The Bridesmaid Dress & The Puzzle Barn

Brian Acosta Arya is the owner/operator of the Lincoln Tunnel Motel in New Jersey.  He's also a TikTok star and an aspiring actor. He’s been doing his part to help the less fortunate in his community with accommodations ever since the start of the pandemic, and he continues to do so.

There are many different ways that you can get a pizza delivered to you, but have you ever thought that a boat was one of them?  Sean Ferraro is the owner of Madison Avenue Pizza in Dunedin, Florida, and he’s also known as “The Pizza Skiff Guy” as he pilots his boat around the Gulf of Mexico selling and delivering his delicious treats.

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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 of jigsaw puzzles from his converted chicken coop in Boston, New York.

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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 Americana.  And she’s also the owner of The Sock Monkey Museum just outside of Chicago.

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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 found it difficult to buy her acrylic painting supplies, so she tried to find something around her house to paint with. She discovered that coffee works fine and now her career, which was pretty successful before, has completely taken off as she sells many items that are adorned with her work, including a line of greeting cards, and she is now known as The Coffee Artist.

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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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Amanda Booth is the founder of Trinkets By Amanda Booth.  She makes jewelry that includes within it such items as breast milk and semen.

Vic Clinco is a lover of hot sauce. Not only does he savour the taste, he also collects and displays his over 11,000 bottles of hot sauce in his cavernous basement shrine to the hot stuff.

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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 toilet and the jet powered coffee pot, has now created a motorcycle that is powered by beer.

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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 website called Rent-A-Hitman, and much to his surprise, over the years he has received some very serious requests (all of which he has turned over to the authorities) from people who actually want someone whacked!

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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 Museum, managed by Thordur O. Thordarson, and it features over 300 specimens of penises related to mammals.

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