Episode #13
Tall Tales
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Episode Guests:
Hank Pronk – Personal Submarine Builder
Earl Pfeiffer – Former Cheetah Owner
Carolyn McTaggart – Rossland Storyteller
Episode Overview
We’ve got some yarns to tell you. Some real beauties. We swear some are true, while others we can’t quite confirm, except through legend. You’ll hear about rogue circus elephants from 100 years ago and cheetahs in the snow just a few winters back. There’s a mysterious giant golden nugget that fell into the depths of Kootenay Lake, and a homemade sub that might find it. And to round it out, we have a story about the world’s first “unofficial” helicopter. You have to hear it to believe it.
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