Hardest Bestest Fastest Strongest

Good evening ladies and gentleman, and welcome to Old Tra-pod! Yes, it's a packed house here tonight at the Theatre of Streams, and boy do we have a fixture for you today. As ever, the home side are HBFS AFC, a side with more initials than fans. And with zero world records and 10 losses to their name, this fixture feels more like a third round FA cup tie than a league game. No, it's the vi...

You might want to put on some oven gloves, because boy do we have a scorcher of an episode for you this week! For lucky episode number 7 we are joined by Hollywood's second favourite Austrian, stuntman 'Burning' Joe Toedling. If a world record involves being set on fire for an uncomfortable amount of time, Joe probably holds it. Joe tells us all about his favourite times being on fire, times it ne...

*WARNING: The episode contains gratuitous puns about poop* Today we're talking a load of sh*t - both metaphorically and literally - because this episode's guest is the owner of the world's largest collection of fossilised poo (coprolites), and esteemed founder of 'The Poozeum' in Arizona, USA. It's the magnificent George Frandsen! Simply the world's number one when it c...

Come and listen to the episode that has (unofficially) broken the world record for 'The spookiest ever Halloween special edition of a podcast specifically about world record breakers'. It's both spooktacular AND fangtastic...two original puns that no Halloween-themed thing has claimed to be, ever. No world record holding guest this week - just two hosts who are distinctly average in al...

After a lengthy break we are back harder, better, faster, stronger and more hyperbolic than ever! For the first episode of Series 2 we are joined live in the studio by superstar designer Rob Hallifax. Two-time world record holder and creator of the both the world's smallest and the world's largest playing cards (check out our Instagram for photos). We discuss out favourite ever tiny and gi...

In our sixth episode, we meet multiple world record holder April Choi – best known in the record-breaking community for her world-class whip-cracking talents! From the longest whip to the fastest whip, and all the various niche whip-cracking and even fire-breathing related stunts in between, April would put Indiana Jones to shame if it ever came down to a head-to-head contest. A NASA engineer by t...

Some like it hot. Some like it burning. Smokin' Ed Currie is one of the latter sort, and hot sauce lovers around the world are eternally grateful. Ed is our special guest for Episode 5 of Hardest Bestest Fastest Strongest, and the esteemed grower of Pepper X—the world's hottest chilli pepper. Being the generous South Carolinian he is, Ed sent 3 of his hottest Pepper X sauces for Sam and Jo...

This week's guest is not only full of beans, he is often quite literally covered in them. In 1986, Captain Beany clinched the world record for the longest time ever spent immersed in a bath of baked beans – 100 hours, in the name of charity, and a record which, perhaps rather unsurprisingly, still stands today. In this episode, we meet the man "beaneath" the beans, hearing all about...

Our guest this week is multiple world record holder Mariam “ Amazi" Olayiwola. A former scientist who, after a tragic accident 5 years ago, quit the laboratory to become a full-time hula hooping performance artist. A move that is clearly working out because Amazi has just broken her THIRD hula hooping world record! WARNING: Listening to this episode may result in you immediately quitting your...

For our second episode, we are joined by the late Ron Sarchian, a.k.a. World Record Ron – a bona fide record-breaking legend with 53 world records to his name. From punchbag marathons to the most watermelons karate-chopped in a minute, his range of world record titles is truly outstanding – and 23 of them were broken while undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer in January 2022....

For our first episode, we are joined by world record-breaking magician Martin Rees, who features in the Guinness World Records 2024 book for his great array of magic-based world records. Magic under water? Magic in a wind tunnel? Magic in space!? Taking magician ambition to the next level, Martin tells us all about his current and previously held world records, as well as those he hopes to break....

Are you mesmerised by implausible human feats? Enchanted by extraordinary achievements? Or intrigued by wonderfully weird obsessions? Dive into the world of record-breaking brilliance, with Hardest Bestest Fastest Strongest – a brand new podcast about world records and the most amazing humans who break them, interviewed by two of the most average.