No Such Thing As A Fish - Little Fish: Moss Moss Mossmoss Moss
Episode Date: August 2, 2026Anna, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts including kitchens, cocktails and a chap named Cassell. Anna works out why she lost to James at archery. And we name eight more Friend of the Podcast custodian...s. Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes.Join Club Fish for ad-free episodes and exclusive bonus content at apple.co/nosuchthingasafish or nosuchthingasafish.com/patreonEdited by James HarkinProduced by Leying LeeTeam includes Tara Dorrell, Joe Mayo and Ethan Ruparelia
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Hello everybody.
Welcome to another episode of Little Fishe, the podcast.
Yeah, I know, I'm changing the vowels.
The podcast spin-off show where we read out some of the best facts that you guys have sent us,
which are almost all fantastic.
My name is Anna Tosinski, and I'm here with my esteemed colleagues, James Harkin,
and Andrew Hunter Murray.
Hi, guys.
Hi, Anna.
I've got a fact here from Danika Edmondson, who says,
the man who made the first drink for the first men on the moon
was taught to make cocktails by the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
Four.
A lot to unpack.
The man who made cocktails for the first men on the moon?
The first cocktails for the first men on the moon.
I didn't know the first the men on the moon had cocktails.
That feels like a luxury.
Well, it was when they came back.
It was the first thing when they came back apparently.
Was it?
Is that what the moment?
In the 60s, you wouldn't put it past them to say,
well, we're going to need a functioning cocktail bar on a little 11.
We, you know, like,
they guys need to relax.
They certainly need someone to smoke.
There's no point to having a disco ball
if we're not going to have the cocktails as well.
So this was made by a barman from the Savoy called Joe Gilmore,
and he would make lots of cocktails for different people.
So he made the Churchill cocktail for Winston Churchill, for instance.
So he created the moonwalk, which was Gramanier,
grapefruit juice, a bit of rose water and champagne.
And then sent it to America.
and then when the guys landed, it was the first thing they drank.
Okay?
So that's quite a cool connection.
But Joe went to work in a bar in London before he got to the Savoy,
and someone turned up and ordered a dry martini.
He didn't know what to do.
He did his best, but didn't make a very good dry martini.
And so the lady who ordered it came around and taught him how to make a dry martini.
And he was so inspired by that day,
he decided to go on and become a great bartender,
one of the best in history.
Wow.
And the woman who showed him what to do was Amy Johnson.
Love it.
The famous aviatrics.
Yes.
And so, yeah, isn't that a great connection that Danica's...
That's unbelievable.
And Danica said, I've always found this story amazing,
but I might be a bit biased as he is my grandfather.
Yes.
Oh, you've buried the lead.
Bring it home.
Well, I couldn't put the lead at the top, could I?
So this is the fact about someone's famous grandfather.
Sounds nepotist.
that's a really good fact. And do we know
if Amy was also inspired by that moment
to become a famous avatrix?
Did she think? She already was.
She was. This was in the 40s, I think. So she
will have already, it'll be in a while since she did her.
She would have not had long to live.
Yeah. Because I, the other weekend
cycled past her memorial. Did you?
In Herne Bay, I think.
Oh, is it? Yeah. And what's it say?
Like, here died, Amy Johnson
from choking on a martini.
And olive.
Yeah.
She flew her plane
I think she crashed into the sea
Around there just off there
I sometimes mix her up with Amelia Reha
Who was maybe eaten by crabs
But Amy Johnson was not eaten by crabs
No
Nor was Amelia Earhart really
But closer to being true
I don't think we know exactly
What happened to Amelia Earhart
Do we?
I thought she was married to Elvis somewhere
Oh yeah
Sorry
They both moved to Panama
Alright here's a fact
This is from Dan Perry
Dan writes
I'm a filmmaker
And I was recently inspired
by a supercut that came up in my feed
of every time the Coronation Street cast
said London in a shocked way
you might have seen this it's a really good one
I've not seen that but I can imagine it
Ken's gone down to London for the weekend
London
except they're not from the West Country
because it's coronation it's set up north
London yeah where is Corey set
Manchester Manchester
okay and so there's the supercut of all the times
and it's really funny that they say it
because it's like yeah exactly like that
it got me wondering what other
the phrases in media are used repeatedly and of course there's I have a bad feeling about
this oh yeah so using a clip database of film TV and adverts I searched for the
phrase from the first time that it said there's a Star Wars film where it props
up very famously and it came back with a lot of results assuming each clip is around
three seconds and including paraphrasing a supercut of this would last 2,077,464
seconds or 24 days oh no I got that feeling about it.
Are you going to play it now?
I'm going to play something else Dan has sent in.
A different supercut.
Dan says that supercut might be a tad more work than I'm prepared to do.
So instead, treat yourself to a supercut I've made of every time Andy says Moss over the past five years.
Oh.
Oh, good.
Are you ready?
So ready.
Moss.
Moss.
Moss.
Moss.
Moss.
Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss.
is moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss, moss. There's nothing moss can't do.
So good. I like how sometimes you can hear us groaning a little bit in the background.
Yeah, anyway, thank you, Dan.
Yeah, thanks, Dan.
Maybe spend your time differently next time.
I've got one here from Robert Taylor
and this is about someone
called Hippoly Mege Mouriers
Ring any bells guys?
No.
He invented Margarine
But oh I did
I have heard of them
You will have heard of them
Yeah in a competition
Yes he won lots of awards
He won an award from Napoleon the third
Well done
Not the most famous Napoleon
But still
But before he was famous
Second most famous though
Second most famous yeah
Before he was famous for the invention of Marjorine
He was famous for creating a method to make 14% more bread from the same amount of raw materials.
That's clever.
And Robert Taylor's, yeah.
That seems, I mean, there's a certain thing called the laws of thermodynamics that that seems to.
I'm going to come in with bubbles.
Oh, yeah.
Like, if you're only measuring the outer bread volume.
Or did he invent the bagel?
You can't be only meant what you mean.
So if I've, if I've scooped out all the inside of a loaf of bread like I used to do on the way back from the shops as a kid,
that's still the same amount of bread that I'm claiming.
Okay, some questions, Your Honor.
But I was a demented little child.
I've got another question.
Yeah.
Did he invent the larger loaf of bread in order to sell more bartering?
Because that would make perfect sense.
That's so good.
They're looking at a big graph of sales.
Sales are down.
What can we do?
Guys, I've got an idea.
Big bread.
Literally.
he invented a better milling process for grains apparently
which does make sort of sense right
so I think Robert Taylor is slightly hazy on the details
but he said it's possible he basically invented whole grain bread
but don't quote me on that
but next time you have toast and margarine
you can double toast to Hippolyte
I've got a fact here from Amanda from Arkansas
and Amanda tells us that North Dakota and South Dakota
were established as states on the same
Day, which is November the 2nd, 1889, but because there was such a heated rivalry between
the states, Benjamin Harrison shuffled the paperwork so that no one knew which he signed first.
Therefore, there is no record of which was signed first, and North Dakota and South Dakota are
number 39 and 40, but it's not that one is 39 and one is 40.
I didn't know the states were numbered.
They're quite often, like, we're the number one state.
We were the 49th state.
tone of it. They do care about that quite a lot. How hilarious. But in actual fact, usually
North Dakota is called the 39th state because of alphabetical order, usually. Oh, yeah, you can't win.
You can't beat that. But yeah, I thought, you know what, to me, it sounded like a big old myth that.
Do you not think? Shuffling the papers. Sounds made up, doesn't it? But it does seem like there were
contemporary reports that they would definitely sign with no one knowing which was first, but whether
he shuffled them or whether someone else just gave them to him and he signed them without looking
at them. We're not really sure. But basically, their north and south just didn't like each other.
It's weird to have a big rivalry before you even exist. You're there. Your boy is ready to hate each other.
Because it was the Dakota, it was like the Dakota Territory, right? Yeah. It was one area, but they decided
to call it North and South Dakota because the South thought that the North was just run by wild folks,
cattle ranchers, fur traders.
They just thought that these people are not good enough
so we don't want to be in the same state as them.
Wow.
Should have made it one state and then they all would have had to be friends.
That's how it works.
That's how statehood works.
Do you want another?
Yeah.
This one comes in from Frederick Howard
and it's about a man, a Swedish man
called Peter Gunnarasson.
Okay.
Who emigrated from Gothenburg, where we've been.
Yes.
In the year 1639
We weren't there then
And he went to the USA
And he named himself
He gave himself a new name
After a hill in Gothenburg
Where he's the old country, right
And the hill was called Ramberget
And this guy became Peter Gunnarison
Rambo
Okay
He had also brought some apple seeds with him
This is the most
Grandpa Simpson way I could tell this story
I'm so sorry
This guy Peter Gunnison
He named the apple variant after himself
Rambo. So Rambo was an apple, right? Right. And then, years and years later, what's three
centuries later, the author David Morel, was looking for a strong name for a protagonist for his
novel, First Blood, and he was given a Rambo apple by his wife, and he'd like the sound of the
name. Imagine if he got given a pink lady. That would have been a very different film. Or a
Gerani Smith. Stallone could have carried it off. Um, yeah. So it's amazing. I know. That's where
Rambo comes from. It comes from this guy and it comes from this apple and it comes from this hill.
It doesn't come from Arthur Rambo. The poet. The poet. Famously played by Leonardo DiCaprio in one of his early roles.
Oh, okay. Get you. I actually know his entire Urvra from when I was obsessed with him. Yeah, if you ever want to know any of it.
It is very interesting your pop culture references, which are sparse and few. Thank you. But they include Leonardo DiCaprio friends and Mambo number five.
It's pretty much it.
I don't think you need anything else to you.
It's as if there was a year, it was as if there was a year after which you just checked out of everything.
It probably around the turn of the millennium.
I don't know what happened that made you think, you know what, I'm out.
It was a big party.
I took some things I shouldn't have and my memory ends there.
That's just plain in my interest.
Yeah.
That is incredible.
What a great fact.
Yeah.
I loved this from Alan Morrison,
which is that the woman who designed the modern kitchen had never cooked.
And this is because I loved learning about this woman who I'd never had never.
heard of Marguerite Schoelahotsky
and what she designed is the built-in
kitchen. She lived to be 103.
So she invented the kitchen in
1926. She didn't die till the year 2000.
The year that my pop culture knowledge
ends.
Coincidence?
On her 100th birthday, she was
interviewed and this is when she revealed that she'd never
cooked. She said that a mother
always cooked at home and then she said that
when she left home, she just went to the restaurant or the pub
to eat. Wow.
So she said, I designed the kitchen as an architect
not as a housewife.
Right, so she was an architect
and she got the gig of designing
she just decided to?
Well, she can't have been commissioned
by anyone to say
we need to sort out this kitchen thing.
Sorry, she went to the pub
every night for dinner.
I mean, I know your point was very important,
Andy, but no, no, no, let's do yours,
let's do yours.
That's utterly mad.
So she says,
did she live next to a weather spoons or something?
I think she must have
because I'm not sure she was particularly loaded.
It was a different time.
Well, there was a thing of fewer people
having kitchens, wasn't there?
And even today, there are big bits of the world where just everyone goes out to eat
because people like, places like Hong Kong have a much bigger dining out culture.
Yeah.
Just because homes are small and you naturally, you might not have a kitchen.
It's like food carts as well where you just everyone goes.
Yeah, you get street food, cheaper food.
She named one specific pub actually, but I can't remember what it was called.
So she was obviously a regular there.
She must have got very bored of the menu.
Yeah.
I hope it was extensive.
But yeah, she designed it.
No, I'll have the full English again.
Yeah. And two pites of ruddles.
Extraordinary that she lived to 100 with her diet, to be honest.
Stephen Cochran tells us that in 2018, an anonymous testicle checking booth debuted in New Zealand.
Brilliant.
To check for, that you've got them?
You've got to check them.
You've got to check them, Anna.
You've got to check them.
You might have a lump.
You might have something turning up.
It's exactly that.
And it's that they thought that maybe Kiwi men would be a bit embarrassed to go and see their doctrine, you know, whop them out.
the table and so instead
there's a little booth and you would go in
and you know like
you're like if you go to the seaside and you put your
head to take that it was like one of those
but upside down so that you would just put your
fantastic
wait and your mom takes a photo
the image is like a bowl
of kiwi fruits but then you put your
testicles in
but yeah it's a really good idea
I think like
nice, yeah. I mean, anything to get people to check themselves is gonna, is useful, right?
I would feel more embarrassed, clearly going to the big center of town anonymous testicle
checking booth because everyone can see you going in there.
They probably don't put the sign up outside in big neon writing.
Well, they should do. We probably put like, you know, local library or something so you get to go in.
Just go into the library.
We'll go to the library a lot. You've been it four or five times this week. What's going on?
Why are you not wearing any trousers?
I know you're reading Winnie the Poe and enjoying it
But
Why would you go four or five times a week
To the test of a jekker
It's sometimes nice
I think you're misunderstood
It's nice
It's just to be you know
For a bit of company
No source of human contacts
Thank you
Okay
Whatever you need to get you through the day Andy
Oh dear
That's a good fact
No well it's a very good thing
for people to do.
Absolutely, absolutely.
I'm sure we've only made
Kiwi people feel more comfortable
about doing it with this conversation.
Was that, you said when you put
them through, there's a picture of a bowl of kiwi fruits
on the other side.
Is that because it was in Kiwi?
It was a New Zealand thing.
Well, it was also that testicles
might look like Kiwi fruit,
so it worked on two levels.
I was trying to think of other pictures
they would work in.
Okay, go on.
I think there's a bowl of potatoes
or something on the table at the last supper.
Oh yeah.
Probably a bit sacrilegious.
I was thinking of
one of those, is he called Archambolo?
He's like an artist that does
faces, but they're all vegetables and stuff.
Oh, that's good. But you'd have to paint
them for that. Yeah. It'd be very, you'd need
to camouflage with them somehow. Purple, I suppose.
Plums. Anyway.
Sorted.
Here's one from Andrew Wilmot.
Came across this today and was surprised to discover this
unexpected eponym in the bagging area.
So I'm telling you up front.
This is a name-related thing. Great.
Why is gas called gas?
Come on.
It's just an very old word for wind or something.
So petrol, gasoline.
Oh, after Cassell or something?
There was a guy called John Cassel who invented casoline
and it got degraded to gasoline.
Now I went on a bit of a rabbit hole on this
because if you read the surface level,
dictionaries do not support this etymology, says Wikipedia.
Oh, really?
And then you go to the OED, the gold standard,
And it says, it seems possible that it was from Casoline, which he sold in 1862.
And then by 1864, a rival merchant had changed it to gasoline.
And I just think that clip, surely that's gasoline to gasoline.
I mean, that I think we might have touched on this on QI, and I think we fell on the angle of it being true, I think.
I think it seems likely.
That's so good, because it's always been so confusing.
And you did mispronounce it at the start, which is why we were confused, of course.
It's why is gas, Carl, gas.
Gas.
That'll do it.
There's gas.
I thought you were talking about gas as in the state of matter.
Our gas.
British gas.
Sorry.
British gas.
Not British gas.
Not British gas, though.
That is sold as a liquid.
English gas.
I mean, it is confusing.
Because when you say you burn gas, like in a boiler or whatever, that is a liquid.
Mm-hmm.
Gas boiler, I suppose, yeah.
It's all bad.
It is.
It's confusing.
Petrol is gas, which is a liquid.
That doesn't, oh.
We should go back to calling it Cass.
Casaline.
Casaline.
Yeah, okay.
I'm down.
Great.
So let's start it.
Let's make it happen.
When you drive into the petrol station next time and you shout at the guy in the booth,
I'd like some caseline, please.
Come out and look lively.
What do you mean you're not allowed to leave the booth?
I've got a crisp half crown here for you, young man.
It's a testicle guy again.
Just don't serve him.
It'll go away.
Okay, that's probably enough for this week, isn't it?
Everyone had enough.
Well, great facts, one and all.
And I think it's time now to bestow some facts.
So we have some facts that we've mentioned on the podcast before.
We're going to give them to some very special fact custodians to look after for the rest of their lives.
Has anyone got one to kick us off?
All right, here's one.
And this one goes to Amir Sokolowski.
And Amir, your fact is, Napoleon loved roast chicken so much that his household chefs were constantly cooking some in case he wanted any.
Constantly cooking some roast chicken.
Those battles must have smelled delicious.
Yeah.
Maybe that's why we kept the wall going.
Just got that delicious smell.
So wasteful.
How much chicken was chucked away?
Yes, there is a story about Sarah Ferguson,
the Duchess of York,
doing exactly this sort of thing, I'm afraid,
in the new book about her and Prince Andrew.
Really?
Basically, it sounds like there's a whole roast pig
on the sideboard every night
and they will have some crisps
and then leave the roast pig on the sideboard.
It's not good.
Isn't it, there's a story
that King Prince Charles used to get 10 boiled eggs
every morning and then choose which one was cook the best.
I have heard that.
I think that might not be true.
It feels like it can't be true.
It feels too good to be true.
How can you tell which one to cook the best before you've opened it?
Well, you have to open them all up.
He opens them up.
You have a little guillotine.
Well, no, that's probably a sore subject.
With Napoleon, did he have someone who was carving it all the time as well?
Or did he just pull the bone apart himself?
Strong.
Didn't see it coming.
Didn't see it coming.
You knew something was coming.
You see the look in his eyes you think there's danger ahead.
Lovely.
Okay, yes I do.
This one now is under the custodianship of Paul Sanders.
And it is the fact that IMDB was originally just a list of actresses with beautiful eyes.
Oh, it was creepy.
I think that's creepy.
I mean, everyone's got beautiful eyes, haven't they?
Have they?
What?
You think everyone's got beautiful eyes?
Well, I think it's a nice thing you can say to someone.
You've got beautiful eyes.
But that just means that half the time you're lying.
No, I think it's very hard to get.
What am I trying to say?
Hang on.
No, I like it that you think everyone's got beautiful.
So that means that when you told me yesterday that I had beautiful eyes,
that doesn't mean anything because you think everyone's got beautiful eyes.
I was only saying that so you'd feel my testicles in the booth.
I'm sorry.
I think he wasn't creepy.
I remember this guy.
And also, it's not like beautiful breasts, is it?
You know, it's kind of innocent compared to what happened to the internet.
It was on a little intranet, wasn't it?
Yes.
Didn't you find, aren't you on Feet.com or something?
I haven't, certainly haven't put myself on Wikipedia.
Why do you know it's called Wikifete?
It's a meme that comes up all the time and jokes and stuff.
Suspicious.
What?
You put them up there.
Put them up where?
Getting out of control.
Handy, how do you keep it under control?
It's very difficult, isn't it?
Okay, another one.
This is for Alan McCormack.
And this is that the word fascinate literally means the embodiment of the divine phallus.
This was always one of my favorites because fascinate felt like such a Q-I-fish word.
We do stuff that's fascinating.
And it's just all about penises.
And this is because it comes from Faskinum in Latin, doesn't it?
A phallic-shaped holy amulet.
I didn't remember that.
Very nice.
Should we have another?
Yes.
This goes out to Shiv Taylor,
and it's that the 2015 French Scrabble champion, Nigel Richards,
doesn't speak a word of French.
He must know we and non,
but basically he doesn't speak French.
That's the thing.
And didn't speak French.
And I think he's won more languages,
because he just memorises the word lists.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's good at maths, not French.
And if you're good at Scrabble,
if you're really good at Scrabble,
you have to be quite good at maths.
I think that's there, doesn't it?
Maths?
What, just like memorising?
Memorizing and also logic, like, where to put things.
Yeah, that's it.
Like not putting a word down which opens up something to your opponent is quite an important part of it.
Although you have to be able to double and triple stuff for the triple word scores.
Surely at the highest level someone's doing that for you.
You've got to do it yourself.
And if you fuck it up, you're disqualified straight away.
Okay, I've got one more here.
This one is now under the custodianship of Caitlin Partridge.
Caitlin, your fact is that the world's only venomous frogs headbut their enemies to death.
Pretty cool.
Yeah, really.
Sort of raises the question why they're venomous if they're so good at headbutting things.
No, as in the venom is in their head.
Oh.
Okay.
It's not like, you know what, I'm going to headbut you.
And if this doesn't work, I'm going to get you with the venom.
Okay, okay.
The venom's in their heads?
I think so, yeah.
Spike, spike on their head.
Like a unicorn.
Yes.
Are unicorns venomous?
Nobody knows.
The really interesting thing about those venomous frogs
is like the really tiny ones.
They're like really colourful
and you see them in zoos and stuff.
And then the sign says
this is the world's most venomous animal or whatever.
But in actual fact,
that frog is not venomous at all
and they can headbut you as much as it likes
but you'll be absolutely fine.
And that's because they get the venom
from what they eat.
And when they're in zoos,
they don't eat the venomous stuff.
And so the ones in the zoos
are absolutely fine.
and there's nothing wrong with them.
Oh my God.
Isn't that interesting?
That's a really good...
It's a really good thing to say to people when you're in a zoo.
Staff and stuff.
I bet that's really annoying for them.
I don't say to the staff.
I say it to the people who come with me.
The thing is like because I am so tedious, it's always a different person.
I never go to the zoo with the same person twice.
No, I can imagine.
You never get to go anywhere with the same person twice, do you?
Just this podcast every week.
Because you guys turn up.
Also, that thing of a venomous frog that's not venomous because it hasn't eaten the thing,
feels like absolutely classic Jonathan Creek to me.
That would be the way someone would die in a Jonathan Creek.
And it turns out that the zookeeper or someone at the zoo
had been feeding the frog of venomous stuff.
So it would kill the person.
Yeah, yeah.
And the mystery was that then they tested the thing
and it wasn't venomous.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
I can see that it needs work, but it's a good start.
So for the reboot.
I've never watched Jonathan Creek.
I'm sorry to say.
It's not that kind of thing at all.
Is it not?
I believe it's really good.
I think it's right.
I think it's good. I mean, I've only seen a few, but it is that kind of thing. It's convoluted murders and Jonathan Creek's clever.
Is he a magician or something? Yeah. Yeah, he's a magician who lives in a windmill.
Yeah, it is, it's fantastic. It's the best thing Alan Davis has ever done.
No, it is absolutely fantastic. It's so satisfying and clever.
How about another fact then?
Yep. So this is a fact. I'm going to start with the fact this time, and then I'll say who we're giving it to.
The fact is that the larger Pacific striped octopus catches its prey by sneaking up behind
it and tapping it on the shoulder.
And that fact is for Anton Del Bar.
Anton Del Bar, there you go.
A sneaky octopus.
So cool.
And this was, I think this is one of mine from back of the day.
And it's that it taps it on the opposite shoulder to the shoulder it's on.
Because octopuses have quite long arms, don't they?
So reaches around, taps it.
And the thing thinks something's coming from the other direction and run straight into the
octopus's mouth.
It's very clever.
Oh, how embarrassing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You look like an idiot.
Here's one that goes out to Sophie Williamson.
Sophie, your fact is that defunct sports from the early 20th century include archery golf,
boxing on horseback and competitive flagpole sitting.
Yes.
I love that.
We almost have to specify that written down archery golf is hyphenated.
Otherwise it did almost sound like you said archery, golf.
That's a good point.
It's archers and golfers competing for the same hole.
Yeah.
So you go to wherever you've fired.
or hit the ball too, and then you get to have your next stroke slash shot from there.
Is it, and is it equally difficult?
I don't know.
I'll defer to James on this.
Well, I find golf a lot easier.
That's mostly because I've played golf many thousands of times in my life,
and I've done archery once.
And you caught your wrist, didn't you?
No, I caught my nipple.
Oh.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, we played because it was with me.
I forgot when you caught your nipple.
You still managed to beat me.
Did I?
Damn you.
Maybe that's the trick.
I didn't have to catch my nipple on the way.
Yeah, I don't know.
I wonder if the archer is allowed to fire at the golf ball or vice versa to try and knock your opponent out of the way.
It's a fun fun fun.
It's a fun, fun, competitive sport.
Yes, and sort of has a great history, doesn't it?
Because the stylites, those people who sat on poles for hundreds of years.
Great pedigree.
They weren't doing it for the sport, but they were doing it for the Enlightenment.
But, I mean, the effect is the same.
What's the skillful part of this sport?
Not falling off?
Yeah, really?
It's all about balance.
It's got to be partly about balance.
Must be.
Not being not coming down for a pack of crisps.
They're all sorts of...
Oh no, he's come down.
He's come down for a pack of crisps.
For the third time this season,
he's come down for a pack of crisps.
And again, Andrew Hunter Murray,
I'm afraid, has lost in the first round
at the flagpole sitting competition.
Oh.
It's embarrassing.
It's monster munch as well.
I don't believe it.
I look over at the...
the stand where my sponsors are looking absolutely furious.
We've paid this guy two million quid.
And you're sponsored by Hula Hoops.
Okay, very good.
All right.
James finishes on.
Final one for the day is for Yelka Ludolfi.
And Yelke, your fact is that the first ever pencils were used to draw on sheep.
Beautiful.
From Andy's famous trip, I believe.
Keswick Pencil Museum. And that's all we got time for, Anna, I think.
Please, let's not get back to reminiscences. We'll never get away.
Such a good place. And you've been there as well, James.
Oh, yeah, but I used to live up there. Yeah, I made a special trip.
It was a time of personal crisis, which I don't like to go into now.
But it was a very bright spot amid the gloom. Yeah, I'm sure. That's the honours to slate,
mine, two absolutely stand-out days. Hang on, so, does this slate go to the pencil museum?
you go and see where it started and then where it ends?
Do you know what?
They haven't worked that together and they should do
because that's a much better.
That would be a whole day out, wouldn't it?
I mean, that's a PR coup for them.
I mean, they're both a whole day out in and of themselves.
But yeah.
But you could like, for people who go up for the weekend,
you could get like a double ticket.
Absolutely.
Saturday at the pencil museum.
Sunday at the Slate Museum.
Two for one.
It's a dream come true for any honeymoon.
Yeah, yeah.
Lovely.
Okay.
Shall we wrap up there?
Yes.
Okay.
Well, thank you so much for listening.
And that's all of the facts
that you've sent us for this week
and hope you enjoy the facts
that we've bestowed upon you.
Of course, if you want to send us
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Andy will filter through them all.
He'll get rid of the crap
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And if you want to listen to know such things as the fish,
the big show,
big fish, then please come back again
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we'll see you here on Little Fish again next week.
Can I just say, if your fact hasn't been read out yet,
it's not because it's crap.
Thank you.
Not necessarily.
It might be that we just haven't got to it yet.
Just keep listening and find out.
But if it hasn't been read out in like five years time
and you've already sent it, then give up.
Maybe, maybe.
Or maybe just send again.
Andy might have missed it.
Thank you.
Okay.
Well, I feel like you've given everyone's ego is a real boost today.
That's what I'm here for.
Okay, over and out.
