WEBVTT - How the Globe of Death Works 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:07.000 If you live in San Francisco, you better come and 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:12.559 see It's at the Castro. That was horrid, but really nice. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.040 I appreciate that. Yeah, So we are going to be, 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.720 as the song says, at the Castro Theater on January 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.040 four for San Francisco Sketch Fest. Chuck, that's right. We 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:23.960 go there just about every year now and it's a 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.720 lot of fun and San Francisco you always treat us 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.840 so well. So I recommend a stocking stuffer or two 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.240 in the way of stuff you should Know life tickets 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.520 and there's an extra stocking stuff where they can get 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:39.360 featuring just Charles W. Chuck Bryant. 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And you can get tickets for 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:14.600 Movie Crush Live at bit dot Lee slash Movie Crush yep. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.679 And you can get tickets for our sketch Fish show 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.320 at s y s K live dot com. And there's 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.760 still a few tickets left for Seattle the following day 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.680 on January, so s y s K live dot com 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.399 and bit dot Lee Slash Movie Crush Chuck. That's right. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.840 We'll see you guys in January. Welcome to Stuff you 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:42.960 should know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.679 welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.600 Chuck Bryant, and Jerry. The three of us were just 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.680 the bottomized, so we're feeling just fine. Globe of Death, 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.360 that's right, or or because it's huge down in South America. 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:03.120 Al Globo day lab wear, which I think I prefer 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:13.520 that one. Globo de lamuerte, Globo de lamerte. Jerry, she said, Man, 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.920 I think she did it better than anybody. Well, Jerry 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.040 actually speak Spanish. That's right. She's not a a faker 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.640 like us. Uh No, she's not. I'm so mad at 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.120 it and learned Spanish, are you? Oh yeah, you did German. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.720 I did French, just so dumb, like, how helpful would 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.280 it be to know Spanish? Now? It would be pretty helpful. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.519 I would love to chat it up with Spanish speaking 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.440 people I see every day in my life. Uh yeah, 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.440 well you it's never too late to learn, chuck, and 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.840 know what they're saying about me, right exactly? Yeah, it's 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.399 too late, it's over. No it's not. I'm saying it's 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.240 not too late. No, no, no, it's too late. I'm 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.639 not learning a new language. I think that's it. I'm 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.560 going to go learn Spanish just to show you, and 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.560 so you can talk about me in Spanish, Mama, Jerry can. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.959 Uh so, Chuck, We're not talking about learning Spanish or 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.200 whether it's too late to learn a language, because it is. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.000 It's not. We are talking about, like you said, the 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:16.040 globe of death also known as the globe of steel. Yeah, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.920 apparently that was a Wringling Brothers marketing department invention or 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.200 PR department invention, because we can't have like a globe 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.200 of death at our circus. We don't want anybody to 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.080 see our elephants and start thinking about death, about sphere 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:37.200 of fear. That's a good one too. What about the 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:42.440 three hundred and sixty degree circle of intimidation? I just 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.320 came up with that. Why it's not that great? Huh? 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.640 We should know it was terrible. We should tell people 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.000 what we're talking about, because I can sense the frustration 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:55.560 weeks from now brewing with angry listeners already. So the 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.960 globe of death. What we're talking about is if you've 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:02.000 ever been to a circus or a fair fair and 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.120 by the way, this is we thought we would never 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:08.160 add to the circus arts suite, and here it is. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.480 There's still more to come. What county fairs, state fairs 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.080 sometimes like um, like, if you have like a pretty 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:19.880 good music festival, they might have something maybe a Jane's 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:25.000 Addiction show. Who knows, Yeah, what what's the uh? The 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.200 World's Fair? Remember those? Oh man, they still have them, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.200 but they're just not the same any longer. I think 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.920 the US pulled out of them a decade or two back. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.960 I think the internet killed it. As a matter of fact, 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.280 You're absolutely right, that's what I read because I just 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.080 the other day I was thinking, like, um, whatever happened 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.920 to the World's Fair? And it turns out they're still there. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.240 They're called like International Expose or something now, um, and 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.480 yeah they are, just they're just not as interesting. It's um, 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.000 it's not about like the future. And they specifically said 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.120 that it's just the internet. Now you can go on 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.800 the internet and find all that stuff without leaving your 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.640 home in its roun so much. That's when we're looking 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.479 at so globe of death what we're talking about, or 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.080 we could beat around the bush round their ten minutes. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:13.880 Uh is if you've ever been to this circus for 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.880 those places, they might have this attraction where in there 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:22.839 is a uh steel sphere mesh steel mesh, so you 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.760 can see through it. Yeah, you can see through it, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.600 but you can still see it's there. It's not invisible. Yes, 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:34.440 that would be amazingly cool. Yeah. Uh, wherein there are one, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:39.640 but usually more than one, motorcycle riders riding inside of 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:45.159 a of a globe around and around horizontally vertically doing 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.039 a loop to loop, like all the way from the 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.040 top to the bottom and over and over again. And yeah, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.760 when you like just one person doing this, this article 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.480 says it's kind of boring. I wholeheartedly disagree, and I 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.920 would like to see the author try to do it right. Well, yeah, sure, 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.000 but compared to like when you got four or five 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.200 people in there and then a lady standing in the 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.279 middle of smoking a cigar, that's another right, struggling babies, 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:12.240 that's pretty amazing. Yeah. Um, and I think the record 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.600 that I saw somebody was trying to break seven and 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:20.120 and do eight motorcyclists in a sphere at once. Um, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.039 I didn't see anyone had actually done it. There's been 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.560 a lot of talk about it, but I didn't see 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.320 anyone had done it. Um. Seven is the most that 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:32.280 I've seen, although I've seen with my own eyes on video. Um, 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.480 I just oh no, I'm sorry. Seven is the most 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.919 I saw with my own eyes on video. But it is. 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.880 It's amazing because you know, they'll they'll follow one another 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.360 in a circle, which is pretty cool, but then one 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.479 will like break off and start doing something perpendicular to 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.080 the other circle, and they'll just like just miss each 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.160 other every time. And it's just an amazing feat of 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:59.680 of um, machine and mind coming together in this. Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.520 which we'll get to. I think think, think, think I 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.839 might have it figured out. Physics wise, this is kind 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.200 of a rehash of the Sun episode is as hard 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.080 as it is to understand. Oh, I thought I didn't 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.320 think this was that bad. Oh, well then you take it. No, No, 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.320 I'm not taking it. No, you take it. But I 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.280 just saw like a few basic principles and bing bang boom. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.600 Well my brain broke trying to figure it out, and 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.400 I think I got it. But I also may have 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.800 gone insane and come up with a completely entirely different 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.720 interpretation of reality. Well you're on a podcast, right, your 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.880 name is Josh Clark, so I must be not you 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.360 want I want to see one of these things? Is 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.200 a motorcycle with a sidecar with a small child or 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.960 a monkey? That even better? Yeah? A cigar smoking, wouldn't 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.960 it be fun? Yeah? The monkeys just like what is 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.760 going on? Yeah, because that's what monkeys were put on 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.240 earth for for to do, to smoke cigars and sidecars 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.960 while we move them around globes at death. All right, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.920 Should we go into some history here? Yes, because I 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.000 was very surprised to learn that the globe of death 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:05.360 was invented and patented in four Yeah, I saw it 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.120 was invented even before then, Probably that it was sometime 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.239 in the nineties in Europe, somebody came up with this act. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.840 But yeah, it is surprising. You think this would be 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.520 like seventies Daredevil era kind of stuff, right, But now, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.320 the nineteenth century is when it was first invented. And 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.600 here's the here's the gas of the whole thing. The 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.520 original ones, the original Globe of Death was ridden in 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:36.560 on bicycles pedal fast, sir, and unicycles pedals super fast sir. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:37.920 I don't I don't know. I don't see how that 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.280 worked because, as we will learn later in the physics 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.960 in the post ad break physics section, Uh, it's all 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.920 about speed. It is very much about speed. How did 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:50.560 they do this on a bicycle. Well, I don't think 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.280 they did the loop de loop. I think that came 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.520 later after Well okay, so they just did sort of 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.839 horizontal is circles, yeah, which which I'm sure if it 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.959 was the nineties would be like Wow, I'm I'm impressed. 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.000 Yeah sure. I live in Wisconsin and I'm preoccupied with 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.400 death and horrible nous. So this is a real relief 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.440 for me. So Grand Repids, Michigan, where it was where 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.600 the first one was patented by a man bicycle stuntman 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:18.600 named Arthur Rosenthal and uh he had a stage name 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.480 Arthur Rose. He had a partner, Mr Frank Lemon. I 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.600 know that's a lemon Rose. I love that word together, 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.560 lemon rose. That sounds very nice, doesn't doesn't it It's pleasant. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.160 Um it's no cellar door, but no, but it's close. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.320 It's in a different direction. It should be like a 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.640 type of gum, sugar free gum, sugar free lemon rose. Yeah. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.280 I don't even chew gum, and I chew that. Uh. 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.360 So they would do like these little, you know, ten 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.319 fifteen minute routines. Uh here's a quote from one of 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.839 the state fairs. Uh, routines of skill and nerve, guaranteed 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.160 to deliver laughs and roars. And but again that they 0:09:54.160 --> 0:10:01.280 were on bikes bicycles. Yeah, so I guess around nineteen tens, 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.800 the motorcycle started to become a little more ubiquitous, a 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.880 little more affordable. And the first thing that people did 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.480 with them was put him in the globe of death. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.880 They cast their bikes aside and said, I've got plans 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.840 for you, motorcycle. Where have you been all my life? 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:23.160 So they started riding these things, and um, it just 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.400 spread like further and further a field. I guess I 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.280 started in Europe made its way to America because the 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.920 Arthur Rosenthal was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, right, um, and 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.000 it moved down to South America in pretty short order. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.600 So I think by nineteen twelve there was a guy 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:46.040 named Jose Urias UM who had built his own Globe 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.040 of Death um back then and was riding in it 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.360 as well down in Brazil. And his family is actually 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.200 still around and still performing the Urias Brothers Globe of 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:00.480 Death act. Yeah. Remember our Circus Family's podcast. Oh were 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.520 they were in that? Huh? I think they were either 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.960 in it or it's you know. I was just pointing 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.240 out generally, like you do something like this and your 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.560 kid's gonna probably grow up and do something like this, right, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.680 It's a family trade. Yeah. Now the other up to 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.560 the great grandsons are the ones who are UM performing 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.160 in the show. And what I read was that Jose 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.840 Urias is nineteen twelve, Globe of Death is still in 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.880 use by them. They have other globes as well, but 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.160 it's still in usable condition. That's the true globe of Death. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.400 It's right, you could actually die right right exactly? Um? 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.760 You may have noticed earlier I said something about the 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.120 word patent from Arthur Rosenthal. He did get a patent 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.000 on May third, nineteen o four. And you also heard 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:47.240 us mention things like South America in Germany, and you 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.439 may be thinking, well, that's great. Art Rosenthal was getting 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.280 bank from all these globes of death everywhere. Sadly that 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.079 did not happen. Uh, he had a patent, but I 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.400 guess it was just one of those things where early 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:04.400 nineteen hundreds, you're gonna have a hard time chasing these 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.080 people down around the world saying I own the patent. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.000 Did that give me a hundred dollars? Right? Well, I mean, 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.280 I think even though they their paths must have crossed, 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.920 they can't imagine the globe of death community, even around 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.760 the world was like a big group, you know. So 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.719 I'm sure he was keenly aware of it, but I 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.079 don't know. Maybe he just didn't pursue it because there 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.200 was international who knows. Well, I just think at the 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.920 time it's just so hard to successfully do that internationally, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.719 you know. Yeah, I think you're right, man. So at 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.080 any rate, we got numerous globes of death all around 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.880 the world, A lot of the writers, Um, where did 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.280 you get this history section? I can't even tell you. 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.439 I don't remember. All right, Well, they mentioned quite a 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:49.160 few speedies, Speedy Wilson, Speedy McNish who I like, Speedy McNish, uh, 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:53.680 and Louis Louis Speedy, Babs and uh it says Babs 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.559 on one line, then Babbus and another, so I'm not 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.640 sure which it is we're going with Babs. I like Babs. 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.360 But um. He was notable because he was the very 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.800 first person to do a loop to loop and not 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.880 just merely ride horizontally right, which is very impressive for 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:15.040 what nineteen Yeah it was, I think his was third 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.560 four or no? He said the he said a world record. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:23.679 This guy was a globe of death. Amazed balls guy. Um, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.640 he said a world record after being the first to 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.640 do the loop to loop. He said, a world record 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.839 of a thousand and three loops inside of a globe. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.880 They should call these amazed balls. I think it's still 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.960 they should. It's a great name, amazed balls of death, 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:43.600 amazed balls de lamarte. Um. But I think his record 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.600 is still unbroken of a thousand and three. It's got 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.520 to just be because somebody's like I don't feel like 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.760 spending around that many times. Yeah, there's just people are 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.800 too busy that would take ours. I have a family, 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.719 but like you said, there are many families all over 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.120 the world that have been doing this for many, many decades, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.120 and it seems very much to a state in the 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.160 family biz. Uh. And one of the ones in article 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.240 they talked about a lot or the are they the 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.360 urias is. Yeah, so there was a heyday of the 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.760 Globe of Death between World War One and World War two. UM. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.760 That may have actually been its original golden age, but 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.080 it also like spread around the world around that time. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.760 Then to um, there's another one like in the seventies 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.240 of the sixties and seventies, there were some innovations that 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.440 we'll talk about UM. And then it kind of became 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.480 like almost legit in the early two thousands when like 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.120 long established circuses started to pick up the acts like 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.840 the Urias is. I believe we're hired by Wringling Brothers, 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:48.680 Barnum and Bailey. Um. The Universal Circus picked up the 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:53.400 Willie family UM, and so like like they kind of 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.280 went from I think like UM, these kind of scratching 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.200 out in existence, like having to hustle to to basically 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.080 like corporate spa answorship. Like finally the big circus has 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.640 got hip to this idea in the early two thousand's. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.720 So we take a break. Yeah, let's all right, let's 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.640 take a break and we'll come back and well we'll 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:39.240 talk about the globe of death, all right, man, So 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:43.080 we're back, and as you said, we're talking about the 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:47.000 globe of death. That's right. Yeah, So these things. Here's 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:51.320 the deal with these is they vary in size generally speaking. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:55.320 Unless you're pulling off some pretty amazing tricks with lots 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.440 of writers are trying to set some big record, you're 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.119 probably looking at at about a sixteen footage in diameter, 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:07.080 uh sphere, and they need to go. And it's amazing 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.880 that they were doing this in the thirties and forties 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.600 when motorcycles were so heavy. Well, the glove of Death 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.640 got its name from killing some people for sure, for real. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:22.120 Oh yeah, there have been many, many, many injuries. But yes, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.160 you're right, especially early on, it was exceedingly dangerous. Yeah, 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.240 So these motorcycles are a lot more powerful and lighter now. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.600 So if you're going to be in the Globe of 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.600 death business, now it's a good time to do it. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:38.080 Um you're going around generally forty fifty maybe sixty miles 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.000 an hour at the most, uh three and a half 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.000 to four and a half g's and that is g 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.480 force on your body, and that's what's generally happening. You're 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.920 you're on a trajectory that you have pre planned, but 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.960 you are not on a track. And it doesn't use magnets. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.800 It's literally just physics at work. Yeah, Apparently a lot 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.040 of people think that there's a tricker and allusion to it, 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.320 and there actually is not. And again we're not We're 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.000 not to the physics yet. We gotta hang on, but 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.280 we're going to talk about it eventually. So, like you said, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.440 the globes themselves have kind of a universal size, although 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.760 it changes, but there are also other things that the 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.800 globes do it. So it's amazing enough that there's people 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.480 like riding around these things and on motorcycles. But I 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.840 think one of the first um families to use a 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.720 split globe was the urias Is. I saw a picture 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:33.879 that they credited to the sixties where the globe hydraulically 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.879 splits in half and the top part lifts up and 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.919 guests which side or which part the riders moving in 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.520 at the time, right the upper part, So they are 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:50.160 actually in the top half of the globe. And now 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.800 there's like no bottom. The bottom is well below and 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:54.840 there's a big gap between the top half and the 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.320 bottom half of the globe of death and the riders 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:01.880 just circling around the top. How big is that up? Uh? 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.240 In the picture it looked to be a good five 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.280 to six seven feet. Oh, I misread this whole move then, 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.119 Oh dude, it is not like because it's it's like 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.440 they can very easily just go flying out if they 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.000 if they got too close to the edge. That's their toasts. See, 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.160 here's what I thought happened during a split globe trick, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.880 is that they they split it by about eight inches 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.800 and then would just continue to span that split. That'd 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.159 be pretty cool vertically. But no, this is yours, not yours. 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.359 You didn't invent it, but well I presented it. Yours 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:39.040 is way better. Yeah, no, I agreed, And to see 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:43.840 it is actually pretty amazing, um because it just it 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.400 just brings home the whole the whole thing before. Yes, 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.360 they have a bottom, but it's still it's a really 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.000 scary sphere of death, right, but now there's nothing, there's 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.680 just the top. It's it's it's incredible, it's an incredible 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.480 thing to see. Everyone basically should go to YouTube and 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.240 check it out right now. Split globe. Um, there's also 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:08.000 a family. I believe it's the Torres family who um 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:13.000 were the first to introduce a triple split globe. So 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.480 there's a top, a middle, and a bottom. And so 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.199 I think the one I saw was that they were 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:23.640 um circling the middle part, the middle band. So it's 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:28.080 really just this narrow little um band of steel that 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:31.080 they have to like stay on track with or else 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:36.600 go a little higher, a little lower again your toast right. Uh. 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.560 And you think that, um, the dangerous part would be 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.320 sticking to the globe with that motorcycle. That is not 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.440 the case because once we explain the physics, which we're 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.520 still not gonna do yet, not yet, not yet, um, 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.639 Like physics takes care of that. So it's it's pretty easy, 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.200 like there's a formula that you figure out how fast 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.080 you need to be going, and it's constant, like you 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.520 don't have to worry about anything else. It's really those 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.199 g forces once you get in there these one of 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.040 these Urias dudes said, when they go upside down, he said, 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.800 our heads are at gray out like a right, they 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.639 come close to passing out in this thing from the 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.199 g force. And there's one trick they do with uh 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:19.880 is it one of their wives that they put in there. 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.359 And she she's an aeroist, so she hangs from the 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.880 center while they ride around her. And they said, when 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.400 there's a certain point in that show where she can't 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.199 see us and we can't see her, and you just 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.360 have to trust that it is mapped out and timed 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:39.119 and practiced. It's pretty awesome mapped out in time too, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:44.280 before you even practiced, right, yeah, um, and it is. 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.960 It's basically all timing from what I understand. But they 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.400 have all that like just ticked off in their heads 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:53.280 just from experience. Um. One of the other things that 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.840 really comes into play are the bikes that they use. Right. 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.679 So for this how Stuff Works article, I think they 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.600 actually interviewed the one of the Uriah's brothers and he 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:04.920 was saying that like all the bikes they use are 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:10.400 modified dirt bikes, so they they're powerful, but they're also lightweight. 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:12.760 But then they modify them and change them from like 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:16.200 a hundred and twenty five cubic centimeter engine to about 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.560 a hundred and fifty cubic centimeter engine. But it's still 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.320 on that same light dirt bike, right, So it's got 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:26.520 a lot of power. But there's only a certain amount 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.199 of speed you're gonna get to anyway, because as we'll 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.480 see in the physics, which we're not getting to yet. Um, 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.520 if you speed up too quickly, you're going to increase 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:37.680 the G force too much and you're going to black out, 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:39.840 and that's a terrible thing to have happened to you 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.800 while you're in the globe of death. Right. So there's 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.360 only a certain amount of speed you need. So horsepower, 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.399 which is the quality in the engine that you want 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:53.120 to hit high top end speeds. The quality the quality 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.480 of that engine. That's thanks for pointing that out, because 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.120 I think I would have gotten it past a few 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.320 people as you not said anything. Hang on, man, I'm 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:06.520 here on my fingernails. Just so, Um, horsepower is not important. 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:10.680 What is important is torque. Torque is that thing where 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:12.560 you know when you hear like, oh, this car can 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.280 go from zero to sixty and like five seconds or whatever. 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.720 That's all torque. That's a that's an expression of torque, 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:24.560 and torque is um the power that it takes to 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:29.240 spin something on its axis, like a rotational power, right, 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:33.040 and so you know, like you're spinning an axis when 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.040 you're making a tire move. And the faster you can 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.840 make that tire move from a dead stop, the quicker 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:42.479 you can go in the shorter amount of time, that's torque. 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.520 And that's what really counts on the bikes in the 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:47.720 Globe of Death, because you want to be able to 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:52.280 just take off and be spinning around, um like from 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:55.720 a dead standstill in in no time at all. Well 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:57.840 at rock back and forth a little bit to get 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:01.120 get the timing right even better, but they still want 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:03.400 really high torque, and so that's the that's what they're 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:06.080