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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Today, sports are popular all over the world! But have you ever wondered what the first team sport was? This week, Joy and cohost Xenia learn all about the Mesoamerican Ball Game, which is more than 3,000 years old! And they meet someone who is still playing today! Plus, a game of first things first that you won’t ball-lieve!
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0:00.0 | Hi, all you wonderful people listening. This is Joy Dolo. As you no doubt know, I'm not afraid to get silly. Like really silly. Like, keep an elephant in my closet, make a couch out of gum, collect ancient toilets, silly, silly, silly, silly. But today I've got something very unsilly to talk about. In fact, it's quite serious. |
0:24.0 | Forever Go is a public media show, and public media is threatened like never before. That's why I'm |
0:30.7 | asking you to donate, like you, you, the you that's hearing this and thinking, is she talking to me? |
0:36.7 | Yes, you're the you, I mean. |
0:38.9 | I need you to go to forevergo.org slash donate. Literally give any amount, $6.79, $102.3 nickels, |
0:49.0 | $10,000 and no change, because honestly, that's an amazing enough gift right there, but just give |
0:54.0 | something to help us get through this difficult moment. I know Forever Go, and no change because honestly that's an amazing enough gift right there, but just give something |
0:54.3 | to help us get through this difficult moment. I know Forever Go fans are caring and I know there |
1:00.4 | are a lot of you. If you and everyone else listening chipped in just $10, we'd be all set. But we need you now. |
1:08.1 | Foreverago.org slash donate. Again, please go to foreverago.org slash donate. |
1:14.6 | That way, I could stop being so serious and get back to my silly side. |
1:18.2 | I've got underwater submarine sandwich shops to run. |
1:21.1 | Manage haters club meetings to lead. |
1:23.2 | So chip in now and a very sincere. |
1:26.1 | Thank you. |
1:40.2 | Sports balls! Get your sports balls! One for $2, $2 for $5 or $5 for $5 for $20. |
1:46.6 | Hey Joy, are you having a yard sale? Oh, hey, Zenia. Yeah, I cleaned out the sports wing of my closet last weekend. Wait, your closet is big enough to have wings. My closet has |
1:53.3 | room for things you can't even imagine. Anyway, fancy a quick game. I've got a basketball, four softballs, six hockey pucks, definitely a few bowling balls, a football. |
2:07.9 | Joy, that is definitely not a football. |
2:11.0 | Oh, sure it is. |
2:12.4 | Go long. |
2:14.0 | Dolofakes left, hops right, she twirls center, does a split, she aims and... |
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