No Such Thing As Tedious Moss is the 315th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 3rd episode of the seventh year, and the 14th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Plato, pizza and pliable planes.
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Facts[]
- NASA fixed its Mars probe by getting it to whack itself with a shovel. (Schreiber)
- We don't know what the Greek philosopher Plato's real name was. 'Plato' was his wrestling nickname. (Harkin)
- The first ever internal combustion engine was partially powered by explosive moss. (Murray)
- We have arches in our feet for the same reason that we fold slices of pizza. (Ptaszynski)
Trivia[]
- This is the second Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Murray wrote a piece about moss for The Book of the Year 2018, and his "love" of moss is mentioned again regularly.
- Ptaszynski mentions that Gaussian curvature was discussed in Episode 60: No Such Thing As An Unenjoyable Bowel Movement, which had just been reuploaded the previous week.
- The running joke about Murray being obsessed with moss is mentioned again in Episodes 319, 324 and 342.