No Such Thing As Worrying About What Might Happen is the 354th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 42nd episode of the seventh year, and the 54th and final episode of 2020. It consists of clips removed from previous episodes of the podcast.
It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber. Clips of special guests Alan Davies, Rhys Darby, Jenny Ryan, Tom Scott, and Sandi Toksvig can also be heard.
Description[]
An all-new bumper compilation of silliness with Dan, Anna, James, Andy, Jenny Ryan, Tom Scott, Rhys Derby, Alan Davies and Sandi Toksvig
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Facts[]
- If the 31st of December is on a Wednesday, technically that week is "Week 1" of the new year. (Ptaszynski)
- André Vingt-Trois is the thirtieth Archbishop of Paris - his surname means 23. (Schreiber)
- Indian luger Shiva Keshavan had to make a sled with wheels on and train on busy roads in the Himalayas, (Murray)
- The earliest version we have of Old MacDonald Had a Farm is Old Missouri Had a Mule. (Harkin)
- When planes are about to land, a computer in the cockpit yells at pilots to decide whether it's safe to proceed. (Schreiber)
- A rural farmhouse belonging to Joyce Taylor has 600 million IP addresses. (Ptaszynski)
- Jules Verne scholars refer to the novel as "Around the World in Eighty Days" and the play as "Around the World in 80 Days". (Ptaszynski)
- The CIA collected jokes from the Soviet Union. (Harkin)
- The first person to receive a gold medal in snowboarding had his medal stripped and then returned a few days later. (Ptaszynski)
- During the 1984 Olympics McDonalds ran a promotion meaning you would get free food when the US team won a medal. They did not count on the Soviet Union boycotting the event. (Toksvig)
- Nervana headphones send electrical impulses into your brain in time to the beat of the music you're listening to, making you even happier than you would've been. (Ptaszynski)
- After German reunification, the one thing East Germans insisted on keeping the same was the men on the traffic lights. (Murray)
- The American Dairy Association has a page of Famous Cows of the World, which includes Elm Farm Ollie, the first cow to fly in an aeroplane. (Ptaszynski)
- The reviews for the restaurant Wong Kei went down after they started being polite to customers. (Schreiber)
- Members of the Devenish-Phibbs family are named on plaques park benches all over the UK, even though they don't exist. (Ptaszynski)
- Scientists are trying to find out who killed the Dodo with a CT scanner. (Murray)
- Beer was banned in Iceland until 1989. (Murray)
- When the Queen stops eating, everyone else at the table has to stop eating as well. Queen Victoria was so greedy that she would eat incredibly quickly, and by the time the last guests were being served, she would have finished the course. (Ptaszynski)
- In 2015 the Finnish police asked citizens to inform them if they saw a pizza for sale for under €6. (Harkin)
- For just $1,250 you can buy a single hair from the horse that Lincoln rode in the 1860 election, Old Bob, who also attended Lincoln's funeral. (Murray)
- Until about 1998 there was a man working for the California Fish and Wildlife service called Terry Grosz, who would catch salmon poachers by pretending to be a salmon caught on their hook. (Schreiber)
- The Bryan brothers have a second job as a band. One of their songs has cameos from Andy Murray and Novak Djokovitch. (Ptaszynski)
- Ghost crabs are very house-proud, but only when they are sexually mature. (Ptaszynski)
- A CT scan of Egyptian priest Nesyamun revealed what his voice sounded like: Britney Spears. (Harkin)
- There are fewer chess players online than we think there are, because players create fake accounts, play themselves, and defeat them to raise their own ranking. (Schreiber)
- The Tyburn Angling Society still meet up once a year to report how many fish they've caught in the Tyburn river. As the river has been fully enclosed and absorbed into London's sewer system, the number is always zero. (Schreiber)
- When Harry Houdini fought with his wife he would leave the house, walk around the block, and then come back and throw his hat in through the door. If she threw the hat back, she was still angry. (Murray)
- The oldest story about Mongooses is from 3000 years ago. (Harkin)
- The only monarch Finland ever had was a German who never visited Finland. (Ptaszynski)
- The art forger Elmyr de Hory did so many forgeries of the artist Amedeo Modigliani that today we can't tell which works are real and which are forgeries. (Harkin)
- During the Second World War, a pair of Dutch sisters would cycle around and ambush Nazi collaborators. (Ptaszynski)
Trivia[]
- This is the last episode of 2020.
- This is the seventh New Year's Special compilation, and the fourth to be numbered.
- This is the eighth non-numbered special after No Such Thing As Unbroadcastable Material, The One Show Special, No Such Thing As John Johnson, Extra Bits, No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017, No Such Thing As Snooker Avocado, and No Such Thing As The iSausage.
- It is the eighth compilation episode after No Such Thing As Unbroadcastable Material, Extra Bits, No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017, Episode 249: No Such Thing As A Pint of Wine, Episode 302: No Such Thing As A Hedgehog Circus, No Such Thing As the iSausage, and Episode 333: No Such Thing As Fingerprints On The Avocados.
- This episode features audio from many episodes, several of which were recorded From Home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Harkin mentions that Elmyr de Hory's collection of his own forged artwork is run by a man called Mark Forgy.