No Such Thing As A Fish - 526: No Such Thing As An Angry Banana
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Hi everybody, Andy here. Just before we start this week's show I have a little announcement
to make. We're in plug corner because I have written a book. I have offended again against
all the people who say don't, don't do another one, just stop at two, and I've written a
third one. And this one, for the first time ever, I've written something that is fun and
funny as well as being gripping. It's called A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering. It's about a young man called Al who lives in gorgeous, empty second homes
while the real owners are away. He's got a whole set of rules to help him get into these
beautiful houses he could never afford to live in. He has a great life. Until about
Chapter 3 when he and his friends break into the wrong house on the wrong day, somebody
ends up dead and everything goes wrong from there. It's funny, it's gripping, it's pacey, there's a little bit of a message about housing in
there. It's a perfect summer read, people have been really nice about it. Val McDermid, Lisa Jewell,
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have signed copies if you'd like to get a hold of one of those. I promise it's good,
I've put a lot into it, I'm going to stop banging on about it now. It's called A Beginner's
Guide to Breaking and Entering. Thanks very much for Thing As A Fish, a weekly podcast coming
to you from the QI offices in Hobben. My name is Alex Bell and I'm joined by Anna Shuzinski,
Andrew Hunter-Murray and James Harkin. And once again, we are gathered around the microphone to share our four favorite facts
from the last seven days.
So in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with fact number one, and that is Andy.
My fact is that half the nitrogen in your body was made in a factory.
Which factory?
Um, well, it won't have been made in the UK anymore.
Because of Brexit.
Oh, it's a range of factories.
But the last nitrogen making factory, I think, has just shut down.
Has it?
Yeah.
Is that the Billingham Manufacturing Plant?
Yes, it is.
How interesting.
Has that closed?
I didn't know that.
It either has done or is about to.
But let's zoom out a little bit.
Just thinking though.
Yeah.
No, let's talk about Bill little bit. Just thinking though, even if it's just closed,
surely it takes a while for all the nitrogen to be replaced so maybe some of it's British
nitrogen in my body? You might have some British nitrogen in you but I'm afraid a lot of it
would be filthy foreign nitrogen. Right, all life forms, don't write in, most life forms, mammals and plants all contain nitrogen.
It's a really important component in your body. It's required to make the protein in your body and all these various hormones, neurotransmitters, it's vital.
You know, nitrogen is very important. And most of the air is nitrogen, right? 78% of the atmosphere is nitrogen.
But that's not where you get your nitrogen from.
So you can't just breathe in the nitrogen from the air
and get it in your body?
No, even if you hold your breath for ages,
none of the nitrogen goes in that way.
It doesn't work.
What a waste.
What a waste.
But you get it from your food.
So meat, fish, dairy, vegetable, cereals, nuts,
all of those foods contain some nitrogen, right?
So plants get it from the air.
I mean, there's a complicated bacterial process.
By which nitrogen ends up in water.
Or lightning.
Or lightning, and that's another way.
We'll get there as well.
The point is that about two or three kilos of your body,
roughly half of your forearm to the end of your hand,
is nitrogen.
Is that where it all is?
That's where it all is.
So the amount of you made in a factory is roughly your hand and wrist.
And that's because nitrogen-based fertilizer has become an enormous thing in the last century.
It's incredibly important.
It's why the human population has risen from one or two billion to now eight billion.
The sole reason is that we have enough ways of feeding people because we have enough fertilizers
to grow crops.
And the way we do that is with this brilliant chemical process discovered
at the start of the 20th century, which allows us to pull nitrogen from the sky and make
it into fertilizer to make plants grow.
Does this mean I'm not organic?
Yeah.
Shit.
What's the point of buying all that nice food?
Nitrogen fixation. Remember learning about that? That was where I sort of lost interest and
now coming back to it I thought, God, this is fascinating. But, for all nitrogen being told,
it has to be fixed. So there's this conundrum which Andy sort of touched on where it's full of it,
but plants can't take it in without assistance. And so it needs to be fixed by these bacteria
that basically make plant roots grow these nodules
Which act as their homes and then they live in these nodules and they fix this nitrogen turning into ammonia
Which plants can use and the nitrogen came originally from a star exploding. Oh
That's essentially it didn't know that the big bang can make hydrogen helium
But anything else needs to be made in stars. The original nitrogen factory is a star.
Yeah, exactly.
So some star created lots of nitrogen, then it exploded, eventually it came to Earth.
Then eventually it got in the sky.
Then eventually a bacterium fixed it.
And then it got put into a carrot, and then you ate the carrot, and then it went into
your bloodstream, and then it got turned into proteins, which got turned into muscles.
It definitely gets less exciting, doesn't it?
You know, like, part of the journey starts off really well
and then it's sort of sitting in a carrot.
Yeah, so how did we learn to make this stuff?
Oh, I'm so glad you asked.
Oh, it's like Inside the Factory with Greg Wallace.
I love that.
He's like, oh, look at that nitrogen.
Oh, yeah, lovely. Oh, yeah.
It's all thanks to something called the Haber-Bosch process,
or Haber-Bosch, as sometimes known.
So Flitz Haber and Karl Bosch were two German chemists.
And the problem was, like, everyone
knew that we needed more nitrogen at the time,
but it was very hard to work out how we're going to actually get
it.
And we talked about guano, like the guano gold rush,
because bird poop contains lots of nitrates.
So that, in the 19th century, was
used to increase crop yields.
And that saved everyone's bacon.
And that was brilliant for a while.
Everyone ran out of some bacon.
Oh, they put it on their bacon.
Very nice.
We're talking about the Haber-Botter process.
Can I talk about bacon?
Yeah, go on.
You know, most bacon is cured with nitrates.
As in that's what makes it last longer,
which is a type of nitrogen,
or it's a molecule with nitrogen in it.
And when it goes green bacon,
that is something called nitrate burn.
And it's a reaction to the chemical that's used to cure it.
And it means that it's still good to eat.
So if your bacon's got a bit green, you can still eat it.
Amazing.
It's not bacteria. It's not anything that eat it. Amazing. It's not bacteria.
It's not anything that's bad for you. It's just a natural part of the process. I thought
it was rotten. Yeah. I thought my bacon had gone off. I'm not saying that all green bacon
is good to eat. That's what I've taken away from this. But if you bought it only a week
ago, it's probably fine. Sorry, Andy. You were saying about Bosch and Harbour. Harbour. Yeah.
So basically, he was a chemist and it was a very, very difficult process to work out.
He knew that lightning, as you said James, breaks apart nitrogen bonds because nitrogen molecules
are really tightly bonded. It takes a lot of effort to break them apart to turn them into ammonia.
But eventually he worked out sort of pressurized process to combine nitrogen and hydrogen and that
makes the ammonia fertilizer. And he developed that in 1913, Harbor. And it was just before the war.
And there's a theory that it actually kept
the First World War going for longer
than it should have done.
Because German imports of fertilizer were blockaded,
but he was able to, he had created a process
where you could make, as they called it, bread from air.
Yeah.
So if we stopped any poo from getting over to Germany
during the war, they could make their own stuff.
Exactly.
Yeah, basically. Yeah, I mean, that was it.
And he got the Nobel Prize for it, didn't he? Which was extremely controversial.
It was very controversial.
On account of his other legacy.
Because he made poison gas.
Right.
That's so funny. I can't believe the Nobel Prize in 1919 went to someone who'd invented...
Which gas was it? Was it...
Chlorine.
Chlorine gas.
It was quite controversial.
Yeah.
He did kill 90,000 people with it not he didn't go round personally spraying it
into the trenches yeah he was responsible for the birth of arguably six billion
yeah so it's in roundabouts he's you think on my interviews he's like I don't
want to talk about that I want to talk about my Nobel Prize winning work because his wife Clara was a
chemist as well and they had a huge dispute
after the, I think the first battle of Ypres where poison gas was used for the first time
and killed thousands. He said it was no different killing someone with a bomb or a bullet, she
said it is very different and then she killed herself, she shot herself.
The ultimate act in an argument.
We don't know for sure that the argument is what led to the suicide. Oh really?
Because she didn't leave any notes or anything like that.
But we know she really...
She's fascinating, Clara Haber, or Haber if you're a German listening.
She was Germany's first female doctor of chemistry.
She got a PhD in 1900.
And she turned him down.
The first time Fritz proposed she turned him down
because she wanted to be financially independent.
Which is crazy in 1900 as a woman.
But she'd gone, hey I I wanna live under my own steam.
And then she decided marriage would kind of empower her,
which it bloody well didn't,
which she did complain about, understandably.
She was like, hang on, my husband turns out
to be very self-serving, constantly working.
I don't have a chance at all to develop my career.
Yeah.
And he's a mass murderer.
And it turns out he's a mass murderer,
and that's the final straw.
And he was like, no, no, talk about that other stuff, talk about the Nobel Prize stuff.
Did you see pictures of her? I think she looks a bit like Fenella, Dan's wife.
Oh!
Do you?
Yeah.
I haven't seen a photo of her.
I'm not very good with faces as we all know.
Right.
But that was what I thought.
And do you associate Dan with Fritz Haber,
the mass murdering but mass life producing complex character?
In some ways, but I think Dan is more of a wife guy than Fritz Harbour.
So then Harbour escaped to Switzerland wearing a false beard after the war.
And then after World War One, because obviously we then had the Treaty of Versailles, which
really punished Germany, right?
And so he came up with the idea of extracting gold from the ocean to pay off all of the war reparations
because he knew that there was loads and loads of gold
in the ocean.
And he thought, if I can get at that,
we'll be rich beyond our wildest dreams.
It doesn't work.
And actually we still can't do it, of course.
Where-
What's that term that I think you've told me about,
James, for when Nobel Prize winners win a prize
and then they come up with a really insane and subsequent idea It goes to their head. Nobelitis. Nobelitis sounds like a serious case of seriously sore Nobelitis.
But if you've done it once before, you've literally made bread from air. Yeah. The human population is going to grow by billions.
That's true. From the guy who brought bread from air comes gold from the ocean. It works. Yeah, I believe it.
Yeah, I believe it. That works, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
And actually, sort of associated, the Nobel Prize in 1935 was awarded for basically being
able to turn an element into another element, which was the alchemy that people had dreamed
of forever and ever.
True.
That people had tried to make gold, and actually this was turning boron into nitrogen, which
wasn't quite the fantasy of a 17th century alchemist.
But like these factories were taking already existing
nitrogen out of the air and making it into ammonia,
which could be used.
But Marie Curie's daughter, who won that prize, right?
I can't remember her name.
But that was actually making new nitrogen,
which no one had ever done before, apart from the stars.
So this was amazing.
And I didn't realize that she was the second female
to win a Nobel prize,
Marie Curie's daughter.
Who was Marie Curie the first?
Yeah.
Yes.
And it was husband.
Nepo baby!
But it was husband and wife as well, so just like Marie Curie and her husband Pierre who won a joint prize,
sweetly it was Marie Curie's daughter Irene and her husband Frederick Joliot Curie who won the Nobel Prize in 1935.
Do you think that maybe they didn't have a chance unless you sort of did stand behind a man a bit and then...
I'm sure there was something about that.
Although her son was Curie so I think that probably helped.
I think that opened a few doors.
Yeah and also her way of making nitrogen was firing radioactivity at Boron wasn't it? I think.
Yeah.
So it's kind of you know know, in the parents' realm.
Okay.
Yeah, she probably had her equipment in the garage already.
Yes, exactly.
It's a lot easier when you feel it.
And if memory serves, I think she died of leukemia,
didn't she?
What, the younger?
I think Irene did, yeah.
Related to the work she'd done?
I'm sure.
Didn't know that.
To be honest, I'm going off memory,
but I think that's right.
Because Mary, it was the last thing that Mary almost did
was see the results of her daughter's successful test
before she died of leukemia.
Yeah, nice.
One thing on the Billingham manufacturing plan.
Oh, thank God.
In Stuckton-on-Tees in England.
We'd better get a free trip out of it.
It's closed.
I'm not going to a closed down night trip.
I've had worse day trips out with the white credit card.
Aldous Huxley went there.
They gave him a trip around
and he based some of Brave New World on it.
So you know in Brave New World,
they have a factory making humans, I think, don't they?
Yeah.
And yeah, they make clones and stuff like that.
And he saw this building and factory
that was effectively making life by making this nitrogen.
I am imagining Willy Wonka style. It's so this nitrogen. I am imagining like Willy Wonka style, like it's so whimsical.
It's a reverse Willy Wonka because in Willy Wonka don't the kids go in and never come
out.
Whereas in Brave New World you get loads of new kids from the factory.
The kids do come out, they just come out all weird shapes and colours and they've all been
really quite fucked up psychologically and physically.
Every chocolate factory has a nitrogen factory next to it to make new children. Right.
Fed to the chocolate factory.
It's a horrific process.
I learned about what I think is the most exciting moment
in history, in all of history.
Wow.
As we said at the start, nitrogen essential for life
because it makes amino acids which make proteins
and that's like the whole building box
of what all living things are made of.
But there's this kind of mystery which is how did the first life get its nitrogen?
Because as we've said,
it needs this bacteria to be made accessible.
And it can also be made by lightning striking through it,
but actually not enough seems to be generated by that.
And it seemed quite unlikely,
and it seems like the likeliest explanation
for where the very first life ever came from.
So whatever, three and a half billion years ago is God.
And there we go.
That is exciting.
But wait, this is like the original chicken and egg,
really, what is the actual answer?
So what is the answer?
The answer is it happened with volcanic lightning,
which I just think is the coolest moment.
So basically when volcanoes erupt,
then lots and lots of lightning can be generated from
the eruption.
It's when all this ash goes up.
It's a really complicated process, but basically the ash rubbing against each other makes static
electricity.
And if you look, you've got loads and loads of lightning bolts, hundreds of them in this
volcanic eruption.
And scientists have looked at the soil around volcanoes, seen they're full of nitrates,
which plants can use, and realize we think this must be how the first life ever was created was when shed loads of lightning was firing above
a volcano as it was erupting and it allowed nitrogen to get into the soil in
a way that could make life. That is cool. That is an origin story I can get behind. I'm so glad it wasn't just like oh this cell
touched this cell and a fish flopped out of a thing. And like all of the other origins are so lame.
That's like Frankenstein, electricity, evil laughter,
lava, yeah, it's great.
Yeah.
James, you just mentioned the Treaty of Versailles.
Yes.
So the Haber-Bosch process is so significant
that it was part of the package of the Treaty of Versailles.
No, was it?
The Western powers ordered via the treaty Germany
to hand over the secret of making these fertilizers
Yeah
There's all sorts of stuff. They cobbled on to the
We mentioned it in the past I can't remember what it was something else that's really random
Champagne they also didn't need didn't they want to change the way that orchestras were tuned. Yeah
It's like having an argument with your partner. Yeah. It starts with something else and you're
like, I'm just going to dredge up all these other things. Yeah. The ultimate argument with a partner.
What's champagne? Sorry. Oh, they, um, the fact that champagne can only be made in the
champagne region and anywhere else. It's sparkling wine That comes from the Treaty of Versailles.
Does it?
I didn't know that.
Wow.
I was thinking, surely the French already had Champagne.
The interesting part of that being that Russia didn't sign it and America didn't sign it
and in both those countries you can buy Champagne which isn't from France.
No way.
America didn't sign the Treaty of Versailles.
I think the little known fact, the First World War is still going on.
They had their own treaties.
They did.
Do America and Russia have a good culture of champagne?
Are they known for good champagne anywhere?
Californian white wine.
Yeah, that's true.
You must be able to make good champagne out of that.
Yeah, just stick an Alka-Seltzer in it.
Bob's your uncle.
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Okay, it is time for fact number two and that is Anna.
My fact this week is that Harriet Tubman once walked into a hospital and asked a doctor
to cut her head open and he immediately did.
Just mad.
So Harriet Tubman, extremely famous in America,
probably less well known about here, I would say,
but one of the most influential famous abolitionists ever,
one of the conductors of the Underground Railroad,
responsible for smuggling lots of enslaved people
into freedom in the 19th century.
And one thing that I've learned through reading about her, she was insanely hardcore. So tough.
So this is just an element of it. She was very old at the time. She must have been in her
sixties or seventies, I think in the 1890s and late 1890s she's in Boston and she passed this
big building and she asked what it was and someone said it was a hospital. And she's in Boston, and she passed this big building, and she asked what it was,
and someone said it was a hospital.
And she thought, well, I've had these terrible headaches
my whole life.
She really had had awful headaches
and terrible vision problems, was probably disabled by it.
So she went right in, and she said,
I saw a young man there, and I said,
sir, are you a doctor?
And he said he was.
And then I said, sir, do you think you could
cut my head open? And he said he was. And then I said, sir, do you think you could cut my head open?
And he said, lay right down here on this table. No. And Sons painkillers.
He sawed open her skull and raised it up, apparently.
And then as she put it, she got up, put on her bonnet and started to walk home.
But her legs did get a bit wobbly and give out under her.
So they gave her an ambulance to take her the rest of the way.
It's astonishing. Sorry, sorry, some questions.
When you say he raised up, is there like a loft extension of her skull?
Was her brain too big?
What is going on?
I think this was a slightly questionable medical procedure which she said worked and may have
been more placebo than much.
Like, she didn't go and say my brain is a bit low.
I feel like my brain's a little bit low in my head.
It's always been my neck.
Could you just wrench it?
Well, she did say it feels more comfortable now.
Apparently she, yeah, refused anesthetic, bitter bullet, as they did in the Civil War.
That is actually, I'm afraid, a myth, but it's a very interesting subject you raise, Alex,
because it's the mythology of her life which has been so turned into all these stories.
I personally don't believe any of this.
It sounds ridiculous.
It's interesting because the more you read,
you're like, that's a great fact.
And then you read again, someone goes, no, that's a myth.
And then a lot of the myths come from relatively close sources,
don't they?
The first biography I've heard that was written,
there's loads of myths in there.
She never got to write her own.
She wanted to write her own, and she never got to. Is it? We need to learn to read first, hon. Yeah, there's loads of myths in there. She never got to write her own, she wanted to write her own, she never got to.
Is it? Well you need to learn to read first, hon.
Yeah, it's true. Have you heard this story?
That's a slam because she was illiterate. Yeah, I was wondering.
Good slam, Anna. Yeah, that's how someone brought Harriet
Tufford down a peg or two. That's why I decided to do a fact about it.
On the reading, did you hear, I imagine this could be an apocryphal tale as well,
but there's a story that she was many years after all of her time running the Underground Railroad, that she was on a train
and a former master of hers got on.
And she was a known figure by that point.
But to avoid being recognised, she grabbed a nearby newspaper and pretended to read it
because she was known for not being able to read.
Oh yeah.
And then who was on the front cover of that newspaper?
The face was lined up perfectly without a wanted sign.
No, I think it's probably untrue.
Because I've had a different version of it, which is that when she was on one of her missions,
because she left the South where she'd been enslaved and she went back to free former slaves,
and she did a lot of that, shuttling back forward, but she was back in the South in 1856,
and she overheard some men reading her wanted poster, which said clearly she's illiterate and then she got out a book and pretended to read
it and the ploy was enough to fool the men and they're like she looks just like harriet tovman
but she's reading so it can't be her yeah she's reading a normal book upside down but why would
you put on the wanted poster that the she can can't read. It doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, exactly.
Since it's one of the least relevant things.
And also I think the idea that people even knew
who she was at the time is false.
So they knew that there was a person
who was helping all these enslaved people be freed.
They knew that people were calling them some kind of Moses
because they were freeing their people,
but they didn't know anything about her personally. And a lot of people assumed it was a white abolitionist
who was helping enslaved people.
But it is interesting because a lot of the stuff you read, you just think that can't
be true. And it's not to do down her amazing achievements at all, but it's to show that
she's, she's become this like unbelievable cult figure. It's almost mythological with
some of the stories around her.
We've got to tread quite a careful line between slamming one of the most beloved and famous
women in American history and also sort of acknowledging. She does some amazing stuff.
I find her the most incredible person, one of the most incredible people ever. I don't
have the energy sometimes to finish the research for this podcast. And this woman who was,
like, she was very disabled. She was female. She was black. She was enslaved. Just this
extraordinary life. And she fought in the Civil War as well. After being this abolitionist hero, she fought in the Civil
War, she was incredibly charitable. I don't understand why she got the energy and it actually
makes me quite angry. Her injury, her disability came when she was injured by an overseer who threw
a stone weight at her head when she was quite young. He actually threw it at someone else, I think, and it missed and it hit her.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Oh, that's bad luck.
But yeah, she had sleeping spells quite often, so she would just kind of fall asleep, what
we'd probably call narcolepsy today.
But she would have like these kind of hazy dreams while she was asleep.
And because she was very religious, she thought they were kind of premonitions from God.
It's quite stressful, the idea.
Let's say you've been enslaved,
Harriet Tubman's come back, she's freed you,
she's guiding you to the north,
and then she just falls asleep.
It's a bit of a comedy scene.
There is sick or potential in this life,
is all I'm saying.
No, but that's-
I think that might be the first time ever
someone said there's sick or potential
in Harriet Tubman's life.
She went back, she freed, and the numbers vary, so she rescued 60 or 70 people herself personally,
and then she gave instructions to another 70 odd, and that got slightly inflated to 300.
But she did go back, I mean, between, around 10 times she made a mission back into the South, which was really perilous.
She also went back at one point to go free her husband, who she'd left, came back, found
that he'd remarried. And there's a line which again is probably just a biographer, sort
of like she thought about making a scene, but then decided against it and rescued him
anyway. But it's like the idea again of like, there's sort of two minutes where she's deciding
whether to massively kick off, find another woman or to save him.
He didn't need to be rescued per se because he was not enslaved, he was a free man.
Right. Yeah, yeah, which was kind of a big deal at the time because a free man marrying an
enslaved woman, you would lose a lot of your rights because all your children would be
automatically enslaved, you wouldn't be able to get married unless you had permission of the
of the woman's master as they called them
Yeah, so that was quite a big deal. But yeah, like you say once she was off doing her gallivanting
Yeah, he was like now just gonna find another wife married again. The sitcom is taking shape
Once we think I do like is that when she retired eventually she retired into a retirement home that she had founded. So in 1908, she opened the Harriet Tubman home
for the elderly, specifically for like,
indigent and aged African Americans, as it was described.
And then-
Are we sure they didn't misunderstand?
And she said, no, I called it the Harriet Tubman home
because it's just a home for Harriet Tubman.
Just for me.
Yeah.
Here's another good thing.
Okay, this is good.
And I'm pretty sure this is true as well.
So on the missions, when she was taking people over to the North, she would sing, right? Here's another good thing. Okay, this is good. And I'm pretty sure this is true as well.
So on the missions when she was taking people over to the north, she would sing, right?
And there were particular songs. And some people say she would sing things like Swing
Low Sweet Chariot, but that hadn't been written yet. So she was very ahead of her time.
She was. Yeah. So there were songs called Go Down Moses and Bound for the Promised Land,
right?
And those were real songs, which she did sing at the time.
And this is a cool thing.
She would change the tempo of the songs
to indicate whether it was safe to come out or not.
So she would just be walking along singing,
but the way she was singing was a message
to the people she was ferrying north.
Really? Fascinating.
Does that mean like, you know,
if everything's going well and they need to run,
does she like go, dillin, dillin, dillin, dillin?
And then if they needed to be slower, she would just do it.
Yeah. And if she stops singing completely, she's fallen asleep.
I was looking into possibly what kind of brain surgery she had. And then I went on a bit
of a journey and found a really fascinating syndrome, which I cannot believe we have never
spoken about before. And I feel like we might have it actually.
This is called Forster syndrome, also known as Witzel-Sucht.
And it's the pathological urge to constantly make puns.
Witzel-Sucht. I had that for a while.
Witzel-Sucht.
Somebody get a doctor.
Fucking hell. So this was first noted in 1929 by a German neurologist called Ottfried
Forster, which is what his name is named after. He was operating on a patient to remove a
tumor and the patient was awake as often happens, as was the case with Harriet Tubman. And as
he started moving around this tumor, the man suddenly, he was face down strapped to the
table. He suddenly just started talking manically and just like making pun after pun.
I hardly even met him.
Literally that. It was literally all about knives and surgery and he'd obviously, because
that was what was on his mind because he was having brain surgery.
Literally what was on his mind.
Literally, exactly. Jesus, guys, can you stop? It's absolutely fascinating. And then there've
been more recent examples of this. There was a man a few years ago,
we just know his name is Derek,
cause he was anonymous,
but he had a couple of strokes and his behavior changed
in many ways he used to try
and compulsively recycle stuff and things like that.
And he started waking up his wife in the middle of the night
being like, I've just come up with another pun.
And eventually his wife was like,
why didn't you start writing down and not telling me?
But eventually realized that this was like
a pathological behavior change.
And the interesting other side effects of this
is that it's a really simple, basic humor,
like basic pun connections, basic, really basic jokes.
I don't know.
I don't know.
There's a lot of skill involved.
Yeah.
Neurologists studied this
and they showed them more complex joke patterns.
They didn't find them funny at all.
And it's something to do with that really basic pleasure
of making a connection in your head. But they also didn't find other people's
jokes funny at all.
That's basically every comedian, isn't it?
Another thing about Tubman is that she did get fame by the end of her life and was recognisable.
And a bunch of receptions were put on in her honour in the 1890s. They were put on in Boston
and she didn't live there, she had to get get a train but to pay for the train ticket she had
to sell one for cows so in order to get to a bunch of receptions thrown in her honor where she was the
star guest she sold her cow to get the train. I think she was she spent so much of her life in
different parts of her life in poverty just because she just gave away so much stuff and when she
rescued people from slavery she used to then follow through and like get them jobs and set them up in their new places.
She didn't just get them somewhere and be like,
see ya.
She did a lot of cooking too, and that was relevant
because she raised a lot of money for the missions
by cooking, basically.
And there was a really interesting piece about this
sort of facet of a life on NPR.
So she was once at a market, she came face to face
with a former slave overseer, basically,
and she was holding two chickens, right yeah what did she do she pretended to
read the chickens she said oh looks like there's three cocks in the room very
sassy going in the pilot script head into a chicken and to disguise herself
as a chicken hit him with a chicken she threw eggs at him she released one of the chickens and then pretended to chase it, causing a comic kerfuffle.
Ironically, by drawing attention to herself, she deflected attention from herself.
Again, another scene in the sitcom.
That's what happens in Mr Bean's holiday.
He chases a chicken for like 40 minutes.
It's comedy gold.
Glad we've got the beanographer here.
I do love Mr Bean.
So there's a link between her and Queen Victoria, which I find interesting.
So in 1897 Queen Victoria sent her a shawl to sort of mark her amazing work.
Yeah, it was a gift.
Yeah, a gift, yeah, yeah. But I thought I could do a little quiz to you now.
Brilliant.
Who was taller, Queen Victoria or Harriet Tubman?
Ooh, good one.
Well, Queen Victoria was no more than five foot, I think perhaps less, four foot eleven.
She was famously quite short.
Famously short.
I believe famously her circumference ended up being more than her height at the end of her life.
Does this help us with Tubman though?
Tubman's got to be taller.
I know she was on the small side.
I think she's going to be smaller because it's not a fun quiz because Queen Victoria was quite short.
She's probably shorter than most people. I think the's going to be smaller because it's not a fun quiz because the quiz was quite short. She's probably shorter than most people.
I think the fun ship has sailed.
Yeah.
I'm going to say, I think Tubman was an inch taller.
Okay.
I reckon she was five foot on the dot.
Okay.
I'm going to say they're exactly the same height.
Brilliant.
I'm going to say Tubman was an inch shorter.
Well, Anna's closest.
Tubman was four foot 11.
Oh.
Queen Victoria.
Now, James, I have read, I went down a real rabbit hole.
I'm sure you're right.
Basically we know there's a surviving tape measure kept by a portraitist in 1837.
Oh my god.
Which shows she was 5'1". Because she had been, Victoria I mean, not Tamun, Queen Victoria
had been claimed to be 5'2". And they boosted her height by an inch. Obviously it would
be ridiculous to say she's five foot ten and you know
Really leggy. Maybe she was wearing heels
Basically, they were a bit embarrassed the royal family that she was only five foot one
Because it made it seem like she hadn't been fed well in childhood and you know
It's like a taller children tend to be better fed
They boosted her height sort of her public height to five foot two so that she would seem a bit better
But the portrait the artist had the the rece. What I think's interesting is that this means approximately
that Queen Victoria is about the same height as Sandy Tuxwig and Harriet Tubman was about the same
height as Susan Kalman. Yeah. So if we need people in your sitcom of Tubman. I think that's some
problematic casting there if you're saying Susan Kalman for the role of Harriet Tubman. I think that's some problematic casting there, if you're saying, Susan Kalman for the role of Harriet Tubman.
I do see that now, yeah.
Okay, time now for fact number three,
and that is James.
Okay, my fact this week is that wasabi is good
on sushi rolls and papyrus scrolls.
Mm, lovely.
I beg to differ, personally.
What?
Never tasted papyrus, and yet I reckon I know
it's not good.
Ah.
With or without wasabi.
Well, we come to the fact itself.
Oh, he's worded it humorously.
I wouldn't say that's even humorous, it's just a rhyme.
Like, lyrically.
Right, you've worded it misleadingly in the hope of humor.
It charmed me. I found it amusing.
It is not misleading at all. So it's good on sushi rolls because it tastes good, in my opinion.
And there are other reasons that we might come to.
Papyrus scrolls, though, is the main interesting part, which is this new technique of looking after papyrus. Now
there is a problem that because papyrus is made from plants it can fall victim
to fungal infections and the fungus can damage the papyrus and it can cause the
paints to fade and stuff like that and so there has been a study in the Journal
of Archaeological Science which has put some wasabi vapours onto the papyrus, and these
smells kill off the funguses, or rather stop the funguses from growing very well, and they
don't get rid of the colour, so you can still read them. And yeah, this is a lot safer and
better for the environment than what you might use before, which is chemicals.
It's super non-invasive, because they just put the wasabi near the papyrus.
Yeah, yeah.
What I really like in this study is that they didn't want to use actual, you know,
ancient Egyptian papyruses, but they wanted to see if it worked on something like that.
So they did exactly what you would do at primary school, which is heated up some papyrus to
make it look like it was really old.
You know what you would do if you were making a pirate map at school.
Did they dip it in tea?
They didn't dip it in tea, no.
They made new papyrus.
They made new papyrus.
Aged it up fast.
They aged it fast by heating it up.
That's so clever.
Yeah.
And then they mix water and wasabi,
almost like if you mix your wasabi with soy sauce, that kind of, you know...
And after the end of the process, you've got a snack.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm less worried about wasting papayri on this process
and more worried about wasting good wasabi on this process.
Oh, are you?
It's very precious wasabi.
It's very hard to make, isn't it?
It's hard to obtain it.
And they're just like steaming away wasabi at papayri.
And isn't most wasabi not real wasabi?
I mean, I've probably never had real wasabi.
I don't think I've ever had real wasabi.
It's mostly done.
It's Japan though, you must have done.
I have been, but I read that even in Japan,
a lot of it is-
I believe most of it in Japan.
It's horseradish.
What if I went to a really nice restaurant in Japan?
You're probably fine.
Would it be?
I think five or 10% of wasabi served in Japan
is real wasabi.
But in the West, it's like one percent is real wasabi.
It's really...
And it's all horseradish. It's all dried horseradish.
And horseradish is really strong, but I think wasabi is a bit gentler
and a bit more interestingly delicate and a bit more flavoursome.
So that's what I read. Yeah. Yeah.
And a bit gritty. You can tell if you've got real stuff
because it should be a bit grittier.
Also, I didn't realise that you need to eat it immediately
as soon as it's been grated because it loses its zing. So essentially you...
Sometimes they bring a root to the table and a grater and you grate it fresh onto your
food.
I think I prefer the horseradish. If the real wasabi is bland and gritty and you have to
have it immediately fresh or it goes off even more.
No one said bland. I just want to say if there are any chefs out there... oh Alex said bland, we didn't say bland. Delicate. And the other thing, the other reason wasabi is
good on sushi rolls, so not just because it tastes good, but also because it has antimicrobial
properties. So as well as stopping funguses from growing, it can stop bacteria from growing. And
it has something in there called six methyl sulfinyl hexyl isothiocyanate
which stops E. coli, staphylococcus and salmonella from growing. Really? Yeah. Sounds like we should
be taking baths in it or something. It would be good for us as an anti... I think even the delicate
wasabi, if you have a bath in it, is going to get right up your nose. Yeah, fair, fair, fair. And it will cost you a fair few bob.
But you could put a bit in your shoes and stop fungal infection. You could go for a bath, is gonna get right up your nose. Yeah, fair, fair, fair. And it will cost you a fair few bob.
But you could put a bit in your shoes
and stop fungal infection or something.
You could go for a bath, an onsen in Japan,
and maybe someone could come over
and just grate a little bit of wasabi into your family.
That would be so lovely.
Yeah, that's luxurious.
You can lick it.
Sorry?
You can lick it and you won't taste the spice.
Oh.
So...
So there's no point in licking it?
No, unless you don't like spicy food but you want to
eat wasabi in which case just lick it and then you won't get the spice but you'll have touched
wasabi with your tongue. If you have fungus or microbes on your tongue. Yes. Yes. Good point.
I think that should work. In fact, and it's a lot like how lightning can split up nitrate. So by
grating wasabi, think of the grater as the lightning, that splits up
the wasabi plant and it splits up its cells.
What a tortured metaphor.
How labored, yeah.
I feel like I could have understood it without any of the previous callbacks.
Are you sure?
Is that what creates the flavour?
It breaks up the cells and creates the flavour.
So Anna, how does wasabi work? Well, let me take you back to the dawn of the universe.
Did you know horse radish is poisonous to horses? Wasabi work. Well, let me take you back to the dawn of the universe.
Did you know horseradish is poisonous to horses?
No. Really?
So they don't know why it's called that, but I actually like both options.
So the word horseradish first appeared in 1597 in English.
People think it might be because it resembles a horse's genitalia.
It speaks of a time when more people were familiar with what horse's knackers look
like.
You know, I could probably draw you one, but I would probably draw them in push if I had
to.
You know, absolutely no.
You could do an amazing shaded sketch.
So it's either genitals, horse radish.
They do look a bit like their horse radish is like a mule leaf.
I mean, that's probably less
What's the moon? It's like a long white radish, right?
Yeah, are they really big? Yeah, it's probably I would say how big is that about foot long?
I think your moolies Emily might have been up there with my confusing lightning
What's a mooli moolies like a large a large radish. Like a horseradish?
Yeah, that's right, they're similar.
I understand.
I can see us going round in circles on this one.
I genuinely thought people would know
what a mooli looked like.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, fine.
What's the other option, Anna?
Well remembered, thanks James.
It's because, so in German,
so you might be able to guess if I tell you that in German,
a horseradish is called Miratich,
to mean sea radish, actually. Not to be confused with the
sea radish which is a different plant. I know because it looks like a seahorse's genitalia.
Yeah very nice. You're miles off. In the older days everyone knew what that looked like.
Because we all row seahorses around town didn't we? What grows in the sea it looks like a radish.
It's more about the pronunciation. ItBob SquarePants. It's about the pronunciation.
So when we were translating it into English, we heard mare radish.
Oh, mare, as in like the mare as in a female horse.
As in a horse.
Let me give you another reason why it might be called that.
Albertus Magnus was writing in the 13th century and he discussed horse radish.
He just called it radish, but he suggested it as a treatment for constipation in horses. So it could be that we kind of heard the myrrh thought we use it for constipation in horses anyway. And so maybe that's why we call it horse radish.
say, he just said it's used for constipation in horses. It might have been up the bum because there's another thing called raffanidosis, which is a punishment in ancient Greece of
inserting the root of a radish up the bum as a punishment for adultery. Now we don't know what
kind of radish that was. It probably wasn't one of those little red ones that you get in Sainsbury's. That's the first offence.
But if it was horse radish, for instance, then that would be much more of a punishment
because you're going to get that kind of wasabi burning as well as having something that's the
size of a mooli going up your bum. Not the size of a mooli.
I bet there was one person who got really turned on by it.
I bet there was one example where someone was like, oh no, I'm adulterated again.
Get the hammer.
I'm familiar with the stories of ancient Greeks, Alex.
Here's a thing on papyrus.
Right.
Oh my goodness.
Okay.
Have you?
Right.
You know the Library of Alexandria?
Yes.
Okay. Ancient Egypt, founded in the 295 BC.
They had a copy of every book,
or they were trying to get one.
So the Ptolemies, with the pharaohs at the time,
they're all called Ptolemy basically,
and they would hunt for manuscripts everywhere, right?
And they would send out,
if a foreign ship sailed into Alexandria,
it was searched for scrolls,
and then they'd be confiscated and copied out,
and then given back. And all of this was on papyrus, right?
And the Nile Valley was the center of the written word
because papyrus grew on the banks of the Nile.
So the Ptolemies have basically a control supply.
And then there's this rival library that sets up.
King Eumenes of Pergamum founds a rival library,
the Library of Pergamum.
And Pergamum was huge at the time.
It was a big kingdom, like massive. Turkey. Rival library that sets up King Eumenes of Pergamum founds a rival library the library of Pergamum
And Pergamum was huge at the time. It was a big kingdom like massive Turkey
modern-day Turkey and and more you know, they were big deal the pergamites
Basically talk about sitcom potential there's this spelling history
makers of Harriet Tubman
From the makers of Harriet Tubman! Exclamation mark.
There's this fill of history where both libraries are trying to secure every book on the planet. They are bidding huge wages for scholars, like Premier League footballers for scholars and scribes.
Some scholars are in prison so they can't run off to the other library.
And then the huge move happens.
Ptolemy V takes the rivalry to a new level about 100 years after the founding.
He bans the export of papyrus. Huge move.
Ouch. That's cheating, isn't it?
Eat it Pergamum.
It's like taking the football off the pitch.
It basically is. You can't make any scrolls. You can't copy any manuscripts. We own literature.
So what did Pergamum do?
Well, he...
Invented paper?
Yes, he must have invented paper.
The audiobook. He the audio book.
He invented the audio book.
They started manufacturing parchment from the skin of animals.
And parchment literally means from Pergamum.
That's the etymology.
Oh, that's so cool.
And the thing about parchment is you can cut it up in layers
and you don't need to roll it in a scroll, which is incredibly inefficient.
You can have pages.
You can have pages. You can have pages.
That's so interesting.
And that is where, like, parchment already existed,
but they, as it were, put a lot of manufacturing behind it
and made it bigger, you know.
And the book is better than the scroll.
Wow, the pen is mightier than the sword,
and the book is better than the scroll.
That's how they get books.
You know what, Andy, I'm gonna come out and say it,
that etymology is even more interesting
than the horse genitalia.
Wow.
Well done.
Strong disagree.
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Okay it's time for our final fact and that is my fact.
My fact this week is that bees smell like bananas when they get angry. I've never seen an angry banana. So I think this is
this is just a weird coincidence really. Bees use pheromones a lot to
communicate. They release different chemicals which other bees can smell.
One of the pheromones that they release is a distress or alarm signal. Maybe
there's a predator, one of their bees is in trouble, makes them really angry too. And one of the chemicals in
this pheromone is called isoamyl acetate. And that also happens to be the chemical which
is banana flavour. Yeah. Can I just say, mostly, because I think people often say what you would
know as banana flavour is actually this very specific thing Most people know banana flavor from actual bananas, right?
I mean, I don't have that many banana flavored things have more people eating bananas or eating a banana flavored
Angel delight maybe
Say more people have eaten bananas than banana flavored angels
Well, that's because bananas have an entrenched advantage, you know, Arguably banana flavoured angel delight is better than a banana. If it grew on trees. Exactly, yeah. But
you have hit the point that banana flavour, artificial banana flavouring today is not quite
the same as the bananas we eat today. You have mentioned this on the podcast before and there's
there was a previous species of banana or strain of banana called the Grommick shell banana,
which used to be all around the world. I think it's
still around in Thailand somewhere, but it's not commercially really available or used.
It was like nearly completely wiped out, if not completely wiped out.
Just by the Angel Delight Market.
Yeah, so we eat Cavendish bananas now, I think. And they're supposed to be less tasteful.
And so actually, the slightly tangier, stronger artificial banana flavour in those tiny sweets
that we get.
And that's the one that you get from the bees?
The bees, yes.
And people, it is a renowned thing in the bee community.
I was messaging Liz, who is one of our colleagues who's been at QI longer than all of us, in
fact, and she's a real banana
stench.
Is there really?
And they also say don't go near a hive with a banana.
Is the other thing to do.
A walk because it'll annoy them.
Yeah, absolutely, because they'll think it's a... they'll remind them of the long-term.
They'll think it's a large bee.
Especially if you paint black stripes on the banana.
I think it's the equivalent of walking into a hive with a big sign that just says, I killed
your friends. Don't also go to a beehive with a pregnant mouse.
That's where I went wrong.
So pregnant mice smell like bananas.
They do.
Do they?
Yeah, they do.
It's a scent that they give off.
And it also stresses out male mice.
Isoamyl acetate.
The smell of a pregnant female mouse.
Yeah, it does.
Stresses out males. Yeah, because mice are often cannibals,
and they will eat baby mice.
Uh-oh.
But not if you make yourself smell like a banana.
The males will go, ugh, I'm not going near that,
and they won't eat your children.
That's so ironic.
They won't eat you if you make yourself smell like a banana.
If a cannibal fucked up, was it?
We'd be like, mm, delicious children.
Ugh, it's got banana on it.
No. and make themselves smell like a banana. I kind of fucked up, was it? We were like, mm, delicious children. Oh, it's got banana on it.
But I didn't know the range of pheromones that bees use.
There's so many, there's a massive list online.
There's extraordinary weird things that they can do.
So for example, the queen, there was a great article.
She used to have bees in the ship.
She smells of bananas.
Queen Liz.
Brilliant.
I found a piece on this from 2014. I just want to give a shout out to Luke Holman on the conversation.
I don't know if you wrote the headline, but it was called Smells Like Queen Spirit.
Fantastic.
So good.
So Queen bees, they broadcast data via pheromones to the rest of the hive.
And one of the things is to say they are the queen.
That's just communicates, you know, clear leadership in place.
Another is whether or not they are mated
and have been mating around,
and also how well mated they are.
So they have pheromones to release
to say how many males they've had sex with.
Imagine if our queen did that.
It would be so funny.
He's opening a school and you're like, oh.
More promiscuous queens are better for the colony because they provide a bit more genetic
diversity and that keeps the colony nice and healthy.
But was it every queen has to, I was reading this interesting about how you introduce a
queen to a colony. If you just take your queen and plonk it in, the bees will kill it because
she's got the wrong pheromones. She's from another hive and the worker bees need a chance to get
used to her. So the way that you do
it is that you have a box and you put this box in the hive and the doorway to the box
is sealed up with sugar basically. The bees eat through it and it takes them a while but
it means that they end up being quite close to the queen who's sitting inside the little
box waiting to be released from the box and so the time it takes for the bees to eat through
the sugar they can smell the queen on the other side and they get used to her and then they don't want to kill her.
So it's like she bursts out of a cake.
She actually does, yes.
That is exactly how every new queen is introduced to a beehive.
Another use of isoamyl acetate is to make fake bananas.
And this happened during World War Two.
Let's say we've stopped any poo getting to Germany and they've said, right,
well, you're not having any bananas then.
So you can't get any bananas.
So you have to make fake ones.
And they made mock bananas by using parsnips.
They would get some parsnips.
They would add some isoamyl acetate,
which was available banana essence, essentially, literally, essentially.
And they would eat
them and apparently there was a modern day blogger called Carolyn Ecken who recreated
it and said it's a rather strange and bizarre taste but not unpleasant, although there is
a aftertaste of parsnip.
I think it's so tragic. The idea of like mash up your parsnips, add some sugar.
That was the war.
Yeah, no, it really was.
When Queen Bee dies, she stops releasing the pheromones
that she's been using to keep the colony happy and placid.
And this causes a big reaction,
and the workers basically get going on an emergency queen.
So this is really interesting.
They build these huge queen-sized chambers,
like queen-sized bedrooms, effectively,
and they get 10 to 20 candidates, workers,
and they start feeding them royal jelly,
and they find out who becomes the queen.
That sounds like a reality format.
It actually is, and the first one to emerge
kills all the others, and then begins to lay eggs.
And that's-
We'll make it past the Ethics Committee,
the BBC, I don't think.
Yeah.
There is only one pheromone which two dung beetles share.
Okay, so most dung beetles have their own pheromones, but there's
one that's shared by both of them and it's called anisole.
Where do they release it from?
It comes because it smells a bit like anise, like star anise. Oh, that is a
name that works, I'm sure, brilliantly in the French market. Isn't there a whole thing
where beaver's anal glands are the origin of an awful lot of chemicals? Castorias.
Flavours including vanilla and strawberry, raspberry flavouring. They're not necessarily
used anymore because I think it's still quite rare and expensive.
And also people don't really want that.
Only 5% of strawberry Angel's Delights
actually contain Beaver Analgland juice, sadly.
And if I went to a really nice restaurant,
I did really get Beaver Analgland.
Don't worry, if you're Angel's Delight.
I think the third.
Anal delight.
Can you guys smell ants?
Yeah, I've never done that before.
Oh my god, the ant detectors going off.
Everyone line up, pick up something much heavier than you, and file out of the building.
I'm not asking right now. I'm saying in general, if there were some ants on the table, do you think you'd be able
to smell them?
I've never...
No, I don't think I would.
Yeah.
So the interesting thing is that this is a thing that people have said on the internet.
A lot of people have said, oh, I can smell ants.
And then other people have said, you can't smell ants.
And then there's been big arguments.
It's not like the internet to argue over something completely pointless. But IFL Science, which we all love, that website, they carried out a Twitter poll and they found
that 20% of respondents claim that they can detect the odour of an ant compared to 80%
who can't.
Ants are heavily dependent on pheromones.
Were 20% of respondents ants?
I don't know.
Well we don't know exactly. I think one thing we can say is that this
is not a particularly scientific survey. Right. But let's say for instance, it is true. There
are various different reasons that it might be true. It could be that some people have
a certain gene that allows them to smell ants, like you can smell asparagus we, some people
can some people can't. It could be that some ants smell and the ones that live in certain areas smell and the ones that live in
certain areas don't smell and that's the responses we got but we don't know.
Well they're living in smelly areas and we're smelling other things and it's
covering them up. If I'm in like the the ground floor of John Lewis like I'm not
gonna smell an ant because it's the perfume section. Yeah absolutely so if
all of the UK's smelly ants live in perfume sections of John Lewis
we would never smell them. It's a very relatable comparison point. It's just something it's a bug
bear of mine because I like going to John Lewis I nearly pass out every time I go in you have to
sort of... Oh I love walking past the perfume section in the apartment store. I really like it. I really like going in an
airport and trying out all the samples. Yeah, me too.
Do you?
Yeah, yeah.
And then getting on the plane
and really offending everyone.
I've never tried that, I should do it.
You should do it, honestly.
As you go through that windy bit.
As you go through the duty three,
there's loads of free samples.
That's another bit I hate,
because it smells so awful, as in so strong,
and it like gives me headaches.
So you've probably got quite a sense
to set up pipes on you.
There's definitely an ant in this room.
Right. Right. Quite a lot of hotels have got cameras Gives me headaches. So you've got quite a sense to set up pipes on you. There's definitely an ant in this room.
Quite a lot of hotels have got cameras in their bedrooms these days.
In the beds, in fact.
What?
What?
B hotels?
What?
Do you mean B hotels?
No, human hotels.
So this is something called the spotter gadget.
It's got loads of pheromones in it and a tiny camera and you put it in a hotel bed
and the pheromones attract bed bugs and then when the bed bugs go into where the pheromones
are the tiny camera takes a photo of the bed bugs and sends it off to someone who looks
at it and goes yes that's a bed bug.
Poor!
And then if they say yes it's definitely a bed bug then it means that you have to go
in and fumigate it.
So he has exterminated it. That is exterminated.
Yeah, yeah.
But so these are in hotel rooms.
Yeah.
But can the camera capture anything else that's
happening in the hotel room?
If your penis is the size of a bed bug.
Oh, dear.
Then perhaps.
It was just drawn with that little tube.
I didn't know.
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