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• Jason: Histiography! Lessons we've learned today. Time for the Fun Fact Challenge! This day in History! Welcome to The Ebs of History, the show where we dive into the strangest, wildest, and sometimes downright creepiest stories the past has to offer. From dancing plagues to pirate queens, you'll laugh, you'll gasp, you'll even groan at my impeccable dad jokes or son jokes. importantly, we'll learn... ⁓ how history is way cooler than your textbook ever told you. We are history loving hosts, Zoe. Jason. And I'm Gavin. And in every episode, we'll take a trip through time and see what lessons we can still learn today. This is the EBS of History. Hey there, history lovers. Welcome back to another episode of the EBS of History. We're so glad you're here with us today. We have a special episode because I, Gavin, am hosting. How's everyone's week? Well, I've had better weeks. As you can hear, my voice is a little bit odd because I'm missing some teeth. I had oral surgery and that's why Gavin is hosting this week. I will be speaking, but it'll be very little. Very lispy, some would say. Very lispy, yep. You're really exaggerating it right now though. I'm not though. You're No. That, ⁓ It's the S's and the TH's and... You're gonna be saying that a lot. And the Z's. Anything where I have to use, where you have to use your tongue against your teeth is I'm having issues with. ⁓ And then my week, ⁓ my AP test is tomorrow, so good luck to everyone taking AP tests, by the way. ⁓ I'm taking my AP Euro test. Bye! So scary. How do think you're going to do? ⁓ I recently got my practice test back and that boosted my confidence like sky high. So I feel pretty great. Especially about the writing portion. So good. Yes. This week for me has been a real doozy. Like it's had its highs and lows. Like we've been having state testing all week. I found out I got into web, which is like a kind like a program at the school where you introduce the sixth graders to the middle school and help them get into like the groove of middle school. Yeah, welcoming them Where everybody belongs. Yeah, that's what it stands for, where everyone belongs. The t-shirt color is gonna be like a Kelly green. That's exciting. that's like a way better color than what you had. Yeah, Joey, when you were in Webb, right? Yes. And what color did you have? Bright neon orange. And that is my- class color in high school as well. So five years straight with that color. Still jokes that you look like a construction worker. cone, pumpkin patch, whatever. Anything orange. Anything a collective of orange is kind of what we are. Let's into topic. quick question. How dangerous is your favorite sport? ⁓ Um, not that dangerous as you guys know I love baseball. So do I. So it's not that dangerous. It can be obviously with balls flying at your head at 100 miles an hour. Um, but other than that, it's a pretty safe sport. Yeah. Yeah. It's not too like out there. But they're definitely sports. Everyone on my fancy team just decides to get injured. Like, ⁓ I'm on Gatton's Okay, so the injuries that happen in baseball are way different than dangerous sports. pinky toe hurts. Exactly. I'm tired today. I'm not going to play. That's how I genuinely see baseball injuries. arm is sore. but what if I told you that history, people sports where you could be sacrificed if you won, ⁓ where fans literally rioted and killed 30,000 people, and ⁓ entire objective was to kick strangers' shins until they ⁓ Today, we are counting down 10 of the craziest, most and most dangerous sports in all of human history. ⁓ Buckle up! because our ancestors were absolutely unhinged when it came to having fun. out entire thing I would like to know if you ⁓ Especially so we because you were the one that wrote this dad ⁓ if you know any of the sports already Most of the sports ⁓ suggested to dad because I don't know if I did that no ⁓ she was me! I asked for suggestions and that was it. Well, because I would be in class and my teacher would be like, ⁓ during the Victorian era, they would do Blake. And I'll go, ⁓ my gosh, that's amazing. I'll take picture of the slide and send it to dad. Like, this is a good topic for our episode. I know, I already know at least one of them. We just learned about it in... ⁓ history class and school and a little spoiler here it's from the Americans, ancient Americans and it's really hard like it seems really hard you know ⁓ that's ⁓ the first It's the one. Let's start with the oldest team sport we know about. Around 1650 BCE, people in Mesoamerica, the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec played a rubber ball game on huge stone courts. The ball was solid rubber and could weigh as much as nine pounds, about as heavy as a big bowling ball. Like that is insanely heavy. nuts. ⁓ And knowing how they hit that ball, ⁓ my god. How'd they hit it? hit with their body. ⁓ ⁓ Nine pounds really heavy. Yeah. Like ⁓ you think it, like, ⁓ nine's not that big of a number. ⁓ But you up nine pounds and you're like, wow, ⁓ how do play with this? ⁓ players couldn't use their hands or feet. They had to hit and control the ball The courts even had stone rings high up on the walls and getting the ball through the ring was a super big deal. seems really hard if the hoop is really high and you have to use your can't use your hands. ⁓ you have to hit it with your hips and your elbow to get it up there. ⁓ Especially with the nine-pound balls cuz it just makes it heavier and yeah, even faster I'm gonna play through a bowling ball at you and you had to hit it with your hip Yeah, that's what this is. It kind of it sounds like a really intense version of basketball. Mm-hmm Now here's the scary part. This game was connected to religion. It was meant to show the sun's journey through the underworld, and some evidence suggests that after certain games, a team might be sacrificed. Historians still argue about whether it was the winners or the losers. At Chichen Itza in Mexico, there are carvings that show beheaded. Imagine playing a sport where you might die afterwards. Suddenly, little league parents don't seem so intense. That's a good one. That was in the script. I know it was. You're laughing at your own joke. So the players, and it's kind of, at least this is what they said in my class, that it's debated if the losers or the winners would sacrifice. Yeah, that's what you just read too. No, but it didn't like, because it, you would think that it be losers that, you know, get sacrificed because they lost, like, you're a loser, you die, but then it's debated because there was sacrifice to the gods. Winning the game proves that you're worthy to be sacrificed right? Uh-huh, so it's Debated that's exactly why it's debated. Yeah, it's crazy Whether you win or lose like I just that's being sacrificed is nuts another thing the ball hitting their arms and Like body mm-hmm. They would get bruises so bad that some of their body parts would fall out mid-game What? They would fall off mid game? I think so. ⁓ That's what Mr. Durs said in history class. Shout out to Mr. Durs. Shout out to Mr. Durs. That's crazy. ⁓ my god. Alright, on to the next sport. A fighting with ⁓ zero rules. ⁓ How do you spell that? P-A-N-K-R-A-T-I-O-N. So instead of a C, it's a K? Yeah. Okay. So it's like a wrestling kind of thing? Fighting? Just break and see. Wary traveler. Now let's go to ancient Greece in 648 BC. They added a fighting sport to the Olympics called Pancration. The name means something like use all your strength. And they really meant it. Like that's an insane name. Use all your strength. Like just hearing that name, I can infer that this is going to be crazy and violent. Do you think it could be pronounced pancreasion? This is like ancient Greek, you know? Yeah, thousand percent. But we're gonna stick with the American English pancreasion. No, but I totally can envision that. Yeah. Because it's just like how it's translated and how language Pancreation ⁓ was kind of ⁓ like a modern MMA, ⁓ but way more dangerous. could punch, kick, wrestle, even choke. ⁓ The only rules no biting and no poking eyes. That's basically it. ⁓ Nuts so you could choke people But not poke their eyes and poke their eyes and bite them. You're good to go Why is my biting specifically? Like I think choking would be more like a prominent issue than fighting well cuz that can do infection Yeah, and it biting isn't really a show of strength. It's a show of like It's a show of I can bite you hmm Now, like, what do think the goal of this game was? To kill your enemy? Yeah, I mean... It's just to show how strong you are and ancient Greeks like that. Yeah. I mean, that's why they created the Olympics. Yeah. To see which part of the country was the best. And Sparta is part of Greece in this time. You know, like they the whole thing is on me. Yeah. You know, so why not just a show of strength? That's all it is. Really. There were no weight classes and no time limits. The fight ended only when someone gave up. They raised a finger or passed out. Sometimes someone even died. Wow. That's crazy. So you were kind of right. Like sometimes they die. It could happen. If you're stubborn and you don't want to give up and put your finger up saying, I quit, I lose, you're going to die because they'll keep going until you die. One fighter, Erikiyon, ⁓ during a match. But his opponent up at the same so Erikiyon still ⁓ called the winner. Ancient Greeks ⁓ thought... Was super brave huh interesting so died at the right time so he could still be the winner Wow he died Mm-hmm, which normally you would lose in any game? At least single-player like not team sport then he won ⁓ like ⁓ He goes to the afterlife. I won! Third What are you going to say? That's kind of like the best way to do it. You win, but you also are like just done. Like you went out on top. Yeah. No one can beat you at that point. I'm invincible! Alright. Third sport. Ancient Greek boxing. No padding, no rounds. Greek boxing was also brutal. Fighters didn't wear soft gloves. They wrapped their hands in tough leather straps to protect their own wrists, not the other person's face. That's insane. There were no rounds and no time limits. Two fighters kept going until one couldn't stand up anymore. Like, they just like beat up until exhaustion, you know? That's crazy. Later. They made things even worse by adding metal to the gloves. That's like... Wow. Like brass knuckles. Yeah. Brass knuckles. was just to say that. That's like... Just being in a fistfight, but the person has brass knuckles. Yeah. It's unfair. Not when you both have brass knuckles. You're like... They're already beating themselves up to exhaustion. Mm-hmm. There's going to be so much more injuries when you add metal to the equation. Yes, that's right. Imagine getting punched with a glove that had metal pieces in it. People ended up with broken noses, missing teeth and messed up ears. Why are you laughing at the missing teeth part? I said broken nose is weird. I said it like I was from New York. was like broken noses, but that's pretty fitting for the situation that I did not go Greek boxing Maybe you got boxing in your dreams and it carried over into the real world and everyone acted like that was normal Sport number four. Roman Chariot racing. Fast, loud, and deadly. Next stop, Ancient Rome. Chariot racing was the biggest sport around. The main stadium, the Circus Maximus, could fit more than people. Drivers raced small chariots pulled by four horses, Crashes were common. Remember Caligula? I was just about to bring it up like Like we just had an episode on this Caligula's horse. like yeah, this reminds me of the hunger games. if you watch that episode, knowing the story of Kaligia's horse, it just shows to you how big the sport was. Absolutely. After this episode. The leader of Rome. of the kingdoms kingdoms empire empire one of the biggest empires in history biggest sport was horse racing yep wrapped the reins around their waist to control the horses But that meant if they crashed, the horses could drag them, so they carried a small knife to cut the veins and escape. I mean, the smartest thing about that story. absolutely. In 532 AD, a huge riot started over chariot racing teams and about 30,000 people died. Yes, over a sports team. Wow. There have been soccer riots and we're going to talk about a couple of them in the future here with the World Cup coming. But soccer riots, 30,000 people did not die in them. Yeah. You know, that's a lot of people. I was just about to bring it up. Like soccer. We see soccer and how crazy the fans are. devoted, I should say. Like it's like nothing in comparison to 30,000 people dying. Yeah, like that's crazy. They were real zealots for sure. Or horse racing. Okay sport number five ⁓ not ⁓ Laker ⁓ Spell it ⁓ and ⁓ no K and a TT le IK Natlik here, yeah. You lit liquor. That's exactly what it reminds me Vikings playing rough. In Iceland the Viking age around the ⁓ 800s, ⁓ people played a and game called Natlikker. ⁓ It was like field hockey mixed with rugby. That sounds fun. I want to watch a game. It's what with rugby? Rugby? Field hockey. And everyone fought a lot. It's hockey, which we love, and rugby, which is very aggressive and awesome to watch. I would love to watch this sport. Players could tackle and ship each other and games could last all day. That's like cricket. There's cricket games that last like days, weeks. One story says that a kid named Egil Skowling-Grimson got so angry during a game that he killed another boy with an axe. He was about nine years old. Vikings were intense. No kidding. Sport number six. Jousting. Knights sometimes die. Now I'm pretty sure that you've heard of jousting before. A Knight's Tale. Like we've all seen a Knight's Tale. But like, like, we know what jousting is. Yes. But I'm assuming a lot of people also know what jousting is. even seeing a Knight's Tale. Correct. Like it's a very famous sport. Yes, very much so. medieval Knights had jousting tournaments, two Knights horses at each other ⁓ tried to knock each other off with long lances ⁓ could be deadly ⁓ tournaments had many people killed like tournaments tournaments not like throughout the entire history of jousting Single tournaments well you're running as fast as a horse can go ⁓ a tiny stick at your opponent ⁓ remember sharp stick in the movie ⁓ you knock a man to the ground you get his horse. Yeah, and so you're trying to and knock him to the ground, but that little itty bitty stick could sometimes go through armor. It just stabs him. Yeah. Like they have armor. But want to that movie again. Still. If it hits a weak point in the armor. And sometimes armor can be faulty and not be good. And sometimes armor could just be not strong enough. Like horse speed coming at you with a long lance, like stick. Just Even with the best armor, it's gonna eventually like get whole and kill you. One famous death happened in 1559 when King Henry II of France was hit and a piece of broken lance went through his helmet into his eye. he died days later. that, started jousting less. ⁓ I didn't know that. ⁓ First ⁓ I know. ⁓ I feel if... ⁓ Like there's been multiple deaths and jousting but the king dying. That's a lot bigger thing. Yeah, like if just any Joe Schmoe died Like that's not gonna change anything but the king dying from that it makes a big wave You know, it's Henry II of France. ⁓ France. Yeah. Okay, just storing that for tomorrow Put that on an essay. Sport number seven mob football whole towns playing. Yeah, and when you say football football football soccer soccer. Yep. For us Americans, soccer. Now imagine football, but the teams are whole towns. No refs. The field is miles of road, fields and rivers. That is a lot of people. That's a lot of people in a lot of space. Yeah. The thing is, I feel like I won't get the ball, you know, like I'd kind of just be like running and then. Yeah. All right. That was mob football in medieval England and Scotland. It was loud, chaotic, and people got seriously hurt. Buildings could get damaged, too. Kings tried to ban it, but people kept playing anyways. Some places still do versions of it today. Wow. I would love to see that. I know. Imagine just like taking a trip and all of a sudden you just see two people like two mobs of people two towns worth of people Like running towards one ball. It's like the original flash mob, but it's a It's a sports mom. Right a dancing thing. It's a tsunami of people from two sides going towards one ball. Mm-hmm like being an outsider and seeing that you're like what is this a cult like it's crazy sport number calico storico ⁓ florence's brutal ⁓ In Florence, Italy, people played Calcio Circo, a game that mixed soccer with wrestling and fighting. There were 27 players on each team and the game didn't stop for injuries. ⁓ my God. So people would just get like broken legs, broken arms, and they would just continue playing. It's like hockey today. Yeah. They just keep playing. Without. One guy in hockey had a heart attack made me and then came back he wanted to come back They wouldn't let him know but he was he was ready to come back out. That's like, uh-huh. That's like true That's called tough. That's just education. You would not see soccer players doing that. No So that sounds really interesting. soccer mixed with wrestling and fighting. How would that work? What would be the goal? I probably I would think instead of trying to get the ball, you would try and wrestle them and then take the ball. know, like of like a loopy thing. So that they can't come after you. Yeah, kind of like defensive. Yeah. Like it's normal soccer, but then you can fight them to get rid of them. So it's easier to score. I wonder if they're like goalies and you can like punch up the goalies. Like what would happen then? I dunno. Alright, anyways. The craziest part 1530, while city was under attack, the people of Florence played the game anyway. Basically to show the enemies they weren't scared. That's cool. Like you're under siege and like, yeah, we're just going to play our game. Like just because you guys are invading us or whatever, doesn't mean that we're not going to have fun. You guys are just a bump in our week. So was this like a development from the Renaissance? Like, hey, let's come together as a team and ⁓ make a new sport kind of thing or. Was it kind of just like a it already it was already there for a lot of these sound like they just are trying out new things and combining sports Can I say a bad word here? That's for that that then playing do that is badass Like that is insane. I wondering what you gonna say. He's just like uh-uh We don't care. We're gonna play this insane sport anyways. Yep one of my I've heard this is cause II go polo ⁓ What they have goats ⁓ just in the water like Polo you're thinking of water polo of the horses ⁓ goats mm-hmm in Central Asia people started playing booze kashi which meant goat pulling Riders on horses fought over a goat or calf carcasses, trying to carry it to a goal while other riders tried to steal it. There weren't many rules and it was rough. People still play today in Afghanistan and the best riders are treated like celebrities. ⁓ wow. That's brutal. Bloody yeah. Like they're just like having a go and then they just have people zooming by like, give me that! Okay, sport number 10, the final sport, shin kicking. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. Finally, there's shin kicking in England. Two people grab each other and kick each other in the shins until one falls down. The first person to fall twice loses. People sometimes put straw in their pants for a little padding, but it still hurts a lot. And yes, people still compete in this every year on purpose. Yes. Isn't that crazy? Two... Two falls. Two rounds of that? One fall you're already like... dying. At least your shins are. Historians don't always have an easy job, especially with really old sports ⁓ some sports ⁓ Calcio Storico ⁓ and Busquat ⁓ Boscacchi are still played today. That means we can watch them, read the rules, and talk to people who play them. But other sports like Pancreation and Natlicker are harder. We mostly learn about them from old stories, artwork, and writings that were sometimes written down a long time after the sport happened. That means the details might be wrong or little exaggerated. Here's an example. The mess-a-American ball game, Pock to Pock. That's what it's called. Wow. So it did have a name. Pock to Pock? Yeah. For long time, people said the players were sacrificed after big games. Now historians are more careful. There are carvings at Chitsin Itza that show a person being beheaded. But we don't know if that happened every time or only sometimes. Even experts still disagree. the big idea is history can be messy. ⁓ the honest answer ⁓ ⁓ not totally sure. What have you learned from seeing these ten crazy sports? well, I learned that the The that I see today in sports is not a new thing. It is very historical. And there's a reason why we have the Ocho. You know, it started out as a joke, but... Gavin you and I watched the Ocho every once in a while and there's weird stuff going on there. Like there was one where they would throw like like an American football up on a roof and just try to do stuff to score points. Yeah. Is it like ESPN 8? Like the Ocho. Oh yeah I know. Yeah, the outro is fun. If you ever ⁓ have a chance to it, ⁓ please do. ⁓ You find ⁓ crazy and really games on there. And ⁓ it just shows that, ⁓ like I said little bit ago, some of these sports like they were just trying ⁓ other sports they knew ⁓ and combining them. ⁓ It's still happening today. Yeah. And you see it on the Ocho. what would Spikeball on the Ocho we've seen and. have? Yeah. Oh yeah. It's just three goal soccer. Didn't you see that one too? I don't remember that. It was like three way soccer. I remember that. It must have been Zoe instead of me. Yeah, it may have been on that one. Yeah, it's just it's so much fun. But a release for. the masses. Right. What do what do sports do for us today? They take our minds off of everyday reality and give us something to root for. And I think that can be, you know, a very, very powerful thing. the lesson I learned. There's a very ⁓ baseball saying America's favorite pastime. ⁓ what it is. ⁓ just. ⁓ something that you can sit down and watch and have a good time. That's right. You know and sometimes it's really good to be passionate but sometimes ⁓ take it little too seriously. It can be a bit much. Like I like to watch it for fun like ⁓ love seeing my team win, but seeing them lose doesn't make me like scream and yell, you know? Makes you cry during the playoffs, but that's about it. happened, but that was just disappointment. Zoe? I think it's kind of more, kind of like that I was thinking, but it's more of like... It's something to unite against, especially in like times of war and in times of just dark times, like at least from ⁓ the one in Florence, like they bonded together over sport and was, hey, we're still the strong unit. Like we are a country as, like, cause you see it in the Olympics a lot. Cause it's like the one time. the whole, at least for the US, one time the whole country can unify under one thing is the Olympics. it's just like, you want to see your side succeed and it's just such a beautiful way that everything connects. Yeah, I agree. It brings people together. people together. And like you were saying at the start of your point, it's like the Calcio Storico where they were playing it through like... a battle, a war, just to say, uh-uh. Like, brought them together. It brings them together. me, these crazy sports teach three simple lessons. People love to compete. Humans have always liked testing their skills. Sports show what people cared about. A sport can show what a culture thought was important. Like you see it, you see that a lot with soccer today. Like countries really unite and bond. And especially like the World Cup is about to happen. We're going to see that a ton throughout the World Cup. Absolutely. Especially countries like Brazil who are... Really? We don't like win a ton and the country loves it and they can really unite over that yes, I Number three rules help keep people safe time people add rules and better equipment so fewer players got hurt badly, but the games were still exciting majority of these sports had crazy people would each other intentionally like part of the sport. ⁓ And now that we have equipment to us safe, there's helmets and baseball, shin pads and soccer, ⁓ shin kicking. There's helmets in a of sports. ⁓ can think of like. baseball, ⁓ hockey, ⁓ a ton of ⁓ other stuff. ⁓ yet the sports still have the same excitement factor. Absolutely. ⁓ it's honestly better because you know your favorite player or your star player won't get injured ⁓ die or die. Or die. a very point. All right. Three questions. ⁓ Let's see how well you were paying attention. You guys know the rules, let's start. Question one. ⁓ In ancient chariot racing, why did drivers carry a dagger while racing? Locked in. Zoe? because they would be tied to their horses or slash chariots. So if they fell off, they could cut themselves loose so they didn't get dragged with the horse. answer. Point to Zoe. Question number two. Which Viking saga described plays killing a boy with an axe during a game of Natlicker because he was losing? I don't think we actually said what it was to change. we're, you can... ⁓ I said it, but it doesn't look good. Yeah, I... Let me go back. Let's double check. Oh, I don't know then. Yeah, we knew that. no, this is wrong. That question is wrong. It's in Butch Saga. It was a kid. It was kid that his name was Eagle Skull and Grimmson. Like that question is wrong. But no point awarded. We might if dad gets his next question, we might need to go into it over time. Question three, the mess of American ballgame is the oldest known team sport in history. ⁓ Approximately how far back does the earliest evidence of it date? Bokken. 1650 BCE. Good job. You're looking at my notes. I'm not. Exact time. Exact year. That's over 3600 years ago. All right. Tiebreaker time. I'm on like a six podcast winning streak of this aren't I? you're not. in Calcio Storico, how many people were on the field? You guys each answer and whoever gets the closest wins. Okay. I'm gonna say 30. Okay. 24. Oh my god you guys tied. It was uh 27. The one time I- I think it should have been Price is Right rules without going Yeah without going over I think Zoe wins. that's not exciting. to give another one, that's fine. She wants to make me lose! Alright, jousting. A piece of a broken lance went into part ⁓ of King second ⁓ body? Locked Zoe? And his eye. You got it, Zoe wins. ⁓ Good job. Alright. First there hasn't been a sore loser. You did not catch that. ⁓ Nope. Today is May 7th and in 1915 a German U-boat torpedoed the British passenger ship RMS Lusitania off the coast of Ireland killing 1,198 of its 1,924 passengers including 120 Americans. That's a lot of people. That's crazy, yeah. event pushed the United States closer to entering World War 1 and showed how modern warfare had made even civilian vessels targets in total war. Correct me if I'm wrong, Zoe, but wasn't the Lusitania like, secretly, quote unquote, secretly doing stuff? Yeah, if I remember correctly, it was like one of those like ships that was like, technically supposed to just be cargo, right? Yeah. And then it was full of humans. US. US, yeah. People like going. It was, there was something suspicious with it. And that many people died because they were transferring munitions also. Yeah. I'm gonna have look into that because I'm remembering something about that but I can't remember if it was a Lusitania or not. I think it was. Okay. Yeah. mean I probably know this my... Yeah, your AP test is tomorrow. I do. Stock check too. history. ⁓ 1945. ⁓ ⁓ week Hitler took his own ⁓ life, Nazi officially surrendered to the Allies, ⁓ ending World II in Europe. ⁓ This day known as V... VE Day, Victory in Europe Day, marked the end of nearly six years of devastating conflict that had killed tens of millions of people in reshade the global order. Yeah, that's... Populations from the minorities that were killed in the concentration camps have never been the same. The Jewish population around the world, if you compare it to before the Holocaust and now... It still hasn't gotten back to what it was. the effect is still lingering. Unreal. Yeah. Like, it'd be interesting to see the Jewish population before and after the Holocaust. it just, like, it's still not decimated. Still not recovered. Yeah, It's not even just Jewish. It's just ⁓ any minority. minorities. That didn't have blonde hair, blue eyes. Yeah. All right. 1992 Michigan became the 38th state to ratify the 27th amendment to the US Constitution which prohibits congressional pay raises from effect until after the election. Remarkably this amendment was first proposed in 1789 but took over 200 years to be ratified. included that one. because that just is crazy to me. Yeah. That the founding fathers wanted it to be part of the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or whatever. Whatever it is. it took until the 1990s to do it. Yeah, that's a long time. Like, unbelievable. And it's only, you know, and I truly believe this. It's only because people that are now serving ⁓ in congress already have a bunch of money so they don't care about their what they get paid you know there's a few of them in congress that you know they actually live on that money that they get but the vast vast majority are all millionaires already. So it doesn't even matter. And that's what it took to finally get passed. Yeah. When you think about it, in that time, there was a civil war and two world wars. That's right. Like that's such a long time for all those major US events to happen. from 3,600 year old sacrifice ball courts to shrink kicking competition still held in English in the English con countryside today's journey proved one thing beyond any doubt. Humans have always been wonderfully ⁓ about Whether you were ⁓ a Florentine ⁓ playing through military siege, a Viking ending a grudge match with an axe, ⁓ or an Greek boxer ⁓ wrapping metal around your knuckles, ⁓ sports have always been about more than winning, about identity, community, and the slightly unhinged human need to prove yourself. we any way. That's right. it for this episode. for traveling through time with us EBS of History. ⁓ If you like today's story, share with a teacher, a friend, or your family ⁓ on Instagram at ⁓ EBS of History. ⁓ If have any show ideas, corrections, or questions, you can us ⁓ at questions at EBS History. Signing off, this has been your co-hosts, Jason. Zoe. And me, Gavin. Reminding you that history is not just about and battles, about people, ⁓ curiosity, and weird, wonderful choices that shaped our world. ⁓ Until next time. wondering. ⁓ Keep laughing. And keep learning through ebbs of history. ⁓ That was really good. I ⁓ definitely want to do again. ⁓