232: No Such Thing As A Seven Foot Bond

No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss spiders with eyeliner, biblical teeth gnashing, and the sumo wrestler with silicone in his scalp.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:21.3	to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:24.3	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin and
0:29.0	Aniches Inzki and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:33.5	facts from the last seven days and a no particular order here we go.
0:39.1	Starting with my fact this week, my fact is that the legendary sumo wrestler, Minumi
0:44.9	Shuhei, injected silicone into his scalp so that he could meet the height requirements
0:50.9	to become a sumo.
0:52.4	What were they?
0:53.7	You had to be 173 centimeters tall, this was back in the day up until the 90s so that
1:01.4	was the height requirements.
1:02.4	That was about 5 foot 9.
1:03.4	Yeah, I believe that's about 5 foot 9.
1:05.6	A lot of wrestlers were very close, 5 foot 8, 5 foot 7 and they just weren't quite there
1:10.2	and 172 centimeters.
1:12.2	So what they used to do, and this is what this wrestler Shuhei did, he went to a doctor
1:18.1	and he had surgically inserted into his scalp a little bag that could be filled with silicone
1:23.3	and the silicone would go up to 4 centimeters high.
1:26.1	The other thing that they used to do before the silicone thing was bash themselves on
1:29.5	the head so they get a lump which would then be just like an acatune, how you go,
1:34.1	no, that's what they genuinely don't get that.
1:36.9	You can't guarantee you're going to have bruise like that.
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