window beneath the clouds so that they could see what was going on down there as the smoke was coming up. Yeah, and they found out that it's not the case.

6:32Andy Dawson:They found an enormous image of a penis. Oh God, they've got their own tiresome art collectives on Jupiter, have they?

6:42James Harkin:pero que es increíble que se hagan a ver esto de un en 6 ,000 y que es la historia de cómo descubrí que y Galileo, que fue un gran interesante porque confirmó que hay vida en la tierra y que fue como Galileo fue flying away Carl Sagan who was part of the project, asked for it to be turned around and have all the instruments face Earth and take a reading. And the reading it took showed signs of life on our planet. And that might sound silly, but it served a major scientific purpose. It showed us what you would be looking for if you were looking for life on a planet. It could measure oxygen and methane in Earth's atmosphere.

7:30James Harkin:It spotted a steep cliff in the infrared spectrum of sunlight reflecting off el planeta y tenía un red que indicó la presencia de vegetación y picked up radio transmissions que estaban de la superficie que muestran que era una vida que era manufacturada artificial sounds y así ¿Qué año fue eso? 1995 fue la mission I was just thinking ¿qué radio? ¿They hubiera el archers? Yes ¿Qué? ¿They hubiera el escatman John? ¿Maybe? Oh, ¿ya? Si, si estuviera escuchando el mismo canal ¿Qué? ¿Qué? Let me hear you say whale. That would have been in the air. Not the best musical moment to be discovering Earth.

8:13Here's one. This came in from Karen Gupta. So thank you very much, Karen. It's that the Indian Republic Day Parade held in New Delhi features 1 ,270 kilos of boneless chicken. Riddle me this.

8:31Andy Dawson:Well, there's lots of people there and they need to eat. It's not for people. En cualquierの類, 1200 kilos De boneless chicken No es for people Did they leave it on Did they put it On the side of the town So that all of the wild animals Go out to eat the chicken And they don't get In the way of the parade Very good You've got it

8:52James Harkin:Oh Nice You've got it The chicken is spread out Says Karen At specific locations To attract black kites And prevent Bird strikes Because there are a load Of planes that do the parade.

9:05Andy Dawson:And there are also a load of black kites in Delhi. And they fly at roughly the height that they might go into one of the engines and ruin everyone's day. And ruin an otherwise happy parade. And so they have been putting out lots and lots of meat. They used to do buffalo, but they've recently changed the recipe to chicken. Can I ask, are these kites really picky eaters, that they don't like to eat chicken with bones in it? What a good point. No, no. I did look it up a bit and it has to be in pieces of a specific size. It's interesting because I would have thought that they would just eat animals normally, right?

9:43Andy Dawson:They would eat little voles or something. And they definitely have bones in them. Yeah, you're right. I think it's... I don't know what the reason is. I guess they can't just say, we'll just throw up any old shite for them because this is a big Republic Day parade. It's got to be... Every element of it has to be meticulously burned. Y también, como si necesitas poner algo muy bueno para los kites. No puedes poner un chiquito en la cabeza. Porque ellos van a decir, Oh, sí, podemos poner eso en cualquier lugar. No, no, no. Pero mira, es el increíble bonita. Bonita, chiquita, chiquita. No, no, no.

10:19Estoy tratando de comer con la chiquita. No, no, no. Pero creo que es muy importante que los chiquitos, porque, de hecho, no pueden fly. Y, con su sacrificio, Los chickens are allowing the aerial parade to happen So in a sense they can

10:33Andy Dawson:I think chickens can fly a little bit, can't they? Come on, not much Not much, but they can like If you throw them in the air they will flap as they fall I believe that if you have chickens And you have a building like a shed And it's like two metres tall They can get onto it, I reckon Really? I think so Yeah, I think that's right They can sort of flutter upwards Yeah, they can I mean, not like Not the ones that like Bernard Matthews Has fed to within an inch of their life Those guys can't do much Very interesting, okay What's the highest you've ever seen a chicken fly? Podcast at qi.com Why do I do it to myself?

11:16Andy Dawson:Okay, here is a fact from Jennifer Neal and Jennifer Writes about a species of fungi Found in the fungarium at Kew Gardens that does not grow naturally anywhere else in the world. Riddle me this! Okay. I love our little mystical riddles. It doesn't grow, it shrinks. Ah, yes. It's born at a full size and then shrinks over the course of its life. Easy. There is a paradoxical, is it a paradoxical frog? Frog, that's it, that's born bigger than it grows as an adult. It's like La mujer que da vida es una enorme tadpola y luego cuando se vuelve a un frog se vuelve a un pequeño. Esto debe ser muy importante para la madre.

12:03Andy Dawson:Este es un clue. Este fungoso es llamado Golfbolia ambusta. El motivo que no se ha creado porque es un actual golfbol. Es un golfbol que ha sido burnt y fue sentado a Kew Gardens en 1952 de Lancashire a un joke. I think actually To be honest it's not certain Whether the people who found it thought it was a joke Or whether they thought it was an actual fungus But definitely the guy Who took it in was called RWG Dennis Who's the head of mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens And certainly he was in on a joke Of giving it an official name And describing it Yeah he was a fun guy He described it Oh my god Sorry I couldn't help that I feel like I would have to hand back My comedy gun and badge If I didn't make that joke Yeah absolutely But he described it in an official paper As small hard but elastic Spheres enjoyed by the Caledonians In certain tribal rights And he was One making a joke But two kind of making a point That there was no definition Of what a mushroom was at that time And some mycologists So people who study mushrooms said that a fungus should be anything that's studied by mycologists.

13:31Andy Dawson:As in, if we study it, it's just automatically a fungus because it was so hard to define. And he said, well, you can't really do that because if you do that, then I'm going to call this golf ball a fungus. And what I'm really interested in is that it was sent from Lancashire. And I have played most golf courses in Lancashire, I would say. pero no puedo para la vida de mí que se encuentran a la cual es de este bó y yo estoy muy excited para encontrarlo que es lo que estoy interesado es feels like you missed the point de la historia

14:05James Harkin:I got another one here this is from Brian Simpson the band The Postal Service was sent a cease and desist letter from the United States Postal Service but were then allowed to keep the name after agreeing to perform for the USPS. I actually used to listen to this band. They had one album. It was a sort of super group. The lead singer was from the band Death Cab for Cutie. And the reason that they were called the Postal Service is because that's how the album was created. One of them would put a bed of music down, put it in the post. One of them would write a note. E sharp. ¿Es there an E sharp?

14:50No, there's no. Bollocks. Of all the notes you could have gone for. God damn it. F sharp. He'd wait for a return of post. Is that how they did it? Yeah.

15:02James Harkin:That's exactly how they debuted in reading the notes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no. So they just had conflicting schedules. So they sent it to each other through the post. It was slightly annoying when it was revealed that they didn't, in fact, use the U.S. Postal Service as their method of posting, pero usados como FedEx y el United Parcel Service pero sí, entonces se lesionó a la cita y desist y se lesionó y se metió con ellos y se agreed que si se lesionó a la conferencia de la nacional executive conferencia en Washington, D.C., entonces se lesionó a la palabra. Lesionó a la relación y se lesionó a la band de CDs se lesionó a la USPS oficial web.

15:40James Harkin:Wow. So, se lesionó a lot de publicidad de la parte de este momento. So yeah, the lead singer is married to Zooey Deschanel There's a little bonus fact there The reason his band is called Death Cab for Cutie Is that it was a song by the Bonzo Dog Doodah band And it was performed in Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles film Always comes back to the Beatles

15:58Andy Dawson:It certainly does when you're talking, Dan

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18:12Andy Dawson:No. No. Así que, básicamente, americano tiene la bomba, francesa no. American law forbids americano de sharing nuclear secretos, pero, ellos son dos allies, creo que esto es después de la NATO se establece, entonces, americano quiere francesa a la bomba, pero, legalmente, no pueden decir, esto es como hacer una bomba nuclear. bomb. So instead they used this system called negative guidance, where the French would say, here's what we're doing. And the Americans would say, hotter, colder, oh don't do that. Basically they just sort of reverse guided them to having a nuclear bomb. Isn't that crazy?

18:48James Harkin:And you can do that in 20 questions? Doesn't seem likely. No more than 20, yeah.