No Such Thing As A Lost Shadow is the 283rd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 23rd episode of the sixth year, and the 34th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at Uptown Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland.
Description[]
Live from Geneva, Dan, James Anna and Andrew discuss selling shadows, exploding aphids and the emerging blimp driving industry.
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Facts[]
- Jobs that have recently been added to the US census include dough scaler, automotive window-tinter, and blimp pilot. (Ptaszynski)
- Heavy metal guitarist Tony Iommi began playing heavy metal guitar with two metal fingers because he lost his real ones while working at a metal factory. (Schreiber)
- In 19th century Romania there were people who sold shadows. They would sell your shadow without your permission and you would die within a year (according to superstition). (Harkin)
- Some aphids fix their homes by exploding themselves and plastering their own bodies over the holes in the walls. (Murray)
Trivia[]
- This is the twenty-fourth stop on the In No Particular Order Tour, and the first in Switzerland.
- Harkin makes a joke about Baby Shark, which he discusses at length in TBA.
- During a discussion about cavemen, Harkin clarifies that they are talking about historical cavemen, not humans who live in caves in the present day. Modern-day cavemen were headline facts in Episode 4: No Such Thing As The Mountains of Kong, Episode 17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon in a Football Stadium, and No Such Thing As Unbroadcastable Material.
- The Fish team visited CERN on the day of recording.