WEBVTT - SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Yo-Yos Work

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<v Speaker 1>Happy continuing holidays. Everybody chuck here to tee up our

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<v Speaker 1>next episode on our twelve Days of Christmas Toys playlist.

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<v Speaker 1>And I am super excited because you're about to listen

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<v Speaker 1>to one of our older episodes from this list about

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<v Speaker 1>in molder toy It's all about Yoyo's. It's how Yoyo's work.

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<v Speaker 1>Hope you like it. Welcome to Stuff you should know

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<v Speaker 1>Fromhowstuffworks dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clarr. There's

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<v Speaker 2>Charles W Chuck Bryant.

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<v Speaker 1>That's me, same as ever, scratching the old back.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I just got a little itch there.

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<v Speaker 1>You ever use one of those little dealies, the little

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<v Speaker 1>creepy hand, the little monkey pap on the end of

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<v Speaker 1>the stick I have.

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<v Speaker 2>Before, Yeah, I don't like to do that. It hurts

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<v Speaker 2>do Yeah, I guess you could call it that some

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<v Speaker 2>painful sensation.

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<v Speaker 1>I get up gives the wall sometimes and do the

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<v Speaker 1>blue the bear.

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<v Speaker 2>That'll do sometimes too. But it's weird, like I only

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<v Speaker 2>have backages in about the same place, and that would

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<v Speaker 2>be on my left shoulder blade on the western side

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<v Speaker 2>of it, depending on which direction I'm facing.

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<v Speaker 1>Curiously, this is going to be the most interesting part of.

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<v Speaker 2>This show that is not a true Chuck Man, so Chuck. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>this is going to be a great one.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>I have a feeling this is gonna be one of

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<v Speaker 2>those ones where it's like, wow, that turned out to

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<v Speaker 2>be really good. It's physics heavy out the y.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, everyone loves that.

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<v Speaker 2>But the fact is, when we finish this, you're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>know how yoyo works. This is probably the most truly titled,

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<v Speaker 2>truest titled episode. Well we've ever done, you think, yep?

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Well we'll find out.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it should be called Physics through the Eye

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<v Speaker 1>of a Yo yo.

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<v Speaker 2>So listen, have you ever seen the movie Harlem Knights

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<v Speaker 2>Parts dude? That is go back and watch it again,

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<v Speaker 2>the whole thing. Oh, you're crazy. It's one of the

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<v Speaker 2>best movies ever. Eddie Murphy, Red Fox, Richard Pryor, great

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<v Speaker 2>cast and like everybody else in it too. I think

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<v Speaker 2>Bernie Max in there.

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<v Speaker 1>Awesome cast, terrible script.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think the script is terrible. I thought it

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<v Speaker 2>was great. There's one thing about that movie that bugged

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<v Speaker 2>me to know it it's set in like the twenties, right, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>and Throughout the movie, Eddie Murphy uses the word yo.

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<v Speaker 2>Yo is obviously a modern term, and it just sticks

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<v Speaker 2>out like a sore thumb every time he does. It

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<v Speaker 2>drives me crazy, Like it drives me crazy that he

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<v Speaker 2>did it drives me crazy that the director wasn't like,

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<v Speaker 2>you can't say yo. This is like nineteen twenties New York.

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<v Speaker 2>Yo wasn't around.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know that they were going for historical accuracy

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<v Speaker 1>in that one.

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<v Speaker 2>They were wearing spats. Yeah, so Jerry like that one.

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<v Speaker 2>So I went back to the little digging Chuck and

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<v Speaker 2>it turns out that yo was in fact around in

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<v Speaker 2>the nineteen twenties, but Eddie Murphy was still wrong for

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<v Speaker 2>using it in that capacity. Okay, okay. So yo goes

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<v Speaker 2>back at least to like the fifteenth cent as like

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<v Speaker 2>a hunting cry, right when somebody was like somebody else

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<v Speaker 2>might go yo, and you'd go chase fox. That was

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<v Speaker 2>kind of the first wave of yo. As far back

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<v Speaker 2>as eighteen fifty nine. We know that there were sailors

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<v Speaker 2>that were using.

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<v Speaker 1>It yoho ho, yoho ho.

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<v Speaker 2>Or also it was a response for a roll call

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<v Speaker 2>like yo, like somebody called your name, you would say yo, key.

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<v Speaker 2>It wasn't until after World War Two, though, that the

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<v Speaker 2>modern incarnation comes and it came out of the Italian

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<v Speaker 2>quarters of Philadelphia.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course it did.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's where they think yo came from after World

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<v Speaker 2>War Two. Hence Eddie Murphy was wrong in using yo

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<v Speaker 2>especially frequently in the movie Harlem Nins. So I did

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<v Speaker 2>all that research, or I could have just looked into

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<v Speaker 2>Google Translate from English to Filipino or vice versas, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>and find that it just means come.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but I don't think that's what it means here.

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<v Speaker 1>It does it?

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<v Speaker 2>It does now?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>So the word yo yo, as it stands right means come,

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<v Speaker 2>come or come back.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that makes sense.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you know that I did? You want to talk

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit about the history of yo yos? Did

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<v Speaker 2>you know before reading this fantastic article that yo yo's originated,

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<v Speaker 2>as we understand them now, originated in the Philippines in

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<v Speaker 2>the nineteen twenties.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know that. I did know that it was

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<v Speaker 1>around for a long time before that, though, in you know,

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<v Speaker 1>other forms.

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<v Speaker 2>Well pretty much the same form. There were like two

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<v Speaker 2>forms of yo yo's in history. Yeah, and one came

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<v Speaker 2>out of the New one came out of the Philippines.

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<v Speaker 2>The other one, Yeah, it was pretty old.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, ancient Chinese or at least ancient Greeks, right more

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<v Speaker 1>than twenty five hundred years ago. But they think the

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese had something similar to that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm starting to strongly suspect that the Chinese or

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<v Speaker 2>the origin of human civilization. You think, yeah, they came

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<v Speaker 2>up with beer. Yeah, well they came up with beer.

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<v Speaker 2>There you have it. They went right there.

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<v Speaker 1>And it is the oldest toy on the planet except

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<v Speaker 1>the doll. The dolly.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought that was pretty interesting too. Yeah, yeah, of course,

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<v Speaker 2>although I wonder if they're kind of diminishing any kind

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<v Speaker 2>of ancient rituals or rites by saying, like, look at

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<v Speaker 2>this cute doll, when really it's you know, some sort

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<v Speaker 2>of fetish.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, you never know. So it's been around

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<v Speaker 1>a long time. They've designed it in different ways over

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<v Speaker 1>the years. The original design was had the string tied

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<v Speaker 1>tight to the little axis there.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll call it the Greek design, the Greek design, No,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll call it the Chinese design or the European design.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, not design, but it was popular in Europe. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and that obviously if you ever used an old yo

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<v Speaker 1>yo like that, or redesign yours to where it's tied

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<v Speaker 1>around the axle. It'll pop up, you know, as soon

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<v Speaker 1>as you throw it down, it'll pop back up. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>because it's tied to the axle.

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly right. And you said it was popular in Europe.

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<v Speaker 2>There were other words for other names for the yo

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<v Speaker 2>yo before it was a yo yo.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right.

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<v Speaker 2>There was the limigrette, the bandolore.

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<v Speaker 1>The bandolora was British, I believe the quiz. Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't get a country of origin for that, but.

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<v Speaker 2>It was very popular in Europe. There's a painting of

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<v Speaker 2>I think Louis the eighteenth is he the boy king?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know whichever Louis was the boy king of

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<v Speaker 2>him holding like a yo yo, like a royal painting

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<v Speaker 2>of him with a yo yo?

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<v Speaker 1>Or the what was a little hoop on in a stick?

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's what it was called.

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<v Speaker 1>That was an awesome game.

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<v Speaker 2>The hoop on a stick. And then I don't think

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<v Speaker 2>you can compare the yo yo to the hoop on

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<v Speaker 2>a stick.

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<v Speaker 1>No, I'm not comparing it. I'm just saying I just

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<v Speaker 1>never got that toy.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh oh, okay, well, here's another one for you. Napoleon

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<v Speaker 2>was well known for carrying and using a yo yo,

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<v Speaker 2>apparently for stress relief.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, yeah, it didn't work too.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's a stressed out dude. Yeah he needed the yo yo.

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<v Speaker 2>But as you said that, that's the European favored or

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<v Speaker 2>Chinese design, where like the strings tied really tight to

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<v Speaker 2>the axle and it just basically goes up and down.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, So the Filipino design led to the modern yo

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<v Speaker 2>yo as we understand it now, And the huge distinction

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<v Speaker 2>is that the string is just looped around the axle

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<v Speaker 2>kind of loosely, yeah, which has the added benefit of

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<v Speaker 2>allowing the yo yo itself to spin once it reaches

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<v Speaker 2>the end of the string. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Sleep, that's what the that's why people yo yo, I think. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's all about the tricks. I mean, it's sort of

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<v Speaker 1>fun for a minute just to go up and down,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's really all about the tricks.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, It's just a stress reliever if it just goes

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<v Speaker 2>up and down.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you yo yo when you were a kid?

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<v Speaker 2>Uh? Yeah, here there. But even as a kid, like

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<v Speaker 2>I could sense that like these these new modern ones

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<v Speaker 2>that we'll talk about with like ball bearings and clutches.

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<v Speaker 2>They just seem like cheating.

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<v Speaker 1>I agree, let's not even talk about them. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>even a real yo yo.

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<v Speaker 2>So, Chuck, you want to talk about a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>about physics.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, let's finish the history first, shall we. Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, well, I have plenty of that.

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<v Speaker 1>It was originally in the Philippines. They think it was

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<v Speaker 1>a hunting weapon for like four hundred years. Uh huh so,

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<v Speaker 1>but not like a little tiny yo yo. They were

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<v Speaker 1>really big and it was basically a big spindle attached

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<v Speaker 1>to a rope with like spikes coming off of it.

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<v Speaker 2>They were like the size of a you go, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>And I guess.

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<v Speaker 1>The just the benefit there is you could get it

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<v Speaker 1>back after you threw it at somebody.

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<v Speaker 2>Right. The string was almost just useless though, Well could

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<v Speaker 2>you just throw it and run after it?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh? Really? Okay? It was actually heavy rope and they

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<v Speaker 1>use it for hunting too, right.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, at some point down the line, well, yeah, you

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<v Speaker 2>would think anything used in hunting, you know, does double

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<v Speaker 2>duty and more exactly anything you're trying to kill. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>At some point though, they became smaller and became toys,

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<v Speaker 2>and in the twenties a Philip you know, immigrant to

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<v Speaker 2>the US named Pedro Flores, started a company, the first

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<v Speaker 2>modern yoyo company in the United States, and did pretty

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<v Speaker 2>well for himself. And then in nineteen twenty nine he

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<v Speaker 2>sold out to a man named Duncan, Right, Donald.

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<v Speaker 1>Duncan, Yes, Donald Duncan, and Duncan Duncan, and you know

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<v Speaker 1>Floris's in Santa Barbara, and like you said, was selling

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<v Speaker 1>these things like hotcakes enough that Duncan said, hey, let

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<v Speaker 1>me buy that. I'm going to keep the name yo

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<v Speaker 1>yo because it's catchy. Yeah, I'm going to trademarkt and

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<v Speaker 1>now I own it. And through the years he had

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<v Speaker 1>competitors that made similar devices with different names, and they

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<v Speaker 1>were like, dude, everyone's calling the sing of yo yo.

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<v Speaker 1>We want to be able to call it a yo

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<v Speaker 1>yo too, And he said, no, no, I own it.

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<v Speaker 1>Then the federal courts in nineteen sixty five says, you

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<v Speaker 1>know what, that's generic enough now where you don't own

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<v Speaker 1>it any longer. Right, they're all yo yo's.

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<v Speaker 2>Well what those legal challenges to their trademark? The name

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<v Speaker 2>yoyo was one of the things that bled the company dry.

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<v Speaker 2>It eventually went bankrupt. Duncan, the Duncan Company went bankrupt.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the same year they ruled, yeah against them.

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<v Speaker 2>They were like, well, that's it for us. But they

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<v Speaker 2>also had other money troubles. They were actually victims of

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<v Speaker 2>their own success. The Duncan Company was. So they moved

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<v Speaker 2>in the forties to luck, Wisconsin, which very quickly became

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<v Speaker 2>known as the yoyo capital of the world. And at

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<v Speaker 2>their peak they were making thirty six hundred yoyos an hour,

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<v Speaker 2>mostly out of wood at first maple. They were using

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<v Speaker 2>a million board feet of maple wood every year. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a lot. And they actually, in addition to their

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<v Speaker 2>legal challenges, like the money going to fight their legal battles,

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<v Speaker 2>they were paying tons of money in overtime too, advertising

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<v Speaker 2>And as a matter of fact, I think in nineteen

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<v Speaker 2>sixty two, Chuck, they managed to sell forty five million

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<v Speaker 2>yo yos and in that same year there were only

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<v Speaker 2>forty million kids in the US. Wow, pretty astounding.

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<v Speaker 1>A chicken in every pot and a yo yo in

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<v Speaker 1>every other hand at least. Yeah, sure, well, lets I

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<v Speaker 1>guess some kids were yoyo with both hands.

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<v Speaker 2>They're rich kids. Yeah, But like I said, they the

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<v Speaker 2>company ended up coming bankrupt anyway. But Yoyo enthusiasts still

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<v Speaker 2>look very fondly on the Duncan name. And I think

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<v Speaker 2>June sixth, Yes, June sixth is National Yo Yo Day,

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<v Speaker 2>which happens to be the same day as Donald Duncan's birthday.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, well, and the Duncan name lives on obviously,

0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.520
<v Speaker 1>you still see Duncan Yoyo's. They they sold out. They

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<v Speaker 1>didn't just shut down.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, they went bankrupts and sold out, right, yeah yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>So who was it? The flam Flambeo Plastics company. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>they said we'll keep the name Duncan because it's synonymous

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<v Speaker 1>with Yo yo's.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's not generic yet. No, No, there's a little

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<v Speaker 2>yoyo history for you. Yeah, I got a little more.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna say to the end. I think you'll like. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>we're gonna tease you with it.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, let's talk about physics.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think this is very interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>Good.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's a two Okay you mentioned with the string

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<v Speaker 2>tied to the classic Chinese design Yo yo, you have

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<v Speaker 2>one kind of energy going on, right, Yes, and that

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<v Speaker 2>is linear momentum, the ability of it to go up

0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.559
<v Speaker 2>and down I should say down and up right, that's right.

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<v Speaker 2>With the Filipino design the modern design. It has two

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<v Speaker 2>kinds of potential energy. It has that same linear momentum

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<v Speaker 2>to go up and down, but it also has angular momentum.

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<v Speaker 2>And angular momentum is its ability to spin on an axle. Yeah, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>so you've got two things going on. And like you said,

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<v Speaker 2>when the yo yo hits the end of the line

0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.839
<v Speaker 2>of its linear momentum, it can still It's built up

0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.360
<v Speaker 2>since it's wound around the spool. It's built up a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of angular momentum, so it can just sit there

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<v Speaker 2>and spin or sleep as you called it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. It actually increases as it goes down, which is

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<v Speaker 1>the key to keeping it spinning.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>It gets faster as it falls.

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<v Speaker 2>There's another pretty cool trait to a yo yo. Who

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<v Speaker 2>knew they were so complex? I didn't, did you?

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<v Speaker 1>I did not?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay. So they also have gyroscopic stability, chuck, they do. Okay. So,

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<v Speaker 2>if you have a yoyo that's sleeping and you push

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<v Speaker 2>down on top of it, like it goes down and

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<v Speaker 2>then back up right, that's because of its gyroscopic stability.

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<v Speaker 2>That point that you push down on the yo yo

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<v Speaker 2>is transferred from the front and spun around to the back.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's even now, so the yoyo will just keep

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<v Speaker 2>spinning as long as it's spinning fast enough.

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<v Speaker 1>Gyroscopic stability, Yes, that means a spinning object object will

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<v Speaker 1>resist change to its axis of rotation. And if you've

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<v Speaker 1>ever thrown a football, it's the same thing. Yeah, Or

0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.440
<v Speaker 1>if you've ever thrown a football poorly?

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<v Speaker 2>What do they call that wobbler? A turkey wounded duck?

0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.680
<v Speaker 1>Brick? That's why winded duck doesn't go very far because

0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.080
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't have that tight spin. Yeah, so it falls

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<v Speaker 1>off its axis and won't travel as.

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<v Speaker 2>Far, exactly same as a prison And then the whole

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<v Speaker 2>team's mad.

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<v Speaker 1>Basically anything that spins, Yeah, Frisbee's football's there's there's got

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<v Speaker 1>to be a baseball. We could liken it to a

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<v Speaker 1>baseball somehow.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's say a curveball, knuckleball slider.

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<v Speaker 1>Definitely not a knuckleball slighter doesn't spin it all, really,

0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.640
<v Speaker 1>is it like a shot put? No, the knuckleball, you,

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<v Speaker 1>the whole key is it doesn't move. It travels like this,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's why it moves all around. Crazy, isn't that nutty?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So you've got your you've got your yo yo sleeping,

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<v Speaker 2>You're you're totally aware of its gyroscopic stability and you

0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:03.000
<v Speaker 2>understand that it's angle momentum is just awesome. It's far

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<v Speaker 2>out right, it's far out but you want to wake

0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.520
<v Speaker 2>it up. And that's when you bring it out of

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<v Speaker 2>its sleep and rewind it back up the spool.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, a little tug on the old finger.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And the reason why is because the loop, right,

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<v Speaker 2>there's less friction with the loop around the axle. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>when you tug it, you increase that friction and you

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<v Speaker 2>allow it to rewind.

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<v Speaker 1>It just grabs a hold of its buddy and just

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<v Speaker 1>let's go back up to the palm.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep. It's pretty cool. Yeah, I like yoyo physics a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>So we basically just talked about the two hardest parts, right,

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<v Speaker 2>sleeping and waking.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And like I said, sleeping is the key to

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<v Speaker 1>do any kind of trick like walking the dog, which

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<v Speaker 1>I was pretty good. I used to could do a

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<v Speaker 1>few yo yo tricks. Really, Yeah, I could walk the dog,

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<v Speaker 1>and I could do I could do the deal where

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<v Speaker 1>you make a triangle and then TikTok through the triangle,

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<v Speaker 1>something like.

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<v Speaker 2>A cradle or probably the cats in the cradle, let's.

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<v Speaker 1>Call a cat's cradle, and then I could I could

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<v Speaker 1>do the around the world. Wow, around the world.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I couldn't do any of those.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna this inspired me to get a new Yo Yo.

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<v Speaker 2>By the way, I like the vintage dunk and one

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<v Speaker 2>specifically the yellow ones with the butterfly, like the gold

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<v Speaker 2>the gold butterfly.

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<v Speaker 1>The inverted ones.

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<v Speaker 2>No, it was the one butterfly on that okay, because

0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.640
<v Speaker 2>they had those that were that looked like a butterfly

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<v Speaker 2>that were I know what you're talking about, inverted, and

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<v Speaker 2>I think that actually plays a part in the uh

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<v Speaker 2>uh increasing the moment of inertia section. Yeah, I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's why they flipped it out to put more weight

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<v Speaker 2>on the outside. Yeah, okay, you want to talk about that?

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<v Speaker 1>Why not?

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<v Speaker 2>So do you remember when we did the Murphy's Law podcast?

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<v Speaker 1>How could I forget?

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<v Speaker 2>Remember one of the books that he wrote was for

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<v Speaker 2>your Moments of Inertia?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I didn't realize it was a terrible, terrible engineering

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<v Speaker 2>pun until I read this article.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Kind of made me hate John Paul Stapp a little bit.

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<v Speaker 1>Nah, we love that guy.

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<v Speaker 2>So chuck A moment of Inertia's basically a way of

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<v Speaker 2>describing a spinning objects resistance to changes in that rotation,

0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:14.359
<v Speaker 2>basically being slowed down. Yeah, right, And what smarter people

0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.960
<v Speaker 2>than us have figured out is that if you increase

0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:21.960
<v Speaker 2>the mass and distribute it slightly further away from the axis,

0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.439
<v Speaker 2>you're going to increase its moment of inertia, right, and

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<v Speaker 2>that increases the amount of time it's just sleeping, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. And like I said, I don't know this, but

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<v Speaker 1>I just remember when I was a kid, they had

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<v Speaker 1>those inverted yo yos, and I bet you anything that's

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<v Speaker 1>why they did that. It's got to be because they

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<v Speaker 1>were wider at the outside and then curved in, which

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<v Speaker 1>had to be less mass. Yeah, it was less stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>less wood, right, So I'm going to go on record

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<v Speaker 1>as saying that's why they did that.

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<v Speaker 2>But I think you want more mass further away, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>to increase its moment of inertia.

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<v Speaker 1>Right. Yeah, So it was there was more mass on

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<v Speaker 1>the outside, I guess, further away from the axis, right. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So that allows things to sleep a lot longer. And

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<v Speaker 2>that was a I guess you could say one of

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<v Speaker 2>the breakthroughs in yoyo design. I think in the sixties,

0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:14.199
<v Speaker 2>they started adding mass to the outside and extending the

0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.000
<v Speaker 2>axle a little bit. Bam, the yoyo has been improved.

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<v Speaker 2>Think about this, right, twenty five hundred, maybe even longer

0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.600
<v Speaker 2>than that. Years ago. Yeah, somebody invented the yoyo. Does

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<v Speaker 2>not change until the Philippines in the early twentieth century.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I thought it said it did change, We just

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<v Speaker 1>don't know. Said there were changes in designs over the years. No,

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<v Speaker 1>not that I took. I took it like there was

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<v Speaker 1>one way, and then there was the Filipino way.

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<v Speaker 2>And that was it.

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<v Speaker 1>We got a correction to make then.

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<v Speaker 2>And then the twentieth century hits, and then there's all

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<v Speaker 2>these great improvements on these designs.

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<v Speaker 1>Indeed, one of the.

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<v Speaker 2>Improvements, Chuck was adding ball bearings. Right, yeah, well, you.

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<v Speaker 1>And I don't think these are improvements, ear least I don't.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's absolutely sure. That's a good caveat. I think

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<v Speaker 2>that the Filipinos perfected the yoya.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's just call them modifications, okay for sorry kids who

0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:10.920
<v Speaker 1>don't know how to yoyo rich kids. Yeah, that makes

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<v Speaker 1>it easier, I think, Yeah, and that the whole point

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<v Speaker 1>of both of these things. Yeah, I guess it makes

0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:17.920
<v Speaker 1>it easier sleep and yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And I guess they're like, well, if you're just

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<v Speaker 2>enjoying sleeping and waking your yo yo, then why make

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<v Speaker 2>it tough.

0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.000
<v Speaker 1>If you want to have fun with your toy?

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<v Speaker 2>Right?

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<v Speaker 1>I can't believe they made it easier for kids to

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<v Speaker 1>have fun. It's not, dare they?

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<v Speaker 2>So the ball bearing design I think is kind of clever. Basically,

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<v Speaker 2>this modification takes the axle and splits it in two yeah,

0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:46.120
<v Speaker 2>into two races, which are basically little courses for ball

0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:47.159
<v Speaker 2>bearings to spin around.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, now, does it split the axle? These are just

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<v Speaker 1>around the axle.

0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.480
<v Speaker 2>So one is connected to the axle, right, that's the

0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.520
<v Speaker 2>inner race. One is connected to the string. That's the

0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.480
<v Speaker 2>outer race. And then in between the two ball bearings right, Okay,

0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:06.720
<v Speaker 2>they're not connected in any way except maybe via the

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<v Speaker 2>contact with the ball bearings.

0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:08.480
<v Speaker 1>Right.

0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.800
<v Speaker 2>So when you when you release your yo yo toward

0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.639
<v Speaker 2>the ground and it's linear and angular, momentum really build up.

0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.560
<v Speaker 2>When it hits the inner race can tilt a little

0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:23.080
<v Speaker 2>bit and connect with the outer race via the ball bearings.

0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.720
<v Speaker 2>So they're they're spinning right, right, and then as they

0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:31.800
<v Speaker 2>straighten out the they they're they're not connected anymore, so

0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.679
<v Speaker 2>that the string no longer has any effect on whether

0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.359
<v Speaker 2>the yo yo spins or not, because it's just the

0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:42.200
<v Speaker 2>inner race connected to the axle that's spinning. So your

0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.879
<v Speaker 2>yo yo can sleep far, far longer.

0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the outer race spends the inner race which spins

0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:47.639
<v Speaker 1>the axle.

0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.159
<v Speaker 2>Right, it's like a transfer of angular momentum exactly, and

0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.080
<v Speaker 2>then the strings just like you just let me know

0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.240
<v Speaker 2>when you're done, and we'll wind back up.

0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.440
<v Speaker 1>Well, it'll get a little tougg'll do the same thing

0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.200
<v Speaker 1>with that style, right right, okay.

0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.520
<v Speaker 2>Or you can just completely take yourself out of the

0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:04.720
<v Speaker 2>equation altogether except for a snap of the risk. The

0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.920
<v Speaker 2>initial release is all you need to do with what's

0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:09.720
<v Speaker 2>called the yo yo with the brain.

0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.040
<v Speaker 1>These are really fake yoyo's. Yeah, I want to get

0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:14.840
<v Speaker 1>one though. It's kind of cool.

0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:16.919
<v Speaker 2>You could be in a vegetative state and do this

0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:17.320
<v Speaker 2>yo yo.

0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:21.240
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. This was in the nineties. Company called Yomega release these,

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<v Speaker 1>and they called it the yo Yo with a brain,

0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.080
<v Speaker 1>when in fact they should have called it the yo

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<v Speaker 1>Yo with a clutch. And the deal here is you've

0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:34.720
<v Speaker 1>got these two clutch arms weighted ball on one side,

0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:36.640
<v Speaker 1>and it's not attached on the other side, and they're

0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:40.800
<v Speaker 1>spring loaded. The spindle is not attached to the axle,

0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:44.159
<v Speaker 1>but the clutch arms are attached to the spindle. So

0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.520
<v Speaker 1>when you throw this thing down, it's gonna spin slower

0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:51.280
<v Speaker 1>at first, and the clutch is engaged. As it gets faster,

0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:55.080
<v Speaker 1>all of a sudden, it's enough inertia to pop the

0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:59.720
<v Speaker 1>clutch essentially against the edges, and it releases the spindle,

0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.600
<v Speaker 1>which makes the whole thing spin faster.

0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:08.800
<v Speaker 2>On the axis right, the centrifugal force pushes down the weight,

0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.520
<v Speaker 2>which pushes down the arm onto the spring, which releases

0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:14.280
<v Speaker 2>the two which allows it to spin.

0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:16.360
<v Speaker 1>And it only spins for a certain amount of time.

0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:18.360
<v Speaker 1>It's not like the kind that you tug back up.

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<v Speaker 1>It'll spin till it slows down and then the clutch

0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:24.080
<v Speaker 1>locks back down and boom, it shoots.

0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:24.600
<v Speaker 2>Back up right back.

0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:26.600
<v Speaker 1>I want to I wish we had one of those.

0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:27.480
<v Speaker 1>I want to see what it's like.

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<v Speaker 2>So basically, the big to the two modifications are based

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<v Speaker 2>on separating the string from the axle. Yeah, by creating

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<v Speaker 2>two different kinds of I guess axles or spindles or whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>Which are really just sort of taking the Philippine Filipino

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<v Speaker 1>design a step further because although it made contact with

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<v Speaker 1>the axle, it wasn't quote connected to the axle. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I guess it was, but it wasn't tight right.

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<v Speaker 2>And a guy named Michael Caffrey is the one who

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<v Speaker 2>came up with the yo yo with the brain, and

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<v Speaker 2>Yomega started telling him in nineteen ninety, but he came

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<v Speaker 2>up with it nineteen two years after a man named

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<v Speaker 2>Tom Cune created the no Jive three and one yo

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<v Speaker 2>Yo that you could take apart and replace the axle

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<v Speaker 2>and do all sorts of modifications with no really big,

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<v Speaker 2>big time for changes in yo yo design.

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<v Speaker 1>So did he rip this dude off? Is that what you're saying?

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<v Speaker 2>No, okay, No, I'm just saying, like the two these

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<v Speaker 2>two big steps in the Yoyo design.

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<v Speaker 1>Well you said two years after it was sinister. Well

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<v Speaker 1>you're a very suspicious person I am when it comes

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<v Speaker 1>to yo Yo's design.

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<v Speaker 2>Chuck, that's pretty much the physics of yo Yo's Did

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<v Speaker 2>you know that we just explained how Yoyo's work.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I looked online at videos and stuff to

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<v Speaker 1>make it a little easier because this is a very

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<v Speaker 1>visual thing, and they do have videos. But what I

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<v Speaker 1>found out is that a lot of teachers, physics teachers,

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<v Speaker 1>use yoyo's to describe these whatever four to six properties

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<v Speaker 1>that we described.

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<v Speaker 2>I have to tell you, I understand angular momentum far better.

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<v Speaker 1>Now. I understand, and although it went through the yoyos

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<v Speaker 1>to the football, I understand the moment of inertia. Okay,

0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:32.040
<v Speaker 1>all right, is that moment of inertia? No, that's angular momentum,

0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:33.200
<v Speaker 1>angular momentum.

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<v Speaker 2>Spinning on an axis.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Oh you were talking about the gyroscopic stability.

0:24:36.680 --> 0:24:38.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's what it was. See I get confused.

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<v Speaker 2>I did too, Chuck, it's physics, man, don't feel bad.

0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:44.440
<v Speaker 2>You want to know a couple more pieces of yoyo trivia?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's here.

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<v Speaker 2>In nineteen sixty eight, when Abby Hoffman of the Chicago

0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:55.399
<v Speaker 2>seven Yeah, was indicted or no, charged with contempt of

0:24:55.520 --> 0:25:01.160
<v Speaker 2>Congress when he started doing the Walk the Dog during

0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:04.919
<v Speaker 2>a House on American Activities Committee. Oh really session that

0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:06.080
<v Speaker 2>was investigating him.

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<v Speaker 1>So he was like, I'm just so over this. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna yo yo.

0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:11.320
<v Speaker 2>Well, apparently the way I read it is that he

0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:14.280
<v Speaker 2>was trying to entertain lighting everything up. It's like here,

0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:16.520
<v Speaker 2>watch me yo yo And he was walking the dog.

0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:19.560
<v Speaker 1>And the who ax said no, wrap one.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's how yoyo's are connected to McCarthyism. If you

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<v Speaker 2>want to take a N S Y S K quizn

0:25:26.240 --> 0:25:26.679
<v Speaker 2>that comes up.

0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:29.480
<v Speaker 1>Plus yoyo's were huge back then. Totally thought that was

0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:30.960
<v Speaker 1>like the heyday. I think this is sixties.

0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:33.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Nixon. Have you seen Nixon try to yo yo?

0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:34.600
<v Speaker 1>No?

0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:37.200
<v Speaker 2>Man, if you don't like Nixon, this will just make

0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:40.240
<v Speaker 2>you hate him even more. The night that they opened

0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:42.719
<v Speaker 2>the Grand Ole Opry and I think sometime in nineteen

0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:46.640
<v Speaker 2>seventy four, what's the main guy, like the whole cast

0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:50.200
<v Speaker 2>of hehaws behind Nixon and then the mate Roy Akeff. Yeah,

0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:52.760
<v Speaker 2>he presents Nixon with a yo yo and like has

0:25:52.800 --> 0:25:55.199
<v Speaker 2>to put it on Nixon's finger, and Nixon looks like

0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:58.240
<v Speaker 2>what's going on? You know? And and then he tries

0:25:58.280 --> 0:25:59.840
<v Speaker 2>to do it once and it just kind of like

0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:03.680
<v Speaker 2>flops down and makes like a sad trombone noise. Wow,

0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:06.040
<v Speaker 2>And he just has this sullen like look on his face,

0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:09.119
<v Speaker 2>like I don't like yo yo's. He looks kind of

0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:11.560
<v Speaker 2>like you did at the beginning of this episode.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, me and Tricky, Yeah you knew.

0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:17.560
<v Speaker 2>And then they took a yo yo in space Chuck, Yeah,

0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:18.280
<v Speaker 2>I saw that and.

0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:20.600
<v Speaker 1>It still worked.

0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:24.320
<v Speaker 2>It did work. They found that like letting it drop

0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:26.720
<v Speaker 2>did nothing because they were testing it in microgravity. But

0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:30.080
<v Speaker 2>if you throw it, it will it will go slowly.

0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:30.840
<v Speaker 1>You can do it.

0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:32.960
<v Speaker 2>You can do it slowly, but it will still spin

0:26:33.880 --> 0:26:37.840
<v Speaker 2>and it moves kind of just kind of gracefully along

0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:42.679
<v Speaker 2>the string like in just mid air, horizontally, and but

0:26:42.760 --> 0:26:43.639
<v Speaker 2>it'll never sleep.

0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:46.320
<v Speaker 1>Well, thank god NASA did that.

0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:48.600
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, back in nineteen eighty five.

0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:50.159
<v Speaker 1>Those are all the videos you see, though they do

0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:51.080
<v Speaker 1>much more than that.

0:26:51.080 --> 0:26:53.840
<v Speaker 2>That was back when NASA was like, we have so

0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:56.679
<v Speaker 2>much money, we don't know what to do. Let's launch

0:26:56.720 --> 0:26:59.960
<v Speaker 2>something and let's say the Toys in Space Project, right,

0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:00.800
<v Speaker 2>and they did.

0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:03.000
<v Speaker 1>Now this was just for Yoyo's. That was the only

0:27:03.040 --> 0:27:03.960
<v Speaker 1>thing they did on that flight.

0:27:04.119 --> 0:27:06.520
<v Speaker 2>Well, no, the Toys and Space Project in company or

0:27:06.680 --> 0:27:10.960
<v Speaker 2>encompassed sixty Shuttle missions, one for each toy that they

0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:14.280
<v Speaker 2>tested out. Wow, Jackson was one of the best ones.

0:27:15.280 --> 0:27:16.040
<v Speaker 1>The Bolo paddle.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so that's uh, that's yo Yo's. Frankly, I'm pretty

0:27:19.600 --> 0:27:20.520
<v Speaker 2>happy with this one.

0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:22.240
<v Speaker 1>I thought you were going to lead in with something

0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:24.240
<v Speaker 1>on yo yo ma or something.

0:27:24.280 --> 0:27:26.800
<v Speaker 2>No, man, try to look up yoyo's in the news

0:27:26.840 --> 0:27:30.520
<v Speaker 2>and not get yo yo ma cheese. Can't do it, stupid.

0:27:31.160 --> 0:27:37.320
<v Speaker 2>I searched a yo yo minus ma minus knee, minus

0:27:37.359 --> 0:27:39.680
<v Speaker 2>gabba to finally get some stuff on.

0:27:39.760 --> 0:27:42.680
<v Speaker 1>O yo gabba gaba. Sure, ye oh what was the

0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:47.800
<v Speaker 1>other one yo mama neo yo MTV wraps that came

0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:48.600
<v Speaker 1>up too, did it?

0:27:48.880 --> 0:27:53.359
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? I stopped searching before I minused MTV too. You

0:27:53.400 --> 0:27:55.560
<v Speaker 2>know you could minus I was in the jew Yeah,

0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:58.119
<v Speaker 2>and it'll it'll root out all the search, all this,

0:27:58.440 --> 0:27:59.879
<v Speaker 2>all the results that have that.

0:28:00.119 --> 0:28:01.960
<v Speaker 1>Really, so you just put the minus.

0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:04.320
<v Speaker 2>Sign minus and then the next letter. No space, had

0:28:04.320 --> 0:28:06.600
<v Speaker 2>no idea, and you can do a bunch of different ones,

0:28:06.760 --> 0:28:10.080
<v Speaker 2>no comments, no nothing, just like minus gabba minus yo

0:28:10.640 --> 0:28:12.119
<v Speaker 2>minus mom, minus knee.

0:28:12.200 --> 0:28:18.080
<v Speaker 1>You literally just improved my life. Oh good, or my research.

0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:19.440
<v Speaker 2>For like that eight times a day?

0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:20.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

0:28:20.280 --> 0:28:23.320
<v Speaker 2>All right, well that's it, all right, yo yosa. I

0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:25.720
<v Speaker 2>was in a jewelry store once and Neo came in.

0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:27.000
<v Speaker 2>It seemed nice.

0:28:27.560 --> 0:28:28.120
<v Speaker 1>Who's Neo?

0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:30.400
<v Speaker 2>He's this rapper He's from Atlanta.

0:28:30.640 --> 0:28:33.280
<v Speaker 1>I thought you were talking about the matrix. No, that's

0:28:33.320 --> 0:28:35.400
<v Speaker 1>like his real names Cana Neo.

0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:37.080
<v Speaker 2>This is ni Yo.

0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:39.160
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I've heard of him.

0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:42.040
<v Speaker 2>Yeah him. Well, if you want to learn more about

0:28:42.120 --> 0:28:47.000
<v Speaker 2>Yoyo's including some really top notch illustrations, this is one

0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:49.360
<v Speaker 2>of those ones that you will see why we have

0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:52.840
<v Speaker 2>staff illustrators here at in color.

0:28:52.920 --> 0:28:52.960
<v Speaker 1>No.

0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:55.800
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I saw you want to type in yo Yo

0:28:56.040 --> 0:28:57.920
<v Speaker 2>at the in the handy search bar at house stuff

0:28:57.920 --> 0:29:00.000
<v Speaker 2>works dot com. That'll bring up that really cool article.

0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:03.840
<v Speaker 2>And I said handy search bar. So now it's time

0:29:03.840 --> 0:29:07.520
<v Speaker 2>for Chuck to shine with another edition of Listener Mail.

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<v Speaker 1>Josh, this is one of our oldest than not by age,

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<v Speaker 1>but one of our most loyal fans, Anna Spies. She

0:29:18.280 --> 0:29:21.000
<v Speaker 1>has a band and they put together Well, let me

0:29:21.040 --> 0:29:23.360
<v Speaker 1>just read it. This is coming out shortly after Christmas,

0:29:23.400 --> 0:29:26.880
<v Speaker 1>and she said it was still great to read this. Hi,

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<v Speaker 1>guys and Jerry. Since we're firmly in the festive, greedy

0:29:30.600 --> 0:29:33.160
<v Speaker 1>little grip of the holiday season, I was wondering if

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<v Speaker 1>you could give a shout out to a project I'm

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<v Speaker 1>involved in or my band is. At least it's a

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<v Speaker 1>charity album to raise funds for the continued fallout from

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<v Speaker 1>the Japanese earthquake and nuclear disaster, and the light of

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<v Speaker 1>everything that's happened since, I know, it's been put on

0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:49.360
<v Speaker 1>the back burner of most people's charitable contributions, which is

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<v Speaker 1>why we were thrilled and honor to our part to

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<v Speaker 1>re raise awareness when the label releasing this compilation approached

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<v Speaker 1>us to contribute a track. So you know, she's right

0:30:00.120 --> 0:30:02.560
<v Speaker 1>about these tragedies that happen and then six months later

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<v Speaker 1>you kind of forget about it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the curse of the news cycle exactly.

0:30:06.760 --> 0:30:09.800
<v Speaker 1>But luckily there's a lot of people that my friend

0:30:09.880 --> 0:30:11.680
<v Speaker 1>Dave is one of them that's still working, like on

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<v Speaker 1>the tsunami from five or six years ago. Oh that's great,

0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:19.120
<v Speaker 1>so continued help is always needed. There's a CD that's

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<v Speaker 1>You can stream the entire album, which is thirty seven

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<v Speaker 1>wrote and recorded a brand new song just for this compilation,

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<v Speaker 1>and she's quite proud of it, and I haven't had

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<v Speaker 1>a chance to listen to it yet, but I'm gonna,

0:30:43.880 --> 0:30:45.880
<v Speaker 1>And she says there's a lot of far better known

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<v Speaker 2>Very cool, Thanks a lot, Anna appreciate that, Thanks for

0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:07.160
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<v Speaker 1>And thanks for listening for like years, she's been around forever.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I guess if you're working on something that

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