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Episode 276: No Such Thing As A Ninja With A Cat

**No Such Thing As A Ninja With A Cat** is the 276th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 16th episode of the sixth year, and the 27th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at Lorensbergsteatern in Gothenburg, Sweden.

## Description

> Live from Gothenburg, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss ninja snorkelling, Spiderman's fall from a traffic light, and waiting at a train station for 120 years.
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## Facts

* Sweden's public art body has just commissioned an artwork which will hire someone to do nothing at Gothenburg's Korsvägen train station for the next 120 years. (Murray)
* Ninjas' sword sheaths had removable tips so that if they ever had to hide under the water, they could use them like a snorkel to breathe. (Ptaszynski)
* One month before the French Spider-Man successfully climbed the second-tallest building in the world, he was hospitalised after falling from a 7-foot-tall traffic light. (Schreiber)
* In the early Eurovision song contests, songs could not be performed in public before the event. One Danish song was banned when the composer whistled it in a TV broadcaster's canteen. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This is the eighteenth stop on the In No Particular Order tour, the first one in mainland Europe, and the first in Sweden.
	+ This is the first live show in mainland Europe since Episode 38: No Such Thing As A Super Mario Love Hotel.
	+ This is the first live show outside the UK since Episode 268, in the Ireland, and the first outside the British Isles since Episode 227, which was partially recorded in New Zealand.
* Dan produces a dubious fact about ninjas using cats' eyes to tell the time of day.
	+ He also repeats his "fact" about Yetis putting their feet on backwards from Episode 145: No Such Thing As E.T. Part Three.
* Voting in the Intervision Song Contest was previously mentioned in TBA.
Episode 19: No Such Thing As Unicorn Stew

**No Such Thing As Unicorn Stew** is the 19th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 19th episode of the first year, and the 34th episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (@nosuchthing) discuss the estate agent army, bankers in sacks, medieval snail fights, tricky recipe ingredients and 'legs or tails'.
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## Facts

* A kangaroo's tail is used as a leg, so they either have three or five legs, but not four. (Harkin)
* During the financial crisis of 1720, known as the South Sea Bubble, the Houses of Parliament called for stockbrokers to be sewn into sacks filled with poisonous snakes and thrown into the River Thames. (Ptaszynski)
* There are three times as many estate agents in the UK as there are members of the British Armed Forces. (Murray)
* Medieval manuscripts are littered with drawings of warfare between snails and knights. No-one knows why. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* The QI Travel Game is promoted. James Harkin uses a QI Klaxon buzzer during this podcast.
Episode 247: No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea

**No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea** is the 247th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 39th episode of the fifth year, and the 51st episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and QI Elf Ed Brooke-Hitching. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Anna, James, Andy and Ed discuss whistling oysters, Captain Cook's goat, and King Lear's happy ending.
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## Facts

* The most experienced sailor aboard Captain Cook's first voyage was a goat. (Brooke-Hitching)
* For 150 years, Shakespeare's play *The Tragedy of King Lear* had a happy ending. (Ptaszynski)
* Some advertisers have started putting single pixels on mobile phone ads so that you think it's dust, try to rub it off, and accidentally click on the ad. (Murray)
* One of the most popular celebrities in London in 1860 was an oyster who could whistle. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
	+ In his place, Anna Ptaszynski hosts.
	+ Ed Brooke-Hitching guests, making his second appearance.
	+ Brooke-Hitching is promoting his book *The Golden Atlas*.
* The play King Lear with Sheep was also mentioned in TBA.
Colombia v Ivory Coast

**Colombia v Ivory Coast** is the 8th episode of International Factball, and the 22nd episode of 2014. It features presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Example Facts

* Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar kept numerous wild animals in his house, and his hippos kept escaping and terrorising local towns. (Harkin)
* The remote Columbian town of Las Piñas is separated from everywhere else by the Rio Negro, and so children zipwire across the ravine to get to school. (Ptaszynski)
* The Ivory Coast's Independence Day is the 7th of August, but they celebrate it on the 7th of December. (Schreiber)
* There is a basilica at Yamoussoukro in the Ivory Coast which was built slightly shorter than St. Peter's in Rome at the request of the Pope. Once it was built, the Ivory Coast put a huge golden cross on top, making it the tallest basilica in the world. (Murray)

## Half Time Show

As Factball is made in association with VisitEngland, the presenters ask three trivia questions about England during half time, and provide answers at the end.

* In the Lake District there is only one lake, Bassenthwaite, as most of the others are meres or waters. (Harkin)
* The southernmost point of mainland England is Lizard Point, not Land's End. (Murray)
* In 1868 the world's first traffic light was built outside the House of Commons, but it had to be taken down after it exploded in the face of a policeman. (Ptaszynski)
Episode 298: No Such Thing As An Emotional Support Amoeba

**No Such Thing As An Emotional Support Amoeba** is the 298th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 38th episode of the sixth year, and the 49th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the New York Comedy Festival, at the Tribeca PAC in New York City.

## Description

>  Live from New York, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss Hornigold the pirate, support animals for other animals, and why the French can't decide on what to call a pencil.
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## Facts

* When racehorses travel by aeroplane they're allowed to bring an emotional support goat for no extra cost. (Harkin)
* The French can't decide how to say the word "pencil" in their own language. (Ptaszynski)
* There is a gravity-measuring device in Maryland so sensitive that it can tell whether or not the scientists working on it have had lunch. (Murray)
* The pirate who mentored Blackbeard once attacked a ship purely to steal the hats of everyone on-board because his crew had drunkenly thrown all their hats overboard the night before. (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* This is the fourth stop on the US Tour.
	+ This is the fourth live show in North America or the USA, and the second in New York City or state.
	+ This is the second live show in a row at the Tribeca PAC.
* The Académie Française is discussed - Victor Hugo was a member, and his belief in his own mastery of the language was discussed at length in Episode 215: No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team.
* Schreiber mentions the "French-Croatian Squid", which the other presenters do not believe is a real piece of folklore. It is not, but Schreiber fails to explain that it was invented in recent years to evade the internet censorship in China.
* Harkin has not seen any Superman films.
* A man losing his real leg, then losing his pegleg, is discussed in Episode 296.
Episode 242: No Such Thing As The Ancient Monty Python Dynasty

**No Such Thing As The Ancient Monty Python Dynasty** is the 242nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 34th episode of the fifth year, and the 46th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the York Theatre Royal in York.

## Description

> Live from York, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss scaring moths out of the sky, Sir Walter Raleigh's improv act, and why a robot would say 'poop'.
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## Facts

* Three-time world memory champion Ben Pridmore is up to his fourth lucky hat, as he forgot where he left the other three. (Harkin)
* Before he was executed, Walter Raleigh gave a 45-minute improvised speech telling the crowd about his life. (Murray)
* According to a new scientific study, the single most convincing word that a human can use to prove they are not a robot is the word "poop". (Schreiber)
* If you shake your keys at a moth, it thinks you're a bat and drops out of the sky. (Ptaszynski)

 Trivia

* This was the second of five live shows to promote The Book of the Year 2018, which were all announced in Episode 233: No Such Thing As A Sexy Question Mark.
* During the intro, Alex Bell is jokingly made to apologise for publishing the previous week's episode a day early, and atones by promoting The Book of the Year 2018.
* Schreiber gives his twitter name as @LadsLadsLads.

 Audience Fact

To promote its release, the Elves give away a copy of The Book of the Year 2018 to the best audience-submitted fact.

* My dad once held the world distance record for leapfrogging (two person team). They managed nearly 17 miles from Hull to Withernsea, East Yorkshire. Set in the early '80s, I think they were probably drunk. (Luke Barwell)
Episode 31: No Such Thing As A Snake In My Pie

**No Such Thing As A Snake In My Pie** is the 31st episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 31st episode of the first year, and the 46th episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss urinating prophets, one man and his mushroom, weird wedding customs and who invented the electric pillow.
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## Facts

* In the 17th century there was a prophet called Dorothy Harling who would cure you of your sins by urinating on the offending body part. (Harkin)
* Despite the fact that homosexuality is illegal in South Sudan, a woman can have a female husband and a child can have a female father. (Ptaszynski)
* Tommy Flowers, the designer of the Colossus computer, discovered that the way to prevent the valves from blowing up was not turning it off and on again. (Schreiber)
* Botanists in Kew Gardens checked a £1.29 bag of supermarket mushrooms and found three species of mushroom previously unknown to science. (Murray)
Episode 155: No Such Thing As Hurricane Schmurricane

**No Such Thing As Hurricane Schmurricane** is the 155th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 51st episode of the third year, and the 10th episode of 2017. It is also the 3rd anniversary special. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at Up The Creek in Greenwich, London.

## Description

> Live from Up The Creek in Greenwich to celebrate the third birthday of the podcast, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the weirdest storm name suggestions, President Johnson's johnson shower and the Old People Forecast.
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## Facts

* Scientists can now predict when someone is going to fall over three weeks before it happens. (Schreiber)
* When he became President, Lyndon B. Johnson installed a special shower in the White House that fired a jet directly at his penis. (Harkin)
* Rejected names for British storms include Baldrick, Noddy, Megatron, and Branchwobbler. (Murray)
* Boxer crabs use sea anemones as boxing gloves. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* This is the third anniversary special.
* The idea of an AI predicting when elderly people are at risk of falling over was discussed in Episode 143: No Such Thing As Chariots in Space.
* Lyndon B. Johnson's strange penis habits are referenced again in Episode 293: No Such Thing As A Sexy Ceiling Fan.
Episode 188: No Such Thing As A Mouth-Propelled Grenade Launcher

**No Such Thing As A Mouth-Propelled Grenade Launcher** is the 188th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 32nd episode of the fourth year, and the 43rd episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at The Stand in Newcastle.

## Description

> Live from Newcastle, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Mo Farah's only Guinness World Record, what's inside a Kit Kat, and how hamsters arrived in the UK.
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## Facts

* Mo Farah has only 1 Guinness World Record, and it is in the 100m sack race. (Harkin)
* The inside of a Kit Kat is made of more Kit Kats. (Murray)
* The first hamsters to come to the UK arrived in a coat pocket. (Ptaszynski)
* An effective way to treat snoring is to regularly play the didgeridoo. (Schreiber)

### Audience Fact

Throughout this tour, the Elves gave away a copy of *The Book of the Year* to the best audience-submitted fact.

> The North East has the greatest variety of ginger hair in the world, with over 47 shades. (@JessSarahX)
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## Trivia

* This is the first stop on the 2017 Tour.
	+ This is the first of two episodes at The Stand.
* A running joke is made of Andy not having enough time to justify discussing colonoscopy-performing robots. These were previously discussed in Episode 91.
* James mentions Ashrita Furman, who was previously discussed in Episode 174.

## Notes

1. ↑ Guinness World Record: Olympics double gold medalist Mo Farah bags sack race record
2. ↑ Food & Wine Magazine: Solving the Mystery of Kit Kat Filling
3. ↑ Wikipedia: Domestication of the Syrian hamster
4. ↑ ABC: Didgeridoo helps stop snoring
5. ↑ Best Places of Interest: The UK Travel: 15 Compelling Reasons to Make Newcastle the Newest Addition to Your Bucket List
Episode 110: No Such Thing As A Dull Post Box

**No Such Thing As A Dull Post Box** is the 110th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 6th episode of the third year, and the 17th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest Sara Pascoe. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna, Andy and special guest Sara Pascoe discuss underwater postboxes, easily distracted hijackers and the Disney film all about menstruation.
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## Facts

* In the 1920s, scientists concluded that menstruating women wilted flowers. (Pascoe)
* One proposed solution to plane hijackings in the 1970s was to build a pretend Havana airport in South Florida. (Murray)
* In 2016 an organisation will finish a 40-year-long study of Britain's post boxes, at which point it will immediately start again. (Ptaszynski)
* In the Middle Ages, people slept with cow dung at the foot of their beds to keep bugs away. (Harkin)

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first appearance of Sara Pascoe, who is promoting her book *Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body*.
	+ As there are five people around the microphones, Dan Schreiber does not submit a fact.
* The app Qiktionary is first plugged in this episode.
* The fact that people had fewer menstrual cycles in hunter-gatherer societies is brought up again in Episode 152: No Such Thing As A Sleepover With Lions and No Such Thing As Snooker Avocado.
* Pliny the Elder's strange views on menstruation are discussed. He is mentioned again in Episode 116 and Episode 250.
Episode 245: No Such Thing As The Very Sexy Caterpillar

**No Such Thing As The Very Sexy Caterpillar** is the 245th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 37th episode of the fifth year, and the 49th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Brighton Dome in Brighton.

## Description

> Live from Brighton, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the police force made up of criminals, why mice walk so loudly, and the world's first crossword.
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## Facts

* Australia's first police force was made up of the country's twelve best-behaved convicts. (Schreiber)
* In the first newspaper crosswords the answers did not have to be actual words. (Ptaszynski)
* In the German Renaissance it was briefly fashionable for women to have themselves painted as a Biblical character halfway through decapitating a man. (Murray)
* Mice can't hear their own footsteps. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* Harkin mentions that the Fish team were in Australia on The Australasia Tour.
* The details of Schreiber's fact are somewhat dubious.
* Harkin mentions Norfolk Island, which was mentioned in the previous episode.
* Ptaszynski talks about Ned Kelly, who was discussed at length in TBA.

 Audience Fact

To promote its release, the Elves give away a copy of The Book of the Year 2018 to the best audience-submitted fact.

* There was a British man who changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice just so telemarketers would have trouble pronouncing it. (Michael JM)
Episode 299: No Such Thing As A Conscientious Brunette

**No Such Thing As An Emotional Support Amoeba** is the 299th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 39th episode of the sixth year, and the 50th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

## Description

>  Live from Washington D.C., Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the goats that guard Reagan's library, poppy field crop circles, and which Apollo moon landing was faked.
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## Facts

* One of the main reasons people failed to get into the US Army in World War I was because they required recruits to have a minimum of six teeth. (Murray)
* The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has been protected from wildfires by a herd of goats that includes Vincent van Goat, Selena Goatmez, and Goatzart. (Ptaszynski)
* The Apollo 12 moon landing footage was faked. (Schreiber)
* Australian poppy fields have crop circles. They are caused by wallabies getting high and jumping around in circles. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This is the fifth and final stop on the US Tour.
	+ This is the fifth live show in North America or the USA, and the first in Washington DC.
* Murray makes refence to Schreiber's habit of guessing numbers so high that they make the real numbers look unimpressive, which was prominent in Episode 295: No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette.
* Schreiber's fact comes from The Book of the Year 2019, and is one of the preview facts in the Audiobook of the Year 2019 Preview.
* The conspiracy theorist who was punched by Buzz Aldrin was discussed in TBA.
	+ Aldrin's appearance on The Museum of Curiosity was also mentioned.
Episode 212: No Such Thing As A Hipster Pharaoh

**No Such Thing As A Hipster Pharaoh** is the 212th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 4th episode of the fifth year, and the 15th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Ulster Hall, Belfast.

## Description

> Live from Belfast, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss smuggling pasta, the Queen's tri-annual review and the designer chickens of Silicon Valley.
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## Facts

* There are a number of chickens in California that have their own personal chefs. (Harkin)
* The Victorian cat burglar Charles Peace could supposedly disguise himself just by changing the shape of his face. (Murray)
* If the British treated their monarchy the way that the ancient Egyptians did, Queen Elizabeth II would have to run around a race track every 3 years to prove she was still fit for the job. (Schreiber)
* People who smuggle drugs one way across the Sahara desert often smuggle pasta the other way. (Ptaszynski)

### Audience Fact

Throughout this tour, the Elves give away a copy of The Complete Second Year Cassette to the best audience-submitted fact.

> When filming the battle scenes for *Game of Thrones* (filmed in Northern Ireland, of course), the fighting was so intense that they had to create a safeword in case someone got hurt. So, the safeword for *Game of Thrones* is "banana". (Natassia Reilly)
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## Trivia

* This is the sixth stop on the 2018 Tour.
	+ This is the first ever Fish live show on the island of Ireland, and the first ever in Northern Ireland.
* Anna calls Herodotus "sometimes a bit fanciful" given his writings about India from Episode 169.

## Notes

1. ↑ The Washington Post: The Silicon Valley elite’s latest status symbol: Chickens
2. ↑ Daily Mail: Victorian Britain's most-wanted man: The incredible life of crime of Charles Peace, son of a one-legged lion tamer who went on to kill his neighbour and a police officer
3. ↑ Wikipedia: Sed festival
4. ↑ The Economist: Spaghetti smugglers of the Sahara (PDF) [direct source]
5. ↑ Gizmodo: Game of Thrones Has a Safe Word
Episode 101: No Such Thing As A Giant Robot Michael Jackson

**No Such Thing As A Zillion and One** is the 101st episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 49th episode of the second year, and the 8th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the mac in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

## Description

> Live from the Birmingham mac theatre, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss hedgehogs climbing walls, robots roaming deserts and cows wearing bras.
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## Facts

* In 2005, there were plans to make a 50-foot-tall robot Michael Jackson that would roam the Nevada desert. (Harkin)
* In the 16th century, people disliked hedgehogs because it was believed they sucked cows' udders. (Murray)
* Herbert Spencer had an "angry suit" specially made which he only wore when he was feeling irritable. (Ptaszynski)
* In order for Spider-Man to climb buildings, he would need size 89 feet. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* This is the ninth stop on the No Such Thing As A Fish Live tour, and the second and final episode recorded at the mac.
* It was first announced in this episode that the podcast had been nominated for a Chortle Award, which they won as of TBA.
* Murray compains that he is ridiculed for reporting that hedgehogs can climb walls, when Schreiber often gets away with saying far more ridiculous things.
Episode 200: No Such Thing As A Jigsaw For The Queen

**No Such Thing As A Jigsaw For The Queen** is the 200th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 44th episode of the fourth year, and the 3rd episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at The Alexandra in Birmingham.

## Description

> Live from Birmingham, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the squatting Queen impersonator, misplace nuclear launch codes, and the statue in Belgium commemorating Peter the Great's sick.
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## Facts

* In Brussels, there is a commemorative statue to where Peter the Great once vomited. (Schreiber)
* Only 1 study has ever found that men are better than women at recognising faces. It was a study looking at the recognition of the Transformers. (Harkin)
* There is a woman whose job for the last 30 years has been squatting above the Queen's throne so the TV cameras can get their angle right. (Murray)
* US President Jimmy Carter once sent the nuclear launch codes to his dry-cleaner. (Ptaszynski)

### Audience Fact

Throughout this tour, the Elves gave away a copy of *The Book of the Year* to the best audience-submitted fact.

> The game Cluedo was invented by A. Pratt from Birmingham. (Steven Conibear)
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## Trivia

* This is the ninth stop on the 2017 Tour.
* Anna corrects her fact about golf balls from the previous episode, as Walkers have now created a machine which can tell the difference between golf balls and potatoes.
* George H. W. Bush vomiting on the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister was previously discussed in Episode 119.
* Ash Gardner features as a guest performer, singing the podcast's theme song after the end of the show.

## Notes

1. ↑ Brussels Remembers: Bust: Peter the Great in Parc de Bruxelles
2. ↑ VICE: The Only Faces Men Recognize Better Than Women Are Transformers
3. ↑ HELLO!: Meet the Queen's double who has stood in at rehearsals for over 30 years
4. ↑ Timeline: Jimmy Carter once sent launch codes to the cleaner, and other scary tales of the ‘nuclear football’ [direct source]
Alex Bell

**Alex Bell** is a QI Elf, and the Senior Creative and Development Producer for QI who has appeared as a guest presenter on No Such Thing As A Fish.

## Appearances

Bell is one of the most frequent guests on the podcast, and the only person to host an episode outside of the four regulars.

* Episode 8: No Such Thing As A Swear Word on the Moon
* International Factball: Australia v Mexico
* International Factball: South Korea v Ghana
* Episode 16: No Such Thing As A Ghost in Poland
* Episode 21: No Such Thing As A Testicle-Retracting Sumo Wrestler
* Episode 23: No Such Thing As A Yawning Psychopath
* Episode 24: No Such Thing As A Malicious Robot
* Episode 43: No Such Thing As A Human Cigarette
* Episode 69: No Such Thing As The Pamplona Guinea Pig Run
* Episode 74: No Such Thing As A Computer in the Oval Office
* Episode 81: No Such Thing As A Jellyfish Jelly
* Episode 84: No Such Thing As A Donkumentary
* Episode 95: No Such Thing As A Millipede Embassy
* Episode 116: No Such Thing As Notting Mountain
* Episode 127: No Such Thing As 'Carry On Colliding'
* Episode 128: No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill
* Episode 131: No Such Thing As Walking the Life Jacket
* Episode 135: No Such Thing As Queen of Clean, the Sausage Machine
* Episode 138: No Such Thing As Fluff Island
* Episode 143: No Such Thing As Chariots in Space
* Episode 144: No Such Thing As Garlic Superman
* Episode 147: No Such Thing As Burrito Party Boy
* Episode 148: No Such Thing As A Plummeting Moose
* Episode 168: No Such Thing As Lord Cauldronhead
* Episode 169: No Such Thing As Constantly Awake Beauty
* Episode 170: No Such Thing As A Love Potion For A Vole
* Episode 179: No Such Thing As Stare-Boxing
* Episode 181: No Such Thing As A Shark Vending Machine
* Episode 183: No Such Thing As A Bouncy Theatre
* Episode 187: No Such Thing As An Ant On Its Gap Year
* Episode 205: No Such Thing As The Number Six
* Episode 229: No Such Thing As The Great Modesto
* Episode 231: No Such Thing As A 24-Minute Podcast
* Episode 235: No Such Thing As Trousers For Spiders
* Episode 239: No Such Thing As The Queen Maaaaaaary
* Episode 290: No Such Thing As A Winter Fax Machine
* Episode 314: No Such Thing As A Tiny Ferris Wheel
* Episode 479: No Such Thing As Fake Coal
* Episode 508: No Such Thing As A Dragon Walk

 Hosting

Bell has hosted one episode of Fish, in which Dan Schreiber (the regular host) was absent. He was the first non-regular to do so.

* Episode 290: No Such Thing As A Winter Fax Machine

## Trivia

* Bell used to be on twitter @alexbell\_, but is now just @alexbell.
* Bell comes from Tenterden, Kent.
* When Bell was nearly hit by a bus, he shouted "go back to bus school!" at it.
* The Pottermore test put Bell in Ravenclaw.
* Bell is left-handed, just like Andrew Hunter Murray. (Episode 290)
Episode 322: No Such Thing As A Crown Of Willie Thornes

**No Such Thing As A Crown Of Willie Thornes** is the 322nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 10th episode of the seventh year, and the 21st episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

>  James, Anna, Andy & Dan discuss dizzy monks, soggy cheese and slimy sausages.
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## Facts

* Hagfish can eat by sitting inside their dinner and absorbing the nutrients through their skin. (Harkin)
* 1982's Time Person of the Year was the personal computer. The article announcing it was written on a typewriter. (Schreiber)
* In order to decide which direction to go and preach every day, Franciscans spun round and round until they were so dizzy that they fell over, and then went in whichever way their head was pointing. (Ptaszynski)
* In 2004 a Canadian cheesemaker dropped $50,000 worth of cheese into a lake to make it taste better, but then lost the cheese. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This is the ninth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* Murray mentions Freud's efforts to find eel gonads from Episode 262: No Such Thing As A Man In A Wine Bottle.
* Ptaszynski mentions Dorothy Parker's quote about the death of Calvin Coolidge which she mentioned before in Episode 191: No Such Thing As A Cannibal Squirrel.
* Schreiber jokes about Ptaszynski's lack of internet awareness.
* Neither Harkin nor Ptaszynski has seen E.T..
	+ Harkin *has* watched the 2017 Jumanji - the original book was part of a headline fact in Episode 319: No Such Thing As 19th Century Feudal Japanese Monopoly.
	+ Harkin has also not seen Titanic, Shrek, or Memento.
* Schreiber mentions the fact about Saint Francis creating the first nativity scene from Episode 249: No Such Thing As A Pint of Wine.
* Cheese being used as collateral for bank loans was first mentioned in TBA.
* The story of Odysseus's encounter with the cyclops was discussed at length in Episode 140: No Such Thing As Books For Pirate-Children.
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**Season 1 soundtrack**

**Songs**

Hope Begins • Roll With Me • Blood From My Veins • Burn in Hell • Overflow • Chips & Hennessy • Bubble & Peak • Wobby Woo • The Miami Drift • Keep It Funky • Kalifornia • And I'm Coming Home • Wait For Me • One of the Girls • Let the Dice Roll • What's Gone Will Never Leave • Home • Set It Off • Redemption • Just Say • Wildside • Downtown • The River • Voyage Home • Underdog • Better Ask Somebody • Keep Your Head Up • Heaven's Child • Keep Your Head • Alone • We Could Cry • King and Queen • Light 'Em Up • I See Fire • Unbreakable • **Elephants**

**Artists**

Dexter French • Wolfgang Black • Raphael Lake • Daniel Farrant • Paul Rawson • Virgil Ruff • Rupert Pope • John Robertson • Oh No • Brian Dougans • Gaz Cobain • Paul Haslinger • Classik • Kidd Marley • All Good Things • Ben Fisher • Blues Sarceno • Stephan Bertrand • Scarlett Burke • Jared Gutstadt • A Void • James McLean • Emanuel Vo Williams • Grayson Voltaire • Cut One • David O'Dowda • Smidi • Nine One One • TJ Stafford • Robin Loxley • Naomi August • Atlantic Line • Frank Fields • Mr. J • Giles Palmer • Lee Richardson • Jonathan Murill • Tom Ford • James Cocozza • Sarah Norman • Graycie • Lani Misalucha • We the Committee

**Albums**

*Folk Electronica 2* • *Garage Blues 4* • *Girl Garage* • *Girl Garage 2* • *Hipster Hop* • *OHNO* • *Deep Chill* • *Need For Speed: Undercover* (Original Soundtrack) • *Post Grunge* • *Indie Folk 2* • *Indie Soul* • *Indie Chill* • *Indie Blues* • *Indie Americana* • *Epic Hip Hop* • *Epic Hip Hop 2* • *Velvet Ears presents: David O'Dowda* • *Chamber Pop* • *Alt Hip Hop* • *Dark Country 4* • *Exit to Intro* • *Made, Vol. 9* • *Made, Vol. 11* • *Made, Vol. 13* • *Made, Vol. 16* • *Future Soul* • *Dark Pop* • *Superpop (Reaching High)* • *Superpop (Reaching High 2)* • *This Won't End Quietly (AA)*

**Record Labels**

Extreme Music • Builders International • Family Ties, LLC • Nettwerk Productions • Jingle Punks • Hype Music • Superpop.Co
Episode 11: No Such Thing As A Doorknob In Vancouver

**No Such Thing As A Doorknob In Vancouver** is the 11th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 11th episode of the first year, and the 11th episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) & Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) discuss wombat defence, Thailand's underwear policy, how to insult a Prime Minister and more...
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## Facts

* The words "Tory" and "Prime Minister" both started out as insults. (Murray)
* In a 2005 questionnaire about substance abuse, almost 1 in 5 people admitted to taking a drug that did not exist called Derbisol. (Ptaszynski)
* Sea otters have a secret pocket in their armpit where they like to keep their favourite stones. (Schreiber)
* In Vancouver it is illegal to put a doorknob on the front door of a house, as it is harder for people to open if they suffer from arthritis. (Harkin)

## Trivia

* The Ig Nobel Prizes are cited in relation to winning research from 1997, which claimed that elevator music cures the common cold.
* Andy claims that his party trick is to peel an orange one-handed.
Episode 115: No Such Thing As A Hummingbird Pilot

**No Such Thing As A Hummingbird Pilot** is the 115th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 11th episode of the third year, and the 22nd episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest QI Elf Anne Miller. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Anna, James, Andy and Anne discuss alarm clocks in space, ripped-off national anthems and crows holding grudges.
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## Facts

* The alarm clock on the Mir Space Station made the same noise as the emergency alarm. (Miller)
* The Bosnian national anthem is almost identical in melody to the theme tune from National Lampoon's Animal House. (Harkin)
* Crows can bear a grudge for nine years and over two generations. (Murray)
* In 1959, the man who set the record time for swimming the Panama Canal was declared an honorary ship by the Panama Canal Authority. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Regular presenter Dan Schreiber is absent.
	+ In his absence, Anna Ptaszynski hosts.
	+ Anne Miller guests, making her thirteenth appearance.
* Reference is again made to Ptaszynski drinking a lot of wine, first noted in Episode 47: No Such Thing As A Lonely Starbucks Customer, and peaking with Episode 249: No Such Thing As A Pint of Wine.
Episode 224: No Such Thing As Mixed-Species Martial Arts

**No Such Thing As Mixed-Species Martial Arts** is the 224th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 16th episode of the fifth year, and the 28th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane, Australia.

## Description

> Live from Brisbane, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss spider wrestling, policemen dressed as statues, and Ozzy Osbourne's no-so-last tour.
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## Facts

* During Prohibition in America, the cops responsible for busting speakeasies did so dressed as gravediggers, farmers, statues, operagoers, cowboys, judges, bums, and old Italian matrons. (Murray)
* Spider wrestling was banned in the Philippines because children found it more entertaining than going to lessons. (Ptaszynski)
* There are more people pretending to be Vikings in the game *Vikings: War of Clans* than there were ever actual Vikings on Earth. (Schreiber)
* Ozzy Osbourne's 1992 tour was called *No More Tours*. His 2018 tour is called *No More Tours II*. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This is the fourth stop on the Australasia Tour.
	+ This is the fourth ever Fish live show outside of Europe, the fourth in Oceania, and the fourth in Australia.

## Notes

1. ↑ Alcohol Problems and Solutions: Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith: Famous Prohibition Agents
2. ↑ Wikipedia: Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith
3. ↑ JSTOR: "Spider Wrestling and Gambling Culture in the Rural Philippines" by Ty Matejowsky
4. ↑ Dan's fact was sent to him by Lieven Scheire, who found the fact by comparing the individual statistics.
Episode 255: No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid

**No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid** is the 255th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 47th episode of the fifth year, and the 6th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss skimming meteors, snowy bacteria, and incorrectly formatted declarations of war.
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## Facts

* When Britain declared war in 1914 they accidentally did it in the wrong format and had to swap the letters, otherwise Britain wouldn't technically be at war. (Murray)
* There's a bacterium that can freeze water just by touching it, and they are used to make artificial snow in ski resorts. (Harkin)
* Women who were applying to be Qing dynasty concubines had to spend a night sleeping with the Emperor's mother fist, to make sure they didn't snore. (Ptaszynski)
* Some meteors skim off the Earth as if they were a stone skimming across the water. (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* The In No Particular Order tour dates in Aberdeen and Dublin have sold out.
* Harold Nicholson later married Vita Sackville-West, who was mentioned in TBA.
* Murray mentions the myth of Berwick-upon-Tweed being at war with Russia, which was previously mentioned in TBA.
* Harkin mentions bacteria which can break down polluting smog, but excrete even worse chemicals. This is similar to the bacteria which break down microplastics from TBA.
* Ptaszynski mentions the previous discussion about eunuchs in TBA.
Episode 259: No Such Thing As Flyagra

**No Such Thing As Flyagra** is the 259th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 51st episode of the fifth year, and the 10th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the King's Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland.

## Description

> Live from Glasgow, Dan, James, Andrew and Anna discuss fly dating, 69ing on American roadways, and predicting the future with asparagus
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## Facts

* There is only one person in the world who can predict the future using asparagus. Her 2019 predictions are extreme temperatures, a recession in the US, and an all-time high in asparagus sales. (Harkin)
* The composer Haydn's wife cared so little about her husband's work that she used to tear up his scores to use as hair curlers and pastry underlays. (Ptaszynski)
* To stop people stealing American road signs with the number 69 on them, Washington state has replaced many of them with signs that read 68.9. (Schreiber)
* Flies like to date the same sort of flies as their fly friends. (Murray)

 Trivia

* This is the first stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
	+ This is also the fifth anniversary of the start of the podcast.
* Reference is again made to Ptaszynski's wine-drinking.
Episode 253: No Such Thing As Dolphins At The United Nations

**No Such Thing As Dolphins At The United Nations** is the 253rd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 45th episode of the fifth year, and the 4th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss talking NASA dolphins, Robert Louis Stevenson's death and how any parents have a favourite child.
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## Facts

* The Emperor of the Incas only ever wore an outfit once, after which it was immediately burned. (Harkin)
* About 70% of parents admit to having a favourite child. (Ptaszynski)
* Robert Louis Stevenson died halfway through making a batch of mayonnaise. (Murray)
* In the 1960s, NASA helped to fund a scientific project that aimed to teach dolphins to speak the English language so perfectly that they would be given a chair at the United Nations to speak on behalf of marine mammals. (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* Harkin has three siblings.
Episode 125: No Such Thing As An Upside-Down Grand Prix

**No Such Thing As An Upside-Down Grand Prix** is the 125th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 21st episode of the third year, and the 32nd episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss forte-pianos, spring-loaded hairstyles, and the not-so-gentle lemur.
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## Facts

* 18th century hairstyles included "The Spaniel's Ears", "Mad Dog", and "The Drowned Chicken". (Murray)
* The 1959 Formula One championship was won on foot. (Schreiber)
* The earliest known mention of the balalaika is of someone being arrested for playing one. (Harkin)
* Lemurs and lorises like their liquor as strong as possible. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Reference is again made to Ptaszynski drinking a lot, previously mentioned in Episode 47 and Episode 115, and peaking with Episode 249: No Such Thing As A Pint of Wine.
Episode 143: No Such Thing As Chariots in Space

**No Such Thing As Chariots in Space** is the 143rd episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 39th episode of the third year, and the 50th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss placebo pharmacies, Britain's 17th century space program, and the robot that cheats at Rock, Paper, Scissors.
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## Facts

* Scientists at MIT have invented an artificial intelligence that can see into the future, but it can only tell two seconds into the future. (Harkin)
* Big Ben is falling over. (Bell)
* When aspirin tablets were first introduced, people were unsure how to take them, so one patient ended up strapping the box to his head. (Ptaszynski)
* The first British plan to put a human on the Moon was made by Oliver Cromwell's brother-in-law. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* Dan relates a fact about the robot ASIMO which he was told by Lieven Scheire.
* John Wilkins is brought up again in a discussion about inventing new forms of punctuation Episode 233: No Such Thing As A Sexy Question Mark.
Episode 337: No Such Thing As A Triangular Rectangle

**No Such Thing As A Triangular Rectangle** is the 337th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 25th episode of the seventh year, and the 37th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

>  Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss advanced spatial mathematics, linguistic philosophy and a really really big cow
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## Facts

* By complete coincidence the center of North America is called Center. (Ptaszynski)
* The modern door handle was invented by Ludwig Wittgenstein. (Harkin)
* In 1801, England had a celebrity ox which had its own coach and horses. (Murray)
* The world's least frequently published newspaper is released once every four years on leap day. The print edition costs €4.70, or you can subscribe to it for €100 per century. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* This is the twenty-fourth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Episode 156: No Such Thing As A Limited Edition

**No Such Thing As A Limited Edition** is the 156th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 52nd and final episode of the third year, and the 11th episode of 2017. It features regular presenters Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest presenter Erica McAlister. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, Anna, Andy and special guest Dr Erica McAlister discuss sperm whale-sized sperm, real-life Home Alone security measures, and why you've never really heard Churchill's famous speeches.
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## Facts

* The Vinegar fly's sperm is so long that, if humans had the same sperm-to-body ratio, Dan Schreiber's sperm would be the length of a Sperm whale. (McAlister)
* Whenever he got really angry, Winston Churchill would throw his teeth across the room. (Schreiber)
* Art galleries hide marbles between paintings and the wall so that, if anyone tries to steal the painting, the marbles fall on the floor and make a loud noise. (Ptaszynski)
* Prisoners in Siberia used to eat prehistoric animals they found frozen in the ice. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This is the last episode of Year Three.
* Regular presenter James Harkin is absent.
	+ Dr Erica McAlister guests, making her first and only appearance.
	+ McAlister is promoting her book The Secret Life of Flies.
Austentatious

**Austentatious** is a Jane Austen-themed improvised comedy show, of which No Such Thing As A Fish presenter and QI Elf Andrew Hunter Murray is part.

Cariad Lloyd, another member of the group, appeared in Episode 185: No Such Thing As Scottish Snow.

## Members

* Amy Cooke-Hodgson
* Andrew Hunter Murray
* Cariad Lloyd
* Charlotte Gittins
* Daniel Nils Roberts
* Graham Dickson
* Joseph Morpurgo
* Rachel Parris
Episode 223: No Such Thing As A Worthless Doorstop

**No Such Thing As A Worthless Doorstop** is the 223rd episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 15th episode of the fifth year, and the 27th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

## Description

> Live from Melbourne, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss death by meteorite, the Manhatt-ant and the downhill history of the slinky.
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## Facts

* The only known modern death due to meteorite was a cow who was hit in the neck in Venezuela in 1972. We didn't know about it for a decade because the farmer ate the cow and used the meteorite as a doorstop. (Harkin)
* There is a unique species of ant that only lives in 10 blocks of New York City. They call it the "ManhattAnt". (Schreiber)
* The Slinky business almost went bankrupt because the Slinky's inventor kept giving the proceeds away to religious cults. (Ptaszynski)
* When zebras are running away from a lion, they fart loudly with every stride. (Murray)

 Trivia

* This is the third stop on the Australasia Tour.
	+ This is the third ever Fish live show outside of Europe, the third in Oceania, and the third in Australia.
	+ This is also the second show at the Comedy Theatre.
* James mentions that farmers sit on the soil with their naked bottoms to see if it's warm enough to begin planting, which was previously mentioned by Andy in Episode 167.
* After Anna makes a connection between a man buying a meteorite and having had a gallstone removed, Andy compares it to one of Dan's Facts, for which Dan apologises.
* Andy shares a fact about the Slinky's bottom "not knowing" that the top is falling when it's dropped, to which James responds that it doesn't even know it's a Slinky.

## Notes

1. ↑ Mini Museum: Alleged Cow Killer (meteorite)
2. ↑ Dan's fact was sent to him by Justin Hinz.
3. ↑ Smithsonian Magazine: NYC Has Its Own Ant, the "ManhattAnt"
4. ↑ The Atlantic: The Story of the Slinky
5. ↑ Andy got his fact from the book *Does It Fart?* by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti. (Amazon)
6. ↑ BBC Wildlife: Everything you need to know about animal flatulence (archived)