29: No Such Thing As Terrestrial Sweetcorn

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Episode 29 - Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Anna (@nosuchthing), and Andy (@andrewhunterm) discuss alien chess, whirling chairs, criminal theme tunes and how to get drunk on a shark.

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0:00.0	We run it on QI a few years ago.
0:02.0	Yeah.
0:02.5	Which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:04.5	Yeah, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:06.0	No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
0:10.0	It says it right there, first paragraph. No such thing as a fish.
0:18.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.
0:25.5	My name is Dan Shriver. I'm sitting here with three of the regular elves.
0:28.5	It is James Harkin, Anichesensky and Andy Murray.
0:31.5	Once again, we've got our four favorite facts from the last seven days and here they are in no particular order.
0:37.5	James, starting with you, what's your fact?
0:40.5	Okay, my fact this week is that the head of the International Chess Federation believes that chess was brought to earth by aliens.
0:48.5	And he should know.
0:50.5	Yeah.
0:51.5	What kind of evidence does he have for that?
0:54.5	He has first hand evidence because he was abducted by aliens in 1997 and shown around the galaxy and they told him the earth is set to collide with the planet Nibiru killing us all if mankind does not cleanse its aura by playing more chess.
1:11.5	Wow.
1:12.5	In an interview in Time Magazine, that was.
1:14.5	What's his name again?
1:15.5	He's the Ilion Jinof.
1:17.5	He's a politician as well.
1:19.5	He's the head of the Kalminkir province of Russia and he has friends such as Chuck Norris and he was friends with Salam Hussein.
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