November 5, 2025 • 8 mins
Lisa & Russell opened the text and phonelines to ask who has visited the most countries? Can you beat the winning score? Tune in to find out.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, well, good morning. It is time to add another entry,
to write another chapter, a new chapter. In this he
set another record. Incredible world records and Russell's Book of Records.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
We are opening the book of records today looking for
the person who has visited the most countries. Rod in
ke Dale.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hello, Rod, good morning, How are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What do you got for us?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Eldest grandson Brock He turns twenty one next April. Yes,
he started traveling when he just after he turned eighteen.
He has done twenty three countries.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And twenty one good heavens was he on the amazing
one twenty three?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
She wishes?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, good candidate.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
At YEARNI studies at YEARNI works part time. Done it
all off his own back backpack, right yeah, Betwen, right
through Europe, UK America, and his recent trip has been
top end Finland right through there.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh no, I didn't get my first passport until I
was thirty four.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Really, Oh, I thought you'd traveled earlier.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well no, yeah, country traveler, So I mean all of
your grandson, Rod. That's what a great start. He's got
a long way to go and a lot of time exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, and like I said, he's done with bof his
own back. And yeah, very pleased and very proud of him.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I reckon he'll go everywhere. Twenty three countries at this.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Age, he's just warman out stretching. It's a stretcher.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And are you living vicariously through him? Rod, Yes, so
much fun it is?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
All good, thank thank you, right, thank you. That's twenty
three started. It's just out of interest, how many? How
many have you been to?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Not many?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Not many?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No, I don't haven't counted, but it's not many.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I actually, through the ad break while we were talking
about this, I did a quick count. I've got sixteen
some of those more than once, so seventeen if you
count Antarctic, but it is not Antarctic is not a country,
but that in this series, you know, it's a series
(02:20):
of territories, I would be I'm going to count at
seventeen hundred, Okay, can I count Australia eighteen?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
All right, that's freshing up the curve, all right, Well,
twenty three is the number to beach mate, so absolutely
put that first entry visited the most countries.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
To wow us today, John in Como.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
There you going, John?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Now, I know you've been to Italy a few times.
It's funny that you're from Como because you've been to
late Como. No, exactly where how many of you been to?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
What's March twenty twenty three?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
The current county is twenty five?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Good?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Heaven's three years?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well half?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, jeez, you took that. I can travel after COVID
and ran with it time. Yeah. Absolutely, that's what I
intend to do.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So twenty five in well, I was going to say
three years, but two and a half. Yeah, it's half years.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's awesome. Where's your favorite place that's been stamped in
your passports?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Obvious? Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I just wanted to say if anything did Beatisuly.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Apart from that, did you take that out of the equation? Yeah?
Crowdmation yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And Vietnam okay, yeah, a lot of people rave about Vietnam, a.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Lot of people about crowd.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yes they do.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
All right, all right, thank you, John, John.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Sounds like you're traveling traveling again?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Now? So John is traveling?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Has he has plans?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Quick?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Look at the text. We're after. How many countries you've
been to? Anna in Wondy has been to twelve countries
all on her own and can't wait to continue her journey.
Kaylene from Greenwood as done account this morning and got
to thirty one.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Bad.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Marissa's cousin's been to forty countries and she's only thirty.
Jane in your kind says, I've done sixteen countries in
sixteen months from last year. Haven't added up the total,
but it's probably around fifty.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Imagine adding up the credit card bill for that.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
No, we don't add upit card bills for that. We
just look away.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Jane.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's very impressive.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Either Jane's on the run or constantly Jane, I love it.
Fifty countries, that's all after.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Jane's on the way out to the airport as we speak.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Who can beat fifty?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Phil Collins, Gee, he would have he would have visit
did a few countries in his time rock and roll,
he would have start, he would have toured a few,
but as many as our new record holder. We're about
to find out.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's all about stamps in the passport today. We're looking
for the person who has visited the most countries. Caitlin
in Dianella, what have you done?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Can you beat Phil.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Oh, I don't know like that.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I beat seventy two, seventy two impressed, very impressed.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
A lot favorite country, too.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Hard to pick. But I love the stands, like Central
Asia region.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
The stand the stands, the kaikh Stans, Theistans.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah yeah, so they just kind of middle of twenty nineteen. Yeah,
but like I know, a couple of months, I think
I was through there. I was just so different, gorgeous,
loved it off.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
The beaten track, very different.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
When you had seventy two goes. When when is the
next one? Well in the future, So I have.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
A friend's wedding in Europe in a couple of weeks,
so I'm actually heading to Lichtenstein. As a side question.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh and the steins, Caitlin, at this stage, I.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Love it And at a wedding there might be a
few steins.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
A good travel book. You could write Stands and Steins
with Caitlin. All right, let's look at the text or
what do we got. We've got someone's Sharon in swan
View's very good friend visited eighty seven countries all up
before he passed away. But he did that over a
five year period. That's quite the bucket.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
List.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Angela says she has done seventy eight countries. She's seventy
six and still going strong with the travel itchy foot.
Her next trip is to Japan.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That's good. But I think we there always has to
be a winner, a record holder.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I think we have a winner. Deaz in Gingerly, good morning.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
We're celebrating an entering into Lisa Russell's record book.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I think you're going in the book. Tell us how
many countries you have visited?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I have been through one hundred and four country.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Good, good grief.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Where did you find good time?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh it's been in well the past twenty years. But yeah,
I haven't still I haven't stopped.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Is it just a heart or is it work related
that you've been to so many countries?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
No? I just love going to different countries, just experiencing
the culture, the food. Yeah, I just love it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Dez can I ask, has there ever been a country
where you've felt a little uneasy, a little scared? Has
there been an incident where you've gone, Oh, I want
to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh, there's been plenty, plenty. There has definitely been plenty,
But I would say one of those was the Philippines.
But in actual fact, the Philippines was my one of
my favorite countries.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah. Have you ever used the expression be a traveler
not a tourist?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Definitely? Definitely. Yeah. I generally like to get to a
country and just try and figure it out whilst I'm there. Yeah,
so no pre planning and just go with the flow
and you get to meet so many people too.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Put a back roads during Yeah, good world Dares. You
are in our book.
Yes, well, good morning. It is time to add another entry,
to write another chapter, a new chapter. In this he
set another record. Incredible world records and Russell's Book of Records.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
We are opening the book of records today looking for
the person who has visited the most countries. Rod in
ke Dale.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hello, Rod, good morning, How are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What do you got for us?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Eldest grandson Brock He turns twenty one next April. Yes,
he started traveling when he just after he turned eighteen.
He has done twenty three countries.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And twenty one good heavens was he on the amazing
one twenty three?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
She wishes?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, good candidate.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
At YEARNI studies at YEARNI works part time. Done it
all off his own back backpack, right yeah, Betwen, right
through Europe, UK America, and his recent trip has been
top end Finland right through there.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh no, I didn't get my first passport until I
was thirty four.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Really, Oh, I thought you'd traveled earlier.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well no, yeah, country traveler, So I mean all of
your grandson, Rod. That's what a great start. He's got
a long way to go and a lot of time exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, and like I said, he's done with bof his
own back. And yeah, very pleased and very proud of him.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I reckon he'll go everywhere. Twenty three countries at this.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Age, he's just warman out stretching. It's a stretcher.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And are you living vicariously through him? Rod, Yes, so
much fun it is?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
All good, thank thank you, right, thank you. That's twenty
three started. It's just out of interest, how many? How
many have you been to?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Not many?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Not many?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No, I don't haven't counted, but it's not many.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I actually, through the ad break while we were talking
about this, I did a quick count. I've got sixteen
some of those more than once, so seventeen if you
count Antarctic, but it is not Antarctic is not a country,
but that in this series, you know, it's a series
(02:20):
of territories, I would be I'm going to count at
seventeen hundred, Okay, can I count Australia eighteen?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
All right, that's freshing up the curve, all right, Well,
twenty three is the number to beach mate, so absolutely
put that first entry visited the most countries.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
To wow us today, John in Como.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
There you going, John?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Now, I know you've been to Italy a few times.
It's funny that you're from Como because you've been to
late Como. No, exactly where how many of you been to?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
What's March twenty twenty three?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
The current county is twenty five?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Good?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Heaven's three years?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well half?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, jeez, you took that. I can travel after COVID
and ran with it time. Yeah. Absolutely, that's what I
intend to do.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So twenty five in well, I was going to say
three years, but two and a half. Yeah, it's half years.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's awesome. Where's your favorite place that's been stamped in
your passports?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Obvious? Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I just wanted to say if anything did Beatisuly.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Apart from that, did you take that out of the equation? Yeah?
Crowdmation yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And Vietnam okay, yeah, a lot of people rave about Vietnam, a.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Lot of people about crowd.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yes they do.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
All right, all right, thank you, John, John.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Sounds like you're traveling traveling again?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Now? So John is traveling?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Has he has plans?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Quick?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Look at the text. We're after. How many countries you've
been to? Anna in Wondy has been to twelve countries
all on her own and can't wait to continue her journey.
Kaylene from Greenwood as done account this morning and got
to thirty one.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Bad.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Marissa's cousin's been to forty countries and she's only thirty.
Jane in your kind says, I've done sixteen countries in
sixteen months from last year. Haven't added up the total,
but it's probably around fifty.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Imagine adding up the credit card bill for that.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
No, we don't add upit card bills for that. We
just look away.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Jane.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's very impressive.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Either Jane's on the run or constantly Jane, I love it.
Fifty countries, that's all after.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Jane's on the way out to the airport as we speak.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Who can beat fifty?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Phil Collins, Gee, he would have he would have visit
did a few countries in his time rock and roll,
he would have start, he would have toured a few,
but as many as our new record holder. We're about
to find out.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's all about stamps in the passport today. We're looking
for the person who has visited the most countries. Caitlin
in Dianella, what have you done?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Can you beat Phil.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Oh, I don't know like that.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I beat seventy two, seventy two impressed, very impressed.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
A lot favorite country, too.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Hard to pick. But I love the stands, like Central
Asia region.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
The stand the stands, the kaikh Stans, Theistans.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah yeah, so they just kind of middle of twenty nineteen. Yeah,
but like I know, a couple of months, I think
I was through there. I was just so different, gorgeous,
loved it off.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
The beaten track, very different.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
When you had seventy two goes. When when is the
next one? Well in the future, So I have.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
A friend's wedding in Europe in a couple of weeks,
so I'm actually heading to Lichtenstein. As a side question.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh and the steins, Caitlin, at this stage, I.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Love it And at a wedding there might be a
few steins.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
A good travel book. You could write Stands and Steins
with Caitlin. All right, let's look at the text or
what do we got. We've got someone's Sharon in swan
View's very good friend visited eighty seven countries all up
before he passed away. But he did that over a
five year period. That's quite the bucket.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
List.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Angela says she has done seventy eight countries. She's seventy
six and still going strong with the travel itchy foot.
Her next trip is to Japan.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That's good. But I think we there always has to
be a winner, a record holder.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I think we have a winner. Deaz in Gingerly, good morning.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
We're celebrating an entering into Lisa Russell's record book.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I think you're going in the book. Tell us how
many countries you have visited?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I have been through one hundred and four country.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Good, good grief.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Where did you find good time?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh it's been in well the past twenty years. But yeah,
I haven't still I haven't stopped.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Is it just a heart or is it work related
that you've been to so many countries?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
No? I just love going to different countries, just experiencing
the culture, the food. Yeah, I just love it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Dez can I ask, has there ever been a country
where you've felt a little uneasy, a little scared? Has
there been an incident where you've gone, Oh, I want
to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh, there's been plenty, plenty. There has definitely been plenty,
But I would say one of those was the Philippines.
But in actual fact, the Philippines was my one of
my favorite countries.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah. Have you ever used the expression be a traveler
not a tourist?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Definitely? Definitely. Yeah. I generally like to get to a
country and just try and figure it out whilst I'm there. Yeah,
so no pre planning and just go with the flow
and you get to meet so many people too.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Put a back roads during Yeah, good world Dares. You
are in our book.
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