Elon Musk has topped the leaderboard for most Guinnesses drunk on the same podcast that captured Mark Zuckerberg’s viral reaction to the drink. The X owner downed three pints during his appearance on The Cheeky Pint podcast, while Zuckerberg finished one and one-sixth of a pint.
Benchmark compiled by etn.
Despite memes about the Meta boss’ distaste for Guinness circulating on social media, he finished 10th out of 38 tech moguls, even beating Anthropic founder Dario Amodei. After seeing the viral videos of his first sip, many gave the Facebook founder plaudits for managing to finish the drink.
The data was compiled by technology show etn., who ‘made their intern watch every episode’ to create ‘The Cheeky Pint Benchmark’, a graph showing which billionaire likes the black stuff the most. The show posted on X: ‘Introducing The Cheeky Pint Benchmark. We made our intern watch every episode of Cheeky Pint to bring you this breakdown of pints drank by guests to the nearest sixth. Congratulations to @elonmusk who is currently in the lead with three full pints of Guinness.’
Social media reactions
One comment said: ‘The one benchmark LLMs (Large Language Models) can’t beat.’ The post got replies from Musk and Zuckerberg, with the former commenting a cry-laugh emoji and the latter responding: ‘I’m confident we can reach the frontier here too,’ in reference to his comments about the launch of his new AI model, Muse Wonder.
The Irish branch of the Ethereum cryptocurrency commented: ‘Anyone under one pint is no craic and is now on our blacklist,’ in a scathing attack on 17 of the guests. Many commenters asked to be on the podcast just to beat Musk’s benchmark. One said: ‘Elon’s “record” is called “breakfast” in my house.’ Another commented: ‘3 pints of Guinness? Is that a ranking for ants?’
Other tech overlords complained that the benchmark only counted Guinnesses drunk and not other beers.
