The World's CRAZIEST Sports with Charles Liu & Neil deGrasse Tyson

it's like a cross-country run but at a breakneck pace and where you can possibly actually break your neck [Music] this is star talk sports edition we're gonna talk about the science of the weird in this episode more on that in a moment let me first introduce my co-host chuck nice chuckie baby hey what's up neil oh it's good to have you actor and comedian we get to say actor now along with comedian you're you're acting and stuff you know you tell us you can get up acting like a comedian that's what i said oh that's happened okay acting like a community next time you need our permission you know if you're gonna start acting so also i got my co-host gary o'reilly gary hey neil yeah you're stateside but you're you're fundamentally a brit you sound brit you talk brit yeah you think walks like and talks like it must be but we've got you because of your professional experience as a as a footballer a soccer player in england it's great to have you on you know as coaches as always as always so tell me about the sports of the weird gary because you know i looked at the notes and said i don't know what the hell gary cooked up for this show so take a seat there's a lot in the recipe here neil um okay in this episode you'll hear me mention queen elizabeth ii arnold schwarzenegger sir david attenborough who is royalty as well the wu-tang plan squid games and cheese so you see sports it's a human thing no other species on this planet invents a pastime and then organizes into a championship or a tournament the ancient greeks well they had the olympics and every village in town wait wait wait wait gary look even humans don't have that list of objects and people and phenomena and then connect them in any way at all you're telling me you're connecting those in this episode yes and you'll see as we go along now it's it's all about finding out the fastest and the strongest and you know who can throw the furthest all of that sort of thing but there are sports that didn't make it onto the olympic playlist so if i mention a couple extreme ironing right oh that is i love that all right or mountain unicycling so this this chuck really basically what i'm saying is the brits are mainly responsible for all of the silly weird and wonderful sports that are out there and we are going to look with our best friend charles liu at the science that's going to be buried in there charles lew oh my gosh oh geek in chief hello charles it's a great pleasure to be here as always thank you great to see you back yes this is like your 50th appearance on the show something like that yeah clearly we can't do the show without you so so you're you're our geek and she friend and colleague uh the professor of astronomy and physics at uh the city university of new york staten island yep and chuck always good to have you oh it's such a pleasure charles it's always good to have you wow charles it's all that's right i'm in this episode i'm charles because the true chuck there is the one true chuck when it comes to star talk and that would be chat that is chuck nice right there [Laughter] great to see everybody so yeah yeah so they're all good and like i said as our geek in chief however geeky i think i am you're geeky er so that's why we have you on here in the geek spectrum which knows no bounds you speak so kindly of me sir so so again what's what's what's the first sport you've got lined up here all right so i have to go straight for a british sport cheese rolling in gloucestershire thought to date back 600 years and be rooted in pagan rituals all right um so hear the numbers so pay attention cooper's heel is 200 yards long it has a gradient of 50 percent and it's near vertical in places the original wheel of cheese weighed between seven and nine pounds but it is now fake cheese made of foam for the safety of the spectators which is bit sad the cheese has been clocked at 70 miles an hour and the object of the race is to get to the bottom of the hill first and probably still be alive it has been dubbed the world's most dangerous foot race charles take it away oh my god wait just just to be clear when you say the cheese is going 70 miles an hour it's rolling 70 miles an hour yeah it's a classic this is a classic freshman physics problem neil remember all those days you roll a wheel of cheese without slipping down an incline of 50 to 200 yards at the bottom what is its velocity remember those things right right you have to know what the what you have to know how much did the thing like to roll that's right there's the the the the uh which the moment of inertia i guess they called it yes the disc of the moment of inertia and then you have to figure out how much of the kinetic energy goes in the rotation and how much of it goes in the translation down the hill there's this magical thing called rolling without slipping which allows you to make some of these really cool calculations if you start sliding then bets are off but we're assuming that these cheeses roll right there they're not just like slip sliding away down there no they're they're bouncing absolutely what about when they're level the ground i would say bounding down get along little cheesies okay we're moving along here's here's your tape it's 200 yards long right which is 600 feet and a 50 grade roughly that means what's the square root of 2 by 0.7 is the height it's 50 grade 45 degree angle correct is that right it is yeah yeah okay so square root of two out of them so of 600 feet right so that's about 400 feet or thereabouts now uh if you remember your physics from uh like i said one half a t squared how long it takes to fall 400 feet the answer is about four seconds okay so uh the acceleration of gravity going straight down about four seconds at each second you go 32 feet per second uh faster than you did before or about 22 miles an hour faster which means that if you've just fell straight down from the top 200 yards all the way vertically like off a cliff you know wiley coyote kind of falling when you hit the bottom you'd be going around 80 to 90 miles an hour okay but you're rolling okay so some of it is going into your rolling some of it is going away and some of the times you're bounding then you're not constrained by gravity at all so 70 miles an hour actually makes sense you could actually get to that speed now a human being couldn't do that because we don't roll without slipping when we roll we slip badly right that's how we roll yeah score one for chuck good job man that was a good one i wish i thought of that one that's how i roll i don't know now uh a person running right using bolt on a flat field will run 200 yards at a speed of about 20 to 25 miles per hour and so yeah you get that gravity assist a little bit then it's a matter of trying to figure out whether you can plant your foot and rotate your speed fast enough kind of like uh the flash or or you know the road run or something right yeah meet me you have to make sure that your feet are synced with how fast you're falling combined with how fast you can turn so you could probably wait you said something very important there charles what you're saying is as you're running you i mean this is so obvious that to say it it's like what is that what we actually do what you're saying is when i leap i have to make sure that when i come in contact with the ground again it's the bottom of my foot that's doing it not my knee or my elbow or my head that's right right okay so so there it is that's why you have the ambulances waiting at the bottom of the hill for this one right here for sure so so the answer is you know you have to time your motion of your feet to compensate not just for your regular running but when you're falling and then you've got to know where your foot is going to land and so that's another physics problem fortunately human beings are great at physics not necessarily great at writing down answers on a on a piece of paper but great is sort of calculating where our foot needs to be at any given time to reach the ground just as we are reaching the ground i mean physiologically we're good at that calculation that's right we're doing our brains just do it for us if you actually watch people chasing a wheel of cheese down cooper's hill they are not smoothly running they are flipping slipping sliding banging into each other and things because it's this is a natural hill so it's got all sorts of divots and bumps and lumps in it so uh it's just hilarious to watch wait so gary i thought this was a race between cheese wheels because then if that's what it is we could pre-load the wheel using some physics and you could win that every time if you knew physics 101. yeah this is a 600 year old sport they weren't the richest back then so they could only afford the one wheel of cheese and that is way before anybody knew physics or how to win this right like so what would you do to your wheel if you oh well you you want it to have the most amount of its kinetic energy going down the hill in the least amount of it's spinning right okay yeah which would mean wouldn't you want to like cool squish the cheese to a more like a bowling ball rather than a wheel into the middle right okay uh-huh bowling ball filled with cheese there you go wait yeah what what yeah what's the moment of inertia of a sphere again it's smaller let me give you my equation here's what you do with the cheese oh chuck's got an equation you eat it just eat it yeah screw this game guys i'm hungry but the cheese is like 70 pounds dude okay for all okay so here's what i want gary can you eat a wheel of cheese after you roll it down a hill um is it still edible is my point yes because okay well in that case you just gotta wrap it really carefully oh yeah they do they they put a wooden sort of case around it i was wondering it's probably not brie now you mentioned it it will be double gloucester which is a harder cheese oh good double blaster not likely to end up splattering everything is this just what we would call cheddar and you'll call it double glue no no no gosh no cheddar double gloucester red leicestershire it's all it's all bonkers but it's not it sounds like firm cheese okay got it yeah it is i had it wrong i'm not racing cheese wheels erasing people down the hill following a cheese wheel and it's not a straight line and it's not a thing and and and chuck getting back to your usain bolt reference yeah usain bolt might not win that race because it's not a straight path correct it's like a cross-country run but at a breakneck pace and where you can possibly actually break your neck that's about right i gotta tell ya when you explain it that way i wanna watch this sport damn okay all right so and this has been going on for how long about 600 years oh wow oh yeah now if they use the same wheel of cheese that's one hard cheese has lasted for 600 years that's like not double gloucester that's like uh quintuple gloucester by then no that's that's not going to be happening definitely evidence that there was no cable television built no hbo for sure exactly all right so gary what's what next sport what in this crazy-ass sport you have from europe okay we're moving out of britain but not too far we're going to norway okay there is such a thing as the world belly flop championships all right okay well okay i don't have time wait we have to put that in the next segment okay don't even start that until we have a fresh segment to put that in this is star talk sports edition weird sports from throughout the world uh brought to you by gary i got nothing to do with this one oh it's on me this is all gary all right we'll be back in a moment we're back star talk sports edition uh gary o'reilly has called from throughout the world specifically his part of the world crazy ass sports that uh gary i think you you made this episode take place so that one day we will look at curling and say hey that's a good sport yeah i think you're trying to reset or you've got to recalibrate anybody ever looked at the sport curling we got a geek in chief charles lew uh he's always good to to take us to places we we we didn't even think of going and of course chuck knight so keep it so keep it going gary all right so the world championships of belly flopping is a thing but it's really taken on uh a massive interest in norway where it's known as dodging which translates apparently into death diving right now now now this sounds weird it was invented in 1972 by erling bruno hovden you start on a 10 to 14 meter diving tower which translates just to be clear 1972 was before lead was banned in drinking water that's one year before the laws went into effect at least in the united states of banning lead and let it gas but could be anecdotal but could be a connection i'm just saying so you're diving off of a tower into a swimming pool at 32 to 45 46 feet high there's classic belly flop arms out stretched legs out stretch you just hit the surface of the water then there's freestyle where in mid-air you have stunts and then just as they're about to impact you just curl up in a ball and cannonball through there so because it's not a belly flap no but there's classic belly flop so there's two different events you can enter the classic or go for the freestyle oh so you can go oh oh so far oh okay so the freestyle is it it's not how much splash you don't make it's how much splash you do make and it's no it's in the the mid-air stunts you have to perform a mid-air stunt and hold it for as long as you possibly can this a dodds is is is the dive there is an international dodds federation although the delightful people of the norwegian swimming federation do not recognize it um this the world championships will attract something like 3 000 paying spectators so um it's it's quite a thing so charles if yes if i take a running jump as say like a man of 170 pounds or something like that off okay tower some 30 40 feet high okay what sort of force am i going to hit the surface of the water that's a good question but you have to be a little bit careful about this because it's not so much the force that matters right the amount of force you're experiencing from gravity uh is a constant amount right your mass times the acceleration of gravity 9.8 meters per second rather it's the momentum you have when you reach the water and how much time it takes for you to slow down right and then that leaves you with the thing called impulse so the amount of force you experience is if you have a whole bunch of momentum and you're falling and in a very short time or a very long time you you reduce that momentum to zero right so if you that's why for example when you're on the side of the road you have these crash pads or near the toll booths or something like that the slower the longer it takes for you to sl stop the less force you will experience at any given time so it's it's a combination that's why high jumpers have big pillows on the other side exactly you want to slow down their fall not so much to sort of stop it so so it's not just the amount of force which would be the mass of the individual uh well 170 pounds is what about 80 kilograms or so 75. i got to say this just so that chuck doesn't have to say it so there'd be another olympics where you have the pole vault and they land on cement that's a different sport norwegians invent that too [Laughter] they they are tough people i i thought the ski jump was already bad enough i don't know if they invented them but but imagine going down a hill in your skis through the air like 300 feet and then landing that's really amazing those guys are very impressive so yeah you bottom line is uh if you're belly flopping right you are hitting not only uh quickly you're stopping really fast but you also have a large surface area on which that you're hitting so every single spot on your skin gets smacked those good divers well i don't say good those professional divers or olympic divers they're always trying to be as vertical as possible right right little splashes that's right so that when you hit you have the smallest surface area you slice through and you don't actually feel a lot of pain then you let the water stop you the underwater cameras they go down 10 feet or something that's right so over that 10 feet they're slowing down that's right right and that makes it really nice now now at what point does the water itself uh offer enough resistance to just break you in half or like bust your bones up or i mean there's got to be a point where that water becomes as hard as cement well it's the golden gate bridge people don't survive jumping off that bridge right right it's a it's a um surface effect as it turns out basically um but the way materials work because you're going from an uh low density into high density even if that uh water is liquid when you hit you can have a substantially strong amount of impulse that gets hit to you at that time and and exactly when you're jumping from a high distance into water if you hit uh even from your platform there at 30 or uh 30 feet or 40 feet gary you can break bones you can snap joints if you're not careful so those belly floppers aren't just playing around they're probably being very very careful that they hit with the soft part of their torsos so they don't actually hit with their head and their chin going up against their the rest of their body and thus snapping something like a spine i mean the record the record is over a hundred feet that's crazy one of these deaths with the record for someone who lived yeah i'm guessing i mean that's not the classic belly flop right oh i hope no i'm sure that's curling into it yeah the curling into a cannonball at the last moment you can probably hit with your you know buttocks or something like that and you're much less likely to break something that's irreparable right but but you can't sit down for at least a week [Laughter] that water becomes your therapy space as well as your uh landing space yeah so it is interesting so in the cannonball if you hit butt first um so charles is a is is a fat butt or a narrow butt better for a cannonball land oh well that oh well there are two actors at work there right because when you're talking about i mean the left butt cheek right left and the right yeah let's see exactly if you're hitting trying to minimize your your cross-sectional area hitting the water then you want that narrow turret right on the other hand the turrets has substantial padding and that will slow down your time of deceleration right the amount of time it takes for you to reduce your speed just like a bumper on a car would so you may want more bumper to slow you down and thus you may not want to hit directly as tail on as possible but just a little bit off to the side so you get that nice fatty cushion but doesn't that dissipate the energy better yeah i'd have to do the calculations i think that would be a lot of fun to do okay so but so so gary this is now 50 a 50 year old sport is it does it make money is it if there's 3 000 spectators turning up for the world championships i'm guessing they make money because they'll be all the sort of merchandising they'll be awesome and it appears on tv so they're selling the tv rights they're selling out spectators in stadiums in norway so um yeah the world champions are belly flopping it's on it's out there making money norway television must really suck if this is if that's a if that's a prime time spirit right if this is a prime time sport okay chuck let's just get this fair it the winters in northern norway are long and dark and in the summers the sun up up in places like narvik the sun will not set during summer so there's a lot of difference up there so summer's the opposite of the winters the days are long and it never gets dark yep yeah because i think in the winter the nights are long and it never gets light right so that all switches out so so charles any calculation fast calculation in your head about whether a 300 pound fat person relative to a 130 pound skinny person would do better in this kind of event oh gee calculate real quick because we think you know with a lot of fat that's yeah it's it protects your inner organs right yep if in the classic in the classic where you're actually landing on your belly you do want more subcutaneous belly stuff to slow you down when you land you definitely want in the classic belly flop as long as you have good technique and you're landing on your belly properly right without like bending your spine too much that you wind up snapping it or something then you probably want to be a larger and have more fat now so that would take the energy of contact and dissipate it into your fat without breaking your ribs for example that's right that's exactly what you would want on the other hand if you were that cannonball thing you do your tricks in the air then you curl into a ball and drop in i think being thin would be better because then your profile going in will be smaller right and if you if you're heavy going in into the cannonball it'd be like in in in all of the the water parks with the with the fish with the you know the porpoise shows there's a splash zone yes that's right first temperatures yeah you would you would wind up uh producing quite a splash no question about it hey so gary anything else you want to add to this before we go on to the next uh i think we've [Laughter] [Music] allowed me to say allow me to just shout out to the norwegians okay at this moment the norwegians they have this fascinating sport which is still intriguing to all of us on this panel but they also have the world record for the 400 meter hurdle and they have the highest ranking chess player there ever was wow okay and this count this is a country of how many people eight eight eight people yeah right you know a few million like somewhere between like a five million people maybe yeah absolutely yeah as many as in a metropolitan area over of a city in america so that's you know they're doing something right oh yeah you got you know give them their belly flop if the rest of this is going down the way it is yeah hooray for norway i say yeah there you go all right all right so so uh gary what what sport is up next face slapping oh no oh oh oh oh all right all right yeah there it is again okay we're going to take a break and we'll come back we'll come back and talk about face slapping as a sport on star talk sports edition when we return we're back star talks sports edition odd unusual sports all of which gary invented yeah with my norwegian chums yeah just yeah we talked about cheese rolling yep we talked about belly flapping belly flopping and what's the next topic here gary as i said before the break um face slapping i do not have an origin as national identity for this thing it's been featured in squid games the netflix show oh get out yeah so here we go they love it in russia there's one of their slap kings that's the official term is vasily chamos this guy or affectionately known as dumpling who weighs in at 370 pounds oh my god it's open to both men and women but they don't hit you know you say you know women women the rules are simple you get five slaps each that's if you get that far and if you evade a slap you get a foul two fouls and you're out you can only use the upper part of your palm and cannot touch the jaw temple or ear what's left on the face to slap the cheek the cheek right here yeah yeah connect it to the jaw but you don't hit the jaw you can only hit the cheek yeah okay okay yeah that makes sense because you don't break the jaw you're right charles you sound like you helped write the rules how you i thought you were as new to this as the rest of us on this on this call well all right go on go on gary what else so we've got someone who's 370 pounds his arms are probably like my legs and he's going to slap me in the face and i'm standing there and letting him do it ouch what determines who wins oh if you just say i've had enough you you have to stand your ground and be slapped you only get five you only get five shots didn't you just say yeah so so anyone can handle five shots you think not not with not with someone has meat hands coming at you right 370 pounds because you've got you've got a straight arm lever you've got a gigantic hand that's coming at you i can't imagine what sort of speed but i don't like the idea of that here's how this uh game works for me i get to go first and then i quit [Music] gonna be someone who is so determined not to quit they'll stick it out unless they get knocked out yeah these are these are crazy people right these are people who see the world at the weird what country what country leads this i don't think there is a leader although it is popular in russia apparently man so is this a spectator sport yes they have championships and although the prize money isn't ex enormous you get to walk out there with about a thousand dollars or something like that and they'll have championships based around places and obviously there's weight categories i would imagine you know the 370 pound giant pitching up against the 100 pound wheat right you don't want anybody slapped into orbit that's exactly it yeah are you are you allowed to enter other people as as attackers or as targets well yes targets yeah like i'll tell you what i'll tell you what gary um a thousand bucks or so can certainly buy you a lot of ice packs right so it's probably yeah it's just exactly the right amount of ice packs that's right that's right but i would not necessarily discount a thin person or a lightweight person doing poorly compared to a heavyweight person in this kind of competition why well think about it it's on speed right the arm speed is what matters more than anything else the kinetic energy is one half m v squared right v the velocity it increases much faster than the mask which is all increases linearly right so if you can be really fast then you're good not to mention let's say if you are thin you might be more limber in your joints and thus when you get struck you might be able to uh absorb it a little bit better by allowing your face and your neck to destroy yeah just to change it's again increasing the amount of time your body has to absorb the force and therefore experience less force because as we talked about earlier and just to emphasize the point charles made the most lethal bullets fired out of a rifle are not the fattest heaviest bullets they're very small that you know the m16 rifle high velocity high muzzle velocity is it like a practice a 22 caliber somewhere around 0.223 yeah so basically a 22 caliber bullet so they they said let's give up some mass but put it all in the velocity and that's what makes it so lethal so very good point charles so charles um what if you have less nerve endings in your cheek i mean how many nerve endings in the human cheek can't answer please oh um millions yeah but uh yes you if you were somehow uh genetically uh predisposed that you had fewer uh cheek nerve cells uh then you might tolerate the pain a little bit more right but i'm thinking more along the lines of the damage that it would do to your face right how much uh how many blood vessels would break the millions of capillaries that are in your cheek muscles of those kinds of things and so in that sense you can imagine a very not heavyweight person but with a lot of cheek fat right um and that that would make you a very strong candidate in this kind of contest uh so the similar thing to the belly flopping so the the dissipation interesting right right interesting gary you got one more sport i think is that right uh yeah let's let's do another uh one of the finest sports ever created by the brits shin kicking shin kick is that the finns the finns do that there is a wife carrying a competition and yeah it's over an obstacle course and they so that this is before they're married or after they're married in preparation for the threshold you don't actually have to carry your own wife or have a wife you have to have a young woman or a woman over the age of 17 who you carry over i think there's two they would dry hurdles over that age anyway and that wouldn't have to be a rule in the sport but go on that's a rule the rule is and wife carrying the the woman must be over 17 years of age wow you you throw over your shoulders kind of there's different there's different styles like a sack of potatoes okay well no i'm not referring to young ladies as a potatoes there's the piggy bank like a mink stall yeah and there's the fireman's carry then there's a thing called estonia style what's that oh okay so basically the woman is over your shoulders and her legs come over over the front of you and you hold on to those and that i suppose charles is it's kind of like a counterbalance a lever yes and allows you to okay i thought this was a family show let me tell you what you just described so how did this begin the wife carrying saying um no no no just just go to the shin kicking go ahead all right so shin kicking is another british thing in it's in the same part of the world as the cheese rolling so obviously they definitely don't have cable tv um it goes back about 400 years to a thing called the cotswold olympics and that's olympic spelt with a k um you it it should be on the surface the stupidest sport anyone could ever ever have invented but there's something going on with it um it takes place in the beautiful area of the cotswolds uh they have banned steel toe cats wait wait is that a person place or thing the cocktail place the cotswold it's an area of uh of britain just to the south west thank you for forgiveness it's chocolate american geographic ignorance i think there's a cheese named cotswold isn't it yes there probably will be we'd like to choose it does have a deeper meaning and it's strange but if i explain it maybe then you'll have a better understanding shin kicking is absurd right but not without this meaning it's about standing your ground it's about stubbornly resisting the assaults that come your way and giving back as good as you get um yeah it's okay so it's about revenge okay there's rooms you stand there stand your ground you kick somebody in the shins yeah and then how much time do you get how do they get to recover because i've never been kicked in the shins i've never bumped my shin on a coffee table i've never even scraped my shin without immediately pulling it up to my chest and writhing in pain or so how much time do you get to recover it's it's an ongoing bout so each here we go this is the quaint british tradition each person has to wait there's two people in a ring to begin with right a circular ring and there's a judge outside and they have both have to wear white coats they have to hold on to the collar of each of their opponent and if they get them on the ground they win and they're off three count them one two three rounds and you can only kick between the knee and the foot okay so it's like wrestling with kicking yes you're you're holding the person like though i forget the whole that you when you see those guys wrestling they start off with their hand on their neck and then you and then you get to kick the guy and if if somebody goes down that's then they win they you you ground your opponent you get a point and uh you get as many whoever gets the most points after three rounds wins or if someone says you know what i've had enough my shin's really hurt now i'm going home it still sounds like gary that people they need more streaming tv services a lot of bored people and the twisted mind that came up with this i i don't quite know but it's a thing shin kicking i hope they're allowed to wear shin guards you know what they do they okay so they wear trousers okay and they stuff hay down the legs of their trousers to give them some protection but really so it's not the least bit uncomfortable either tradition of stuffing your pants yes i understand i would have stuffed a metal plate down my pants this is 400 years old the excess of ready-made metal shin guards that blacksmith would have been my friend i'm with neil on this one hay on top metal metal against the skin i mean there are so many more uh weird sports there's a sport called goanna pulling okay it's that the the aussies came up with that um then you've got it you mean like australians not the aussies like ozzie and harriet right the australians the down unders um then you've got chess boxing okay which has become yes you heard me no t in there chuck chess boxing so you have a round of chess you they play blitz chess right so you have a round of chess and then they go and have a three-minute boxing round come back round of chess three minutes and they alternate so you win by checkmate or knockout um really you have to have uh i think it's called an elo isn't it the chess sort of gradient system you have to have 1600 and above it's pretty good as a chess and have been at least have 50 amateur bouts as a boxer to compete professionally so this guarantees that you will lose your cognitive exactly so this there'd be good data there find out what happens to your chest rating every time you get knocked out and then this is this is important concussion uh data i mean the thing is the science has taken an interest in chest boxing because it's the ability to flip-flop out of a physical strenuous demand like a round of boxing and then sit down and be calm yeah wow yeah okay i know i don't i don't know any real life situations where you might have to do that i think it's it's it's how the brain hey man this guy's just moving the hell out of me but right now i got to do some calculus that's what happened to me all the time in high school chuck i don't know what's wrong oh nice well played sir well played says the geek in chief so guys we got to land that plane so uh gary there's probably a longer list than we would even oh gosh okay conquers which well we're out of time gary no no i've got to drop some names here concourse just in case the ones that we've already discussed are not weird enough okay a favorite of queen elizabeth ii and sir david attenborough so i got those two names in and arnold schwarzenegger is a big fan of face slapping okay and the wu-tang clang have a song about chess boxing there you go all connected well by the way we've had the gizza on star talk many years ago in the early seasons so uh we get around on this on this show so wait wait so what's the favorite sport of queen elizabeth she was a big fan of conker's which is a horse chestnut you know those things in the swing and you drill you put a string through and then you try and smash your opponent's conquer with it conquers another conqueror what's a conquer it's a horse chestnut yes no oh what do you mean you won't have to smash their conkers with your conkers yes oh uh interesting again you had me at home you had my horse chestnut i would have more fun swinging cantaloupes at one another and having them smash that's the gallagher version good one next point to everyone who uh chuck who who gallagher is yeah you gotta look up gallagher there's no you're looking at him yeah if you don't know what who gallagher is kids just go to go to go to youtube yeah look up annie gallagher clip it'll be exactly what you've got to say right my favorite line from gallagher and then we gotta call it quits he was the one that came up with which was later than repeated by other comedians i think he said if pro is the opposite of kong then progress is the opposite of congress oh yeah god that saying just keeps getting better with you that came out of him yeah yeah yeah all right guys uh gary we got to do this again because apparently we did not exhaust your list no uh this has been star talk the weird sports edition and uh charles always good to have you man pleasure all right guys uh that's has been star talk sports edition neil degrasse tyson here keep looking [Music]

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Published: Fri May 13 2022