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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Nature, Science, Comedy, History

4.718.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Live at the Soho Theatre, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss eccentric dinner parties, the most pointless scientific studies and what happens to tattoos when they die.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode.

0:24.0

No such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast.

0:26.6

This week coming to you from the Soho Theatre in Central London.

0:29.6

My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:30.6

I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andy Murray and Anich Zzynski.

0:34.4

And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the

0:37.8

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

0:41.9

Starting with you, Andy Murray.

0:44.5

My fact this week is that when you have a tattoo lasered off, you end up pooing it out.

0:52.4

So that's what happens.

0:56.4

Does it still have the same design on the floor?

1:01.0

So yeah, this happens.

1:02.7

So when you have a tattoo it goes into the middle layer of the skin which is called the dermis.

1:06.4

And when it's lasered off, the beams of like they heat up the ink and it breaks down into

1:11.9

tiny particles and those go into the bloodstream and then they are excreted via the liver and

1:17.2

the digestive system and that's how they get out of you.

1:21.4

I just think that's amazing.

1:23.0

Yeah.

1:24.0

So that says something about how little you want the tattoo anymore, doesn't it?

1:27.0

It's a statement.

1:28.0

So do you know what tattoos are made out of like the ink?

1:30.6

Do you know where that comes from?

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