1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: M Hey there everybody, it's your old friend Josh And 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: for this week's s y s k Seles, I've chosen 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: the episode on Yo Yo's, which is great. It's like 4 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: a trip around the world on the end of a 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: string that draws you right back home at the end, 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: which makes it great. So please enjoy. Welcome to Stuff 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: you should know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, 8 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Carr. There's Charles W. 9 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. That's me, same as ever, scratching the old back. Yeah, 10 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 1: just got a little itch there. You ever use one 11 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: of those little dealies, the little creepy hand, the little 12 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: monkey pok on the end of the stick I have before. Um, 13 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: I don't like to do that. It hurts. Yeah, I 14 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: guess you could call it. It's a painful sensation. I 15 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: get up against the wall sometimes and do the blue 16 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: the bear. That'll do sometimes too, But it's weird, like 17 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: I only have backaches in about the same place, and 18 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: that would be on my left shoulder blade on the 19 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 1: western side of it, depending on which direction I'm facing. Curiously, 20 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: this is going to be the most interesting part of 21 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: this show that is not a treat Chuck Man, So Chuck, Yes, 22 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 1: this is going to be a great one. Okay. I 23 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: have a feeling this canna be one of those ones 24 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: where it's like, wow, that turned out to be really good. 25 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: It's physics heavy out the Yeah, everyone loves that. But 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: the fact is, when we finished this, you're gonna know 27 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: how yo yo works. This is probably the most truly titled, 28 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: truest titled episode well we've ever done. Do you think yep? 29 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: I don't know. All right, well we'll find out. I 30 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: think it should be called Physics through the Eye of 31 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: a yo yo. So listen, have you ever seen the 32 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: movie Harlem Nights? Uh parts dude? That is go back 33 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: and watch it again, like, oh, you're crazy. It's one 34 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: of the best movies ever. Eddie Murphy, Red Fox, Richard Pryor, 35 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: and like everybody else in it too. I think Bernie 36 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: Max in there terrible script. I don't think the script 37 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: is terrible. I thought it was great. Um. There's one 38 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,959 Speaker 1: thing about that movie that bugged me to know it. 39 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: It's setting like the twenties, right, and throughout the movie, 40 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy uses the word yo yo was obviously a 41 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 1: modern term, and it just sticks out like a sore thumb. 42 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: Every time he does it drives me crazy, Like it 43 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: drives me crazy that he did. It drives me crazy 44 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: that the director wasn't like, you can't say yo. This 45 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: is like nineteen twenties New York. Yo wasn't around. I 46 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: don't know that they were going for a historical accuracy 47 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: in that one. They were wearing spats, so um Jerry 48 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: like that one. So I went back to the little 49 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: digging Chuck and it turns out that yo was in 50 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: fact around in the nineteen twenties. But Eddie Murphy was 51 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: still wrong for using it in that capacity. Okay, so 52 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 1: um Yo goes back at least to like the fifteenth 53 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: century as like a hunting cry, right when somebody was 54 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: like somebody else might go yo, and you go chase 55 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: fox um. That was kind of the first wave of 56 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: yo um. As far back as eighteen fifty nine, we 57 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: know that there were sailors that were using it yo 58 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: ho Yo Ho ho, or also um. It was a 59 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: response for roll call like yo, like somebody called your name, 60 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: you would say yo. It wasn't until after World War Two, though, 61 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: that the modern incarnation comes and it came out of 62 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: the Italian quarters of Philadelphia, So that's where they think 63 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: yo came from after World War Two. Hence Eddie Murphy 64 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: was wrong in using yo especially frequently in the movie 65 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: Harlem Nights. So I did all that research, or I 66 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: could have just looked into Google Translate from English too uh, 67 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: Filippine uh, or vice versa and find that it just 68 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: means come. Yeah, but I don't think that's what it 69 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: means here, does it? It does now? So the word 70 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: yo yo, as it stands right means come, come or 71 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: come back. Yeah, that makes sense. Did you know that 72 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: I did? You want to talk a little bit about 73 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: the history of yo yos? Did you know before reading 74 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: this fantastic article that yo yo's originated, as we understand 75 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: them now, originated in the Philippines in the nineteen twenties. 76 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I did know that it was 77 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 1: around for a long time before that, though, And you know, 78 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: other forms, well, pretty much the same form. There were 79 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: like two forms of yo yo's in history, and one 80 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: came out of the new one came out of the Philippines. 81 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: The other one. Yeah, it's pretty old, well, ancient Chinese 82 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: or at least ancient Greeks more years ago. But they 83 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: think the Chinese had something similar to that. Yeah, I'm 84 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: starting to strongly suspect that the Chinese or the origin 85 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: of human civili They think, yeah, they came up with beer. Yeah, 86 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: well they came up with beer. You have it. They 87 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: went right there. Uh. And it is the oldest toy 88 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: on the planet except the doll, the dolly. I thought 89 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: that was pretty interesting too. Yeah, yeah, of course, although 90 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: I wonder if they're kind of diminishing any kind of 91 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: ancient rituals or rights by saying, like, look at this 92 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: cute doll when really it's you know, some sort of 93 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: fetish m hmm. I don't know. You never know. So 94 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: it's been around a long time. They've designed it in 95 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: different ways over the years. Uh. The original design was 96 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: had the the string tied tight to the little axis there. 97 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: We'll call it the Greek design, the Greek design. Now 98 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: we'll call it the Chinese design or the European design. Well, 99 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: not designed, but it was popular in Europe. And that obviously, 100 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: if if you ever used an old yo yo like that, 101 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: or redesign yours to where it's tied around the axle, 102 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: it'll pop up, you know, as soon as you throw 103 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: it down, it'll pop back up. Yeah, because it's tied 104 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: to the axle. Exactly right. Um, and you said it 105 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: was popular in Europe. There were other words for other 106 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: names for the yo yo before it was a yo yo. 107 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 1: That's right. There was the lemigrette, the bendalora. The bendalora 108 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: was British, I believe the quiz. Yeah, I don't. I 109 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: didn't get a country of origin for that, but it 110 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: was very popular in Europe. There's a painting of I 111 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: think Louis is he the boy King? I don't know 112 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: whichever Louis was the boy King of him holding like 113 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 1: a yo yo, like a royal painting of him with 114 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,239 Speaker 1: a yo yo? Or the what was a little hoop 115 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: on in a stick? I think that's what it was called. 116 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,239 Speaker 1: That was an awesome game, the hoop on a stick? 117 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: Who uh? And then, um, I don't think you can 118 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: compare the yo yo to the hoop on a stick. No, 119 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: I'm not comparing. I'm just saying I just never got 120 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: that toy. Oh okay, Well here's another one for you. 121 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: Napoleon was well known for carrying and using a yo yo, 122 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: apparently for stress relief. Oh yeah, it didn't work too well. 123 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: He was a stressed out dude. He needed the yo yo. 124 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: But as as you said that, that's the the European 125 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: favored or Chinese design, where like the strings tied really 126 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: tight to the axel and it just basically goes up 127 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: and down. Right, So the Filipino design lead to the 128 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: modern yo yo as we understand it now. And the 129 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: huge distinction is that the the string is just looped 130 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: around the axle kind of loosely, which has the added 131 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: benefit of allowing the yo yo itself to spin once 132 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: it reaches the end of the string. Sleep. That's what 133 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: the that's why people yo yo, I think, Yeah, it's 134 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: all about the tricks. I mean, it's sort of fun 135 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: for a minute just to go up and down, but 136 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: it's really all about the tricks. It's just a stress 137 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: reliever if it just goes up and down. Did you 138 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: yo yo when you were a kid? Uh? Yeah? Here there. 139 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: But even as a kid like I could sense that 140 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,239 Speaker 1: like these these new modern ones that we'll talk about 141 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: with like ball bearings and clutches, they just seem like cheating. 142 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: I agree, let's not even talk about them. It's not 143 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: even a real yo yo. So Chuck, you want to 144 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: talk about a little bit about physics. Well, let's finish 145 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,239 Speaker 1: the history for shall we. Okay, well, I have plenty 146 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: of that. Uh. It was originally in the Philippines. They 147 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: think it was a hunting weapon for like four years so, 148 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: but not like a little tiny yo yo. They were 149 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: really big and it was basically a big spindle attached 150 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: to a rope with like spikes coming off of it. 151 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: They were like the size of a ugo. Yeah, and 152 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: I guess the just the benefit there is you could 153 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: get it back after you threw it at somebody. Right. 154 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: The stream was almost just useless though, Well you just 155 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: throw it and run after it. Oh really okay, it 156 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: was actually heavy rope and they use it for hunting 157 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: to right. Well, at some point down the line, well yeah, 158 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: you would think anything used in hunting, you know, does 159 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: double duty and more exactly anything you're trying to kill. Yeah. Um. 160 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: The At some point though, they became smaller and became 161 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: toys and uh. In the twenties, a Filipino immigrant to 162 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: the US named and Drew flores Um started a company, 163 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: the first modern yoyo company in the United States, and 164 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: did pretty well for himself. Uh. And then sold out 165 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: to a man named Duncan, Right, Donald Duncan, Yes, Donald Ducan, 166 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,719 Speaker 1: and uh Duncan Duncan and uh, you know Flores's in 167 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: Santa Barbara and like you said, was selling these things 168 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: like hotcakes enough that Duncan said, hey, let me buy that. 169 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep the name yo yo because it's catchy. 170 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna trade market and now I own it. And uh. 171 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: Through the years he had competitors that made similar devices 172 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: with different names, and they were like, dude, everyone's calling 173 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: the sing of yo yo. We want to be able 174 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: to call it a yo yo two. And he said, no, no, 175 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: I own it. Then the federal courts in Nive says, 176 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: you know what, that's generic enough now where you don't 177 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: own it any longer. They're all yo yo's. Well, what 178 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: there's legal challenges to their trademark. The name yo yo 179 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: um was one of the things that bled the company dry. 180 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: It eventually went bankrupt. Duncan, the Duncan company went bankrupt 181 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 1: in the same year. They ruled yeah against them. They 182 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: were like, well, that's it for us, But they also 183 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: had other money troubles. They was they were actually victims 184 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: of their own success the Duncan company was, so they 185 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: moved um in the forties to luck Wisconsin, which very 186 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: quickly became known as the yo yo capital of the world. 187 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,079 Speaker 1: And at their peak they were making thirty six hundred 188 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: yoyos an hour, mostly out of would at first maple 189 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: they were using a million board feet of maple wood 190 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: every year. Yeah. And they actually, in addition to their 191 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 1: legal challenges like the money going to fight their legal battles, um, 192 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: they were paying tons of money in overtime to advertising. UM. 193 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, I think in nineteen 194 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: sixty two, Chuck, they managed to sell forty five million 195 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: yo yos and in that same year there were only 196 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: forty million kids in the US. That's pretty astounding. The 197 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,319 Speaker 1: chicken in every in a yo yo and every exact 198 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: other hand at least sure unless I guess some kids 199 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: were yoyo with both hands up. They're rich kids. Um. 200 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: But like I said, they they the company ended up 201 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: coming bankrupt anyway, but yo yo enthusiasts still look very 202 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: fondly on the Duncan name. And UM. I think June sixth, Yes, 203 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: June six is National yo Yo Day, which happens to 204 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: be the same day as Donald Duncan's birthday. Yeah. Well, 205 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: and the Duncan name lives on. Obviously, you still see 206 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: Duncan Yo Yo's. They sold out. They didn't just shut down, well, 207 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: they went bankrupt and sold all right. Yeah, so who 208 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: was it? The flam Flam bail plastics company. They said, 209 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: we'll keep the name Duncan because it's synonymous with Yo Yo's. 210 00:11:46,600 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: It's not generic yet. There's a little yoyo history for you. 211 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: I got a little more. I'm going to stay to 212 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: the end. I think you'll like. Okay, you didn't tease 213 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: you with it. Now let's talk about physics. Well, I 214 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: think this is very interesting. Good. So there's a two Okay. 215 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: You mentioned with the string tied to the classic Chinese 216 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: design Yo Yo, you have one kind of um energy 217 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: going on, right, yes, and that is a linear momentum, 218 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 1: the ability of it to go up and down or 219 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: I should say down and up right, that's right with 220 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: the Filipino design, the modern design and has two kinds 221 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: of potential energy. It has that same linear momentum to 222 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: go up and down, but it also has angular momentum 223 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: and angular momentum is um its ability to spin on 224 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 1: an axle. Okay, So you've got two things going on. 225 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: And like you said, when the yo yo hits the 226 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: end of the line of its linear momentum, it can 227 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: still It's built up since it's wound around the spool, 228 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: It's built up a lot of angular momentum. So we 229 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: can just sit there and spin or sleep as you 230 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: called it. Yeah, it actually increases as it goes down, 231 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: which is the key to keeping it spinning, right. It 232 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: gets faster as it falls. There's another pretty cool trait 233 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: to a yoyo. Who knew they were so complex? I didn't, 234 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: did you? I did not? Okay? So um. They also 235 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: have gyroscopic stability, chuck, they do. Okay. So if you 236 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: if you have a yo yo that's sleeping and you 237 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: push down on top of it, like it goes down 238 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,079 Speaker 1: and then back up, that's because of its gyroscopic stability. 239 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: That point that you push down on the yo yo 240 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: is transferred from the front and spun around to the back. 241 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: So that's even now, So the yo yo will just 242 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: keep spinning as long as it's spinning fast enough. Gyroscopic stability, yes, 243 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: that means a spinning object object will resist change to 244 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: its access of rotation. And have you ever thrown a football, 245 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: it's the same thing. Yeah, Or if you've ever thrown 246 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: a football poorly, what do they call that? Wibbler turkey, 247 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: wounded duck brick. That's why wounded duck doesn't go very 248 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: far because it doesn't have that tight spine, so it 249 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: falls off its axis and won't travel as far, same 250 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: as a frist and then the whole team's mad. Basically, 251 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: anything that spins frisbees, footballs, there's there's gotta be a baseball. 252 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: We could liken it to a baseball somehow. Let's say 253 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: a curveball, knuckleball slider definitely not a knuckleball slider than 254 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: spin at all? Really, is it like a shop put No, 255 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: the knuckleball you the whole key is. It doesn't move. 256 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: It travels like this, and that's why it moves all 257 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: around crazy. Um. It's so you've got your you've got 258 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: your yo yo sleeping. You're you're totally aware of its 259 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: gyros copic stability um and you understand that it's angular 260 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: momentum is just awesome. It's far out right, it's far 261 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: out but you want to wake it up, and that's 262 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: when you bring it out of its sleep and rewind 263 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: it back up the spool, right, little tug on the 264 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: old finger. Yeah, and the reason why is because the loop, right, 265 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: there's less friction with the loop around the axle. When 266 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: you tug it, you increase that friction and you allow 267 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: it to rewind. It just grabs ahold of its buddy 268 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: and just let's go back up to the palm. Yeah. 269 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. Yeah. I like Yo yo physics a lot. 270 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: So we basically just talked about the two hardest parts, right, 271 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: sleeping and waking. Yeah, And like I said, sleeping is 272 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: the key to do any kind of trick like walking 273 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: the dog, which I was pretty good. I used to 274 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: could do a few yo yo tricks. Yeah, I could 275 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: walk the dog, and I could do uh, I could 276 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: do the deal where you you make a triangle and 277 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: then TikTok through the triangle something like a cradle or 278 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: probably the cats in the cradle let's call a cat's cradle, 279 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: And then I could I could do the around the world. Wow, 280 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: we're on the world. Yeah, I couldn't do any of those. 281 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna this inspired me to get a new Yoh. Yeah, 282 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: by the way, I like the vintage Duncan ones, specifically 283 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: the yellow ones with the butterfly like the gold the 284 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: gold butterfly, the inverted ones. No one butterfly on that 285 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: because they had those that were that looked like a 286 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: butterfly that were I know what you're talking about, inverted, 287 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: and I think that actually plays a part in the 288 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: uh increasing the moment of inertia section. Yeah, I think 289 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: that's why they flipped it out to put more weight 290 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: on the outside. Yeah, okay, well you want to talk 291 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: about that? Why not? So do you remember when we 292 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: did the um Murphy's Law podcast? How could I forget? Remember? 293 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: One of the books that he wrote was for your 294 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: Moments of Inertia? Yeah? Yeah, I didn't realize it was 295 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: a terrible, terrible engineering pun until I read this article, mate, 296 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: John Paul staff a little bit. Nah, we love that guy, 297 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: so Chuck. A moment of inertia is basically a way 298 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: of describing as spinning objects resistance two changes in that 299 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: rotation basically um being slowed down right, um. And what 300 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: what smarter people than us have figured out is that 301 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: if you increase the mass and distribute it slightly further 302 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: away from the axis, you're going to increase its moment 303 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: of inertia, right, and that increases the amount of time 304 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: is just sleeping, right Yeah. And like I said, I 305 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 1: don't know this, but I just remember when I was 306 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,919 Speaker 1: a kid, they had those inverted yo yos, and I 307 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: bet you anything that's why they did it. Be because 308 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: they were wider at the outside and then curved in, 309 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: which had to be less mass. Yeah, it was less stuff, 310 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: less would So I'm gonna go on record as saying 311 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: that's why they did that. But I think you want 312 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: more mass further away to increase its moment of inertia, right, Yeah, 313 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 1: so it was there was more mass on the outside 314 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: further away from the axis. Yeah, so that allows things 315 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: to sleep a lot longer. And um, that was a 316 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: I guess you could say one of the breakthroughs in 317 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: yo yo design. I think in the sixties they started 318 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: adding mass to the outside and um, extending the axle 319 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: a little bit. Bam, the yo yo has been improved, 320 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: think about this, right, maybe even longer than that years ago, 321 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,439 Speaker 1: somebody invented the yo yo does not change until the 322 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: Philippines in the early twentieth century. Well, I thought it 323 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 1: said it did change. We just don't know, said there 324 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: were changes in designs over the years. No, not that 325 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: I took. I took it like there was one way 326 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: and then there was the Filipino way, and that was it. 327 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: We got a correction to make them, and then the 328 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: twenty century hits and then there's all these great improvements 329 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: on these designs. Indeed, one of the improvements Chuck was 330 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: adding ball bearings. Right, yeah, well you and I don't 331 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: think these are improvements ear least I don't. Okay, that's 332 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,919 Speaker 1: absolutely true. That's a good caveat. I think that the 333 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: Filipinos perfected the yo ya. Let's just call them modifications, 334 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: okay for sorry kids who don't know how to yo 335 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 1: yo rich kids. Yeah, that makes it easier, I think, 336 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 1: And that the whole point of both of these things. Yeah, 337 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: I guess makes it easier to sleep and yeaheah. And 338 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: I guess they're like, well, if you're just enjoying sleeping 339 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 1: and waking your yo yo, then why make it tough 340 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 1: if you want to have fun with your toy? Right, 341 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: I can't believe they made it easier for kids to 342 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: fund they So the ball bearing design I think is 343 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: kind of clever. Um. Basically, the this modification takes the 344 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: axle and splits it into Yeah, into two races, which 345 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: are basically little courses for ball bearings to spin around. 346 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: Right now, does that split the axle? These are just 347 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 1: around the axle. So one is connected to the axle, 348 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: that's the inner race. One is connected to the string 349 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 1: that's the outer race, and then in between the two 350 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: are ball bearings. Right. Okay, they're not connected in any way, 351 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: um except maybe via the context with the ball bearings. Right, 352 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: So when you when you release your yo yo towards 353 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: the ground and it's linear and angular momentum really build 354 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 1: up when it hits the inter race can tilt a 355 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: little bit and um connect with the outer race via 356 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:24,400 Speaker 1: the ball bearings. So they're they're spinning, right, and then 357 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: as they straighten out the um they they're they're not 358 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,400 Speaker 1: connected anymore, so that the string no longer has any 359 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: effect on whether the yo yo spins or not, because 360 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 1: it's just the inter race connected to the axle that's spinning. 361 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: So your yo yo can sleep far far longer. Yeah, 362 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: the outer race spens the interrace, which spins the axle. Right, 363 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: It's like a transfer of angular momentum, and then the 364 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 1: strings just like you just let me know when you're 365 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: done and we'll wind back up. Well, it'll get a 366 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: little tug. Will do the same thing with that style, right, 367 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: or you can just completely take yourself out of the 368 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: equi Asian altogether except for a snap of the risk. 369 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: The initial release is all you need to do with 370 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: what's called the yo Yo with the brain. These are 371 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: really fake yo yo's. I want to get one though. 372 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: It's kind of cool, like you could be in a 373 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: vegetative state and do this yo yo. Yeah, this was 374 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: in the nineties. Company called Yo Maica release these and 375 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 1: they called it the yo Yo with the brain, when 376 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: in fact they should have called it the yo Yo 377 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: with the clutch. And Uh, the deal here is you've 378 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: got these two clutch arms, uh weighted ball on one 379 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: side and it's not attached on the other side, and 380 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: they're spring loaded. The spindle is not attached to the axle, 381 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: but the clutch arms are attached to the spindle. So 382 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: when you throw this thing down, it's gonna spin slower 383 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: at first, and the and the clutch is engaged. As 384 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: it gets faster, all of a sudden, it's enough inertia 385 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,439 Speaker 1: to pop the clutch. Essentially against the edges, and it 386 00:21:55,720 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: releases the spindle, which makes the whole thing spin faster. 387 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: On the axis right, the centrifugal force um pushes down 388 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: the weight, which pushes down the arm onto the spring, 389 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: which releases the two which allows it to spin. And 390 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: it only spends for a certain amount of time. It's 391 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,160 Speaker 1: not like the kind that you tug back up. It'll 392 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: spin till it slows down and then the clutch locks 393 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,959 Speaker 1: back down and boom, it shoots back up right back up. 394 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: I wanna, I wanna, I wish we had one of those. 395 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: I want to see what it's like. So basically, the 396 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: big to the two modifications are based on separating the 397 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: string from the axle by by creating two different kinds 398 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: of I guess axles or spindles or whatever, which are 399 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: really just sort of taking the Philippine Filipino design a 400 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,719 Speaker 1: step further because although it made contact with the axle, 401 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: that wasn't quote connected to the axle. Yeah, I guess 402 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: it was, but it wasn't tight. And a guy named 403 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 1: Michael Caffrey is the one who came up with the 404 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: yo yo with the brain, and you omega started telling 405 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: him in but he came up with two years after 406 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 1: a man named Tom Qun created the no Jive three 407 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: and one yo yo that you could take apart and 408 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: replace the axle and do all sorts of modifications with 409 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: no really big big time for changes in yo yo design. 410 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: So did he rip this, dude off? Is that what 411 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 1: you're saying? Okay, No, I'm just saying, like the two 412 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: these two big steps in um yoyo design, he said 413 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: two years after it was sinister. Well, you're a very 414 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:51,639 Speaker 1: suspicious person I am when it comes to yo yo design, Chuck. 415 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,959 Speaker 1: That's pretty much the physics of yo yo's. Did you 416 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: know that we just explained how yo yo's work. You know, 417 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 1: I looked online at videos and stuff to make it 418 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: a little easier because this is a very visual thing, 419 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 1: and they do have videos. But what I found out 420 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,959 Speaker 1: is that a lot of teachers, physics teachers use yo 421 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: yos to describe these whatever four to six properties that 422 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 1: we described. I have to tell you, I understand angular 423 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: momentum far better now. I understand and although it went 424 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 1: through the yo yos to the football, I understand the 425 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: moment of inertia. Okay, are wait? Is that moment of inertia? No? 426 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: That's angular momentum. Angular momentum spinning on an axis. Yeah, 427 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: oh you're talking about the gyros copic stability. Yeah, that's 428 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: what it was. See I get confused. I need to chuck. 429 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 1: It's physics, man, don't feel bad. Um you want to 430 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: know A couple more pieces of yo yo trivia. In one, 431 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: Abby Hoffman of the Chicago Seven was um indicted uh 432 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: or no, charged with contempt of Congress when he um 433 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 1: started doing the walk the Dog uh and during a 434 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 1: House American Activities Committee session that was investigating him. So 435 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: he was like, I'm just so over this, I'm gonna yoyo. Well, apparently, 436 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: the way I read it is that he was trying 437 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: to entertain lighting everything up, like here, watch me yoyo, 438 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 1: and he was walking the dog and the who act said, 439 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: so that's how yoyo's are connected to McCarthy is m 440 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: if you want to take a n y sk quiz 441 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: and that comes up. Plus, yoyos were huge back then. 442 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 1: That was like the heyday. I think this is the sixties. Yeah, um, Nixon, 443 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: have you seen Nixon try to yoyo? Man, if you 444 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 1: don't like Nixon, this will just make you hate him 445 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: even more the night that they opened the Grand Old 446 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: Opry and I think sometime in nineteen seventy four, Um, 447 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: what's the main guy, like the whole cast of Heehaus 448 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: behind Nixon and then the main roy Akoff. He presents 449 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: Nixon with a yoyo and like has to put it 450 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: on Nixon's finger and Nixon looks like what's going on? 451 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 1: You know? And um, and then he tries to do 452 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: it once and it just kind of like flops down 453 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: and makes like sad trombone noise and he just has 454 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: this sullen like look on his face, like I don't 455 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: like yo yo's. He looks kind of like you did 456 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 1: at the beginning of this episode. Yeah, me and Tricky 457 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: did um. And then they took a yo yo in 458 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,719 Speaker 1: space Chuck, Yeah, I saw that and it still worked. 459 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: It did work. They found that like letting it drop 460 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 1: did nothing because they were testing it in microgravity. But 461 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: if you throw it, um, it will it will go slowly. 462 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: You can you can do it slowly, but it will 463 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: still spin um. And it moves kind of um just 464 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: kind of gracefully along the string like in just mid 465 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: air horizontally and um. But it will never sleep well, 466 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: thank God, NASA did that. Yeah, those are all the 467 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: videos you see that. They do much more than that. 468 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: That was back when NASA was like, we have so 469 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: much money, we don't know what to do. Let's launch 470 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: something and let's say the Toys and Space Project, right, 471 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: and they did. Now this was just where ho yos. 472 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: That was the only thing they did on that flight. Well, No, 473 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: the Toys and Space Project in company or encompassed to 474 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: sixty Shuttle missions, one for each toy that they tested out. 475 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: Jack's was one of the best ones, the Belo paddle. 476 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: So that's uh, that's yo yos. Frankly, I'm pretty happy 477 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: with this one. I thought you were going to lead 478 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 1: in with something on yo yo ma. Man try to 479 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: look up yo yo's in the news and not get 480 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: yo yo ma cheez, can't do it, stupid. I searched 481 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: yo yo minus ma minus knee minus gabba to finally 482 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: get some stuff. Oh what was the other one here, 483 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: Mama neo yo MTV raps that came up to did it? Yeah? 484 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 1: I stopped searching before I minused MTV two. You know 485 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: how you could minus I was in Yeah, and it'll 486 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: it'll route out all the search all this all the 487 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 1: results that have that. So you just put the minus 488 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: on minus and then the next letter. No space had 489 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: no idea, and you can do a bunch of different ones, 490 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: no comms, no nothing, just like minus Gabba minus Yo 491 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: minus mom minus Knee. You've literally just improved my life. 492 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 1: Oh good, or my research for like the eight Time 493 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 1: to Day. Yeah all right, well that's it alright yo Yo's. 494 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 1: I was in a jewelry store once and Neo came in. 495 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: It seemed nice. Who's Neo? He's this rapper. He's from Atlanta. 496 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: I thought you're talking about the matrix. No, that's like 497 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 1: his real name is Ken Neo. This is Knee Yo. 498 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've heard of him. Yeah him. Well, if 499 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: you want to learn more about Yo Yo's, including some 500 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: really top notch illustrations, this is one of those ones 501 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: that you will see why we have staff illustrators here 502 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 1: actually in color. No. Um, you want to type in 503 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: yo Yo at the in the handy search bart how 504 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. That will bring up that really 505 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: cool article. Um and I said handy itch bar. So 506 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: now it's time for Chuck to shine with another edition 507 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: of Listener Mail. Josh. This is uh one of our 508 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: oldest than not by age, but one of our most 509 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,239 Speaker 1: loyal fans and its spies. She has a band and 510 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: they put together Well, let me just read it. This 511 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: is coming out shortly after Christmas, and she said it 512 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: was still great to read this. Hi, guys and Jerry, 513 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 1: since we're firmly in the festive, greedy, little grip of 514 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: the holiday season, I was wondering if you could give 515 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: a shout out to a project I'm involved in, or 516 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 1: my band is. At least it's a charity album to 517 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: raise funds for the continued fallout from the Japanese earthquake 518 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: and nuclear disaster, and the light of everything that's happened 519 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: since I know, it's been put on the back burner 520 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: of most people's charitable contributions, which is why we were 521 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: thrilled and honored to our part to re raise awareness 522 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: when the label releasing this compilation approached us to contribute 523 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 1: a track. So you know, she's right. You hear about 524 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: these tragedies that happen, and then six months later you 525 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: kind of forget about it, the curse of the news 526 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: cycle exactly. But luckily there's a lot of people that, uh, 527 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: my friend Dave is one of them that's still working, 528 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: like on the tsunami from five or six years ago, 529 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: so continued help is always needed. Uh, there's a CD. 530 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: It's gonna be out in mid December, so by this 531 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: by the time this comes out, it'll already be out. 532 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: You can stream the entire album, which is thirty seven 533 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: tracks by thirty seven artists on the website More Hope 534 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: for Japan dot com and her band New Century Classics 535 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: wrote and recorded a brand new song just for this compilation, 536 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: and she's quite proud of it. And I haven't had 537 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: a chance to listen to it yet, but I'm gone. 538 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: And she says there's a lot of far better known 539 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: artists on there. Uh and anyone who likes instrumental music, 540 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 1: post rock, ambient and basically pretty melodic guitar based tunes 541 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: should dig it. So check it out. That's Anna's uh. 542 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: Anna's band, New Century Classics. More Hope for Japan dot 543 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: Very cool. Thanks a lot and appreciate that, Thanks for 544 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: letting us know, thanks for doing what you do, and 545 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 1: thanks for listening for like years, she's been around forever. Yeah, yeah, 546 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: I guess if you're working on something that you feel 547 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: like everybody has forgotten and shouldn't have. 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