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Blood in the Water (1956 Hungary v. USSR Olympic Water Polo Match)

Hall of Shame

Rachel Bonnetta

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.22.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rachna is gonna need Rachel to pull on her water wings. It’s the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, and the Hungarian water polo team is distracted. Back home, the Soviets have brutally crushed a popular democratic uprising in Budapest. So when they found themselves going against Russia for the gold, the revolution followed them to the pool.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, I'm Rachel Bonetta and I'm Rechna Freppan and this is Hall of Shade.

0:11.4

Hi!

0:12.4

Hi!

0:13.4

Wow, we got not very many days left till the election.

0:19.8

Oh, is it just me or is time moving insanely slowly but also like the fast it's ever moved

0:28.2

in our entire lives?

0:29.9

It reminds me of newborn days where I remember someone said like the days are long but the

0:35.4

weeks and months and years go fast.

0:38.4

Isn't that what it feels like?

0:40.6

I wouldn't know I don't have children.

0:43.1

Every day feels like a million years but then you're like it's fucking October.

0:47.5

I don't know how that happened.

0:49.0

Like Halloween isn't a week.

0:50.4

It's wild.

0:51.4

And then the election is right after that?

0:53.3

I'm sorry I swore.

0:54.7

No, it's okay.

0:56.0

I think we're past that.

0:57.4

We had one episode where we swore less.

0:59.7

That was enough.

1:00.7

Somebody tweeted and called us out hard.

1:02.8

You lasted like 15 seconds.

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