Ep 652 | The Kenyan Curse - The Dark Side of Success with Jon Rosen
Bad Boy Running
Jody Raynsford & David Hellard
4.7 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How you do bad, I've just finished the interview. And I think you're going to love this because |
| 0:04.3 | we often hear about running culture in Kenya and we've had discussed on other podcasts and in our |
| 0:12.3 | podcast even what it is that makes them such good runners or how they train. But actually, |
| 0:18.8 | this episode is so different because it talks about the negative |
| 0:23.6 | impact that running has had on the communities. It's based off an article that I read in 1843, |
| 0:28.9 | a magazine by The Economist, but it looks at what's been happening to athletes once they've achieved, |
| 0:36.5 | once they've got all this money and |
| 0:37.8 | they're bringing a huge amount of cash into these very poor villages. |
| 0:42.3 | And it was linked to an article called The Curse of the Kenyan Runners, but we go into |
| 0:48.3 | a lot more depth as well about individual cases and also about different ways in which it has had a kind of sinister |
| 0:56.2 | pervasive impact on Kenya. So strapping guys is really interesting. Take it away. |
| 1:04.9 | They're bad, they're boys, and occasionally they talk about running. Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running Podcast |
| 1:12.6 | with your host, Jody Rainsford, and David Heller. |
| 1:16.5 | Come back. |
| 1:19.6 | Baby, come back. |
| 1:21.2 | But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. |
| 1:24.0 | I must admit I was a clown to be messing around. |
| 1:28.3 | But that doesn't mean that you have to leave town. |
| 1:32.0 | We love to give the whole picture of the world of running. |
| 1:38.0 | And I've read this an article by our next guest to do with the Curse of the Kenyans. |
| 1:41.7 | And I just thought it was fascinating, |
| 1:44.7 | but also actually went into a lot of the conversations we've had, |
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