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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss scary bananas, sneaky eels and somewhat ironic songs. 

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0:00.0

Got a side hustle, like making money from a hobby, selling stuff online,

0:06.6

or doing a bit of dog walking outside your day job.

0:09.8

You might need to tell HMRC so you don't get any tax surprises.

0:14.7

To take the hassle out of your side hustle, search HMRC help for hustles.

0:40.3

You know the water to walk us. Search HMRC, Help for Hustles. Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hobern.

0:41.7

My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:46.0

I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin, and Anna Tyshinsky.

0:51.4

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days. And in no particular order, here we go.

0:55.3

Starting with fact number one, and that is Anna.

0:58.7

My fact this week is that if an eel ends up in a predator's stomach,

1:03.2

it can reverse out through its gills.

1:06.9

That's pretty amazing.

1:09.1

This is Japanese eels, and it's recently found out that they can get swallowed by these sleeper fish, dark sleeper fish, and then they go through the digestive tracts.

1:19.6

But then they are just able to wibble their way back out towards the gills, and then slink out.

1:25.6

I think some slunk out through the mouth, and then some able to slink their way out actually through the slits that were the gills and then slink out. I think some slunk out through the mouth and then some able to slink their way out

1:28.7

actually through the slits that were the gills.

1:31.4

Yeah, that's amazing.

1:32.5

I actually don't really have a good idea of fish anatomy.

1:36.0

I wouldn't have thought that the gills would be attached to the digestive system.

1:39.2

It does sound all hollow, doesn't it?

1:40.9

We, our gills,ills as people are lungs. Yeah, are sort of connected. You know, there's a bit

1:47.3

where the pipes branch, but... That's true. It's like if you swallow a piece of apple the wrong way

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