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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dan, Anna, Andy and special guest Jason Hazeley discuss the British Lawnmover Museum, questionnaires for narcissists, how Christie's auctioneers get over their nerves.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome to this week's episode and no such thing as a fish.

0:04.0

Before we begin, we just want to let you in on the special guests that we have this week.

0:08.5

He's called Jason Hazley and he is one of the people behind all the funny things

0:14.0

you've probably seen on TV in the last however many years.

0:17.0

He is behind that Michelin web look as one of the writers for that.

0:21.0

He also writes for Charlie Brooker's screen wipe.

0:23.8

He's also the co-writer along with his buddy Joel of the Ladybird books.

0:28.3

Those adult ones have come out of the hipster and the cat and the hangover and the midlife crisis.

0:33.5

They've got a whole new batch coming out this October, October the 5th, so do get them.

0:38.0

And he is on because he's a really good buddy of ours and he constantly sends us facts

0:43.0

and we just saw this guy's going to be amazing on the show and he was as you're about to hear.

0:47.6

So enjoy this week's app. Here we go.

0:59.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you

1:11.0

from the QI offices in Covern Garden. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Aniches

1:16.2

Inski, Andrew Hunter Murray and Jason Hazley. And once again, we have gathered around the microphones

1:21.5

with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.

1:27.4

Starting with you, Jason. My fact is the curator of the British lawnmower museum is allergic to grass.

1:38.0

So is it his mission to destroy all the grass in the world with lawnmowers?

1:42.2

By mowing it to work. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it's suddenly very hateful back museum.

1:48.5

It's one act of revenge on gigantic scale. This is a guy called Brian Radham who runs the British

1:54.4

lawnmower museum in Southport. He's an ex-longmower racing champion.

2:00.1

Does that mean he sits on lawnmowers? Yes, that's a rather than a race.

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