WEBVTT - 10 Odd Town Festivals 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.040 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.480 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:16.279 from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.960 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me as always as 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.800 Charles W. Light as meringue Bryant. I've never heard that 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.079 term light is meringue ntil you just said it before 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.480 we recorded it. I think I made it up. It's 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.120 it is light. Oh yeah, that's but each light is 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:36.800 a feather. That's old. Yeah, kid me um So chunk 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.760 do you remember when you started a podcast with punkin Chunking, 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.120 punkin chunk and punkin Chunking. I do remember that. We've 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.480 been talking about that a lot. And uh, I don't 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.320 know exactly when this podcast is coming out, but I 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.919 imagine it's going to be right around the time that 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.760 the show punkin Chunking and the Road to punkin Chunkin 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:00.080 premiers on UM the Science Channel, which is the a 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:04.000 that was formerly known as Thanksgiving until the Science Channel 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.240 took it over with punkin Chunky Right now, it's punkin 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.399 Chunking Day, right. Indeed, do you have a clue what 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.840 punkin Chunknness and I do. Well, let's talk about it. Well, 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.880 let's talk about a lot of unusual town festivals, Josh. 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:17.960 That's fine with me because I got a whole list 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.160 of them. Right, let's to a podcast where you don't 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:27.199 hear words like hippothalamus and hypocalamus and hippopotamus. Okay, let's 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.120 do a fun one, okay, or Clovis police or Clovis police. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:33.600 I got in a Clovis argument with the guy the 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.760 other day. By the way, did you really did you 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.480 decimate him? Yes? Sort of, and he was kind of like, 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.080 oh no, but I thought people came over from the 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.440 bearing Land Bridge, and I was like, oh, they did, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.959 but not before homeboy came up from South America exactly, idiot, 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.800 did you pump his ear with your forefinger? So punkin 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.360 chunkin Josh takes place in Sussex County, Delaware, right, am, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.480 I right? Yeah, Okay? Why why were you looking at me? Well, 0:01:58.520 --> 0:01:59.680 I don't know. You looked at me like I had 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.840 it wrong. No, I just don't out for a second. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.480 And I believe it's a benefit for St. Jude's Children's 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.800 Research Hospital there. Yeah, I didn't know that before, and 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.200 I was glad to find that out, Sure, me too. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.400 And they've been doing this since yeah, and they've gotten 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.480 pretty uh pretty serious about this actually yeah, so and 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.440 I was staggered at how far these things go. Well, actually, 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:25.560 the world record for a chunked punkin, right, yeah, is 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.600 like eight hundred feet shy of a mile. Yeah, four thousand, 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.840 four dred and eighty three ft. Dude, can you imagine 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.040 seeing a pumpkin going that far? You wouldn't go out 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.399 of your field of vision like halfway there. I don't 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.560 think you can see a punkin or a pumpkin go 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.000 a mile. Well, if you're out in the the middle of 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.839 the desert or something, you probably could. Maybe then there's 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:48.280 some pretty plowed fields around there. Yeah, it depends on 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.160 how big your punkin is, right, or what you're using. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.639 And there's actually I think seven different UM categories or 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:01.240 seven different contests in three different categories. There's um centrifuges, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.440 which spin around real fast and then release them. Uh. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.000 There is the catapult tried and true, and then there's 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.960 the air cannons. And the air cannons are the ones 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.400 that everybody shows up for, those the ones that win. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.240 You want to shoot a punkin a mile, you use 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.280 an air cannon. Right. Have you seen these things to 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.280 go under the DMC and take it out? I watched 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.800 those pretty cool. Yeah, there there were some um that 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:30.560 are um what would that be called? Um vehicle based? 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.000 So you drive these things up and they look like 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.520 howitzers and they will shoot a punk in a mile. Wow. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.080 It's pretty cool because you think like, okay, well you 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.560 know there's they're gonna shoot a punkin out of an 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.040 air cannon and it's going to go a mile and 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.240 then we'll all break for twenty minutes and go get 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.760 a drink while the next guy loads up. Now, this 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:56.320 year at Wheatley Farm they shot two thousand pumpkins, so 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.200 there's NonStop action I would imagine. Yeah, it's pretty cool. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.400 And as all kinds of other stuff they do, they're 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.320 like pie making contests. Of course, in music, most of 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.680 these festivals that we're gonna talk about have music and 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.800 food ingestion as part of it. Yes, because what's a 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:14.080 festival without music and food ingestion? I don't know, Um, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.279 we I don't know that we should um spoil who 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.280 won because we've got the we've got the results right here. Yeah, sure, 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.880 we probably shouldn't know, so let's just not talk about 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.200 that anymore. What was it they flung on? Did you 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.240 used to watch Northern Exposure? Huh? What did they fling 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:33.200 on that show? Poh, now they flunk? Oh a piano? Yeah, 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.960 they used like a catapol or something, right, yeah, something 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.400 like that. It was awesome. I forgot all about that. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.559 That one was almost as good as one where Chris 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:44.360 grabbed all the lamps in town. Yeah, strung him up downtown. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.640 He just lit the whole down. It was awesome. He's 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.400 a great character. What what happened to that guy? He 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.159 was it? Really he really could have gone overboard with it, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.480 but he didn't. Okay, So that's punk and chunk and 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.480 it's held in early November every year right in Delaware. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.800 In Delaware, Right, let's go elsewhere, Chuck, where would you 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:01.440 like to ago because we got a bunch of these. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.120 I know that you're gonna uh stone me for going 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.920 straight to Neierland, Colorado, But why not talk about the 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.680 Frozen Dead Guy Days festival is so weird? Yeah? Yeah, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.640 So this is an actual festival in March in Colorado. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.599 So it's already cold. Started in nineteen ninety four? Is 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.800 that right. Oh, No, two thousand two is when the 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.640 festival started, but its roots go back to nineteen well, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.600 actually goes back to nine eight nine when Grandpa Bredo 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:34.800 more Stole died and Grandpa Bredo was a member of 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:39.800 a family that was very much proponents of cryogenics. So 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.719 they shipped Grandpa off to California where he was um 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:49.320 in tomb cryogenically for four years. Um, and he, I 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.560 guess got a little homesick. His family got a little 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.919 more confident that they could maintain him, and so they 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.440 shipped him back in and he's been in a tough 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:04.279 shed to u f F brand shed since yes, and 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.320 now they have built the Frozen Dead Guy Days festival 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.400 around him in his frozen body. It's been described as 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:16.760 cryonics Marty gras I frozen body. Yeah. Uh. And what 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.720 goes on there, Josh? Besides um, clearly some drinking is 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.760 probably happening. There is Grandpa's Blue Ball, which is the 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.480 dance right that they have every every year if you will, right. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.719 They have um antique hearst shows. Yeah. They have coffin 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.800 races that's kind of fun, which I take to be 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.039 like toboggan races. Oh, is that what that is, I 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:40.800 think So, I mean it's frozen, there's lots of snow. 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.640 It's Colorado in early March. Sure, sure, so just throw 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.960 some blades on a coffin and go at it. Then 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.160 they have some um, I guess non death uh events 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.720 to like salmon tossing, although if you're a salmon it's 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:57.120 a death event, and frozen beach volleyball too. Yeah. I'd 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.320 like to see that. Yeah, it's just an all around 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.200 odd Yeah. And they also do a polar plunge, which 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.600 is if you're brave enough to jump in the the 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.560 lake there, I am not. You don't do that, have you. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.400 I've done that before. I did a frozen lake jump 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.000 when I was high school. That's insane. Yeah it was. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:17.560 And you know, it's one of those deals where you 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.960 jump in, you can't breathe, and you run back out 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.520 and warm up and tell your friends about it for 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.480 the next thirty years or I'm never gonna be one 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.440 those polar bear guys. I don't want know. That's I 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.240 just I don't get that now, Okay, so chuck, we're 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:35.520 too Next, let's go to Montana. I like Montana. One 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.720 of my best friends, Rad Smith, lives in Montana. Well, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.840 hey Brad Smith, Rad what rad is short for Radford? Okay, 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.800 hey Radford Smith. I think he listens to rad. Rad 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.320 was the o G. He was my best friend when 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.040 I was like, and we're back in touch again, which 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.880 is nice Facebook. Uh yeah originally, but then we immediately 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.640 when we found each other, we're like, let's just email 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.520 like normal. Yeah. Yeah, emailing over Facebook. It's weird. I 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.600 don't do that. So Chuck, we're in Montana, UM, and 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.600 we're at the Rock Creek Lodge and Clinton, Montana. I 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.800 think that's how you pronounced is it Clinton? I think 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.000 it's just Clinton. Okay, I was doing the kang and 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:21.520 kotos pronouncing President Clinton. Um. And every year in September 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.280 they hold the Testicle Festival. Yeah, Rocky Mountain Oysters is. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.480 Most people might know this by our or Montana Tender 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.800 Groin that this is one of the punniest festivals I've 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.960 ever heard of in my life. It is. Chris Palette 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.640 probably goes every year. Um. Everyone knows that the Rocky 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.280 Mountain Oyster is a nice way of saying that you 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.560 eat bulls testicles, And it's a real thing. It's really 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.280 a menu when a lot of restaurants apparently came off 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.920 of the trail off of the cattle drive trail where Um, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.960 I guess Cookie would take recently castrated bulls testicles and 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.400 toss them in a fire. And I guess they're really 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:02.120 easy to cook because they just pop open when they're read. Wow. Yeah, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.960 I just gotta chill. I have a confession to make. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.040 Let's you've had them, I have not. Okay, you really 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.360 want to go? I am definitely go into this next year. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.040 I want to try this. Plus Montana is awesome. Yeah, 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.120 it looks like a great What else can you do there, Josh? 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.800 I know you can have. Um there's music, of course, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:24.400 there is a a hairy chest contest, which is I'm 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.280 not sure what that has to do with bulls testicles. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.920 I guess they put hair in your chest. I guess 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.439 that makes sense, Uh, A wet T shirt contest, which 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.320 is always fun at, a bull testicle contest, and a 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.480 blue bull chip throwing so I guess like a cow 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.840 pie sometimes can flatten out and harden like a frisbee. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:45.559 I guess it's the same thing. We can only hope. So, um, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.319 it's a it's a big one. There's ten thousand people 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.520 that eat about four thousand pounds of bowl testicles. Yeah, 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.640 I'll be one of them next September. That's great. Um, 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.680 and uh, it's not the only one though. It's not 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.439 the only Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival. There's an another one 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:08.439 um in Texas, right. Uh it is, yeah, Throckmorton, rock Mornton, Texas. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.480 And they do that. They the same thing there, Josh, 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.080 I know. They also the one in Throckmorton actually has 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.079 a if you don't like bulls testicles, So if you're 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:22.560 like of the human population, Uh, there there is a 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:27.240 taste like chicken cook off competition, um, where you can 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.319 cook any weird thing you want. Yeah, but if you're 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.839 not into bulls testicles, you're probably not gonna You're not 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.040 gonna be in Throckmorton in May. Now you're not gonna 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.000 be eating out of the taste like chicken line either, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.960 because I guarantee you any chicken. No, no, no, although 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.559 that would be uh delightfully ironic if somebody cook chicken 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.200 for the taste like chicken competences. It tastes like chicken, yes, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.760 because it is, yeah, exactly what I would say. So 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.200 that's the testicle festival in the World Championship Rocky Mountain 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:58.160 Oyster Festival. I want to go overseas now to Spain. Okay, 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.080 because this one is something that we podcasted on recently, 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.120 The Near Death Experience. Yeah, yeah, there's actually a near 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:09.520 the Festival of Near Death Experience, Yes, which is co crazy, um, Chuck. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:15.240 This one is held in f Santa Marta de Robarmente. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.040 Nice one, Chuck, thank you, which also translates to as 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.880 Chuck said, actually doesn't translate to it, but you can 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.760 call it the Festival of Near Death Experiences, um. The 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.040 way Chuck said, it would be the Festival of St. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.480 Martha of Rebar Tamy rebar Tamy. Actually I think I 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.559 pronounced it wrong, but you got it right. Yeah, Rebar 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.839 Tamy so in July July twenty nine. And St. Martha 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.160 is actually the Saint of Death, right yeah. And this 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.080 festival is actually four people specifically who have had near 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.120 death experiences. This one is um. I'm glad we talked 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.000 about the Frozen Dead guy days. It's not like that. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.480 Although the people who are I guess the celebrants or 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.200 the center of this fest of all the people who've 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.240 had near death experiences, are carried into the main church 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.280 in the town. Um what is it las nivis uh? 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.760 And in coffins. Yeah, they're carried in coffins to a service, 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.920 a church service from what I gather, where they get 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.720 up and they tell their stories to everyone, right, which 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.760 apparently also sound very much alike. There's that light at 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.400 the end of the tunnel, all that stuff that we 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:29.120 talked about in the Near Death Experience podcast. Um, but 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.320 I guess if you want to go meet a bunch 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.319 of people who have died and come back, yeah, this 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.200 is this is your chance. I think if I went 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.400 to as a impostor, which I'm known to do, I 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.360 would be one of the whatever small percentage of the 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.920 people were that had the hell fire experience. Just to 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.280 spice things up. I think that's a good idea. Was 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.600 according to that eighty two gallop pole. Yeah, because everyone's like, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.400 oh yeah, white light, white light. Now, I would get 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.000 up there and say, I saw fire. You get up 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.240 there and you don't want to die, You're all doomed, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.280 and get me out of this coffin. Right. So that 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.040 is the what's it called save it Again? Chuck. The 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.839 Fiesta de Santa Manita de robotem nice, thank you? Was 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.040 that Italian or Spanish accent? It's they're close. Where do 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.600 you want to go next, dude? Uh, well, we can't 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.080 not talk about wife carrying. This is a lot like 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.640 the Healthcare Um podcast, the last one where we went 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.840 all over the world, but this one's far less informative 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.280 and educational in nature. Yeah, let's talk about wife carrying. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.559 So that would put us in a squarely in Finland, 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:41.040 specifically sonca arv Finland. Yeah, they have letters that don't 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:45.320 even look like letters. They have letters that don't even exist. Uh. 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.000 And it is exactly as it sounds. There's no weird 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.000 play on words here. It is. Actually there are races 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:55.079 where a man picks up his wife and carries her 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.120 in whatever way you choose, whatever way you think is 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.200 the best way to get across the finish line. Yeah, 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.400 the quickest and uh, the one that's held in Finland's 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.680 the World Championships. But these have popped up elsewhere, including 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.480 in the United States. But the one in Finland, dude, 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.560 people attend this thing. No, it's like the one like 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.800 people who win in the United States or Hong Kong 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.600 or Australia go to Finland to compete for the champs 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.760 the championships. Um, so you would think the finish are 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.800 the best at this. And actually, um, a couple did 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:31.840 win the two thousand nine but I am want to 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.960 point out they were not married. As far as I know, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.960 they weren't married. Um, the two thousand nine winners were 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:46.280 I'm about to butcher this Tysto, Mick t Any so sorry, 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:51.480 Tisto and Christina Happening. She's one happening girl, so no 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.440 different last names. And it said they're cities, two different cities. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.200 Ob see. There aren't many rules to this, but there 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.120 are a couple in. One is that she must be 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:07.360 over seventeen uh over one hundred and eight pounds, meaning 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:11.320 that she qualifies in the weight weight class. And if 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.840 she doesn't weigh that much, they actually tie things to 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.320 her to make her way that much. To your wife 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.840 comes in at a hundred pounds, will put a eight 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.760 pound weight around her waist. She's got like a set 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.960 of silverware around her or something. And let's talk about 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.600 the methods. Actually, as I was saying that you would 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.400 think the finish are the best, the Estonians are so 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.280 good that they have their own method of carrying after 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.440 the Estonian method. Yeah, and I've seen pictures. You've ever 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.680 seen pictures of this? It looks like clearly the way 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.080 to go, because you can do the piggyback, but everyone 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.080 knows that's not the way to go. No, because the 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.200 center of gravity is lower, the weight is towards the 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:53.080 your back, the carriers back. Um, the Estonian method is 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.520 upside down like that, right, Well, yeah, it's um, your 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:02.200 wife would put her legs around your head upside down, 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.320 so her face is kind of around where your lower 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.520 back is, and then she'll wrap her arms around your waist, right, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.320 so the bulk of her weight like the trunk, and um, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.280 the bottom are up on your shoulders. It's like a 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.520 human backpack. Yes, and that's clearly the way to go, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.520 because I believe wasn't that the method used when they 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.880 broke the world record? I believe so. So Estonian is 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.280 definitely the style you should if you're intend on winning, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.920 and you should intend on winning because this one actually 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.440 has a nice little prize attached it does you get 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.480 your wife's weight and beer? I love it. I love 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.600 it too, uh huh. I would love to drink that 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.960 much beer. And I imagine if she weighs less than 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.160 the hundred and eight pounds, they don't give you the 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.080 weight of the silver ware that she had around her 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.920 waist if she weighed eighty pounds, and probably give you 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.360 eighty pounds of beer. But if I were in Finland, 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.320 I would beef up my wife to a cool like 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.120 to twenty and see if I could win and get 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.480 two pounds of beer. I'd ask if I could trade 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.280 the beer for an equal amount of vodka instead. They 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.720 might do that. Maybe that's a lot of vodka. Chuck. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.920 We are exiting Finland now, goodbye Finland. Let's go back 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.119 to Spain. We probably should have just stayed in Spain 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.280 while we were there, right, Yeah, but we're wracking up 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.119 frequent flyer points here, so we're going to uh Latoma 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.200 Tina in Bune y'al, Spain. Yeah. This is a cool 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.760 province of Valencia a k a. You probably know it 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.440 as the largest tomato fight in the world, and that's 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.760 what it is. That's exactly what it is. Um. It 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:35.880 began in nineteen five and not everyone's entirely certain why. Yeah, 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.159 there's different theories that, like these two friends got in 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.600 a fight and escalated to a food fight, and then 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.720 everyone around them said, this is kind of fun, let's 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.080 food fight with them, and then that got escalated to 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.760 the next town over. But that doesn't sound likely to me. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:53.480 Is in a fairly Brothers comedy, right exactly? Um, But however, 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.200 whatever it's origin, it's been going on every year as 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.520 far as I know. Um, and for an hour on 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:04.720 the last Wednesday of August, everybody grabs as many tomatoes 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.159 as they can. Apparently a hundred and forty tons or 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:11.040 trucked in these days. Um, and everybody just starts whipping 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.120 tomatoes at one another. I want to do this one man. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.200 Oh yeah, I would turn on you like that. Oh 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.680 are you kidding me? Before they said go you would 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.399 have a tomato in my face? I would not. Or 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:24.280 you would bring in your own rotten tomatoes. I would not, Yeah, 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.000 you would, I wouldn't. I would. Oh that's me. I 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.160 was thinking that I would do that. And it sounds 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.400 like a lot of fun. Well yeah, I mean it's 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.320 a huge tomato fight the last an hour. So that 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.919 is a lato matina which takes place wind Chuck the 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.199 last Wednesday of August, right, uh, yeah, And it's pretty 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:48.760 dang popular. Strong. It's a lot of tomatoes thrown. Yeah. Yeah, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.320 check our last stop. You could call a whistle stop. Yes, 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.840 if you were a jerk who liked to make stupid jokes, 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:57.880 you would call it a whistle stop, wouldn't you. Yeah? 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:02.600 Uh it's uh what is it? Laguna Niguel, California. Yeah, 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.280 Laguna Niguel. It's in southern California. Well, not all of 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:09.280 us have lived in California. I'm sorry, so Chuck. Ever 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.760 since n once a year and I think it's in July, right, Yeah, 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.080 I'm surprised I haven't heard of this. Once a year 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.600 people line up along the road tracks, along the side, 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:21.760 not actually on the road tracks, that would be hands 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:26.680 across America. Um, and they moon passing Amtrak trains. Yes. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:28.520 And for those of you who don't know what mooning is, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.399 that is a practice of pulling down your pants and 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:36.000 showing somebody your butt, your bottom. It is a old tradition. 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.360 I wonder where mooning started. I have no idea that's 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.680 a um. But at one point or another, if you're 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.640 growing up in high school, you probably mooned somebody at 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:45.800 some point, pressed Ham, would you like to hear my 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:49.520 mooning story? Not figured you had one. Yeah, yeah, let's 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.280 hear it. So in sixth grade, I was a crossing guard, 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.920 as most sixth graders were, okay, And I was at 0:19:55.960 --> 0:20:00.119 one post board okay, and uh out the other in 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:04.200 at the my flask was dry. At the other end 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.280 of the block were a couple of girls, both of 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.560 whom I was friends with and liked. And I was 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.960 like Kelly, Joel and and they looked over and I 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:16.840 mooned them. And they started screaming and pointing and telling 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.159 everyone who would listen that I had just mooned them. 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.399 And I'm like, no, shut up, shut up. Yeah, mooning 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:23.480 is private, long story, sure to end up in the 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.720 principal's office. And I lose my right to go to 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.280 Cedar Point as the sixth grade class trip that you know, 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.440 you're kidding me. And I got kicked off the crossing guard, 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.199 which is actually my point, because I was tired of 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:37.400 being a crossing guard. You know what, that's a that's 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:42.000 a crappy punishment. The principle is a jerk. You should 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:43.560 have just kicked you off the crossing guard, but to 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.520 not let you go to Cedar Point, no, I agree, 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:48.880 it seemed a little much. This is the same principle though, 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.440 who was about to paddle me once? And um, as 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:53.000 she was getting the pedal down, I was like, I 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.000 think you might want to call my parents first. Yeah, 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.520 and she was like what and called my parents and 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:00.800 my mom was like, you do not hit my child 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:02.840 with the paddle. Yeah, you're a little you know. It 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.679 was like, I'm ment old capital punishment was kind of 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:07.600 on its way out when you were coming around she 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.560 had the paddles. Yeah. Yeah, Well my dad was my principle, 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.680 as you know, so I know, I'll bet he peddled 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:17.680 you relentless. He paddled me one time in school as principal. Wow, yeah, 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:19.560 I guess it kind of had to do that just 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.679 to you know, say, I'm not above doing this. Crazy 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.159 to think about now, though, the principle actually hitting your 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:28.679 child with wood, it seems like something from the eighteenth century. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:30.919 And they even had like manufactured pedals with like the 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.600 air holes drilled in it so that like there was 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.880 less drag. That's what he had. Yeah, this is all 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.480 taped up to what is wrong with the older generation 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:44.840 and they're about to put a huge strain on our 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:48.040 healthcare system. Thanks a lot for that. So back to 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:50.919 mooning um every year since nineteen eighty. They do that 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.240