Chapter 1: What exciting announcement is made at the start of the episode?
Hi there, Dan and Andy here. Just a little announcement before we start this week's show. We have reached the point where next week, Anna Terzynski will return. This is very exciting. She's back. Yeah, she's back, baby.
And we've had an amazing run of guests. It's been so fun, but... There's no one we love more than Anna. So it's very exciting that she's going to be back. So put it in your calendars. However, we've got a very exciting final guest episode to go out with before the return of Anna. And that is with a fellow QI elf.
Yes, you may remember Manu Onryo. She has been on Ask the Elf, our little bonus show. And Manu, as well as being one of the writers of QI, is on the podcast Lunchbox Envy, which of course is also made by QI Productions. Lunchbox Envy is a show all about food,
Chapter 2: How can seaweed bubbles potentially affect pregnancy?
Food from around the world, food-related paraphernalia. It is The Food Show. It's Manu, it's Jack Chambers, another elf who you will have heard on fish and fish products in the past, and Rosie McKean, the pasta queen.
Oh, yes, yeah. And so, as Andy says, Lunchbox Envy, they each come to the table each episode with their lunchbox, and each episode takes on a theme. And they kind of blow your mind with all sorts of interesting takes on the history of that food and so on. So there's about 65 episodes out there now. Everything from the episode called Asparagus through to mangoes through to food art.
What are these all about?
You have to listen to find out. That's right. So if you enjoy Manu's appearance on Fish Today, we're sure you will enjoy Lunchbox Envy. Check it out. Check it out now.
And one last thing before we leap into this week's episode is to say, hey, do you like listening to us four dorks talk every week and you want more? Yeah. Why not become a member of the secret private members club? The one where we put up bonus episodes, where we have video, where we have online quizzes. It's a magical place and it's called Club Fish.
That's right. Just go to patreon.com slash clubfish today and check it out. And join us. Join us.
Okay. But for now, enjoy fish, enjoy Manu, and enjoy some seaweed. Okay. On with the show. That was a little teaser there. Really good. I feel teased.
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter-Murray, James Harkin, and Manu Onrio. And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days. And in no particular order, here we go.
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Chapter 3: What unique food item does Manu introduce during the episode?
What about cold burnt toast with low cholesterol spread? Cold burnt toast is on here.
Surely spread. Lots of spreads, I'm sure. Canned luncheon meat.
James, I know you love canned luncheon meat. Chocolate milk. I'm actually on, when I go to a restaurant, I ask them if they have a non-phicoloid menu. They love you. They absolutely love you. They say, any allergies, sir?
Yes, I don't really eat phicoloids. It's stunning what it said. Eggnog. I mean, yes. I listed a few niche ones in there, but a lot of them. This is great contraceptive chat right now. Fruit yogurt, a cornered, some poor girl in the corner of a party. Fish fingers, coleslaw for heaven's sake.
Have you guys heard of the kelp highway hypothesis? Excellent. No, I haven't. Okay, so kelp is a type of seaweed. Type of seaweed. A highway... So the kelp is moving somewhere?
It's actually not kelp moving, it's people moving, thanks to kelp. And it's a hypothesis. Okay, it's the theory. We all know the boring old theory about how people got into the New World over the Arctic or land bridges or whatever.
Yeah, the Bering Bridge, maybe? Yeah.
Maybe the Berry Bridge, whatever. Actually, what this theory posits is that there are these massive kelp forests stretching all the way from Alaska down to Southern California. I mean, down the coast of Canada and the USA, basically, and across from Japan. The theory is early humans settled the Americas basically by following the kelp.
And that's how they had the nutrients to get along that route.
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Chapter 4: What historical context is provided about whale oil usage?
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on with the show okay it is time for fact number two and that is my fact my fact this week is that in disney's three little pigs the pig who built his house out of bricks was voiced by a man who grew up in a house made of sticks such a good fact How did you find this? I got lost down the rabbit hole highway and I randomly discovered it.
So this was a very famous actor in his day, voice actor, as well as a screen actor. He was called Pinto Colvig. We'll get into him in a bit, but he was the voice not only behind one of the little pigs, but he was the original voice of Goofy. He was two of the seven dwarves in Snow White. He did a lot of big voices for Disney. And yeah, I read that he was the pig who made his house of bricks.
And I thought, I wonder if he lived in a house made of sticks. And I spent three hours Googling. And I eventually found... It was a remote control fish.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of agar-agar in cooking and science?
Yes.
Yeah, that's the term we use when you hope a fact is true and you desperately search to try and prove it. So a house made of sticks. We're not just talking a wooden house here. We are talking a wooden house. A wooden house.
Yeah. Oh, no, but it's a technical term, isn't it?
Yeah, stick build is a term that you would use for wooden houses.
When you say he grew up there, he didn't live there his whole life, did he? No. Like, he had to leave when the big bad wolf flew in.
Yeah, they flee town. So the house is a very specific house. You can still see it on Google Maps. I did that this morning. The address is 410 South Oregon Street, Jacksonville in Oregon. And... I found an original description of it, which was, it's a one and one half story wood frame house with gable roof that stands on the hillside overlooking much of Jacksonville. Question.
You said it's a one and a half story building? Yeah. What's going on there? Mezzanine.
Mezzanine. Mezzanine. Yeah. It must be. Compounded attic. Exactly. Okay. Yeah. When you sent this fact round, my first thought was, well, first thought was great fact. Second thought was, I don't really know this Disney Three Little Pigs. Like, I know all the movies of Disney. I thought I did. Yeah. But then I watched it on YouTube and it's a short, but I definitely knew it.
Like I had it growing up. I think we must've had it on cassette or something growing up. Cause it's the one, it's the one which has the song. Who's afraid of the big bad wolf.
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