The Goldfish's Bad Rap

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford has found via experimentation that goldfish use markings on the floor below them to measure how far they have traveled. The study disproves the long-held belief goldfish have little or no memory. Anthony and Jeff talk about what this means for goldfish reputations, worldwide, and other animals who fight with unfair stigmas.

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0:00.0	If you've bought a bunch of things and you're in the plastic three years later, not the
0:19.7	best investment.
0:22.1	This is way of concerns.
0:24.5	Hi Jeff Canada.
0:25.5	I have the decarbonie.
0:27.2	Hello concerned citizens.
0:30.6	Jeff, one of the one of the great jokes of all time and by one of the great jokes of
0:37.2	all time, I mean one of the jokes that just keeps getting used over and over.
0:42.1	The goldfish that takes a lap around its own bowl and doesn't know where it is anymore.
0:49.2	Fun gag, right?
0:52.0	This is a fun gag.
0:53.1	Every comic strip has done this gag.
0:55.3	You know, my understanding is the goldfish takes a lap and comes back and goes, the aristocrats.
1:02.0	That's actually that's yes.
1:04.6	And you're in your more adult newspapers.
1:08.1	That is what happens.
1:11.6	But no, like this is, I mean, I can think of there's at least a far side, probably a,
1:16.1	you know, Garfield, a Heathcliff, fucking finding Nemo.
1:20.8	Goldfish have no memory.
1:22.0	That's the thing.
1:23.0	They're simple creatures with no memory.
1:25.2	They're simple, they're, they are butt dums here to be made fun of.
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