Comments on: Mark Malkoff becomes Guinness World Record holder

By: Scjs

Scjs — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:25:17 +0000

Congrats Mark! I followed your trip the whole time and loved the videos. You are awesome. Now questions:

Were you able to keep up with the news? (how long did it take you to find out Micheal Jackson died?)

Who was your favorite person to sit next to?

Did you watch the Colbert Report in Iraq on your computer?

Great job Mark!!

By: jentaps

jentaps — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:54:01 +0000

Congrats to you, Mark! I’m so happy you made it through the month safe and sound.

My questions for you:

What was the best thing to happen during your travels?

What was the worst thing?

At any point did you “hit the wall” and think you couldn’t finish?

BTW, I loved you in the seersucker suit. Really. It’s a good look on you. Also, fave video was the toilet paper one. But there were a lot of great moments. Nice job!

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:19:36 +0000

Holy Crap that is impressive! Well Done! :D

My question: How many people (if any) recognized you from The Colbert Report?

By: bev

bev — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:05:01 +0000

Wow that’s awesome! I can’t imagine myself “living on a plane” for that long. I already have a slight fear of airplanes.

My questions for Mark:
How did you end up with this gig? Did you approach AirTran with this idea and if so, how did the process go from coming up with the idea to everything materializing? Or did they come to you?

Did you ever get really air sick after so many takeoffs and touchdowns?

How was the airplane food? After this experience, will you be able to eat airplane food again?

It seems like recently, perhaps within the 30 days while you were on AirTran, there have been quite a few airplane accidents in the news. Were you aware of all these news stories or were you oblivious to them? If the former, did it affect you in any way, mentally/emotionally?

By: Nukaleu

Nukaleu — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:48:50 +0000

Did he have to deal with any particularly annoying people? Any screaming children or obnoxious folks wanting in on the excitement and pushing for attention? Did anyone give him a lot of crap over his project thinking it was stupid?

The photo on the plane is just way cool.

By: ColbertGirl27

ColbertGirl27 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:19:53 +0000

Wow! Congratulations Mark! What an accomplishment! Here’s a question: Was there any point during the journey that you felt your health was seriously at risk? Did you have a doctor on board? Before beginning this journey, did you have claustrophobia in addition to a fear of flying?

By: Ann G.

Ann G. — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:13:58 +0000

Haha, my only question right now is, what do you do for an encore?

But what an incredible accomplishment! I’m so happy for him.

By: Eris

Eris — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:03:40 +0000

How worried was he about swine flu? Could he have had worse timing?

By: In Absentia

In Absentia — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:01:53 +0000

Well to go, Mark! Simply amazing.

By: nerdygirl

nerdygirl — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:49:38 +0000

Congrats, Mark! It’s been a lot of fun following your adventures on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for the last month! Hope you are finally over your fear of flying.