Pod Insights Hamish & Andy 2025 Ep 308 - A Guinness (and a) World Record About this episode After months of planning, meticulous engineering, and the looming threat of catastrophic neck injuries, it’s finally here.
It’s Tall Hat Day.
Who wears the hat? Will the record fall? And can Jack beat the traffic?
With the trustworthy listeners watching on, Hamish, Andy and Jack take us on one of the wildest rides in the pod’s history.
Transcript 0:02 Speaker 00 A Listener Production.
0:05 Speaker 01 Many months ago, Hamish mentioned in passing the Guinness World Record for the world's tallest hat. But that's not really something this show would be interested in.
0:15 Speaker 02 Everyone's had a crack at the Guinness World Record. Every single radio show in the world, and we've kind of always viewed it as, with all due respect to our brothers and sisters in radio, it's kind of easy, low-hanging fruit, yeah. Like, if you go-
0:28 Speaker 03 Hack job.
0:29 Speaker 02 If you can be-
0:30 Speaker 03 Like-
0:31 Speaker 02 With all due respect-
0:32 Speaker 03 Content.
0:33 Speaker 02 With all due respect, hack content.
0:35 Speaker 01 However, the sheer volume of emails suggested the boys should change their minds.
0:39 Speaker 02 It struck a nerve. Everyone's been, so many people-
0:42 Speaker 03 Get a good one. Only struck a nerve can be a bad thing.
0:46 Speaker 02 It struck an erogenous zone.
0:51 Speaker 03 More accurate. More accurate.
0:54 Speaker 02 So, it's hit one of them, and people feel good about it.
0:58 Speaker 03 Don't they?
1:01 Speaker 01 But if you're gonna break a record, you need to know the rules.
1:05 Speaker 03 How far do you have to walk with the hat on? Does it have to have a brim? And it was 10 metres?
1:09 Speaker 02 Then wear a must-walk 10 metres while wearing the hat.
1:12 Speaker 03 Okay.
1:12 Speaker 02 The hat must be wearable and worn. It must be a functioning hat.
1:18 Speaker 03 It's not.
1:19 Speaker 02 It's not. And this is the hat you wear around?
1:22 Speaker 03 Yep.
1:23 Speaker 02 Yeah? This is just to the beach and stuff.
1:25 Speaker 03 Good, good sun prediction.
1:26 Speaker 02 People don't love it when I wear it to the movies, but yeah.
1:29 Speaker 01 The offers of help started flooding in.
1:32 Speaker 03 Offering their assistance. Grace, 21. I am fourth-year aerospace engineer.
1:39 Speaker 02 Hired.
1:41 Speaker 03 The world's tallest hat has piqued my interest, and I believe I can design a 10-metre-tall hat that meets all requirements. As to not take the record from you, I would really like to do the design and build the hat for you, and you take all the glory, which is something that does appeal to us.
1:57 Speaker 02 That's generally our preferred terms.
1:59 Speaker 01 And design ideas were blowing them away.
2:02 Speaker 02 Adam is having a think. He goes, "Think I got the perfect solution. Tall chef's hat, but made out of the same material the wavy tube men at the front of car dealerships are made of. Then we just pump her full of helium."
2:14 Speaker 03 Helium's not a bad idea.
2:16 Speaker 02 Helium's a good idea, and I think we absolutely employ it. You really would need the chin strap, wouldn't you? Man, it could create the hilarious Miss Hat Award, and he floats away.
2:26 Speaker 01 Early on, the question of neck strength was raised.
2:29 Speaker 02 This comes from Nat. Hello, boys. Just listening to you deliberate who would wear the world's tallest hat had immediate concerns about little boy Jack and his extremely weak neck. I must remind you that while you were bringing peace to the north in Darwin, you travelled on a slightly bumpy road. This resulted in Jack kinking his neck and ruling him out for the day. So I think it's best left to you, Hamish, or Andy to carry the load.
2:52 Speaker 01 And the help of an outsider was floated.
2:54 Speaker 04 Daniel Ricciardo, because they have to have, Formula One drivers have to have really strong necks.
2:59 Speaker 02 I feel like of all the years of his career to test drive the world's tallest hat, this is the one.
3:03 Speaker 04 Yeah, but I think he regards himself as being pretty cool. So you've got to have a cool hat.
3:09 Speaker 02 What are you saying, mate? What are you saying? We haven't even built that, mate.
3:13 Speaker 04 All I'm saying is that's a big shorts backwards.
3:17 Speaker 02 I think a 10 metre hat's going to be cool.
3:21 Speaker 01 As always, the boys were looking for loopholes.
3:24 Speaker 02 Is there anything in the rulebook to rule against? I'm not saying a chin strap, but you create a neck brace for the wearer that keeps the head very stable, but the neck brace does not connect to the hat.
3:36 Speaker 04 Could you hide it in the collar of the shirt?
3:39 Speaker 02 A scarf, a cravat.
3:39 Speaker 04 Yeah, a cravat. Yeah, but the hiding is the problem. The word hiding is the worry for me.
3:44 Speaker 02 No, but we're not going to.
3:45 Speaker 04 Yeah.
3:50 Speaker 04 That's right.
3:50 Speaker 02 Remember?
3:52 Speaker 04 Yeah, we are going to wear a cravat, but we're not going to hide it.
3:55 Speaker 02 Yeah, but I might wear that big fat cravat.
4:00 Speaker 01 There was a lot of palaver and cost associated with an official Guinness World Record. Was it worth it?
4:06 Speaker 04 Don't the Guinness World Records have a duty of like, if you say you're going for a world record, they should really come out and be there to look at it?
4:15 Speaker 02 No, that would be if they're a government body, I suppose. And they're not the police where if they hear a crime happening, they have to go. They're not like the positive police where if they hear something good happening, they must attend. There's a guy getting in a swimming pool of baked beans. Hold the phone.
4:32 Speaker 03 Deploy two of our agents there because we've got someone with the longest nose ring.
4:38 Speaker 02 Do not get in that bath, wearing the most amount of women's suspenders until we are next to you and we count the suspenders. If a record is broken and someone from the beer company wasn't there to measure it, but others were, who were just as trustworthy, did it still happen? I say yes. So do I.
4:55 Speaker 03 And I think-
4:55 Speaker 02 Yeah, I say yes too and I say they should, they, they- Well, that's three yeses. I mean, two more okays and we've got a full house. You can't argue with that. I think we get people's officials to be there on the day, trustworthy people, listeners of our show, that will authenticate it and they'll, we'll all know the rules and we'll, we'll play by the same guidelines. But we get, let's say, ten government officials, ten- Ten's a lot. Five of the people's officials.
5:25 Speaker 01 Speaking of, is it worth it? Andy had received a breakdown of what a carbon fibre hat might cost to make.
5:32 Speaker 02 It's a crass to talk about numbers, so I'm just gonna hold it up on a piece of paper.
5:34 Speaker 04 Well, you can't even say it for the podcast listeners.
5:36 Speaker 02 I don't think so. Do you think it would ruin people's enjoyment of this? I do. This is the minimum cost.
5:48 Speaker 02 No, it's not. It can't be. You're not doing the Euros thing where they have the decimal point in the wrong spot, are you? That is the best possible outcome price.
5:59 Speaker 04 There's no way it's worth it.
6:03 Speaker 02 It's more expensive than ConCon was.
6:06 Speaker 01 But what price can you put on a world record? Maybe the price of your neck.
6:12 Speaker 02 That's what I'm worried about.
6:14 Speaker 05 Worried about the possibility of catastrophic neck failure? Given projected weight of hat could be up to 20 kilos.
6:23 Speaker 04 What?
6:24 Speaker 02 It's a 20 kilogram hat.
6:26 Speaker 04 That's huge.
6:27 Speaker 02 That's tall.
6:27 Speaker 04 That's huge.
6:28 Speaker 02 Of course it is. It's the tallest in the world. It's never been done.
6:31 Speaker 01 So to help tame such a large hat, some help would be needed.
6:36 Speaker 03 Alongside, you've got two people that are sitting there corralling the hat.
6:41 Speaker 02 Yep. So very, very long sticks, maybe four to five metre long sticks with a big rubber stopper or a big buffer, or even just a big soft catcher.
6:49 Speaker 03 Yes.
6:50 Speaker 02 Which means that if it starts to fall,
6:52 Speaker 03 Yep.
6:52 Speaker 02 you've got a hat tamer that can catch it. And obviously the record attempt's over for that particular run. Like you haven't set the record, but it stops the hat, making it all the way to the ground and dying. Most important thing is to have the hat and neck intact.
7:05 Speaker 03 Yes.
7:05 Speaker 02 For another run.
7:06 Speaker 03 Yep.
7:07 Speaker 04 Mainly the hat.
7:08 Speaker 02 Yeah, God knows. We've got two, we actually have two backup necks in the room and no backup hats.
7:15 Speaker 01 So this would be a team effort, but only one person can wear the hat.
7:19 Speaker 02 Do we let the hat decide?
7:21 Speaker 04 How?
7:22 Speaker 02 Do we, when we make the hat, do we tip it upside down, put two names in the hat?
7:27 Speaker 04 Pick a name out of the world's tallest hat?
7:29 Speaker 02 Yeah.
7:31 Speaker 01 So all that remained was to attempt a non-Guinness, people sanctioned world record.
7:37 Speaker 02 Not anti-Guinness, and I might even suggest we go and have one to celebrate.
7:41 Speaker 04 Oh, would they like that, do you think? Or do you think, is that a...
7:47 Speaker 02 Wouldn't it be nice to be able to say, and you know what? The other day, we had a Guinness and a world record.
7:56 Speaker 04 We had a Guinness.
7:58 Speaker 02 And a world record.
8:01 Speaker 04 And when we post a picture of it, we can just do Guinness, comma, world record as the caption.
8:10 Speaker 01 Tuesday, the 9th of September, 2025.
8:15 Speaker 01 2pm. Hogs warehouse in the outer suburbs.
8:20 Speaker 01 Record day.
8:23 Speaker 02 A day that you'll live in podcast history.
8:27 Speaker 03 This is awesome. We are out here at our big Hogs's factory and it's a big factory.
8:31 Speaker 02 It's Rooney's warehouse, we're in the book warehouse. We're actually in the same room. Andy and I went and visited the Power Moves books earlier, Jack.
8:38 Speaker 04 Oh, well, I signed 1,000 Power Moves books here.
8:42 Speaker 02 And we appreciate that.
8:43 Speaker 04 Yeah, well, it's like 6.50.
8:46 Speaker 02 It's also a different warehouse.
8:48 Speaker 03 It did look different. Is it different? I mean, it looks like a warehouse, but nothing's really ringing a bell.
8:55 Speaker 02 A different suburb.
8:56 Speaker 03 A different suburb. Yeah, yeah, he's changed. But anyway, just to paint the picture, we've come in, there's a huge structure up that's meant to be the launch platform. That actually looks like the most dangerous part yet.
9:06 Speaker 02 Mate, that looks, to be honest, flimsy as hell.
9:11 Speaker 03 I think they're worried about health and safety. The most dangerous thing will be that structure falling on any of us.
9:16 Speaker 02 Well, it's an eight metre high, just wooden kind of frame. Then there's a giant red curtain hanging down the front. I mean, I wasn't really across the launch platform thing, and I don't think a lot of listeners were either.
9:27 Speaker 03 Sounds like he's trying to distance himself from it. I would also love to distance myself as well. I remember taking one look at an eight or piece of paper that had a tower on it. I was like, what's this for?
9:38 Speaker 02 This is on you, because this is all this stuff that you were like, I'll be revealed on the day. Remember all that?
9:42 Speaker 03 Yeah.
9:43 Speaker 02 The pretend conversations, like we had some sort of agency over it, but he wasn't really asking us, he was just telling us.
9:48 Speaker 03 It's not on my head.
9:50 Speaker 02 Well, what's the tower for?
9:52 Speaker 03 Why do we need that? We don't need it. Is it for safety, in case the hat falls either way?
9:56 Speaker 02 No, no. I think it's for theatre.
9:58 Speaker 03 Well, it was so someone could be high enough to help put it on the wearer's head. And I think that's still the case, where someone can stand up on the platform. There's another platform coming up behind that. But why does the tower need to be eight meters tall? Well, that was just for theatrics. It was just so then they could draw a curtain.
10:16 Speaker 02 The giant red curtain, well, it doesn't look like it's a split curtain. It's just a long piece of fabric. So that's just going to tangle the hat up.
10:22 Speaker 03 I think the idea, we walk through the curtain to reveal?
10:25 Speaker 02 I bloody hope not. That won't work.
10:27 Speaker 03 No, the curtain's meant to, the curtain was meant to come apart to walk through.
10:32 Speaker 02 That's a long piece of fabric.
10:33 Speaker 03 Yeah, I'm not sure about it.
10:35 Speaker 02 Easily the hardest part of the walk is having to get through a 10 metre high curtain, with the world's largest hat on.
10:43 Speaker 02 Why haven't we made it hard for ourselves? It's not wipeout.
10:48 Speaker 02 What, have we got three big red balls next we have to jump across?
10:51 Speaker 03 We could probably scoop up another record, which is like. Yeah, exactly.
10:54 Speaker 02 I'm not even talking.
10:58 Speaker 03 Okay, so let's just paint the picture though. We've got a launch platform, which was not necessary, but it stands around about seven metres in height. It's a large draped curtain in front of it that I think we'll have to remove for safety reasons. The person to stand inside there.
11:13 Speaker 02 Yeah, imagine like a rocket launch, like a SpaceX rocket launch, but they also have put a curtain over the rocket.
11:21 Speaker 04 So you don't have to say it, yeah.
11:22 Speaker 03 And then they're going, hey, this might get the rocket tangled up in. And they're like, yeah, but it's good for theatrics. Yeah, but we've got space people in there.
11:31 Speaker 02 I think we just stick to what we do, which is space or hats, depending on which story we're in.
11:35 Speaker 03 But also for theatrics, are we going to see the hat beforehand? Who's it for?
11:38 Speaker 02 I don't know. It's not like we're live streaming this around the world.
11:41 Speaker 03 Well, I mean, it will, it'd be exciting to see someone come out from behind the curtain on its head for the first time. So they've seen the hat for the first time. But again, I am nervous about it. Shall we go have a look at the hat?
11:53 Speaker 02 Yeah, let's see the hat. Is the hat in the building?
11:55 Speaker 03 The hat's in the building. It's arrived via semi-trailer already. I'm interested to find out what they got the weight to, because that is going to be important news for us and our necks.
12:08 Speaker 02 God, let's go and see the hat.
12:09 Speaker 01 Lying nonchalantly on the warehouse floor, a six metre carbon fibre beauty, designed by Grace and manufactured by Sam and Freddie from Top Stage Advanced Composites.
12:21 Speaker 03 Wow.
12:22 Speaker 02 Standing over the hat.
12:23 Speaker 03 Let's start with you, Grace. You did a lot of the design work. How are you feeling about it?
12:28 Speaker 06 It's much bigger in person. I'm very excited to see it vertical. I feel like it will be much bigger than I anticipate, but the way that Sam's built it is like very, very well done. I'm very, very impressed. I'm very excited to see how this goes.
12:40 Speaker 03 Okay, so you're happy with the result?
12:42 Speaker 06 Oh, I'm happy with the result. I still think it will be hard to walk in.
12:46 Speaker 03 That's our point.
12:46 Speaker 06 But I think it'll be a challenge, but this is probably the best level to go off.
12:52 Speaker 03 Yeah.
12:53 Speaker 02 How do you feel hearing the compliments to your work there, Sam?
12:57 Speaker 07 Relieved. I mean, you know, all of us at Top Stage, like we've put a lot of time into this. I didn't have a beard when I started this. Like, that just tells you how long we've been going.
13:07 Speaker 02 Congratulations, it's a beautiful beard.
13:08 Speaker 07 Thank you. You too.
13:09 Speaker 03 You're having one of the beard boys.
13:11 Speaker 07 Exactly.
13:12 Speaker 03 Just for the carbon fibre fans out there, when you look at the joins on this, Grace, what makes you say that this is so well constructed? Is it the smoothness of the joins?
13:22 Speaker 06 Yeah, just the smoothness of the joints. I mean, talking with Sam as well, they've done a lot of like different layering. So it's heavier at the bottom, trying to get that centre of mass down. They've done a really well done job.
13:32 Speaker 03 So how thick are we at the bottom? Like say for the first two metres of the top hat, how thick are we there, Sam?
13:38 Speaker 07 Uh, off memory, we're three plies thick versus one at the top.
13:43 Speaker 03 And what's a ply? Like?
13:44 Speaker 07 A layer of cotton.
13:45 Speaker 03 No, just how many mill?
13:46 Speaker 07 Oh, you'll have to ask Freddie for that.
13:48 Speaker 02 Sam only has five ply at his neck.
13:50 Speaker 07 Yeah, no.
13:50 Speaker 02 To him, three ply is still very thin.
13:54 Speaker 07 Uh, we're about a mill at the biggest point.
13:56 Speaker 03 Wow. What did our final weight come in at?
13:59 Speaker 07 3.8 kilos.
14:00 Speaker 03 Holy, wow. That's so good.
14:03 Speaker 07 I think all next should be okay.
14:04 Speaker 03 Congratulations, congratulations.
14:06 Speaker 02 That is fethalite. We might float away. It might be like the hat from Up.
14:11 Speaker 03 So we were looking at 15 kilograms at one stage. 20 at one point.
14:14 Speaker 02 So is it too late to make this a 20 metre hat? I mean, we've got all this weight to spare.
14:20 Speaker 07 I know how much cotton Freddie bought.
14:22 Speaker 03 Well done. That's a shock to the system, but also a triumph for our next.
14:26 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
14:27 Speaker 03 And our family, that we can now still turn to them on any long car ride if we are in the driver's seat and they're in the passenger seat.
14:34 Speaker 02 It's fethalite.
14:35 Speaker 03 A lot of people worried that at a triumphant moment, obviously the hat will come down. Just be aware that's where most of the people are at the finish line.
14:42 Speaker 02 We can't hurt anyone with this hat, it's only three kilos.
14:45 Speaker 03 Is it fragile, Sam? Will it smash if it hits the ground?
14:48 Speaker 07 Uh, I think the ground might smash. This thing's strong.
14:50 Speaker 03 Really?
14:51 Speaker 02 Oh, what a flex from top stage.
14:55 Speaker 01 Whether this record would be achieved today, nobody knew yet. But standing by to witness and judge our heroes' attempts were a panel of five of our most trustworthy listeners.
15:05 Speaker 05 Hi, my name's Melissa. I'm a trustworthy individual because I'm a nurse, which is the most trustworthy profession.
15:11 Speaker 01 My name's Ben. I'm a registered surveyor in a justice of the peace.
15:15 Speaker 00 My name's Alex. I'm an account director in a brand agency and I'm trustworthy because years ago I declined £10,000 for the apron I was wearing. Hi, I'm Callum and I'm very trustworthy because I have...
15:26 Speaker 02 Andy's personal email address and I've never shared it.
15:29 Speaker 07 Hi, I'm Alicia and I'm trustworthy because I used to be a lifeguard.
15:33 Speaker 01 We had a hat, a giant launch platform and a judgment panel, but not yet a pilot for the hat. It was time to chat to the trustworthy listeners and find out who that pilot would be.
15:48 Speaker 03 A hush over the waiting crowd at the moment, isn't it? The tension's building.
15:51 Speaker 02 About 50 people.
15:52 Speaker 03 To launch, we're here with our trustworthy listeners. We'll start with you, Melissa. You're a registered nurse.
15:58 Speaker 07 Yes, I am.
15:59 Speaker 03 I've noticed that you've brought a long neck brace for us.
16:02 Speaker 07 I did ask also that you wore a tooth mouthguard, but I apparently got a talk, so you can't wear it.
16:07 Speaker 02 He has a habit of.
16:08 Speaker 07 I know, the teeth and the wedding, I know. I've been listening for a long time and I know about your teeth.
16:14 Speaker 02 He's known as the clumsy one.
16:17 Speaker 02 This is a shame.
16:17 Speaker 03 How is the teeth ever going to be exposed? I mean, the hat.
16:20 Speaker 02 You'll find a way. We thought.
16:22 Speaker 03 I would say the person not wearing the hat was more likely to get their teeth hit.
16:26 Speaker 02 That could be you as well.
16:27 Speaker 03 Yes.
16:27 Speaker 02 We worry.
16:28 Speaker 03 I'll make sure that I'm catching right underneath.
16:31 Speaker 07 If you fall, most people tend to put their hand out and get a push injury and they're not protecting their mouth.
16:36 Speaker 02 Do you know what a push injury is? Fall onto outstretched hand.
16:39 Speaker 03 Really?
16:39 Speaker 02 Thank you. I'm not the clumsy one. I'm the acumen one.
16:43 Speaker 07 Do you have children with those injuries?
16:45 Speaker 02 Yes, yes.
16:45 Speaker 07 How many?
16:46 Speaker 02 I've done them and then I've had to say to the kids, I can't wrestle today because I've got a foot. Melissa, what is the ethical dilemma? If, let's say between Andy and I, that there's a medical condition that we maybe should. Declare before the drawing of the hats, but we worry it will rule us out. How often do you see in a line of way, people just keep things a bit quiet because they don't want to be excluded from piloting a hat? Or another important job?
17:16 Speaker 07 So in the emergency department, the ICU that I work in, we don't generally come across that. Although do people do keep things to themselves and it tends to come out during the problem.
17:26 Speaker 03 Are you carrying an injury into this?
17:28 Speaker 02 I'm wondering if you are or I am or.
17:30 Speaker 03 I'm not, but I'm just saying you've got to put your best person out there. What are you carrying in?
17:35 Speaker 02 I'm fine.
17:37 Speaker 02 I'm okay. I'm okay. How important is, I mean, balance would be important for this.
17:45 Speaker 07 No vertigo. Anyone got Vertigo?
17:47 Speaker 03 No.
17:47 Speaker 07 Anyone been drinking?
17:49 Speaker 02 No.
17:49 Speaker 03 No.
17:50 Speaker 02 We actually declined to beer.
17:52 Speaker 03 We did.
17:53 Speaker 02 We're so proud of ourselves. We're actually very good boys.
17:58 Speaker 03 No.
17:58 Speaker 02 Yes, we were at a Greek restaurant.
18:00 Speaker 07 Medications, so you're on medications.
18:01 Speaker 02 I feel really good.
18:02 Speaker 07 Elicitor prescribed?
18:03 Speaker 03 Neither.
18:05 Speaker 02 Yeah, I mean, what have you got? No, thank you.
18:12 Speaker 03 All right, well, I feel like we're ready to draw.
18:15 Speaker 02 Yeah, no, I didn't want to bring it up, but months ago, I did get Vertigo. I had an inner ear problem, but I'm good now.
18:22 Speaker 07 Surely that's not a problem now, you know how light that is. That'd be just embarrassing to step back for that.
18:27 Speaker 02 I've been very well balanced.
18:28 Speaker 07 That'd be embarrassing.
18:28 Speaker 02 Yeah, it was my daughter's birthday and we went to a play centre and I had to get out of the play ground and I vomited.
18:35 Speaker 07 That's terrible.
18:36 Speaker 02 Because I went upside down. So as long as I say head over feet, I'm good. Yeah, I had a chat with them, I'm all good.
18:42 Speaker 03 All right, as our trustworthy officials, we're going to now pick who is going to be wearing the hat today. It will be a triumph for that person individually, but mainly a triumph for the show. So I'm excited to either be as a catcher or as a wearer. Jack, you've devised the idea today.
19:00 Speaker 04 In my pocket, I have the world's smallest, tallest hat.
19:06 Speaker 02 This is a perfect replica, Jack. Well done on making this, by the way. I know you're not busy with no job and everything, but still, you made that this morning.
19:14 Speaker 04 I made that this morning.
19:15 Speaker 03 You've progressed further with that than your sauna for the last three months.
19:18 Speaker 04 Well, it is a complete hat, so I guess you're right. So inside this little cardboard hat, which I have painted also, is...
19:25 Speaker 02 Where'd you go paint?
19:27 Speaker 04 It's actually the colour of our kitchen.
19:32 Speaker 03 Wonderful. Great, so just to describe it, Jack does have a hat probably the size of the top hat in Monopoly, but it's extended directly proportional to the size of our top hat.
19:43 Speaker 02 It's probably 15 centimetres.
19:44 Speaker 03 It's about the size of a pencil.
19:45 Speaker 02 Yeah, that's right.
19:46 Speaker 04 And inside are two thin bands of paper. One has Andy's name on it, the other has Hamish's name on it. Are you ready to find out who will pilot the hat?
19:54 Speaker 03 Maybe we should let an official select which piece from the tweezers.
19:57 Speaker 04 Yeah, sure, okay. I mean, but I made the hat.
20:00 Speaker 02 Yeah, but you could know which...
20:02 Speaker 04 All right, okay, let him pick it out.
20:05 Speaker 02 Okay, your turn. Pieces of paper, just for clarity. God, you're so trustworthy. This is great. Hang on, just before you do, Andy, I want you to know, if it's you, it's the best man for the job.
20:15 Speaker 04 Great, mate.
20:16 Speaker 03 And if it's you, I think we should do a redraw.
20:20 Speaker 02 Someone wanna count me down? Okay, here we go. Three, two, one. Oh my god!
20:27 Speaker 03 Oh no, the vertigo man!
20:31 Speaker 03 The woozy guy with vertigo! He's gonna throw up on the hat. I know. I believe in you. Let's do this thing. You've got my full support.
20:38 Speaker 02 My only worry is it's gonna be too easy. Thank you very much.
20:42 Speaker 01 So, Hamish would pilot the hat with Andy and Jack as hat tamers. But how would Hamish's wife Zoe feel about him putting his neck on the line? Only one way to find out.
20:54 Speaker 03 We are now in the breakout room, which is normally where factory workers come to have
20:58 Speaker 02 Really nice, isn't it?
20:59 Speaker 03 Probably a dare iced coffee and a donut, but it's changed now.
21:02 Speaker 02 Got your water fountain, got your big double fridge.
21:05 Speaker 03 What we require is a man with the people's expectations resting on his head.
21:09 Speaker 02 No weight on my shoulders.
21:10 Speaker 03 No.
21:10 Speaker 02 You're looking about 40 centimetres too low. All the expectations are up on my head.
21:15 Speaker 03 Exactly. How are you feeling? It's now real for you?
21:18 Speaker 02 Yep. I know what I would have felt if your name came out. There would have been a secret part of you going, "Yes." Because
21:25 Speaker 03 Mixed emotions.
21:26 Speaker 02 Your neck will be fine, but you also won't be held accountable should it not happen.
21:30 Speaker 03 We're not here to blame you.
21:32 Speaker 02 No, Jack, that's exactly what we're here to do.
21:34 Speaker 03 I, to, completely honest, it hadn't crossed my mind that we're not achieving this today.
21:39 Speaker 02 Yeah, me neither.
21:40 Speaker 03 Now that that has entered my mind, yeah, there is a good scapegoat, isn't there, Jack? Pilot or car error. They always say that in the Grand Prix, don't they? Is the car quick enough? And we're not gonna really blame the hat. No.
21:52 Speaker 02 You might.
21:54 Speaker 02 I might.
21:55 Speaker 03 Are you going to call Zo and say that?
21:58 Speaker 02 Yes. Big, um, very big day, Black household. Today, my daughter is auditioning for the role of Ursula, the sea witch in The Little Mermaid, her school production, and Dad's wearing the world's tallest hat.
22:11 Speaker 03 Wow. Wow. She is very busy, Zo. Yeah, she's always busy because she actually has a real job.
22:17 Speaker 02 No, in particular today is a busy day.
22:20 Speaker 03 Okay.
22:20 Speaker 02 She might not answer.
22:23 Speaker 03 But we're busy.
22:24 Speaker 02 I know, we're very busy.
22:25 Speaker 03 So what world record is she breaking today?
22:27 Speaker 02 Yeah. Busiest woman.
22:32 Speaker 02 But let's, do you know what? If she is breaking the record for being busiest woman, wouldn't it be even more impressive to take a phone call in the middle of all that busyness and be even more busy?
22:39 Speaker 03 Yeah, tip it up at the edge.
22:42 Speaker 02 Okay.
22:45 Speaker 03 Are you more scared to pilot the hat or call your wife?
22:47 Speaker 02 Honestly, he calls Zoe in the middle of her day.
22:53 Speaker 02 That's what it seems like.
22:54 Speaker 00 Hi, Andy.
22:55 Speaker 02 Hello, darling. How are you? I'm just here with Andy and Jack.
22:57 Speaker 03 Hey, Zoe.
22:59 Speaker 00 Hi.
22:59 Speaker 03 I know you're busy.
23:00 Speaker 02 Well, I know you're busy. Just so that you know, that the pilot selection for who's wearing the tall hat just happened.
23:09 Speaker 00 Yes.
23:09 Speaker 02 And your husband will be wearing the hat.
23:13 Speaker 00 This is great news.
23:15 Speaker 03 Yes, great. That's all we were hoping for. No, Zoe.
23:17 Speaker 02 I'm very busy as well, so I'll jump off the phone in a sec. But Andy's got one question.
23:21 Speaker 03 If he does have any neck injuries, what kind of nursing can he expect from the household, yourself and the kids included?
23:29 Speaker 00 Oh, no. Is this a thing? Is this, could this really be a thing?
23:32 Speaker 03 It could be a thing. It's the main concern from our health and safety people and the insurance company.
23:37 Speaker 00 Oh, um, I'll probably send him straight to the osteo. There we go.
23:42 Speaker 02 Yep, outsource it.
23:45 Speaker 02 No worries. Thanks, honey. Good luck with everything you've got going on. I'll send you pictures of the hat.
23:50 Speaker 03 Mm.
23:51 Speaker 00 Okay. Work hard, boys. You're doing great.
23:53 Speaker 02 No, thank you. Thanks, honey. Gotta go busy, bud. Love you, bud.
23:59 Speaker 03 Wow. Yes. Well, that's good.
24:01 Speaker 02 Two successful, two breadwinners.
24:02 Speaker 03 That's a nice.
24:05 Speaker 03 That's a nice endorsement, though.
24:06 Speaker 02 Okay.
24:08 Speaker 03 We did say that the top hat wearer would be in a tux. It makes sense.
24:11 Speaker 02 It will look silly to wear a top hat in a puffer jacket, which I'm in now, so I guess I better get dressed for the big show, the big dance.
24:19 Speaker 03 And then, Jack, you and I need to switch on. I feel like you might turn.
24:23 Speaker 02 You especially, Jack. You are feeling a little bit like a spectator today.
24:26 Speaker 03 That's how I felt like as well. Don't you reckon? He felt like he was one and done with his tiny hat.
24:30 Speaker 02 I think he's just slipped into wear. House mode where you're just wandering around.
24:34 Speaker 03 Saunching around.
24:35 Speaker 04 No, no, no. We don't have to start the playing game because you might, I know you're just preparing for
24:40 Speaker 02 True.
24:40 Speaker 04 Fingers to be pointed later on.
24:41 Speaker 02 I am laying some crowd work.
24:44 Speaker 04 We don't have to start that now. No, I know what my job is. Catch the hat if it tilts either way.
24:48 Speaker 02 Gently, gently.
24:49 Speaker 04 Gently catch the hat in this.
24:51 Speaker 02 And don't do it, don't make such a sharp movement that it would spook me and cause an error.
24:55 Speaker 04 Would hate to spook you. And I'm telling you now, I'll be there on your left or your right. So expect there to be some movement as I move alongside you.
25:05 Speaker 02 I will expect reasonable movement, but if the hat starts to fall and I can't get it back, I hope it's not because you've scared me.
25:15 Speaker 02 I hope it's not because you were moving in an unpredictable fashion. Against, because when someone gets spooked and when someone gets startled, it's unconscious. You can't consciously not be startled.
25:26 Speaker 04 Well, it'll be somewhat unpredictable because you've never seen me move with a giant pole with a hook on the end. I've never moved with a giant pole with a hook on the end.
25:33 Speaker 02 I'm just saying, I hope unconsciously it doesn't startle me.
25:36 Speaker 04 I don't think it will.
25:37 Speaker 02 It might.
25:42 Speaker 04 Okay, so I'll have the pole from the get go. Andy's gonna, Andy's gonna help you put the hat on and then I'm gonna race back down it and also.
25:49 Speaker 02 And you'll grab a pole.
25:50 Speaker 04 Yeah, but I'll do it really calmly in a way that you couldn't possibly be startled.
25:54 Speaker 02 The handle of the pole, is it a matte finish?
25:57 Speaker 04 Oh, our pole?
25:58 Speaker 02 Yeah.
25:58 Speaker 04 No, it's metallic.
25:59 Speaker 02 It's metallic. It looks like a. So light can bounce off it.
26:01 Speaker 04 Yeah.
26:03 Speaker 04 But where indoors, there's no sun gonna reflect into your eyes.
26:07 Speaker 02 Yeah, I hope that doesn't startle me.
26:10 Speaker 04 You're not, you're not a crow that gets startled by mirrors and won't land on the farmer's crops.
26:17 Speaker 02 I hope not. Because at the time, my head will be getting pressed into my neck and the blood flow will be restricted to my head. Yeah. So that could happen. I hope that doesn't startle me.
26:26 Speaker 04 Do you want blinkers like a horse would wear?
26:27 Speaker 02 In all seriousness.
26:28 Speaker 04 Just move, move appropriately.
26:30 Speaker 03 In all seriousness, how many attempts do you reckon? You, you get it. I believe you can get it.
26:35 Speaker 02 I am.
26:35 Speaker 03 But how many attempts do you reckon?
26:36 Speaker 02 I'm honestly worried that this will be anticlimactic because they'll just be like, he's smashed it.
26:40 Speaker 04 Is there an amount of attempts where you relinquish the hat?
26:44 Speaker 02 Thirty.
26:45 Speaker 04 Okay.
26:45 Speaker 03 Well, we're gonna stay here that long.
26:47 Speaker 02 You got something else on, mate?
26:48 Speaker 04 No, I just thought like after ten, won't we get bored of it?
26:52 Speaker 02 This for six months. We're not gonna wander off because we had.
26:56 Speaker 03 Thirty attempts.
26:56 Speaker 02 It's gonna take thirty seconds per go.
26:58 Speaker 04 Well, thirty, then we'll get like, then we'll be going home with the traffic.
27:08 Speaker 03 I think thirty's a lot.
27:10 Speaker 02 Guys, I'm gonna do it in a few. I'm just saying.
27:13 Speaker 04 Thirty feels like.
27:14 Speaker 02 I actually think it should be left up to the pilot to go, mate. Neck fatigue should be.
27:19 Speaker 03 Sub me out.
27:20 Speaker 02 Sub me out because I think the more attempts, should something happen and we get down and we go, oh, okay, this is actually way more of a head balancing challenge than we thought. I think the more you do it, the more you get used to.
27:32 Speaker 03 Agreed. I agree. I agree. And so you want to know, you want to fish in it and it goes, if it goes through Hame and he relinquishes due to net fatigue, goes through me, do you want to go at it?
27:40 Speaker 02 Yeah. Bearing in mind, the traffic will be horrendous.
27:43 Speaker 04 At this point, we might as well keep going through the traffic and go home at night.
27:49 Speaker 02 After the traffic.
27:52 Speaker 04 They don't do too many launches at NASA, just.
27:56 Speaker 02 We're reporting the mission. What happened? Oh, mate, by the time we get it all back in the shed.
28:00 Speaker 04 It's five o'clock.
28:02 Speaker 02 No way am I driving at school pickup time. No way.
28:04 Speaker 04 Let's get into this.
28:11 Speaker 01 So after months of talk, design and construction, it was finally time to let the hat do the talking. Would Hame get vertigo? Would Jack distract him? Would they smash the hat or the record? And most importantly, would they beat the traffic home? Let's find out.
28:31 Speaker 02 Pretty weird to have something on your head that's as high as the roof.
28:34 Speaker 04 Hope that backlight doesn't distract him when he's putting the big hat on.
28:37 Speaker 02 It's not about being distracted, it's about being startled.
28:42 Speaker 01 With the hat upright for the first time, the daunting task of protecting it was becoming apparent. Hey, Hame. Yep. As far as like.
28:50 Speaker 03 If it falls, we're gonna try and catch it and then you'll just, you'll just pick it up?
28:55 Speaker 02 Yeah, you're just correcting, you know?
28:57 Speaker 03 Then we'll take it off?
28:58 Speaker 02 Yeah, well then we just could just walk back.
29:00 Speaker 03 Okay, try and walk it back?
29:01 Speaker 02 Just correct it and then go, and then go again.
29:03 Speaker 03 Okay, cool.
29:05 Speaker 01 But I guess not everyone was laser focused on the record yet.
29:08 Speaker 03 Jack, did you sneak off and get a biscuit?
29:13 Speaker 02 I wouldn't mind a biscuit.
29:13 Speaker 03 Melissa made cookies.
29:15 Speaker 02 Melissa made cookies? Yeah, I made cookies.
29:17 Speaker 03 Oh, Melissa.
29:18 Speaker 02 I'm not gonna do this with low blood sugar.
29:20 Speaker 03 Is that, will that be good for vertigo or bad? They're really good.
29:25 Speaker 03 Blood sugar?
29:27 Speaker 02 Oh my gosh, yeah. Thank you so much. Oh, yum.
29:32 Speaker 01 With a mouthful of choc chip goodness, it was time to talk game plan.
29:37 Speaker 02 I don't wanna look down, Ando.
29:38 Speaker 03 No.
29:39 Speaker 02 So I'll come out, I'm gonna have my arms out for balance.
29:42 Speaker 03 Yep.
29:43 Speaker 02 I'll be locked on to the distance.
29:44 Speaker 03 Mm-hmm.
29:45 Speaker 02 If it falls backwards.
29:46 Speaker 03 Yep.
29:47 Speaker 02 That's the only part that we can't really save you, like from the get-go. But I reckon, Jack, you're in charge.
29:55 Speaker 03 Yep.
29:55 Speaker 02 Of left-hand side round to the front.
29:58 Speaker 03 Okay, that's good. And you go through the back.
30:00 Speaker 02 And then I'll come around the back here, Ham.
30:02 Speaker 03 Yeah.
30:03 Speaker 02 And I'll be in charge.
30:03 Speaker 03 You go back, proper.
30:04 Speaker 02 Yep.
30:05 Speaker 01 Every world-beating athlete needs to start somewhere, maybe with some training wheels.
30:11 Speaker 02 How'd you guys feel about me holding the hat for a go?
30:13 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah. Sure.
30:16 Speaker 02 Because I think if your arms can.
30:17 Speaker 03 Gee, it's a tall hat now.
30:18 Speaker 02 Yeah, actually get your sticks out because I might need them.
30:21 Speaker 03 Okay.
30:23 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah, you can feel the weight. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be tough.
30:29 Speaker 02 Yep, it's gonna be tough, yeah.
30:31 Speaker 03 Oh, yep, yep, yep.
30:32 Speaker 02 Yeah, you can't chase it.
30:33 Speaker 03 It's a lot of hat.
30:35 Speaker 02 It's a lot of hat to control.
30:36 Speaker 03 Yeah.
30:37 Speaker 02 Be really nimble, Jack.
30:39 Speaker 03 Yeah.
30:40 Speaker 02 But not in a way that would startle me.
30:44 Speaker 01 We've come so far. Over many months, the time was nigh.
30:49 Speaker 03 All right, should we give on a batch?
30:50 Speaker 02 Let's give it a batch.
30:52 Speaker 03 But good luck, mate. Good luck, Ham. Good luck.
31:01 Speaker 01 But there was a small issue, literally.
31:04 Speaker 02 Oh, she's a bit tight.
31:11 Speaker 02 It's sticking to the back of my head.
31:12 Speaker 03 We have a hat size issue.
31:16 Speaker 02 It feels like it's sitting too high on my head.
31:19 Speaker 01 The swagger and confidence of our hat heroes was starting to slip a little.
31:24 Speaker 02 God, it's so much different when it's on your head than in your hands.
31:27 Speaker 03 Hamish is inside the tower. He's got the hat on his head, but so far he doesn't have control of it on its own. It just feels like it's not quite heavy.
31:37 Speaker 02 No, it's not.
31:38 Speaker 03 Okay, I'll let you take it away.
31:44 Speaker 03 It's well, big lean back towards me at the moment.
31:46 Speaker 02 Yep, no worries.
31:46 Speaker 03 I mean, he's still got hands holding the hat, but it's leaning against the frame of the tower. And he's just trying to, like, so he hasn't even left yet, but he's just trying to work out how he's gonna even balance it. Now it's coming forward.
32:01 Speaker 02 All right, why don't you get it set with the stick?
32:03 Speaker 03 Yep, I think what we're finding out before we even begin is it's gonna be way harder than what we thought.
32:09 Speaker 02 You got it?
32:09 Speaker 03 For Hamish to balance the hat. Now it's just like, he makes the smallest movement, it just goes haywire at the top.
32:18 Speaker 01 But not a team to be defeated. They tried to push the hat down and push through with an attempt.
32:24 Speaker 03 Good luck, Ham.
32:26 Speaker 02 Oh no, it's going forwards.
32:30 Speaker 02 Where is it?
32:31 Speaker 03 It's going forwards.
32:34 Speaker 03 Do you need help?
32:37 Speaker 03 Okay, it's gonna be so hard.
32:40 Speaker 02 Here's the problem.
32:41 Speaker 03 It's a huge hat?
32:43 Speaker 02 Yeah, it's a big old hat. It just doesn't fit on my head.
32:47 Speaker 03 Do you want it to?
32:48 Speaker 02 It's too shallow.
32:50 Speaker 03 Yeah, we need to like crunch it down your head more, don't we?
32:52 Speaker 02 It's not moving, it's carbon fibre.
32:54 Speaker 03 It's not gonna, you know, you can't squeeze your head in there.
32:56 Speaker 02 My head's too big for it. Do you wanna try it on your head?
32:58 Speaker 03 I mean, not at the moment, it looks really hard.
33:02 Speaker 02 God, it's a real Cinderella moment, isn't it? I'm an ugly sister and it just doesn't fit.
33:08 Speaker 01 Despite some tumbles, luckily the hat had not cracked. However, there were a few cracks appearing in the teamwork.
33:17 Speaker 02 Get ready to catch, Jack.
33:18 Speaker 03 Yep.
33:18 Speaker 02 You're not even paying attention.
33:20 Speaker 03 Yeah, I'm not, I'm ready.
33:21 Speaker 02 I told you, I was worried you were just a bit too loose today.
33:25 Speaker 03 Hamish, because he's got a big head now, he's trying to take it out on me, but I don't do anything. Oh, can you hear that?
33:32 Speaker 03 Ready?
33:33 Speaker 02 Yep.
33:33 Speaker 03 And letting go. Oh, you're on, you're on, you're on. Oh, Jacko.
33:38 Speaker 02 Jack.
33:40 Speaker 02 Catch it earlier.
33:42 Speaker 03 I thought you, I thought you might have like.
33:44 Speaker 02 How would I be walking with it? It was at a 45 degree angle.
33:48 Speaker 03 You know that thing where you.
33:49 Speaker 02 What are you waiting to catch it? Get it up to it, up to it.
33:53 Speaker 03 I thought you wanted to do that thing where you like, you kept telling us that when it's falling, you can walk fast into it.
33:59 Speaker 02 Like that angle, not, not horizontal.
34:03 Speaker 07 We made what? One and a half meters, two meters?
34:05 Speaker 02 Yeah.
34:06 Speaker 01 Only eight and a half meters left to conquer. And see if you can tell how the next attempts went just from these noises.
34:21 Speaker 03 Why did you go that way?
34:22 Speaker 07 It was falling, Jack.
34:29 Speaker 01 And after an hour of unsuccessful attempts, the situation was dawning on the boys.
34:39 Speaker 03 Just doesn't fit. It was at this point where the crowd began to wonder what they'd spent their afternoon.
34:47 Speaker 02 I think we've got a situation where this does not fit on our heads. Yeah, we've. I think we've made a giant hat that doesn't fit.
34:57 Speaker 01 Freddie from Top Stage Advanced Composites to the rescue. Angle grinder in hand. A larger, Hamish-sized opening was carved into the carbon fiber hat.
35:08 Speaker 03 At the moment, it's like balancing a broom on Ham's head. It's not even getting down low enough for him to have any interaction with it. I feel like every millimeter, it sinks actually onto your head.
35:17 Speaker 02 Ideally, we want it right near the eyebrows.
35:19 Speaker 03 Yeah.
35:20 Speaker 02 And at the moment, it's near the hairline.
35:22 Speaker 03 Yeah.
35:23 Speaker 02 Which is high because sadly, it is high.
35:29 Speaker 01 With a much bigger hat hole, it was a whole new hat game. Let the record-breaking commence.
35:35 Speaker 03 Okay, after considerable grinding. Yeah. Extra foam. We're into our second hour now. Molding.
35:42 Speaker 02 I'll say sorry about it.
35:43 Speaker 03 No, I'm just giving you. The traffic's okay. I just want to give a picture for people who are listening at home.
35:48 Speaker 02 Well, I think if we listened back to it, it sounded dejected. But the spirit should be high because unlike Cinderella, where the slipper didn't fit the ugly sister. They didn't have a Freddie. He was able to get the angle grinder out and grind the slipper down and put packing foam in it until the slipper did fit a bit better.
36:05 Speaker 03 Exactly. Freddie is our cobbler.
36:09 Speaker 02 The old head cobbler. I wish there was a name for him, but that's as good as we've got. Head cobbler.
36:15 Speaker 03 So yes, it is a much better fit. Now we hopefully have a little bit of leverage, a little bit of control.
36:21 Speaker 02 Some kind of a chance. We just need to get down there. It's an absolute balance challenge.
36:27 Speaker 03 Yeah. You can do it.
36:29 Speaker 02 Balance is my life. How do I manage school drop off, golf and school pickup in one day? Balance, this is what I train for.
36:43 Speaker 03 That is looking.
36:44 Speaker 02 I'm coming out. I'm coming out and I say we do it. I have control.
36:50 Speaker 03 That's all you, mate.
36:51 Speaker 02 Give me space, do not startle me.
36:55 Speaker 01 So Hamish set himself with a far better fitting hat. It was time to launch again.
37:00 Speaker 02 Three, two, one.
37:14 Speaker 03 You actually had control.
37:16 Speaker 02 Put me back, put me back.
37:26 Speaker 03 You at least could centre this time, you actually controlled it. You were doing well to control it.
37:30 Speaker 02 Yep, okay, let's have a few more of those.
37:32 Speaker 03 Yeah.
37:33 Speaker 01 With every attempt and ultimate fail, valuable data was gathered for the next run.
37:39 Speaker 03 And you look very steady and stable. That looks really good.
37:43 Speaker 02 Great, ready?
37:44 Speaker 03 Yep.
37:45 Speaker 02 Launching.
37:54 Speaker 02 Okay.
37:55 Speaker 03 Four metres, four metres.
37:57 Speaker 02 Okay.
37:58 Speaker 03 You feel like you're getting better though, H. I'll say that.
38:04 Speaker 01 Safety was a huge priority. And whilst neck integrity was spoken about a lot, it was ultimately the hat tamers who were in the firing line.
38:14 Speaker 02 Here we go.
38:16 Speaker 03 Pushing up.
38:24 Speaker 03 Ah.
38:24 Speaker 02 Thank God for leg helmet.
38:28 Speaker 07 I got hit in the face by Jackson, so.
38:32 Speaker 02 That was amazing.
38:35 Speaker 07 Gosh.
38:36 Speaker 01 Like any great athlete, our hat pilot was tweaking technique and incrementally improving with every attempt.
38:43 Speaker 02 I know what I'm gonna go for now, I'm gonna go for a much faster one.
38:46 Speaker 07 Okay.
38:46 Speaker 02 Ready, give us some space. No, but maybe.
39:01 Speaker 02 Record it, record it, record it. Yeah, okay, good data. That's great data.
39:08 Speaker 01 They were so close to success.
39:10 Speaker 02 I believe in you, mate, this is feeling, it's feeling better. Feeling much better.
39:15 Speaker 01 And after 23 attempts in a little under two hours.
39:18 Speaker 02 Give us a little bit of space.
39:19 Speaker 01 It happened.
39:21 Speaker 02 Okay, here we go, three, two, one. Yep, yep.
39:27 Speaker 07 Kick it, kick it, kick it, kick it.
39:34 Speaker 02 Was that it?
39:38 Speaker 07 Did we get it?
39:40 Speaker 02 Did we get it?
39:41 Speaker 07 Did we get it?
39:41 Speaker 02 Did we do it?
39:50 Speaker 02 So smooth, so controlled, like a night out at a fancy restaurant with a big hat on.
39:55 Speaker 07 It's not for us to decide, we've brought five people here. This is, oh, they're all, they're all going in, cheapest.
40:03 Speaker 02 They're having a huddle. Maybe it was.
40:05 Speaker 07 Oh no.
40:08 Speaker 01 While the trustworthy listeners decided the team's fate, they reviewed the footage to see if Andy had touched the hat with his taming stick before or after the 10 metre line.
40:18 Speaker 04 This is the wide angle, we can see everything from start to finish.
40:23 Speaker 02 I never expected it to be so, so delayed.
40:28 Speaker 07 Well.
40:34 Speaker 07 You did it so fast.
40:36 Speaker 02 It's an absolute mad dash for the boarder.
40:39 Speaker 01 And our trustworthy expert panel agreed.
40:42 Speaker 07 Record achieved.
40:52 Speaker 02 Thanks guys. Sorry I started running. Jack's dawdling.
40:58 Speaker 02 I didn't know what was going on and I saw something and I just panicked and I ran. Oh, well done, Haym.
41:03 Speaker 01 And so, after many attempts, the beast had been tamed. Although, to be clear, not tamed by a tamer. Just a human neck and for the required ten metres. Turns out it wasn't just the trustworthy listeners who needed to duck for cover. It was the doubters, the naysayers, and those who believed attempting this was sheer madness. Well, it didn't look like sheer madness to Hamish and Andy. It looked like a very formal man in a warehouse, going for a well-in-control walk. Stopping briefly, turning, changing his mind and spinning the opposite way. Then going for a casual and extremely in-control run in the opposite direction,
41:49 Speaker 01 until he crossed the line.
41:53 Speaker 02 I guess we'd better have a Guinness.
41:56 Speaker 02 Guinness and a world record.
42:01 Speaker 02 Thanks for listening. The Hamish and Andy podcast will return next week. Catch up or contribute at haymishandandy.com.
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