Tony Sharkscientist: Andrew Hunter Murray and The Three-Second Rule for Curses

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer and researcher for the BBC panel show QI, as a member of the team known as the "QI Elves". He co-hosts the spin-off podcast series No Such Thing as a Fish.

Murray wrote and co-presented the podcast's spinoff television series No Such Thing as the News. He currently hosts "Drop Us a Line" as part of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, and also the BBC's satirical current affairs podcast The Naked Week.

Andrew Hunter Murray works for Ian Hislop as a writer for Private Eye magazine and hosts the magazine's podcast, Page 94.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:05.0	Warning! The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories,
0:11.0	unexplainable experiences, and a haunted funicular.
0:15.0	It may not be suitable for younger weirdos.
0:18.0	Unless it presents me any inconvenience in any way whatsoever,
0:22.5	I will observe this ancient superstition. Hey everyone. Welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am coming to you today from the Haunted Studios in
0:56.0	Lester Square and I am very, very, very excited about today's episode because I got to sit down with
1:02.6	one of my best friends or, as Andy would probably prefer it to be described as one of my work
1:08.0	acquaintances and that is Andrew Hunter Murray, Andy to others,
1:12.7	or Lightning to his many admirers, is my co-host, along with Anna Tishinsky and James Harkin,
1:19.6	of the podcast that we launched over 11 years now on the 8th of March 2014.
1:25.1	That is no such thing as a fish.
1:30.6	It has been one hell of a journey since we launched our first episode. It's got a 4.72 out of five rating on Wikipedia, I've just noticed.
1:38.6	Didn't know Wikipedia gave ratings, but that's pretty good going. Yeah, but man, we've traveled
1:42.9	far since we started it. In fact, we've traveled over 33,492 facts since we first began,
1:50.0	and we know that because Andy has kept a spreadsheet of every single fact we've ever said on the show.
1:55.5	We've lobbed up 583 episodes in that time,
1:59.4	and it's been amazing what podcasting has done for all of us. It has
2:02.9	led to global adventures. Me, Andy, Anna and James have managed to play venues all over the planet
2:08.6	from Sydney to New York. So I was particularly excited to put the batshit list in front of Andy
2:14.3	because I wanted to see if there was any weirdnesses that I, in all the
2:18.1	travels that we've done, all the time we've spent together, have not yet learned about him.
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