No Such Thing As An Interesting Riddle is the 225th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 17th episode of the fifth year, and the 29th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
Description[]
Live from the Sydney Opera House, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss BBC stock orgies, being buried with a chicken and why you might cycle the Olympic marathon.
Facts[]
- The BBC has sound effects including "indisposed chicken", "more or less normal chicken", "standard orgy", and "comedy orgy".[1] (Murray)
- In the first Olympic marathon in 1896, the same stopwatch was used at the start and finish line, so had to be carried from one to the other ahead of the runners by bicycle.[2] (Ptaszynski)
- In 1st century Denmark, if you were really rich, you were buried with a chicken. If you were really, really rich, you were buried with a goose.[3] (Harkin)
- Before magician P. T. Selbit invented the famous "sawing a woman in half" illusion, his big trick was called "The Mighty Cheese", which saw him daring members of the audience onto the stage to try and push over his massive block of cheese.[4] (Schreiber)
Trivia[]
- This is the fifth stop on the Australasia Tour.
- This is the fifth Fish live show outside of Europe, the fifth in Oceania, and the fifth and final show in Australia.
- James and Anna announce an appearance at the 2018 London Podcast Festival as guests on The Comedian's Comedian.
- After a mention of Arthur Conan Doyle, Anna calls him "the most gullible man we've ever researched" in reference to the facts about him in Episode 130.
Notes[]
- ↑ BBC Sound Effects [direct source]
- ↑ The New Yorker: The Olympics' Never-Ending Struggle to Keep Track of Time
- ↑ ScienceNordic: The biggest status symbol in the Nordic Iron Age was a goose
- ↑ The Illusion Repository: The Mighty (Wrestling) Cheese