Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Tyshinski, and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with fact number one, and that is, Andy.
My fact this week is
that there was a job in the 19th century which just involved looking at the sea and being able to tell when there were pilchards under the surface.
Amazing.
So were they, they weren't sticking their head under the sea?
No, don't be crazy, James.
Okay.
A little bit of inside baseball, Dan told us before we started recording that's what he thought the job was.
Yeah, and I told you before the recording specifically so it wouldn't get mentioned on the recording.
And look at, look at us now, this is an amazing job, and it's not,
and it's not like they're sitting like a lifeguard on a boat looking down,
they're up on a hill, they're not even in the sea.
So I should say where this comes from, it comes from this brilliant blog called About 1816,
which is by an author called James Hobson, who's written loads of books about George and Britain.
There's one about stagecoaches, which I was reading recently.