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imagine not sleeping for 12 straight

days or doing the twist for 102 hours

without stopping you pick your poison

there okay you may be wondering why in

this one exactly zone jeff beats san

diego's famous world record holder from

the 70s and previews his documentary

i'll be honest with you when i read the

bio on roger guy english i assumed the

man was dead

but here he sits ready to tell his

story i feel kind of dingy a little

distant but other than that i feel okay

in 1974 at a san diego waterbed showroom

roger guy english set a world record for

sleeplessness

how long did you stay awake for

12 days 5 hours and 15 minutes

roger stayed away

playing monopoly

a story covered by cbs 8's kathy clark

with just a few hours to go before he

breaks the world's sleeplessness record

roger guy english is doing just about

anything to keep the old eyeballs open

who knows at this rate he may qualify

for two headings in the guinness book of

world records sleeplessness and the

world's first certified zombie you like

attention i love it i love making people

feel good i like making people laugh and

smile

another world record had roger in a la

jolla pool treading water 18 and a half

hours that's the hardest thing i've ever

done in my life i thought i was going to

die he certainly could have on this

crazy stunt we're going to leave san

diego and go to minneapolis where i'll

jump in the mississippi river and swim

to new orleans

and that will be an attempt to break the

world's longest swim record rogers swam

a thousand miles and gave up it didn't

work it was one of my major flops you

hope

any kind of publicity stunt will catch

on this did not catch on but this world

record did when he kissed 3 000 girls in

eight hours one every 9.6 seconds

and that was i think my fourth world's

record we did that on the streets of la

jolla was that a good day it was the

best day of my life i mean i'm not

kidding it was a massive hit i

the news about that went around the

world at one point roger held the world

record for holding world records i know

i'm going gonna walk to canada

i'm gonna walk from la jolla to canada

and that's just what he did fourteen

hundred miles before heading home for

another record you told jokes for five

hours and fifteen minutes good man yes i

did and i can happily say i didn't get

one

single laugh

but he bounced back playing the video

game pong for a week straight in a kfmb

promotion i played thousands and

thousands and thousands of people over a

seven day period non-stop set the

world's record producer jim baxter and

filmmaker tyler j french

are making a documentary about roger

well tell boogie daddy-o that is the

name of the movie they're making and

also the name of a beer thorn brewing

named after him jim baxter said even

even academy award winners don't get on

a can of beer put your right foot out in

front but how many oscar winners have

done this come on baby

let's do the twist oh you got it down

there for 102 hours 28 minutes and 37

seconds we broke the world's record this

morning at 4 am and i last 28 minutes

after that and then i collapsed any more

world records on the horizon no

not that i know of

a man famous for records would simply

like to leave these words for the record

be kind

just be kind it's easier to be kind than

it is to be mean and i like to be kind

perhaps too kind to say most people

crave the spotlight just like roger

sounds familiar doesn't it

[Laughter]

in the zeverly zone jeff severl

cbs 8.