2016-02-19
32 分钟Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from the Birmingham Mack.
My name is Dan Shriver, and please welcome to the stage, it's the three regular elves,
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 you, James Harkin.
Okay, my fact this week is that in 2005,
there were plans to make a 50-foot-tall robot, Michael Jackson, that would roam around the Nevada desert.
How advanced were these plans?
They were pretty advanced.
Michael Jackson was going to do a residency in Vegas, and they wanted to advertise it,
and this was their big idea, they were going to do a massive robot.
He was going to wander around the desert, he was going to fire lasers out of his eye, and the idea is,
as you were flying into Vegas airport, the first thing you see when you came into Vegas was a massive Michael Jackson.
Well, this was a couple of months after he had been acquitted on charges of child molestation,
and for some reason raising money was a problem for this project.
I think then they scaled down a bit, didn't they,
and they decided to make a Michael Jackson themed hotel and casino in Vegas,
which had a smaller robot at the door,
and that would also fire lasers from a huge Michael Jackson face that was going to be painted on the huge hotel.