🤓 4 Dorks
📅 10 Years
🔊 500 Episodes
👂Half a billion listens
🌍One globe-trotting tour
That's right Fishbusters - we're going on tour! Later this year we'll be performing in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand!
More info:
Can you believe it?!
It's been 10 years of No Such Thing As A Fish - over 500 episodes, 30,000 facts and countless mentions of moss (and golf, wine and yetis).
Thanks to everyone who listens, but don't go anywhere!
There's much more still to come...
It’s our 9th birthday!
The first *ever* episode of Fish released in 2014, and nine years later we’re still going strong.
Here's to many more puns, moss facts, and Anna Karenina spoilers to come!
Just to be clear folks: the next project Anna’s embarking on is motherhood!
Once her human child is able to do taxes she *will* be back, but until then the latest ep is a temporary farewell featuring all her most chaotic moments:
The scholar who first discovered that the Noah's Ark story predates the Bible got so excited by it that he stripped off his clothes and ran naked around the British Museum.
So here it is, the final line-up for our 20 hour live stream which starts tomorrow at 3:30pm. Who is everyone most looking forward to?
#20hourfishpod
Watch at
Donate at
It's really happening! Today from 3:30pm we'll be live streaming 20 hours of No Such Thing As A Fish to raise funds for
@comicrelief
. Clear your diaries, stock your snack drawer, the
#20hourfishpod
is on!
Watch here:
Donate here:
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STFU - Serve The Facts Up!
OMG - Outer Mongolian Giantworm
LMAO - ‘Lovely Moss’, Andy Opines
SMH - Send Me Harry’s!
IDC - It’s Diogenes Chat
TBH - Top Banter Harkin!
FYI - Fanciful Yeti Invention
ROFL - Roll On Floor Learning
We're using some new voice-recognition software to create transcripts of the podcast, and we'll be honest, it's not 100% accurate.
#getallergiesontwitter
Fear not fellow Fish fans!
While we at QI will greatly miss Andy wandering into the room to tell us his latest tram/moss/chicken rubbing facts, Fish listeners will continue to suffer - sorry, delight in - them for a long time to come.
Some Personnel News: at the end of Feb I’ll be leaving
@qikipedia
, the world’s greatest TV show, after 14 wonderful years. Spending my days truffling for interesting facts has been incredible. (I’m leaving the TV show but staying on
@nosuchthing
.)
🚨 STOP THE TIMELINE 🚨
We're super excited to announce that we're going back on the road with our new show NERD IMMUNITY and tickets will be available from Friday May 7th. 🎟️
For more details, head to
The news is out!
And to commemorate/celebrate Anna’s (temporary) departure, we have a very special ep with all her best bits - and some of the more batshit crazy anecdotes you might not know...
Best of luck Ptaszynski. You probably won't even see this.
We've been delightfully INFORMED that we've won Pod Bible's Best Informative Podcast!
Thanks to all who voted for us, despite the occasionally questionable facts presented by Dan.
🚨 STOP THE TIMELINE 🚨
We're teaming up with
@comicrelief
to livestream a twenty (20!) hour podcast on March 12th and 13th, with a few friends joining us along the way. 👇
"So you'll sort the tech out Alex?"
"Yep!"
"And you won't do anything weird like put a picture of yourself next to Michael Palin for half an hour?"
"Definitely not!"
#20HourFishPod
We made a factual error in episode 324 (No Such Thing As Mambo No. 2) and we really can't apologise enough. Thanks to listener Wayne Hamilton for bringing this to our attention.
We’ve spent this morning discussing who our dream guest would be. But if the curator of moss at the Natural History Museum isn’t available, who would you like to hear sharing their favourite facts on the podcast?
A friend of Fish,
@Reallymg
, has set up an alternative Wikipedia, but for the things we don't yet know rather than the things we do. Really interesting idea - you can check it out, register and start contributing here:
This week we’re joined by a keeper of goats, a defender of New Zealand’s moose population, and the closest thing to an 18th century buccaneer that we could get on the show - the one and only
@rhysiedarby
!
The whole band back together!
Although Anna joined us for our 500th ep, she won't be back on the podcast full time until her mat leave ends in a few months.
Until then, we have many more brilliant guests waiting to wow you with their facts!
📸: Viktor Erik Emanuel/
@KingsPlace
The true spirit of QI is the belief that the universe is endlessly interesting and there is always more awe and wonder to be had in the discovery.
What have you learnt this week?
We learnt that there's a hyphen in 'cock-up'.
We've really played a long game with this one... but having the word fish in our podcast and an author called Hunter Murray means that we're now number 2 in the Amazon Hunting & Fishing book charts. Come on gang, help us get to number 1!
This is a new series that we're calling Doppeldängers. Here's a look-a-like of everyone's favourite Yeti enthusiast, spotted advertising mobile phones in Peru. (Photo credit: Anna's parents)
#doppeldangers
Everything you need for a belated NSTAAF birthday celebration: a king-sized cake, football scores, and the many incredible friends-of-the-podcast we've met along the way 💛🖤
Anna's slight look of disbelief is probably about right...
Much to the confusion of passers-by, we were v excited to see this in Covernt Garden, courtesy of
@amazonmusicuk
Project the latest ep into your earholes at or wherever you get your podcasts!
Tomorrow we’re celebrating 500 episodes of No Such Thing As A Fish - and we’ll be joined by someone very special indeed...
📸: Viktor Erik Emanuel/
@KingsPlace
Enjoy your long weekends everybody! We're off to lounge around on Anna's idea of a desert island.
A brand new episode will be out tomorrow, which is a Friday. Because our episodes always have, and always will come out on Fridays.
Fridays. Fridays. Fridays.
🤞
We're en route to Inverness for the second leg of our
#NerdImmunity
tour in Scotland and Wales! 🏴 🏴
P.S. we've decided to turn
@Schreiberland
into an
@ABBAVoyage
-esque hologram experience, because Real Dan went AWOL. He's probably hunting for Nessie something...
So excited to have hit number 2 in Aussie iTunes charts today, play Sydney Opera House tonight, and thus far avoid snake/shark/spider attack! This country is really coming up trumps for us - thanks Australia
Anna and Dan were on BBC Breakfast this morning to chat about our book. Still available in hardback. And now GLOBALLY as an audiobook (over 9 hours of us reading the book and bantering about it along the way)
What weird and wonderful things do you think
#2017
will be remembered for? 'QI elves' Dan Schreiber and Anna Ptaszynski joined us on the sofa to tell us about their new book of favourite discoveries this year.
Dear Loyal Listeners, there's been a festive tech blunder where people are hearing external ads on the pod. Apologies, we're working hard to fix. If you heard any, feel free to let us know what ad, and on what platform so we can work out what's happening
Remember how we said cheetahs don't roar, they chirp? Well, Anna met this feline friend a few days ago and asked if we could fax the video to Twitter, so we have.
The Fish gang and Penguin Random House are very excited to announce that they will be releasing The Book of the Year 2018 in the autumn of… 2018! We can’t tell you exactly what’s going to be in it, because it hasn’t all happened yet, but we promise you, it’s going to be great.
We are incredibly grateful and honoured to receive The Heinz Oberhummer Award for Science Communication and can't wait to get our hands on the prize of a glass of alpaca excrement!
This week we're deliberating on the finer points of beekeeping, debating over bagels vs beigels, and dabbling in discussions of Sisyphean proportions.
Joining us for all this is true Nerd Royalty; the utterly ineffable
@neilhimself
!