No Such Thing As A Super Mario Love Hotel is the 38th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 38th episode of the first year, and the 53rd episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest Lieven Scheire. It was recorded at the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium.
Description[]
In the first international live episode at the Brussels Atomium, Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) Anna (#getannaontwitter) and special guest Lieven Scheire (@lievenscheire) discuss love huts, space pizzas, door-based ants, and rehab for drunk birds.
Facts[]
- Ant nests can become infested by ants. (Scheire)
- In Cambodia, a teenage girl's parents might build her a "love hut", where they encourage her to sleep with as many boys as she wants until she finds the one that she likes. (Ptaszynski)
- The world's longest canyon is 50% longer than the Grand Canyon, but was not discovered until August 2013. It is buried under 1.9 miles of ice in Greenland. (Murray)
- In 2008, the University of Bath invented a 3D printer that could print a copy of itself. Within three minutes, that copy had copied itself to make a third copy, and today nobody knows how many of these printers exist in the world. (Harkin)
Trivia[]
- This episode is the second and last appearance of Lieven Scheire on the podcast.
- Scheire is promoting his podcast Nerdland.
- There are no absences from regular hosts, but nobody is fact-checking this episode.
- Dan Schreiber does not present a fact.
- This is the first ever episode of Fish to be recorded outside the UK, and the first to be recorded in Belgium.