Little Fish: Violent Dave

0:13James Harkin:Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Little Fish. This is the show where we put down our four favorite facts from the last seven days and we go through the podcast at qi.com, email inbox and cherry pick the best facts that you, the listener, have sent in. We get amazing facts every week. So if you do think of one, please send them in. And also, if you want to be part of our club, Club Fish, at the highest tier, you'll be getting something very special, as everyone does at the end of this episode, which is we hand out a fact for you to be the custodian of from the 12 years of our archive.

0:46James Harkin:So why don't we get into it? Why don't we get some facts? Who wants to go first? Here's one that's from Domen Kolchak, and it's on our favorite subject at the moment. Oh, great. We're putting together a book, as you guys know, of things that you think are named for one reason. But they're actually named for a different reason. That's my second favorite subject. Number one being people who paint things on the top of rooms. But yes, go on. You know what? Like genuinely, when I'm doing my research for the main show now, I'm spying myself looking for these people. I know. I know. They're so hard to find.

1:20Well. We need a book. They've been flooding into the inbox. We do some of them on Droppers Align, and we're going to do, I think, probably keep doing some of them here. It's become a little fish in joke. Anyway, Domain writes, the online poker boom that became huge in the early 2000s was caused by the Moneymaker effect. Oh, Chris Moneymaker. Don't give away my punchline. It was named after 2003 poker champion Christopher Moneymaker. Right. who was an amateur who won the World Series of Poker in 2000. Oh, gosh, I don't know. Like 2005? It was 2003. And the Moneymaker effect was basically poker going mainstream.

2:06And obviously most of the people who got into it will have lost huge amounts of money by now. But how's Chris Moneymaker doing? Well, he won the World Series of Poker, which I think that does set you up reasonably well. You would see him on like, you know when in those days you would have like quite a lot of TV poker games. And he'd kind of rock up on those every now and then. But he is a good poker player. Of course he was. He won the World Series of Poker. But like the people who came after him were quite a lot better, I think. I think.

2:33James Harkin:Are you familiar with the poker player Daniel Schreiber? No, I'm not, actually. He's who like owns the Daniel Schreiber without qualification on Wikipedia. Daniel Schreiber. So that's a different, that's not you. It's a different Daniel Schreiber. I thought you were saying I play poker. Oh, no, I played it once and I won and then I lost everything. I was shocked. I was absolutely decimated. Was it at that Daniel Schreiber convention you went to? It was. Shouldn't have sat down with that guy. Great. All right, James. Interesting. Yeah. Sorry for walking all over your friend there. No, don't be daft.

3:08But yeah, I was really into poker back in the day. I remember. Yeah. It was how I met my wife.

3:14James Harkin:Yes. And you won a fair on square. Exactly. she's called daniel shriver isn't she it's very confusing your work life and home life okay this fact is from kev osman and kev said that he was reading about the winter olympics held in cortina or they were they've just finished in northern italy and that was the old name of a ford car so he decided to write a quiz on where cars get their name from okay and when he was doing that he found that all lamborghini car models except one are named for something related to bullfighting can you name a single matador no no not a single bullfighting term a single lamborghini car do you know what lamborghinis are so rare and expensive that i just see oh it's a lamborghini i would never i would i would be able to say oh look there's a skoda enyak yeah whatever i must admit I only knew one.

4:07It's Lamborghini Diablo. Oh. And Diablo is a famous fighting bull. Is it? Along with Temerario, Revuelto, Islero, Uracho, Uraco. All these words I never really heard of. There's one called the Lamborghini Jarama, which is the area of Spain where fighting bulls are bred and a few other ones. And the only exception is the Countach. Okay. Lamborghini Countach. and Lamborghini Countach comes from a Piedmontese dialect exclamation of astonishment and it basically means holy shit and apparently the owner of Lamborghini saw this car's amazing design for the first time and went holy shit and then they went we should call it that and literally Countach in Piedmont means plague so you know in some countries like you use the name of an illness is like a swear word like smallpox or yeah i'm always doing that sniffly nose or whatever like in some countries that's quite big and i didn't know that yeah sorry the car's name means plague it means plague but like really it means holy shit it means right okay okay okay that's so funny um lamborghini is italian right yeah they were italian weren't they Why are they all Spanish bullfighting-y?

5:30What's that all about then? What's going on there? Probably you can drive from Spain to Italy in one of their fantastically fast cars Yes, and if they would like to send us some Yeah, they were Italian But I wonder if perhaps it sounds foreign and exciting Maybe, yeah Obviously these days bullfighting very much frowned upon Yes You wouldn't want to turn up to a bullfight in a Lamborghini anyway No I feel like a determined bull could do some damage to your wing mirrors

6:00James Harkin:Not a red Lamborghini anyway Lovely You know who I saw an interview with Friend of the Podcast Johnny Knoxville recently Where he got really emotional about the fact that he's now at an age And his body has gone through so much That he can no longer have pranks done with bulls With active life But like properly got emotional Started crying Like it was a real tragedy in his life I can't be gored by a bull anymore I've got a little bones to pick with Johnny actually Do you? Yeah because I read the other day That there's a new jackass coming out Yeah And I think they might have already filmed it Yeah But I have a contract that says I'm going to be in that film Yes Oh because when he was on So I was away for this episode Yeah But he was on He was on the show And we made a joke about I could be in the next jackass And then the next day He sent me a contract saying I agree to be in the next jackass And I returned it to him And I was expecting the call I was expecting to be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame In a few years as the guy who got speared by a bull Yeah, you should send him one of your balls In protest that you've accidentally lost In some hideous Jackass-style prank That'll show him Yeah, that'll show him Speaking of balls, I've got a fact here Which was sent in by Robbie Brennan Who says LeBron James recently ended So LeBron James is a basketball player Andy If that was for both of us I like the way you said that as if every listener knows who he is literally everyone but there is one person who does need to know so he recently ended a record streak of consecutive games played where he scored 10 plus points and that's good it's very good yeah it's better than losing 10 points I suppose yeah yeah now what's phenomenal about this is that this record is longer than the career of every other currently active nba player so the amount of games added together was 1297 games he's got at least 10 points in every one of those 10 in every single one of those and he is the longest active basketball player i think in history he's he's played 23 seasons they're all long aren't they they're very tall tall tall fellas and girls yes but he's so he's been in for 23 seasons the streak nearly six years what there are four seasons in a year jesus okay maybe just sit down for a sec um someone's got to speak to the non-sporting listener a lot of our listeners like being indoors with a nice cup of tea in a book i speak for them yeah i'm not sure how many of those enjoy your interjections either that's really interesting yeah so i think what it says to me is how easy it is to score points in basketball yeah like that's the problem it's like the scores are always like 97 86 or something yeah there are a lot you don't get a nice nil nil satisfying yeah i mean but that's amazing it's a pretty astonishing run uh from jan 5th 2007 to december 4th 2025 he always scored 10 points or more and again ironically you're not allowed to run in basketball yes the ball oh with the ball yeah i do know i do know that yeah i do know that but that's a sort of example of an interjection that works really nicely kind of contributes i I would say that I am in the middle of maybe a 600 episode run of this show where I've made at least 10 stupid interjections every single show.

9:40James Harkin:Anyway, very cool. That's an astonishing, if you know basketball, like I'm a big fan of basketball, that's a wild achievement. Is he beyond the age at which he can still safely be gored by a bull, LeBron James? He's younger than Johnny Knoxville. He'll be younger than Johnny. Yeah. But he's... He's younger than me, I would say. Yeah. He must be in his early 40s. He's like Djokovic, you know? We don't know how much more we're getting. Sure. It should have ended already, but we've... So is he substantially older than most... I presume much... Yeah. He's much older than most other players on the court.

10:10I would say so. But that's tricky though, isn't it? What do you mean? Well, it's just tough to find things to talk about with your teammates. Oh, yeah. They're all talking about tickety-tucks and... You're trying to talk about the... You know, you don't get those good tartan slippers anymore, do you? He's 41. Okay. So I'm older than him by like six months I'm younger than him, so we're saying there's still a chance for me Oh yeah As in, you know, we don't know if I'm incredible at basketball Whereas he's probably past his prime of making tedious interjections Are they tedious now? They were always tedious Okay, let's get to another fact Let's do another fact Here's one from Noah Gettle We haven't had a really good weird animal for a little while, I'd say Oh yeah Okay Noah writes, well Noah claims that we haven't He says our biology game's really dropped off recently Does he have two of this one?

11:02Because he's called Noah

11:04James Harkin:Amazing, yep, good I don't want to drill it home But that's a wonderful interjection once again Well, Noah writes There is a group of insects In the genus Stylops That parasitize bees And what's bizarre is the females Live their entire lives inside the Abdomens of the hosts Males develop wings and they fly around looking for a bee that's carrying a female. And the female has stuck her neck out between two sections of the bee and is releasing a pheromone into the air to draw in a male. Females never leave home. They never really interact with the males who they're mating with. The male just arrives.

11:46I'm afraid does traumatic insemination. Just start stabbing where he can. Just sort of, right. You know, in it goes. Mostly in the head. Yeah, there's very few niceties here They have a sort of neck pocket And then the offspring hatch And they eat the mother pretty much alive They cannibalise the mum And then they leave I know about these guys Do you? Yeah, and also they will make the bee turn into a queen, kind of But fly off to where the queens go Because all the other bees also fly there for mating So you get a big bunch of bees together and then um because there's loads of bees together that's how they can jump from one host to the next

12:27James Harkin:i'm really surprised by what the insect world does and doesn't notice in those kind of situations yeah like if one of us came in and just had a bit of a parasite sticking out our neck yeah for them and no one says anything that's that's it's just a fascinating thing yeah that that's just normal to the to the other bees and to the bee itself because not only do you have a parasite sticking out of your bum or whatever, but you've also got another parasite sort of flying around, stabbing it in the head, mating with it. It just feels like in a party, that is going to draw some attention. It's going to be gossip, isn't it?

13:04Cramp your style.

13:05James Harkin:Did you see Brian last night?

13:10James Harkin:Yeah, so thank you, Noah. Yeah, amazing. Amazing. James? Here is another one about animals. Not a weird animal, but an animal nonetheless. This is from Kellen Maguire, and it's about groundhogs. Kellen wrote about America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, who every year rank the accuracy of all the groundhog prognosticators who are going to work out whether it's going to be a sunny spring or a rainy spring. I thought it was just I thought it was just punks of tawny Phil from the film Groundhog Day. He's the one who got all the plaudits because he was in the movie. But actually, there's loads of these guys sort of working away behind the scenes.

13:49there are 13 live groundhogs three taxidermied groundhogs one statue of a prairie dog one tortoise and one presumed groundhog who has only been seen by a few people and they're not sure whether he actually exists or not crypto groundhog dang get on it yes and it turns out that even though he's the famous one punksatawney phil is one of the least accurate one um so he's only managed to correctly predict february and march temperatures 35 of the time and the only one worse is mojave max who's a tortoise in nevada 20 of the time oh that's bad that's bad well that's just fame going to punk's on your phil's head isn't it it probably is like it's just it's so typical isn't it like the real talented ones never really get the good gigs whereas the people who keep making tedious introductions are, you know, showered with praise by their colleagues who value them.

14:46You know, yeah. Can I tell you about another prognosticator that I learned about? Yeah. So this is Annie Charlotte, a Tottenham Hotspur supporter with a rare anatomical condition in that she has two vaginas. And in recent years, the tabloids in the UK always seem to ask her when there's a football match who's gonna win i'm dreading i'm dreading to think what her method is can we work it out what would you do well you know what i cannot tell like she doesn't give the real details oh okay i think it's a vibe i don't really know how she does it but she says she uses her anatomy to work out what's going to happen right and she said that uh in the recent Tottenham Arsenal game she predicted that Spurs were going to beat Arsenal and that Arsenal would bottle the league and fail to win the football league we don't know what will happen in the league yet but Spurs did not win that game right Arsenal won yes up the Arsenal yeah

15:50James Harkin:I'm so glad you stopped when you said you think it's a vibe because I thought you're going to extend a vibrator there yeah it's not I think it's a feeling that she gets it's it's really uncertain what she does but she has become a bit of a meme in the in the tabloids in the last few years i feel it in my fingers is that a wet wet wet joke it is oh no it wasn't meant to be

16:20James Harkin:this is a fact sent in by warwick pool who says i believe you once mentioned insane clown posse but here's a fact for you before they were a huge success violent jay and shaggy to dope from insane clown posse used to steal car stereo systems to support themselves once they stole a car radio which actually had one of their own insane clown posse tapes loaded into it they felt bad and apparently reinstalled it back into the fan's car oh yeah and there's an interview where you can see them talking about it um but yeah so they were still stealing cast areas even after they had music released you not all bands just become massive right they probably made tapes that they were selling at the end of gigs and so on so yeah they just happened to have stumbled across a fan of their stuff quite a cool thing to see when you're robbing it you know it'd be like us mugging a house and seeing a fish poster on the wall mugging a house how are you doing that what do you say robbing a house you don't mug it burglar you don't burglarizing in america absolutely you can no you don't you don't mug a house you burgle a house yeah you rob it you mug a person you mug a person on the move this is why we've never got around to doing it it's the language hasn't been agreed on right balaclavas off what are we saying what's our terminology here no come back shaggy too dope

17:49what are you in for mugging a house no you were robbing oh man that's um that's very exciting

17:55James Harkin:i've got another insane clown posse uh fact which is that because the insane clown posse was a band that has a lot of controversy about them throughout the years well if your main members are called what was it violent dave violent jay

18:14there's nothing inherently worse about violent dave than violent j i'm standing by it yeah dave you see the thing is like we did want you to change your name but it was the dave part that was the problem and simply adding violent like your surname was great we were happy with that dave naughty tony of course rude paul

18:35James Harkin:there's a great fact which is that they were once um on a disney owned record label and so they released an album called the great malenko and on the day of release disney kind of realized hang on a second we can't release this it's full of graphic natured lyrics and so on so they were called the hundred thousand shipped units of cds and it didn't come out through disney in the end Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Controversial. Gosh. Anyway, hey, listen, let's put down these facts. And why don't we get to the business of handing out custodianship to the members of Club Fish. So, as I said at the top, if you would like your own fact, you just need to join Friend of the Podcast, which is the highest tier of Club Fish.

19:19James Harkin:Go to patreon.com slash clubfish and we will assign you a fact. We'll send you a digital certificate. It's very beautiful. And you can put it on your wall. but on top of that we're also going to give you a shout out now and let you and the wider public know which fact you are custodian of so sorry just before we do this can i just add that if you do get your custodianship certificate and you do put it on your wall we promise if we see it we will not mug your house yep there we go see benefits that's a further benefit of being part of this club so why don't we get to our first one who's going to go i'll go this one goes out to violent Dave and it's no this one goes out to Robert Marsh Robert your fact is that the Ministry of Defence owns 15 golf courses very good just in case war breaks out on a golf course nobody who likes golf could possibly be a warmonger that's all I would say

20:24yeah uh it's just for president trump to come and play and butter him up yeah yeah um so but that's good that his name is robert marsh the new custodian of this fact because the marsh is a bit similar to a golf course isn't it absolutely not well um but it would be outdoors it's out they're both outdoors oh yeah can't deny that well you do indoor golf sometimes don't you that's really indoor marshes probably not anyway robert i hope you like the fact um okay here is another one this one is now under the custodianship of a shan battersby shan your fact this week and forever in fact is that the rise in the use of female contraceptive pills is making fish too effeminate now that's not the podcast it's not no such thing as a fish this is the animal group and it is that people were taking the pill and uh weeing out some estrogen and estrogen was finding its way into the rivers and into the fish indeed and making them more feminine yes and there was something about fish that they just start producing eggs they stop producing sperm and start producing eggs yeah i think so yeah over it does do that um and also i remember i don't know if we mentioned this in this episode but there's quite a lot of fish um that have got a lot of cocaine in the system in the thames wow yes that's right yeah so basically don't flush it down the loo if you've got drugs and the police are coming hoover them up that's what we're saying

21:54James Harkin:brilliant all right well um here's another one this is going out to graham binns your fact is that the actor charles haughtry hoarded bedsteads in his house thinking that one day he would make his fortune from them amazing now now this is from a poker player victoria corin mitchell early victim of the moneymaker effect yes yes um now do we need to explain who what what a charles haughtry is i think i think there's a few things in this sentence that might go over the head of some younger listeners or international ones charles haughtry was an amazing brilliant comedy actor he was in a series of british films called the carry-on films which are much loved i grew up watching them haven't seen them for a while i'm not convinced they would stand up to modern scrutiny i think maybe they may haven't aged terrifically um those Very, very naughty, raunchy, rude British, like seaside postcard rudeness style comedy films.

22:50And there was Carry On Cleopatra and there was Carry On Cowboy and Carry On Up the Khyber. That one was especially bad actually. And it was like Kenneth Williams and Sid James. Charles Haltry, Hattie Jakes, Barbara Windsor. Amazing British comedy actors who were just in these incredibly ropey films, but that were kind of loved. And Charles Haltry was one of them, but apparently felt the need to collect bedsteads. And a bedstead? Oh, God.

23:14yeah no great great fact um that was so victoria corin mitchell came on that episode

23:19James Harkin:and i still remember the absolute fury she had when i said that my favorite movie was apollo 13 oh it like derailed the episode for quite some time she just couldn't believe it your favorite film is apollo 13 carry on camping or something yeah yeah

23:38James Harkin:i mean she was annoyed enough that it was the wrong daniel schreiber sitting at the table Okay, Andy? Okay, this one goes out to Ashley Ashley, your fact is that In 1937, you could visit Romford Dog Track And watch cheetahs racing Wow This was an experiment they did where they raced cheetahs against each other And they, I think Showed no interest in racing Because they just, they saw this little Mechanical rabbit They're like cats, aren't they? They're very, very fast when they're very hungry and they need to prey on something but they just i think they saw through it fairly quickly yeah and uh yeah you don't get so you don't get so many dog tracks as you used to i also think the problem was that the jockeys were too heavy very nice very nice thank you okay okay so um here is another fact this one is now under the custodianship of sam kirk Sam your fact is that that in 2010 the US military built a supercomputer out of 1760 PlayStation 3s and what's exciting about this one is that just a couple of weeks ago Levin Skyra mentioned this in a show and I kept it in the edit because I'd forgotten we'd done this already and here it is here it is it was a great fact it's an amazing fact yeah and they'll doing it because it was cheaper wasn't it was cheaper and what i didn't keep in the edit and what leaving did explain is that um when you make a playstation you sell it for cheaper than you make it more or less really or cheaper than it should be and that's because you want people to buy the console because then they'll buy all the games and stuff so it's almost like a loss leader and so actually the u.s military is getting a really good deal by buying these playstations and getting all the parts out of it because they're cheaper than they should really be right that's great that'll have allowed them to save uh save a bob or two and i'm sure they'll have put it to a good use all right i'm gonna read another one here this is for chris dally and your fact is now that in 1552 a man in england managed to shoot himself with a bow and arrow that's that's pretty amazing i think his name was henry henry pert it was henry pert yeah i've just looked in the archive i was trying to remember with that it wasn't henry perky i nearly said henry perky but henry perky invented shredded wheat um shot himself with a bow and arrow that's very impressive was it a straight up and straight down has to be a straight up has to be how else is it gonna trick shot trick shot off a few corners you know what i have shot myself with a bow and arrow here we go it was just a graze thank goodness um but when i learned how to do archery there's lots of things you have to do and lots of things you have to remember.

26:27And one of the things I messed up, I can't remember what it was exactly, but it meant that when I let go of the arrow, it skimmed past my nipple and really, really hurt my nipple as it went through. That's a heck of a flick. Yeah. Oh. It was painful. And I was like, does this happen to everyone? And they were like, well, not really. You should have done what we told you. Yeah, right. So I missed one of their instructions. I see. But yeah, apparently it's relatively common to that. Which is to put your nipples away. And bite the arrow away from your nipples. Absolutely. Use the pasties provided, sir.

27:05I've just had a look. Henry Pert did not fire. He was trying to fire an arrow straight up in the air, but apparently the bow lodged at its fullest extent. So I think it might have been one of those things where you're looking over the mouth of the cannon. Oh, dear. Why hasn't the cannibal come out yet? I mean, look, he shot himself with a bow and arrow to death. I mean, there's no good way of doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's another one that goes out to Luke Frendo. Luke, you're a fish. Frendo of the podcast. Frendo of the podcast. Oh my God, that's it. Your fact is, until the mid-2000s, the best method for counting pandas was to sift through their poo.

27:40And now this isn't if you're in the zoo and there's like three pandas in front of you. It's like one, two, three. It's like in the wild and you can't see them all. Yeah, trying to do a census, because it's very important to assess, and they had to just find poo and look for tooth marks on bits of undigested bamboo. And I'm sure nowadays it's all DNA these days, isn't it? It's all technology these days. We've lost so many of our traditions. Okay, here's one more. This is now under the custodianship of Kevin Morrell. And Kevin, your fact is, since 2007, Wikipedia Brian Henderson has made 50 ,000 edits, changing comprised of to consists of.

28:24Could not agree more. Really? With Wikipedia Brian Henderson there.

28:29James Harkin:That's what you say? Fair enough. There was, I feel like this has a story to it that I now can't remember, which is after the episode went out, I was saying he's going to be very annoyed because he can't change this one. I see. So there was a Wikipedia which had all of our facts in it. Yeah. Was there? That's it. That's what it was. And so that means that there would be a comprised of in that list, right? Exactly. Bingo. But does it exist anymore, that list of our facts? No, it got taken down. Why? By Brian Henderson, by any chance? It could be. It's got to be. Brian, you win. Put it back up, you scumbag.

29:06James Harkin:All right, well, listen, we got to wrap up, but congratulations to Kevin, Luke, Chris, Sam, Ashley, Graham, Sean, and Robert. We hope you enjoy your facts. We hope you enjoy the digital certificate that you get along with it. And if you yourself want to be the custodian of one of our facts, you just have to go to patreon.com slash clubfish and join the highest tier friend of the podcast. And one of these could be yours. all right everyone thank you so much for sending in your facts please do send them in we love doing this show podcast at qi.com we'll pick out another batch for next monday and you've also got a big fish coming this friday so we'll see you again soon goodbye