Tim Joins ‘No Such Thing As A Fish'
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
‘No Such Thing as a Fish’ is one of Tim Harford’s favorite podcasts and he was recently invited on as a guest. So here’s a chance to listen to the host of Cautionary Tales chat vital vitamins, stinging schemes, and the practice of pyrography.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, Tim Hartford here, one of the most exciting things happened to me a few weeks ago. |
| 0:15.6 | My friends at the podcast know such things as a fish, called me up and asked me if I'd |
| 0:21.4 | be a guest on the podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | Now if you don't know what no such thing as a fish is and most of you will because it's |
| 0:28.6 | hugely popular, it's four nerds with obscure facts being very funny or at least trying to |
| 0:35.4 | be very funny, the regular nerds, James Anna, Dan and Andy, make this look very easy. |
| 0:42.6 | You are about to hear me trying to live up to their standards. |
| 0:48.2 | A cautionary tales will be back as always next Friday where we're on every other Friday |
| 0:54.1 | with our regular cautionary tales episodes, but this week as a special treat and no such |
| 0:59.0 | thing as a fish have allowed us to release their episode featuring yours truly, Tim Hartford |
| 1:06.9 | desperately trying to keep pace. |
| 1:09.4 | Enjoy. |
| 1:10.4 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Things A Fish, the weekly podcast coming |
| 1:17.6 | to you this week from four top secret underground undisclosed locations. |
| 1:24.0 | My name is Anna Toshinsky and I am sitting here today with James Harkin and Johan Tamari |
| 1:29.2 | and our very special guest Tim Hartford. |
| 1:33.2 | And once again we've gathered around our microphones with our four favorite facts from |
| 1:36.6 | the last seven days and in no particular order. |
| 1:39.6 | Here we go starting with you Tim. |
| 1:42.6 | Five factors that in 1939 the young doctor at Boston City Hospital went on a scurvy |
| 1:48.8 | producing diet to see what would happen. |
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