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World Gurning Championship From October 20th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, I just sort of stumbled across this weird thing
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Have you ever heard of gurning?
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  Speaker 2: Girning? Gurning?
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  Speaker 1: There is the World champion garning or the World Girning Championships,
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  Speaker 1: held in England every year. It's an event as part
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  Speaker 1: of the Agremont Crab Fair in the Lake District. The
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  Speaker 1: Agremont Crab Fair was established in twelve sixty seven, which
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  Speaker 1: what makes it one of the oldest fairs in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Number of different events take place during the fair, including
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  Speaker 1: Cumberland wrestling, wheelbarrow racing, pipe smoking and climbing a greasy pole.
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  Speaker 3: How is pipe smoking a contest?
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  Speaker 4: What's competitive?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't look into that one at this point. I
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  Speaker 1: will but I did also, but I looked into gurning.
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  Speaker 1: They have the World Girning Championships, So what is gurning? Well,
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  Speaker 1: garning means to make a strange facial expression or pull
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  Speaker 1: a face. The World Garning Championships are held. Uh, there's
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  Speaker 1: a men's in a women's event, the top three gurners
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  Speaker 1: receive a prize. Contestants put their heads through a horse
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  Speaker 1: collar and snarl like a dog, looks savage and then
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  Speaker 1: distort their faces. The legend of gurning is a man
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  Speaker 1: called Tommy Mattinson who's won the World championship sixteen times.
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  Speaker 2: There's Tommy. Now, let's see if.
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  Speaker 3: We've got ninety six dot com slash slot.
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  Speaker 1: And then you can see the face that he pulls.
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  Speaker 1: He can distort his face to look like that, and
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  Speaker 1: he's the legend. He wins all the time, almost all
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  Speaker 1: the time. But some of the other people who've done
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  Speaker 1: it just look, I'm just stunned by how they look.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the clear of these people.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's a visuals.
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  Speaker 2: We'll post some of.
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  Speaker 1: These pictures, but you know, you think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: see the weirdest.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I hesit. Hate to say. We should try
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  Speaker 2: it here in the studio to see who's who's uh now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Are gonna do this?
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's see put it. Put her on camera and
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  Speaker 1: what what can you do? Oh yeah, I've seen you
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  Speaker 1: do that before. That's pretty unusual. Really, that's hard to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: I want to figure out what this competitive pipe smoking is.
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  Speaker 1: H Let me look into it and see if there
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  Speaker 1: is a I don't it just mentions it in passing
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  Speaker 1: because I guess the girding is the is.
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  Speaker 2: The big thing.
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  Speaker 1: Girning is the draw, Yeah, the big draw. But I
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  Speaker 1: want to know how one competes. Let's see pipe smoke
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  Speaker 1: pipe smoking. Well, well I have to I'd have to
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  Speaker 1: google it.
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  Speaker 3: Competitive pipe smoking is an endurance event.
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  Speaker 2: Endurance well.
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  Speaker 3: Participants aim to keep a pipe lit for as long
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  Speaker 3: as possible. Competitors receive the same amount of tobacco, typically
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  Speaker 3: three grams and a pipe okay, with rules limiting them
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  Speaker 3: to two matches to light it. The smoker who can
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  Speaker 3: keep their pipe going the longest without relighting it wins.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever smoked a pipe, you know that that's
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  Speaker 1: sort of difficult. Pipes are always going out unless you
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  Speaker 1: continually drawing on them and doing it just right, and
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  Speaker 1: they have to be packed just right because they go
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  Speaker 1: out really easily.
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  Speaker 2: So there's competitive pipe smoking.
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  Speaker 3: There's a message board for pipe smokers, a message board
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  Speaker 3: all about pipe smoking.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't have any idea how Cumberland wrestling is
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  Speaker 1: different from other kinds of wrestling. Well, let's see it
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  Speaker 1: looks it looks pretty mean, naturally, there's some small photos.
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  Speaker 3: Of it here Cumberlin Wrestling.
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  Speaker 1: But I think girning. That's gurning. We ought to have
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  Speaker 1: a Girning championship here. Let's organize the radio from hell.
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  Speaker 1: Girning Championship.
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  Speaker 3: Cumberland wrestling is a form of back hold wrestling where
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  Speaker 3: the objective is to throw your opponent to the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Matches begin with wrestlers locked in a chest to chest hold,
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  Speaker 3: with one hand on the opponent's back, the other under
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  Speaker 3: their arm or. Wrestler loses if any part of their
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  Speaker 3: body other than their feet touches the ground.
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  Speaker 4: Hm.
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  Speaker 3: The only foul is direct kicking.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I wonder why in the Girning Championship they make
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  Speaker 1: them put their faces their heads through a horse collar.
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  Speaker 1: It's a horse caller that says agramont fair on it.
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  Speaker 3: It frames so they can take a picture. How do
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  Speaker 3: you spell gurning?
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  Speaker 1: G U r N I N G gurning. Oh, the
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  Speaker 1: the woman's winner. She's pretty good, pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm the only one that's gonna pull a face.
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  Speaker 3: You guys aren't gonna don't. You're gonna leave me hanging.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 3: You can't pull a face.
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  Speaker 2: Past.
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  Speaker 4: It's just it's gonna, it's gonna, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna age me.
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  Speaker 1: I can't Let's see I can cross I can do this,
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  Speaker 1: I can go cross side.
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  Speaker 4: You see these lines right through? Yeah, that's because I
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  Speaker 4: used to arch my eyebrow and you can't do it anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I don't anymore because arching the eyebrow made all those lines.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't what. You could do it just once.
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  Speaker 4: I can do it just once.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see you do it just once? Look into the camera.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but.
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  Speaker 4: That's where those lines. I only have lines here.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do that.
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  Speaker 3: That's because of that.
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  Speaker 2: I said that I can't do that, and can you
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  Speaker 2: do it? You do it? You can do them back
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  Speaker 2: and forth. I can do them back and forth. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know I've stopped smiling as much.
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  Speaker 3: Carrie, don't be that person or or use botox.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't use botox.
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  Speaker 1: No, I said you should, and then then you won't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about it. Do we have that picture, handy?
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  Speaker 2: What picture? My face mask? One? Oh?
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  Speaker 4: You don't have it, handy, Yeah, every Sunday you.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't. You haven't showed us that yet.
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  Speaker 2: I sent it to Katie.
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  Speaker 4: I thought you did it in in the TV thing.
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  Speaker 2: How about this? But here's here's a face. Let me
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  Speaker 2: do this one. Let's see, Uh, what is that face?
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  Speaker 3: That's not a face that. Nothing's happening there. I don't
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  Speaker 3: see anything. You have a beard, see whatever hear.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny.
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  Speaker 1: If I didn't have a beard, you would have been
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  Speaker 1: disgusted by that.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm a girner.
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  Speaker 1: There's a picture of Tommy Mattinson meeting Queen Elizabeth and
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  Speaker 1: he's wearing the horse collar and pulling the face at
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  Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth and she's standing there like oh,