访谈录[Interview]2007-12-08:吉尼斯,要的就是创意!
时间：2008-06-21 06:59:12
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Hi, I'm Deborah Roberts. Welcome to 20/20 in touch.
Alright, here's something you can do with the entire family this holiday weekend, watch our special hour Friday on people who go to extremes to be part of the Guinness World Records Phenomenon.
What would possess someone to try this? Or even this? Around the world people will do practically anything to lay claim to being the fastest, the highest, the biggest, or if you are Jackie Bibby, the most daring. Eight years ago Bibby wriggled1 his way into the record book by, brace2 yourself, sharing a bathtub with the most number of rattlesnakes. Just this month, he broke a new record, now up to 87 snakes.
Now why would you get in a bathtub with 87 snakes?
You know what, there's probably no other way that a country boy such as myself would be interviewed by a lady like you and to get in the Guinness book world record.
A self-described adrenalin junkie, for Bibby who's been bitten 8 times, the more dangerous the better. Only venomous western diamondbacks will do.
How poisonous is this guy?
Well, this snake does have the fangs3 to inflict4 a deadly bite. So if you are bitten in a certain place in a certain way, then it could kill you.
May I touch him?
Sure.
Do I dare? Where should I touch him?
Right here.
And this snake is very muscular and very strong. (Wow) The rattlers are similar to our fingernails. They are hardened skin and they are segmented. So when the snake vibrates its tail, the segments bend together and you hear the very distinctive5 sound.
After 39 years of snake wrangling6, Bibby is always looking to outdo himself, including his most recent brainstorm7. He gets ready, for the most rattlesnakes in his mouth.
11 snakes in your mouth at one time to dangling8 about. (Yes, Ma'am. )
I mean, I just doubt, I was faint watching it. What does that feel like for you?
Just exciting and fun. I'm a thrill seeker, and you know there are those who always say they are adrenalin junkies.
You know, a lot of people think you are kooky.
That's Okay. But they will talk to me. They think I'm interesting even they think I'm crazy.
They like to be on the edge. They like the adrenalin rush.
Psychiatrist9 Gale10 Saltz says most Guinness record holders11 hold certain common traits.
They are addicted12 to showing themselves to being exhibitionists and that kind of person is gonna do that kind of feat13 for Guinness.
And there are more Jackie Bibbies out there than you'd ever imagined. Guinness officials say they are swamped every year with 50, 000 worldwide requests from people hoping to set records.
It does get from the supplying to choose the ridiculous. But when I say ridiculous, I mean in a sense that people are having fun.
Steward14 Claxton, an official judge for Guinness who verifies record breaking attempts. Like the monstrous15 effort , just a few weeks ago, to build the largest Cesar Salad in Tijuana, Mexico. It weighed in at more than 7000 pounds.
I'm guessing you get anything that you can possibly think of or not think of that people offer to do.
Yes, you are only limited by your imagination. And that was, that's the Aesops behind the book.
Some people even posted their attempts on YouTube. Matt McAllister wore 155 T-shirts at the same time to set a Guinness record.
Often things will come out as that we haven't thought of or that we don't have a category for or we don't have a database.
With a database of more than 40, 000 Guinness records, it's hard to believe that there are something no one has already thought of. But then again.
We are all about celebrating ordinary everyday people doing extraordinary things.
Keep checking in online for our webcast and our plans for upcoming stories. I'm Deborah Roberts, for all of us at 2020, we are in touch, so you be in.
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