00:00 Juggling has been around since at least 1994 BCE, with hieroglyphics found in Egyptian tombs depicting women toss juggling.

04:37 Juggling has been practiced since ancient times, with evidence of jugglers in Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, and Europe, and there were even records of a rabbi in the Talmud who could juggle eight torches at once.

09:18 The International Juggling Association was formed in 1969 and started holding championships and competitions, and in 2000 the World Juggling Federation was formed and convinced ESPN to put juggling on TV once a year.

13:58 To start learning juggling, you should begin with tossing one ball back and forth to get your arc down and focus on consistency and hand movements, specifically the scooping motion, with the cascade pattern being the easiest to start with.

18:22 To juggle three balls in a cascade pattern, you start with two balls in one hand and toss them one at a time, with the third ball being thrown as the first one lands.

23:11 Once you've mastered the reverse cascade, you can start incorporating tricks like the half shower, tennis move, mills mess, Burke's Barrage, Rubenstein's Revenge, and bounce juggling.

27:43 Generally speaking, if you have an odd number of props, you'll require a crisscross pattern, and if you have an even number of props, it's two separate groups juggled in each hand.

32:30 Juggling can be a social activity, with juggling clubs and competitions, and there are different techniques like stealing and replacing and passing between jugglers.

37:07 The physics of juggling involve factors such as gravity, constant acceleration, the parabolic trajectory of thrown objects, and the mass of the props being juggled.

41:50 Mathematician Claude Shannon proposed a juggling theorem that describes the relationship between the time a ball spends in the air and in the hand, the number of hands, and the number of balls being juggled, which allows for the creation of juggling robots; jugglers also use a form of notation called site swapping to describe juggling patterns using numbers.

46:36 Juggling is a complex skill that can be learned, and the hosts encourage listeners to give it a try.