September 6, 2022 • 8 mins
From rowing to golf to piloting, women around the world are breaking records. We discuss some recent achievements.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to Stephan
never told your protection of iHeart Radio, and welcome to
another segment of activists, advocates and just change makers around
the world, history makers, I guess too. Yeah, we're just
(00:26):
gonna put all of that in. We are going to
time stamp this because what we're talking about is within
the year of so just so you know, Uh, it
is August two. Uh, and it's rainy and hot and
my air conditions not working. So no bad, real bad,
(00:46):
not good. Well, today we're going to talk about people
who have been breaking records are making history. Um. And
I had a thought, Annie, have you ever tried to
do something to break a world record? No? I have not,
but I am extremely competitive. I have entered into a
lot of contests in my day. But I don't remember
(01:09):
this show. But there was this show on Nickelodeon, which
I didn't have Nickelodeon growing up, but my grandparents did,
and so i'd go to their house and I would
watched Nickelodeon, and there was the show where kids just
came on and did like talents. Um, it might win
a prize or something. So I practiced for that. I
was really good, well, really good in my brain. I
(01:30):
don't know if I was second, but I was really
good at tap dancing. And then I tried to do
this like snapping routine because I saw another kid win
by the snapping routine, and I tried to combine the
snapping and the tap dance. And then I never actually
entered it, but I did put in some effort for that.
I'm not going to find this routine. You need to
(01:50):
do it for us. It's really good. Okay, do you
have We're gonna have to find stuff. I still have
tap shoes that might fit, but they're very old, so
I doubt I bet they've been eaten by mold or something.
I don't know, I haven't. I was pretty we're gonna
find yeah. My brother, so I was not into all
(02:12):
of that. I was just like chilling. I was a
nerd that just sat in the corner and read um.
But my brother thought he could upbreak the yo yo record.
He was really into his yo yo and would go
around trying to do tricks. I think what he was
really trying to do was find a way to hit
me with it and be like, oh, that was an
accident to be honest, but he really thought he could
(02:33):
do some things because we would watch kind of like
we were talking about Nickelodeon shows with like professionals who
would do all of these tricks, you know, the dult
trapiece things, the triangle things, a walking dog, all of that.
So he really got into it and for a while
thought he was going to do this again. I still
have maintained that. I think he was just trying to
hit me with it, or kind of close to hitting
me with it and be like, oh no, I was
(02:54):
probablyticing my yo yo. But I digress. There's been some
amazing things happening this year when it comes to ladies
breaking records and making history, so we wanted to take
some time because we've been talking about breaking records and
doing amazing things to talk about them and they're amazing accomplishments. Yes,
and first we wanted to start with the youngest woman
to fly solo around the world, Zarah Rutherford. Rutherford, a
(03:17):
nineteen year old Belgium, flew across five continents and more
than thirty two thousand miles over five months in a
micro light aircraft. Her flight included sixty stops across the continents,
including two delays in Alaska and Russia. She said of
her travels that quote the hardest part was flying over Siberia.
It was extremely cold, and if the engine was to stall,
(03:38):
I'd be hours away from rescue. I'm not sure I
would have survived, but thankfully she did, and though this
took longer than expected, she made it back in January
of twenty two. She started training for her license in
high school and was sponsored by her former school St.
Swisson's finlay House, who congratulated her for her achievements. In
her interview with The Washington Post, she said, quote, growing up,
(04:00):
I never really saw many other female pilots, and that
was really discouraging. So right now I'm doing my best
to try to be a friendly face. And not only
did she break the record for being the youngest woman
to fly, she also broke the record for being the
quote first woman to circumnavigate the globe and on microlight aircraft,
which is pretty cool. Yes, um, And speaking of flying,
we didn't put Mitch into this, but we did want
(04:21):
to talk about the fact that on August eight, in
American Airline flight from Dallas Fort Worth had an all
the first time ever all black female crew, which was
pretty phenomenal when you look at all the things that
we've talked about, especially like Bessie Coleman, who we had
on our female first episode and her accomplishments. But we
did want to acknowledge them and their amazing flight. But
(04:43):
that was a good fun flight too, you know, they
had some good times. Um. But next, we also wanted
to congratulate golf for Hannah Green. Green from Australia made
history becoming the first woman to win a mixed gender
professional golf tournament. At the beginning of this year, she
won the TPC Murray River event in the PG eight
Tour austral Asia and by the way, she was the
twenty nineteen winner of the Women's PGA Championship as well.
(05:05):
After her when she said quote, hopefully it's inspiring for
the rest of the girls, not only in the juniors
but in the field to try and get their name
on a trophy. We need to get as much exposure
as possible and it's great that we have events in
the summer when the peak of the sport is on.
So congratulations to her. Yes, then we have the all
ladies team that broke the world record for rowing Livy Costello,
(05:27):
Sophia Dennison, Johnston Broke Downs, and Adrian Smith from the
Latin thirty five team rowed from California to Hawaii, rowing
more than two thousand four d nautical miles, taking turns
rowing in two hours shifts. They rode for thirty four days,
fourteen hours and eleven minutes, arriving in Honolulu. They survived
on a prepackaged meals and took a ninety minute sleep
(05:49):
breaks per day. And not only was this their first
time rowing in the deep ocean, but they did it
without assistance. Who ninety minutes right apparently had a pretty
big online following. Uh so they were really encouraged by
the people who are like, yeah, I get it. I
couldn't imagine rowing is hard. And they only slipped ninety
minutes a day. No, thank you, I cannot survive that ever. Um.
(06:11):
And then we also wanted to take the time to
shout out Tomorrow Wildcott, who broke the record for heaviest
cumulative lift for bench squad and press during the World
Raw Powerlifting Federation American Pro She is from Maryland, UM
and competing this year. She apparently started training in when
she was trying to get into shape, and she couldn't
(06:33):
go out for basketball or baseball, as she said, because
she was a mom, and she was a single mom
and needed to do this on her time, and this
was something that she could do and got really passionate about. Obviously,
she lifted one thousand, six hundred twenty point four pounds
or seven thirty seven point five ms, which apparently, if
you know much about anything, that's like a size of
(06:55):
a giraffe, I saw this only Getness World Getness World
record best the comparison for her. Also, Walcott holds the
additional record for heaviest elephant bar deadlift for female after
lifting about pounds at the Arnold Sports Festival of March two.
So she's breaking a lot of records. She just talked
(07:15):
about how she needed to make a change in our life.
She said, when I looked in my kids eyes, I
wanted to make sure that I was there for them,
so I had to start taking care of me. So yeah,
that's how she began all of this. So breaking those
world records get it. Absolutely. Congratulations to everybody on this list.
Um now I'm thinking we gotta find a record we
could break, Santha. It would be something very obscure. Think.
(07:39):
I think it's got to be something like you have
to do fans fiction reading for NonStop for a back
hours and then you would be up there. That would
be a holiday for me. We'll think on it. We'll
think on it. But in the meantime, if we've missed
any people breaking records that we should be talking about. Listeners,
as always, please let us know. You can emails at
(07:59):
Stefan your mom stuff at I hurt me dot com.
You can find us on Twitter at mom stuff Podcasts,
or Instagram and stuff I've never told you. Thanks as
always to our super producer Christina always wrecking records too,
I'm sure absolutely thanks to you for listening stuff on
our telling you the protection of iHeart Radio. For more
podcast from my Heart Radio, you can check out that
I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen
to your favorite shows.
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to Stephan
never told your protection of iHeart Radio, and welcome to
another segment of activists, advocates and just change makers around
the world, history makers, I guess too. Yeah, we're just
(00:26):
gonna put all of that in. We are going to
time stamp this because what we're talking about is within
the year of so just so you know, Uh, it
is August two. Uh, and it's rainy and hot and
my air conditions not working. So no bad, real bad,
(00:46):
not good. Well, today we're going to talk about people
who have been breaking records are making history. Um. And
I had a thought, Annie, have you ever tried to
do something to break a world record? No? I have not,
but I am extremely competitive. I have entered into a
lot of contests in my day. But I don't remember
(01:09):
this show. But there was this show on Nickelodeon, which
I didn't have Nickelodeon growing up, but my grandparents did,
and so i'd go to their house and I would
watched Nickelodeon, and there was the show where kids just
came on and did like talents. Um, it might win
a prize or something. So I practiced for that. I
was really good, well, really good in my brain. I
(01:30):
don't know if I was second, but I was really
good at tap dancing. And then I tried to do
this like snapping routine because I saw another kid win
by the snapping routine, and I tried to combine the
snapping and the tap dance. And then I never actually
entered it, but I did put in some effort for that.
I'm not going to find this routine. You need to
(01:50):
do it for us. It's really good. Okay, do you
have We're gonna have to find stuff. I still have
tap shoes that might fit, but they're very old, so
I doubt I bet they've been eaten by mold or something.
I don't know, I haven't. I was pretty we're gonna
find yeah. My brother, so I was not into all
(02:12):
of that. I was just like chilling. I was a
nerd that just sat in the corner and read um.
But my brother thought he could upbreak the yo yo record.
He was really into his yo yo and would go
around trying to do tricks. I think what he was
really trying to do was find a way to hit
me with it and be like, oh, that was an
accident to be honest, but he really thought he could
(02:33):
do some things because we would watch kind of like
we were talking about Nickelodeon shows with like professionals who
would do all of these tricks, you know, the dult
trapiece things, the triangle things, a walking dog, all of that.
So he really got into it and for a while
thought he was going to do this again. I still
have maintained that. I think he was just trying to
hit me with it, or kind of close to hitting
me with it and be like, oh no, I was
(02:54):
probablyticing my yo yo. But I digress. There's been some
amazing things happening this year when it comes to ladies
breaking records and making history, so we wanted to take
some time because we've been talking about breaking records and
doing amazing things to talk about them and they're amazing accomplishments. Yes,
and first we wanted to start with the youngest woman
to fly solo around the world, Zarah Rutherford. Rutherford, a
(03:17):
nineteen year old Belgium, flew across five continents and more
than thirty two thousand miles over five months in a
micro light aircraft. Her flight included sixty stops across the continents,
including two delays in Alaska and Russia. She said of
her travels that quote the hardest part was flying over Siberia.
It was extremely cold, and if the engine was to stall,
(03:38):
I'd be hours away from rescue. I'm not sure I
would have survived, but thankfully she did, and though this
took longer than expected, she made it back in January
of twenty two. She started training for her license in
high school and was sponsored by her former school St.
Swisson's finlay House, who congratulated her for her achievements. In
her interview with The Washington Post, she said, quote, growing up,
(04:00):
I never really saw many other female pilots, and that
was really discouraging. So right now I'm doing my best
to try to be a friendly face. And not only
did she break the record for being the youngest woman
to fly, she also broke the record for being the
quote first woman to circumnavigate the globe and on microlight aircraft,
which is pretty cool. Yes, um, And speaking of flying,
we didn't put Mitch into this, but we did want
(04:21):
to talk about the fact that on August eight, in
American Airline flight from Dallas Fort Worth had an all
the first time ever all black female crew, which was
pretty phenomenal when you look at all the things that
we've talked about, especially like Bessie Coleman, who we had
on our female first episode and her accomplishments. But we
did want to acknowledge them and their amazing flight. But
(04:43):
that was a good fun flight too, you know, they
had some good times. Um. But next, we also wanted
to congratulate golf for Hannah Green. Green from Australia made
history becoming the first woman to win a mixed gender
professional golf tournament. At the beginning of this year, she
won the TPC Murray River event in the PG eight
Tour austral Asia and by the way, she was the
twenty nineteen winner of the Women's PGA Championship as well.
(05:05):
After her when she said quote, hopefully it's inspiring for
the rest of the girls, not only in the juniors
but in the field to try and get their name
on a trophy. We need to get as much exposure
as possible and it's great that we have events in
the summer when the peak of the sport is on.
So congratulations to her. Yes, then we have the all
ladies team that broke the world record for rowing Livy Costello,
(05:27):
Sophia Dennison, Johnston Broke Downs, and Adrian Smith from the
Latin thirty five team rowed from California to Hawaii, rowing
more than two thousand four d nautical miles, taking turns
rowing in two hours shifts. They rode for thirty four days,
fourteen hours and eleven minutes, arriving in Honolulu. They survived
on a prepackaged meals and took a ninety minute sleep
(05:49):
breaks per day. And not only was this their first
time rowing in the deep ocean, but they did it
without assistance. Who ninety minutes right apparently had a pretty
big online following. Uh so they were really encouraged by
the people who are like, yeah, I get it. I
couldn't imagine rowing is hard. And they only slipped ninety
minutes a day. No, thank you, I cannot survive that ever. Um.
(06:11):
And then we also wanted to take the time to
shout out Tomorrow Wildcott, who broke the record for heaviest
cumulative lift for bench squad and press during the World
Raw Powerlifting Federation American Pro She is from Maryland, UM
and competing this year. She apparently started training in when
she was trying to get into shape, and she couldn't
(06:33):
go out for basketball or baseball, as she said, because
she was a mom, and she was a single mom
and needed to do this on her time, and this
was something that she could do and got really passionate about. Obviously,
she lifted one thousand, six hundred twenty point four pounds
or seven thirty seven point five ms, which apparently, if
you know much about anything, that's like a size of
(06:55):
a giraffe, I saw this only Getness World Getness World
record best the comparison for her. Also, Walcott holds the
additional record for heaviest elephant bar deadlift for female after
lifting about pounds at the Arnold Sports Festival of March two.
So she's breaking a lot of records. She just talked
(07:15):
about how she needed to make a change in our life.
She said, when I looked in my kids eyes, I
wanted to make sure that I was there for them,
so I had to start taking care of me. So yeah,
that's how she began all of this. So breaking those
world records get it. Absolutely. Congratulations to everybody on this list.
Um now I'm thinking we gotta find a record we
could break, Santha. It would be something very obscure. Think.
(07:39):
I think it's got to be something like you have
to do fans fiction reading for NonStop for a back
hours and then you would be up there. That would
be a holiday for me. We'll think on it. We'll
think on it. But in the meantime, if we've missed
any people breaking records that we should be talking about. Listeners,
as always, please let us know. You can emails at
(07:59):
Stefan your mom stuff at I hurt me dot com.
You can find us on Twitter at mom stuff Podcasts,
or Instagram and stuff I've never told you. Thanks as
always to our super producer Christina always wrecking records too,
I'm sure absolutely thanks to you for listening stuff on
our telling you the protection of iHeart Radio. For more
podcast from my Heart Radio, you can check out that
I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen
to your favorite shows.
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