RoShamBo : Unique Competitions, Extraordinary Events

Every July 4th America celebrates it’s independence. Sometimes it gets weird.  

We all know someone with that spectacular laugh. The one that makes you crack up just hearing it, or the one that helps you find your friend in a crowd. Welcome to the World’s Best Laugh Competition- put on by yours truly, RoShamBo!  

Ted went back to Scotland for the 2019 World Stone Skimming Championships. Along the way there, there was adventure to be had.      

This episode has it all: bar stools, ski slopes and bad ideas. Learn more at  http://www.cabinfeverdays.com  

Golden Eagles, Stick Wrestling ,Gilgamesh, goats, and possibly minotaurs. This is the World Nomad Games!  

Using the wrong tool for the right job can be a lot of fun. Exhibit A: This (mostly) off-road race for non-off-road cars. Perfection.    

Sport Stacking-AKA Cup Stacking-combines speed, dexterity and well, a lot more speed!   

Remember the game tiddlywinks you played as a kid? There’s way more to it than you ever imagined. It’s not just child play!    

Want to get naked and run around with other naked people and do other sporty things naked? We thought so.    

The Official name is “Suwa Taisha Shikinen Zouei Onbashira Taisai“ or Onbashira but we called it Log Riding because that is the part you want to know about!    

Do you like all things Tiki? Do you like bartenders? THIS IS THE THING FOR YOU! The Iron Tikitender is the quest to find the world’s best tiki bartender.    

Crying babies being held by Sumo wrestlers! What more could you want?    

UFOs, Alligators and Sandboarding. Where do you think we went?    

Ted hung out with World Champ Adrian and does a terrible job Gurning!    

It’s more than Puppets. It’s Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge LIVE at Dragon Con!    

Wormcharming, a small food competition and 2-legged horses! Confused? You won’t be.    

“The CHIditarod is a race like none other. It’s a food drive, a race for charity, a beauty pageant, a bar crawl, spontaneous street theater, and not for the faint of heart. It’s fast, furious, cold, creative, exciting, and very, very fun.”    

Dogs are magical, special creatures. It’s hard to believe that there are any truly ugly dogs, but these guys and gals push the bound of conventional beauty!  

On December 23rd 2009 George Trosset called up his son and said “ I need you and your wife to be at the beach house tomorrow morning, in Elf outfits… I’m gonna be Santa and your gonna be Elves , and we’re going SURFING.”  

Making gingerbread houses for the holidays is a tradition. At the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club in Atlanta, they took that tradition and added some southern charm and is now the Gingerbread Trailer Park Contest.    

Ho ho ho-boy is this the most magical time of the year? Yes. Yes it is. And if one Santa is good, a bunch of Santas doing Santa things is gooder, right?    

What is mountainboarding, exactly? Well it’s a gravity based sport that allows you to ride a board with air tires, over almost any terrain. Grass, dirt, gravel, cobblestones, skateparks - all good. Snow, not so good.  

It's the year 2018 and robots are still controlled by humans. The humans make them fight. They consider the carnage and destruction of the robots entertainment. The humans call it Robot Battles and it happens every year at DragonCon.  

Puns. Some love them. Some hate them. We definitely love them as you would know if you listened to any of our shows. And we are not alone! Each year punsters gather in Austin, Texas for the wordy cause known as the O. Henry Pun-Off World Championship.    

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.