ENCORE: Episode 10: Why Do they Do What They Do?
Happy Holidays everyone and welcome to an encore performance of Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast. The following episode was originally broadcast during the week of November 9, 2009. We’ll be back with great new shows starting the first week of January. Hope you can join us.
Joel Waul, creator of the world’s largest rubber band ball talks about why and how he created the five-ton orb and why he sold it to Ripley’s Believe It or Not!; Five well-known sideshow performers explain how and why they do what they do (sword swallow, eat glass, hang from meathooks, etc.) and what their mothers think about their choice of professions; Ripley’s archivists explain their trip to South Florida and how they moved the five-ton rubber band ball to Ripley’s warehouse in Orlando; we learn about a magnificent cathedral in London whose architecture was inspired by a footstool; and we talk with Davis Phillips at the Guinness World Records Museum in San Antonio.
Ripley Radio Asks “Why Do You Do it? and then, “What Does Your Mother Think?” in the November 9th Episode of Ripley Radio
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