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Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry just

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

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

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Speaker 1: could see this because it was got pretty good right now.

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Speaker 1: Look at this half shower, half halfhower. Man, that was

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Speaker 1: a good one. Bro Se balls at once. Yeah, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: come light these torches on fire, like wow, man, half

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Speaker 1: shower of rain and fire, this is really dangerous. Can

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Speaker 1: you juggle? No? But I want to after this. My

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Speaker 1: brother learned, of course. Of course. I'm sure he's born

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Speaker 1: knowing how to juggle. He came out of the womb juggling. Now.

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Speaker 1: He learned back when I like in high school and

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Speaker 1: mastered it pretty quickly and now and he can still

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Speaker 1: juggle some. I think it's one of those things will

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Speaker 1: once you learn sort of the basics, you can always

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Speaker 1: do it, because apparently a lot of it comes down

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Speaker 1: to muscle memory, which is to say motor memory. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and in true Chuck fashion, I tried to learn to

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Speaker 1: juggle for about an hour and never finished. Did you

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Speaker 1: like see any progress over that hour? Yeah? I could.

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Speaker 1: I could do the little one hand juggling two balls

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Speaker 1: with one hand thing, okay, But I did a lot

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Speaker 1: of chasing the ball. That's a problem, which apparently, if

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Speaker 1: you're a beginning juggler, you're gonna be throwing the ball

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Speaker 1: further and further away from you, just naturally chasing the ball,

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Speaker 1: and they call it chasing it. So what do they suggest?

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Speaker 1: They suggest that you learned to juggle close to and

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Speaker 1: facing a wall, because that way you can't move forward,

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Speaker 1: or you'll just keep hitting your head and you'll scratch

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Speaker 1: your face up on the brick and quit juggling. This

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Speaker 1: is a Jonathan Strickland joint of tech stuff. It's reeks

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Speaker 1: of Strickland. It does like even if the byeline hadn't

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Speaker 1: been on there, I would have been like, this is Stricklin.

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Speaker 1: But I remember when this one was made. It was

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Speaker 1: right when I got here, and like he there's a

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Speaker 1: video embedded of Strickling teaching you how to juggle. It smells,

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: guy who's in the graph on how to juggle is

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Speaker 1: just totally ripped. Yeah, 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, a juggler, very good juggler,

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Speaker 1: here that modern jugglers poopoo things like taking a bite

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Speaker 1: school tricks. That is that true or not? And I

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Speaker 1: didn't hear back from him, so maybe, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was on Facebook, okay, so he'll get to it

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Speaker 1: when he gets to it. So anyway, we're in ancient

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Speaker 1: Egypt to be exact. That's right. There were jugglers in

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

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Speaker 1: records today are like seven I think for clubs, is

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Speaker 1: Good point um. Through the Roman era, apparently that jugglers

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Speaker 1: Like Initially they seem to have been not revered necessarily,

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Speaker 1: I wonder how many like um behind closed doors, how

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Speaker 1: many like emperors and kings tried it out after seeing

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Speaker 1: and then had someone's head chopped off out of frustration.

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Speaker 1: but during the medieval era you could. If you found

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Speaker 1: And then in the seventeen hundreds they became more of

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Speaker 1: not know this, but W. C. Fields was a juggler

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Speaker 1: in the vaudevillion days. I didn't know that. Before he

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Speaker 1: was Fatty R. Fatty R Buckle. That's who it was. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: ran across um the Hollywood Hell Club. So apparently before

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Speaker 1: the International Brotherhood of Magicians Uh decided you know, at

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Speaker 1: jugglers tell it. The magicians were like, get the jugglers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And in two thousand Jason Garfield, a very famous juggler,

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Speaker 1: cock fighting. Um so all right, let's get into it then.

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Speaker 1: So we're actually gonna teach everybody how to juggle, like

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Speaker 1: the old YouTube and look up what Cascade juggling looks like.

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Speaker 1: H O M. S K Y. And like, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: I watched him. That guy pops it into slow motion

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Speaker 1: fagone and he details a big, long story on Anthony Gatto,

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Speaker 1: who may be the best juggler on the planet. He

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

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Speaker 1: a concrete resurfacing business after becoming disenchanted with the juggling scene,

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Speaker 1: basically calling out all these kids. He stays saying, like,

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Speaker 1: mean you can do it. It's essentially what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: This guy story is the prime US for office space. Yeah, basically,

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Speaker 1: but he's amazing. If you watch Anthony Gotto juggling, like

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Speaker 1: And other jugglers are like, this dude is insane. How

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Speaker 1: long he can keep all these clubs and balls and

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Speaker 1: torches or whatever in the air. That's really funny that

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Speaker 1: Anthony Gotto? Now I know you give the finger. It's

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Speaker 1: a really good article. Actually it's nick 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: That guy. He starts out in profile, yeah, and you're like,

421
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: like his basement or whatever. Yeah, but then once he

422
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: don't know how many balls he had going. He had

423
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,239
Speaker 1: quite a few. Yeah, And there's different ways of doing this.

424
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 1: You can either lift bounce it by just sort of

425
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: tossing it in the air and letting it bounce, or

426
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: you can actually throw it at the ground, which is

427
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 1: called a force bounce. And I even wrote the coolest

428
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: two of them. Bounce juggling is really cool looking. Um.

429
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: There's clawing, which is basically palms down juggling. Um, so

430
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 1: it's just the regular cascade, but yeah, you're like snatching

431
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 1: him out of the air. Yeah, and it's like that's

432
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: cool looking. You can do that solely, or you can

433
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 1: just throw in a claw every now and then just

434
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 1: delight your nieces and nephews at Christmas. There is the

435
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: chop yeah, which I think this one is where you

436
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: grab a ball and then throw it underneath your other arm.

437
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: You throw it upboard underneath your other arm. Yeah, it's

438
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 1: like a diagonal quick diagonal move. And like I said

439
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: it all you'll just notice if you're not a real juggler,

440
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: if you're just watching in the park one day, they'll

441
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 1: do some crazy arm thing. It's just I call it flair. Well,

442
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 1: there is actually something called flair that's a type of

443
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: juggling bartenders flare. Oh you know the movie Cocktail Bartender's

444
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: Flair that was a type of juggling supposedly not a fan, Oh,

445
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: I thought it was great. I haven't seen the movie. Yeah,

446
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. And are you a fan of

447
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: bartending flair though? Hey, I'm a Jerry Thomas fan. So

448
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: yes the answers, yes, all right, I like uh, I

449
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: like a bartender to like grump at me and slide

450
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 1: my whiskey down the bar. That's the best trick. I

451
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: want to say. It's fine pretty much like all bartenders. Yeah,

452
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah they do. They're doing God's work. So

453
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland says, generally speaking, if you have an odd

454
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: number of props, you're gonna require a criss cross pattern.

455
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 1: If you have an even number of props, it's going

456
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: to be two separate groups juggled in each hand. Yeah.

457
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: I remember you said you could juggle with one hand

458
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: kind of yea. So remember toss juggling is any kind

459
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: of juggling where the more the objects, the number of

460
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 1: objects you're juggling exceeds the number of hands are using.

461
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,959
Speaker 1: So if you use two balls in one hand, that's

462
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 1: toss juggling, it still counts. So if you're if you're

463
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: juggling four things, you're basically toss juggling separately with two

464
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: hands to two different things. So two bowling pins in

465
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: each hand is toss juggling. I don't know if you

466
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 1: could do clubs with one hand, can you? Yea, yeah,

467
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: you're do it in columns and yeah. Yeah, that's that's

468
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 1: some talent right there. That's how that's how most people

469
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: do clubs is like one hand. I really I've just

470
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 1: seen like the Cascade mainly. Mhm no, no, everytime I've

471
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: ever seen clubs, it's like one handed to one handed juggling.

472
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: You need to get out more. I guess I need

473
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,400
Speaker 1: to go to the park. Yeah that they hang out

474
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: there along with the Hackey sackers. Um yeah, well like

475
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: you mentioned then, I guess if you're going to be

476
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: juggling with one hand, you've got the fountain, which is

477
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: the circular pattern, like if I had two balls and

478
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: I was just throwing them in a circle, or the

479
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,199
Speaker 1: straight up and down which is the column right, and

480
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: that can be either synchronous or asynchronous. If you look

481
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: up synchronous column juggler on YouTube, they're gonna be doing

482
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 1: the exact same thing at the same time with both hands,

483
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: which is pretty neat. I think asynchronous may be a

484
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: little tougher though, just judging by the looks of it. Well,

485
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: strickling makes the point that since you most people start

486
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: out learning to juggle asynchronous lee, which is like that

487
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: cascade is asynchronous. The hands aren't moving at the same time,

488
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: they're moving at opposite beats. Um that it's it's actually

489
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: easier for people to do that to do asynchronous makes sense.

490
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah. Even handed juggling, what is that called.

491
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: That's the one thing in juggling that doesn't have a

492
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: name where you're just juggling four things at once, or

493
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: like an even number of things, and you're using both

494
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: your hands, but you're juggling two clubs. There's no name

495
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: for it. It's driving me crazy. I'm sure there's a

496
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: name for it. Well, I don't know what it is.

497
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 1: You should name it after you at any at any term.

498
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: Oh no, here it is numbers juggling. Okay, okay, So

499
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: when you're doing numbers juggling, you uh, an even number

500
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: of numbers juggling, you're just doing it asynchronous ly, probably

501
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: to start. Okay, that was my point for my little tirade.

502
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: I wonder how many angry jugglers we have right now, Oh,

503
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: probably a lot. Uh. There's a couple of other kinds

504
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: of juggling that are fun to watch, cigar box juggling

505
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: and shaker cup. Um. You've probably tried the cigar box

506
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,719
Speaker 1: thing with two boxes or whatever. And that's when you

507
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: have any number of boxes. You're holding one in each hand,

508
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: but then you have quite a few in the middle,

509
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: and you'll toss them up and flip them and then

510
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: catch them between the other two boxes. Yeah, it's pretty neat.

511
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: And the same sort of thing goes with the shaker cup. Um.

512
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: Your cups are nesting inside one another, though, like cocktail cups,

513
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: and you're you know, tossing those up and catching them.

514
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: And they probably was born out of bar tender flare. Yeah,

515
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: probably so all right, we mentioned clubs um as an alternative.

516
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: They look like the standard club looks sort of like

517
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: a modified bowling pin. Yeah, like a slim svelt bowling pin. Yeah,

518
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: a sexy bowling pin. Uh. They are European and American versions,

519
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: and I think the European version is slimmer and sexier

520
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: than the American go figure. And um, I think they're

521
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: a little more popular as well. Right, and the larger

522
00:29:55,280 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: and is meant to fit into a Champagne coup the Europe.

523
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: That's pretty neat. Uh. And I think you said that

524
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: clubs also if you want to do like knives and torches,

525
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: they call that a club as well. Yeah. I think

526
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: there's like a few broad categories of props and the

527
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: clubs that kind of thing, and then they fall under

528
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: those subcategories like axes and torches andies out the n uh.

529
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: And then there's ring juggling. Of course they're very stable,

530
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: um because of their gyroscopic properties, and so you don't

531
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: even mention. Well, the point is though you can juggle

532
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: a lot more rings at once maybe than you might

533
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: be able to juggle a ball. Yeah, and that's pretty

534
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: impressive to see as well. Yeah, and then there's this

535
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: thing I found today called contact ring juggling. That's when

536
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: you're not throwing rings, uh you really you're rolling them along. Well.

537
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 1: Now that's contact juggling with like a ball is when

538
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: you're like doing the Harlem globe trotter thing and rolling

539
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: it down your arm over your body and stuff. It's

540
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: pretty cool. But the contact ring juggling is just just

541
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: look it up. It's really cool. It's like, I mean,

542
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: there's all different shapes, but the ones I've seen are

543
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: mainly a figure eight um, and you're just manipulating them

544
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: such that they look like it looks like an illusion,

545
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: almost like one will be stationary and it looks like

546
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: the other ring is circling around it. Well it is,

547
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: but uh, just take my word for Okay, contact ring

548
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: juggling everyone go check it out. Very popular in Asia.

549
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: It looks like they've mastered it. Okay, very cool. So

550
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: let's see. You got a buddy and you both like

551
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: to go to the park. Well, this is a big one.

552
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. It's a thing. You've seen it. Yeah.

553
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,959
Speaker 1: Stuggling makes the point that juggling is kind of a

554
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: social thing populated by social creatures. Like there's lots of

555
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: juggling clubs and that kind of stuff, and that um

556
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: where you know, you and I think of juggling. It's

557
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: like a solitary activity. No way. Man, If you get

558
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: too good jugglers together, it becomes a feast for the

559
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: mind and the eyes. We could add this to our

560
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: live show Juggling us juggling, Yeah, all right, and tandem.

561
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: We have a lot of practice to do because what

562
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: we could do Josh on stage, if we put a

563
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: lot of work into it, is something called stealing and replacing.

564
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: And that is when you basically will go up. If

565
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: you're juggling four clubs, I'll go and steal one, or

566
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: maybe steal two, and then three and then four, and

567
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: then I'm the one juggling. But the juggling never stops, right,

568
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: It looks as as a seamless synchronous pattern uninterrupted. If

569
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: you're just like stop another person from juggling, it's just

570
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: being a jerk. Yeah. The point of it is that juggling. Yeah,

571
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: I guess so, But you're still juggling the whole time

572
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: you're doing that. That's right. The whole point of of

573
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: juggling with two people and like stealing and replacing is

574
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: that the balls. If you were able to ask these

575
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,080
Speaker 1: juggled balls what they think is going on, they you

576
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: would say nothing, it's the same thing. We're doing the

577
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: same pattern. Say, Chuck, hands were a little sweatier, right,

578
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: but what really happened was I replaced you. Yeah, that's

579
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: one way to do it, or we could stand in

580
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: front of each other like four ft apart and uh,

581
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: you know, we're juggling the clubs and then tossing each

582
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: other the clubs and we've got our little uh post stuff.

583
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: You should now act all worked out? Yeah, what's cool?

584
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: So with stealing replacing, with with juggling balls, like I

585
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: would stand facing opposite you and just kind of grab

586
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: yours like you said, and just ultimately like take over

587
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: your catches, and then I would be juggling and then

588
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: you could steal it back and we could go back

589
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: and forth. And definitely with clubs, I would be standing

590
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: next to you and just basically kind of push you

591
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: out of the way. Well that's if you're stealing and replacing.

592
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: If we're passing, then we're standing in front of each

593
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: other and just throwing them back and forth to each other.

594
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: And there's actually a pretty established way of um passing

595
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: where it's called the three three ten where we do

596
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: three pass is where every third toss I passed to

597
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: you and you catch it, so you know we're in

598
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: tandem and everything's going right, and then after three of those,

599
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: you do every second toss. Then after three of those

600
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: you do. Every toss, you toss another one, and then

601
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: by that last one, we're just like on fire, just

602
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: throwing throwing ones back and forth between ourselves. Yeah, and

603
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: we did mention combat juggling. That was not a joke.

604
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: It is a thing, and I've seen I looked up

605
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: these little competitions. It's when it's sort of like dodgebhile.

606
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: You get, you know, ten jugglers on a stage and

607
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: they all start juggling, and they all start to try

608
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: and thwart the other jugglers juggle while maintaining their's. So

609
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: I would go up and throw mine in the air

610
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: and try and knock yours out of your hand. But

611
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: you can't, you know, get too crazy because you've gotta

612
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: still juggle or else you're out. The way we've been

613
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: describing this one, it feels like we've been replaced by

614
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: impostors who listened to the show a lot and didn't

615
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: know what topic to pick. Isn't that weird? I'm myself?

616
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: Are you yourself? No, I'm you? Oh god, weird. Well,

617
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: we'll get to the bottom of this right after these

618
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: messages and that Chuck comes to the darkest time. This

619
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: is Josh actual. Yeah, Okay, yeah, I'm replaced. I replaced

620
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: the replacement. Um Nope, still here saying bizarre stuff like

621
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: I replaced the replacement. And we're talking about the physics

622
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: of juggling fun fun, which is it's actually kind of straightforward.

623
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: It's stuff you would think of, but it's nice to

624
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: put it into terms where we can say that we

625
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: covered the physics of juggling. Like. So, the main factor

626
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: acting on juggling, probably the most important part in the

627
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:03,240
Speaker 1: whole thing, is our good friend gravity. That's right. Uh.

628
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: An acceleration due to gravity specifically is nine point eight

629
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Speaker 1: m slash s to the second power, meaning nine point

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Speaker 1: eight meters per second every second. So when you drop something,

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Speaker 1: speed is going to increase by nine point eight meters

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Speaker 1: per second. And don't bother us, we're not including any

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Speaker 1: kind of error resistance. We're in a vacuum to demonstrate

634
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: all of our physics were always in a vacuum. Our

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Speaker 1: little stuff you should know, vacuum part next to the

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Speaker 1: way back machine. Um. So it's a constant acceleration and

637
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: because of that, the only way to slow down your

638
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: pattern is by throwing something higher. Yeah, And so the

639
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: more things that you add into your pattern, the higher

640
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Speaker 1: you're going to have to throw because you have a

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00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: constant acceleration downward acceleration after your toss um So that

642
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: means you have to open up your pattern by throwing

643
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: it higher up. The more stuff you have, because you

644
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 1: simply would not have enough time to throw x amount

645
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: of balls in the air. I mean, you can increase

646
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: your hand speed somewhat, but at a certain point you

647
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: just can't do it exactly. They're gonna be bean bags everywhere.

648
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Speaker 1: Another um factor is that it's not really a factor.

649
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: It's more of a fact. When you're throwing your balls,

650
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: you're throwing them in a parabola, which means that the only, uh,

651
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: the only velocity that counts is the is the vertical velocity,

652
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: the vertical acceleration. When you throw something up, you're exerting

653
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: your own force upward and what's it peaks gravity is

654
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: pushing it back downward. That's right. It's gonna have a

655
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: horror zonal velocity, but that's going to be constant, so

656
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: there's no force acting on it unless there's no change

657
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: in velocity. I guess with the column it's pretty much

658
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: straight up and down. But generally speaking, you're gonna be

659
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Speaker 1: have both. Yeah, it's moving horizontally, but there's no force

660
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Speaker 1: pushing it. There's no change in I'm sorry, there's no

661
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: change in acceleration. It's constant exactly, Okay. And then of

662
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: course the mass of your props also count. Yeah, which

663
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Speaker 1: is why if you've ever seen the old trick where

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Speaker 1: someone's doing a bowling ball with a tennis ball with

665
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Speaker 1: a club, it's super impressive because it's much much easier

666
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 1: to juggle things with the same mass. Yeah, because you're

667
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: just making the same motion over and over again. When

668
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: you are juggling things with three different maths, meaning they

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Speaker 1: have three different um, three different amounts of inertia or

670
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 1: they require more different amounts of force to overcome inertiae um.

671
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Speaker 1: Then yes, like you said, that's kind of impressive. It

672
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Speaker 1: just requires that much more mental acuity. That's right. Is

673
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,240
Speaker 1: that all the physics. Now we get into the math.

674
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Speaker 1: I know this actually kind of interested me a little bit,

675
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Speaker 1: despite the fact that it is math and I'm well

676
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: known to not love it. But um. There was a

677
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: mathematician who named Claude Shannon who posed a juggling theorem

678
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: um that basically describes the relationship of of a cask

679
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: or well, just of a juggle, right, keep saying juggle?

680
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: Is that a thing? Did I make it up? No?

681
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: I think it's a thing. I think it's called something

682
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: else though, a juggle. Yeah, Oh, a flash, a flash,

683
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: there you go. That's a round of juggling, one single

684
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: round where all three, year, all five, or all seven

685
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: of your balls have been tossed once at least. But

686
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 1: to the layman, it's called a juggle, right, so everyone

687
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: knows what I mean. Uh. And this is in parentheses

688
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: F plus d um, and then that would be times

689
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: eight right outside the parentheses equals v plus d in

690
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: prinheses times in when F is the time the balls

691
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: in the air, D is the time as a ball

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00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: in the hand, H is a number of hands, V

693
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: is time that the hand is empty, and in as

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00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: a number of balls being juggled. So basically what he's

695
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,919
Speaker 1: saying is, if you add together the amount of time

696
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: the ball spends in the air plus the amount of

697
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: time it spends in the hand, right, which is the

698
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Speaker 1: full amount of time that that ball exists during a flash,

699
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Speaker 1: multiply that times your hands to the number of hands.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna equal the time your hand is empty, uh,

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Speaker 1: plus the time the ball spends in the hand times

702
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: the number of balls being juggled. I saw no reason

703
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: for this equation whatsoever. Like at first I was like, oh,

704
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty cool, and then I spelled it out

705
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: to myself in a it's like the amount of time

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Speaker 1: the balls out of the hand plus the amount of

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Speaker 1: time the balls in the hand times the number of

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00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: balls the what. I didn't understand what the point of

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00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: it was. So Claude Shannon, please get in touch with us.

710
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: Well that's why he did it so people would write

711
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: stuff about it. And well, the thing is, I guess

712
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: the problem is that it says Shannon build the juggling robots.

713
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: So I guess this formula allows robotics to happen. Yeah,

714
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: and I saw the juggling robots, different robots that toss

715
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: things and catch things, right, it's kind of cool. Okay. Yeah.

716
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: So if if that's the point of the Shannon theorem,

717
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: is that what that's called, sure the Claude's Claude's law,

718
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: then then I understand it. And I take it back.

719
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: What if there's some Cloud's law that's something awful that

720
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: we don't know about. I hope that's the case. And

721
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: then there's site swapping um, which is another math application.

722
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: It's sort of like a musical akin to a musical

723
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: score to a musician, as a form of notation describing

724
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: the juggling pattern, and is what jugglers use two UM. Basically,

725
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: if you were going to write out your juggling pattern

726
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: and send it to your buddy, you wouldn't say, take

727
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: your right hand and blah blah blah. You would use

728
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: numbers to represent it. Which this actually does make sense. Yeah,

729
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: this made a little more sense to me for sure. Yeah.

730
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: And um, So, like a normal eball cascade is three

731
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: three three. Each throw takes three beats, a zero is

732
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: arrest on an empty hand, and a one is handoff

733
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: from one to the other. And you can actually if

734
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: you add them all together and take the average, you

735
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: can tell how many balls are in that pattern. Right,

736
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: So in a three three three you have those together,

737
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 1: that's nine divided by three because there's three different numerals

738
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: and you've got three or four five one four one

739
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: is also three, right matth that sounds pretty difficult the foe,

740
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, the three three three makes intuitive sense

741
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: to me, but that's you know, the four one five

742
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: four five one four one. That's tough. Oh, man, is

743
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: anyone still listening? Noo? Can you hear the echo? I can. Uh.

744
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: If you look at a juggler, you might notice that

745
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: they're probably not looking at their hands like at the catching.

746
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: The catching is sort of automatic. Uh, they're kind of

747
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: looking sort of up at the arc um. And they

748
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: have done experiments to see where um your eyes go

749
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: um A. A. M. Van Santvoord and Peter J. Beck

750
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: did some experiments that actually found that while the peak

751
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: is important, if you see the first one hundred milliseconds

752
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: of the flight path, then you can juggle successfully. Yeah,

753
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 1: which is pretty impressive. They found that jugglers are relying

754
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: more on feel, sure then and then vision. That's why

755
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: you can juggle blindfolded if you're really good. Supposedly some

756
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: people can. I've seen it. Oh yeah, yeah, I bet

757
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:37,240
Speaker 1: Brandon Ross can. I could see that dude is talented, So, Chuck,

758
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 1: we could probably keep talking about juggling for the next

759
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: five years because there's a lot to it. Yeah, man,

760
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: this is just a primer. Hopefully you guys are inspired,

761
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: or at least we're inspired. In the first maybe twenty minutes,

762
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: the good part of this episode to go out and

763
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: um and learn to juggle. I know I was, And

764
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: while we hate ourselves, we don't hate ourselves that much.

765
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna end this one ye. So we think that

766
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: you should learn about juggling. And you can start by

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00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,240
Speaker 1: typing that word in the search bar at how staff

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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

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

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

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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

779
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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

782
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: plastic anemia. So basically he has no immune system, which

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

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

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00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: She can visit wearing 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: they can I know, it's just so terrible, and they're

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

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Speaker 1: She says, There's not a lot that I can give

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Speaker 1: him by way of a Christmas present this year, given

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Speaker 1: the circumstances, but I'm hoping that perhaps you would give

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

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Speaker 1: very special shared experience for us. It really brightened his day,

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Speaker 1: so Tom dude. They also sent me a video of

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Speaker 1: them playing a song together in the kitchen doing uh

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Speaker 1: Springsteen song and it was just like they're the cutest

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Speaker 1: nice folks. Since Tom get better soon, man, I hope

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Speaker 1: that operation goes great. Yeah, Tom, here's to you, buddy.

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Speaker 1: please do, Jennifer, that would be great. Uh. And we

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