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with the show. Oh,

2:29

hey Andy. Hey, everybody. I forgot to

2:31

do my interruption. Do it again. No.

2:34

Oh. So, welcome to Drop us a

2:36

line, everyone. Thanks for joining. Thanks for

2:38

being in Club Fish, you know. We

2:40

don't thank you guys enough. You club

2:43

fish members, and we're so glad you're

2:45

here. Yeah, we're chopped. Yeah, absolutely. And

2:47

you've been writing to us. Some of

2:49

you. And I also agree, she nodded,

2:52

but she just didn't say anything. Very

2:54

slightly. I thought it all sounded really

2:56

sarcastic and I know if you guys

2:58

sound sarcastic, I don't sound the most

3:01

sarcastic. So I'm making a mouth shut.

3:03

So you'd be writing to us some

3:05

great emails and we're going to read

3:07

them out back to you now. Great.

3:10

Circular system is very efficient, it's very

3:12

sustainable. It's very well you printed all

3:14

these emails out I notice. Yeah, but

3:16

on double-sided okay double-sided so I'm doing

3:18

my bet. Yeah, size 25 fun though.

3:21

So we've had some great stuff. Can

3:23

we start with a really cool thing?

3:25

We've sent a bingo card for our

3:27

own show. Have you seen this yet?

3:30

No. This is from Ross Cromhoff. Okay.

3:32

Who has been working on a couple

3:34

of other Sonic projects related to us,

3:36

which I'm not going to give away

3:39

at the moment, because I think they

3:41

might come into play soon. Wow. I

3:43

know. Okay. She's working on something and

3:45

she said, don't give the game away.

3:48

Okay. Can I ask a related question?

3:50

Yeah. Why is Sonic the Hedgehog? called

3:52

Sonic the Hedgehog. Why? Because he goes

3:54

faster than the speed of the speed

3:56

of sound. Oh. a related question. Who

3:59

used the word Sonic? I used the

4:01

word Sonic. I don't think that's a

4:03

good enough reason to derail email one.

4:05

I thought I can't save this for

4:08

later otherwise it would be really irrelevant.

4:10

The bad guy in Sonic the Hedgehog

4:12

is called Dr. Robotnik. Yeah. And Robotnik

4:14

in Russian means just a worker, right?

4:17

But in some of the Hachow bad

4:19

guy, he's like the boss guy. He's

4:21

not really a Robotnik. He's like a...

4:23

you know a boss Nick. Do you

4:26

think something the head jog is capitalist

4:28

propaganda then saying actually if you put

4:30

the worker in charge everything goes to

4:32

shit? Maybe. What did the emails have

4:35

to say about this Andy? So we've

4:37

been sent this bingo card by Ross.

4:39

Is Sonic chat on there? It's a

4:41

bit devastating to be honest. It's really

4:43

good. Uh-huh. So is it one of

4:46

those things it's like... you know you

4:48

watch a TV show and there are

4:50

these memes that come up every couple

4:52

of weeks and you cross them out

4:55

if they we're being troped yeah they

4:57

simply say them is agony I'm just

4:59

seeing if we've as we've I don't

5:01

think we've crossed any of them so

5:04

far what do you Andy can you

5:06

explain how you play it I actually

5:08

don't know how you would play this

5:10

well you get a bingo card we

5:13

would all have one of these and

5:15

if James brings up golf cross that

5:17

off And then when you make a

5:19

line all the way through you say

5:21

bingo and does everyone have a different

5:24

everyone's got a different card, but this

5:26

is just an example card Yeah, so

5:28

James says how interesting and does not

5:30

in fact sound interested Oh my god.

5:33

Yes, I know and I hadn't I

5:35

hadn't realized that until I read this

5:37

card. I do know I do that

5:39

I say it when I'm moving on

5:42

to something else and I do mean

5:44

it but because I'm thinking about the

5:46

next thing that I'm about to say

5:48

I know that's why it sounds disinterested

5:51

yeah yeah exactly is disinterested or uninterested

5:53

I think it's uninterested disinterested is when

5:55

you're neutral on an issue interesting when

5:57

you don't have to stop it okay

6:00

Oh yeah, that was a

6:02

lot. Andy uses an

6:04

old-fashioned curse word, brackets,

6:07

oh crumbs, devastating. Dankle

6:09

someone a character? Okay,

6:11

do I do that? I think you do

6:14

a bit, I think it's when

6:16

someone is a sex case, but

6:18

you're being a bit polite about

6:20

it. Is that come a lot?

6:22

Sex cases. But sort of histories,

6:24

you know, historical people will often

6:26

have facets to their personality which

6:28

are very discomfiting. Oh, okay, I

6:30

counted. That does, I feel like I'll

6:33

be like, this guy was such a...

6:35

character and then I don't think it's

6:37

always followed up with you know he

6:40

used to grope women on the train

6:42

all the time okay fair enough

6:44

fair enough Anna says obviously apparently

6:46

that is oh really thing for

6:49

you honestly shit really yeah doing

6:51

quite an extended solo word yeah

6:53

oh really when one of you said something

6:55

do I go obviously yeah kind

6:57

of I should stop doing that.

6:59

I'm really sorry. So let's look

7:01

out for these. As we go

7:03

further into the inbox. That's really

7:05

fun. Thank you, Ross. It's great.

7:07

Oh, it's quite fun hearing them

7:09

because it's making us think about

7:12

what we do. I think it's

7:14

probably making us think about what

7:16

we do. I think it's probably

7:18

making us think too much about what

7:20

we do and it's going to collapse

7:22

the show. Interesting. He is very much

7:24

a wife guy is on here. Oh

7:26

man. That's not going to get a

7:28

tick in any future episodes. Okay. Still

7:30

with my wife, by the way, and

7:32

love her very much. There we go. I

7:34

don't think you can do what Dan's

7:36

doing here and cheat by mentioning all

7:38

the things across off your bingo card.

7:41

Anyway, so that's great fun. Thank you

7:43

very much, Ross. Katie Meera writes, I

7:45

wanted to share something you might be

7:47

interested in. This week you spoke

7:49

about El Frank Baon's Donut mishap.

7:52

And James commented that he could eat 50

7:54

donuts in four days. That's what I thought

7:56

I could do, yeah. I'm not going to

7:58

back down on that quite yet. at

8:00

every meal for four days. You

8:02

can have some savory ones, some

8:05

sweet ones, fine. Okay, good. Yeah.

8:07

I wondered if you're aware, writes

8:09

Katie, of the annual Krispy Kreme

8:12

Challenge in Raleigh, North Carolina. The

8:14

challenge is to run two and

8:16

a half miles. James, you've done

8:19

sort of half marins and things,

8:21

haven't you? You could do that?

8:24

Yeah, that's doable. Yeah. This year's

8:26

winner, Nick Scudder, completed it in

8:28

30 minutes. That's very impressive. This

8:31

event raises money for a local

8:33

children's hospital. Is James up for

8:35

the challenge? Yeah, I'm up for

8:38

that. Great. When does it happen?

8:40

It's in North Carolina in the

8:42

first weekend of February. Oh, well,

8:45

we've just missed it. Well, I've

8:47

got a year to get into

8:49

training it. I'm going to eat

8:52

50 donuts every four days. That

8:54

should get me there. Perfect. Perfect.

8:57

Have you heard of The Man

8:59

from Snowy River, a film? Yeah,

9:01

well it's an epic poem as

9:04

well, right? Oh, okay. Well he

9:06

just has two facts. The first

9:08

is Australia-based, and the second is

9:11

more personal. First fact, the Craig's

9:13

Hut, most famously used in the

9:15

Man from Snowy River, was rebuilt

9:18

in 2006 by a man called

9:20

Craig. Very nice, because it was

9:23

called the Craig Up before that.

9:25

Is it a park, what is

9:27

it, a totem pole? No, it's

9:30

a hut. The Craig's hot. Yeah,

9:32

yeah, sorry. So the Craig's hot.

9:34

The second fact he says is,

9:37

my wife Ellen has hand-served the

9:39

most Clydesdale mayors in Australia for

9:41

the last three years. That's disgusting.

9:44

We do not need to know

9:46

that. She is the stud mistress

9:48

at Arunga Clydesdale's. Oh my God,

9:51

so it is that. It is

9:53

like she was a waiter at

9:56

a restaurant also, and did she

9:58

had served, right, right? And I

10:00

thought when you said mayors, you

10:03

said, you said, you said, actually

10:05

said mayors. Yeah, I thought you

10:07

said that as well. It's worse.

10:10

May as is worse. I genuinely

10:12

thought she was must have made

10:14

it the head of government of

10:17

this town. that gold chain's clanking

10:19

away. So I just think that's

10:22

a great, great email. And I

10:24

wrote back saying, thank you, we'll

10:26

try and get that in sometime.

10:29

And he says, I have photos,

10:31

decent ones. It turns out that

10:33

it's, I think that's leading the

10:36

females out to be. to be

10:38

seen too. So you don't have

10:40

to get involved with anything. So

10:43

man from Snowy River, just to

10:45

say, I didn't clock it straight

10:48

away, but it is an epic

10:50

poem. It's by Banjo Patterson, who

10:52

also wrote Clancy of the Overflow,

10:55

but also Waltzing Matilda. So this

10:57

is a very famous object. Yeah,

10:59

he is the laureate of all

11:02

in the movie. Yeah. Very nice.

11:04

Actually Smith writes. I used to

11:06

be a voice/speech coach and I've

11:09

been meaning to send this note

11:11

for ages. Which one of us

11:13

gets it? Yeah, it's been 10

11:16

years Ashley, this is going to

11:18

hurt. Regarding the pronunciation of Alan

11:21

and Robin Sniggy's last name. I've

11:23

heard you all, repeatedly pronouncing the

11:25

E at the end, making... Takey,

11:28

rhyme, with stick. If you... If

11:30

you're saying... Sorry. If... That's it.

11:32

Andy's gone. Well, we had a

11:35

good run. If you're saying it

11:37

this way for comedic effect. Please

11:39

disregard this note. If not, allow

11:42

me to point out the E

11:44

at the end of Thickey. It's

11:47

silent. Alan. Alan Thickey even had

11:49

a late night talk show in

11:51

the 80s called, Thickey, Thickey of

11:54

the Night. The title of which

11:56

would have made no sense of

11:58

his name, Ryan. Does

12:01

she have anything to say about the weekend? I

12:11

think that's really helpful. Yeah, thank you,

12:13

Ashley. I've written back and said, no,

12:15

don't worry. I'm ashamed to have missed

12:17

that one episode. I've just been living

12:19

with that. That's

12:22

why you need to listen to all the

12:24

episodes. Absolutely, absolutely. Oh,

12:26

here's a weird thing. I don't know

12:28

if you've ever mentioned this on the podcast

12:30

or QI, but I surely have to

12:32

be wrong as this is a very strong

12:34

fish fact. But in case you haven't,

12:36

there is an actual fake but huge coal

12:38

mine beneath Birmingham University built in 1905

12:40

made to teach coal mining to students. So

12:42

we have mentioned that. You mentioned Anna

12:44

in episode 49. I looked it up, but

12:47

the email is from Andy Murray. That's

12:51

terrifying stuff. He says, not that one

12:53

or that one. There you go. You

12:57

know, there's a third Andy Murray. What

12:59

do do this? That guy? No, it's a

13:01

fourth Andy Murray. Oh, wow. He's the

13:03

head of the Stop the War Coalition back

13:05

in the old days. He's a very

13:07

prominent communist and I was once introduced as

13:09

him for a live event. I was

13:11

doing a debate about war, I think. And

13:13

someone stood up and said, Andy Murray

13:15

is a prominent communist and they had to

13:17

stop the war coalition. And I had

13:19

to stand up and say, no, I'm not.

13:21

Closes you improviser. So

13:24

we got straight up there and said,

13:26

OK, guys, we're all together. We're in

13:28

it together. But just give me a

13:30

room. Give me an object. Hummer

13:33

inside. Yes. OK. I

13:37

got a text message the other

13:39

day from an old friend of

13:41

ours, Richard Turner, who co -creator

13:43

of Museum and Curiosity. Absolutely legend.

13:45

Yeah. He was a very good

13:47

friend of Tony Slattery's. British comedian

13:49

for those who don't know him.

13:51

He passed away quite recently. So

13:53

he had a funeral. So Rich

13:56

messaged me this. He said, I

13:58

went to Tony's funeral and was

14:00

sort of expecting a guy there

14:02

to be called. Mike Mansfield, who he knows. He had

14:04

produced Tiger Bastable, which is a thing that Tony and Rich had

14:06

made back in the day. But the funeral was organized

14:08

by many who have only known

14:10

Tony more recently, so they might

14:12

not have known about him. But Mark,

14:15

Tony's lifelong partner, must have told

14:17

them to get hold of Mike

14:19

Mansfield. Mike wasn't there. But I

14:21

did happen to spot the world

14:23

famous human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield

14:25

Casey wondering around and looking a

14:27

bit lost. That's amazing. Just a

14:29

world famous human rights lawyer and

14:31

I'll have better stuff to then rock up

14:34

to funerals where he doesn't even know

14:36

the person. He might have thought there

14:38

was a reason. It might have been

14:40

put in his diary from someone. Exactly.

14:42

You better go to this. It's great.

14:45

That's so good. Sam Cavallaro writes, in

14:47

the bonus drop is a line of

14:49

January 2025, Andy wondered if there was

14:51

a TV show where they followed an

14:53

endoscope through a person's body. It turns

14:56

out there has been some progress on

14:58

this front. Someone we know, someone who

15:00

was a guest of ours recently, has

15:02

done this and swallowed a pill bot

15:04

and filmed the whole thing. So it's

15:07

gonna be like, what's his name? Matt

15:09

Parker. Matt Parker or... Oh, the Knoxville?

15:11

Tom Scott. Right nationality Anna.

15:13

Right nationality Anna. Oh, Mythbuster.

15:16

Mythbuster came on stage in

15:18

Melbourne, Brisbane. Yeah, it came on stage

15:20

as part of the fish tour, a

15:22

surprise guest at the end of the

15:24

show. So he's done that. Cool. Very

15:27

cool, yeah, that's fine. Um, Christie sends

15:29

effect about holding your coffee.

15:31

To stop it sloshing out of the

15:34

cup, you should hold your cup with

15:36

a claw grip or walk backwards. Okay.

15:38

Those are the two options. I heard

15:40

that. I heard that. I heard that.

15:42

I heard that. But she adds, I

15:44

love this PS, on another note, a

15:47

fish episode from years ago inspired

15:49

me to get a tattoo of Belfergora's

15:52

Prime. Oh wow. It's a number,

15:54

and I believe, I'm completely going

15:57

off memory here, but I think

15:59

it's one. and then 13 or

16:01

17 zeros and then maybe 13 and

16:03

then another load of zeros and then

16:05

one. Okay. I think but whatever way

16:07

it is it's it's an unusual prime

16:10

number. Nice. Well she says I work

16:12

in research and development and I would

16:14

love some little demon to whisper ideas

16:16

for inventions in my ear which I

16:18

think must be related to the story

16:21

behind Belfast prime but I just thought

16:23

that's very cool and have we talked

16:25

about fish-based tattoos before I feel like

16:27

we have done. Have we asked listeners

16:29

if they've got any... You know what

16:32

if we had some ink out there?

16:34

Okay, we never do this but I

16:36

have my phone on me. It's one

16:38

and then a load of zeros and

16:41

then a load of zeros. Oh cool.

16:43

So quite a big tattoo it sounds

16:45

like for her. She sounds like a

16:47

long legs. Maybe. You see what's on

16:49

the leg, you know? Might be a

16:52

spinal thing. Could be a lot of

16:54

people do 666 on their forehead. Yeah.

16:56

The entire... That's really nice. So I

16:58

think that's great. So if we've inspired

17:00

you to get a tattoo, please write

17:03

it and send us photos. Yeah. Yeah.

17:05

Yeah, we've never seen one on tour.

17:07

That would usually be the place during

17:09

a signing. Right, maybe we're not cool

17:11

enough. We'd be able to get tattoos.

17:14

No, I think our listeners are too

17:16

sensible for that. Yeah. I feel like

17:18

we've been asked. Oh, the inbox being

17:20

poisoned with some really repulsive pictures. Oh,

17:22

President of Garfield's anus! It's on the

17:25

bingo card! Amazing! We should all get

17:27

matching tattoos, like they did at the

17:29

end of Lord of the Rings. All

17:31

the, I mean, we've been working on

17:33

this for longer than they were making

17:36

Lord of the Rings. Wait, Frodo and

17:38

the other hobbies. Everyone did. Apart from,

17:40

I think, maybe someone like Sam who

17:42

got his stunt double to get a

17:45

tattoo on him instead. It was the

17:47

guy who played... and my... Oh Jonathan

17:49

Reese made it. Oh, his stunt double.

17:51

But I don't think, that's turned into

17:53

a bit of a joke that he

17:56

got his stunt double to do and

17:58

instead I think the stunt double was

18:00

part of that gang anyway to get

18:02

it. But no, they all got matching.

18:04

I genuinely thought you meant in the

18:07

plot at the end of the film.

18:09

photo sales off to heaven or wherever

18:11

he goes in one last. I think

18:13

J.R. Tolkien was not really a tats

18:15

guy. You know the ring, the one

18:18

true ring. It has writing on the

18:20

inside, doesn't it? So you could have

18:22

that writing on the inside of your

18:24

ring. That's a lovely idea. Yeah, that's

18:26

a lovely idea. Many have. Pop that

18:29

on. By the way, we're usually accused

18:31

of spoiling the end of books and

18:33

movies for which we apologize for, but

18:35

I think frodosailing off into heaven at

18:38

the end is, uh, we're okay this

18:40

time. A really old spoiler without warning,

18:42

it's on the bingo card. Is it?

18:44

Yep. Have you seen it or did

18:46

you just invent that? No, that's basically

18:49

what he gets on a boat and

18:51

he sort of goes to, you know,

18:53

to another world, right? Sales into the

18:55

West. Yeah, I think that's basically what

18:57

happens, isn't it? Okay, so we have

19:00

ruined it. Andrew Berson writes, this is

19:02

about an episode, one of the recent

19:04

ones, New Zealand ones, which I wasn't

19:06

in, but you got Josh Thompson in?

19:08

Oh, yeah, brilliant. He was so good.

19:11

All right. Okay, well, bucklele, buckle up,

19:13

buckle, buckle up. I was at your

19:15

recent chair in Christchurch. In fact, I

19:17

went up on stage and was the

19:19

lucky winner of James' sexy quiz. Andy

19:22

wasn't there because he had more important

19:24

things to do. The quiz, by the

19:26

way, you will remember, wasn't sexy all

19:28

the way through the tour, but it

19:30

just got really sexy that night? Wow.

19:33

I'm sorry to miss it. Andy wasn't

19:35

there because he had more important things

19:37

to do, rude. So you had Josh

19:39

Thompson and Philin for him for him

19:42

on the night. Yeah, he was so

19:44

good. He was so good. He was

19:46

so good. He was so good. He

19:48

was so good. He was so good.

19:50

He was so good. He was so

19:53

good. He was so good. He was

19:55

so good. He was so good. He

19:57

was so good. He was so good.

19:59

He was so good. He was so

20:01

good. He was so good. He was

20:04

so good. He was so good. He

20:06

was. He was. He was so good.

20:08

He was. He was so good. He

20:10

Uh-oh, guys. Okay. As in, he hates

20:12

them. No. Josh went to Timaru Boys

20:15

High School, Timaru is a city south

20:17

of Christchurch, and on the grounds is

20:19

a tree that was given by Hitler.

20:21

Really? Yep. Because a former student, Jack

20:23

Lovelog, won gold in the 1500 meters

20:26

at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 and

20:28

was gifted in Oak Tree, as were

20:30

all other gold medal winners. When he

20:32

returned, it was planted at the local

20:35

high school and is still there today.

20:37

That's a great fact. That's so good,

20:39

yeah. And I guess Josh... blacklisted from

20:41

the show. Heather Morgan, your most recent

20:43

episode 563, is not the first time

20:46

James has shown his cards re-hovers. James

20:48

suggested that most penis injuries come from

20:50

vacuum cleaners. In an earlier episode from

20:52

a few months ago, the listeners, they

20:54

really don't like you get away with

20:57

anything. James implied some sort of relationship

20:59

between himself and his Henry Hoover. Not

21:01

anymore. No. The restraining order requires it.

21:03

The human rights lawyer took it away.

21:05

Some Michael Mansfield Q.C. I'm hearing for

21:08

Henry. Yeah, fair enough, I just think

21:10

it's a funny trope. It's a funny

21:12

trope. Yeah, and so it just is

21:14

the first thing that comes to my

21:16

head when someone talks about hovers. It's

21:19

the first joke that comes into my

21:21

mind and I'd very rarely go to

21:23

the second joke. We've never heard it.

21:25

Here's the second joke. Here's something about,

21:27

we mentioned conductors who don't use their

21:30

hands. And you mentioned Leonard Bernstein doing

21:32

his eyebrows? Was it Leonard Bernstein? Here

21:34

we go. Yeah, it was Bernstein. Because

21:36

he was a film, the famous film

21:39

written. Yes. Bankpipe pipe majors always conduct

21:41

without their hands because they are facing

21:43

the other way from the band So

21:45

using their hands would be a bit

21:47

you know they're facing the wrong wife

21:50

that so they keep time with their

21:52

feet Dancing is that like a marching

21:54

exactly it's crazy in a pipe back

21:56

because the yeah the conductor is right

21:58

at the front who's is marching right

22:01

maybe there'll be a basson but that's

22:03

that's sometimes more decorative you should walk

22:05

backwards because then he won't spill his

22:07

spill his teeth So thank you for

22:09

that. Great one. Great one Rose. Oh,

22:12

James. Yes, Andrew. There's one for you

22:14

here. Great. Martin Green. Is about golf.

22:16

Oh, Green. Well, you're going to be

22:18

in the rough in a minute. my

22:20

Hoover back from the Airbnb. You stayed

22:23

in. This is something you said a

22:25

few weeks ago. It was that Courtney

22:27

Pike was the angling correspondent for the

22:29

Suffolk Gazette. Yes, I've had some correspondence

22:32

about this. Yeah, apparently I got tricked

22:34

by a gag. That was a massive

22:36

list that you did. So if one

22:38

was wrong, then was it all wrong?

22:40

No, it wasn't all wrong. Yeah, so

22:43

just one wrong. That's going to happen.

22:45

The dance approached the fact finding. Customer

22:47

service at its finest. It's good. It's

22:49

good. Let's look at it. I know,

22:51

I know. I just, yeah. Yeah. So

22:54

I did a big long list and

22:56

caught any pike. I actually only saw

22:58

the pike bit when I did the

23:00

list. And then Andy pointed out, caught

23:02

any pike is also a phrase. And

23:05

then I thought, what a brilliant name,

23:07

and it turned out that it's so

23:09

brilliant because someone thought of it. Yeah.

23:11

Well, fair enough. But as Dan says,

23:13

it's going to happen. No one's hurt.

23:16

In that case, no one's hurt. That

23:18

one's just far away. It's like the

23:20

time. I mean, we've all, gosh, we've

23:22

all done this. Do remember my big

23:25

flub? I do because you insisted we

23:27

do an advert at the top of

23:29

the next show to correct it. Do

23:31

you remember that? The April Fool's one

23:33

about The Elephants in Cornwall. Yeah. Oh

23:36

boy. I don't remember this. What did

23:38

you say? It was saying that all

23:40

the major roads in Cornwall today follow

23:42

the routes of migration elephants. During the

23:44

last ice age. And that's true. I

23:47

should have realized it's not true because

23:49

there aren't any major roads in Cornwall.

23:51

Sadly. Oh, you were devastated at the

23:53

time. Oh, God, I was so gusted.

23:55

You literally did an apology at the

23:58

top of the show. Quite right, too.

24:00

I should have just said, it's going

24:02

to happen. Oh, well, let's have a

24:04

cockney pike apology next week. Get on

24:06

to it immediately. Here's a great bonus

24:09

fact about someone we mentioned a little

24:11

while ago. We mentioned Dick Sweat, an

24:13

American politician? Oh yeah, I remember him.

24:15

Isumi Kajimoto writes, I went to university

24:17

with the former US ambassador to Denmark.

24:20

Two additional facts. One, he was a

24:22

triathlete. Dick Sweat is a jock. Okay.

24:24

Two, his roommate's name was Timber Dick.

24:26

No! Not a real, that's a nickname,

24:29

isn't it? I don't know. I have

24:31

not looked it up. I mean, it

24:33

sounds plausible. Timber passed away tragically but

24:35

had a notable career and family. Ten

24:37

kids! Wow, you wouldn't have thought that

24:40

would be possible, would you? With his

24:42

assets. Congratulations, uh, Timber, and thank you,

24:44

Isumi. Timber! It never happens, I swear.

24:46

Andrew X writes, formerly Andrew Twitter. Sorry.

24:48

Are you sorry, is that Andrew the

24:51

Tenth? Is Pope Andrew the Tenth? Right.

24:53

I was a little bit worried about

24:55

the advice you gave in the Valentine's

24:57

Day episode that immediately doing CPR on

24:59

a severely hypothermic, seemingly dead person is

25:02

the right thing to do. This could

25:04

potentially kill them by pumping cold blood

25:06

to their core and giving them a

25:08

heart attack. From my wilderness first responder

25:10

training, I thought this was a definite

25:13

no-no, but on checking current advice seems

25:15

to be a little more nuanced. but

25:17

you really need to be careful and

25:19

I think we can all get behind

25:22

that. So is this the kind of

25:24

thing we say at the top of

25:26

next week's episode or is that if

25:28

your friend is in the ice don't

25:30

let me don't get your podcast out?

25:33

I know there was something about this

25:35

on episode recently. No I'm going to

25:37

listen from the start otherwise I wanted

25:39

to stand it. It's not sticky? You've

25:41

got to send them a quick email

25:44

about the sticky thing. So yeah, I

25:46

think we're happy to set the record

25:48

straight on that. I mean, it's nuanced.

25:50

Is like really... Well in that case

25:52

it worked, right? In that case it

25:55

did work. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Quite

25:57

famously. So there we go. One last

25:59

one? Yeah, this is good news. Whoo!

26:01

We're going to be rich. Whoo!

26:04

Yeah! Lovely. David John Welsh writes.

26:06

I'm a Nigerian prince. Although you

26:08

probably no longer need the money

26:11

after the successful multi-million dollar lawsuit

26:13

with Lim Manuel Miranda. Oh yeah.

26:15

We invented Hamilton the musical basically

26:18

months before he... came out to

26:20

the scene of his musical home.

26:22

Not quite right, but yeah. I'm

26:25

writing to inform you of another

26:27

potential lawsuit. Brilliant. Yeah. I often

26:30

listen to old episodes of fish

26:32

on my commute, usually at random.

26:34

Imagine my surprise then on hearing

26:36

the unbroadcastable material from 2014. The

26:38

unbroad. I think that was a compilation,

26:41

a first compilation, probably, where it

26:43

was a reveal here's the worst

26:45

of fish. Yeah, he just started

26:47

it. I know. Commonly, we had enough

26:49

of unbroad grasp material. Yeah. I

26:51

was surprised to hear you all

26:53

basically pitch, is it cake, a full eight

26:55

years before that show made its way onto

26:57

Netflix? No way! So, David had some

27:00

new ones here, I'm afraid. Oh,

27:02

here we go. Okay, so the

27:04

item in your pitch, wasn't cake,

27:06

it was bushes. It's our topiary

27:09

show. The episode I'd listen to

27:11

right before it was The Drop

27:13

is a line in which you

27:15

created Keko, so you might, oh

27:17

do you remember the superhero Keko?

27:20

I don't remember what Keko did.

27:22

Me neither. It was the Keko

27:24

the killer whale. The whale, but

27:26

no, the superhero Keko was different,

27:28

was not a whale, I'm sure.

27:31

Anyway, here's the quotes. Be the

27:33

bush. Be the bush. Be the bush. It's just

27:35

a load of bushes and you have to guess

27:37

which one is a person. Dan says camouflage the

27:40

TV series which of these is not a

27:42

tree. So that's very similar to is it

27:44

cake where you're presented with an object and

27:46

it's either cake or not. It's basically the

27:48

same format. It is. Yeah. As the person who brought

27:50

this to your attention I would expect you

27:53

to offer me a large cash reward. I

27:55

appreciate the sentiment but I will settle for

27:57

just knowing from where Kako produces his or

27:59

her cake. So thank you David.

28:02

I reckon probably a damaged

28:04

blowhole. So that's, thank you

28:06

so much everybody, that's our,

28:09

that's our lot today. And

28:11

just keeps losing me to

28:14

the inbox. We love getting

28:16

them. podcast.com. Yeah, if you've

28:18

listened to an old episode

28:21

and you find that we've,

28:23

predicted something that... subsequently happen.

28:26

We really love that stuff.

28:28

Yeah. Or any suggestion for

28:30

how we can make millions.

28:33

Yeah. Yeah, that would be

28:35

useful. We're up for it.

28:38

And just like, I mean,

28:40

thanks so much for your

28:42

correspondence. And, um... So it's

28:45

very sarcastic, isn't it? What

28:47

the way I speak? Just,

28:50

well, thank you specifically. It's

28:52

very hard to do sincerely.

28:54

Yeah, thank you, guys, thank

28:57

you. No, that sounds worse.

28:59

Yeah, it's not, but once

29:02

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29:04

like, I ask that you

29:06

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