1 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Ben. 2 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: We're here with our super producer, Casey Pegram. I don't 3 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: know if he has a world record yet. And I'm 4 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: Nol the average man, Brown. Is that a world record? 5 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: Are you the most average? No, I'm quite average at 6 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: being average, but I hope to one day go out 7 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: for a world record in averageness. It turns out, Noll, 8 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: that there are so many world records. We always hear 9 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: about these things, where so and so has the largest 10 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: collection of matchsticks, which you know, going back on our 11 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: earlier common luminous from a previous episode, I could see 12 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: that being a world record. Well, it's also like, you know, 13 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: obviously we think of world records. We think of things 14 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: like being the fastest runner, or things that are measured 15 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: very specifically and precisely in sports in the Olympics, you know, 16 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: competitive sports like but then there's the fun dumb ones 17 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: like the match sticks or you know, the world's largest 18 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: postage stamp. I don't know if that's real, or like, 19 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: you know, the world's tallest man, which is a distinction 20 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: worthy of being you know, put in a a in 21 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: a document or a book. Shall we say, and we 22 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: know and love that book, and it's called the Guinness 23 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 1: Book of Records, and it's been around for a long time. 24 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: As it turns out, yes, it's been around for quite 25 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: a while. But the question is, if you're like a 26 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: lot of kids in the United States, the question is 27 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: where does this book come from? For most people, it 28 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: was a book. I don't know about you, but growing up, 29 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: there was a thing in my neck of the woods 30 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: called like the Scholastic Book Fair. Yeah, and one of 31 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: the hot items in the book fair was going to 32 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 1: be Guinness Book of World Records, followed only by scary 33 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,679 Speaker 1: stories to tell the dark. Yeah, nailed it. Wow. Do 34 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: we go to the same school. I think everyone went 35 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: to that school. I think they toured around with that. 36 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: There were those cases. It looked like a rock show. 37 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 1: They were like these kind of like rolling cases and 38 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: they'd open them up and they'd be full of these 39 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: Scholastic paperbacks and you could also do a book order. 40 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: I remember that. But yeah, the Guinness Book was always 41 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: a hot ticket because it adds later editions, crazy like 42 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: holographic kind of covers, and it was very glossy and 43 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: a really cool eye popping book. You know, and it 44 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: was full of all kinds of gross stuff and weird stuff. 45 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: Kids love that stuff, but it turns out so do 46 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: drunk Irish people. Yes, speaking of fantastic segways, my friend, 47 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: the question for today's episode is where did this book 48 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: come from? Doesn't have anything to do with the Guinness Brewery, 49 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: because you know, it's completely possible that there's just some 50 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: guy named Rutherford Pte McGuinness who decided to calculate every 51 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: world record. Luckily, it turns out that is not the case. Yeah, 52 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: sort of like the case with the Michelin Stars for restaurants. 53 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: People ask the same question, like, is this Michelin like 54 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: the Michelin man the tire company. Well it turns out yeah, 55 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: they had a stake in the game is best publishing 56 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: a travel guide? And then you end up with this thing, 57 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: the Michelin Star system for restaurants, such as the case 58 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: with Guinness. So, as it turns out, the genesis of 59 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: the Guinness Book of Records can be traced back to 60 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: a conversation that took place during a hunting party in 61 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: County Wexford, which is in Ireland, not too far from Dublin. 62 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: That's right, Sir Hugh Erie Campbell Beaver. Will his name 63 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: rich Sir Hugh Ere or Eerie e y r E. 64 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: Campbell Beaver. Let's refer to him henceforth as Sir Hugh. 65 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Sir Beaver, but you could do 66 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: sir Hugh if that's why, let's go with so okay, 67 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: So regardless of the nomenclature, we choose. Sir Hugh Beaver 68 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: was a British engineer and he was the managing director 69 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: of the Guinness Brewery at the time. He was hunting 70 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: birds with his friends in n Beaver shot at a 71 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: game bird and missed the shot winn awry, and this 72 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: led the party to wonder not only about how fast 73 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: this particular bird was, but it also led them to 74 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: ask what is the fastest bird in existence? And they 75 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: did not find any reference to this information across the 76 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: European continent. They were dumbfounded. Yeah, you would think that 77 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: that would be something that would be in like encyclopedia 78 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: or record books of some kind that to me is 79 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: a more run of the mill type record or at 80 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: least just something of scientific note that would be out there. 81 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: But no, they couldn't find it. So they figured, hey, 82 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: this could be cool as as a promotion for for 83 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: the brewery, you know, because he got guys in pubs 84 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: that are having drinks and trying to settle arguments. Why 85 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: not have a book you could whip out and say, Actually, 86 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: it's sort of the invention of Actually, I like the 87 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: way you phrase it. There, the lack of information haunted 88 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: Sir Hugh Beaver. Picture this otherwise content irishman laying in 89 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: bed at night, staring at the ceiling, tortured by this 90 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: idea that no one knows which bird in the world 91 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: is the fastest, which game bird is the fastest. I 92 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: don't want to live in that world. I don't know 93 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: what he was saying to himself. Yeah, I don't want 94 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: him to live in that world either, you know. And 95 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: there was no single official record, or, as he later realized, 96 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: there weren't many official records at all. So he did 97 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: something about it, right, I mean, he he didn't allow 98 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: himself to be tortured by these waking nightmares of not 99 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: being able to know what the fastest game foul was, No, sir. 100 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: He sought out a pair of twins by the names 101 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: of Norris and Ross Mick Hirter, and they were journalists. 102 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: More specifically, they were fact checkers. They were um intensely 103 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: uh pedantic fact checkers. They were known for their fastidiousness 104 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: when it came to verifying data and facts of any kind. 105 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: And they had worked um on Fleet Street, which was 106 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 1: I believe kind of a hub of publishing in London, 107 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 1: and they were involved in a lot of encyclopedias and 108 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: they would travel the world over to confirm various facts 109 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: because at the time obviously no Internet. You had to 110 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: go to the place, see the thing, confirm it, test it, 111 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: clock it, whatever you have, what have you? And then 112 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 1: they did that what is the world's largest bag of haggis? 113 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: Well this is the even four Like this is like 114 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: even just with their kind of more um encyclopedic ventures. 115 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: But they ended up being perfect for this promotion, right, yeah, 116 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: it was great casting and this was so our our friend, 117 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: right Mr excuse me, Sir Hugh Beaver is haunted for 118 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: about three years by this experience. So it's nineteen fifty 119 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: four when he gets this idea for promotion. Uh. The 120 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: McWherter twins are perfect casting. There's there's no other way 121 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: to say it. And together these folks team up in 122 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: a Triumvirate and Guinness Superlatives is incorporated. In November of 123 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: that year, they opened two rooms and they converted Gymnasium 124 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: on the top floor of Ludgate House at one oh 125 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: seven Fleet Street. And it took a lot of work 126 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: to make this book. Uh they you. You can look 127 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: on the official His Street page for Guinness World Records 128 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: and they refer to an initial research phase, but they 129 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: don't count it. And we can only imagine how much 130 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: research would be involved, because this is the first time 131 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: that someone tried to compile all the world records. Who 132 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: is the what's the fastest animal, what's the fastest game bird, 133 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: what's the tallest point on Earth right? Or the highest 134 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: elevation from sea level. I found a really interesting stat 135 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: about this. It comes from the current marketing director for 136 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: Guinness by the name of Stuart Claxton. He wrote a 137 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: cool article that I found on HuffPo and he says 138 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: that it took the twins sixteen weeks to put this 139 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: thing together and it costs thirty five thousand dollars And 140 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: luckily I've got my handy dandy inflation calculator here thirty 141 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: five grand. In nineteen fifty four, is equal to about 142 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty one thousand dollars today. Yeah, and 143 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: I found out an even more specific stat about how 144 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,839 Speaker 1: long it took them thirteen and a half ninety hour 145 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: weeks including weekendsting weekends and bank holidays. So I mean 146 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: no small feet and you know the week orders putting 147 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,439 Speaker 1: in all this backbreaking work for what at the time 148 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: just felt like a promotional item for a pint of ale. 149 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: Lagger Is it lagger? Is it Ale? I don't know 150 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: if I drink again stout it's stout. I hear that 151 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: it's very different when you're actually in Ireland. I'm sure 152 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: it isn't any any any folks from Ireland feel free 153 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: to to flame our inbox at ridiculous at how stuff 154 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: works dot Com for our ignorance about lagger versus Ale 155 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: versus stout. Invite us to grab a pint with you 156 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: in Ireland. I hear that it is different depending upon 157 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: the pub you visit. And I'm always curious what what 158 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: temperature is it supposed to be served at? We digress? Yeah, 159 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: we all of us. Any was that like little did 160 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: the mcquarters know that this, you know, seeming promotional item 161 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: for an alcoholic beverage. Shall he say, UH was gonna 162 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,959 Speaker 1: blow up to be this massive cultural touchstone that has 163 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: gone on to sell hundreds of millions of copies over 164 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: the years, and like you said, as a as a 165 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: staple and in book fairs the world over. Uh. In 166 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty five, summer of nineteen fifty five, they publish 167 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: the book. There are fifty thousand copies, and as as 168 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 1: we have mentioned, they were mainly promotional items. But very 169 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: soon Sir Hugh Beaver realized that he had accidentally stumbled 170 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: into the zeitgeist. People the world over. They wanted to 171 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: know who the world's tallest man was, who the world's 172 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: shortest person, or the fastest person, or the fattest person, 173 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: or the person with the longest fingernails, was most average 174 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: person or or the most average person who I believe 175 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: still is John B. Smith. Yes, they were like ten 176 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: of him and they're all tied for average. Yeah. But 177 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: that's the thing. Like it was, the zeitgeis you think 178 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,719 Speaker 1: in and of itself because it hit on a an 179 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: interest that many many people clearly shared. But it also 180 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: created this kind of outpouring of like obsession with record 181 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: keeping and record holding right, you had to kind of 182 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: invent new records. Where it became. It went from like 183 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: things like you're talking about the fastest or the tallest 184 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: or the biggest or whatever. It turned into things like 185 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: world record for most ballet dancers standing on point on 186 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: a pier uh and that was in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 187 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: October one, uh and it was for thirty seconds, three times. 188 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: So the further you get down the line, the more 189 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: specific they get. But what were some of the early 190 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 1: ones that were in that first edition, ben Oh? Sure. 191 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: The the earlier ones were things that still seem iconic 192 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: to us today, such as the world's tallest man who 193 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: ever lived, meaning both living or dead, That would be 194 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: Robert persh and Wadlow, who was eight ft eleven inches tall, 195 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: although nowadays, if we're talking about living people, the title 196 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 1: would go to Turkish national Sultan Cosen, who holds the 197 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: record at eight feet three inches currently. However, the interesting 198 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: thing about the evolution of the Guinness Book of World 199 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: Records is that of the thousands of applications that the 200 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: Guinness World Records Organization receives each month, most are for 201 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: new records in categories that did not exist in the 202 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: original publication in ninety five, things like the longest kiss. 203 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: The current record, by the way, is fifty eight hours, 204 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: thirty five minutes and fifty eight seconds. You have to 205 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: just twist your head. I don't know. I'm gonna show 206 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: you a pretty cool picture that look how bored this 207 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 1: lady looks. You're doing some head twisting and there would 208 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: have to be something otherwise there'll just be longest period 209 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: with lips pressed together. What qualifies a kiss? That's tough. 210 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: I think it's just the you know, fifty eight hours 211 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 1: is a long time to do any degree. The thing 212 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,839 Speaker 1: that's neat too, though, is to this day the book 213 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: contains about the same number of records as it did 214 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: when it first came out in fifty five, and then 215 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 1: the next year in the USA in fifty six, which 216 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: is about four thousand and the original edition, there weren't 217 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: any color, glossy images like you see today. It was 218 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: all black and white photos, and there were a lot 219 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: of hand drawn illustrations of the more encyclopedic entries, like 220 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,079 Speaker 1: things like the blue whale or any you know, animals, 221 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: largest mammal exactly. But some of the things that were 222 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 1: in that first edition that are still quite iconic today 223 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: are a man named John our Cobb held the world 224 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: record for land speed in a single direction at four 225 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: and three point one three five miles per hour. And 226 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: that was um a man by the name of Manningford 227 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: faith Jan graceful. These names, Lord Manningford faith Jan graceful. 228 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's a cow, a British Friscian cow, Frescian 229 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: cow that have the highest lifetime milk yield at three 230 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: thirty pounds over seventeen years. But good gravy man. The 231 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: name your cow? That Manningford faith Jan graceful. Oh my heavens, 232 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: that sounds like a Toast of London name. Big time, 233 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: big time. I hear your climb vandango and then you've 234 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: got you. You guys never heard Toast of London. Check 235 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: out Toast of London. It's it's fantastic. Um it's on 236 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: Netflix right now, actually plug. But then you've got this 237 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: last one, which I really enjoy. There's a pub. There 238 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: was a pub called the Smith's Arms that held the 239 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: record for being the world's tiniest pub and it was 240 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: ten feet wide and four ft high four ft high. 241 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: That's what it says. That's interesting. There's also there's also 242 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: a record for the largest prenatal yoga class. That's the thing. 243 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: If you want to break that record, all you need, 244 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: as of our recordings day, is five hundred and fifty 245 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: four participants, So you gotta get five and fifty four 246 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: pregnant people to do yoga with you, and boom, you're 247 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: in the book. We have seen um, all three of us, 248 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: Noel Casey and I have seen some pretty specific and 249 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: strange records. There's one for spinning a basketball on a 250 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: toothbrush while holding it in your mouth. If you can 251 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: do it for more than twenty two point four one seconds. Congratulations. 252 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: That sounds like a Harlem Globetrotters kind of trick. It does, 253 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: it really does. There's there are records for the fastest 254 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: planting of rice seedlings. There are superlatives of plenty, you know. 255 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: We we've seen things like the person with the most 256 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: piercings or the most tattoos. Nowadays, the Guinness World Record 257 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: brand is owned by the Jim Pattison Group. They're the 258 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: same company that owns Ripley's. Believe it or not, did 259 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: you ever go to those museums? I've been to a few. Yeah, 260 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: they're kind of schlocky boardwalk tourist traps sort of. Uh, 261 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: they're fine. They're fine. Sounds like I'm poopling. I'm not. 262 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: I love them. I'm I'm fully into it. I do 263 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: no museum of death, I'll give you that. That's true. 264 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: They are a little bit you know, they have their 265 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: their morbid side, that's try, but they're way more lighthearted. Right. 266 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: We do have some good news as well about the 267 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: fate of the mc wertard twins, who were really the 268 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: driving force for this. I think is it a good 269 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: news bad news situation, because there's definitely some bad news. 270 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: It is a bad news good news. So from nineteen 271 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: seventy two on the mcwherder twins were familiar figures in 272 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: a show called record Breakers. Yeah. That actually stemmed from 273 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: a children's show called Blue Peter that I think he's 274 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: still running you this day, some permutation of it. But 275 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: record Breakers was much more specifically tied to the whole 276 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:06,879 Speaker 1: Guinness thing, and it showcased the brothers um steadfastness at 277 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 1: clocking records and measuring success and failures in all these departments, 278 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: and they became kind of presenters television presenters in addition 279 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: to being behind the scenes folks. And they must have 280 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: had some phenomenal cognitive ability because part of the show 281 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 1: involved putting the Mick Werder's on the spot to have 282 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: an instant recall of obscure facts and figures, and they 283 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,400 Speaker 1: were almost never wrong and almost never at a loss 284 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 1: for the numbers they were asked to recall. Another thing, Now, 285 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: I bet most of you boys watching have got hair 286 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: twice as long as your father's have four times as 287 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: long as your grandfather's. But do you know who grew 288 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: the longest hair in the world. Well, it was a 289 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: man called Swanna Pendra s and I his hair was 290 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 1: twenty six ft long. Low, I wouldn't like to wear 291 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: this the day after we've watched it. Oh, did you 292 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 1: know if you don't believe that, the longest bed on 293 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: record was that of Hans land Seth of Norway, and 294 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: his beard was seventeen and a half feet in length, 295 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: and he died in nineteen twenty seven and it had 296 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: to walk backwards all that. The longest king of niles 297 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,640 Speaker 1: on record are there as of a Chinese priest who 298 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: top twenty seven years to grow them to a height 299 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: of or length of twenty two and three quarter inches, 300 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: very handy for scratching your ankles. So what happened next? 301 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:34,199 Speaker 1: Here's where we find the darker turn that we we 302 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: mentioned briefly. Ross mc whorter was shot fatally by the 303 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: i r A on his London doorstep in nineteen seventy five. 304 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: That's right. He was a big, outspoken opponent of the 305 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 1: ira A and he used his celebrity to speak out 306 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: against them and pushed for a tougher response against the 307 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: these kind of republican terrorists by the British government. And 308 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: he actually offered a fifty thousand pound reward in nineteen 309 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: seventy five. That is a lot of cash for any 310 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: information that might um lead to the arrest of any 311 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 1: i ra A cell that was trying to carry out 312 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 1: these just deadly bombing campaigns all throughout London that were 313 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: happening at the time. And Norris mcwerder soldiered on as 314 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: the book's editor until nineteen eighties six. Afterwards, he continued 315 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:37,639 Speaker 1: as an assistant editor, and he spent a lot of 316 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: time involved in political organizations, particularly what was known as 317 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: the Freedom Association. He wanted to reign back what he 318 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: saw as the over arching or overwhelming power of governments 319 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: and trade unions. He retired finally in nineteen six, and 320 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: he was seventy eight when he died playing a game 321 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: of tennis in two two thousand and four. And what's 322 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: interesting is that these brothers essentially created the foundation for 323 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 1: this publication that we still know today that hasn't changed 324 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: a ton. I mean, the whole idea is very much 325 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: the same as it was when they published the first edition, which, 326 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: by the way, you can find on eBay for only 327 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,719 Speaker 1: about fifty pounds you can get a first edition Guinness 328 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: Record Book. Really, I was really shocked. I would have 329 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: thought that they would be more scarce, but I guess 330 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: maybe not a first edition. But it's definitely like among 331 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: those first several editions, because the first edition, I think 332 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: they only made ten thousand copies and then they just 333 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: kept having to go into reprints of that first edition. 334 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: But in that first edition, the brothers are not directly credited. 335 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: They are just called the compilers, the compilers, so there 336 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: was a bit of anonymity there. It's it's it's fascinating 337 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: you said that, And no, I think we would be 338 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: remiss if we did not address a question that everyone 339 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 1: listening is wondering, which is, how do we set our 340 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: own world records? Is it possible in this day and age. 341 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: Is it possible for a well meaning uh John Smith 342 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: in the crowd, John or Jane Smith to grab a 343 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:26,360 Speaker 1: superlative all their own? The answer is yes, but it's complicated. Yeah. 344 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: And one of the reasons it's complicated is because, like 345 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: it's been around for so long, and the records have 346 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: to get more and more obscure and bizarre, and the 347 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: the the the conditions, right, like the whole ballerina standing 348 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: on tiptoe and jumping every thirty seconds or whatever. Like 349 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 1: you can set these bizarre guidelines, that's sure, that's a 350 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: record because no one else thought of those exact conditions 351 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: to do it. But as far as like breaking like 352 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: you know, a speed record or something like that, that's 353 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: a little more tough. But you know, you it's within 354 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: your grasp if you want to come with something weird 355 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: that no one thought of. But right it is not 356 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: by any means impossible. It really depends upon a couple 357 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: of things. The first thing that you will do if 358 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: you want to set a world record that goes into 359 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 1: print in the book is to find something that is measurable, provable, 360 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 1: has a single point to it, and can be beaten. 361 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: Unless it's the first ever version of something like the 362 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: first person to walk on an asteroid, right, or the 363 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: first person to eat the state of Texas. That's not 364 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: gonna happen. What if I just did the first person 365 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 1: to hold a pencil in my closed eyelid by the 366 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: eraser for twelve minutes and no one has thought of 367 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: that particular thing to do yet, could I could I 368 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: technically qualify if if no one has done that one. Yeah, 369 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 1: there's a little bit of subjectivity here because the editors 370 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: or the compilers must think it's interesting. And I think 371 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: that's specific enough that they would they would consider it interesting, 372 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: especially if you did it for like twelve hours or something. 373 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: I want to do it with twelve hours. I want 374 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: to do it for a maximum ten minutes. Well, you 375 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: could get it. You could get it for ten minutes. 376 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: But if you said it at ten minutes, what's going 377 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: to happen? I guarantee you is. Next year there's gonna 378 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: be some JABRONI who goes for eleven minutes. It's not 379 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: gonna be me. It's probably not gonna be Casey. I 380 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: don't care. I just want to be in the book. 381 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: You just want to be So. Another thing people do 382 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: is to set group records the world's largest thriller dance, 383 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 1: for instance. Right we talked about prenatal yoga. Just if 384 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: you want to set a world record, get a bunch 385 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: of your friends or a bunch of strangers to do 386 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: one very specific thing with you for as long as possible. 387 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: Which the the organization on that boggles the mind. You know, 388 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 1: I guess I would try to. I don't know if 389 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 1: I would beat the largest thriller dance. That was a 390 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: record in Mexico with more than thirteen thousand people. Uh. 391 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,880 Speaker 1: It was on Michael Jackson's post humus birthday. They all 392 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 1: did the thriller dance. So, as as you can see, 393 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 1: research is very important. And I'll anticipate the question that 394 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 1: a lot of us have. Is there a person who 395 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: holds the record for holding the most world records? The 396 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: answer is yes. His name is Ashrita Furman. One of 397 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: his records is for pushing an orange for a mile 398 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: with his nose, and uh he famously researched the type 399 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: of orange to use. So you need to pick your 400 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: battles carefully, and you need to be aware that you 401 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: can break a record without spending a dime. Uh. The 402 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: record breaking is free and open to everyone. They only 403 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: ask that you give them six to eight weeks for 404 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: existing categories and eight to twelve weeks for new ideas. 405 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: So this pencil in the by the eraser that would 406 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: that would qualify for a new idea. And every record 407 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: has a set of guidelines you have to follow. You 408 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: can apply online at Guinness World Records dot com h 409 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: and they'll send these guidelines to you via email. There 410 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: is uh, there's there's a great piece of inspiration here 411 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: by a record breaker named Hannah Bosley. She, along with 412 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 1: three d and twenty four other people, holds the world 413 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 1: record for the largest gathering of people dressed as penguins. 414 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 1: And according to Hannah Boseley, breaking record is not as 415 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: hard to organize as you might first anticipate. So just 416 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: get going and if you want to do it, you will. 417 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,199 Speaker 1: And a streeta Furman who you mentioned, is holding the 418 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: record for the most records at two hundred. I believe 419 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: you said. Um. It also goes to show you don't 420 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: have to be some sort of superhuman or athlete. Uh. 421 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,360 Speaker 1: This this person is a health food store manager from 422 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: queens Um and the first record that he broke was 423 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine where he did twenty seven thousand 424 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: jumping Jack's uh. And then he also holds the record 425 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: for rope skipping on a pogo stick. He did that 426 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: at Cambodia's Angor Watt. Also he hula hooped at Australia's 427 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,679 Speaker 1: Air of Rock and he traveled the entire length of 428 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 1: Paul Revere's ride in forward rolls. So in forward rolls 429 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: like hum somersaults. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. So you 430 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: know it's up for grabs if if you believe it, 431 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: go for it. And I think a good way to 432 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 1: wrap this up is to read the forward of that 433 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: original Guinness Book of Records, which was by a man 434 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 1: who at the time was the chairman of the Guinness 435 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: Park Royal Brewery. And speaking of amazing titles, his name 436 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: was the Right Honorable Earl of Iva and he has 437 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: kg c B and CMG UM titles after that, and 438 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 1: their various military orders that he was a part of. 439 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: And he prefaces that first edition with this forward. Wherever 440 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 1: people congregate to talk, they will argue, and sometimes the 441 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: joy lies in the arguing and would be lost if 442 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 1: there was any definite answer. But more often the argument 443 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 1: takes place on a dispute of fact, and it can 444 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: be very exasperating if there is no immediate means of 445 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: settling the argument. Who was the first to swim the channel? 446 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: Where is England's deepest well or Scotland's highest tree or 447 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 1: Ireland's oldest church? How many died in history's worst rail crash? 448 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: Who gained the biggest majority in parliament? What is the 449 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 1: highest point in our country? And so on? How much 450 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,719 Speaker 1: heat these innocent questions can raise. Guinness in producing this 451 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: book hopes that it may assist in resolving many such disputes. 452 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 1: And may we hope turn heat into light. Fantastic and 453 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: well said. We only want to add when you are 454 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,439 Speaker 1: considering breaking a world record or forming a new one. Uh, 455 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: Guinness will not accept in anything that harms animals or 456 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: is dangerous for the would be record breaker. So you 457 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: can't do the longest time without sleep. Apparently you can't 458 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 1: do heaviest fish because people were over feeding their fish monsters. Hey, 459 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: if you are working at breaking a record, or you 460 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 1: have a fun idea for a record that maybe has 461 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: yet to be dreamt up. Please shoot us an email 462 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: it ridiculous at how stuff works. You can also send 463 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: us a note on Facebook or Ridiculous History. We've got 464 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,640 Speaker 1: an Instagram in ridiculous History, and leave us a review 465 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast. We would 466 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: be much in your debt. Yeah, maybe we can set 467 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: the We we can set the record for the most reviews. 468 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: What's a dangerous game to play? I think we're inching 469 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: up on three now, so let's shoot for the move 470 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: and we will see you next week. Folks, go break 471 00:28:54,440 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: some records of your own in exact tact.