That this person that wants to dedicate all this
time, all this training, all this energy towards
how long they can do the worm. Maybe a person
have a hobby. Welcome to the show, people. Eat
my shorts. So here is to conversation. Tranquility
Base here. The angle has landed. Welcome to the
Cash Exchange. What up? How you been? Not too
shabby. This is actually a much later recording
than we usually do, but I feel like I'm real
jazzed to knock another one out. How about you?
You had a night coffee, I heard. Yeah. Yeah.
Gotta get my go juice. I was telling her mom
that I can't drink coffee past five, just on
personal principle, because I get... Like, I
work a night job. So I'm often not off of work
until one o 'clock in the morning. And then if
I have any kind of caffeine during my shift,
I will not fall asleep until like three or four.
And so my whole next day is shot. Yeah. I'm no
longer allowed caffeine past 5 p .m. That is
a risky run. Maybe we'll get some delirious conversation
out of you. There is an episode really early
on in this podcast where we recorded. I want
to say it was later than this start. And I'm
pretty sure 50 % of it, I was just completely
dissociated. I was so tired that it was just,
it was, I think the second take of the episode
that we were doing. Do you remember that? Yeah,
it was the one where I was, I was going to San
Antonio. No, I was going to Houston. And so I
stopped in Austin, which is not on the way, Is
that the one you're talking about? No, but keep
going. No, because that one we started recording
at like, I want to say like 1230 in the morning.
And then we wrapped it up like around 330 or
four. And then after that, we stayed up for a
little while watching. What did we watch? It
was some stand up. Kill Tony, maybe. I know what
you're talking about. It wasn't... Oh, it might
have been Kill Tony. It was something like that.
No, it was Dr. Phil. Oh, Adam Ray's Where He
Meets Dr. Phil. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's what
we watched. That's the one where we caught...
That's where I manifested, just like Vin Diesel
did. Mark Sinclair. Sorry, Mark Sinclair. Yeah,
that's where... money bags big wiener yeah money
money bags don't like that i remember that uh
the episode that i was thinking of was uh i think
it's art versus the artist it was the second
in a like marathon recording session so we had
already been one full episode and i'm pretty
sure we lost like we got half an hour in and
then it like cut out or something and so we had
to restart And so we didn't end up starting until
so, so late. And I was just delirious tired.
Had the world's biggest cup of coffee because
for some reason all of your mugs are meant for
giants. Drank a half gallon of coffee and so
I was jittery the entire hour and a half. It
was long in that. I think the actual finished
product was like an hour and a half. So the three
hours of recording was just... I was about to
explode out of my skin. Very fun. So now I'm
not allowed coffee. Makes sense. I'm real glad
we got those kinks worked out where we didn't
make it an hour into an episode and lost everything
and had to restart. Like with ghosts. I mean,
yeah. We almost finished the entire episode.
I am too. I think it turned out good. Take two
was the best one. Unfortunately, we can never
release that cut. It's lost to the ether. A lot
of hoopla. All right. Do you want to know what
your three things are for today? I sure do. Your
three things today are Trivial Pursuit, The Pet
Rock, and Flaming Dr. Pepper. Trivial Pursuit,
Pet Rock, Flaming Dr. Pepper. Silly Creations.
Interesting. Development stories. What is a flaming
Dr. Pepper? So, a flaming Dr. Pepper also contains
no Dr. Pepper. It is a Texan cocktail from the
80s that involves lighting amaretto and rum on
fire and dropping it in beer. Hmm. Gross. I'm
curious. Don't want to try it, but I would like
to see one be made, I think. Amaretto's gross.
It is. It's a real pretentious drink, too. It's
like going out and ordering a brandy. Sir, you're
out of chilies. Calm down. You think they have
brandy at Chili's? Maybe a couple servers named
Brandy. Yeah. Trivial Pursuit. I feel like there's
an interesting story with the creation of that.
I feel like there's always an interesting story
with the drinks. that get popular, like alcoholic
drinks that get popular. And especially ones
that you have to do all these extra steps to,
like Irish Car Bomb. Was it a Vegas Bomb? Was
that dropped in something? It's the Vegas Bomb.
I think it's a drink that's mixed in a... I mean,
I'm well, well past my novelty shot days, but
I think it's... It's vodka and something else
and dropped into a Red Bull. It is whiskey. It
is Crown Royal, peach schnapps, cranberry juice,
and dropped in a Red Bull. There we go. I don't
drink things like that, so I don't. That sounds
like an immediate blackout. That's like something
you drink when you're... Celebrating your 21st
birthday? Yes. Or... You want to find the most
creative ways to drink alcohol when you're underage.
It's just like it's just like all the drinking
games, the beer pong, which is so gross. So nasty.
If you walk into a house and that's the first
drink that you have is beer pong. You have an
issue. You have problems and you need to you
need to get that sorted out. Was it King Cup?
yeah flip cup uh is king cup is the one with
the can right you put the cans under the tab
yes and whoever pops it has to chug it yeah yeah
like come on just just drink your alcohol like
a normal person or don't drink at all that's
what i guess that is a way you can also go uh
trivial pursuit and pet rock pet rocks are so
dumb so all Just genius marketing, but so dumb.
I beg to differ. I support anything with googly
eyes. It's a weird place to draw the line, but
I support anything with googly eyes. One of my
favorite October trends is when you just start
seeing all these videos of these women wearing
white sheets with a hole cut out in the boob
area. It's just poking through with googly eyes.
I don't know. It's not even a sexual thing. It
makes me feel the warm and fuzzies for the spooky
season. Sure. You like to see those boo -bees.
There's usually googly eyes there, too. I have
literally no idea what you're talking about,
so I don't know if I'm on that side of the internet.
People know what I'm talking about. I believe
the people do, just not this person. I'll send
you some examples later. This is the reason that
I deleted all my social medias. I have no clue.
I'm trying to cross -reference your three things
with everything that I know is on the list. And
you could just be throwing me a curveball. And
I just, I draw on the blank. So you did get pretty
close to it. The first thought that you had when
it comes to all of this stuff is they all have
these weird origins. All of these were ideas
that came about in a bar. They were all things
that were founded in bars. The idea for the Pet
Rock, the idea for Trivial Pursuit. Trivial Pursuit,
if I remember correctly, was brought about because
there were people who were really into trivia
and they decided that board games were just...
There was just too much going on. It was just
a lot. And so they decided to make their own
trivia game that was fairly simple, which ended
in Trivial Pursuit. But the idea for it came
in a bar. So you did throw me a curveball. This
wasn't on our list. It is. It is? Because that
is how those things connect. But it is not the
topic of the episode just yet. Oh, God bless
it. Give me a second. I was building. Oh, I'm
sorry. I didn't mean to steal your thunder. Do
you want to know one of the other great ideas
that was built in a bar? Yes. Yes, I do. The
Guinness Book of World Records, which is on our
list. And I accidentally tied it all together
talking about the Irish car bomb. Yeah. Look
at me. See, you were on the right path. You were
so close in the beginning. I was like, there's
no way he doesn't know what episode I'm talking
about right now. Dang it. You were on it. You
nailed it. You were just a shade away from the
answer. But I would be interested in doing an
episode that is just based around bar ideas.
So I did a decent deep dive into it to see A,
what my three things for this episode could be
and B, I got a little ways in and I thought maybe
it could be its own episode. There's not honestly
a ton. unless you start lowering your standards
for what ideas were made at a bar. So like J
.K. Rowling got the idea for Harry Potter when
she was on a train, but she wrote a lot of it
at pubs and cafes. Do you consider that a bar
idea? Kind of. A little bit, yeah. And so it
was a lot of that gray area. Tinder came about
because the... founder was people watching at
a bar and was just watching this just bad date
on bad date or like people getting hit on. He
thought, Hey, what if I made money off of that?
What if I could make this worse? Hmm. Interesting.
Okay. Yeah. Uh, yeah, I'm all for talking about
the Guinness book of world records. It was very,
uh, it was very instrumental growing up for me.
No, no real reason why, like it's not, I wasn't
trying to settle any bar bets and, the fourth
grade. But it was nice to have that knowledge
at hand. I also remember it being such an integral
part of growing up. And I think a lot of that
is associated with the Scholastic Book Fair.
That's what I was going to say. Because they
were all aggressively marketed with the Scholastic
Book Fair. I don't need to know the longest fingernails
in the world. It was not helpful for me to reference
that. But every single year, the new shiny cover
of 2009's guinness book of world records which
have i would imagine all been sunk by this point
yeah it was that and uh ripley's believe it or
not books were all the rage at this classic book
fair actually do you want to know uh a fun fact
i learned uh that is related to this scholastic
company do you know that Do you know what the
original title for the first Harry Potter book
was? Like the UK version? The Philosopher's Stone?
Yes. Yeah, the original title was The Philosopher's
Stone. Did you know Scholastic is the reason
that it was changed from Scholastic or from The
Philosopher's Stone to The Sorcerer's Stone?
Did they think that American kids didn't know
what a philosopher was? They thought we're too
dumb to know what a philosopher was. But we know
what sorcerers are? Come on. They wanted to change
it to something real silly. Yeah, they said that
the word philosopher sounded too academic and
studious for American children to be interested
in it. But the thing is that the philosopher's
stone is like an actual, like, I don't know if
it's like a folktale. It's like a thing that
existed before Harry Potter. And so they just
threw that out the window and they're like, yeah,
we're going to go with this. And then they had
some other dumb idea. It was just like the most
generic. It was like Harry Potter and the magic
school or something like that was what they're
going to try to sell it as. And then J .K. Rowling
came back and said, what if we changed philosopher
to sorcerer? And I don't know if that had anything
to do with Sorcerer Mickey, because as far as
American. Pop culture goes, that's the only thing
I can see besides Harry Potter where the word
sorcerer comes into play. I don't know. But yeah,
scholastic things for a bunch of dum -dums. That
is why they go on book tours with the least academic
sounding books of all time every year. The Guinness
Book of World Records, the only books I remember
ever buying from. the Scholastic Book Fair were
the Simpsons comics. Yes. Yeah. The like compendiums
of like Treehouse of Horror and things. So I
wasn't exactly proving them wrong. But it's not
like I was. Yeah, no. I think the most common
thing that was bought at the Scholastic Book
Fair was the posters of Ferraris and the little
hand pointer things. And Emmett Smith. Yeah,
I remember coming home with an Emmett Smith poster.
It was a simpler time. It was, man. Do your kids
still get Scholastic Book Fairs? Are those still
a thing? They are still a thing, yep. Okay. Yeah.
Is it just like Minecraft books? Because I remember
there being a lot of like video game games. Yes.
Yeah. Minecraft. Yeah. Now it's... They give
you a link, you type in a code for your kid's
school, and you put money on a digital wallet
for them. I felt like a king. The king of the
castle. When I came in with my $20 for the Scholastic
Book Fair. We don't get arcades with the little
coins anymore. Even Chuck E. Cheese has the cards.
What have we done? We've failed these children.
We've ruined it, yeah. We need tactile things.
We do. We do. Walking around the arcade with
a little jangle in your pocket and then you have
tickets sticking out of every pocket you have.
Or you win a jackpot and you get to have that
necklace that tells everyone at the arcade that
you're better than them. Yeah. Best feeling in
the world. Yep. All gone. All gone. Did you know
that Chuck E. Cheese has adult arcades now? There's
one near you. Yeah, I have heard. And don't they
have like some of the original animatronics?
I don't think so, but maybe. I thought I saw
something about that. What's it called? I am
looking it up as we speak. I do not remember.
Chuck's Arcade. Oh, I guess there's not. I thought
there was one in DFW. The arcades do include.
Which one? The brand's iconic, but now inactive.
animatronic characters like Chucky Cheese and
Munch's Make Believe Band. So the animatronics
are there, they just don't work. That is a bummer.
And also, there's one in Oklahoma City. I thought
there was one near you. I guess not. What a weird
place to put in a place like that. I would be
really interested to see what's at Chuck's Arcade.
I think it would be cool to go to one just for
the fun of it. Well, let's take a road trip.
Let's take the show on the road. To Oklahoma
City? To Oklahoma City. Or to Tulsa. We can go
there and to Toby Keats' I Love This Bar and
Grill. Pass. Okay. Well, then we can go to the
Oklahoma City Bombing Museum. Yeah. What's more
enjoyable, Toby Keats' I Love This Bar and Grill
or the Oklahoma City Bombing Museum? I don't
feel like I should answer that. No, so the last
time that I went to Toby Keith's Bar and Grill,
it was the one in Windstar, which was my first
mistake. I am fully aware of that. It made me
so sick. Oh, yeah? So I will not be returning
to a Toby Keith's Bar and Grill. Was that post
-Toby death or pre -Toby death? Pre, because
I haven't been to a Windstar in years. Oh, Windstar.
There's only the one. There's only the one. And
now all their marketing is World of Windstar.
And so everywhere it just says, wow. I mean,
that would be appropriate marketing. He is in
the Metroplex. And then in May, I think they
should flip all their advertisements upside down.
So they say, wow. Take your mom to Winds. Yeah.
What's your favorite Guinness world record? I
have, in the course of my research for this episode,
have come across a good deal of odd ones. And
honestly, the ones that stick with me, the ones
that have stuck with me through all of my experience
with the Guinness books, are the biggest, like,
biggest ball of twine in Minnesota kind of things.
Minnesota! I just like one large collection of
nonsense accumulated into a specific, like, I
think the rubber band ball is cool. The paint
ball is cool. Like, the roadside attraction kind
of things are always my favorites. Or the biggest,
like, foodstuffs. Biggest pizza, biggest cookie.
Shout out to Bruce Almighty, because I think
that was running through my head the entire time
I was researching this episode. That's the way
the cookie crumbles. That's the way it was. Yeah,
I... Okay, so I do have a bone to pick with the
Guinness World Record people, and we can go ahead
and get this out of the way now, so it's not
hanging over our heads. I think that they should
be a little more particular about what they send
people out to do and dictate what is worthy of
a world record for the books. I both wholeheartedly
agree. And also, I mean, they got to how do you
know what's going to be relevant in a decade?
That's true. That's true. I mean, we are. We
are hurtling towards idiocracy. So the dumber
the record, I guess, the more cherished it'll
be in the future based on our current trajectory.
But yeah, I mean, it's just when when you say
I'm going to, I don't know, the farthest someone
has traveled by doing the worm. Which, for all
I know, that was off the top of my head, but
could be a Guinness World Record. And I would
not be surprised if it was. But maybe, maybe
we just move along. Or maybe put them in a subsection
of like, hey, these are the ones I don't know.
Just like in the back. Kind of like a dishonorable
mentions. Rapid fire. Yeah. Yeah, like the Ig
Nobel Prize. Like the opposite of a Nobel Prize.
The opposite of a Guinness World Record. You
don't get a picture or a paragraph. You just
get a little blurb at the end. Yeah, a little
one sentence. Just 7 .6 miles. The worm. Idiot.
Boom. Done. You want to give Razzies... To the
Guinness record holders? Yeah, why not? I mean,
how long can you do the worm? I mean, okay. I'm
not saying that it can't be an amazing feat,
but I'm saying maybe that this person that wants
to dedicate all this time, all this training,
all this energy towards how long they can do
the worm, maybe. Not to let a person have a hobby.
Maybe. Maybe I'm way off here. Maybe. Maybe that
was just a bad example. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.
Maybe there's something else that takes no effort
whatsoever. One I know that is in the record
books. As long as fingernails. That takes no
effort. That takes active in -effort. That is
absolutely incorrect. What effort does it take?
To maintain your fingernails once they get past
a certain length? I'm going to go ahead and assume,
correct me if I'm wrong, that you haven't had
long nails, right? No. At any point in your time?
No. Once your nails get, like my nails are very
short, largely because I work in food service
and gross. But after they get about like half,
inch maybe uh they can start breaking if you
think about how like delicate your fingernails
are the longer that they get and you have to
protect them constantly it is it is you having
to like be a incredibly careful with your hands
and like the amount of cleaning like it's the
amount of like diet precautions you have to take
so that your skin and nails are healthy. There's
a lot of things that go into it. Also, it's like
40 years of dedication. They're nasty. Don't
recommend trying for the record, but it's a lot
of work. But it is also actively avoiding things
that, because there's no way you can properly
clean yourself, wipe yourself. Okay, but you're
in a public bathroom. What are you doing then?
Just letting it air out? I can't poop in strange
places thing from Family Guy. Even these people
with like five inch fingernails like and they're
fake. The ones that are straight out. There's
no way if your fingernails are five inches long.
Naturally, they're going to stand straight out.
They're going to start curling on themselves.
So you go out, you go get your crystal nail and
you ask for the five inchers. And you actively
chose that. And now you do all the clicky clack,
clicky clack whenever you're texting or. Typing
or anything like that. And then you act completely
put out when someone doesn't want to do any shake
your hand or or hand you something because you
got these five daggers on the ends of your fingers.
And I just I don't know, man. Not for me. Not
for me. I'll leave it at that. Just not for me
or anyone I associate with. That one takes a
lot of work. I really like acrylics. I like fake
nails. I don't wear them for sanitary reasons,
like I said. Food service is not a... Not fans
of that. And also, I play guitar, and so I can't
really... You can't really do that with acrylics
unless you're Dolly Parton, which couldn't be
me, but... Do you have the Coke nail for the
picking? You're picking up Spanish guitar? I...
Spanish guitar. That's what the style's called.
I do sort of have a Coke nail. My pinky nail
on one hand is longer than the rest of them because
I can't cut it too short because my finger got
broken when I was younger. Here we go. I wasn't
going to throw you under the bus. When was this
going to come out? Go ahead. All I was going
to say is that My pinky was broken when I was
younger, and now the nail doesn't grow right,
and so I can't cut it really short or else it'll
start hurting because the nail bed is the wrong
shape. And so it's longer than the rest of my
nails. Was not laying blame. If you want to choose
to take it, that's on you. I'm pleading the fifth.
Uh -huh. Pleading the fifth. Who knew? Nail talk
would be such a point of contention between us.
Uh -huh. Who knew? Softening the subject. Do
you know the origin of the Guinness Book of World
Records? Hit me. So it was inspired by a pub
argument in London in 1955. The inventor, Sir
Hugh Beaver. Awesome name. That is pretty sweet.
Was debating with a friend about the fastest
game bird in Europe. Huh. When he realized that
he did not have a way to confirm what the fastest
game bird in Europe was, he decided, hey, I bet
a lot of people have arguments like this in pubs.
I bet we can make a book that would solve this.
And so he. used his position as the director
of... He was the managing director at Guinness.
Reached out to Norris and Ross McWhirther, twins
who owned a fact -finding agency, my dream job.
And they compiled the first book. What, per se,
does a... fact -finding business do? In 1955?
No idea. Huh. I have no idea. Squeezed out by
Google? You know what? Maybe a little separate
pod will be on the Werther twins. Maybe Encyclopedia
Britannica took them down. Encyclopedia, excuse
you. Sorry. Sorry. My bad. My bad. Yeah. So that's
how we got the Guinness Book of World Records.
And also, he was not knighted because of his
work with Guinness and the World Record book,
unfortunately. He was knighted for being the...
It was a very long title. He was knighted in
1943 for wartime service. He's had a very interesting
life. Hugh Beaver, man. Whenever you're knighted,
do you have to put on your application what you're
hoping to be knighted for? Yes. Can it be a list
of accomplishments? Can it be like, oh, you single
-handedly help us win World War II, but also,
also... You gave us the Guinness Book of World
Records. Do you think he got his position at
Guinness because he was a knight? Is that the
key to the city? You get to do anything you want
for the rest of time? Maybe. Tell me one thing
that Sir Ian McKellen or Sir Patrick Stewart,
Sir Elton John couldn't do. Sir Paul McCartney.
Was Lennon ever knighted? Probably not. I don't
think so. He was too anti -establishment in his
penthouse. Yeah. Huh. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
know. I don't I don't know any British people
I can ask about knighthood. I would be curious
to learn more about it. Well, it could be. I
bet it's a short stuff if we're being for real.
Probably is. Yeah. But if you know anything about
knighthood, we'd love to hear from you. Hit us
up on TikTok, Twitter. Not Twitter. X. Instagram.
YouTube. Shoot us an email at cashexchangepod
at gmail .com. I was having this discussion earlier,
and I don't know what the answer is. I couldn't
find anything online. But what do you call the
action of posting something on X? When you were
on Twitter, you would post a tweet. When you're
on X, you post a... Bullshit. A what? What? A
what? Couldn't tell you. You said bullshit? I
did. You post bullshit on X? Not just X. You
post bullshit on most social medias. That's kind
of the point. I only post gold, man. Not if you're
a business. Not if you're a business. But for
personal use, generally speaking, it's just nonsense.
This is a segue that, like, we don't really need
to get too deep into, but did you hear that Sam
Bankman Freed said that he believes that we're
in the dead internet now? Or that we're, like,
heading there fast, basically? That's Chet, GBT
guy? Yes. The OpenAI dude. I have believed in
that for quite some time, but it's... A little
jarring to hear one of the biggest players in
the tech space right now say that he also believes
that nothing online is real anymore. We are,
for the record. As far as we know. Probably.
Or just deep, deep simulation. But isn't that
just like the kitschy thing to do now for these
tech? Giants, Elon, Zuckerberg, just to make
all these grand sweeping claims and that, like,
Musk is, be very, very careful with AI. But hey,
here's literally AI in every single thing I do.
Here's Bankman Freed. Hey, hey, we have to be
very, very cautious. with AI. Anyways, here's
chat GPT -19. Sam Altman. My bad. Not Bankman
Freed. Yeah, isn't Bankman Freed like in prison?
I believe so, yeah. Or something with his homely
girlfriend? What? Very ugly woman was his accomplice
in whatever he got wrapped up in. I don't...
I have a decent knack for once a story has has
reached its conclusion just forgetting about
it yeah because there's there's just so much
that happens every single day that i just i don't
have the capacity to keep it all locked up in
here yeah yeah i don't blame you man i i get
snippets of things and that's uh usually where
it ends because i don't pursue the story further
because i would spend all my time Just wrapped
up in a bunch of nonsense that at the end of
the day has little to no effect on my life. Anyway,
that was the end of my little segue. We brought
it up a good amount in the conspiracy theory
episode, so I just wanted to circle back for
a moment. Do you know what qualifies to be a
Guinness record? I know that you have to pay.
To have someone come out to observe it. I know
that you. I guess that's all I know about it.
So the application. Application fee is I want
to say five hundred dollars. Oh, wait, no. The
expedited it's between eight hundred and a thousand.
Oh, no way. The timeline for application to review
is at the moment 12 weeks, which is actually
not nearly as long as I thought it would be.
I don't know how long I thought it would be,
but I thought... Or standard. No, that is, I
think, standard because I looked it up on the
actual Guinness website and they said it was
12 weeks. So I would imagine that's their general
turnaround. But I was expecting at least like...
Six months. Yeah. Double that. Yeah. Twelve weeks
seems. I mean, how many. How many satellite offices
they're working out of. I remember. So I've applied
to a billion jobs in the past four years or so.
Is this one of them? I have applied for Guinness.
For one of their offices. So there has to be
something like either remote or near DFW. Because
it would have been a couple years ago, probably.
But I definitely applied to be a member of the
Guinness team. So the records have to be measurable,
breakable, standardizable, and verifiable. Alongside
that, they have to have video proof or a Guinness
rep present for the record breaking. You can
do it with video? You can send in a video, huh?
Yeah. Okay. I think it would depend on the specific
thing that you're breaking, whether or not they
would need a person there or they could just
watch you do it. And that's probably going to
change with AI and all that jazz. Is that the
same cost for if you submit a video versus if
someone has to come out to do it? That is a good
question. So, there is not a standardized price
for the adjudicators? That doesn't sound right.
No, that's right. They all just get to throw
their own quote out? I would imagine it depends
on how far you would have to have the person
travel, and so they can't give you a standard
thing, because if you're in the middle of Iowa
and the closest person's in Texas, then that's
going to be pretty decent travel cost. Yep. The
general timeline from application to response
is 12 weeks. If you wanted to pay the $800 to
$1 ,000 to expedite the process, it will shorten
it to five days. Huh. Which is insane. So, what...
What... possible reason is it like hey we're
doing this thing hey do you think this could
be a world record but like you you need to it's
like six days out and so you're like oh we can
expedite this like what would be the reason why
someone would pay a premium on getting it expedited
uh i think it would be helpful if one of your
like if your record specifically is one of those
things that requires a lot of people because
it's not like you're gonna have a five day review
period and then you just get the person out there
and so if you have like the most people named
Kyle gathered in one specific place which was
in Kyle Texas Kyle or yeah I think it was in
yeah So if you're like gathering all of the Kyles,
then you can't narrow it down to like, I need
everyone to be here on September 12th. You can't
like have it locked down if you don't know that
there's actually going to be a record that you're
technically able to break. Yeah. But yeah, no,
you can expedite it to five days if you're on
a tight turnaround for some reason. And so maybe
we should have discussed this at the beginning,
but what are the benefits to being in the Guinness
Book of World Records? Just bragging rights.
Yeah, that's it. They don't have like a, like
for the Masters, every year around the time of
the Masters, all the winners gather for a meal.
There's none of that. feels very dinner for schmucks
and i don't i don't mean that to say anything
negative about people who have actually claimed
guinness world records i'm saying that in a sense
that that is just a large collection of people
with very very niche interests like doing the
worm for 30 feet i i don't know what a long amount
of work of worming is i don't know what the The
average travel. You would have to be in multiple
miles. Should we do a live lookup to see what
the world's longest worm is? So it is a Guinness
record. Oh, man. Dang. It was achieved in July
of 2013. Do you want to guess how long? I'm looking
at it right now. From San Jose, California. It's
funny that you started that with from San Jose,
California, like he wormed into a different city.
He wormed from San Jose to San Francisco. Yeah.
Can you imagine going through Oakland, doing
the worm on your way to San Francisco? You'd
definitely be shot. He wormed for a total of
one minute and 28 .16 seconds. That seems like...
Which is not nearly as long as I thought it would
be. I'm not saying that I have any interest in
beating this record, but I am saying that I definitely
could. I think most people could. You think you
could beat 150 or 195 feet traveled by worm?
Yeah. When was the last time you personally did
the worm? I just got to tone up my abs. Get them
rock hard. I don't think I've done the worm in
my life. I don't know what muscle groups it requires.
Yeah, I mean, are you allowed to wear any padding?
You have to. What are the stipulations to this?
You would bruise the hell out of fruit. Well,
that's part of the record. I guess. I don't know.
I don't know. All of these are so specific. There
is a rule against hyper -specificity, and I don't
know what that means. I was trying to find guidelines
on who is to say what is too specific. Just gut
instinct. I mean, like, is it longest? traveled
by doing the worm at two o 'clock on a Wednesday.
That's okay. Yeah. I can understand it where
the line is probably drawn, but I still feel
like you having a line against hyper specificity
is too broad a net. Yeah. Yeah. And I do want
to remind everyone that I had no idea. distance
traveled by doing the worm was a record in the
guinness world record i was just trying to think
of the most ridiculous thing that i could think
of as something that would be in the guinness
book world records and i guess i i was right
so i was looking up like the the fun recent things
that have won guinness records and one of the
ones that i found was a the largest The world's
largest gathering of people in dinosaur costumes
in L .A. In L .A.? In L .A. That was part of
it? Well, no, it was like it. Oh, it just happened
to be in L .A. Gotcha. But it was the world's
largest gathering of people in dinosaur costumes.
And that feels very specific because you could
do that with, it's the largest gathering of people
in, I don't know why I couldn't think of a single
other, like Freddy Krueger mask. I couldn't think
of a single other outfit. Yeah, so that seems
like it breaks the hyper -specificity. Because
then it's just the people, it's just the largest
group of people gathered in costumes. Yeah, every
convention. So, again, who decides the line for
hyper -specificity? I couldn't find a good bar.
They don't have any general guidelines for what
would probably not pass because it's too specific.
Do they have a helpline that you can call? I
don't think so. I think they have a help email,
which would make a ton of sense because if you're
really raring to go on your record, it would
make sense that you would just be spamming their
phone. Hmm. Okay. I mean, I think we're a little
late to the podcast party to insert ourselves
into any of those record possibilities. But I
bet we could find something. The most downloaded
episode of a podcast was The Adam Carolla Show,
somehow. Huh. Would never have guessed that one.
I would have thought it would have been a Joe
Rogan. A Rogan, yeah. Or the Kelsey one. Taylor
Swift. Yeah. Yeah. Or Marin, Mark Marin got into
the podcast game real, real early. So maybe one
of his. I mean, I guess that would be more longest
running than it would be most downloads of an
episode. Does it? Oh, yeah. I mean, if it was
one of the earliest podcasts. Oh, yeah. What
is the. So are you looking at the most downloaded
episode right now? Record. No. Oh. That's just
a thing that I remembered from earlier. I'd be
curious what the... Subject matter? Subject matter
was, yeah. These days, he's going real hard into
Gavin Newsom. Okay. He's got a lot of bones to
pick with Newsom. It's funny that him and Kimmel
have the same inception, but are completely polar
opposites of each other. It has been dethroned.
No. So it was not a specific episode. It was
the Adam Carolla show, which had the Guinness
World Record for the most downloaded podcast
with 59 million unique downloads between March
of 2009 and March of 2011. The show's official
record -setting period is over and it continues
to be popular. Though other shows like the Joe
Rogan Experience and Stuff You Should Know have
surpassed its download numbers in recent years.
Hey, SYSK, good for them. Shout out to Josh and
Chuck. My dream podcast guest. Yeah. Have you
seen Chuck recently? I don't know that I've seen
Chuck ever. Oh. Well, did you? I mean, they used
to have like, they had a show for a short while.
They talk about it on the podcast and how it
was not well received. But, yeah, Chuck used
to be a pretty rotund dude. Now he's just like
a beanpole. Oh, okay. He's working that Ozempic
face. Is he really? I don't know if it was Ozempic,
but, yeah, pretty drastic weight loss. Good for
him. Look that up once the episode's over. I
don't know. Like I said, the whole, it just seems
like a... Not really a PR stunt because I don't
know many people that talk about Guinness World
Records. I think it is like, I don't know. I
mean, do you think that people younger than us
have any clue what Guinness World Records are?
How well do you think those books sell these
days? They still sell pretty well. I was looking
at metrics. on their fact sheet on the website.
I think it said like 1 .7 million books were
sold last year, if I remember correctly. I don't
have the little infographic thing pulled up anymore.
So according to Google AI, the perks of being
a Guinness World Record holder includes global
recognition. Which, I guess if you're just basing
that off of being in a book that is available
to the globe, then that one checks out. A powerful
sense of personal accomplishment and increased
opportunities for media attention, endorsements,
book deals, and community involvement. This article
on USA Today said 187 ,000 copies were sold last
year. 187 ,000? Yeah. Didn't the one before that
say like 1 point something million? That was
data from the same infographic, but I don't know
if it was linked to that. Like it was data for
a lot of things. It included the amount of people
who applied. In 2024, the amount of people who
actually were accepted in 2024, it was a lot
of numbers. I remember 1 .7 million, but I don't
remember specifically what it was. I thought
that was the amount of books, but quite possibly
not. Hmm. The Guinness World Record for the richest
record holder is not a single person, but depends
on whether you mean historically or currently.
With the record for the richest person ever held
by John D. Rockefeller. And the record for the
richest person male currently held by Elon Musk.
Richest female is Oprah. Alice Walton. Of Walmart.
Money. While we're on the topic of stats, in
2024, would you like to guess how many records
are currently held as of a year ago? Because
I don't have the stats for 2025. Shoot me with
the stats. So as of 2024, there were nearly 70
,000 active records. So you guessing the worm
or the longest distance traveled by worm was...
The odds were in your favor on that one. There's
a lot of records. On top of that, in the year
2024, the Guinness company saw nearly 50 ,000
new applications. And what's the average per
year that they approve? They approved 3 ,300
applications last year. Of 50 ,000? Of 50 ,000.
3 ,300 people actually got records. So maybe
they're not as... Maybe they're not as just willy
nilly as flippant with it as I thought they were.
Huh. That said, there's some weird stuff on that
list. Yeah. But before I get into that, there
were, I wanted to go back just a little bit.
There were some disqualifiers. Ooh. Red flags
to the Guinness people. Those qualifiers include,
but are not limited to, anything that harms animals,
damages the environment, or involves a person
under the age of 16, which are all. very reasonable
things. Huh, 16. Yeah, I was surprised by that.
I thought it would be 18. Not 100 % sure why
that number, but one of the reasons that the
harming animals thing came to be was because
there was a record -holding cat for the most
obese animal. Oh, Garfield. Is this like a BMI
thing? How could they narrow it down? 46 pounds.
How could they narrow that down to the most obese
animal? Wouldn't it be like the heaviest cat?
Fattest cat? Did I not say cat? Well, no. You
said it was a cat, but what's the actual title
of the record? The heaviest cat. It was the Guinness
World Records for the fattest cat. Oh, okay.
They retired all of the similar records because
people wanted their cats to be record holders.
And so they were just feeding them and not. taking
any kind of care for them like a pate situation
correct huh okay well that one makes sense also
so there's no kids that can hold guinness world
records oh my lanta 46 pounds think of that in
terms of your children i don't know what they
weigh because i don't know how that's like concept
but that's like the entirety of the youngest
yeah that cat weighs the same as your youngest
child oh my gosh uh One thing that I am very,
very surprised is not allowed for the Guinness
records is excessive eating. I would think that
would be their, no pun intended, bread and butter.
Huh. So, like, Joey Chestnut isn't in the Guinness
World Record? Not from what I could see. They
banned excessive eating. And, like, I understand
it from a... dangerous and you're putting yourself
at risk for health reasons and choking reasons
but like of all of the things that there are
records for i feel like there's such a massive
like fan base around excessive eating so so they
don't make a distinction between excessive eating
and uh competitive eating Because like excessive
eating could be like longest streamed mukbang.
So if you were just eating nonstop on a stream
for I don't even know how long those last. I
assume they take a long time. 24 hours. That
is different from from like Joey Chestnut on
the 4th of July downing almost 100 hot dogs in
five minutes or whatever it is. So I wonder if
there's a distinction there. I feel like there
has to be. I might have to look a little bit
more into that. As far as the Nathan's Hot Dog
competition, there is not a single more nauseating
piece of television than the Nathan's Hot Dog
eating contest. It's pretty gnarly. It's gross.
There was a time when I worked in a... sports
bar ish restaurant. So they just had like massive
TVs everywhere. Mm hmm. One fourth of July I
was working not knowing that that was the day
of the hot dog eating contest. And so every one
of our TVs was tuned for that. And I was like,
I can't think of a single thing more appetizing.
Like. Who wants to watch this while they're.
While they're eating still not good food, but
what you want to watch someone house a hundred
hot dogs. There are a lot of record holders whose
goal it is to be the person with the most world
records. One of them, his name is Sonny Molina.
He has a particular goal to collect the world's
largest number of world records. I found some
different numbers as to how many he owns. I saw
17 somewhere and I saw 12 somewhere else, but
I couldn't find like a specific list of everything
that he has under his belt right now, possibly
because they've been usurped at this point. If
only there was some sort of collection of world
records that people could hold in the form of
maybe like a book or something. That's really
helpful. We should invent that. Huh. I'll put
that down on my brainstorming list. Yeah. Some
of the records that he holds are the world's
largest collection of Pringles, largest collection
of Skull Drinkware. Wait, hold on. Hold on. Hold
on. Back it up a little bit. Singular Pringles?
Pringles cans? Cans. Pringles cans. Okay. Like
full size? What about the mini ones? Like little
lunch ones? Or what about the ones that are just
like little plastic with foil on top? Nope. Full
size Pringle cans. Uh, okay. That just, I mean,
I feel like there are homeless people that could,
they just don't have the means. And that's where
we get to the financial inequality in this country,
that these people could be record holders. They
could be, but they can't because they are held
down by a society that demands upwards of $500.
just to certify, that could change their life.
They don't demand $500 to certify. If you want
to expedite the process, then you can pay for
it, but you don't, I don't think, have to pay
to apply. Oh, I thought you did. I thought no
matter what, like the 12 -week or the expedited.
Not from what I saw. Huh. I thought no matter
what you had to pay. Imagine how much money they'd
be raking in with 50 ,000 applications all paid.
That would be... On top of book sales and...
I mean, that would probably... That would probably
give them less manure to have to sift through,
even if it was $5, $5 application fee. If you
want someone to look over what you got, then
it'll cost you $5. There could very easily be
people less fortunate of less means that could
have these world records. But we live in a society
that demeans them and doesn't afford them those
opportunities to have. the world record for the
most Pringles cans. Yeah. And what were his other
accomplishments? So the number of Pringles cans
that he had was, I think, somewhere in the mid
-600s. He didn't even break four digits? As far
as the replicability, you could fairly easily
get more than 600 cans of Pringles. I wouldn't
recommend it. I think it is a... absolutely pointless
thing to collect, especially because I would
imagine those aren't empty cans of Pringles,
so you're just buying them for the show? I would
be willing to pursue breaking that record as
a form of protest against the inequality towards
homeless people in this country. Okay. One final
say on the amount of money that it costs to be
put into the running. Okay. It is. free for existing
record titles. It is $5 for a new record proposition.
And then if you want to get it expedited from
there, it's $800 to $1000. So if you were trying
to beat the dude with the longest worm move,
then you could do it for free. If you were trying
to make something new, I can't even think of
a thing that's more ridiculous than any of the
ones that I've looked up already. But if you
were trying to find something new, then you would
have to pay them an administration fee. Possibly
on top of $800. So you'd pay $5 for them to add
another line to their book. Yes. But you wouldn't
have to pay anything to erase someone else's
name and insert yours. Right. Okay. All right.
Well, I guess that's a little better. Yeah. The
other things that he owns the records for, some
of them at least. He owns the largest collection
of skull drinkware. The largest collection of
many skateboards. Do they have to be tech decks?
I don't believe so. Are they brand specific?
I saw the collection and they didn't look like
they were all tech decks. And leather postcards,
which are a thing that I did not know existed
before now. I don't know what that means. I don't
know what a leather postcard is. I don't think
I've ever seen one. A leather postcard? He also
had salt and pepper packets from fast food restaurants.
Okay, so that's just theft. Maybe he just eats
at fast food places all the time and doesn't
use the salt and pepper packets. It's not theft.
Huh. Leather postcards are exactly what you would
think they were. They are just rectangles of
leather, usually with something embossed or written
on them. Yeah. Huh. Interesting. He doesn't only
have collections. As his world record, though,
he also owns the world record for the longest
barefoot Lego run. OK, see, that's that's actually
something. Do they check his feet beforehand?
For the spray on shoes from Claudia the Chance
Meatballs? Yeah. Yeah. Any form of protective
wear? No, he he had a world record for barefoot
marathons. No, so this guy's got like a foot
thing. Yeah. I can't imagine a stretch of 26
miles that I would ever be willing to walk barefoot.
I don't, like, I like being barefoot, but I just
can't. Like, I feel like you would be guaranteed
to catch something. I prefer my human feet, if
I'm being honest, but I don't know. I mean, I
think that probably pretty warm in the winter.
You gotta trade it up. Yeah, well, I bet you
get a lot more traction now with those claws.
So, I mean, I'm sure it has its perks and its
downfalls, you know, just like everything in
life. Do you think there's a world record for
the longest toenails like there is for fingernails?
I can't see why not. I don't want to look it
up. No, because then you run the risk of seeing
pictures of it. I know, but I'm curious. Like,
I mean. It's easier to operate with just obscenely
long fingernails because you don't have to keep
them covered, but you would never be able to
wear shoes. Or would you only wear flip -flops?
Would you go barefoot? Did those curl like your
fingernails would? I would assume so. Would you
have to wear platform flip -flops? That way there's
some room for them to just hang out. Oh, God.
Oh, longest toenails. No, I'm doing it. This
has got to be so gross. Are you also looking
it up? Uh -huh. Oh, she's rocking the whole set.
She's got the acrylics. Let's go. She is in platform
sandals. Fingers and toes. This is the worst.
The combined length is 87 inches. That's lame.
She began... Okay, I mean, this was nine years
worth of dedication. Hey, from Compton. Cool.
Wonder if she knew Eazy -E or Cube. I don't like
that I looked that up. No, I could have done
without seeing that. I want that Men in Black.
Mind eraser thingy. Yeah, well, who knows? Maybe
you have seen one. Maybe you have had one used
on you and you just don't remember it. Can they
come back? Can I summon them? Do I have to see
an alien first? I think you have to see an alien
before Tommy Lee Jones wastes his time. He's
old. That's fair. I wouldn't want to waste his
time and Will Smith is too busy. singing to to
sold out ai crowds oh man his uh his downfall
i mean it was it was it was well before the slap
slap didn't help but no he's got uh he's got
new music i mean obviously he's got new music
but uh yeah the music video before the ai music
video because it's it's funny Because not a single
person came out and said, that wasn't AI. I was
there. I was an extra. Not one singular person.
Did those shows happen? Were the whole things
done by AI? Yeah. I thought he still had shows.
Have you seen ads for Will Smith's tour? I haven't.
I just thought that I was on the right side of
the internet. I'm a well -traveled person. Yeah.
And I have never once in recent memory seen,
hey, come check out Will Smith on tour. But no,
you know how you beat those allegations of, hey,
this is definitely just all AI, right? And not
just like, hey, yeah, some of the people in the
crowd may be AI to make it a little fuller. is
by having someone that can confirm, yes, I was
at this show. It definitely wasn't as full as
it shows in the music video, but I was there.
Not a single person came out and said anything
like that. And then, if there's allegations of
you faking your crowd size, you shoot some behind
-the -scenes stuff. You say, hey, this is how
we made this music video. Did you do that? No,
you didn't, William. You did not do that because
you can't do that because there's nothing there
because you were maybe on a stage, probably on
just a green screen. And you filmed a music video
and you already you can't take risks like that
when your career is already so deep in the shitter
that there's almost nothing that could pull you
out of it. You got cupped by your wife on her
podcast. You lost your mind on Chris Rock. And
then immediately got an award. And then you decide,
well, hey, movies aren't working anymore. And
I watched Bad Boys, the newest one. And the entire
time, all I was thinking about was a slap. And
what a chode this dude is. So you can't watch
it. You can't watch him anymore. And so he was
like, OK, well, I'm just going to go into music.
I'm going to go back to my roots. I'm going to
go to music. I'm not going to say any cuss words.
I'm just going to be very weird around girls
that are much too young to be interested in me.
And the first music video, the first you should
check out the first one. It's like he's teeny
tiny. But he's surrounded by all these ladies.
And it's just, it's like, it's, it's, it's dad
rap. Okay. It's like, it's like if, if dad jokes
were a person and then decided to rap is what
that first video is. And then the next one comes
out with, with the AI stuff. It's just, it's.
It's cuckoo bananas. And whoever is telling him,
hey, this is what you need to do next, probably
needs to be fired. I feel like he's just gone
rogue. Yeah, he's lost it. And hopefully he finds
his way again. He finds his pursuit of happiness
again. Yeah. Kind of feels like he's on the same
playing field right now as Ryan Reynolds. Like,
Ryan Reynolds still has a good -sized platform,
but, like, as the days go on, I feel like more
and more stuff is coming out about how just generally
shitty he is because his wife tanked his career
and now everyone's coming for his throat. Not
that he's not probably a shitty person. Birds
of a feather flock together. The large majority
of people in Hollywood are. You know what is
the funniest part of that whole fallout? Is the
fact that you couldn't go, I don't know, like
six scrolls on TikTok or wherever you get your
short form videos, Instagram reels or YouTube
shorts. Platforms that we're on. Yes, we are.
Cash Exchange Pod. Or you can reach us by our
email, cashexchangepod at gmail .com. But you
would. Hey, hey, hey, Ryan Reynolds here from
Mint Mobile. I do all the advertising so we don't
have to get these slick whatever's in charge
you an arm and a leg. Well, guess what they're
doing now? Ryan Reynolds is no longer the face
of Mint Mobile. He sold off men and aviation,
didn't he? I don't know. I mean, as far as I
know, he is still involved in it in some capacity,
but that would be smart of him to maybe fade
into the background a little bit, which I'm sure
is killing his ego. I think his whole... schtick
is just a little played out these days. Yeah.
It worked really well in Waiting and Deadpool
and 1 ,000 other movies. But at some point, what
are we doing? Why are you still hiring him for
things? I mean, that's why he was in our One
Trick Pony episode. Yeah. Because he has one
trick, and he did it well, and now people aren't
as receptive to it anymore. I mean, I was a big
fan. I liked him in Free Guy. Yeah. And that
was... That was the semi -departure from... Yeah.
I mean, there was still a whole lot of Ryan Reynolds
-isms in there, but for the most part, it was
different enough. But no, when all the when all
the Baldoni lively stuff started ramping up.
Yeah, just opinion shifted real quick. You think
Deadpool has any kind of Guinness records? Most
curse words in a comic book movie or is that
too hyper whatever? Specific. I mean, I don't.
I think that would be too hyper -specific, but
I also think that there's superhero movies like
Superhero Movie that probably breaks that. Records
for the most viewed movie trailer for Deadpool
and Wolverine in 24 hours. Makes sense. Longest
career as a live -action Marvel character set
by Wesley Snipes for his Blade cameo in the same
film. Oh, yeah. Nice. Largest collection of Deadpool
memorabilia held by Gareth Peter Fellini. I've
never seen Fellini spelled with a P -A -H. That's
weird. Fellini? So, P -A -H -L -I -N -E -Y. That
is an interesting last name. L -I -N -E -Y. Yeah.
So there we go. See, even when we go on tangents,
it all comes back around. Circling back. Do you
want to know some of the weirdest records that
I could find? I do. Yes, please. This is not
an exhaustive list because there are 70 ,000.
I did not go. One by one. Anywhere. Anywhere
too deep on that one. Fastest time to spell the
alphabet with your nose. What? Yeah. Actual record.
And like Morse code? Keyboard. They had like
a desktop keyboard. Just not head banging against
a desktop. Woody the Whip Packer. Seems like
a great way to get whiplash. For the record,
that one was 17 seconds. Mild concussion. Nose
type things on the keyboard. But so it's got
to be QWERTY specific, I'm assuming. On a standard
QWERTY keyboard. All a stack of hats worn at
once. Three feet and six inches. I feel like
that one would be tough to beat. But I know what
they meant. And it was just like a whole bunch
of like regular sized hats. But in my head, I
was picturing Doug Dimmadome. Owner of the Dimmsdale
Dimmadome. I'm Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale
Dimmadome. And the chicken dip in Dimmadome.
Oh, good gravy. So are these like fedoras? They
were, I think, cowboy hats. Or they might have,
they were, they were like felted hats. So it
was like. cowboy and like bowler. And I think
just like that kind of like style. Huh? Okay.
I mean, I think you could reach three plus feet
pretty easily with cowboy hats. I mean, the true
test should be you walk around with them. If
you can, if you can do a lap with your three
feet and they stay intact, I could balance all
kinds of stuff on my head and stay completely
still and be fine. It was broken. Dang. It was
broken last year. And instead of three feet and
six inches, it was four feet and nine inches
as of July of last year. It doesn't explain...
The thing that kind of irritates me about the
Guinness records is that it doesn't explain any
of the context around it, which is a lot of the...
one of the toughest things about trying to research
for this episode and also one of the hardest
things about having a conversation about it as
like yeah if we were just surface level trying
to be like yeah what was the the tallest stack
of hats that a person's ever worn but like did
they was it just like you built it oh we're good
you got a picture we're done or did they have
to walk around with it did they have to balance
it for 60 seconds like what are we talking those
are all varying levels of world record worthy
yeah i agree so i definitely think that those
should be added into especially for dumb stuff
like that like just stacking stuff okay you if
you can stack it great but we need to we need
to make sure that this isn't a legit thing one
that i believe should absolutely be disqualified
for its hyper specificity uh most balloons burst
with one fork or Burst with a fork in one minute.
Sorry to the globophobes out there. Hopefully
Emily's not listening. No, I did exaggerate her
globophobia a little bit. Not completely, but
she wants everyone to know that she is not, in
fact, terrified of the existence of inflated
balloons. Okay. But, okay, so... I think that
would need to be one that has an in -person representative
to check the fork. Is it a standard fork or is
it a sharpened fork? Is it essentially just four
little knives? Yeah. Because that would... The
trident. Three little stab bits. Yeah. So, I
mean, that one seems a little hinky. And I feel
like if I had... specialty fork, my balloon popping
fork, I could easily break a record for however
many in a minute. Yeah. 197. 197. The real challenge
with that would be to fill 197 balloons and be
in a space that can accommodate 197 balloons.
Yeah, you have to like chase down the balloons
to stab them at some point. Are they taped down?
Are they locked down to where you just... I feel
like... The way that that situation makes sense
to me is it's a balloon, or it's a, like, small
-ish room. It's filled with enough balloons that,
like, you don't technically have to move a ton.
You just have to, like, stab downwards. Yeah.
Until you get yourself in the leg with your cheating
fork. And you hit an artery. What an embarrassing
way to die. He died doing what he loved. Ricky
Bobby -ing yourself. Chasing Guinness records.
I am so paralyzed. Now prove it. Don't do it,
Ricky. Don't do it. And lastly, the heaviest
weight held by the human beard. How much weight
do you think that your beard could hold? I don't
know. I'm not up on my whatever biotin, whatever
the vitamin is that strengthens your hairs. I
don't know. I feel like. Okay, I have, you probably
don't have the answer to this, but maybe someone
out there does. What, is it single, single strand?
Or is it like the... Beard, whole thing. Okay,
but one loop? Would that matter? It would, because,
because, in a previous life, I was a certified
crane operator. And I was also head rigger in
charge. And if you know anything about being
a rigger, you have to go through charts of what
you can lift and what you can't lift. certain
lifting straps are rated for and different orientations
means that they are rated for different weights.
And then with the crane, you also have, if you
have just a single line, if you've got double
line, if you've got triple line, then you like
multiply the strength of that single cable. So
if you have some sort of elaborate pulley system
in your beard, It stands to reason that you could
lift or at least hold with the same beard four
times, ten times its normal rated capacity. So
if you just do one, like you just feed it through
a weight and then you just hold the other end,
that's going to be. one maximum capacity, but
if you looped it through a couple times and then
held it, you could easily do 10 times that. So
I think that if they are going to put forth these
records and they're going to give them these
titles, I think the titles at least need a little
more clarity on what these people did in order
to achieve them. If you go on their website,
can you see their submission videos? Or can you
see the proof? Did he just loop it through once?
Hold on. Sending it to you now. And what'd you
say the weight was? I didn't. I asked you what
you thought your beard was. Oh. I mean, right
now, there's no way I'd be able to loop it through
anything. But I think probably, I don't know,
10, 15 pounds, somewhere in there. Could you
lift an entire person? This guy did. 140 pounds.
Huh. Okay. So. If the person just like did a
couple loops around, does it say how long the
beard was? So you can see the... Where'd you
send it to? I texted it to you. I haven't gotten
anything yet. It's got to cross the Android iPhone
barrier. He's Lithuanian. But so in this video,
give me a rough estimate of length of beard.
I don't know what the length is. It looks like
it goes to about... Boop. About like his chest.
Okay, so. It's a decently long beard. Yeah, you're
probably not going to be able to wrap too many
times around that. But no, I mean, okay. That
one is. I mean, that's something. Oh, that's
a little wispy. I don't know. I'll give him that
one. That one is a feat. That may be the first
one. It's this. He's got a little like, like
she's in a harness. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I
mean, yeah. Cause then the center of gravity
is okay. Yeah. Maybe I take back what I said
about it being a feed. It is something, I mean,
as far as the ones that we've mentioned so far,
it's not just accumulating garbage and it's not
just, uh, risking your own hygiene. So I will
say that that is the first one that I can say,
okay, that's something. But no, maybe I was a
little doubtful of what my beard could do. I
don't know. Yeah. I don't have any of the details
on this one. I couldn't find anything. But there's
also the fastest motorized toilet, which is 55
miles per hour. I have no idea what that means.
I'd like to. I'd like to know what that means.
How does the toilet go 55 miles per hour? What
does that mean? In order for that to be worthy
in my eyes, it would have to be a fully functional
toilet. It can't just be a toilet that is acting
as a chair. So if it is just a place for you
to sit. So that you can go 55 miles an hour down
the road. Then you just made a very uncomfortable
go -kart. It was sponsored by DC. It's a very
uncomfortable go -kart. Yes. No. Okay. No, that's
no. That is just something that you threw a toilet
on. And then there better be a hole cut out.
And all those flame retardant clothes he's wearing.
To make it a functional toilet or else it's nothing.
The guy who made it calls it the Hawk, the highly
advanced water closet. The water closet isn't
the toilet. The water closet is the entire room.
Yeah, if you're outside, the whole world is your
water closet. The fastest motorized bathroom?
Is it just a port -a -potty on wheels? A road
legal bog standard, a motorcycle and sidecar
hidden under a bathroom set consisting of a toilet,
bathtub, sink, and laundry bin, which can travel
at a rate of 68 kilometers per hour. What is
that in freedom units? 42 miles per hour. Why
would you not include a picture of that? That's
so silly, man. So silly. Do I really have to
get the book for this? I don't even know if it's
in there. It should be. They gotta have a reason
for you to buy it somehow. All of the pictures
are just this stock footage of a person scrubbing
their bathroom. I don't want a fast scrubber
for my bathroom. I want a fastest moving bathroom.
Can you imagine? Can you imagine? I mean, I guess
you're pooping on a train. You're probably going
about 55 miles an hour, but can you imagine being
on a non -enclosed toilet going 55 miles an hour?
And trying to take care of your business. Oh,
you better hope that the wind doesn't catch the
toilet paper roll. He's just leaving a giant
streamer behind him. That's part of the aesthetic.
That's so dumb. Why can't I see pictures of these
things? Just nonsense. It's what the world has
come to. There's also a world record for sitting
on the toilet. Five days? That. He set a goal
of 168 hours and spent almost five days. He had
to quit after 116 because his body couldn't handle
it anymore. Do you? Still? Can you regain feeling
in your legs after that? After 116 hours on a
toilet? I wouldn't think so. You'd need one of
those vibrating platforms to jostle your legs
while you're sitting there. He was allowed five
minutes every hour, which he could accumulate
over several hours to use his sleeping time,
or ironically, toilet breaks, as his record attempt
wasn't actually connected to playing. What is
the point? Well, he's not going to poop in front
of the people. Why not? Why not? That should
be part of it. You know what? They did come to
see this man spend 116 hours on a toilet. He
should have given the people what they want.
There were some auditors or what are they called?
What did you say they were called? Adjudicators.
Adjudicators left there very disappointed. He
got three hours of sleep over five days. Just
so that he could sit on a toilet he couldn't
use. Okay, so you can't eat yourself to death,
but you can sit on a toilet for five days and
that's a -okay with the Guinness people? That
is much more unhealthy and detrimental to your
well -being than just eating for an extended
period of time. The longest he's record is 508
seconds. Eight and a half minutes. How do you
know that that... The longest P record? Yeah.
Like, continual? Eight and a half minutes, yeah.
How do you... I don't know. Don't know. That's
got to be terrible for your... Whatever the starting
and stopping... I mean, I don't think that's
your... What do they say that damages? Pelvic
floor. Oh. And that damages your pelvic floor
or makes it stronger? It damages it. Oh. I think.
So if you do it like while you're peeing, I think
it's bad for you. If you're just doing it for
the fun of it, I think it's not. What if you're
doing it while you're American? How about that?
God, I'm on a roll. We should record all these
at one o 'clock in the morning. And on that note,
do you have any final thoughts? Do I have any
final thoughts? Yes. Most Guinness Book of World
Records records are stupid. And use your time
more wisely. Or don't. I don't care. I don't
know you. If that's what you want your legacy
to be, that you have disgusting, gross, nasty
nails, then do it. Whatever. There are cooler
world records. There are, but I'm focusing on
the gross ones. That these people need to do
better things with their time. The guy with the
largest collection of props, which is 3 ,569
pairs. His name is Doogie Sand Tiger. I don't
know if this is a Vin Diesel situation and he
just opted for his name to be that. This is a...
Moneybags, Big Wiener kind of situation. Yeah.
You could be. Moneybags, Big Wiener. Callback.
If you try hard, if you follow your dreams, you
too could be Doogie Sand Tiger or Moneybags,
Big Wiener. That's my final thought. All right.
Set a world record tomorrow. Yes, because apparently
you can set a world record for anything. For
like five bucks. Why not? There you go. And on
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