On On Podcast

Category: Season 4

  • 4.15 Recycled Virgin Part 2

    4.15 Recycled Virgin Part 2

    Episode Summary

    Part two follows Recycled Virgin to Vancouver in 2019, where a work visa, stolen bag, replacement passports, temporary jobs, and frequent border crossings never stopped her from hashing across the Pacific Northwest. Within only a few appearances she was made GM of a leaderless club and continued organizing from afar even after returning to Wellington.

    She explains how Zoom hashes, online songs, shared logbooks, and themed remote trails kept connections alive during COVID. The story then turns to New Zealand Interhash: visiting hashers, prelubes, trail permissions, last-minute logistics, social media, and the strain and satisfaction of helping a worldwide crowd move through her home region. It is a candid account of modern hash travel powered as much by persistence and online community as by flour.

    2015, Puerto Galera, Singapore, Colombo, all Wellington Hashes, Vancouver …

  • 4.14 Recycled Virgin Part 1

    4.14 Recycled Virgin Part 1

    Episode Summary

    Recycled Virgin stumbled into hashing in Puerto Galera, Philippines, in 2015 after a Lonely Planet entry promised a Saturday run. Expecting a simple 5K, she arrived without money or water, was loaded into a jeepney, chased fast older runners through steep jungle villages, lost the marks, and finished dehydrated in a bar just as her first circle began.

    That bewildering debut launched an unusually rapid international hash education. She found hashes while backpacking through Singapore and Europe, relied on strangers’ hospitality, learned circles and trail craft on the fly, and eventually became active in New Zealand clubs. Her energetic stories capture the openness, improvisation, mishaps, and instant social network that can turn a curious traveler into a committed hasher almost overnight.

    2015, Puerto Galera, Singapore, Colombo, all Wellington Hashes, Vancouver …

  • 4.13 Imelda

    4.13 Imelda

    Episode Summary

    Imelda’s first hash came at Singapore’s 200th celebration run in 1984, where she was one of the few women admitted to a military-heavy men’s club. Back in Bangkok she sought out the local Harriettes, became the first female member of a men’s hash, and helped shape the city’s lively trail, restaurant, and social culture despite the sexism of the era.

    She later founded the Thinking Drinking Hash and led Chiang Mai’s successful Interhash as the first female GM of an Interhash. Imelda explains bidding, budgeting, brewery support, trails, prelubes across Southeast Asia, the red-dress run, volunteer management, and the calm required to deliver a huge event. Her name—borrowed from Imelda Marcos and her legendary shoes—fits a groundbreaking, sharp-witted hash leader.

    1984 Singapore, Bangkok Hashes, cofounder TDH3, GM: Interhash 2006 Chiang Mai

  • 4.12 Delhi Boy

    4.12 Delhi Boy

    Episode Summary

    Delhi Boy joined New Delhi Hash in 1985 during his first British Foreign Service posting. Persuaded past a dislike of school cross-country, he found a thriving embassy-centered club with packs of forty to one hundred, garden circles, plentiful beer and food, Himalayan and Rajasthan weekends, and typed weekly reports assembled long before the internet.

    His diplomatic career carried him onward to hashes in Britain, Cyprus, South America, and elsewhere, while his Delhi roots followed him in both friendships and name. He discusses early yearbooks, the importance of Tim “Magic” Hughes’s guide, his first Interhash in Cyprus, changing communications, and the balance between running and social life. It is a richly detailed account of hashing as an informal global network for a traveling public servant.

    1985 Delhi(GM/RA/scribe…), Surrey, ReFounder Bogota (GM/RA,…), Cairo (Scribe), Athens,

  • 4.11 Peters Out

    4.11 Peters Out

    Episode Summary

    Peter’s Out first noticed hash marks and beer handoffs while running the 1988 Los Angeles Marathon. A year later, an Army bulletin-board card invited him to “see El Paso as you’ve never seen it before,” and one five-mile trail was enough to hook him. He went on to hold nearly every mismanagement role, including roughly a decade as GM.

    He describes El Paso’s military and medical roots, desert trails, a hash marriage, the evolution of names, and the creation of a cross-border-style weekend event inspired by other gatherings. The episode also covers COVID-era disagreements, encounters with police while laying flour, red-dress runs, Interhash travel, and why the hash’s ability to ignore rank and welcome a young enlisted soldier made it feel like home.

    1986, LA, El Paso H3 (GM, RA, all …), Alamogordo, founder: Tex-Mex Intercourse

  • 4.10 Chips by CrotchThumper

    4.10 Chips by CrotchThumper

    Episode Summary

    Chips began hashing in Suva, Fiji, in 1977. When she learned the existing club was men-only, she founded a ladies’ hash herself, then repeated that initiative in Wellington and later helped start hashes in Beijing, Port Nicholson, and Wellington’s biking community. Her name grew from her surname, Wood, paired with co-GM Haggis: “Haggis and Chips.”

    She recalls tropical Suva trails, Cold War-era runs through Beijing hutongs, early circles without songs, homemade flour-marking devices, and the evolution from women-only clubs to mixed packs. Stories of family, washed-out trails, Rotorua Interhash 1994, and returning to Fiji in 2018 celebrate a pioneering hasher whose practical response to exclusion was simply to build the club she wanted.

    1977, Founder: Suva Ladies & Wellington Ladies & Geries, Beijing, ….

  • 4.09 Violet

    4.09 Violet

    Episode Summary

    Violet was a founding member of the Yaoundé Hash in Cameroon in 1986, when roughly fifteen diplomats and expatriates created a new club with guidance from an experienced Kuala Lumpur hasher. He remembers how songs, circles, names, and local customs developed as the group found its footing, then follows his hashing life through Jakarta, New Zealand, Canada, and beyond.

    The conversation ranges across decades of Interhashes, red-dress traditions, powder scares, changing technology, and the different ways clubs preserve—or abandon—older practices. Violet’s long view connects a small African startup to Auckland’s contemporary scene and shows how travel, family, mismanagement roles, and recurring international friendships make hashing a durable global community.

    1986, Yaounde, Fiji, Jakarta/Batavia, TianShen, Canberra, Jacarnada, Bucharest, DC, Auckland …

  • 4.08 Murphy’s by Run2Eat

    4.08 Murphy’s by Run2Eat

    Episode Summary

    Murphys recounts discovering Swansea Jack Hash in Wales around 2006 and becoming part of its friendly, eccentric community. His preferred name, “Minute to Six,” referred to Guinness being founded in 1759, but the naming circle chose the rival stout instead—leaving him permanently known as Murphys.

    Interviewed by Run2Eat, he talks about early trails, campouts, UK Nash Hash in Perth, away weekends, songs, dogs, recruitment through Meetup and Facebook, and the practical work of keeping a local club visible. The result is an affectionate snapshot of modern Welsh hashing, where the trail matters, but belonging, humor, and the willingness to help organize are what keep people returning.

    2006, Swansea Jack, Key west H3, London Hashes

  • 4.07 Alfred Kurt Zuber (AKU)

    4.07 Alfred Kurt Zuber (AKU)

    Episode Summary

    Alfred Zuber reaches back to the early 1970s, when he hashed in Persia and helped establish Isfahan Hash with support from Tehran. He remembers a period when new clubs were spread by mobile expatriates carrying drawings, songs, trail practices, and a direct lineage from one city to the next.

    Political upheaval ended that chapter after the Shah’s departure and the 1979 revolution, but not Zuber’s involvement. He later founded Frankfurt Hash and continued hashing through other overseas assignments, including Korea. This short historical conversation captures how fragile early clubs could be—and how individual hashers helped the movement leap across borders and survive dramatic changes in place and politics.

    1970, Teheran, Taiwan, Korea, Frankfurt (Founder), Bucharest, aka “Gutten Tight”

  • 4.06 Bronco Buster

    4.06 Bronco Buster

    Episode Summary

    Bronco Buster’s first hash was on July 4, 1986, in Mexico City, where the trail memorably passed through a newly opened McDonald’s. After a long gap, she returned to hashing in Nairobi in 1998 and later became deeply involved in Washington, D.C., Cambodia, and an international circuit of hashes and red-dress events.

    She discusses the origin of her name, transport and trail challenges in East Africa, D.C.’s crowded event calendar, and the changing scale of Interhash and continental gatherings. The episode closes with her firsthand role in launching a Red Dress Run in Phnom Penh and a thoughtful defense of the tradition’s best qualities: spectacle, charity, friendship, and a welcoming excuse to bring very different hash communities together.

    1986, Mexico City, Nairobi, Phnom Penh, Frankfurt, DC area Hashes,