Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from the Lowry in Salford.
My name is Dan Schreiber, joining me on the stage is the three regular elves,
it's Andy Murray, Anna Czazinski, 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 my fact, my fact this week is the seventh time Park Ranger Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning,
coincided with the twenty second time he fought off a bear with a stick.
So this guy's a Park Ranger, he was, I think he was fishing at the time, so he was just out there,
he's been struck six times before, and then lightning was coming,
and he just thought I'll just stay here, probably nothing bad will happen.
Got struck by lightning, was running back to his car, and suddenly a bear comes out of nowhere and he's just like,
Jesus Christ, has to fight off a bear and then went back home.
His diary must have been amazing, bear, bear, lightning, lightning and bear.
But he, as I said, he's been struck seven times, he was almost struck eight times,
but the eighth time when he should have been struck, it hit his wife instead.
It sounds awful, it sounds terrible, because obviously he was interviewed,
because he was very, he became well known for this, and he said,
naturally people avoid me, I was walking with the chief ranger one day,
and lightning struck way off, and he said, I'll see you later, Roy.