No Such Thing As A Fish
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Weekly podcast from Dan (@schreiberland) James (@JamesHarkin) Andy (@andrewhunterm) & Anna (#getannaontwitter) our book is out NOW: https://t.co/iIRrAsJUWv
Holborn, London
Joined May 2011
🤓 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:
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A 2019 study found that people drive more carefully if they have a pavlova in the car than their own child.
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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.
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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!.
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Stop the podcast we've only gone and hit 50,000 followers!.Now we go live to Fish HQ:
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Later today we will broadcast our 219th episode, which means that we’ve now overtaken QI, who only have a paltry 218 episodes!
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Look what Andy spotted at Waterloo Station last night!
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Did anyone recognise a familiar face on this week's QI?
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In 1766, there was a cheese riot in Nottingham where the mayor of Nottingham was knocked over by a large cheese.
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"And once again we've gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days. ".
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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:
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One of these weeks is not like the other. Thanks for the listens gang! We'll get through this together.
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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.
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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
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The fish gang are back behind the mics for the first podcast recording of 2018!
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Here's a sneak Peake at tomorrow's episode, with a very special guest.
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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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Is your child texting about No Such Thing As A Fish?. 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.
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Thanks for a brilliant year! Who wants to own up to being one of the 73 thousand?!. @Spotify.#SpotifyWrapped
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A huge thanks to the team at CERN for showing four dorks around this afternoon!
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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
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A 2017 study found that the genre of music with the most references to drugs is country music.
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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.).
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We just *had* to post this clip from @sohotheatre. You’ll never look at a tinned pear the same way again.
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🚨 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
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"And now a question for Andy. Out of 10, how much do you love moss?"
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A snapshot from this week's recording. No, we don't know what's happening in Andy's corner either.
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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.
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🚨CARE PACKAGE INCOMING🚨.Check your podcast provider for the latest emergency supplies.
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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.
Pod Bible Poll Winners 2021!. BEST INFORMATIVE PODCAST. Winner: @nosuchthing . 2nd: @HistoryHit (@thehistoryguy).3rd: @DerrenBrown's Boot Camp For The Brain. Read more about our winners - . #podcastsoftheyear
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Rubber sandwich anyone?.
Pubs and restaurants can only serve alcohol in Tier 3 areas if the customer buys a meal.
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🚨 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. 👇.
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"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
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Tomorrow’s episode sees the return of a much loved friend of the show - any guesses who? 👀. (Artwork by @Schreiberland, who’s now taking commissions)
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"Dan, could you hold this book?"."Sure, what's it about?"."Facts."."Yeti facts?".". no"
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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.
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After much debate about the plural of mongoose, we have decided on a winner:.
@JamesHarkin @sushonomics @nosuchthing @ApplePodcasts @Schreiberland @andrewhunterm Should of course be polygoose.
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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?.
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We're loving all the Spotify stats but. is this even possible. Can someone check in on Róisín?
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Thanks to @Spotify for naming us as one of the podcasts of the decade! We look forward to defending our title in 2029.
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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:
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"So Dan, all you've got to do is turn up and make sure that your shirt isn't the same colour as the backdrop. Got it?"
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Anna has spoken:
@nosuchthing Just heard episode 251, and heard Anna pronounce her last name. Can someone finally give us some proper instructions?.
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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!.
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Our debut book is out tomorrow. If we could ask one favour of you listeners: please buy a copy today. It's only £6
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James and Andy are ready to go, Anna's double-checking the recording equipment, and Dan is. well.
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We get this same question emailed in to us about 6 times a week from people all over the world.
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A huge thanks to the @nytimes for featuring us as one of their Podcasts to Lighten the Mood!
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The first in a new series called "Andrew Hunter Murray tweets without context"
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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
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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'.
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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!
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Anna asks that all e-mails be printed out and then sent to her by fax. It is her one demand but she's incredibly insistent.
@nosuchthing is there a reason why the link to podcast@qi.com in the contact section on your website takes me to fax machines on eBay?.
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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
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By high demand - the real stars of the show were obviously the highly sophisticated hobby horses that @sallyephillips hand-made for us!.
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Not been enticed by our merch yet?. Here's an exclusive look at it being modelled by @andrewhunterm - if this doesn't get you to buy it, nothing will.
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Another day of serious proper work going on in the QI offices
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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 💛🖤
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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!
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UK and Ireland - from February 28th to April 5th we will be touring all over you with our brand new show In No Particular Order!.Get your tickets at
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And in case you haven't heard. .
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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
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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. 🤞
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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.
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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.
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Alex is busy installing the Fish-Signal. It's like the Bat-Signal, but for people who need useless facts.
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It's true 🤷.
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Coming soon: No Such Thing As A Fish in glorious 360°!
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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.
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We see Twitter have made a special #Anna emoji *just* to try and get her to join. No such luck lads, she's still not interested! #getAnnaonTwitter.
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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.
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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.
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Incredible (see previous RT for context).
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Dear All, thanks for watching #NSTATN S2 & sending us all your amazing news stories - couldn't have done it without you!
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Here's Andy having just introduced this week's podcast. Was terrible. Pronounced Covernt really weirdly. Left out the "r". Weirdo. - Dan
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For those who heard the ep where Dan claims he used to iron his sister's hair straight - Proof has surfaced:
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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.
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How do you get a virtual audience psyched for a gig? .Watch and learn people, watch and learn.
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🚨EASTER WEEKEND GIVEAWAY🚨.The first year of No Such Thing As A Fish is now available for free!
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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!
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Holy moly. It’s Ptaszynski in today’s Sunday Times
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4 Days To Go!.Order The Book of the Year 2018 before Thursday and be in with a chance to win an awesome pair of headphones.
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Fish Fans = aFishionados.It might be the best suggestion we've had yet.
Just been watching “Behind the Gills”( love it ) from the guys from @nosuchthing and I think you should call your supporters/fans “aFishionados” 🤔🐠.@Schreiberland @andrewhunterm @JamesHarkin.
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It's our final ever #NerdImmunity show in Cardiff tonight 🥲 . Rest assured, @Schreiberland's diligently preparing
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A huge thanks to everyone who has downloaded and listened to our latest episode which is now riding high at Number 1 in the iTunes charts! We think we may owe you a drink or two @stephenfry
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9-years-ago today, Dan starred in a music video called Wasps by Emperor Yes. A few years later it would become the theme tune to Fish.
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