Imagine not sleeping for 12 straight days,
or doing the twist for 102
hours without stopping you.
Pick your poison there.
OK, yeah, you may be wondering
why in this one example zone,
Jeff beats San Diego's famous
world record holder from the 70s
and previews his documentary.
I'll be honest with you when I
read the bio on Roger Guy English,
I assumed the man was dead,
but here he sits, ready to tell his story.
Kind of dingy, a little distant,
but other than that I feel OK in
1974 at a San Diego waterbed showroom.
Roger Guy English set a world
record for sleeplessness.
How long did you stay awake for
12 days, five hours and 15 minutes?
Roger stayed awake playing Monopoly.
A story covered by CBS 8's Kathy Clark
with just a few hours to go before he
breaks the world sleeplessness record.
Roger Guy English is doing just about
anything to keep the old eyeballs open.
We know that this rate he may
qualify for two headings in the
Guinness Book of World Records,
Sleeplessness and the world's
first certified zombie.
I love it. I love making people feel good.
I like making people laugh and smile.
Another world record had Roger in
a La Jolla pool. Treading water
18 1/2 hours. That's the hardest
thing I've ever done in my life.
I thought I was going to die.
He certainly could have on this crazy stunt.
We're going to leave San
Diego and go to Minneapolis,
where I'll jump in the Mississippi
River and swim to New Orleans,
and that will be an attempt to
break the world's longest swim
record. Rogers swam 1000 miles and gave up.
It didn't work.
It was one of my major flops.
You hope any kind of
publicity stunt will catch on.
This did not catch on,
but this world record did when he
kissed 3000 girls in eight hours,
one every 9.6 seconds and that was
I think by Fourth world record.
We did that on the streets of La Jolla.
Was that a good day?
It was the best day of my life.
I mean, I'm not kidding.
It was a massive hit I the news
about that went around the world
at one point Roger held the world.
Record for holding world records. I
know I'm gonna walk to Canada I'm
gonna walk from the Hoya to Canada.
And that's just what he did.
1400 miles before heading home.
For another record you
told jokes for five hours
and 15 minutes. Man, yes I did and I can
happily say I didn't get one single laugh.
But he bounced back playing the video game
pong for a week straight in a KFMB motion.
I played thousands and thousands and
thousands of people over a seven day
period nonstop set the world's record
producer Jim Baxter and filmmaker Tyler Jay.
French are making a documentary about Roger
well Tilt Boogie Daddy-o that is the
name of the movie they're making
and also the name of a beer
Thorn Brewing named after him,
Jim Baxter said. Even even Academy Award
winners don't get on a can of beer.
Put your right foot out in front.
But how many Oscar winners have done this?
Come on baby, let's
do the twist. You got it down
there for 102 hours,
28 minutes and 37 seconds.
We broke the world's record this morning
at 4:00 AM and I lasted 28 minutes after
that and then I collapsed anymore. World
records on the horizon?
No, not that I know of
a man famous for records would simply
like to leave these words. For the record,
be kind. Just be kind.
It's easier to be kind
than it is to be mean.
And I like to be kind.
Perhaps too kind to say. Most people
crave the spotlight just like Roger
sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Yeah well, a little bit.
In the severely zone,
Jeff Sevelin CBS 8.