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Absolutely love the How Ridiculous guys, my boys and I watch every video (all the way to the end—hey, 44 club!), so when I saw Brett asking about the circumference of this absolutely ridiculous circular area of t-shirts, I knew I had to put this video together.

I went through several options on calculating the radius of the circle. I thought about trying to use a pendulum equation and time the swing of the paint around the circle, but I couldn't find a clean enough clip in the original video to be confident in the timing. There's another spot where Brett mentions there are 6000 items of merch making up the circle. I kind of got an okay answer out of assuming roughly two square feet (no metric conversion just yet) per item, but it seemed like an overestimate to me. So I went with a tried and true estimate the radius directly from a known object. If I underestimated your height, Scott, I apologize.

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