Ron White

There's no water going down my mask right now.

I set it down, boom.

And then it was a minute 27 seconds, fastest in the United States at the time.

And the judge flipped them over, Karen Pinson.

And I remember, like it was yesterday, Karen said, we got a new US record.

And she high-fived me.

And there was some kids over here, my fellow nerds.

They said, we want to protest that score.

We want to protest that event.

And Tony Dottino, the founder of the USA Memory Championship, said, why do you want to protest that event?

He said, when that event was going on, people were dropping plates in the other room.

And they were.

I hadn't registered when I was memorizing.

But when they said that, I was like, oh, yeah, I did hear something.

And they said there was plates, and it distracted us.

And a whole roll of people said, yeah, we couldn't focus after that.

We didn't get it.

And Tony DeTito said, well, this guy sitting right here, Ron, he just broke the United States record, and the plates were dropping when he was memorizing, too.

Did the results stand?

And that's when it really clicked in my mind.