1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: The flag of piracy flew from my mess My sales 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: was said, wing the wing. I had a jukebox. Graduate. 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 2: Boy, So there's a new record in the Guinness Book 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 2: of World Records. 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: Yes, and it stems out of Fort Lane, Indiana. We 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: have a record breaker right here in the great state 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: of Indiana. 8 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 3: How exciting. 9 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 2: It's Kenel and Casey show and Rob that's Casey. Do 10 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 2: you know anyone who has ever been in the Guinness 11 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 2: Book of World Records? 12 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: No? Have you? 13 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 3: No you? 14 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: No you ever? 15 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 2: But most of my life is focused on me, So 16 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: that wouldn't I mean that does it would take. 17 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: The attention off you and place it on someone else. 18 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 2: I mean I haven't crossed paths with somebody. I just 19 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 2: wasn't interested enough to ask. 20 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 1: Well. I wrote about this the other day at WIBC 21 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: dot com. And since it's Friday and it's been a really, 22 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: really messed up week, I. 23 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 3: Thought it fun though. 24 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: I thought, let's go out with a nicer, more uplifting story. 25 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: And boy is it up because the story is a 26 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: Fort Wayne man has grown the tallest sunflower in the world. 27 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 3: Rod, Wait, that's a record. Yeah, how do they like? 28 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 3: How do they know? 29 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: Okay, well, they have the Guinness Book of World Record. 30 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: People come out and measure it. 31 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 2: Does every sunflower somebody grows, it's really taller. They're like, 32 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 2: let me get the Guinness people out here. 33 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: Well, this was this guy's goal to grow the tallest sunflower. 34 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 2: Wait, like some people want to be president of the 35 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: United States, some people want to run a fortune five 36 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 2: hundred companies. Some people want to create a nonprofit that 37 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 2: serves the needy. This guy's goal in life was to 38 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 2: grow the world's tallest sunflower. 39 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: Well, here's the backstory on this fella. His name is 40 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: Alex Babache and he was an immigrant from Ukraine when 41 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: he was twelve years old. He left after Chernobyl and 42 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: he ended up here in Indiana. The sunflower, I guess, 43 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: is the national flower of Ukraine. So he was planting 44 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: flowers for years. 45 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 2: So he was bringing his cultures and traditions over here 46 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 2: rather than adapting to ours. 47 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 3: Very good case and carry on. 48 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, he grew the record breaking sunflower. It reached 49 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: thirty five feet and nine inches, taller than a telephone pole. 50 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: How tall thirty five feet nine inches. 51 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 3: So like. 52 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: Miles Turner for the pacer, Well, he's not on the 53 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 2: pacers anymore. But he's like seven foot tall. So you 54 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 2: took five five of him and just stacked him on 55 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 2: top of himself. That's how tall this thing would be. 56 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. The previous record was held by somebody in Germany, 57 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: but this flower in Fort Wayne clearly beat the record. 58 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: It's got a name. Even the flower has a name. 59 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 3: Well, the flower has a name. 60 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: It's called clover. And on September third, about eighty five 61 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: people gathered in Fort Wayne to witness the official measurement, 62 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: and they had representatives from Guinness on hand. They had 63 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 1: a drone and a cherry picker. I was gonna refuse 64 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: to confirm the height. 65 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, how did they get up there to do that? Okay, 66 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 2: so what does he do now? Just snip it and 67 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 2: let it fall down? 68 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what he's going to do. I 69 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: think eventually it will just fall over, right sunflower? Yeah, 70 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 1: it gets top heavy. 71 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: It is very bizarre that this is what people do. 72 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 2: I mean, at some point this guy had to be 73 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 2: sitting around and said, whether he likes sunflowers, whatever, you 74 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 2: know what I'm gonna do. 75 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 3: I'm going to grow the world's. 76 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 2: Tallest sunflower because we haven't done enough for Ukraine in 77 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 2: this country. Casey, we haven't given Ukraine enough. Now we 78 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 2: need to have their flower on American soil. Setting the 79 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 2: Guinness Book of World Records. 80 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: Well, this guy is a landscape gardener and he also 81 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: sells seeds. Now, keep in mind he has been in 82 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: the United States since he was twelve years old. He's 83 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: a grown adult with children now, so he's been here 84 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: for quite a while. The giant flower, it's going to 85 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: be featured in a documentary called Bloom. But that got 86 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: me thinking about the Guinness Book of World Records. 87 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's work there. 88 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 2: How do you get that? How do you get to 89 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 2: work for? Is that like you going indeed or something? 90 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 2: Are they looking for people? How do you get a job? 91 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: I want to be a record measure with the. 92 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 2: Guinness Book of Work And okay, so let's say some 93 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 2: guy like says I'm gonna grow the world's tallest sunflower. 94 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 2: They've got to have a historical log of that. Hey, Pete, 95 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 2: get back in the sunflower section of the book. Let's 96 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 2: see what the tallest sunflower is. 97 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: Yes, they're keeping these, you know, measurements and documents. It 98 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: was first published in nineteen fifty five. And it started 99 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: out of England because some guys were arguing in a 100 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: pub and somebody said, hey, you know what, it'd be 101 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: really good if we could start keeping track of stuff. 102 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: And this might not be a bad idea for a book. 103 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 3: How do they make money though? 104 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 2: Like, okay, so my question, Like at one point they 105 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 2: physically sold a book, right, maybe they still do, but 106 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 2: in the internet era, how do they make money? Do 107 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 2: you have to subscribe to their web I'm sure it's 108 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 2: all online. Now do you have to subscribe to their website? 109 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,679 Speaker 2: Is it a pay service? Yeah, behind to pay probably 110 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 2: homework and look this up before we did this segment. 111 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 1: Well, you know, besides the book, the Guinness Book of 112 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: World Records, that expand to TV shows, museums, attractions, and 113 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: social media. Like you said, the book published in over 114 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 1: one hundred countries, thirty seven different languages, and they do 115 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: have people who send applications. They submit an application like hey, 116 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: I think I've got the record for whatever it is 117 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: you're doing, and then they have adjusters educators that come 118 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: and verify the record. So like this guy in Fort 119 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: Wayne had to submit his sunflower. 120 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 3: Well, there it is. 121 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 2: I just went on their website and it's right there. 122 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 2: You can just look it up there. It is boom 123 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 2: the smallest sunflower. Oh it was two and one fifth inches. 124 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 2: That's just a little guy. So there's records for all 125 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 2: of this, So I'm not I'm still okay, that's interesting. 126 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 2: I'm now I'm going to spend the weeknd figure out 127 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 2: how they make money. Now, because this was a freedom. 128 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: Look, you're always interested in the business model. So if 129 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: you were to enter something in the Guinness Book of 130 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: World Records, what would it be longest rant? 131 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 3: Maybe I'll give the biggest ego. Maybe we'll do it 132 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 3: next week. 133 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 2: We'll find out what the world's longest Lincoln Day Dinner 134 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 2: speech is, and I can give. 135 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: It on like they're keeping track of that. 136 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 3: Well I kept track of a sunflower. 137 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: Sure, why not? 138 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 3: Why wouldn't they keep track of boring ass? 139 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: We just get on there and look up Lincoln Day dinner. 140 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: First of all the people againness would be like, what 141 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: is a Lincoln Day dinner? What? What are you talking about? 142 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 2: Well that was a very uplifting story, both in terms 143 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: of positive but also very high in the air. 144 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 3: Yeah you got you checked all the boxes. 145 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: I encourage you to go break a record. This weekend 146 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: of kindness and love. Can you do that? 147 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 3: Well, you're coming to the wrong place for that, case try. 148 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for us. Thank you, Rob, 149 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: thank you Kevin, thank you Caleb, and thank you for 150 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: listening today. Have a great weekend. It's been Kendall and 151 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: Casey on ninety three WYBC.