Little Fish: The OId Ron Brown
No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
4.7 • 18.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts, including pigs, pangolins and sea slugs. We also make some dubious rhymes, and meet seven new Custodians of Fish Facts.
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:03.6 | Max has asked me to move in with him. |
| 0:06.0 | I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great. |
| 0:09.8 | Did you hear that joke? |
| 0:11.5 | Yes, thanks for letting us know. |
| 0:14.2 | I see you've updated your universal credit claim. |
| 0:17.1 | Now you're going to be living together. |
| 0:38.7 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search Tell DWP. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'll go to the O'Hourn'WWRowka-S'AWhorra last seven days? Hello to the podcast at QI.com. Inbox, we pick out the best at QI.com inbox. We pick out the best |
| 0:56.7 | facts that you have all found and we're going to read them out now. I'm sitting here with James |
| 1:00.3 | Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray. Guys, let's do it. Who's got a fact? I've got one. This is a great one. |
| 1:05.9 | It's from James Patterson and it's that. The author? No. |
| 1:10.5 | After you now. It's spelled slightly differently. Oh, yeah. I that. The author? No. After you now? |
| 1:11.6 | It's spelled slightly differently. |
| 1:12.7 | Oh. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.5 | I've got an answer for everything. |
| 1:17.3 | James Patterson, or James Patterson using an incredibly unimaginative non-deplube. |
| 1:22.4 | The fact is, it's that during the Cold War, a KGB agent had several meetings with Edinburgh Leith MP and communist sympathizer Ron Brown. |
| 1:32.9 | However, they were unsure if he was spying for them or not because they couldn't understand his thick Scottish accent and had no idea what he was telling them. |
| 1:43.9 | That's incredible. |
| 1:45.7 | Did you do some reading on that? Is that true? |
| 1:47.8 | A little bit. It's from this Ben McIntyre book about Oleg Gordievsky, who was, I think, |
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