Josh Kiser’s record-breaking tallest hat, a 17-foot marvel

Hi, my name is Josh Kaiser. I'm from Browningstville, Pennsylvania, and I am the current Guinness World Record Holder for the world's tallest hat

I grew up reading the Guinness Book of World Records Books, and I always thought it would be neat to set one of those myself a few years ago during the pandemic

scrolling through the records, and I came across previous World Record holder for the World's Tallest Hat

He was a gentleman from Tampa, Florida. The picture was just him

A absurdly tall hat, and I thought, oh, this might be fun. For the first day that I started this process

I thought it would be pretty easy. Just duct tape a bunch of cardboard together

But it turned out to be a little bit more complicated. Strong materials that are also light

and then finding a way to connect those to your head. It was challenging, and there were times

where I would try something and it would work, I would give up for a little bit

So it became a little bit of a personal challenge. All right, so today we are attempting

the world's tallest hat. So it's an elongated Santa hat. So originally I had planned to do a Philadelphia Phillies hat Go Phillies But as I started working through this I figured that a Santa Claus hat might stay upright better just because of its shape

So it's extremely heavy to wear and walk with. And it's an awkward weight since it's protruding so high from my head

But for this record to count, you have to walk 10 meters without it falling off

I think I'm more glad that I can kind of share this project with people now

Since it was something that I was working on behind the scenes for a while, now I can say that I'm a Guinness World Record holder as well

The world's tallest hat measures in at 5.422 meters. That's 17 feet, 9.5 inches

I think a taller hat is 100% possible. And I encourage anybody out there who may see this to give it a go

I had a lot of fun doing it. despite the challenges. If you end up making the larger one

I'd love to see it. And I tip my cap to you