Fri. 12/22 - The Blinding Light Display and Cool Stuff Look Back
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Want to give a special someone a gift they'll truly love this Valentine's Day? |
| 0:04.8 | Treat them to something that never goes out of style. |
| 0:07.7 | A beautiful bouquet of 12 red roses. |
| 0:11.1 | They're classic for a reason. |
| 0:12.9 | And all for just 15 pounds at Waitrose. |
| 0:16.3 | Selected lines and stores. |
| 0:17.6 | Subject to availability ends 14th of February. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to another edition of |
| 0:22.6 | Cool Stuff Ride Home podcast. I'm Reggie Rizu and on today's episode a blinding light display |
| 0:28.5 | that has some neighbors upset, we'll also take a look back at the year of Cool Stuff. Plus, this |
| 0:33.8 | week in history, we'll illuminate you on the history of Christmas lights. |
| 0:38.2 | Coming up on Cool Stuff Ride Home. |
| 0:40.4 | The real-life Clark Griswold holiday display is out there. |
| 0:44.7 | And like the movie, it's bothering some neighbors. |
| 0:47.5 | Tim Gay of Union Vale, New York has once again set the Guinness World Record for the most lights on a residential property for Christmas. |
| 0:55.0 | He first set the record in 2012 but 346,283 Christmas lights, but then, you know, they raised the bar in 2014 with a little over 600,000 Christmas lights. |
| 1:06.0 | Now they decided to up that once again and this year have 720,426 lights on display. |
| 1:13.6 | They named their display, ERD, AJT, after their children's initials. |
| 1:17.6 | They also created a list that has the number of lights that they have, along with what they added or changed each year. |
| 1:23.6 | I have a link to that available in the episode notes along with a video of the |
| 1:28.0 | display. It actually all started back in 1995 when their daughter Emily was born. They had a measly |
| 1:34.4 | 600 lights that were just static. Basically, it started to increase every year since. Now in 2014, |
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