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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
Hey and welcome to the podcast.
I'm Josh.
There's Chuck.
Jerry's here too.
And that makes this stuff you should know, which holds the record for the longest running
podcast in the history of the world, as far as I know.
Hey, buddy, before we get going, I wanted to mention with your permission.
Of course, great.
I was recently a guest on a very awesome podcast.
We don't guest on a lot of shows much anymore, but actor Paul Giamatti has a podcast with
his buddy who is a philosophy professor named Steven Asma.
It's called Chinwag.
And I saw these guys live at Sketchfest and it was great.
And I think Stuff You Should Know people will really not only enjoy my guest appearance,
but really love Chinwag.
Yeah.
From what you told me, it sounds pretty awesome.
I haven't listened quite yet, but I think I'm going to make my first episode your episode.
It's great.
I appreciate that.
And you should get on it.
I told you that I'm sure they'd love to have you.
But Steven is super smart and Mr. Paul Giamatti is amazingly smart and just a really well-read
cool guy.
And the title says it all, Chinwag is just sort of a free-flowing chat.
And that's what it is.
The idea was that we're going to talk about the Celurian hypothesis, which they didn't
know about yet.
And we had just done a thing on.
So it was like, what a great opportunity.
But we ended up talking about nuclear semionics and the antichethere mechanism and ghost
and religion and monkey intercourse.
It's just a really cool talk and I think stuff you should know people would really dig
it.
So it's out now at the Chinwag.
Nice chuck.
Congrats.
I can't wait to listen.
All right.
Thanks, man.
And you should be on.
Should we get on with the show?
Oh, yeah.
Let's.
Well, you know what we get to do now in our typical two episode procession way that is
stuff you should know.
As we get to wash the stink of unit 731 off of us.
That's great.
About a very fun thing, which is the Guinness book of world records or the Guinness world
records.
I feel like when I was a kid, it was called the Guinness book of world records in the United
States.
I imagine that we are similar and that you probably had a copy of this in your house.
No.
Oh, you didn't?
No.
We weren't a lot of dye.
What?
We had a copy of the Guinness book.
I think you probably got it as a Christmas gift one year.
And just one.
You did lift it from that his school library.
You brought it up.
Oh, he may have property of red end elementary school.
So I remember very distinctly, though, pouring through this thing as a kid.
And just like it was such a big book.
It was so thick and the type was so small.
And the pictures weren't great, but like I just like I poured over every page of this
thing like it was my Bible or something.
I was so into it.
I thought it was so cool.
Like this may have been my Uncle John's bathroom reader for you.
Uh, no.
I, yeah.
Okay.
I got you both.
No, no, no.
Uncle John's bathroom reader definitely trumped it for sure.
But I was still very much a fan of the Guinness book of world records for sure.
Do you remember some of those pictures from the classic edition?
Oh, yeah.
The guy with the longest fingernails also had a really long beard if I remember correctly.
Yeah.
And the two guys those two heavy twins on the motorbikes.
Yeah.
Very...
