Guinness World Records 2024

I feel like when I was a kid, it was called the Guinness Book of World Records in the United States.

I imagine that we are similar and that you probably had a copy of this in your house.

So I remember very distinctly though pouring through this thing as a kid and just like, oh, it was such a big book. It was so thick and the type was so small and the pictures weren't great.

But like I just like I poured over every page of this thing like it was my Bible or something. I was so into it. I thought it was so cool.

And it's been translated into 40 different languages.

In 1971 before they decided it's probably not good to encourage world records for faster testing. Yeah, they He was the last one to be I guess awarded You know by the Guinness Book for that kind of notoriety and then after that they said due to its specialist nature

In 1971 before they decided it's probably not good to encourage world records for faster testing. Yeah, they He was the last one to be I guess awarded You know by the Guinness Book for that kind of notoriety and then after that they said due to its specialist nature Right and not due to the sheer danger We're not gonna open this up for any other people.

When I was a kid growing up one of my favorite books was the Guinness Book of Worlds records.

And there was a picture in there of Arnold Schwarzenegger and you know what his record was it said perfectly developed man.

I was listening to the latest episode called why pigeons and you every time I hear those titles and y'all were saying how big the Guinness book of world records was in the eighties and I knew I needed to write in.

Leonard T. Frisco lived a full and successful life under the radar and managed to secure himself a long standing spot in the Guinness book of world records as the longest escaped and recaptured prisoner.

So Claude Willis slash Leonard T. Frisco is the longest running escaped and recaptured prisoner that there is.

You did things like sit in your aunt's living room and read the Guinness Book of World Records.

Robert Wadlow was in the Guinness Book of World Records.

What's the thing you were opening... from the Guinness Book of World Records? Oh, certificates. Yeah, my certificate came in.

Oh, there it is! We're looking at the longest burning, longest continuously burning light bulb in the world. It's in the Guinness Book of World Records and it was installed in 1901.

It's got to be a Guinness Book a You know record right there

American grandmother Linda Wolfe has become the most married woman in the world.

She must be the first time you're like, 'hey, could you not put your shoes here? Linda'.

Those fingernail people, they're a little bit like quicksand in that they loom so large in the minds of children. Those fingernail people, remember? You'd see them be like, that is important. That's something I'm going to think about and see pretty often for a long time when I'm growing up. That's important. Those records, the Guinness Book of World Records, what goes on in there is important.

Those records and what they mean and how much they mean to all of us. The fingernail thing.

Big things, little things, long things, short things, tall, short, important. Heaviest, lightest, important. That's what being an adult is about. Knowing that, thinking about that, caring about that.

He was in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Of the Dave. This is great. Follow up for his record breaking 13 marriages to 11 women.

As we noted in our recent episode on Temptation, the three-toed sloth is actually the slowest mammal according to the Guinness Book of World Records, PBS and National Geographic.

Reading that 2006, they were a year ahead, the Guinness Book of World Records for 2006.