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Chapter 1: What facts do the hosts discuss at the beginning of the episode?
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Hello and welcome to Little Fish, the new show from No Such Thing as a Fish, the makers of, and this is my first time hosting it. And what do I say aside from that? You sound like we've got a gun to your head. That's how I feel every time I come in here.
First of all, tell everyone the date and the headline on a piece of newspaper that you're holding. And then you just have to say who we are, what the show is, and then we'll get into some facts.
This is when we can't be bothered to do any more research for ourselves.
Chapter 2: How much salt do sumo wrestlers use in tournaments?
So instead, we dip into our inbox and we have a look at all the great facts you've found for us. And we're hoping this eventually becomes a self-making show and we don't need to do any more work ourselves. So thank you for providing some amazing facts this week in our inbox. And who's got a good one to kick us off?
I've got a good one. Nice to see you all after a long week that we've had since the last one of these that we did. Yeah, I barely remember what you guys look like. Well, actually, cast your minds back all that time. We were talking about sumo wrestlers, and I have a fact here about sumo from Matthew Bright.
Matthew says that each year, professional sumo tournaments in Japan consume about 4,000 kilograms of salt.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of salt in sumo wrestling?
Is that because they throw, don't they throw salt?
They throw salt. Yeah, so this is what Matthew's worked out. So each tournament lasts 15 days, and they're held six times a year. And each tournament consumes about 650 kilograms of salt, according to a journalist, which Matthew found. And then if you work that all out, it's 4,000 kilograms. And the salt is like to purify the ring.
interesting um and for like you say ceremonial reasons and yeah does it grit it as well does it give you good because a lot of it is about holding your stance you're absolutely right but the ring itself is like made it's got sand in it anyway i think which means it's quite well gritted but it can't hurt yeah especially on a cold day yeah
When it's on ice. Sumo on ice. Sumo on ice.
Why has that not been done? I mean, that has to be a thing, doesn't it?
We're getting a lot of sumo action in London at the moment. We are. There's a lot of exhibition matches that have been happening at places like the Royal Albert Hall.
Have you ever been walking around London and just seen the sumo wrestlers?
I saw a guy go past on a bike.
On a bike? Oh, wow.
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Chapter 4: Why are CPR training dummies designed with female features?
That's cool. That's a cartoon. Are you sure that wasn't a cartoon you saw? Yeah.
I'm pretty sure I saw him on a bike. It was just down the road. And yeah, they're all over. Well, certainly when they were in town, you would see them everywhere.
Was he on a child's bike? Tiny, tiny.
He looked like that, probably. Yeah. I went to the final of the year of sumo in Tokyo when I was there, which was very cool. But it was the day we arrived and we were so jet lagged, we both fell asleep in the middle of the tournament. Ouch. I felt like people should have been throwing salt on us to keep us awake.
Yeah, smelling salts. Yeah. Chuck those out.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What is the myth about 10,000 accordions buried in Sweden?
Do you want to throw salt over your shoulder for good luck when you use it? I do actually, yeah.
Even though I know it's stupid and I'm not very superstitious generally. I just like, I think it's cool.
I have found myself in restaurants going, who's that cool guy? The salt thing.
I wouldn't do it in a restaurant. It's when I'm cooking and I spill some. It's when you spill it, not when you put it on your food, right? What do you mean when you spill it? That's the idea. So you spill salt and that's very bad luck. And so you throw some over your shoulder into the devil's face.
Oh, we just did it whenever we salt anything. Salt it and then toss it over your shoulder.
Oh, I'm not that cool.
Well, I've always been a few rungs above you, haven't I? But since being the person who cleans the house rather than my mother when I was a kid when we all did it, I've realised it's an incredibly annoying habit. I wouldn't let anyone do that in my house. It's just so
on the floor the whole time yeah that's true but at least you're not slipping over and it's also purified spiritually there you go that's why there's no ghost in your house do you know that sumo wrestlers if you're a sumo wrestler you are associated with a 9.8 year negative lifespan
compared to a non-sumo wrestler it does make a bit of sense doesn't it it does but actually like most obviously most sports if you do them you have a longer lifespan yeah because you you know if you're a gymnast you have a 8.2 years higher life expectancy and there is one
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Chapter 6: How do glove puppets play a role in raising California condors?
What?
Pole vaulters live on average 8.4 years longer than the rest of us. Must be something to do with the clean air they're getting access to at the top bit.
Or maybe, you know, like there's something about special relativity if you're in space, like time slows down.
Oh, yes. You don't age. Of course.
Time traveling.
Wow.
They must have got better since I last watched the pole vault for getting that high.
It's really fun these days. They go up and they come down three years younger.
Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What unusual fact is shared about the first novel ever written?
Who's come up with it? Accordion to whom?
Brilliant. Lovely. Thank you. So there's a leading theory that the society has. It's that they are old Eastern European accordions, which were bought by Hagstrom in the 1930s. They were planning on renovating, but by the 1960s, The accordion market took a big dip. They weren't selling as well and they had outsourced a lot of the industry to Asia. So they buried their inventory.
The exact number of accordions isn't known, but the myth says that there is 10,000. And so they did this documentary and they found, yeah, there's a lot.
What did they do? They dug it up like Time Team and they found them?
Yeah, they found remnants of a lot of them. I don't think they found 10,000.
Well, some of them would have decomposed, wouldn't they? The less well-made ones. Hold on.
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Chapter 8: What are the humorous insights shared about walking directions?
So there were actually... I thought this was a bullshit myth made up by this mad community of accordion aficionados. And it's actually true. There are 10,000 accordions buried under a parking lot.
I feel like you would need that ending for the documentary to work. Oh, yeah.
Do you reckon the docomakers went in the middle of the night and dug some holes and put some accordions in there?
Very true. You'd hear them, though, in the night, putting them in, wouldn't you?
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Where's the mute button on this bastard?
If you ever, in 10,000 years, if someone digs up that parking lot, they'll probably think, like, the king of tedious, annoying instruments was buried there. Yeah.
You're so right. Do you think all kind of Egyptian pyramids were actually, like, people had too many... Too many bricks. Too many bricks.
Just put them in a pile. Not that pile. A slightly neater pile.
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