John Wenz’s previous work for The Toast can be found here.
Ten Minutes:
Ten minutes of Ned Flanders saying “Nothing At All”
Forty Minutes:
Forty minutes of Voyager recordings of Jupiter’s radio signals
One Hour:
One hour of “Surprise, Motherfucker” from Dexter
Also One Hour, Family Friendly Edition:
The little girl from the old Sesame Street cartoon saying “A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter” for an hour
One Hour and Twenty Minutes:
“Street Hassle” by Lou Reed on loop
Two Hours:
Lemongrab from Adventure Time poking himself for two hours
(At 1:51:57, YouTube user AreYouSpace stretches the truth a little.)
Three Hours:
Dogs barking for three hours
Four Hours:
Some dude with a goatee saying “button awesome” for four hours
Five Hours:
Five hours of Count Orlok from Nosferatu waking up
Six Hours:
Six hours of test patterns
Seven Hours:
Seven hours of planes landing
Eight Hours:
Eight hours of a crackling fire
Nine Hours:
Nine hours of cat purrs
Ten Hours:
Ten hours of cricket sounds
Also Ten Hours:
Professor Plutonium from Powerpuff Girls chewing a pea for 10 hours, set to the music of Michael Jackson
Eleven Hours:
Eleven hours of cetaceans
Twelve Hours:
Twelve hours of the Enterprise-D idling noise
Fifteen Hours:
Fifteen hours of the epic sax guy set to Gandalf from Lord of the Rings
Twenty Four Hours:
One day of the original Enterprise idling
Bonus:
“30 Seconds Over Tokyo” by Pere Ubu
John Wenz is a writer and catlady living in Philadelphia. His work has appeared in The Awl, Popular Mechanics and Mental Floss. He tweets @johnwenz and Tumbls at johnwenz.tumblr.com.