Barnaby gets a bit carried away with this one, but it's fitting that our longest episode yet is about the longest book ever written. Professor Seagull, aka Joe Gould, claimed to have written an Oral History of the World that runs to nine million words. Impressive for a largely homeless man who speaks to seagulls and has interesting theories about tomatoes.

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