Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anna Czenski, Alex Bell 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, Czenski.
My fact this week is
that the first performance-enhancing drug to be used in baseball was pulverized guinea pig testicles.
Pulverized is such a scary word, when it's near testicles.
Would you prefer them whole though?
I know, just the word.
I pulverized them.
I know, I know, they should have just gone with crushed, there's too many syllables.
So yeah, the baseball player in question was James Galvin,
who was known as James Pud Galvin, because I think he squashed everyone like puddings, maybe?
Not that he used to put testicles in his body.
It wasn't that, no, because the pudding testicles in his body actually came after the nickname.
So he was recruited by this incredible doctor called Charles Edward Brown-Sacard,
who had come up with this idea and said that he tried it on himself and it had worked,
that ground up guinea pig's testicles, or dog testicles,