In this particularly big and particularly weird episode, we welcome back Richard Jackson to discuss:

🍾 New year, new <blank>

🧄 How to improve garlic bread

😂 & lots of weird, awful things

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SHOW NOTES

How do we come up with ideas for the show notes?

Well, I’ll give you a peak behind the velvet curtain. Liam just said “Well, garlic bread is trendy.”

So there you have it.

What makes garlic bread amazing? We’re just starting with the premise that’s it’s great by the way, we’re not arguing that.

Is it the contrast of the crunchy crust with the soft bread in the centre?

Is it the warm, golden garlic butter?

Is it the relaxing knowledge that at least for tonight, no vampires will crave your life force?

I reckon it’s all of that.

And how do you make something better?

Make it bigger!

The longest garlic bread was 54 ft 10 in long and was made by Etienne Thériault in Bertrand, Canada, on 6 July 2013.

Wow.

The garlic bread was

The length of 164 snowglobes
16 times smaller than the ice-loving Titanic
and 10.6 Stings from Dune

If we’re being honest, that might be too big.

Here’s some other long things:

Longest Car (100 ft)

Longest drumming marathon (133 hours and 3 minutes)

Longest cucumber (3 ft 8.6 in)

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Edited by Liam Taylor.

Music by Liam Taylor.

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