What a Weird Week for Friday 6 January 2023: Weirdest World Records of 2022! #Podcast

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Hello friends and Happy New Year!! Usually on this podcast we count down the top 10 weird stories from the news, but today we've got the Ten Weirdest World Records Set in 2022. Study them! Figure out which one we're going to go for in 2023. (I feel good about the sticky face one, but let's not lock it in yet.)
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Now, the show notes for Fri 6 January 2023, Season 4 Episode 14 ...

❿ World Record: Wisconsin can-man gets suckiest record of 2022!
Notes:
- He set the World Record for most cans stuck to his head using only stick-to-itiveness
- Jamie Keeton (also goes by Canhead or Canpa to the grandkids) got 10 empty pop/ soda cans to suckify to his head. 
- if you're looking to beat this one, the cans have to stay in place for at least 5 seconds. 
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Youtube...

❾ World Record: the ol' Eggs in One Basket Trick... except the basket is a human hand.
Notes:
- A fellow named Ibrahim got 18 eggs to balance on the back of his hand.
- I was so nervous watching the video because I would hate to lose even one egg through droppage... practice for this one in a bouncy castle or something so the eggs have a soft place to land.
- it apparently takes a lot of focus and is painful bcause those eggs end up putting two or three pounds of pressure on your hands.
tik tok video...
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Most eggs balanced on the back of the hand 🥚 18 by Ibrahim Sadeq 🇮🇶

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❽ World Record: Getting your Alphabet Soup in a Row.
Notes:
- Jacob Chandler of Oregon found all the letters of the English alphabet in a can of soup and put those letters in alphabetical order in 2mins:08.6.
- He did it to impress his son.
- Apparently the "W" and the "M" are different in a can of Alphabet Soup!
insta video...

❼ World Record: High Heel Tightropin'!
Notes:
- A teenager in Vermont named Ariana walked 639 feet 7 inches on a tightrope while she was wearing four inch high heels.
- Ariana is a member of a youth circus.
- Youth circuses are a thing?
FB photo...
 
❻ World Record: (We had this one on the podcast last year) "Speed-Eating Hot Peppers!"
Notes:
- Greg Foster is the guy who did the impossible.
- It was Carolina Reapers you guys... he ate 10 Carolina Reapers in 33 seconds to get a World Record.
- He owns a hot sauce company.
- There's got to be a trick to this right? The internet says "eat spicy peppers slowly" so he failed that. idk you guys, does it mean your a psychopath or something... no wait that's not it...
Scoville Scale roundup:
Carolina Reapers are around 2 million on the Scoville...
Jalepenos are up to 8000... Bell peppers are 0.
Link/media: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/man-eats-10-worlds-hottest-peppers-in-33-seconds-to-break-guinness-record-3501645
Youtube vid...
 
❺ World Record: Biggest get-together of people with the same first and last name.
Notes:
- Organized by Hirokazu Tanakas SNA of Japan (Hirokazu Tanakas Same Name Association)
- Hirokazu Tanakas made this club in 1994.
- Hirokazu got 178 people together who all are named Hirokazu Tanakas.
- The old record was by a group of Martha Stewarts.
Link: (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/11/03/japan-Guinness-World-Records-gathering-same-name/8981667490829/)
(instead of me posting a photo, just imagine a bunch of people hanging out together and you've got an accurate depiction. *We saved some bandwidth you guys!)

❹ World Record: Well, it involves a pea.
Notes:
- David Rush used good ol' fashioned breathing to move a pea 84' 11.28" across the floor.
- Dave has 250ish World Records but idk, this one is just blowing a pea, walking up to it again and blowing it further... I don't get it...
YT vid...
 
❸ World Record: Pumpkin Paddling!
Notes:
- A fellow named Duane got into a giant hollow pumpkin and started paddling down the Missouri River and he kept going for 37 and a half miles.
- in a pumpkin you guys.
 
❷ World Record: Mr Potato Head Challenge!
Notes:
- This is about putting together a standard potato head as fast as possible.
- a person in Malaysia did it in 5.43 seconds. 
YT vid...
 
❶ World Record: (we talked about this one in a past podcast) "Chain Chain Chain♪ Chain of Beards♫"
Notes:
- happened at a bar in Casper, Wyoming
- 74 guys lined up side-by-side, made ... beard braids? ... whatever you call it... they parted their beards and clipped it to their neighbor...
- 150 foot beard chain shattered the old record!
- they say it wasn't easy... you have to stand still and wait until everybody's clipped in... then wait for the official measure... no one can break the chain!
- what if you got an important call you had to take??
- also, I imagine at least a few of the fellows couldn't untangle their beards after the record was set and now they're trying to just make it work somehow... double dating... job sharing... driving in the carpool lane...
Link/media: (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/worlds-longest-beard-chain-1.6650985) and photo from Facebook...




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