Japan, Baseball and the Curse of the Colonel

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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First things first: You may think Kentucky Fried Chicken is popular in the States, but we've got nothing on Japan. Join the guys as they delve into a story involving baseball, fried chicken, superstition, curses and drunken revelry in today's episode on the Hanshin Tigers and the infamous Curse of the Colonel.

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0:00.0	Tiger Tiger burning bright in the forest of the night, what immortal
0:29.5	hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry that is an excerpt of a poem called the Tiger by William
0:36.7	Blake. Hi, I'm Ben. Ben, it is I, Noel, and I have a query to pose to you. What does this poem
0:45.0	snip it? Have to do with today's episode. I am so glad you asked, Noel. Oh, before we go any further,
0:52.6	let's have a big hand. Everybody listening, just go ahead and clap by yourself for our super producer,
0:58.5	Casey Pagro. It's okay if you don't want to clap. Yeah, you know, just we can snap, just give him props
1:05.3	mentally. Props in such a way as you feel moved to provide. But Ben, yes, props aside. Um,
1:11.8	we're talking about tigers today. We are in a way. We are in a way. We are talking about the
1:19.8	hunchen tigers, which is a sports team. We're also talking about urban legends. We're also talking
1:27.9	about a somewhat romanticized view of the American South, which we know you and I both love a
1:34.3	big old accent. And we're talking about Japan and we're talking about a curse, Noel. Yeah, the curse
1:42.4	of the kernel. And that's not just any kernel. That is the the standard bearer of greasy chicken
1:49.8	legs. The world over, as it turns out, kernel sanders. Is he a proper name? Yes, uh, kernel
1:57.2	harland david sanders born in 1890. I think you mean haul and david sandals. Uh, uh, do you mean
2:05.7	kernel, haul and david julep sanders? Don't you try to outsell the meme, Ben Bowling?
2:11.4	Oh, I could chew this X in a day. Please don't. Can I ask people's weight? People will tune out.
2:17.0	People will not have it. We want to hear, by the way, your best, uh, Southern accent impression.
2:23.8	If you record yourself, uh, write us a letter and include that. We'd love to hear it. Absolutely.
2:29.3	But yeah, so we that we were mashing up. This is a mashup episode. This is ridiculous history. The
2:34.0	mashup episode wherein we mash together quite a few themes. You mentioned curses. We talking about
2:40.0	chicken. We're talking about the south. We're talking about Japan. Where do we start? Let's start
2:45.7	in 1985. How about that? It was a very good year. It was a very good year, especially for the
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