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Creating a universal bucket list is a lot more difficult than it looks. You can’t just scrap together places, events, and people to visit, attend and meet — there’s more of a science to it, and that science involves action.
Meaning: what will you do when you get to place X or meet person Y? Why is attending one event, say the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, better than being at the Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza? (Note: the grand prize for that is $150,000, not too shabby).
Here at BroBible we recognized that every bro is his own person, with his own set of idiosyncrasies, so of course this list doesn’t include everything you want to do in this lifetime. However, it is tailored to reach largest possible number of guys and hit at least four or five of their personal bucket items, while hopefully triggering a few new ideas.
Enough introductions though, let’s get to it because life’s too damn short. Here’s our bucket list for guys consisting of 100 things every bro should do before he dies:
1. Road trip across America
2. Shake Clint Eastwood’s hand
3. Kiss a girl from every continent in the world (Antarctica doesn’t count)
4. Drink a beer on all seven continents
5. Attend a Super Bowl that your favorite team is playing in (if your favorite team is the Cleveland Brows just settle for any Super Bowl)
6. Visit Normandy and stand on Utah Beach
7. Walk on a glacier (bonus point if you take a piss while doing so)
8. Join the Mile High Club
9. Trip on shrooms at Joshua Tree
10. Play a round of golf at Augusta National
11. Witness the ball drop in person in Times Square
12. Complete a marathon (or half marathon)
13. Smoke a joint with the Big Lebowski (Jeff Bridges)
14. Hit a trifecta at the Kentucky Derby
15. Skip work for a day and go sky diving
16. Backpack through Europe without a guide
17. See a concert in Central Park
18. Ride a camel around the Great Pyramid of Giza
19. Hunt cougars and bring one home (in other words, bang a MILF)
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20. Own a dog
21. Try surfing when you visit Hawaii
22. Act in a movie (most likely as a stand in or crowd member)
23. Brew your own beer
24. Meet the President of United States of America
25. Procreate (have kids) but not before the age of 25
26. Lose your voice attending a World Cup game that the United States is playing in
27. Touch the remains of the Berlin Wall
28. Shoot and kill an animal out in the wilderness (six bonus points if you can skin and cook it all in the same day)
29. Write a book/screenplay and have it get published
30. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef
31. Get Matt Stone and Trey Parker to laugh at one of your jokes
32. Build something and call it your own
33. Have sex with two chicks at the same time (the other three way is still an accomplishment to be proud of)
34. Enter an Iron Man triathlon
35. Go to the Final Four with a three buddies with each betting $1,000 on a different winner
36. Run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain
37. Swim in every ocean
38. Reach the top of Mount Rushmore
39. Resign from the job you hate and find a profession you like
40. See Game 7 of a World Series in person
41. Live in Las Vegas for a year after college (though hosting a bachelor party is probably a better alternative)
42. Climb a mountain
43. Strut around on a NFL field on game day
44. Be lucky enough to see the northern lights (Aurora Borealis) when visiting Iceland
45. Sign up for an eating contest and win
46. Pretend to be Maximus Decimus Meridius when visiting the Coliseum
47. Teach a class (preferably a college one)
48. Study abroad for a year
49. Receive road head from a girl you know won’t be your future wife
50. Step foot in all 50 states
51. Hang out and play music with Eddie Vedder
52. Bowl a perfect 300
53. Stroll across the Golden Gate Bridge (on foot)
54. Score an invitation to the premiere Martin Scorcese’s newest film
55. Discuss all of the wonders of the world while staring at Stonehenge
56. Swim next to an animal (dolphin, whale, etc.) in the ocean
57. Start your own business
58. Fornicate with a foreign chick
59. Host a live draft for your fantasy football league
60. Join an African Safari and see a lion in the wild
61. Ski or snowboard down Whistler
62. Photograph a model and/or pose in a photograph with a model
63. Make a wish standing next to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
64. Bike/run across America
65. Ask a political leader a question that leaves he or she looking baffled, stupid and inept
66. Walk the Great Wall of china
67. Have sex in a library (any public place will do)
68. Get to both the summer and winter Olympics
69. Fly a plane
70. Spend a month camping and living off the land
71. Scream out over the Grand Canyon
72. Fight someone that says something inappropriate to a girl at a bar
73. Give a speech that is met with a standing ovation
74. Capture the sun rising over Machu Picchu (more bonus points if you can sell that photo and make some money)
75. Tour the battlefields of America (Lexington/Concord, Saratoga, Trenton, Yorktown, Fort Sumter, Manassas (Bull Run), Antietam, Gettysburg, etc.)
76. Tour the Jameson distillery in Dublin on St. Patrick’s Day
77. Tailgate wildly before an SEC football game (any big conference game will do)
78. Challenge a German to a drinking contest while attending Oktober fest
79. Sail from one country to another
80. Become one with nature and check off America’s most scenic treasures (Yosemite, Yellowstone, Redwood Forrest, Niagara Falls, etc.)
81. Have an anonymous sexual encounter (no names/numbers/STDs exchanged; hookers do not count)
82. Knock down a game winning shot in a pickup basketball game
83. Whitewater raft on the Colorado River
84. Party like there’s no tomorrow in Amsterdam
85. Wake up somewhere your not supposed to be during Mardi Gras
86. Explore a volcano and collect some igneous rock (basically dried up magma)
87. Buy a house with a pool (buying anything else is small potatoes)
88. Fulfill the stereotype of being an obnoxious, American tourist when visiting France
89. Ride in a submarine
90. Have sex on the beach
91. Participate in a protest and show freedom of speech is not dead
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92. Crash a wedding (life-time achievement award if you do it with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn)
93. Head north and go ice fishing
94. Teach your son how to throw a ball
95. Master the Australian outback by going on a walkabout
96. Travel down the Nile River on a boat
97. Sneak onto the set of your favorite TV show
98. Sit front and center at a ping pong show in Thailand
99. Present, or be presented with, an award of some kind (if the pool in the backyard doesn’t say you
made it, this will)
100. Live up to the man you aspire to be and retire happy, with plenty of money in the bank, at the age of 65
Bonus ones that didn’t make the cut:
- Catch a pass from your favorite quarterback
- Step inside the ring and box a round or two
- Island hop the entire Caribbean and/or the Pacific Ocean
- Crowd surf at a concert
- Gamble with one of your idols in Vegas
- Lift over 250 pounds off your chest
- Change the world with something you say or do
- Rip a bong with Seth Rogen and James Franco
- March in the Memorial/Thanksgiving day parade
- Play a game of pickup basketball with Denzel Washington
- Explore the Florida Everglades
- Lap dance from a stripper who’s younger than you
- Ride a tandem bike with a beautiful girl
- Attend mass in the Vatican City
- Get married to the love of your life
- Receive a blow job in a movie theater
- Light a fire, cook something on it
- Launch your own website