Robert Wadlow

the tallest person in history is a giant giant face

His name is actually Robert Wadlow.

Ironic.

Ironic.

it? That is, yeah.

There you go.

Robert Wadlow.

It wasn't very low.

Yes, it sounds far-fetched.

until you hear about Robert Wadlow.

Robert was born in Alton, Illinois on February 22nd, 1918.

He was an average-sized baby born to average-sized parents.

And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

So the tallest person of all time was a guy named Robert Wadlow, who was still growing when he died at the age of 24, and he was 8 foot 11.

He had acromegaly.

Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant, famous? He had acromegaly.

Like, I, I think he had every year up until, like, the mid-'90s or something.

I might just go back and collect all his old Rothman books.

Yeah.

And my dad gets the Guinness Book of World Records, though.

Do we know what was like going on with him? Like, did he have the Andre the Giant thing? Yeah, he must have.

Like Robert Wadlow?

Yeah, he was approaching seven feet.

He was

huge.

Jay Stu, are you a big Robert Wadlow guy?

I just remember him from the James Bond movies.

And is it plural movies? He was like Jaws and Moonraker?

How about the guy from Alton, Missouri?

Oh, the Alton Giant?

Yeah.

But that's like-

He's like 7'6"

... that's history.

Yeah, the Alton Giant.

Dude, there's a lot of people who are 7'3", 7'4", 7'5", 7'6".

yeah so it's not I think

in height if you're around two meters then you know you could be considered uh a giant so yeah robert wadlow was 11 inches jesus christ two meters 72. he's the tallest verified person in recorded history his feet would

also buckle around because it was just yeah cope with the the size and the weight that's right he was

Highly respected, he became the world's tallest Boy Scout and he famously rejected traveling circus sideshows instead because he had some dignity and instead he decided to go as a spokesman for a shoe company where he had to get obviously special made shoes.

I remember being in Niagara and going to like the Madame Tussauds and you can like step up on the steps and look through this mask of Robert Wadlow to see how high and next to him they had this world's smallest woman who was like you know foot and a half or two foot just to compare John Bud Rogan was the second tallest person in history and the Well, he came in at eight foot nine, two meters, 67.

And the tourist African-American on record, his gigantism made his joints so stiff he couldn't walk, but he used a cart pulled by goats to get around and made a living selling portraits and postcards of himself.

Angus Macaskill, known as the Cape Breton Giant, is recognized by Guinness as the the largest true joint in history, meaning that his stature and legendary strength were natural and not caused by anything medical.

... an appropriate period of growth.

Th- thankfully, his, uh, exponential growth is gonna slow down, otherwise he'd be like that guy, uh, Robert Wadlow.

You guys know him?

Oh, yeah.

Robert.

Robert.

Robert Wadlow.

Right.