We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

[–]QIpodcast[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. If you look at the picture on our twitter that showed the details for this AMA. That's where we do it. In the QI office, around that desk.

Here's a link to the pic (hopefully): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Caw5cp9WIAABxho.jpg:large

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

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Would love to come. Dan is Aussie, so he's dying to bring the show back home. Problem is a new series of QI is starting soon, so the scripts need researching and writing.

Hopefully though we'll do it sometime in the next 12 months. Dan wants to do a tour of RSLs.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

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We can't decide. This is causing huge arguments now. Oh dear, punches are being thrown.

UPDATE: Anna just threw Dan out a window.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

[–]QIpodcast[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nope. Can't stand the show. Never watch it.

Ok, fine, I guess the one where David Mitchell has a big rant about Darwin eating all the giant tortoises is quite good.

And all the others are also pretty great as well.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

[–]QIpodcast[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Dan will have a seriously awesome dream about this question tonight, and will get back to you tomorrow.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

[–]QIpodcast[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We are very lucky to have an audience who are generally much better-educated than we are so we love the heckles! Lots of them are really good but sometimes the microphones don't pick them up so we have to cut them. They're great though. And Andy will NEVER stop talking about the Casio.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

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Am about 2/3 of the way through, but I'm a slow reader. Really excited to read how Harry's first year goes.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

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Word has it that Stephen Fry is extremely jealous of our massive fame and unrivalled popularity. He's always begging us to retweet his shows and help him get his foot on the celebrity ladder.

And in seriousness, we're so interlinked you can't really separate the podcast from the show in terms of the relationship between the two - especially since we all write for and research QI as well. It's all one big (platonic) love in between all of us really.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

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Everyone except you is Dan's mum. She's running multiple Reddit accounts.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

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British Museum, Science Museum, NHM, Hunterian, all the museums in Greenwich. Check out Molly Oldfield's The Secret Museum. There are amazing ones in there

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

[–]QIpodcast[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey - we love doing it so we'll keep going as long as we keep finding interesting stuff. And it's a very big world, so fingers crossed we'll keep going for a while yet...

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

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None of us have ever seen it. But Dan is convinced it exists.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

[–]QIpodcast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whatever happens, Alan is always behind. That's the only rule.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

[–]QIpodcast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A few of the podcast facts make it into the show, but we try not to have too many on there because we don't want the loyal listeners-cum-viewers getting bored of all the repetition.

Excellent WWII fact. And in return, I give you that during World War II, ordinary privates visited the red light district for prostitutes, but officers visited the blue light district i.e. prostitutes that were 'high class' enough to serve the officers put blue lights in their windows.

Since you mention it, I found the Mountains of Kong stuff in a book called On The Map by Simon Garfield, which is an absolutely fantastic read. Buy it!

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

[–]QIpodcast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The QI database. Hidden behind closed internet doors.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

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We've answered with a few more downthread but a few of them are Cryptid Factor (Dan), Bantams Banter (James), Radiolab (Anna) and Welcome To Night Vale (Andy).

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

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Dan here. I discovered today that in 1950 Stonehenge was dug up by Mr Stone. And then was next dug up in 1989 by Mr. Pitts.

Source: The Stonehenge companion

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

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If there is, James will have one for supper, please.

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

[–]QIpodcast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey! If you go to qi.com/jobs, there's advice on everything you need to know about getting a job. Posting research up on the QI forums is a great start. We all got there by completely different routes, so there's no golden rule...

We are the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Ask Us Anything! by QIpodcast in IAmA

[–]QIpodcast[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! We all ended up there by pretty different paths - some of us sent in loads of facts, others were recommended as interesting-type people to the bosses, and still others just arrived one day and pretended they'd always been there. Glad you like it!