surprisingly, that wouldnāt be the least objectionableā¦ and is probably less frequent now in real life than it was some 6-8 years ago, lolā¦
if you see me iāll say hello, canāt tell
ya what the wrong guy would do though 
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Hahahaha I can imagine the scene: a bodybuilder looks at you while playing yoyo and he says āhey, Iām fatguysnacks.ā 
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New throw who dis?
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Somewhat tangential but thought thisād be the best place to share an anecdote.
When I first started lurking last September I thought @yoyodoc was @DocPop and you can imagine my confusion.
I thought āWow doc popās way of speaking and general vibe on camera is very different from the way he writes on the forumā.
I even saw doc popās actual account and just thought he had two accounts, one for youtube stuff and one for postingā¦took me a couple months to realize.
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You mistook them for Bigfoot?
Youāre not the only one. I went through the same confusion.
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Glad to hear Iām not the only one haha! I appreciate them both but thinking of them as the same person causes major cognitive dissonance.
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Youāll recognize me if you see me park because my license plates are the same as my screen name. 
Ivan
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I will clear up a few thingsā¦
I am not a yo-yo historian but I am pretty sure Doctor Popular was āalreadyā Doctor Popular long before I happened into the yo-yo scene.
I think he was already busking with skill toys and on his way to being the Amazing person he is todayā¦ and, he was already Amazing 20+ years ago. Doc Pop(Brian Roberts) chose his own handle by himself.
My nickname was completely different in origin.
Back around 1997/98, I was thinking about how I never had a yo-yo as a kid. My older brother had a Duncan yoyo. He would leave it on the dresser. I would pick it up now and then and my Mom would tell me, āPut down your brothersā yo-yo before you break something.
40+ later, Iām riding one of my custom Harleys down the street, and I see this kid doing some nice looking tricks with a yo-yo. Instantly taking me back several decades. I decided I just had to get a yo-yo.
I looked around and asked around and found out about a place called Goldenapple Comics on Melrose in the Hollywood area. Comics, action figures, games, skill toys(including yo-yos), etc.
After a few weeks I finally decide to actually go up and check out the Store. Right as I was walking into the Store, I see this girl putting yo-yos in a glass case. I asked her, āCan I buy one of thoseā?
She replied, āWe just got these in today. The Boss hasnāt even tried one yet. Do you yoyo?
ā¦I told her no. I just want to buy a yo-yo. She told me the one I chose was expensive for a beginner. I told her money was not a problem for me.
She said there were many more economical options.
I told her I just wanted to buy one yoyo and leave before I got a parking ticket. Next thing I knew, the girl(Melinda) gets on their Com system and says, āBig Bill to the frontā. ā¦.And suddenly, there he is/board shorts/Hawaiian shirt and tennis shoes> Big Bill Lebowitz. The girl tells him, āThis man wants to buy an expensive yoyo but is just beginner level. He tells me he had many less expensive options. I told him I didnāt care about the price, He told me he use to be a Yo-yo demonstrator when he was younger and would show me a few tricks, blah, blah, blahā¦.
ā¦ā¦Demo over, Mo leaves with yoyo wondering if everybody that wanted to buy a yo-yo gets interviewed before they qualify to buy something,lol.
An hour later I am back home and rolling my yoyo up and down. My girlfriend says, āBig boy get a New toy? Can you do any tricks?ā I told her not really.
Building cars and motorcycles for a living, I had a nice Machine-shop built right into my garage.
I told my girl, āI can pull off a trick. I will make this yo-yo play better. But firstā¦. More yo-yos to fiddle with. After a daylong shopping spree, I had several yo-yos to use as sacrifices to my hot rodding a yo-yo mission.
After a few weeks of Dr. Frankenstein experiments, I buried the fatalities and put the survivors in a paper bag. I told my girl I was going to find somebody that throws yo-yos to try out my yo-yos to see how well they might play after the things I did to mod them?
As I was leaving, she handed me this black leather purse-like bag and told me, āPut your yo-yos in this bag instead of that paper bag.ā
ā¦ā¦So I make it up to Goldenapple. I go to the counter and the girl tells me that they were having a Yo-yo lessons class across the street in the parking lot. And some of the more advanced players were there.
I was on the edge of the activities and singled out a few kids that seemed pretty skilled with yo-yos. I told them I had several yo-yos but wasnāt good enough to tell if they were any good.
No sooner are these kids tossing around my modded yo-yos, here comes Big Bill. As he says hello, one of the guys tells Bill, āBill, you have to try one of these yo-yos. They play really nice.
So Bill starts throwing one around. And then puts it down and picks another to try. He says, āThese play better than some of the yo-yos I sell in my Store.
Well did you get these? I twisted them around myself. He said, āVery nice workāā¦ And then he recognized me from a few weeks earlier in his Store.
I told him I build custom vehicles and cutting stuff up and trying to improve it is my life. Yo-yos are just another Adventure. But since I am not a player, I need others to help me find out if I am modding in the correct direction?
Suddenly he seemed fixated on my yoyo bag. I hadnāt noticed it looked like a smaller version of a Country Doctors bag. Pure coincidence.
Regardless, he blurted out, āAre you some kinda YoyoDoctor?ā
And I said, āwell, I guess you could say thatā.
He asked me if I wanted to be Goldenapplesā resident YoyoDoctor?
I guessā¦. And the rest is history.
Unlike Doc Pop, I did not choose my own āhandleā
true story>
PSā¦I really felt bad when Big Bill died. He was certainly a Beacon of light in the Yoyo World.
I made many lifetime friendships through Goldenapple. And the advice he shared over the years was immeasurable.
PSā¦ā¦DocPop and I have been friends for many years now. There has never been any issue related to Doc this or Doc that.
The endš¤
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Enjoyable read on a subject I was curious on. Thank you
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I did the same thing and reached out to
yoyodoc about a post, I thought he was Docpop, yoyodoc helped me with the confusion.
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Thatās incredible!!!
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Very cool. I got a few yo-yos at Golden Apple myself in the 90s. Wish Iād lived closer and went to some of the classes/meetups.
