For anyone not quite interested enough to look it up, the record fastest was about 7 hours, and the slowest was 27 hours. So surprising no one, Jon is right here lol
I moved from running to swimming thanks to a knee injury, and I was horrified to learn how much effort it takes to swim long distance. One mile is enough for me 😅
0:47 Well that's bringing back memories of the Tugs TV series. Not sure if it ever made it to the US or if it was one of those ones that got massively changed. But anyway, show fits for a video about the English Channel.
It's not the wrong title. What y'all Dont realize is that the rally was in the English channel. The holiday was national goosefat day. Too bad everybody drowned.... It was a tragedy. Lindsay is ok tho. She the one in the paddle boat. She didn't make it across she just drove in circles and then Michael yelled to get outta the water
If Burnie swam the shortest possible distance across the channel (20.7 mi) at the fastest speed a human has been clocked swimming (5.12 mph), it would take him over 4 hours.
At the peak of swim season, going as hard as we could getting in as many laps as we could, in 1.5hrs we only ever peaked at like 3 miles for the whole practice. Burnie, sir, you were insane to think you could swim 7-8 times that distance in the same amount of time
Liked the call back to the rtaa if Gavin's dumb question of being able to live a few more seconds past the verge of starving to death if a sandwich suddenly appeared.
This is what's known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, the notion that incompetent people never know that they're incompetent. Burnie is just brimming with unfounded confidence because of it!
@ERA CASTE It's easy to do, especially for those whose fatal flaw is hubris. Burnie's a great guy, but sometimes you have to be just a little introspective. That's why everyone else calls him out on this kind of thing, because it can become self-harmful.
yeah. and add that to the fact he doesn't know all the info of the challenge, it makes him even more confident he'd be able to do it. it's not 30km, it's over 500km. and it's cold, and there's bad weather, thus the suit, animal fat and being fed by people on the boat, and it's also a shipping route. had he known that, he wouldn't say "yeah i could totally do it"
@@Ray_Vun No, the swim is about 30km. It is a swim from England to France, not a swim down the length of the channel. Also, I may be wrong but this came off to me as him just being funny, not an actual claim.
+CTSFive Maybe 350 miles north to south, but at it’s narrowest point (Calais to Dover) it is only 21 miles wide. In practice, the swim is usually longer (but could be slightly shorter) due to currents pushing you off course or pushing you backwards.
My last race we had a swim obstacle of 300 meters in still water in a life vest. I finished in about 4 minutes as one of the faster swimmers, but it wrecked me. I love Burnie saying you can swim anything. Yep, good luck with that!
Just to put it into perspective, my swimmers average swimming one mile at around 1/2 hr. And that's not sprint pace. Katie Ledecki swam the fastest mile at 15 min 36 seconds. Being that the English Channel is about 21 miles... I don't think you're finishing at an hour and a half, Burnie. Sorry. 😂 I would love to see you do it though!
If anyone wants to know this is from the very earlier podcasts, I’ve been listening starting from the first one. I’m in like #39 so this is before that
I didn't even notice the title being wrong until I noticed people commenting about it. I just got a notification on my phone for an RTAA and hit play haha
I think most people could swim 25 miles in one go pretty easily (taking breaks to float on your back included, and with no time constraints). However, to swim that in an ocean where you have to worry about huge swells, waves crashing down on you, tides pushing and pulling you, etc. I think would make it incredibly difficult and likley not possible by most people without training
Think of it this way. You are swimming a minimum of 22 miles. But this isn’t like running that distance, you are constantly exerting energy for as much movement as a slightly fast walk. No Burnie, in the stat you’re in at that moment, you wouldn’t make it a quarter of a way through the English Channel.
A swim team in my area does an event called the 100 100s, which is 10000 yards, or 5.682 miles. It takes two hours or more. Burnie must be the best swimmer on planet earth
so swimming one mile can take about 20 minutes if you’re like really good. So at the very least it would take a little more than 6 hours Yeah I calculated that
As someone who swims a 500m freestyle in 7ish minutes (0.3 mile) I absolutely broke up when Burnie said an hour and a half. It would take a *lot* longer, but he probably could do it.
it's well over 500km. no one that hasn't physically prepared themselves for something of the sort would be able to do it. i've walked almost 10km and it was a pain, and that was just using my legs, now imagine swimming, for 50x that, having to use both arms and legs, and there's no stopping to rest the arms and legs, because then you'll drown
For anyone not quite interested enough to look it up, the record fastest was about 7 hours, and the slowest was 27 hours. So surprising no one, Jon is right here lol
Nah, Burnie can beat that.
Hour and a Half. Easy.
the english channel is 20 miles long
They'd find me 3 days later, hugging a fish and crying
faceless58 yeah! Thanks for the facts! I would have thought you COULD do it faster but didn’t take into account currents and things like that.
21 miles at the shortest, 150 at the widest.
"How long would it take you to swim it, 21 miles?"
"Eh hour and a half."
Lol
For comparison, former Premier League footballer Michael Carrick just ran a half-marathon (13 miles) in 1h40m. The English Channel is 350 miles
+CTSFive- the English channel is 21 miles, and the world record is just under 7 hours
666 likes.
CTSFive where did you get 350 miles
CTSFive 350 miles?! Where have you pulled that number from 😂
It's not often when Gavin is the most sensible person in the video.
it kind of is
So when do we get the video of Burnie attempting to swim the Channel cause I would love to see that.
Send him across a river first, that should be entertaining enough.
He would just have Ellie do it for him.
He'd do five minutes, then look at his phone and say he has to get to a meeting.
Then later the requiem of Bernie Burns
Never because he's gone
I think the title is wrong by accident. edit: it's fixed
And the description is pointing to an episode of always open
Yeah, it's next week's episode, the one currently only up for first members
No this is obviously Lindsey’s holiday rally
or the title is right and its the wrong video
@@Rowankeenanx3 no this is the right video, but with the title and description of next week
It's fascinating to me that Burnie thought he could swim at approx. 21mph...like that's the kind of confidence to aspire for.
0:16 the dead mans float is in the recovery position 😂😂.
Burnie "I'm not afraid of Tigers" Burns of course thinks he could swim the channel.
English Channel
It is about 560 km (350 mi) long and varies in width from 240 km (150 mi) at its widest to 33.3 km (20.7 mi) in the Strait of Dover.
And there's some weather
It is also the busiest shipping route in the world, used by 400-600 cargo ships a day.
it'll cost a couple of thousand as well to hire the pilot boat and there's a 2 year waiting list
@@fulcrum2951 I'm disappointed they didn't mention that, to be honest. S'not exactly a calm pool, mates!
was the width where gavin got the 30km? because i find it weird he'd say such a small number
Lindsay Holiday Rally: You're weak.
Body Boat Burnie: I'm you.
This is right up there with Burnie being sure he could take down a tiger bare-handed.
Oh, so he can swim the English Channel and that’s considered athletic, but I say I want to surf the internet and people think I’m lazy and unhealthy!
It's not even considered athletic to channel surf! Is surfing not physically demanding enough!?
@@solillman2350 it's like skateboarding but on water
This is why Burnie left RT and is leaving America. So he can train and swim the English Channel
Wrong title and description, but this video was still hilarious XD
@Dani May Lindsay Holliday Rally
Burnie: "Yeah, I can swim the English channel."
Proceeds to explain a method that is literally not swimming.
RT Podcast #515 at 23:52/31:29 (also on RTP #313 at 31:50~34:00/~35:58~39:30/~48:48)
I started laughing so hard when he said an hour and a half
I love the callback of surviving on hope😸
I moved from running to swimming thanks to a knee injury, and I was horrified to learn how much effort it takes to swim long distance. One mile is enough for me 😅
I love Jon's exasperation at both Burnie's insistence that he could swim the English Channel and do it in an inhumanly fast speed.
At least we know what the next animated adventure is gonna be next.
0:47 Well that's bringing back memories of the Tugs TV series. Not sure if it ever made it to the US or if it was one of those ones that got massively changed. But anyway, show fits for a video about the English Channel.
Someone did swim about 6-7 times longer of a distance than the english channel, though it did take a couple of days
It's not the wrong title. What y'all Dont realize is that the rally was in the English channel. The holiday was national goosefat day. Too bad everybody drowned.... It was a tragedy. Lindsay is ok tho. She the one in the paddle boat. She didn't make it across she just drove in circles and then Michael yelled to get outta the water
I love how the hunky shirtless swimmer dude still has stick arms.
Gotta appreciate the consistency
This is the second time Burnie has mentioned swimming the English Channel.
...the second time it's been animated at least.
But can he fight a tiger while swimming the channel?
What's a Tiger doing in the English Channel, what did Winnie the Pooh get drunk and dare him to do it
An tiger shark
Pretty easy actually. Tigers are worse swimmers than people.
But can he punch horses while swimming? If so, then he'll definitely set a new record time
If Burnie swam the shortest possible distance across the channel (20.7 mi) at the fastest speed a human has been clocked swimming (5.12 mph), it would take him over 4 hours.
One of the better animated adventures that came out in a long time
I admire Bernie's confidence in himself 🤣🤣
Jon's laughter was the most contagious thing. Especially during the hour and a half part.
At the peak of swim season, going as hard as we could getting in as many laps as we could, in 1.5hrs we only ever peaked at like 3 miles for the whole practice. Burnie, sir, you were insane to think you could swim 7-8 times that distance in the same amount of time
Fastest anyone has done it was 7 hours slowest was 27 hours Bernie I'd say you fo it in like 30. But I'd do it in like 35 do who am I to talk lol
Lol I'd say Burnie wouldn't be able to finish it at all, most people wouldn't finish
God bless the people that make the complications without any of the last rt ads
I love for these RTAA’s every week.
Wrong video title?
and description
It's supposed to be Boat Body Burnie
I mean, if we're allowed to strap ourselves onto a torpedo, any one of us could swim the English Channel.
And then explode, because torpedoes tend to do that lol
Burnie 100% over estimates his abilities. He thinks he can take a tiger in a fight and swim the English channel in 1 hour and 30 minutes.
I think 100% is an under statement. More like 1000%
The animation just keeps getting better
Great story Lindsay!!
Seeing cartoon Gavin with tears of laughter has become my favorite thing
1:55 I love Guses laugh
I liked the longer story and animation of this one. sometimes they can be a bit short, so i liked this one a lot.
This is like when Burnie said he could fight a tiger, it's got the same energy and bravado.
For Burnie there's is no challenge, he was after all in the amazing race.
Gavin paddle boating across the English Channel should be a donation goal this year.
*This is peak rooster teeth*
The title is next weeks one, they put it on the site today so someone mixed them up.
Burnie floating in the recovery position is nice
The most outstanding thing is that gavin was close, the shortest route is 21 miles across
🤣 That was one of the funniest episodes! Thank you for starting my Monday morning with a smile!!
I once swam 3 football fields and I can say, with confidence, I couldn't swim the anything channel
Liked the call back to the rtaa if Gavin's dumb question of being able to live a few more seconds past the verge of starving to death if a sandwich suddenly appeared.
“If you can swim it like the video”
Me: I wanna see all 14k of you there
This is my favorite Lindsay story!
This is what's known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, the notion that incompetent people never know that they're incompetent.
Burnie is just brimming with unfounded confidence because of it!
Given his sense of humor, I am honestly not sure if Burnie is serious or just leaning hard into a bit
@ERA CASTE It's easy to do, especially for those whose fatal flaw is hubris. Burnie's a great guy, but sometimes you have to be just a little introspective. That's why everyone else calls him out on this kind of thing, because it can become self-harmful.
yeah. and add that to the fact he doesn't know all the info of the challenge, it makes him even more confident he'd be able to do it.
it's not 30km, it's over 500km. and it's cold, and there's bad weather, thus the suit, animal fat and being fed by people on the boat, and it's also a shipping route.
had he known that, he wouldn't say "yeah i could totally do it"
@@Ray_Vun No, the swim is about 30km. It is a swim from England to France, not a swim down the length of the channel. Also, I may be wrong but this came off to me as him just being funny, not an actual claim.
+CTSFive Maybe 350 miles north to south, but at it’s narrowest point (Calais to Dover) it is only 21 miles wide. In practice, the swim is usually longer (but could be slightly shorter) due to currents pushing you off course or pushing you backwards.
My last race we had a swim obstacle of 300 meters in still water in a life vest. I finished in about 4 minutes as one of the faster swimmers, but it wrecked me. I love Burnie saying you can swim anything. Yep, good luck with that!
Shame we will never see Burnie do this now
who says we won't? why do you think he quite and said he's leaving America. clearly he's off training to do this
Just to put it into perspective, my swimmers average swimming one mile at around 1/2 hr. And that's not sprint pace. Katie Ledecki swam the fastest mile at 15 min 36 seconds. Being that the English Channel is about 21 miles... I don't think you're finishing at an hour and a half, Burnie. Sorry. 😂 I would love to see you do it though!
I forgot how great Jon's laugh was XD
average time for the channel is 12+ hours world record is 6 hours
What I expected: Lindsay tearing a dirt track in a subaru
What I got: AquaBurnie.
0:08 He's wearing a shark tooth necklace. Nice.
Lindsay really looks a lot like Burnie in this episode
If anyone wants to know this is from the very earlier podcasts, I’ve been listening starting from the first one. I’m in like #39 so this is before that
"An hour and a half" Ha!!
I’d honestly take a paddle boat across the channel
what makes this more funny is there is a charaity swim that is being done with celebrities who cant swim where they are to swim the channel
This needs to be the next RT Doc
Swimming 20 miles at all is very impressive
I JUST listened to this podcast episode 😂
Those crazy Lindsay high jinks
There was a kid in my high school that swummed the English channel. Dude was a beast.
An hour and a half? BRUHHH I LOST IT
I didn't even notice the title being wrong until I noticed people commenting about it. I just got a notification on my phone for an RTAA and hit play haha
Somebody should have asked Burnie if he's ever swum across a lake before. That alone is hard
Burnie must now fight a tiger and then swim the English channel, it'll be his finest moment
I think most people could swim 25 miles in one go pretty easily (taking breaks to float on your back included, and with no time constraints). However, to swim that in an ocean where you have to worry about huge swells, waves crashing down on you, tides pushing and pulling you, etc. I think would make it incredibly difficult and likley not possible by most people without training
Gavin gets to make fun of Burnie. How the tables have turned!
When you get a sneak peek of what next weeks RTAA is
I don't think burnie realized that the typical time to swim the channel is over twenty hours. He'd be dead before he got even halfway.
Think of it this way. You are swimming a minimum of 22 miles. But this isn’t like running that distance, you are constantly exerting energy for as much movement as a slightly fast walk. No Burnie, in the stat you’re in at that moment, you wouldn’t make it a quarter of a way through the English Channel.
Burnie says he could swim the English channel but we all know if he tried it he'd get bored a quarter way through and give up
He'd get bored after a mile if he could even make it that far. Anyone who's swam a mile knows that it's extremely physically taxing.
A swim team in my area does an event called the 100 100s, which is 10000 yards, or 5.682 miles. It takes two hours or more. Burnie must be the best swimmer on planet earth
The sandwich throwback is sweet
Burnie has clearly forgotten the existence of waves. It's crossing an ocean not crossing a swimming pool
26 miles across the sea , santa catalina is waiting for me
0:32 *"Unequivocably"*
PARDON
saying you're just gonna swim across the english channel like saying oh just climb mount everest LOL
More people have summited Everest than made it swimming across the channel.
I rechristen this tugboat, 'Burnie McBoatface'
Wow, what a crazy holiday linsay
its been three years it needs to happen
so swimming one mile can take about 20 minutes if you’re like really good. So at the very least it would take a little more than 6
hours
Yeah I calculated that
Yes, only because I know other people have done it, so I could train several years and feel pretty confident about it
If Burnie burns himself managed to swim the English channel, I'd eat a container of goose fat myself.
Nuclear diarrhea be damned.
Try me, burns.
As someone who swims a 500m freestyle in 7ish minutes (0.3 mile) I absolutely broke up when Burnie said an hour and a half.
It would take a *lot* longer, but he probably could do it.
Reminder: Burning also claimed he could win a fight against a Tiger because humans are smarter. Gotta admire the confidence.
it's well over 500km. no one that hasn't physically prepared themselves for something of the sort would be able to do it.
i've walked almost 10km and it was a pain, and that was just using my legs, now imagine swimming, for 50x that, having to use both arms and legs, and there's no stopping to rest the arms and legs, because then you'll drown