How might enjoying our favorite sports and supporting our most cherished teams and athletes make us accomplices in the world’s most heinous atrocities ever committed? Award-winning journalist and podcaster Andrew Gold joins us for this Skeptical Sunday to explore the PR tactic of sportswashing, in which authoritarian regimes use sports to improve their image on the world stage. Full show notes can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/829 What We Discuss with Andrew: 00:00 - Intro 01:59 - What is sportswashing? 21:26 - Does sportswashing actually work? 29:54 - Governments are buying teams 35:23 - When sportswashing is good (kind of) 39:54 - North Korea and American sports 46:24 - What you can do Get the BEST highlights from each episode on our clips channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-cxPJ7QxPE8M7EYe5Vv7ag Want to watch more in-depth interviews with some of the world’s most amazing and successful people? Find full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNbAQB8BYtM&list=PLxuPu-uyanrrBgAl5-76enemxVsxFjnEQ&index=1 Welcome to The Jordan Harbinger Show, a video podcast where each week you get to join a conversation with some of the world’s highest performers and incredible personalities. I’ll ask them the tough questions to tease out their top tips so that you can reach levels of personal growth and mastery that you never imagined possible. Learn more about Jordan: http://jordanharbinger.com/about #podcast #jhs #sports #russia