RoShamBo Podcast

08/20/2025

This just became available on YouTube and it appears to cover one of the events that we were at!

Two obsesed stone skimmers show us what it takes to be the best in this whirlwind documentary about the little-known sport of competitive stone skimming.Dire...

02/13/2025

Looks like MN was made for RSB!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEQfZk3xRYx/?igsh=MXF3NmxyaXVrOWJiMA==

01/26/2025

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFQ8ba4sbWM/?igsh=MW9yamg0eTQybGV2dA==

09/10/2024

One of our favorite events is going down Sept 21st, 2024!

The Urban Regatta is a neighborhood festival and a sailing contest for boats built on bicycles (aka ). It's a blast!

We hope to see you out there!

08/04/2024

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-I-FwCvITf/?igsh=MXVlM21wdzBpZjM3cw==

04/02/2023

We’re extremely sad to hear of Ricochet’s passing. She was a legend in the Surf Dog community. 💔

Ricochet has made the journey to Rainbow Bridge

My heart is full of sadness and gratitude today. Sad because Ricochet is physically gone, and grateful for the long and triumph life she lived to the fullest… helping millions along the way. I’m also filled with gratitude for all of YOU as you were such a big part of her life.

Yesterday at noon I ran an errand and Ricochet was fine. When I came home about 2:30, she was lying in the living room. I passed her and got to another room when I heard loud, strong panting. I went to her, and she was having tremors throughout her body. I quickly gave her some CBD oil, but it didn’t help. It seemed she couldn’t get up herself, so I helped her. She went outside and walked the property. She came up the back stairs and just laid at the top. Again, I helped her up and took her inside. She then went to drink water and stood there for about 5 minutes kind of in a fog.

I took her to the E/R, and they did an aspiration ultrasound of her stomach. It showed There was a rupture in her liver mass/cancer which caused inflammation and painful organs, fluid in her stomach and gas in her liver. The aspirate showed a lot of bacteria which caused sepsis. There was no bleeding just lots of bacteria. They gave her several pain injections, but the path of sepsis is ruthless and continues to get worse until the organs shut down.

The sepsis came on so fast and fortunately she didn’t have to suffer through it because around 10pm last night I let her go. Ricochet took her first breath in my hand when she was born… and she took her last breath in my hand yesterday. She was surrounded by those who love her, but she wasn’t really “there”. I believe her spirit was already gone and her body was just waiting to be done. In fact, Cori didn’t even want to go with me. Dogs know… they just know. And I think Cori said “nothing to see there” as she connected with Ricochet spiritually.

I didn’t just lose Ricochet, I lost a lifestyle too, so I’ll be stumbling through that loss as well. I don’t know where we go from here, but I trust the universe will guide me. I know Ricochet’s spirit will always be with me, and maybe one day she’ll return.

Believe it or not, it cost me $3209 with all the tests to find out what was happening. If you’d like to donate to her memorial fund, just go to https://bit.ly/RicochetMemorialFund. We’re also set up to take donations at Venmo . If you need the last 4 digits of my phone it’s 0679.

As always, and even more today… thank you so much for loving and caring for Ricochet. Your support is so appreciated, and I hope you continue to join us on whatever path is next for us. You are our family now and forever.

Love,

Judy, Ricochet & Cori (Rina too)

03/21/2023

Our friend from our pinball episode, Escher Lefkoff, is currently ranked #1 in the IFPA! Check out a great interview with him on NPR!
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164828719/the-worlds-no-1-competitive-pinball-player-is-a-19-year-old

And go give our episode a listen while you're at it:
https://www.roshambopodcast.com/episodes/2018/3/29/s1e2-world-pinball-championships

Ever wonder what the weirdest world championships are? On this episode of RoShamBo, we go full tilt into the world of competitive pinball with the IFPA World Pinball Championships! Join the fun and games with RoShamBo: We are champions of the odd and the unusual... home of the weird and the wonderfu

01/03/2023

Headwind. Cycling. Championship.

About once a year, on the Oosterscheldekering barrier in the south of the Netherlands, there is NK Tegenwindfietsen: a bicycle race cycling into a headwind. ...

12/20/2022

Further proof that you can't kill fun! For close to twenty years, Nederland had celebrated its resident frozen dead guy, Bredo Morstoel, with a quirky festival but in November it was announced that 2023's event would be canceled. Seems they spoke too soon! Estes Park to the rescue.

Estes Park is getting cooler.

09/21/2022

Great article about stone skipping legend and friend, Kurt "Mountain Man" Steiner!

Meet an amazing man who has dedicated his entire adult life to stone skipping, sacrificing everything to produce world-record throws that defy the laws of physics. To hear him tell it, he has no choice.

06/27/2022

We have a new champ! Congrats to Mr. Happy Face!

(Link to our previous coverage in comments.)

https://www.insider.com/mr-happy-face-crowned-worlds-ugliest-dog-2022-6