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No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss constant clouds, curvaceous comedians, Polish pilots and furious-sounding Finns.

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0:18.8

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter

0:24.8

Murray, James Harkin, and Anna Tashinsky. And once again we have gathered around the microphones

0:29.6

with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.

0:35.6

Starting with fact number one and that is Anna. My fact this week is that for at least

0:40.6

80 years the same thundercloud has been raining off the

0:44.4

north coast of Australia it's called Hector the convector.

0:49.0

Brilliant.

0:50.0

Or he's called Hector and the Conve, he's called he yeah. Yeah. Oh

0:56.3

Clouds don't have a lot of the press does give him

1:00.0

Please let's not get his pronouns for clouds. She's got a actor.

1:04.0

He's kind of actor.

1:05.0

Like, it must be a he, right?

1:07.0

Fair it up.

1:08.0

Actually, he should be called Humula Nimbus, the Cumulod Nimbus.

1:11.0

Is it really a convector cloud cloud I don't really know what

1:13.3

convection it does work by convection yes as sort of I mean all clouds do but

1:18.0

cumulionimbus yeah you said hulionimbus the no he You said hulio nimbus. No he did us, you made that joke up into your old head. That's good.

1:26.0

Well, yeah, better than what Andy said, which was just the name of the type of plow. I set him up, you tap for me.

1:30.5

And he's correct, he is a cumulanimbus, but he does also form through the power of convection,

1:39.1

which you know is as hot air currents go up.

1:41.7

We know our clouds form,? Yeah. Um he...

1:44.3

vaguely. If you don't know ask your 12 year old,

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