Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Yo, yo, yo,

welcome back to the show.

Fellow ridiculous historians, thank you, as always, so much for tuning in.

Let's hear it for The Man, the Myth, the legend. I'm going to pull a random one here,

Noel. Max, plastic whip Williams. Whoa. The man, the myth, the mystery. Max,

schmoyo, yo, yo, yo, Williams. Now, that is none other than the legendary Noel Brown.

They called me Ben Bullen in this neck of the woods.

We teased this episode a few weeks back.

We were talking about Pong, which led us to exploring ping pong.

Analog.

Ping-pong.

Right, right, right.

And now, Noel, you are our research associate for this episode.

And thank you so much, man.

It turns out we're both pretty into yo-yo's.

Did you add that phase as a child?

I was never really good at it. Always fascinated by it. It's definitely have owned a yo-yo's? Did you add that phase as a child? I was never really good at it. I'm always fascinated by it. It's definitely I've owned a yo-yo or two in my day, but I never really could master any of the tricks. And it was kind of similar to my fascination with stage magic. You know, it's, I don't know, I like a trick, Ben. I like a trick.

That's very hip-hop of you.

Well, your intro is very hip-hop, and lest you think we're talking about hip-hop, though,

yo-yoing has become cool again, it would seem.

And there's some very zeitgeisty figures that are into yo-yos that are these days and they're bringing it back.

But that's not really anything new because the history of the humble yo-yo is littered,

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