1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Okay, it's Joshy again. And up next on our playlist 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: is our episode on hula hoops. This is a stuff 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: you should know classic and hula hoops. For those of 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: you who don't know, were this hoop that you kept 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 1: going around your waist by making a hula motion. It's 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: one of the more appropriately named toys of all time, 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: and it was a huge craze back in the twentieth century. 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: So get your time machine, leather helmet and goggles on 9 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,119 Speaker 1: and let's go back to the hula hoop. 10 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from HowStuffWorks dot com. 11 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 1: there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry over there, 13 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: and this is Stuff you should know the podcast. 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:48,959 Speaker 3: How's going It's. 15 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: Fine, great, how's it going with you? 16 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 3: Good? Jerry's distracting me a little bit because all I 17 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 3: see in my peripheral vision is her practicing her new 18 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 3: hula fire dance routine. 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: It's pretty dangerous. 20 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 3: It's dangerous, but it's it's interesting to see out of 21 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 3: the corner of one's eye. 22 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: It really is yes, performance. 23 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 3: Art, performance hula art. 24 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: Can you hula hoop. I cannot, sir, I'm too self 25 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: conscious too. 26 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 3: To even try it. Yeah, it's it's a grown man, 27 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 3: forty four year old man hula hooping. 28 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: Plus when I do it, like as I rotate my hips, 29 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: it makes the same rotate my hips. Yeah, it makes 30 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,479 Speaker 1: the sound of like almost congealed jello, just slopping around 31 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: in a bowl, you know what I mean. I don't 32 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: want to make that sound. 33 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I did see at a the East Atlanta's 34 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 3: Strut Festivals, one of Atlanta's many great neighborhood festivals. I 35 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 3: believe the Strut to Me is known for having the 36 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 3: better music of most of the festivals. And our buddy 37 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 3: Craig Johnson's band played Space Knife, not space Knife, Okay, 38 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 3: this one was. I can't remember the name of this band, 39 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 3: but that band is no longer. He's got a new band. 40 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: Even that guy is always coming up with new stuff. 41 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: You can never pin him down. It's too good. 42 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,399 Speaker 3: You should check out Space Knife though people on the web. Yeah, 43 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:09,399 Speaker 3: you can find it. It's good. 44 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: It was in our TV show too. 45 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's his alter ego. But anyway, Craig's band was 46 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 3: playing and this I was pretty hula naive hoop naive 47 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 3: at this point. And a few years ago, and there 48 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 3: was this lady doing a hula routine to his band 49 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 3: playing and I videoed it. It was so awesome. 50 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: So she was hoop dancing. 51 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 3: Hoop dancing, Yeah, like the neck, the arms, the legs, 52 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 3: moving around with it, like supremely talented hooper. Yeah. 53 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: If you go onto the web and type in hoop dancing, 54 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: it's going to bring up some pretty impressive videos. 55 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's quite a workout. I could tell. We'll 56 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 3: get to that. But just watching her, I got tired, 57 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 3: and so I drank another beer and just listen to music. 58 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, and pretended you were hula hooping in your head. Yeah, 59 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: you're like, I'm so good at this in my head. 60 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 3: But I was like, man, that's a thing again. I 61 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 3: had no idea, but it's a big thing. 62 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, hula hooping. 63 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 3: Yeah. 64 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: But it's been around for a while. 65 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 3: Yes, it has. 66 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: For example, Chuck, did you know. As Robert points out, 67 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: Robert Lamb wrote this article from Stuff to Blow your mind. 68 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and he says that the hula hoop has 69 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: been around in some form or fashion since before most 70 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: of the world's religions. Wow, that's really saying something. 71 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 3: That is saying something. So let's get in the way 72 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 3: back machine. 73 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: Oh we're going way back time. 74 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go back to one thousand BC. My friend 75 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 3: and we're in Egypt, and they're little children, Egyptian children 76 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 3: with dried up grapevines they've made into hoops playing with them. 77 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: And there's some Egyptian who's like, get off of my 78 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: patch of sand kids. Yeah, you know, instead of a lawn. 79 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 3: Sure, I get it. That was good. It was all right. 80 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 3: So they they no doubt use them in similar ways 81 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 3: that we did today. But they what one thing they 82 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 3: did which was a big sporting thing to do for 83 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 3: a long time, which I don't get personally. The fun 84 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 3: value that is is using a stick to push a 85 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 3: hula hoop down the road. 86 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: I think the fun in it is that the hula 87 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 1: hoop as it's traveling down the road, which does seem 88 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: to be the oldest use of the hoop as a 89 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 1: playtime activity, right, Yeah, it wants to fall, It wants 90 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: to fall over, sure, right, So if you can keep 91 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: it going, then there's probably a tremendous amount of personal 92 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: satisfaction that you can carry all the way to bedtime 93 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: with and maybe have good dreams because. 94 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 3: Of Yeah, I don't even see if you had a 95 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 3: plastic polyethylene hula hoop, a modern hoop, I don't see 96 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 3: how a stick like how you would even push it. 97 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: You would want a stick with maybe like a fork, No, 98 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: probably something like a stick with a big wad of 99 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: chewed bubblegum on it to like just have some sort 100 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: of point of contact. Because, as we'll see when we 101 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: talk about hula hoop physics, friction plays a big part 102 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: in making hula hoops hula hoop. 103 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 3: Yes, around the waist that is. 104 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,119 Speaker 1: Well in any In this case as well, the stick 105 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: makes contact with the hoop, you're using friction to push 106 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: it along. 107 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, good point. 108 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: So I see your point. Like, if you're gonna use 109 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: a stick on a like a plastic hula hoop, it's 110 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: gonna slide off, or it's gonna want. 111 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 3: To Maybe it scares me. That's why I think it's dumb. 112 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,679 Speaker 3: Maybe I would be made a fool of by the hoop. 113 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 3: So I'm in timidy maybe. 114 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: At first, but chuck, you would have to hang in 115 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: there and stick with it. Yeah, and pretty soon you'd 116 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: be rolling hoops like an Egyptian kid. 117 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 3: Yeah, like an ancient Egyptian child. 118 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. 119 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 3: Hoop rolling was a big deal throughout ancient Greece as 120 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 3: well and Rome. They decorated them with bells and things 121 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 3: and toys. Fifth century BC. There's you ever heard of 122 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 3: ganny Mead? Of course, ganymedey Mead, gany Mead. He was 123 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 3: a handsome hero. Oh, he was, he handsomest. 124 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: Supposedly there's an old fifth century BC urn of him 125 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: where he's holding a rooster that was apparently a gift 126 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: from Zeus. Yeah, and a hoop, a hula hoop, clearly 127 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: a hula hoop. And apparently this discovery I'm not sure 128 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: why it's called the Berlin painter eurn, but it is. Okay, again, 129 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: no idea, but apparently they they said, well, I wonder 130 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: if hoops played a role in the earliest Olympics. And 131 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: I guess they've discredited that idea now, but for a while, 132 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: because of this earn this picture of ganny Meade with 133 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: a hoop, they wondered. 134 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 3: Was it a sport? Yeah, an Olympic sport. 135 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: But the Greeks supposedly did use hoops for physical fitness 136 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: as like a physical activity in very much the same 137 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: way it's become popular today. 138 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 3: I would imagine an Olympic hula hooper would be sort 139 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 3: of like the you know, the uh what was the 140 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 3: sport the curler of today? Are you kind of like 141 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 3: an ancient Greece? Like, hey, what do you throw the hammer? 142 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 3: What do you do? I'm hula hooper? 143 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: Oh, although I would guess it'd probably be more akin 144 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: to the hula hoopers of today. 145 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, the hoop roller is what the sport would have been. 146 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: That'd be more like curling, right, hula hooping. That's tough, man. 147 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 3: It is tough. What else? The ancient Britons they had 148 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 3: a game called the battle game called Kill the Hoop. Yeah, 149 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 3: I like this one when they would roll the hoop 150 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 3: and throw try to throw a spear through it. Yep, 151 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 3: pretty neat and dangerous and apparently they also used it 152 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 3: in the hula method and it would people get injured. 153 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a fifteenth fourteenth or fifteenth century, fourteenth 154 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: was it the fourteen hundreds or the fourteenth century fourteenth 155 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: century hula hoop craze? Yeah in Britain? Isn't that bizarre? 156 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 3: That is weird? 157 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: And yeah, people were getting injured there was a proclamation 158 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: by the early physicians. They would pull up their like 159 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: crows mask the masks just long enough to be like, 160 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: stay away from hula hoops, steer clear of those things. 161 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, the warning was hoops kill was I guess what 162 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 3: was posted on the church door. 163 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: And this is like in addition to being in the 164 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: way of a spear that was being thrown at a 165 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: rolling hoop. Yeah, like this is just from hula hooping. 166 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 3: I would stay away from the hoops altogether if I 167 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 3: was in ancient Briton. 168 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, because really, if you're like an ancient Briton, Huh, 169 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: you're going from like zero to sixty as far as 170 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: like physical fitness goes. Sure once you're hula hooping. 171 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know, just because you're not just sitting 172 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 3: around eating like a lamb's brains, right, yeah, drinking mead? 173 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 3: Uh what else? The Native Americans have a long culture 174 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 3: of using the hoop in New Mexico, the Taos Pueblo people, 175 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 3: they use them in ritual dances, private healing ceremonies. And 176 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 3: did you look up this chunky thing? 177 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: No, did you find the chunky reference? 178 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 3: I did. The Cahokian Native Americans that. 179 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: Was an unusual way to pronounce that. 180 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 3: Well, how would you say it? 181 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: Cahokien? 182 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 3: I think in Native American would be hoke. 183 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine. 184 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 3: Near Saint Louis apparently is where they played this game Chunky, 185 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 3: which I just had to look it up because a 186 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 3: game called Chunky with an E y and from what 187 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 3: I saw, it was more of a small stone disc 188 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 3: than like a hula hoop looking thing. 189 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: And you would it was like kill the hoop though 190 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: in Britain. 191 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, they would throw a stick. Apparently it looked 192 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:44,959 Speaker 3: like a combination of like bachi and and kill the hoop. 193 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 3: Weird because I think they would try and throw the 194 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 3: spear where the disc would eventually land, and the closest 195 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,439 Speaker 3: to the disc one. 196 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 1: Oh, that's how like they're predicting where this where the 197 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: hoop would fall. I guess this makes sense, although that's 198 00:09:58,040 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: not really like. 199 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:04,239 Speaker 3: Bachi at all. I mean, I get there's a proximity 200 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 3: element that's bochi. 201 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: S yes, yeah, well put, but I don't know. 202 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 3: I don't know, Like once I saw that and saw pictures, 203 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 3: I was like, I don't even know if they should 204 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 3: be in this article. Yeah, because it's like a small doughnut. 205 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 3: That's a hoop of sorts, I guess. So it's a 206 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 3: stretch if you asked me. But it was a big 207 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 3: spectator sport, like fifty acre stadiums of people would watch this. 208 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 3: Wow would go to junkie games and so chunkie matches. 209 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: So there was chunky matches in Coahokiah. Yeah, and the 210 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: pueblo used there. I think, as you said, they used hoops, 211 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: and they weren't the only ones. There were other tribes 212 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 1: from all over North America and meso America. I believe 213 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: that used hoops for dancing. Yeah, and apparently it was 214 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty a guy named Tony white Cloud, who 215 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:58,079 Speaker 1: was a Yemez Pueblo down in New Mexico, did like 216 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: a hoop dance in public and basically brought it back. 217 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it had been virtually lost to the ages, 218 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: at least as far as the average American was concerned. Yeah, 219 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: most people didn't know this was the thing. Luckily, Tony 220 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 1: white Cloub was like, check this out, did an awesome 221 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: hoop dance, and then by nineteen ninety one there were 222 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: national hoop dancing competitions in New Mexico and they're a 223 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: big deal still to this day. 224 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, I think. Did he kick off the 225 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 3: American craze? Yes, no he didn't. 226 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: He was strictly native American hoop dancing, gotcha, not hula hooping. 227 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 3: Okay, so let's go to well, let's take a break actually, 228 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 3: because this is this is the big revelation here, that's right, 229 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 3: all right, Josh, we're at that point where mainstream America 230 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 3: goes hoop crazy. 231 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: But to get to that point, we actually have to 232 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: go backward again in time for a second. 233 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 3: Back in the way back machine. 234 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: So let's quote it running. Let's go to I don't know, 235 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: Fiji or Tahiti or Polynesia. Yeah, and it's the eighteenth century. Yeah, 236 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: see all these British sailors. 237 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 3: Can we drink some rum? 238 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: Oh man? Okay, yeah, in addition to the room we've 239 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: already drank today. All right, good, So the British sailors 240 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: that you see here are noticing a houla dance, right, 241 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: and they're filing it away in their mental catalog. And 242 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 1: now when they reach Briton again, Yeah, why have we 243 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: been saying it like that? I don't know, they notice 244 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,199 Speaker 1: that it bears a striking resemblance to what people do 245 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: with the hula hoop. 246 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 3: You gyrate every time you'd say that, by the way, 247 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 3: you can't in your seat, can't not do it, Okay. 248 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: So the term hula became applied to the hoop, especially 249 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: when you used your hips to gyrate. Sure to rotate them, Yes, 250 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: when you rotate your hips with the hoop. These British 251 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: sailors ended up applying the word hula to it, and 252 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: it stuck. That's where it came from, was Polynesia. 253 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 3: Right, even though there was no hoop involved in Polynesia? Correct, Yes, 254 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 3: they just kind of ganked that word. Ye think their 255 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 3: own purposes. 256 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: Is nineteen ninety seven all over again. 257 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 3: That was a big nineties termo, wasn't it yanked? 258 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: Yeah? Let's go watch some X Files. 259 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 3: Let's actually yeah, the movie's coming out soon right. Oh yeah, 260 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 3: they're doing another one, aren't they. Yeah. That thing will 261 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 3: never die. I don't think it should keep doing movies, 262 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 3: That's what I say. 263 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: So. So we mentioned that the Greeks I believe used 264 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: it for physical fitness, right. 265 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 3: I don't think we said that. 266 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: I think I said it. Okay. The Swiss actually came 267 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: to adopt it for the same reasons too. In the 268 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: nineteenth century and early twentieth century. 269 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, someone named Emil Jacques Dalcroze and that was great. 270 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 3: That's tough. Had a program called Eurythmics, which, of course 271 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 3: I started singing Sweet Dreams this morning, of course because 272 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 3: of that, and I've been singing it all day as 273 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 3: a result. So that was a special training program and 274 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 3: it was apparently a big deal. 275 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: It was a big deal. So eurhythmics used hoops for 276 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: basically physical fitness but also interpretive dance that kind of stuff. 277 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: It was a combination of It was like dance training 278 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: is what I can gather, and it used hoops. The 279 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: reason that we're mentioning this when we're talking about the 280 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: American craze is that it directly led to the American 281 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: craze potentially because eurhythmics spread from Switzerland to Great Britain 282 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: and it was brought in as part of like pe 283 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: class in Australia, and it was in Australia that the 284 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: founders of Whammo were inspired to create the modern hula 285 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: hoop that we think of today boom. So it's possible 286 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: they watched the eurhythmics class or heard about a eurhythmics 287 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: class with Australian kids and then said, well, this is 288 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: a clearly something of Australian design and let's bring it 289 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: to the US and start a craze. 290 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 3: They said, sweet dreams were made of these. Yeah, and 291 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 3: this was Richard Knerr and Arthur spud Melon mel maline 292 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 3: melon sounds like. 293 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: M l O N like Thornton Mellon. 294 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 3: Uh huh. Don't tease me with that movie, The Great 295 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 3: Back to School. I saw a bit of that recently. Yeah, 296 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 3: and the only thought through my head was like, man, 297 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 3: why couldn't I have caught this from the beginning? Yeah, 298 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 3: because I wanted to see it all. 299 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: That And man, his son is pasty. 300 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought you were saying that 301 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 3: was a line for the movie. It should have been. Yeah, 302 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 3: his son Keith Gordon, who became a great movie director. 303 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 3: Oh really Yeah, the guy from Christine and Back to School? 304 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah. He gave up acting and started directing 305 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 3: movies and directed a bunch of good movies, one called 306 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 3: Waking the Dead. 307 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: You should see, I thought Keith Gordon co starred, and 308 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: they live. 309 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 3: I don't know, Maybe I'll have to check that. So 310 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 3: where were we oh yes. The two founders of Whammo, 311 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 3: they said, you know what, let's take these wooden hoops, 312 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 3: let's make them out of polyethylene. Let's make them forty inches, 313 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 3: and let's charge a dollar ninety eight for them and 314 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 3: make them all kinds of fun colors. 315 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:57,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, and boom. 316 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 3: The hula hoop craze in nineteen fifty eight was born. 317 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 1: Like it was the definition of a flash in the 318 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: pan craze. 319 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of money in a very short span. 320 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,919 Speaker 1: Of time, like a summer. Basically pretty much. In nineteen 321 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: fifty eight, WMO released it, and by the end of 322 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight these things were rotting in the warehouse. 323 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: But in the meantime they sold globally, globally from the 324 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: summer to the end of nineteen fifty eight, one hundred 325 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,439 Speaker 1: million hula hoops. 326 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:30,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, more than that, I think. 327 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: Damn my brain. 328 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, you forgot what we were talking about. 329 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: I almost said frisbees. 330 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 3: Did we do one on the frisbee? 331 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: No? 332 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 3: I thought we had, but we haven't have we No, 333 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 3: we did one on the boomerang. Oh right, just like 334 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 3: a frisbee, but not it's like a dangerous frisbee. Uh 335 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 3: So they sell all these hula hoops. They make a 336 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 3: ton of money, like, you know, over fifty million dollars 337 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,239 Speaker 3: in a short span of time, which I'm sure they 338 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 3: weren't happy with the that it didn't last, but they're 339 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 3: all so probably like an injection of cash like that 340 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 3: is great for any business. 341 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. Then they moved on to the frisbee and made 342 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: even more money. 343 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, and they did not secure a patent for it. 344 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 3: I guess it didn't matter in the long run. 345 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: Well, they couldn't because it was so demonstrably an ancient 346 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,640 Speaker 1: invention that nobody could patent it. Nope, But they trademarked it. 347 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 3: They did. They trademarked the name hula hoop in the 348 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 3: United States, which is why we still call it hula 349 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 3: hoop today. I guess. Yeah, it just became. 350 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: They should probably put the title with a R in 351 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: a circle for this. 352 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we should do that, like Barbie. Yeah. It 353 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 3: was named the number thirty five a toy of all 354 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 3: Time by Time magazine. And they know toys, they know 355 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 3: their toys. And then from nineteen sixty eight to nineteen 356 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 3: eighty one, there were national hula hoop contests held and 357 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 3: the guests in the early eighties people were finished with it. 358 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: There were also like a tremendous amount of music, like 359 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: musical singles released called the hula hoop song. Oh really, 360 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: different people recorded different songs about hula hooping. 361 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 3: Doesn't surprise me. 362 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a craze big time. Yeah, and you 363 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: say that they were done with it by the eighties, 364 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: not true. The national competitions there was so if you 365 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: look at hula hooping records, yea, the most recent hula 366 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: hoop records from two thousand and nine. 367 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 3: Wow. But was that part of a national competition? 368 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: Probably for just a guy named Aaron Hibbs, he hula hoop, 369 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 1: just hula hooped for seventy four hours and fifty four minutes. Wow. 370 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 1: He broke the record of. 371 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 3: I couldn't even stand up for that long. 372 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: He broke the record of a girl named Kim Koberly. 373 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: She held the record twice, in nineteen seventy eight with 374 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,360 Speaker 1: fifty four hours and in nineteen eighty four for seventy 375 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: two hours. Wow, which is pretty impressive. 376 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, people were still like hundreds of them at once. 377 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,959 Speaker 1: Yeah. There was a guy named Paul Dizzy hips Blair 378 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: who set the record in two thousand and nine with 379 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty two hoops at the same time. 380 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 3: Wow, that's impressive. 381 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: He's basically probably just like like the Michelin man made 382 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: of hula hoops. 383 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 3: Yeah. To ever tell you about the Surface Area Man 384 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 3: costume and Athens. No, that was out on Halloween in 385 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 3: Athens in college, and that was a dude. I know. 386 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 3: The guy's name was Blake. He has you may have 387 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 3: seen him. He had big red dreadlocks, kind of a 388 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 3: short guy, just a ubiquitous Athens dude. No, he lives 389 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:24,919 Speaker 3: kind of in my neighborhood now. I still see him 390 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 3: every once in a while. We called him Sideshow Blake 391 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 3: because of Sideshow Bobs. Sure, and he came in the 392 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 3: bar and the Georgia Bar, and he had these foam 393 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 3: discs around his arms, around his legs, around his waist 394 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 3: and neck that were huge, like probably four feet across, 395 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 3: and he was Surface Area Man. And that was just 396 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 3: his costume because when he moved around, he took up like, 397 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 3: you know, probably seventy five square feet in space and 398 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 3: he would just move through the bar and say Surface 399 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 3: Area Man. And I'll always remember every time I see Blake. 400 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 3: I saw him at the grocery store the other day. 401 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: Was he dressed like that? 402 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 3: No? But I also like surface. He wouldn't fit down 403 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 3: the grocery aisle. 404 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: Does he have dread still? 405 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 3: Yeah? Does he really still rocking the red dreads? 406 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 1: He's dedicated? 407 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,959 Speaker 3: He looks exactly the same. Actually, but we weren't friends. 408 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 3: I could actually see him. Actually, I'm gonna just walk 409 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 3: by him and go surface area. Man, you should I'm 410 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 3: gonna do it. All right, Let's talk about the Hudsucker 411 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 3: Proxy for a quick moment, and then we'll take another break. Okay, 412 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 3: did you ever see that one? 413 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: I don't think I made it through that one. 414 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 3: The Coen Brothers, Yeah, uh not. 415 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: All of their movies are great. 416 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 3: I disagree. 417 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: I love the Coen Brothers, but some of their movies stink. 418 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 3: Oh boy, that they're part of my one hundred percent 419 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 3: club where every movie they've made has been great? 420 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: That is wrong? 421 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 3: Which other ones? Don't? You like? 422 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 1: The Man who Wasn't there? 423 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 3: Loved it? 424 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: Bob Robertson, They didn't. 425 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 3: That wasn't theirs? 426 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: Well it was terrible. Okay, uh? Well the Hudsucker Proxy too, 427 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: all right, I liked it. 428 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 3: I would put it at lesser Cohen's for sure, you'd 429 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 3: have to. But I enjoyed it quite a bit. Tim 430 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 3: Robbins and Jennifer Jason Lee and Paul Newman in a 431 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 3: fictitious tale of the invention of the hula hoop. It 432 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 3: is not the true biopic of the invention of the 433 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 3: hula hoop, but they co opted it for one of 434 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 3: their movies, and it was I think pretty great. 435 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: Okay, but that's just me, okay, so go ahead. 436 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 3: Well, no, that was it. I just wanted to shout 437 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 3: it out. 438 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: Fine, Well, then let's take a break because we're about 439 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 1: to get into physics. 440 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, and hoop games yep. 441 00:22:33,760 --> 00:23:00,719 Speaker 1: After this, No Country for Old Men terrible. I'm kidding, 442 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: I'm kidding. 443 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 3: Do you like that one? 444 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: I love that one. That's maybe the best. Raising Arizona 445 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: is probably the best. 446 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 3: It'd be tough for me to pick on any given day, 447 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 3: but Fargo is the one I can watch over yeah 448 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 3: and over. 449 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I would say this three year type for first. 450 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 3: Did we just come back from the break just segueing 451 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 3: right back into the car? 452 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: I don't know. 453 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 3: All right, let's do it. 454 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: We'll see how Jerry edits this, so. 455 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 3: Let's it wouldn't be a stuff you should know podcast 456 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 3: if we didn't talk about the science behind something seemingly unscientific. 457 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: Well, hula hoops are super complex as far as physics goes. 458 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: You know that, super complex, super complex. 459 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 3: There's just a few things. 460 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: We are not in agreement on stuff today, are we? 461 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on. 462 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: So let's say you have a hula hoop, right, and 463 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: it's around your waist, and you take it and you 464 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: throw it. You have it up against maybe one hip, sure, 465 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: making contact with your body. 466 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 3: That you're starting in the traditional way, then. 467 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: Sure, and you whip it around, yeah, to one side, 468 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: and as you do, you start rotating your hip. You're gyrating, right, 469 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 1: I'm rotating my hips, chants, and as you do that, 470 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 1: when you rotate your hips, what you're doing is, first 471 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 1: of all, you're conserving the angular momentum you gave the 472 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: hula hoop when you pushed it in a certain direction, 473 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: you twisted it around yourself. 474 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 3: Right, that's right. You are the axis. 475 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:18,679 Speaker 1: Yes, you are the axis. 476 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 3: Yes. 477 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: And when you move your hips around, when you rotate 478 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: your hips, you're applying what's called torque. 479 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, Because all this hoop wants to do is fall 480 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 3: down around on the ground and make you look foolish. 481 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: It wants to stop. Well, no, it doesn't want to 482 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: stop because of inertia. It wants to keep going, but 483 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: it can't because of friction. But it wants to fall 484 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: down to the ground like you said, and make you 485 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: look foolish. Yeah, but ironically that same friction is keeping 486 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: it from doing that. 487 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 3: Who's the fool now, hoop the hula hoop? Yep, fool? 488 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 3: All right? Did you talk about the torque? 489 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: I did talk about torqu and torque is a twisting 490 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: force where you're twisting your hips and you're thrusting the 491 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 1: hula hoop in a circle, and what you're doing there 492 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: is contributing to the centripetal force. 493 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 3: That's right and centrific goal no centripet all two different 494 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:10,400 Speaker 3: things move. 495 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: Is a force that moves at a right angle to 496 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,640 Speaker 1: the motion of your body, so it keeps that thing 497 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: whatever it is, say, hula hoop or tractor tire, which, 498 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: by the way, someone set a record hula hooping with 499 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 1: a tractor tire. Shut up, really yeah, for like seventy 500 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: seconds of fifty four pound tire. 501 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 3: How big was a person? 502 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure it was ginormous. I think he was from 503 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: like Baylor Roos or something, you know. 504 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they do that on a daily basis. 505 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: So with the centripetal force is going at a right 506 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: angle to the direction that you're thrusting your hips, it's 507 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 1: constantly going to move around a circle on the axis. 508 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: That is centripetal force. Boom, centripetal motion. I should say yes. 509 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 3: And when the soop wants to fall, of course, we're 510 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,199 Speaker 3: talking about gravity. Gravity wants to win that fight. But 511 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,919 Speaker 3: if you keep that pulsing gyration going, then you're going 512 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 3: to keep that hoop just a little ahead of the curve. 513 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's apparently the key. And Robert puts this in here. 514 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,400 Speaker 1: Is it kind of like a throwaway thing? 515 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, that is the thing. 516 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: It's the key of hula hooping. Is you want your 517 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 1: hip to move just before that that I guess wave 518 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:25,360 Speaker 1: that comes in contact with your body again, comes in contact, comes. 519 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 3: Back around, catch and release in a way. Okay, you 520 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 3: can catch it on your hip and then slinging it 521 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 3: back around. Now I'm gyrating, yeah you are. 522 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 1: Wow, there's a lot of gyrating going on in this 523 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: room right now. 524 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 3: There is. 525 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: It's crazy. 526 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 3: So there's a few different parts of the body at work. 527 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 3: I don't know why in two thousand and four they 528 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,679 Speaker 3: needed a fifteen page study in the Journal of Biological 529 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,360 Speaker 3: Cybernetics to figure this out, because if you just look 530 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 3: at somebody, you can tell that the hips, knees, and 531 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 3: ankles are really what's at play keeping that thing going. 532 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 3: And that's if you're just doing the hip who hoop, 533 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 3: not right neck and legs and all that. 534 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: Of course, yeah, just the standard hooping right. 535 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 3: Yeah. 536 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: And so another study I think four years later in 537 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: the Journal of Human Movement side. 538 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 3: I don't know why they needed that either. 539 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: They built upon this two thousand and four study and said, okay, 540 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,719 Speaker 1: you use your hips, knees, and ankles. Everybody uses it, 541 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: but depending on the individual, there'll be different contributions from 542 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: the hips, knees or ankle depends on the motion of 543 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: your ocean exactly. So it's like the individual. Everybody uses 544 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: the same the same parts, but they use them in 545 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: different percentages to come up with the hula hooping motion. 546 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. I bet certain body types are better at this 547 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 3: than others too. 548 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, slim, yeah, yeah, probably. 549 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 3: So I met the one in front of Craig's band. 550 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 3: She was pretty slam I guess sure she's working that thing. Man. 551 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 3: It was like, it was pretty amazing. 552 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 1: Hula hoop. 553 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,919 Speaker 3: So that's hoop dancing. When we'll finish up here with 554 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 3: some other games. 555 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: Well, we didn't talk about hoop dancing. We were just 556 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: talking about hula hooping. 557 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 3: No, we talked about hoop dancing at the beginning with 558 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 3: that lady. Oh yeah, okay, so that's hoop dancing. Okay, 559 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 3: that's when you you know, it's around the neck and 560 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 3: then you work it down around your hips and then 561 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 3: up one arm and then up the other arm, right right, 562 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 3: It's pretty impressive. Your standard hula hooping, of course, which 563 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 3: we've covered. Speed endurance depends on what you're after. Sure, 564 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 3: like I want to do this for twenty minutes. 565 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 1: Or I want to do it seventy four hours. 566 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 3: Really fast for five minutes. 567 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: Okay. Hoop rolling, that's one of my favorite. 568 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 3: Hoop trundling, Like you're a little ancient Egyptian kid. 569 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I I'd like to see you do that hoop rolling. Sure, 570 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: let's do it. 571 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 3: Let's do a video for that. 572 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: Okay, we could do a periscope of it. Oh yeah, 573 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: let's do that. 574 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 3: Are we going to start doing that? 575 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: We could do at least one of me hoop rolling. 576 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 3: I think people, Well, we're going to get emails. 577 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll they'll turn out in droves to see that. 578 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 3: Sure, hundreds of people will show it for that. 579 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: There's one not on this list that I want to 580 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: give a shout out to you. 581 00:28:58,560 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 3: All right? 582 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: What it was invented? Apparently in Belgium they call it 583 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: Belgium skipping. It's called ankle skipping. It's where you put 584 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: the hula hoop on one foot around one ankle, and 585 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: you use it to hula hoop. You make the hula 586 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: hoop motion with that one and as it comes around, 587 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: you jump through the hoop with the other one. 588 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 3: Yeah. 589 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: I can't believe it wasn't on this list. 590 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a solid hoop endeavor. 591 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: But apparently it's a pretty recent invention from like the sixties. 592 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,719 Speaker 3: Oh really, all right, that makes sense. That's sort of 593 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 3: like hoop jumping, but not quite. 594 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: No, hoop jumping is more like jump roping with a 595 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: hula hoop. 596 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, but that kind of reminds me of that too. 597 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: Okay. 598 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 3: Hoop jumping is when you hold the hula hoop the 599 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,959 Speaker 3: top of it, and then you swing it around your 600 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 3: body and jump up and down. 601 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: Okay, like you have nothing better to do in life, right, 602 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: Like you can't find a jump rope. You haven't heard 603 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: of those before? 604 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 3: Return the hoop. This is the only one I was 605 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 3: ever good at. That's when you hold it vertically and 606 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 3: you fling it out as hard as you can backwards, 607 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 3: and it sort of spins place and comes back to you. 608 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: Right, And if you're not expecting it, you're going to 609 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: turn and run because it is startling. 610 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 3: We've already talked about kill the hoop. We don't recommend 611 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 3: you use spears to do that, or just. 612 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: Make sure nobody's in the vicinity of where the hoop is. Yeah, 613 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: you don't want to combine hoop chundling and kill the 614 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: hoop because you'll kill the hoop chundlure. 615 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 3: No, And I'm not even uncovered this last one. I 616 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 3: dare you too, though. 617 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: I like this one. Hoop your environment, Yeah, right, go ahead. 618 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: So it's like you put hula hoops around and you 619 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 1: jump from them like they're islands and there's lava in between. Okay, 620 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: what's wrong with that? I don't know too childish. 621 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 3: No, I'm very childish, but I don't know. I just didn't. 622 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: There's your childlike not childish. Oh, gotcha, big difference, man. 623 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 3: Uh, well, we talked about exercise. It is legitimate exercise. 624 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 3: Our hula hoop classes. Now apparently Mursa Tomay, the actor, 625 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 3: took hoop fitness classes to lose weight or to get 626 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 3: in shape for her movie The Wrestler in two thousand 627 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 3: and eight. First Lady Michelle Obama. 628 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: Has very famously hoop worked out. 629 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, hooped the lawn of the White House to say, hey, kids, 630 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 3: get active and at the US Open, Yeah, you can 631 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 3: still have fun by doing this. Yeah. And they even 632 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 3: did another study to see what kind of calories you 633 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 3: could burn. 634 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: Lots of hoop studies too many. 635 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 3: They took women between sixteen and fifty nine and said 636 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 3: go crazy and hoop and they yeah. And they were 637 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 3: weighted hoops too, by the way, which is not to 638 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 3: say they were super heavy. They're generally still pretty light weight. 639 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, but strangely weighted hoop is easier to keep going. 640 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 3: Yes, which makes sense, I think. And they average one 641 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty one beats per minute bpmat yeah, heart beats. 642 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: Oh their heart. 643 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, tribe coal quests would be proud, right. 644 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: Uh. 645 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 3: And that is burning seven calories a minute or two 646 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 3: hundred and ten calories during a half hour of hooping. 647 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 3: So that's good exercise people. 648 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: That's like weightlifting type calorie burn. 649 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 3: Yeah. 650 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: Plus also like if you just break it down to 651 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: calorie first of all, Chuck, I want to do an 652 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 1: episode and I'm not quite sure how to frame it yet. 653 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: It doesn't have a thesis. But there are so many 654 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 1: like medical myths out there that are just taken as facture, 655 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: even by the medical establishment, even though like if you 656 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,720 Speaker 1: asked a doctor like is this fact they would be like, no, no, actually, 657 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: it's not like drinking eight glasses of water a day. Yeah, 658 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: totally made up. And you're going to say that, Like, 659 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: I think we should do one on medical myths sometime. 660 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 3: What do you think we should have? We not? 661 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: No, Like part of me wants to say we have, 662 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: but I think it things to have just come up 663 00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: like here or there over the years. Anyway, if even 664 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: if you take the calories out of the equation, just 665 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: hula hooping the standard hip gyration hula hoop, yeah, will 666 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 1: really really work out your core. 667 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, like you need a hula hoop. 668 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: No, you can just sit in your chair and do 669 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: what I'm doing now. Yeah, like I'm getting I'm sweating. 670 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: Yeah right now, you totally are. My lip My upper 671 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 1: lip is broken out in perspiration. 672 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 3: Uh. Modern hooping burlesque uses hoops. If you go to 673 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 3: any music festival these days, you're going to see the 674 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 3: ladies like I was talking about, or they might have 675 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 3: him decked out with LEDs or even fire. 676 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: Well what's neat is LED hula hoops in particular are 677 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 1: really displaying like the physics of hula hoops pretty neat 678 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 1: through Like, what's that type of photography LSD? No, No, uh, 679 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: what's the what's that photography where you like you just 680 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: keep the shutter open so it like high exposure, long exposure. 681 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, you just said it, keeping that shutter open. It's 682 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 3: like when you see the pictures of the cars on 683 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 3: the freeway right and it's just like a long trail 684 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 3: of headlights. 685 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, but there are photos out there of LED hula 686 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,320 Speaker 1: hoops there. It's just like you can see they don't 687 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 1: just keep like a flat path. They go all over 688 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 1: the place in some way. It's really neat. 689 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:19,240 Speaker 3: It's pretty cool. What about this lady, the Israeli sculptor. 690 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 3: Did you watch that? 691 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 1: I saw a couple of pictures of it. 692 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,240 Speaker 3: Yes. Her name is Cigolette Landau, and in two thousand 693 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:30,360 Speaker 3: and three she did a performance art slash political statement 694 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 3: piece where she did it was called barbed Hula and 695 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 3: she was naked and hula hooped with a barbed wire 696 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 3: hula hoop that just tore her abdomen up. Yeah, it's 697 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 3: really rough. Yeah, it was pretty disturbing. But she said 698 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 3: she was on an Israeli beach that she defined as 699 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 3: the only common natural border Israel has. So she was 700 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 3: making a statement to my friend, Well. 701 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 1: She's an artist. 702 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 3: That's what they do. 703 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 1: I got a couple of last things. Let's hear it 704 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,359 Speaker 1: in the that hula hoop craze. 705 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 3: Of the fifties of yeah, yes, yeah, not the not 706 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 3: the fourteenth century Briton one. There. 707 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 1: It was in Japan, it was banned. The hula hoop 708 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: was banned because they're worried it was going to lead 709 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:22,240 Speaker 1: to actual stuff things happening gyrating hips. Yeah, and apparently 710 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,800 Speaker 1: the Soviets said that it was a it was evidence 711 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 1: of the emptiness of American culture, the hula hoop craze. Really, yeah, 712 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,440 Speaker 1: leave to the Soviets to be like Americans. Go on, 713 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,800 Speaker 1: they hated America. Do you remember when the Iron Curtain 714 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: fell and you were like, oh, wait a minute, Like 715 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: everything we were taught about the Soviet Union was basically 716 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:45,839 Speaker 1: made up. 717 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, and they were like, you know, the average Russian 718 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 3: was like a good person. 719 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 1: Here, Yeah, and the average Russian was a lot like 720 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:53,719 Speaker 1: the average American, and. 721 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, drunk on vodka, I'm gonna live forever. 722 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,040 Speaker 1: All right, that's it. If you want to know more 723 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: about hula hoops, you can type that word into the 724 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,919 Speaker 1: search bar at housetuffworks dot com. 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Stuff you should Know has played a part 737 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,520 Speaker 3: in the young adult I've become. At twelve, I was 738 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,479 Speaker 3: diagnosed with restrictive anarexia, was hospitalized for about a month 739 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,719 Speaker 3: and did day treatment for almost a year. After leaving 740 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 3: treatment for the day, I'd religiously put on my headphones 741 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 3: and turn on stuff. You should know. The podcast was 742 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 3: really helpful on bad days, especially if I had just 743 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,439 Speaker 3: had an argument with my parents or a difficult meal, 744 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,480 Speaker 3: or your humor was especially helpful. I remember laughing out 745 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,440 Speaker 3: loud many times in the car, which was quite a 746 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:01,280 Speaker 3: rare occurrence. I'm pretty solid recovery now. But your podcasts 747 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,320 Speaker 3: also helped me gain a better relationship with my sibling. 748 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,920 Speaker 3: My eating disorder costs a lot of tension between my 749 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 3: sibling and I for quite a few years. But one 750 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,799 Speaker 3: day I invited her to listen to your podcast, so, 751 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 3: if you should know, quickly became a part of her 752 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,360 Speaker 3: commute to university class. We occasionally would discuss the podcast topics. 753 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:20,880 Speaker 1: Nice. 754 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,319 Speaker 3: We now have a tradition and I love this part too. 755 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 3: We now have a tradition of listening to the Christmas 756 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,040 Speaker 3: Extravaganza together while in winter break, which is what we 757 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,920 Speaker 3: want people to do. Yeah, man to gather the family 758 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:32,560 Speaker 3: and make. 759 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,719 Speaker 1: This a thing Yeah, it's pudding. 760 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,920 Speaker 3: Even though I don't know what we're going to get 761 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,640 Speaker 3: pretty slim on Christmas time. 762 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,960 Speaker 1: I've got at least one great topic. Yeah, we need 763 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,680 Speaker 1: to start looking now though. You're right. 764 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, we've even gifted each other matching stuff you should 765 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,399 Speaker 3: know shirts. One year more recently, I received the very 766 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 3: urgent texts letting me know in all caps that you 767 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,920 Speaker 3: guys were coming to Minneapolis this fall, and another text 768 00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 3: to let me know that Chuck's daughter Ruby shares the 769 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 3: same birthday as our father. And I want to point 770 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:02,720 Speaker 3: out again and. 771 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,680 Speaker 1: Josh, yeah, the Triumvirate. 772 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,839 Speaker 3: That's right. Your podcast gives us endless topics and inside jokes, 773 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,760 Speaker 3: and I can't thank you enough for bringing us closer together. 774 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,840 Speaker 3: Thanks again for being such a big part of my 775 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,920 Speaker 3: formative years. My sister and I can't wait to see 776 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,840 Speaker 3: you guys in Minneapolis this fall. That is from Emily, 777 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,240 Speaker 3: and she said, please shout out your sister Meghan. 778 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,319 Speaker 1: Awesome, Emily, thank you for telling us all that like 779 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: that really means the world to us. 780 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,719 Speaker 3: Yes, and best of luck in your continued recovery. That 781 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:30,440 Speaker 3: is tough stuff. 782 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, and congratulations too. 783 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, we should do an eating Disorder Podcast at 784 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 3: some point that one's been hanging out there. 785 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,799 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, because you know, there's like a whole there's 786 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,759 Speaker 1: like this new idea that like almost everybody has an 787 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,320 Speaker 1: eating disorder in America these. 788 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:45,279 Speaker 3: Days of some kind. 789 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, like typically binge eating is like a huge thing. Sure, yeah, 790 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,719 Speaker 1: we should definitely do that. Yeah, but thank you very much, 791 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,960 Speaker 1: Emily and hello sister Meghan. We appreciate you guys listening, 792 00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll see you guys in Minneapolis when we 793 00:38:59,640 --> 00:38:59,960 Speaker 1: come in out. 794 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,719 Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what, actually write me back. We'll 795 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 3: put you on the guest list. Oh man, how about that? 796 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:05,719 Speaker 1: So nice? 797 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 3: Free tickets for YouTube? 798 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 1: Wow, that is something just for YouTube. O. 799 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,239 Speaker 3: Guess right, just kidding. 800 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:13,880 Speaker 1: Oh, you need to lay it down. We should probably 801 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,040 Speaker 1: have a legal disclaimer added after this too. 802 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, we might hear from a lot of Emily and 803 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,839 Speaker 3: megans Minnesota. 804 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 1: If you want to get in touch with us, you 805 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,279 Speaker 1: can tweet to us at s y SK podcast. You 806 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,440 Speaker 1: can join us on Facebook dot com, slash Stuff you 807 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,880 Speaker 1: Should Know. You can send us an email at Stuff 808 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 1: Podcast at house stuffworks dot com and has always joined 809 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 1: us at our home on the web. 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