Wreckreation Nation, Ep. 8 "Swamp Buggy"

Dave races Swamp Buggies at the world's only professional swamp buggy track in Naples, FL. Then he's off to Gillette, Wyoming to join Firefest - a convention for pyromaniacs who make their own fireworks.
  • Runtime: 42 minutes
  • Original air date: February 24, 2009
  • Network: Discovery Channel
 
 
 
 

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1. Lawn Mower Racing
  January 1, 2008
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2. Rock Crawling
  January 13, 2009
Dave heads to Tennessee for the World Extreme Rock Crawling Championship where drivers scale up-to-80-degree inclines in their homemade trucks. Then on to Tugest, where it's Illinois vs. Iowa in a 2400 ft. tug-o-war across the Mississippi River.
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3. Demolition Derby
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Dave participates in a blind-folded demolition derby with a family who's been wrecking cars for 30 years. Then he joins the ranks of Romans, elves and Orks at Dagorhir: part war game, part fantasy role playing, part mixed martial arts competition.
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4. Figure 8 Races
  January 1, 2008
Dave tests his sanity at the Figure 8 Races, where driving a school bus on a figure 8 track at the Evergreen Speedway may just be the craziest thing he's ever done. Then, he's got both barrels blazing at the Cowboy Shootout in Hesperia, CA.
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5. Mini-Moto
  February 3, 2009
Dave proves that real men ride little bikes at the Mini Moto Florida Invitational Championship, where he gets in the big race on a bike he can lift with one hand. Then Dave gets burly for the sport of Lumberjacking at West Linn, Oregon's Timber Fair.
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6. Bigfoot Paintball
  February 10, 2009
Dave faces battle while hunting for Bigfoot in a Punta Gorda, FL Scenario Paintball game. Afterwards, he learns that cardboard boats are serious business for rival teams at the annual cardboard boat race in Heber Springs, AK.
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7. Bonneville
  February 17, 2009
Dave faces off with a bull in North Carolina as he trains to be a rodeo bullfighter. Then it's off to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where people come from all over the world to break land speed records on everything from a barstool to a big-rig.
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8. Swamp Buggy
  February 24, 2009
Dave races Swamp Buggies at the world's only professional swamp buggy track in Naples, FL. Then he's off to Gillette, Wyoming to join Firefest - a convention for pyromaniacs who make their own fireworks.
 
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  March 3, 2009
Dave goes to Pumpkin Chunkin, an event where teams spend all year and thousands of dollars trying to build machines that will launch pumpkins the farthest. Then it's Dynamite Shooting, where items are stuffed with dynamite and exploded with live fire.
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10. Soapbox Racing
  March 10, 2009
Dave participates in renegade Soap Box Racing with guys who don't like to play by the rules in Los Angeles. Then he learns how to launch fruitcakes in Manitou, CO, and how to train falcons to hunt small game in Marysville, CA.
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11. Vintage Snow Mobile Racing
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Dave enters the world's largest vintage snowmobile race in Eagle River, WI where riders race on ice to achieve record snowmobile speeds. Then he travels to Colorado to participate in an adult dodgeball championship and redeem his middle school years.
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Dave learns how to operate his first armored tank, and competes in the first ever Tank Olympics in Waseca, MN. Then he races in the national human dog-sled championships, where he competes against 60 sleigh teams for the title of "top dog."
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13. Bar Stool Sledding
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Dave travels to New Hampshire for Ski Joring, a sport where skiers are pulled by a rope behind a galloping horse while navigating an obstacle course. He then learns to make his own bar stool on skis to race in Wisconsin's legendary bar stool race.
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Episode 8, "Swamp Buggy"
Synopsis: Dave races Swamp Buggies at the world's only professional swamp buggy track in Naples, FL. Then he's off to Gillette, Wyoming to join Firefest - a convention for pyromaniacs who make their own fireworks.
Original air date: February 24, 2009
Runtime: 42 minutes
ASIN: B002Q9V6MY
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #431,617 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
Wreckreation Nation Season 1
Synopsis: Host Dave Mordal takes us on a guided tour of America's backyard adventurers and free-time fanatics: people who take their hobbies seriously - and to the extreme! Whether it's Punkin' Chunkin' in Delaware, Barstool Sledding in Wisconsin, or Alligator Wrestling in Colorado, Dave leaves no corner of the country unexplored in his quest for people who aren't afraid to make their own fun. It's an inside look at what people do when they have too much free time on their hands, as well as the length they will go to just to have a little fun!
Season year: 2009
Network: Discovery Channel
ASIN: B001UJEOAC
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