The Mesoamerican Bill Simmons Podcast ft. Patrick Wyman
Recurring guest and firm favourite Patrick Wyman joins the gang to discuss the history of climate change - what adaptation has looked like for different societies that formed and deformed around changing climates. Including pre-Dynastic Egypt, the Indus Valley Civilisation, and the crises that plagued the ends of Rome and Feudalism, among others! But first, twenty minutes grousing about how strong fundamentals players with good coachability have become a rare thing in the Mesoamerican Ritual Ball Game.
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Solid Arnold
the cool thing about cattle ruining previously fertile land is that it’s an entirely preventable problem, you just have to use rotational cropping and it has been shown to reverse desertification on all continents except Antarctica. The problem is that getting farmers to do rotational cropping is really difficult because farmers are ridiculously conservative.
I can't believe Ball Game started in Sip this year. How the hell are they supposed to play in the colder parts of the empire in stadiums without domes?
I like how Ball Game™️ is both football and football
My girlfriend used to be an amateur bodybuilder, which is why we have several Arnold books on the shelf such as "The new encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding", but we (or me) are missing "Pump and Circumstance". Great shout November.
I for one welcome the nonce detector and encourage it to go further by exactly 3 seconds
There are not one but two remixes of The Pump on Spotify. Both are incredible
What are their pronouns?
Aztec Ball Game is the XFL equivalent to Maya Ball Game
can you guys please try to book both Tom Walker and Patrick Wyman at the same time? just to see what happens
I'm the 23rd guy who in 2017 launched a podcast analysing Ball Game from a Socialist and Labour Rights angle
You might be satisfied by a builder grade menagerie, but
By saying Tides is his favorite show, Riley has clearly signaled who his preferred nephew is among the TF gang.
National Ball Game Association merch please. 🙏
oh dear Milo the Retvrn statue guys with gay porn as their avvi is all of them
We need a good sports movie about BallGame so that PreColumbian Civilizations scholars can have their own Knight's Tale
🎶 take me out to the ball game, take me with the crowd...🎶
This has got to be the latest into an episode I've had a "Hussein's on this episode?" I assume he's just arriving in the studio at the last minute because I don't think anyone could make it through the ballgame bits stone silent.
I would kill for a crisis of the third century episode.
"all of the sudden" @24:57 and 25:00 unlistenable garbage someone please ritualistically sacrifice patrick
Dude Arnold is a gooner for working out
What I'm hearing is that instead of corn-world, we should endeavor to engineer Khorne-world.
A Patrick Wyman episode! YES 🙌
What if instead of early modern Spaniards who hadn’t even learned football yet, it had been Sassanid polo players showing up at the Mayan ball game 1500 years ago?
On the other hand—no pun intended—would the Aztecs have been impressed by jeu de paume?
Speaking of Egypt they found a mummy recently covered in hazelnuts. They call it the Pharoah rochet
Love ball game, hate precarity, simple as.
The P U M P
as usual, london-cels seething while northchads went through the gü dessert droughts last year and already moved on
I legit don’t understand how you managed to talk about collapse twice without mentioning Joseph Tainter
Mayan Jose Mourinho getting sacrificed after a calamitous 3rd season with Tenochtitlan BGC
As a fat, slovenly power lifter, I never feel like I'm cumming :'(
willing to up my subscription to Ball Game Tier