Hi everyone and welcome to episode 501 of no such thing as a fish.
Well, what do we have for you this week?
We have finished our summer live shows and we have loads of extra bits that I couldn't fit into the normal 15 minute to an hour episode of fish Usually what we would do with those is we'd make them into a compilation and they would go for our club fish members That's where all the compilations go these days But seeing
as they were the live shows that were coming to the end of summer and
that we're all sleeping off our hangovers from Episode 500 we thought we would put this up on our main feed Now the thing is about these episodes is
if you like the facts on fish then these are some of the best episodes for you
because they are Super concentrated of little nuggets of information,
but there's loads of fun silly stuff in there as well I really hope you enjoy it
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I really hope you enjoy this week's show We'll be back next week with a normal episode,
but for now it's on with the podcast Please welcome to the stage our buddy loose Anders everybody Please welcome to the stage Rachel Paris everybody Duker everyone Fry You're joined by nerd royalty ladies and gentlemen welcome to the stage Susie Dent He is of course Greg Janet Harry-Ad Lloyd everybody it's Jamie Morton everybody Sally Phillips Ella al-Shamahi everyone it is Richard Osmar Have you heard there's a great anecdote which I've been trying to prove but it's I don't think it's true.
I was Actually, it's not true, and it's not relevant.
Let's move on Wow, we got that a lot quicker than normal didn't it was great Usually I waste all our time,
but I'm learning That's bullshit.
That's one of your best stories done Quickly tell you guys about Alan bombard Was a French doctor and he is very unusual
because he's one of the only people in history ever to shipwreck himself Okay,
so this is amazing There were lots of people at the time being you know lots of shipwreck sailors who were dying each year Like when they're when their boats were shipwrecked and he wanted to prove
that even if you had no food or water There were there were ways you could survive.
So he set off from the canaries With a sextant a tarpaulin a fishing rod and a sealed box of food and water,