Staring Contest World Record

you would not believe how long some dude. went without blinking let's talk about. that I'm Jack from. Tennessee Good Mythical. [Music]. Morning Good Mythical Morning this. episode is brought to you by culas decom. where you can get the lawn airator. sandals they look like medieval torture. devices but they're just.

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device of the internet that's what we. never want to be called that's a. negative that's a negative thing I I. went to the medieval Torture Museum in. Prague Czech Republic really in the year. 1999 why why why I'm fascinated with. torture not like I like to do it or. anything I'm just saying I'm saying I'm. fascinated with what can bring a person. to a point to to create a machine that. could punish someone it's interesting. let's talk about that let's change the. whole subject no actually it's related. torture you you know uh staring contest.

keeping your eyes open not blinking in. my mind if you do it long enough can be. categorized as a form of self torture. but there are these people this group of. people in the Northern Territory of. Australia that have a so you think you. can stare contest they could probably. work on the title of their contest a. little bit I like Australians just just. side note they you know they live in a. deadly place that could be killed at any. moment by a snake or an alligator they.

contest to torture. themselves hey mate let's not. blink and that definitely sounded. Australian I think it's blank blank. blank I don't know you you Australians. are watching and we appreciate you so. feel free to uh dig into me about my my. ribbing dig into me about the. ribbing that doesn't even make sense. just proceed and tell us some things. about world would you be able to guess. the world.

record for staring in a staring contest. without looking at my. notes are you guessing are you guessing. you already. know 40 minutes 59 seconds can you. believe that can you imagine opening. your eyes and not blinking at all for 40. minutes and 59 seconds that's 1 second. shy of 41 minutes yeah that's true I've. done the math people fergo isur Fleming.

is the champion fergo Fleming yeah fergo. Fleming you've heard of him his middle. name isn't really isore that's like a. moniker yeah right yeah that he they an. alias if you will right he he did he did. 40 40 minutes 59 seconds he said after. 35 minutes it felt like he was getting a. tattoo on his. eye which I actually looked into this it. actually exists you can do that corneal. corneal tattooing exists but I'm not.

going to show you a picture because it's. scary and we ain't going to go there. okay so this guy held held his eyes open. was he against another dude who like. gave up at like 29 minutes or something. no he he he gave up at that second and. then fergo kept going so it was a. staring contest you got to look into you. got to stare at somebody you just can't. stare at like nothing so it's a staring. contest the other guy gave up and then. he went like a second longer well the. other guy gave up and yeah yeah pretty. much and if he would have gone one more.

second he could have said 41 minutes but. he could have why couldn't he just say h. no stay there I want to keep staring at. you to get my record I know you blink. but just stay there I think well that. was the right you know it's because he. because it felt like he was getting a. tattoo on his eye okay you know once he. once he wins and he has the world record. he didn't want to blow him blow it out. of the water I guess but he could that. he he could have had more of a long-term. approach now I thought we could get some. more information on blinking and staring. contest by Consulting with Vicki yeah so.

I went there but I was shocked to find. out very little information thanks for. nothing Vicky on this one except for one. thing you know how on Wikipedia they'll. have pictures up there for different. things well the I the picture for. staring contest is amazing I mean look. at this thing yeah it's like a line. drawing with a dotted line going between. the two guys eyes and then the caption. underneath says line of gays in a.

staring contest it's like a Roman Caesar. type Guy versus like a Hari Krishna that. got his thing cut off okay so once I was. disappointed in the lack of information. that Vicky had for us I decided to ask. Rhett to take the liberty of coming up. with some fabulously interesting facts. about staring contests that aren't. actually true so false stuff that seem. to be true in order to make something.

more fascinating yeah so what you're. going to do is you're going to tell me. these amazing facts which your faults. yep about staring yep in contest or. whatever you want it to be that it could. have been on Wiki and then I'm going to. respond as if I think they're true and. then you can break the news to me. that you're just making it up yeah but. it'll be fun because if these things. were true it would be awesome are you. with us in this we're going to call this. totally false facts.

you. ready the Obscure and isolated Amazon. tribe the watchi Wii wakako Kenobi. tribe I haven't heard of them settles. territorial disputes with staring. contest unto the death the current tribe. leader Paul interesting his name is Paul. yeah has killed 47 Challengers through. staring they just die and their their. corneas dry up and they just die there. was no other information they just says. staring into the death I mean I'm just.

taking I'm just taking a fact as a fact. and where is this tribe it's in the. Amazon they still exist I hate to break. it to you I made this entire thing up. it's not true the watchu watchu waku. Kenobi tribe is something that's in my. mind only what about Paul though 100%. fals I'm sorry I apologize here's. another I'm so disappointed at this. point because I was really fascinated I. thought about visiting that tribe it is. fascinating whe they're isolated and. they might turn on you okay but if I got. more I have more false facts so let me.

continue in 1933 Stan Phillips of Boston. Massachusetts entered the staring. contest at the world fair in. Chicago in the finals he kept his eyes. open for 97 minutes and 11 seconds so. much for the world record that you told. us this is actually longer Guinness. wasn't there I guess after winning the. contest he attempted to close his eyes. but was unable to due to the complete. dehydration of his Scara he never shut. his eyes again and slowly went blind he. was henceforth known as that continu L. surprised fellow of.

Boston I get it I get it but he couldn't. see he went blind so he was surprised. and blind and yeah did he wear a patch. no he open his apparently a double patch. he just opened his eyes and they went. dry and then like a sleeping mask and. slowly it went blind but the funny thing. about this is is I it's totally false I. just made it up ah you got me again but. not really several here's another. interesting fact that's not true uh. several government funded studies show a. correlation between the ability to hold.

your pee and the ability to perform well. in staring. contests that that makes sense I've. actually thought that yeah for years I. mean whenever I really need to go pee I. find myself not blinking yeah mhm and. then when I actually pee I blink a whole. lot and it's like oh it happens at the. same time I'm peeing and blinking peeing. and blinking so this has to be true. interestingly enough my experience tells. me so I just made it up interestingly. enough yeah I just totally F there just. wasn't a study but still probably true.

it sounds reasonable we can do a study. in 1642 King Louis the 13th of France. requested that each of his Royal. servants battle him in a staring contest. any servant that lost was instantly. beheaded and any servant that won was. allowed to give King Louie a foot. massage kind of it's kind of a win-win. situation for the king all of these. false facts are kind of they're kind of. demented and seem to have been written. by a man who who likes to go to torture. museums I'm not done he was allowed. three blinks the servants none.

he also had hideous circus Freaks and. beautiful scandy clad women parade. behind him during the contests so the. king kind of stacked the deck in his. favor well he was the king yeah and this. is also not true I've made that up what. a disappointment at this point you know. I'm sensing a pattern and I also came up. with the concept of this whole thing so. and finally in 1867 Dr Frederick doctor. Dr Dr Frederick froder BG of Germany. that name sounds totally believable.

discovered that his experimental. subjects could keep their eyes open for. hours at a time if they inserted their. heads directly into. rainbows I thought you going to say. inserted their heads up their own butts. well that's not funny it's hit it's. ridiculous and but I mean from you. totally ignored this fact here can you. first of all how did he I know I know. you're making it up how did I even get. how does he even get to a rainbow to the. every time I chase a rainbow I I never.

get to it how did he get this was this. like a tall ladder I don't how did he. get the heads into the rainbow how many. rainbows have you chased every time I. see one you just Chase it I go for it. pot of gold baby I'm going for it yeah. okay so I I'm with you on this one I'm. totally enraptured and in belief okay. well it's not true I made it up I don't. even think it's possible to insert your. head into a rainbow and I believe that. Dr Frederick rerberg Probably sounds. there's probably a German guy out there. named that but the saying get your head. out your is uh you know there's a reason.

for that because that's it's possible I. think you should keep your eyes closed. if you're going to do that though yeah. Close Your Eyes First if you're going to. if you're going to put head up your own. heel all right why don't we have a. steering contest oh yeah I I spun the. wheel I'm sorry I thought we were done. you want to do a ster let's put it on. the wheel you want to do a steering. contest instead of the end of the. wheel let's talk about something on the. wheel while doing a steering contest.

we almost had the ring attacked by a. hawk let's be attacked by a hawk while. having a staring contest and we're just. going to fast forward this and we're. literally going to fast forward this so. they don't have to sit through the cuz. I'm going to go for like 40 minutes and. we have to act like we're being attacked. by a hawk yeah and we'll put a clock up. there here we go count down you take. your glasses off what it's going to it's. an advantage that. two I didn't hear you count start over. one two.

three hey hey don't panic Don't Panic. there's a there is a Hulk directly he's. he's dive bombing he's coming right from. the back of your. head Sho Sho okay okay he's gone he's. gone he's gone he's gone my eyes are. really watering hold on the Hawk's. coming around you hey keep your hands. coming down I just blinked I'm out but. let's keep going you blinked I didn't. see it no I didn't I didn't blink maybe. no you didn't blink there's a hawk it's. coming over here it's coming down it's. on you it's on you it's I off oh you're.

blinking I'm not blinking I'm not. blinking I'm not bling blinking the hawk. away I'm blinking the hawk away that's. not how it works I'm still going I'm. going to just see how long I can go look. I thought that if I squinted up look at. them look at how I'm crying look at that. can you see the tear hold on hold I. haven't closed my eyes yet don't. distract me I want to really see how. long I can. go did I did I just blink yes yep you're. out. okay yeah boom wow my eyes feel great.

and I don't care that I lost. [Music].