Speed-Running, Wedding-Loving, Face-Sucking Guinness Record Breakers

surely I'm not the only one. I think if maybe he's too laser focused and he's not spreading his his his gaze wide enough, maybe my guess would be that the problem that Chris Evans is having is not lack of options, it's too many options. Yeah, it's like pet, It's like when you stand paralyzed in the cereal aisle and you just can't kick because there's just so many says tire aisle, and you got to go up and down, up and down, and you end up with cheerios all

over again. The best solution settle for oates. This is why nobody wants us to read their commercial. So Chris Evans and a bullet cheerios um sounds like it sounds like a Friday night, he'll find his perfect series, you know, yeah, exactly. You get the impression that he's a guy who really cares about the connection. He's not looking for somebody fake. What am I doing? What? I'm not here like posting

up for Chris Evans trying to help him out. Chris Evans could really use my help in the romance department. I mean, technically, I guess I've been more successful than him. Oh my goodness, in that department. It could be argued, Well, I'll add it to the long long list I have of things I've been better at than Chris Evans. Why are you laughing? So that wasn't at all you know, you laughed so hard that your head went down on the table and no one could even hear it. What's

so funny? I'm sure that there are plenty of things you're better at than Chris Evans. Yeah, I I I don't know, and wouldn't dare to guess. I couldn't assume. All right, Chris, al right, everybody, we can move on from this. Well, welcome back to the show. Yeah. Hey, I'm Eli, I'm Diana. We never introduced ourselves anymore. You

might be a first time listener, Welcome, hey. Last week we talked about the lovers of tara Well and how that led to a Guinness World Record being set in the city of tar Well in Spain, where a thousand and fifteen people lined up and they all passed a smooch from one face to the next down the line in the super spreader event of the century. But that got us Curry, is you know what other Guinness World records in the romance department are out there? You know

there's gotta be more. Yeah, they couldn't just be the one. And we looked, and there are there are some very good ones, and we thought these all fell under the ridiculous romance umbrella a hefty handful. Actually, I don't even think this will be the only episode where we do this, because we just dug up some There are more. But I say that we go ahead and take a look at some of these record breaking smooches and weddings and

other various romantic activities in this week's episode. Let's do some record break in and pay their French come listen well, Eli and Diana got some stories to tell. There's no matchmaking, no romantic tips. It's just about ridiculous relationships a lover, it might be any type of person at all, and abstract concept are a concrete wall. But if there's a story, were the second Glance Ridiculous Rolevance a production of I

Heart Radio? All right? Before we get started last time on Our Lovers of Tar, what episode we asked y'all a question, Well, Diana had a question more specifically, I guess I did about polyamory, right. I was wondering about about jealousy and feeling possessive. And I know that it's a lot to do with communication, and that's in agreements of course, and all that kind of stuff, of course,

but of course it's pretty natural emotions. So I was like, I mean, surely, even with all of that, if you do all your groundwork and it's all laid out and everything's agreed upon and all's well, you still might feel a little twinge. Maybe I just wondered, sure, Well, we got a message from our friend that we're going to

hear in today's Answering Machine. Just answer the question. Elanni Papadopoulos messages back on Instagram again and Elanny says, you asked about jealousy and polyamorous relationships, and in my experience, it's very individual for me. It one depends on how

the additional person views the relationship. I need to be the priority, but whoever else my partner is with doesn't bother me as long as the third party understands that I do know people though, where it depends on the mood or is only okay if the partner is there too, or if it's only okay where it happens outside of the shared living space. Moral of the story is everyone is different and communication is key words to live by. Well, that's very true. Yeah, that is very true. I agree.

I mean that that makes a lot of sense to me. You know, it's all about everyone being on the same page. Sure, right, what I get? Yeah, I mean I guess, And you know, there's really no better answer than everybody's different. So of course, if you're going to ask ten different people who are all polyamorous, they are all going to tell you, yes, I get jealous. No, I don't write. You know, it's never been jealous, No problem for me. I'm sure you're

going to get many, many different answers. But yeah, I think you're right. I think I think jealousy. It's just how it affects you. For some people, it's like, this is something I just feel right now, and it's all right. I won't feel it tomorrow or in a couple of days. I'll be fine now worried about it. That's that's my feeling, and I shouldn't let it affect the other person's activities.

And for other people, it's like, this is a real feeling for me, and it does matter, and it's a priority, and I'm jealous and therefore I can't be happy with someone who's going out and making me jealous. And that's all about the agreement that you come to. Sure. Funny enough, I'm actually working on an episode right now. They actually teach courses on jealousy and stuff like that and how to live in a group setting and so on, so they have a lot to say about it as well.

So I'm excited to get into that in future. Little teaser for an upcoming Alright, alright, well, today we're talking World records being set in the in the romance and love and romance department. Right, some of these stories are not chock full of details, because honestly, the Guinness World Records website doesn't do a ton of documentation beyond just saying who broke what record? And when that's too bad? I feel like you could have a good story, like

look at Lori over here. She went to the primary school in this place, and now look at her. I mean, they leave that up to the journalists, I think, because honestly, it seems like the Guinness World Records group hands out so many damn records, like there's a record for everything. So they like, I got time to get into the biographies of every one of these people. A guy who brought the record for the most cups stacked, uh, you know, on top of a bridge during a sandstorm. I don't

have time to tell that guy's whole story. We have to wait for Rain Wilson to come along. Yeah, a little documentary season of his documentary right. Well, you know, in fact, that's getting me thinking, I really wanted to know more about this whole Guinness thing and where it came from. So I said, we put all these record breakers on ice real quick and just take a quick fling with history. Well who knew? Now, I never really knew anything about Guinness World Records, Like is it the beer?

Is it related to Guinness? Is it tied to any government agency. Is this like the w h O Is it like the the Illuminati their sinister panels? Are they drinking baby's blood? They were year round? Right? What is happening? The aliens watching humans? Okay, speculation station. The entire Guinness World Records organization is run by an alien species. That's

just testing our limits. Let's see how far we can go. Well, did some digging and it turns out that this all started in nineteen fifty four in County Wexford, Ireland, at a shooting party. So you know, all these rich people get together and they hunt foxes or or or try to outwit birds or whatever it is that they do with these things. And an Englishman named Sir Hugh Beaver, which sounds like a prank call name is Hugh Beaver. There anybody got a Hugh Beaver? Read Hugh Beavers anyway,

that is the prank name. So, Sir Hugh Beaver he took a shot at a bird called a golden plover and he missed. Well, his host kind of chuckled at him for missing this shot, and this started an argument and he was like, well, gracious name, that one got away from me, didn't it definitely missed that golden plover. But I'll tell you what makes perfect sense though, as the golden plover is the fastest game bird in Europe.

Good gracious, sir, Well, what an excuse, old dash. What everyone knows the red grass is the fastest game bird in Europe. What I'll show you the fastest game bird in Europe. Fast. You missed your shot, Now you missed your facts? Back to Oxford for you. I'll get you for this. You know, whatever people do in their spare time, little argument, they probably have like croquet balans, Oh yeah, yeah, definitely in the legs. Yeah, some fisticuffs and some fisticuffs.

What's that? Old that Irish boxing with the you know, your straight up in the air and you're swinging them around in circles and then you just like straight out like a like a rock and socking robot. What is that? Is that a certain style of box It's the coolest style of boxing you ever watched. Old like movies from the early nineteen hundreds, not movies from the movies about the early nineteen hundreds where there's like, you know, there's

Irish guy's boxing. They always do that stand straight out punching straight out. We're doing it in the studio. You can't see. That's why we need video this show. We're having a great time in here, missing out, all right. So they're arguing about the fastest game bird in Europe. So yeah, we're at castle Bridge House. They thought they would settle this once and for all with books. Here the true heroes, So take you to faraway lands to

show you the fastest birds are, show you the tallest, fastest, smallest. Anyway, they tore through their shelves. They pulled out every reference book they could find about birds, hunting, zoology, mating or whatever, anything they could think of that could settle their furious arguments. But ultimately they couldn't really find anything. So Sir Beaver thought, you know what, if we want this book, somebody else might want this book. There's got to be a place

for this. Well. Sir Hugh Beaver happened to be the managing director at Guinness Brewing's It is the beer. Guinness is good for you and it will record your achievements. So an employee of Sir Hugh Beaver directed him to the twins Norris and Ross mc whirter, who had been running a fact finding company in London, and Beaver gave them the idea for this book, which makes sense. They're fact finders. Sure go find some facts about how fast

the bird was. And Guinness Superlatives was incorporated on November nineteen fifty four and their first book was released the following August, and Sir Beaver literally just put the name Guinness on it as a promotional opportunity. He's the managing director and he was like, hey, Guinness is good for you, and we'll record it the merch Guinness Book of Records. I read somewhere that part of the inspiration was a lot of like pub debates people would have all the time.

It was common for people in pubs to be like, no, I think it's this, and then they get into their whole Irish fisticuffs thing, you know. Um, So it was part of that, like, well, let's just associate the Guinness brandling these pub arguments, so every pub will have a Guinness book so that they can solve before the fight starts. Perfect, they can solve, they can go ahead and say let's

settle this once and for all. So the book was a bestseller by Christmas and since then to date, it has sold a hundred million copies in a hundred countries in in thirty seven languages. It's one of the most well known and ubiquitous brands in the world. And they report only to themselves, sister who watches the Watchman? Where the tarency. But they do have a lot of like ethical rules they've established, like obviously, no harming or killing of animals are allowed in the pursuit of any of

these Obviously people as well. I assume people have came, but not animals. But sometimes they do pull records because of the potential danger of people trying to break those records. Like for example, they at one point pulled all of their alcohol drinking related records because people were trying to break them and like poison themselves. Yeah. Um. And other records like swords swallowing or street racing on public roads were closed because the current sitting records were already beyond

what was considered safe for people to try. So they didn't want anybody trying to outdo that. You're like, that's just you know, waiting for an accident or like, you can outdo it, but we're not going to reward you for it, right, right, It was you didn't do it because of us? Yeah, a liability thing. Sometimes they do reopen these records for very controlled circumstances, like they did the sword swallowing one on TV at one point. Um,

but exactly. Yeah. But mostly really they're just not trying to have a bunch of people get themselves killed in the name of Guinness. They don't need a Guinness Records and a Darwin Awards crossover book. Nobody wants that. I mean, I want it, but I don't want it to happen. You know. You know what I'm saying. You want to

be a short book. Yeah. Um. And by the way, going back to their original debate, a lot of sites say that sir Beaver was right and in fact the Golden plover was in fact the fastest game bird in Europe. There you go. But Guinness now has it listed and of course they only do world records for a long time didn't even answer the fastest game bird in Europe.

But the fastest game bird in the world, which does live in Europe as well, is actually the red breasted merganser, which is a kind of duck, and that has been recorded flying up to one Oh my god, that is one fast duck. Yeah, if he's flying at me, I will duck because he could go right through me. But back to our subjects today. Yes, um, we're going to start with some real speedsters. They're they're the red breasted

merc answers of the human species. On March six two, at the Tokyo Marathon, now each Yama and ken Go Suzuki became the married couple with the fastest combined run time in the same marathon. What a record, And when you hear their background, it's not all that surprising because guess what they were both runners. Oh my god, no ship this. I want the Guinness Book of World Records from un like, not the unprofessional record like people like

you and I have to break the running record. You know it's gonna be strong or like, I'll run for like four minutes. I don't know how far I'm gonna guess. You can either time me or you can do distance. I do one speed or distance, which which alright? So? Keno Suzuki was the Japanese record holder for the men's marathon in February one, when he was twenty six years old. He finished in two hours, four minutes and fifty six

seconds again, so impossible to me. You may as well be have a magic You may as well be a magic person. Maw Ichi Yama had come in first place in the Osako Women's Marathon at two hours, twenty one minutes and eleven seconds, and came in eighth place at the Tokyo Olympics Women's Marathon that same year. So this is an accomplished lady. I'll be honest, there's a part of me for a second that was like eighth place as I, like, you know, shoved some more Cheetos into

my mouth, eighth place at the Tokyo Olympics. Try harder next time, lady. I want to go for a walk today. It's kind of hot. Yeah, I'm struggling to get out of my chair. Oh well. In December of these two announced on Instagram that they had gotten married, and I'm just imagining their wedding speculations. Station. That's the fastest run down the aisle. Well, I hope at least the ever married them said something about how they had each been running until they found each other. They had been running

for each other the whole time. Something. I gotta wonder if maybe they told their efficient no running jokes. No running puns, don't reference. It's not our whole identity. We're full people, you know, we like other things. Their whole

vows are like we both like sushi two okay. In March of that year one, they joined each other at the Tokyo Marathon, and according to the blog japan Running News, Keno ran the second fastest Japanese men's time ever at two hours, five minutes and twenty eight seconds, and he finished at fourth place overall, and Mao landed in sixth place overall, with her time being two hours, twenty one minutes and two seconds, giving them a combined time of

four hours, twenty six minutes and thirty seconds. Insane, fastest combined run for a married couple ever. Wow. But my question is if he came in fourth place and she came in sixth place, who was the asshole in fifth place? Like read the room, dude, this is a couple's events. You're literally coming between heights. Why don't you hang back to six or why don't you speed up to third? There? Buddy? Maybe they took the fifth home as a sell. Well,

those are the rules. If you come between us in the race, you got to stay between us at night. What kind of marathon is? My question is if you's the kind I would sign up for? It was that interested running. I made it in an hour fifty seven, and I'm all alone because it was long behind me. Your training was incredible. That was too fast. You committed to that ship. Story of my life. I just tried a little too hard, left with no one. Is that the story of your life? I don't think that's sorry.

It has been chapters. It might not be the full che I want to know how you ran. How you run the second fastest men's time ever, But then coming fourth wouldn't the person who people who beat you have been? Maybe it was all women who beat him recording this maybe first, second and third place for women. I guess. So he's the second fastest, so I guess there was at least one man ahead of it, and then maybe the rest of the two women. Yeah, or do you think that women can't run his fast? Yeah? I think

what you're saying, I said to myself, Shenanigans. Well, at any rate, their combined time of did beat the previous record holder by just thirty five seconds according to Guinness. That's that's that's really getting him by this skin of your teeth there. Uh, that record was held by Purity certach Riano Rippo and Paul kip Chumba Lonata from Kenya. Probably butchered those names. Um, but very elogies to Kenya, yes, but also a very fast married couple running time. Yeah,

very cool. What do you think is the furthest we could run combined a block block? Yeah? All right, I'm not going to pick the block of them. I know some of these blocks are longer than others. You ain't chicken me small town block in like a very flat Montana town. Our street, yeah, I think we could run. I can't run our street. There's a slight incline. Will we run down it? Yeah? But then you have to go back up? Is right? Well they're not the only

record breaking runners couples out there. Okay, so because on November, Matsugu Chida and Ryoko Ichi, also from Japan, set the record for being the oldest married couple to run a marathon together, with a combined age of a hundred and seventy years and thirty days. They're in their eighties. They're in their eighties running a marathon, and we are in our thirties laughing about how we cannot get down the block. Now this couple just keeps breaking their own record over

and over again. So no, there's no one older who has managed to break their record. Yet we found articles from them doing this in Seen and what happened in Seen? Did they die fighting? Where they were fighting? They were like, uh, I'm not running with you this year. Maybe they weren't feeling that good that day or something. Maybe they were just like, yeah, how many times have to prove myself

to this world? And then the next year they're like, all right, well stick around for more, because we're about to set the record for the fastest married couple to ever come back from a commercial break. Stay tuned, all right, welcome back to the show. I am out of breath from that. Do you run around? Yeah? Yeah, in my mind I did? In your mind? Yeah? Alright, our next record breaking romance today sounds like a whole lot of planning.

They should probably have gotten award just for organization. Lauren and David Blair must love putting a wedding together, because they set a record inn by renewing their vows for the one hundredth time. These two met in two while working at Universal Studios, Hollywood when they were about thirty years old. Lauren was an executive secretary and David was a set lighting technician. Pretty that's a cool job Universal Studios,

and what a time. In an interview with The USA Today, David said quote, I looked across the counter there, and I knew the first time I laid eyes on her that that was the woman I was going to marry. Cute, but he said he was still really nervous about going up and talking to her, Which makes sense. If you're like I want to marry you, you're like, way to intimidate you. So he did managed to pull himself together. He approached her a few days later they went on

their first date together. Now Laura herself was like a little less smitten because David wasn't quite what she was looking for right now. She said, quote, I'd been with musicians most of my life, and I wanted a guy in a three piece suit now, and that is not what David wears. It does not sound like a lighting technician to me. No, No, you're kind of in the closer to the same world, very close often the same world. That's true. But he did manage to win her over.

Only a few months into dating, David proposed to Lauren and she looked in his big loving eyes at this band who was just completely devoted to her happiness, and she said, no, damn what. Lauren had just gotten out of a ten year relationship, so she said, at the time, she still thought she was going to get back together with that guy. Oh well, I mean that makes sense a ten year relationship. You gotta be real with yourself. You don't want to jump into some ship. But here's

my question. She had been dating a musician for ten years Inwood in Hollywood, and she was thinking about getting back with this guy. So whoops? Who could it have been? I'm looking hot musicians and we've got I mean, Michael Jackson's one of the first people that came up. But I don't think it was Michael Jackson. I feel like i'd be surprised an Alman brother, Uh, one of the Smiths. Maybe maybe they're British though, so I don't know. Right

Phil Collins, she was totally dating Phil Collins from Genesis. Look, they were both born Lauren and Phil Collins the same age. Whoever it was she thought she was going to get back together with this guy, so she put David on ice no his proposal. Well, but about five months later, Lauren was at her cousin's wedding. Near the end of the night, you know, the bride, everyone gathers around. The bride throws the bouquet overhead, everybody want it PLoP. It

landed right in Lauren's arm. She'd been thinking about David a lot and second guessing turning him down because I guess Phil Collins was run off doing his thing wherever he was. She's like, somebody needs to treat me like the queen that I am, right, So anyway, this bouquet just felt like a sign, and according to bridal guide dot Com, the next day, Lauren passed David a little handwritten note and he opened it up and it said, quote, if you still want to marry me, please ask me again.

And he dropped down to one knee right there and asked her again. That's set. She should have just asked him, though, but no, she she wanted that moment. She was like, she was regretting that she didn't say yes, and she's like, Okay, you know what I sucked up? Proposed to me again? If you want to do it again, I want to say yes, this time, I get it. I think that's sweet, that's fair. I'll say, a handwritten note can go a

long way. Oh yeah. I knew a girl who was a hostess at this restaurant I worked at, and she was really into this server that worked there. And one day he's working and he said, she tapped him, you dropped this, And she took a little piece of paper from her and he thought I had fallen out of a server book. Opens it up, and she said, go out on a date with me. It was like just her phone number, go out on a date with me. And they have two kids. Now I'm just telling you

the role of story is they have two kids. Wonderful. So on May six they got married for the first time into Panga Canyon in California. But the very next day they had to go to Chicago and have a church wedding with their families because David's family was like, I ain't getting on a plane for no body or nothing. And so they already had had two weddings at that point.

And then on their honeymoon, which they took to Las Vegas, they had a coupon for a free wedding, so they decided, well, let's not waste this, and they went ahead and got married a third time while they were on their honeymoon from their second wedding within within a week. This is like May six was their first wedding and I think May twelve was their wedding in Vegas. Wow, that's funny.

Times in a week. So they get home from their honeymoon and they're kind of joking around and they're like, gee, I wonder if there's a Guinness record for like the most times getting married, And sure enough there was. The record was set at fifty eight vow renewals from another couple. I could not find their names anywhere. That's too bad. I'm very interested, I know. But from this point they decided that they were going to renew their vows over

and over again, and like, let's break this record. We're all we already got a head start, like we're three two ahead of most people exactly. So they picked out special days, like nearly every Valentine's Day they would do it. Sometimes Christmas they would do it. They even had ceremonies on either side of midnight by one minute at New Year's one time get married, very last thing, and the

very first thing of the year, we get married. And since two thousand one hit, they made sure to marry any time that the month, date and year matched up, so like January one, two thousand one, February second, two thousand two, and so on. You know, July seven, two seven, you get it all the way up through twelve. Nice. And they've also gotten married on every numbered day, like so they've been married on twelve at some point, They've been married on eight at some point, no matter the month.

So they consider every day of the year to be an anniversary because they can say, oh, it's been this long since we got married on this day day. Yeah, well, I guess on the plus side, you can never forget it, true, you just always just pick one and you're like, today's a day. I'll really do it up. On the minus side, like how many you run out of the list on what anniversary you're at? What's the three thousand, six hundred and seventy fifth anniversary. I'm just looking around the room popcorn.

Six months later, it's like, that's the pencils anniversary. It's the anniversary of endless voids. I got you an endless void. Another that does take a lot of planning. You got a picture their calendar finder that they have where they're like, Okay, we've got every leap day. We want to get every mike. Yeah, we want to get every day of the year that matches up the day and out in all these different days. Like they must have to really like post it note it a little bit to get that make sure they

get what they want. But it's not all about the record breaking that's motivating them. Lauren said that a lot of it is because of the long term relationships that they've both been in the past that didn't work out, and now they felt like they were so meant for each other that they quote wanted to continually share that vow experience. She told Guinness, quote I love to look into David's eyes as he is repeating his vows. I know that this man will love me until the day

I die. Of course, David will tell you he does it for the honeymoons. Now, that is enticing. If we're gonna have a honeymoon every renewal, that's pretty dope. We've said that a few times ourselves. Let's just do our wedding again so we can take another other big honeymoon so true, but I don't think we could convinced that many people to donate to our think it would be less generous the second time round, to be scaled down.

I think they would immediately catch on it wouldn't be the third or fourth wedding or people like, wait a second, it would be the second. Well, and I do think that's very cute. That's kind of nice to just constantly be reminding each other of what you're promising each other and your daily commitment to a lifelong thing. Is that that makes a little sense. There is a pretty extensive list of their renewals up to the one hundred and seventh on the Daily Mail, and they usually renew a

few times a year. There's none in what happened in It's like the yeah for the runners. Maybe every couples like you just always have to take one year break so that one day when you inevitably get covered by some podcasts somewhere, they have a little something to talk about. They did it for us, well, thank you, Lauren and David.

I like to think the world revolves around me and mine Right right now, weddings thirty one through fifty two, we're all in the year two thousands, So at that point you can tell they're really trying to get the record in. Yeah, I mean, because they're trying to break fifty eight. And it really is like you look at their full list of weddings and it's like to this year three, that year one, some years none in you know, ninety five or whatever, and then the year two thousand,

it's just constant, like multiple times. It's like twenty one times. That's more than one a month. And on February of two thousand one, they broke the record and they had their fifty ninth thou renewal at the Serendipity three coffee

shop in New York City. Lauren said, quote, we had to get married four times in four days in order to break the record on Valentine's Day, which does make me second guess the thing you mentioned earlier about how organized they have to be, because they clearly were like, oh, ship, we're not there yet. We have to get married four times. I know. Maybe they started out real organized and they had like a really serious idea about which to do it on and stuff, and they realized, like, you know what,

we just got to get this done. Every day special alright ya. Now, apparently these weddings have all been pretty cheap too, because that was a big question I had. But they said they're most expensive was when they went to Graceland. It was their wedding, and they paid three bucks. Usually they just dropped like a hundred bucks to rent a little chapel somewhere, quick in and out. They're not

big lavish weddings. Um, they never had any kids, so they said they've got spare time and they don't mind spending the money and they get to go all over. Their fiftieth wedding was on the set of Romeo and Juliette at Nashville's Performing Arts Center. I love that Romeo and Juliette is such a romantic icon. It ends terribly like it's like when people play, um, what's the song they play I'll be watching you at their first dance.

I heard Sting and an interview talk about this. He's like, I don't know why people play I'll be watching you at their weddings. It's about a stalker. It's not a love song. It's not you should not be watching her right, Um. But these two have also been married in Nevada several times. They got married once in Cape Cod. I'm sure it was beautiful. They've also been married in Scotland and London, and in fact, they were the first couple to ever get married at the hard Rock Cafe London. Wow. See

a couple of records broken. Yeah, anyway, they made real names for themselves now. Their original goal was to get to a hundred val renewals, which they did on October two when they got married at the hard Rock Cafe in Honolulu, Hawaii. They love the hard Rock Cafe. I guess they're she likes musicians at right, So maybe it's like, well and it's like, you know, you probably don't have to like rent out the whole venue, and so they probably just did it like before dinner, you just find

an efficient Okay, great. Well, since then they've slowed down some, but they still mark special occasions with a vour duel and they say they're just like any other married couple, despite their constant reminder that they're married. Af they do fight sometimes and Lauren says, quote, oh, we just have this thing of well, find then I'm not going to marry you again, and I can always hold that over

his head. Yeah, Well that's cute. That's cute. I mean, that's a that's a cool little project to kind of be like a reason to go somewhere, you know, pick a destination for a trip and stuff. The last number I saw was a hundred and nine, and that was like in twenty sixteen or so. Um, so that's the last time anybody wrote an article about them. I hope they're still out there going for it. Like they said, they were born around nineteen fifty, they're like in their

early seventies now, hopefully still out there. Yeah, that's doing their thing. Yeah, I mean it's a bit much for me. I would love a vow renewal now and again. It sounds nice, but I'd be worried about it kind of losing its ch. I was about to say that would be the only thing is especially like like thinking about the one that's one minute apart on New Year's did you change what you said or what the offician said, or do you have some like I'll say that the

just to answer that. They did say in one article that the efficient always writes their vows for them, so they like, you know, when they when they hire someone, they said, we want you to do it, so they said, some of them have come up with some great, wonderful Blacky's any things that they've Okay, well that's cool. So it's not always the same words and stuff. Well that's something at least I guess you could, you could keep keep it fresh in that way. But I kind of agree.

I love having a vow renew will be like it's been twenty years, it's been fifty years, and we want to blow out again and and tell everyone how much how committed we still are. Like it feels so powerful and impactful and it's that special. But I guess it's you know, special Guinness World record and it stays special to them, so hey, more power to Yeah, I'm pretty impressed by these two. They committed to the bit, that's

for sure. They committed to the bit, and you know what, they set up their life exactly how they want to and right, that's all we can do. That's all anyone can do. Well, we're going to take a quick break so that you can renew your vows to these products and services and we will be right back after this. Welcome back to the show. All right, So we have covered two very important aspects of lasting relationships. Weddings, and running really fast. But now it's time for us to

get into some record breaking smooches. First off is the Guinness World Record for the longest kiss ever, straight long guess lasting kiss, and this was broken by a married couple named Eachai and Laksana Tieran rat. Want you to go ahead and guess how long you think this kiss? Wise listeners at home, just think to yourself, how long could the longest kiss possibly be? Fifteen minutes? Minutes? You

think you'd go for like two whole hours. Well, I'm sorry, friends, but this kiss lasted a grand total of fifty eight hours, thirty five minutes and fifty eight seconds. That is almost two and a half literal days. Was this one of these couples like Lauren and David who just set out to break the record. Did these guys just really really like each other and they couldn't help it, or maybe it's just one of those like you hang up, no, you hang up, things like no, you stop kissing me, No,

you stop kissing me. I'm not stopping until you stop, And it just kept going and everyone knows someone has slapped him. Be forty eight hours, that is true. There was a Buffy episode where they had a demon and trapped them in like a sexy time and I think she and her guy at the time had sex for like twenty four hours or something crazy in that episode. Maybe it was a demon. That's my guess. There's a demon nearby trapped them in something just like that Buffy episode.

I appreciate you taking that big of a swing, but it was not any of those things. In fact, this was a dedicated contest. Yes, this was in Thailand and it was sponsored by Ripley's believe it or not. Believe it or not, the couple had to stay lip locked continuously, no breaks, no sleep. Oh god, that sounds dangerous. Honestly, they had to stand on their feet the whole time. Standing for fifty eight hours might be oh my god, a record all, but that's a hard back. It's hurt

and just thinking about it. Also, they had to eat and for staws while they were kissing each other, and they had Can you imagine there's no way there's not some passing. There's some back and forth going on there. I hope you're not eating while you're listening to this episode. That's that's too late. Sorry. They even had to go to the bathroom together and keep their faces smoothed while

they did their business. Oh my god. Which also I feel like that means someone had to watch them forty eight hours, No, while they were using the bathroom, right, like, how do you monitor that? Maybe they just held up a sheet or something so their faces were still up. That's probably what they did, right like, because you could put up a shield. But still that's like uncomfortable. They're still down. No, you have to squat together, squad together together.

Do you think they set up two special toilets facing each other. I do not know how that. Honestly, I don't want to own no one right in speculation station is closed for maintenance. You'll not be trying to be

not interested. They were pitted against eight other couples, and the second place team were these two men who had won the contest the year prior, but this year one of them fainted and collapsed two minutes before and Lixana stopped their kiss, which I feel like as soon as he collapsed, I would have been like, m hmmm, oh he's down, he's down, we can stop, like, but they

kept it going for two minutes more minutes. That's really committed because You've got to set the record as long as you can, no matter how many, because it's harder for someone else to break next time. You're like, then I don't have to play next year. I'll never kiss you again. An event organizer is quoted in the Hindustan Times saying, quote, they were very exhausted because they did not sleep for two and a half days. They had to stay and all the time, so they were very weak.

There's this video on It's a YouTube channel called fast the Latest News, and it shows people it's a video of this contest, and it shows people passing out and being carried away in wheelchairs. And the guy from that couple who passed out and collapsed from the from the final two, they showed his boyfriend down in the ground like trying to wake him up with smelling salts. P hardcore contests. Yeah, well, I mean again, just the fact of standing and not being able to eat real food

for that long, Like that's very tough on your body. Yeah, and I guess I don't know are they outside are they inside? Inside? It's like in a mall, there's a ton of people watching, people gathered around. Yeah, vibe Yeah, and as people literally drop they just like carry him away. It's wild. Ultimately, they won a hundred thousand BOT, which checking hair calculating is thirty three hundred dollars US. Not bad, and they got a diamond ring worth about half that.

And of course these are Guinness World Record breakers and very frequently these people are out there doing this over and over again, breaking their own records, and that's exactly what happened with these two. Well they're the only people with the training. Yeah yeah, right, Like last year, I stood for fifty eight hours and I can do it for but uh, previous years they won a similar cash prizes. I know it was a hundred thousand BOT the previous

time they won. They also want a diamond ring each time, so you' know, not a bad little chunk of change. They also broke the record inn with a forty six hour kiss and that was the time they beat the previous record of thirty two hours, which was set by a German couple named Nicole Matovik and Christina Reinhardt. It doesn't appear that this record has been broken since, so I'm thinking of anybody out there, it's got a few days to spare. You know, you're trying to kill some time.

Maybe go win yourself a couple of thousand bucks. You know, thank you. Well, I wasn't asking you just check. I'm not volunteering. I'm just saying, y'all go for it now. The Hingston Times article said that after quote, organizers said they did not plan to hold another competition next year after three straight years of beating the record in Thailand, they will wait for a challenge in another country. Wow, They're like, somebody step to me. That's worthy and maybe

I'll come out of retirement. All right, we'll hold your breath because this one is the longest kiss ever done underwater. This was an Italian couple who managed to suck face while holding their breath for a full three minutes and four seconds. Now, this is the record for in apnea, which means they were completely unaided in their breathing and they just held their branch while they were kissing, which

is only Italians. You know. Times like I will kiss you here there everyone, and I don't need to come up for air. I can handle it. I've been up practicing for this in my whole life. Now. This was also a contest. It was held in March of in Rome and It was part of an Italian TV show called Lo Show Record or the Show of Records. You know,

they're like, it's in the name. There's a video on the Guinness World Records Twitter page from July and you see the two couples dropped into a tank and they mashed their faces together and they just hold it there. So I guess not a lot of technique going into these kisses. Yes, it's mostly just like just slip on lips. Yes, the technique is not in the kiss, it is in the the underwater nous of it, like you see. I mean,

these people are obviously swimmers. They got like tight swimmers bodies, and they're wearing tiny little speedos and I think they're in weight belts because they're staying at the bottom of the tank. And there's like the video shows close ups of their stomachs at like the two and a half three minute mark, and you can see these like weird

undulating movements that their stomachs are doing. And I'm like, I don't know if that's part of the technique or if that's just like your body wanting to tell you to get the hell out of the wall. Yeah, So it looks so uncomfortable, but these are very dispassionate kisses, okay, and not a lot of tonguing anything going on now.

The winners were Michelle Fuguarino and Elisa Lazzarini, and as far as we can tell, they just won medals, congratulations and a certificate from the Guinness World Records, So no cash involved in this particular contest, just just glory and fame, just for the cloud. It did it for the Graham. But it's not technically the longest underwater kiss ever because the longest one used mouth to mouth breathing, so there's was the longest holding your breath, but in this one,

they would breathe back and forth to each other. Sounds worse to me that they lasted twenty minutes and eleven seconds, so mouth to mouth breathing, one's breathing into another's mouth, back and forth. Carbon dioxide and not oxygen. I mean I very briefly glanced at this because I was like, can you just breathe back and forth to people and keep them good underwater? And they were like, for a little bit, you kind of little because you don't use

very much of the oxygen that you breathe in. You know, when you expel, you know, more carbon dioxide and oxygen, but apparently it's like finding a pinch. These people did it for twenty minutes. But I'll say this one is a super mystery to me because on the Guinness World Records website where they list this record, it says this all happened in Freiburg, Germany, on March eighteenth, two thousand twelve, and the record was set by Nicolay Linder and that's it.

They don't list a second name. So I'm like, who was Nikolay kissing? Who was breathing air to them? What? Right? Was it some some someone who can't be named because they're like the deep, Like they're an underwater breather, so they have an endless supply of oxygen? Yeah? Was it like a blowfish speculation station? It was a blowfish? Well, I don't know what happened. I saw one page said, oh, the other person at the party requested not to be named. I'm like, who would request not to be named and

breaking Againness World record? Unless speculation station. They shouldn't have been kissing Nikolay. They didn't want their spouse to know that they were underwater. Some breath back and forth with Nikolai. Probably it now or yes, that's probably what it is. They were like, listen, there's some just my husband slash wife. They don't have diving interests like I do, and they're always on me about spending time when I diving friends. Look,

I don't want to hear it. My wife was like, you've got to stop swapping breaths with people onto water. I am jealous. You have to respect my jealousy. I don't know why. She sounds like dr scratch and sniff on the side, like your arms were kimbo. Also very import I'm very upset. I don't care how many records you broke. You are done with thus diving. All right, listen, since we're underwater, let's just squeeze one more record breaking wedding in before we come up for air. All right.

This was the largest wedding ever held underwater. So this was the Polish couple Avis Toronska and Pavoo Brookowski who held their wedding at the bottom of a lake. It sounds like an accident. It does sound like an accident, like they drove their car back accident off of phone. No, we have to hold our wedding at the bottom of lake, like I'd marry you anywhere, darling, even at the bottom of a lake. Well, good news, blug glug. Look that's

where we're headed now. These two were licensed divers, okay, so that makes sense. Uh. They went to the Caparky Diving base in Poland in and held a wedding with three hundred and three other divers, which helped me a lot because I initially was like, well, I can't go to your wedding if it's a pot of a lake. There's no chance for me to witness your union. But of course divers, certainly no other divers, and they're like, awesome, we got to the school, was invited, right, surely Mann

and three. That's a lot of people. Now. The whole ceremony lasted about eighteen minutes and they're efficient. Was a Catholic diving priest. The Catholic Church just has a priest. They can do everything. They every interest, yeah, well at least every every element. They've got a fire priest, they've got a water priest. Where's the last hairbender? Catholic issue? That is not with the last hairbender? Face that not at all, not even clothes, so this Catholic diving priest

communicated with them through sign language. I just really like how you're saying Catholic diving priest, Like that's the a Catholic priest who dives you a title a diving priest, Like that's the specific part of the Bible that he focuses on the Book of Diving. Sorry, continue, it's too good. This Catholic diving priest commune indicated with them through sign language and also pre written signs while everyone else just watched.

So they all, I guess, knew what was happening, right, Yeah, they had to still say everything they needed to say and make it very moving and loving. They had cards printed out that said like I do on them already say, would just hold those up that kind of thing? That's cute, yeah, cute, Yeah, that would kind of give a cartoon effect to me, Like like, that was the largest wedding ever held underwater, and I look forward to hearing about whoever tries to

break that record. I guess yeah, I mean that's a lot of people again three three, But I'll tell you what the whole wedding ceremony was eighteen minutes. Well, Nikolai Linder and their their secret. Someone else could have been kissing that whole time, and then some without no diving equipment. Now did Eva and Pavao have a kiss? Uh? You know they didn't see if they had a k I'm sure it wasn't worth mentioning is because they didn't mouth breathe.

They just swap at their mouthpiece. Ross. That's so much worse for some reason, I don't know why. It's like, it's literally kiss to you all day, but I don't want to use your toothbrush. Well, and beyond that, it's literally getting rinsed off as you pass it from yourself to the other person because you're deep underwater. No less well lake water, oh, lakewater than definitely some bacteria in

there that I know none of us understand. Well, I think that's all of the Guinness World Record romance things we can cram into one episode, But there are off the deep end, hey you go, there are plenty more. In fact, I even have a bunch that are just X records. Yea, So maybe we'll do an after dark version of the record breaking episode. But hey, let us know, are you a Guinness World Record holder? Can you? I'm not. I'm not going to encourage any of you to try

and beat any of these records. Don't try these at home. I don't want people passing out trying to kiss for seventy hours straight or um or renewing their vows. I mean you can go ahead, and I don't think that. I don't think you can get hurt doing that. Yeah, you know what, go for it. Let me know if you're gonna unless you're dragging yourself into debt for it.

That's the only way you could really hurt yourselves. No, find those hundred dollar chapels, right, or like give your friend to get a certificate online and then you just buy him a beers do it at the place. Boom, You're done. Sounds good. Is there any paperwork involved with renewals? Do you have to file? I don't know. I think it's all. I don't think so. I think it's all. I don't think so. So it really could be that simple. That's how they got married to, right, So it's just

like a simple little thing. I mean, they haven't efficient, so I don't know if they file anything, but I don't know either. Whatever, let us know, have you renewed your vows? What it go like? Tell us what you thought of this episode. Tell us ideas you have for future episodes coming up, and we will do them. Love hearing from you. Riddick Romance at gmail dot com or we're on Twitter and Instagram. I'm at Dynamite Boom and I'm at Oh Great. It's Eli and the show is

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