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Follow Eoin on this not-so-smooth journey from the Deep South of the USA to the southern tip of Argentina, as he tries to recover from missing out on the Biggest Party In The History of The Universe (™). Each week, this podcast will travel to a new country, and we will bring you to a ritualistic fighting festival in rural Bolivia, to the basketball-crazy highlands of Guatemala and to the equine sport heartlands of Argentina’s gaucho country. We will become experts in Jai-Alai and Tejo, we will speak extensively with a survivor of the 1972 Andes plane crash, we will become fans of FC Palestino and hang out with lucha libre fighters. There are carnivals and psychedelics and broken bones, as we run from Andean karma but towards any presence of Maradona and Messi. Also: A weekly account of how a hitchhiking journey through Patagonia can go spectacularly wrong, but also lead this podcast to the family of a World Cup-winning footballer. Follow Eoin… https://www.instagram.com/eoinsheahan/ https://x.com/EoinSheahan https://www.tiktok.com/@eoinsheahan

Latest episodes

7. Peru: The Big, Amazonian, John The Baptist Sesh

3 days ago - 63 mins

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6. Central America: 2 minutes and 58 seconds in heaven

10 days ago - 79 mins

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5. Mexico: Motherf***rs, Magic Mushrooms and Mayo hurling

17 days ago - 71 mins

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4. Uruguay: “It’s not a miracle”

24 days ago - 97 mins

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3. Bolivia: Blood, Sweat, and Tear gas

a month ago - 62 mins

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2. Chile: A Scotsman, a Palestinian and a Yugoslav…

a month ago - 62 mins

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1. Colombia: Don’t mention the Escobar

In the first episode of this series, Eoin takes you to Colombia, where our first destination is the city of Medellin. Here, there are football ultras trying to make the world a better place, and there is a football club trying to get away from the historic association with Pablo Escobar. There is the national sport of Tejo, where drinking beer is encouraged and making things explode is the aim of the game. In Bogota, we hear about a national obsession with cycling, and how it’s intertwined - and not for the better - with the current politics of Colombia. There is better news on the women’s football front, however, as the national team gains positive headlines. There is also alcohol tasting, a bus that gets stuck in the highland mud and a dog-friendly MMA gym. Before all that, there’s part one of the Patagonian hitchhiking journey, as Eoin tries to get a lift out of the town of Bariloche. Follow Eoin… https://www.instagram.com/eoinsheahan/  https://x.com/EoinSheahan  https://www.tiktok.com/@eoinsheahan