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No Such Thing As A Fish

Little Fish: Short Back and Left

July 26, 2026 • 29m

Summary

⏱️ 8 min read

Overview

A delightful episode of Little Fish where Andrew Hunter-Murray, James Harkin, and Anna Tijinsky share fascinating facts from listeners, covering topics from persecuted beards and flying fish to presidential squirrel notes and celebrity mold. The team discusses everything from ice yachts to Martin Luther King's namesake county, with their characteristic humor and curiosity throughout.

Place to Know: A New Fan Creation

Before diving into facts, the hosts celebrate a new fan-created website called Place to Know (placetoknow.com), built by listener Luke Delaney. The site is an interactive map of the world showing all places mentioned on No Such Thing As A Fish over the past 12 years, allowing users to click on any location and see what the show has said about it. This represents the kind of dedicated fan engagement that makes the podcast community special.

  • Listener Luke Delaney created a website called Place to Know featuring all locations mentioned on Fish
  • The site is an interactive world map where clicking shows what the show said about each place
  • The website covers 12 years of Fish episodes

Joseph Palmer's Persecuted Beard

The episode opens with the story of Joseph Palmer, a Massachusetts man whose magnificent beard caused such outrage in 1830s society that townsfolk literally attempted to forcibly shave it off. Palmer was part of the transcendentalist movement and refused to bow to social convention despite the violent opposition. His devotion to his facial hair was so strong that his tombstone simply reads "Persecuted for wearing a beard," immortalizing this bizarre chapter of anti-beard sentiment in American history.

  • Joseph Palmer's beard was so hated in 1830 that locals attacked him and tried to shave it off
  • Palmer was part of the transcendentalist movement of New England
  • His tombstone reads simply 'Persecuted for wearing a beard'
" Persecuted for wearing a beard "

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