Um Welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish a weekly podcast My name is Dan Shriver,
I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinsky,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones this time for our Christmas special!
And once again we have gathered round 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 James.
Okay, my fact this week is that the song when the red, red robin goes bop, bop, bop in along is actually about a thrush.
But thrush didn't rhyme with bobbin?
It could be rushing along, couldn't he?
It is an American song, the red, red robin goes bop, bop, bop in along,
I don't know if you guys know it, when the red, red robin goes bop, bop, bop in along,
it was written about the American robin whose Latin name is Turdus migratorius and as every childish person knows the Latin word turdus means thrush and it's called a robin,
that bird because when the early migrants got to America it has a red breast and it reminded them of the European robin.
So a lot of American songs like rockin' robin for instance is the same, all these songs are actually about thrushes.
So technically it should also be Batman and Thrush.
Well that's another story of Batman's medical problems.
That is actually true because Robin was in some versions of the early Batman and Robin comics he is named Robin
because he was born on the first day of spring and the American robin is associated with spring so these songs,
the red, red robin, these are spring time songs, they're not Christmas songs.
Yeah, okay, cool.
It's better looking than our thrush isn't it?
I mean the red breast does make a big difference.