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🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | When we think of sports stories, we tend to think of epic on-the-field glory or incredible |
0:11.3 | against all odds come back stories, but what about the moments that don't make the front |
0:16.0 | page? |
0:17.0 | Well, on the new podcast, sports explains the world, you'll hear some of the wildest and |
0:22.2 | most surprising sports stories you've never heard, like the teenager who wrote a fake |
0:27.6 | Wikipedia page for a young athlete, and then watched as the real team fell for his |
0:32.7 | prank. |
0:33.7 | As a kid, Kieran Morris loved pulling pranks to fool the press. |
0:37.6 | Then when England played Honduras in a friendly soccer match, he found a young player on the |
0:43.1 | Honduras side and inflated his stats on Wikipedia to equal those of a young mezzi or Ronaldo. |
0:50.5 | Stats no one should have ever believed, but when the real major league team bid $1 million |
0:56.6 | on the player, Kieran starts wondering how harmless was this prank after all. |
1:02.3 | I'm about to play you a clip from sports explains the world. |
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1:16.5 | Join Wendry Plus in the Wendry app or on Apple Podcasts today. |
1:20.5 | Alright, here's the clip. |
1:26.6 | So here it goes. |
1:34.2 | When I was 13, me and my best friend got really into prank calls. |
1:38.0 | We were obsessed with this comedian, a guy called Chris Morris. |
1:41.8 | We cleared through his TV shows, then hunted down his radio calls. |
1:45.8 | We even joined his fan forum. |
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