No Such Thing As A Fish - 192: No Such Thing As A Restaurant Menu For Hats

Episode Date: November 17, 2017

Live from Cardiff, Dan, James Anna and Andy discuss listening to the radio with your hat on, the useless mating call of the pumpkin toadlet, and salmon-shaped mountains.

Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish a weekly podcast this week coming to you from the glee comedy club in Cardiff My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Anna Chasinski Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again We have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here We go starting with you James Okay, my fact this week is the oldest surviving Suti puppet has just been bought at auction and it was bought by Suti No, yeah, it was by the new guy Richard Caddell who's in charge of Suti at the moment and he Whenever he bid it for it. He bid it it with Suti on his hands

That is great very cool. It's like Suti's emancipated himself Yeah, cool, it's actually more like he sold himself back into slavery Okay, get this when they were on television together Suti and Sue were never allowed to touch each other in case things got too steamy Yeah, so this is this is true Suti and Sue when Sue was introduced There was a worry at the BBC that this would introduce a sexual element and too much sexual tension to the show And so she was only allowed in on sufferance that she never touched him and that he never touched her They didn't speak to her beforehand then go. This is what you're not allowed to do, right? Well, no for internationalists They're both love puppet bears. So it's it's easy to enforce

But actually Sue is a panda and pandas aren't bears. Oh So there's a certain amount of interspecies stuff going on there. Yeah, true. Wow or not Wasn't she was she voiced by the wife of the person who did? Yes, Suti Yeah, Harry Corbett's wife played her but then Harry Corbett's son took over the role, but his mum stayed playing The girlfriend. Oh, but it was it was an unusual setup. Yeah, I think he actually replaced her didn't he his daughter replaced her? Quite quickly And said he didn't want her playing Sue anymore Maybe because of that and also apparently the person who took over playing Sue said she was getting a little bit older

And she was finding it a little bit harder to Redescript watch a monitor work a puppet and smoke a cigarette all at the same time Very uncomfortable for parole to But this the sort of worry about sexuality this was in 1964 to say, you know And then they got so serious that the director general of the BBC intervened Personally this went all the way to his desk and he called the host in and said I'm allowing yet But then two years later they cancelled the show and I went to ITV who didn't care Did they touch each other? Well, then they went to shallow for and it got extremely steaming

Sue did actually once have a pregnancy scare Although it turned out she just had a cushion up her jumper, so simpler times Imagine if you went to your gynecologist and said I think I'm pregnant They go, no, you just got a cushion up there And you're a man What the fuck are you doing here? And then I took my feet out of the stirrups and I bit him good day

But the team America guys got in trouble for their puppet sex scene properly didn't they? So they had to re-edit the sex scene in Team America nine times and resubmit it to the motion picture Association of America To say is is this okay yet because the you know film association was saying we can only classify Team America as In America, I think it's NC 17 Which is the rating that means like no under 18 year olds are allowed to go and see it just because these two puppets have sex Which and as I think Trey Parker pointed out It doesn't make any sense our characters are made of wood and have no genitals And yet it is a very it's a very rude scene. It's yeah

Did you have to go with your mom? This is like watching the city show all over again Mighty morphine Power Rangers got banned in Malaysia because the morphine bit sounded too much like morphine They were famously sluggish, weren't they? Yeah, well you guys in the UK you had Ninja Turtles Which is what I call them you Yeah, you called them hero turtles didn't you? Oh, yeah, yeah, because they thought that you weren't able to deal with Nunchucks basically, but they still have the nunchucks. No, no

Picture today because I had no idea that this was the case in Michelangelo instead of having nunchucks. This is a feather A nice cup of tea. Yeah, like that guy looks like he needs a hug from the hug turtle Yeah Yeah, really they changed it so he just had a grappling hook so My memory is him having nunchucks No in the opening scenes There's a couple of seconds of nunchucks and then if you look at the pictures Maybe it was only for a few episodes maybe they brought it back, but he has a grappling hook

Well, you can do a lot more damage with a grappling hook. I know it's got spikes on the end. Yeah So pepper pig this year. I think I quite recently was banned in Australia Just one episode it was and it was the episode where pepper is taught that spiders are very small and can't hurt you It gets loads of complaints pepper pig though for being a bad influence on children and Some of the things that parents have said about it have written and said a father Wrote into the people who make it and complained that his son has started splashing in muddy puddles on the way to school I know but no apparently that's bad and Another mother wrote in and said you'd ask their daughter what she wanted for breakfast and she said chocolate cake and

Another said his son has stopped eating cucumber and tomato sandwiches and these just all sound like terrible parents Hey, we need to move on to our second fact. It is time for fact number two and that is Andy My fact is that mountains are partly shaped by salmon Wow, what? Wow, this is true. This is absolutely true Salmon play a significant role in the shape of mountains It happens over a long period of time obviously, but so salmon swim up stream to spawn and then as they do so the female Kind of stirs up the mud and the sediment at the bottom when she's making a kind of nest in the water and

That means that the river channels erode faster and it means they rode downstream faster and over hundreds of thousands of years a Landscape where salmon spawn could be up to 30 percent lower than a landscape with no salmon Yeah, that's amazing There's a thing that one of our friends at qi mentioned the other day actually which is that they're paint thinking of painting mountains white So this is yeah, if you see this it's in the Peruvian Mountains This is a guy who's going around painting them white. Yeah to combat global warming not just one guy with one paintbrush though He's it's pretty much slightly into begin with I mean because to begin with everyone thought he was nuts And he said because they all the ice and all the snow had gone off it and so it just was bare mountains

And he went oh, I'll save the ice and snow by painting it white again to look like it has ice and snow That's not why he's doing it. That's not why he's doing it. I stopped reading the article there. Okay, so He's not gone I'll save these mountains from not being covered in the snow by making it look like they've got snow on them Maybe that'll convince them it's um It's so that it keeps the surface cooler because if you've got a white surface then it reflects the heat black Yeah, so I think the average rock that's covered in white paint is like 17 degrees cooler than If it's got black paint and then the idea is that the ice will stay on it for longer

And then it can give everyone water and nearby villages and keep the vegetation growing Yeah mountain painting didn't he win a Nobel Prize for that? Um, I don't think so maybe you did read the article then No, I definitely should have though shouldn't I? He got some kind of a like maybe like a Nickelodeon or kids award or something Yeah The tallest mountain in colorado. Okay, it's called mount elbert And it's next to another mountain called mount massive

um And mount massive is 12 feet shorter than mount elbert Okay, I think they have the third and fourth or the second and third biggest mountains in the whole of america But the next to each other and a lot of there are a lot of fans of mount massive And what they like to do is go to the top of mount massive and put a big pile of stones on the top so that it becomes The biggest But then mount elbert has quite a few fans as well and they keep going up and taking all the rocks down Wow

Colorado is boring Here's another fact mountains can suffer from tired mountain syndrome So this has happened around the world in lots of different places But at the moment it's happening in north korea And they have a mountain called mount mantap and due to all of the uh nuclear tests there Basically, there's a load of geological damage and the rock mass inside the mountain just isn't kind of integral anymore Did you say it's called mount mantap? Yes, I heard that. That sounds like how kim jong-un refers to his penis, doesn't it?

This made me think about other syndromes. There might be So this is um tired mountain syndrome just a few that I found online floppy trunk syndrome That's the thing that elephants can get. Oh, these are all very sad by the way. These are you know, this is not like a happy flop Which is another kim jong-un derived, um Berserk llama syndrome That's the thing if you're um if you human raise a llama they go crazy and they attack the humans Uh wobbly hedgehog syndrome Again, it's not a very nice thing if you're the hedgehog, but it is if you're reading the words on the internet

And there's a guy who was diagnosed with chronic lateness syndrome This is incredible. This is a real thing apparently it's a bit like adhd And it means that he can't properly gauge how long things take so he's late for absolutely everything Come on. I've used this excuse so many times and no it is it is a real thing It's very funny. You mentioned that James. I because I found out about chronic lateness syndrome and it's weird He lives near here and I've invited him to be at the show tonight and I just wonder Are you um oh In 1945 when people first started testing atomic weapons

Kodak found out about it before anyone else and I had no idea about this but this is because um film camera film is really sensitive to radiation and they got loads of complaints from people in america Saying our camera film is fogging up. And so a scientist who was working at kodak looked into it and did some 1940s googling and He deduced that they must be testing atomic bombs And he stayed quiet for a little while because he thought I better just won't get involved with that That's fine And they put some atomic proof filters around their factory and they just didn't mention it And then eventually they kept on damaging their films this radiation

And so they tried to sue the american government in 1951 For doing all these nuclear tests that was the worst thing about them apparently was that they were screwing up kodak's film and The american government Agreed to give them all the maps and the schedule of all future nuclear tests on the grounds that they didn't talk about this to anyone anymore Yeah, and that's amazing. I know just quickly kodak and mountains. This is an interesting connection when george mallory and Irving the original Supposedly almost might have made it to the top of everus before hillary did

When mallory and Irving disappeared and there's been a big mystery ever since did they make or did they not? There's been hunts that have been going on to find them And the one thing they're looking for is the camera that was had by mallory and Irving because because of the cold nature of the mountain The film is preserved and kodak say if we find the camera will still be able to develop it at this point So they do searches So one thing was when hillary went to the top of the mountain He did a very basic search for mallory He was looking for two things the camera and the other thing was a picture of mallory's wife because

Mallory said he was going to bury a picture of his wife on the top of the mountain So hillary got up there didn't find it then in 1989 people went out to look for the camera and suddenly perfectly preserved on the snow Was mallory the body of mallory and they found everything on him. They had his goggles perfect condition His ice pick they had his wallets. They had everything the one thing they didn't have was his camera So it must be on Irving But they were so close to finding out and check this out another thing They didn't find inside the wallet was the picture of his wife. Ooh

But then again if I was dying I would quickly throw away the photo of my wife Yeah So you wouldn't like be looking at it with your dying breath. You'd be like, oh I'd want her to be remembered as as you know, the wife of the man who first climbed Everest and to successfully do that You have sometimes you have to cut some strings I'm sorry if that sounds harsh. She would have understood I think Um, do you know how tall the uh, the smallest unclimbed mountain in japan is I'll give you a clue. It's in osaka. I'm going to go for um,

12,000 feet. Okay That's high. I only work in meters. So I'm going to go for uh, The tallest unclimbed smallest Unclimbed the smallest mountain that no one has bothered to climb. This is the most ridiculous question I've ever been asked And I'm going to go for 1,600 meters. Okay. I'm going to go for four meters. Yeah hasn't grasped the metric system yet So what's four meters in feet? Um, that's like three feet. Uh, it's no it. No, no No, like a meter is longer than a foot. Okay, that's got big feet. That's good. You know what they say about men with big feet

big man's up It's almost like no one cares how tall they Know amazingly dan is almost absolutely bang on it is 15 feet above sea level. Yes It's not a mountain. It is a mountain the japanese geospatial information authority are very relaxed about what qualifies as a mountain I'm not kidding. It's um Yeah, it's called mount tenpo and it's basically a pile of dirt which was dredged out of the harbor in 1832 to allow vessels to sail in to the port And that is not even the highest point in the park it is in

But the japan's national tourist organization have said that they do have a mountain rescue unit in case anyone gets lost on the slopes Um, okay, should we move on to fact number three? Okay, it is time for fact number three and that is chasinski Yes, my fact is that when king george the sixth married the queen mother The archbishop of canterbury wouldn't let them broadcast the ceremony on the radio In case people listened in the pub without removing their hats This was the bbc really wanted to broadcast it was 1923 and bbc had just set up this radio station They wanted something to broadcast the royal wedding seemed like the right thing He wasn't george the sixth at the time. This is before he was king

But they asked if they could broadcast it and the abbey chapter said absolutely not veto because people all listen in the pubs And worse they may listen with their hats still on And it might be received in an irreverent manner So did people just used to just keep wearing their hats inside the pub generally no I think just like if you are really a complete Lay about you know, if you're really a bad person if you're a drunk Then you might forget to say you might be wearing a baseball cap or something What in 1923

I don't know if it was baseball caps. You had in mind But what i'm saying is that people do sometimes wear hats in pubs So but this was the thing so you were supposed to take off your hat inside if you were doing something like watching a very Respectable ceremony Well, you were always supposed to really weren't you was it not an etica of always taking your hat off when you're inside I was reading something etiquette and it was actually really complicated So I think on some inside moments you wouldn't like for instance You see pictures of bars in the 1920s where men kept their hats on and that was apparently because they couldn't rely on them

Not being stolen if they took them off Um, yeah, I think the idea is if you're in a place which is akin to a public street So it could be a corridor or it could be a lobby of a hotel And I guess you could probably say that pub is a bit like that maybe so what then you can leave your hat on Yeah, okay, and let's where's the song came from? Yeah, that's the chorus, but then there's a big log list of things that you're allowed to If you're in a corridor if you're in a lobby anywhere like a public street Cool, you don't know that song do you?

And men had to Take off their hats when the national anthem was being played in the olden days in etica and it's really supposed to now as well But women are allowed to unless it's a unisex hat So if it's a hat that anyone I mean anyone could wear any hats. I'm not judging But let's say it is a baseball cap that is a unisex hat then the women have to take the hat off as well So it's the hat which is you know god, I can really imagine panicking as to what gender my hat was What the right thing to do was at that moment Um, I found a really amazing thing about george the sixth

um in 1926 And as far as I can tell he's the only british monarch to have done this So this is prior to him being a king He competed In the doubles at wimbledon As a tennis player really I don't know that cool. How did he do? He lost the first match and he was out for the rest of it. Um,

But that's extraordinary that suddenly the prince of Of the uk was suddenly there. That'd be great. Imagine prince charles at the snooker You'd watch wouldn't you? Well, we have that one who rides the horses Uh, zara phillips. Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly. They all ride the horses professionally Um, yeah, he was he was amazing So he they got married only after him trying really hard to marry the queen mother for a long time He'd proposed twice in the past

And it's so it's so weird that she was known as the queen mother all the way through Her life It's like she was destined for the job. She should have known He was called albert at the time weirdly and uh, she was called elizabeth at the time and she refused his first proposal because We kind of all remembered the queen mother. She was quite a spunky kind of character And at the time she refused because she didn't want to feel like she wasn't able to be free to think speak and act As she felt she ought to so he said i'm only gonna marry this woman. I really love her So his mom albert's mom invited her up to her house and had some really really sharp words being like

Okay, well, you have to marry my son and then he proposed again and she said no again. So good on her And then he beat her down the third time like metaphorically Um, she was the first commoner to be married to a member of the royal family for 200 years I think Wow But she was a commoner, but she was the daughter of the earl of strathmore and she grew up in glam's castle Yeah, so it's stretching commoner a little bit, isn't it? And this is a really good fact. I liked about george the sixth during the indo pakistani war of 1947

He technically was at war with himself Because he was the monarch of both those places That's amazing Why are you hitting yourself? And here's another fact when he died there were more than 300 000 people who queued up to see his body And that is just about the same as the population of cardiff. Wow Why did they all go down to do that? You got like a Weird connection to them. They don't know much entertainment on here

Next week at the glee club The body of king george, let's say Just on royal weddings, there was a thing where prince william and kate middleton got married another Quite posh commoner marrying into the royal family But when they got married that was in 2011 I think new zealand released an official stamp to commemorate the occasion Except what they did was they released the official stamp which had a perforation down the middle between william and kate

So you could tear them apart And get two stamps God Did they do that on purpose? I don't I don't know are they apologized. Wow I can't look out whether it would have been better or worse for the perforation to go horizontally and cut their heads off They made the right choice this year it was pipper middleton's wedding Wasn't it and in our book? We have a little bit about that. Yeah 600 people were invited to pipper middleton's wedding

300 guests and 300 members of the public who were allowed to stand in a pen outside the venue Did they have a trough at the very least or a nose bag each maybe What was the Well, they didn't say exactly why it was well I guess officially it was kind of just so that the local village can kind of be part of it or whatever But a lot of people thought that maybe it was to stop the paparazzi game there or or whatever because there's so many people No one really knows but it was crazy. There were more than 20,000 canapes There would have been 10,000 fewer within five minutes

Um, so some royal weddings in the past have gone really badly And they're really fun to read about but so george the fourth for instance He met his future wife carolina brunswick in 1795 and it was the age when it was just arranged She was not flown over. She was brought over to the uk And at the moment he set eyes on her his first words were I am not well get me a glass of brandy And and he proceeded to spend the next 24 hours in a drunken stupor And the wedding night lying on the floor in a drunken stupor He arrived late to that wedding and stumbled up the aisle completely drunk

And then he refused to say any of his vows until his father ordered him to behave himself And they separated quite soon after that Wow I read that he only got married because parliament Said we will pay off your debts, but only if you marry this woman. Yeah, so that's the sole motivation He had he seems like the kind of person who would have racked up a lot of debts, doesn't he? Yeah, and I think what did he did he stare at his mistress who was in the front row throughout the ceremony? Poor woman. Yeah, there was another one in 1736. There was a german princess augusta arrived in london

She was 17 years old and she had to marry the heir to the throne who was frederick who didn't end up becoming king But she was told by her mum. Look, they all speak german there. It's fine because she spoke no english She got there. Nobody spoke any german. Um, she didn't speak any english. Uh, she was absolutely terrified She was ushered down the aisle. She was sobbing. She was clinging to her mum's coattails apparently saying please don't make me do this The groom frederick apparently just shouted the vows in her ear that she had to repeat verbatim And then immediately after that she vomited all down her dress and all over the skirt of her new mother-in-law And that was the start of what turned out to be quite a happy marriage actually Oh, we have to move on uh shortly. Um, if you guys have anything before we do

Oh, I've got one thing. Um, the movie the king's speech that was about george thick. He had a uh stutto It just came out and I did it are you auditioning for the sequel? Um, he uh, so collin furth played him in the movie And in order to do it obviously he taught himself to do a stutter for the movie Then the movie finished and collin furth found himself not being able to get rid of the stutter So then he himself had to be treated No for an artificially manufactured stutter Isn't that great way way

I love that on the dan's wikipedia if if it ever existed you'd look for the citation and at the bottom or just a row of numbers way way way Um, I also I've got a quite nice hat little thing So the the politeness of the british with the hat back in the day Michael bond passed away this year who was the author of paddington bear And paddington bear was largely based on his father and his father apparently was so polite and nice that when he used to go swimming He would wear into the ocean his trunks and also his hat Just in case he passed someone as he was swimming so he could say oh good day to you I'd ship his hat to them. Isn't that lovely? Yeah

Did you know that on a hat etiquette the reason we have cloak rooms today where you put your hat and your coat in a cloak room Is because of hats in the olden days So when everyone was wearing hats up until the early 1900s They took up half the space in restaurants because as we said earlier men had to take off their top hats when they went inside Into a restaurant for instance, but then you didn't want to you know leave it under the table because it couldn't really fit So it would take up a second chair and there was a guy this guy called AJ Liebling At one point said you know our restaurants are 50% occupied by hats who don't eat anything

We should really invent a cloak room to store these and that's lovely if there was a smaller hat table with you know And a hat's menu You're right. Well, they all got to hang out together. Yeah Okay, should we move on to our final fact? Okay It is time for our final fact of the show and that is my fact My fact this week is that the brazilian frog known as the pumpkin toadlet Has a mating call that can be heard by every animal out there except for one other pumpkin toadlets It turns out they're deaf

They do these croaks to get their attention and they keep getting eaten. They're probably going. Why am I exposing myself so much? And it turns out it must be an evolutionary thing where they did used to be able to hear and somewhere along the line They they went deaf the entire species. I think there's subspecies within the pumpkin toadlets so there's a there's two species specifically that are deaf and What they think is is that when they're doing the call the way it moves their neck Another pumpkin toadlet female pumpkin toadlet sees the moves of like the shakes or whatever of the toad and they're like Whoa, that's a that looks like he might be saying something. I have no idea But it looks hot. So I'll go over

and but what what usually would happen in Evolution purposes is that you would lose the call because you would protect yourself from predators But they haven't and it's the first case that we've ever found of an animal that hasn't lost The call when it's redundant and exposes it to predators But it will be getting there presumably We're always surprised when we find animals that you know, haven't evolved into this perfect being but presumably in a few million years It's there. We're just in the shit phase

Yeah, you're right. We're in the learning phase when you're in the shit phase you do often die out you get extinct, don't you? Yeah, that is a risk for the toadlets Apparently they they do little waves as well. Yeah like this Well, like I can understand why the females come a flocking I must admit that is a great podcast material is it? Yeah, yeah What James was doing is he was making a gesture that made it seem like he was trying to like work out somebody's height It's like you have a child and you're going he's about four foot five foot four point five Yeah, what's that like four meters three meters?

Five or six meters, okay Yeah, so um, fortunately for the frog it happens To be the case that and it's like a bright orange color. They're really tiny aren't they they're really tiny the size of your thumbnail almost They're really super small. Yeah, and they're and their call is quite soft as a result But they still can be heard by the predators, but um They are incredibly toxic So if they do get eaten they might end up killing the predator anyway So they're probably just actually just being really cocky

And they're just going hey, I'm here. I'm here. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Nothing? Do you know that there's a type of frog called a cocky frog? No, really? Yeah Um, I it's in I think I can't remember where they're from they're from an island somewhere But they're now on hawaii, which is also an island, but it's a different island where they're from But they're on hawaii and they make a hell of a racket They're really really loud and a load of people in hawaii are really hating this because it keeps awake at night when they're mating Just get loads of horny frogs just making loads loads of noise. Yeah That's like there's uh, there's something called the so I was looking at um other

sounds that animals can make and I was wondering do fish make mating calls Um, and they they make really loud ones So there's a fish called the plain fish midshipman fish, which is in the toad fish family So it's got toad relations and it it hums To attract mate, so it makes this hum which sounds like a guitar amplifier or um, it sounds like a flock of flock of bees flock of bees flock of bees yeah, um and They it turns out that they make so much noise that they live in california

And they're constant complaints to the police for the noise that they make because they're disrupting people's sleep and drowning out People's conversations and they growl and they grunt as well to keep out intruders And they didn't know what it was for a long time So people were calling the police saying someone's keeping me awake all night And it's them and the person who eventually found out about this Weird noise that they make as a researcher called andrew bass um B a double s which is the first case of double nominative determinism

I've ever found As in double it's a fish and it's the bassy noise that the fish make I thought there was a fish species called andrew That makes more sense The andrew fish yeah Did you guys know some frogs call so much and so Versiferously for a mate that once they've got a mate they're too tired to follow through and have sex with the female The female arrives and they say i'm sorry. I can't i'm no good to you now

They lose loads of weight don't they they they can't eat they can't sleep and they're so weak that they've just a floppy mess and it feels like Everyone's had a night like that. I mean that is I've Overdone it. I found a really cool one. There's a frog in taiwan. It's an urban city frog And it does a mating call, but it's worked out how to make their mating call better It goes to storm drains and it uses it as a megaphone So it gets to the top of a storm drain and it literally is just whatever it's your i'm super horny

Honey honey honey And they found that the female frog goes to the edge of the uh the storm drain So it works for them But do the females know that it's not a because it must sound like a massive frog It must sound like a super frog Do you know the biggest frog that's ever lived who's about the size of a beach ball and it at dinosaurs Wow It's not like t-rexes though. No like baby dinosaurs. Yeah

Um, so the common toad the um latin name for that is bufo bufo Uh, and this frog it was known as or is known as bielza bufo Very that's his official name as well. That's not Um, but it was the size of a beach ball and they worked out how strong its um bite was and its bite was about 2200 newtons, which is about the same as a lions bite Wow Do you know how uh porcupines attract each other or how male porcupines attract females? Is it really fun to watch really awesome spikes?

Um, it is actually in a way. Yeah They stand up on their hind legs and they move they shuffle towards the female just with their penis fully erect And that's how they do it It's uh, it's an uncompromisingly direct floating method It's good. There's no question over what he's after we like that. Um Or sometimes and you can see pictures of this They hop they lift one arm their front paw off the ground and they hop on the other one whilst clutching their crotch with the one That's off the ground. They do

Um, and this attracts though the women and if the woman or the female porcupine likes that enough the crotch dance then she'll allow them to have sex with her and Usually if she's not up for sex then a male porcupine can't get in there because she's so spiny And then the way you know that she likes you is she puts her tail up and it covers all of her spines Which means that you will not be impaled She's a very good very good system Um, do you know that some frogs change color to make their life easier when they're in orgies? Really if you've been an orgy your life doesn't doesn't get much easier

Yeah, you've made it you're fine Well, it does if you're a frog you see because there there's a lot of them There's loads and loads of frogs all get together might be a particularly nice puddle or something But these are in some species they all get together and they'll just Shag anything uh male female tennis ball, whatever Um, there are some pictures of tennis balls landing into this orgy of frogs and all the frogs just go for it Really? What what happens to the the match? So that's what happens and but there are some species a lot of these species who do this kind of um group mating

They also change color and no one was really sure why and it seems that the reason they do it is to say I'm a man or I'm a woman, you know keep off me Oh, wow It's like when you go to those parties at uni and you have to wear a traffic light color depending on how available you are Yeah, exactly, but the problem is at the start they're all green Um, have you heard of this thing? So when when frogs have it's called explosive breeding, isn't it? They do this thing called explosive breeding which is instead of mating all year round

They have one session, you know every year and all the mating happens then so some females because the It's a horrible crush of bodies. Some females are crushed to death in these things Unfortunately, it's already unfortunate. Yeah Let me rephrase put the comma in a different place some females crush to death unfortunately but But the male frogs will still mate with them Successfully Wow

Successfully, okay, so so it's all about the the mating happens outside the body because the female Gets produces eggs the male produces sperm and they they meet outside the body So the males sort of go up and squeeze the females. Oh god And they squeeze it's just nature guys, it's just nature It can't be gross if it's just nature No, that's not a defense for anything Yeah, and they squeeze the eggs out of the body and and then mate with them amazing. Yeah, it is messed up. Sorry So seahorse

Don't boo the frogs. It's their instincts. I don't think the frogs are the ones being booed He's pointing at me So seahorses have the best mating rituals the best way of attracting each other which people might have seen But it's so great So they change color as well to attract mates and then when they've got something they think they fancy They swim for hours and hours together and they get their tails intertwined and they go snout to snout and they spin around And they do this incredible dance But another thing they do is when they're in the flirting period they meet up every morning

And they hang out together for a couple of hours and then they part ways again. They they date each other I know it's so sweet and so they do this sort of pre dawn dance where they meet up They do that and then once they're ready on like the fourth or fifth date or whenever you think is appropriate Then they do the full eight hour courtship dance that ends in pregnancy and that's you see and this is how you tell a story about animal mating Yeah, there's no booing going on there Does does the seahorse then die and then they these just punches it in the head until the The eggs come out is yep, is that the that's the romantic climax

Sorry I didn't think it was interesting And I realized it's just horrible David Attenborough doesn't get this shit does he Necro with David Attenborough He picks his targets carefully We need to wrap up shortly We need to get in the van and leave this town

Thank you for listening to the last ever episode Are you guys got anything before we do I can give you some names of frogs Great. I read a list of all the names of all the frogs Andrew Billy Bobby Well, Andrew's a fish as we've established Um, so there is the demonic poison frog. They all have amazing names the hole in the head frog The brilliant thigh to poison frog And the popplock The pop the popplock

Popplock you have to say it like that. That's appropriate because someone had a frog in their fruit as they named that animal All right, let's wrap up guys. Okay, that's it. That is all of our facts Thank you so much for listening to us If you'd like to get in contact with any of us about the things that we've said over the course of this podcast So we can be found on our twitter accounts. I'm on at Shriverland Andy. Uh, please just don't contact him this week I James at James Harkin at Shazinsky. You can email podcast at qi.com. Yep, or you can go to his judge You want to say your day? Don't you?

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Apparently, uh, and that is because it's antibacterial underwear. I believe and Hannah who is here tonight Has worn this underwear for three months straight. Wow That's really exciting. Um, cool. Okay. Well, yeah, we'll give you a book after the show guys Thank you so much for being here tonight. We hope you had fun. We'll be back again next week with another episode. See you then. Goodbye You