1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: from House stof works dot com. Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. This is Charles W. Chuck Bryant. 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 1: That's me, same as ever, scratching the old back. Yeah, 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: I just got a little itch there. You ever use 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: one of those little dealies, the little creepy hand, the 8 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: little monkey powk on the end of the stick I 9 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 1: have before, Um, I don't like to do that. It hurts. Yeah, 10 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: I guess you could call it. It's a painful sensation. 11 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: I get up against the wall sometimes and do the 12 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: blue the bear. That'll do sometimes too, But it's weird, 13 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: like I only have backaches in about the same place, 14 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: and that would be on my left shoulder blade on 15 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: the western side of it, depending on which direction I'm facing. Curiously, 16 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: this is going to be the most interesting this show. 17 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: That is not a treat Chuck Man, So, Chuck, this 18 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 1: is going to be a great one. I have a 19 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: feeling that's gonna be one of those ones where it's like, wow, 20 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: that turned out to be really good. It's physics heavy, 21 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: out the Yeah, everyone loves that. But the fact is, 22 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: when we finished this, you're gonna know how yo yo works. 23 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: This is probably the most truly titled, truest titled episode 24 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 1: well we've ever done. Do you think yep? I don't know. 25 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: All right, well we'll find out. I think it should 26 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: be called physics through the eye of a yo yo. 27 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 1: So listen, have you ever seen the movie Harlem Nights? 28 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: Uh parts dude? That is go back and watch it again. 29 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: Oh you're crazy. It's one of the best movies ever. 30 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, Red Fox, Richard Pryor, and like everybody else 31 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,279 Speaker 1: in it too. I think Bernie Max in there terrible script. 32 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: I don't think the script is terro. I thought it 33 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: was great. Um. There's one thing about that movie that 34 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: bugged me to know it. It's setting like the twenties, right, 35 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: and throughout the movie Eddie Murphy uses the word yo 36 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: yo was obviously a modern term, and it just sticks 37 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: out like a sore thumb every time he does. It 38 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: drives me crazy, Like it drives me crazy that he 39 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: did it drives me crazy that the director wasn't like, 40 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: you can't say yo. This is like nineteen twenties New York. 41 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: Yo wasn't around. I don't know that they were going 42 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: for a historical accuracy in that one. They were wearing spats, 43 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 1: so um Jerry like that one. So I went back 44 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: to the little digging Chuck and it turns out that 45 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: yo was in fact around in the nineteen twenties. But 46 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy was still wrong for using it in that capacity. Okay, 47 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: so um yo goes back at least to like the 48 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: fifteenth century, as like a hunting cry, right when somebody 49 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: was like somebody else might go yo and you go 50 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: chase fox. Um. That was kind of the first wave 51 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: of yo um. As far back as eighteen fifty nine. 52 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: We know that there were sailors that were using yet 53 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: yo ho Yo ho ho or also um. It was 54 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: a response for roll call like yo, like somebody called 55 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: your name, you would say yo. It wasn't until after 56 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: World War two, though, that the modern incarnation comes and 57 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: it came out of the Italian quarters of Philadelphia. So 58 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 1: that's where they think yo came from after World War two. 59 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: Hence Eddie Murphy was wrong in using yo, especially frequently 60 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: in the movie Harlem Nights. So I did all that research, 61 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: or I could have just looked into Google Translate from 62 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: English too, uh Filipino or vice versa, and find that 63 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: it just means come. Yeah, but I don't think that's 64 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: what it means here, does it? It does now, So 65 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: the word yo yo as it stands, it means come, 66 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: come or come back. Yeah, that makes sense. Did you 67 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: know that? I did? You want to talk a little 68 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: bit about the history of yo yos? Did you know 69 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: before reading this fantastic article that yo yo's originated as 70 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: we understand them now, originated in the Philippines in the 71 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties. I didn't know that. I did know that 72 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,119 Speaker 1: it was around for a long time before that though, 73 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: And you know other forms, well, pretty much the same form. 74 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: They were like two forms of yo yo's in history, 75 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: and one came out of the new one came out 76 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: of the Philippines. The other one that's pretty old, well 77 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: ancient Chinese or at least ancient Greeks years ago. But 78 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 1: they think the Chinese had something similar to that. Yeah, 79 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: I'm starting to strongly suspect that the Chinese or the 80 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: origin of human civilization. Yeah, they came up with beer. Well, 81 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: they came up with beer, you have it. They went 82 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: right there. Uh, and it is the oldest toy on 83 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: the planet except the doll. The dolly. I thought that 84 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: was pretty interesting too, Yeah, yeah, of course, although I 85 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: wonder if they're kind of diminishing any kind of ancient 86 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: rituals or rights by saying like, look at that's cute doll, 87 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: when really it's you know, some sort of fetish m hmm. 88 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: I don't know. You never know. So it's been around 89 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: long time. They've designed it in different ways over the years. Uh. 90 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: The original design was had the string tied tight to 91 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: the little access there. We'll call it the Greek design, 92 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: the Greek design. Now we'll call it the Chinese design 93 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 1: or the European design. Well, not designed, but it was 94 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: popular in Europe. And that obviously if if you ever 95 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: used an old yo yo like that or redesign yours 96 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 1: to where it's tied around the axle, it'll pop up, 97 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 1: you know, as soon as you throw it down, it'll 98 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: pop back up because it's tied to the axle. Um, 99 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: And you said it was popular in Europe. There were 100 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: other words for other names for the yo yo before 101 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: it was a yo yo, that's right. There was the lemigret, 102 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: the Bendalora. The Bendalora was British, I believe the quiz. Yeah, 103 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't get a country of origin for that, 104 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: but it was very popular in Europe. There's a painting 105 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: of I think Louis is he the boy King? I 106 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 1: don't know whichever Louis was the boy king of him 107 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: holding like a yoyo, like a royal painting of him 108 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: with a yoyo or the what was a little hoop 109 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: on and a stick? I think that's what it's called. 110 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: That was an awesome game hoop on a stick? Who uh? 111 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: And then um, I don't think you can compare the 112 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: yo yo to the hoop on a stick. No, I'm 113 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: not comparing. I'm just saying I just never got that 114 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: to Oh okay, well here's another one for you. Napoleon 115 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: was well known for carrying and using a yo yo, 116 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 1: apparently for stress relief. Oh yeah, it didn't work too well. 117 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,119 Speaker 1: Here's a stressed out dude. He needed the yo yo. 118 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: But as as you said that, that's the the European 119 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: favored or Chinese design, where like the strings tied really 120 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: tight to the axel and it just basically goes up 121 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: and down right. So the Filipino design led to the 122 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 1: modern yo yo as we understand it now, and the 123 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: huge distinction is that the the string is just looped 124 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: around the axle kind of loosely, which has the added 125 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: benefit of allowing the yo yo itself to spin once 126 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: it reaches the end of the string. Sleep. That's what 127 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: the that's why people yo yo I think. Yeah, it's 128 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: all about the tricks. I mean, it's sort of fun 129 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: for a minute just to go up and down, but 130 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: it's really all about the tricks. It's just a stress 131 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: reliever if it just goes up and down. Did you 132 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: yo yo when you were a kid? Uh? Yeah, here there. 133 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: But even as a kid like I could sense that, 134 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: like these these new modern ones that we'll talk about 135 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: with like ball bearings and clutches, they just seem like cheating. 136 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: I agree, let's not even talk about them. It's not 137 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: even a real yo yo. So, Chuck, you want to 138 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: talk about a little bit about physics, Well, let's finish 139 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: the history for shall we. Okay, Well, I have plenty 140 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: of that. Uh. It was originally in the Philippines. They 141 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: think it was a hunting weapon for like four years, so, 142 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: but not like a little tiny yo yo. They were 143 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 1: really big and it was basically a big spindle attached 144 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: to a rope with like spikes coming off of it. 145 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: They were like the size of a ugo. Yeah, and 146 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: I guess the just the benefit there is you could 147 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: get it back after you threw it at somebody. Right. 148 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: The stream was almost just useless though, Well you can 149 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: just throw it and run after it. Oh really okay, 150 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,679 Speaker 1: it was actually heavy rope in the US for hunting too, right. Well, 151 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: at some point down the line, well, yeah, you would 152 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: think anything used in hunting, you know, does double duty 153 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: and more exactly anything you're trying to kill. Yeah. Um. 154 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: The At some point though, they became smaller and became 155 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:42,079 Speaker 1: toys and uh. In the twenties, a Filipino immigrant to 156 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: the US named Pedro Floris Um started a company, the 157 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: first modern yoyo company in the United States, and did 158 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: pretty well for himself, uh, and then sold out to 159 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: a man named Duncan. Right, Donald Duncan, Yes, Donald Ducan 160 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: and Duncan Duncan and uh, you know Florest's and Santa 161 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: Barbara and like you said, was selling these things like 162 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: hotcakes enough that Duncan said, hey, let me buy that 163 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep the name yo yo because it's catchy. 164 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna trade market and now I own it. And uh. 165 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: Through the years he had competitors that made similar devices 166 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: with different names, and they were like, dude, everyone's calling 167 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: the sing of yo yo. We want to be able 168 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: to call it a yo yo two. And he said, no, no, 169 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: I own it. Then the federal courts in the nineteen 170 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: six five says, you know what, that's generic enough now 171 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: where you don't own it any longer. They're all yo yo's. 172 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: Well what these legal challenges to their trademark? The name 173 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: yo yo um was one of the things that bled 174 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: the company dry. It eventually went bankrupt. Duncan, the Duncan 175 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: Company went bankrupt in the same year they ruled yeah 176 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: against them. They were like, well, that's it for us, 177 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: But they also had other money troubles. They were they 178 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: were actually victims of their own success, the Duncan Company was. 179 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,199 Speaker 1: So they moved in the forties to luck wiscon In, 180 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: which very quickly became known as the yo yo capital 181 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: of the world, and at their peak they were making 182 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,559 Speaker 1: thirty six d yoyos an hour, mostly out of would 183 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: At first maple They're using a million board feet of 184 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: maple wood every year. Yeah. And they actually, in addition 185 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: to their legal challenges, like the money going to fight 186 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: their legal battles, um, they were paying tons of money 187 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: in overtime to advertising. Um. And as a matter of fact, 188 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: I think in nineteen sixty two, Chuck, they managed to 189 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: sell forty five million yo yos and in that same 190 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 1: year there were only forty million kids in the US. 191 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: That's pretty astounding. A chicken in every pot and a 192 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: yo yo and every exact other hand at sure, un, 193 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: I guess some kids were yo yo with both hands. 194 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: They're rich kids. Um. But like I said, they they 195 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: the company ended up going bankrupt anyway, but yo yo 196 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: enthusiasts still look very fondly on the Duncan name. And um, 197 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: I think June sixth, Yes, June sixth is National Yoyo Day, 198 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: which happens to be the same day as Donald Duncan's birthday. Yeah. Well, 199 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: and the Duncan name lives on. Obviously, you still see 200 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: Duncan yoyo's. They sold out, They didn't just shut down, well, 201 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: they went bankrupts and sold all right. Yeah, so who 202 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: was the flam flam Bail plastics company. They said, we'll 203 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: keep the name Duncan because it's synonymous with yoyos. It's 204 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: not generic yet. There's a little yoyo history for you. 205 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: I got a little more. I'm going to stay to 206 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: the end. I think you'll like. Okay, we didn't tease 207 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: you with it that. Let's talk about physics. Well, I 208 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: think this is very interesting. Good. So there's a two Okay. 209 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: You mentioned with the string tied to the classic Chinese 210 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: design yoyo, you have one kind of um energy going on, right, yes, 211 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: and that is linear momentum, the ability of it to 212 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: go up and down or I should say down and up. Right, 213 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: that's right with the Filipino design, the modern design and 214 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: has two kinds of potential energy. It has that same 215 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: linear momentum to go up and down, but it also 216 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: has angular momentum. And angular momentum is um its ability 217 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: to spin on an axle. Okay, so you've got two 218 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: things going on. And like you said, when the yo 219 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: yo hits the end of the line of its linear momentum, 220 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: it can still it's built up since it's wound around 221 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: the school. It's built up a lot of angular momentum, 222 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 1: so we can just sit there and spin or sleep 223 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: as you called it. It actually increases as it goes down, 224 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: which is the key to keeping it spinning right. It 225 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: gets faster as it falls. There's another pretty cool trait 226 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: to yoyo. Who knew they were so complex? I didn't? 227 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: Did you? I did not? Okay? So um. They also 228 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: have gyroscopic stability, chuck, they do, okay. So if you 229 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: if you have a yoyo that's sleeping and you witch 230 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 1: down on top of it, like it goes down and 231 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: then back up, that's because of its gyroscopic stability. That 232 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: point that you push down on the yo yo is 233 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: transferred from the front and spun around to the back. 234 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: So that's even now, So the yo yo just keep 235 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: spinning as long as it's spinning fast enough. Gyroscopic stability, yes, 236 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: that means a spinning object object will resist change to 237 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: its axis of rotation. And have you ever thrown a 238 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: football it's the same thing. Yeah, Or if you've ever 239 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 1: thrown a football poorly, what do they call that? Wibbler turkey, 240 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,319 Speaker 1: wounded duck brick. That's why wounded duck doesn't go very 241 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 1: far because it doesn't have that tight spin, so it 242 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: falls off its axis and won't travel as far, the 243 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: same as a prison And then the whole team's man. Basically, 244 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: anything that spins frisbees, footballs, there's there's gotta be a baseball. 245 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: We could liken it to a baseball somehow. Let's say 246 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: a curveball, knuckleball slider. Definitely not a knuckleball slider than spin. 247 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,239 Speaker 1: It all really like a shot put. No, the knuckleball. 248 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: You the whole key is it doesn't move. It travels 249 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: like this, and that's why it moves all around crazy. Um. 250 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: So you've got your you've got your yoyo sleeping. You're 251 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: you're totally aware of its gyroscopic stability um and you 252 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: understand that it's angular momentum is just awesome. It's far 253 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: out right, it's far out but you want to wake 254 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: it up. And that's when you bring it out of 255 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: its sleep and rewind it back up the spool. Right, 256 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: we'll tug on the old finger. Yeah, And the reason 257 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: why it's because the loop, right, there's less friction with 258 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: the loop around the axle. When you tug it, you 259 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: increase that friction and you allow it to rewind. It 260 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: just grabs ahold of its buddy and just let's go 261 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: back up to the palm. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah. 262 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: I like yoyo physics a lot. So we basically just 263 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: talked about the two hardest parts, right, sleeping and waking. Yeah, 264 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: And like I said, sleeping is the key to do 265 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: any kind of trick like walking the dog, which I 266 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: was pretty good. I used to. Could do a few 267 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: Yeo tricks. Yeah, I could walk the dog, and I 268 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: could do uh, I could do the deal where you 269 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: you make a triangle and then TikTok through the triangle 270 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: something like a cradle or probably the cats and the cradle, 271 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: let's call a cat's cradle, and then I could I 272 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: could do the around the world. Wow, around the world. Yeah, 273 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: I couldn't do any of those. I'm gonna this inspired 274 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: me to get a new yo yo. By the way, 275 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: I like the vintage Duncan ones, specifically the yellow ones 276 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: with the butterfly, like the gold the gold butterfly, the 277 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: inverted ones, because they had those that were that looked 278 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: like a butterfly that were inverted, and I think that 279 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: actually plays apart and the uh increasing the moment of 280 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: inertia section. Yeah, I think that's why they flipped it 281 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: out to put more weight on the outside. Yeah, okay, 282 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: what you want to talk about that? So do you 283 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: remember when we did the Um Murphy's Law podcast? I could, 284 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: I forget remember one of the books that he wrote 285 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: was for Your Moments of Inertia. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't 286 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: realize it was a terrible, terrible engineering pun until I 287 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: read this article Paul staff a little bit. We love 288 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: that guy, so, Chuck. A moment of inertia is basically 289 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: a way of describing as spinning objects resistance two changes 290 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: in that rotation, basically um being slowed down right, Um. 291 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: And what what smarter people than us have figured out 292 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: is that if you increased the mass and distribute it 293 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: slightly further away from the axis, you're going to increase 294 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: its moment of inertia and that increases the amount of 295 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: time is just sleeping right. Yeah. And like I said, 296 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: I don't know this, but I just remember when I 297 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: was a kid, they had those inverted yo yos, and 298 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: I bet you anything that's why they did that. It's 299 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: got to be because were wider at the outside and 300 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: then curved in, which had to be less mass. Yeah, 301 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: it was less stuff. That's would So I'm gonna go 302 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,439 Speaker 1: on record as saying that's why they did that. But 303 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: I think you want more mass further away to increase 304 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,199 Speaker 1: its moment of in nurture. Right. Yeah, so it was 305 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 1: there was more mass on the outside further away from 306 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: the axis. Yeah, so that allows things to sleep a 307 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 1: lot longer. And um, that was a I guess you 308 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: could say one of the breakthroughs in yoyo design. I 309 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: think in the sixties they started adding mass to the 310 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: outside and um, extending the axle a little bit. Bam, 311 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: yoyo has been improved. Think about this, right, maybe even 312 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: longer than that. Years ago, somebody invented the yo yo 313 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,400 Speaker 1: does not change until the Philippines in the early twentieth century. 314 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 1: Well I thought it said it did change, We just 315 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: don't know. Said there were changes in designs over the years. No, 316 00:17:58,040 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: not that I took. I took it like there was 317 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: one way and then there was the Filipino way and 318 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: that was it. We got a correction to make them 319 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: and then the twenty century hits and then there's all 320 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: these great improvements on these designs. Indeed, one of the 321 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: improvements Chuck was adding bald bearings. Right, yeah, well you 322 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: and I don't think these are improvements, or at least 323 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: I don't. Okay, that's absolutely true. That's a good caveat. 324 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 1: I think that the Filipinos perfected the yo yo. Let's 325 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: just call them modifications for sorry kids who don't know 326 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: how to yo yo rich kids. Yeah, that makes it easier, 327 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: I think. Didn't that the whole point of both of 328 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,919 Speaker 1: these things. Yeah, I guess makes it easier to sleep. 329 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: And yeah, and I guess they're like, well, if you're 330 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: just enjoying sleeping and waking your yo yo, then why 331 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:47,239 Speaker 1: make it tough if you want to have fun with 332 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: your toy. I can't believe they made it easier for 333 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 1: kids to have fun. So the bald bearing design I 334 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 1: think is kind of clever. Um. Basically, the this modified 335 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: asition takes the axle and splits it into into two races, 336 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: which are basically little courses for ball bearings to spin around. 337 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,439 Speaker 1: Right now, does that split the axle? These are just 338 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: around the axle. So one is connected to the axle 339 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: that's the inter race, one is connected to the string 340 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: that's the outer race, and then in between the two 341 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: are ball bearings. They're not connected in any way, um 342 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: except maybe via the context with the ball bearings. So 343 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: when you when you release your yo yo towards the 344 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 1: ground and it's linear and angular momentum really build up. 345 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: When it hits the inter race can tilt a little 346 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: bit and um connect with the outer race via the 347 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: ball bearings. So they're they're spinning, right, and then as 348 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: they straighten out the um they they're they're not connected anymore, 349 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: so that the string no longer has any effect on 350 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: whether the yo yo spins or not, because it's just 351 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: the interrace connected to the axle that's spinning. So your 352 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: yo yo can sleep far, far longer. Yeah, the outer 353 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: race spens the interrace, which spens the axle. Right, it's 354 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 1: like a transfer of angular momentum exactly, and then the 355 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: strings just like you just let me know when you're done, 356 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 1: and we'll wind back up. Well, it'll get a little tuggle. 357 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,199 Speaker 1: Do the same thing with that style, right, or you 358 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: can just completely take yourself out of the equation altogether 359 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 1: except for a snap of the risk. The initial release 360 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 1: is all you need to do with what's called the 361 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: yo yo with the brain. These are really fake yoyo's. 362 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: I want to get one though. It's kind of cool, 363 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: like you could be in a vegetative state and do 364 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 1: this yo yo. Yeah, this was in the nineties. Company 365 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: called Yomega release these and they called it the yo 366 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: Yo with the brain, when in fact they should have 367 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: called it the yo Yo with the clutch. And Uh. 368 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 1: The deal here is you've got these two clutch arms, 369 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: uh weighted ball on one side, and it's not attached 370 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: on the other side, and they're spring loaded. The spindle 371 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: is not attached to the axle, but the clutch arms 372 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: are attached to the spindle. So when you throw this 373 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: thing down, it's gonna spin slower at first than the 374 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: and the clutch is engaged. As it gets faster, all 375 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: of a sudden it's enough inertia to pop the clutch 376 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: essentially against the edges, and it releases the spindle, which 377 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: makes the whole thing spin faster. On the axis right, 378 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 1: the centrifugal force um pushes down the weight, which pushes 379 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: down the arm under the spring, which releases the two 380 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: which allows it to spin. And it only spends for 381 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: a certain amount of time. It's not like the kind 382 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,679 Speaker 1: that you tug back up. It'll spin til it slows 383 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 1: down and then the clutch locks back down and boom 384 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: it shoots back up, right back up. I wanna, I 385 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: wanna wish we had one of those. I want to 386 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 1: see what it's like. So basically, the big to the 387 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: two modifications are based on separating the string from the 388 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: axle by by creating two different kinds of I guess 389 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: axles are mendles or whatever, which are really just sort 390 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: of taking the Philippine Filipino design a step further because 391 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 1: although it made contact with the axle, it wasn't quote 392 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: connected to the axle. Yeah, I guess it was, but 393 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: it wasn't tight. And a guy named Michael Caffrey is 394 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: the one who came up with the yo yo with 395 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: the brain Andy Omega started telling him in n but 396 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 1: he came up with in two years after a man 397 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: named Tom cun created the no jive three and one 398 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 1: yo yo that you could take a part and replace 399 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 1: the axle and do all sorts of modifications with no 400 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: really big big time for changes in yo yo design. 401 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,719 Speaker 1: So did he rip this dude off? Is that what 402 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: you're saying? Okay, No, I'm just saying, like the two 403 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 1: these two big steps in umsign he said two years 404 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: after it was sinister. Well, you're a very suspicious person 405 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 1: I am when it comes to yo yo design. Um, chuck, 406 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: that's pretty much the physics of yo yos. Did you 407 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: know that we just explained how yo yo's work. You know, 408 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:03,199 Speaker 1: I looked online at videos and stuff to make it 409 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: a little easier, because this is a very visual thing, 410 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: and they do have videos. But what I found out 411 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,719 Speaker 1: is that a lot of teachers, physics teachers, use yo 412 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: yo's to describe these whatever four to six properties that 413 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 1: we described. I have to tell you, I understand angular 414 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: momentum far better now. I understand and although it went 415 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: through the yo yos, through the football, I understand the 416 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: moment of inertia. Okay, all wait is that moment of inertia? No, 417 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 1: that's angular momentum, angular moments spinning on an axis. Yeah, oh, 418 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: you're talking about the gyroscopic stability. That's what it was. See, 419 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: I get confused. I need to chuck. It's physics, man, 420 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: don't feel bad. Um, you want to know a couple 421 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: more pieces of yo yo trivia? Yeah. In one, Abby 422 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: Hoffman of the Chicago seven was um indicted uh or no, 423 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: charged with contempt of Congress when he um started doing 424 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: the walk the dog. Uh and during a House on 425 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 1: American Activities Committee session that was investigating him. So he 426 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: was like, I'm just so over this, I'm gonna yoyo. Well, apparently, 427 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 1: the way I read it is that he was trying 428 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 1: to entertain, lighting everything up. It's like, here, watch me yoyo, 429 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: and he was walking the dog and the sid. So 430 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 1: that's how yoyo's are connected to McCarthy is m if 431 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: you want to take an S Y S K quiz 432 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: and that comes up. Plus, yoyos were huge back then. 433 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: That was like the heyday. I think it was the sixties. Yeah, um, Nixon, 434 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: have you seen Nixon try to yo yo? Man? If 435 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: you don't like Nixon, this will just make you hate 436 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: him even more. The night that they opened the Grand 437 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: Old Opry and I think sometime in nineteen four, Um, 438 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: what's the main guy, like the whole cast of hehaus 439 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: behind Nixon and then the main roy acoff. He presents 440 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,119 Speaker 1: Nixon with a yoyo and like has to put it 441 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: on Nixon's finger and Nixon looks like what's going on? 442 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,479 Speaker 1: You know? And um, and then he tries to do 443 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: it once and it just kind of like lops down 444 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: and makes like a sad trombone noise, and he just 445 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: has this sullen like look on his face, like I 446 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: don't like yo Yo's He looks kind of like you did. 447 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: At the beginning of this episode, me and Tricky did um. 448 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: And then they took a yo yo in space Chuck, Yeah, 449 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: I saw that and it still work. It did work. 450 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: They found that like letting it drop did nothing because 451 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: they were testing it in microgravity. But if um, it 452 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 1: will it will go slowly. You can, you can do 453 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: it slowly, but it will still spin. Um. And it 454 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,360 Speaker 1: moves kind of um, just kind of gracefully along the 455 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: string like in just mid air horizontally and um, but 456 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 1: it will never sleep. Well, thank god NASA did that. 457 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: Those are all the videos you see that. They do 458 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 1: much more than that. That was back when NASA was like, 459 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: we have so much money, we don't know what to do. 460 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: Let's launch something and let's say the Toys and Space Project, right, 461 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: and they did. Now, this was just where yo yos. 462 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: That was the only thing they did on that flight. Well, no, 463 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 1: the Toys and Space Project in company or encompassed to 464 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 1: sixty Shuttle missions one for each toy that they tested out. 465 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: Jack's was one of the best ones, the Belo paddle. 466 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: So that's uh, that's Yo yos. Frankly, I'm pretty happy 467 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: with this one. I thought you were going to lead 468 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: in with something on Yo yo Ma. No man, try 469 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: to look up Yo Yo's in the news and not 470 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 1: at Yo yo Ma. Cheez, can't do it, stupid. I 471 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: searched yo yo minus ma minus knee minus gabba to 472 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: finally get some stuff out. Oh what was the other 473 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:47,919 Speaker 1: one here, Mama neo yo MTV raps that came up 474 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: to did it? Yeah? I stopped searching before I minus 475 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,479 Speaker 1: MTV two. You know you could minus, I was, yeah, 476 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: and it'll it'll route out all the search, all this, 477 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: all the results that have that. Really, so you just 478 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 1: put the minus sign minus and then the next letter. 479 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: No space, had no idea, and you can do a 480 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 1: bunch of different ones, no commas, no nothing, just like 481 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: minus gabba minus yo minus mom minus knee. You literally 482 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: just improved my life. Oh good, or my research for 483 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 1: like eight times to day. Yeah, all right, well that's it, 484 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: all right, yo Yo's. I was in a jewelry store 485 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: once and Neo came in it seemed nice. Who's Neo? 486 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 1: He's this rapper. He's from Atlanta. I thought you're talking 487 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: about the matrix. No, that's like Neo. This is Knee Yo. 488 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I part of him. Yeah. Well, if you 489 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: want to learn more about Yo Yo's including some really 490 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: top notch illustrations, this is one of those ones that 491 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 1: you will see why we have staff illustrators here in color. No. Um, 492 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: you want to type in Yo Yo at the in 493 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: the handy search bar how stuff works dot Com, that 494 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,919 Speaker 1: will bring up that really cool article. Um And I 495 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: said handy search bar. So now it's time for Chuck 496 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 1: to shine with another edition of Listener Mail. Uh, Josh, 497 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: this is uh one of our oldest than not by age, 498 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,199 Speaker 1: but one of our most loyal fans and its spies. 499 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: She has a band and they put together. Uh well, 500 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: let me just read it. This is coming out shortly 501 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 1: after Christmas, and she said it was still great to 502 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: read this. Hi, guys and Jerry. Since we're firmly in 503 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,479 Speaker 1: the festive, greedy little griff of the holiday season, I 504 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: was wondering if you could give a shout out to 505 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: a project I'm involved in or my band is at least. 506 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: It's a charity album to raise funds for the continued 507 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: fallout from the Japanese earthquake and nuclear disaster and the 508 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: light of everything that's happened since, and it's been put 509 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: on the backbrunner of most people's charitable contributions, which is 510 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: why we were thrilled and honored to our part to 511 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: re raise awareness when the label releasing this compilation approached 512 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: us to contribute a track. So you know, she's right. 513 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 1: You hear about these tragedies appen, and then six months 514 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: later you kind of forget about it. It's the curse 515 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,719 Speaker 1: of the news cycle exactly. But luckily there's a lot 516 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: of people that, uh, my friend Dave is one of 517 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: them that's still working, like on the tsunami from five 518 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: or six years ago, so continued help is always needed. Uh, 519 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: there's a CD. It's gonna be out in mid December, 520 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: so by this by the time this comes out, it'll 521 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: already be out. You can stream the entire album, which 522 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 1: is thirty seven tracks by thirty seven artists on the 523 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: website More Hope for Japan dot Com and her band 524 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: New Century Classics wrote and recorded a brand new song 525 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: just for this compilation and she's quite proud of it, 526 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: and I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, 527 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: but I'm gonna. And she says there's a lot of 528 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: far better known artists on there. Uh and anyone who 529 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: likes instrumental music, post rock, ambient and basically pretty melodic 530 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: guitar based and should dig it. So check it out. 531 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: That's Anna's uh Anna's band, New Century Classics, More Hope 532 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: for Japan dot com. Very cool, Thanks a lot and 533 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thanks for letting us know, thanks for doing 534 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 1: what you do, and thanks for listening for like years, 535 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 1: She's been around forever. Yeah. Yeah, I guess if you're 536 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: working on something that you feel like everybody's forgotten and 537 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: shouldn't have, let us know and we'll try to help 538 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: your re raise awareness too. Yeah. 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