Do Go On - 200 - Wild World Records

Episode Date: August 21, 2019

For our 200th episode, we celebrate by each doing a mini report on a different world record! This episode was recorded live at the Zoo in Brisbane - enjoy!Buy tickets to our upcoming live shows here: https://dogoonpod.com/events/Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodVote for Dave to be Australia's Pie Guy, (you do have to be in Australia or use a VPN)https://gourmetpieguy.brumbys.com.au/profile/dave-warneke/See Matt and Jess live:https://mattstewartcomedy.com/gigshttps://www.jessperkins.com.au/showsOur website: dogoonpod.comSubmit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-TopicNEW MERCH SHOP: https://dogoon.bigcartel.com/Matt's Merch: https://mattstewartcomedy.com/shopTwitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:Randy Gardner - Record for most time without sleephttps://www.npr.org/2017/12/27/573739653/the-haunting-effects-of-going-days-without-sleephttp://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180118-the-boy-who-stayed-awake-for-11-dayshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2019/3/snooze-and-you-win-animals-that-earned-records-in-their-sleep/Robert Wadlow - Record for the Tallest Man Ever:https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/hall-of-fame/robert-wadlow-tallest-man-ever/https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-wadlow

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Welcome to the 200th episode of Do Go On. It's me, Matt Stewart, here, by myself, in a bed, in a Goldcrooked house. I'm living my best life doing gigs up here in the sunshine, David and Jess, down in the cold winter of Melbourne. Probably also living a very good life, no doubt. I'm just here to quickly introduce this episode, 200th episode. We recorded it live at the zoo in Brisbane. Thanks so much to everyone who came out to help us celebrate.

It was a really fun day. If you want to see us live, we're doing a few more shows coming out, one in Sydney in less than a month now. If you're keen, please grab tickets. Last time we came, it was one of the biggest shows we've ever done, and it was so much fun. It would be great to see you there. Also, we're coming to Perth on November 3,

and that show is well on the way to selling out, which is cool. You can get tickets via do go onpod.com and follow the live show link there. A couple of other live things coming up. I'm going to be doing some stand up in Canberra, Goldburn, Orange and Wagga, Wogger in regional, New South Wales, and Nick Kappa in early September. And there should hopefully be some more info on my website at Matt Stewartcomcom slash gigs. Or check my social media, which is Matt Stewart Comedy, generally speaking.

and yeah, I think they're, I think it's like Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, those shows in the first week of September. It'd be real cool. I already know a few do go and listeners. They're coming to each of those shows, so it'd be cool to see a bunch there. As well as that, you'll find info at Matt Shoeckmo.com. Sags gigs about Razzle Dazzle, which is the show I'm doing with Jess, the Melbourne Fringe coming up, also in September.

We had so much fun doing it in Brisbane. It should be even better by the time we do it in Melbourne, which is cool. I think we're going to even catch up to do some more writing when I get back home, which what a lovely idea that is. Already looking forward to that. Anyway, enough of the plugs. I'll be back later after the live portion of the show is done to give you a factor quote or a question. I don't even know which one it will be yet and tell you about some other stuff,

including I think some Patrients. But in the meantime, please sit back and enjoy our 200th episode. Can You bloody believe? live it live from the zoo in Brisbane. Talk soon. We did it. We made it. Hello, my name is Dave. Welcome to another episode of Do Go On and look, I'm feeling a bit lonely on stage. I'm going to introduce you to two friends of mine.

Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins. Yeah. Hello. Two saint supporters in the front row, Dave, did notice that? Game starts in five minutes. Fantastic. I will keep you updated with schools. Don't worry.

Or you can do it for me, even. I've got something else to do. Yeah, great. Ask someone in the front road to be on their phone the whole time. That will really affect my confidence. So thank you. I like these two empty seats in the middle there too. Just again, for me to stare at for the whole show.

Mum and dad? They're not coming. Oh. No, they're on their way. They said that they come. Oh, but fantastic Sunday afternoon here at the zoo. How are we feeling? All right.

Got a lot of cheers. Your arms are very crossed there, mate. I'm so sorry. It's so sorry. It's a comfortable way to sit. It is. I know, but we automatically go, what? What's wrong? Who hurt you?

I know. Who hurt you? It's just a natural response. Give it up for the zoo, by the way. This place is awesome. Yeah, cool venue. Cool venue. So cool.

It is weird to be able to see the audience, so I'm used to darker rooms. And I'm distracted. Yeah. No, we're used to, even daytime shows in Melbourne. It's always. dark because Melbourne sucks and now it's sunny. You know how to play a crowd.

I do. You love Melbourne, you love it, you idiot. Shut up, I don't. I hate it. I hate living there, it's the worst. It is funny to see your faces so if you could all hide them, that would be. Some people, oh yes, being out of the face, perfect. Thank you, appreciate that.

And it's just like you'd be at home then. I imagine you listen with your eyes closed and think about how attractive we are and now we've really ruined that for you. So. As your hands slowly descend. An early regret face for you, so... Yeah. He's gone early.

Yeah, he does go early, that's for sure. It's the only way you can make sure, you know? If you wait, what happens? You might lose momentum. Anyway, I... It's not embarrassing, it's efficient. What, what did you just think? I was going to say, I just remembered guys, this is our 200th episode.

Yes! That's quite nice. It is quite nice, isn't it? Someone at home is having the 200th wank. Oh, it's great. That's beautiful. Don't forget the Patreon bonus episodes, Dave. Oh, yeah.

They've probably had about 260 wanks. Oh, boy. Just me? Hey, there's something we always ask at the start of live shows. Dave, do you want to do it? How are you? Yeah. If he likes to check in.

Anyone want to talk about anything? Any issues? No. One person's surveyed the whole crowd. No. No. what we like to ask is give us a round of applause if you have heard this show before.

Thank you. Thank God. Thank God. And no judgment, but give us a polite round of applause. Polite. Keep it polite. If you've never heard this show before. A few people as well, great. And you've stayed towards the back, hoping we would never ask. And then I did. Thank you so much. I'm assuming you've come along with other people who've dragged you along. Very nice. Well, that

That's very kind of you. Dave, explain what this is. Because at the moment, they're like, who are these deranged people? Yes, that is very, very true. So basically what this show is, is the three of us here, and we take it in turns usually to report on a topic suggested often by a listener of the show. But something we've been doing, the last few live shows we've done, is we've just started to pick an overall subject,

and we're all going to do a mini report on that topic. Yes. And the topic we've picked today is world records. And that makes sense because this is our world record most ever do go on shows 200. We did it. No one's ever done 200 episodes of Do Go On podcast

before. They said it couldn't be done. Who said that? We did. We did. Oh. Oh no. I'm a man of my word. How are you going to do it? Probably. Oh, well.

My favourite way to But I like sort of just like getting some sort of chloroform and just going, and lowering your sleigh to the ground. But we can workshop. That does it kill anyone. Anyway, gone darker. Oh, then I cut you. Yeah, well, world record for most regret faces on this episode coming up, I can feel it.

I can feel it happening. You are killing it. Now, I'm going to go first for the World Record Report. This could be the world's longest mini report So say you know it's not going to be I'll keep to time which I rarely do But I will try this time And we always start with a question to get us onto topic

Yes And my question is which I'll throw to you guys And if you know this, you know this And if not I'll throw it to the beautiful people here at the zoo My question is Who is Or who was and still is The tallest person ever

Robert Wild Life Robert Wild Life He said Robert Wild Life He said Robert Wildlife. If it's correct, I do. He stands by his answer. I'll give you the point there, Matt. That's one for you.

Robert Wildlife, ladies and gentlemen. Robert Wadlow. Wadlow. Unfortunately, no one here knew that. How did you know that? You're a big nerd. Her words, not mine. I wasn't like, you're a big nerd.

No, sorry, answer the question. But are you the world's biggest? No. That would impress us. Possibly. Have you seen photos of Rob Wadlow? This coming from you. I'm allowed to say that.

You're my people, okay? I'm allowed to say that. No, I'm too cool. You're allowed to bag out cool people only. Yeah. Nah, cool people don't need to be bagged out. They're cool. Yeah, they're super cool.

Yeah. Well, Robert Wadlow was, is the tallest person ever. Have you guys heard of him? No. Yes. Well, I was assuming it was literally six or seven bits of wildlife in a trench coat Hello, I'm Robert, Robert wildlife He's got a koala head

Oh yeah, cute What else is in the rest of the trench coat? Gawanna Yep That's the neck Then you got a wombat chest Obviously, yeah Yeah, and then more wombats to the end.

It's mostly wombat. Maybe one bats. The wildlife is, he's 90% wombat. Yeah. Aren't we all, aren't we all? Okay, let's start with the secret life. That sounds fun, but it's not the secret life. The secret life of Robert Waddleau.

Robert Pershing Wadlo. Pershing. Pershing. That's not a name. That's a great. I love it. He was born in Elton, Illinois, on the 22nd of February, 2018.

Thank you. Thank you. You can leave now. You've peaked. You've peaked. No, I appreciate that. There's probably a few more years coming up so many more times to shine.

Robert was the oldest of five children born to Harold Franklin and Adi Mae Wadlow. Oh, Adi May is cute as shit. I love that. Adi May Wadlow, yes. At the time of his birth, was 8.7 pounds, which meant nothing to me,

but which is a pretty big baby. Usually they are on average between 5 and 8 pounds. I was 8.7. No way. Yeah. Holy shit. It was mostly head. Oh, a really big head.

You haven't grown since you were born. No. I came out like this. Perfect. And incredibly cool. I also looked up because I am an incredible nerd. The biggest baby ever was 20 pounds. Oh.

Oh. And that mother never spoke to that kid again. Oh, she couldn't do much after that. Oh, God. But 8.7 pounds, so quite big, but nothing sort of out of the ordinary if you were 8.7 pounds. But from there, Jess, you're not the tallest person ever. All right, but I don't appreciate being called

nothing out of the ordinary. Sorry. Thank you. The fuck are you laughing at? That was a brilliant. but from there he started to grow which most of us do but Robert never stopped that's the difference between us and greatness

by his first birthday he was 45 pounds or 20 kilos and he was three feet three and a half inches tall he then he kept growing he overtook my height by the age of seven which would have pissed me off so much that's too big for a person I don't want to upset you but he's going to get a lot bigger Like a lot bigger. Strap in.

It's going to be so big. It is too big for a seven-year-old, yes. He overtook his own father's height of five foot 11 by his eighth birthday. He's eight and he's over five foot 11. Six foot on his eighth birthday. Fuck that. Meanwhile, his siblings, who he's also older than, remained heights that were completely normal for their ages.

And despite him being practically triple their size, he was expected to play with his siblings and participate in the same activities that they did. He's going to kill them. Basketball would have been horrendous. But his parents, they tried very hard to give him a normal child, but they knew that this was a bit out of the ordinary, but they tried. But it wasn't super normal for the young giant.

Guinness World Records writes, quote, when most children were still being carried by their parents, Robert was able to lift his father up the stairs of their family home. In fact, at nine years, nine years old, he weighed 180 pounds. It was about 100K, and was strong. Is that true? Somewhere in the realm, 90 kilos. He was strong enough to carry his father

who was sitting in a living room chair up the stairs to the second floor. Nine years old. In the chair. Yes! Which... I'd love that. I assume his father demanded he did this every single night.

I don't know. In fact, I think he demanded all his children do this despite the ones that were only four years old and normal life. Come on? He was a bit weird. Meanwhile, Robert was so tall that in primary school a custom desk

had to be built to accommodate him. Yeah, cool. Because he was that big. At 13. Should he have one of those flip-up desks where you put all your shit in it? Remember those? They were really annoying when you had to get something out, but you're in the middle of something. And then you have to like hold the lid to get up head.

His was the size of half a football field. Right. Did you grow up in the 20s or something? One of those desks? Yeah, we still had them. Yeah, right. I think my primary school was a bit shit. I'm learning that in hindsight.

You know, kids. The ignorance is bliss. But now, I know the truth. You never know. At 13, he was 7 foot, 4 inches tall. And he was named as America's tallest Boy Scout. That's the highest honour. I know.

Yeah, yeah. He got his tall badge. He had a customised uniform, tent and sleeping bag made for him in the Scouts. By this age... It was actually... It was a one in three. It was a uniform, a tent and a sleeping bag. All in one.

They just sewed together ten sheets and threw them at him. By this age, he had averaged a growth of... four inches or 10 centimetres per year since birth every year. Jesus. He was definitely the tallest Boy Scout because he was also already one of the tallest people in the entire country. To put his hide into context, at 13, if he had played in the NBA, he would still be in the top 10 tallest players to ever play that game.

Whoa. At 13, but he wasn't picked. He wasn't picked. He passed 2.45 meters or 8 foot by the age of 17, giving him the title of the tallest teenager ever. Oh man, I reckon he's going to go for tallest man. Spoilers! He's going for it.

Spoilers! He's got Boy Scout. He's got Teenager. Come on, Robert. Don't let me down here, Dave. I'm really invested for some reason. Well, he kept growing. Yes! And when he finished high school, he was 8 foot 4 inches tall.

That is three inches taller than the current world record holder for the tallest person alive. A Turkish man named Sultan Kosen. Fantastic. Yeah, I mean, sometimes you name a baby, you just know. You just know. After graduating school, Robert enrolled in college with the intention of studying law, but he never made it to university because the Ringling Brothers Traveling Circus came to town and instead asked this tall teenager if he would join them

because he'd be a great addition to their show, which he turned out to be true. The, quote, friciously tall Woblo was showcased alongside little people and he brought in record crowds and became a bit of a celebrity. So what did he have to do? Just stand there? Yeah, sort of stand there, and then people of very short statue would stand next to him. They'd be like, how is this possible?

I like to think that he was an amateur juggler, and he thought he was getting the call up. Yeah? Finally, yes. I will juggle for you. No, just stand over there, you freak. Oh. Oh, fair enough.

Saddest juggler ever. I've never seen a happy juggler. That's what's so remarkable about it He's sad even for them They're sad And then there's juggler sad And he jugglers in today A few juggler sympathises though

Yeah a few people took that Like it was quite hot I'm so sorry, so sorry I'm not So when asked in a radio interview If he was annoyed when people stared at him He calmly replied quote No, I just overlook them

Hmm? Good He's funny too. So he's in the circuit. A couple of years later, the International Shoe Company contacted him, which sounds made up, but I think. Hi, I'm the president of the International Shoe Company. If you send me your bank detail.

We'll send you a free pair of shoes. Okay. Well, they asked him if he would become somewhat of a brand ambassador or on a promotional tour. An early days influencer. He was influencing in the shoe industry. In exchange, they offered to make him his custom shoes for free. They had to be custom made because of the size of his feet,

and they would be very expensive costing $1,500 US per pair in today's money. It was like a whole cow. For leather shoes. Not for like canvas little slippers. The whole cow implies the meat and bones as well though. Yeah, he was wearing cows. I know what I said. He's just walking around.

Milk's going everywhere. His feet were the largest feet ever recorded, measuring 47 centimeters long. Well over a foot and a half. Did you say that you know what they say? Can confirm. Look at the size of these puppies. Not in proportion. So 47 centimeters, that's the equivalent, just so for different people around the word,

that's the equivalent of a US size 37A, A. UK 36 or a European size 75. So US 37, for context, I'm a US 8. That's so good. That's quite big then. Thanks for that context, Dave. So massive, massive. Just imagine the biggest foot ever.

You got it. He also had the largest hands ever, measuring 32 centimetres or 12.7 inches from the wrist to the tip of his middle finger. So an entire 30 centimeter ruler. Okay, yeah. Yeah, it's a subway. It's a subway.

Is that a full sub or a half sub? A whole sub. More than a whole sub. That's a big sandwich. Between wrist and finger. Bloody hell. Imagine him giving you the finger. You'd know.

You know. It could give you the finger and be like, ah. I'm sad to report. Where'd you go then, Maddie? What is giving me the finger? I just felt it on a deep level. How deep did you feel it? About a foot long.

I don't even go that deep. Quite a lot of him was still... Anyway, um... So, biggest, biggest hands ever. I am sad to report that sadly no sponsor came on board to make his custom gloveless fingers and his... Finger tips remained cold.

But his palms were not sweaty, so that's good. He was a celebrity and people noticed him everywhere he went, but at home he led a quiet life and was nicknamed the gentle giant. Weird thing for your dad to call you. He was mild-mannered and polite, and his hobbies included playing the guitar, photography, and carrying his dad upstairs. Did he have to hear the custom-made guitar?

Because that would have looked ridiculous. He's just playing classical gas. But it's like this big. He looks like he was playing the ukulele at all times. Yeah. But everyday things were difficult. for a man whose world and surroundings were not built for a man of his size. At home he could be more comfortable but he was constantly on the road at places not equipped for him. He

also had to eat a lot of fuel for his large body. The average calorie intake for a man is two and a half thousand calories. He consumed over 8,000 every day. But unlike many very tall people, Wadlow was still very mobile and never having to use a wheelchair, although it was sometimes difficult to get about as he suffered from a lack of feeling in his legs and feet, really only feeling a tingling feeling at all. Like all the time. Yeah. So he's just hoping that when he takes a step,

it's gonna work. Yeah. But he was able to get around. He did have a walking stick towards the last few years of his life though. Doctors examined Robert and realized that his exceptional size was caused by hyperplasia of his pituitary gland. This condition causes... I was thinking that. That's what I was...

I didn't want to say, but yeah, that's what I was thinking. Hyperassembment of the purrude man. Yep, that'll do it every time. Everybody time. He walks into your office. Hello, Mr. Wildlife. Take a seat. So this condition

caused an abnormally high level of the human growth hormone, which I believe is similar to what Andre the Giant here. Yeah, I think so. And Robert was never given any treatment to stop it because the technology, we didn't have the technology at the time. And therefore, he just never, ever stopped growing.

Guinness World Records writes on their website, Now their medical consultant, Dr. Ronald Rao, explains Robert Wadlow escapes the attention of surgeons as they were not confident enough to operate on him. Therefore, he might remain the tallest man for a very long time. There you go. The man who I mentioned earlier, Salton, who holds the current world record for the tallest man, has a similar condition, but he's been able to have the surgery to halt the production of the hormone. Which is one of those things. You're the tallest man, but you want that record. Yeah.

Surely. Sounds like a bit of a quitter to me. Yeah. You want the record. May, come on. But Wadle never had such a luxury, and he just kept growing, and eventually to stand upright, he had to have custom braces fitted to his legs and started to use a walking stick, as I mentioned. Very tragically, one of his ankle braces was fitted poorly and gave him a blister.

But because of his lack of feeling in his legs, he didn't notice that the brace was rubbing and causing him to blister. The blister became septic and infected, and just a week later, he died from the infection on July the 15th, 1940 in his sleep at the age of 22. Oh, what? So very, very young. 18 days before his death, he'd been measured for the final time at a whopping 8 foot 11.1 inches or 2.72 meters tall. Oh, my God. Passing the...

So many subways, too many subways. Surely he gets three foot long to live. He passed the previous record holder, another American called John Rogan, who was 8 foot 9. Whoa. The giant man was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Alton, in an enormous coffin measuring 3.28 or 10 foot 9 long. The taller than ground to basketball ring height

is at the height of his coffin. It weighed over £1,000 or 450 kilos and took 12 men to carry the coffin, supported by eight assistants. Basically going, oh. Dave, you know how you said that it was only later in his life so he had to have a walking stick? He lived at 22.

Yeah, comparatively later in his life. It's all relative. Yeah, the last three years of it, the last... That was late in his life. Right. I know that was three centuries ago for you. Yes. That's right.

But we're all different. The joke there is Matt's very old. Just filling you in. Just to finish up here, in 1986. A life-sized statue of Wardlow was erected on College Avenue in Alton, Illinois, opposite the Alton Museum of History and Art in honor of the city's most famous resident. Robert Wadlow! Dave Waterkey, everybody.

Wow, what a guy. That's crazy. Such a tall man. I'm still hoping that I can eclipse his record one day. I've just seen there are Skittles on the stage. Mick? Yes. Mick, why are there Skittles on the stage?

Because this is what Mick does for me. I believe it was the last time. It was anyone at our last show in Brisbane nearly two years ago? Thank you. Or were any of you hit in the face with Skittles then? Oh, yeah, I threw Skittles at you. Don't sue. We should have got you to sign a waiver.

These are sweet to heat. Fruity flavours with a spicy kick. Well, I'm going to find out now if they're any good. Are these essentially chilly skittles? Yeah. In a way, let's find out. Anyway, it's Matt Stewart's turn. Oh.

Does anyone want to score update in the footy? Oh yeah, what do we go? 18 point later to the Saints, everybody. We're doing it. Saints are a football team They've been around since 1873 In that time they've won one Premish, it was in 1966

They are officially the shittest team of all time Thank you very much And that completes my report World record for shittest sporting team But they're winning today Do you say you don't need to know? I'm trying to open up to you

I'm trying to be vulnerable in the space Guys can't believe this alright well here is my report, world record based report. Sorry, we're having our own conversation about the heat of the Skittles. Wow, I'm feeling there's a lot of heat in my mouth right now. And I say that a lot. We got hot mouth.

Okay. My question is, what record was set by a radio DJ that was broken by a schoolboy in 1964? Hopefully there's only one correct answer for this. It was a record set by a DJ. And then broken by a schoolboy. Yes. Huh.

Where was this located? I have no idea. America. Oh, that narrows it down. Oh, fantastic. Can I confer with my huge nerd audience member? Yeah. What do you think?

Any idea? Does anyone have any idea? Matt's questions are normally so easy. You had an idea. You put your hand up. That was very polite. That's fun. That is a bet.

I wish the report was about the youngest DJ. But this is way dumb. than that. It's the longest time without sleep. Oh. I'm so sorry. If you know enough about that person... Come on up. Now you say schoolboy,

it should have been something like most wanks in one day or something. That's all I was thinking. DJ and schoolboy, yeah. That makes sense. DJ, loneliest person. DJ, schoolboys, they feel lonely. They wank a lot. Jess is a radio DJ.

Yeah. And I'm lonely. He wanks a lot. I'm so sorry, I need a skittal. All right. Get some of that hot mouth. Here is my report. Randy Gardner moved to San Diego, California.

His name's Randy. In 1960. His name is Randy. I think it's about sleep. He's sleeper, youthphism? He moved to San Diego in 1963. San Diego. He was 17-year-old at the time.

The eldest of four kids. kids. Due to growing up in a military family, he'd been relocating throughout his whole childhood. As a kid, he was interested in science, a bit of a nerd. Respect. And in every town he moved to, he entered the science fair. Perhaps as a way of settling in to the new towns. As a way of announcing, I'm here and I'm a nerd. Yeah, it's dominance. He's like asserting himself. It's like when you go to prison, you beat up the biggest, toughest guy. Yeah, when you go to prison, you enter the science fair. Yeah. Yeah. To assert your dominance. King of the nerds.

San Diego was bigger than Gardner was used to, so he knew he was going to have to go big if he was to win the science fair there. I find that very funny. What about it, Dave? Looking himself in the mirror going, you got this, Randy. You got this?

You got to go big. Gardner teamed up with Bruce McAllister, another kid from his high school, and they brainstormed ideas. The one they landed on was breaking a world record, and the record they were going to break was held by Tom Rounds, a DJ from Honolulu. Rounds, who had just gotten the gig as a radio disc jockey,

a couple years earlier, attained the world record for the longest time going without sleep when he lasted 260 hours awake while sitting in a department store window display. Oh, you fucking psycho. Me or him? Oh, him, yeah. Him, not you. Well, yeah, in this case, him,

you and I can talk off stage. Did the department store know he was there? Can you do the math? How many days is that, David? How many hours? 260. 10. Yes, it's just short of 11.

Yes, four hours. Wow, that is good. No. Four hours short of 11 days. Oh, I hate that. Following the stun, he became a regional celebrity. It was a big deal in Honolulu. Hey, you're the guy that didn't sleep that time.

The 60s was wild. So much going on. McAllis of one of the boys spoke to the BBC saying, the first version of it was to explore the effect of sleeplessness on paranormal ability. Not really sure what that means, but they realised that that was stupid. Well, I mean, if they've seen the X-Files episodes sleepless, you'll know that they have a bit of their back of their brain removed, and then they can't sleep anymore, but then they do develop paranormal powers.

I think you just out-nernerved yourself. He was on... You know, in that episode of X-Files that we all can reference off the top of our head. Surely, you know. Have you seen that episode of The X-Files? No.

She's... The biggest nerd, self-described, is telling you to shut out. Has anyone seen that episode? What are you all doing here? They have lives. I mean, get the box set. Incredible.

Do you reference that episode at all in your report? Yes. He wouldn't, he doesn't do his reason. But I won't bother now. Yeah, sorry. You've already come. I jumped it. So they put the paranormal idea in the bin

and changed the scope of the study to be all about the effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive abilities, including things, and then also things like performance on the basketball court. Basically any sort of test that they could come up with as 17-year-old boys, right? Who could wank the best?

To decide which of them would be the same? subject of the experiment slash record-breaking attempt, they tossed a coin. McAllister won the toss, toss, and gave the honour to Gardner. Gave the honour, like, all right, I could have taken it, but I'll give it to you. Yeah, you... You stay awake for 11 days. McAllister remembers, we were idiots, you know, young idiots. I stayed awake with him to monitor him, and after three nights of sleeplessness, myself, I woke up, tipped against the wall, writing notes on the wall itself.

So he really's like, oh, I still have to be awake to record it anyway. So they realized they needed a second person to share the monitoring load, and they roped in another school kid, Joe Marciano. From then on, Marciano and Macalester rotated between monitoring, and that allowed each other to have a stint sleeping as well. The media started to show interest in the experiment, and after reading an article in the paper, a sleep researcher called William Dement from Stanford University

traveled out to visit the boys. This is him now. Do a voice. Okay, William DeMann, American man. American man, William de Ment. An educated man. An educated man from a university, American educated man.

With hiccups. With hiccups. Okay. And a lisp. Lisp and hiccub. I was probably the only person on planet at the time. What do you think a lisp is? Who had actually done sleepers?

The men told the BBC. Randy's parents were really worried that this might be something that would really be harmful to him. Because the question was still in result on whether or not it would go without sleep for on if you die. Yeah.

What? What happened to Demence? What happened to Demence teeth? Yeah. That hurt my tongue. Just a little recap for those who don't speak Whatever that was. What'd you say?

He said Randy's parents were really worried that it might be harmful to him, so they were relieved when the scientist man came and said, I'm going to hang out with your teenage boys for a bit. I said, oh, thank God. 24 hours a day overnight. Cool. An adult supervising them, thank goodness.

We can leave. We don't want to hang out with them anymore. We're going to be over there if you need us. Sleep deprivation studies have been done on humans and animals as well. Do you know this? The BBC reported on one study where cats were kept awake for 15 days, at which point they died. That is a brutal discovery when you're like,

no sleeping, no, no, no, oh. Yeah, how they're keeping cats? Because the cat doesn't know that it's part of the experiment. Like as a consenting human, you can be like, no, I'm going to stay awake, stay awake, and you have coffee and whatnot. But a cat's just trying to sleep and you have to like splash water on it? Is that what you do? I don't want to know.

Well, the study proved. relatively useless in any way to prove that humans will die from a lack of sleep. Firstly, this study was done with cats, which are not humans, and they also don't know if they died from lack of sleep or if stress or the chemicals they used to keep them awake had something to do with it. Okay. So, that question? To me, it sort of just sounds like a bunch of fuckheads with lab codes, tortured some cats

to death. Yeah. For science. for science. Yeah, we tried to keep them weight by running them over in my car and it died. I can't tell what's the cause and what's the effect here. Anyway, can we have some grant money? McAlcer has confirmed that they didn't use any chemicals in their experiment saying,

Randy had occasional coax, but other than that, you know, Coca-Cola's, yes. No dexadrine, no benzodrine. The de jure stimulants in those days, he said. He also stressed that Randy is in fact a human and not a bunch of cats sticky tape together It seemed weird that he brought it up but It is good to clarify though

Because you know there'll be the haters Who are like is it a boy or is it a bunch of cats You know? We've been all taken in by Gary Wildlife The wombat man It's hard to remember things Dement rocked up a couple of days into the boys' experiment Finding a gardener to be relatively upbeat

that we was already struggling to keep awake. Dement said he was physically very fit. Oh, gross. So we could always... Such a supple young... I mean... An impeccable specimen of a boy. I mean...

So we could always get him going by playing basketball or going bowling, things like that. He could get him going. If he closed his eyes, he would be immediately asleep, though. So we had to keep his eyes open. Gardner remembers finding the first few days relatively easy

with tricks like staying away from beds is one of the tricks he listed like he sees one in fall asleep not even touching the bed just looking at it one of his other tricks was standing up away from beds those are good tricks but it started to get harder a few days in

Gardner spoke to NPR though and remembered getting a boost when Dement arrived saying he rented a car convertible and we drove around in that so we had a really good time when Dr Dement came down that really helped me because that was like something different and new to keep me going that weird I'm a scientist I'm here to take your boys away in a convertible car yeah bye Dines for Science bye yeah that's has anyone checked his credentials or as the experiment went on they started

finding some interesting results for instance one of the tests looked at how lack of sleep affected Gardner's basketball skills and as time went on, they found his game improved. Though this could be down to the fact that he was playing a lot more basketball than usual. He just practiced. He's playing every day. Most people don't realize this, but Michael Jordan is the most tired man of all time. He's never slept.

They also tested the effects on his senses, and Macalso remembers as time went on, Gardner would become more repulsed by certain smells. Not sure what the smells were. Teenage boys will be just farting in his face. At the start, he was just ferned in his face. He loved it. Eight days in.

No good. No good. The experiment continued to gain media attention and according to the BBC, the study was briefly the third most written about story in the American national press after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and a visit by the Beatles. I was going to say top three, that's not that great, but those stories are pretty big stories. The boys stuck with it and they... finally on the January the 8th at 2 a.m. 1964,

Randy Gardner broke the world record at exactly 11 days or 264 hours and the experiment was over. It was at 2 a.m. Meaning that he'd woken up on the first day at 2 a.m. to start. Surely the first day you have a massive sleep in. You get out of bed at midday. You get out of bed at midday. What do you wake up at 2 a.m. after going to bed for 2 hours?

Well, why are you assuming you? He went to bed at midnight. He could have gone to bed at 5pm. No teenager does that. Gardner was then taken to a naval hospital where his recovery could be monitored. His first sleep went for 14 hours and 40 minutes. Dement remembers that his first night

in his first night his percentage of REM sleep or REM state sleep skyrocketed. Then the next night it dropped in percentage points until finally days later it returned to normal. And then he got up and went to high school. It was amazing. Dement remembers. Dement was watching him sleep the whole 14 hours.

Definitely is a legit scientist. McAllister told the BBC that the hospital results concluded that his brain had been catnapping the entire time. Parts of it would be asleep while other parts would be awake. Oh, cool. What's the bird that can turn half its brain off? Is that an ibis? Yes.

It's kind of doing that. Yeah. Isn't it a ibis? I know there are bin chicken. but are they the ones that can turn off their brain? Yes. All right, never mind. I tell you a couple of cats

who would have killed for a cat nap. Hey, they're having that everlasting catnap in the sky. Yeah, that's right. Huh? Wake up, wake up. Oh. McAllister, of course, is not a scientist at all. He was just a boy doing an experiment. So him saying that, I don't know.

But anyway, he went on to say, he wasn't the first human being or pre-human being to have to stay awake for more than one night. and that the human brain might evolve so that it could catnap. Parts of it would catnap and restore while parts of it were awake. It made total sense. And that would explain why worse things didn't happen, he says. Despite their study seemingly showing there are no negative effects to it,

the Guinness Book of World Records no longer includes a sleep deprivation category as they believe that it is dangerous to people's health. So a bit of a bloody difference of opinion there. Gardner now in his 70s seems to back up this idea telling NPR that in his 60s I stopped sleeping I couldn't sleep

and he blamed the study from decades prior So he broke his world record of 11 days by not sleeping for a full decade He said That's why I keep calling this Some calmic payback for You know my body going

Okay buddy Yeah okay 11 days without sleep When you know damn well you need sleep Well let's try this out for size It's him talking to himself about having insomnia. Wow. He sounds like he lost it.

Yeah, he's been affected. US Berkeley neuroscientist Matthew Walker agrees with Gardner that any sleep deprivation is bad for your health, saying to NPR, even just the smallest amount of insufficient sleep leads to health consequences. And one of the best examples of that is one of the largest sleep experiments ever done. It's performed on 1.6 billion people, and it happens twice a year, and it continues to happen. It's called daylight savings.

do that idea so you want to understand so it's a apparently um in spring when we lose an hour of sleep we see a subsequent 24% increase in heart attacks in the fall when we gain an hour of sleep opportunity there's a 21% decrease in heart attacks so apparently apparently daylight savings is a killer that wild and queens don't do it yeah but we get just that little bit is it possible he confuses the cows what do you like have clocks in your fields or put digital watches on all your cows is it bed time not yet and the fading curtains right that's the other one but I mean never look at this place huh yeah very smart the zoo's a smart place anyway the boys sleep project earned them first

place at the 10th annual Greater San Diego Science Fair and that is the end of my report they won they won't they did it I do have a I do have a couple of fun facts here to finish my report on. I'll decide. Okay. Well, these are fun facts from the Guinness Book of World Records if you think you're...

Okay. So this is the first fact. Based on a 24-hour period, the King of Nappas in the Animal Kingdom is the Little Brown Bat. In captivity, these North American mammals have been documented sleeping

for 19.9 hours straight, more than 80% of the day. Huh? That's good. Believe it or not. We did not discuss it. A second fact At the other end of the scale

The second fact here The mammal that sleeps the least Is the African bush elephant Which has been found to sleep Only two hours per day on average Believe it Or not Someone said please no

You speak for all of us What is that music? It's the Ripley's Believe it or not From the A, I don't know I just found it on YouTube before Matt Stewart everybody Some water just started leaking from the roof. But that's okay.

Believe it. They're watering plants. That makes more sense. All right, final report for the day. And mine's not about a person. Ooh. But it is a little bit fucked. So, good.

We got some fuckheads in. It's a working title. I need to give you that warning so that you go with me on this one because if you all go a bit sensitive we're not going to have a good time so my question to you is you're loving those skittles aren't you

a little too much taking my weight please I mean you can just stop eating them also I cannot alright my question is which joke of a city in the US attempted a world record in 1986

prepare to get emails from this city No, she said joke of a city. Yeah. Not God amongst cities. It surely, it's nowhere in Vermont because that is the world's greatest state. Hang on, we've got a hand up, very polite, yes. Akron, Ohio. It's not Akron, Ohio.

God, that would be so good. I said Ohio also. Yeah, you'll also get told you saying Akron wrong, as we always do. Akron. Akron. There's a W in it or something somehow? No. Orkron.

I think it's Arron. I've been that right? Do I think you have any idea? Give us a state. Kentucky. Oh, Kentucky. It is, I think it's Ohio. It is an Ohio.

You got Cincinnati, you got, it's in Ohio. Cleveland. That's right. Cleveland. All right, the year, 1986. The city, Cleveland. Good year. A good city.

Good smile. The world record. Is it the joke of a city? LeBron James. I'm about to accept. Explain the world record involving a lot of motherfucking balloons. Okay, I'm in. Have you heard of this?

It's fucked, but it's great. In a way, you're just going to have to go with it. All right, so the city of Cleveland, basically, as a city, were sick of being the butt of the jokes. The rest of the country were like, Cleveland sucks, and they're like, no, come on. They were sick of being known as the mistake on the lake. Cleveland is on a lake.

That really is. The mistake on the lake. Fuck, I love a rhyme, though. So they needed to do something big, something amazing. Something that would make Cleveland seem cool to the other states who were like, eh, Cleveland sucks. A city rebrand is awesome. So good.

So the year prior in 85... You should do that here. See, you don't know how to work at court. No, I honestly love Brisbane. Just plan on... Plan mean and keeping them keen. I love Brisbane a lot. Do you, though?

Yes. All right. Yeah. I do. They've lost all trust. In 85, right, so Disneyland had celebrated its 30th birthday, and as part of their celebration, they'd released a metric shit ton of balloons.

Which, at the time, set the record for the most balloons, simultaneously released. Could you put that in a subway sub? It's like a... Okay, so a metric shit ton of balloons would be like a metric shit ton of balloons would be like a metric shit ton of subs. Okay, yes. Thank you.

Is that help? Yep. Wow. That's a lot of subs. Yeah, it's heaps. So Disneyland had done it and Cleveland were like, we're coming for you, Disneyland. They thought they had.

Disneyland did not return their calls. The stunt was coordinated by a Los Angeles-based company called Balloon Art by Treb. Who's Treb? It was headed by a man named Treb. Treb Heine. Treb. That's a beautiful name.

So the city mayor brought in a man named Treb and put all his trust. Hey, that's Bert backwards. Checking his name was Bert and he was like, I'm going to be a little more interesting. I'm going to be Treb. Treb. He made the right choice.

So he was a balloon guy at Disneyland when he was a teenager. When he was about 15, he was like, oh man, I'm freakishly good at balloons. Or like making, like, balloon animals? Yeah. Used to do that at kids' parties. It's tough work. No, I think you just have little hands.

Yeah, I do have little hands. And often kids would ask, oh, you'd be like, what do you want? I can make a giraffe, a dog. And a kid would be like, I want a snake. And you'd say, it's going to be pretty shit. And they'd say, no, I really want a snake. Yeah, okay. So you blow up a balloon as long as you can go.

And then you hand it to them and they go, yeah, that's pretty shit. And then you and the kid, you're like, we were right about this. You have a nice moment. So he's like, oh man, I'm super good at balloons. So he ended up creating his own company and giving it a super cool and clever name. Balloon art by Tread. I love him. If they're open for advertising, I'll do it.

Balloon art by Treb. It sounds like a perfume. I read that he was contracted to work on the 1984 Olympics opening and closing ceremonies with his balloon art. So he's like one of the best balloonists ever. Yeah. And there was a guy called Tom Hollowack, who worked with Treb and later became the project manager for Balloon Fest, 86. And he did an interview, and he was talking about the work they did at the Olympics.

And he said, we had to design the logistics of filling hundreds of balloons that made Olympic rings, and then cheerleaders moved them to spell welcome and then let them go. I was like, oh, give us more of this in-depth analysis of how balloons work. I love this. So to beat Disney's record, the plan was to release 1.5 million balloons into the Cleveland sky. That is a lot of balloons. It's a lot of balloons. I'll give Treb that, I will.

It's quite a lot. They also thought it would be a good fundraising opportunity. So school kids sold sponsorships for like a dollar per balloon, and all the proceeds were going to go to this charity United Way. So they're like, okay, this is a nice little co-lab. We're going to raise some money for charity, and we're also going to finally be cool. So the team at balloon art by Treb.

Oh, so this is a whole team, it's not just Treb. There's a team. Wow. Treb has a team. Balloon art by Treb. I'm on Team Treb. They spent six months planning the event and working out the best way to hold 1.5 million balloons in one place so that they could be released at the same time.

So it's not that, like, I don't think they have 1.5 million people. So I'm like, it's not everyone just holding a balloon later to go. They've got to contain them. and then they all have to go at once. So what they did... Dave, were you picturing Treb blowing up each of the 1.5 million balloons? I mean, how else can he claim ownership of the balloons? Well, they're not all his balloons, but he was interviewed.

And basically, and I'll talk about it, but they get, like, school kids and volunteers to do it, like thousands of them. And they're like, how many balloons do you expect people? That's how they talked back then. Has that been sucking in helium? How many balloons do you expect people to blow up? And he was like, well, I mean, they're kids, so maybe two a minute. I mean I can obviously do them a lot faster

I'm like fuck off treb it would take me 15 minutes just to get it on to the end of the nozzle that's true it wouldn't take you that long so they need to contain the balloons right so that what they do is they create a giant net I was hoping for a big net I really was well you're getting a big net so this is it from the project manager again he said we had to design a structure that filled a city square and could stand up to 90 mile per hour winds, which was building code.

The one piece of net was fabricated by the exact company I found in SoCal who built the cargo nets for the space shuttle. Weird brag. Why do space shuttles need nets? Do they have balloons? How do you think they get out there? You mean it? Oh, Matt.

Dumb question now that I think about it. Go on. Think before we speak, mate. So they built this structure. it was the size of an entire city block. It was 250 feet or 76 metres by 150 feet. That's 150 footlongs, by the way. Whoa.

And it was about three stories high. How did you convert feet in a footlong so quick? I'm actually secretly really good at maths. Don't tell. And it was, so it's covered with this mesh material. So it's sort of like this huge big structure. And on the day, on the launch day, which was Saturday, September 27, in 86.

There was 2,500 students and other volunteers, spent about six hours inside, filling the balloons with helium. So they're inside, I was going to say little structure. It's fucking huge. They're in this town square. They're all filling balloons, and then they just sort of let them go,

and they sit up in the top of this weird-looking net. And originally, they plan to release two million balloons. They're like, fuck it, let's go big. Two million. But then they stopped at only 1.4. And the reason they stopped is because it looked, if the weather was going to turn. Oh no.

So they were like, let's just go a bit early. So at 150pm, crowds of people who'd come out to volunteer or just to spectate counted down from 10. It was so exciting. There was news broadcasters. There was so many people there to spectate. Why are you building up this?

What could possibly... Oh, are they going to release the balloons? Yeah. Spoilers. So people are really excited. Well, Cleveland has nothing. So they're like, this is, come on.

put us on the map they're excited Cleveland they've got the Cavaliers LeBron James they've got I think the you don't have the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame they've got Drew Carey Cleveland Rocks we all know that and and some balloons and so that should now negate the angry emails from Cleveland so they set they release the balloons and it totally encompasses this terminal tower

it's a big big billy release the balloons So all these balloons get released And they like take over this giant skyscraper tower Like it's completely surrounded by balloons And they're all floating into the air And everyone's losing their fucking minds They're so excited You would be, you would be

You would be, it would look amazing They're like, we've done it, we're the best Now, I don't know how much you guys know about helium balloons I know quite a bit Ask me anything Well how long like how long will a balloon stay aloft anywhere from, you know, seconds to three, four minutes. Yeah.

Well, I mean... Actually, science doesn't really know the answer, but that's their best guess. Yeah. So... Well, typically, as you know, a helium-filled balloon that's released outdoors will stay aloft, long enough to be fully deflated before it then eventually makes a nice little descent to Earth, right? Well, that's what... That's the theory.

That's the theory. That's the stuff. I saw that on Star Trek or something. It was some sort of a... A theory. Yeah. Yeah. I think I understand science, Jess, that's what you mean.

Well, the Balloon Fest balloons collided with a front of cool air and rain. So instead of floating along wistfully and being all cute, they dropped towards the ground, still inflated, clogging the land and waterways of Northeast Ohio.

Now, don't worry, guys, because the event planners had accounted for about 10% of the balloons ending up in Lake Erie. They're like, we're on a lake, balloons are going to end up there, 10% of them, no big deal. Now this sounds like a mistake on the lake. Yeah. Yeah.

Their numbers were a tiny little bit off because of the weather. So it was more like 60% of the balloons. Which, guys, it's only like 840,000 balloons in a lake. Relax. Oh, thank God. It's a pretty big lake, but that's still a fuck ton of. balloons. I can't please you. That's so many balloons. It's so many.

It's so many. That didn't please you. A lot of balloons in a lake isn't enough to please you? Well, I give up as well. I... What else can you do? Tell someone about... I don't know how many balloons are in a lake. I don't even know. It's wild.

It's so many balloons in a lake. It is a lot. And normally they'd sort of be like, well, that's unfortunate. But same time that all the balloons ended up in the lake, The Coast Guard had kind of been searching for two missing fishermen for a while. The lady at the back just clutched her partner's knee. I hope that's your partner or that was weird. I think I know what'll happen here. The balloons will somehow make it easier to find the missing fishermen.

Yeah, or they'll be able to crawl across the balloons to the shore. Perfect. Performing some sort of pontoon like float to safety. Yeah. The cold front will come in. Science will happen. Fantastic. And we'll say thank you, science.

Those fishermen aren't here with us today. Those two guys out the back. That's what the water was for out there. Yeah, sorry, I misspoke. They're not fishermen, they're fishmen. So these guys had gone out fishing the day before, and they'd been reported missing. So the Coast Guard was looking for them.

But now there's 840,000 balloons in the lake. So it's a little bit harder to find them. Imagine you were lost on a lake, and then 840,000. and balloons just started descending upon you. Yeah. Well, the Coast Guard was struggling because it was difficult to see a person

floating or a bright orange life jacket when the lake was filled with 840,000 colorful balloons. So, like, is that it? No, is that it? Oh, no. Is that it? And it looks like most of them were orange, to be fair, the balloons. Oh, that's unfortunate.

I told you it was fucked. You have to go with it? After three days of searching, Coast Guard suspended their search, only for the fishermen's bodies to wash up on shore a few days later. And how many balloons? So many balloons. The wife of one of the fishermen actually sued the United Way of Cleveland

and the company that organized a balloon release for $3.2 million dollars. Not Treb. He can't afford it. He's put all his money into balloons. Into balloon art by Treb. She wasn't the only one to sue either. But she was probably the only one who had something legit to sue about. No, that's maybe unfair. But anyway, so some balloons landed out on a pasture in Medina County, Ohio,

which is about 50 kilometers away. Wow. And there's a woman called Louise, and these balloons landing spooked her horses. My horses got spooked. No, surely. You get 3.2 million if your husband dies. You've got to get a lot more than that if your horse is spooked, surely.

Well, she sued for about $100,000 in damages. What a country. Because her horses got spooked. Popping balloons are scary, though. That is true. Especially if you're a horse. So that basically is what happened. I was a couple horses in the field.

But that moment was worth 100 grand. Apparently they had injuries later in their lives from getting spooked. It had nothing to do with the fact that she trained them for horse racing. Can horses get PTSD? I mean, I've never asked a horse. Anyway, so there's also an issue at the airport. You'd think that it would be that there were millions of balloons in the sky.

But actually, the bigger problem for airplanes came when the balloons landed and the Burke Lakefront Airport had to shut down one of their runways because there was just so many wet, unpopped balloons all over the runway the planes couldn't land there. Can I ask, even in a perfect world,

what they expected to happen to the balloon? I don't, exactly. What did you think? What do you think they're going to go straight up and come straight back down, put the net back over the top of it? And then you pop them one by one with a pin. Well, this is one of my favourite things. So a guy made a short film

that's just like, archived news reports from like that time. So it was all the ones of like really exciting beforehand and that it cut straight to like, okay, so this probably wasn't so great. But a couple of days later, there's this news reporter and this is a quote from her, she says, well, the balloons that filled the lake on Saturday are no longer here. No one knows where they've gone,

but at least they're no longer posing a threat to fish and wildlife, and they're not littering the lake. Where the fuck do you think they went? Does she not understand how water work? It moves, you dumb bitch. Oh. I called a woman a dumb bitch and you clapped. I love you, Brisbane.

So she's just like, well, problem solved. But not problem solved. Because the balloons were biodegradable shore. But they still took a long time to disintegrate. And even weeks after the event, people were still seeing the balloons hanging around their beaches. And most of the balloons ended up floating across to the Canadian side of Lake Erie.

So they're like, not our problem. It's a gift. The Canadians probably thought they were the millionth shopper at the local electronics store. Does that make sense? It's weird culture up there. Yeah, I'll never understand those Canadians.

Yeah, so it was obviously a big spectacle, it didn't go very well, became an international sensation thanks to newspaper reports and the complaints that started flooding in afterwards. one man, his name was Floyd from Washington, was dismayed that the amount of money that United Way had spent. He also noted the hypocrisy in spending so much money on what was supposed to be a fundraiser.

He was like, it seems to me the money spent for this stunt, which is about 500 grand, could have been used to much better advantage, seeing as how most of the funds were probably from donations from people who donated because they believe their money is going to a good course. Floyd makes a very good point there. Yeah, that's right. But, guys, but it's got a happy ending. Did they make a profit? I don't, not after the suings, no, I don't think so.

I'll put a dent. Yeah, I mean, if you've got to pay 100 grand for every horse in the state, that really adds up. Wouldn't you feel weird? I'm a person with horses, obviously doing pretty well. I'm going to sue a charity because they got a little spooked, so give me that charity money, please. My horses, they were spooked. It's good news guys because a couple of years later

the Guinness Book of World Record recognised the event as the largest ever mass balloon. I did it! It was worth it! You can't buy PR like that. You can't. And obviously, as we all know now, here in the future,

that Cleveland is the coolest city. Yes, it is. And the second coolest state in the whole United States. Of course, second only to Vermont. Fantastic City. very cool place. So that is my report on the Balloonfest, 86. Believe it or not, I do.

I believe it. I'm glad we almost got through a whole episode without anyone dying and everyone feeling bad about it. Well, I mean, Robert Wadlow did die at 22. Yeah. Oh yeah, and those cats did die on my report. So many people die on our show now

that it's just become Balazza A. If it's a death count of under like 100 We're like, that's pretty good Oh wow Nice lighthearted episode Got out of that one on the skate But that does bring us to the end Of our record setting

World Record Episode 200 Yes Thank you so much Thank you I really do appreciate everyone coming I'm not gonna update the Scots anymore No she's saying don't look It's not good

Pretty got cancelled in the end So Oh mama exists. Ladies and gentlemen at the zoo for our 200th episode up here in

Brisbane. Thank you so much for coming out. Thanks to the venue. They've been a fantastic place we really appreciate that and until next week from the stage

I'll say thank you. Well, later's. Bye. Goodbye. Wow, there it was. What a great live fun time. Did that sound sincere?

I meant it to be. I've just been listening back to it and it is. There's fun memories. Can you believe it? We made it all the way to 200. Very, very fun. I was looking up trying to find out if anyone had suggested world records,

and someone had Will Orlando White suggested Guinness World Records as a possible topic. So thank you so much for that suggestion. Will. I'd also love to shout out to Maritz from Munchen and Joe Penning, who were both in the front row of the show, and they were both wearing Saints' beanies. So that obviously means they're very cool. Merits also bought me a can of Munich beer and Joe's a Patreon.

So, you know, does it get much cooler than that? Maritz also was very patient with me as I forgot his name and called him more tits a couple times, which, yeah, he was kind about that, maybe kinder than he should have been. I saw him a few days later down the street and yelled out, aye, Moritz. And he said it's actually more tits, mate. Or was it the other way around. Anyway, there was also a second half of the show in Brisbane, and you'll be able to hear that if you're a patron. If you go to patreon.com slash do go on pod, Dave will be uploading that this week as well, I believe.

It was a loose fun time. We had a few drinks in between shows, and I think you'll be able to tell in the recording probably. But check that out if you're keen. Now's the time for my favorite part of the show. It's called the Fact Quotal Questions section. And in this one, one of our patrons, if you're on the Sydney-Synberg deluxe memorial level, you get to write in a a factor quote or a question to me and I'll read it out. This time I've picked one that wasn't a question because the other two aren't here to help me answer it. So instead I've picked a fact and this one is from Phil bourgeois or Phil bourgeois or Phil bourgeois or Phil Bojos. Something like that

I reckon. Sorry Phil, your buddy legend. You also get to give yourself a title as well as offer a factor to quote a question, and Phil's given himself the title of Professor of Divine Medicine at the Church of Bop. That's an interesting one. I wonder what that means. Maybe that makes more sense when you hear the quote that Phil's given us. It is from the Dalai Lama, and it is, in the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. So does that make, if you're a professor at the church of Bop, are you suggesting that Bop is your enemy, Phil? Or am I misunderstanding that entirely? I would like to assume that I probably am because it's actually 2 a.m., okay? Let me fess up to you. I've been going through trying to edit this episode. It's taken way longer than it normally would because it, um, my brain is.

is slow but my ox is patient. The next thing that we like to do, this will be interesting with me operating on a high frequency like this. We thank some Patrioms and normally Jeff sets up a game where we'll thank the patrons and then give them some sort of

a thing that's relating to the topic. I'm guessing this week what I should be doing is giving them a world record that they've broken. What are they the world record holder of? And obviously if you were hanging out for or just to read out your name, please just quietly send me a message and I'll see if I can

get them to read it out at another day. But hopefully being involved in this 200th episode will make up for the fact that it's just dopey me reading at your name and not either of the more talented members of the podcast. But anyway, what I might do is I'll Google your home city and see if I can connect that to some sort of a record. Firstly, I would love to thank from Wahawa in Hawaii. It is Eric Jewel. Dual. So let's have a look and see what Wahawi,

Wahawi is on Oahu? No. It's in Oahu. But a central valley between two volcanic mountains that comprise the island. Wow. That's wild. Okay, cool.

These pictures look beautiful as well. All right, well, in that case, with the volcanoes, Eric, I'm going to say that you hold the world record for the hottest explosion of lava by a human. And I don't think you'd have a heap of competition there, but I don't know what that means that you've got a pretty good constitution, I guess, if you are able to. keep lava inside of you. Is that what constitution means? I don't know if it is. Anyway, Eric, apologies and thank you so much and well done. Congratulations on that eruption record that you

hold. I'd also love to thank from New Jersey City in New Jersey. It's Anastasia Sabochick. We've kicked off with two fantastic names. Eric Jewel, Anastasia Sabochick. Holy moly, that's so good. New Jersey, geez, I know a bit about that. I know people are walking here. We're doing things over here. I just watched an episode of The Sopranos the other night, so I'm pretty sure I understand what New Jersey is all about. Northeastern New Jersey, it's eastern waterfront faces the Hudson River where it meets up in New York Bay. Liberty State Park is panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline. Well, this is beautiful stuff. So I'm guessing it's some sort of a water Related record, I'm going to say deepest dive without any sort of a jetpack.

Probably not jetpack. What am I trying to say? Dive tank, air tank or jetpack. Anastasia, you did it without either. You got down to four kilometers deep. It took you a week, so you really had to hold your breath. And I'm pretty impressed. I don't want to oversell it.

That is pretty impressive. So, well done, Anastasia. Your name's fantastic. And so apparently is your ability to dive into the Jersey shore. That's a thing. I'm pretty sure. Okay, great. Thank you so much, Anastasia.

I'd also love to thank, geez, he hasn't given a lot away. It just says he's from, his address is Street City, Great Britain. So from Great Britain, it's Tom Horton. Tom Horton. Let me look up Great Britain. Hang on. I've Googled GB. It's come up with gigabyte.

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 10 to the power of nine in the international system of units. Therefore, one gigabyte is one zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero bytes. I might not have got the amount of zero zero zero right. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB. or Great Britain. Okay, so you've got a storage-related record. I'm going to say, you have, Tom, you have stored the most cans of baked beans.

This will make the bean boy, lo bean boy proud, the most cans of beans in one cupboard in your house in Great Britain. you stored one gig a ton of bake beans in your cupboard. I don't know how you did it. You mushed them down smaller than they should mush, and you got them in there. And congratulations to you, Tom. I can't believe you did it. It was the best.

We released the balloons to celebrate. They ended up in the lake. It was a bit of a mistake on the lake, but the celebration was still good. We recovered. Thank you so much. Tom Horton, I'd also love to thank. from West Chester in Pitts.

Not Pitts. PA is Pennsylvania. Chris Trio. Chris Trio. That's a fantastic name. West Chester, let me tell you about it. It's a borough in the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

That makes sense to me. The population was 18,461 at the 2010 census. Ah, cool. It's a small place. and there's a Westchester University of Pennsylvania and North campus there. Okay, study. All right, so I think what's happened here is Chris

has the world record for the most study ever done, right? You've retained the most information and it was on the specific topic of penguins. And in even more particular, Pingu, the Claimation Pingu, penguin. Chris studied all the footage available publicly of Pingu, but also the thing Chris did that got him the world record was he found some forgotten tapes of Pingu. He studied them all and then was able to recite back the storylines to each of them. A lot of it was just meaps and moops,

but he did it and it was beautiful to see Chris up on that stage in front of it. You know, was it one of the main stadiums there in Pennsylvania. And he, maped and mooped all the way to the top. Hold on Chris. Congratulations to you. A couple more. I'd love to thank from Como in New South Wales. I wonder if that's the Sydney Como.

I'd love to thank Adam Sullivan. Let's have a look. Como is a suburb of southern Sydney. Located on the Georgia's River in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It's located 27 kilometres south of the Sydney Central Business District. in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire, Sutherland, okay, Kiefer Sutherland, 24. So your record, if you choose to accept it, Adam, was that you were able to stay awake for 24 hours, right? Which is, obviously, we talked about earlier in this episode, not a world record in itself,

but what you did, you stayed awake for 24 hours 12 times in a row. So you actually stayed up for 12 days breaking the record talked about earlier today. So congratulations, Adam, for staying up for 12 sets of 24 hours. I don't know why you didn't just call it 12 days. But that's one of your eccentricities, Adam. Classic Sully. Adam Sully Sullivan, as the people call him. He's very famous in the streets of Como.

Well done, Adam. And finally, from Bethel in CT. Where is Bethel in? in CT. I'd love to thank Nicholas Verde Rosa. Fishing strong with a name there. Bethel is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut. About 69, nice, about 69 miles from New York City. Population was also about 8,500 at the 2010 census. Is that all the towns are just divided up into 18,000 people in America? What's going on here?

Have I uncovered a conspiracy? I wonder. I feel like maybe I have. So it says the town centre is defined by the US Census Bureau as a census designated place. God, that is got to be... How is that the leading paragraph? That's so boring. Let's see what else has got here. Looking up the Wikipedia page for Bethel, Connecticut.

Bethel. Oh my God, I cannot believe. This is a town's name. That is skyrocketed up my list of places I've got to go. when we get to America. Let's see, notable people. Let's see if I've heard of any of these people. P.T. Barnum.

Whoa. Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth. Meg Ryan. There's 18,000 people. It sounds like nearly all of them are famous. All right. P.T. Barnum. He was a showman, played by Hugh Jackman.

To be honest, I've never seen it. But I know, I assume there's elephants. in the P.T. Barnum Circus. It's old school. That's how they used to do it. So I'm going to say Nicholas's world record that he holds is most elephants stacked on top of each other. And he was able to stack two elephants. And if you think about it, that's probably not super surprising. Even stacking two is an amazing effort. It's in the days before animal welfare was really cared about back in the circus days. Nicholas, I think, is about as old as me. He's he's multiple centuries old and he did it about

it wouldn't have been maybe about 60, 70 years back well done Nicholas and you know obviously we're looking for new kind of records now that you're not like you know the PC police don't let you stack elephants on top of

each other anymore which is you know Caprici got a minimum right we'll find someone else let's stack bulldozers or something else I reckon that would be equally hard to do you and me Nicholas let's go stack some weird shit together. Thank you so much, Nicholas.

Thank you so much. Adam, Chris, Tom, Anastasia, and Eric. You're all goddamn legends. Thank you so much. Is that, what else do I have to do? Is that? That feels like that's just about everything. Is it?

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He should really be making the announcements. And, yeah, what else do I say? Nothing else, really. I guess we'll be back here next week with episode 201. And I cannot wait to see you then. In the meantime, what is, Jess would say good, no, she'd say bye.

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