No Such Thing As The Metal Bloke
No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
4.7 • 18.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Nish Kumar joins James, Anna and Andy to discuss The Man Who Talks With String; The Man Who Sold The World; and the man you don't want directing your B-movie.
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Edited by James Harkin
Produced by Leying Lee
Team includes Jack Chambers, Tara Dorrell, Joe Mayo and Ethan Ruparelia
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my days. Do I have to dip into my savings? Patriot comes in. This goes out and that goes out. 10 pounds short. Cook something up quick. Go ahead. All the budget, reduce it. Look at their pay money to have a life. You got this, bro. New government policies are making every day easier, like increasing the national living wage to £12.71 an hour, with full-time workers seeing their earnings rise by £900 per year. |
| 0:23.5 | This is just one of the ways the UK government is tackling the cost of living. |
| 0:27.5 | See more at gov.uk.ukes slash cost of living help. |
| 0:30.8 | Hi everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, where we were joined by the legendary, by the superstar, by the all-round top guy, |
| 0:40.2 | who is Nish Kumar. And now anyone in the UK will know all about Nish. He is very often seen on |
| 0:46.7 | our televisions. And now he is on our podcast. If you are not from the UK and you're not |
| 0:51.9 | familiar with Nish's work, then after listening to this episode, you will surely want to go to YouTube. If you search for Nish Kumar, you will find a full recording of one of his shows, and it's definitely worth checking out his stand-up because it is brilliant. If you are in the UK or in Ireland, then maybe you want to go and see Nish Live. you can go to nishkumar.co.combe.ukh, and you will find all the dates of his tour there. |
| 1:16.4 | He is doing a work in progress at the Edinburgh Festival, and then he is going on the road in September, |
| 1:21.7 | and he is very likely to be at a town near you. |
| 1:25.4 | If you'd like to know more about us, then go to Patreon. |
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| 1:34.7 | or you can sign up to one of our tiers and get even more. |
| 1:38.2 | In fact, if you go to the Plenty More Fish Tier this week, |
| 1:41.9 | you will get an extra long episode of this show in fact you always |
| 1:45.2 | get one of those but this show is about 20 minutes longer than the actual episode and that is |
| 1:50.3 | because nish kuma is so knowledgeable about so many different things especially the subjects we |
| 1:55.3 | talked about today and so there are so many extra bits extra facts extra jokes extra anecdotes |
| 2:00.7 | and it is all in there. |
| 2:02.5 | But if you don't want to do that, do not worry. |
| 2:04.5 | Just sit down and listen to this week's episode with Nish Kumar. |
| 2:08.3 | On with the podcast. Hello and welcome to you from the QI office in Hobbes. |
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