
Index File Answer + Tune from the Archives
Clip: Season 2025 Episode 43 | 5m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
We reveal the mystery record setters + an old tune from Peter Ostroushko and Dean Magraw.
We reveal the mystery record setters + an old tune from Peter Ostroushko and Dean Magraw.
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Index File Answer + Tune from the Archives
Clip: Season 2025 Episode 43 | 5m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
We reveal the mystery record setters + an old tune from Peter Ostroushko and Dean Magraw.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> IN MY CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK THIS WEEK, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY FROM WAITERS' WAGES TO TAX RETURNS, AFTER THE CANDIDATES CHRIS-CROSS THE STATE AROUND THE FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY.
♪ >> Eric: IT'S MINNESOTA HISTORY TIME AND IT'S BEEN A COUPLE OF WEEKS, SO LET'S REVIEW THE DETAILS.
WE ASKED YOU ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN EARLY NOVEMBER OF 2003 IN DULUTH.
OVERLOOKING THE LAKE SUPERIOR HARBOR, NOT ONE BUT TWO WORLD RECORD ATTEMPTS WERE SUCCESSFUL ON THAT FALL DAY.
THE RECORDS WERE SET BY A FATHER AND SON DUO AND INVOLVED HEAVY SOLID MATERIALS.
THEY BOTH A DECLARED SUCCESS DESPITE SUSTAINING MINOR CUTS AND MINOR BRUISES.
WHAT TWO WORLD RECORDS WERE SET BY A FATHER AND SON DUO IN DULUTH?
WRONG ANSWERS UP FIRST AS ALWAYS.
>> “I’M GUESSING THAT’S A FATHER-SON DUO ACCOMPLISHED CUTTING DOWN LOTS OF LOGS OR HAULING LOGS THROUGH LAKE SUPERIOR.
THANK YOU.” >> “I THINK THE FATHER-SON DUO TOOK A HIGH PLUNGE AND WERE THE DEEPEST DIVE IN THE SUPERIOR HARBOR.” >> “MCQUAID AND RILEY PASS OF SAN DIEGO PUSHED A WHEELCHAIR AT GRANDMA’S MARATHON DULUTH IN 2023.
TOOK A WORLD RECORD TWO HOURS, 35 MINUTES AND 26 SECONDS, BREAKING THE OLD WORLD RECORD BY MORE THAN 12 MINUTES.
THIS IS FRITZ IN SLEEPY EYE.
LOVE THE SHOW!” >> “THE RECORD THAT THE FATHER AND SON TEAM BROKE, I THINK WERE ROB COSTELLO AND HIS SON MAX, WHO CAUGHT A RECORD SALMON AND TROUT ON LAKE SUPERIOR.
THANK YOU BYE.” >> Eric: ALL NTERESTING GUESSES AND ALL OF THEM WRONG.
FOR THIS WEEK'S RIGHT ANSWER WE TURN TO MIKE OUT OF MINNEAPOLIS.
MIKE, TAKE IT AWAY.
>> “I THINK THAT IN DULUTH WE HAD DAN AND CHAD NETHERLAND, FATHER AND SON, WHO SET WORLD RECORDS.
CHAD HAD 692 POUNDS OF CONCRETE BROKEN ON HIS CHEST WHILE LYING ON A BED OF 156 NAILS.
THEN HIS FATHER DAN BROKE 76 RED BRICKS IN 25 SECONDS, WHICH WAS A RECORD AND CREATED A NEW CATEGORY IN THE GUINNESS WORLD BOOK OF RECORDS.
SO THERE.
LOVE ALMANAC.
HOPE I MAKE IT ON THE AIR.
BYE-BYE!” >> Eric: YEAH, YOU MADE IT, MIKE.
YOU ARE CORRECT ND HERE'S AN OLD EWSPAPER ACCOUNT WITH KIND OF GRAINY PHOTOS FROM THE ARCHIVES, ONLINE ARCHIVES OF THE DULUTH NEWS RIBUNE.
THESE TWO RECORDS WERE SET AT THE GREAT LAKES AQUARIUM IN THE DULUTH HARBOR WHERE CHAD NETHERLAND WAS THE DIRECTOR.
NOW, WE OFFER THIS.
IF YOU SET A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD AND WANT TO FELL US ABOUT IT, 651-229-1430.
THAT IS THE NUMBER TO CALL TO SHARE YOUR AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENTS WITH US.
YOU CAN ALSO DROP US A NOTE, ALMANAC @TPT.ORG.
TIME FOR OUR SHOW-ENDING MUSIC.
THE PRODUCERS DUG DEEP INTO THE ARCHIVES FOR THIS TREASURE.
IT WAS THIS WEEK BACK IN 1990 THAT PETER OSTROUSHKO AND DEAN MAGRAW APPEARED ON THE KTCA PROGRAM 'IN RECITAL.'
THE NAME OF THE PIECE THEY PERFORMED IS "WHALE BONE FEATHERS."
TAKE A LIST.
BE CAREFUL.
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