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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Science, History, Comedy, Nature

4.718.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts, including Sisyphus, Slovenia and Southern Comfort. We also learn what Kenny G thought when he met Dan. And we name eight more Friend of the Podcast fact custodians. 

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0:00.0

I can't believe it.

0:03.6

Max has asked me to move in with him.

0:06.0

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

0:09.8

Did you hear that joke?

0:11.5

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

0:14.2

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

0:17.1

Now you're going to be living together.

0:51.2

If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search Tell DWP. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'll go to the O'Hourn at your amazing facts that you've been sending to podcast at QI.com.

0:56.1

Andy has whittled them away to the very, very cream of the crop, and then we pick out the plums, mix all our metaphors, and just chat about facts. So who's got a fact?

1:03.0

I've got one to kick off. Yeah. This is a fun one. This comes from Daniel Hamer, and it's about

1:07.9

the island of Kiribati. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Island or islands. It's islands. The islands.

1:14.9

Apologies. It's starting with an apology now. I'm sorry to the people on the other islands of Kiribati apart from the big one, which is the one I was thinking of. Okay.

1:23.2

Daniel's fact is the word for dog in Kiribati is camaya, right?

1:29.5

Okay.

1:30.1

And that is because it's a bastardization of English derived from the time dogs were introduced to the English and locals heard the English calling to the dogs,

1:37.4

Camaya, camere.

1:39.4

Really?

1:40.4

Come off it.

1:41.8

Is that true?

1:43.3

Camia.

1:46.0

That's a difference breed. Well, I just, I looked up the language a little bit and it's called Gilbert's as well.

1:50.0

Yeah, because it's the Gilbert Islands, but it's Kiribas is how you write it, Gilbert's.

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