The Most Dangerous Game

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Show that you love Outside/In! (And stick it to the guy in the corner office) Click here to donate: https://goo.gl/ijzVaZ On June 27th, 1981, a bodybuilder, a stockbroker, and 10 other men entered the woods of New Hampshire, determined to settle an argument. They called it The First Annual Survival Game, and the details are the stuff of the legend. The game marked the birth of a multi-billion dollar sports industry, but also sheds light on the squishy art of myth-making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We got a campfire.
0:03.0	A campfire.
0:04.0	Where's my beer?
0:06.0	I need my beer.
0:07.0	This is the sound of a gathering I hosted in my backyard.
0:10.0	We had crackers, cheese, beers.
0:14.0	Don't forget the comquots.
0:15.6	Producer Taylor Quimby brought comquets.
0:18.3	They're so good.
0:19.2	I feel like I should have a poker.
0:20.7	The purpose of the gathering was for Taylor to tell us a story and he wanted an audience or a peanut gallery if you will who you'll be hearing throughout
0:29.0	Okay, I'm Annie Ro Peak I'm a reporter at n-hpr. This is Lauren Chulgin I'm a reporter at nhpr. This is Lauren Chulgin. I'm also a reporter at nhpr.
0:36.1	I'm Robert Garova and I contributed the batteries. You'll also hear outside in producer
0:41.6	Justin Paradise who was wielding the microphones and this is how the story began
0:46.9	So Sam I wanted to start by asking you a question which is do you know the story of phydipides?
0:53.4	Phydipides?
0:54.2	Phydipides?
0:55.2	With an F.
0:56.2	With a P.H. actually.
0:57.2	Not a real thing.
0:58.2	Okay, notice that this is a real, this is a story and it takes place in 490 BC during the Greco-Persian Wars.
1:05.0	150,000 Persian soldiers have landed at the Bay of Marathon in Greece.
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