Sportswashing: Why Saudia Arabia Suddenly Loves Golf
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Whether you love it or hate it, there's no denying: golf is one of the world's most popular -- and most lucrative -- sports. In recent years the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has raised global eyebrows as they pour billions of dollars into their own golfing initiative: LIV. Supporters find this move par for the course (get it?), yet critics allege there's a larger conspiracy afoot. Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they dive into the strange allegations surrounding Saudi Arabia, golf, and 'sportswashing.'
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:07.0 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.0 | A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. |
| 0:27.0 | They called me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer Dylan the Tennessee pal Fagan most importantly you are you you are here that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know tonight we are exploring the wide world of sports and maybe some other things, though perhaps not in the way you might initially assume, fellow conspiracy realist. |
| 0:50.0 | First things, first, gentlemen, would you guys consider yourself golfers? |
| 0:54.1 | Or I know we've all played golf at some point. |
| 0:56.6 | Well, I mean, if you're counting mini golf, then yes, I have played golf. |
| 1:00.4 | We've done it together, in fact, but I've never played golf on a proper course never even been to a top golf y'all talking about doing that sometime together too |
| 1:08.3 | I played a golf for the first like actual I guess grown folk golf for the first time in my life |
| 1:16.0 | very long life just a few months ago and it was entirely due to pure pressure and I got to tell you golf |
| 1:24.4 | fans in the crowd I get it I see how it's a lot of fun plus can definitely be a |
| 1:30.3 | time and money vampire but being unfortunately folks we could assure you being a |
| 1:36.8 | Cracker Jack talent at Put Put and fun mini golf is not the same thing. It doesn't translate to other golf. |
| 1:44.6 | Matt, he used to work at the club, right? Did you ever get out there on the links in between shifts? |
| 1:49.8 | I don't want to go too much into it, but it was a health club and they didn't own a golf course until well into my tenure there. |
| 1:57.0 | Once they did I was kind of out of the picture. |
| 2:00.0 | I have played with my father, my my friends several times not enough but my |
| 2:06.4 | grandfather told me I have a natural swing what's your handicap I don't even know that |
| 2:10.8 | means barely you want a good one I don't even know what that means. |
| 2:15.0 | Apparently you want a good one. High, low, I don't know. |
| 2:17.0 | You tell me. |
| 2:18.0 | It's terribly fun once you are out there and it is a nice relaxing, I would sport if you're going to join a sport that is one of the |
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