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Extreme Pumpkin Chucking: Engineering Launch

Extreme Pumpkin Chucking: Engineering Launch

By: Inception Point AI
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 Join Oly Bennet as he explores the engineering and physics behind competitive pumpkin launching, where homemade cannons and trebuchets hurl gourds over half a mile at supersonic speeds. Discover the obsessive inventors, impossible records, and origins of this absurd sport.

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  • Extreme Pumpkin Chucking: Engineering Launch - Launch into the physics of distance with Oly Bennet

    Extreme Pumpkin Chucking: Engineering Launch - Launch into the physics of distance with Oly Bennet
    Apr 24 2026
    Join host Oly Bennett as he explores competitive pumpkin chucking, where engineers build trebuchets, air cannons, and centrifugal launchers to hurl gourds over a mile. What started as a 1986 Delaware bar bet has become a six-figure engineering arms race. Discover the physics, heartbreak, and madness behind these machines.

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    1 min
  • Extreme Pumpkin Chucking: Engineering launch - A Bar Bet That Became an Arms Race

    Extreme Pumpkin Chucking: Engineering launch - A Bar Bet That Became an Arms Race
    Apr 24 2026
    Join host Ollie as he traces competitive pumpkin launching from a 1986 bar bet in Bridgeville, Delaware to a 20,000-spectator phenomenon. Discover how backyard catapults evolved into engineering marvels achieving supersonic speeds, specialized pumpkin breeding, and the elusive mile-breaking world record standing for over fifteen years.

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    29 mins
  • Extreme Pumpkin Chucking - Medieval Versus Modern: The Machine Wars

    Extreme Pumpkin Chucking - Medieval Versus Modern: The Machine Wars
    Apr 24 2026
    Join host Ollie Bennett exploring competitive pumpkin launching engineering — from medieval trebuchets hitting 2,000+ feet to air cannons breaking records over a mile. Discover why teams choose counterweights versus compressed air, how centrifugal machines generate 500 Gs, and what happens when pumpkins explode mid-flight in this gloriously unhinged sport.

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    32 mins
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