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Speaker 1: Hello friends, Chuck here on a Saturday, bringing your my

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Speaker 1: select pick for the week from January two thousand fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Jan is uh. It is one of our famous Colon episodes,

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Speaker 1: Juggling Colon, What the heck learn all about juggling right now?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry

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Speaker 1: just doing a little tandem juggling with my bra. That's

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Speaker 1: what we're doing right now. Yeah, yeah, I wish you

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Speaker 1: guys could see this because we've got pretty good cascade

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Speaker 1: right now. Look at this half shower, half shower, halfhower. Man,

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Speaker 1: that was a good one. Broe balls at once. Yeah, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: come light these torches on fire. Wow man, half shower

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Speaker 1: of rain and fire. This is really dangerous. Can you juggle? No?

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Speaker 1: But I want to after this. My brother learned, of course,

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Speaker 1: of course, I'm sure he's born knowing how to juggle,

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Speaker 1: came out of the womb. Juggling. Now he learned back

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Speaker 1: when it like in high school and mastered it pretty quickly.

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Speaker 1: And now an he can still juggle some I think

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Speaker 1: it's one of those things. Well, once you learn sort

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Speaker 1: a lot of it comes down to muscle memory, which

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Speaker 1: is to say motor memory. Yeah, and in true Chuck fashion,

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Speaker 1: I tried to learn to juggle for about an hour

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Speaker 1: and never finished. Did you like see any progress over

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Speaker 1: that hour? Yeah? I could. I could do the little

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Speaker 1: one hand juggling two balls with one hand thing, okay,

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Speaker 1: But I did a lot of chasing the ball. That's

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Speaker 1: a problem, which apparently, if you're beginning juggler, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be throwing the ball further and further away from you,

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Speaker 1: just naturally chasing the ball, and they call it chasing it.

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Speaker 1: So what do they suggest? They suggest that you learn

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Speaker 1: to juggle close to and facing a wall. Yeah, because

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Speaker 1: that way you can't move forward or you'll just keep

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Speaker 1: hitting your head and you'll scratch your face up on

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Speaker 1: the brick and quit juggling. This is a Jonathan Strickland

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Speaker 1: joint of tech stuff. It's reeks of Strickland. It does

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Speaker 1: like even if the byeline hadn't been on there, I

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Speaker 1: would have been like, this is Strickland. But I remember

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Speaker 1: when this one was made. It was like right when

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Speaker 1: I got here, and like he there's a video embedded

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Speaker 1: of Strickland teaching you how to juggle. It smells, it

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Speaker 1: reeks of bald head cream and bowling shirts. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it also has an illustration by Marcus who clearly always

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Speaker 1: wanted to be a comic book illustrator, because the guy

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Speaker 1: totally ripped like a comic book. Here. I remember, Marcus,

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Speaker 1: it seems like a million years ago. It was so

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Speaker 1: juggling history. How long people been juggling? Uh, chuck. People

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Speaker 1: have been juggling since at least tomb exactly. They found

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Speaker 1: uh in Egyptian tombs um hieroglyphics showing women toss juggling.

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Speaker 1: And there are many kinds of juggling, by the way,

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Speaker 1: and we're mainly going to talk about toss juggling, which

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Speaker 1: is throwing something up in the air, throwing more things

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Speaker 1: up in the air than you have hands. Yes, that's

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Speaker 1: toss juggling. And there are, like you said, a bunch

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Speaker 1: of other kinds, but if you're a toss juggler, you

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Speaker 1: probably don't consider the other kinds real juggling. You're like,

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Speaker 1: those are cool and everything, but that's not real juggling. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I asked my friend, our friend Brandon Ross from the

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Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know Art Department, clearly a juggler, very

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Speaker 1: good juggler, and uh I sent a message to him

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Speaker 1: it doesn't here that modern jugglers poopoo things like taking

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Speaker 1: those old school tricks. Is that true or not? And

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear back from him, So maybe crickets, I'll

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Speaker 1: fall Well, you know, was on Facebook, Okay, so he'll

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Speaker 1: get to it when he gets to it. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: we're in ancient Egypt to be exact. That's right. There

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Speaker 1: were jugglers in Greece and Rome and India and Thebes

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Speaker 1: when it was actually written down that people were juggling. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: supposedly in the Talmud a rabbi named Shimon ben Gummlil. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I probably nailed that. Probably he could juggle

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Speaker 1: eight torches at once. That's hard to believe because world

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Speaker 1: back as clowns. I wonder how many like um behind

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Speaker 1: morons with it, yeah, and then had someone's head chopped

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Speaker 1: it up and I ran across um the Hollywood hell Club.

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Speaker 1: more it's like cock fighting. Um, so all right, let's

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Speaker 1: get into it then, So we're actually gonna teach everybody

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Speaker 1: what cascade juggling looks like. And they're four or five

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Speaker 1: And like, I'm sure I watched him. That guy pops

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Speaker 1: Anthony Gatto, who may be the best juggler on the planet.

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Speaker 1: He juggled for Circus a Oh, he had a bunch

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Speaker 1: he's amazing dude. Um, but he quit last year to

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean you can do it. It's essentially what

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Speaker 1: Office Space. Yeah, basically, but he's amazing. If you watch

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Speaker 1: because I noticed his records were like all mid two thousand's,

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Speaker 1: a really good article. Actually it's Nate dropped on grant

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Speaker 1: land dot com. Alright, so how do you juggle? So Chuck,

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Speaker 1: here's how you juggle. Basically, you want to start with

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Speaker 1: than throwing my favorite juggling okay god yea, Rather than

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00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 1: throwing the balls up in the air to toss juggle

422
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: the you throw the balls down on the ground and

423
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,360
Speaker 1: bounce something. There's this kid I saw on YouTube if

424
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:28,120
Speaker 1: you just search bounce juggling, it's the first video. It's

425
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 1: the thing, the first thing that comes up on YouTube

426
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: that guys could. He starts out in profile, Yeah, and

427
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: you're like, what's like his basement or whatever. Yeah, but

428
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,199
Speaker 1: then once he I don't know how many balls he

429
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: had going he had quite a few. Yeah, And there's

430
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: different ways to do in this. You can either lift

431
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 1: bounce it by just sort of tossing it in the

432
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 1: air and letting it bounce, or you can actually throw

433
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 1: it at the ground, which is called a force bounce.

434
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: And I even wrote the coolest two of them. Bounce

435
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,679
Speaker 1: juggling is really cool looking. Um. There's clawing, which is

436
00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 1: basically palms down juggling. Um, so it's just the regular cascade,

437
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: but yeah, you're like snatching them out of the air. Yeah,

438
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:06,479
Speaker 1: and it's like that's cool. Look, and you can do

439
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 1: that solely, or you can just throw in a claw

440
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: every now and then just delight your nieces and nephews

441
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: at Christmas. There is the chop yeah, which I think

442
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 1: this one is where you grab a ball and then

443
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: throw it underneath your other arm. You throw it upward

444
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: underneath your other arm. Yeah, it's like a diagonal, quick

445
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 1: diagonal move. And like I said it all you'll just

446
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: notice if you're not a real juggler, if you're just

447
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: watching in the park one day, they'll do some crazy

448
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 1: arm thing. It's just I call it flair. Well, there

449
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 1: is actually something called flair that's a type of juggling,

450
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: bartenders flare. Oh you know the movie Cocktail Bartenders flair

451
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 1: that was a type of juggling supposedly. I'm not a fan. Oh,

452
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 1: I thought it was great. I haven't seen the movie,

453
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: And yeah, I haven't seen it. And are you a

454
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: fan of bartending flair? Though, Hey, I'm a Jerry Thomas fan.

455
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: So yes, the answer is yes, all right, I like uh,

456
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,239
Speaker 1: I like a bartender to like grump at me and

457
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: slide my whiskey down the bar. That's the best of trick.

458
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: I want to say. It's fine pretty much like all bartenders. Yeah,

459
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,920
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, they do it. They're doing God's work.

460
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: So Jonathan Strickland says, generally speaking, if you have an

461
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: odd number of props, you're gonna require a criss cross pattern.

462
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: If you have an even number of props, it's going

463
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: to be two separate groups juggled in each hand. Yeah,

464
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 1: I remember you said you could juggle with one hand

465
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 1: kind of yeah, So remember, toss juggling is any kind

466
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: of juggling where the more the objects, the number of

467
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: objects you're juggling, exceeds the number of hands are using.

468
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: So if you use two balls in one hand, that's

469
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: toss juggling. It still counts. So if you're if you're

470
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: juggling four things, you're basically toss juggling separately with two

471
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: hands to two different things. So two bowling pins in

472
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: each hand is toss juggle. I don't know if you

473
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: could do clubs with one hand, can't you? Yeah? Maybe? Yeah,

474
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: you do it in columns and yeah. Yeah, that's that's

475
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: some talent right there. That's how That's how most people

476
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: do clubs is like one hand. I really I've just

477
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: seen like the Cascade mainly. Mhm no, no, evernytime I've

478
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: ever seen clubs. It's like one handed to one handed juggling.

479
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 1: You need to get out more. I guess I need

480
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: to go to the park. Yeah, that they hang out

481
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: there along with the Hackey sackers. Um. Yeah, well, like

482
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: you mentioned then, I guess if you're going to be

483
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: juggling with one hand, you've got the fountain, which is

484
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: the circular pattern, like if I had two balls and

485
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: I was just throwing them in a circle, or the

486
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: straight up and down which is the column right, and

487
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,360
Speaker 1: that can be either synchronous or asynchronous. If you look

488
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: up synchronous column juggler on YouTube, they're gonna be doing

489
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: the exact same thing at the same time with both hands,

490
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: which is pretty neat. I think asynchronis may be a

491
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: little tougher though, just judging by the looks of it. Well,

492
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 1: Strickling makes the point that since you most people start

493
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: out learning to juggle asynchronous lee, which is like that

494
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,199
Speaker 1: cascade is asynchronous. The hands aren't moving at the same time,

495
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: they're moving at opposite beats. Um that it's it's actually

496
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: easier for people to do that to do asynchronis makes sense.

497
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah. Even handed juggling, what is that called.

498
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: That's the one thing in juggling that doesn't have a name,

499
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 1: where you're just juggling four things at once or like

500
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: an even number of things, and you're using both your hands,

501
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: but you're juggling two clubs. There's no name for it.

502
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: It's driving me crazy. I'm sure there's a name for it. Well,

503
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. You should name it

504
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: after you at any at any term. Oh no, here

505
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: it is numbers juggling. Okay, okay. So when you're doing

506
00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: numbers juggling, you uh, an even number of numbers juggling.

507
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: You're just doing it asynchronously, probably to start. Okay, that

508
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: was my point of my little tirade. I wonder how

509
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: many angry jugglers we have right now. Oh, probably a lot. Uh.

510
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: There's a couple of other kinds of juggling that are

511
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Cigar box juggling and shaker cup. Um.

512
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,479
Speaker 1: You've probably tried the cigar box thing with two boxes

513
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: or whatever. And that's when you have any number of boxes.

514
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,719
Speaker 1: You're holding one in each hand, but then you have

515
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: quite a few in the middle and you'll toss them

516
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: up and flip them and then catch them between the

517
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: other two boxes. Yeah, it's pretty neat. And the same

518
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: sort of thing goes with the shaker cup. Um. Your

519
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: cups are nesting inside one another though, like cocktail cups

520
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: and you're you know, tossing those up and catching them.

521
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: And they probably was born out of bar tender flare. Yeah,

522
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: probably so all right, we mentioned clubs um as an alternative.

523
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: They look like the standard club looks sort of like

524
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: a modified bowling pin. Yeah, like a slim svelt bowling pin. Yeah,

525
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: a sexy bowling pin. Uh. There are European and American versions,

526
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: and I think the European version is slimmer and sexier

527
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: than the American go figure and um, I think they're

528
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: a little more popular as well, right, and the larger

529
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: and is meant to fit into a Champagne coop, the

530
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: European one, that's pretty neat. Uh. And I think you

531
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: said that clubs also if you want to do like

532
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: knives and torches, they call that a club as well. Yeah.

533
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: I think there's like a so a few broad categories

534
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: of props and then clubs that kind of thing, and

535
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: then they fall under those subcategories like axes and torches

536
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: andories out the na uh, and then there's ring juggling.

537
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: Of course, they're very stable, um, because of their gyroscopic

538
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: properties and so don't even mention. Well, the point is

539
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: that you can juggle a lot more rings at once,

540
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: maybe than you might be able to juggle a ball. Yeah,

541
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: and that's pretty impressive to see as well. Yeah, and

542
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: then there's this thing I found today called contact ring juggling.

543
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: Is when you're not throwing rings, ah you really just

544
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: you're rolling them along. Well, now that's contact juggling with

545
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: like a ball is when you're like doing the Harlem

546
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: globe trotter thing and rolling it down your arm and

547
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: over your body and stuff. It's pretty cool. But the

548
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: contact ring juggling is just just look it up. It's

549
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: really cool. It's like, I mean, there's all different shapes,

550
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: but the ones I've seen are mainly a figure eight um,

551
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: and you're just manipulating them such that they look like

552
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: it looks like an illusion, almost like one will be

553
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: stationary and it looks like the other ring is circling

554
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: around it. Well it is, but uh, just take my

555
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: word for contact ring juggling. Everyone go check it out.

556
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: Very popular in Asia. It looks like they've mastered it. Okay,

557
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: very cool. So let's say you got a buddy and

558
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,719
Speaker 1: you both like to go to the park. Well, this

559
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: is a big one and pretty cool. It's a thing.

560
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: You've seen it. Yeah. Stuggling makes the point that juggling

561
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: is kind of a social thing populated by social creatures,

562
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: Like there's lots of juggling clubs and that kind of

563
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: stuff and that um where you know, you and I

564
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: think of juggling. It is like a solitary activity, no way, man.

565
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: If you get two good jugglers together, it becomes a

566
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: feast for the mind and the eyes. We could add

567
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: this to our live show, Juggling Us Juggling, Yeah, all right,

568
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: in tandem. We have a lot of practice to do

569
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: because what we could do Josh on stage, if we

570
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: put a lot of work into it, is something called

571
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: stealing and replacing. And that is when you basically will

572
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: go up. If you're juggling four clubs, I'll go and

573
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: steal one, or maybe steal two, and then three and

574
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: then four, and then I'm the one juggling. But the

575
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: juggling never stops. Right. It looks as as a seamless

576
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: synchronous pattern on an erupted If you just like stop

577
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: another person from juggling, it's just being a jerk. The

578
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: point of it is that I'm that juggling. Yeah, I

579
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: guess so, but you're still juggling the whole time you're

580
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: doing that. That's right. The whole point of of juggling

581
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: with two people and like stealing and replacing is that

582
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: the balls. If you were able to ask these juggled

583
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: balls what they think is going on, they would say nothing,

584
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. We're doing the same pattern. Say

585
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: Chuck's hands were a little sweatier, right, but what really

586
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: happened was I replaced you. Yeah, that's one way to

587
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: do it. Or we could stand in front of each

588
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: other like four ft apart and uh you know, we're

589
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: juggling the clubs and then tossing each other the clubs

590
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: and we've got our little uh post stuff. You should

591
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: know act all worked out. Yeah, what's cool? So with

592
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: stealing replacing with with juggling balls, like I would stand

593
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: facing opposite you and just kind of grab yours like

594
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: you said, and just ultimately like take over your catches,

595
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: and then I would be juggling and then you can

596
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: steal it back and we could go back and forth.

597
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: And definitely with clubs, I would be standing next to

598
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: you and just basically kind of push you out of

599
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: the way. Well, that's if you're stealing and replacing. If

600
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: we're passing, then we're standing in front of each other

601
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: and just throwing them back and forth to each other.

602
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: And there's actually a pretty established way of um passing

603
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: where it's called the three three ten where we do

604
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: three passes where every third toss I passed to you

605
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,240
Speaker 1: and you catch it, so you know we're in tandem

606
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: and everything's going right. And then after three of those,

607
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: you do every second toss. Then after three of those

608
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: you do every toss, you toss another one, and then

609
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: by that last one, we're just like on fire, just

610
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: throwing throwing ones back and forth between ourselves. Yeah, and

611
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: we did mention combat juggling. That was not a joke.

612
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: It is a thing, and I've seen I looked up

613
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: these little competitions. It's when it's sort of like dodgeball.

614
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: You get, you know, ten jugglers on a stage and

615
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: they all start juggling, and they all start to try

616
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: iron thwart the other jugglers juggle while maintaining theirs. So

617
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: I would go up and throw mine in the air

618
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 1: and try and knock yours out of your hand, but

619
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: you can't, you know, get too crazy because you've gotta

620
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: still juggle or else you're out. The way we've been

621
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: describing this one, it feels like we've been replaced by

622
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: impostors who listened to the show a lot and didn't

623
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: know what topic to pick. Isn't that weird? It is weird?

624
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: I'm myself? Are you yourself? No? I'm you? Oh god, weird. Well,

625
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: we'll get to the bottom of this right after these

626
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: messages and that chuck comes the darkest time? Is this

627
00:35:53,520 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: Josh actual? Yeah? Okay, yeah, I'm replaced. I replaced the replacement. Okay, um, nope,

628
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: still here saying bizarre stuff like I replaced the replacement.

629
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Speaker 1: All right, And we're talking about the physics of juggling

630
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Speaker 1: fun fun, which is it's actually kind of straightforward. It's

631
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Speaker 1: stuff you would think of, but it's nice to put

632
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Speaker 1: it into terms where we can say that we covered

633
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: the physics of juggling. That's right. Like, so, the main

634
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: factor acting on juggling, probably the most important part in

635
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: the whole thing, is our good friend gravity, that's right. Uh.

636
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: An acceleration due to gravity specifically is nine point eight

637
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: m slash s to the second power, meaning nine point

638
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: eight meters per second every second, So when you drop something,

639
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: speed is going to increase by nine point eight meters

640
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: per second. And don't bother us, we're not including any

641
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: kind of error resistance. We're in a vacuum. To demonstrate

642
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: all of our physics were always in a vacuum, right,

643
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: our little stuff you should know vacuum part next to

644
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 1: the way back machine. Um. So, it's a constant acceleration

645
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: and because of that, the only way to slow down

646
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: your pattern is by throwing something higher. Yeah, and so

647
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: the more things that you add into your pattern, the

648
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 1: higher you're going to have to throw, because you have

649
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: a constant acceleration downward acceleration after your toss. Um. So

650
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: that means you have to open up your pattern by

651
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: throwing it higher up the more stuff you have, because

652
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: you simply would not have enough time to throw x

653
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: amount of balls in the air. I mean, you can

654
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: increase your hand speed somewhat, but at a certain point

655
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 1: you just can't do it exactly. They're gonna be bean

656
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: bags everywhere. Another um factor is that it's not really

657
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: a factor. It's more of a fact. When you're throwing

658
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: your balls, you're throwing them in a parabola, which means

659
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: that the only, uh, the only velocity that counts is

660
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: the is the vertical velocity, the vertical acceleration. When you

661
00:37:54,920 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 1: throw something up, you're exerting your own force upward and

662
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: and what's it peaks ex gravity is pushing it back downward.

663
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: That's right, it's gonna have a horror zonal velocity, but

664
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Speaker 1: that's going to be constant, so there's no force acting

665
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: on it. There's no change in velocity. I guess with

666
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: the column it's pretty much straight up and down. But

667
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: generally speaking, uh, you're gonna be have both, right. Yeah,

668
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: it's moving horizontally, but there's no force pushing it. There's

669
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Speaker 1: no change in I'm sorry, there's no change in acceleration.

670
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: It's constant exactly, Okay. And then of course the mass

671
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: of your props also count, yeah, which is why if

672
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: you've ever seen the old trick where someone's doing a

673
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: bowling ball with a tennis ball with a club, it's

674
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 1: super impressive because it's much much easier to juggle things

675
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: with the same mass. Yeah, because you're just making the

676
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: same motion over and over again. When you are juggling

677
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: things with three different maths, meaning they have three different

678
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: um three different amounts of inertia or they require more

679
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: different amounts of force to overcome inertia. Um. Then yes,

680
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 1: like you said, that's kind of impressive. It just requires

681
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: that much more mental acuity. That's right. Is that all

682
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: the physics. Now we get into the math. I know

683
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: this actually kind of interested me a little bit, despite

684
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: the fact that it is math and I'm well known

685
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: to not love it. But um. There was a mathematician

686
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: who named Claude Shannon who proposed a juggling theorem um

687
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: that basically describes the relationship of of a cask or

688
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: well just of a juggle. Right, keep saying juggle? Is

689
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: that a thing? Yeah? Did I make it up? No?

690
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 1: I think it's a thing. I think it's called something

691
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,760
Speaker 1: else though, a juggle. Yeah, oh a flash, a flash,

692
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: there you go. That's a round of juggling, one single

693
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: round where all three, year, all five, or all seven

694
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: of your balls have been tossed once at least. But

695
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: to the layman it's called a juggle. Right, so everyone

696
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 1: knows what I mean. Uh, And this is uh in

697
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: parentheses F plus d um, and then that would be

698
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: times eight right outside the parentheses equals v plus d

699
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: in printheses times in when F is the time the

700
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: ball is in the air, D as the time as

701
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: a ball in the hand, h is a number of hands,

702
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 1: v is time that the hand is empty, and in

703
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: as the number of balls being juggled. So basically, what

704
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: he's saying is, if you add together the amount of

705
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: time the ball spends in the air plus the amount

706
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: of time it spends in the hand, right, which is

707
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: the full amount of time that that ball exists during

708
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: a flash, multiply that times your hands to the number

709
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: of hands. That's going to equal the time your hand

710
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: is empty. Uh, plus the time the ball spends in

711
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: the hand times the number of balls being juggled. I

712
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: saw no reason for this equation whatsoever. Like at first,

713
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's that's pretty cool, And then

714
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: I spelled it out to myself in a It's like, yeah,

715
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: the amount of time the balls out of the hand

716
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: plus the amount of time the balls in the hand

717
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: times the number of balls that what. Yeah. I didn't

718
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: understand what the point of it was. So Claude Shannon,

719
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: please get in touch with us. Well, that's why he

720
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: did it so people would write stuff about it, you know. Well,

721
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: the thing is I guess the problem is that it

722
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: says Shannon build the juggling robots. So I guess this

723
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: formula allows robotics to happen. Yeah, and I saw the

724
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: juggling robots, different robots that toss things and catch things, right,

725
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 1: It's kind of cool. Okay. Yeah, So if if that's

726
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: the point of the Shannon theorem, is that what that's called,

727
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: sure the Claude's Claude's law, then then I understand it.

728
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,240
Speaker 1: And I take it back. What if there's some Claude's

729
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: law that's something awful that we don't know about. That's

730
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: the case. And then there is site swapping um, which

731
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: is another math application. It's sort of like musical akin

732
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: to a musical score to a musician, as a form

733
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: of notation describing the juggling pattern, and is what jugglers

734
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: use two um. Basically, if you were going to write

735
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: out your juggling pattern and send it to your buddy,

736
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: you wouldn't say, take your right hand and blah blah blah.

737
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: You would use numbers to represent it. Which this actually

738
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: does make sense. Yeah, this made a little more sense

739
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: to me for sure. Yeah. And um, so like a

740
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: normal three ball cascade is three, three, three. Each throw

741
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: takes three beats. A zero is a rest on an

742
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: empty hand, and a one is handoff from one to

743
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: the other. And you can actually if you add them

744
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: all together and take the average, you can tell how

745
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 1: many balls are in that pattern. Right, So in a three, three,

746
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: three you add those together, that's nine divided by three

747
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: because there's three different numerals, and you've got three or

748
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: four five one four one is also three, right, matth

749
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:59,280
Speaker 1: that sounds pretty difficult. The four one, you know, Yeah,

750
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: the three three makes intuitive sense to me. But that's

751
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: you know, the four one five four five one four one.

752
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: That's tough. Oh man, is anyone still listening though? Can

753
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: you hear the echo? I can. Uh. If you look

754
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: at a juggler, you might notice that they're probably not

755
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: looking at their hands like at the catching. The catching

756
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: is sort of automatic. Uh, they're kind of looking sort

757
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: of up at the arc um. And they have done

758
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: experiments to see where um your eyes go um A A. M.

759
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 1: Van Santvoord. Peter J. Beck did some experiments that actually

760
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: found that while the peak is important, if you see

761
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,919
Speaker 1: the first one hundred milliseconds of the flight path, then

762
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: you can juggle successfully, yeah, which is pretty impressive. They

763
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: found that jugglers are relying more on feel sure, then

764
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 1: and then vision. That's why you can juggle blindfolded if

765
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: you're really good. Supposedly some people can. I've seen it.

766
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I bet Brandon Ross can. I could

767
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: see that dude is talented, So Chuck, we could probably

768
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 1: keep talking about juggling for the next five years because

769
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: there's a lot to it. Yeah, man, this is just

770
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: a primer. Hopefully you guys are inspired, or at least

771
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 1: were inspired in the first maybe twenty minutes. The good

772
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 1: part of this episode to go out and um and

773
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: learn to juggle. I know I was. And while we

774
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 1: hate ourselves, we don't hate ourselves that much. Right, we're

775
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: gonna end this one. Yeah, So, uh, we think that

776
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: you should learn about juggling, and you can start by

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Speaker 1: typing that word into the search bar at how stuff

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Speaker 1: works dot com. Since I said search bar, it's time

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Speaker 1: for listener mail. Uh. This is a really touching story,

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Speaker 1: oddly enough, from Jennifer Grace. She's an actor in New

781
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Speaker 1: York City who um played a very long run of

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Speaker 1: Our Town on stage and had to go there without

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Speaker 1: her husband. At first because they were in Chicago and

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Speaker 1: stuff you should know turned out to be the thing

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Speaker 1: that linked them together before he finally moved to New

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Speaker 1: York to join her. Um. They've been together for thirteen

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Speaker 1: years now and they had their son, Emmett last fall,

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Speaker 1: and a month before Emmett turned one. Uh Tom, her

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Speaker 1: husband was admitted to the hospital and has been there

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Speaker 1: ever since. UM. He has a very rare issue with

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Speaker 1: his bone marrow that they finally uh diagnosed as a

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Speaker 1: means he can't risk getting sick, which means her son,

794
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Speaker 1: their son, can't even visit him, which is just unbelievably sad. Um.

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Speaker 1: She can visit, bring mask and gloves and gown, but

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Speaker 1: they can't even touch each other, the husband and wife.

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Speaker 1: And this came on suddenly too, right, Yeah, she said,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty much the worst thing ever. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: just really really great people. Um she said, Uh, it

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Speaker 1: There's not a lot that I can give him by

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Speaker 1: way of a Christmas present this year, given the circumstances,

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Speaker 1: but I'm hoping that perhaps you would give him a

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Speaker 1: shout out on an episode. It's been a very special

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Speaker 1: shared experience for us. It really brightened his day. So Tom, dude.

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Speaker 1: They also sent me a video of them playing a

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Speaker 1: song together in the kitchen doing uh Springsteen song and

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Speaker 1: it was just like they're the cutest couple ever and

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Speaker 1: a little bit. And there's really nice folks. Since Tom

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Speaker 1: here's to your buddy, and uh yeah, and keep us

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Speaker 1: keep us posted, you guys. Yeah, please do, Jennifer, that

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