- Oh!
Are you serious?
- Are you guys ready for this madness?
This video is going to be so much fun
because of this guy.
Go stand by that.
Let me see how big that thing is.
(laughs)
That is a giant ducky.
How does it feel?
That one would definitely win the race.
You saw the title,
you saw the thumbnail,
we are going to have a giant rubber ducky race.
First, we need to buy our rubber duckies.
Second, we're going to race the rubber duckies
and third, find out if we win some prizes.
- [Woman] There's a five dollar and a $10,
obviously the prizes are just a little different.
Here's a question,
how many ducks do you think there will be in the race?
- [Woman] 8,000 ducks.
- [Dan] There will be 8,000 ducks, Lincoln.
Okay. Owen,
do you need a duck?
Yes?
Yes. Clare?
Do you want a duck? - Yes!
- [Dan] Yes?
Lincoln, do you want a duck?
- Yeah. - Lesley?
- Yes. - Which one do you want?
The five
or the 10 dollar one? - I want then 10 dollar one.
- Here's the plan.
We are going to get 15 $10 tickets.
The more the merrier,
so let's do it.
15 $10 tickets please.
- Fifteen, alright.
- We have to write our names on here
for each one of these duckies.
Sound good?
- Yeah,
let's go sit down.
- [Dan] Are these the size
of the ones going in the water?
- No, these are actually retired ducks.
So these are the size of the ducks.
- [Dan] "I'm a retired race duck."
Must be good.
You've lived a good life buddy.
How do you know that there's no tampering
with the main ducks?
- So, we actually contract with a company.
They number all the ducks for us
and they take care of the transportation
over to the beginning line.
They actually haul those over in a front end loader,
so they've got a team of people
that we pay specifically to do that.
- [Dan] And they just dump it
off the front end loader into it?
- Yep,
so it just all goes in all at the same time.
- This is gonna be cool.
We just got our tickets.
We accidentally wrote our names
on way too many of them so we bought more,
which is not a bad thing.
- [Kid] How many was it?
- I think we have 18?
18. We have 18 chances of winning.
18 chances out of 8000 duckies.
You guys do the math.
It's better than the lottery, right?
Alright, thanks.
We'll see you guys on... - Saturday!
Three o'clock. Bye!
- Okay, we need to scout out the location.
This is the finish line.
This bridge with all of the flags.
So, they're gonna come from way down the river
and come down and end up right here.
They have an oil spill company
that has these nets that will come out
and they'll kind of feed the ducks into a line
that way you'll know which one is the winner
and which one's not.
So, I feel pretty optimistic.
I mean, it's my birthday.
I mean, I was born on the 22nd in the United States,
the 23rd in the Philippines.
So, the ducky race is on the 22nd of July,
so I'm pretty confident we're going to win the 10,000.
What do you think Lesley?
Confident?
- I think you have the best luck ever.
- They're not gonna want us back at the rubber ducky race.
We're gonna be banned.
We're gonna own this race by so much.
- I hope so.
That'd be awesome.
- Watch all of our ducks take the last 18 places.
- Nope. We're gonna be the first 18 places
will be all of our duckies.
We are 20 minutes away from the official duck launch.
Alright, I just dropped the family off at the finish line.
It turns out I need to go to Wendell Street bridge,
which is not here.
Alright, I'm driving,
there's a bridge.
Not that bridge.
Okay, I turn right,
I have it.
I have to get that shot
of the duckies falling into the river,
that just sounds amazing.
I've got to see that.
Yeah, this is gonna be interesting.
There's the bridge.
There's only a couple of people on it though.
Okay, I found it.
I found it.
I don't know if this is exactly the place
but I think I'm in the right place
because I see a giant front loader.
Look at all those ducks!
How many is in here?
- [Worker] 8,000.
- 8,000 duckies right here, guys.
This is it.
You can see,
there's the little necklaces that have the numbers on them.
Ah, yeah.
We found it.
Alright, so I don't know what the plan is.
We'll have to ask them.
We've got the police monitoring it.
So, what's the plan?
You're the driver of all the ducks.
- I'm the driver.
So, at 3 o'clock we'll dump them off the bridge
and the police cars will block the road on both sides.
- [Dan] Okay.
Have you done this before?
- I've been doing it for 20 years.
Okay, we've got a professional here.
Is this the most ducks you've ever had?
- The last couple years we've had 8,000.
This is the most.
It used to be 6,000,
then it was 7,000
and the last couple years 8,000.
- [Dan] One thing,
I'm not from here
but once they go through and get to the finish line,
how long until we know the results?
- Pretty quick.
Probably within an hour or two.
- There you go.
We have 18 tickets.
We'll see if we can win this thing.
If not,
it's worth it because look at all these ducks.
Isn't that cool?
Let the adventure begin.
Ah ha!
Okay, I'm so glad we made it.
I was stressing.
I want to see them actually go in the river
and then let's try to follow them
and run all the way down to the city center.
The river is not the fastest river
so I think I can do it
but I'm also not in the greatest shape.
That's the spot.
Apparently, this is the place.
That's gonna be the spot right there.
People on the bridge are pulling their cameras out,
that can only mean on thing.
Front loader with duckies is coming.
I see it.
(dramatic music)
Woo hoo!
Look at all the duckies.
Go duckies, go.
Leader.
Oh, that's a quick one.
He's looking at everybody,
he's mocking them.
Alright, they're starting to break into groups right now.
There's a lead team up front
and everyone else is just kind of coasting behind them.
They're drifting,
they're waiting for their moment to over take them.
Look at those ducks.
- Yes, I hit one!
- This poor little guy right here,
he's like,
"Please, don't make me race another year."
He's been planning it out all year.
He's going to hide in those rocks.
Alright, now we make the run to the finish line.
We're taking a short cut over the grass,
all these people that are walking.
I'm so out of shape.
I'm struggling.
We got ahead of the ducks though,
we're making it.
The bridge is pretty busy.
Look at all these people.
Holy moly.
The 8,000 people that bought tickets
are definitely here, maybe more.
We're just about to the finish line.
I'm curious to see
what type of separation do these guys have
because they all went into together,
is there gonna be a big difference?
This would be the finish line, right here.
Look at all these people.
This is the finish line.
These are like oil spill clean-up crews.
I don't even know how it works
but all the ducks are gonna come in
in the right line
so they don't lose them all in the river.
They're almost to the finish line,
they're starting to hit the mat.
This is the moment of truth,
which duck is the strongest.
They're coming.
- [Announcer] Winner.
- [Dan] First place is
this guy.
- [Announcer] He's still got a chance
to win some money here tonight.
In this case it isn't just about the money.
- [Dan] Look at that,
They're putting them in all their positions right there.
- [Announcer] We've got all sorts of prizes for you
including $15,000 in cash.
That is pretty sweet.
We've got some $10 tickets here.
Man, $10,000 for that first prize,
two round trip tickets anywhere Alaska Airlines flies
would be pretty sweet.
- From what I can tell,
there's no Ernst Young Accounting firm here
but I can tell,
it seems like a pretty clean process.
Seems legit,
I don't see any tampering going on.
She's writing down the numbers.
That's your winner right there.
Right now she's writing names and numbers
of all the winners in order.
I don't even know what our numbers are,
we gotta go get our numbers,
we have 18 of them.
We could have won.
We could have won something.
You saw how they did the top 60,
they put them in those little baskets
like one by one she counted them out and threw them back.
I don't know how accurate it really is
but it is what is is.
What do you do when you have 8,000 ducks?
Look at all the ducks.
They can't even clean them up fast enough.
There's so many.
8,000 ducks.
They're trying,
they're cleaning them up back there.
(soft music)
Here's the results, right here.
Going to the finish line.
They're going to go report them.
Nice.
I think it's interesting that still
there are ducks that are like total stragglers.
They're still coming down one by one.
There should be like a losers bracket.
For like the worst one you should win a prize
for like last, last place.
Alright, now we need to go find out
what the results are
and match it up to our tickets
and see if we won anything.
We've got pretty good odds.
(tribal music)
It's exciting here.
I've got to go find the kids.
This was supposed to be an entire family event.
I'm gonna go find them
and we've got to figure out the results.
So, next up,
results.
Here's what's going on.
We're back at the house,
it's the next day
and the unofficial results are up.
Now, there were tickets that people didn't buy
but they still let the ducks go.
So, some of these numbers that are on the winning list
could be invalidated.
I think really,
the only thing about these unofficial results
is you could move up possibly.
I don't know.
Guys, remember what the prizes are?
What's first place?
- Uhm, first place is $100,000.
- [Lesley] Oh, I wish.
- [Dan] 100,000? That's a lot.
- 10,000. That's the first place.
- [Dan] 10,000. Are you okay with 10
or is that too much of a disappointment
because you thought it was 100.
- No, that's good.
- Remember what we decided?
If we win the 10,000...
- Charity.
- We're giving all the 10,000 to charity
because it's kind of gambling
and we don't really like to gamble.
So, if we win the 10,000,
it's going
but 8,000 people,
like we're gonna win 10,000
but if we do,
we're giving it to charity.
I'll read the top five
and you can see if any of those.
There's the top five,
there's the numbers.
Does anyone have 2187?
This is--
- We have 2000 somethings.
- 2187?
- [Dan] That would be first place.
- Clare, look through your numbers.
You have two.
- [Dan] Anybody? Anybody?
- [Lesley] Lydia, look at your numbers.
- [Lincoln] I don't have it.
- I don't have it.
- Ah. We didn't get first
but it could be invalidated.
Or there are also five dollars tickets
and $10 tickets and there's two buckets
and we paid for $10 tickets.
So, the $10 was the one with the 10,000 prize
the five dollar was the one with the $5,000 prize,
so I don't know.
I don't know how this whole thing works.
We're going to have to do a more detailed follow up.
Number two.
The number is
220,
does anyone have 220 for the first three?
- Yes, I do!
- [Dan] You do?
- [Lesley] You have 22.
- [Dan] What?
- 220, I got another 220.
- [Dan] What? Okay.
Get all your 220's.
- 220!
- [Dan] You got one, too?
What number is it?
2206?
- 2202.
- All of these are 220's.
- [Dan] All those are?
- I got 2210.
- Okay, this could be it.
We could win it.
Okay, the winning number,
this is for real,
the winning number,
this could be the 10,000 or it could be flight tickets
if we're first or second.
- Okay.
- [Dan] Does anybody have 2204?
- Are you serious?
- [Dan] Do you have 2204?
- Are you just saying that?
- [Dan] No, it's right there on the thing.
Look! Look!
- I have 2004!
(cheering)
(laughs)
- [Dan] Lesley won!
- What?
- What? We won!
We either got first place
or we got second place.
- Yeah!
- [Dan] 2204.
Right there
and we're right there in second place.
(laughs)
- No way.
- I'm serious. That is that.
We did not doctor this,
I told you guys earlier,
I am very lucky and today is my birthday.
I knew we would win something.
It says official results will be posted on Tuesday.
So, Bill,
your job,
we're gonna leave you the ticket.
You gotta figure out if we won the 10,000
or if it was the plane tickets.
We'll give you a follow up on what happens.
Check our Instagram @whatsinside and maybe our Facebook too.
We'll definitely post this as soon as we know,
we'll post the results on their.
So, if you're not following us on there,
follow us now and we will post and update to this
and Bill will go in and see if we actually won this thing.
2204, we got this.
So, anyway,
thanks for watching the Rubber Ducky race.
Will we be back next year to defend our title?
Possibly, we'll see.