Episode 51 Record-Breaking It Up
In this episode of Level Up - Record-Breaking It Up (recorded on August 30, 2026), hosts Ziyaad, Nabihah, and Isa discuss current news stories and explore the topic of world records.
Key Highlights:
- Rescue Efforts in Nepal: The team provides updates on six South Africans missing following a massive flash flood caused by a glacial collapse in Nepal (1:47 - 9:34). Gift of the Givers is on standby, waiting for official calls for international assistance.
- Tech News: Samsung launched the Galaxy S26 FE. The hosts discuss its specifications, including a 6.7-inch display, a 4,900 mAh battery, and Galaxy AI integration, with prices starting at 15,499 rand (9:55 - 14:55).
- Humanoid Robot Games: The second annual World Humanoid Robot Games took place in Beijing, featuring over 2,000 robots competing in various athletic and practical tasks (16:35 - 23:35). The hosts note the humorous nature of the competition, as some robots struggled with basic maneuvers.
- Guinness World Records & Durability Test: The hosts discuss a viral video of Rhino Shield phone covers being dropped from space to prove their durability (26:14 - 34:00). They also highlight notable world records held by Muslims and South Africans, including the largest handwritten Quran scroll and various athletic achievements (35:08 - 38:50).
- Audience Interaction: The hosts share listener suggestions for what they would do to set a world record, ranging from baking cupcakes to building the biggest Lego Formula 1 car (39:26 - 40:29).
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Episode 51: Record-Breaking It Up
Sunday 30 August 2026 / 17th Rabi al-Awwal 1448AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
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Episode 51: Record-Breaking It Up
Sunday 30 August 2026 / 17th Rabi al-Awwal 1448AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
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Episode 51: Record-Breaking It Up
Sunday 30 August 2026 / 17th Rabi al-Awwal 1448AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
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to dear listeners. It's just past 200 p.m. right here in South Africa and it's our favorite day of the week, Yom Aad.
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It's the 17th day of Arabiel 14:48 ah alhamdulillah and it
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corresponds to Sunday the 30th of August 2026.
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I'm [snorts] Zad Plachies and with me are my co-hosts Nabiha and Issa Plachis.
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Welcome to Level Up, where we listen, learn, and grow, inshallah, with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's guidance, and we break down the week's news and talk
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about what really matters to young Muslims today. Our WhatsApp line is open. The number is 0727861548.
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You can call in on 01854702 or DM us on.com.
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That's IL Z AO M. We on Instagram, Facebook X,
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LinkedIn, YouTube, Tik Tok threads, as [clears throat] well as Upscrolled.
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Oh, and we have a WhatsApp channel now as well.
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So, we put out a question during the week on social media asking if given the chance, what would you do to become a Guinness World Record holder?
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Um, we had quite a a bit of a response, a good response. Alhamdulillah. And we will share the answers and discuss this after the break, inshallah.
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Right now, let's take a look at some of the top stories this week.
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One of the top stories is that Gift of the Givers has a rescue team on standby to travel to Nepal to rescue the six
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South Africans reported missing in the flash flood.
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What we know so far about the six are Suren Nath Maharaj 74 and his wife Anita
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Devi Maharaj 67 are couple from Lady Smith who are traveling on the Kaesh Mansa Rover pilgrimage route. Viva
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Ganathan Pelle 66 and his wife Janette Pelle 56 another couple from Lady Smith traveling with the Alpine Eco Trek and Expedition Group.
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Terresa Governor 33, a data analyst from Isipingo Beach Durban was also on the Kaish Manserova pilgrimage and her last
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known location was near the Gaong immigration center.
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Bavila Ramji43, a traveler from East London who was near the Chinese border when the floods hit. So South African
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charity group Gift of the Givers has put an 11 person urban search and water rescue team on standby to travel to
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Nepal to try to rescue or recover at least six South Africans reported missing in the massive flash flood that
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hit the country's border region with Tibet China on Wednesday the 26th of August 2026.
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The South African government is trying to verify the information about the plight of its citizens said Chrisen Piri the spokesperson for the department of international relations and cooperation.
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The task is complicated by the absence of a South African embassy in Nepal.
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However, South Africa's high commission in India which is responsible for managing relations with Nepal is seeking information.
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The identities of the missing South Africans have not yet been confirmed.
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So those names that we've read are just uh what's been circulating on social media. Uh but media reports have
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identified one woman, a 33-year-old governor from Isipingo Beach was traveling with the Isha Foundation on a
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Kyish Manserova Yatra tour. Her mother, Linda Governor, told Caxton that her daughter had traveled alone and joined
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the foundation to begin her pilgrimage to Mount Kaish on the 12th of August.
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She was so excited because she got to spend her birthday which was on 20th of August there, said Linda. According to Caxton,
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Governor met Sad Guru, the spiritual guru and founder of the Isha Foundation on her birthday. Linda last spoke to her
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daughter on the 25th of August before receiving news of the floods on Sunday.
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Sadguru has also released a statement acknowledging that one South African national is among those missing.
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Gift of the giver separately told newsroom Africa that a South African couple had been reported missing.
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Director Dr. Imtia Sullean said he had received a call from the couple's daughter who told him her parents had been caught up in the floods in Nepal.
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She confirmed that two other South Africans had been traveling on the bus with them. The daughter is known to us.
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We spoke to the tour operator that hosted the couple. He confirmed that a second South African couple and several
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international tourists are missing and that thousands of homes, shopping malls, and businesses have been washed away.
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The daughter made contact with the tour guide and operator, said Sullean. And Sullean also spoke to the guide.
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About an hour after the call, she received information that her parents had been in a building that was totally decimated by the floods. She has since
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accepted that her parents have most likely died and said she does not know the whereabouts or identities of the other two South Africans.
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Sulleman said he had also received information that another two South Africans were not in the area where the
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tragedy struck and were still alive in another location nearby.
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The team on standby um in the Nepal tourism board on Thursday listed six South Africans among the 127 Nepali and
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517 foreign nationals missing in the flood. It is expected that the numbers will rise as the devastation visible
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even from social media videos of the massive wall of water that hit towns and villages was clearly immense.
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Sulleman said gift of the givers 11 urban search and water rescue team members were ready for deployment as
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well as four SAPS dog handlers and four dogs. But he added the Nepalese disaster
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management had advised them to remain on standby and not travel as Nepal's government has not yet made a call for international assistance.
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But that may just be forthcoming once the true scale of the disaster is manifest in daylight hours, he said late
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on Wednesday. Furthermore, there is a huge danger that a dam may collapse as a secondary impact, putting teams at
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enormous risk. Helicopter surveillance is the only means of access as all roads have been totally destroyed, but landing
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is not currently possible as there is no solid ground given the height of the water level. We are aware of other South
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Africans in the region, but they are safe.
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Sullean said he was in touch with the Nepalese embassy in SA, which was prepared to process visas with immediate
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effect, but we are holding on until a call for international assistance is made.
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His organization was also busy with airline companies in preparation for logistical arrangements. The Department of International Relations and
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Cooperation would be contacted for diplomatic support if the teams were deployed.
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The deployment of the SAPS dog handlers and their dogs had been authorized by Deputy National Police Commissioner
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Lieutenant General Tibello Mosikili Sullean.
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He added that Ahmed Bal, Gift of the Givers head of search and rescue was in communication with Nepalese disaster
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management as gift of the givers had a relationship with them having responded to the Nepal earthquake in 2015.
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Sullean said that the disaster site was 125 km north of the capital Kmandu.
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The flash flood of water, mud, rock, and debris appeared to have been caused by a glacia collapsing through the impact.
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Though the impact was so large, it was first thought to have been an earthquake. The US Geological Survey
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said on its website, this event was initially reported as a magnitude 4.4 earthquake. Additionally,
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analysts of long period seismic waves indicate that the seismic energy was instead generated by a glacial collapse
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and debris flow. The location of this event was estimated from satellite images.
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The office said the glacia had collapsed at 2:5210 coordinated universal time Grenage
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meantime or 8:3710 Nepal time on the 26th of August 55 km
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northwest of Gdari. [gasps] We make dua that um the the six people that are missing and everybody that is missing
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and has been affected that they are found that Allah make it easy for all those who have been affected. [snorts] The recovery um and the disaster
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management are quick and that people um can go back to their normal lives inshallah mean.
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Okay. So, in some tech news, Samsung launched their Galaxy S26 FE.
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What's FE for? Fan edition.
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Okay, so it's only for fans. [laughter] No, I think not for air cons.
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No, [laughter]
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[snorts]
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[clears throat] it's for everyone, I think.
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So, everybody that's a fan of Samsung Galaxies. Yeah. Okay.
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Okay. Um, so let's look at some of the pricing and
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the specs of the um this Samsung.
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So it starts at 15,499 rand.
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Okay. So 15,500 rand for a phone. Okay.
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Yes. And it hits shelves in September 2026.
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Hope it doesn't break when it hits the shelf. [laughter]
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[gasps]
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As in they like put it on the shelf. Oh, okay.
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You know what I was talking I know what you said. [snorts] Okay. And then let's look at the price and its availability here in South
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Africa. So it's a So the 128 GBTE
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model is 15,499 rand. Okay.
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And then the 256 GB model is 17,999 rand.
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And then the date of when they'll launch it, the it's available from the 4th of
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September or the 11th of September 2026 depending on the retailer.
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Okay. So, some retailers will obviously get it beforehand and others will get it late.
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Yes. And then let's look at some of the specs and features. So, the display is a 6.7 in screen. Okay. Standard.
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Mhm. [snorts] And then the battery is a 4,900 mAh battery with longlasting power.
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Okay.
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Yes. And then the memory and storage is a 8 GB RAM available in the 128
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uh GB and the 256 GB options.
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And then the processor Exonus Exonus is a 2500 chipset.
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The camera is a an advanced setup featuring a 12 megapixel front cam front
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camera selfie which is a three times optical zoom and super steady video with
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horizontal lock software and artificial intelligence. So, it's built with Galaxy
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artificial intelligence smart editing tools and up and it lasts up to seven years of OS updates.
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Okay. Interesting.
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And then let's And then the colors are very yummy. They
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not yummy, but as in they sound like you want to eat those.
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Oh, okay. So it's but only the two ones make you feel hungry. Okay.
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So the one is pistachio, other one's blueberry, the other one's graphite.
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Okay. So you're going to eat the pistachio and the blueberry phones before [laughter] they hit the shelves.
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[snorts] Okay. So um Okay. So 15,500 I suppose is not bad for entry- level S series phone. It's better than 30 or
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40,000 grand. I saw an advert recently though for um I think it's a Galaxy Z uh
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the foldables and the phone like the cash price is like obviously like 40,000 but if you pay it like you take a
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contract and you're paying like I think 2,000 something a month and over 36 months you end up paying like over
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70,000 rand for the phone which is ridiculous because you're paying firstly double almost double the price of the
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phone. The phone is not even after that 3 years. It's not even worth that because you want to even if you want to
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trade it in, it's not even worth the 40,000 that they even said that it would have been. [snorts] And yeah, it's just
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like 70,000 for a phone. But anyway, I [snorts] think let's uh continue this conversation after the break. Inshallah.
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Before we get into that, did you know that there is a world humanoid games that took place this week?
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I did see some videos on social media and it looked quite funny um because they were like running into a wall
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and then some of them malfunctioning and doing like um like weird things like just falling down and [laughter]
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like jumping all over the place. Then I saw some of them. Uh I I think you even showed me like there were some that
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were walking and then they just hit the wall and then they fall down.
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Yeah. But while they're running they just like break down or they just Yeah. fall over each other and it's like
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like we're playing rugby and then they they like also there was like a boxing one and they boxing not
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each other like they boxing just fresh air [laughter] and it was quite comical but yeah do you
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have more information about it cuz I didn't like go into it I just yeah I saw a few videos on social media
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yeah so it is the second world humanoid robot games that took place in Beijing,
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China from the 26 22nd of August till the 26th of August 2026.
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So this is the second time they're having this thing and they have so now it's like a yearly thing.
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Um not 100% sure but we'll get into but it's the second time that they had it.
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Yeah. [laughter] Okay. I would have wanted to see what the first one was.
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The first one must have been even funnier than [laughter] second one cuz this one was like Yeah.
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Okay. And then let's look at the event overview. So the participants, there were over
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2,000 robots from more than 600 teams and 16 countries.
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So there's it's like actual like international games like people from all over the world bring robots
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to participate. 2,000 robots. That's quite a lot. Yeah.
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I didn't even know there would have been 2,000 humanoid. We met a humanoid at the Singularity U South Africa. Last year.
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Last year.
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Yeah. They had lots of They had a humanoid, but the other ones were like robot dogs and this one was a humanoid.
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Sure.
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So, think of that. Did Did that humanoid also participate? You don't know. I don't know.
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Did South Africa participate in this world humanoid games? I wonder.
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It's like just robot. It's like a people versus people and then robots are doing more robots versus robots.
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But I [snorts] wonder if it's like uh do people still control them or because looking at it, it looked like
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they were like on an autopilot like they were doing their own thing. It didn't look like people were controlling them as such.
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Yeah. Interesting. Okay.
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And then um the events. So there were 51 total competitions
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split into 30 athletic sporting events and 21 real world scenario tasks.
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Sure. Mhm.
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So it's quite intense and it's like 4 days [snorts] four or five days. Four days. Yeah.
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And then the categories. So sports included sprinting, long jump, football,
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boxing, table tennis, and weight lifting while practical tests
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simulated firefighting, logistics, and household keeping. [snorts] I saw the weightlifting one. There was
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one where the robot [laughter]
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[gasps]
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picked up the weight and it looked like it was, you know, like getting there and then all of a sudden it malfunctions,
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throws the weight and like almost towards the judges and then starts walking towards the judges as if it's
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going to like, you know, like attack them. It's like crazy though.
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It's even more funnier when you tell me.
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Yeah. But if you haven't seen then just search world humanoid games and you'll see videos of these things.
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And then major highlights and records.
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So the sprinting record, a humanoid robot named Tia Gong Ultra, developed by
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Beijing based Exhumoid, completed the 100 m dash in 9.39
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seconds with some reports citing finishes down to 8.64 64 seconds,
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beating uh Usain Bolt's human world record of
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9.58 seconds. [snorts] So, they're saying that this humanoid is
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faster than the fastest person on Earth, which could be possible because I mean it's it's a robot.
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Um, so it should should be faster, but that's still I mean you said what it was 9.39 seconds.
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Yes.
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And Usain Balt is 9.58 which means that Usain Balt is still um almost as fast as a robot.
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Yes.
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Which that in itself is crazy that a person is as fast as a robot [laughter]
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[gasps] and then the jumping. So, a competitor achieved a 7.97
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meter leap in the long jump while a unit tree robot managed a 2 m vertical leap.
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Okay. Yes.
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And then the entertainment, the robots performed synchronized
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marching, tai chi, and even Christian Ronaldo's signature seal gold celebration.
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Okay.
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Mhm. And then the challenges events also featured comical slips, falls, and
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collisions highlighting ongoing hurdles in complete machine autonomy.
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H interesting.
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Well, that's we saw all those comical slips, falls, and collisions. That's the highlights that we saw. Yeah. The most funny parts.
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Yeah. But um you know talking about like uh these records and stuff, I think um
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what what sparked um this conversation this week besides these records that you spoke about was there was a social media
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post that was going around um that said a 15-year-old Palestinian girl who Abedin from Alam north of Jerusalem
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um recited the entire Quran from memory in a single continuous session. And
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apparently it was 6 hours and 15 minutes.
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And um there's obviously been this viral social media report. So people have been
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posting it and sharing it. Um and there's been videos and posts celebrating her accomplishment.
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Um but there hasn't been obviously verification um from any you know like reputable news agencies to say that this has been done.
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Not to say that it can't be done. I mean it's very plausible. Um there have been
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uh some reciters that have um that have you know done between 6 to 7 hours. Um
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there was Ahmed Maher reportedly recited the entire Quran in a single sitting in six hours without a single mistake.
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Syrian memorizer Muhammad Abdul Rahman recited the complete Quran from memory in 7 hours without errors.
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Um and then they said there was a a 10 to 12 hours.
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There was been a 15year-old in Kerala completing a full recitation in 10 hours and a 12year-old student completing it
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in 12 hours. So it's not to say that uh it hasn't happened. It just hasn't been verified. And I think um you know there
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there are lots of places like the Guin World Records who you know verify things
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because they ensure that um you know you there is somebody there to witness it.
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You video it or they get an official person from Guiney's World Records to come out um while the task has been you know completed.
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We're talking about Guiney's World Records. We recently saw um this uh video of what Issa what did what did we
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see? [gasps] We saw a video of um not a something Rhino if I'm Rhino Shield.
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Yes. It's a company and they make uh phone covers for phones
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and they uh put they took the phone with the
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cover and they use like a camera and they shut it into space and then it was
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videoing like around and you could hear the rattling sound. Could you see it in the I actually didn't watch the I didn't
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listen to the sound of it. I always watch videos without any sound.
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So if it doesn't have captions, I don't know what what is said in the video most of the time. Um yeah, [clears throat] so
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I didn't watch it with sound, but I did see the video and highlights. Let's just tell you the highlights of the video. So
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this company Rhino Shield contacted another company and um they obviously wanted to prove
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that their phone covers were durable, right, in any condition. And they said that the phone
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could be dropped from outside of the atmosphere or the stratosphere or whatever it was, but taking it out like
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into space and then dropping the phone from there to to Earth to ensure that the phone
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still stays intact. Now, there's a whole a whole lot of a whole big debate obviously because of physics. They say
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it doesn't matter at what [snorts] level. There's a certain point and I'm not going to get into detail about it.
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Um there's a certain point where uh the
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speed at which the phone is going to um come at it's it doesn't have to be outside of the
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atmosphere. basically doesn't need to be in space because initially when it is coming through
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um you know the atmosphere the phone comes at a slow speed and or it comes fast and
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then it becomes slow something like that I don't like I said I don't know the the the physical terms and esopright know because of Newton's law and you know all
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these kinetic energy and all those things but Um basically what they said was
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um even if you dropped it from you know like a certain like high-rise building it would have the same effect. Um
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whereas we would think that the higher it is the um quicker it would come down
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and the the the faster the the harder the impact [snorts] which
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actually is not true because um sometimes the shorter distance. So if you drop the phone, say you're standing
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up and you drop the phone on the floor, it could have a harder impact than the phone actually coming from, you know,
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quite a distance like a high-rise building. So that was the debate. But anyway, [snorts] let's get back to the actual story.
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Yes. So, I even saw in the video that the I could hear the rattling sound of
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the atmosphere and then I could see the phone went into back into Earth and then
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it landed somewhere where it's like cold or something and then um
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it it was quite far I think from where they could find it. Oh, okay. Yeah. So,
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basically they went to these two companies, I know Shield and I can't forget the other name of the company, but they went um to like the Arctic
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Circle or something cuz they said that would be the easiest place to launch because they had to first launch the phone um up into space. So, they use
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like a satellite or something. It looked like like a bit of a a drone drone mixed with a hot air balloon mixed with a satellite type effect.
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Um, and they had uh like a GPS locator on it and they had a camera attached to
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it. So, it was quite a large device that was um launched and they took four
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phones that all had these Rhino Shield covers on them. And when they reached the point that they wanted it to reach,
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they dropped the phones and like Issa said it, you could see the the video, the full video of it. Um,
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they obviously hypers speed uh hypersped the video to show, you know, like because it would take forever for this
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thing to eventually land. Um, and I'm sure there is footage if you want to watch the whole thing, but I think it's
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a bit of a waste of time. Um, so eventually it it drops
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and I think it was they had to try and locate it and like Isa said um they said that it could be like within 20
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kilometers or it could be on the opposite side of the country uh because the the GPS was obviously not accurate
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and there was a lot of factors that went into this. Um one is obviously the conditions. So like you I said it landed
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in an icy condition but also um the temperature change from when it was in
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space to while it was coming down was also significant because it would uh and I think that's why they chose the Arctic
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Circle because I think um you know as it was dropping it was quite cold and if it if they had dropped it in a place that
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was quite hot it would have an impact on the device.
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Um, so that's why they chose a country that was quite cold. So that was one of the things. Then the other thing is it
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landed on like a grassy area. So it so so it had like a safe landing almost.
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It's like when you know you kids do these projects and they have to um throw an egg and make it land from uh without
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cracking from a high rise building and it's a science project. So it was almost like that. Um, and I think obviously
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people were like again if it had land on a paved area then you know there would have been significant impact but I mean at the end of the day it was a feat that
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was accomplished and obviously now it's a Guinness World Record because um they located the phone they got one of the
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the four phones they found one of the four phones they checked the data they checked that it was you know um verified
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that the phone did go from space and landed safely on the ground. There was absolutely no impact. There wasn't a
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scratch. There wasn't a uh yes, there were no like cracks. Yeah, there was no on the phone.
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No visible um damage to the actual phone or to the hardware. Phone started up perfectly. Uh works as normal. Um, so
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they were just showing the, you know, durability of this Rhino shield and yeah, so, so we said, you know, with
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all of that, um, given the chance, what would you, and so we posted on social media, what
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what would you do um, in order for you to, you know, be part of the world um,
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Guiney's world records? like what you know to become a world holder and um we know that there's lots of you know like
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records that have been made um over the years and you know you can the easiest way obviously to get onto Guiney's world
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record is to beat a current record because um you have something like say for example um you know lining up a
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whole lot of dominoes and knocking them down that's like you know it's been done before. So, it's it's something that's
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easy to do, but we asked our audience what would they do, and we're going to obviously we're going to talk about it
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now in a few minutes, but I just wanted to say that um let's talk about Muslims
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that hold a few records. So there's a student from Kerala Muhammad Jasim um who set the record for the longest
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handwritten Quran scroll measuring an incredible 1,16
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m. So um the student rewrote the Quran like
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you know wrote it um and it was a whole scroll that measured an incredible 1,16
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m. Alhamdulillah. Subhan Allah. [snorts] Um, then Hussein Abdullah, a former NFL professional American
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football player who scored a record for the loudest outdoor stadium roar during a game-changing moment where fans
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cheered as he praised Allah subhanana wa ta'ala. and um Islamic cultural and
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institutional record center for Islamic civilization in Usbakistan um is officially recognized as the
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world's largest museum of Islamic civilization in Tashkent spanning a massive 10 hectares
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and the University of Medina Islamic University of Medina [gasps] uh is recognized for hosting students
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from over 170 distinct nationalities ities highlighting global cultural diversity in higher education. Now these
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are just you know um records not particularly Guiney's world records but they have obviously been verified
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um you know usually they say like for example we have the Nisamia masid here and they say it's the largest masid in the southern hemisphere.
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It's been said to be we're not 100% sure. probably is the the largest in in Africa I would think. I'm not sure in
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the southern hemisphere but you know those are those are the type of records and then um we obviously have South
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Africans who have received um or hold uh Guiney's world records in various
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fields. There's Zama Maing a talented gymnast who broke records for the most consecutive onehanded and interlocked
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hand backhand springs. uh performing dozens without stopping. Mo became the oldest person to complete a bungee jump
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when he leaped off the blow crowns bridge at 96 years old.
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Um Otto Tanning set the record as the oldest man to swim across the English Channel completing the feat at 73 years
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old in 12 hours and 52 minutes. Reneer Yansburg recognized at age 14 as the world's youngest cricket umpire.
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Fuol Vuolu Simanelli set a record by consuming 4.26 o of chicken feet in just
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60 seconds during a challenge filmed for the local series Stumbo Record Breakers.
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Bertha Lee Ru Wall applied lipstick 535 times in 1 hour to secure a unique
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endurance record. Um, and then, uh, Gibson Gourmet Ribs and
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Burgers, who are located in Cape Town, holds the record for offering the most commercially available milkshake
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flavors, boasting a staggering 207 varieties.
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I don't even know there could be so many different flavors in a milkshake. I just know there's bubble gum, lime,
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[laughter]
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strawberry, and chocolate.
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And then the Comrades marathon is officially recognized globally as the largest ultramarathon event.
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And um talking about um the fastest runners, uh South African athlete Wade Funik holds the legendary world record
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for the 400 meter dash running a stunning 43.03 seconds at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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So, with that in mind, let's hear what some of our audience said that they
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would like to do in order for them to hold a Guiney's world record. Okay, so
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some of the people that sent in said serving the most people haleem in an hour, then baking the most cupcakes.
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Having the biggest luxury car collection, a most limited edition sneakers.
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Owning the most luxury watches.
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Completing the most obstacle races in a year. Having the longest Hot Wheels track.
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Eating the most strongest chilies. Visiting the most masids in the world.
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Reciting the Quran the most times in a year. Learning and applying the most sunnas.
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building the fastest car and building the biggest Lego Formula 1 car.
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Okay, so that's what um our listeners and audience and viewers and uh so on
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feel like um they should be in the world in the Guinness Guinness Book of Records for which is uh some cool stuff. I think
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um I actually wanted to tell you something uh the the this um about the ones who have memorized the Quran at an
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early age. I've actually been seeing a few like articles come up on some meta um what you call that what you sites and
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uh you know how they always like to discourage and be Islamophobic. So then they say, you know, like we push our our kids to to memorize the Quran at in an
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early age. And um the then I saw something also recently where um they have like this video that says, "Does
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your favorite book match your religion?" And they asked Muslims um they asked a few you like non-Muslims um certain
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religions what they what's their favorite book? And they mentioned, you know, their favorite book that they've read of all time. And you know obviously
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it wasn't a a religious book and then they've asked Muslims and every single Muslim has replied that without doubt theirs is the Quran.
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Subhan Allah.
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Subhan Allah. And then of course you know like the comments just like that you know the recent one about that uh the memorizing the Quran and they we push them to read at an early age.
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There's obviously those, you know, usual Islamophobic um comments that, you know, we don't read anything else or we don't think, but the thing is they don't
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realize that's our favorite book. We do read, [laughter] but that's our favorite book. That's, you know, the one that
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we have that love to that yearn to want to learn it and read it constantly and the peace that it brings us. But yeah, that's a a topic for another day.
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Alhamdulillah.
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Inshallah. [laughter] So, do you have anything about that, Guinness? Do you have anything that you would um uh put yourself on the Guinness Book of Records for?
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Um, I'm not sure, but I feel like uh Issa put in that one about the longest Hot Wheels track [laughter] or building the Lego.
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I feel like it like he he answered that, but I'm sure there was a lot more. Um, there were a lot more. I don't know
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where I compiled them to be honest. And um but we can get through that maybe in the next show inshallah I mean or we'll just share it on our website.
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Amen.
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from myself, Nabi, from Isa and from Zad. Enjoy your Sunday and we wish you a wonderful week ahead inshallah.
