No Such Thing As A Fish - 16: No Such Thing As A Ghost In Poland

Episode Date: July 5, 2014

Episode 16: This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing), Anne Miller (@miller_anne) & Alex Bell (@alexbell) discuss randy b...ears, Bhutanese yeti park rangers, clever 12 year old girls, and more...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 We ran it on QI a few years ago, which was, there's no such thing as a fish. You think there's no such thing as a fish? No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life. It says it right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish. Hello, and welcome to another edition of No Such Thing as a Fish, coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden. My name is Dan Shriver. I'm sitting here with three other elves, Anna Chazinski, James Harkin and Ann Miller.
Starting point is 00:00:32 And we've got, in fact, checking Judy's today, Alex Bell. And once again, we've gathered around the microphone to share our favorite facts from the last seven days. So in no particular order, here we go. Fact number one, James. OK, my fact is the world record for most kicks to one's own head is one hundred and twenty seven in a minute. Jeez, more than two seconds. That's more than two seconds.
Starting point is 00:01:00 How did he do it? Well, there's a video on the Guinness Book of Records website, I think. It's I think he's like kind of a martial arts guy. And he's very supple and and fast and possibly stupid and possibly slightly mental. But that means for him to do that speed, he has to be going like, literally. Papal, papal, papal, papal, papal. Is he related to Roy Kirby, who I know is the guy who's broken the Guinness World Record? He's also a martial arts guy for the hardest kick to the groin.
Starting point is 00:01:31 I think he took a he took a twenty two mile an hour kick to the groin with one thousand one hundred pounds of force and didn't register any pain at all. Oh, he said, yeah, he's built up a pain threshold. Apparently they do it in a certain there's a certain type of martial art. And I can't remember what it's called, where basically you run hard objects over your muscles every day and it sort of pulverizes the nerve fibers and causes fractures to the bone. And then when they heal, the body compensates by adding extra calcium to you,
Starting point is 00:01:57 which means that you stop feeling pain. Here's a newspaper article that I found, which is somewhat related to Anna's fact. Yeah, a twenty eight year old man who claimed to be acting out of curiosity when he asked seven women to kick him in the groin was sentenced yesterday to 60 days in jail, one of the women afraid at what he might do if she refused kicked him repeatedly. Oh, my God, the guy thanked her and left on his bicycle, which had no seat. Oh, so the court asked his wife and what she thought about it.
Starting point is 00:02:29 And she told the court that she was at a loss to explain his conduct. And she said, I can honestly say I find it as odd and peculiar and disturbing as everyone else. I wanted to look more into this guy, Joel Leindecker. He's the guy who kicked himself in the head 127 times. He's broken his own record a number of times. So on one of the occasions, he was interviewed by someone and they said, can I see an example of you doing this?
Starting point is 00:02:53 And and he said, yeah, sure. And so he did it. He only managed 80. But what was great was the interview afterwards. The interview is going, wow, I don't know what to say. After seeing such a spectacle, how do you feel? And who's breathing heavily? And he's like, I'm really exhausted. It's really tiring. And she starts trying to interview him and he just keeps getting more and more
Starting point is 00:03:13 concussed and out of it. Yeah, she says, so how often do you do this? And he's like, well, I pretty much only do it when I know that I'm going to be making a record attempt. I don't really practice in my spare time or anything. Sorry, can I get a second? I'm really, I'm really lightheaded right now. She goes, sure, sure, don't pass out.
Starting point is 00:03:31 He bends down, hands on these, takes deep breaths. I might actually have to sit down or something. She might if we do this interview inside. She basically is just totally concussed off the back of it. And the first time he did it, he did it with shoes on. And he didn't know that he should have done that. So now he does it without the socks. Slipper socks.
Starting point is 00:03:49 Yeah, you should wear slippers. You're right. No, he does it barefoot or with socks on. I imagine the interview would be like, so how do you feel about kicking yourself a hundred and twenty seven times in the head? He's like, what are you talking about? There is another Guinness World Record champ. And he's called Ashreeta Furman, and he was born the year the first Guinness Book of World Records came out.
Starting point is 00:04:11 And he holds the Guinness World Record for holding the most Guinness World Records. So he's had five hundred and thirty three and a hundred and eighty nine are still active. And they include Pogo stick jumping under water, popcorn sculpture, balancing most eggs on head, M&M's eaten blindfolded with chopsticks and drinking 200 millilitres of mustard. Wow. Wow. So the really serious records. Yeah, does it does it include does include this one?
Starting point is 00:04:35 Longest distance pulled by a horse while on fire. Yeah, I've seen that guy. Yeah, yeah, he was he was dragged one thousand five hundred and fifty one feet while on fire by a horse. I think the funnest world record to break is the most rotations hanging from a power drill in a minute, which is one hundred and forty eight. It was in two thousand and eight. But isn't that fun?
Starting point is 00:04:56 So this guy just attached a power drill to the ceiling, held onto it and just spanned around on it for a minute. I want to start doing that recreationally. That is great. The cruisest one I found was for this distance of squirting milk from eyes. Nice. Oh, wow. Two hundred and seventy nine point five centimetres. Why is milk coming out of your eyes?
Starting point is 00:05:12 Shouldn't you see something about that? Yeah, people do it by because their sinuses are all attached and they snort it through their nose and shoot it through their eyes. I think students do it. I had a friend at school, you could put a whole cocktail stick up his nose. Don't do that. They can kill you. That was his party trick. Alfred Kinsey could put a whole toothbrush up his penis.
Starting point is 00:05:30 Chris Len first. What? Really? Yeah, he's a sexologist. Alfred Kinsey. Yeah. I don't know. When is he from the fifties? The Kinsey report, right? Yeah, yeah. His party trick was to put a party. Who wants to see that?
Starting point is 00:05:43 Wait, wait, I've got a great thing to show you. The guy who got women to kick them in the balls was arrested. I hope he was arrested at some point. Shall we invite Alfred to the wedding? Well, can we search his bag on the way in? If there's a toothbrush in there, no way. In 2009, Jonathan Lee Riches filed an injunction against the Guinness Book of Records
Starting point is 00:06:02 seeking to stop them from naming him as the most litigious individual in the history of mankind. Brilliant. We might have to bleep his name out of this podcast. Yeah, that's brilliant. Evil Knievel used to have a lot of world records. Do you remember him? He would jump over buses on a bike and stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:06:19 As far as I can see, I think there is one record that he still owns. This is really hard to Google, but I think there's one thing that he still owns. Can you guess what it is? Most bones broken is correct. Is it really? Yeah, I just that's one thing that I know about him because you watch videos of him.
Starting point is 00:06:35 It's it's it's actually in terms of Shadenfreude. The funniest video is online because you see this man like just like, yeah, I'm going to own it. I look at these buses. I'm going to go right over them. It's going to be awesome at every single time. He just collapses and just flies across the ground. The guy who has related to the guy who has the record
Starting point is 00:06:56 for the furthest ever flown in a car crash was Matthew McKnight. It was in 2008 and he flew 118 feet. But while he was recovering in a hospital, his doctor brought him the forms to sign, the Guinness forms to sign to prove that he had flown further than anyone else, which I just think is a very unsympathetic doctor move like a couple of days. He broke like all of his bones enough to get that record.
Starting point is 00:07:17 Yeah, not as many as evil can evolve. Yeah, correct. We should try and think up a record that we can break. Well, here's one that we could break. Yeah. The most Ferrero Rocher's eaten in one minute is 10. Oh, is that it? 10 in a minute.
Starting point is 00:07:31 Is it like records? They draw your mouth. That's who you think it's easy. Or is it cinnamon? People try in the middle. They have like it's kind of liquid in a minute. Yeah. Yeah. Alex, have you got anything to add before we wrap up? Yeah, I did find that in 2006, the man who holds the world record
Starting point is 00:07:45 for spending the most time in a cage with centipedes married the woman who held the same record, but with scorpions. OK, it's time now to move on to fact number two, Anne. Yes, there is a bear in the Pyrenees who is facing castration because he is fathered nearly all the other bears. Oh, that's a bit harsh. I think it's harsh.
Starting point is 00:08:08 Well done him. I would I would say well done him. He's amazing. He's called Pyros and there are about 30 bears and there are only four other males and none of them have fathered any bears themselves. But the problem is officials don't like it because they're worried that he's ruining their gene pool, basically.
Starting point is 00:08:22 And there was recently a bear born that was his daughter and his granddaughter. And they started to get a bit worried that this is problematic. The problem with Pyros is bears generally stop being sexually active around 19, but a pyros is 26 and still going. Wow. Are the bears becoming increasingly more deformed? I think I think a bear always looks pretty good. So you can't tell they're deformed under all their fur.
Starting point is 00:08:43 Well, Pliny didn't think that was true. He thought when a baby bear was born, it was completely shapeless and that they got into their bear shape by being licked into shape by their mothers. I think everything when it's brand new is quite a strange shape. And then they start getting more of their shape when they're. Yeah, that's a good excuse. I'm not sure what his excuse was for saying that they had very dim eyes
Starting point is 00:09:02 when they're born and the way that they get their eyes better is to allow bees to sting their faces to improve their eyesight. I was I got very interested in the idea of this bear because I didn't realize that their sex drive was so high. So I did a very quick Google on it. I didn't get very far. What did you Google? Pony bears.
Starting point is 00:09:23 That means something very different in the gay community, which I didn't I completely forgot. I did know that I completely forgot. So just anyone out there, if you do click horny bear into Google, don't then click on the link that says my favorite hot and horny bears. Certainly don't do it at work. Imagine that we're all completely misunderstanding this news article.
Starting point is 00:09:42 Oh, yeah. Oh, dear. OK, there's a bear in the Bible. There was a few, actually. But one of them I like. The biblical prophet, Elisha, once cursed a group of children who teased him for being bald. As a result, they were mulled by bears and killed. Yeah, I love that story.
Starting point is 00:09:58 I because it's something ridiculous, like 42 kids. Like it's a lot of children. And they're like, Baldi, Baldi. And he's like, right, fine, you're going to get killed by bears. Yeah. So do you know what? What you had to do if you're attacked by bears? I think we covered on this. Why? Yeah, that's right.
Starting point is 00:10:13 It's so you might be attacked by a brown bear or a black bear. Yes. The problem is that brown bears are sometimes black and black bears are sometimes brown. So it's hard to tell. If you're attacked by a brown bear, then you should play dead. But if you're attacked by a black bear and you play dead, you'll almost certainly be killed. Yeah, they didn't trust like, wow.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Oh, yeah. And they're just like, oh, this is so much easier. I also be like, I want a chase. I don't need to lie to bear. Pirates should shag us. Probably shag you, yeah. Peter the Great trained up two bears. He had two white bears to serve vodka to his guests. And if they didn't accept the vodka, then he would train the bear to harass them,
Starting point is 00:10:51 which I think might explain Russia's vodka problem because you're not going to turn down vodka from an angry bear. What do you mean harass them? I think it's just like, come on, mate, come on. The other thing is a white bear is presumably a polar bear. Yeah, my favorite kind of bear is a spectacled bear. They actually have markings like they're wearing a pair of glasses. They're amazing if you haven't seen them.
Starting point is 00:11:09 Look them up. Isn't Paddington based on that's what I was going? Because they are the only bear found in South America. So Paddington, by default, must be a spectacled bear. But of course, we know he's not a polar, but I like the idea of Paddington with glasses. And Paddington was originally going to be from deepest darkest Africa. But the problem with that is there are no bears in Africa.
Starting point is 00:11:26 There are no bears in Africa. Yeah, that makes sense. Is it true that Byron had a bear? Yeah. So that's that's true. We've discussed this in the podcast, actually. But why any time that I've seen news about this bear, the one thing that doesn't come up is the name of the bear. How do we know that he had a bear?
Starting point is 00:11:42 Yet the name of the bear has not made it through. One more bear thing I didn't know was that during the Cold War in the 1960s, Americans tested their supersonic jet ejector seats on bears. And they fired bears out of the ejector seats and then tested how safely they landed. And they survived, actually. But then they had to put the bears down to study what had happened to their spines
Starting point is 00:12:02 and what happened to their internal organs. So they were launching bears out of airplanes. Yeah, there are pictures. These bears look pretty terrified. How did they get a bear in an ejector seat? Yeah, they must have been drugged. They were drugs. So we did the thing on QI about the pig face ladies,
Starting point is 00:12:17 which was actually a shaved bear in a dress. Yeah. And they used to get the bears really drunk before they shaved them. Yeah, that's insane. Hey, do you know what a it's either the pronunciation is tap it or to pair? I'm not sure what the pronunciation is associated with bears. Do you know what that is? T-A-P-P-E-T. I don't think I know that word.
Starting point is 00:12:36 It's basically the blockage that is created when they go into hibernation. Like a butt plug. It's a butt plug. Yeah, a butt plug of hair that, yeah, it's amazing. For seven months, they can sleep. They don't eat, drink, urinate, defecate. How do you do that seven months? That's like by plugging up your butt.
Starting point is 00:12:55 I'm my mind's blown by hibernation. Yeah, no, they do. They don't have a night. They go into topper and which is slightly different. But some female bears can give birth while they're asleep. What? Yeah. Wow. It's not not all of them, but some of them. They must have a seriously high pain threshold.
Starting point is 00:13:11 I think they just pass out drunk for a full seven months. That kind of explains that. And they do like alcohol. Well, Vojček the bear loved beer, didn't he? Vojček who helped the Poles in World War Two carrying artillery back and forth. OK. But his favorite drink was beer and he loved a cigarette. This was a bear.
Starting point is 00:13:29 Yeah, Vojček the bear. He's really famous. I think there's a statue of him in Princes Street now in Edinburgh because he spent the rest of his days in Scotland, I think. Well, we've also got that penguin at Edinburgh Zoo, Niels Olaf, who's the Norwegian guard. Yeah. A knighthood, sorry. We are going to have to move on.
Starting point is 00:13:44 Alex, have you got anything you want to add? Only that Byron's bear was called Brewin. We know his name. Yeah. Oh, OK. Brewin is just a name for a bear, though, really, isn't it? Oh, it also just sounds like a misspelling of Byron. Sure, I can write that down wrong at Cambridge. OK, it's time to move on to fact number three. And that's my fact.
Starting point is 00:14:09 And that is Poland's only official ghost hunter thinks that ghosts have given up on haunting humans. Oh, yeah. Now, it's amazing that Poland has an official registered ghost hunter to begin with. Yeah. Secondly, he's very dispirited because he thinks that we've become all too skeptical and that ghosts are no longer interested in humans.
Starting point is 00:14:28 Or it could be that he's a very, very bad hunter and he just can't find them because he's a rubbish hunter and he's blaming it on them disappearing. That's very true. I mean, I know that in Bhutan, there's an official Yeti hunter. Yeah, yeah. And he's been working for the king. He's under his second king now because the new king took over and he's been working with him for something like 20 odd years.
Starting point is 00:14:47 And nothing he's, you know, not really. Yeah, but he but what he said is is the reason we haven't seen any is that, A, they have the ability to turn themselves invisible. Secondly, he says that they have the ability to take their feet off and put them back on the other way round. So when it looks like they've walked one way, in fact, they've gone the other. Sneaky. It's very hard to tell where Yeti's gone. Well, I've been to Bhutan and they have a Yeti sanctuary, don't they?
Starting point is 00:15:08 They do. Sanctuary. Yes. They have a Yeti park. It's an actual Yeti park where there are like park rangers. We look after the Yeti's. So when you say an official ghost hunter, is this like a government sanctioned post? Yeah. I mean, presumably he's just a private guy and people pay him to go and hunt for ghosts, right? I think that's what it is.
Starting point is 00:15:25 And people have stopped paying him now because they don't believe in ghosts anymore and he's a bit pissed off. So he's decided to claim that the ghosts are angry with people. I think they might have gone to Wales because last year, the Welsh police force received 13 reports of ghosts up from only two in 2010. Bloody Polish immigrants. Is this what people are talking about when they say that? I can say that because I'm half Polish.
Starting point is 00:15:46 But as well as finding 13 ghosts in Wales, South Wales police also got reports of three zombies, two werewolves, two vampires and six witches. Wow. I think they're on like a paranormal road tour because Nottingham in 2011, they said in the last six years, they had 34 cases of ghosts and they also had 46 witchcraft and three UFOs, all of which turned out to be Chinese lanterns. Yeah, Chinese lanterns are often the most mistaken object for a UFO.
Starting point is 00:16:14 They did this huge breakdown of everything that people thought was a UFO and what it actually turned out to be. And Chinese lanterns was way up right at the bottom. Two percent of all UFO sightings turned out to be the moon. Do you know about the the big ghostly frenzy that happened in London back in 1762? I do not. OK, this is the story. It's it's called Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane.
Starting point is 00:16:36 Oh, yes, I do know about this. Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane is amazing. Just for anyone who doesn't know it. In 1762, there was a public frenzy in London over the ghost of Fanny Kent, scratching and knocking coded messages from behind a wall of a room where she lived. The owner of the house sold tickets so that you could witness it and storeholders sold refreshments to crowds who were gathering outside. So it was a really big thing.
Starting point is 00:16:58 The Duke of York came to see it. Samuel Johnson came. He did a seance there, but he debunked the whole thing. And the noise turned out to be made by an 11 year old girl called Elizabeth, who was concealed behind the wooden board and was doing it with her corset. But this is the interesting thing is that obviously throughout history, people have reported poltergeist kind of things. And a surprising fact that I read is that it's mostly associated with pubescent girls around 11 and 12 years old, which is why in all the movies
Starting point is 00:17:29 like Exorcist, it's always a young girl. But James, do you know anything about that? Like, is there any research? I know some history of it. You know how sometimes people say if it's if they're trying to talk to a ghost, they'll say not once for yes and twice for no. Yeah, that came from some sisters. I can't remember the name.
Starting point is 00:17:49 I think they might be the Fox sisters or something. And they were tricking their parents by setting up a load of levers, which would make banks underneath a table just for fun, really. But then suddenly all the neighbors got involved and then suddenly it became really famous across the country. And then eventually they admitted that it was all a hoax. But yeah, that's where that once once and twice knocking thing comes from. OK, right.
Starting point is 00:18:13 But there have been a few over the history about young girls doing things like that. Yeah, in the Enfield poltergeist case, which was an 18 month long ghost haunting that happened in up in Enfield in London. We had a guy on the upcoming series of Museum of Curiosity who he's a skeptic, but he studied it all. And his point about it was the only thing that they said as a what could be the explanation was is that the girl in question, who is a young 11 to 12 year old girl at time, was that she was very clever.
Starting point is 00:18:41 But he doesn't buy that as an excuse because he thinks it was Will Starr, wasn't it? Will Starr, yeah. But you can see you can see because like in your story, the one and two knocking that's an 11 year old girl in the story of scratching Fanny at Cock Lane, that's a yeah, that's an 11 to 12 year old girl. Maybe 11 to 12 year old girls are incredibly clever. Maybe that's it. They might be.
Starting point is 00:19:00 There's also they're quite susceptible to hysteria when you get things happening where large groups of people all believe something which isn't quite true. Or all get hiccups. Yeah, all get hiccups or all get a laughing fit or whatever. Often it does turn out to be pubescent girls. Makes sense. Based on what you know of adolescence, the beginning of adolescence, you're very impressionable and there is a history of like people
Starting point is 00:19:25 assuming hysteria in girls. Can I tell you about Scottish ghost stories? Yes, when I was really young, my mom basically put me off them for ages because she told me she saw an ad in the local paper for a jumper ooter. OK, Alex, have you got anything you want to add to this before we move on? Only if anyone is interested in looking up the origin of the knock once for yes, twice for no, the sisters are called Margaret and Kate Fox. Are they with Fox? Yeah, it was Fox.
Starting point is 00:19:49 Hang on. Foxy girls. I'll just I just want to quickly add that this guy in Poland, this official ghost hunter is very upset with the situation, does want it to change. He has a 24 hour hotline that you can call him on if you have a ghost that you'd like to report, because he complains that very few people now take ghosts seriously. So even if they do have a paranormal experience, they tend to ignore it and are reluctant to contact him.
Starting point is 00:20:13 And his name is Pujta Schalkowicz. And if you want to get in contact with him, there is a hotline or you can email him on ghost underscore hunted at VP dot P L. Well, he thinks that people are just they see ghosts, but they don't care enough these days, you see a ghost and you think, whatever, I'll just get on with my day. Yeah, the thing is about ghosts, apparently, is most of them are not like see through people who are people in sheets or whatever. They're just normal looking people, which makes me think they probably are normal people.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Yeah. Yeah, that means I see ghosts all the time. Yeah, you guys, for instance. And what's Bruce Willis doing in the corner of the room? All right, time to move on to fact number four, that is Chazzynski. Yep. My fact I found out this week in a recent new scientist is that fallout from the Cold War is being used to solve murders. OK, explain. Right. So nuclear testing of the US and the USSR between 1952 and 1963
Starting point is 00:21:17 caused a massive spike in the carbon 14 isotope. And it's the type of carbon that you measure the degeneration of when you're carbon dating to see how old something is. OK, so there's a sudden spike in the atmosphere of carbon 14. It was spread all over the world. And then as soon as the weapons ban came in in 1963, it started declining again. So you can tell when something died by comparing how much carbon 14 in their body to what they call the bomb curve, which is the gradual
Starting point is 00:21:48 decrease of carbon 14 in the atmosphere since 1963. You can tell when they died. So that's how you date someone's death. So it's actually been really useful. I just like the fact like in hundreds of thousands of years time, they're going to look at our bodies and we'll be the Cold War generation because our bodies have, you know, worked quite as much radio. We're kind of all superheroes.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Do you know what the perfect thing for forensics is? Apparently it's glitter. Glitter. Yeah, the reason is that glitter sticks to you and you can't get rid of it no matter what. And because people just accept it and it's there, they don't really care about it. So they just leave it on themselves for days and days and days. And apparently it's if you commit a crime in a circus, for instance, or in a child's birthday party or something, then they can use the glitter.
Starting point is 00:22:32 So if someone comes and assaults you or murders you, you should always keep a little box of glitters. You can throw it over them at the last minute. Be like a bit like smart water. It's interesting as well. There must have been a big period where people were testing out new methods like forensics and fingerprints and so on. And we've adopted them as kind of absolute truth now for a lot of them.
Starting point is 00:22:51 Fingerprints, I know, is actually slightly queried because every different country has different requirements for what makes up a match of a fingerprint. So in France and Australia, they need 12 identical points to make sense of a fingerprint. Whereas in Italy, they need 16. And in America, it just varies from state to state of how many identified things. He's got fingers. Yeah, he's the guy.
Starting point is 00:23:15 Yeah, that's how man. But fingerprinting somehow has made it through. But there's other ones. Back in the 1970s, there was a lady called Dr. Louise Robbins and she was at the University of North Carolina. She declared herself to be the world's only footprint identification experts. And she claimed that she could not only identify the shoes, but the person who had been wearing the shoes as well.
Starting point is 00:23:36 And as a result, 12 people were sent to prison. And after her death, a panel of 135 forensic experts reviewed her work and realized that it was just absolute nonsense. Eight people went to prison. 12. Yeah. Wow. Actually, I have a really good one about solving a crime is I love this story.
Starting point is 00:23:52 It's a 12 year old called Jessica Maple. And she went on a summer camp called Via Junior District Attorney. And then her grandmother died a few years ago and people broke in and stole stuff from her house. And so she used her skills and outsmarted the police and found the guys that she went to the house, found a broken window and fingerprints that the police had missed. And then she told them.
Starting point is 00:24:12 And then while they were following her lead, she found a local pawnshop that had all her grandma's stuff in it. And then they had managed to identify the guys who had taken it. And she was 12, which just was like. Good for her. So just Junior District Attorney. Yeah. I have another thing about kids.
Starting point is 00:24:27 And this is about nuclear stuff. There was a boy scout in America called David Hahn. And he earned his merit badge in atomic energy, presumably by answering a quiz or something like that. Or making nuclear bombs. Well, that's what he decided to do. He had a badge. And so he was going to build a nuclear reactor.
Starting point is 00:24:44 And so he collected small amounts of radioactive material from household goods like smoke detectors and built himself a nuclear reactor in his shed. And the police accidentally discovered it when they were looking for something else. The US government commandeered his mother's house, decontaminated it and buried his shed in the deserts in Utah. It took his whole shed to the desert.
Starting point is 00:25:06 That's like up, but like with radiation down. Wasn't there a guy in England recently who became the youngest person to build a nuclear reactor? And I might have made that up. So maybe Alex could check it. I think he lived in, I want to say slough. It was somewhere that sounds comically bad. Really glamorous.
Starting point is 00:25:24 A 13-year-old boy called Jamie Edwards who made it at school. Apparently it's illegal to move sheep in Wales until they've been checked to see whether they carry traces of the fallout from Chernobyl. Really? Yeah. On this particular subject, I've got a question for you guys. Oh yeah?
Starting point is 00:25:38 Why shouldn't you buy trousers from the Northern Ukraine? I don't know. Why shouldn't you buy trousers from the Northern Ukraine? Chernobyl fallout. Ladies and gentlemen, that is the joke. Yeah, just so you know, just as a little inside bit of behind-the-scenes information here, Anna has consistently for the last, what, 14 podcasts
Starting point is 00:26:02 said that same joke and we've cut it out every single episode. Has refused to have it in the podcast. This is a day. And you will not hear it in this one either, unless someone else said it. It's the best joke ever. Alex, do you have anything to add before we move on? Yeah, the thing about sheep in Wales being radioactive is right.
Starting point is 00:26:18 All the sheep in the highest pastures still are exposed to the highest levels of cesium. And so they will have to be tested and regulated before they go to market. So for those people that have still shagging sheep, stop it, it's very dangerous. No, yeah, I'm not sure they do that. James, don't ruin my fantasies.
Starting point is 00:26:37 Because if they did, the knobs would fall out. OK, that's it. That's the end of our show. Thanks everyone for listening. If you want to find out anything about the stuff that we've been talking about, you can actually head over to our qi.com slash podcast page where we're going to have all sorts of videos,
Starting point is 00:26:57 maybe a list of records that you could break and update on whether we actually did the Ferrero Rocher experiment, some great evil Knievel videos where he gets tossed around, so to speak, so to speak, some ghost imagery, perhaps, and a picture of Pyros, the horny bear without actual horny bears that I saw on the internet this morning.
Starting point is 00:27:20 OK, that's it really. If you want to talk to any of us about the things that we've said during the course of this podcast, you can get us all on our Twitter handles. I'm on at Shribeland, James. At Egg Shaped, Anne. At Miller underscore, Anne. Alex.
Starting point is 00:27:33 At Alexbell underscore. And Anna. If you email podcast at qi.com. Yes. Hashtag get Anna on Twitter. Yeah. Sorry. Someone made the argument that if you don't have Twitter,
Starting point is 00:27:45 how can you see the hashtag? So what we've done is we printed out all of the tweets and posted them around Anna's desk. Yeah. We're shoving it. Fuck them to me. Terrier pigeon. OK, cool.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Thanks so much for listening. We'll be back again next week with another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish and we'll catch you then. Goodbye. We don't stop now. But leave nothing to lies. So it's time to get together.
Starting point is 00:28:15 Show what we can do. You will love me. You will love me.

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