Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from one very disclosed location.
It is the QI offices in Covent Garden, we are back!
My name is Dan Shriver, I am sitting here at a very comfortable 2 meter distance from Anna Tyshensky,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our 4 favourite facts from the last 7 days and in no particular order here we go!
Starting with fact number 1 and that is James.
Ok my fact this week is
that there is a type of glue that was developed specifically to help strong men grab onto giant stone spheres.
So cool so strong men competitions this is where you see them basically lift these giant boulders don't you up onto platforms.
So if you imagine on British television between Christmas and New Year there is nothing else on TV apart from World's Strongest Man which is the best show ever where they get these enormous men like pulling trucks and doing all sorts of stuff but
like you say one of the things is called the Atlas Stones and there is a substance called Spide Attack that was invented by a part time strong man and part time molecular biologist called Mike Caruso.
He smashed all the test tubes in my lap isn't he!
And yeah basically he was carrying these big boulders and one of the big problems is actually gripping them as someone who has lifted a giant boulder myself I could definitely say
that.
I think I mentioned it on this before that in Iceland I was lifting some giant boulders might come to
that later but anyway so he was struggling to grip them so he took some rosin which is that stuff
that if you play the violin Andy for instance you pot on your bow to make it.
Yeah I'm just helping you here.
Yeah I feel comfortable.
And then he added some polymers to the rosin and he can't disclose what kind of polymers are in it he calls it a special sauce and he came up with this incredibly sticky stuff now he sold about 10 of these a year so it wasn't really a big deal but it's come up really recently