Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
My name is Dan Schreiber.
I'm joined once again by the three other elves.
Please welcome to the stage it's Andy Murray, James Harkin and Anna Chazinski.
And once again we have gathered round with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with my fact this week,
my fact this week is that the current French scrabble champion doesn't speak a word of French.
This was in the news not too long ago so I feel like some people know it but I just found that absolutely amazing.
Did he just randomly play letters which all turned out to be accepted in the French scrabble dictionary?
He memorised the French scrabble dictionary and then he just used that and even in the finals he told the French guy,
that's not a word.
It's an amazing character.
His name is Nigel Richards, he's from New Zealand.
I read an article about him on shortlist.com entitled why Nigel Richards is better than Lionel Messi.
Well they do call him the Tiger Woods Scrabble don't they?
We should stress he is not known to be an adulterer.
I read a thing, a guy who's written a book about scrabble,
he's a sort of scrabble expert, he's called Stefan Fatsis and he said,
right now Richards is, I'm quoting here, like Tiger Woods at his peak and then Tiger saying,