If you’ve ever longed to go for a run with your wife on your shoulders but thought better of it, we have JUST the event for you! The North American Wife Carrying Championship goes down every fall at Sunday River in Maine.
Unique Competitions, Extraordinary Events and other Amazing Adventures. We aim for weird and wonderful, and we share the stories of champions and organizers from some of the world's most obscure events. From Heavy Metal Knitting to Barstool ski racing, to the search for the World's Ugliest Dog - we hope our listeners will add these events to their bucket lists and start seeking the odd and unusual in life.
Episodes
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Sign Spinning, like many great pursuits, began as a way to relieve boredom. One guy with a sign decided he’d start flipping it around. Soon another saw it and started doing it too. And as it goes, competition broke out and a sport was born.
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
The sport of bearding and mustaching is, at it’s essence, presenting the most magnificent example of facial hair as it fits in one of 17 or so categories. The World Beard and Mustache Championships have been held every two years since the early 2000’s and has been hosted all over Europe as well as in the United States.
Tuesday Sep 11, 2018
Tuesday Sep 11, 2018
DragonCon takes place in Atlanta every Labor Day weekend - it's a costume lover's dream so of couse Ted and Kim had to check it out.
Tuesday Aug 28, 2018
Tuesday Aug 28, 2018
For 18 years Bo Schaffer lugged blocks of ice up the hills of Nederland Colorado to ensure their most famous resident stayed frozen.
Tuesday Aug 14, 2018
Tuesday Aug 14, 2018
Stone Skipping, or Stone Skimming as they say in Scotland, is another hobby we probably all grew up doing. All you need is a body of water and a flat stone and you can make that sucker fly.
In the States we generally try to see how many skips we can make the stone do. In Scotland, it's a distance game. To that end, the World Stone Skimming Championships are held every September on beautiful Easdale Island.
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
We all grew up thumb wrestling, right? Did you ever consider wrestling with your second strongest digit - the big toe? Yes! It’s a thing! And on this episode we cover both these amazing competitions.
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
Welcome to our Christmas in July spectacular featuring the National Gingerbread House Competition! If you’re looking for a sweet summer treat, this episode really takes the cake.
Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
The 24 Hours of Lemons is an endurance roadracing series for cars that cost $500 or less. The name is a play off of the historic 24 hours of LaMans race, but as 84 time racer Anton Lovett put it, "Lemons isn't racing just for rich idiots, it's for all idiots".
Tuesday Jun 12, 2018
Tuesday Jun 12, 2018
Bonus Episode - RoShamBo Recap
*Please listen to to the full episode (#3) about the race first. We promise it will make this bonus episode more enjoyable*
The Kinetic Grand Championship crowned their winner over Memorial Day weekend. Congratulations to Team TriloBike and their amazing machine, the Trilobike Diner. Listen in as we talk to Steve McHaney about what it's takes to win this most grueling yet joyful race. (Photo Credit - Andrew Goff and Lost Coast Outpost)
Tuesday Jun 05, 2018
Tuesday Jun 05, 2018
Frozen Dead Guy Days is held every March in Nederland, CO. The festival celebrates it’s most famous resident (the ever frozen Grandpa Bredo) by holding a bunch of fun activities, including a good old fashion coffin race! Hear the story behind the legend and meet the race competitors that embrace this fantastically unique tradition.
Tuesday May 22, 2018
Tuesday May 22, 2018
What is Gurning, you ask? Gurning is a competition based on what some people call Grimacing - or “pulling a face”. The goal is to try and make your face look as ugly or ridiculous as possible.
Come along with us on this episode we travel back in time and across the ocean to England to meet some modern-day competitors of this medieval sport.
Tuesday May 08, 2018
Tuesday May 08, 2018
Imagine a 50-mile race of Kinetic Sculptures. Sculptures are all-terrain human-powered art vehicles, engineered to race over road, water, mud, and sand. It’s for real and it's nuts! Listen in as we go Art over Elbows at The Kinetic Grand Championship!
Monday May 07, 2018
Monday May 07, 2018
Formerly known as the UK Rock Paper Scissors Championship, this competition has been going on for over a decade in London England. It's a total mind game that anyone can play but few can master.