Little Fish: I've never been in a human pyramid

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1:02The episode where we put down the facts that we've researched and we look at some of the facts that you have sent in. Andy has gone through the inbox, he's compiled some of the brightest and the best little nuggets that you've sent our way and we've absolutely loved reading them. My name is Anna Tuchinsky and I'm here with Dan Schreiber and James Harkin. And who's going to kick us off with the first fact? I'll kick us off off if that's okay. This one is from Pete Clifford. And Pete is referring to some of the facts that we've had over recent weeks where we talked about sports teams with amusing combinations of player names. And he wants to tell us that between 2003 and 2016, Durham County Cricket Club regularly fielded

1:44fast bowler Graham Onions and wicketkeeper Phil Mustard. Meaning that the score sheet often recorded opposition batters as being caught mustard, bowled onions. Brilliant. And Pete says, I always felt it was a missed opportunity that they never had a charity match with Simon Mayo, Patrick Berger and Eric Pickles. It's just a nice little thing to say but what i thought i would do is look at as many cricket players as i could and try and find a full cricket 11 of people whose names are to do with food yeah so opener alistair cook okay good famous england cricketer phil salt. Yeah. Alan Lamb in at three. All right. Often battered at three. Or we can have Emma Lamb, who plays for the England women's team as a batter.

2:30Lovely. Robin Utapa. And Utapa is the name of an Indian pancake made from fermented rice and lentil batter. Gordon, you're only on the fourth or fifth now. But they had to be batters. All-rounders, wicketkeepers, and bowlers. I see. Okay. It's not in order of how good these are. You decide. Clive Rice, Phil Mustard, we've mentioned the wicket-keeper. Scott Curry, all-rounder. Josh Tong, bowler. Brilliant. Yeah, you can eat Tong. Yeah, you can. Derek Pringle. Amazing. Love it. It's a weird meal, but yeah. Just one. Tasmiya Rubab. Yes. Cool. Like Rubab. Yep. yeah uh derek pringle amazing love it it's a weird meal but yeah yeah just one tasmia rubab yes cool like rubab yeah yeah and graham onions of course like they said for our fast bowler so

3:13i think that's a full team that i managed to find that's incredible that's great and is it a winning team there's some proper good international cricketers there plus a few quite random ones that i found i mean i'm so interested in the journey that got you to robin what was his surname uh utapa yeah in fairness some of these were like there have been like reddit threads where people have suggested some not all of them tasmiya rubab i'm glad to say i found her myself the pakistani women's bowl guys she's obvious though but also you need a substitute a 12th man a 12th man uh so i've gone for south african uh quinton de cock uh if you go to the disgusting food museum in elmo then you might have a bit of quinton de cock nice very lovely i met on the weekend

3:58um a neighbor as in from my local area who is australian as well and her dad played for the australian cricket team cool but was the 12th man and never got called up so was an australian cricket player but i don't fully understand what the 12th man role is but well usually when england to play in australia the 12th man is the best fielder in the country don't don't i just think you'll only piss him off i think england did this more than the Aussies for sure. We would choose this person who was not that great at cricket but was unbelievable at fielding. And then our players would regularly, one player would accidentally get injured and have to go off and this fielder would come on and field for all they need.

4:37It is frowned upon. Is it? To say the least. Slash it's threatened my marriage on a number of occasions to an Australian. Yeah. Yeah, you're not really supposed to do it, are you? Yeah, in fairness, compared to a number of occasions to an australian yeah yeah you're not really supposed to do it are you yeah in fairness compared to a lot of the stuff they did over the years yeah yeah small fry i'm not defending yeah um and that new oh the guy who clicks that was big news oh that was yeah that was in village cricket yeah wasn't it or certainly not very high level i'm not sure it was first class, but someone went to play the ball and just missed the ball. But the guy behind him clicked his finger

5:10so it sounded like it hit. It was a wicket. And he had an amazing, like it was thunderous clicking. Clearly he might almost have been brought onto the team, not for his cricket skills, but purely for the loudness of his click. Maybe he just had click it on his CV and they misheard. I think they just went to the cast of West Side Story, didn't they, and just found someone from there. They had to kick him out. He was just dominating the stage. It was like a thunderclap every time. And can I just say to any Australians listening that we may well be about to plan a tour to Australia in the next year and a bit. So I do apologise for any cricket sledging that australia in the next year and a bit yeah um so i do apologize

5:45for any cricket sledging that's gone on in the last 10 minutes let's put it all behind us any other facts from the listeners oh yes i got one here this is from mac gallen from sydney who says fuck you james i think that's a term of affection in Australia, isn't it? No, this is from Matt Gallen from Sydney who says, Long time listener, first time fact sender. You may already have come across this, but in case you haven't, Leo Fender, the inventor of the Fender guitar, so Fender Stratocaster, these are the iconic guitars, electric guitars, did not know how to play it. Leo Fender, it turns out, didn't know how to play it. Leo Fender, it turns out, didn't know how to play guitar. And you would think that would be essential. And so I looked into it a bit more.

6:33And this is from the Fender official website. Not only did he not know how to play the guitar, he didn't even know how to tune one. Right. Which again, I feel would be essential to working out whether or not you've made a good guitar or not. It does feel like if you've built a table, you can fix that table, right? It's just a case of rebuilding it. Surely he's built that guitar. Tuning it is just building it again. It's not that hard to tune a guitar as well. Oh yeah, don't you just twist the knobs? You twist knobs. You've got to string the guitar. I wonder if he even knew how to do that. He must have known how to string it. He's not selling just the body with no strings is he i think everything's off the table now with leo fender wow that's so annoying if

7:10you've ordered a guitar online and it's like small print it's without the strings no strings attached yeah so this is um and it is an iconic guitar this is a guitar yeah you've got a Strat. Amazing. Oh, this is really cool. David Gilmour from Pink Floyd has a Stratocaster and on the back of it, it has edition 0001. What does that mean? Well, you would think it was the first one that was ever made. Yeah, you would. And it's not. The first one ever made was 0100. Oh, what was the binary oh maybe it's the 1000th one ever made and it was upside down was it not that yeah oh that could be that could be it so why was the oldest one 010 yeah i don't know i guess it was a prototype and then they they must have changed

7:57the the system but it's not explained it's just said you would think it but it's not um but so yeah leo fender played saxophone and he played a bit of piano. Never learned the guitar. Did we talk recently about Paul McCartney's guitar being stolen? His bass? Yeah. Would it have been stolen? It was stolen in the 70s and it was only found a few years ago. Yeah. I wasn't on this episode. This was the period, by the way, where I went on holiday for two weeks and you decided in concurrent episodes to do a fact on Paul McCartney and then David Bowie. My two big heroes. I had to sit and listen to those episodes, screaming out my facts. They were good episodes, weren't they? They were fantastic. Also, can I just, did you notice anything about the way that one of us, because there's another one who's a big fan of David Bowie on the podcast.

8:42And that's Andy. But he was saying it David Bowie. And I thought that was sacrilege. Is it not, Dan? Who cares? I feel like he pronounced it different ways in different interviews. Oh, did he? And it should be pronounced Bowie, shouldn't it? Yeah, it's a fake name. It's not his real name. Not even his real name. Was he not named after the Bowie knife? Go write him. But there's a few, there's a few stories. And one is, one is that, and one was that it was a tribute to the fact that it was a knife. And Mick Jagger used to get called Jagger the dagger. So he wanted to be a knife reference as well. What I generally like in those facts is sort of messaging to me like, Hey, we're doing this guy. He seems like a bit of a dick to me.

9:22What do you think? And just getting like the multiple messages. Actually, I i actually i'm lying when i say that i was unhappy that i wasn't there i was so happy i wasn't there because basically any one of my heroes gets absolutely massacred by james and anna anytime they come up on a show anyway uh so great back thank you very much mac very strong okay here's one from Emma Gower. And this is, she starts by saying, my second favorite London Underground fact. I don't know what her favorite is. I guess that's another email that Andy's keeping from us. But her second favorite is that the only tube station with the word station in its actual name is... Kings Cross Station now? Station. It's another type of station, station.

10:07What do you mean? We could be here all day. Yeah. Oh, um, B, I'll give you a clue. Riff. Barking station? Oh, that's a good guess, but no. That was a great guess. I can't think of what it could possibly be. That's not it. That's pretty unbelievable. I just didn't think there'd be another really better answer to that clue what else can that be I'm not sure I even knew this was a tube station if that helps it's where barkers might be kept Kenilworth Road Station also incredibly good why are there so many answers to this is Battersea Power Station? Oh, that's a new one in fairness, isn't it? Oh, is it? I think that's really new. I see Battersea Power Station station. Oh, that's really good. But I did, I was thinking,

10:55what's the other station in London that you would think also means station? It's a station that in a different language means station. Oh, Vauxhall. Vauxhall. There you go, Vauxhall. means station. Oh, Vauxhall. Vauxhall. There you go, Vauxhall. I thought that was called Vauxhall. It means station in Russia, like big station. I thought it was called that because there was a Russian delegation here once who got confused in the 19th century and thought that it was just our word for station. That's still a story that's often told, but I think it's not true. I was looking into it and it turns out the timings don't quite match up and it was actually that in 1838 there was a big music and entertainment pavilion that

11:33was built at the end of one of st petersburg's big stations and they called that voxel after voxel pleasure gardens and then they came to refer to the whole station as that and then they came to refer to stations as a whole so it is named after the area of London called Vauxhall. It is. Vauxhall. Yeah. This is a real, like, a genic for only five people. But I'm one of them. The original story, one of them is you. So there you go. How interesting. Anyway, thank you, Emma. Enjoyed that. Very good. OK, can I give you a riddle? Yeah. Yeah. So this riddle comes from Syfinity. OK, and Sy says, riddle yeah yeah um so this riddle comes from sy finity okay and sy says a riddle me this a sailor is found dead inside the anchor pocket the anchor pocket is a place where an anchor's

12:15kept okay the anchor hasn't fallen on him or trapped him he has no wounds and nobody else has entered the recess. So what killed the sailor? Obligatory Andy woo noise here. Okay. Is that where sailors sort of went to hide and have a drink? Have a little bit of a drink? Oh, you think he might have alcohol poisoning? It's not that. I think he was a scuba diver. And as an anchor was coming up it latched onto him in the water he got tangled and brought up and he couldn't breathe once he was out of the water or he died of the bends you thought he couldn't breathe because like when you're a scuba diver it's like taking a fish out of water you can't breathe in there yeah yeah okay It's not that. It's not that. So this sailor has asphyxiated.

13:08Oh, okay. Close to the bends. Having a nanky wank. Is it? Nanky wank. Not that, Dan. No, not that. He was down at the bottom of the sea masturbating and the anchor caught him and pulled him off. Sorry, he's asphyxiated. Okay, so is the ship sunk? No. What does asphyxiate mean? What's not getting to your brain? Oxygen. Okay, so why is there no oxygen when he's next to this anchor? Has he been underwater? Is it from drowning? Okay. What could have happened to oxygen that it's all disappeared and he can't breathe oxygen anymore? It's oxidized. It's rusted. The anchor was his mum. The chain is rusty. It oxidizes and it eats up all of the oxygen nearby, which gives him not enough oxygen to get into his body

14:05and he dies of asphyxiation. Wait, surely you can't be so close to something rusting that it's using up all the oxygen. Well, according to Cy, this is a well-known maritime hazard. Wow. Yeah. That's extraordinary, if so. If you're in a pocket, I guess there's not much air there to start off with. Yeah, okay, yeah, he is in the pocket. That is wild. Yeah. Oh, thank you very much. Although, start off with. Yeah, okay. Yeah, he is in the pocket. That is wild. Yeah. Oh, thank you very much. Although, actually, oh, sorry. Sai does say you can have half a pint for Anki Wang. Thank you, Sai. T'was many nights before Christmas, and one woman knew she needed a tree, so to Wayfair she flew. She found more decor and added to cart.

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15:29Meow twice if it's me. Okay, meow once if it's me. Okay, meow once if you want your Sheba. I knew you loved me. Go from ignored to adored with Sheba. They have a menu of products, including Sheba Grilled, a protein-rich formula made with real chicken served in two convenient, snappable servings. It's perfect for even the pickiest eater. Tap the banner to buy now or find Sheba at your favorite retailer. Okay, I got one here. This is from Daniel Bird, who says, Vincent Price was once offered either $20,000 or a percentage of Michael Jackson's Thriller album proceeds for recording his iconic narration. So do you remember? So Vincent Price is like an old actor who did lots of horror films? Correct, yeah.

16:15He was mates with people like Bela Lugowski and Christopher Lee. He was part of that. And Michael Jackson was a singer. And in Thr in thriller there's a voice who says i didn't know that was vincent price actually that's vincent price yeah and so he took the twenty thousand dollars as opposed to accepting a percentage or maybe even necessarily fighting for a percentage and thriller went on to be the high selling album all time over a hundred million copies sold uh made millions of dollars and the narration uh took two takes less than 30 minutes in the studio but he would have had amazing funds off the back of it depends what percentage he got if he had agreed to 0.9999991 percent then he probably still wouldn't even have

16:5720 grand much for business anyway i looked into it apparently it really ground him down the fact that he missed out on this. Oh, did it? Oh, it pissed him off so bad. His daughter wrote a memoir where she goes into it because he first met the Jackson Five in the 60s. And so he was old acquaintances with them. So when he did it, he thought, okay, I wouldn't be screwed out of anything, surely. But when it was discovered that he was furious, Michael Jackson sent over three of his entourage who came over with a giant picture of Michael Jackson to say sorry. It had a golden disc and had a silver disc and it was framed and he'd signed the bottom of it saying thank you. And his daughter said there were a few things that totally displeased him, but one item of

17:42memorabilia around the house really did. And it was that, the framed picture. Why didn't I imagine the reason they gave it to him was so that he could just throw darts at it or something, you know, or set fire to it. Don't keep that. No, he was absolutely furious. You know what is the UK number one single that's been number one for the longest amount of time? The longest? Mariah Carey, All I Want for Christmas. No, but it's got to be, oh yeah. Number one, that was number one. So Mariah Carey only became number one for the longest amount of time. The longest? Mariah Carey, All I Want for Christmas? No, but it's got to be, oh yeah, it can be an American. Number one, there was number one. So Mariah Carey

18:07only became number one for the first time like two years ago. Oh, did it? And it's only number one on Christmas week and then it... Look, I don't know music. No, no, it's fair enough, but I just thought you might have a vague idea of the trivia. Is it Lovers All Around? Lovers All Around's a really good guess. Everything I do, I'll do for you would be a good guess. Very nice. But the answer is Rain Me In by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean. Wow, what? I know. These are like new people. When was that? Oh. He's no relation to the Fender who doesn't know how to play guitar. It was this year. What? Are you serious? Yeah, 2026. Oh, my God. Should we know it. Are you serious? Yeah, 2026. Oh my God. Should we know it?

18:46Have you heard it? Is it good? It just sounds to me like a pop song, but it's 23 weeks it's had at number one. Jesus. Yeah. It's just those things like when you do quizzes and stuff, you have to keep on top of these kind of things because these records, they change all the time. Yeah, that's wild. Bob Hope questions rarely come up in the quizzes, and that's why I'm rarely invited anymore to join any teams. Okay, another fact? Yes, please. I really like this one, actually. This is from Mike Peel from Armours in Iowa. And this he heard on Behind the Bastards podcast, which actually I recently discovered. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've listened to a few episodes. It's pretty good. I listened about Rudolf Steiner.

19:25They did like a two-parter and really absolutely murdered him. I saw that they had done one on him and I wondered how you'd feel about that. I listened for Salazar, who again, Rudolf Steiner, Salazar, he's not your bastard. Salazar wasn't mine. But for many people, they are bastards. Great show though. Have they done David Bowie and Paul McCartney? They will. Coming up. Anyway, his fact is just about a guy called Alfred Krupp, who I didn't know about, but who sounds fascinating. Alfred Krupp, one of the largest arms suppliers of the 1800s, nicknamed the Cannon King, built the study in his mansion directly over the stables so the smell of horse manure could waft up through vents in the floor

20:02and lubricate his imagination. And he loved the smell of horse manure, like really loved it. Was it Schiller who used to keep rotten fruit in his desk? And he thought the rotten fruit would help him as well. Really? I think it was Schiller. I might be wrong. Might have to look that up. Weird and gross. As this man sounded, he sounds like a character. There's something quite sweet about horse manure sometimes isn't there yeah yes there are some aromatics in horse manure that are not awful i would say it's not terrible it's not as bad as any carnivore poo it's not a dog poo or a human poo or a fox poo fuck me oh they're bad no no you wouldn't channel fox poo up but still it's not the i'd probably choose a perfume or some sort of flowery scent over horse manure. Yeah, but there also were, I think, a childhood smell that I didn't grow up around farms,

20:49but I always remember that smell and it throws me back to a place whenever I... What does it throw you back to? Into a pile of shit. Yeah, my friends were cruel. So maybe it's a nostalgic thing as well. Could have been. He was quite weird. I was reading up on him a bit and he was one of these. He was a little bit like Howard Hughes, very paranoid, like wouldn't have any windows open in his house. He had a weighing chair and he made all of his guests sit on it and weighed them when they came. There's a thing about there's a mayor. I can't remember which. Someone I met, but I can't remember which town. I think it was in Kent maybe. When we went to the University of Kent, was there a mayor there?

21:25Can't remember. Anyway, there's a mayor where you get weighed when you come in as the mayor and you get weighed when you come out. And the idea is that if you've been corrupt and siphoning lots of stuff, then you've eaten too much. So you shouldn't put on too much weight while you're mayor, I think. Right, right. Zen pics probably really changed the game there but yeah that's really cool really cool yeah um here is one more from me um not particularly deep or obscure says matt bradley but turkmenistan's third largest city is called mary that's a lovely name weirdly i know that because I'm reading a book on the Stans right now. Oh yeah. Turkmenistan has got some mad stuff going on, but that's one of them, that it's called a city Mary.

22:13That's amazing. Apparently it comes from the word Marg, meaning greenfield or grassland. Does it? So maybe for Andy's second book it's like things that sound like they're named after a person, but are actually named after something else. Lovely stuff. Second book. The 17th city, 17th biggest city in Turkmenistan is called Kaká. And the 19th biggest is called Saraz. Okay. With an H as well. Really? Yeah. And is Kaká after Horsmenio? No, after the Brazilian footballer. And actually, this is interesting. Turkmenistan has a new city, as a city called Anu, which has been inhabited since 5,500 BC. Very good. That's very nice. In the capital of Turkmenistan, it has the highest amount of marble anywhere in the world.

23:04All the buildings are made of white marble, which is mad because it's incredibly poor and there's no one there. But it was one of those like huge vanity projects of the leader. Sounds like a wild place. OK, should we have one more, Dan? Yeah, I've got one more here. This is from Jeff Partica from the Detroit chapter. My fact is the first photo op presentation of someone receiving an oversized novelty check was of Joseph Goebbels in 1936. What a brilliant thing. That is amazing. I've tried to see if there's earlier and I can't find one. And I've seen the photo. And that is a stunning fact. That's true. Did he win a competition? The picture shows Goebbels unabashedly receiving a check for 200,000 Reichsmarks from

23:53Julius Lippert, a Nazi appointed state commissar, for what is essentially a bribe master's of party publicity stunt. So yeah. Amazing. Goebbels, he knew PR. No one ever denied it. That's true. There you gobles he knew pr no one ever denied it that's true yeah he invented the novelty check yeah and that's um that's that is something that i can't find an earlier example of and is often cited as being the first but if anyone else can find an earlier example please send it oh don't send in because that's now arguably one of my top 10 facts of all time and if that's not true i'll be really upset yeah okay that's enough of that let's get back to our facts that we're going to give you yes we are going to bestow on eight lucky listeners some of our headline facts from

24:38over the years we're going to make you guys custodians of these facts and so in no particular order who wants to give a fact away yeah why don't you go first absolutely this is a fact for simon hunter your fact is now you can surf on mushrooms oh yeah that's good i think i remember i picked this just to piss off james because it was when your mushroom phobia was really at its height in our comms I still have it yeah well there you go think about that surfing on a mushroom I like how it has two different meanings like on mushrooms but also I think the idea is that the surfboards are made out of mushrooms they're made of mushrooms yes I'd like to say I'd thought of that double meaning at the time

25:20that's quite nice so you can lick your surfboard while you're surfing and just raise up your hallucinogenic experience. That would be amazing. Is surfing on mushrooms on mushrooms a good idea, I wonder? I don't think so. I think like being in large bodies of water while you're not in control of your mental ability is not a good idea. Not something we'd recommend officially. Certainly not on this show. Yeah. Okay. I've heard those guys are big bastards or whatever they're called. They love that kind of stuff. Big bastards. What are they called? Behind the, what is it called? Behind the bastards. Behind the big old. Big bastards. Okay. This fact is now under the custodianship of Frederick Dalbaum.

26:02Frederick, your fact is that if you are allergic to cats, you're also allergic to lions. Something to be afraid of when a lion's running towards you. This is Andy's fact, and what he's basically saying is lions are cats. Classic Andy fact. How did he get that past us? That's very clever. Anything, he should be praised. Yeah, lions have the same sort of dandruff as cats do, unsurprisingly, you might say. How did he get that past us? That's very clever. Anything, he should be praised. Yeah. Lions have the same sort of dandruff as cats do. Unsurprisingly, you might say. Yeah, I think it comes out of their spit, doesn't it? Yeah, we do. I think it was dander at the time, but I think it's all the same protein or whatever.

26:37But yeah, exactly. It's on their spit. All right, here's one for John Michael Collins. This is the fact that it's illegal in Japan to make a human pyramid higher than five tiers. Really good. Yeah, nice. I've never been in a human pyramid. Just thinking about it, you know. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Amazing facts about Dan. Number one. They used to happen at school all the time and I was never in them. Did they? Yeah, you just have, it would just be like a three tiered one, you know, like you'd have person on the ground, next level, and then someone stands up on the top. Right. OK, this is bizarre. And I think this must be because you were raised in Asia and that's quite close to Japan. So because the human pyramids in Japan are a school thing.

27:14It happens at school days that they do them because we do not do human pyramids as standard at school here. Yeah. Yeah. So quite funny. Did they have people who generally like the same people went on the bottom layer and then the very nimble, light people went on the top layer? I think the basic idea was boys on the lower tier, girls on the next tier, and then... Cat. A cat. Sitting on top. Uh-oh, George on the bottom layer is allergic to them. It's all right, we've got a lion instead. shit really that won't work either uh all right here's another one this is for paul lowbridge your fact is in utah it is illegal to wear a hat in your driving license photo but you can wear a colander i remember that one yes this is the church of the flying spaghetti monster yes pastafarianism

28:07yes yeah that's right but i think it's like a parody of religion and they're saying well you know if you're allowed to wear this religious thing in the driving license then you should be able to wear anything whatever you believe in and so that is i think it is it's a spoof religion definitely yeah it's used by a lot of uh scientists particularly when there was that big moment of the atheists uh like richard dawkins and hitchens and daniel dennett that was very much part of their world the flying spaghetti monster yeah but then did it have to be registered kind of as like as a religion so you can now wear it in your driving license oh yeah yeah they did all the stuff to make it they wanted to be as real as you could show a religion could get yeah nice

28:49very good stuff this is a fact for isabel this is a fact that there was a victorian job that consisted solely of pushing people into the sea for swimming and james is smiling because it is another Andy fact. It's another Andy fact. It's another Andy fact. There are bathing machines. Bathing machines exist. Yeah. I mean, that's quite a good fact in itself because they're kind of unusual bathing machines. Yeah. And a lady would stand in a machine and be wheeled into the sea. But yeah, classic Andy. It sounds like someone's actually physically shoving you into the sea. Yeah. Which it's not. Okay, here is a fact that is now under the custodianship of E. It's just the letter E, but it's lowercase.

29:35Is it a long E? We don't know. We don't know. It could be E.E. Cummings, maybe. E.E. Cummings styled his name with two lowercase E's, didn't he? E.E. Yeah. Have you never seen that written down? Weirdly, E.E. Cummings styled his name with two lowercase E's, didn't he? E! Yeah. Have you never seen that written down? Weirdly, no. Look, while you were reading E.E. Cummings at school, Dan was not participating in Human Pyramids. Anyway, E.E., your fact is that Desperate Dan stopped eating cow pie because of mad cow disease. That's what I was reading. Athena and the Dandy. Yeah, Desperate Dan from the Dandy comic. He famously ate cow pies, but then he had to stop. He did. And it would have been particularly important

30:16for him to stop because he did used to eat them from top to tail, didn't he? He really ate the whole cow. That was his thing, right? Like he shoved the horns in the food. Like the pie had horns coming out of it yeah yeah um but that's quite an early example of woke don't you think gone mad yeah yes yeah he went veggie god i bet he's back to meat eating now in america at least otherwise he'd be banned by the government is he still going i know that the dandy stopped i believe i'm sure they kind of retired him well i don't know where he lives if not in the dandy stopped, I believe. I'm sure they kind of retired him. Well, I don't know where he lives, if not in the dandy. What's he, you think that he's- He might have migrated to Beano.

30:49That's, ouch. Making him migrate to the Beano next to Dennis the Menace, his arch rival. Well, it's either that or just have nowhere to live. Yeah. Oh, it's tough, isn't it? Maybe on people's sofas. Yeah. Knocking on the front page of other comic books. Yeah. Can I come in? Superman, any space for me in your gang? Dan, you've just been desperate now. It sounds like a lot of the conversations we've had here. Also my nickname at school. Oh, desperate dance trying to get in on the pyramid again. It is time for HD to get a fact. Congrats HD, your fact is the oldest sperm is worm sperm. Get that in HD. Yeah, this is very cool. Yeah, I liked it. Scientists had found the oldest sperm, but I just liked it how it kind of rhymed.

31:38Yeah. You're a simple man, aren't you, at heart, really? I am, like in the same way that if Andy can find a fact and disingenuously turn it around so it doesn't really mean what you think it means if i find a fact that it rhymes i'm gonna go for it and it was really old it was like 50 million years old it wasn't just been in a fridge for too long honestly any time that sperm has been in the fridge is too long i really do yeah i drink it within five days of opening. Yeah? Personally, yeah. But I'm loose with those things. Waitrose doesn't even put used by dates on them anymore. Do they not? You're just supposed to smell it. Yeah, exactly. You can tell. Wow. Well, enjoy that HD. I think, James, we've got one more.

32:25Yes, we have. The last one for the day is now under the custodianship of my, and my, your fact is that for just one penny, you can rent a bee for a month. Just to check you like it, and then you can keep it forever. Yes, it's very good. I think what it means is, I think, you have to get multiple bees, right? And if you do the maths, it works out at one penny per month per bee. It's for farmers, right? To pollinate their crops. So you'd have to be a very small holder, a really tiny holder farmer if you were getting one bee. I think it's almonds. Almonds, is it? And I think they're on flatbed trucks and they drive them around america and they give them to farmers to to pollinate their almonds i think yeah these are amazing guesses

33:15but it is an andy fact so to be honest it could literally mean anything all right well thank you so much everyone please do enjoy those facts take good care of them feed and water them and thank you for joining our top tier so that you get a fact you'll get your certificate in the post so thanks to my hd e isabel paul lowbridge john michael collins frederick dahlbohm and simon hunter please enjoy those and if you guys would like to receive one of our facts to guard forever then you can just join our top tier of club fish so you can go to patreon.com slash club fish to join that and if you want your fat read out email podcast at qi.com that's your fast track to getting on little fish if it's good enough andy will pick it out

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