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Welcome to Awesome Time.
This is the show where I tell you about all
of the new stuff at Vat19.
And stick around, we've got Stupid Science.
All right, welcome to episode 116.
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All of you are ordering a ton from us
right now, which is awesome, but I actually
have to go run out to our warehouse
to go help with all of that.
So, today, your host is actually going to be Eric.
So Eric's going to be Jamie, Kara
will play the part of Eric, and Reby is
going to play the part of Kara.
Stick around, you're going to have a ton of fun with Eric.
He's probably funnier than I am, but he doesn't
know the products as well.
Hopefully he read the web page.
I'll figure it out.
Hello.
All right, pass me the Apple Watch of triumph.
All right, I'm off to the warehouse
to pack your packages, thanks.
Don't actually leave, I'll break this.
All right, guys, our first segment is, you guessed it,
it's the one that keeps the lights
on-- sponsorships and outstanding reviews
and recommendations, yeah!
Today, we're going to be playing with the Jimu Robot.
Full disclosure, this is sponsored by UBTECH.
And it's a fully programmable robot that you build,
and then you get to control it with an app.
You actually can program it to do stuff, it's really cool.
All right, with this kit you can actually
build the Buzz Bot or the Mutt Bot.
It takes the same parts, you can build either one of those.
We already built one for you.
Now you can play with it, now you can make him do cool stuff.
All right, so I got my free app here.
And now you can control him, so we've
hooked him up via Bluetooth.
Now, let's play with him.
All right, I'm going to move him right.
Back left.
I'm going to try a twist.
Oh, this guy's got crazy moves, I can't even dance like that.
This is his happy dance.
I want to try to do that.
I think that's pretty good.
Once you've built him and now you can control him,
you can actually program a bunch of these moves for him to do.
All right, so we have already programmed
our own little Awesome Time dance into this guy.
So let's go to the coding section,
and then we go up to here for the ones we've already made.
And there's the Awesome Time dance.
You can see the different moves we've programmed in there.
So this is teaching you about engineering, it's teaching you
about science, programming, math-- which is cool,
because it's fun and educational.
The more you know.
All right, so let's run our program and watch him dance.
The happy dance, yes!
Careful, robot!
He almost went off the table, so get a big table, maybe,
if you've got a complicated dance like we made.
But, yeah, the Jimu Robot.
Again, we are not selling this, sadly,
but you can find it at Best Buy, Target-- a lot
of the big retailers are going to have this guy.
Pick it up, start programming, and have some fun.
All right, we're moving along.
Guys, if you hate the job I'm doing,
hit me up in the comments.
Just leave some anonymous hate or maybe
on my personal Twitter, just tell me how terrible I'm doing.
All right, here we go, this one is awesome.
Thanks, Reby.
Oh, man, we've been waiting for these.
These are the Star Wars battling drones.
We got three of them.
Here's your Speeder Bike, your Advanced TIE Fighter,
and your X-Wing.
It's getting crowded in here, these boxes are so epic.
All right, so-- all right, maybe we'll
ditch a couple just so I can show you the unboxing of one.
So it's a pretty sweet box, it's got a wax seal.
Check this out, you haven't even played with the toy yet, guys.
Let go.
The force is strong with this one.
Oh, sorry, guys, I was checking out the box.
All right, so it plays sounds from the original movie.
And you can see there's even a lucite box
on the inside showcasing your cool figurine-- no,
it's not even a figurine, it's a drone
that you can fly in battle!
So we get our TIE Advanced, our Speeder Bike, and our X-Wing.
And these are hand-painted, so check out all the detail there.
So, I mean, you can showcase these.
You can also fly them.
All right, so I have my controller here,
and this thing is serious.
I mean, it's got buttons galore, it's got even a place
to hold your cell phone for an app that will be coming soon.
They are really cool, they go 35 miles an hour max speed.
They have an infrared signal, right here,
that they kind of shoot out.
If you get hit, your controller vibrates
to let you know that you've been hit by one of the other drones.
And then if you get hit three times,
your drone will actually spin around and be
disabled for a little bit.
Battle them with friends, up to 12 people can battle at a time.
So, I mean, the stars are the limit.
Gosh, that's bad.
So, yeah, pick these up.
They're going to be the hottest new toy this Christmas,
I promise you that.
All right, Reby, give me something easy,
maybe like a bottle opener.
Oh!
Oh, man, that is a pound of gold, magnetic putty.
And stuck right in the middle, a giant, ferrite magnet
that comes with it.
This is an exclusive to Vat19, you
can't get this anywhere else, currently.
So you get the giant magnet, and then
you get this pound of gold, magnetic putty-- of course,
you know how cool magnetic putty is.
Just like the normal putty, you can stretch it,
except there's a lot more to stretch.
It's like a workout.
Tear it.
You could bounce it.
You can control it, like, you can make a little strand of it
because it's got infused magnetic particles,
so it reacts to magnets, guys.
It's alive!
So, yeah, you're probably used to, like, this guy, right?
Like, this is our Precious Metals Gold Putty.
Oh, it's shimmery.
Look at the size difference on this bad boy.
I mean, do it jumbo.
I'm going to do a little experiment here.
I'm going to set this down, we're going to table top
the rest of this episode.
All right, I'm just going to leave this here,
let's see what happens.
Nice, Reby.
This is Happy Salmon, a very fun and addictive game.
So it's just this little salmon pouch.
All right, so you also get 72 cards, and on each card
it has this kind of action.
This one says pound it.
So if we were playing I would say, pound it.
And then if somebody else had another pound it card,
we would bump fists.
And once you pound it with somebody else,
then you can discard that card, go to the next one.
Once you run out of all of your cards, you win.
It's super high energy, it's crazy.
You're shouting out stuff, you're doing actions.
My favorite action, of course, is the namesake
of the game, the happy salmon.
Kara, can you do the happy salmon with me from off-screen?
That's the happy salmon, you've got to, like, do like that.
That's Happy Salmon, buy it now, Vat19.com.
This is Lift It!.
This is another really fun game.
This one takes a little bit more time,
it's not quite as crazy as Happy Salmon.
So you set up your board, and then you
get these pieces, all right.
So you've got these, like, building blocks.
All right, so you can play this with one to eight people.
I mean, if you don't have any friends, like me,
you can play this by yourself.
And so you're going to draw one of these cards,
and it will have, like, a configuration
that you need to make.
So this one says you've got 40 seconds to make this.
And you can't just do it with your hands.
Like, you can't just, like, set it up and put it there.
You've got to use the cranes that it comes with to make it.
While you're going around the board,
sometimes you're going to get a space where
you have to use your head.
So you put on one of these guys, you
attach the crane doodad to it.
If I had gotten the head space, I
would have to create that whole thing with my head.
So let's see, once again, can I do it,
this time using the old noggin?
One, two, three-- here we go.
Sort of hard to see down there.
Oh, boy, oh, boy.
Barely got any time left, barely got any time left.
Ah, didn't even get one piece.
There's also a part where you have
to use a teammate to put it together,
so you might both have the cranes on and be working
as a team to get it assembled.
So that is Lift It!.
Get it, play it with some friends this holiday season,
and enjoy.
Reminder, everybody, follow us on Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, Snapchat, so you can win free stuff, free swag.
We do giveaways, but you gotta follow us on the "sosh"
to win the "gives."
All right, next up we got another game,
Rock Me Archimedes.
This is a cool balancing game for two people.
It's like chess if the chess board were on a teeter totter.
This game is from our friends at Marbles:
The Brain Store-- another cool game from them.
So what you do is you will place a marble on one of the sides,
and it tips like that, right, so it's now
got more weight over here.
If your end touches the ground, or the table, or whatever--
you lose.
And then you take a die, and you roll it,
and let's say I got a three.
I can move this three spaces, now-- one, two, three.
So, like, somebody who's playing me might put one there.
Oh, boy, watch it, bro.
And then I can choose to either move mine a little bit more,
or I can put another one on.
So if I were to get four of my marbles
into this area right here, which is the end zone,
I win unless, again, I touch the ground on either side of this.
And that's Rock Me Archimedes, a really fun strategy game.
Check it out, Vat19.
I'm getting hungry, Reby, hit me.
This is the Milk and Cookie Shot Maker,
it's a silicone maker that allows you to make cookie cups.
You pour the milk in there, drink the milk out
of the cookie, eat the cookie.
So we just made these, they still
might be a little crumbly.
Nice, Kara, good work.
All right, so you're supposed to melt chocolate into it
and that prevents the milk from seeping through or leaking out.
We didn't have time to make the chocolate liner
but that's because it's this episode's, Stupid Science.
Stupid Science.
All right, come on in, Kara.
Yeah.
Oh, you brought the milk.
Kara.
Yeah?
My hippopotamus is this.
If we fill milk up without the chocolate liner,
it'll just soak it up, and it'll be, like,
this cookie soaked with milk, and maybe we
could just eat it straight like that and it would be delicious.
I like where your head's at.
Yeah.
I'm seeing some crackage going on there.
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
What you said will probably happen,
but I also think it will spew out the side.
All right, so this is science.
We've got to test our hippopotamus.
Oh!
Oh, it is leaking.
There's one hole back there.
There's, like, a single hole.
You better get that.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it is soaking in, though.
Yeah, a little bit.
Yeah, it's soaking it up down there a little bit.
So it's both leaking out and soaking it up-- a bit
of a mess.
So to fully test our hypotenuse, I
am going to put a cookie in my mouth,
and you're going to pour the milk into it,
and we can see if it really is a delight.
All right, here we go.
Here it comes.
Mm.
Oh, shoot.
Mm, it's so good!
The milk went right through my mouth,
and I got to eat the cookie.
It soaked the milk up.
It's very pleasant!
I feel like your inner Chauncey was coming out.
It's pretty good!
So I think--
I think we proved something today.
--hippopotamus solved or whatever.
And that was Stupid Science.
Cool.
All right, so it is that time where
we do a segment-- we can't get to everything we wish we could,
but we're going to give you the bullet
points in our awesome segment that you have to love,
Bullet Time.
I'm going to have, like, 15 seconds
to go through each item.
Here we go.
All right, there's the Nintendo controller notebook.
Looks like a Nintendo controller back from the '80s,
and it's a notebook.
So you can write stuff down there like cheat codes.
All right, I've got to move on.
Oh, this is beer for dogs-- not real beer, it's not alcoholic,
it's just good for dogs.
It looks like beer, it's fun.
All right, we got to move on.
Careful, Reby.
This is the plant pot mug.
You could put a plant in it, but you're
supposed to put coffee in it.
You drink it, it's fun for gardeners,
you've got a green thumb.
I've got to move on.
All right, this is the world's smallest Stretch Armstrong.
If you are an '80s kid, you probably remember this.
He stretches out, he's tiny, he stretches back.
And I've got to move on.
These are the emojis coffee mugs.
So, here we go, we've got three of them.
They look like the things that you send to people,
but now you can drink out of them.
Oh, gosh, that looks dangerous.
This is the multiblade sharpener.
You can sharpen all kinds of things
that have blades-- credit card pocket knife,
you can sharpen scissors, you sharpen anything
that has a blade-- it's cool.
That's it, that's Bullet Time.
All right, let's check in on our gold putty.
It's eating it-- pretty cool.
I'll let that sit a little bit longer,
and we'll do some fan art.
Jamie always complains that this hurts his arm, so here we go.
All right, maybe you saw this on our Instagram,
but look at these lovely gents.
Flowers coming out of my mouth with the hyper lips,
and Danny's just taking a little snooze, a little, cute snooze
with some flowers on.
All right, that was fan art.
Thanks, guys.
If you want to send your own fan art to us,
please put my face on it and send it to this address,
I need some friends.
All right, guys, it's time to wrap this episode up.
I hope I did a decent job for you.
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I feel like that robot from earlier.
We'll see you next time, I'm probably going to lose my job.
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