The World's Weirdest Sports, Part Two: Literal Murderball

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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OK, imagine this: you've been captured by a neighboring civilization, hauled off to an unfamiliar city, and your captors tell you: "Hold up, we're not going to kill you yet. In fact, if you can win this game in front of our audience, we will let you live." In part two of our continuing series the world's weirdest sports, Ben, Noel and Max explore the brutal, bloody, and often lethal Mesoamerican sport loosely known as "the Ball Game," a religious event wherein losing the match often meant losing your life.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show,
0:28.0	Ridiculous historians.
0:29.2	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:32.7	Let's hear some boo and some kashi.
0:37.3	I was going to say, boozyakashi. You know, remember Ali G, he'd say and some kashi. I was going to say boozyakashi.
0:39.4	You know, I remember Ali G.
0:40.4	He'd say boo yakasha.
0:41.8	Yeah, I'd love to introduce our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:47.8	Fresh off on magnificent recovery, I am just between these episodes, gotten from sick to completely healthy.
0:54.3	He bounced back like some sort of wiffle ball or a tether ball, perhaps.
0:58.7	Still having the condition.
1:01.0	Wish you the best, Max.
1:02.9	Please, ridiculous historians, allow me to reintroduce myself.
1:08.1	My name is Ben.
1:09.0	Hey!
1:09.8	Join by, as always, the number one, the myth, the man, the legend, Mr. Noel Brown,
1:17.1	aka Nove.
1:18.6	Mm-hmm.
1:19.4	Yeah.
1:20.1	Nova.
1:21.2	We are coming to you live and direct as we record.
1:27.4	It is Tuesday, November 5th here in the...
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