No Such Thing As The God of Snooze Buttons

23:59yeah it's in the peloponnese and um it was the idea of a doctor called manolis heliotis who has 150 acres of land it's a proper temple like it's marble cool it's for specific gods or for all of them it do you know i don't know it sounds like a tax break to me it's very to the god right off yeah um it opened on the 8th of march oh the same birthday as no such thing as a fish oh that's up that's the day it is um it was illegal to worship zeus until 2006 yes uh in fact any of these lot if you wanted to do a kaya mighties festival then that was no can do but then in 2006 and athens court decided that um you can do this kind of pagan worshiping because before that you could only be i think an orthodox christian and one or two other things were allowed but yeah then they came in and then there were censuses and the u.s state department in 2006 reckoned there were 2 000 followers of the ancient greek religion although people who do that they reckon the number's more like a hundred thousand who still believe in those really i mean it's in their interest to pump up the numbers but it's not like it's not like a thing it's not a thing of saying you're a jedi which was on a census a few sentences it's more like it's more like being a wiccan i would say or like you know i sorry to the wiccans listening because i know people get that wrong a lot as well but it's it's worshiping the old gods yes which definitely there are people in the uk who did that yeah and the greek orthodox church are very down on this sort of thing they were very against this temple yeah yeah yeah they were very hostile to it and uh they said it was a

25:36James Harkin:regression to a dark world right gosh so uh uranus who you who didn't pronounce properly before and um so the only planet that we have that is named after a greek god so that's this is where it gets confusing because generally the planet names are the roman versions of the gods right so Aphrodite becomes Venus. But Neptune is Roman because the Poseidon Poseidon is the Greek. Yeah. Jupiter's Roman. Jupiter's Roman. Saturn's Roman. Yeah. But Uranus is the only one that's slightly. Seems to be both. Pluto is the dog. Yeah. Yeah. Running around barking a lot. Mercury is the lead singer of Queen. Would you like some fun ancient Greek etymology?

26:17Yes. So the word tantalizing is from Greek myth. I didn't know this until very recently it's a myth about king tantalus and he was punished by hades made him stand in a river up to his neck in water and he wasn't allowed to eat or drink so if he moved to get the fruit trees above him the water the trees would move he was to drink the water the water would move so he was like always trying to get food or drink and he couldn't but would you like to know why he was punished by the guys yes he did three things can we guess you can try he stole grapes yeah kind of He stole nectar and ambrosia.

26:48James Harkin:That's a pretty wild first hit rate. Next one, two and three. He smacked the wrong child with a slipper. He had sex with a sordid goddess naked. That often happens. That's a good one. I mean, they're not a million miles off. So the second one is secrets. He told secrets he'd overheard that he shouldn't have. And the third one is a worse version of the slipper. He killed his son and served him to the gods to test their powers of observation. And they did not like this. How was he serving him? I think in a stew. Oh, that's impossible to tell. A stew. There's a lot going on. Is this chicken? Is this pigeon?

27:25James Harkin:Is this your son? I don't know. The god of beans is going, though, what meat is this? Guys, something's up. I said we should all be vegetarians. That's really interesting because Tantalus is, so I was looking at the things we covered ages ago, that there are various financial houses named after Greek gods. It's a really common thing to do to make your grubby little hedge fund sound like it's been around for 2 ,000 years. You know what I mean? Like Olympian handlings. Yeah, exactly. Like Jupiter investments. Yeah, yeah. Whatever. You know, all of this stuff. But, sorry. If any hedge funders listening, if you want to sponsor an episode, we're very happy to do that.

28:05But there's a very niche one. There's this amazing article by Thomas Fedorek who's spotted. there's Uri Clea Partners and I'd never heard of Uri Clea and Uri Clea is a minor character in the Odyssey and this is actually I think the best named financial institution you could have named after a character from ancient myth because in the Odyssey Odysseus gets home 20 years later where have you been? all that but there are loads of chancers living in the house trying to chag his wife basically and she is putting them off and saying look my husband's going to be home any minute. But it's been 20 years and it's wearing increasingly thin.

28:44The god of snooze buttons going, I'll give you nine more minutes. So when Odysseus is on his way home, he will be killed by all the chancers who are, you know, young warlords trying to get with his wife. So the goddess Athena disguises Odysseus as a tramp so he won't be killed on sight, right? So he can get into the house and suddenly throw off his costume and win the prize and reclaim his wife and all this. Everyone is fooled by the sight of this tramp except Eurycleia who is an elderly servant living in the house and she is the one who spots a familiar scar on his thigh and says, you're Odysseus.

29:25How does she know his thigh so well? Well, good point. Good point. But she observes him and it means she can buy stocks in Odysseus, basically. So I think that is That is terrific. She has the insight based on good market knowledge. So I think that is a fantastic name for a financial organization. Do you know what my hedge fund will be called? Mine will be called Epimetheus Holdings. Because Epimetheus was the god of afterthought and excuses.

29:57And he was the brother of Prometheus. So Prometheus in this story creates humans. And Epimetheus creates all the other animals. but he's so sort of stupid and just really impulsive that he puts all the best bits on all the other animals. So he puts the wings on the eagles and he puts the humps on the camels and the trunks on the elephants and all the best bits were there. So the humans just get a shitty little human body. That's so funny. So should we have had humps and wings? We should have had humps, but in the end only the black eyed peas had them.

30:38James Harkin:Okay, it is time for fact number three, and that is my fact. My fact this week is that the greatest ever treasure trove of original American comic strips was discovered in a naval warehouse by a man called Blackbeard. Ooh, that's very cool. It's a great name. He's William Blackbeard. This was a guy who really is credited by people within the community of comic books in America as single-handedly the reason that we have all the original source material from, you know, the 30s onwards. He made it his mission to track down and find all the original newspapers. So he would go around to people's garages, you know, and he would just say, do you have any old newspapers?

31:20James Harkin:And often they did. And he would cut out the comic strips and he would log them. And so he kept this huge archive and he was having to do it very slowly. But then eventually he discovered that the Library of Congress had six acres of naval warehouse in Virginia. And it was where they were housing all of these newspapers that went back to the 19th century. And so he suddenly thought, great, they're safe. But then it turned out that they were getting rid of them because they thought, oh, they're going to deteriorate. So they were photographing, making microfilm of them, and then they were going to toss them away.

31:52James Harkin:Now, the issue for him was if you'd make a microfilm of comic strips, they're in black and white, they're no longer in color. And so he did a deal and he was able to extract them all and as a result saved all the originals of these things. So he's a real hero in that community. That's really cool. Did he have to cut out the strips individually or did he keep them as like full papers? No he did, he just kept them out. I don't know if he did that for every single one. Because like for every paper that's. You can't keep the whole paper that's why they were in warehouses. These huge stacks of papers and all he wanted was one tiny strip of paper.

32:19So we should say yes this is comic strips not comic books. Exactly. It's not a first edition Superman it's a first edition. Garfield. Garfield

32:26James Harkin:It was something like 2.5 million clippings That he managed to Get his hands on They're still going through The archives So there's a Couple of Instagram accounts Where they show Latest findings I saw one the other day Of a poster Of Charlie Brown Which they were really excited Because it's you know It's original So yeah A huge huge hero To this community I guess people didn't realise What they had Like you need somebody Like every book The British Library Takes a copy You need a system To store the comics And it sounds like That guy set it up and yeah him and his wife he just did it he just set up his own company and that's so cool yeah which he had to do i believe otherwise they wouldn't give it over to him because he wasn't an institution um yeah like resources are people like using this resource now yeah it's kind of the main archive that is used for any comic book history um he wrote a lot of books as well off the back of it um did he yeah he printed the strips didn't he he said look here are a load of peanuts cartoons.

33:20I think he did like... Probably sold it a bit better than that. I think I read he did a lot of consultancy work for people who wanted to know what was in the comics or to find out stuff, because he knew them all so well. Yeah. He was like the go-to comic strip guy. Yeah, the reason I was thinking is like, what use is it to have this stuff? A lot of medical knowledge in there, a lot of ancient lost secrets. You get hit by a frying pan twice, then you get your memory back. Yeah, yeah. It's just cultural history. It's cultural history, yeah. When did people start wearing braces? well let's look at this ancient edition of fred the dog or whatever it is yeah there's a lot of debate about when comics began because obviously they became big in the 20th century in a really big way in newspapers what about hieroglyphs well you've just outgunned my early bid which was for the bio tapestry oh yeah a comic strip is it a comic strip what about like um the cave paintings i've seen cave paintings where it appears like one thing comes after the other one Yes Oh yeah That's a good one Cave comics Arguably cartoons and comic strips Are the oldest medium

34:23James Harkin:There we go There we go When were you going to say the Bay of Tapestry? Because that is sequential though isn't it The Bay of Tapestry And it's a strip It is It's coming here We're going to get it in the UK We're so excited There are some vases Which are technically a kind of animation I know they're not as old as the cave paintings But there are some ancient Persian vases This is really cool I've never heard of Iran's burnt city unfortunate timing now but there is a place called the burnt city which is an ancient historical site they found a bowl in there which was 5200 years old and it's got these five images on it and if you spin the bowl it shows a goat jumping up and grabbing some leaves from a tree it's like a zoetrope the thing you spin round and round and the animation repeats itself I've seen it, they've rendered it into an animation So that's like the original flip book as opposed to comic strip.

35:16You're right. It is worth that. Yeah, yeah. That's very cool. Do you know where the word cartoon comes from or when it was first used in the UK? Shakespeare? No, after that, it was 1843 and it referred to some things in the Houses of Parliament. Ooh. So they recently put some murals in there. Yeah. And the word cartoon at that time meant like a little sketch you would do on cardboard before you did your big painting. So if you're in Italy, for instance, it was an Italian word. So let's say Leonardo da Vinci wants to do The Last Supper, but first he's going to do a little scribble on his shredding box.

35:52Like to get all the spacing right. Yeah, to get all the spacing right and stuff. So that was an Italian word. And then the magazine Punch used the word to refer to these murals in the House of Parliament that people were able to go and see. and then it became kind of a risible thing because it was a comedy magazine and then they started using the word cartoon to refer to their political cartoons. Oh, that's so cool. Which became big around that time as well and that's why we use it today. Wow. That's amazing. That is very cool. I have another Italian word. The Italian for a comic strip is fumetto which means literally little puff of smoke and it's named for the shape, the little speech bubbles you get in comic strips.

36:28Beautiful. Isn't that beautiful? Say again the word. I think it's pronounced fumetto. Right. F-U-M-E-T-T-O. for metal but it's the little clouds which is very beautiful that's wonderful i was looking into a

36:39James Harkin:few of the major comic strip creators of the 1930s onwards in america when when circulation was like you know it was getting 34 million readers a day because it was syndicated to all the newspapers so these people were amongst the most read in america at the time um lz cigar who we've mentioned before He's the creator of Popeye. This guy died quite young So he did about nine years worth of Popeye, but the cultural impact that it had is massive Most of the illustrators who came after like Charles Schultz and so on hold this guy up as one of the great geniuses Okay So that stuff is kind of obvious But it had an even bigger impact that I didn't realize which is that Popeye was meant to be Mario So in Japan when Mario was first made was never meant to be Donkey Kong and Mario It was meant to be Bluto and Popeye, but they couldn't get the rights to it.

37:29James Harkin:So they had to change it so that it became that. So we could have been playing Popeye cart these days. But actually, it was just simply a rights issue and they had to pivot into making it something else. So literally, necessity is the mother of invention. I read that during the Great Depression, it made spinach consumption go up 33 % as the American children named it one of their top three favorite foods after ice cream and turkey. spinach it really rebranded spinach that's unbelievable branding for spinach isn't it yeah that's quite the bronze position on the podium um there have been a lot of concerns about comics over the years and i'm speaking here more about comic books rather than comic strips like no one's ever been made depraved by garfield in the paper but there were a lot of worries in the 1940s there were even some comic book burnings that happened so a lot of editorials which said they were a national disgrace one American critic called John Mason Brown described them as the marijuana of the nursery I know, there was a big work in 1954 Seduction of the Innocent That was Frederick Wortham, right?

38:33Yes, he was a child psychologist who did a lot of good in his career you know, ensured that a lot of poor or mentally unwell people got fair trials, helped fight mental illness in children, but he had a big be in his bonnet about comics, he decided they were evil He decided that Batman and Robin were an item Which was less socially acceptable In the 40s than it was today Well they weren't an item They absolutely weren't I think he was seeing what he wanted to see there He decided Superman was a fascist Very much not the point And he basically thought they should all be a 15 certificate blanket No exceptions So we have slightly mentioned him before But what I didn't know about him Is he did this sort of like comic books are terrible thing And then a load of right wing people Started giving him money because they really liked the fact that he was trying to censor cartoons and stuff.

39:21But on the side, he was an anti-racism campaigner. And like you say, he was running clinics for mental health and stuff like that. But specifically, he was running them in Harlem, which had a very, very high African-American population. And he was really helping those communities. And so all the money from these right wingers that they thought was going to kind of ban Porky Pig or whatever was actually going to help these hospitals. That's very cool It led to this thing called the comics code Which had all these rules Like if crime is depicted It should be as a sordid and unpleasant activity No lurid Unsavory or gruesome illustrations No walking dead, torture, vampires Ghouls, cannibalism Or werewolfism Guess what year this code lasted until 2020 2025 Is it 200 BC Thank you James it was 2011 the final members of this code people gradually like comic book makers gradually fell away from it but the final members kept going until 2011 you still get that a bit today where like in a movie it's quite rare that you get a film where people do something bad and they don't get caught for it or they don't get you know they don't get the comeuppance somehow do you know what I mean it's quite unsatisfying when you watch it I think so yeah on um you were talking about werewolves and all that kind of stuff.

40:45In 1954 in Glasgow, there was a vampire hunt. And this was basically a load of kids were going around Glasgow trying to find vampires. And eventually it led to the Children and Young Persons Harmful Publications Act of 1955, which banned the sale of comic books with evil characters in it. And what they thought was that people had been reading comics with vampires in and had decided to go around cemeteries attacking people but people pointed out that actually there were no vampire comics around around that time no one had read any right they couldn't point to the one that these kids had been reading but there is a monster with iron teeth in the bible in daniel 7 7 which had been mentioned in local schools around the time and what they think happened was they'd heard this story from the bible they thought let's go and find that person and then the police had said oh they're looking for vampires.

41:41Wow. But it did lead to an actual act of parliament. So it's sort of excess Sunday school is what they're saying. That's what it seems to be. Yeah, ban it. I was reading about Sygna's lovely fact that there were two Dennis the Menace cartoons launched on the same day. So the Scottish one and the American one. But I didn't realise that they think that the reason that happened at the same time was there's a really popular musical song called Dennis the Menace from Venice. Okay. Which I'd never heard that bit before. So we're through Dennis the Menace. so it's

42:09James Harkin:so they may have heard that song and then it was sort of like a catchy name and they developed it I mean it's still it still came out on exactly the same day on both sides of the Atlantic which is absolutely wild it is insane yeah but not that insane if two years earlier there was another character with that same name but the same day exactly I still find it hard to get my head around I still think that must prove something I don't know what it proves simulation theory simulation theory yeah I mean Dennis the Menace we should say which one? which one? British one British black and red spiky hair dog called Nashor all of that doesn't, of course, get slippered anymore.

42:41Does he not? No, if you buy the beano these days, it's very rare to end with corporal punishment, which I just sort of accepted when I was reading it as a child that that was the thing that would happen was that your grumpy mustachioed dad would hit you with the slipper, and that was... That was normal. And it never did us any harm. Do you know that in Dundee we have our big statue in the town centre as Desperate Dan? is it yeah there's a mini the mix next oh that's very cool because that was the other thing we've

43:12James Harkin:mentioned that on the show the um the meat pies that he would eat um they got changed into vegan pies for a while as well cow pies sorry yeah yeah they were changed into veggie um hang on this is my son in here ah it was an observation test so oh here's a tiny tiny fun detail um scrooge mcduck was invented by a man called Carl Barks. The wrong sentence person. It sounds like a cartoon of a socialist dog, doesn't it?

43:46Why don't we all share the bone?

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46:14I am. But we should say, if you've never seen an egg emora and you're listening to this, do have a little Google because they just are not classically fit animals. They live underground. They live underground. They have terrible eyesight. I know. They've got bad... So it doesn't matter. Is that what you're saying? How does she look? I have no idea. I have no idea. But they've basically got... They're naked. They've got this sort of wrinkly nude flesh. They look like a sausage with teeth Is what the scientists Who work on them say But would you eat that sausage? No I'd have to have gone A long time without a sausage To consider it I wouldn't take that Off the barbecue first Especially not these guys They have such amazing superpowers So like They don't We think they don't feel pain They can survive 18 minutes without oxygen But they can do so many cool things They're incredible

47:01James Harkin:I wonder by the way If the toilet cleaners Are also partial chefs Because Oh dear I hope they wash their paws Well naked mole rats They eat each other's feces And the queens They have a queen Which is an amazing thing Queen of the toothed sausages I think queen is putting it a bit strong Actually That's very unfair They probably wouldn't find you very attractive Andy actually Can he survive for 80 minutes without oxygen Harry Stickman Can this guy shut his lips behind his teeth No he can't But yeah the queen Well, the queen, yeah, she has particular hormones in her droppings. So they'll eat the queens to get sustenance and so on.

47:46James Harkin:But yeah, pooing. So I wonder if the toilet cleaners are sort of going, hey, let's eat this stuff. I feel like I read that by eating the poo, they sort of learn how best to protect her and what she needs. I'm sure in the details. Actually, she can fire her estrogen out in the poo, they think. So when she has babies, she gets a whole load of estrogen in her body. Some of it obviously goes out in the poo. The other naked mole rats eat it and they get estrogen in their body, which makes them better parents. So they can all look after the children together. They live in colonies where there's one sexually active female who's the queen.

48:18There are a couple of sexual males and then there are workers. And it's between like 40 and a few hundred workers. But the queen suppresses the sexual instincts of almost everyone else in the colony. Most adults don't even develop genitalia. All the females have sealed vaginas. the males have immature sperm that could not penetrate an egg and that's thanks to the queen being in position well because the queen it is game of thronesy like the queen isn't born queen

48:44James Harkin:they fight to find who the next queen is yeah so it's like a blood batch they're just killing each other right until the point where the female mole rat becomes pregnant and then that becomes the queen and they just kill the females with the most estrogen just fight and kill each other until one of them establishes enough dominance and then they start giving birth and then it's an amazing process so the first time they give birth it's between one and ten naked mole rat babies pups pups but then every time they give birth their body stretches it's like you've pulled them a bit longer because their spinal column stretches which means they can hold more pups in them to give birth so they end up being able to give birth to 30 oh and they get pregnant every few months they're insane yeah the most insane i can't believe it's taken us 12 years to cover naked mole rats every time i find the naked mole rat facts i just think oh we've probably done them before yeah i know a lot of their brain apparently is devoted to their teeth yeah because it's one of the main ways they experience the world is through their teeth because their teeth are right out in front they're digging a lot and that's why they close their lips feel with them i don't know i don't know if they they can probably sense vibration through them i think so they are really good diggers one quarter of their muscle mass is in their jaws to close their jaws while they're digging they can run backwards as fast as they can run forwards very very slowly is it slowly i think they can whiz around their tunnels but they they live in these huge colonies like the area of a football pitch let's say but with thousands of meters of tunnels underneath uh just imagine looking down on a football pitch from underneath and seeing these sausages firing themselves around through the soil in all these zigzag patterns better than watching a football much for you, Andrea.

50:29James Harkin:One of the things they do, by the way, when they're running backwards, and I guess forwards as well, is they use their hair. So we call them naked mole rats, but they do have hair and they're kind of like whiskers. They're very soft, very thin, but they're kind of like how cats use their whiskers as sensory items. So as they're running through the tunnel, they have tail hair and they have body hair that's allowed for them to sense where they're going. Can we talk a bit about them and air? So Anne briefly mentioned that they don't really need air in the same way that we do. Like oxygen. They're crazy.

51:00Yeah, they can, because they're tunneling underground all the time, they can go for ages and ages in a tunnel, which is, let's say, 5 % oxygen. Normal air is, what is it? 21 % oxygen. Above ground air. Classic air. It's 21 % oxygen. Original full fat air. Original full fat air. But they can live underground in these tunnels, which have very low oxygen content, and they're fine. they've been experimented on they can live for 18 minutes with no oxygen yeah which will kill any human any human did about that you get you do get those um people who can hold their breath for about 20 minutes yeah what remember we did an episode and i think we said that world record for holding your breath was like 23 minutes or something okay you're right you guys are right but i would just say if unless you've done a lot of training yeah 18 minutes without oxygen it's going to be bad for you absolutely related to that as well did you read that when they sleep they like to sort of sleep all together in a big pile like all 300 of them and they think that because they're all breathing out they basically kind of like blanket themselves in carbon dioxide which has the effect of reducing seizures and the paper i read said very clearly this is only for naked mole rats no one else has to try this as a treatment but there's some reason that they think it sort of like slows down their brains and it sort of protects them and even if you give them a big space they will clump together and they described as it's like building a luxury resort and having all of your guests choose to sleep in the same broom closet yeah naked as well

52:29the you were talking about the oxygen and how they survive with little oxygen so i don't really quite understand this but the way it works is our bodies use glucose as energy and that glucose system in your body requires oxygen to work but when they have no oxygen they switch to fructose based system right um i don't really understand this but apparently fructose doesn't require oxygen so you can still get the energy going around your system but you don't need the oxygen as well and that's how plants work that's how plants get energy around them but no other mammal has ever been found that uses this system like the font system they are

53:09James Harkin:very cool it's the missing link it's the in the fossil record between plant and human nick and more on the ground so like maybe they're just like hanging out with the plants that's wild can i ask the i know you said you didn't understand it but the idea of them doing a thing that only plants do is that one of the most interesting biological things that we've ever noticed like is this the great mystery of i don't know i didn't get a massively good response in this room oh are you kidding it's insane it's it's insane that they have everything they do is yeah it's insane they have two operating systems one for backup which no one else has there are other naked mole rats I think there's the what is it the Damaraland mole rat there are a few others but yeah they're very weird the Damaraland ones are quite interesting because they have basically two different types of that mole rat half of them are really really hard working and industrious and the other half are fat and they don't really do any work But those are the ones that do the mating Apparently The busy ones do 95 % of the work But the lazy ones Do almost all of the reproduction Do they?

54:18That's so unfair I know, that's life isn't it? All I say is It's exactly what happens in Naked Mole Rat Holdings

54:30James Harkin:How do you have time to make this show When you have so many businesses on the fly? Every one of them is making a massive loss We should say who first described them scientifically It's quite interesting There's a German scientist who was called Edward Ruppel And he travelled around a lot Sending samples and animals and specimens Back to Frankfurt Which is where he was based Various things are named after him There's Ruppel's Bustard Ruppel's Griffin Vulture Ruppel's Rass The fish, you know Anyway, when he found the naked mole rat He thought, this is so hideous This must be a diseased or a mutated individual from another species The main thing cannot look like this Ironically, it doesn't really get diseases No, you're so right You're so right Yeah, yeah God, is that what we're going to look like if we're truly healthy?

55:25That's true, actually If you get all these squillionaires Who are trying to make themselves live forever They all do end up looking a bit like a naked mole

55:38James Harkin:okay that's it that is all of our facts thank you so much for listening if you'd like to get in contact with any of us about the things that we have said over the course of this podcast we can all be found online i'm on at schreiberland on instagram james i my hedge funds uh can all be found on linkedin come and join me on there james harkins my name andy uh my instagram's andrew Hunter M. Yep. And Anne? My Instagram is at Anne Miller Books. Yeah. And don't forget, it says books at the end of her handle because she has just released her kid's book, which is called Monster Diaries. It's a retelling the Greek myths from the monsters point of view.

56:13This one's the Cyclops.

56:13James Harkin:Yeah. So it's called Monster Diaries, the Cyclops and the worst party ever. It's part of a trilogy. So there's two more coming out. So get it now. It's going to be out very soon. And if you want to get through to us, by the way, podcast at QI.com. We get all your emails there. Andy goes through them. If you're going to send us an interesting fact, that might make its way to our bonus episode that comes out every Monday called Little Fish. If you want to send us an interesting experience or something that's related to something we said in an episode, Andy might pick that out for Drop Us A Line, which is our mailbag episode.

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