The World's Weirdest Sports, Part One: Buzkashī is Where You Fight Over A Dead Goat

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Regardless of everyone's differences in this wide, wide world, it's safe to say every culture loves some kind of sport. Often these sports can seem strange to outsiders -- but before we cast proverbial stones, let's remember almost every sport looks bizarre to people who don't know the rules! In the first episode of this continuing series, Ben, Noel and Max explore Buzkashī, the national sport of Afghanistan.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:28.0	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:32.1	Let's hear it for The Man, the Myth, the Legend,
0:35.3	super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:39.5	Hazzah!
0:40.3	The crowd goes wild.
0:42.1	You would pick to do a sports episode when I was sick.
0:45.9	I feel like this is intentional.
0:47.4	I'm going to talk too much.
0:49.2	Oh, I thought it was raucous applause, heard from a distance.
0:52.4	Oh, I was also just doing a breath check.
0:54.0	Do we have coffee breath?
0:54.7	I should.
0:55.2	I probably do.
0:56.0	I do.
0:56.2	Oh, that's the best thing about us recording remotely.
0:59.0	We can't smell our mutual coffee breath.
1:01.7	Shout out, by the way, to our other super producer, all of the coffee.
1:05.6	Indeed.
1:07.1	I'm out of oat milk, though, today, guys, so I'm not at my best. I know it doesn't add anything to the kick of the coffee,
1:13.0	but it's just something about the balance of the flavor.
1:15.0	It doesn't.
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