No Such Thing As A Fish

[music] >> All right, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Little Fish. My name is Andrew Hunter Murray. I'm here with Dan Schreiber and James Harkin and we have gathered to give you your best facts. You've been sending them into podcast@q.com and we're here to tell you all about them and then at the end we're going to do some more fact custodian ships for people who joined Club Fish at the friend of the podcast tier. So uh let's get into it. Who's got a Who's got a fact? >> That was depressingly good, Andy. Yes. James [laughter] has been telling me that I make a Horlicks of this intro every time and was grinning at me throughout that just waiting for me to do so. I was trying to put you off and it didn't work at all. >> No. No, no, no. I got a fact. Should I jump into it? Yeah, go for it. Dan Connelly sends this. He says a few months after co-starring as Papa in the video for Madonna's Papa Don't Preach Danny Aiello, who is an actor that you will know from movies such as The Godfather Part II, he's Leon: The Professional. He's got a very, very familiar face in those movies. >> So he he was Papa in Papa Don't Preach. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So not long after that was released, he released an answer song to it, Papa Wants the Best for You. His own version to reply to Madonna for what she was saying. Is he preaching throughout it? >> He's He's sort of I watched the video and it the song sounds very much like a 1990s or 1980s sitcom. Oh, a sitcom. Yeah. Like you know like the intro where it's like everyone's turning their heads and smiling at camera. Picture what song's underneath that. It's got that vibe about it. [laughter] Okay. >> But he seems really distraught. He's like >> specific reference, but yeah. It's honestly the same tone. >> We understand it though. Yeah. Fair enough. Yeah. So he he did this reply song, you know, and he did occasional songs. He released a few albums, but he wasn't a big singer. So Papa Don't Preach is Madonna saying don't tell me what to do, Dad, Yeah. Yeah. I think I think it had something to do with her having a baby and needing an abortion. I think, you know, coded underneath it. But largely that's what it was. Yeah. Um cuz I don't know the song. All I can think of is the Papa and Nicole adverts. That's what it's based on? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Papa Don't Preach, I've got a Citroen here. That's right. >> [laughter] >> I'm just going to say to forestall the emails, Renault, not Citroen. >> Oh, I knew it was that, but I thought no one's going to write in for that, are they? >> James, you don't see the inbox like I [laughter] see it. Yeah, so this comes in a long line of answer songs, as they're known. Can I say one? F U R B. Frankie. >> Frankie. That's the one I know. >> Well, that was the bit That was massive in the '90s, I think it was. And it was basically a song Do you remember what his name was, the artist? I can't remember now. I can't remember, but his song was F U. Aim'n, he was called. >> Aim'n, that's right. And he just says F U all the way through to this girl and then she says F U right back. But she was She didn't know him in real life. >> Turns out she didn't and that was the big thing because at the time it was sold as if this was the genuine girlfriend and it was a sort of one-off. But this this goes back so far back. So Walter Raleigh and Christopher Marlowe traded answer pieces with each other. >> Who? Christopher Marlowe. Christopher Marlowe and who was the first one? Walter Raleigh. Oh, Walter Raleigh. >> Oh, Raleigh. Yeah. Not Riley. Walter Raleigh is just some guy. Walter Raleigh is sailing to the new world and doing all of that. >> Oh, yeah. No, I'm not talking about him. I'm talking about Walter Raleigh who Yeah. Wrote um some amazing pieces back in the 1500s. No, Raleigh, sorry. Who wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. And there was a reply which was The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. So it goes all the way back then. It's not necessarily beef. It's just a reply. It's a different perspective. >> [laughter] [gasps] >> But yeah, Neil Sedaka wrote Oh Carol in reply to Shaggy. >> Shaggy. Oh, Carolina by Shaggy. >> [laughter] >> I don't I don't even know a second Shaggy song, so that's amazing [laughter] knowledge there. Neil Sedaka wrote Oh Carol and Carole King wrote O'Neill in reply to that. Oh, that's good. David Bowie wrote a wrote a song Oh, no, had an album called Low, L O W. >> Yeah. And then there was a musician called something Low, L O W E, and he released an album called Bowie without the E. Very nice. >> Very nice. >> I could remember everything about it. It was the first record released by Stiff Stiff label Stiff label that had like Madness written and a load of other people. Yeah. Oh, cool. There's a crazy one which is that John Lennon with the Beatles put out In My Life and his dad, who was not a singer, his dad was like a sailor. He was He was out on the seas and that's why John didn't grow up with him, released a song that same year within the same month called That's My Life and it's been labeled as an answer song, but I think it was just jumping off the the sort of coincidence of title to make it so that he goes up in the charts with the name Lennon. But what's amazing is he recorded it with a 30-piece orchestra and two of the members of that orchestra were part of Jimi Hendrix's Experience Band. So it was Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, the the two people who defined psychedelia along with Jimi Hendrix worked on a song with John Lennon's dad back in 1965. Should we have another fact? Yeah, okay. Here's one. Um this one I seem to have become the repository for facts about sporting teams with weird, wordy coincidences. >> Look, a sport fact comes into the inbox, I think >> [laughter] >> I'm not going near that. I know who's the man. Yeah, well, um Sveinung Carlsen wrote in and said that between 1975 and 1988 the football club West Bromwich Albion went through a run of managers whose first names went Johnny, Ronnie, John, Ron, Ronnie, Ron, Johnny, Nobby, Ron and Ron. >> [laughter] >> Nobby sticks out a bit. Nobby sticks out a mile. Oh, that's that's so funny. So Sveinung found this on Twitter from a Twitter account called TouchlineX. But yeah, he checked it out and it was Johnny Giles, Ronnie Allen, John Wile, Ron Atkinson, Ronnie Allen, Ron Wylie, Johnny Giles, Nobby Stiles, Ron Saunders and Ron >> Nobby Stiles. Johnny Giles. >> Giles then Stiles. >> Yeah, Giles and Stiles. That's amazing. Absolutely amazing. Was that a fact from someone called Carlsen? His surname is Carlsen. That's probably the best fact about football managers I've ever heard. It's brilliant. From Carlsberg. >> That's a reference to Carlsberg. Yeah, okay. Just forestalling the emails, Andy. It's close enough. >> [laughter] >> And at the same time you sent me a fact from Ola Everback and it is about Bodø/Glimt who won against Atlético Madrid in the Champions League recently. And the goals were scored by Solbakken from Madrid Sjevold and Hauge. And all of those names have got a circle with a line through it. You know, like uh The O with a an Ø. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> What a wonderful fact. What a wonderful fact, yeah. Ola said that it was maybe the greatest win for the letter Ø through all times. >> [laughter] >> Here's a fact from Mike Abdulla. Your fact bestowing at the end of Little Fish has probably had the intended effect here and prompted me to go and listen to some old episodes. Guys, it works. >> Ah, yes. It works. Nice. A friend of mine has worked on maintaining some old software which uses something called the Pick operating system. This product was named after one of its developers, Mr. Dick Pick. >> [laughter] >> Mhm. Come on. I've looked this up and I tell you I got it wrong the first time. I did not add Pick operating system in quotes. I just searched Dick Pick and I did [laughter] Yeah, how was it? It was all right. Lost an hour of time, but it was good. >> [laughter] >> So anyway, no, Dick Pick was a real guy who came up with the Pick operating system. That's interesting. I suppose he predated the dick pic. >> That's wonderful. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> It's a real thing. Predated the digital dick pic. Absolutely. His was the analog. Anyway. >> [laughter] >> Here's another one. This is from Daniel Atkinson. Says a little fact I discovered researching the 1985 Austrian wine poisonings. >> [laughter] >> Oh. So before before I get to his fact, we should qualify what that is. 1985 in Austria there was an incident where all the wineries were found to be illegally adulterating their wines by using an antifreeze to make sure that it was sweeter, that it had that full-bodied taste like one that was like a late harvest wine. Why was that illegal? Well >> Cuz it can make you blind. Oh, okay. >> There you go. >> [laughter] >> Just thought we'd draw better draw that out, you know, antifreeze sounds good, doesn't it? It sounds great. You know what? You're wine freezing. >> [laughter] >> So Austria for a while, they were the third largest wine producer in the world and this absolutely decimated them because it they were seen to be illegal and they had to get rid of all of these bottles of wine. So they ended up draining away 27 million liters of wine. So 36 million bottles. It was 7 months worth of Austria's total wine exports. And they did use it for useful things. They they started Poured it into cars, I presume. Well, yeah, that's the thing. They were using it for sewage treatment plants. They were using it on the roads as an antifreeze. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. So it's amazing. But the fact that's been sent in by Daniel Atkinson is that apparently when the news eventually got out about the poisoned wine, many countries in Europe banned not just wine from Austria, but China and Japan accidentally banned all of Australia's wine as well because of the similar names. >> Can't be too careful. Yeah. That's very funny. >> Great. Incredible. Okay, here is one from Declan Curry. And Declan says, "My fact is if you walked around the whole earth on the equator, your head would travel roughly 37 ft further than your feet due to the curvature of the earth." What? But it Yeah, so that that's that's very dangerous actually, isn't it? Why? Ending up with your head that much far further away from your feet. >> [laughter] >> There are there are a few technical issues such as the fact that most of the equator is underwater. Sure. Yes. Um but yeah, in theory that's what would happen. >> goes further, your legs than your Your head because your head goes it's further away from the center of the earth. How is that a good fact? That's amazing. Um can you think of any ways that you can tell how far away from the equator you are? Um well, look around you and um if you can see a polar ice cap, you know you're you've got a way to go yet, you know. >> Yeah, but how do you know you're not at the South Pole? I would I'd um I suppose I'd look around for any polar bears. And if I can't see any polar bears, then I'm definitely at the uh South Pole. Yeah, or the zoo. Exactly. Are you shorter? You're shorter? >> Yeah, is gravity pulling on you slight bit stronger? That'll be it. You're just Yeah. very slightly shorter. >> Be very difficult for you to measure, I should think. So what am I trying to tell here? If I'm at the equator or far away? How can you tell? How far away from the equator you are? I'd probably use Google Maps, wouldn't I? I mean, on a practical level. Okay, your phone's not working. Oh, well, I'm I'm stuffed. I'll look around probably for any nearby trees with moss on them. >> [laughter] >> Okay. And if I and and you know, if I find trees with moss on them, I'm happy wherever I am in the world. Okay, trees is a good one. Okay. >> So there is one way you could do this. This is um the Cook pine tree. And the Cook pine tree bends a different amount depending on how close to the equator you are. Admittedly, it doesn't grow in all places on earth, but wherever you are, if you can find a species of this tree, the amount that it's leaning will tell you your >> That's incredible. >> latitude. That's stunning. That's amazing. That's great. Another way you can do it is you can speak to one of the locals. And if their language has more vowels than consonants, they're going to live closer to the equator. Okay. It's absolutely foolproof. >> [laughter] >> And you're saying that's less hard than measuring yourself. >> [laughter] >> To to like an angstrom of height, right? I mean, [laughter] how much taller are you? Oh, I don't know. I was I was I thought you had the answers. >> [laughter] >> I have the answers to my actual answers. >> my ones. I get it now. But not your whimsical ones. All right, I get it. I'll give you another one? Yeah. >> Yeah. This is from Jono Whitehead. I was listening to you and Dan brought up RAS syndrome, which stands for redundant acronym syndrome syndrome. Oh, yeah. Lovely. Uh and I thought you'd appreciate this. We all know what a cuttlefish is, don't we? Cuttlefish? Yeah. Yeah. Little sort of squiddy things. Sure. They're oceanic and molluskoid, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah. We all know what a cuttlefish is. Anyway, the cuttle in cuttlefish comes from the Old English cūdel, meaning cuttlefish. >> [laughter] >> So a cuttlefish is a cuttlefish fish. That's good. >> That is good. >> Pleasing, isn't it? And I had a little extra look into what cuttlefish comes from. The cūdel either comes from the Middle Low German kūdel, meaning container, uh or the Old Norse koddi, which means cushion or testicle. Oh. >> Old English cod. Oh, and cod actually comes from the same as testicle actually, like a codpiece. I read that cod and codpiece were not I guess they're different. >> the testicle cod, not the fish cod. Yes, you're absolutely right. Cūdel is where codpiece comes from. Exactly. Exactly. Interesting. And why do we think that it's called that? Is it like the shell that you would use as a cup or something? Cūdel. Yeah, I think so. I think it's I think that is either it or it's like a cushion or is like a testicle, which would be the old English >> where you get sepia from, like you have in old photographs. I don't know. I only know that you put you put a cuttlefish um shell in the in the base of a parrot's cage for it to have something to chew on. That's true. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. That's where they all dream to be when they're older. There's a good RAS syndrome one that I remember now, which is uh DC Comics. Oh, is it? Detective Comics? Yeah, well, Detective Comics. Comics. Is that right? >> And then and then someone someone picked me up for this cuz I got it wrong uh in my book, which was I wrote the HIV virus. Of course, the V is virus. I think it's fine. Yeah. >> I think so, too. I don't mind you putting virus in there just to make sure everyone knows what you're talking about. >> That's what I said to the brain surgeon and he was not buying it. He got his friend the rocket scientist involved. >> [laughter] >> Um here is a fact from Andrew Joseph Perez and they say that the man who was arrested for vandalizing Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016 offered to bail out the man who was arrested for vandalizing Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2018. Oh, that's nice. Isn't it? That's a club. >> What a family, yeah. Yeah. They're passing it on to the next person. Pay it forward. [laughter] Yeah. Did they do anything especially amusing to the star or did they just >> Yeah, and it wasn't very interesting, I've got to say. I got a fact about the Hollywood Walk of Fame, though. Oh, yeah. Um so who of these people has the biggest star? Oh. Uh Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Stanley Kubrick, Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey, or Al Pacino? Who has the biggest star? Cuz they're all basically the same size. >> They're all the same size, but there are some differences in some of the stars. For instance, the Apollo 11 crew have stars on there, but they're in the shape of moons. Oh, that's clever. Okay. Cuz they went to the moon. Yeah, that's pretty good. [laughter] Oh, I get it now. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> Um so I've been to the Hollywood Walk of Fame and I've I've walked up and down. >> Same here. I was looking for Looking Looking for [laughter] you? I was very disappointed. I got Is it Is one of them got a comically big star that Clooney, DiCaprio, Affleck, Kubrick, Pitt, Carrey, Pacino. Kubrick because Kubrick did 2001: A Space Odyssey and >> And the moon landings, of course. >> [laughter] >> I'll say Kubrick. Dan? Uh I'm going to say Jim Carrey and and I have no reasoning for it. Well, the answer is none of them has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was a trick. Oh, that is a good trick. >> Yeah, great prank. Isn't it? And isn't it weird cuz they're all pretty big names. Yes. None of them has ever, as far as I can see, say said why they don't have it. But you need to be nominated to start off with. I imagine all these people have been. But then you have to pay a sponsorship fee every year and you have to attend the unveiling. Oh. Yeah. >> So it's a bit of a bit of a scam, isn't it? >> Exactly. And they've had a rough few years, all of those. Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey, they don't really have the dosh, I don't think, to Oh, yeah. But it is what you have to pay. Yeah, you have to maintain. >> nuts. Yeah. No, thank you. Is that why you don't have one? >> That's why Andy's not got his yet. On principle. God, I have to wade through a dozen emails a day from those guys. Please, sir. [laughter] Here's one. Okay. From Chris Squires. Great name. We talked about the Chicago River, do you remember? Yeah. With John Lloyd. We did. And it's, you know, it used to be very very filthy. There is someone follows me on Instagram called The Real Dave Matthews. Of Of Dave Matthews Band? >> I don't know if it's him or not. >> got a little tick? Sounds like him. I can't I I didn't check. But I just got a follow from someone called The Real Dave Matthews. I was very excited. >> Yeah. Because regular listeners will know uh that we talked about the Dave Matthews Band whose bus went over the bridge of the Chicago River and dumped excrement on a tourist boat below. Not on purpose, as far as we know. Yeah. So So you two have an interacted. You're just sort of stand off. >> a follower. Right. >> follow him. I can't see his um or hers, I don't know. Could be a female Dave Matthews, but I can't see their Instagram stuff because I'm not following them. >> I see. Right. Sounds like Dave Matthews to me. It sounds like the real one. Well, yeah, I mean, on a cursory examination, it sounds like the real Dave [laughter] Matthews. Yeah, but it's so easy like to just make a fake The Real Dave Matthews, On the internet, no one knows if you're Dave Matthews or not. Yeah. And Chris writes, "You missed the most interesting fact about the Chicago River. What a challenge." And I thought we can't have done. I think we did. Really? Yeah. In 1900, it changed direction. Oh. >> Oh. This is so wild. I just didn't know it at all. It used to be really horrible, right? And it used to empty into Lake Michigan, Yeah. which is where the principal water source for the city of Chicago. >> Yeah. So if you're taking water from the lake and it's taking water from the river and there's all sorts of horrible gunk in the river, you've got problems. >> You've got cholera, which happened plenty. And in 1871, they were trying to stabilize a local canal. They pumped some water in. It temporarily reversed the flow of the Chicago River and they thought, "Hang on, this This is an idea." And so they created a canal to imitate a downhill direction for the river. Uh moved millions and millions of cubic yards of earth. Uh and these days it runs out of Lake Michigan and down eventually into the Gulf of Mexico fire another river. Is that right? >> Isn't that stunning? They reversed it. They raised Chicago around that time, didn't they? Remember, the entire city was raised. >> [laughter] >> Like a meter or something. Really? What? I think that's right. I think Yeah, it's ringing a bell. Um I wonder if this was part of the same thing. What Why do they Well, I think the problem is I can't really remember. >> [laughter] >> But I'm sure they did it. Where's my phone? Let me just quickly check it. You two talk amongst yourselves for a minute. Dan, you watched anything good lately? Um [sighs] I started watching White Lotus. Oh, yeah. It's good. It's okay, yeah. Yeah. They're a little bit meh, aren't they? I'm only an episode in. Oh, well. Okay, enough of this red-hot banter. I'm sure in the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of central Chicago to lift the city off its low-lying swampy ground. Good lord. >> Um so, they raised a load of buildings um just so that they would get out of the marshes, but it's not related to the thing that you said. But, very interesting. And also confusing because, you know, if you raise a bit raise a city to the ground >> [laughter] >> Uh that's the Oh, no, that's the opposite of what we wanted you to do. >> [laughter] >> Very good. Right. That's for the moment enough of your brilliant facts. If you'd like to send in more, just email what you've got to podcast@qi.com. We love receiving them, but now it's time to dish out some of our headline facts from over the years. If you go to patreon.com/clubfish, you can join Club Fish where you can have ad-free episodes of this podcast. You can have bonus stuff, our fortnightly drop us a line audience feedback show. And if you join at the top tier, we will bestow on you in perpetuity one of our headline facts. You will become custodian of one of these facts, and we send you even a gorgeous certificate proving your ownership to any doubters. Uh it's really fun. Check it out. patreon.com/clubfish. Let's dish out some of the facts now. Who should we start with? Okay, I'll do one. This fact is now under the custodianship of Mary Sandilands. And Mary, your fact is that after returning from the moon landing, Buzz Aldrin worked at a car dealership where he failed to sell a single car. I love this. I also understand it. If you go you're trying to buy a a car and someone keeps saying, "I was on the moon, you know." I'm not interested. I want to know about the Do you reckon he had >> Did he have that conditioning? Oh, I bet he would. Do you think? >> He strikes me as a very uncompromising guy. Also, I'd be terrified to buy a car from Buzz Aldrin. How come? Well He's scary. >> He's very scary guy. >> scary, yeah. Yeah. I can imagine just him being quite brisk in a sales situation. >> is that he's about to close a sale, and then Neil Armstrong gets in there first. >> [laughter] >> Oh, if only he was at the dealership across the road. That would be [laughter] amazing. Cash tills ringing. Michael Collins just doing a test drive. >> [laughter] >> Love that. I've got a He's written a couple of autobiographies, Buzz Aldrin, cuz he really he really struggled when he came back from the moon. There was alcohol, there was divorces, all that sort of stuff. Check out this. This is the blurb at the back of his autobiography. On the 20th of July, 1969, Apollo 11 made its historic first landing on the moon. Two years later, astronaut Buzz Aldrin was hospitalized for psychiatric treatment. Wow. >> Ooh. Cuz of what he saw up there? Yes. Sent to the loony bin. Like loony. Loony bin. Absolutely. An old-fashioned phrase, but one I think [laughter] we're bringing back. If it works as a pun, it's not offensive. Got it. But, it was like I think it came from the moon like because people thought that you went crazy when you saw the moon. >> As in lunatic. Yeah. >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're right. No harm, no foul. >> [laughter] >> I just like to apologize. >> Next full moon, your your place is going to be full of complaints in person. Shall I do one now? Yeah. This one goes out to Wayne. Wayne, your fact is now that in the Middle Ages, the Catholic sect the Cathars were said to get their name from the fact they liked to kiss a cat's arse. [laughter] Is it the Cathars? I think this was your fact, James. Yeah, it sounds like me. They were heretics, and the Catholic Church >> sect. Yeah. Do you? Unnatural unnatural sects. I I have sects appeal. >> [laughter] >> Nice. Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> No harm, no foul. >> [laughter] >> Andy's lost an hour to dig pics, and you've got sex. >> [laughter] >> Um no, yeah, it was um it was well, Middle Ages, and they used to make up stories of what they did. Yes. And they said that they would kiss a cat's bum. And also, Satan supposedly sometimes came as a cat. Right. >> And so, it was like kissing Satan's bum. Ah, yes. >> Rik Mayall had a cat called Satan. Did he? >> Did he. Yeah. That's good. >> The cat sat on the mat. Satan the mat. Yeah. Set set sat You pushed it too far. Yeah, I think it's all good. I think [laughter] I really like it. Off the back of loony bin as well, come on. This is [laughter] This is a man watching a master at work. I get it. Exactly. Uh let's do another one. This goes out to Brad Downing. And your fact is the British pop charts have had three top 50 songs sung exclusively in Latin. Wow. I can't remember Gaudeamus. Yeah. Um Three times over? I can't think of any Latin. Like maybe like Pie Jesu kind of thing, like >> Yeah, I think there'll probably have been choral works. Maybe it was big at Christmas, for example. I feel like there was I feel like Lil Wayne did a song last year. Maybe it was ah As in it had it in the background, and he rapped over it. Oh, that wouldn't count unless he's rapping in Latin. I don't know if it's a good language to rap in like French cuz all the you know, so many similar rhymes at the end of words. French is terrific for rap. I think most of the great rappers are French. >> [laughter] >> There are some good French rappers. >> Absolutely. But, I think like Latin does have endings, doesn't it? Your verb endings. Any verb. If you end a sentence in a verb Absolutely. >> then they might rhyme. All right. Yeah, yeah. Well, there's clearly a thirst for it. So, maybe that can be the Fish single. My Latin's very weak, and yours is not bad, is it? Um yeah, I'm not conversational, I'd say. >> [laughter] >> Uh I could get by. I could get by in ancient Rome, no problem. Um okay, here is another one. Um this fact is that the way to recognize the Buddha is to look out for webbed feet, a tongue which can reach his ears, and withdrawn genitalia. And lucky you, Ethan Walker. This is now your fact. You know what? There's some things that you remember from these shows, and I remember listening to the edit of this show. Okay. And I remember where I was. I was skiing, and I was for some reason I had to listen to an edit that day, and I was on holiday. And so, I was on the ski slopes, and I remember listening to this specific moment. Wow. It's a lovely situational memory you've got there. I don't even remember which country it was. Yeah. But, it would have been so cold you probably also would have had withdrawn genitalia [laughter] at the time. I've seen the Buddha's tooth in a temple. In Kandy, Sri Lanka. It's in Kandy, where you would lose a tooth if you were >> Very very very nice. So, where's Kandy? It's in Sri Lanka. I was thinking of the joke, so I missed the second bit of that. Doesn't matter. Yeah. Yep. Cool. And it's presumably not his tooth, but claimed to be a relic. Well, I've seen his tooth in I think Singapore or somewhere else. 32 >> And the baby >> [laughter] >> 64, come on. I'm amazed we haven't got one in this room with us now. [laughter] Anyway, yes, Buddha. Good good to know. Keep alert. Um this one goes out to Holly Flanagan. Holly, this fact is that the whoopee cushion was invented by a Roman emperor called Bassianus. Also known as Bassianus, also known as Elagabalus. Dan, this is one of I'd say this is the fact I've had most from you over the years. >> Yeah, well I >> It's your go-to. You love it. Well, it's because it was one that I'm pretty sure I I found myself You know, sometimes we find facts that are written by others. I was reading an entry on Elagabalus on Wikipedia, and I saw that his birth name was Bassianus, of course Bassianus. I just couldn't believe that this guy attributed with it. And I remember running into you, James. We were in the Covent Garden offices, and going, "Can I Can I say Bassianus? What do you think?" And you were like, "Yeah." And But, was this the first time we ever deliberately mispronounced something for comic effect? I think this is patient zero for that. >> I don't know. >> [laughter] >> It could be. Really? All right, this one's from Michael Ree folks, and your fact is now the oldest known purse is decorated with dogs' teeth. Oh, yeah. How many teeth do they have? Um dogs? Buckets. Loads. Great. Canines. All of them are canines. Okay, and there's [laughter] the there's the joke. I do feel a very nice satisfaction. Sometimes I feel like we might just make the same joke again that we made last time, 10 years ago. But, I feel like sometimes we'll find our way to a new joke, and I think I think James will have just done that there. Oh, that's lovely to hear, isn't it? It's really nice. It's like we're getting a second chance to live our entire life. Yeah. Yeah. >> This is what Andy does if he goes to a comedy show. He sits at the front row, and someone does a joke, and he goes, "It's actually really nice to hear a joke like that on a day like today. Um probably the structure of the joke is not something I've really heard before." I'm sorry for being enthusiastic. [laughter] I'm trying to boost you guys up here. You could have just lolled. I never lol. I won't do it. You go straight to ruffle. I do. >> [laughter] >> Okay, that fact was from Michael Ree folks. This next fact now belongs to Amy Ree folks. >> Any relation? No relation. >> [laughter] >> I assume some relation. We don't know. Could be a coincidence. >> had some joint correspondence from Michael and Amy. Well, I would like to know because who's got the best fact. So, Michael, your fact is about the oldest known purse being decorated with dogs' teeth. And Amy Ree folks, your fact is that according to a 2011 study, 27% of Britons neither love nor hate Marmite. Hm. Great. >> That's good. >> Great fact. I don't know which This my favorite though. They're both classics. >> Oh, that is good. Yeah. I think Marmite. I got I encounter Marmite more often than I encounter dogs' teeth. I very rarely have dogs' teeth on toast every morning. >> [laughter] >> Let's have one last fact, and this one goes out to John Gallagher, and it's that the Knights of the Round Table included Lancelot, Galahad, Gawain, and Gareth. Yeah. Sir Gareth. Gareth. >> Bold Sir Gareth. >> Again, I was reading I was reading a a book of the Knights of the Round Table, and when I saw that name, I was like, "What the Who is Gareth?" Yeah. Who's this guy that no one ever talks about? Do you remember anything he got up to? >> I don't actually know. 12 years go by, and apparently this Sir Gareth is nothing to you anymore. >> [laughter] >> I'm a bit blank on this entire episode, I think. >> I just found I've I've looked in the archive. He He was a King Arthur's nephew, and he was maybe on one of Oh, no, he was on the main table, but there were lesser tables, much like at a wedding. That's >> [laughter] >> That's what I was going to say. That's my only memory. Is that there were other round tables, and they were >> [laughter] >> You've got to get You've got to get to the one with Lancelot. That's really funny. >> What am I doing on the one with Gareth? >> [laughter] >> Uh All right. Well, look, that's enough of our facts. Thank you so much to all of our new custodians of facts. Just to remind you, that's John, Amy, Michael {brackets no relation}, Holly, Ethan, Brad, Wayne, and Mary. Thank you so much to all of you. Thank you to all of you for listening. If you'd like to submit a fact to us, it's podcast@qi.com. That's our email address. And if you'd like to join Club Fish to get ad-free episodes, bonus content, and so much more, go to patreon.com/clubfish. Thanks again for listening, and we'll be back next week with another one of these, and in a few days with the main episode of No Such Thing As a Fish, and um potentially in a couple of days with a Drop of a Line. All right. Bye for now. Bye. You let yourself down there, I think. >> I actually really did. [laughter]