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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Hula-Hoops: The Toy That's A Shape
12 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What is the history of the hula hoop?
That is saying something. So let's get in the Wayback Machine. Oh, we're going way back, aren't we? Yeah, let's go back to 1000 B.C., my friend. We're in Egypt, and there are little children, Egyptian children. with dried up grape vines they've made into hoops, playing with them. And there's some Egyptian who's like, get off of my patch of sand, kids. Yeah. You know, instead of a lawn.
Sure, I get it. That was good. That was all right. So they no doubt use them in similar ways that we did today, but one thing they did, which was a big sporting thing to do for a long time, which I don't get personally, the fun value that is, is using a stick to push a hula hoop down the road.
I think the fun in it is that the hula hoop, as it's traveling down the road, which does seem to be the oldest use of the hoop as a playtime activity, right? Yeah. It wants to fall. It wants to fall over. Sure. Right? So if you can keep it going, then there's probably a tremendous amount of personal satisfaction that you can carry all the way to bedtime with and maybe have good dreams because of.
Yeah, I don't even see, if you had a plastic polyethylene hula hoop, a modern hoop, I don't see how a stick, how you would even push it. You would want a stick with maybe... Like a fork? No, probably something like a stick with a big wad of chewed bubble gum on it to just have some sort of point of contact.
Because as we'll see when we talk about hula hoop physics, friction plays a big part in making hula hoops hula hoop. Yes. Around the waist, that is. Well, in this case as well, when the stick makes contact with the hoop, you're using friction to push it along. Yeah, good point. So I see your point.
Like if you're going to use a stick on a plastic hula hoop, it's going to slide off or it's going to want to. Maybe it scares me. That's why I think it's dumb. Maybe I would be made a fool of by the hoop. So I'm intimidated. Maybe at first, but Chuck, you would have to hang in there and stick with it.
Yeah.
And pretty soon you'd be rolling hoops like an Egyptian kid. Yeah, like an ancient Egyptian child. Yeah. Hoop rolling was a big deal throughout ancient Greece as well and Rome. They decorated them with bells and things and toys. Fifth century BC, you ever heard of Ganymede? Of course. Ganymede. Ganymede. Ganymede. He was a handsome hero. Oh, he was. The handsomest, supposedly.
There's an old 5th century BC urn of him where he's holding a rooster that was apparently a gift from Zeus. Yeah. And a hoop, a hula hoop, clearly a hula hoop. And apparently this discovery, I'm not sure why it's called the Berlin painter urn, but it is. Okay. Again, no idea. But apparently they said, well, I wonder if hoops played a role in the earliest Olympics.
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Chapter 3: How did the hula hoop become a cultural phenomenon in the 1950s?
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