Bert the, Western, Conqueror

Bert comes to town an amateur and leaves a conqueror.

Thrill-seeker Bert Kreischer takes viewers to the legendary events, competitions and adrenaline rushes that celebrate local culture. He experiences the most hilariously absurd, undeniably dangerous and hands-down insane challenges small-town America has to offer.

Whether Bert's attempting to walk across "The Greasy Pole" in Gloucester, MA, catfish noodlin’ in Knoxville, TN, or taking on Cedar Point’s "Fearsome Foursome" roller-coaster challenge in Sandusky, OH, he'll stop at nothing to showcase what the locals do for fun.

Best known as a comedian, Bert travels the country meeting the passionate people who participate in these backyard adventures, experiencing the annual traditions that rally small towns and screaming his lungs out on thrill rides across the country.

Get ready to laugh.


....




This is description of the show Bert the Conqueror from the Travel Channel website.  
The show has a western-philosophy-on-conquering-foreign-land feel to it. The 'conqueror' Bert actually believes something like an amusement park ride that has already been "conquered," by local people, can be re-conquered by himself, a random person who has never been there and doesn't know anyone from there.  


They should make an episode honored to the other great re-conquerors like Columbus and Sir Edmund Hillary

A philosophy joke I stumbledupon

An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final exam after a semester dealing with a broad array of topics. The class was already seated and ready to go when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on the board: “Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist.”

Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One member of the class however, was up and finished in less than a minute.

Weeks later when the grades were posted, the student who finished in one minute got an A. The rest of the group wondered how he could have gotten an A when he had barely written anything at all.

This is what he wrote:  “What chair?”