Because the records you don’t need any special equipment for are the most economical to beat, this is a video of 20-year old Iowa clap master Dalton Meyer setting a new Guinness World Record for most claps in one minute, with a staggering 1,140, beating the previous record of 1,080.

This is a video highlighting the work of foley artists and the incredible difficulty in making just the right footstep sound effects (considered one of the hardest to duplicate) for television and movies. There is a surprising amount of thought, technique, footwear, and materials to step on that go into

This is a video of musician Jared Halley performing all the individual instrumental parts (including vocals) of Green Day’s 1992 banger ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ acapella, combining them into a multi-track performance of the entire song. That’s neat. You know, I always fancied my voice a bass guitar. It’s deep.

This is a video of two Nebraskan sousaphone players at Bennington High School (which apparently had no problem lifting their mascot from the University Of Wisconsin) having a lightsaber duel, and providing the appropriate lightsaber sound effects with their instruments. That’s fun. Way funner than anything I did in high

Because dream it and, with enough people willing to risk broken bones you can achieve it, this is a video of Spain’s Castellers de Vilafranca setting a human pyramid record with a tower nine people high. Granted the very top floor of the tower is really only a half story

These are several videos of avante-garde juggler Michael Raynor (aka brokenjuggler, who kind of reminds me of an even crazier Benjamin Linus from Lost and I imagine lives in Venice Beach, California) performing some very outside-the-box juggling and balancing and devil-sticking and rolling a flaming cheeseburger around a parasol and

This is a video of musician Ralf Bienioschek covering Queen’s classic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ on recorder, layering multiple tracks to perform the entire song. That’s impressive. And those recorders are impressive too, nothing like the ones we played in elementary school, which were basically McDonald’s straws with holes in them. And

Note: Just watch the video, you’ll be amazed or I’ll go back in time and give you your 54 seconds back. This is a video of musician Timothy Fletcher (Instagram, TikTok) performing to Juvenile’s 1998 banger ‘Back That Azz Up’ on a snare drum with about as much extra flair