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Podcast: Educate Your Earbuds
Episode: Why Everyone at Raves Is Spinning Stuff (The Real History of Flow Toys)
Description: Why are glow-sticks, LED hoops, poi, and flow stars everywhere at raves? This week on Educate Your Earbuds, we dive into the hypnotic world of flow arts and flow toys—what they are, where they came from, and why they’ve become a staple of EDM and festival culture.We break down the most popular flow toys, explore their real origins (and debunk a few internet myths), and trace how flow arts moved from underground movement practices into raves, Burning Man, and major EDM festivals. Plus, we talk about why flow toys pair so perf...