No Such Thing As A Clairvoyant Chicken

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Episode 33 - Halloween Special: Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss vampire finches, suppository broomsticks, the difference between a witch and a sorcerer, and why you should really be listening to this on 12 May.

Check out qi.com/halloween for more.

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0:00.0	We run it on QI a few years ago, which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:04.4	I know the no such thing as a fish.
0:05.6	No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
0:09.9	It says it right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.
0:17.6	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast
0:22.5	coming to you from the QI offices in Covered Garden.
0:25.0	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:26.5	I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andy Murray, and Anna Chazinski.
0:30.2	And once again, we have gathered around the microphone with our four favorite,
0:34.4	Spooky.
0:36.2	Facts from the last seven days for this, our Halloween special, and in no particular order,
0:41.4	here we go.
0:43.8	Okay, fact number one, Andy.
0:46.3	My fact is that until the year 635 AD, Halloween was on the 12th of May.
0:54.4	Hmm.
0:56.0	Why was it on the 12th of May and why did we change it?
0:58.6	Well, it's only really on the 12th of May because it's Halloween is the day before all
1:02.0	Saints day.
1:03.1	Yeah, I was under the impression that that was the first of November.
1:06.7	Yes, well, basically Halloween is part of the All-Hallowed Tide Festival.
1:10.1	It's three days, which is All-Hallowed Zeeve, which we've got Halloween, All-Hallowed Day,
1:14.2	or All-Saint's Day and All-Souls Day.
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