Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Matt Ellis, The World Record Holder

Episode Date: September 14, 2022

We chat to Matt Ellis, the man who holds the record for visiting and drinking at 56 pubs in one day!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Big day today because we're trying to break a world record. Turn on the lights, all! Another world record attempt. It's Jono and Ben's Traffic Light Tour. It's another. Jeez, we've got a lot of them under our belt, don't we? Yeah, another attempt for these two losers. That's the two of us to try and make something of our lives.

The traffic light system, the much-publicized traffic light system to protect us from COVID-19 is gone this week, and we thought we'd give it a fitting send-off by trying to break a world record. The most amount of pubs visited in 24 hours. We're going to go around today, 57 pubs. That's our goal, to order 57 traffic light drinks. The kids drink, the non-alcoholic drink.

Really speaks volumes as to what life stage we're in. Yeah. And career stage, going around drinking traffic lights. You know, 10 years ago, this would have been a whole other different campaign, man. True. You know, we've changed. Yeah.

Well, the guy who has the actual record, he didn't go around drinking just alcohol a day because having 50-odd drinks is, well, that's dangerous. That is dangerous. Yeah, especially alcohol. Yeah, two days, mate. Two days for the hits, mate. All right. And we're joined by the current record holder.

His name's Matt Ellis, and he joins us from the UK now. How are you? Yeah, very well. Lovely to have you on, mate. Lovely to have you on. Did we catch you by surprise there? No, not at all. I've been prepared, waiting for your call.

Oh, good. Thank you very much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Now, you, how long ago were you Break This World Record? I was the first person to attempt it. No, it was October last year. October last year. October last year. Now, you did this as Britain was coming out of lockdown

to sort of stimulate the economy. Get your fingers out there and massage the economy back into action. Yes. The reason why I did it was really to promote pubs and say people, you know, get down to your pub. You don't have to drink alcohol if you don't want to. Just get down there with your mates and just spend a bit of money that's a really good idea yeah i think it's just really you know pubs are such an important part of our community in the

uk so what where did you get the idea to try and break this world record did you find this record online or you just go and go i'm going to visit as many pubs as I can in 24 hours. Yeah, we tried a couple of years ago to do the team effort for pub trawling. The record currently is 250 pubs in 24 hours, which was set by a team in New York in 2014, I think. Jeez, that would have been relentless. I think they were pretty fast. They were all sort of mad marathon runners. So they were quite quick plan of how to get around as many bars as possible.

I think it was the East Village in New York. We've got really sort of set it for London at some stage. So you did, though, what, 51 pubs over 24 hours? 51, yes. And you ordered a drink at each one. What was some of the things that were hard to encounter on the way? I think it was just the huge amount of alcohol getting into your body. Oh, did you drink alcohol most of the time, did you?

Well, it was a mixture, really. I mean, the record rules were that you had to be a responsible drinker and you couldn't get over-imbibed and drink too much. And also, the award-winning pub, I was going to meet the press and the photographers, so I used to be kind of sober. You must have been like a dam, and then just an overflowing dam,

and once it exploded, you must have just been leaking. Yes, I mean, I did about nine miles in the pub crawl, and I think I did about two miles from my bedroom to the bathroom during the night. Oh, really? During the night, so it just kept going? Oh, yes, non-stop. Did you have the traffic light system in the UK? We did earlier on, but I think it was axed a long time ago. Oh, yeah.

Believe it or not, we just axed our traffic light system three days ago. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, we've been stuck about a year behind you. So we're celebrating, we're commemorating the traffic light system much like you're commemorating the Queen

in the UK. We're mourning the loss of our traffic light system so we're going out in about two hours to the same amount of bars that you went to to have a traffic light drink. Do you have those in the UK? I haven't had any of, to be honest, no. It's basically orange juice, red cordial,

and green food colouring, all layered to look like a traffic light. So we're going to have those all day. Oh, wow. That's a lot of sugar. That is a lot of sugar. Any tips as someone who is a record holder? I think you've got to make it fun,

and I found that if I was drinking the same drink all the time, it got a bit boring. Oh, no. Okay. Don't say that. Uh-oh. But maybe you could, you know, some people in the bar could maybe entertain you.

We were, I mean, on my pub crawl, we had old geriatrics doing the Macarena. We had... Johnny, you can do that. All these. Johnny, you can do that. I could put out a 5pm Macarena for you, Ben, if you want a geriatric doing a Macarena. Hey, Matt, thank you very much for your time.

Record holder, most amount of bars in 24 hours. Really do appreciate your thoughts and suggestions and helpful tips. You go and have a great day. Yeah, thanks very much uh you can catch our journey this afternoon as we try and break that world record of 57 pubs uh drink 57 traffic lights uh you can do that on the hits breakfast on social media