No Such Thing As A Fish - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I found this podcast about a month ago and have been working backwards through the archives ever since. This show has made me literally laugh out loud more frequently than ANY podcast I have EVER listened to. I love everything about it: fantastic hosts, ridiculous facts, even the music. I’m going to be so sad when I get to the end of the archives, but thankfully, there are hundreds of back episodes, so that won’t happen for a while.

Every time I listen to this podcast I learn something, I laugh, and mostly I enjoy the banter of the four podcasters. Their camaraderie is infectious.

The best part of this podcast is that you can listen to it while doing anything. You can tune in, tune out, and the subject has changed enough that you didn’t need to be paying attention anyway. Which consequently makes for great re-listens. I’ve been through the entire catalogue and continue to go back to episodes, each time learning some thing new that I missed on a previous listen.

I listen while working around the house and cooking and cleaning and yard work and really it doesn’t matter, it’s so easy to listen to and get lost in thought and come back to it and feel like you didn’t miss anything because the topic has changed.

I recommend this to podcast to anyone who enjoys podcasts. It’s always a good listen.

This podcast actually means something to me. I’ve listen to Anna, James, Andrew, and Dan for many years - through travels around the world, a pandemic, a pregnancy, and now, with my son (hoping he picks up a thing or two…jk he’s 8 months). This show gets me out of my head, is my favorite of all distractions, and makes me feel like my nerd is also other peoples’ nerd.

I’ve never in my life written a review, so hopefully that means this counts for a little more.

As a longtime fan of QI, I started listening to NSTASF a few years back. The show always provides some great bits of trivia and history, varying from WW2 to astrophysics to the origins of cardboard to the making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest. The four hosts start to feel like friends after awhile...but like all friends, they start to get on your nerves after a while. There is certainly an aura of "know-it-all-ism" to their conversations, trying to one-up the others. The jokes don't always land (quite evident during the live episodes where attempts at humor are met with silence). And one host (I won't name names) never quite seems to have the same sense of humor as the others and she never yes/ands any bits, rather focusing on being correct rather than playful. When the show is firing on all cylinders, it's an educational and fun listen. But there are certainly times where you'd wish the hosts would stop nitpicking and get on the facts.