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No Such Thing As A Fish

Little Fish: You've Hit The Nail On the Head

03 May 2026

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Transcript generated automatically by AI and may contain errors.

Chapter 1: What humorous moments open the episode?

4.03 - 22.366 Andrew Hunter-Murray

Hello and welcome to another episode of Little Fish. My name is Andrew Hunter-Murray. I'm here with James Harkin and Dan Treiber.

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22.386 - 26.869 Dan Treiber

What the hell was that? I don't know if that would be picked up on the mics.

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27.21 - 28.611 James Harkin

James was just slapping his cheeks.

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28.791 - 31.934 Dan Treiber

Is that what it was? I wasn't looking. My face cheeks for those at home.

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32.214 - 40.78 James Harkin

Yeah, absolutely. And welcome to the show. You've had your fireworks right at the top. Now let's get into some facts.

40.84 - 46.637 Dan Treiber

If that becomes our theme tune, then I might have problems because it still hurts a little bit.

46.657 - 47.459 James Harkin

We'll do it next time.

48.603 - 51.25 Dan Treiber

On my face. Oh, yeah, yeah.

51.23 - 63.886 James Harkin

So you've been sending in all your facts. You've been sending them to podcast at qi.com. We've been sifting through them, winnowing, filtering, and we've got some absolute crackers for you. So let's get cracking.

Chapter 2: What interesting facts about baseball scouting are shared?

225.963 - 230.968 Unknown

And so it's, yeah, that's a nice out to sort of say, well, of course it's not going to be right.

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230.948 - 261.386 Dan Treiber

you you're a b negative but you can hit baseballs very far yeah so we'll have you on the team because it's like 75 percent good um here is another sporting one kind of this is from matt burke and it's a brilliant fact it is that the world record for the longest darts bullseye 8 metres is about a tenth as long as the longest throw of a cowpat, which is 81.1 metres.

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261.406 - 271.165 Dan Treiber

There's someone out there who can throw a cowpat 80 metres. 81.1 metres, yeah. That's incredible. Steve Erner, no less. Steve Erner.

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271.145 - 275.175 Unknown

Cowpats are flattish on the bottom.

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275.295 - 283.917 Dan Treiber

You have absolutely hit the nail on the absolute head of the importance of shape in cowpat throwing. Because you can frisbee it, right? Brilliant.

283.937 - 288.208 James Harkin

So good. That's the most excited I've ever seen James do about anything. I got scared.

Chapter 3: How does blood type influence personality in Japan?

288.188 - 315.563 Dan Treiber

when he started i was like oh no we've done something wrong we're in trouble i think he did something to his head when he did that slappy thing at the beginning this um 81.1 is under the non-sphericalization and 100 organic rule which was established in 1970 um so you have two different records one of which is where the um pat is molded into a spherical shape and one where it's done as a flat chip

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315.543 - 334.277 James Harkin

Okay, so wait, the one that was thrown this far was molded into a spherical thing? No, it was flat like a frisbee, like a discus. Oh, okay. Oh, sorry, spherical. I was thinking round meant spherical. No, got it. Presumably, if you fashioned your cowpat into a javelin in much the same way that that guy made his own poo knife, you could throw it even further.

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334.257 - 336 Dan Treiber

Yeah, so you'd have to freeze it.

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336.32 - 337.202 James Harkin

Oh, you'd have to freeze it.

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337.382 - 345.154 Dan Treiber

Is that in the rules? Well, you've hit the nail right on the head yet again. No, it's not in the rules. No one's thought of freezing the cow pats yet.

345.274 - 357.974 James Harkin

I think that's a Fosbury flop moment waiting to happen. Yeah, could be. Here's a fact from Dave Shaw. The only UK number one that doesn't contain its own title in the lyrics is... What?

358.715 - 360.197 Dan Treiber

Must be loads.

360.177 - 361.118 James Harkin

Dave says not.

362.399 - 369.347 Unknown

I think there have been some without any lyrics at all. There have been some which haven't got any lyrics at all. Can we try and guess it if you give us the name of the band?

Chapter 4: What surprising fact about cowpat throwing is revealed?

727.818 - 749.048 Dan Treiber

Is that we try and slip them in without each other noticing. That's really good. Elizabeth Cotton, she won for her album Elizabeth Cotton Live at the age of 90 in 1984. And actually in 1967, she released a record created with her grandchildren and with one great grandchild as well who was in that album.

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749.028 - 773.247 Dan Treiber

and she was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar upside down amazing okay you know i mean so and that was her style was really unusual because she played upside down and that was why it was known as cotton picking brilliant cool great grammy yeah yeah i wonder if um an emmy has ever won an emmy oh very good question check out yeah name my next kid bafta uh

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773.227 - 774.228 Unknown

Fingers crossed.

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775.67 - 780.715 Dan Treiber

I'm going to change my name to Chartler 1.

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780.735 - 795.291 James Harkin

Here's another fact. This one comes from Alex Thorpe. Thank you, Alex. And it's that you should hire Novak Djokovic to build your flat pack furniture and Rafael Nadal to disassemble it. There is a reason for this.

796.792 - 814.962 Dan Treiber

I can have a guess. I've got a guess as well. We should say something funny then. I reckon we both know the answer. Do you? It's just a guess. Go on, what's your guess, Dan? Should we say it at the same time? Yeah. Start with... Nadal? Nadal is... Left-handed.

815.87 - 833.854 James Harkin

Okay, screw you guys. You're not allowed to go into my nose before we do the show and gazump me like that. So Nadal is left-handed, basically. And Djokovic is Serbian. So when you're tightening a screw, you guys are right-handed, aren't you?

833.994 - 834.235 Dan Treiber

Yes.

834.355 - 849.8 James Harkin

When you tighten a screw with a screwdriver in your right hand, you're using a muscle called the supinator. Cool. Which is much stronger than the pronator, which is used to unscrew. Now, if you're using your left hand and a screwdriver, it's the opposite way around, right?

Chapter 5: What unique fact about Jack Black and Goosebumps is discussed?

1528.241 - 1531.106 Unknown

No! Did you go to the meerkat enclosure?

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1531.466 - 1538.017 Dan Treiber

I didn't even remember seeing it. I was with friends, I was only there for not very long. But yeah, I went there and found that out.

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1538.037 - 1548.094 Unknown

Imagine the meerkats are going, oh my god, he's here! He's back! He doesn't remember us! Yeah, they also had Aviva and Direct Line, but they both died, it says here.

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1548.734 - 1573.459 James Harkin

how long do mechats live i think maybe all of these mechats might no longer be with us yeah i imagine probably like an insurance payout though when they died yes very nice because these are insurance firms for international listeners for jamina anyway lovely fact sheila's wheels was that i wouldn't it doesn't exist anymore does it i don't know i don't know i've seen adverts for a while i was with sheila's wheels until quite recently you had to be a woman

1573.439 - 1581.657 James Harkin

Yes. That was the whole point of them. Yes, that's why I was kicked out. That was a very unpleasant and upsetting meeting. I don't want to talk about it.

1582.399 - 1585.806 Dan Treiber

But that was the thing, wasn't it? Wasn't it? Yeah. Was it? Yeah.

1585.846 - 1587.49 James Harkin

Dan's gone.

1591.98 - 1592.14 Unknown

LAUGHTER

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