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Esteban, Una Chapappan and Josh Holmes.

What's the biggest conga you've ever been involved in?

What's the right length of a conga?

Of a conga line?

Yeah, conga line.

Well, we broke the first record in Burlington, Iowa, with no Cubans in the audience, with 11,000, 162 people. That's a long conga, that is. And then we broke that record with 300,000 people. Oh, come off it. Who was at the end? You were at the end. Thankfully, the end's not the problem. The middle is where you don't want to be.

Because you're a sandwich there between God knows what.

It was on Caya Ocho and I was at the top of a building watching this unfold.

And of course the Cubans weren't going to let Burlington, Iowa have the record.

Guinness went there and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 300,000 Congo. Wow. That's amazing. Yeah, not easy to pull off. You caused that. Yeah, I did. Because of me. There were 300,000 people in a giant chain. I'm not going to say what kind. No, no. I love the fact there's a good place to be in a Congo. I love that. Never do the middle. No. It's not worth it. Do not be in the middle. Either go in the front or the back. Yeah. But we love it. We go to weddings and stuff and then Brits will just start a Congo and you're like, but then it's not as much Latin spirit that you've got.

It's like a sad tapeworm that's just going around.

They march.

Yeah, they like, da, da, da, then you're holding someone's back fat and you're like

I mean, because you, you know, it's just, in England, it's just not the same.

Hello, sir, are you okay?

You look quite pale. Are you okay? You look quite pain.

Are you choking?

I'm not going to you're choking on a pringle.

Oh, is there a doctor on board?

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