This One Time | Comedy, Travel & Relationship Advice From Shevo

Things are heating up here in Thailand, but hopefully a break in the weather is in sight. And sorry for the less-than-perfect audio for the first half of this week’s show. We didn’t take our good equipment with us to the festival (more on that in a moment), so we did it the old way with our headsets and phones. Still, it was a story that needed to be told. Perhaps by less exhausted people, but we work with what we have. Two more stories on today’s show, one from Thailand and one from Canada that is uniquely Canadian: 1. Thailand Takes On SpaceX Music credit: Upbeat Forever by Kevin MacLeod It’s called the Bun Bang Fai Festival, and it happens every year in northeastern Thailand. We flew up to see what this rarely-seen strange festival was all about. And boy how, did we. Bamboo “rockets” (sans fins) are jam-packed with 265 pounds of hand-mixed gunpowder, and then strapped to wooden scaffolding some 40 feet in the air by drunken villagers. And then lit on fire. Yeah. That happened. 2. Don’t Hug The Elk Music cr