Kicker: Paddling in a pumpkin

SOUND: [Splashing and laughing]

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Normally people don’t laugh at someone just paddling down a river, unless that person is floating in a pumpkin.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Wait, what?!

BROWN: Yep. A man in Australia won a blue ribbon for his almost 900-pound pumpkin. But it was his buddy Adam Farquharson who gained greater fame when he hollowed it out and paddled it down the river. Sound here from The Daily Advertiser:

SOUND: [Splashing and laughing]

Farquharson dressed up like Popeye the Sailor Man for his attempted paddle upstream. But he couldn’t beat the current.

REICHARD: Sounds like he should’ve eaten his spinach instead of pumpkin seeds!

BROWN: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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