WEBVTT - Why Are We Obsessed with World Records? 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.440 Hey, they're part time geniuses. Before we start the show, 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.440 we wanted to take a minute to recognize a few 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.400 of our brilliant listeners. During an episode on building the 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.520 Ultimate Animal Superhero, we challenge you guys to draw the 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.840 bizarre creature created in that episode. This thing involved parts 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.919 from the platypus, the salamander, the Texas horned lizard, the 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.319 scarlet jellyfish, the eel, and so many more creatures. And now, 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:22.840 I'll be honest, this seem like such a crazy, difficult 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.400 test that I didn't expect we'd actually get many submissions, 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:27.760 so we were thrilled when so many started coming in. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.400 I really wish we could give prizes to everyone who 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.640 submitted a drawing, but please know you're all geniuses to us. Okay, 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:36.920 here's some of the winners. We've got Andrea Burns and 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.720 Jamie fam a pair of friends who decided to submit 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.839 drawings together. We have Simon de Zubria Ristrepo, who submitted 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.560 our cartoonist drawing. And for our winner in the best 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.479 Kids Drawing division, we have Laney, who's twelve and a 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:53.279 terrific artist, and the grand prize winner. This drawing was 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.720 so insane as I told the creator I really want 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:57.680 to see it as a poster, and we might just 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.760 have to make that happen. But in first place, we 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.600 have Natalie Leigh. Will post Natalie's winning piece on our 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.960 Facebook page, and you guys will all be getting part 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.480 Time Genius T shirts and some other fun prizes. Thank 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.000 you again to everyone who submitted drawings, and be on 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.119 the lookout for other contests and upcoming episodes. Now enjoy 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:18.360 the show. Guess what Mango? What's that? Will? So I 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.280 took a couple of wrong turns on the internet this 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.040 week and I ended up in this gallery of libraries 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.679 from the Middle Ages. And you know, book that used 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.960 to be a huge problem. So the first thing any 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.640 self respecting book collector would do is chain their books 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.319 to their bookshelf like dogs. Know, these things were so 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.160 much thicker, like heavy duty chains. If you look up 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:41.560 the Hereford Cathedral in London, you see bookshelves filled with manuscripts, 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.200 and in front of each book there's just a curtain 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.160 of chains hanging down because every one of those books 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.200 is tethered to the shelf. It's so imposing. That could 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.320 be a great tactic if you actually want people reading 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.560 the books but that wasn't even the best solution for 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.280 protecting your library. If you wanted to upgrade, you could 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.960 put your chain books inside a locked safe. It's kind 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.240 of a nesting doll approach to the book security. But 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.320 if you were really looking for protection, the ultimate in 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.680 book protection was a curse. Of course occurs. Well, they 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.600 were a little more like little inscribed threat that feels 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.480 like such a hail Mary. Like you've got a thief 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.960 who's broken into your home and then into your safe, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.080 sod through a thick chain. Got this Harry Potter sequel 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.600 he's been dying to read, finally in his hands, and 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.360 somehow a curse is going to make him put the 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.280 book down. I mean, that's the idea. Let me read 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.200 you my favorite threat. It says, if anyone take away 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.120 this book, let him be fried in a pan. That 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.560 sounds like such a Looney Tunes threat. I know, it 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.880 isn't that intimidating unless the book owner also on the 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.480 human sized frying pan. All this research on book thefts 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.320 made me curious. What's the most stolen publication from public libraries. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.000 Number two on the list is the Bible. Why does 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.079 anyone steal a Bible? I don't know, maybe they just 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.200 skimmed the first few pages, didn't get far enough to 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.760 realize that God's pretty clear about not stealing. But here's 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.600 some of the other things in the top ten. You've 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.280 got prep books for exams, books on not he's an 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.519 occult things generally books people might be too embarrassed to 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.520 check out. But the number one book that gets stolen 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.000 from public libraries the Guinness Book of World Records. What 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.600 I mean that itself kind of feels like a record. 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.000 I know, honestly, I hadn't thought about the Guinness Book 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.160 in years. I mean, I loved it as a kid, 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.040 couldn't wait for the book fair to come so I 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.640 could pick up a copy. But when I heard that fact, 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.000 it made me wonder, why are we so impressed with records? 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.480 And what is it about the Guinness Book that's made 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.680 it such a beloved institution? And who has the record 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.160 for reading the most baked beans in five minutes? So 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:57.280 that's what we're digging into today. Important Stuffy Hey their 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.640 podcast listeners, Well, when a part time genius, I'm will 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.480 Pure and then as always I'm joined by my good 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.800 friend Manes Tor and today's episode is all about world records, 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.640 how the Guinness Book got its start, how they're cataloged, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.720 what countries take the book most seriously, And of course 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.880 we'll have a couple of terrible quizzes. Who do we 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.279 have on the line today, Mango, We've got Dan Rollman 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.160 from records center dot com. He's terrific. He's going to 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.680 tell us how his site, which allows you to set 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.000 all sorts of world records from the comfort of your phone, 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.720 got its start. All right, So before this episode, it 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.839 had been years since I looked at the Guinness Book. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.320 How about you? Yeah, I remember reading them with friends 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.960 on the school bus and thumbing through them at the library, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.200 but it had been like decades since I held one. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.480 Actually had a strange experience buying my book for this episode. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.039 What happened, Well, I went to this big bookstore in 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:43.960 my neighborhood and went up to the clerk, who is 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.400 this judgey literary type, And I said, I'm wondering if 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.600 you could help me, and he looked eager, and then 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.279 I said I'm looking for the Guinness Book of World Records. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.480 And as that title is filled out of my mouth, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.400 I just watched his face. Al Right, why is that 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.120 I don't know. It was almost like when I was 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.119 a kid at the local video store and my friends 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.880 and I would approach the counter with like City Slickers too, 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.080 or some mainstream movie, and the clerk would just judges 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.120 because we weren't trying to rent like a Portuguese art film. Yeah, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:13.600 I think you're gonna have to explain to our younger 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.400 listeners what a video stores. Well, a long time ago, 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.680 somewhere between when dinosaurs ruled the earth and Netflix took over, 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.080 people used to travel to the stores to rent games 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.920 and movies and sometimes pay exorbitant late fees to them. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.200 That's probably the worst fact we've ever told on our show. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.520 But you were talking about the bookstore experience. Yeah, so 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.640 I said get his book, and he didn't even bother 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.560 to look at his computer. He was like, reference, you 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.719 just go to reference. But then I started flipping the pages, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.600 and holy smokes, I honestly forgot just how fun to 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.000 Guinness book is. Like, of course, kids steal us from libraries. 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.200 Who doesn't want to know? What's the most number of 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.040 bowling balls someone's caught on their forehead? It's six, by 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.800 the way, Like I had six bowling balls in a 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:58.640 row thrown at him, and then he caught them on 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.640 his forehead, one after the other, which is impressive. I 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.360 don't even know how that works, but I'm guessing presumably 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.279 there was a seventh ball chucked his way that he 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.120 didn't catch. Yeah, the book doesn't mention that, but it 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.719 does say what the world's largest robots snakes, which is 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.320 what I can tell You're dying to talk about this, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.279 of course I am. It's the Titana Boa. Not only 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.800 is it fifty ft long, but it was engineered to 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.000 be a life size replica of an extinct snake. It's 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.440 all based on a real fossil, and apparently the engineers 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.840 remote controlled it around at science festivals where it goes 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.680 wild on dance floor. I can only imagine. So I 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.120 love all those crazy facts to What's strange is that 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.720 when I was a kid, the stuff I really remembered 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.200 was much more about the guy with the longest mustache 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.640 or the tallest man in the world. But the book 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.520 actually has so much general knowledge in there. Like in 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.279 the two thousand and seventeen edition, there's a page on 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.239 the business of sports and how the average NBA player 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.080 makes six hundred times what an Nbah cheer leader makes 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.920 or that the Lakers franchise pulls in two point six 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.000 billion dollars a year. Like those are real facts, not 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.279 just stunts. Like most apples held in a mouth and 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.920 cut in half by a chainsaw in a minute, which 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.680 is an actual record, right, yep, it's Johnny Strange cut 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.880 twelve apples in half out of Danielle Martin's mouth. Of 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:18.080 course that sounds terrifying. Also does the Guinness Book look 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.160 through all the apples and determine, well, this one wasn't 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.880 cut exactly down the center, so you're getting docted an apple. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.600 I mean, the record keepers are definitely meticulous, which we're 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.520 going to talk about in a bit because it sounds 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.120 like a crazy job. And how you actually get into 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.120 the Guinness Book is an incredible process. But this guy, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.080 Johnny Strange, he is an artist, so he also holds 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.600 the record for most apples held in one's own mouth 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.440 and cut my chainsaw in a minute. He cut eight 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.760 apples in half in his own mouth. I get uncomfortable 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.240 when I point scissors on myself. I can't even imagine 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.720 like turning a chainsaw in my own direction. But let's 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.640 get back to what I think you were saying, which 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.360 is that the Guinness Book contain more history and economics 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.840 and just facts about the world than you expected. Yeah, 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.160 that's right. There are all sorts of facts about geology 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.240 and earth science, like the longest natural arch, the largest 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.480 slot canyon. And that's because Guinness Book actually started out 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.080 as a way to settle argument. Really. Yeah, you know, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.840 before people had cell phones or access to the internet, 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.800 you might be at the cafe and get into a 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:22.480 silly debate or something ridiculous, like what country dominates synchronized swimming? Sure, Switzerland? Okay, Well, 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.160 let's say one of your friends is arguing for Switzerland. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.720 If you correct, I mean, you never bet against Swiss precision. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.000 That's that's true, all right. So you're on team Switzerland 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.200 and someone else can't stop praising Russia, and the whole 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.760 debate gets heated because maybe you've had a few drinks 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.040 and you're a little too invested. But back in the 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.120 nineteen fifties, there really weren't a lot of ways to 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.360 settle this without either taking the word of the biggest 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.120 synchronized swimming fan in the group, or maybe calling him 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.600 a bookie with a specialty in the sport, and because 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.920 sometimes a drunken argument, no matter how trivial the topic, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.280 can lead to a brawl. And that's what the Guinness 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.160 Book was for. It was actually a peacemaking device to 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.840 be stocked in bars and settle bickering. Oh I love that. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.319 I feel like the Guinness Book deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.760 or at least an Ignoble Peace Prize. You love the 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.760 Ignoble I do, but this feels so deserving. Singer wish. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.160 Do you know what my favorite Ignoble peace prizes? What's that? 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.120 Tell me? It's from a few years back and it 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.959 went to a mayor in Lithuania. According to the Ignobles, 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.640 he want it for a quote demonstrating that the problem 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.480 of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.200 over them with an armored tank. I looked up the 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.920 photos of this. The mayor would actually drive the tank 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.520 himself over Mercedes and Lexus is parked and Bikelon and 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.840 he was right. It solved the problem. I think they're 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.560 using the word piece ironically there though. Yeah, or the 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.120 Ignoble Pieces Prize also a full confession. I don't know 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.880 anything about Switzerland. Synchronized swimming team. The only thing I 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.080 do know about the sport is that swimmers use jeladan 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.000 to keep their hair in place. Yeah, that's why their 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.400 hair is so perfect and shiny. So, by the way, 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.920 Russia is dominant in the sport. They've won nineteen international 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.960 synchronized swimming titles in a row, which I learned from 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.480 the Guinness Book. See it actually worked well. It definitely 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.600 stopped us from getting in a fifth fin. That's true. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.280 So do you know what the original argument that spurred 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.440 the idea for the Guinness Book was, like, was there 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.319 one specific thing people were debating there was? Actually it 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.000 all started with Sir Hugh Beaver. Sir Hugh Beaver. That 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:14.880 sounds like a name out of Wind in the Willows, 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.199 but he's a real person. So Sir Beaver was out 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.800 on a shooting expedition with friends when he took aim 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.200 and a golden plover and missed after a few shots. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.760 He used the excuse that the plover was the fastest 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.640 European game bird. And you know how friends are that 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.360 give each other a hard time. So not only did 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.320 his friends remind him that he had a bad shot, 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.840 but they also claimed the red grouse was faster, and 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.880 so they took their argument to a pub than to 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.760 a library, and when they couldn't find the answer, Sir 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.040 Beaver came up with this idea of this fact book 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.040 that might help settle pub disputes. And because he was 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.160 such a big shot at Guinness Brewing, he knew there 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.440 were over eighty thousand pubs in England and Ireland and 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.480 he hoped they'd create a market. And it isn't that old. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.600 Sir Hugh commissioned the first version in nineteen fifty four 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.960 as a promotional giveaway. He hired these twin brothers from London, 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.600 they were meticulous fact checkers, to help him write it. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:09.360 But by nineteen it was already this institution. They printed 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.400 fifty thou copies of the first edition and immediately hit 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.800 the best seller list, which is pretty interesting that the 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.280 company isn't that old. But you left me on a cliffhanger, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.240 was Sir Hugh right? Was the golden plover faster than 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.360 the red grouse? What's funny is that the whole book 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.640 was started to answer this one question, but according to 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:29.200 the Society of Guinness Book Collectors, that answer wasn't tackled 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.640 until the thirty six ndition where they gave the nod 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.319 to the red grouse, which travels fifty eight miles an hour. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.680 For you, I hope his friends aren't mocking him in 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.840 the afterlife. Well, they wrote this thing so apologetically, Like 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.360 the book reads, air speeds of seventy miles per hour 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.080 have been claimed, but it is extremely doubtful whether this 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.080 rapid flying bird can exceed fifty to fifty five miles 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.880 an hour, even in an emergency. But at least they 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.320 waited until he was dead a few decades before broaching 0:11:55.320 --> 0:12:04.760 the subject. That's so considerate. So who do we have 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.040 on the line today? Mango? Today we have the number 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.800 twelve ranked competitive eater in the world and the former 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.480 world record holder of corn on the Coby eating seven 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.520 and twelve minutes and also cannoli. And he's the defending 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.040 champion of the Tour to Donut bicycle race in multiple states. 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.760 And his name might be familiar to you, will it's 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:30.640 Yasir Selin. Hey, Yasir, how's it going? So for full disclosure, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.040 when Manguesh and I were at Mental Philoss, Yasir worked 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.360 in the marketing department. So uh, during the weekdays, he'd 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.040 be working on brilliant marketing ideas, and on the weekends 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.600 he'd be off to these crazy competitive eating contests and 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.640 races and other kinds of extreme activities. We're gonna ask 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.160 him all about those. But y'asa to start off, how 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.440 did you get into this world of extreme sports and 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.560 competitive eating. So back to two thousand ten, my wife 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.480 and I a pretty wacky goal all of doing the 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.960 New York City Manrathon. She was just coming up some 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.000 major health thing and we wanted to set a really 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.440 big goal for us both. And then I had dabbled 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.240 in competitive eating a couple of years earlier, but I 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.360 never quite got the hang of it, and I felt 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.440 like I could do anything. After doing a marathon, I thought, well, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:21.079 let me revisit this whole competitive eating thing. And I 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.440 went in with an extra energy and and you know, 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.760 I'm gonna give to another shot. And uh, it was 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.599 really supposed to be just a joke. I want to 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.040 do it one time, something that I could say, you 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.360 know what, I competed at Nathan's. But it turned into 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.400 like a three year affair of trying to figure out 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.600 how to get it, how to get there, because it's 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.600 actually a lot harder than people think. Wow, it's amazing. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.560 I can remember when we worked together. We were so 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.040 excited to come see you at the Nathan's Contest, and 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:53.040 you offered us tickets to the spray zone, which is 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.440 the area in front of the competitors. We won't get 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:01.080 into details that I think the house so incredible. So 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.240 you're the former world cannoli eating champion. In fact, you 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.959 had a world record in both cannoli eating and corn 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.480 on the cob eating. Is that correct? That's right. Yeah, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.559 I broke the world record last year in corn. I 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.440 did forty seven corn on the cob in twelve minutes. 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.440 A few years ago, I did Cannoli down in literally 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.360 in New York City, and I set the record. But 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.000 some of these other contests are about ninety major league 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.920 eating contests a year. So if you can think of 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.760 something new and you come up with a really smart 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.760 technique to go in and and disrupt the competition, there's 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.560 there's plenty of contests there out there, And in both cases, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.120 in cannoli and in corn, that was how I just 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:41.880 sat down and figured out, well, there must be a 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.840 better way to eat corn a lot faster than everybody 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:50.400 else that they haven't thought of. So I'll tell you so. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.440 In cannoli, so there's an outside, there's a there's a 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.960 really hard shell on on cannoli, and a lot of 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.760 the conventional wisdom was like just put it in and 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.560 then start crunching away and the squishy stuff will kind 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.360 of make its way down your throat. But it's the 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.120 hard stuff you have to worry about that, you know what. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.080 I'm not gonna put the effort of crunching the shell 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.520 on my teeth. I'm gonna crush it in my hand, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.880 so pre I'm gonna pre crunch it. So that's kind 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.280 of what I did. I would grab the canoli. I'd 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.280 wear gloves, um, you know, like just rubber gloves, and 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.760 I crunch. I'd crush them and then I just shove 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.680 each one into my mouth and that that's what That's 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.520 what got me to one. Nobody thought of it. It 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.640 was just like it was there on the table and 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.040 I took it. I also wanted you to explain the 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.360 concept of the Tour to Donut. We obviously mentioned the 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.040 fact that you've you've won this race in multiple states, 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.760 but how does the Tour to Donut work and explain 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.320 the whole idea of the how the timing is kept. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.200 The format is generally about a thirty six mile race, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.680 and you have two doughnut stops, like at the twelve 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.440 mile mark and at the twenty four mile mark. You 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.560 get off your bike ups a twelve mile mark, you 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.600 set your bike aside, and then they have a glazed 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.440 donuts there from your the local donut shop, and you 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.080 eat as many as you possibly can now the person 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.840 for every donut that you eat you get a three 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.200 to five minute time credit, depending upon which race it is, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.360 and then you do the same at the second stop. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:20.880 You know, you get off your bike again, and you 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.880 do it again, and you can't vombit. Um that you 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.880 you just qualified immediately, thankfully, so there's no mess on 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:32.880 the course. Um. My record is fifty five donuts over 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.800 the course of a thirty six mile race. Um, and 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.320 that put me in the negative territory. So I'm actually 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.040 going back in time every time I do one of 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.240 these races. That's incredible. Just need a bunch of donuts 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.760 and you go back in time. That's impressive. So it's 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.800 very challenging. I can tell you. Just biking thirty six miles. Uh, 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.880 you know, a good clip twenty miles or more. It's difficult, 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.440 but to me, adding the donuts in there as a 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.160 bit of of of skill. But it's really it's fun everybody. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.040 I mean, I approach it like it's it's just a 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.480 fun thing that I get to do on the weekend. 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.480 I get to eat the donuts, which I love donuts, 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.960 I love bike, So why not put them both together? 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.000 Yeah sounds good to me. So well, we wanted to 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.120 put Yaster to the challenge today, although he has the 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.000 Big Nathan's Eating contests coming up in just a few days. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.840 Of course, this episode will publish just a few days 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.640 after the Big Nathan's hot Dog eating contests, so we're 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.760 excited to see how you do, Yaster. I'm sure you'll 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.960 improve over last year. But what game are we playing 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.399 with Yaster today? Mango, We're playing a little game called 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.120 Mouthful of Doughnuts, and it's more than a quiz because 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.280 we're going to try to set a world record most 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.200 donut holes eaten while answering four trivia questions about donuts 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.080 and sixty seconds. All right, so the most donut holes 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.320 eating while answering four trivia questions about donuts in sixty seconds. Wow, 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.240 what a record. Okay, so we've got four trivia questions here. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.399 We're gonna ask you a question, let Yasser answer, and 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.720 then while he's stuffing his face, we're going to ask 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.320 him another and we'll see how how many donuts we 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.720 can get through or donut holes we can get through. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.720 And by we I mean he Okay, So alright, so 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.800 yeahs do you have all your supplies? Right? You've got 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.000 your donut holes, you got your water, You've got everything 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.840 else you might need. I got my water, I got 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.600 my donut holes, and I am ready. Okay, let's do it. 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:25.879 Mango three two one, alright, y'assir. What city has the 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:34.199 highest donut shops per person? That's Boston? I heard it, 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.440 all right, Let's let him, Yes, let's let him meet 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.840 a few donuts. And which legend of Sleepy Hollow author 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.080 is credited with the first use of the word donut 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:57.000 in print? Oh man, um uh? Yes? All right? What 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.879 Oregan donut shop used to make a medicine donut cook 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:11.960 hooded with ni quill I don't um? Oh man? That's right? 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.159 What roll did Rene's lagger gain? Wait for a boy 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:26.040 eating twenty donuts today one second time. All right, let's 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.320 let him, Let's let him chew and swallow, and then 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.560 we'll get an official count of our doughnut eating. Okay, 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:37.240 how'd you do donuts? I mean, that's got to be 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.800 a record of world record, right while answering for trivia 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.679 questions donuts about donuts. Yes, that's got to be a 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.560 world record. So, in addition to hopefully setting a new 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.879 world record, what else has yasir one mango? Well, aside 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.080 from the joy of his new accomplishment, will be sending 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.280 him a bottle of pepto bismol. All right, so, Yaser, 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.640 good luck this coming week at the Nathan's Hot Dog 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:59.560 Eating Contest. And then he said, just right after that, 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:01.840 what do you have coming up? I am defending my 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.560 title at a tournid Donut um in Stun, Illinois, the 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.520 twenty nine annual Tourni Donut This will be my third 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.600 year um defending my title and I'm hoping to hit 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:19.800 at least uh fifty stick donuts this year. All right, Well, 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:21.800 good luck to you. It's always a pleasure to talk 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:23.600 to you, and thanks for coming on to part times. 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:40.720 We're rooting for you. Love you guys, you're listening to 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.000 Part Time Genius and we're talking about the Guinness Book 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.080 of World Records. So, Mango, what's your favorite part of 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.800