well, let me tell you this, the ashanti, because they did not want to distract their leader too much, put a limit -- imposed a limit that the king could only have 3,333 wives. now that was supposed to -- i mean, my goodness, sometimes with one wife or two wives that is enough to distract most people. but when you put a limit of 3,300 on somebody, that says something. another king, king matessa, i believe, had supposedly 7,000 wives. brian: but on the ones that most people have heard of. arnold: the ones most heard of? well, during the 20th century -- well, let me think -- well, of -- during the 20th century there's king sabuza of swaziland i believe had wives in the 60's, 70's, something of that nature. i know he had over 500 children. brian: how did you go about your research on this and how long did it take you? arnold: well, i guess, simply put, i looked at every possible source i could. i looked at every bit of biographical information. i think along the way i read over 1,200 biographies. brian: over what time? arnold: over about an 18-year span. so this study was done over about