{"id":35713,"date":"2016-05-07T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=35713"},"modified":"2016-05-09T09:27:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:27:57","slug":"uk-comedian-and-gambling-archaeologist-tim-fitzhigham-exclusive-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/uk-comedian-and-gambling-archaeologist-tim-fitzhigham-exclusive-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Comedian and Gambling Archaeologist Tim FitzHigham on Digging Those Odds: Exclusive Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gambling is all about speculating on future events, but to British comedian and adventurer Tim FitzHigham<\/a>, it\u2019s about digging up the past. Tim\u2019s research has seen him, variously, cross the English Channel in a bath tub, attempt to break the year 1755 land-speed record while strapped to a giant kite, and cook a pudding 30 feet underwater.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Tim
British comedian and gambling archaeologist Tim FitzHigham has plenty to say about the history of crazy prop bets. (Image: pleasanceahoy.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Along the way, he has sustained numerous horrific injuries, but it\u2019s all in a day\u2019s work for the world\u2019s foremost (and only) gambling archaeologist. We were lucky enough to sit down with him recently for an amusing chat about the whys and wherefores of it all.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Casino.org:<\/strong> First and foremost, you\u2019re a comedian, but you also describe yourself as a \u201cgambling archaeologist.\u201d Can you explain what that is?<\/em><\/p>\n

FitzHigham:<\/strong> The furthest back I\u2019ve gone so far is around [the year] 1450, and I\u2019ve researched all the weirdest bets that I could find in the whole of human history from that point forward. I\u2019ve looked at them and I\u2019ve gone out and tried to win them.<\/p>\n

And the reason that I\u2019ve tried to win them is to establish \u201cform,\u201d because sometimes we know that the bet took place, but we don\u2019t know who won. So it\u2019s a genuine attempt to establish form in historical gambling.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve trawled through pamphlets and newspaper articles, eighteenth-century gossip columns, gentlemen\u2019s libraries, gentlemen\u2019s betting books, club wager books, cavalry regiment wager books: the source material is pretty substantial.<\/p>\n

Weirdly, I did it all to create a comedy show, never realizing that it had a more wide-ranging academic gambling perspective. After the last radio show I did, a nice man came up to talk to me afterwards and it turned out that he was the head of the International Gaming Institute<\/a> [at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/em>]. He\u2019d flown over to the UK for the final recording of The Gambler<\/em>\u00a0[radio] series. He said there\u2019s only one person in the world (me) who knows this much about the crazy history of gambling.<\/p>\n

\"UNLV
Yes, kids, you can actually study gambling at college! At the University of Las Vegas, Nevada’s International Gaming Institute. Go tell your parents and watch how excited they get! (Image: virtual-rebel.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So I thought I was just making comedy, but it\u2019s turned out to be quite an interesting arc of historical research, by mistake. I\u2019m like the Indiana Jones of betting. Except without the whip.<\/p>\n

Casino.org: <\/strong>A lot of the bets seem to take place between eighteenth-century English aristocrats, a group of people who were completely MAD! Is it the characters behind the bets that attract you as much as the challenges themselves?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

FitzHigham:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think there are a few really good periods of really eccentric betting. You\u2019ve got to have the right economic climate to get really weird bets. You\u2019ve got to have a group of people who are so<\/em> rich that they don\u2019t mind putting ridiculous sums of money on the flip of a coin, or the run of a raindrop, or the roll of a cheeseboard, for example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those periods, I\u2019ve found, are early seventeenth\u00a0century, mid-eighteenth\u00a0century, early nineteenth\u00a0century and late nineteenth\u00a0century. You get these kinds of periods that crop up, usually immediately before an economic crash. The two things might be linked, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

But gambling archeology turns up some extraordinary characters. People who were at the very, very rakish end of history and loved gambling on anything they could lay their hands on. These are so not the people we learn about in history lessons at school. These are people you\u2019ve got to go out and find. They\u2019re in footnotes and gossip columns. People like the Fourth\u00a0Duke of Queensbury, a man who engaged in a bet with a neighboring lord that his butler could out-eat the neighboring lord\u2019s butler.<\/p>\n

On winning the bet, the triumphant butler sent his master a note saying, \u201cMy Lord, I have carried the day and won the bet by a pig and an apple pie!\u201d<\/p>\n

Casino.org: <\/strong>Your name has an aristocratic ring to it. Is that why you identify with these people, because you\u2019re from the same mad stock?<\/em><\/p>\n

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FitzHigham:<\/strong> \u00a0 (Laughs<\/em>) I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve always enjoyed pushing things to the limit. I was always the kid who said, \u201cYeah, that\u2019s great, but can we do it faster, or upside down? Let\u2019s see how far we can push it before we break it.\u201d And I think perhaps that\u2019s where I identify with those insane gamblers. It\u2019s a love of testing myself.<\/p>\n

\"Tim
You betcha: FitzHigam says that the craziest prop bets happen right before financial collapse. (Image: selbytownhall.co.uk)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Casino.org: <\/strong>Tell us about some of your favorite bets you\u2019ve been involved in.<\/em><\/p>\n

FitzHigham:<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019ve enjoyed a lot of them. I\u2019ve enjoyed the ways I\u2019ve had to approach them and the things I\u2019ve had to learn to try and win them. One bet springs to mind. 1755, I think.<\/p>\n

They bet they could travel across water at 25 mph, which when you consider that the land-speed record had just been broken at that stage, at 19 mph, would have been some achievement.<\/p>\n

It turned out this bet never actually took place, which we know from a newspaper article at the time, which reported that on the final training run “something snapped, there was a fatality and the wager was abandoned.”<\/p>\n

But I was intrigued by the bet. Could you win it? Could you go 25 mph over water using only the means that would have been available in 1755?<\/p>\n

And that, of course, led me down all sorts of different routes, one of which was to attach myself to a massive kite and just bounce across the water as fast as I possibly could. Those are the kind of moments where you just go, \u201cWow, I\u2019ve just strapped myself to a massive kite somewhere off the south coast of England! I would never have been involved in this ridiculous situation had it not been for a man in 1755 who bet another man that he could get his butler to go 25 MPH across water!\u201d There\u2019s something really joyful about that.<\/p>\n

The same is true of a 1790 bet where a lord bet another lord that the first lord\u2019s butler could run faster than the second lord\u2019s racehorse in a 100-yard dash. So there I was lined up at the starting line of a racecourse with a racehorse next to me with a jockey in the saddle.<\/p>\n

Casino.org: <\/strong>It\u2019s all about acceleration, isn\u2019t it?<\/em><\/p>\n

FitzHigham:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s exactly that. And it\u2019s also about the start. You\u2019re just hoping that the horse hesitates for a second. If you can gain a second, because you can accelerate much faster, you stand a chance of winning. It\u2019s a really exciting bet to get involved in.<\/p>\n

Casino.org: <\/strong>What\u2019s the scariest thing you\u2019ve had to do?<\/em><\/p>\n

FitzHigham:<\/strong>\u00a0One of the things I\u2019ve enjoyed about The Gambler<\/em> radio series is that we\u2019re constantly trying to run everything through the Health and Safety officer at the BBC and her constant response was \u201cWell, we don\u2019t recommend that.\u201d Each week we\u2019d go to that poor Health and Safety officer, and each week she\u2019d have slightly lower shoulders, saying, \u201cHow are you going to make my life hell this week?\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s lots of stuff. I remember hurtling down an alp, a black run, with absolutely no protection and thinking, \u201cYeah, maybe I\u2019ve overcooked this. This could go very wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

I remember when we were trying to cook a pudding 30 feet underwater and I decided that we were going to have to use nineteenth\u00a0century cable mining charges to achieve this. The result was me basically running away as the entire test area behind me exploded, and diving for cover as most of the test area rained down on me.<\/p>\n

Casino.org: <\/strong>You have injured yourself quite a few times in pursuit of your goals, haven\u2019t you?<\/em><\/p>\n

FitzHigham:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, of course, yeah. The problem is, when you\u2019re trying to do a lot of bets in a short space of time, as I did, the cumulative effect of injury was a factor in my training. Some of the bets were sprints, some of them were long distance, some of them were games of mental agility, some of them were games of physical agility, some pulling, some pushing, etc, etc.<\/p>\n

\"Dan
A good example of a modern-day prop bettor with more money than sense might be Dan Bilzerian, who recently bet and won that he could cycle from L.A. to Vegas in 48 hours. (Image: Gene Freeman\/NY Post)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was very difficult to try and work out a consistent training program in any sense. I remember when I raced the racehorse, I had certainly broken a hand, a fractured rib and had some distinctly nervous testicles as a result of injuries that had occurred.<\/p>\n

Of course, we must remember that most of these bets were initially enacted by people with more money than sense, and in the eighteenth century, you could just accidentally kill a butler and people didn\u2019t really seem to mind that much. Nowadays, we are in a very different scenario. And rightly so, to be honest.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s not just Healthy and Safety, though, there\u2019s all sorts of red tape. When I tried to get them to shut the freeway for my attempt to roll a cheeseboard four and a half miles, they weren\u2019t having any of it. There\u2019s a lot of comedy in that, in my interactions with certain bodies that have been essentially set up to stop society from going a bit crazy.<\/p>\n

Casino.org: <\/strong>Tell us about some of the world records you hold, Tim.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, what got me interested in historical gambling in the first place was the paper boat record. I hold the record for the longest distance travelled in a boat made out of paper, 160 miles, back in 2003. The previous record was the oldest maritime record in the world, in terms of source material, set in 1519, when a man travelled 50 miles along the River Thames.<\/p>\n

FitzHigham:\u00a0<\/strong>Now, I originally saw that as a record, as an achievement. But when I looked back on it and reread the source material, it turns out it was originally undertaken as a bet. Unwittingly, I\u2019d fallen into gambling archeology. By mistake.<\/p>\n

Casino.org: <\/strong>And you famously crossed the English Channel in a bath\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

FitzHigham:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, that came after. I did the paper boat thing because I wanted to break a record and also to raise money for charity. I expected it to raise about \u00a3500 [$722], but various countries across the world picked up on the paper boat journey as a news story: \u201cEccentric Englishman Rows Paper Boat Down River Thames,\u201d etc, and weirdly it became an international thing. Instead of raising hundreds, I raised thousands.<\/p>\n

And I suddenly realized that the rest of the world had an appetite for this kind of thing, that people kind of like British eccentrics and they actually don\u2019t mind me doing my crazy plans. This is great, I thought. What\u2019s the next thing I\u2019ve always wanted to do with my life? I know, sail the channel in a bath!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always loved doing these projects, I\u2019ve done them since I was three. But I realized that not only did other people quite like them, but I could do stand-up shows about them too, so it become this beautiful circular thing.<\/p>\n

Tim FitzHigham\u2019s book <\/em>All at Sea is available on Amazon. His radio show, <\/em>The Gambler, is available to UK residents at bbciplayer.com.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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