Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with James Harkin,
Anna Tyshinski and Andrew Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that's my fact,
my fact this week is that in the 1910s animal dances including the camel walk, the turkey trot,
the crab step, the chicken flip and the kangaroo dip were so controversial they were banned at the White House,
condemned by the Pope and warned against by doctors.
Wow, why were they so bad?
Were they sexy?
I bet they were sexy dances, they always are aren't they?
I watched the turkey trot,
you could argue there's a bit of sex in there but ultimately you just look like an idiot I think.
I mean what could sound sexier than the crab step?
It's very raunchy stuff, the chicken flip, they're all these, no the sloth squeeze was another one.
Yeah, the boll weevil wiggle, that was another one.
It doesn't exactly sound like twerking, they're very tame from modernised.
They were tame,
but they were sort of that moment where it felt like people were liberating and this was seen as people going out and having a wild time and they really did take it seriously so a number of US cities really cracked down on it and in Boston,