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No Such Thing As A Fish

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4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss pilchard performances, banyan behemoths, thai tastes, and fun foley.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.1	to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.
0:21.9	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Toshinsky,
0:26.7	and James Harkin, and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:31.0	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:36.4	Starting with fact number one, that is Andy.
0:40.3	My fact this week is that there was a job in the 19th century which just involved looking
0:44.8	at the sea and being able to tell when there were pilchards under the surface.
0:50.6	So when they were sticking their head under the sea.
0:53.3	No, don't be crazy James.
0:55.6	Okay, a little bit of insightful.
0:58.6	Dan told us before we started recording that is what he thought the job was.
1:01.5	I told you before the recording specifically so we wouldn't get mentioned on the recording
1:05.5	and look at us now.
1:07.1	This is an amazing job and it is not like they are sitting like a lifeguard on a boat
1:12.8	looking down.
1:13.8	They are up on a hill.
1:14.8	They are.
1:15.8	They are not even in the sea.
1:16.8	So I should say that this comes from.
1:17.8	It comes from this brilliant blog called About 1816 which is by an author called James
1:21.8	Hopson who has written loads of books about George and Breton.
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