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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everybody had one as a toy. Diane, don't look at
me like that, too high, I'm sorry. Ninety four of
all people you have?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You have?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, a lot of like once in elementary school.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Okay, I'm sorry. Did you have you ever thrown a boomerang?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yes, some of them were even like those little stupid,
cheap balsa wood ones.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
But everybody's thrown one. You've thrown You've thrown a boomerang.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
At some point, yes, yeah, I think I am I low.
Has one hundred percent of people thrown a boomerang now, so.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's ninety five.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I think you're still high.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh I don't, I don't. Did you have one?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Haven't I told you about what Lindsay's family used to
do with boomerangs?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No? Wait, do we know this?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I didn't commit this to memory my wife. Would they
throw it and they'd come back?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
They did more than throw them. They made and sold them.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh, sold them.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Definitely. Didn't tell me that.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
You don't remember the company r rangs? Oh you are. Yeah.
They made them, mostly your dad, and then they would
bring them to did they work farmers markets and flea
markets and they would sell them.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Now, they would try to sell them or did they
sell actually sell them? I think they did it long
enough or if I went to Lindsay's family's house, but
I find boxes and boxes and boxes.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
They made them though, because yeah, our dad was was
incredibly gifted and in his craftsmanship of not just boomerangs
but furniture. But like, they didn't just do the traditional
boomerang which you picture.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh they also did. Isn't it also a stick? No,
you can.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You can make a boomerang that's essentially just an X.
You've never seen that before. No, No, boomerangs are like
this the curve. Yeah, yes, that's what everyone thinks of.
But here you go, like you can do. These are
easier than.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You ever thrown a boomerang. Yeah, of course you have.
Of course you have. Ninety five percent of all people
have thrown a boomerang. Yeah you've never seen one like this?
Oh you know what I have? Yeah I have. I've
seen the plastic kind. I don't think i've seen the
wooden kind.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
So he would do all different varieties and paint him
up and everything, and then they would.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But that's not a traditional boomerang. No, he did those
as well. Okay, yeah, the traditional boomerang is. I don't
know how to describe it. I don't have to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Everybody knows what a boomerang is.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
What shape would you say that is.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Boomerang?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It's boomerang shaped, like you the crescent a keyboard carrot,
no crescent, crescent?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah? Fine, yeah Australian right? Oh no, have I struck
a nerve?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I don't know if that's all strict?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is that disputed?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
The how far back does it go in Australia?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
There, look they get look at all these different there's
when it comes to this sport of boomerang. You can
have all different types of shape. And that's what our
rings tried to teach people about.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The Christ. Will you do me a favor? Will you?
Will you find find me some people that have thrown boomerangs?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Please?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Eight six six to Elliott eight six six two three
five five four six.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Eight When you three years it came back.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Not that I recall.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh, so you would have to go you.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Know what was annoying because like I would throw the
one like I can't remember them. I can't remember the
model we had. We had a boomerang. It was a
cheap ass one. But you used to see the commercials
where somebody would throw it and it would come right.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Back there, like the exact same spot.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
We were always moving, We were always moving, either to
try to catch it or just to go get it,
but yet it never came right back to us.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I remember when Lindsay first told me about her family's business,
and this was a side thing. It wasn't the only way.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh thank god, I was gonna be like, your response
should have been, well, they're not gonna make it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It wasn't the only revenue stream for them. But he
loved working with his hands. No, I mean at he
liked boomerang. But I made some stupid remark like said,
were you ever able to get it to come back
to you? And Lindsay was like, yeah, because that's the
thing you throw you you don't get.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
It if your family is making them, you're a good boomeranger.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Is that the proper term?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Or are you just good at boomerang?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Maybe twenty thousand years ago they saw boomerangs in.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Cave paintings in Australia. Okay, I'm sorry, how long twenty
thousand years ago? No, then it doesn't belong to Australia.
Oh where am I going Kristen line one? Hi, Elliet
of the morning.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
Hey, good morning, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I am doing excellent? Thank you? What can I do
for you?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
I just wanted to let you know I throw a
boomerang every day with my dog. It's the only toy
she likes to play it with.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
But wait a minute, will she will she? How are
you playing with your dog? You throw and it comes back,
so you.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Say six, right right next to.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Me and Sherry, you throw it and it comes back
and it just lands right in her mouth like that's
there's no fetch in that.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
She will follow the flight plan plan and run in
a circle and then she will catch it mid air.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That's awesome, good for you? Is it? Does it look
like a boomerang?
Speaker 8 (05:51):
Yeah, I've got a lot of different shaped ones, so
the crescents and then like more of like the sharp b's.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now two things.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I knew a girl back at Radford who they would
refer to as she has a sharp V the no no,
but isn't isn't the toy the rabbit or I'm sorry,
the squirrel the squirrel for dogs? Isn't that supposed to
be kind of like an ex boomerang.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I've never seen that, Yeah, I believe.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I believe. No, Tyler, that's not it.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
That's a plus.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
No, it's orange, it's orange and blue. There it is there,
it is on the right.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh, and that's supposed to have the same effect.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
We had this for Thompson.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Oh did Jackie get it for you guys for Christmas?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Did she?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
It's called the chuck it, Oh, chuck it, not the squirrel.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Where'd you get squirrel throw?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
And it's called a flying squirrel toy because there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, but that I think is supposed to act like
a like a like a boomerang boomerang.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Excuse me?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, hello, what this when miss sego? You old tabbit?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
All right, very good, thank you sir.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You know who didn't say it that way?
Speaker 9 (07:14):
R rag.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Seriously, it wasn't our wrongs. If it was, maybe they
would have sold a few more.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well you you should have brought them to the country.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Clob Yeah, well you know what, they still being business,
they'd have sold to the hoity toity, the hoy PELOI line.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
For Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
He especial man.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (07:39):
This is Craig Christian's much too modest to uh to
mention until you plus you haven't answer to be on
the microphone.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
But back in the Midwest, she used to use her
family used to use boomerangs as hunting weapons.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Kristen is.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Boomerang. Okay, Kristen says that number one, you're lying about her.
But no, you're You're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
They were weapons, weren't they.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
They were used them.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Astralia.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Okay, you stop it, stop it, stop it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
They are not Australian.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Why does everyone that Australia you just said, you just
said in Australia.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
They are not Australian. Okay, all right, all right, very good,
very good, Thank.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You from Hobie. Remember when Gilligan through a boomerang and
it hit the skipper's neck, Diane, do you remember that?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Sounds familiar?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Did Gilligan and make the mistake and say it was Australian?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Sorry mate, I have to pull up that clip later.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
How long ago were boomerangs being used?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
The only date I have is from what I've read
with the cape paintings, twenty thousand years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now older than that line one, Hi, Elliot the Morning's me? Yeah, Hi,
who's this? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (09:17):
This is Alex?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, Alex? What can I do for you?
Speaker 9 (09:20):
So my father had a boomerang that he played with
as a kid in Fairfax and actually through the boomerang
lost it in the woods and bought the house that
those woods were connected to. About forty years later, cleared
out the woods and found his boomerang. So it was
a forty year return.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
That's awesome, that's pretty cool. Where's the boomerang from? Please
don't say Fairfax?
Speaker 9 (09:49):
My understanding is it's Australia.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Why does thank you?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Why does Australia own And I'm there quoting that, Why
does Australia own the boomerang?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
I'm trying to think where we would have all learned that.
Was it featured in some sort of movie or TV show?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yes, or it's like Gilligan's Island.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
It's boomerang Kangaroo and that's that's Australian pictures.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, but why why?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Why is it like a commercial? Growing up? It's like, say,
Fosters is Australian from beer? Beer?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Or what was the energizer? Not the bunny?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh, the oh, the guy, the big Oi. Yeah, the
big oaf.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Line eight Hi Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Hey, uh.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Hello, Hey, Hey, it's it's boomerang.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Dundee, okay, goodbye Friday.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Isn't it line for.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Hi Elliott in the morning? Hey?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Who's that Danny from Cougenius?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh dude, how are you?
Speaker 8 (11:07):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Wait a minute, are you excuse me? Are you a
big boomerang dude of court?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Now?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
So the he was, I've been pretty sure he was,
like the world champion lived in Foolsville when I was
a kid growing up, right around the corner from me,
and he would press well. I just tried to, but
watching the post has the damn peywaff. I can't look
at any of the articles, but there's articles from the
early nineties about him. And he used to practice of
the park right next to my house when I was
a kid, so we'd go up there and watch him.
(11:36):
And he signed a boomerang for me when I was younger,
and I got pretty damn good with the thing. I
haven't thrown it for thirty years, but I know where
it is. It's in a rubber maid next to my
beanie babies. Another rubber maid and I'm going to pull
it out this weekend and I'm going to send you
a picture.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So wait a minute, so wait, go back.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So the world champion boomer Wranger lived in Poolsville, Maryland.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
He may not have been the world champion, but he
was a champion. He was, he was. There's lots of
articles written about him.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And he lived.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Yeah, you lived in Pulisville. No, he was awesome. He
would he would set up markers all over the soccer
field up there, like he could hit anything from anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It was nuts and would it come back.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
It would go wherever he wanted it, so he can
go back to him. Yes, but if he if he
wanted it to hit marks in other areas, he could
throw it from you know, his standing position and then
have it hit somewhere, you know, fifty yards away like
it was.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It was wild.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Can I didn't get that good?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Can I give you.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Three factoids about the boomerang that will change everything?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Number one, So if you're going to tell.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Me that the earliest signs of the boomerang in Australia
are from twenty thousand years ago, who cares? They found
one in Poland that's forty thousand years years old. They
originally thought it was thirty thousand years old, but because
of being able to have advanced testing on it, it
(13:08):
was found in a cave in Poland. It is forty
thousand years old. So I'll see your Australia and I'll
double it. Number two, Oh, they were you know what
else I thought was cool? This is a tangent to
number one. They were able to study the the boomerang.
(13:29):
Hey Danny, hold on one second, hold on one sacond,
Hey boomerang me some zdi. They were able to study
the boomerang. They were able to tell that it was
made by a guy who was right handed. That specific
I have no idea how they were able to tell that,
but just based on how it was cut, they were
(13:51):
able to tell it's right handed.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So number one forty thousand years old in Poland.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Number two and they said this thing was beautifully handcrafted.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
What was it made out of?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Some sort of wood?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Is that some sort of stone? No?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh, bone, you're getting close. I'd like Kristin to turn
her microphone on. Oh, I do remember hunting with this, Kristin?
What was the forty thousand year old boomerang?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Wade? Well, first, I can't.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Kristen's trying to Will everybody look at Kristin to see
how she was trying to get my attention?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What are you doing there, Kristin?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Like husks from a mammoth, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
So they would just rip off the husks and it
was already pre made.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
They probably are the reason why mammoths went extinct by
killing them. For the boomerangs of husks, what does you
means tusks?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Whoops? But is he right?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Really the oldest one, this forty thousand year old boomerang
was actually made out of mammoth tusk or as Christa
would say, mammoth husk. Now it's not the entire tusk,
but they took part of the tusk and they cut
part of it off and then they made the boomerang.
(15:23):
Ouded that and third little known factoid about the and
it is in the shape of the what what do
we call that crescent?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It is in a gurry yah.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yet not not like Diane back in college where it
was a sharp V. It is a or the hour
rangs that did the x's and stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It was a lot of different ones.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It was very traditional shaped. Chris I haven't even given
the third factoid yet. Oh when you threw it, it
did not come back to you.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Oh that was the point.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Say, yeah, that was the whole point.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
So Australia figured that part out.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, it took them twenty thousand years, but we got it. No, no,
because it was a hunting it was a hunting weapon.
It was a weapon and a hunting tool, I guess.
And so if it hit them, it changes the trajectory
of everything. It was never designed to come back to you,
I guess, unless you missed the animal.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But if you were a good hunter, it hit the
animal and it died. Isn't that pretty cool?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Certainly, mammoth tusk will never say Australia is the home
of the boomerang.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Now it took him twenty thousand years.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Or even that it should be such a massive symbol
associated with.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Twenty thousand years. Christ And you had your hand.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Up yes before you gave fact three. Oh you said
earlier they could tell it they were.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Made by a right right handed person.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
And I'm like, oh, I wonder if that's why I
can never throw it properly. It would never came back
to I'm left handed, so I'm like oh, I must
be throwing it wrong. But now you said it was
never made to come back.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The one you threw was made to come back, and
it was probably made by a machine.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So I don't think you threw.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
The forty thousand year old one.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
All right, very good, very good. I like that. Though.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'm reading now about John Cohler, who was then a
resident of Poolsville, Maryland when he went over to Perth
and won an international competition.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Is he still with us?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
So he was thirty three thirty four years ago, so yeah,
he could still be He would definitely still be alive.
It looks like he did at some point moved to
Virginia Beach, but I don't know if he still calls
that home.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Everybody we talked to, everybody we talked to, including amongst ourselves,
has thrown a boomerang.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Marley ever throw a boomerang?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Not that I didn't your.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Kids ever throw boomerang. Well, it's in the family, that's.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Not that's unfair.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That would Martley know what a boomerang is.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
She would probably more associate it with doing a cheers
with somebody.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
But like Instagramah, okay, that's true. No, but like if
like an actual boomerang, maybe I don't know that my kids,
my kids would definitely I shouldn't say that. I think
my kids would know what a boomerang is. But my
kids have never played with one.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Have your kids?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
They have?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Because of Lindsay's family, I'm assuming.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
We have a few. Okay, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But if if if you weren't married into the business.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
They would know without the this sport being in our blood.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Would they? Would they ever?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
But my guess is without Lindsay's family, yeah, they would
never even touch one.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
No, probably not because even.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Why did where? Where did it die?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Not not why I could tell you why it's boring
because where did it die?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It doesn't like nobody goes outside and throws a boomerang.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
What's what's the toy company? Is it a Robie that
they made the discs that were very famous. But I
believe they have a boomerang toy. But it doesn't look
It looks like a triangle which you can our rings
used to show off you can make a variety of
different shapes. But I believe they call that a boomerang.
But it's just not what.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's not a tradition.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
What you're thinking of, was that company a Roby.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I don't think I've heard of Robie.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, there you go, And yes they call it a boomerang.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Am I going to line eight? Hi, Elliet the morning.
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Hello, Hello, good morning guys.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Hey, yes, sir, so yeah, I was just calling because
the the aeroby boomerang is the triangle one.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
It's also got the one that's the circle that can
go for like three high dred yards.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And come back.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
No, the circle doesn't come back.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
No no, no, no, no no not that's a frisbee. That's a
frisbee right right. But those things are like at Kite
Loss and Kite Lost in Ocean City.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
But the ones that are the triangle come back.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I don't have to move an inch.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
I can hunk that thing and it will go far
and it will come right back to me without moving.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
And my son has used it as well.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
He's used the regular boomerangs toon and.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It comes, it comes right back to you. You know
I should have that. That's that's that's good because I.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Don't I don't think of it that way, but you're
right now that I think back. That's boomerangs boomerangs are
like boomerang esque type things.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Thank you, sir. Very beachy, very beachy. I mean like frisbee.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Frisbees are beachy, yeah, but I mean that's the the
ring is a frisbee, and if you don't have somebody
there that you could throw with, you get that arrowbe
or whatever he called it, the triangle.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
That's a beach thing.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
But be careful. Remember when I was in rehob I
was hitting the back of the head with a vortex
nerve football.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Also intentional. It was very intentional.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
It was not but the family that didn't laugh, but
I do to this day believe it was an accident.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I don't and I wasn't there.
Everybody had one as a toy. Diane, don't look at
me like that, too high, I'm sorry. Ninety four of
all people you have?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You have?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, a lot of like once in elementary school.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Okay, I'm sorry. Did you have you ever thrown a boomerang?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yes, some of them were even like those little stupid,
cheap balsa wood ones.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
But everybody's thrown one. You've thrown You've thrown a boomerang.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
At some point, yes, yeah, I think I am I low.
Has one hundred percent of people thrown a boomerang now, so.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's ninety five.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I think you're still high.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh I don't, I don't. Did you have one?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Haven't I told you about what Lindsay's family used to
do with boomerangs?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No? Wait, do we know this?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I didn't commit this to memory my wife. Would they
throw it and they'd come back?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
They did more than throw them. They made and sold them.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh, sold them.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Definitely. Didn't tell me that.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
You don't remember the company r rangs? Oh you are. Yeah.
They made them, mostly your dad, and then they would
bring them to did they work farmers markets and flea
markets and they would sell them.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Now, they would try to sell them or did they
sell actually sell them? I think they did it long
enough or if I went to Lindsay's family's house, but
I find boxes and boxes and boxes.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
They made them though, because yeah, our dad was was
incredibly gifted and in his craftsmanship of not just boomerangs
but furniture. But like, they didn't just do the traditional
boomerang which you picture.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh they also did. Isn't it also a stick? No,
you can.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You can make a boomerang that's essentially just an X.
You've never seen that before. No, No, boomerangs are like
this the curve. Yeah, yes, that's what everyone thinks of.
But here you go, like you can do. These are
easier than.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You ever thrown a boomerang. Yeah, of course you have.
Of course you have. Ninety five percent of all people
have thrown a boomerang. Yeah you've never seen one like this?
Oh you know what I have? Yeah I have. I've
seen the plastic kind. I don't think i've seen the
wooden kind.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
So he would do all different varieties and paint him
up and everything, and then they would.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But that's not a traditional boomerang. No, he did those
as well. Okay, yeah, the traditional boomerang is. I don't
know how to describe it. I don't have to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Everybody knows what a boomerang is.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
What shape would you say that is.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Boomerang?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It's boomerang shaped, like you the crescent a keyboard carrot,
no crescent, crescent?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah? Fine, yeah Australian right? Oh no, have I struck
a nerve?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I don't know if that's all strict?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is that disputed?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
The how far back does it go in Australia?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
There, look they get look at all these different there's
when it comes to this sport of boomerang. You can
have all different types of shape. And that's what our
rings tried to teach people about.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The Christ. Will you do me a favor? Will you?
Will you find find me some people that have thrown boomerangs?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Please?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Eight six six to Elliott eight six six two three
five five four six.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Eight When you three years it came back.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Not that I recall.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh, so you would have to go you.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Know what was annoying because like I would throw the
one like I can't remember them. I can't remember the
model we had. We had a boomerang. It was a
cheap ass one. But you used to see the commercials
where somebody would throw it and it would come right.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Back there, like the exact same spot.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
We were always moving, We were always moving, either to
try to catch it or just to go get it,
but yet it never came right back to us.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I remember when Lindsay first told me about her family's business,
and this was a side thing. It wasn't the only way.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh thank god, I was gonna be like, your response
should have been, well, they're not gonna make it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It wasn't the only revenue stream for them. But he
loved working with his hands. No, I mean at he
liked boomerang. But I made some stupid remark like said,
were you ever able to get it to come back
to you? And Lindsay was like, yeah, because that's the
thing you throw you you don't get.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
It if your family is making them, you're a good boomeranger.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Is that the proper term?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Or are you just good at boomerang?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Maybe twenty thousand years ago they saw boomerangs in.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Cave paintings in Australia. Okay, I'm sorry, how long twenty
thousand years ago? No, then it doesn't belong to Australia.
Oh where am I going Kristen line one? Hi, Elliet
of the morning.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
Hey, good morning, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I am doing excellent? Thank you? What can I do
for you?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
I just wanted to let you know I throw a
boomerang every day with my dog. It's the only toy
she likes to play it with.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
But wait a minute, will she will she? How are
you playing with your dog? You throw and it comes back,
so you.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Say six, right right next to.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Me and Sherry, you throw it and it comes back
and it just lands right in her mouth like that's
there's no fetch in that.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
She will follow the flight plan plan and run in
a circle and then she will catch it mid air.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That's awesome, good for you? Is it? Does it look
like a boomerang?
Speaker 8 (05:51):
Yeah, I've got a lot of different shaped ones, so
the crescents and then like more of like the sharp b's.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now two things.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I knew a girl back at Radford who they would
refer to as she has a sharp V the no no,
but isn't isn't the toy the rabbit or I'm sorry,
the squirrel the squirrel for dogs? Isn't that supposed to
be kind of like an ex boomerang.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I've never seen that, Yeah, I believe.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I believe. No, Tyler, that's not it.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
That's a plus.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
No, it's orange, it's orange and blue. There it is there,
it is on the right.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh, and that's supposed to have the same effect.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
We had this for Thompson.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Oh did Jackie get it for you guys for Christmas?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Did she?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
It's called the chuck it, Oh, chuck it, not the squirrel.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Where'd you get squirrel throw?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
And it's called a flying squirrel toy because there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, but that I think is supposed to act like
a like a like a boomerang boomerang.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Excuse me?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, hello, what this when miss sego? You old tabbit?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
All right, very good, thank you sir.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You know who didn't say it that way?
Speaker 9 (07:14):
R rag.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Seriously, it wasn't our wrongs. If it was, maybe they
would have sold a few more.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well you you should have brought them to the country.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Clob Yeah, well you know what, they still being business,
they'd have sold to the hoity toity, the hoy PELOI line.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
For Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
He especial man.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (07:39):
This is Craig Christian's much too modest to uh to
mention until you plus you haven't answer to be on
the microphone.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
But back in the Midwest, she used to use her
family used to use boomerangs as hunting weapons.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Kristen is.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Boomerang. Okay, Kristen says that number one, you're lying about her.
But no, you're You're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
They were weapons, weren't they.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
They were used them.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Astralia.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Okay, you stop it, stop it, stop it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
They are not Australian.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Why does everyone that Australia you just said, you just
said in Australia.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
They are not Australian. Okay, all right, all right, very good,
very good, Thank.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You from Hobie. Remember when Gilligan through a boomerang and
it hit the skipper's neck, Diane, do you remember that?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Sounds familiar?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Did Gilligan and make the mistake and say it was Australian?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Sorry mate, I have to pull up that clip later.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
How long ago were boomerangs being used?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
The only date I have is from what I've read
with the cape paintings, twenty thousand years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now older than that line one, Hi, Elliot the Morning's me? Yeah, Hi,
who's this? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (09:17):
This is Alex?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, Alex? What can I do for you?
Speaker 9 (09:20):
So my father had a boomerang that he played with
as a kid in Fairfax and actually through the boomerang
lost it in the woods and bought the house that
those woods were connected to. About forty years later, cleared
out the woods and found his boomerang. So it was
a forty year return.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
That's awesome, that's pretty cool. Where's the boomerang from? Please
don't say Fairfax?
Speaker 9 (09:49):
My understanding is it's Australia.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Why does thank you?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Why does Australia own And I'm there quoting that, Why
does Australia own the boomerang?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
I'm trying to think where we would have all learned that.
Was it featured in some sort of movie or TV show?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yes, or it's like Gilligan's Island.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
It's boomerang Kangaroo and that's that's Australian pictures.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, but why why?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Why is it like a commercial? Growing up? It's like, say,
Fosters is Australian from beer? Beer?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Or what was the energizer? Not the bunny?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh, the oh, the guy, the big Oi. Yeah, the
big oaf.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Line eight Hi Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Hey, uh.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Hello, Hey, Hey, it's it's boomerang.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Dundee, okay, goodbye Friday.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Isn't it line for.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Hi Elliott in the morning? Hey?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Who's that Danny from Cougenius?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh dude, how are you?
Speaker 8 (11:07):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Wait a minute, are you excuse me? Are you a
big boomerang dude of court?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Now?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
So the he was, I've been pretty sure he was,
like the world champion lived in Foolsville when I was
a kid growing up, right around the corner from me,
and he would press well. I just tried to, but
watching the post has the damn peywaff. I can't look
at any of the articles, but there's articles from the
early nineties about him. And he used to practice of
the park right next to my house when I was
a kid, so we'd go up there and watch him.
(11:36):
And he signed a boomerang for me when I was younger,
and I got pretty damn good with the thing. I
haven't thrown it for thirty years, but I know where
it is. It's in a rubber maid next to my
beanie babies. Another rubber maid and I'm going to pull
it out this weekend and I'm going to send you
a picture.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So wait a minute, so wait, go back.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So the world champion boomer Wranger lived in Poolsville, Maryland.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
He may not have been the world champion, but he
was a champion. He was, he was. There's lots of
articles written about him.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And he lived.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Yeah, you lived in Pulisville. No, he was awesome. He
would he would set up markers all over the soccer
field up there, like he could hit anything from anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It was nuts and would it come back.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
It would go wherever he wanted it, so he can
go back to him. Yes, but if he if he
wanted it to hit marks in other areas, he could
throw it from you know, his standing position and then
have it hit somewhere, you know, fifty yards away like
it was.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It was wild.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Can I didn't get that good?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Can I give you.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Three factoids about the boomerang that will change everything?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Number one, So if you're going to tell.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Me that the earliest signs of the boomerang in Australia
are from twenty thousand years ago, who cares? They found
one in Poland that's forty thousand years years old. They
originally thought it was thirty thousand years old, but because
of being able to have advanced testing on it, it
(13:08):
was found in a cave in Poland. It is forty
thousand years old. So I'll see your Australia and I'll
double it. Number two, Oh, they were you know what
else I thought was cool? This is a tangent to
number one. They were able to study the the boomerang.
(13:29):
Hey Danny, hold on one second, hold on one sacond,
Hey boomerang me some zdi. They were able to study
the boomerang. They were able to tell that it was
made by a guy who was right handed. That specific
I have no idea how they were able to tell that,
but just based on how it was cut, they were
(13:51):
able to tell it's right handed.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So number one forty thousand years old in Poland.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Number two and they said this thing was beautifully handcrafted.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
What was it made out of?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Some sort of wood?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Is that some sort of stone? No?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh, bone, you're getting close. I'd like Kristin to turn
her microphone on. Oh, I do remember hunting with this, Kristin?
What was the forty thousand year old boomerang?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Wade? Well, first, I can't.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Kristen's trying to Will everybody look at Kristin to see
how she was trying to get my attention?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What are you doing there, Kristin?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Like husks from a mammoth, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
So they would just rip off the husks and it
was already pre made.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
They probably are the reason why mammoths went extinct by
killing them. For the boomerangs of husks, what does you
means tusks?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Whoops? But is he right?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Really the oldest one, this forty thousand year old boomerang
was actually made out of mammoth tusk or as Christa
would say, mammoth husk. Now it's not the entire tusk,
but they took part of the tusk and they cut
part of it off and then they made the boomerang.
(15:23):
Ouded that and third little known factoid about the and
it is in the shape of the what what do
we call that crescent?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It is in a gurry yah.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yet not not like Diane back in college where it
was a sharp V. It is a or the hour
rangs that did the x's and stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It was a lot of different ones.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It was very traditional shaped. Chris I haven't even given
the third factoid yet. Oh when you threw it, it
did not come back to you.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Oh that was the point.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Say, yeah, that was the whole point.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
So Australia figured that part out.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, it took them twenty thousand years, but we got it. No, no,
because it was a hunting it was a hunting weapon.
It was a weapon and a hunting tool, I guess.
And so if it hit them, it changes the trajectory
of everything. It was never designed to come back to you,
I guess, unless you missed the animal.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But if you were a good hunter, it hit the
animal and it died. Isn't that pretty cool?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Certainly, mammoth tusk will never say Australia is the home
of the boomerang.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Now it took him twenty thousand years.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Or even that it should be such a massive symbol
associated with.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Twenty thousand years. Christ And you had your hand.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Up yes before you gave fact three. Oh you said
earlier they could tell it they were.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Made by a right right handed person.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
And I'm like, oh, I wonder if that's why I
can never throw it properly. It would never came back
to I'm left handed, so I'm like oh, I must
be throwing it wrong. But now you said it was
never made to come back.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The one you threw was made to come back, and
it was probably made by a machine.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So I don't think you threw.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
The forty thousand year old one.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
All right, very good, very good. I like that. Though.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'm reading now about John Cohler, who was then a
resident of Poolsville, Maryland when he went over to Perth
and won an international competition.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Is he still with us?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
So he was thirty three thirty four years ago, so yeah,
he could still be He would definitely still be alive.
It looks like he did at some point moved to
Virginia Beach, but I don't know if he still calls
that home.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Everybody we talked to, everybody we talked to, including amongst ourselves,
has thrown a boomerang.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Marley ever throw a boomerang?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Not that I didn't your.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Kids ever throw boomerang. Well, it's in the family, that's.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Not that's unfair.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That would Martley know what a boomerang is.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
She would probably more associate it with doing a cheers
with somebody.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
But like Instagramah, okay, that's true. No, but like if
like an actual boomerang, maybe I don't know that my kids,
my kids would definitely I shouldn't say that. I think
my kids would know what a boomerang is. But my
kids have never played with one.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Have your kids?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
They have?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Because of Lindsay's family, I'm assuming.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
We have a few. Okay, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But if if if you weren't married into the business.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
They would know without the this sport being in our blood.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Would they? Would they ever?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
But my guess is without Lindsay's family, yeah, they would
never even touch one.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
No, probably not because even.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Why did where? Where did it die?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Not not why I could tell you why it's boring
because where did it die?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It doesn't like nobody goes outside and throws a boomerang.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
What's what's the toy company? Is it a Robie that
they made the discs that were very famous. But I
believe they have a boomerang toy. But it doesn't look
It looks like a triangle which you can our rings
used to show off you can make a variety of
different shapes. But I believe they call that a boomerang.
But it's just not what.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's not a tradition.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
What you're thinking of, was that company a Roby.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I don't think I've heard of Robie.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, there you go, And yes they call it a boomerang.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Am I going to line eight? Hi, Elliet the morning.
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Hello, Hello, good morning guys.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Hey, yes, sir, so yeah, I was just calling because
the the aeroby boomerang is the triangle one.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
It's also got the one that's the circle that can
go for like three high dred yards.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And come back.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
No, the circle doesn't come back.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
No no, no, no, no no not that's a frisbee. That's a
frisbee right right. But those things are like at Kite
Loss and Kite Lost in Ocean City.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
But the ones that are the triangle come back.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I don't have to move an inch.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
I can hunk that thing and it will go far
and it will come right back to me without moving.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
And my son has used it as well.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
He's used the regular boomerangs toon and.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It comes, it comes right back to you. You know
I should have that. That's that's that's good because I.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Don't I don't think of it that way, but you're
right now that I think back. That's boomerangs boomerangs are
like boomerang esque type things.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Thank you, sir. Very beachy, very beachy. I mean like frisbee.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Frisbees are beachy, yeah, but I mean that's the the
ring is a frisbee, and if you don't have somebody
there that you could throw with, you get that arrowbe
or whatever he called it, the triangle.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
That's a beach thing.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
But be careful. Remember when I was in rehob I
was hitting the back of the head with a vortex
nerve football.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Also intentional. It was very intentional.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
It was not but the family that didn't laugh, but
I do to this day believe it was an accident.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I don't and I wasn't there.
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