Little Fish: This Is A Song
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What is the opening banter and who are the hosts of this episode?
Hello. Hello. Hey, are you coming to the company meeting today? Yeah. No, I'm not. Should I leave the keys in the car? I have a cell phone. Huh? What are you doing? I have this Yale Linus smart lock. Well, you can't do that. Of course I can. All right, bye. Open the door with a cell phone. Abloin Yale Linus smart lock. Also in the basement. Yale. Simply safe. See you next time.
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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Little Fish, the little version of Big Fish, no such thing as a fish. This is where we look at all the delicious, delectable, gorgeous, beautiful facts that you've sent into our inbox and we repeat them and get the credit for them. My name is Anna Tyshinsky and I'm sitting here with James Harkin. Hi James.
Hi, Anna. I'm going to credit the people who send them in, but fine.
Oh, is that
how
we do it? Okay, I need to stop claiming these as my own. Hi, Andrew Hunter-Murray.
I'm also
sitting here with you. Hello.
Hi.
Hi. And you're the one who's been compiling all of these facts and sending them through to us.
It's a team effort, but yes.
Thanks for that. You're the quarterback, and then we're just all the other irrelevant ones in the team. Isn't that how American football works? The quarterback is just the whole team, and then everyone else stands there cheering them on?
A simplification, but I see where you're coming from. I've
got to say, I've heard some dodgy intros in my time, most of them by me.
This one is
coming very close to the heights.
Thank you.
Thank you. Well, I learned from the best,
Andy. You're very much the water boy. You have no such thing as a fish, are you? That's like the worst person in the team who can't even get on the team and has to bring the water to
the other team. Oh. Ouch. Who are you on the team, James?
I am the running back.
Okay.
Yeah, I put in the legwork. And who's Dan?
Dan is the little kid who comes on at the start of the match to sing
God
Save America.
Is that what
it's called?
Yeah. God Save America. What's it called? God Save
America. I don't know why people came up with their own national anthems when
you
could literally just put your own country name. God save the Central African Republic.
It works. It absolutely works. It works. There you go. All right, should we do some facts?
How do the hosts introduce listener‑submitted facts and credit the contributors?
Oh, yeah. No, I think we're out of time, I'm afraid. Can I do a quiz? Oh,
yeah.
You know what? My quizzes on this are usually a little bit oblique and difficult to get, so we'll go for a simple one. What is the capital of Egypt?
Cairo.
Incorrect, Anna. Is it Aswan? Good knowledge of another place in Egypt, but no, it isn't. I only know one more. It's the new capital. What? The new capital.
Okay. It's just called the new capital.
Sorry? So Egypt has got itself a new capital and it's called it the new capital. what is going on
basically
they decided to move the government out of Cairo because Cairo was getting so big compared to the rest of the country they thought if we move a lot of the stuff to another place a new special city like lots of countries have done that
yes
and we will for now just call it the new capital and over the years they've tried to come up with new names but they've just been unable to No
way. They
keep having competitions where someone can name the city and then no good answers come. So they think that maybe they might call it Memphis after the old capital of... Oh, nice.
I think New Memphis would be absolutely fine or something, like New York or lots of places you can do that with.
New York, of course, wasn't named after old York. What? New York was named after the Duke of York, not Prince Andrew. Andrew
Mambach and Windsor, as he is now.
Not him. I did not
know that. Are you serious?
And then they kept the new because it was called New Amsterdam.
Oh, wow.
But
it wasn't named after Old York.
That's a great fact. That's
a thing that's named after a person. Oh, my
God.
I'm
doing it by accident now.
It's a book.
But other places that are called capital. Seoul means capital in Korean. Astana means capital in Kazakh. Cool. Beijing means northern capital in
Chinese.
Some kind of Chinese. And... Kyoto means capital city, but isn't the capital.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening banter and who are the hosts of this episode?
0:00–3:00
2
How do the hosts introduce listener‑submitted facts and credit the contributors?
3:00–7:16
3
What quirky vampire‑related fact links pop culture to economic recessions?
7:16–12:05
4
How does the football‑identifier quiz work and which country pairings are revealed?
12:05–15:56
5
What is the story behind the world’s largest wooden toothpick factory in Norway?
15:56–22:13
6
Which unusual facts are handed over to the new ‘Friend of the Podcast’ custodians?
22:13–26:20
7
What promotional message is shared about Shopify and how can listeners start a free trial?
26:20–31:14
8
How do the hosts wrap up the episode and invite listeners to the next show?
31:14–32:59