When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the Guinness Book of World Records. But now I realize it's

kind of a scam, which is really sad. Another thing they took from my childhood. Welcome to the

Council of Trent. Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and theology. But on Friday,

we talk about whatever I want to talk about. And today I want to talk about the Guinness Book of

World Records.

Do you remember that? I mean, when you're in middle school like myself, you don't have,

you don't have access to high-speed internet, you know, what do you read for fun? When you go into

the library, what do you got? You've got a Oregon Trail. Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?

You know, you've got old encyclopedias to look at different reference books, the eyewitness books

for kids. And you had the Guinness Book of World Records. As a kid, you're like, I could get in

this book. You start flipping through it and you see that there's records that, you know,

you're 11-year-old kid reading the book like, you think, yeah, I break that. Four-minute mile? How hard could that be? I'm super fast. You start running,

you're like, I can't do it anymore. I can't do it. So four-minute miles, it's like,

I got to run this lap in one minute, because they're usually a quarter-mile lap on elementary the elementary schools. So you think, okay, maybe I'm not fast enough or strong enough, like, can't lift like

2,000 pounds or something like that.

But, you know, I could drink the most Cokes in the record or assemble the biggest Coke

bottle sculpture, whatever it might be.

There's all different kinds you start going through.

Although, so that's part of it is like the kid's desire you want to be famous.

You want to be a world record break. You want to get in the Guinness book of World Records.

But also as a kid, it's really fun to read through. I still remember, you know, the world's tallest

man, Robert Wadlow. And it's cool as a kid learning about the world like, oh, the tallest, the shortest, the biggest, the fattest, you know, the strongest, the fastest, all of these

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