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Before I go on, this is an open challenge Mr John Moschitta, he held the world record before me, and I took it from him in 1990, his top speed was only 585 words per minute.
Despite having held the record for nearly nine years, Mr Moschitta still claims to be the fastest, in fact we even took part in a "head to head" challenge live on national American TV, and I beat him hands down.
If you are Reading this John Moschitta, or if you know him, or have hired him, he has no right to claim this record, and I publicly challenge him, any time, any place, anywhere to take me on in a contest to see who is the fastest (I'll win again and again), that is if he dares.
People often ask me, "has anything funny ever happened to you because of your World Record", and the honest answer is no, not really.
Funny as in humorous that is, I have however found myself doing, or being in rather bizarre situations.
I was at a Radio station in New York, (HOT100FM I think), And they wanted it me to record some station promo's for them before we did a LIVE radio interview. For two hours before the interview, we were recording and practising promo's, now one side effect of being the Fastest talker is that when you are talking fast, you tend to swallow a lot of air when you breathe in. Anyway as soon as I had finished the Promo's, we went into the LIVE interview, this was on a breakfast show, and in front of that radio Stations largest audience, and sadly not 30 seconds into the LIVE Interview I was caught unawares by the biggest, loudiest & smelliest burst of "involuntary flatulance" that I have ever had. I guess I won't ever be invited back to that station again.
New York!, that's where all the bizarre things in my life have happened, i'm not saying it's New York itself, but rather me in New york that does it.
When I went to New York a few years back, it was to take part in a "Fast talking" contest, sadly my flight was delayed by 5 hours, and we flew in a headwind the whole way, then on arrival at the airport my hire car wasn't available, this all lead to me being over 27 hrs late for the contest. I had to meet a film crew from the British TV show "This Morning", at my hotel to film me "Warming up", but because I was so late they couldn't do it during the day as they planned. What we decided in the end was to film me in my hotel room practising during the night. So I had a shower and got into my dressing gown, and sat on the bed practising, the film crew consisted of the cameraman, and his wife who was the reporter, About halfway through the shot, we all decided to eat, and so got room service to bring up some food for all of us, the food duly arrived, and the waiter left, Just after he left, the assistant manager knocked on the door and enquired if everything was OK, Then about an hour later the manager himself came up, and so on throughout the evening we had about 10 people knocking on the door using a variety of excuses, none of us could figure out what was going on. The next day at breakfast, one of the waiters asked me how much I earnt for doing the filming, I told him it was a "freebie" for a national British TV channel, he was gobsmacked, and said he couldn't believe that the woman would do it for free It then dawned on me, A man in a dressing gown, A film camera at the end of the bed, and a good looking woman sitting on the bed, the first Room service waiter must have thought we were making a "Blue" film, and told all the employee's, which is why we were constantly being interupted all throughout the night.
I Think you had to have been there, to really capture the spirit of the scene.
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