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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

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Minion mythology, pregnancy pranks and poking parishioners.

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0:00.0

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

0:18.8

to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

0:21.6

My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anatishinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray, and

0:25.9

James Harkin.

0:26.9

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

0:30.6

from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.

0:36.1

Starting with fact number one, and that is my fact, my fact this week is that to combat

0:40.6

people sleeping during church, priests used to employ a sluggard waker who would walk

0:46.2

around the congregation poking people awake with a very long stick.

0:50.4

Brilliant.

0:51.4

Yeah, this is an amazing thing.

0:53.4

I was reading that job, Andy.

0:55.0

I think it sounds quite fun.

0:56.3

Yeah, it does.

0:57.3

You wouldn't make many friends, but you're not in the business to make friends.

1:00.2

Oh, no.

1:01.2

In the business to keep people awake, listen to the sermon.

1:03.2

Exactly.

1:04.2

I reckon you'd be great at it, yeah.

1:05.2

Why?

1:06.2

You've just got authority about you and we all respect you so much.

1:08.8

I think I like that, I suppose, yeah, I would be a pretty, like, you think I like correcting

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