- (upbeat music)
- Good morning everyone.
Usually we're in California,
but we drove to Arizona last night
because Parker is competing
in his TNT gymnastics for regionals,
which means that he's already passed state
and now he's competing against other kids from other states.
We came here a little early
to do some adventures while we were here
and today's first adventure is going to be right here.
Oh.
At Bam Kazam.
- Okay.
So basically this is kind of like an escape room.
You try it over and over and over again.
You don't really have like an hour time limit.
It's like three minutes if there is a time limit.
You have to do it over and over
and over again to get it right, but it's really fun.
(upbeat music)
- Welcome to Bam Kazam.
Today you guys are each and all gonna be
our main characters
of our live action arcade.
Then of course,
all of the games starring each and every one of you guys.
- We get two hours in here.
I don't know what to expect.
- It's a human arcade!
- But I see...
an available one.
So we're gonna scan it with the wristband.
Ooh, it's like a cave.
- Yes! This is the trees one.
This is the trees one.
- [Jacob] I think this is a mirror maze.
- [Parker] Everyone go before me.
- I see a pickax.
Avoiding some dangerous things along the way.
- Okay. Avoid, avoid.
- [Chris] Avoid dangerous things along the way guys.
- [Jessica] I bet we could send Parker in here.
- [Chris] Oh wow. Already.
- Wait, what happened?
- [Jessica] I'm gonna go in the tunnel right away.
- [Jacob] No, I'm going in the tunnel.
- [Chris] Okay, okay, okay.
- [Jacob] I saw a danger sign at the back.
- We're inside a mine shaft right now.
There are poisonous snakes and spiders.
Okay go in. Go in.
(hissing)
I hear a snake.
- [Jacob] There's one right there.
- [Chris] Watch out for snakes.
(sad music)
Somebody touched a snake.
- [Jessica] Where's the snake?
- Or a spider?
There's spiders, there's snakes.
We got through the first part of the mineshaft.
- [Parker] Don't close the door yet, Jacob.
- [Chris] Okay. - [Parker] It says,
"close door to activate underground power reserve."
- We cannot figure it out.
We're gonna do a different one-
- Yeah.- [Parker] We're doing it again.
- and we'll come back to it.
All right, we're in a heist now, and-
(sad music)
- Aww.
- [Jacob] So sorry.
- You fell.
- It's okay. It's okay.
- [Chris] We can't touch the floor.
I walked across this.
There's probably a lady gonna open this window here
and check on us.
You got this, Parker.
- Oh, lady.
Back back.
(tense music)
- [Chris] There's the lady in that window watching us.
Okay, the blinds are closed.
- Oh. I almost--
(sad music) - [Chris] Aww.
- [Jessica] We're good. We're good.
- [Chris] Where are you going Bailey?
- [Bailey] Oh, this is so hard.
(Chris laughs) - [Jacob] Hi.
- [Jessica] Hi.
- We're hiding from a lady.
She's looking at us through the window.
- [Jessica] Okay, Parker get up there.
You're our climber.
It's closing, it's closing.
- [Parker] Press the alarm- (sad music)
- [Jacob] What happened?
- [Jessica] She's right there.
She's on the other side.
She's mad.
- There's two buttons.
We have to press them at the exact same time.
- [Parker] What?
- [Jessica] Oh.
- I'm gonna climb cross,
- [Chris] Okay.
- and then get on top of that billboard thing.
- [Chris] Okay.
- And then I'm going to press the button
when you press the button.
- So I'm going where I was before.
- Yes. - What about the top of-
so you're going to the top of the billboard
and then he's going around to where you were?
- Yes.
(sad music)
- [Chris] What happened?
What happened?
- I skimmed the floor.
- [Parker] Yeah. Okay.
- [Jessica] Okay here we go.
Okay. Doors, windows are closed.
Okay. Windows are closed.
Everybody's waiting.
Jacob's sounding thumpy.
- [Jacob] I'm across.
- [Jessica] Jacob's across.
Oh, it's opening. Hide, hide, hide.
Closing. Closing.
- [Bailey] Parker, run.
- [Jessica] It's closed.
Okay, we're good.
- [Jacob] It's opening.
- Opening. Opening.
- [Chris] It's closed.
- [Jessica] Closed. Go.
- Okay, Use the cord.
One, two, touch it to the metal thing on the side.
- Opening, opening, opening. - [Parker] opening.
- 20, 19, 18. We have time. (sad music)
Dang it.
- Where were you trying to go?
- It said 20 19, 18.
It had a countdown on the thing.
- To do what?
- I don't know.
- [Jessica] So Bailey and I need to get across.
- When we push it next time...
- [Jacob] Parker needs to come over here
and open the door.
- Okay?
- [Jessica] Parker's getting across.
- [Chris] You just gotta go.
- [Jessica] She's not opening you just gotta get over there.
- [Jacob] Okay. Ready?
- [Jessica] 1, 2, 3.
- [Jacob] Okay.
- [Jessica] Yeah, Jacob.
- [Parker] What?
- I'm gonna check out a new one.
Oh, this is spacey. I like this one.
- Oh, there's a lot.
This is very more like that
smugglers run game that you like.
- Fatal error. Score 20.
Okay, Let's see. What does this do?
- [Ship AI] Engine pilot failing in thirty seconds.
- [Jessica] Come on, come on, come on, quick.
- [Ship AI] Attention all crew numbers.
- [Chris] Crew number five, Ready.
Oh my gosh. This is such a-
Every room in here is so cool.
(sirens blaring)
Game over?
Why are we so bad at this?
Inside the the rocket ship, you have to give commands.
So, my voice is completely shot.
Because I've been yelling commands like,
"Vector four to C3.
92, turn on
shields."
- "Slime."
- "Slime vector nine." Lots of that.
And now I can barely talk.
See how it's green? We did it.
- [Jessica] We got one!
- It took us like 45 minutes trying
over and over and over again,
but we did it. - [Jessica] Open-
somebody's opening a door,
it's opening a door.
- [Chris] Oh, we're in the next part of the ship.
Oh, wow. Look at the theming in here.
I love it.
What's next?
- This is the only thing.
Red.
- [Chris] Put it in red.
Put it in red. right here.
Did it work?
- [Jessica] Okay.
- [Ship AI] Three. Two. One. (powers down)
- I think we get to go back to-
(sad tune) (all groan)
All right, we're back in the spaceship.
We're gonna try this again. Here we go.
- [Jessica] Everything off. Me and Daddy only.
Output to two.
- [Ship AI] Left arm approaching.
- [Chris] Quadrant paddle.
- [Jessica] (indistinct) panel one on.
(triumphant music) (Jessica cheers)
- [Chris] Yeah!
This one's purple?
- [Jessica] This one looks like purple, right?
- [Chris] Purple, yeah. Blue, blue, blue, blue.
Okay, bring it in here.
- Hell yeah.
- [Jessica] Are we after orange?
- [Chris] Red. Red, red, red.
And then yellow.
- [Ship AI] Code blue in three, two, one.
- [Chris] Uh oh.
(ship powers down)
- [Chris] (gasps) yes? Good? Good?
(sad music)
Aww.
- But now we get it.
(bell rings) - [Jessica] Bailey.
(bell rings)
Up, Bailey. (bell rings)
Me. (bell rings)
(triumphant music) Yay.
- [Chris] Parker, can you reach that one way up there?
(bell rings)
Get it, get it, get it.
(bell rings)
- [Jessica] Up, Jake. Up, Jake.
(bell rings) Bailey, down.
(triumphant music) Yay!
(different triumphant music) Yes!
That's the plan.
- [Chris] There is a cat chasing- Aww.
We're currently inside of a whale
trying to figure out how to get out.
(jaunty music)
We did it.
(triumphant instrumental)
What's gonna open? What are we gonna see next?
- Oh, lasers.
- Intestines, please.
- [Jacob] Oh, god. - [Chris] Lasers?
- [Jessica] Bailey wants intestines.
- [Chris] Oh, wow.
Okay.
We got some lasers here,
but we don't know what the lasers do.
- [Jessica] I'm guessing get down.
- [Chris] We got through the laser room,
and now there's monkeys. There's balls down here.
- [Jessica] Oh, throw the ball against the monkey.
- [Chris] Can we get a ball?
- [Jacob] Oh.
- [Jessica] Can you get a ball?
- [Bailey] throw it at the laser one.
- [Chris] Do they fit? Oh, you gotta get 'em up through the-
here.
- [Jessica] Here, Jake. I'm right here.
(sad music)
- We gave up on that one as well, so new door.
This looks kind of ominous as well.
- [Jessica] Indiana Jones-y.
- [Bailey] Indiana Jones, yeah.
- [Jessica] Oh, you guys.
- [Chris] Oh, look, there's letters.
I bet you have to step on the right letters.
(adventurous music)
- [Jacob And Parker] Bailey?
- [Chris] Bailey's deciding
to just bypass all of the letters.
- [Jessica] There's a maze over there.
- [Chris] She's going to-
put your finger in the maze.
Jacob's also avoiding-
- [Jessica] This room is really cool.
- [Chris] I know. This is like, very ornate.
Three squiggly lines, what does that mean?
Water? Maybe you spell water.
- [Jessica] No, I- (sad music)
- [Chris] Aww, worms.
- [Parker] What did you even do?
- [Chris] Finally figured out this room,
and now we're in here.
Oh, it's a laser, it's a laser, it's a laser.
Alright we just succeeded
in our second challenge in this room.
It's feeling good now, guys.
It's feeling like we're getting some stuff done.
Is it- aha. Ooh, back this way.
It's like, actual- (triumphant music)
what did we do?
- [Parker] We put something in the eye.
- [Chris] Oh, is that what it was? So we won.
We won a level. We won the whole thing.
We did the whole thing.
- We did it! Whoo, whoo!
- [Employee] Fortune and glory.
- [Chris] Yes.
- It was really fun. I hope to come back someday soon.
There were some, like, things where you had to like,
crawl into, like, tiny spaces.
You'd like, hit your head a lot.
- I think he's calling me out. I hit my head.
It was me. - [Chris] Yeah.
You hit your head pretty hard,
are you okay? - It was really hard.
I'm still feeling it.
- [Chris] I dropped Bailey in the heist game.
- [Jessica] Yeah, Bailey fell.
- [Chris] Pretty hard fall. - No, it was like
a belly flop, but like,
On my back. - [Chris] on your back.
- [Jacob] Back flop.
- [Chris] But the floor was padded, so that was good.
- The floor was almost always padded.
It's all of the spaces that you have to like,
do like, all the like, weird crawling things that are...
- The most padded room is the whale.
- [Chris] Yeah, definitely the whale was
very squishy. - Yeah,
the whale was very squishy. I loved that one.
- Hopefully we can come back like, tonight.
- I liked the cat heist game
and I liked the Indiana Jones game.
Each of the levels go by pretty quickly,
unless it's the spaceship one,
in which case it goes by in like, seven minutes.
Which is also pretty short.
- Ill say that it definitely had
kind of an escape room vibe to it,
but it was much more rapid fire and a lot more variety.
So, instead of just getting through one room
into a second room and maybe a third room
over the course of an hour, you're like,
three minutes in this room, three minutes in this room,
if you get it, then you move onto the next one,
and I think we only completed one
all the way through all three rooms.
- It was really challenging,
and some of the things were strategy based
like an escape room would be,
but there was a lot of physicality,
and like, my leg muscles are...
they feel like jello right now, they're shaking.
There were also a lot of elements
where you had to work together as a team,
so everybody has to get through the whole thing,
but then you also like,
using each others' bodies or minds,
work together to complete the task.
Like, it's not just one person taking over the whole thing
like in some escape rooms situations.
- Yeah. Oh, oh you're calling me out.
(Jessica laughs) Oh...
- He was all ready, he was like "yeah."
- I don't take-
(Jessica continues laughing)
I try to give everyone a turn.
- Yes. - Now.
- But I feel like
that happens with all escape room situations.
I think everybody I've talked to who does escape rooms,
like, there usually is somebody who has lead
the whole thing, or there's a person who's like,
"that was great, that was the most fun ever!"
And they were the ones that lead the thing, so.
I think that they did a pretty good job with this place,
making sure that everybody did something and was included,
and like, actually you feel a lot of pressure,
because you have to be involved, even if you're like,
"oh my gosh, I don't know if I can do that."
So. Pretty cool.
- I also feel like there were certain rooms or games
where one person would take over
that wouldn't take over on the next one.
Like, I felt like everyone had a-
like the heist room, Jacob was like,
"okay, here's how we do it,"
and the space room you were like,
"here's how we have to do it," like...
- Different skill sets.
- Yeah. It was interesting.
- Yeah, there were so many different rooms
with a variety of skills
that were being utilized in each room,
so that was really nice. I really liked the spaceship thing.
'cause I was like, the leader of that.
- Yeah, that was Jessica's room for sure. For sure.
We picked up Luke,
Duncan, and Teddy, and grandma Julie,
and now we are at the museum of illusions,
which is a very cool place
inside of the boardwalk at talking stick,
and this whole place is very very cool.
They actually gifted us the tickets to the museum today.
Also, on this trip,
I think we're gonna check out the aquarium,
which is right over there,
and then there's a Ripley's Believe It or Not
that's up there that we're gonna check out.
This is a really cool spot. There's a lot of-
- Bear! There's a bear!
- -fun things to do. I'm excited to explore it.
- There's a bear in the museum!
- There's a bear? You wanna see the bear?
There you go. Picture of you with the bear.
- Now let's go-
- Let's go in the museum of illusions.
- 'lusions?
- Yeah. Did you know that Daddy used to be an illusionist?
That's another way of saying a magician.
- Oh.
- 'cause I would do illusions.
Different kinds of illusions, though.
(calm music)
- Make it stop.
Make it stop.
- Hi!
- [Chris] Oh, hi.
- What's your name?
- [Chris] I'm Daddy, what's your name?
- Daddy.
- [Chris] You're not daddy. You silly goose.
- You're little.
- [Chris] How come there are so many of you?
- I don't know.
(upbeat music continues)
- Alright,
I think we're all done at the museum of illusions,
and now we're just gonna check out
some of the other things that are here at the boardwalk
before we call it a night.
In fact, I think they have a dinosaur grill here,
and as you can see, there's a dinosaur here and-
oh, a dinosaur egg. Oh and it's hatching!
It's hatching! Are you a dinosaur?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] You are? - I'm a baby dinosaur.
- [Chris] You're a baby dinosaur? Oh my goodness.
- It's almost broke.
- [Chris] It's almost broke? Oh, the egg?
'cause you're hatching out of it?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] Oh yeah, look at these dinosaurs.
That's a big one.
- What's that one?
- [Chris] That's a triceratops.
(Luke babbles)
oh, yeah, look at that.
- What's that one?
- [Chris] That's a t-Rex.
That's a big tire, huh?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] Whoa. You wanna go in there? Okay.
(Luke laughing and babbling)
so, the dinosaur grill that we were gonna eat at,
the Pangaea place, was not open,
but there was a red robin nearby,
so we're gonna go eat some dinner,
and I think this is where we're gonna close out today,
so thank you so much for watching.
Next time, we will be going to the aquarium,
and Ripley's Believe It or Not,
and I'm really excited about it.
I hope that you join us for that,
and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week. Bye.
(Teddy laughs)
(electronic music)