Welcome to The Electric Current Rundown podcast episode No. 54.

And I’m your host Phil Defiance, and I’ll always say I’m here to encourage the spread of intriguing knowledge that can spark fires in the minds of those seeking inspiration and truly improving the world.

And what I’m going to be talking about in this quick five-minute bonus episode includes a continuation of where I left off on the topic from my girlfriend about antique clocks, time, and related thoughts.

And then I’m going to be talking about the surprisingly long history of the word, yo.

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So, okay.

Yeah.

So, when it comes to clocks, yeah, it dates back to like around the year 2000 BC or maybe 1500.

And the Egyptians and Babylonians, nobody’s for sure it was one or the other or maybe both at the same time because they were pretty close to each other geographically.

They were like the first ones that really were reading time through sandials, actually sundials, sorry.

And actually, that’s funny too when it comes to sundials.

Sundials continued on even after they were kind of replaced in a way you could say by other more efficient methods of reading time.

But people still like the sundials.

So they continued well after better forms of reading time continued.

I mean, they continued 1500 years after they were first invented.

And like, I mean, around like 250 BC or maybe it was like 1200, 1300, something like that, years after first being invented.

Around 250 BC, the biggest sundial ever built in history was made by the Romans, a Roman emperor.

He bought it from the Egyptians who made it for Rome, and he paid them to bring it over there.

So, that’s a perfect example of how it survived through history.

Many years after its invention, like over 1000, almost 1500, like a long, long time, even after better forms of time were invented.

And what do I mean by better forms of time reading?

Like there was water, time reading capabilities that were used by the Egyptians and Babylonians, too.

About 100 years after sundials were first known to be in use, around like 1400 BC or so.

And yeah, okay, well, I’m going to continue on on that and switch topics as I go ahead and finish off this quick episode after this quick break.

But okay, on this quick break, I’m going to say when you buy items, clothing items, those really cool clothing items from my store, when it comes to them, we in my store, we usually have some sales so you can save money to be like a goose on a plane on a flight to a great adventure, go to planebowl.com today.

That’s plane like airplane planebowl.com and when I say goose, I mean, yeah, my clothing label that I gave, the name that I gave it is plain goose.

That’s why I say goose.

Yeah, because it reminds me of the vodka.

Great goose.

And then other things.

Well, maybe I’ll talk about that in the future.

I’m not going to go right into it.

I mean, I’m not going to give more information right now, but either way.

So either way.

Like then there was also our glasses or those.

I mean, that’s a common term for them, but not everybody knows about like ancient time history.

So I’ll give you a better description of it.

And those are those like glasses that, you know, the top looked like a V, the bottom looked like a V, and there was sand and the sand was pouring down from the top and you could flip it over and you do it over and over again.

And it was like set to like expire its sand within like an hour, probably, I would assume.

But then again, there were bigger ones.

So I’m sure that the bigger ones were probably like half a day or something like that.

And that’s how clocks were back in those days.

That’s ancient stuff, though.

Then, of course, they ended up coming out with clocks like several hundred years later.

The original clocks that were like analog, probably around the year 1000.

I didn’t really do too much research on that information because I didn’t have a lot of time to talk about it.

But either way, I mean, I know from previous research on it many years ago, I do recall that it was around the year 1000, or maybe 1200 that analog clocks really were starting to become a part of human civilization.

And that’s like parts of Europe and probably parts of Muslim areas that really started doing that.

And then, yeah, around 1400, the British royals were paying people to start advancing the clock technology even more, and they were paying humongous sums of money for it.

And then, like, you fast forward even further until the future, around the year 1800, they were doing like granddaddy clocks, and like, I mean, a lot of people know about those even till this day.

And those are like beautiful looking clocks, like some of them are still being sold today, some of them are still being made today.

But like, I mean, if you want an antique granddaddy clock, I mean, of course, it costs a lot of money.

And even the brand new ones cost a lot of money, like probably over $1000, maybe $2000, maybe even more.

And then, of course, I mean, more recently, there was digital clocks and like standard, like analog clocks with those hands and batteries, you know, like the type that you got in a classroom, then you got watches.

Watches were probably more like 100 years ago, maybe 150 that people really started using them even before watches because of the wristband.

People were using like pocket watches.

That was probably like 200, 300 years ago.

Okay, so that’s a lot of information right there, and that’s what I had to say.

But okay, I just want to switch topics as I finish off this episode, and I’m going to talk about in the end of this episode, the surprisingly long history of the word yo.

And a lot of people think that yo came from New York City.

And I mean, that’s rightfully so.

I mean, New Yorkers are really cocky, too, obviously.

Everybody knows that.

And so, I mean, they feel like they invented the word yo.

And, I mean, a lot of people think of New York City when they hear yo.

I mean, it’s just like kind of like a New York type of thing.

But the truth is, it dates back.

Oh, it dates back.

But, I mean, it doesn’t date back to New York City, though.

But I guess you could say New York City really commercialized it in many ways.

But really, I mean, if you want to go a little bit more further back in American civilization, of course, you got to know that it comes from Philly.

And the area around it, Philadelphia.

Well, I’m Phil, so it’s funny because I love that name.

Philadelphia, a city with my name in it.

But yeah, and I’ve been to Philly.

It’s a beautiful city.

And it’s funny too.

I mean, talking about time just moments ago, I even went to see that famous bell from the American Revolution.

I was right there before.

I remember that.

That was beautiful.

But you know what?

Okay, I’m going to continue on on this subject of the word yo and its history on the next episode.

So that’s the end of this episode, episode number 54 with me, Phil Defiance, your host.

And I’ll always say that I’m here to encourage the spread of intriguing knowledge to spark fires in the minds of those seeking inspiration and truly improving the world.

And until next time, have a good one.