Welcome to The Ministry of Silly Walks, have you developed a new walk?

So you're saying a scottsman walked 500 miles, and then walked 500 more just to be a man that walked a thousand miles.

16:02. Alcohol is a proven performance enhancer in walking. I've personally, and I know many others, who have walked tremendous distances to get home after a night of drinking

'HEY, I'M WALKING HERE!!!' -Ye Old Pedestrian Proverb

And if they ever got a sport injury, they could easily walk it off and stay in the race.

Nobody: The guy who invented sliced bread: my God this is the best thing since pedestrianism

It would be funny seeing some dudes speed walk with a straight posture with angry faces

Never thought I could be so entertained from a 22 minute video about walking

My mom does what I like to call competitive talking, she can stay at a store for about 3.5 hours

I am sure everyone by now agrees that thoughty2's wordplay is the stuff of legends.

Why do you look like everyone in the thumbnail

"People were inventing stuff to do" ... I laughed way to damn hard at that line

Man if Weston wasn't hit by a car at 88, dude probably would have lived to 100.

I walked once. I remember it fondly.

This dude walked and became a competitive athlete Okay never mind walking a thousand miles in a thousand hours is actually insanely impressive, he deserves every single unit of credit he can get.

I was excited to see an Australian shout out but was left with a joke at our expense hahaha

honestly these sound a lot like endurance walk or military long marching training

Speaking of daft competitive sports, what about daft jobs for competitive sports? I have frequently heard about someone to accompany golf caddy’s in the earlier days who would get covered in jam to attract flys, bees, wasps and other flying mini beasts, they where called jam boys and I would love to see a Thoughty2 video on the subject!

Reminds me of when Hal did it in Malcolm in the Middle

If there was a movie about this I'd love to them use the 500 miles song.

Last time i was this early corona was still just a beer

Very entertaining. Reminds me of Cliff Young an Australian potato farmer who won the inaugural. Melbourne to Sydney ultra marathon of 875 kilometres. Cliff who was 61 back in 1984 ran in his work overalls and boots, minus his dentures, was trailing badly at the end of the first day. While all the other competitors settled down for 6 hours sleep, Cliff didn't. He ended up winning by 10 hours. Cliff hadn't realised there was prize money ($10,000) and felt bad for the other 5 who had completed the race and split the prize money between them, keeping none for himself. He became an overnight celebrity. The next year at 62 years old he married a 23 year old woman in a big ceremony held at a huge shopping complex. Prior to the marriage he was still living with his mother. Sorry, went off thoughty2 subject matter, but I thought it was a good story that maybe someone in the world might like

Alright, I'm dropping out of university to join the competitive walking scene and become the best walker who ever walked the earth

I love your channel! You present all your videos in a factual and professional manner while your use of humor is absolutely spot on! Ive always been incredibly picky with my subscriptions but you made the cut :D Keep up the fantastic job!

Love all your videos but this one is definitely one of my favorites so far! So very well done, and a subject I didn’t know exists! Brilliant work!

"Most of the best books haven't been written yet." "Stick a Flag In It" is on the book shelf.

I just spent almost 22 minutes watching a history lesson on walking as a sport and I was entertained and engaged the entire time somehow.

Not only do I walk for recreation, but I live in a rather small town, so I walk whilst running errands. I can't even begin to count the number of times that people in cars have offered to give me a ride. While I appreciate the sincerity of their offers, it makes me feel l a little sad that walking is looked upon as something that is not a valid mode of transportation anymore. I honestly don't think that people realize just how much they are missing out on...

I love your videos so much man. I only discovered you a few weeks back, to my surprise since I watch youtube a lot. Thanks.

The Paralympics version was hosted by John Cleese as a specific silly minister Edit: I think thoughty2 just stole my joke, but made it more blatant

*Hal from Malcolm in the Middle enters the chat*

You are so underrated! I love your content and keep it up!!

This cheered up my Monday , your channel is the best thing I found this year ❤️😃❤️

Imagine an anime about extreme walking. Edit: Walking Bizzare Adventure

Legitimately gasped out loud when you said Edward Weston was killed by a car. That’s so awful honestly. I have also been hit by a car in a crosswalk but thankfully survived. That car also failed to yield to a pedestrian. I am just imagining the fear he must have felt seeing this giant unfamiliar machine coming at him and realizing it was going to hit him, and it just breaks my heart to know it was while he was doing his favorite sport that he had been doing for decades before cars were even a problem. That just feels like such a cruel ending. :( On a lighter note though I cracked up laughing when you said Abraham Lincoln himself came out to greet him. For some reason the mental image of that is just hilarious to me.

@Thoughty2, Sir, I absolutely love your channel. I find myself loving to learn about things I didn't even know to exist. Thank you for what you do.

Your channel is so informative. big thanks to you

Me: *thinking Thoughty2 was going to give an actual Australian example* Thoughty2: ‘About the length from your house to your neighbours house.’ Me:

awesoness good work man.

I took apart in a couple of walking contest when i was a kid and it’s not easy! Keep in mind you’re not walking to the supermarket for shopping or doing an hour treadmill at the gym. you have to maintain an intense walk for several miles beside other competitors and referees.

Never have I been so interested in a 20 minute video about walking

You have one of the more interesting channels in youtube my friend! Keep it up!

Your uploads are very nice to watch, very well narrated!

I love the variety of topics you address

I've heard jokes about walking being a spectator sport, but I'm so happy to finally see a video going in depth into it.

*A Woman walked 675 miles, This is what happened to her body*

Another brilliant informative video 👍

This could potentially be Thoughty2's best ever video I savoured every second of it

Thoughty’s storytelling was unusually pedestrian in this one.

"I walked 500 miles and I'll walk 500 MORE!"

Enjoyed it thoroughly 👌 thanks

Love your work. Entertaining education

Does anyone know why most of the pedestrians shown had some small object in their hand? Were these used as a tool for establishing and maintaining balance when the pedestrian grew tired? (Weston holds something similar to a razor, and Anderson holds what appears to be a bow without the string).

Let me impress you with the fact that I can walk from my house to my neighbors house

Hi Mr Arran This was a very lovely history “lesson”. I think this story “hit home” so much for me bc the only “athlete” sport I potentially get could take part in nowadays would be “pedestrianism” and I’ve heard of the modern day version of the sport but never the history behind the sport. Thanks for sharing your videos you’re a brilliant story teller 💫 “Thanks for reading 😉, you can now comment below on my comments 🙇‍♀️ (the emoji is bowing) ” With kindness and respect 🙏💚 Grace

one of the best uploads recently

My 4x great grandfather was a British sailor who jumped ship in Valparaiso Chile and walked the coast all the way to San Francisco CA for the gold rush. As the crow flies that's about 6,000 miles according to Google, and of course following the few established roads and paths of the time would have been a much farther distance.

Who else saw a line-up of Thoughty2 run-walking??? Perfect fit.

There's some kind of pedestrianism where I live. A few dutch towns and cities around where I live are called "De Langstraat" and they made the event "De 80 van de langstraat" (The 80 of the Langstraat) where people walk 80km (a little under 50 miles) in one go, you start at 8pm and the last person has to finish at 4pm the following day, if you finish after that you're disqualified. I've partaken in this challenge once and failed (Got to 46 miles tho) but I was 16 back then, I'm almost turning 20 so I'm getting ready to challenge my body once more when the whole pandemic is over, to see if my mind is capable of doing it this time. I highly encourage people to just take a bit of time to challenge themselves to do this. I've learned a lot about my body and mind while training for this challenge, and I've had a lot of fun actually doing it.

T2 is amazing. He can make the seemingly mundane seem absolutely facinating

Can't believe this was THING at all. I guess I should walk mora often and drive alot less

I got excited when you were gonna explain the distance in relation to Aussies, but you memed us 😂😂

Nice job 42. Would be interested to know what kind of shoes the walkers wore? Amazing stuff.

I had the distinction in July of 1976 of meeting Plennie Wingo, the guy who walked backwards. I have pictures. He had little rear-view mirrors on his glasses, and was at that time walking along US route 395 near Bishop California. He was 81 at the time.

Thought can you do a video about hypnotism please, I was just thinking about it

18th century : boring 21st century : snowflakes, safe space

I clicked on this video expecting to be bored and go to another video shortly. But in your normal style, you always make any video entertaining and comical. Thanks for your channel!

Man that was interesting as hell. I didn't even know where this sport originated from. Truly the history books are jam packed with such stories. Keep on doing what you're doing 👍.

Sure, sure. Try and get the "me now" generation to walk two blocks to the store!

"duracell bunny on crack" LOL

Really cool and informative video! Haven't heard of this sport even before. Unreal how much they walked back then. Nowadays in the Netherlands we have the "Nijmeegse 4-daagse" which is a event where people walk 40 km (25 miles) every day for 4 days and supposedly it's pretty darn hard, but it's nothing compared what they did back then!

I love these videos. He somehow makes things like walking sound interesting

"Boots were made for walkin"

Pov: you've never been this early to a Thoughty2 video and you don't know what to say and can't come up with something witty and funny

This was great video!

Dude, I absolutely loved this episode. I love walking and until now had not a clue that others did too. XOXOXO

John Astley be like “Like a duck to water...” Rick Astley be like “I’m never gonna give you up, I’m never gonna let chew dowwwwn. Never gonna run around girl & hurt chew.”

I think I’d enjoy walking too if I were coked up the whole time

Im sure i could listen to you talk about anything an find it interesting. I hope you do a video on what people did after walking. There must've been a few ideas people came up with, even ones that never really took off that have long been forgotten. I like to imagine they all got coked up an started racing bikes. Thanks for creating 😉

I never would have thought that listening to an audio about walking for 21 minutes would be so interesting. Thanks for that.

I was in Greece at the 2004 Games and I remember laughing when they announced “race walking” 🤣

"Pure human decency" back before "diversity" became our "strength"

WOW! Great video as always mate 😉...I think I'll go for a walk myself it looks like a lovely day..at least out my window 👌🏼. Ya know what I always wondered is...back in the day when people would go for a walk, they would sometimes say "I'm off to take my evening constitutional.". Curious phrase....🤔

I was a member of the Shore AC in NJ, the premier N.J. Athletic Club. Elliot Denman was a our president and a 1956 Race Walking Olympian. I competed in many races including the London to Brighton Walk, which I failed to finish, but did manage about 22 mile, paltry but I was new to the sport at the time. It's still a popular and demanding sport with, as you so eloquently show, quite an interesting past. I have known many RW competitors and champions and they are as dedicated and gifted as any athletes in the world, and in fact , the sport is far from extinct. Cheers, Frederick "Rik" Spector

I'm guilty of engaging in spontaneous race walks. I lost all of them.

I’m not the only person that read that title wrong

Thoughty2 needs to record an end addiction hypnosis recording. His voice is so enchanting, I bet such a recording could save thousands of lives.

Thank you for taking with us all some time .

If Weston had ADHD, there a chance that cocaine did make him sleepy.

50 miles in 7 hours is running...

ONE OF YOUR BESTS! (AND THAT'S VERY, VERY GOOD).

My grandfather used to cycle to hurling matches"irish sport" and back, it was about a 400mile round trip, so he would leave on a Friday after work and come back late Sunday with a game inbetween, sleeping in ditches along the way... most people probably pay good money for that kind of experience these days.

Juss gonna point out the fact that thoughty2 is getting fed by another man at 11:22

The average person most definitely does not walk at an average of 4mph, lol. I have a quicker pace than most, but still only around 3.5mph.

Knowing that he walked the same distance to reach the moon and back is one of the coolest things I have ever ever heard.

Just subscribe after watching this. Now time for some binge watching!😁👍

Why's that guy in the middle of the thumbnail have 3 legs

I like the Hindu version a lot better.. "Hey let's see who can better purify themselves by walking on top of burning hot coals" 🔥😂👍

this is the most entertaining vid! great comic relief during Covid 19 restricted outings! thanks much!!!

Yes I read about the Regents walking and fighting in the biography of Captain Barclay Alardyce. A brilliant read indeed.