Contortionism: Bend It Like Gumby

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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If you could put your leg behind your head, would you? Of course you would! You might even make a career out of it, amazing people around the world with your flexibility. That’d make you a contortionist! But first you’d better get started with stretching.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:15.1	Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
0:17.0	I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here to zoo, which makes this Dizuff.
0:21.7	You should know.
0:23.4	That's right.
0:24.5	Boy, Livia had a good title on this one.
0:27.0	Did you like it?
0:28.0	Go ahead.
0:30.1	Well, this is about contortionists.
0:33.1	And Olivia titled what she sent us, Bend It Like Gumby.
0:38.5	That's right.
0:39.2	I think it's good.
0:40.6	It is good.
0:42.1	Yeah, Olivia always comes up with the best titles.
0:44.6	Yeah, and now we know that she listens to some of these because she heard you take a dig at her.
0:50.2	About explaining what a socket and electrical plug does?
0:54.9	Yeah.
0:55.8	Yeah.
0:56.4	She's a good sport, though.
0:59.3	Let's see, what else, Chuck?
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