No Such Thing As Chekhov's Volcano
No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
4.7 • 18.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Greg Foot joins James, Anna and Andy to discuss vision, vacuums, volcanoes and Volvos.
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| 0:00.0 | Join the thousands of heat pump owners feeling warm and fuzzy. |
| 0:03.0 | I've lived here 20 years. I ain't moving so I thought better future prove me home. |
| 0:07.0 | We started a trend. The Alstraits are applying for the government grant now. |
| 0:11.0 | With the energy you're saved, I don't know what's better off. The planet or my wallet. |
| 0:15.0 | And their easy little bookworm says it's three times more efficient than our old boiler. |
| 0:19.0 | Feel all warm and fuzzy inside with a seven and a half thousand pound government grant towards |
| 0:24.4 | your heat pump at gov.uk.uk slash clean energy. |
| 0:27.6 | Eligibility criteria applies the website for details. |
| 0:30.2 | Hi everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of No Such Thing as a Fish where we were joined |
| 0:34.2 | by the absolutely brilliant science communicator Greg Futt. |
| 0:38.4 | Now, I have known Greg for many, many years. |
| 0:41.2 | He is really, I would say, one of the UK's premier fact checkers. |
| 0:45.8 | If you listen to BBC Radio 4, you might know him from the show Sliced Bread, where he looks |
| 0:51.1 | at different products and claims and sees whether the science backs them up or not. |
| 0:57.1 | But he has a brand new podcast. It's very exciting. It's called the Baby Fact Check. |
| 1:04.0 | And it is something that I really wish I had about three years ago when I had a very young baby |
| 1:10.2 | because Greg is a new father himself. |
| 1:12.9 | Congratulations to him and his partner. |
| 1:14.8 | And they have realized that there is so much information out there. |
| 1:18.1 | So many claims from companies from the internet. |
| 1:21.5 | And Greg has decided to use his many, many skills to work out which of these claims are true and which of them are false. |
| 1:27.9 | It's such a great idea and he has done it absolutely brilliantly. |
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