Business Beyond Bizarre

Rebecca Whitlinger is one of those rare women who not only got to wear her bridesmaid dress more than once, she’s worn it in many different circumstances and in many parts of the world, ever since she first wore it just six months after the wedding, back in 1988. She has also raised a lot of money for the cancer organization, Cancer Bridges.

Ron Degenfelder is the owner and operator of The Puzzle Barn where you can rent hundreds o...

Josh Nalley is a viral sensation on TikTok, as he shows up in video after video as Living Dead Josh, staying motionless, like a corpse in over 300 videos. He’s so convincing that he was even contacted by CBS to play a dead body on a morgue slab in an episode of CSI: Vegas.

Arlene Okun is a Guinness World Record holder.  She has the largest collection of sock monkeys in the world, owning over 2,100 of the cotton vintage items of Am...

Kurt Hughes has built his own tiny home, which is a replica of the lunar lander that six Apollo missions landed on the Moon. It currently sits on the banks of the Columbia River in the state of Washington. (To see an Architectural Digest, YouTube video, where Kurk’s home is profiled, just click on the title, “Inside A Tiny House That Looks Like A Spaceship”.

Linda Finstad is an artist in Edmonton, Alberta. During the pandemic, she...

Paul Mason is a long-standing successful male model. A little while ago, while dealing with a personal tragedy, he grew a beard and created the persona of Fashion Santa, which went wildly viral around the world and brought his modeling career to new heights.

Doogie Lish Sandtiger is a Connecticut man who probably has the world’s largest collection of Croc shoes. He has over 2,100 pairs of the colourful footwear.

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You too can spend the night in the house where a gruesome double murder took place over a century ago.  We talk to Andrew Luciano, the Expansion Director at The Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Massachusetts, where, allegedly, Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks, and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.

Ky Michaelson, the inventor who has made such items as the rocket powered toi...

Bob Salem has managed an amazing feat. He has climbed the 14,115-foot Pikes Peak, in Colorado, in six days and 20 hours, while on his hands and knees, pushing a peanut up the slope, with his nose!

Jeff Reitz is a Guinness World Record holder, because he spent eight years, three months and 13 days, for a complete total of 2,995 consecutive days, visiting the Happiest Place on Earth . . . Disneyland.

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Off the waters of New Hampshire, there is an invasive creature called the green crab that people would like to get rid of.  One company, Tamworth Distilling, have decided if you can’t beat ‘em, drink ‘em. They are the makers of Crab Trapper, a whiskey flavoured with the invasive little environmental nightmares. We talk to the company’s Product Development Associate, Willliam Robinson.

Many years ago, Bob Innes put up a joke websit...

There is a potato chip company in Lithuania, called Chazz Chips that features many flavours of chips in their portfolio. But we talk to Žilvinas Kulvinskis, the co-founder of Chazz Chips, about one particular flavour that tastes like the nether-regions of the female anatomy.

In the capital city of Iceland, Reykjavik, there is a museum that features phallology. That’s the study of penises. It’s called The Icelandic Phallological Mu...

Once again hosted by Peter Anthony Holder, these reedited interviews from the long running The Stuph File Program, are streamlined in a narrative form to bring you some of the wacky, yet ingenious feats of whimsey and innovation that is the human spirit. Like the first season, these ten new episodes will feature an eclectic grouping of 20 new guests, displaying a rainbow of talents and dreams. You’ll wonder how Lithuanian potato ch...

Leigh Cooney is a Guinness World Records holder as the owner & operator of the world’s smallest movie theatre, Little Prince Micro-Cinema, in Stratford, Ontario; & in Markham, Ontario, Gary Feng is the proud Guinness World Records holder for the largest collection of different Coca-Cola cans with over 11,000 in his basement-turned-museum, Gary's Coca Cola Cans Collection World.

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In Australia, Ian Fieggen is also known as Professor Shoelace. He knows everything there is to know about shoelaces and has even invented a new way of tying your shoes which guarantees that your shoelace will never break. He has a website where he answers questions from all over the world; and in England, a new sport has hit the pool called Chess Diving, where participants play a game of chess, underwater, eight feet down in the de...

In Melbourne, Australia, Matthew Boustead is one of the owners of 7 Cent Brewery and they’ve concocted the first beer fermented from yeast captured from the brewer’s own belly button lint; and in New Zealand, Stu McMullin, the co-director of Hell’s Pizza, has a campaign called Pizza Roulette, which offers up a full pizza, however one random slice of it has some of the hottest peppers known to man.

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From New Zealand, Ross Hall runs Dying Art, a company that puts the “fun” back in funerals with one-of-a-kind caskets made to order, from a giant cream donut, to a pirate ship and anything else you can imagine; father & son morticians in Cleveland, Ohio, are the guys behind Save My Ink Forever, as they specialize in preserving your tattoos and body art after you die; & California sculptor, Robert Barrows, has come up with t...