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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

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Live from Geneva, Dan, James Anna and Andrew discuss selling shadows, exploding aphids and the emerging blimp driving industry.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Geneva!

0:26.0

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin.

0:35.0

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 Anna.

0:45.0

My fact this week is that jobs that have recently been added to the US census include Dove Scala, Automotive Window Tinter and Blimp Pilot.

0:56.0

These are the jobs in the modern world apparently. What is a pilot?

1:02.0

Well we'll come onto that, blimp's are back in baby.

1:05.0

What is a Dove Scala?

1:08.0

Yeah it's a really good question, it's something to do with baking.

1:12.0

I see now I understand, thank you.

1:15.0

The US has a census every 10 years like a lot of places and then every year they do the American Community Survey where they still interview lots of people.

1:24.0

And the way they find out about the jobs people have got is they just ask, describe what you do, you know, what do your roles in tail.

1:31.0

And then if enough people describe a similar thing that doesn't yet fit into a category, they add that category and enough people to describe the work that goes into scaling Dove.

1:42.0

It's amazing.

1:43.0

To make Dove Scala a new job.

1:45.0

There are a lot of other, there are a lot of these jobs as an entire spreadsheet which I've read through, well I've read through the start of it.

1:52.0

The first in the list is Abelone Fisherman, it's on the alphabetical order, you can be an abrasive grinder.

2:00.0

I know I am.

2:02.0

You have an abrasive grinder profile.

2:07.0

There is alcoholic counsellor, which sounds like it's the counsellor who's an alcoholic.

2:13.0

Yeah, yeah.

2:14.0

Oh I'm your local counsellor, I just want to like have a new vote.

2:19.0

There is some people in America who describe themselves as an animal killer and also an animal avisorator.

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