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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

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Anna, James, Andy and Tom Scott discuss flashing lights, measuring trees and naughty penguins

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, welcome to this week's No Such Things A Fish, where myself, Anna and Andy

0:04.7

are joined by none other than Tom Scott. Now most of you will probably know who Tom Scott is,

0:11.2

but for those of you who don't, he is a YouTuber who makes unbelievably interesting videos

0:17.0

about the most incredible things from all around the world. His videos are right up past

0:22.0

street, I know they'll be right up yours as well, so you should definitely check out his channel,

0:26.0

which is youtube.com slash Tom Scott go. And actually if you're looking for videos,

0:32.5

you can always go to our channel, which I don't think we've mentioned very much,

0:35.4

which you can find at qi.com slash qitv and that has a whole load of clips from fish.

0:41.0

Dan and I recently did a video for the Ignorbell prizes, which you can see on there,

0:45.6

there's all sorts, you should definitely check that out. Okay, I'm with the podcast.

0:56.3

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

1:10.4

from four top secret locations around the United Kingdom. My name is Anna Toshinsky and I'm

1:16.6

sitting here today with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin and very special guest YouTuber Tom Scott.

1:23.5

And we are here to discuss our four favorite facts from the last seven days. So in no particular

1:29.4

order, here we go, starting with you Tom. I wanted to make a youtube video about how interesting

1:35.9

strobe lighting is, but the likelihood was it would give one of my viewers an epileptic fit.

1:40.4

So I've come on your podcast to talk about things.

1:43.9

Fair enough. So happy to serve. Can you give anyone an audio epileptic fit? I guess

1:50.2

not to my knowledge, but there's definitely a thing about lights and strobe lights.

1:57.2

So I was trying to work out how to demonstrate this without demonstrating it and without giving

2:01.7

instructions, because statistically one of my viewers was going to find out that they have

2:05.6

photosensitive epilepsy the hard way and I just couldn't figure out a way to tell it.

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