After a lengthy break we are back harder, better, faster, stronger and more hyperbolic than ever!
For the first episode of Series 2 we are joined live in the studio by superstar designer Rob Hallifax. Two-time world record holder and creator of the both the world's smallest and the world's largest playing cards (check out our Instagram for photos).
We discuss out favourite ever tiny and giant art based world records, new years resolutions, and introduce a brand new feature which in no way dates the show and is definitely a good idea of a podcast we do in our spare time and has average turn around time of about 5 months per episode.
Welcome back and enjoy!
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In our sixth episode, we meet multiple world record holder April Choi – best known in the record-breaking community for her world-class whip-cracking talents! From the longest whip to the fastest whip, and all the various niche whip-cracking and even fire-breathing related stunts in between, April would put Indiana Jones to shame if it ever came down to a head-to-head contest.
A NASA engineer by trade, April uses actual rocket science to break world records – tune in to hear Josh & Sam just about manage to keep up with her geekily impressive explanations.
Plus, we delve into the archives to chat about our favourite Olympic World Records, and Josh reveals what happened next after taking one slurp too many of Pepper X, the world's hottest sauce, in the previous episode. Mild spoiler alert: it involves a petrol station and a very, very wet t-shirt.
Thanks for listening, and please get in touch with any world record stories you'd like to share with us!
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Some like it hot. Some like it burning. Smokin' Ed Currie is one of the latter sort, and hot sauce lovers around the world are eternally grateful.
Ed is our special guest for Episode 5 of Hardest Bestest Fastest Strongest, and the esteemed grower of Pepper X—the world's hottest chilli pepper. Being the generous South Carolinian he is, Ed sent 3 of his hottest Pepper X sauces for Sam and Josh to try live on air. What could go wrong! (Spoiler alert: one of us is a bona fide "chilli head", the other is not).
Before that rather abrupt and clammy ending, Ed reveals all about the science, high security and scoville units behind Pepper X, his REAL reaction to eating a whole Pepper X, and one or two pranks and mishaps you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of.
As per usual, Josh and Sam also discuss what records they've been reading about, from epic crowdsurfing to old-fashioned Hollywood taboos.
If you love hot sauce, this one's for you!
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This week's guest is not only full of beans, he is often quite literally covered in them. In 1986, Captain Beany clinched the world record for the longest time ever spent immersed in a bath of baked beans – 100 hours, in the name of charity, and a record which, perhaps rather unsurprisingly, still stands today.
In this episode, we meet the man "beaneath" the beans, hearing all about this legendary record attempt, and how it birthed the cape-wearing, baked bean-obsessed, deed poll-official superhero known as Captain Beany. We recommend that you Google him immediately, and prepare yourself for an unrelenting bombardment of baked bean puns.
Josh and Sam also dust off a few other retro records from the 1980s in Record Breakers of The Week.
As ever, if you enjoy this episode please follow and give us a rating. And if this triggers any record-breaking memories of your own, please do write in and tell:
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Our guest this week is multiple world record holder Mariam “Amazi" Olayiwola. A former scientist who, after a tragic accident 5 years ago, quit the laboratory to become a full-time hula hooping performance artist. A move that is clearly working out because Amazi has just broken her THIRD hula hooping world record!
WARNING: Listening to this episode may result in you immediately quitting your job and chasing your dreams.
Also, we discuss a speed eating legend, a long haul flight from hell, and a shoe salesman from Bradford, before once again attempting to get into the record books ourselves.
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For our second episode, we are joined by the late Ron Sarchian, a.k.a. World Record Ron – a bona fide record-breaking legend with 53 world records to his name. From punchbag marathons to the most watermelons karate-chopped in a minute, his range of world record titles is truly outstanding – and 23 of them were broken while undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer in January 2022.
We were honoured and lucky enough to meet and record with Ron before his passing in February this year. We absolutely loved chatting with him and hearing all of his wonderful stories from over the years.
We debated whether or not to release this episode but decided that not to... wouldn't be in the spirit of World Record Ron. So we hope you enjoy this tribute to him. An inspiring and brilliant man to the very end.
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For our first episode, we are joined by world record-breaking magician Martin Rees, who features in the Guinness World Records 2024 book for his great array of magic-based world records. Magic under water? Magic in a wind tunnel? Magic in space!? Taking magician ambition to the next level, Martin tells us all about his current and previously held world records, as well as those he hopes to break.
Plus, we ruminate on world record breakers plucked from the archives (expect controversy)—and our very first world record attempt in the studio goes off with a bang! (Or several).
Please listen, like, subscribe, and give us a rating if you enjoy the episode! All the bestest!
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