World's Fastest Talker - Steve Woodmore (The World's Fastest Talker) gives a short lesson and demonstration of fast talking. Length of recording: 2 minutes, 4 seconds. Steve then will recite the passage he broke the world record with, and you can follow along. Its from the Tom Clancy novel "Patriot Games" and is as follows: "There were a few jarring notes. Many people seemed to be carrying umbrellas. Ryan had been careful to check the day's weather forecast before setting out on his research trip. / A fair day had been accurately predicted, in fact it had been called a hot day, though temperatures were only in the upper sixties. A warm day for this time of year, to be sure, but 'hot'? Jack wondered if they called it an Indian summer here. Probably not. Why the umbrellas, though? Didn't people trust the local weather service? Was that how the copy knew I was an American? / Another thing he ought to have anticipated was the plethora of Rolls Royces on the streets. He hadn't seen more than a handful in his entire life, and while the streets were not exactly crowded with them, there were quite a few. He himself usually drove round in a five year old V.W. Rabbit. Ryan stopped at a news stand to purchase a copy of the economist, and had to fumble with the change from his cab fare for several seconds in order to pay the patient dealer, who doubtless also had him pegged for a Yank. He paged through the magazine instead of watching were he was going as he went down the street, and presently found himself halfway down the wrong block. Ryan stopped dead and though back to the city map he'd inspected before leaving the hotel One thing jack could not do was remember street names, but he had a photographic memory for maps. He walked to the end of the block, turned left, proceeded two blocks, then right, and sure enough there was St. James's Park. Ryan checked his watch; he was fifteen minutes early. It was downhill past the monument to a Duke of York ...."
