The Old Food Bucket

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[00:52] I said, thanks, Dad.
[00:54] I'll put that in the hopper.
[00:56] He was like, that's a really good one.
[00:58] Where did the hopper come from?
[01:02] I thought that was pretty good.
[01:03] I don't know where that phrase comes from.
[01:06] In the hopper, we know what it means.
[01:09] We're putting our good ideas in the hopper so we can go back to it.
[01:15] The first thing that comes to mind for me is the...
[01:19] Jason, you played a lot golf.
[01:22] Sure.
[01:23] Is that little thing you go pick up the balls?
[01:25] Is that called the hopper?
[01:27] I don't know, but my thinking was in tennis, they have a little thing that you go and pick.
[01:33] That's definitely called the hopper.
[01:35] But same idea, it helps you pick the balls up off the ground without having to stoop over.
[01:39] But I don't know what...
[01:42] It seems like that phrase would be around long before golf or tennis were invented.
[01:49] Golf's pretty old, isn't it?
[01:53] Tennis might be.
[01:57] How old's tennis?
[01:58] A little over 100 years, right?
[02:00] I feel like it's older than that.
[02:03] I mean, we didn't have fancy clubs, but...
[02:06] That's much carbon fiber.
[02:10] The first British Open was like 110 years ago or something like that.
[02:17] I feel like it would have been not long after they...
[02:21] Invented it?
[02:22] Yeah.
[02:23] I mean, maybe 50 years at most, but like...
[02:26] Okay.
[02:27] So it's not like a medieval game?
[02:30] No.
[02:31] Sticking ball?
[02:32] No, I don't think so.
[02:33] Sticking hoop?
[02:36] You had to have leisure time before you could come up with sports, right?
[02:40] Yeah.
[02:41] So it's got to be like sort of...
[02:42] I mean, I guess there were some sports, but like...
[02:45] Especially a sport where you have to take like six hours to go walk around in a huge tract of land.
[02:53] Yeah.
[02:54] I mean, how old's St. Andrews?
[02:55] That's how old golf is, right?
[02:57] Right, yeah.
[03:01] Okay, so we've been sidetracked by the age of where does golf come from.
[03:06] What about the hopper?
[03:07] I feel like a hopper maybe is like...
[03:09] It's got to be some farm term or something, right?
[03:11] Okay.
[03:12] I was thinking it was related to rabbits, but that's just...
[03:16] Everything in my life now is related to rabbits.
[03:18] You can put your good ideas in a rabbit for safekeeping.
[03:23] It's the safest place you could put things.
[03:26] That's right.
[03:27] Just give it to the rabbit.
[03:28] It'll be fun.
[03:30] Yeah, maybe a hopper is just a general term for a place where like you're holding tank, right?
[03:39] Maybe tennis wasn't the first thing to have a hopper.
[03:42] Right.
[03:44] So you mentioned farm, farming like a bucket to put our stuff we're going to eat for later in there?
[03:53] Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
[03:55] The food bucket is the term.
[03:57] The old food bucket.
[04:00] That's why it's probably...
[04:01] Hopper's a better name for it than a food bucket, probably.
[04:04] I'm thinking like bigger farm equipment like some sort of cart or something like that
[04:10] where you're picking stuff and you just throw it in the hopper when you grab it.
[04:14] You pick it, put it in the hopper.
[04:17] So you're talking about like a big modern machine.
[04:23] No, it's not necessarily modern.
[04:25] It could be like a cart kind of thing.
[04:28] Ox pulled hopper.
[04:29] Exactly.
[04:31] Or maybe... Did you set us up?
[04:33] Is this an NBA player's nickname?
[04:40] Okay, so we're picking plants and throwing it on an ox pulled cart and saving it for later.
[04:49] That's our guess.
[04:50] I like where that went.
[04:52] I got an update on golf.
[04:54] Okay, so golf...
[04:55] The roots of today's golf game can be traced back to Scotland in 1457.
[05:00] Bang.
[05:01] The game was outlawed by King James II as it detracted from the training for the military.
[05:08] It became a pastime in Great Britain in the 17th century and the first British Open was held in 1860.
[05:17] So it's older than I thought, but not like ancient by any means.
[05:22] Do you think they had a hopper back in the 1400s where they were picking up the balls?
[05:27] I think that's the invention that spurred it to become popular, probably.
[05:31] Yeah, it saves you from bending over, which people hate.
[05:34] Sure.
[05:36] All right, so it's a golf term.
[05:39] We're farming.
[05:41] We're farming.
[05:44] And why would it...
[05:45] Okay, so if it was a golf term, I guess you're saving your golf, your good golf balls?
[05:54] No.
[05:55] Like when you practice, like when you're on the putting green or whatever, like there's just a little...
[05:59] You got a little contraption and you just...
[06:02] Sure, and you've got a bag.
[06:04] Yeah.
[06:05] We just like to go pick them up so you can go play with them again later.
[06:08] The same thing in tennis too.
[06:09] You just put it down, you pick up the ball, it hops to the next location, put it in there.
[06:15] But how would that get to the term that it is now where like if I'm...
[06:19] We're sitting around a table and we're having good ideas, but we need to move on from that idea so we put it in the hopper.
[06:28] You pick it up and put it into the storage location.
[06:30] Yeah, which is your brain.
[06:32] Or a rabbit.
[06:34] Or your manila envelope if you're...
[06:36] Right, or your white board.
[06:39] All right, so we're going golf or farming.
[06:42] I'm in.
[06:43] Tennis.
[06:44] Or tennis.
[06:45] And I'm going to guess that it's 400 years old.
[06:55] Okay.
[06:57] Okay, according to grammarist.com, Hopper is part of an agricultural or industrial machine
[07:07] that is a sorting device for separating things such as grain from chaff or gold
[07:13] or other precious gems and minerals from mud and rock.
[07:20] The term in the hopper derives from the word hopper, an English word first seen in 1277
[07:27] designating the hopper in a mill that processed grain.
[07:32] All right.
[07:35] Well, there you go.
[07:36] Very close.
[07:38] Off by, you know, a few hundred years and it's all good.
[07:45] That's like close for us.
[07:47] Yeah, exactly.
[07:48] And I like getting gold from muck.
[07:50] That kind of goes, you know, speaks more to the sort of modern use of the term, you know.
[08:01] I feel like I learned a little bit.
[08:03] Just a little bit.
[08:04] Just a little bit.
[08:05] We know it's not about a rabbit now.
[08:07] That's good.
[08:08] That has been confirmed.