Today, I'm going to learn how to ride a unicycle.
[SOUND] Ow.
Honestly, it's something I've never really given a second thought to.
I've seen people doing it on the street and on the Metro.
And they just kind of look like tools.
But I'm going to give it a shot.
No judgment.
I have friends and co-workers and colleagues who know how to do it, and
they are dead set on the fact that I won't be able to do it in a day.
Without furder ado, here we go.
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I'm picking up the unicycle from my buddy Thomas.
He's trying to convince me not to do this because-
>> I'm not, it's not that.
I'm not trying to convince you not to do it.
It's just incredibly difficult, and when you fall, it hurts a lot.
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>> Just going to hold on to the fence and try to do it.
God, this is so weird.
All right, [BLEEP].
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[BLEEP] god, god.
No fence.
Jesus.
[SOUND] Aah!
Maybe backwards would be easier.
No, that's not.
No, it's not easier.
ow.
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I did it.
I'm really tired. It's really hard.
It hurts.
You know?
It hurts. I would like to have children one day.
I would like the option.
That's all I'm going to say.
I'm trying to power through, but I'm hitting what I always call the wall,
where it's like, I make some progress and then I just get fatigued.
And I end up regressing so I'm giving myself a little bit of a break.
I'm going to eat something and then I'm going to come back at it.
I think I'm kind of getting the hang of it.
>> So here's the thing, it took me a long time to learn.
It's like, I couldn't wrap my brain around it.
So, it probably took weeks and weeks, to be honest.
But once you do it, all the wires connect.
And then you just get it, and
then you can't not do it.
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Okay, here we go, here we go.
I'm kind of curious to see if it's like the old riding a bike,
where you never forget.
I have no idea.
I probably forgot.
It's coming back.
>> That's pretty good. Okay come on, now you're just show off.
>> I'm going to come back, okay it's coming back.
I used to know how to juggle and do it at the same time, too.
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Okay, good.
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I've got a lot of respect for clowns, for
circus folk, unicyclers.
It's really tough, it's very tough.
It works a weird part of your brain, and weird muscles.
Ow.
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Aah, yeah.
Guys.
So the sun's going down, it's the end of the day, and yeah,
I would say that that this was unsuccessful.
In terms of that the whole point is to learn something in a day,
and I didn't really have any control over it, which is the whole point.
But I wouldn't say it was a failure, because
I was starting to get the hang of it, I thought, and I did respectably.
There's no shame in what I did, what I accomplished, but I'm hurting a lot.
My leg hurts, my back hurts.
I fell pretty hard a couple times.
This isn't the full 24 hours, but I don't think I could do it.
And I don't think my body can take another minute.
I'm okay with not completing this fully.
But I wouldn't call it a failure.
I'm happy.
I'm happy with what I did today.
It was a tough one.
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