Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Glasgow!
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Toshinsky,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go!
Starting with fact number one, and that is Andy.
My fact is that in 1907 a man named Charles W.
Aldreave won a huge bet simply by walking 1,500 miles on water.
I've gone for the mysterious fact!
Was that a bet with Jesus?
It was a bet with Jesus, yeah, who got further without thinking?
No, this is the guy here so just for the people in the room, this is him, Charles Aldreave.
Aldreave was such a hero, okay, he was nicknamed the human water spider and he basically,
he had a career which just evolved going around walking on water and crowds absolutely ate it up and this was 1907 and there was a big bet and he stood to gain $5,000 which was obviously way more at the time.
He was walking from Cincinnati to New Orleans and he had to do it but every step had to be on water and he had these special shoes which were massive obviously,
about four feet long and...
Apparently it took him five years to learn how to turn properly.
Really?
It was full, he was well trained, yeah.
It was described as kind of like walking through mud the way that he was propelling himself forward so he had,