157: No Such Thing As High-Fiving The Beatles

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🗓️ 24 March 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the first ever high-five, an iceberg storage facility in Antarctica and how to put make-up on in space.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.6	to you from the QI offices and covered guarded. My name is Dad Shriver and I'm sitting here
0:25.9	with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Adich Zinsky. And Adich Zinsky and once again,
0:32.4	we have Gatherground. And once again, we have Gatherground the microphones with our
0:37.4	four favorite facts for the last seven days and in no particular order. Here we go.
0:48.1	Starting with my fact, my fact this week is that the man who popularized the High Five only has
0:53.7	four fingers. And this was a basketball player called Wiley Brown. Back in 1978, slash 79,
1:02.4	season of basketball, he and his mate started high-fiving and they talk about it really, really
1:09.6	interestingly. I read an interview where he said, no one was doing it. They all did it low.
1:16.0	There's all these low fives going on. No one did it high and then he said, then the first time
1:19.8	we did it, both of us looked at each other and said, did that just happen? Really into it.
1:27.5	There's a magical moment. Can I just ask when you say four fingers, you mean on one of his hands?
1:32.0	Exactly. Nine fingers. Yes, exactly. So he had nine fingers in total. He was missing a thumb.
1:37.3	He lost his thumb when he was four years old and a prosthetic thumb was made, which meant that
1:42.0	he could still become an amazing sports star because he played basketball and football. He was a
1:47.7	bit sort of carefree about his thumb at time. He actually went to the finals of a basketball match
1:53.9	having left his thumb back at the hotel that he stayed at and they had to rescue it. That would
1:57.8	be awful if you had to hitchhike hold. Well, you could only do it on one side of the road.
2:04.7	He actually hated his thumb, his prosthetic thumb. Yeah, he tried not to wear it. So he played
2:10.0	basketball without the thumb for ages and then one of his coaches said, you're really good without
2:13.8	that, but you'd be even better with it. And they made him wear one and it kept on flying off
2:18.2	matches and he said it made him look like a freak because you know it was someone would
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