Hello, I'm Eric Morton Wimberley of the BBC. You may know my work. For the past decades I have reported on war-torn areas, experiencing

strife, all the way to domestic extremism a little closer to home.

But for this series I wanted to take a step back from the more serious issues plaguing our world and explore something a little more light-hearted.

So I hopped aboard a plane to America to talk about the Penguin Baseball League.

That's right dear listeners.

You heard me correctly. In America, they're playing baseball with

penguins. To begin my journey, I sat down with two of the more prominent proponents of Penguin Baseball, a Mr.

Adler if I and a Miss Irian Kyiif?

Okay, I'm being told by my producer that I nailed both of those plunciations.

To talk about their two new entries into the League of Penguin Baseball, the whole league is kind of a new entry to begin with,

and that is the Chicago Coolbirds and the Boston Waterathlers.

So, what brought you to Penguin Baseball to begin with?

Well, um, like so many things that happen on Hey Riddle Riddle, somebody said some bullshit and we decided to focus solely on that for the rest of an episode and the rest as they say is

penguin history that's right speaking of penguin history I think

you know Aaron and I were talking with a third friend of ours I forget his name we were talking about like baseball is America's past time and a past time should stay in the past, right?

So we're thinking of like, what's a future time?

What's America's future time?

And so when Penguin Baseball was sort of thrown out

on the podcast, we decided to sort of double

and then triple and then quadruple down on that

and say hey is this something and we still don't know if it is.

So you went from inventing a game on a podcast to building stadiums, hiring hundreds of

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