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No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dan, Anna, Andy and special guest Dr Erica McAlister discuss sperm whale-sized sperm, real-life Home Alone security measures, and why you've never really heard Churchill's famous speeches.

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0:00.0	Hi guys, I just wanted to let you know before we start this show that one of our
0:04.4	numbers is doing a comedy show and that is it me? It's not you James you know about that wouldn't you?
0:10.7	No, it's me. It's not Dan. What? It's not you. It's you Anna. It's not me. Oh that I'm not interested. I have no interest
0:18.0	either. Yeah that's gonna put people off and they've realized it's not me. It is Andrew Hunter Murray.
0:22.5	Woo! Keeps on having to add new shows to his bloody comedy show because people keep on filling them out
0:29.4	and all right, sorry again. Just read the card of Giver. We were to watch it the other week didn't we?
0:37.0	Yeah it's really really funny. It's so funny. It's really really good. Yeah it's really. It's
0:42.8	really funny. It's full of characters. You get to see Andy being the stupidest version
0:46.9	of himself doing. He's a rhyming librarian lady at a book club. He's a samba man. It's amazing.
0:54.2	Spoilers. So many spoilers. No it's excellent. It's absurd and insane and hilarious. You should go
1:00.3	and see it. It's on the 27th and the 28th of March at the Soho Theatre. It's at 7.45. Go and see it now.
1:08.1	Well don't go and see it now. Go see what it's up. Also before we begin you'll notice that James
1:13.2	is not here this week. Sitting in his place is Erika McAllister. Erika McAllister is a friend of ours.
1:18.8	She works at the Natural History Museum and she is their curator of flies, Diptura.
1:24.2	And she's got a new book out. It's called The Secret Life of Flies. She took three years to
1:29.2	write this book. It's everything that she knows about flies. And she knows a lot about flies.
1:33.0	She knows so much stuff about flies and also she has no time for people who don't like flies.
1:38.0	Which is why I wasn't allowed on the book. So the book's going to be out April 3rd. It was really
1:43.5	exciting to have her on the show. She was really awesome and she told us that she was going to make
1:48.1	sure she always brought it back to flies and she did no matter what we were talking about.
1:52.3	Okay, on with the show.
2:09.1	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you
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