Is Attempting World Records A Sport?

Hello, and well, hello and hello. Listen good to my words. Welcome to Go, my favorite sports team, the sports podcast For Lovers and those that love and want to love. I'm your love host, Mark, a prior. And I'm joined by fellow lover, but not my lover, Tyler, the love machine in shine. The love apocalypse. Yes, the love apocalypse. It's actually, we're not even recording this immediately after we've done another one in between. But people seem to want more and more advice from us about love. Oh, God, they're asking us for love advice. Yeah, they're asking us for love advice, you know, relationship related questions. I didn't poll any, but if you want, I guess I could go assemble some more right now. I mean, the thing is, I'm, isn't it funny how a lot of people actually come to me for relationship advice. The longest relationship I've ever had is a year. It was a great relationship, but also my experience is lacking. Yet people are like, Tyler, what do you think of this? Dude, why did they ask like that? Tyler, what do you think of this? I don't know. People just come to me, man. Yeah. Well, anyway, this is a sports podcast where we talk about the big games and the big sports and the big scores that the players play when they play the plays and they get the sports scores. And we learn all about it so that the people that don't know sports like myself and don't know the world of sports can appreciate it better and also learn to love again. Yes. Yeah. It's a side piece of everything. I, my master's degree is really in love and the knowledge they're in. No, but it's in sports and sport administration. I know the sports, I've done the sports. I've been good at them sports. Uh, okay. That's me. I'm Tyler. All right. Well, I do have some questions for people that are love related. All right. You would like to, I'll give you the option. I'll accuse you in the traditional way we do before, or you'll become the love doctor as the masters of balls and holes. And you will assume a different hat. Can we alternate? I mean, we could. Sure. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. So this was an interesting question because I thought it had a lot of like extra weight on the back end of it. And it also relates to the modern era of dating. So Tyler, I'm not going to name names for these. How do I make a profile that women want to click on and why does it involve catfishing? So there's a lot of baggage on this question. There's a lot of baggage on this question. Yeah. Okay. I mean, at the end of the day, I don't believe in the necessary line on a profile, but you also need to be able to put your best foot forward and show your best face. Because if you're, if you're building a profile and they're going to judge you entirely based on that profile. So you got to focus on your traits and good things. And you got to, you got to throw an equip thing that catches them off guard. That's my experience. I'm terrible at the apps, but you know, yeah, put your best foot forward and put out something that, you know, they might set you apart from the rest. Okay. Yeah. I mean, that's just very general advice, but no one really knows what pictures to put forward first. But the interesting thing is the catfishing thing. Yeah. Catfishing and dating is when you are literally taking someone else's pictures. Yes. And putting it on your profile, whether you're trying to trick other guys or girls or whatever, or you're just trying to like make them think that you are more attractive than you are, or just don't look like yourself. There's a version of catfishing where you just take older pictures of you that are like from you when you're way younger. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not the same. It's like age fishing. Alysses call it under the same thing. Yeah. So, but the person thinks that it has to have some love of that. Yeah. I fully disagree because if you're doing that, you're getting interest from the wrong people to begin with. It's just like if you play a part instead of being yourself, then you're entering into a relationship with somebody who doesn't like you for you. And that's not a healthy relationship. You want somebody who's going to be invested and want to know you. Okay. But what if they never even get in the door? Well, sometimes you got to break the door down. That's would be the catfishing route. Then you just circle back to yourself and you just counter-directed yourself. Well, listen. Sometimes you just got to go out there and figure it out on your own. All right. So Tyler says you're on your own. Listen, I'm still trying to figure it out. You think I can tell you what to do? No, you're the master of balls in holes. Yeah. That in of itself is you really shouldn't be putting your balls in the hole. You got to bash the door down. No. Okay. All right. So we have an actual jacuzzi here from Craven Cross. Just lose Tyler. Do you miss watching a pitcher come to bat and strike out 99% of the time? Do you miss tense moments with runners in scoring positions being ruined by walking a batter to get the weak pitcher who can't hit? I don't know about you, but I would rather be watching batters who can bat. Also, there are more rule changes in baseball coming for this upcoming season. And you haven't mentioned them. The World Series came and went and no mention of it was found on the podcast. Also, you mispronounced one of the biggest stars names in an episode calling him Fernando Tay Tuss Jr. when it's pronounced tati's. Feeling you're not a baseball fan like you say. Explain yourself. All right. So I'm a baseball fan. I'm a massive baseball fan and statistics. You're correct. A lot of times the pitcher is not the best hitter. Now that's not always the case. The best part is watching a pitcher face off against another pitcher because they have knowledge of strategy a lot more than most regular batters do. They study it a lot, but the biggest thing about baseball is strategy, right? So if your pitcher is batting, if you have runners in scoring position, you have to weigh the option of, okay, is this pitcher doing well enough? Or do I sub him out in this moment and put a better batter at the plate? Uh, secondly, everyone in Major League Baseball and Baseball in general should know how to bunt and small ball is a huge part of baseball that is lost to the ages. It's home runner bus now and I hate that. It's boring. People love home runs and I get it. It puts fans in the seats, but the best teams would hit in spurts and hit doubles and singles galore. The big red machine for the Reds was one of those and in that the use of a sacrifice bunt is so important in baseball for strategy. So having a designated hitter who's just in there who basically doesn't have the ability to field is a waste because you are no longer showcasing all athletes that are playing on the field. You're now just having, oh, we'll just put in this really big guy. And then there's no strategy because then they're in the whole game and you can just switch out the pitcher, Willie Nilly and not weigh the option of like, in this moment, do I try and keep him in for another round and then sub him out because he's going to be due up next? There's so much more strategy and nuance to baseball and it's far more interesting when the pitcher is batting because there's just more details to pay attention to. When was the designated hitter rule? It just passed before the last season. And now with that said, the National League had pitchers hitting before that. The American League always had the designated hitter when they played against each other in this differentiated the leagues. Whoever was the home stadium was in, they had to play by their rules. So when an American League team was playing in a National League stadium, they would have to have their pitchers back and vice versa the other way. And do you think that that history of the designated hitter, even existing in general, made complacency in terms of pitchers getting better at hitting? Therefore, the reason that they're complaining about not being able to hit is just because pitchers never were expected to be good at hitting. So they never worked at it. Yeah. But then you got the really iconic moments where a pitcher is able to add to their likelihood of a win because they contributed on the offensive side of the ball. Yeah. And there are plenty of batters that are just batters in general that are not great as well because they're great at fielding. So the option of saying, oh, I just don't want a bad hitter to the plate is a bullshit lazy excuse for being like, oh, it's more exciting when it's not. If you actually understand baseball and are a fan of baseball, you understand the deep importance of strategy and when you move and switch out pitchers with relation to their place in the lineup and do double switches. Now that's completely gone because there's no pitcher in the lineup. So it's like, there's no need for a double switch, which was such an important part of the game. Sure. I mean, that's why I loved baseball was that strategy. And I was a pitcher and I loved batting and I feel like you take away some of the fun that existed for pitchers to be able to kind of step up to the plate and also showcase the fact that they too can help themselves achieve a statistical win. I just thought it was so much more interesting when pitchers were batting. I mean, that that's good enough for me. I don't really know what else to say about it. So what I say to you is you don't know baseball. Oh, sucker. Oh, okay. All right. That's fair. Or maybe it's not fair. I would never know the difference, but it is, however, a very well thought out answer and I am convinced that Tyler won that argument. The ghosts are there. I had to, I had to ping the discord and now they're not even asking relationship related questions. They're just going like, who bashed me? Yeah. That happens every time I've done it. Who they're going to. Who did the ping? It's just panic. Look at it. That's what it's like on a date, Mark. We don't know what they're doing. What? What do I do? They're smiling at me. Does that mean they like me or they're hate me? Tyler. Okay. How do I talk to a girl without embarrassing my entire lineage? Your entire lineage. Yes. All right. So here's the thing. They're just another person. Talk to them like you would any other person. Your head is making up stuff. Your fear of rejection, your fear of loss. If they reject you, who cares? Because when you enter into that conversation, when you put yourself out there, you have nothing to lose in everything to gain. If they reject you, the only thing you lose is hope, which at that point is then false hope. So really was nothing to begin with. So when you go into it, you only have the opportunity to gain something, whether it be a friend somebody has talked to or even a romantic partner, potentially. If they reject you, you literally are in the exact same place you were before you approached. There is nothing lost except pride and pride is an illusion. And I think the whole fallacy of you're going up to someone for the express purpose of relationship and relationship only, this does happen in certain spheres. If you're bar dating, yeah, sure, whatever, speed dating, whatever. But yeah, in general, social spheres, it's just other humans. You're just going to, if you want to talk to them, have you ever thought to yourself when you're like, oh, how do I talk to them? Do you want to talk to them? Yeah. Period? Do you have shared interest? Do you know what they're interested in? I'll go find out if you don't. Yeah. That's how the conversation should go. Is you go in trying to get to know the person? Yeah. Someone tried to, I asked if you had to ask Tyler some relationship advice, what question would you ask? And then someone responded to that, oh, just be yourself. And it's like, that's not what I asked. You're not giving me advice. I'm trying to help you. What are you talking about? Anyway, here's an interesting question. If I'm feeling insecure about myself in a relationship, and it comes out as defensiveness towards my partner, how can I improve my confidence in the relationship, but not turn into an asshole? Improve your confidence in a relationship because of insecurities that you get defensive about. They're not about the relationship, but it comes out as like insecure. Like insecure in the relationship, like you think they're cheating on you, or you don't feel you're good enough that it's probably more like that less than insecure. Yeah. Like suspicions. I think at the end of the day, is acknowledging the fact is put yourself in the other person's shoes. All right. You have to acknowledge because your insecurities and feeling like you're not good enough is invalidating the feelings of why they chose you. So in that sense, imagine if somebody was telling you and you're in a relationship with them and they're like, I'm not good enough for you. I'm all of this. Eventually, if you continue doing that, they're going to start believing it. And that's a problem if you want to stay in that relationship. But also, it's invalidating that person's feelings. They chose you for a reason. If you want to know those reasons, they probably can tell you, and it's all about forming it in the correct question. It's you don't say it and make it about you. You ask them, you know, why did you choose me? Why were you interested? They can accept the compliments that they give you because they made that decision for a reason. And so you need to acknowledge their feelings and acknowledge the fact that, yeah, you are good enough because they chose you and that was their decision. Okay. Good answer. Next question. How soon do you dump all your personal baggage on anyone? Oh, God. How soon do you unload the baggage right on top of them? So for one, you don't dump it all at once. That's just like, oh, by the way, I'll diss this, this, this, this. It's just like the other person is just like, uh. There's a level in which I'm a person I like to be upfront about stuff, particularly like something my mom did with my dad, and it's something that I occasionally do is my mom, after the first date, told my dad about her lupus because she wanted to put everything out there and be like, just so you know, this is a thing that I'm dealing with. And like, if you can't handle it, then, you know, let bygons be bygons. Cause it's, I can't change it. It's just who I am. My dad was like, the hell? We just had one date. And he's like, that doesn't matter. Because in a lot of ways, a lot of different things that have happened in your past or things that you're dealing with don't matter in that moment. When they start to matter is when you start getting into deeper and stuff like that. I like to be upfront and honest about things, but it's like, as you continue on in the relationship, you gauge it based on the conversation. You gauge it based on those moments. When you want to get into the deeper conversations, you get into the deeper conversations. If you immediately dive in and get deep, you're going to overwhelm the person. So there's, there's a level in which it's, it's a feeling process. And so when it comes to baggage, everybody has it. And acknowledging the fact that you have it is one big step. But the other part is acknowledge the fact that they do too. And you got to have that communication and balance as you continue to get to know each other when it comes out naturally. You don't want to just be like, I know this happened to me. My kidney is dead. I have, I'm going to, I have cancer. I'm going to die. Then other person's like, whoa, we're just like talking. Yeah, exactly. It should come up naturally. All right. One more question. If your ideal partner was a tree, what type of tree would they be and why? You're like a sturdy oak. You like a weeping willow. Like, what's your tree, man? Oh, God. Oh, God. I mean, I have favorite trees, but I want to think of them as dating partners. I like the way a weeping willow like kind of spreads out. And it's kind of the way it is. But like, if you think about it, one of the most strong independent trees. Strong independent tree. Oh, that already categorizes you. You like a strong independent tree. Okay. All right. Yeah. It's one, you know, that's unique. It's resilient. It's strong. It lasts. And oak is a big, a big one of those. Maple's dogwoods, those types of trees, the ones that are sturdy, the ones that, you know, can withstand stuff. But at the same time, have their own capabilities of standing on their own and not having anything waiver them that they don't necessarily need you, but want you that. This is, you are so psychoanalypt. You're exposing yourself. Everyone is deducing so many conclusions out of this. They don't need you. They are strong, big. But they want me there. They want you there. I don't want to feel needed. I want to be wanted. You don't need me, but you want me to be there with you because you can't imagine your life without. Well, that's not a tree. She's dead. She's dead. What are you talking about? Yeah. Psychoanalyze me, but Mark said it, big, strong oak. I didn't say that. See, you said big, strong oak. You said big, strong oak. That led me to think oak. What about a weeping willow? You know, to be honest, I'd say a maple tree because they got to be sweet inside. Hey, you asked a weird question. They're probably a cactus is sweet inside. Is that even early? A tree. Okay. Wait, I got one more. It's kind of like a split between it. How do you get your boyfriend to shut up about sports? All right. So here's how you do it. You get them a friend that they can talk sports to, and then they're not constantly talking sports to you. Okay. Because if they can spill out to somebody else, they'll be less likely to talk about it. There's a whole can of worms you just open up about. Get him a friend. Because like that's ever worked in every, any relationship ever is like, you know, even if you have a best friend and you both have boyfriends and you're like, oh, just stick them in the same room together. That doesn't work. It'll be just two guys going like, even if they were could be best friends of the world. It won't happen. I mean, get them a friend. At the end of the day, communicate with him. The thing is you shouldn't have a problem with that, because he's sharing something he's interested in and passionate about with you, which is meaningful to him. And so you should like that because he wants to share stuff with you. He wants to talk with you. No, that's not necessarily true. That's, yeah. You can't expect someone to force himself to like something that they could never like. Even this podcast whose mission it is to open up sports to other people, like you can still not like it. But what our mission here is to not come from a place of ignorance, because I admire anything that Amy is passionate about. Yeah. I admire that. Even if I don't understand it, I would never outright dismiss it. And I actually enjoy listening to her talk about things that I never could really comprehend. Not that I would never be interested in it, but I just haven't had the time to understand it. But the more I hear about it, the more I have a greater appreciation for what it is. So when it comes to this passion, sports has this divisive thing where some people that don't like sports, which is the whole purpose of this podcast, that they just have an automatic reaction to anonymity towards it. No, no, not animosity. Anemosity. Yeah. And so I would, I would posit that why not instead of understanding that, you know, they love talking about this, just like appreciate that for what it is. I just like hearing the sound of Amy's voice. I don't care what she's, well, I care what she's saying. I don't care what she wants to talk about. I want to listen to it because I do, I want to learn basically anything about them. So I would, I would like put in that perspective, not everyone's the same. If they're saying the exact same thing, then it could be bad, but that's how it can seem with sports. Mm hmm. Because they don't understand the nuanced difference. It may be the same teams fighting each other all over the place and whatever and the scores are same, but like I've learned over the past year, I'm still enjoying hearing about sports. I don't really understand much more, but I understand a little more. And with that understanding comes appreciation. Yeah, which brings us to today's topic. Today's topic, world records. So if those two guys are forced in the room together and they have to like figure some out and there's a Guinness Book of World Records on the table in front of me. Like, hey, I bet I can beat you at this record. Yeah. I bet I can beat you at this record. And then I bet I can beat you and then they're suddenly best friends. Yeah. You, you give them an activity or something to, you know, talk about or get into. And maybe that's what you do. You buy them the Guinness Book of World Records and challenge them to a record off. Oh, God. I have to read this one message that just came in. Oh, okay. Oh, no. Why are we asking for relationship advice from a guy who's got no game. Slash J slash J slash J. It's a joke. It's a joke Tyler. It's a joke Tyler. It's a joke. It's a joke. He's crying. No. No, the tears. No, it's fine. They're right. Everybody constantly tells me that like, how do you not have a girlfriend? I can't answer that question. Anyway, moving on. The jacuses are over. They're over the ghost. Get ready. You're dating it out here. Ghost. Get out of here. All right. So the Guinness Book of World Records is attempting a world record, a sporting event. I mean, it's part of every sport has records. Correct. But not every record attempt could necessarily be considered sports. So before we get into it, Mark, you've won awards. It's dreamies. You've even been nominated for an Emmy. Sure. But are you the best in the world at anything? Best in the world at anything. Have you achieved the mountain peak of authority in any category that I would be undisputedly better than anyone else? Yes. Which is like a subset of world records, I guess, but I don't know. I don't think so. All right. I don't know. I don't feel bad about saying that, but I'm like, I don't think so. But even in that sense, how would you know if you were? How did you know if you were? Ah, that is a good question. You compare yourself to your peers. You have a standard of record keeping or scores or whatever you would call it. And then you would have officials to judge that, which are the qualifications for sport that we've talked about a few times now. So the Guinness Book of World Records currently has over 60,000 entries. Nice. If you want to know who made the longest basketball shot, which happens to be 113 feet and six inches by Joshua Walker, made on July 22nd of last year. Damn. Or has the most passes completed in a Super Bowl game? Of course, it's Tom Brady. Yeah. 40, 43 passes completed in 2017. The Guinness Book of World Records has those answers. Okay. Good. So what do you know about the Guinness Book of World Records? I know that it is tied to the beer company, Guinness. Yep. I know that it started because there was a bar argument about who did what and what did what and they needed to be on the yacht. I don't know how true that is. That's just what I know. I know that they come out with a book and it's a real page turner. The book actually has been discontinued. I think it might have restarted, but it did. Never mind. It was a piece of crap and no one liked it. So I don't know. And I know that there's a whole bunch of people that try records all the time. There's several YouTubers that have attempted records and made it and various records get traded out all the time. Are we all? I don't know. Did you know you have two world records? I? You have two world records? I have two world records. Yes. What the? Since when? I didn't have a judge come up into my house. Who can verify this? I just spoke to world records. I just beat these. On their website. All right. Okay. So it's the most viewed YouTube channel for horror video games. Your second world record is most followed video games personality on Twitter. What? Yes. So for the most. What? Yep. Specifically video game. Specifically video games personality. I barely call myself a gamer. I know. But that's that those are your two records. That's weird. I would never have thought that. How many falls do I have? I don't even know. According to this, it's based on 25th of August 2017. 7.46 million. I have 13.9 right now. Yeah. So it's gone up in 2017. I would have probably been qualified as more of a specific gaming. I mean gaming is the best majority of my content. But I doubt the veracity of that to this day. It's still in the Guinness Book of World Records. Their website lists all of their records. You are listed as that. It's very strange because I never submitted any of these. It's weird that I can be in there and not have submitted anything. They track other stuff without submission. Submissions are when you actually have to like have them authenticate an actual event. So that you followed the rules of said record. Okay. So your record for the other one, the most viewed video games like gaming YouTuber. Is 8.9 billion views. And this was as of the 28th of February 2018. I don't think that's stills. I'm coming in on 20 billion total views on my channel. Yeah. But it's also based on its horror video games. So they're putting in these very unique specific buckets. Uh, okay. All right. A bucket that I would never have thought about myself. Yeah. Because I would never think of myself as specifically a horror video game YouTuber, even though that is a lot of what I do. I'm making a movie right now. Yeah. You do a lot more than that, which is why when people are like, Oh, the gaming YouTuber, I'm like, he does so much more than games. I'm a sports man. He's a sports podcast. Yes. But of the number one sports podcast, some subset of whatever the guests would qualify. So now let's get into act one. Okay. The origin of the Guinness world. I covered this already. Skip. No. Skip. No. I did it. You did. You briefly mentioned it. So the Guinness world records began with a man named Sir Hugue Beaver. With a man named Sir Hugue Beaver. And an argument hugue hugue H U G H Hugh. Hugh. All right. So it's Hugh. Huge beaver. Sir hugue beaver. Sir hugue beaver. And an argument about what was the fastest game bird in Europe at a shooting party in county Wexford, England. Okay. This was in the early 1950s and in 1954 Sir Beaver, who is the managing director of the Guinness Brewery. Remember this argument and wanted to use it as a marketing promotion. So. That's Sir Beaver to you. The promotion. Sir Beaver. The promotion was centered on the idea of settling pub arguments. Sir Beaver enlisted Ross and Norris McRutter. Twin researchers from the heart of the newspaper printing and publishing industries in London. Okay. Fleet Street to compile a book of facts and figures. Right. The first book was written in 13 and a half weeks with the McWeter twins working 90 hours a week to craft what would become the first Guinness book of world records published in 1955 and sold 187,000 copies. It was then reprinted four times in that year to keep up with demand to reach that number. Okay. So there's been a new edition of the Guinness Book of World Records every single year since its creation. By 1964, a million books had sold across all the editions and by 1974, the Guinness Book of World Records set their own record and became the biggest selling copyrighted book in history. Having sold almost 24 million copies. Wow. Today, there have been over 143 million copies of the books sold. A couple TV shows created and an official website with a record search launched. Wow. So it started with a plain book design and now has a wide variety of cover styles. Some of these we saw in our high school library, if you want to look at some of these. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's nostalgic. Yeah. I know all about it. Yeah. Like the foil shiny retro-reflective stuff. Yep. Yeah. Good stuff. I love those. Everyone, whenever it was live was like a book day. What was it called? Like, like, brush, rush for the books. Die for the books. The read the books. No. What is it called? Marathon. Cram. The book blast. The book. Uh, there's a term. The book, brilliant. No, no, the book, the book, the book, Bonanza. What was it called? The book sale? No, it was a certain time in school when you had the book blast. It was where they sold books. I can't remember what's called either. The reading rush. What was it called? The reading rainbow. What was it called? I don't know. What was it? Ah, book, Bonanza. Book, book, blast. Was it the, uh, uh, no, no, no. What? The book. Time in school when books were cool. What was it called? What was it called? The book. The book drive. There it is. Oh my god. The book drive. Right. God. Got this so much simpler than what we were thinking. Why didn't they make it alliterate? You know, I don't know. I think book blast. The book, Bonanza. A book drive. Right. Of course. God. The book bonkers now. Oh no. Let's move on. I can't. What were we talking about? We were talking about the history of the kind of spoken world record. Sure. We were. Sure. All right. So now we're into act two. Okay. All right. Attempting a world record. A sport. Is it? What? You're kidding? That's it. I will say. Is it tempting a world record a sport? It's something world record. Is it? I don't know. Tyler. That's how we tell it. Is it? Oh no. Oh no. Breathe. Breathe. Oh, he might actually. Oh god. Okay. All right. Breathe. Excuse me. All right. Is it? Is it a sport? What would make it a sport? There's categories. We've defined this. So to determine if attempting a world record a sport, we first have to look at what goes into an attempt. Okay. The first part is the requirements. So let's say I'm NFL quarterback Tom Brady. Sure. Let's say you've always dreamed of this. I know this. No, I'm an NFL quarterback. That's not Tom Brady. Okay. All right. Okay. And I want to beat all of Tom Brady's records. All of them. Okay. And create new ones of my own. There are some steps I'll need to take in order to become. I swear my writing assistant is me, me, and me. And he's trying to call Tom Brady the goat in these notes. How dare you? In order to become the greatest of all times surpassing Tom Brady. Man, I just looked up Tom Brady and the Guinness Web site. He has so many. There's a thousand in age entries. I don't know if that means individual records, but does a lot of entries. Yeah. He has a lot of records. All right. So in order for something to possibly beat a world record, it has to meet Guinness criteria. Okay. There are seven criteria, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, for your record would need to meet all seven to be considered. Okay. So when attempting a record, you can either try to break an existing one or suggest a new record. All right. So the first criteria is it has to be measurable. Is it the fastest, longest, heaviest, most certain amount of time? Whatever. Has to be quantified. Okay. Two. Has to be breakable. Can the record be broken or repeated by someone else? So all of them must be open to being challenged. Three. Standardizable. Which means they need to be repeatable and fit the exact same criteria. So can the record title be done universally? For example, it cannot be related to something restricted to a region. Verifiable. Can the claim be proven? For example, claim such as a man who never drank water, can never be verified unless the man spent his whole life from birth under surveillance by a witness. One variable. We can verify the largest painting but would not consider the largest painting by the most people. Wait, say that again by the most people? Yes. We can verify the largest painting. So they can verify the single thing with that it is the largest painting. Uh-huh. One thing. But if you say it's largest people, painted by the most people. Oh, I see, I see. Okay. You're verifying two things. So only one thing is variable. Okay, gotcha. They only focus on one thing. Yeah, because if everyone painted on the earth, there technically be something. But because there's two indeterminate infinite variables, okay, I see, I see, I see, has to be one isolatable variable. Correct. It has to be universal. The proposal must be something or about something that is known to the majority of the world. It cannot be too specific slash regional. Mm-hmm, okay. So it can't be like, I cut the most clippings in my house. Okay. All right. Who fucking cares? Um- I, I care. I mean- I, I care. But thanks Mark. I'm so thankful for that. I got rejected the most time at a moment. No! Don't, don't, don't bring up my world records Mark. Don't do it. Yeah! Hey, that's perseverance. If you got rejected the most in the world, that's really admirable, if anything. All right. And it has to be substantially different from a current record. Uh-huh. So if your record suggestion is similar to something they already have, like it's most hot dogs eaten in a minute. You can't do most hot dogs eaten in two minutes. It's, it has to be the same. Yeah, it has to be the same. Okay. So it, for record in hot dogs, it's actually three minutes is the standardized records. And it's 12 in three minutes. That seems low compared to like Joey Chestnut. No, I, I think that's pretty accurate because a minute goes by a lot faster than you think. But how long do they have in those contests? It's usually a good amount of time. No, that cannot be right because this says he ate 76 in 10 minutes, 12 in three, 76 in 10 is way faster. I think that might be out of date. It might be out of date. Hey, we're, we're, we're. Oh, I think I looked up hot dogs instead of hot dog. I bet some of these entries are weird and once I, hot dog. Hot dog! There we go. Yeah, there's way more entries for hot dogs. Okay. All right. So it basically has to fit an approved variation of the same title. Most hot dogs eaten in one minute is six. Okay. Which still seems low because Joey Chestnut did 76 in 10 minutes. This is ridiculous. There's no standardization about it. Well, I bet you it has to be, you have to start. At the very beginning, I bet you it's slower than once he's in the meat of the matter, where he's really shoving him down. I doubt that. If only thing it would slow down towards the end because you'd be emptiest at first. Your muscles relaxes. It's not going to lubricate your throat with more hot. No, it's about the fact that then you have them in your hands and I don't know. I still, I still think this is weird, but whatever. Yeah. We'll move on. So even if your potential world record meets all seven criteria, you still may have your record rejected as there are some other guidelines such as you can't do anything illegal. Animals can't be harmed and people can't be hurt either. Weirdly, there also can't be any world records for consuming alcohol or alcohol and drug related stuff, which doesn't make much sense considering the Guinness World Record started as the Guinness Brewery. So why would they not want to have a hold my beer moment? Probably because anything that could definitely kill someone. Liabilities. Yeah, yeah, there's probably plenty of liabilities. Yeah. So obviously, if you're going to attempt a world record, you got to train. You got to prepare. Okay. So you practice and train for a record attempt. Depends greatly on the record. Okay. We've spoken on sports related examples so far. Not everything in the world records as we know, it's sports related. Some are just even just for people in general. Some records require no practice or training and are just about being the oldest or tallest or growing the longest fingernails or which you kind of have to train and know what you're doing with fingernails. Have a long string. Yeah, that would take some effort. Yeah. But you would also have to be like genetically predisposed to growing fingernails very quickly. Correct. That would have an impact in what you would do with them. Correct. So some of them are like being the oldest, being the tallest, largest, rarest person animal or thing. So there's a record for the largest ancient stone balls. Okay. There's a record for the tallest moss. Moss? Yes. All right. Smelliest bird. That's the least. Smelliest bird. And even the oldest male stripper. I'm going for that record, man. I mean, I'm going to get real and be like, I'm a stripper. All right. Okay, man. Smelliest bird. By the way, the oldest male stripper began his career at the age of 60 as a way to get in. Now you're misinterpreting the audience. The audience is dying to know what the smelly's bird is. And I will tell you the information that you guys want to know. Yeah. Native to the Colombian rainforest, the world's smelly's bird is undoubtedly the huatsen, opissum, komus, housen, a bizarre looking bird, variously classified with the pheasants, cuckoos, turacos, and even in a taxonomic group entirely of its own. Which stinks like cow manure. Even its local name. Pava, hedon, he heady-owned, uh, translates as stinking pheasant. Its noxious odor is believed to dry from a combination of its exclusive diet of green leaves and for birds, its uniquely bovine digestion system that involves a kind of foregut fermentation. Well, as the king of balls and holes, I think it's important that I don't glance over the largest ancient stone balls. Known locally as Las Bolas grandes. The giant balls. And of course, there are more than a thousand perfectly spherical granite globes scattered widely over the dicis delta of Costa Rica. Carved from naturally-sophirical masses of granite by still unidentified race of pre-Columbian people. Largest of these spectacular objects measures up to 2.5 meters in diameter and weighs over 16 tons. Wow. You want to hear the stinkiest bird? Listen to that stinker. You get this tell- Kind of sounds like a pig. Ricks. Kind of does, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Are we sure it's not a wild boar with feathers? Nope. Looks like this. Oh. That's some, that's some grunty bird. That's a stanky ass bird right there. I can't tell you what the sounds of the giant balls are, but it's probably- They didn't say it was attached to this little old lady. Wherever this was. So while you can't train for some records, if you're wanting to beat the record for the longest basketball shot, or the farthest throw of a rubber chicken, that is a record. You'll need to practice. So in February of 2020, former US Marine George Hood broke the record for the longest time in the plank position. And this is classified as male. Okay. Training seven hours a day to achieve this goal, he did 270,000 pushups, 674,000 sit-ups, and over 2,100 hours of planking over the course of 18 months before the official attempt. 2,100 hours of planking. 2,100 hours of planking? Yes. That's 87 and a half total days of planking over 18 months. Oh my God. You want to know how long the record is? Nine hours, 30 minutes, and one second. The longest time in an abdominal plank position. By Daniel Scali in Adelaide, South Australia. Oh. This took place on the 6th of August 2021. Wow. Oh my God. This is insane. Daniel is affected by CRPS, which is complex regional pain syndrome. Okay. And decided to attempt this record to prove that no matter what condition you have or challenge you face, you can overcome them and achieve your goals. That was his reasoning for it. Yeah. That's very inspirational. That's really cool. That's pretty cool. Yeah, but I'm okay. One minute on a plank seems like hell, so nine and a half hours of it, I'm okay. I've done a four minute plank. Wow. Just a three up you. I'm going to do a five minute plank. Oh, yeah, I'm going to go longer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now we need to have a plank competition for the channel. All right, all right. So it seems like this is very sport like there's physical activity and a lot of these, not all of them, but physical activity does come and play. And there's a competitiveness and like, I bet I can do this better than you, more than you. That's kind of like what competition in humanity is all about. Like I'm better than you at this. And here I can prove it. And that's kind of what sports is. And a lot of sports are in the Guinness Book of World Records, like the fastest 100 meter dash, the world records and Olympic records and all of those, because the Olympics tracks that also fall into this. So a lot of sports fall into this. Yeah. So going back to the scenario of an NFL quarterback wanting to break Tom Brady's records. Let's say the record I want to beat meets all the criteria. While you think that submitting a world record would be as easy as filming, live streaming with spectators present, it's actually far more complicated. For a new record attempt, you need to apply twice. The first time to say you are attempting the record and then to submit your record after you've completed it. Okay. All right. So if your application for the attempt is accepted, then you'll receive guidelines. This could take up to 12 weeks to find out if you've been accepted. There's a 32 page guide just for how to collect the evidence of the record. Basically a book. Okay. And if you're not careful, you could be rejected because you forgot a cover letter. Like it's almost like applying for a job with like a resume. Yeah, this is weird. It sounds like some government agency is like you get all these different proof of address and paperwork bullshit. Yeah. You have to have a cover letter and it has to be very specific for the Guinness Book of World Records. That's silly. Well, probably because it gets so many people submitting that they needed to standardize process. So maybe I get it. They have a template at least. Oh, that looks very official. I'm not going to describe that to everybody. It looks very boring. It's very boring, very boring. But besides the video proof, you also need time keepers, witnesses. If there's over 50 people attempting a group record, you have to have a steward to watch and keep track of all of the participants. Ah, okay. I see. And all of these people would need to fill out special forms for their individual roles. So if you want to prove that I had the world record for most touchdown passes in one quarter of the NFL game, I'd have to deal with a mountain of paperwork first. Okay. Gotcha. If I was attempting a record once I've collected all the evidence, filled out all the paperwork, created my cover letter, I could then submit the record attempt application and it would take a while before it was approved. Now, with that said, I think a lot of records in the Guinness Book of World Records aren't necessarily this. So particularly with the NFL one, the NFL has the video. They have all the witnesses there. There's enough proof that I think the NFL kept certain organizations keep records well enough that the Guinness Book is like, yes, because this is the authority on that particular thing. Okay. So I don't think Tom Brady applied for his records. Sure. Yeah. Just like you saying, Bolt didn't apply for his record. There's enough record keeping that the Guinness Book is like, hey, we can just use that. And also the Olympic Committee is not beholden to the Guinness Book of World Records for who keeps better track of the record. I think the. No, my beer company knows more than you. Yeah. Mr. Guinness walks in and is like, you're wrong, wrong, wrong. We're doing this all over again. All right. I guess he would be what Irish or Scottish or whatever it is. I can't remember English. No Guinness. Oh, is it not Irish? I don't know. They probably disavowed it. I don't know which way it goes about it. That's not our beer. Yeah. Yeah. But either way, yeah, the Olympics have their own record keeping and they don't care whose fingernails are longer. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So after all the training practice form filling all the bullshit, if you're lucky, it'll even end up being published in the next year's edition of the book. But don't get too comfortable though. Okay. Because a record can be broken at any time. And your triumph may be short-lived as a new person will claim your time. Yeah, Tom. Yeah. We're coming for you. We're coming for you. George Hood, the Planking Record holder we talked about earlier, had his record broken in little over a year after his final world record attempt. Though he has held the record in the past and competed for it more than once, he retired from attempts and now Australian Daniel Scali holds the record. Okay. Because George Hood grabbed it first and Daniel Scali was the one I read about the one with the abdominal pain and overcoming. Okay. That's the current record. Mm-hmm. So is attempting a record a sport? Yeah. I'm gonna say yes. This one seems so clear-cut. Yeah. Because it's competitive. Uh-huh. You have a definitive winner. Mm-hmm. You have the criteria where it's repeatable because the Guinness sets it up that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would say some of them don't qualify, but some do. Because like grown fingernails, I want to call that sport like- Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's certain levels like you just happen to be the tallest stuff like that. Yeah. But in general, there is enough in there. It's very diverse. Just like sports are very diverse. There's a whole bunch of different things. You know, you have sides of it. But because the overarching thing of it is this competition, the standardized rules, the competitive nature of it, the overtaking other people, the training, the physical ability that falls into at least some of them, you can't dismiss the physical ones at art just because they're non-physical ones or whatever have you. I think like this is the clearest indication that it's a sport. And here comes Tyler to tell me how I'm wrong. So no, you're right. Yeah! Some of them are. Some of them are. Yeah! But you cannot globally state that attempting a role record is sport. Here it is. Here it is. Because they're world records for not all of them having a sporting chance. Because they're records for the rarest animal inanimate objects. Or records can essentially just be bought by companies for their product. And I let you by the hand to the backyard. You told me to look at the rabbit. You told me to look at the rabbits. You made me look like an idiot. No, I agree with you. We literally had this discussion, but you cannot classify just attempting a world record and competing for a world record as a sport because there are variables in it. Some are and some aren't. Why do I even try everybody? Why do I even try? Most world record for most times fooled into thinking. I knew the answer. On a podcast. Me. Winner. Yeah. So then that's not entirely having a sporting chance. Not everybody has a podcast. Not everybody has the ability to do an attempt at. So therefore. So now getting to act three, which is what the Guinness Book of World Records are used for today. So we talked about the process. Why some of them can be sport. Some of them aren't. But we haven't touched on why you'd want to break a world record. What? Stop listening. Yeah, you're doing the mocking thing. I was like, well, what, what, why? Okay. Why? All right. What? Because the Guinness doesn't offer monetary compensation. Okay. They don't cover any of the costs for attempting the record. Okay. The only reward is recognition that you're the best at something and a little paper certificate. So what is the point of obtaining a world record? Bragging rights is obviously a major one. But the most obvious answer is clout. Being officially the very best at something gives you bragging rights to bring it up at every opportunity. It's also great marketing because attempting to get a book of world records, then you're in the book and all of a sudden more people see it, some more people check out your stuff. YouTube, things like that. Which is why a lot of you do it because it's a great little interesting thing. It's also good to have it. Yeah, absolutely. Even if they don't achieve it, it's just attempting a world record. Who's not going to watch that? Yeah. That's interesting. So it works as advertising and you can get the official world record logo on a product, which could boost sales, set it apart from other companies, differentiators. You know what would be really interesting? What? What if Cloak attempted? Again, a spoke of world records. I don't want to. See, I'm not on a record for the comfiest clothes. No, that's not quantifiable. I'm not interested in the publicity of a world record. I don't really care. Unless it was something that was extremely passionate about that maybe I wanted to prove myself. And with a company doing it, it's the same thing. It's just like a marketing scheme. It was even the point. Yeah, I don't care. But at the end of the day, the world records came about because of any arguments. But the biggest thing is it feeds the need for competition. The need to compare, contrast, and express our individuality. Steven Garcia, a professor of psychology who studies competition at the University of Michigan states, people are always trying to find a way to make themselves seem like they're at the top. There's a need for uniqueness. We want to feel special. That's me paraphrasing adding that. And I think people cling to that in different ways. They might see themselves as being number one in a particular dimension. And they might discount other things. So what are your thoughts on the Guinness Book of World Records? I know it's something cool that we used to read. Oh, it's fun. Yeah. That's it. That's all I got. Do you want to attempt a world record? No, I just said I didn't care. No, but just for fun. No. Just to be like, you know, maybe we have the longest podcast episode ever. God, what kind of hell would that be? What fun is that? It would be torturous. It would be awful. Know who would listen to it? Nobody. You know what? I think we should have the record for coolest friendship. And that is measurable. Completely measurable. Nobody could decide. Yeah, we're so cool. We were the most popular kids ever. Oh, God, we're cool. Man, right guys? All right. I'm ending this before it's an embarrassment. I'm embarrassed to be even beer. Record for most embarrassment. So much egg on your face in multiple podcasts in a row. Yeah, it's fine. All right. Well, I think we answered the question. Yeah. It's not a sport as dictated by the master of all and whole man. Some record attempts can be considered, but not all. As a blanket statement, attempting a world record is not a sport. Okay. And we are the officiator of what is and is not a sport. Well, I say we. You. Not me. My master of balls and holes. It is. It is. Although I don't have the biggest ancient stone balls in the world. Those belong to Costa Rica. Yeah, but in the future, you might. You should have. All right. Well, thank you everybody for listening. If you have a world record out there, let us know on the subreddit, reddit.com slash r slash gmfst. Or you can join the discord and brag about it all day long with the other favorites that are there. And you can find me at Markiplier. You can find Tyler at apocalypto underscore 12. And here comes his clothing. So clothing. Here's. Combin's clothing. Oh, no, they're coming off. His closing thoughts. Yeah. I mean, I think attempting a world record is kind of cool in its own sense. As long as your motivation behind it is just to be like, you know what? I kind of want to see if I can do that. Or I want to be able to motivate somebody just like that one guy who had the plank. I think it's inspirational. I think it gives us something to aspire to. And it really pushes humanity's advancement in some ways, sometimes not good ways, but it pushes you to your limits and pushes you to showcase and for us as humanity to expand and push our boundaries and push our limits. So I think world records are cool. I think Guinness doing it and Kimi track it is really unique and gives you something to look at and be entertained by. But, you know, live your life. Be you because that's a record you will forever keep. No, there's probably a better you and you out there somewhere. Someone's trying to be the better you. They're trying to steal your identity right now. You gotta be sure you're fine. I'm going to be the better mark. I'm going to change my name. That's what all the doppelgangers and people are just trying to, if you ever see someone that looks like yourself out there, run. Run or murder them? Well, hold on here. We're going to go. All right. Bye. Bye. Okay. Okay. Okay.