Blu and Geoff celebrate Independence Day with an episode of the history of sports on Holidays, from the Ashbourne Game, to Thanksgiving football, to baseball at the summer holidays, and beyond. And as usual in the summer, discuss some weather safety tips.

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Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Shrovetide_Football
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_Christmas_Day
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Christmas_games
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/541726326/?terms=%22baseball%22%20%22fourth%20of%20july%22&match=1
• https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/baseball-on-fourth-of-july
• https://trinitonian.com/2021/12/02/a-brief-history-of-holiday-football/
• https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1876-11-30/ed-1/seq-1/?date1=1876&index=18&date2=1876&searchType=basic&state=&rows=20&proxtext=football&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange#words=football
• https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025925/1869-11-17/ed-1/seq-8/?date1=1869&index=3&date2=1870&searchType=basic&sort=date&sort=date&sort=date&state=&rows=20&proxtext=foot+ball&y=15&x=10&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2&page=3#words=FOOT%2Bfoot%2Bball%2Bfoot-ball
• https://web.archive.org/web/20131207020242/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ivyleague/yale/opponents_records.php?teamid=2637
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Lions#Thanksgiving_Day_tradition
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football_on_Thanksgiving#College_football

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Geoff is joined by food documentarian Adam Gottschalk of OTR (https://www.youtube.com/@OTRontheroad) to discuss how one goes from Charlottesville, VA to Bangkok, doing sports radio, sports food culture in Asia, following the American sports from abroad, and what sports mean as an expat. And the dogs say hello.

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Blu and Geoff back on their usual hinkyism, discussing nuclear physics history, the 1894 college football season, the great game reviews, long schedules, short schedules, the longest schedule, odd teams to play, a stadium sharing the name with a person, cool college names, and the very different power base of the sport.

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Prof. Sam Ehrlich joins the pod to discuss grilling, the House settlement, how it opens up as many questions as it answers, the origins of the striped pants, IU being good at a sport (swimming), and a fun game about national titles by school.

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Blu and Geoff open discussion with the returning IU Bison, then follow up with the hottest and coldest college football games, and provide some useful weather safety tips.

• Sources

• • https://www.weather.gov/grb/heat

  • https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/heatindex.shtml

  • https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb

  • https://www.sportsmillions.com/picks/college-football/hottest-games-college-football-history

  • https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ok/norman/KOKC/date/2000-9-2

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Heat_waves_with_high_humidity

  • https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/exerciserelated-heat-exhaustion

  • https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/weather_traffic/baton-rouge-hot-weather-breaks-records/article_49841890-1cf9-11ef-acc7-6f2bfa7b9b98.html

  • https://www.theclimateadaptationcenter.org/2024/05/18/miami-smashes-all-time-daily-heat-index-record/

    https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/kansas-city-chiefs-frozen-fans-charges-b2611730.html

    
    

    • https://pjsauer.medium.com/the-coldest-college-football-game-ever-65c752235b70

    • https://acsm.org/cold-temperatures-exercise/

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Blu and Geoff kickoff with some Indy 500 cooler planning, Indy 500 calendar discussion, and then head in to the chaotic world of commissions in college football (the one or two them), and then dive into the history of playing the national anthem at sporting events in the US (such as the Indy 500).

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Blu and Geoff are back together to discuss graduation season, some ancient history of concessions, some modern history of concession, the history of specific snacks, and the recent changes in the space of concessions.

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Due to life things, episodes have been thin, so its time for a very special aviation history episode about that time Purdue had an airline, and how it has to do with an airline you might fly today.

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