2019-09-06
49 分钟Hey everyone welcome to this week's episode of fish before we begin we have a very big announcement Andy that is right The news is this we are publishing the book of the year 2019 at the end of October It's going to be a brand new book full of the most insane Wonderful weird brilliant things that have happened across the world this year and even better.
There is zero Brexit That's right.
We've had any potential mention of Brexit redacted within the book itself We have a very special competition don't we so
if you pre-order the book then you can win an amazing prize And that prize is another copy of the book However,
it's a very special copy
because we're going to keep it in the office And we're going to scribble all over it and make silly jokes and just do lots of drawings and it'll be it's a unique prize That only you will have it is it's a window into our life in the office that you'll wish
that you'd never Open Once you see how sordid and corrupt the whole thing is but that's what you're going to get You're going to get those doodles around the book of the year and it really has been so much fun to write this year There's been lots of incredible news that you will have missed
because we've been Overwhelmed with all this Brexit malarkey a man called bud wiser was arrested when he was trespassing a bud wiser factory incredible Five guys were arrested at five guys this year Yeah,
it's packed with just all the silliest stories from the news of the year So
if you want to enter the competition You just need to go to the book of the year dot-co.uk and all the details are there one more thing We will be doing some live shows around this book So
if you want to come and see us live and hear all about the whole world Except for Brexit then come and see us and details of that you can find at know such things a fish.com Okay on with the show Oh Hello and welcome to another episode of know such thing as a fish a weekly podcast coming to you from the qi offices in Covert Garden My name is Dan Schreiber.
I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski 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 you Andy.
My fact is that major league baseball has an official mud It's quite cool.
What do they do with this mud?
They rub it on their balls Okay, and this is from a great article in sports illustrated,
which I you read for the article I read for the Genuinely do So it's all it's a profile of this man called Jim Bintliff and he spends his life basically Harvesting mud.
He's one of the world's only paid professional mud farmers.
Do you think there are a lot of amateurs?
Yes, no, you're right.
He's one of the thing now because you're not allowed to enter the mud Olympics