2. Little Fish: Yum Yum, Plum Plum
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00:30Hi everyone. Welcome to the second ever episode of Little Fish. Little Fish is a show where we list your facts, things that you've sent in to the podcast at QI.com inbox. Andy has sifted through them and he has found the verysweetest plums sent them over to the rest of us and we're going to go through them today and chatabout them. Are they true? Are they not true? Do we know more about the subject? Have we never heardof any of these words before in our life? We will see as we move on. So who is going to do the firstfight? It can't be me because I did the intro. It has to be one of you two. Oh, go on. I'llthrow a plum your way then. Jump in. Let's do it. See how sweet you find it. Yum, yum, plum, plum.Mind that actuallySorry
01:31One of these daysOne of these catchphrasesWill pay our handyAnd everyone will be sayingYum yum yum plumb plumIt'll be the new 6-7You'll see JamesWhen I'm opening nightclubs around the country
01:45shouting yum yum plum plumRightThis is from the unimprovably namedNathan Gallimore StrongI think friend of this parishI think we may have heard from him beforeOh yeahBut he says, the windiest place in the UK is the butt of Lewis.
02:03That's it.Thanks, Nathan.There you go.And it's basically, it's on the Isle of Lewis, Lewis and Harris, Harris and Lewis.And the butt is on a very, very northern tip of Lewis.And during his trip, he also wrote his first finicular railway.So congratulations, Nathan.Oh, very good.
02:19It's a little bit contentious, this fact.I did do some follow up.I always thought it was further north.So is it Cape Rath or something?that's in the far north of ScotlandI always thought that was the windiest placeWell I think on averageShetland is windier
02:34Oh yeahSo the butt of Lewis has been namedBy the Guinness Book of RecordsA few years agoSo they have their methodologyI still consider Shetland to be part of DenmarkOhBecause you yeah
02:46You have wellControversial political opinionAnd if you're listening DanesIs it Denmark or no wayThere was one of themWhere we got it as maybe a dowry or somethingfrom some Scandinavian countrybut the rules were
03:02that they were allowed to buy it backat any stagelike when we first got out of Shetland or OrkneyThey said yeahYou can have itBut as soon as we can get12 marks togetherWe're gonna buy it back
03:14So and I think it's still trueThat in theoryThey could buy it back if they wantReally?To know thatOkayWell so if you're listeningVikings
03:22Get the money togetherHow windyHow windy is this?It's really windyThe thing isHow do you measure how windy something isIs it average speed over the year?Maybe for me now
03:36Because I live by seasideI could judge itIf I saw where MargateLives on a listThen I think I could then judge itBy personal experienceYeah yeahBecause it's quite windy where you are
03:46Oh it's wildThe wind and Margate is insaneAnd it comes out of nowhereLike we have this amazingYou can't see it comingWe were sitting one timeIn Margate there's these thingswhich are called the steps
04:00that go on to the beachAnd you often sitLots of beaches out there downIncredibleThese things called the stepsIf you've ever been to RomeThey have a Margate tributeWhich is called the Spanish steps
04:10Do they?Oh well there you go seeYeahIt's coming up MargateSo we were sitting on what felt like a normal dayAnd we were with our neighboursThese eagles get comingAnd eating our fish and chips
04:21And Chloe did this thingWhere she picked upthe final few chips and she threw them out to the ocean and just at that moment this giantgust of wind came blew the chips to the left right onto a couple that were kissing on the stepsand about 12 seagulls just darted into them she had to run after them going I'm so sorry I'm sosorry and they were literally being attacked by these gulls um is that a true story yeah yeah yeah yeahit's one my favorite moments I have in fact I have a photo well that might Dan that sounds very windyYeah, so that's how I'd be able to tell
04:54But the strongest gust everRecorded in the UKWas at Cairngorm Summit in 1986OkayWhich is a mountain in the highlandsIn Scotland, yeahWhich was 173 miles an hourI think that's the strongest any gusts
05:09Any individual gusts has been recordedBut I think in general it'sIt's normally ShetlandThat is the windiest on averageI believeI know, I knowYou'd be lifted off into the airWhen you'd be lifted off in the air
05:21Oh yeahDon't wear your big coat.Thank you, Nathan.Yeah, great facts.Okay, here's a fact from Josh Glendening, who says,A soldier who spent too long on the toilet because of an upset stomach caused the start of World War II.So do we know about this incident?No.
05:42Okay, this was called the Marco Polo Bridge incident.It was 1937, often considered to be the start of the second Sino-Japanese War,which then evolved into World War II.And so the story goes that in the 1930s, Japan had invaded and put it in a puppet governmentand named it Manchuria.Yeah, so in July 1937, there was a Japanese private, Shumara Kikojuro, who was stationednear the bridge, and he went missing.So a few soldiers accused the Chinese military of having taken him and were holding him hostage.
06:16And so they started climbing over the walls to,find him. They started asking questions and getting a bit of an aggressive response. And it justkind of built up tensions. Meanwhile, this soldier comes back after a while saying, sorry, my stomachwas gone. I had to dip into the forest and just relieve myself. And in that time, enough of afight started that it went into a full-blown war. War. Just feel like we've missed one or twosteps here. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's... Probably some political things happening. There were a fewpolitical things. Also, there's another theory that he was visiting a brothel that he hadn't gone tothe toilet. And a lot of historians, but this has been poo-poohed by a lot of historians.
07:00Poo-pood. Very good. Very good.Is the idea that this was staged, so he was told to go away so that they could pretend he wasmissing so that they could find an excuse to go in. But so, yeah.I've heard this story before, and I think it rings relatively true. The basics are true,really i read um a couple of years ago i read sir anthony beaver's history of the second world waroh did he mention it he says this is the exclusive course does he oh yeah yeah it saysevery everything else would have been absolutely fine and um 18 chapters on this guy's dodgy tummythat's right just a little bit and then there was a skirmish does he go into the sino japanese or
07:40does he start 1939 oh no he goes into extraordinary detail about the about the wholethe whole global nature of it.Yeah, yeah.It starts with a soldier, actually.Page 1 is about this soldier who,I think he was from Korea?Or he gets drafted into the Japanese army when they invade.And then Japan locks horns with China,
08:00and then he's taken prisoner after some fight by the Russians.And then he ends up serving in three or four different armies,always being pressed into a different army over the course of the war.It's an absolute nightmare scenario for him.And he's used as an example of how this war affected absolutely everyone in the world.Yeah, yeah.but his account is sort of grimly funnyand then he was taken prisoner by the Russians
08:19and it just goes on and on and on like thatlike the forest gump of warI suppose soand this guy your private Dan was taking a forest dumpthat's why you get the big bucks handyYum yum plum plumOkay my first fact comes fromIan Jones and he says
08:42I'm a pediatric surgeonThat's not his factHis fact is about theFanonsteelincisionYou gave me a load of GermanYou gave me some German ones last week as wellAnd yeah
08:54And German is not my firstSecond, thirdOr indeed a hundred and ninety third languageBut this incision is one that this person didIt's basicallyIt's the most common way of doing a caesarianBut you use it for some other surgery down thereBut it's in the shape of a pan handle
09:12and it's on the bikini lineand it gives you good access to the pelvisand stuff like that.Now, the incision is calledFanenstiel, because Fanenstiel in Germanmeans panhandle, okay?But the surgeon who first described itwas called Herman
09:32Johannes Fanenstiel.So, he invented it.It has the same name as him,but according to him,it's named after.the fact that it's the shape of a panhandle.Now, Ian Jones's personal theory,which I agree,
09:48is that he deliberately drew the incisionin the shape of a panhandleso that he could name it after himself.People do do this sometimes, don't it?Wasn't there an element of the periodic gallium?Gallium, and it was named after a guy who's...So he said that he named it after France.Yes, Gaul.
10:08But actually, I think he was called Lecoq.That's it.Or something similar.which is chicken and Gallus Gallus is the Latin for chicken.That's it.That's it.So, yeah, like, people do do it.And to be honest, it's such a coincidence.
10:24I've never seen the word fan and steel before.I mean, what if actually the surgery will be much better and easier to conductif it was a completely different shape that doesn't look like a pound handle?Yes.It could be that, you know, in all these years, people who are having cesareans are having the wrong shape just because of his.Well, we should look at it.into that. That's insane. That's really good fact. That's very good. And great theory.I can give you more on surgeons. Yeah. Yeah, go on. There's a more.
10:52Jean Casimir Felizquillon was born in Reunion. He came up with a new way of removingbladder stones through the peridium. But he's more famous for being the probable inspiration for thissong Frera Jacqueser. No way. Wow. My little one sings that non-stop at the moment.Do they know that it's about removingBladestones through the Peronium?No, but we never get to the third verse of the song.So what are the lines you get?Frerezac, a Ferre de jacca, d'orme vu, dolevoo.
11:21Sonny le matina, sonny le matina, ding, dang, dong.Ding, dang, donk.So is that, we've had a patient come in,complaining of severe...It's the sound of the bladder stones falling into the pan.It's the ding-dang-dong.Good, good.Is the perineum the bit in between
11:41the anus and the genital and the other genital opening what's the grundle that might just be you dadi thought that was another term for that i've never come across that have you not so the bandthat does our theme tune and pre-yesh who wrote our song and sings the song he was originally in aband called grundle and i'm pretty sure it was to wow there's ozies slang no no no no all right mrShriver, let's get you up on the chair and just have a quick look at the grundle, sir.Oh, you've got a bad case of the fair of shock as there, mate.Dan, let's have another fact.Okay, here's a, here's not so much a fact, but a great pub quiz question.
12:23All right, so this is from John Dunn.He says, my favorite pub...The metaphysical poet.He said, my favorite pub quiz question is, and here's a question now, and I'm going to ask it to you two,What are furthest north, south, east, and west states of the United States?Come on, mate.Yeah, you're, okay.I think I was born yesterday.
12:46All right, so let's start, let's start with South.What's the, what's the Southerst?Southest.Southest.I'm going to say, um, Dakota.North Dakota.North Dakota.It's a trick question.
13:03It's a trick question.Okay.Well, for me.it has to be North Carolina.Okay.No, it must be Hawaii.It is Hawaii.Oh, very good.
13:13Correct.What is the north-thest state?I think that has to be South Dakota, doesn't it?Okay, playing seriously for a second.I'll say Alaska.Correct.Okay.It is Alaska.
13:29It is.That is correct.Okay.So, one each.Yep.Westest.Westest.I would say Alaska, Alaska.
13:39Correct. It is Alaska.Oh.Yeah.Interestingly, it's got North and West.Yeah, so, okay, that's 2-1, but you probably might have said the same.I would, and also I'm going to get the next one, right.Okay, so I'll give this one to Andy.Most east-est.
13:59I feel like it's going to be a trick, but I'll say...West Virginia.West Virginia.No, I'll say one of those ones over on the far right handsides.I'll say Rhode Island.Rhode Island.Incorrect.I'm going to say it's Alaska again.
14:16Correct.Why?Because the Aleutian Islands go over the international date line.Oh, for heaven's sake.Yeah. Is that amazing?South is the only one, Hawaii, that is not claimed by Alaska.So north, east, west are all Alaska.What?
14:29Yeah.Okay, here's one.Kathy Oliver from Ontario, which is at least in the same hemisphereas most of Alaska.She said, my husband and I love your podcast, and it keeps us entertained on drives to myvarious treatments over the last two years, which leaves me to a fact idea for you.When you get a stem cell transplant, you will stink of creamed corn for a couple of days.Wow.
14:56Okay.So the stem cells are frozen using a substance called dimethyl sulfoxide, DMSO.And it stops them from getting damaged, but it has this particular.culeate odour that smells to most people like creamed corn.DMSO actually is very pungent, but to such an extent that you can taste it by touching it.So if I had a petri dish of DMSO now and you put your finger in it, you'd be able to taste it.Wow.And that's because it directly triggers the nerves that normally react to taste.
15:29That's insane.Yeah.That's absolutely insane.How many different foods does that work with?This is not a food.Okay.This is a chemical, and I don't know of any food stuff.I guess garlic could do it like that, maybe,
15:41because that seems to go through your skin, but that's just, I guess.There's a theory about that.I remember you're walking around with an onion in your sock to see if you could taste it.That's QI research years and years and years ago.I've got two pictures for you off the back of this.Oh, yeah.So number one, there should be a Google for smells.That should just be a Google for smells.
15:58What do you mean?What do you search?As in what do you type?You're not typing.You're not typing with you, that is.so what are you put in that you're trying to find like i haven't worked out all the detailsis it like shazam instead of a phone you hold a giant nose in the area where you are and it goeshmm baked crumpets that's exactly what it is very nice okay brilliant that's good right we've solved
16:24that one i feel like i came up with that idea really like we were all in the room three-way splitreally great great work everyone see for the first set of quarterly results okay so secondidea of the back of that the touch restaurant right you don't eat anything but you just go in andyou put your fingers through holes in the table into various different foods that you can thentaste yeah right okay but the only thing on the menu is dmso yeah so far so far maybe somegarlic but you've got to wear it for a month yeah but I think that will be good if we can findenough foods that you can taste through your fingertips yeah be awesome I got to say I'm in on theShazam knows. Andy, I'll let you develop this a bit more before committing. I'm sharing it with
17:08you guys three ways, no matter what, including the debts. Okay. I just want to say to everyonelistening to this, I'm happy to share my Shazam knows with everyone who's listening to this.We can all have 0.0.01%. That's really generous. But one of you listening will have to make it.Who's next? Do you want to do another one, Andy or Dan do you want to jump him?Yeah, I've got one here. So this is from Edward Malloy, who says this is their favorite fact.Norwich is the only city in history to be excommunicated.In 1274, after a riot in the cathedral, Pope Gregory X communicated the entire city until they repented and repaired the damage done to church property.Clearly, it has had a lasting effect as Norwich is now the last.
18:02least religious city in England per the 2011 census.Is that right?Kind of right.I looked into it.It's almost right.I didn't fully get an answer to the excommunication, but Norwich is very much not a religiouscity anymore.It's interesting because there's a saying about Norwich, which is that it has a church
18:24for every week of the year and a pub for every day.So a lot of churches.That must be Norfolk, right?There's no way there's 352 churches in.Norwich alone. Maybe there is. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I take that back.It's just a saying. I don't think there's exactly 365 pubs either. But it's the, it is, it's the LA ofNorfolk, I would say, Norwich. Right. You know what I mean? It's the glist. It's the mega city ofNorfolk, isn't it? Of Norfolk? Oh yeah. There's Kings Lynn, of course. Oh yeah. Of course.
18:53There's Kings Lynn. That's fair. That's fair. There's Kings Lynn. Well, a census was done in2021 and it showed that those who said that they don't have any religion, don't believe in anyreligion, was 53.5%. So it's 76,973 people and that's a jump from a decade ago when it was 42.5and that's 56,000 people. So it's the second least religious city in the UK. Oh, so there'stown or city. Yeah. Isn't it somewhere called Satan, Satan, Satan,or something. That's the least religious.That's not a city, though.No, it's the city. It's a parish, isn't it?
19:34No, do you know what I mean?I think it's got an amusingly apt name,the least religious place in the UK, but I can't remember what the name is.I would have, without knowing that little clue,I would have said most likely it would be somewhere like Brighton or Bristol,like somewhere where lots of cool young people live.So, yeah, sort of strongly secular.Do you want to have another guess, Andy?
19:54James has it right, but do you want to have another guess?No, I'm going to stick with Satan foot, I think.Okay.Brighton and Hove.Wow.Yeah, had 55.2% of people declaring no religion.Gosh.Yeah.
20:08Alster Crowley had his funeral there.In Brighton?Yeah, it might have something to do with that.Was he from there?No, but I think he passed away in Hastings,and I think his body ended up in Brighton for some reason.He was cremated there.Not so far, is it?
20:22No, it's on the coast.Very windy.Is it?I don't want to release those ashes.a couple making out.Here's one from me.I already have a bone to pickwith Andrew Hunter Murray.
20:33It's episode two.And I already have a bone to pickbecause she sent us these facts.And, listener, think back toaudience facts one.When I said,here's one from Wayne Hoyt.Or is it Holt?
20:46Because it looks like it should be Holt.Well, this week I have onefrom Wayne Holt, H-O-L-T.I assume it's the same personand I assume one of them is a misspelling.I've got to check.Although I did have a eyesight check yesterdayand I need reading glasses.
21:06So maybe you need to check.Can you check?Is that a Hoyt and a halt?Yeah, it's a hoit and a halt.Right.Yeah, definitely.Wayne does write in a few times.He writes in frequently.
21:16We have a few frequent flies in the fishing box.Does he change his surname every time he writes it?I've got to check.You've got to work on your pseudonyms, Wayne.What's the fact, James?Well, actually, the fact is to do with spelling.Oh, no.Oh, no.
21:34The fact is that in concert, the band Devosometimes performed as their own opening actpretending to be a Christian soft rock band called Dove,the band of Love, which is an anagram of Devo.Very nice.That's really good.I'm really sorry, James.They're both from Wayne Hoyt.
21:54Wayne Holt doesn't exist.That's not a real person. I've mistyped his name.There will be a Wayne Holt out there.If you're listening, Wayne, how's Wayne going to solve this situation?Wayne's only going to confuse matters.Yeah, if you happen to be listening to Fish and you're called Wayne Holt, write in,let us know you exist.Yeah.
22:12Simple.Shall I do one?Yeah.This is from Jessica Rhingaison from Texas, and she writes that Napoleon and Lord Wellingtonare kind of related, and it's America's,fault. Okay. This is, admittedly, quite tenuous. But the story is, is that Napoleon had a youngerbrother called Jerome, who visited the US when he was in his late teens, and he eloped with a ladycalled Elizabeth Patterson. Then Napoleon wanted Jerome to come back and marry a European princess,
22:45because it was part of his plan to consolidate power while he was conquesting territories, right?So he brought Jerome back, Elizabeth stays, but then Elizabeth hops on a boat, and Napoleonbans it from landing. So she has no choice but to go and port in London. So that's where shelands. Jerome remarries and basically they never see each other again. Wow. Now the tenuous linkthat we've been given here from Jessica is that while she was in London, she was living with a ladycalled Marianne. Marianne was her sister-in-law. Marianne's husband dies and she remarries RichardWellesley, who's the elder brother of Arthur Wellesley who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Good Lord.Yeah.
23:26Small world, isn't it?I'm starting to think it's a slightly bigger world than I was imagining.Okay, I mean, I was lost so long ago.Yeah, it's just about clung on until the end.I tell you what, though, I did recently visit the room where Wellington died.Did you?Yeah.I went down to Walmer Castle in Kent.
23:46Oh, it's a good day out.It's really good.It's a proper castle.It's 400 years old.It's not one of these sort of plastic castles that you get these days.You know, sort of like fake castles, which is just a stay.stately home with a few turrets. That's Disneyland. You're talking about Disneyland. It's not Disneyland. It'sproper. And they had, um, there's a thing called being the warden of the sink ports. It looks like
24:05it sank, French or five, but it's not. It's warden of the sink ports. That's how it's said,five, right? There were five parts. It does mean five. And it's spelled like the French of five,but it is, I swear to God, they pronounce it warden of the sink ports. Okay. I swear.Like, I went in and I said to the lady, nice to be visiting the sank ports. She said,sync ports. Anyway, she probably said that a hundred times a day for 20 years. Um, you don't want to becalling your port sink anywayyou're absolutely rightit's a crazy choice but there is this
24:30honorary position called warden of the sink portsand Wellington was thatso was the Queen Mumthe old Queen Mum and actuallywhen I visited they had a Queen Mum lookalike therefor the day did they? Really? Yeah alongwith a kind of work must be drying upa bit well I
24:46made a sort of casual joke about ginand she looked so disapprovingbecause you know the Queen MumShe loved her gin she liked to drinkMy God, Andy, this was a tough day for you.First of all, you walk in a mispronounced sink pots,and then you make a perfectly harmless joke about ginto the Queen Mother look alike.
25:04And then I find out Wellington's dead.It was awful.It was terrible, but no, it's a really evocative roombecause they've got this tiny bed, it's this camp bed,it's a military camp bed that is still there from the day he died.And he must have died in about, what, 1850.But he took this bed with him wherever he went.When he went up to London to be the Prime Minister,
25:24that military camp bed went with him.How interesting.He slept in that bed in Downing Street,and then when he became warden of the sinkports,he brought the bed back to Warmer Castle,and that's the bed where he died.I went to the place when Napoleon surrendered,which is in France somewhere.
25:39Is it Ildre or somewhere?I can't remember.Or I'll de France, Ildeeret, something like that.And I might be misremembering this,but I seem to remember that he had quite a non-ornate bed as well.Yeah, I remember being there and thinking, oh, wow, for a, you know, someone who's so important in history, what a shit bed.These military dies.Yeah, I think it's the military, like they're used to the campaigning lifestyle, you know.
26:04I saw the bed that Abraham Lincoln died in.Really?Yeah, it's when we were, it's when we were in D.C.We had a bit of time off, and because he was shot in the Ford Theater, but then he was taken to a house, not too far away.I just need a little nap.I'm going, that's all right.No, they brought him to a house. And so he died in a bed that was, his legs were hangingoff the edge, basically. He was tall, he was super tall and the bed was quite small. And you can visit
26:33his bed. You can visit this, yeah. Okay, hear me out. Okay. Bed company. And we sell replica bedsof like the great beds of history. Oh. We're going to sell, we're going to clean up on the financebros who want to think that they're living like Napoleon or Wellington or Lincoln. I mean,those are three perfect examples of like beds of the greats, right?Yes.Like you two can conquer Europe with our £9,000 bed.Yeah.Yeah.
26:59And we'll just sell them a military camp bed.What do you think?I love it.Okay.All right.Well, if you're listening to this, you can have 0.0.0.1%.Okay.So I think that's enough facts for the day that we've been sent in, but we still have one more
27:15thing to do, and that is to name some custodians.of The Archive, so anyone who is in our top tier on Patreon becomes a custodian of a factfrom No Such Things of Fish. It's very exciting. I'm a custodian myself, if you rememberlistening back to episode one of this Little Fish. But there will be more custodians namedtoday. We will tell you your name, which you might already know, and then we'll tell youthe fact that you're the custodian of. So, Andrew, who is going to be our first non-fishmember who is a custodian of a fishfact. I just want to say that was incredibly slick
27:52Jones. And the concept of the shout-out isclearly very well embedded in your head.First up today for a shout-outis Rachel Not.And her fact isthe first ever sandwich that we know aboutcontained wine.Congratulations, Rachel. That is now
28:08your fact forever. Bilalthe elder.Is that who it was? Hillel, Bilal, yeah, something.And it wasmore of a wrap. It was more of a wrap.It was more of a rap.It had like currants in or something, right?It sounds delicious.
28:23I think we said this at the time.11 years ago when we covered it on the show.Anyway, yeah, Rachel, that's your fact.And we went into sandwiches in the Earl of Sandwich,who we just covered again a week or two ago in recording.Yes, we did, of course.Well, we're on a big wheel, aren't we?We are.
28:37Dan, have you got one?Yeah, this is a fact that is now going to belong to Silas Gill.And that is, in 2003, three people in Mexico diedof acne.Oh.If you put a gun to my head and said,you've got a thousand guessesas to the Christian name
28:55of the second ever personto become a friend of the podcast.Silas would have not been one of my thousand guesses.No.It's just a terrific name.Because I think are these in orderof the people who signed up?So literally,
29:07I think Rachel and Silashad to have had their handhovering over the Patreon buttonas the time struck midnight.Yeah.Wow.And we should say Silasis an especially fish-friendly
29:18name. Silas Marner. Byfriend of the podcast. SamuelTaylor Coleridge. George Elliott. That's right.Okay, so the thirdcustodian this week, this is Dan Schreiberfact, and the fact is thatamongst the other scientists calledEinstein, there are M.E. Einstein,
29:39who came up with a formula for predicting the compositionof a pork carcass, andRosemary Einstein, who co-investigatedthe use of cannabis, alcohol and tobacco on 300 young persons at her university.Could have done with an edit, Dan?We're going to need a bigger certificate.But drum roll, that fact now is under the custodianship of Helen Cosgrove Davis.Congratulations, Helen.
30:06Nice. That was a great episode.That was a fact I took from a Mark Abrams book of the Ig Nobel Prizes, who James and Iare going to be seeing tomorrow.He's in London.We're on a big wheel.Along with Case Mollica, who did that.the paper about the first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.Yep. And who raised awareness for pubic lice because they might be going extinct.
30:25It's going to be a spicy lunch tomorrow.Oh, as long as he's not cooking, I don't really mind.Oh, congratulations, Helen. That's the longest fact that's become custodian so far.Until the next done fact.Shall I round us off with one more?Yeah, go on there.All right. This is a fact that is now under the stewardship of Darcy.Mr. Darcy.
30:49We can only assume, Fitzwilliam, if you're listening, congratulations.And it's one of my facts is that the first contact lenses cost as much as a car.Yes, you went to the museum, didn't you, to see.Yeah.The British Optical Association Museum.Those were the days when we used to do proper research.Episode two, quickly ended that.Yeah.
31:10Although, we're on a big wheel.I went back there recently for a party.Yeah.For a party?Yeah.They were finishing their refurbishment of the.the museum. It's really good. It's in thebasement of the headquarters of the British Optical Association
31:21and they invited some celebs along and they alsoknow so they invited me.Who are the other big celebs who are at the party?I can't name names. I'm sorry.It's very much an eyes wide shut situation.Everyone was in masks. Ironically considering theiroptometrists. Brilliant.Does everyone wear masks and eyes wide chut?
31:43They do. Okay, good. In certain scenes, notthe whole way through. That was very much a reach.of a reference for me.You know, when you try and do a reference to something.You mean like when you say Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote...Silas Marna?Silas Marna.Yep, exactly, exactly.
31:57Because the thing is normally in a podcast,I would say that and then I'd cut it outbecause I knew I got it wrong because I'd check it later.But I've referenced it twice now,so it's going to have to stay in.You've really shot yourself in the foot.Okay, well, they are the next four custodians of factsin the No Such Things of Fish Archive.
32:14Read the names again, Andy?It's Rachel Nott.It's Silas Gill.Helen Colesgrove Davis and Darcy.Four absolute legends, the first four people to sign upfor our friend of the podcast tier on Patreon.And you too can get your name mentioned on this showif you sign up to that tier.
32:29But for now, it is time for us to say goodbye.So bye, Dan.It's goodbye from me.And it's goodbye from him.Bye.Bye.Thank you.
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