On On Podcast

Category: Season 3

  • 3.37 Megasaurarse

    3.37 Megasaurarse

    Episode Summary

    MegaSaurAss first sampled hashing as a teenager with Surrey and Aberdeen, but her true baptism came at the 1994 Rotorua Interhash. Arriving in New Zealand, she was placed in a Scottish mini-kilt and sent aboard the legendary hash train. Repeatedly missing her seat during the conga left a conspicuous bruise, noticed later at the Guernsey Boy Cocktail Party, where she received the name MegaSaurAss.

    She subsequently joined Sydney Harriettes, completed 50 runs in her first year and quickly became On-Sec and RA. After returning to Scotland, she developed into an experienced international RA, hare and event organizer. Much of the conversation explores Bras and Pants, the brewery-running institution founded by Oral Sex. As joint GM, MegaSaurAss has helped bring its clothing-over-clothing tradition to EuroHashes, UK Nash Hashes and international events. She recalls lost car keys, lethal moonshine, missing corkscrews and other logistical disasters, while discussing charity fundraising, event size, inclusive trails and a hashing life built around constant travel.

    1994, Surry, Aberdeen, Rotorua, Sydney, Edinburgh (RA), Bras and Pants (GM)

  • 3.36 Tooth Fairy

    3.36 Tooth Fairy

    Episode Summary

    Tooth Fairy was a Division I runner and career Navy officer when a fellow runner invited him to Samurai H3 in Japan in 1993. His first night trail through Yokohama combined competitive running, beer and a welcoming mix of Japanese and expatriate hashers. He returned the following week, partied across Tokyo and knew he had found an ideal community. His job as administrator of a Navy dental command produced the comparatively clean name “Tooth Fairy.”

    His 30-year naval career took him through Samurai, San Antonio and the many Washington, D.C., kennels. He became a GM and RA, served on White House, Full Moon and Red Dress mismanagement and helped create demanding trails such as Japan’s Ho Chi Minh Trail. Tooth Fairy recalls subway-related flour scares, DC’s “Black Monday,” elaborate beer miles and meeting his wife, Slurpee, through hashing. He also reflects on leadership, clever naming, military-style organization, changing communications and enjoying a new phase of retirement and travel hashing.

    1993, Samuria, San Antonio, DC (EDIW, White House/GM/RA…) Aloha (Haberdash) …

  • 3.35 MeMe

    3.35 MeMe

    Episode Summary

    MeMe’s first trail was in Bandung, Indonesia, on Independence Day in 1992. The Monday-afternoon kennel ran through jungle and rice paddies, with drivers eliminating concerns about getting home afterward. An awkward encounter with a senior colleague at the finish discouraged him from staying for circle, and it was not until 1999, while studying at Cranfield University, that he gave hashing another try with Milton Keynes H3.

    He volunteered to hare almost immediately, was named and then renamed, and took over On-Sec duties within weeks. His career in aircraft design subsequently carried him to projects and kennels across Britain, Germany, Finland, Austria, France and Turkey. MeMe compares urban and rural British traditions, recalls memorable hares and events and describes the trails he prefers to set. Now based in Turkey, he discusses finding and supporting local hashing, travelling when work permits and why a flexible international community has remained part of his life for more than three decades.

    1992 Bandung, Sembach, Munich, Milton Keynes, UK, Germany, annual Beaujolais Hash, Winterthur Schaffhausen (GM)

  • 3.34 Condom Man

    3.34 Condom Man

    Episode Summary

    Condom Man began hashing in Mogadishu in 1987, when a party invitation led him to a small but enthusiastic expat kennel. Within months he had found his niche as Hash Music, improvising two-line songs about each offender brought into the circle. He later resumed hashing in Cairo in 1991, joining one of the era’s largest and most active kennels and becoming part of a community known for desert trails, Egyptian Nash Hashes and ambitious social events.

    His travels span Cyprus Interhash, Brussels, Kuala Lumpur, Tasmania and the memorable 1999 Pan Africa Hash at Victoria Falls, where elephants forced a trail diversion. Condom Man recounts hash stage acts, chaotic international circles and meeting his future wife, Look If You Like, during a London formal-dress trail before the trip to Africa. Born in Zambia and raised in Scotland, he also reflects on later hashing in Zambia and Tanzania. The conversation preserves stories from Cairo’s golden era and the origins of traditions such as the International Rehydration Hash.

    1987 Mogadishu, Cairo/co-Founder Intl Rehydration Hash, Milton Keynes, Lusaka, Dar El Salam (RA, GM)

  • 3.33 Compressed Fart

    3.33 Compressed Fart

    Episode Summary

    Compressed Fart attended his first hash in Jeddah in 1997 after friends promised running, walking, hills and beer. His introduction included a small bucket of beer, most of which ended up over his head, followed by a rocky desert trail and a circle that immediately captured his imagination. Work prevented him from returning regularly, but hashing became a major part of his life after moving to Cairo, where he completed dozens of trails through wadis, desert terrain and even around the pyramids. His work with air compressors provided the inspiration for his hash name.

    After Cairo, Compressed Fart hashed in Bahrain before moving to Dubai. What began as a willingness to try being GM of Desert H3 for one year became more than eleven years in the position. He discusses the challenges of sustaining Dubai’s expat kennels, organizing InterGulf, navigating local restrictions and reviving circles through a broader repertoire of songs. He also recalls pandemic Zoom gatherings, changing weekends, shrinking pack sizes and the clandestine logistics sometimes needed to stage desert events in a rapidly changing city.

    1997, Cairo, Essex, Full Moon UK, Bahrain, Desert (GM 11+ years), Creek (RA), etc.

  • 3.32 Scuba Deuce

    3.32 Scuba Deuce

    Episode Summary

    Scuba Deuce needed three introductions before hashing finally took hold. His first trail was with Sigonella H3 in Sicily around 2012, followed by another encounter in Hawaii. It was only after moving to an isolated part of southern Maryland that he began hashing every week and realized he had found his people. A lifelong competitive runner and Navy officer, he welcomed the combination of unusual terrain, social running and an international community available almost anywhere military travel took him.

    After being told he could not be named until he laid a trail, Scuba Deuce quickly became a hare, event volunteer and RA with Smutty Crab and later Aloha H3. His name emerged from an unfortunate interaction between a dry suit and a questionable curry. He recounts COVID-era dead trails and Zoom circles in Hawaii, extensive travel hashing and organizing a Maryland campout that lost its venue only days before it began. Its success led to an even larger undertaking: hosting USA Nash Hash 2024 in St. Mary’s County, Maryland.

    Scuba Deuce, Smutty Crab H3 (RA), Aloha (RA), … GM of next USA Nash 2024 in Maryland

  • 3.31 F.L.A.B.

    3.31 F.L.A.B.

    Episode Summary

    Flab’s husband, Moonman, discovered hashing while working in Wichita and was convinced she would attend once and never return. He therefore arranged for her to be named on her first trail. Bird Brains chose “Flab,” an abbreviation with a much more colourful meaning, expecting her to hate it. Instead, she loved both the name and the freedom she found in hashing. Back in Toronto, she joined Hogtown and soon progressed from occasional runner to marathoner, hare, organizer and mismanagement regular.

    A planetary geologist by training, Flab brings an analytical eye to the practical business of sustaining a kennel. She recalls organizing a photographic walking trail for InterAmericas 2005 while pushing her ten-month-old child in a stroller, participating in TWAT’s inaugural trail and later serving as its GM for several years. She also discusses Toronto’s Pink Dress Run, charity fundraising, event mishaps and leadership succession. Flab argues that smaller kennels benefit when officers remain long enough to learn their jobs and deliberately train their replacements.

    Interview with F.L.A.B. Hogtown H3, Twat H3, GM, R.A. etc.

  • 3.30 Cougar and Big Stones

    3.30 Cougar and Big Stones

    Episode Summary

    Cougar entered hashing through her sister, Mrs. Robinson, co-haring her sister’s farewell trail with Toronto’s Hogtown H3 in 1999. Big Stones began in a very different fashion: after driving two hours from Big Stone Gap, Virginia, he found himself as the only member of the pack chasing a rollerblading hare around Knoxville. Grateful that anyone had attended, the tiny kennel named him on the spot. Hashing later gave him an immediate social network during short-term physical-therapy assignments across the United States.

    The couple trace their separate hashing lives through Toronto, Memphis, Virginia, Pennsylvania, western New York and numerous travel events before explaining how hashing eventually brought them together. Cougar discusses her years on Hogtown and TWAT mismanagement, helping preserve the women’s kennel and creating Toronto’s Pink Dress Run to benefit breast-cancer research. Big Stones recounts organizing campouts and the adventures—and occasional disasters—of hosting visiting hashers. Together they consider relationships, respectful circle culture, changing social standards and how their binational hashing life eventually led them to Asheville, North Carolina.

    1998/9, Hogtown, Knoxville, New York, Holidaze, TWAT GM Founder Pink Dress Hash, now Asheville

  • 3.29 Muthatuka

    3.29 Muthatuka

    Episode Summary

    MuthaTucka first encountered hashing as a student in New Zealand, although a cold, rainy suburban trail with wine and snacks did not immediately win him over. He returned to hashing in Wellington around 1988, joining Capital H3 and other local kennels before setting off on an extraordinary period of international travel following the 1992 Interhash in Thailand.

    Carrying little more than a backpack, a hash directory and a few thousand dollars, MuthaTucka travelled through Hong Kong and then spent roughly 18 months moving across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. He used hashes as points on his route, saved money by drinking only when he found a kennel and communicated by postcards long before widespread email. He recalls being “kidnapped” by hashers for unexpected weekends, finding isolated clubs through embassies and discovering that the real magic often lived in smaller local kennels rather than major events. The conversation continues through later travels, numerous countries and clubs, song traditions and even hashing connected with Antarctic assignments.

    Interview with Muthatuka 1988, Wellington, 84+ Hashing countries, 293 clubs, Antarctica, Cambridge H3 Asst. Beer Master

  • 3.28 P-Head

    3.28 P-Head

    Episode Summary

    P-Head attended Dayton’s third hash in July 1987 after seeing founder Little Tudor Jumper wearing unusual hash clothing at local road races. Initially attracted more to the deliberately deceptive trail than to the social side, he soon began producing Dayton’s printed Hash Trash and became increasingly involved in keeping the young kennel functioning. When participation declined and the founder moved away, the regulars put P-Head in charge.

    He remained Dayton’s GM for eight and a half years and was subsequently appointed “Tyrant for Life,” giving him permanent permission to offer opinions whether mismanagement asks for them or not. P-Head recalls the practical realities of running a kennel before email and websites, including printed directions, changing run days, beer logistics and early naming traditions. He also discusses Dayton’s longevity, memorable trails and trips, participation in RAGBRAI and the friendships built over more than 1,200 Dayton hashes. His account is an inside history of how consistent leadership helped a small Midwestern kennel survive for decades.

    Interview with Penis Head, 1987, Dayton H3 (ex GM), tyrant for life