No Such Thing As A Computer in the Oval Office is the 74th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 22nd episode of the second year, and the 33rd episode of 2015. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Andy and Alex discuss the early days of MI6, donkeys with WiFi, and the world's only handwritten newspaper.
Facts[]
- According to the diary of the first chief of MI6, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, this is how his first day on the job went: "Went to the office. Saw no-one, nor was there anything to do there." (Schreiber)
- There is a distillery in Kentucky that claims that playing Bruce Springsteen to the whiskey improves the ageing process. (Harkin)
- There is a statue of Nikola Tesla in Silicon Valley that radiates free Wi-Fi. (Bell)
- A third of people in Britain have almost written nothing by hand in the last six months. (Murray)
Trivia[]
- Regular host Anna Ptaszynski is absent.
- Alex Bell guests, making his eleventh appearance on the podcast.
- The live show at the Lyric Theatre, which became Episode 88: No Such Thing As A Moon Sausage Bullet, is first plugged here.
- Andrew Hunter Murray's show Folie a Deux at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe is plugged.
- Bell mentions that the original manuscript of On The Origin of Species contains doodles by Charles Darwin's children, a fact included in Episode 249: No Such Thing As A Pint of Wine.