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Pumpkin weighing as much as a car breaks record

Papers from Kitsap to Providence carried the record-setting gourd, which tipped the scales at roughly the weight of a car; the grower says he is not attached.

On air: Hank Ledger on BBN Tonight
Published 8:59 PM ET, Friday, October 16, 2026
Updated 1:03 AM ET · aired 4 times

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First reported by Kitsap Sun: “Pumpkin weighing as much as a car breaks record”.
Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 8:59 PM ET on BBN Tonight, by Hank Ledger; aired 4 times.

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Kitsap SunPumpkin weighing as much as a car breaks record

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Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA pumpkin that weighs as much as a car has just set a new record, and the man who grew it is Wendell Osgood of Osgood Gourd Acres.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWendell, congratulations.
Wendell OsgoodThank you, Hank. She put on about thirty pounds a day at the peak, and, well, it. It did that on water and patience.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorShe.
Wendell OsgoodIt. A figure of speech. I just like to be on hand in the evenings, in case it needs anything, which a pumpkin does not.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYou said on the phone earlier that you hauled a tent out to the patch in August. Why does a farmer with a house need a tent?
Wendell OsgoodHeat. Bugs. And she gets lonely, I mean, it gets, look, that songbook is for my nephew, and the lullabies are entirely his idea.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo you sang a vegetable to sleep for two months, and now it weighs as much as a Honda Civic. I would say the lullabies worked.
Wendell OsgoodWe did it together, Hank. I mean, I did it. It was mostly her. It.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLast question, Wendell. Who is carving it?
Wendell OsgoodNobody is carving anybody. This interview is over.

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