THE LOUDEST HUMAN ALIVE ONLY SHOUTS ONE WORD

An Australian air con cleaner just shouted "NOW" at 122 decibels and became the loudest human alive.

Two immigrants investigate the world's loudest man, and whether Jack could take the record.

History was made this week: Joseph McGrail-Bateup, a part-time town crier and air conditioning cleaner from Canberra, out-shouted the entire human race at 122.4 decibels, roughly as loud as a chainsaw or a jet taking off. 

Jack and Adam ask the important questions: should an angry Vietnamese wife hold this record instead, does the word you shout actually matter, and could Jack beat it with a well-projected "Galileo"? 

Plus the woman he dethroned, who held the title for 30 years by shouting "quiet".

00:00 The world's loudest shout
01:10 Who should really hold this record
01:40 Does the word you shout matter?
03:55 The origin story we invented for him
06:50 The record he broke

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Transcript

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History has been made this week. We've had the world's loudest shout, and it wasn't my wife telling my kids to turn the TV off, which is, you know, quite, quite impressive. I thought she'd broken a world record and, and not told me. But yeah. Joseph McGrail Baitup, a Australian air conditioning cleaner, wish he was here right now, and he's a town crier as well. He broke the Guinness World Record for the loudest shout, yelling now at 122.4 decibels. Which is really loud. That's- Yeah … apparently that's in the territory of, like, thunder or chainsaws or pneumatic drills. That's, uh, that's- Pretty loud… that's really that's really loud. That's louder than our old friend Reggae Stef at 5:00 o'clock in the morning downstairs when you're trying to get a wink of sleep, isn't it? It is. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, I, I, I think it's interesting that it's an Australian that's won this. I don't know of all the nations in the world if I would've picked them. I, I, I would've thought the Vietnamese could be in a shout for this one, to be honest. They're, you know, they're- I, I think- … there's a loud shout. Yeah. You get, like, a, an angry Vietnamese woman that's shouting at her husband who's been at the bia hoi when he should've been doing something else. That's Or even just shouting that it's dinner time. You know? Yeah. Like, "Come," you see like, you, you know. Uh, d- it's quite incredible. But yeah, uh, you know, I, I think that they're definitely in with a shout of this one. I don't know. Beautiful. Uh, it's another classic. Do you think the choice of word is important for winning, you know, being the world record holder for the world's loudest shout? I think it must be because, yeah, 'cause he tried, like, a few different ones, and he ended up settling on now because it's, I guess it's got, like, a slight It's, like, slightly percussive, and there's probably is … Yeah. But it, you can probably get more force behind it because of the word that it is. Have you got a decibel meter in the house? Uh, o- oddly enough, no. You? Wow. No, I think I need to put it on my Christmas list. I, I wonder if I can get one online 'cause I, I think I can win this challenge. I think personally if I was gonna do this, I, it would, I'd probably go with a word like Galileo Right Galileo. I reckon like he'd like- … boo- boom that out. I think even just doing it there, it was probably 120 decibels. I think it was probably about 60. I'm, I'm not sure. Maybe- I know, but I- 'Cause remember, decibel isn't one decibel. Uh, so if you go from like one decibel to two decibels, it's double. Oh, is it logarithmic? I think so. Is that the word? Yeah. Um, uh, yeah. Like the Richter scale. I think so, yeah. I'm not completely sure about that. That could be fake news, but hey, I don't think- It's, uh, it's- I don't think I'm gonna get sued by the, the decibel authority of the UK or whatever. Um- Yeah. Yeah. It's an Adam fact for you, ladies and gentlemen. Could be completely wrong. How, how do you think he learned, or how do you think he realized? He's like, "Oh, I've got a pretty loud voice. I think I should, uh, get this in the world. I think I've got the loudest voice in the world." How, how do you notice that? Or, I mean, did… W- was he training? Was he practicing? Can you imagine being his neighbor?"No. No." It's the absolute neighbor from hell. Yeah. I reckon it all started when he was a teenager, and whenever he'd go round to his friend's house, they'd always get in trouble with their parents 'cause they were late at night drinking beers, and like, "Guys, you know, you need to keep the noise down. Nobody be too loud." And he's like, "All right, we won't be too loud." Uh, and, and like he just started to realize, "Wait, I think I was born to be the world's loudest shouter." And then maybe, you know, he had like a summer where he went to do some work as a lumberjack, then he was in the woods and trees were falling down, and he's like, "Timber." And people are like, "Whoa, bro, you… I've never heard anyone shout timber so loud." I, I was safer than I, I was when Derek said it and, you know, nearly got hit by a tree. And he just, you know, throughout his life, he started to realize that, yeah, he's fitting an air conditioning up on, on the roof, on the side of the house, and his apprentice is downstairs by the van, and he goes, "Can I have a cup of tea?" If Australians drink tea, and he's like, "All right, mate, no need to shout." And just over time- … he just built this persona where he realized, you know, "This is my identity. This is why the creator put me on the planet is to shout. I'm gonna pursue this and try and get world fame from it." And there he was. Yeah, and then maybe he has some nicknames like Shouty Joe or something like that. Who, who knows? Um, but yeah, just- Or maybe- Maybe he only does it for sport. Maybe actually he's really quiet the rest of the time. Well, it does say that he's a honorary town crier, so I'm guessing- You must be pretty loud for that. Uh- Hear ye, hear ye. That explains it. Exactly. But yeah, just, just had a look and the decibel scale is in fact logarithmic. So yeah, the tiny increase, so which sounds tiny 'cause his new record… Well, the old record was 121.7. His new one is 122.4, but 'cause it's logarithmic, that… What did it go up by? Uh, 0.7, but that's still, like, approaching double. Hmm. Yeah. See, I- The last one, so the last one's actually quiet. In comparison, yeah. And I would say where it says roughly as loud as a chainsaw or a pneumatic drill, like, my dad used to have a chainsaw before you had to sign all these things and have all these contracts and stuff. He used to just have a chainsaw up and chainsaw stuff. And if I came out and was like- Like what? Like trees, bits of old wood, stuff for the fire, like whatever, you know? You could, you could… Back in the day, you could just go, "I'm gonna go and cut people's trees down, and they can pay me." You didn't need a license. There's no health and safety. You just cracked on in the '90s, right? Oh, back when things made sense and- Yeah, yeah … everything wasn't some health and safety nightmare. Exactly. Yeah. And I remember I used to come out in the garden when he's there, you know, chainsawing away and be like, "Dad, do you want a cup of tea?" And he could hear me, so surely that means- You're in with a chance … I'm up. I'm in with a chance, right? Um, you know, the, the, the… I've been on a pneumatic drill and shouted over to someone, and they can hear me. Um, so yeah. I think it, you know, I think there's this. Uh, it… What does make me laugh is the previous record holder is Annalisa Flanagan, and she shouted quiet at 121.7 decibels, which I feel like she just practiced with her children. Probably, yeah, or a husband. Or maybe- Uh- Or teacher … it'd be one of the two. Oh, she could be, yeah. A very, very loud Irish woman. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's brilliant. That's cheered me up in a week where lots of other news has not been so good. So if you enjoyed that one, guys, give us a like, a subscribe, a comment. Let us know, do you think you could be the world's loudest shouter? Or maybe you know someone. If you do, let them know and give us some credit if they do get the record and global fame. Adam- … until the next one. It's been a pleasure, my friend. Yeah, as always. See you next time. Goodbye.