Sponsored by Cold Garden Brewery’s Ranch Water, this jam-packed episode is your gloriously weird Canadian travel guide! From racing in hollowed-out pumpkins to sipping whiskey with a severed toe, Dropbear and Panda dig into the most bonkers festivals coast-to-coast.

🍁 In This Episode:

• 🧊 International Hair Freezing Contest (Whitehorse, YT) – Where frosty follicles become fine art

• 🐾 Wienerfest (London, ON) – A dachshund-themed day of races, costumes, and total canine chaos

• 🖖 Spock Days (Vulcan, AB) – Star Trek nerdvana with pancakes and parades

• 🎸 Penticton Elvis Festival (Penticton, BC) – The King's spirit lives on, officially endorsed by the Elvis Foundation

• 🛁 Nanaimo Bathtub Races (Nanaimo, BC) – Souped-up tubs take on a 58 km ocean race. Yes, really.

• 🧔 Yukon Rendezvous (Whitehorse, YT) – Chainsaw chucking, beard growing, and feminist leg hair pride

• 🚽 Lumby Outhouse Races (Lumby, BC) – Decorated latrines on skis. Golden plunger prize included.

• 🎿 Banff Slush Cup (Banff, AB) – Banana hammocks + pond skimming + cold slush = Mayhem

• 🏃‍♂️ The Canadian Death Race (Grande Cache, AB) – 125 km of mountain madness and bears (actual bears)

• ⛄ Carnaval de Québec (Québec City, QC) – Snow palaces, Bonhomme, and Caribou (the drink, not the animal)

• 🐱 Calgary Cat Festival & Market (Calgary, AB) – Featuring Panda and her poetry book “An Ode to Myself”!

• 🥃 Sourtoe Cocktail (Dawson City, YT) – Whiskey garnished with a real human toe (gulp)

• 🎃 Pumpkin Regatta (Shelburne, NS) – Hollow out a pumpkin, paddle it like a kayak. Sink or gourd.

• 🍟 La Poutine Week (nationwide) – Fries, curds, gravy, and every wild topping imaginable

• ❄️ Snowking’s Winter Festival (Yellowknife, NT) – Full-blown castle made of snow + concerts, DJs, comedy

• 🌲 Akadi Lumina (Bouctouche, NB) – A psychedelic, heartwarming night walk telling Acadian stories

📚 Shameless Self-Promo:

• Panda’s poetry book “An Ode to Myself” is available at jennifermaclean.ca

• Dropbear’s branding book “Brandjitsu” is available at brandjitsu.com

🥂 Thanks to Our Sponsor: Cold Garden Brewery – Serving up dog-friendly patios and dangerously delicious Ranch Water.

🎧 Listen now and let us be your batshit travel agents across Canada!