#899 World records - Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (3rd October 2022)

Hello, hello, hello everybody, well okay, what I might do though is look at a book. Shall we look at a book, shall we? Yeah, come on then, let's have a look at a book. Hey, hey, shh, sweet pea.

Hello and welcome to, let me bore you to sleep, please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Yes, so my website is jasonnewland.com, blah, blah, blah, shibididoo, shibidididoo, shibididoo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo.

So I thought today instead of boring you with my life, I'm going to talk, I'm going to go through the book, Guinness World Records, I'm sure it used to be called the Guinness Book of World Records, Guinness Book of Records, the Guinness World Records 2020 tour, and it looks like there's enough room for me to open it without banging any microphones or anything so that's what I'm going to do just have a little dip a nice little dip into this here book and yeah that's it really hope you're well i've made a few changes made

a few changes oh yes um one of the two two things i've got two new podcasts i love the smell of books hmm better than cocaine no it's not i like books i like the smell of new books and although technically this isn't new it's probably i don't know probably printed a year ago or something it's new to my nostrils so yeah longest reigning monarch her majesty queen elizabeth second queen of the uk and head of the commonwealth succeeded to the throne upon the death of her father king george the v1 or vi uh on

the 6th of february 1952 as of the 29th of april 2021 she has reigned for 69 years and 82 days which gives you an idea of when this was printed because clearly they weren't pulling out they weren't they weren't taking any chances because she was so elderly when they made this put it this together they're even putting in as of the 29th of april 2021 she has reigned for 69 years and 82 days so instead of saying as from 2022 70 years she's been reigning no she's also the world's oldest queen and monarch having celebrated

her 95th birthday in 2021 and it mentions her husband they were married for 73 years of marriage blimey so that's interesting in king maha vajiralongkorn aka rama x of thailand enjoys an estimated personal wealth of at least 30 billion dollars 22.

4 billion pounds the ruler's asset portfolio once belonged to the thai crown as an institution rather than the sovereign however vajiralongkorn uh forgive me if i'm pronouncing it wrong but that's just the word why i'm trying to pronounce it probably is pronounced differently was given control of the privy purse in 2018 i'm not sure what a privy purse is um he's also the owner of the 545.

67 carat golden jubilee diamond the last the largest faceted or faceted diamond what does faceted mean or faceted blimey so 30 billion dollars i mean that that's that's in a country where 30 billion dollars is a lot of money wow 30 billion dollars i mean if you look at the richest queen okay so the richest monarch is king maha uh from thailand the richest queen was was queen elizabeth uh at 430 million dollars that's a huge lot i mean i'll i'm not saying that i couldn't live comfortably on that but compared to 30 billion dollars

wow that's over 30 billion dollars over twice over twice as much as what the queen had blimey now in thailand the royal family is a big deal like i had to explain this really really important and i know that some other countries might think the same is the same with our country you know with the the kings and the queens whatever of our country um and they are important to some people but here it's kind of more of a an old tradition that we've kept going for the sake of i don't know why really but

it's just quaint it's a it's a tourist attraction it's something there's not many countries left with a royal family as far as i'm aware and it kind of keep i don't know if france got a royal family oh no did or today or the russian russian oh no they killed all those didn't they um i don't know i've i've i've lived with a royal family i haven't lived with the royal family obviously but i've i was born and i had the same queen right from birth until now until uh what a month ago when when

she passed away so i've not known anything different you know i didn't know about the royal family probably till seven seven years old it was the jubilee and i saw the queen's hand although i'm not sure if it was a real hand up i think it might be in a stick with a little black plastic glove on it she just stuck it out the window and let it just flap around so i'm sure her fingers went back too far i mean it must have been tight well it's not tiring just to wave but to wave

all like you know it's like okay we just sit in there waving how difficult is that but you imagine doing that for hours and hours and hours on end all day long just waving it's got to be neckering i mean yes that's repetitive stress injury or whatever isn't it um i the thing is where i was she's our queen i can't quite get my head around having a king i don't know i don't i do think that king charles and i've i've never said it out loud before prince charles king charles has had a rough

time of it you know having to wait until he was was he 77 77 or 60 i don't know 77 years old something like that prince charles has been her apparent for 69 years and 82 days i thought he was 77 maybe he's not he's younger i thought my dad was the same age as prince charles or king charles now i can't get my head around that he's king charles and i missed all that i didn't see the coronation or i don't know what the right word is for is it succession or the crowning didn't

see any of that and i was traveling at the time i think so i kind of feel that i've missed out on some really big events i didn't watch the funeral i didn't watch the queen's funeral because i just wasn't in the right mood uh to watch it if i'm honest i watched a bit of it um i don't know you know it's like out of respect i watched some of it but i don't know i just wasn't i watched the cover the coverage was just non-stop and it got a little bit too much and

i was watching the coverage of the funeral and they ran out of things to say they really did and rightly so i mean how much can you say about anyone after a while you run out and you just repeat yourself now you might say yeah but you've been doing this for years and you keep finding new things to talk about i know but this is what i do uh it's easy to talk about myself and make stuff up but to talk about one other person is um i've got no doubt i could find enough information

about the queen to fill probably a hundred podcasts a hundred hours worth of talking about but that's just me you know i don't think everybody else has this also there's that limit of what you can say on television and they just kept repeating themselves over and over and over and over again over and over again i said oh look first the first popcorn evidence of popcorn has been radiocarbon dated to some 6700 years ago it's in brackets c47000 bce whatever that means now to give an example jesus and the buddha were about two and a

half thousand years ago roughly so 6700 years ago that's a long time you know it's weird to think about it though because the romans were around long before jesus was i don't know why i had a little pause there for effect what effect because i got no special effects on the video so i do it verbally the macro fossil macro stop it this chair's falling apart macro fossil corn cobs were that's a weird sentence macro fossil corn cobs were unearthed between 2007 and 2011 at the paradones and huaca prieta archaeological sites on peru's northern coast

the digs findings attest to the domestication of popcorn domestication of popcorn another weird sentence that's almost like yeah you can domesticate cats and dogs popcorn as well apparently it says xia maze everetta so that's in brackets so i guess that's the person the this i don't know by the fifth millennium bce that's when this day they think that it was domesticated popcorn popped popcorn as a favorite snack really took off however when charles creators introduced a mobile steam powered popping machine to the public at the 90 1893 world's fair in chicago usa so i guess

that's when people started eating popcorn and watching movies and stuff like that and watching television netflix i suppose oh first cotton candy candy floss we ready uh ironically this is historical gastronomy gastronomy gastronomic gastronomy gastronomy first cotton candy ironically this airy spun sugar confection was invented by a dentist that's funny that's that's just funny any it's like the sugary sweet there is invented by a dentist in 1897 william morrison collaborated with confectioner john c wharton both usa in brackets in nashville tennessee on an electric candy machine this is a long sentence isn't it in which

sugar crystals were spun through a metal bowl with tiny holes their patent was granted in 1899 they introduced their invention as fairy floss at the 1904 st louise world's fair priced at 25 cents a box it was an instant hit selling around 68 000 boxes wow 68 000 boxes i i i'd like to see the time span for that it was an instant hit selling around 68 000 boxes if they were introducing it for the first time at that um county fair thing st louise world fair would they have 68 000 boxes would they be

prepared to sell 68 000 boxes of candy floss where would they get the sugar where would they store it how would they get it there would be my question because i'm thinking 68 000 that's that's a factory and that's the size of a factory to store and make that many candy flosses so i think they're missing out some maybe not relevant information for them or for the average reader but for me i want to know don't cut corners give me the correct information give me all the information and then i can work with that oh

first hollow chocolate easter egg in in 1873 the first hollowed out chocolate easter eggs were produced by the british company fries based in bristol i don't know if you've heard of fries there used to be a uh i don't think it's even around anymore but it used to be this chocolate bar i didn't like it but it's called fries turkish delight and they used to be these adverts now very exotic adverts in the desert and stuff fries turkish delight melting in your mouth it's like i didn't like them didn't like it and they used to

do fries there was other stuff fries did i don't know if they're still about anymore but if they invented if fries invented the company invented easter eggs then surely they should still be around because they are well they're heroes aren't they they should get money for nothing they should get money forever just because because i love them the easter treat really took off two years later so this is 1873 so now it's 1875 no three years two years 1875 however when rival firm cadbury began filling their eggs with why does this does this sentence make

sense to you the easter treat really took off two years later however oh i was doing it different however i was doing however when rival firm cadbury began filling their eggs with sugar almonds okay so it took off when cadbury started doing that i thought it was like easter treat really took off two years later however that's that's the kind of however i was looking at fair enough i'll move on as for the first chocolate since caro caro featured prominently in the olmec and maya cultures of meso america it has long been thought that its

origins lie in central america 3 900 years ago i'm not really sure what they're talking about however a 2018 study published in nature ecology and evolution revealed evidence of early cacao oh is it cacao that's poo isn't it cacao processing from 5 300 to 5 450 years ago at the amazonian site of santa anna la florida in ecuador this is the earliest known archaeological site belonging to the mayo chinchip culture okay right what's that got to do with the original thing it's like the first hollow chocolate easter egg produced by british company fries so why

are they going on about chocolate oh dear oldest bread who wants to know about the oldest bread i can see everyone's hands firmly tucked down underneath their bums no come on come on let's do it it's only a short paragraph why you got a beast we gotta be like that come on let's be positive oldest bread archaeologists archaeologists archaeologists archaeologists from the university of copenhagen dnk whatever that means found a 14 400 year old bread in jordan's black desert the recipe consists of flour made from wild wheat barley and the dried pulp roots of aquatic

plants these were mixed with water to create a dough and then baked on hot stones this discovery pushes back the earliest known bread by 5 000 years and let's also absorb what we just heard there i mean i didn't really hear it i read it i did hear it but i was more focusing on the reading than the words sort of traveling to my ears um 14 400 years ago i didn't even know they had light then i didn't know how they had knew how to cook food never never i mean to cook bread bread

bread wow i don't think i've ever been as excited as this maybe maybe i'll have who wants to hear about the first tea bags that's not to be confused with the first tea bagging this is the first tea bags several inventors could stake a claim to this record all of them americans legend holds that new york tea merchant thomas sullivan invented the tea bag in 1908 but there were earlier prototypes in 1836 the preston temperance advocate referred to the use of a bag to make tea and other precursor exists another precursor exists in thomas fitzgerald's

1880 patent for a long-handled muslin or cloth bag secured to a float to contain tea or coffee that was one heck of a sentence that was a long that was that was a bridge that was a sentence you could walk across walk over a river that's a long sentence edward dillingham's tea strainer was patented in 1893 while robert c lawson and mary mclaren patented the tea leaf holder in 1903 oh that's nice so yeah it's um i mean tea came from india didn't i think i mean i don't know if it came from india originally

because it's really it's all about the wind isn't it wherever the wind the wind went the wind blows these things around so i'm guessing oh oldest alcoholic beverage i'm bored with that so i've done royalty pan pandemic go away stop it odd jobs okay this is a this is odd jobs so this should be fairly uh interesting odd jobs elvis presley tribute act the king of rock and roll has inspired a host of impressionists or impressionators to take up his crown the longest career as an elvis tribute act tribute act lasted 48 years for belgian

hip swinger vick beasley who first see i'm not laughing because it's a belgian person it just it sounds like in english vick beasley sounds like someone that you'd meet down at pub here vick right is it vick beasley here it just sounds like a really really english name who first had his he put his strap on no he first strapped on his rhinestone belt in 1954 and performed his final professional show uh 6th of july 2002 vick beasley was made an honoree citizen of tupelo mississippi usa elvis's birthplace i kind of felt sorry for elvis

costello oliver's army is here to stay oliver's army all the way and i would rather be anywhere else than here today brilliant song i love that song oliver's army elvis costello brilliant brilliant brilliant song now he must have been called elvis i mean maybe maybe he was born 57 67 77 maybe he was named after elvis maybe that's not even his real name is elvis costello his real name we may never know but you can't um it's like you can't name yourself elvis it's just it seems to be a like a no-no and i don't

mean like what no hair actually i met someone recently they had no body hair apart from just one place but i have hair on their head but no no body hair just it's like no never had any body hair grow um it's strange i don't know i just want to let you know that scale stunt double for daredevils of the silver screen size is not a factor the shortest stuntman is kira shah uk it says in brackets who stood 126.

3 centimeters four foot 1.

7 inches on 20th october 2003 i don't know why they specify a date like what is he shorter a couple of days earlier it was at his ultimate height that he reached on that day i don't know i'm not sure among his numerous credits among his numerous credits since his screen debuted 1976 76 are superman the lord of the rings and five star war films superman the thing is i've got him they got dressed up as superman i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure and that was um i'm pretty sure he didn't he wasn't the he

wasn't the actual superman you know he wasn't the stunt double for christopher reeve it's weird oh mr methane i don't know if you you might not remember this this is something that was early 80s maybe late 70s mr methane um aka paul oldfield i know it must be a different person then because he took over there was a person that did this early days but this is someone that did it later paul oldfield uk entertains his audiences by passing gas at various pitches and in time with music his first paid tv appearance as a flatulist

aka fartist came in december december 1990 and in october 1991 oh and these sentences are so long and in october 1991 he gave up his job as a train driver to register with equity making him the longest working flatulist he performs with circus of horrors and has appeared on numerous radio and tv shows um there was someone else that did this in the late 70s early 80s and he'd be on television basically just fired um yeah that's it uh mr methane says he first got wind of his natural flatulist ability while adopting the full lotus

yoga position oh wow wow i bet that's a memorable for the other people in the yoga class as well oh it's really weird when i move like that with my chair as soon as i make a weird noise human crash test dummy wr rusty hawked haked usa has enjoyed more endured more than 1 000 automobile collisions in the course of his career as a crash reconstructionist each time rusty and his vehicle are fitted with sensors to gather data on the impact despite driving at speeds of up to 86 kilometers 53 miles an hour his worst

injury to date is a small cut from an airbag wow can you imagine turning up for that job interview not knowing what it was for you know you got a job interview at the local car factory it's a really good factory and it produces all the top top range cars like mercedes or something there's a job and they've got some weird name but it's not human crash test dummy um crash reconstructionist you wouldn't even know that was would you where are you going rusty i'm going down to the to the uh to the car place

and i gotta got an interview what's the job you're going for rusty uh crash reconstructionist well that sounds nice what is it in there rusty i i don't i don't know i don't know i'll tell you when i return it's i love you dear i love you too rusty i thought i'd just have a nice ending for that imaginary love affair isn't it i mean yeah we want you to drive in cars and crash yeah that's it sit in a driver's seat and crash oh okay really yep no but it's seriously really yep okay you

start monday oh brilliant largest net worth increase for an individual in 24 hours on the 20th of july you know it's going to be one of the four top people five there's five is it was it one two one two three four five it's like there's five really really famous billionaires there's more than five but you know five like the top most famous billionaires that were at top of the list and anyway on the 20th of july 2020 amazon ceo and co-founder jeff bezos usa experienced an abrupt 13 billion dollars as 10.

3 billion pounds upswing in his wealth okay so amazon.com shares rose by 7. 9 according to bloomberg taking bezos's estimated net worth to a measly doesn't say that to 189.

3 billion dollars and that's only 150 billion pounds livable but not quite enough the boost to share value was attributed to increase in optimism about online shopping trends okay wow they've devoted a whole page to malala yousef faizia yousef's use malala yousef yousef use yousef sia yousef sia anyway the the very famous lady i can't see her surname it's yousef sia but malala she's known there's malala isn't she but there's a whole double page um devoted to her um so now they've got pages why young achievement oh it's under under young achievers what was hers

in society hall of fame she's in the hall of fame and then you've got young achievers um and these this is australian school girl roxanne downs is the youngest magazine editor having taken up her position at it girl in 2017 aged eight years old wow that is very young isn't it it's very young eight years old i wonder how much money she's got um dara mc mcenalty became the youngest recipient of the rspb medal highest honor bestowed by the royal society for the protection of birds previous or ornithologologist to receive the accolade including sir david

atim burra dara was ages 15 years 209 days oh that's nice um see what other people chinosu ecchi when this 11 year old nigerian soccer freestyler was gearing up to attempt a world record he knew exactly what to do practice hard believe in yourself and keep a level head at all times worked out pretty well for him chinonso now holds the gwr title for the most consecutive touches in whilst balancing a soccer ball on the head he completed 111 touches in wari nigeria 14th of november 2019 what do they mean by touches people have to

touch him 111 times i generally don't i don't know i really don't know but to be fair oh is that um keepy upy i think that's what it is keepy upy like the ball keeping why don't they call it keepy upy then but to balance the ball in your head and do anything to be fair is pretty phenomenal i mean balancing the ball and eating a yogurt at the same time that deserves a mention i ate two yogurts earlier just wanted to tell you i just wanted to be included i don't like i don't like

spending this much time not talking about myself it feels very wrong feels it feels dirty somehow the needs for the watching of chloe chambers that's the need for speed runs through the blood of chloe chambers usa watching her father compete on the racetracks of new jersey she was determined to get behind the wheel and now she has graduated from go-kart champion to world record holder good for you alexa lueberger growing up in a house devoted to dogs alexa lueberger from germany soon learned how to take command now she and her incredible pack of pooches are

wowing the audience of talent shows the world over whoa brilliant wow curiosity and a relish for innovation have made gita gitan jelly usa an icon for young and old scientists alike no surprise then when in 2020 she was named the first ever time magazine kid of the year good for you uh let's have a look mickey mouse the last collect the largest collection of mickey mouse memorabilia here we go at her home in kt texas usa janet estevez proudly displays 10 210 mickey mouse collectibles among the items logged during the last official count on the

29th of 2016 were nine teapots 23 golf balls 54 puzzles 145 car antenna toppers and 422 key chains walt disney's mischievous rodent made his debut on 15 may 1928 so you mean the 15th of may 15 may 15th of may wow all the money they put into making this book and they couldn't even get that done right in a silence is made on it says here 15 may 1928 so should mean it was made on the 15th of may 1928 in a silent animated test movie called playing crazy and later that year on 18 nov

18 nov is that 18th of november per chance thrilled audience with his first public appearance in steamboat willy in 1978 mickey became the first fictional character honored honored on the hollywood walk of fame look at this the most expensive mickey mouse toy sold at auction it's a rare clockwork motorcycle made in germany 1939 for the british market in october 2000 it's sold in its original box for 101 no 110 thousand dollars that's 76 thousand pounds to the american collector donald quothman quothman quothman right i think we should end on this one this please can we

end on this one largest largest collection of winnie the pooh memorabilia there can be no more passionate a fan of aa milne's honey loving bear than deb hoffman's of win conson wins conson usa at the last count on the 20th of april 2020 her collection of memorabilia related to pooh aka edward bear and his friends from hundred acre wood numbered 20 000 unique items did you hear that 20 000 whose very first appearance in print was in milne's 1924 poem teddy bear in punch magazine best-selling books followed winnie the pooh 1926 and the house at

pooh corner 1928 and disney acquired the movie and merchandise rights in 1961 i wonder how much they sold for british author alan alexander milne named his oh aa ah alex alexandra alan alexandra named his famous creation after a black bear from canada called winnie short for winnie peg who lived at london zoo from 1915 until 1934 oh here's an interesting thing fastest time to gross 100 million dollars by a mobile game okay launched in australia new zealand and the usa on the 6th of july 2016 neantix gps-based pokemon go took just 20 days to make

100 million dollars 76 million pounds in revenue this was doubly impressive given that the game didn't release in japan the spiritual home of pokemon until the 22nd of july it reached the milestone of two billion dollars 1.

5 billion pounds 791 days later that doesn't make sense two billion dollars one 1. 51 do it uh maybe okay largest personal fortune made from a film franchise i think it's a pretty obvious one this is going to be it's obviously star wars isn't it so star wars creator george lucas usa has a net worth of 6. 4 billion dollars 4. 8 billion pounds as of the 11th of december 2020 according to forbes he's pictured the highest grossing film producer at the global box office what he's pictured of kathleen kennedy usa the highest grossing film producer at the global box office female in brackets kennedy produced movies which include five star wars titles and have earned a total of 12.

8 billion 9. 6 billion pounds oh look highest grossing female superhero movie captain marvel usa 2019 starring brie larson as carol danvers vers captain marvel i don't know what the three what is three names has earned 1 million 129 000 what oh one 1. 2 billion 1.

1 billion dollars 814 million pounds at the global box office as of 10 march 2021 the 10th of march is that okay the original captain marvel now owned by dc and rebooted as shazam started life in whiz comics number two that was in february 1940 in 1941 the character inspired the first superhero movie starring tom tyler left as the titular hero adventures of captain marvel first comic book movie to feature a costume hero with superhuman powers superhuman powers i think i remember that you know ah whiz comics how interesting the best selling comic single edition

is x-men number one marvel comics 1991 with sales of 8 186 500 copies it was produced by chris claremont uk an artist jim lee usa who created five different interlocking cover designs so is that the first x-men comic or did they have x mix x-men in the past i don't know fastest movie to gross 1 billion at the global box office avengers endgame 2019 the 22nd installment of the marvel cinematic universe became only the fifth film to earn 2 billion in billion globally wow it reigns as the highest grossing movie of all time this record

reverted to avatar 2009 after really re-release in china in early 2001 saw it top 2.

8 billion wow so avatar re-released their movie in china which made it it put it back at the top of the highest earning movies of all time that's interesting isn't it so why don't we do that with et re-release et all around the world and get et back at the top again where it belongs just an idea don't shoot the messenger i'm just just it's just just a suggestion just a suggestion so we've wasted a few minutes an hour looking through finding some mildly interesting moments to enjoy together so i'm gonna go remember to be kind to yourself because because because you deserve to be happy be gentle with yourself take care and i'll see you again tomorrow lots of love bye