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[S2E6] A Journey Through Austria's World Records
Ever wondered what Austria has up its sleeve beyond sports records? Prepare to be amazed as we explore Austria's most fascinating records, including the world's oldest zoo and the intriguing tale of Tyrol's "mother of all mines." Discover how salt, dubbed "white gold," shaped regions like Salzburg, and get ready for a whirlwind tour of Austria's heritage and history that you won't want to miss.
Get ready to venture into Vienna, where we'll take you sky-high on a Ferris wheel with views that will thrill and chill. We’ll whisk you back to the origins of the city's Christmas markets, unveiled in the 13th century, and squeeze in a laugh with the world's largest lederhosen. From the majestic "Eisriesenwelt" ice cave to quirky cultural feats, Austria’s unique charm is on full display, and we promise, it’s anything but ordinary.
Finally, we tip our hats to Austria’s contributions to the Guinness Book of World Records, including some you might not expect, like cramming people into a tiny car. And we couldn’t leave out a shoutout to Arnold Schwarzenegger—after all, there's only one of him! Join us as we entertain the idea of a 'Schnitz & Giggles' field trip to his museum in Thal, and share a playful peek into Austria’s cultural kaleidoscope.
Well, welcome back. Oh, nope, that's not how we do it. No, no, guten hallo and welcome back to the Schnitzel Giggles podcast.
Dr. Schnitzel:Guten hallo, I'm talking into Michael, I'm blind. Sorry I interrupted you.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, we're still new at this.
Dr. Schnitzel:Oh, hey, Lucas.
Mr. Giggles:I'm good, yeah, I'm doing great, doing great Excited about what we're going to talk about today.
Dr. Schnitzel:So what are we talking about? What are you talking about? Uh, well, today's great topic is one of the greatest achievements of austria. Uh, it's schnitzel well, we'll save that for another day.
Mr. Giggles:Okay, maybe I'm less excited now. You told me we're talking about the greatest achievement in austria, and I thought we were just going to talk about schnitzel today I mean a a listener should know that we just had a schnitzel. That's true. We are really going schnitzel and giggles today. So first the schnitzel, then the giggles. Yeah, we're doing schnitzel and giggles, so not quite. Maybe we should rename the podcast schnitzel and giggles.
Dr. Schnitzel:Yeah, schnitzel and giggles. Good, We'll consider it. Austria has a lot of world records, so world records is the one thing we're going to talk about today, and I found some that I wasn't even aware of, and we're not going to go into the sports and athletes.
Dr. Schnitzel:We can only talk about skiing world records so much we might have a chance of ski jumping as well, or competitive ice skating. So Austria has, as you just pointed out, a lot of records when it comes to sports events, but this is not going to be our scope. So Austria has different kind of records as well, and I dug a little deeper and I found some things that I think you will find interesting. I myself find it interesting and hopefully our listeners appreciate it as well. I am interested in being interested. Wow, how interesting. Yeah, great, then shall we dive in? Let's do it. Let me tell you something. I kind of found there are two major categories of world records when it's not sports related, and one category is age and the other is size, as in the biggest, the tallest, whatever, okay in the world.
Mr. Giggles:So world records, okay world records.
Dr. Schnitzel:So I thought we'll start with the with the category of age. So austria has a lot of the oldest things ever. I think you may even mention that, that austria has the world's oldest zoo. Oh, yeah, so that's that's one of the most, uh, well-known world records that's been promoted like the zhombun zoo.
Mr. Giggles:They promote themselves yeah, it's just part of their marketing, part of the marketing come visit the world's oldest zoos and it's not run down no, it's not. When we talk about old doesn't look old. No, when there's elements of it that you can tell were built in a different time. Right, but it's still modern and pleasant to go visit yeah, they're modernizing the whole zoo. Yeah, I just read an article that they're going to build a new aquarium.
Dr. Schnitzel:I think, europe's largest aquarium, which is going to be a.
Mr. Giggles:European record. All right, but oldest zoo.
Dr. Schnitzel:We got that Oldest zoo yeah, let me just see what else I got. Here's something I didn't know. There is a silver mine in Tyrol Okay, in Sch, okay, yeah, in schwarz and it's called the mother of all mines.
Mr. Giggles:Wow, so apparently that silver mine is some of the oldest silver mine worldwide, that where silver was found for the first time I don't think.
Dr. Schnitzel:Uh, it was. Silver was found there for the first time.
Mr. Giggles:But as in mining, where they dug a big hole and dug some tunnels and went into it yeah, but you just don't dig tunnels.
Dr. Schnitzel:You have to have a method how to do those things. I'm not a miner yeah, I'm of age. You're full of age, I'm gonna make you mine, I will make you mine, I'll make you mine. Go and dig. So around 1500. Okay, that's when it first started. Of course, silver has been around for ages, but what I found interesting is that 85 of the silver produced worldwide came from that place into at that time is this mine, still producing silver no, it stopped in 1957, but today you can visit it.
Dr. Schnitzel:It's a show, mine, or how do you call that. It's like a public, an exhibition, like an exhibition, like a museum type of mine. Yeah, a tourist attraction yeah, tourist attraction I did not know that so when you were trading silver in europe back in the day it was, it was coming from austria, from tyrol, and that, uh, made that part of tyrol really, really rich at that point, absolutely. So that's why the trojan is so special all right, all right.
Dr. Schnitzel:So we got the oldest zoo, we got the, the mother of all mines but there's another types of mines where you don't get out any precious metal or like material or diamonds, but you get out the salt.
Mr. Giggles:Salt was worth its weight in gold back in the day it was used as currency.
Dr. Schnitzel:Yes, in some places so, yeah, salt was really more important than gold or some other valuable things. They even call it the white gold, not to be confused with other things that are probably called white gold these days oh yeah, family, family friendly podcast.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, it's completely different to time okay, I don't even know if that's a true statement, but it sounded funny that we're family friendly oh okay continue, continue.
Dr. Schnitzel:So the word salzburg, the word salz, kammergut, yeah, the whole place. The word salz is all about the salt, and also the ancient word for salz is heil and heilstadt, oh really is that? I did not know, yeah, so heilstadt has the oldest salt mine in the world apparently which you can also visit. It's kind of the same kind of tourist attraction these days, have you?
Mr. Giggles:visited a salt mine before lucas.
Dr. Schnitzel:I have yeah, I have actually different places in. When was it? One was in halstatt, definitely, and the other thing was around, but israel, which is not far away, I visited one outside of salzburg, sneaky fun tour.
Mr. Giggles:I don't know if they did this in the. The other ones okay, but you have to like. You go down a slide to get in.
Dr. Schnitzel:You put on a like a you have a overall suit.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, you get a protection suit, so to speak, and you all sit in a row, and then just we yeah down to the bottom of the mine.
Dr. Schnitzel:Did you also go on those little trains? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it takes you into the mountain.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, when we describe going to visit a mine, you're just not going into a cave, you're getting some rides out of it. It's almost like world's oldest disneylands as well, yeah I think, if I recall, we were on a boat as well. There was a boat in the salzburg mine oh cool yeah, that goes in one of the little underground lakes so we got a little slide. You got a little train ride and you got a boat. Yep, how much more do you need?
Dr. Schnitzel:I mean working there must have been so much fun. Yeah, it seems like it, yeah it's why.
Mr. Giggles:It's why they were all whistling on their way to work yeah, the people came out and they were never salty, it's maybe that's why austrians get their reputation. Yeah, they're so salty and so salty yeah that's maybe.
Dr. Schnitzel:That's the reason why, yeah, but when you go deep into the mountain you can hear them laugh and be happy on their way in they're great it's.
Mr. Giggles:On the way out, they get a little salty, and once the mine's closed, they've never had to go back in, so it's always been ah they're salty on the way out. That would be a great t-shirt for the mines, Something like Austrians are salty, or I went to the mine. Now I'm salty, yeah.
Dr. Schnitzel:Wouldn't work in German. It wouldn't work in German, though, but it's for English tourists yeah but the German speakers aren't buying those t-shirts. No, there's certain ones. All right, what else? What else we got? I also found out that salt mine includes the oldest wooden staircase in Europe.
Mr. Giggles:So that's very interesting. We're really scratching for the oldest thing now.
Dr. Schnitzel:That's really. I mean. When I said the silver mine was from the 1500s, I mean the salt mining history goes back, at least they say, around 7,000 years. Wow, so that's how old this tradition of mining salt in the mountain is here in austria, even before austria existed and the name austria existed. But not too far away we also have the oldest pipeline in the world not filled with oil. But what's the name? Brine, brine, I am right like salt water.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, essentially it's a brine salt water pipeline bringing in salt water.
Dr. Schnitzel:Well, they're taking the salt water well, taken out of the mountain and it's downhill, okay to process it, to get the salt out of it, because they didn't do it, so they were pumping it into the ocean. That's why the ocean yeah, yeah, we're responsible for that. Some people think it's natural, but it's really just because austria has so much salt the pipeline from. We have so much salt to dispose of.
Mr. Giggles:It's science.
Dr. Schnitzel:Yeah, so it goes downhill and then they collect the salty water. Then the water vaporizes and the salt is left. Okay, so that's the oldest pipeline in the world. Interesting. What was it made out of? It consisted of hollowed out tree trunks, makes sense, and there's a natural slope. So it goes from Hallstatt.
Mr. Giggles:Bad Ischl Ebensee.
Dr. Schnitzel:Those are just names of some towns in that area. Is that something that we could still see? Yep, cool, it's still there. I'm just checking. They replaced some of it with plastic pipes by now, but it's considered the oldest active industrial pipeline in the world, so that's maybe impressive. That's cool, yeah.
Mr. Giggles:Mr Algebra. Mr Algebra, hanging outside the studio hey, mr algebra, come in here really quick, mr algebra yes, what is, what is? Needed. What are your thoughts on if I tell you that the oldest silver mine in the world is here in austria? I don't really care. Oh, another gripping response from Mr Algebra. You can see why his YouTube channel is blowing up.
Dr. Schnitzel:He also has the best responses, so witty. All right, then, carry on. Here we go, shall we carry on. Now let's focus on Vienna. There's two things that are very special, apart from the zoo, and maybe well, there's hundreds of other old things in vienna, of course, but you may have heard that the giant ferris wheel at the prater is also the oldest in the world. That's still operational.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, it wasn't necessarily the first in the world but it wasn't the first the oldest still in operation.
Dr. Schnitzel:Right, it was built to celebrate the 50th anniversary of kaiser franz joseph. And did you know that when they built the eiffel tower, they planned to to take it down again after this? Yeah, part of the paris exhibition right the same thing with the ferris wheel here in vienna. So they were building it and they already had their demolition plans for after that and the people said, no, it's so nice, please leave it forever leave it forever.
Dr. Schnitzel:It's okay. Forever it is. I mean it was close to getting taken down completely after or during world war two because it was so heavily damaged but many of the the cars were blasted off and burned off, right yeah you can find a couple pictures online, if you just google that from world war two. It looked really sad and it took them two years to repair everything and get it back up, back up, get it rolling again, hey it's a delightful part of visiting the city is getting to.
Mr. Giggles:I know we've recently been able to take a few visitors up there and see the city from a unique perspective. Right the entryway is kind of cool. It has some some cool like historical.
Dr. Schnitzel:There's like a museum before you actually go on the ride. Yeah, it's kind of fun to walk through. That's really impressive it's. It's very nice for children because it's very yeah oh yeah.
Mr. Giggles:For children. Oh yeah, children, yeah, I think adults can enjoy it as well, you think yeah?
Dr. Schnitzel:yeah, but it's one of those few rides that not only the tourists but also the locals enjoy, because lots of the tourist, the tourist things, the Viennese never go to that.
Mr. Giggles:Have you seen that you can just stand on a glass platform and go around on the wheel Like there's?
Dr. Schnitzel:just a big glass. Oh, they have one car, yeah one of the car areas.
Mr. Giggles:There's no car, it's just a big glass platform and it has some harnesses or whatever that you strap in and you just stand on top of this glass platform. I've seen it. Not that you mentioned, I've seen it, but I don't know. I've never seen anybody actually using it. Seems a little frightening.
Dr. Schnitzel:Is it like written on the? Yeah, it's one of the tickets that you can buy when you go to the ticket office.
Mr. Giggles:You can either sit in one of the traditional cars with the rest of the group, or you can pay extra and just stand on a glass platform Nice.
Dr. Schnitzel:So for the adventure, and you can do that, you can do that.
Mr. Giggles:I heard it's the oldest glass platform.
Dr. Schnitzel:On the Ferris wheel In all of.
Mr. Giggles:Vienna on a Ferris wheel. Yeah, it's been there for five years. All right, getting off track. What are some more records that you have for me?
Dr. Schnitzel:something that would will probably not surprise you either is that austria, and vienna specifically, is the home of the world's oldest christmas markets oldest christmas market right okay there was a duke albrecht first. He was the one who issued that. Take a guess how long ago was that? When did this market start?
Mr. Giggles:1872.
Dr. Schnitzel:Not even close, okay. Further back, further back, okay 1431.
Mr. Giggles:Getting there, but still not. It's further back, further back. Wow, I'd say, maybe the 1200s, yeah, at the end of the 1200s, okay, 1296.
Dr. Schnitzel:This guy, albrecht. He granted some traders a privilege of holding a December market. However, these markets had little to do with the kind of markets that we have and know today, so it was not about fun and enjoyment. It had a very practical purpose, and that is that the people in Vienna could could still buy food, oh, during the winter crazy.
Mr. Giggles:So apparently, yeah, we think it's bad that the grocery stores close on sundays.
Dr. Schnitzel:Yes, but back then the grocery store is closed in the winter, imagine stores close in september and don't open up until march yeah so apparently no one has thought of this idea before, before him to say, hey, we could do some trading even in the winter times. So they started.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, hey guys, you know that time of year when we're all really hungry and we're just eating dried fish. What if we actually sold some of our things during the winter? Right, could we do that?
Dr. Schnitzel:yep, groundbreaking. I mean, back in the 1200s, that must have been very revolutionary privilege. Yeah, all right. Yes, so that was a good idea, dear albrecht, that you open up the markets even in winter, and throughout history this has evolved into becoming more markets that don't have any particular purpose. Other, I mean, don't have the purpose that they originally had, as in just helping to survive, and now it's just more luxury it seems like some people need the christmas markets at that time of year to survive.
Mr. Giggles:All right, what else?
Dr. Schnitzel:what other records?
Mr. Giggles:we talked about size, size yes now? Yeah, no, we talked about a. We talked about age.
Dr. Schnitzel:Now we need to talk about size I think some episodes ago we talked about the largest ice cavern in the world, that's yeah, I think you mentioned it.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, we were. We were talking about different states maybe.
Dr. Schnitzel:Yeah, we're talking about the largest ice cave in the world some time ago and that's also in salzburg. It's the ice reason welt, salzburg has all the fun things.
Mr. Giggles:Yes, there's a lot of fun things.
Dr. Schnitzel:Yes, in a way well, I think they're just really good at taking care of this stuff and keeping it safe, so it still works 500 years later, like the same family owns the place. That's crazy, yeah here's something I didn't know. Did you know that austria also produced the world's largest lederhosen.
Mr. Giggles:I mean out of all the countries that that would potentially not as surprising, create the largest lederhosen. Were they wearable? Was there somebody large enough for these?
Dr. Schnitzel:I'll tell you the size and you tell me if it's wearable or not. So they measure more than five and a half meters, like. They're five and a half meters long and four and a half meters wide.
Mr. Giggles:So it's like 18 feet and 15 feet A big person, it's a very big person. Did they hang these off a building, like what did they do with these large lederhosen?
Dr. Schnitzel:So you have to ask the guy, gerhard Rich. So he's obviously someone who produces this kind of lederhosen, those pants, and he got this record back in 2014. So it's not too long ago, fairly recent.
Mr. Giggles:You might be able to find some images of this.
Dr. Schnitzel:Guess where he's located. Of course, of course, you're looking for pictures, yeah those are pretty big.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, here we go. Those are pretty big. Yeah, they're like the height of maybe four average size men, that's true.
Dr. Schnitzel:I wonder where they found the cow that big so they could make that leather yeah, that is the thing.
Mr. Giggles:It's obviously different pieces of leather.
Dr. Schnitzel:It doesn't look like a smooth surface of lederhosen.
Mr. Giggles:They tricked us. He used 77 square meters of cow skin in the process. Did you know that he's also responsible for the world's smallest pair of lederhosen?
Dr. Schnitzel:but that's good thinking 38 millimeters.
Mr. Giggles:He usually wears them stuck to his hat at least you can wear those yeah as a little pin yeah, that's fun.
Dr. Schnitzel:Here's something you might know. Do you know what? Where to find the world's biggest chair.
Mr. Giggles:Out front of the XXX Lutz across the street Exactly.
Dr. Schnitzel:Oh really, really, I was hoping you would go for that.
Mr. Giggles:Is there one store location that has the largest one, or are they all the largest?
Dr. Schnitzel:It seems there's a 30 high wooden chair in saint florian, wherever that is. So that's my guess, is austria, it's in, it's in austria, of course. Yeah, maybe we should explain the whole, the whole xxxx, xxx, lots store.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, because it is it is a little bit shocking for the american to see three x's in a row exactly, and it be a store that you feel comfortable going into, because it's just a furniture store it's just kind of like a, like an ikea right type of spot, not quite as uh big of a maze, but it is the same concept furniture store, housewares, house goods and you don also have a restaurant in there.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah, and take a break their logo is a large red chair, exactly, and every location has a very large version of this red chair yeah, out on the parking lot, yeah, out in front of the store. All right, I realized it was a big chair. Certainly did not realize that it was of world record size.
Dr. Schnitzel:So I'm not sure if the one in Sanctuary is taller than the others that we can see around the places, the other stores, so maybe that's the biggest of them all. I sincerely do not know.
Mr. Giggles:Any other large items that you want to astound me with?
Dr. Schnitzel:Yes, apparently we also have the largest playable drum kit. Some guy built that for some uh, for some show, and it's like more than six meters high apparently can play. This guy was from tyrol and not from salzburg, for a change. What I didn't know is that the tallest person, in europe at least, is also austrian no way I mean he. He died some time ago. He was born in 1860 so okay, he would be the oldest and the tallest if he was still alive, right now he.
Dr. Schnitzel:He died at a very young age, just when he was 21 years old, and he had this growth spurt because of some infection as a teen, when he was a teenager. So it was really, really tall. He grew to be 2.58 meters tall. It's pretty tall. So he was so famous. He was from upper austria. He was so famous that even that makes sense ah, upper. Yeah, the smallest people in europe and lower austria the tallest are in upper austria. All very logical. So even queen victoria, the british queen, wanted to see him. So he actually traveled around the places and he met Queen Victoria and other famous people, nobility at the time and sadly he didn't have a long life. But when you visit his hometown, he's called the Giant of Lengau. So I think Lengau is that hometown. There is a museum, a Riesenmuseum, it's called so the Giant's Museum. We have some items that he used when he was still alive. I've never been there, but apparently this record hasn't been broken, at least within European.
Mr. Giggles:Really.
Dr. Schnitzel:Europe.
Mr. Giggles:There's been no European taller than him. Nope, did you do any research on achievable records Like something that we could consider trying to break?
Dr. Schnitzel:Yes, I actually have one, just one.
Mr. Giggles:Just one, all right Might be difficult yeah, most schnitzel eaten.
Dr. Schnitzel:What's just eaten? Is there a record for biggest?
Mr. Giggles:schnitzel? Hmm, there's probably one, okay, um, the world's largest schnitzel was made in 2019. It was 1208 kilos ton. I could eat a ton of schnitzel, yeah, but in Mengkofen, germany, germany, that's embarrassing. Feels like an Austrian chef needs to be the one responsible for the largest schnitzel.
Dr. Schnitzel:I mean honestly, the Austrians are not too happy with the way the Germans make schnitzel. No, they put sauce on it, and that's the worst of it all. And sometimes it just tastes differently than the one you can get in austria how do they fry that?
Mr. Giggles:I don't say this, but they should probably also get the world's record for the largest frying pan true if you make the largest schnitzel.
Dr. Schnitzel:Yeah, I mean, the most important question is did they eat it? I'm sure they did well like.
Mr. Giggles:Look at all these people aside, watching they're waiting for their yeah, I'm just saying like are they gonna eat it?
Dr. Schnitzel:they?
Mr. Giggles:cut it up into pieces and serve the mass and it would be a waste of absolutely be a waste. Did you search the guinness world records page for?
Dr. Schnitzel:austrian records. Is that what I was? How you found this information? I mean, I was browsing through some pages, including the Guinness Book of Records.
Mr. Giggles:I feel justified. First record when I searched for Austria on the Guinness Book of World Records Ski jump See. Most alpine ski titles. Most medals won at the Winter Paralympics oh. Highest composting rate, composting rate Not composing rate. Lowest death rate from infectious diseases. Impressive Most goals scored in a World Cup soccer match. I could just list off Austrian-related Most wins of the Skiing Nations Cup. World SkiBob Championship titles. Yeah, I'm justified, my joke about records, yay, yay.
Dr. Schnitzel:Good for me. I never disagreed with you.
Mr. Giggles:No, but I wasn't fully confident that I was right. I thought it was just a joke. Yep, low-hanging fruit, that's where Austria's leading. Yeah.
Dr. Schnitzel:Here's one more record for you. That's so unusual you will never guess it, but apparently some people in Austria also hold a record, and that is the most people in a Volkswagen Beetle. All right, it was more than 20 years ago. They tried that. So people from chems college students, I would imagine. Yeah, you want to take a guess how many, how many guys they fit into this, the beetle car? I didn't look for a picture. I don't know if they even put him in the trunk as well, but it will all fit in the car, apparently unsafely.
Mr. Giggles:You probably couldn't drive ah man, this is a hard guess, because I don't want to guess too many and then be disappointed ridiculous 5000 people 5000 people higher or lower than 3000. Let's go with 22. You're getting there. Getting there, man. I thought 22 was going to be a high shot 32.
Dr. Schnitzel:No, it's, it's. It's closer to 22 it's in the 20s.
Mr. Giggles:Okay, it's in the 20s. 26 25 25 25 people in one small car, average size people, different size people, they're definitely oversized.
Dr. Schnitzel:People put it this way oversized. It's definitely not not oversized. Maybe you can find a picture for that if you look it up, but I've heard that they some people tried to break that record and weren't able to. So far, do you find anything?
Mr. Giggles:some videos. This one says 17 people managed to break a world record. That's less than 26,. So that doesn't make sense. Whoa, the internet is telling me that the record for most people in a single Volkswagen Beetle is 57. What. There is a picture.
Dr. Schnitzel:That's 57 people.
Mr. Giggles:That's what it says. I mean it's on the internet, but that looks like a very old picture, yeah.
Dr. Schnitzel:The question is is it what kind of beetle? Is it an older or newer generation beetle?
Mr. Giggles:I think that was an older one, yeah.
Dr. Schnitzel:I mean that on the picture was an older one.
Mr. Giggles:It's very interesting podcasting. Well, it goes to show that a lot of information out there yeah, 20, but 25 people is that a european record or world record? I?
Dr. Schnitzel:think it's supposed to be a world record.
Mr. Giggles:Oh, uh, this is on april 29th 2000. The total of 25 people crammed into a standard VW Beetle. But it's a new VW Beetle, it's a new one. So the old VW Bugs you could fit 57. More space. Yeah, volkswagen was so upset about that. They're like oh, we've been saying that our new, improved Beetle has more space. Apparently not All right. So the Austrianrians got the new beetle. I'm not sure where the people were from in that old picture of the old beetle world records are fun.
Dr. Schnitzel:World records are fun. There's one more world record that's. It's hard to say it's really a record. Austria also is the origin of the most famous Christmas song.
Mr. Giggles:Yeah.
Dr. Schnitzel:Which is Stille Nacht. So, Silent Night is an Austrian song that has been translated into 300 languages.
Mr. Giggles:Ironic that we're talking about Stille Nacht. It's quite loud in the hallway behind us.
Dr. Schnitzel:But the one thing I believe saving for last, it's not about size or age. In this case, you can also hold a world record if us. But the one thing I've been saving for last, it's not about size or age. In this case, you can also hold a world record if it's the only thing okay, which makes it the oldest thing at the same time, right away.
Mr. Giggles:Because if it's and the biggest, and the biggest, and the smallest and the smallest anything.
Dr. Schnitzel:Yeah, if it's the only like the only arnold schwarzenegger museum and the only, arnold schwarzenegger it's the home of the only arnold schwarzenegger yeah so arnold schwarzenegger is the record holder of being on the schwarzenegger, correct? Yeah, he's. He's defending that title for, like his whole life I guess it is.
Mr. Giggles:It is saying something about museums. You got lots of museums about the same thing in different places yeah, you can look at art anywhere, but only not arnold, but not arnold.
Dr. Schnitzel:Only in tar, in the iamak, can you find it's the actual house that he lived in.
Mr. Giggles:He turned that into a museum sounds like another. Uh, schnitzel giggles field trip. You need a plan definitely, definitely.
Dr. Schnitzel:It's really cool place to check out. Bring our listeners along, yeah, take them there and you? Can describe all the things we're looking at like an audio tour yeah, or we might have to add video by then that would definitely pay off to have some video on this one.
Mr. Giggles:Okay, I think we could sit for hours scrolling through the, the record books. Guten bye-bye, guten bye-bye.
