- [Dan] Gonna start in the neck.
- [Jared] Dwight Schrute would say
that is the most efficient go for the kill.
- [Dan] That makes sense. (laughs)
(knife slices) Oh yeah.
I'm just gonna cut him, like that, oh yeah.
(suspenseful violin chord)
(gasp)
- Welcome back to What's Inside!
I'm Lincoln, this is Dan,
and today we're gonna cut open these giraffes.
- Giraffes, baby giraffes.
Why in the world are we cutting open these toys?
Well, there was a news story last week
that we got sent to us by a bunch of you guys.
I love it, I love it when you guys see stuff
where you're like, we need What's Inside
to see what's inside of this.
One of the most popular chew toys,
and supposedly very effective.
But the problem was, a couple of people cut them open
and there was black mold in it.
Check this out, Lincoln.
- What?
- Look at that mold.
- That's what it looks like?
- Like a little baby is chewing on this.
You can buy these things on eBay...used.
Instead of just cutting open one,
we have eight of these things
that came from all over the United States.
They could be used for one day and out of the package,
or they could have been used for two or three years really.
And so I think it's a better sample size if we cut open
all of them and see if any of them have black mold.
The main person that gave us the idea for this
is is the channel Ellie and Jared,
and they sent us a tweet and said
hey, do you want to come cut open our baby giraffe?
And so we're gonna do things a little different today.
- I have to go to school.
(sad piano music)
- Plus, Lincoln is filming this special project
with DevinSuperTramp later today
that he needs to be here for.
Let's take Lincoln to school,
and then let's go on a long drive,
find Jared, surprise him with all these giraffes,
(toys squeak)
and see if there's any mold.
- [Dan] Look at those mailboxes!
How do people live here?
It's so snowy!
I feel like I'm in a marshmallow land.
This is all from snow that he pushed off of his driveway!
Okay, it's Sophie the Giraffe time.
Here we are in Jared's beautiful kitchen.
Are you ready for the most Sophie The Giraffes
you've ever seen?
- Yes, I'm ready for it right now.
- Here we go. (toys squeak)
- Three, four.
(toys squeak) (both laughs)
Oh wow, so there's like different,
there's different types of them.
- Yeah.
- This is like a little deer.
- These guys, some of them are pretty used,
they look like at least.
Like this one, it's the dirtiest one,
and it doesn't make any noise.
The squeaker is dead.
(toy squeaks at lower pitch)
- Oh wow, these squeak really well.
(toys squeak)
(remix of toys squeaking)
These squeak really well.
I mean it was like their favorite toy, they loved,
you know, just being able to grab on it and chew on it.
It was like their go-to teething toy.
- Pediatricians and dentists both recommend this
for kids for teething.
- They are a little bit more expensive when it comes to
teething toys, but they are very very popular.
- Apparently, this company started in 1961,
they've sold tens of millions of these Sophie the Giraffes.
But they've become really popular over the last few years,
and the problem is, as you saw there is a squeak with it,
there's a little hole,
and this one doesn't make any noise any more,
(toy squeaks)
but what the company actually says on their website
and on the instructions
is that you're not supposed to put this in the bathtub,
you're not supposed to put it in the microwave
or to sanitize it,
you're supposed to wipe it with a cloth afterward
and that's it.
Any type of rubber toy that you put in the bathtub
has a risk of possibly getting mold inside,
because the water could get inside,
and if you don't get all the water out, well,
it could just sit there for a long time.
I would imagine that's what's been happening with these,
but this is gonna be a little more of a scientific test.
We have not washed any of these, I have not touched them,
we haven't tampered them at all.
So rather than just sitting here talking about 'em all day,
it's time to kill some giraffes.
Welcome to What's Inside, Jared, it's nice to have you.
- Thank you.
And hey, I'm sorry I'm not Lincoln,
but I'm so happy to be here right now.
This is very exciting.
- [Dan] We have them all set up perfectly
to watch us murder their siblings.
This does not feel right!
- [Jared] It feels a little barbaric to me, but--
- [Dan] This feels so wrong!
(both laugh)
We're murdering a whole family of giraffes.
- [Jared] They're so sweet-looking,
and we're gonna cut them open.
- [Dan] I'm gonna start in the neck.
- [Jared] There you go.
- [Dan] Oh yeah, you've just gotta cut 'em like that.
Oh yeah. (knife slices)
We're getting down, and yes, my razor blade
is already dirty from something else.
Okay, the moment of truth.
We're gonna open this guy up.
(gasps)
No!
- [Jared] Oh my gosh!
- [Dan] No!
- [Jared] Whoa, look at that!
- [Dan] Holy mold!
What?
- [Jared] That--
- [Dan] That is mold!
- [Jared] I was not expecting that at all.
- [Dan] The first one!
- [Jared] Like, my buddy opened up his: clean as a whistle.
And they like live in a really humid place.
Holy crap!
- [Dan] Look at that mold.
Okay, um.
- Dude, hold your breath, this is dangerous. (laughs)
- (laughs) That's true.
So when you, in the articles that we read,
the company has said they've not received,
there's been two reports of ones with mold,
and none of them have been sent to the company.
I think it's probably our duty to send these to the company,
so we'll send that one, um, gosh, I--
- Jeez!
- Honestly, I'm gonna be honest guys,
I didn't think we'd have mold in any of them.
Just, I didn't.
- I didn't think we would find one.
Maybe, like maybe one, but like with a little bit,
but this is covered.
- That is covered.
- Completely covered.
- [Dan] Let's find one that doesn't squeak.
(toys squeaking)
(toy is silent)
- [Dan] There it is!
- There it is!
- [Dan] The last one possible.
(both laughing)
He's just messing with me,
he just wanted to hear the squeak, he loves the squeak.
Are you comfortable holding a knife?
- I'm not gonna come on What's Inside
and not cut something open.
- [Dan] (laughs) Perfect!
I'm kinda shaking right now, cuz I'm like--
- Yeah, it's like totally shocking results.
- [Dan] Really shocking, okay.
- [Jared] Okay, I'm gonna go the reverse order.
- [Dan] Okay, this is the one that did not squeak,
you would think it would be used more.
- Ready?
- [Dan] Yeah ready, let's see it, go for it.
Clean, ooh!
- Nothing in there.
- [Dan] That's a nice one!
- Yeah.
- [Dan] Okay, we're good.
- So that's two.
- [Dan] Okay, let's put a pile.
Not mold over here, mold over there.
- Ugh, I need, we need, we gotta be careful!
Shouldn't we be wearing gloves for this?
- Jared's wife Ellie is on a girls' trip
in Hawaii right now.
- Yes.
- I don't know that she'd be allowing this,
now that she knows we've found mold.
- Yeah, we will clean this very very well, Ellie.
Don't you even worry one bit.
Let's do the reindeer-looking one, or the deer one, Bambi.
(gasps) Poor Bambi!
- [Voicover] Faster, Bambi!
(gunshot)
(knife slices)
- [Jared] Whoa, these giraffes are just tough.
- [Dan] Okay, we're in.
- [Jared] Nothing, phew, clean!
Good old Bambi.
(both laughing)
- [Dan] Oh, through the neck!
- Oh, you're so mean! - I'm sorry
- [Jared] Ready?
- [Dan] Ready, I'm ready.
No mold!
- Clean, clean wow.
- How was is the first one had mold
and these other ones don't?
- [Jared] That's crazy.
- [Dan] Okay, that's three no mold, one mold.
I didn't bring a hatchet to not use it.
And check out this!
Ellie and Jared cutting boards.
- [Jared] My buddy gave that to us for Christmas.
- [Dan] That's great!
- [Jared] Just in case you lose it, right?
- It's the worst when your neighbors borrow your
cutting board and then they don't return it.
Oh, I hate that.
- [Jared] It happens all the time.
(hatchet slams)
- [Dan] And I am not seeing mold in this guy,
but let's chop him up again.
(hatchet slams repeatedly)
Nothing!
(knife slices)
(both gasp)
- [Jared] Wow!
There's a little mold in there.
(giraffe snaps)
- [Dan] There's a lot in the head.
You can tell the water just kinda piled up into there.
Number two.
- [Jared] Another one in the moldy section.
- Moldy pile.
- [Jared] I am really surprised with these results.
- Yeah, like I said earlier, there's only two that have been
reported in the news, of two different people cutting these
open and finding mold.
Wow. (laughs)
Kay, next one.
(rubber squeaks)
Ugh.
It's like--
- [Jared] I'm kinda relieved, when there's no mold.
- It is, I have this feeling of like, yes, there's no mold.
Cuz how long have kids been sucking on this?
I'm relieved that there's more to that pile.
Okay, this one looks very--
- [Jared] Looks good.
- Actually, there is a hint of black in there.
It's almost like the beginnings--
- of mold. - Oh yeah.
- [Jared] I mean, if there is, if mold is present,
I think it goes in the pile.
- [Dan] Okay, putting it in that pile.
(sighs)
So here's where we stand.
Two with definite mold,
one with the beginning spores of mold,
and then we have one, two, three, four, five
with no mold, so.
- Okay Dan.
- (Laughs) There it is!
- I've got our kid's Sophie the Giraffe here
We've discovered mold in some of these,
like I don't want my wife and I to live in mystery
if we keep this one.
Like I have to know now,
because there is mold in these ones, like definite mold!
- Yeah, I think that's a good idea,
because if I were a parent that was about to have another
child, like I would, probably after finding this out
I would prefer to get rid of the old one.
Because it is a great toy.
- Well, it's been around since the sixties,
like, my mom was saying that her brother used one of these.
I really think we should cut it open.
I'm a little nervous to see,
I, you know, I don't know, okay.
- [Dan] I'm nervous.
- All that's left to do is open it.
- [Dan] Ooh!
- (Sighs) You ready?
- [Dan] I'm ready.
(suspenseful violin chord)
- Wooo! (claps)
- [Dan] What is it, show me!
- Clean as a whistle!
(upbeat drumset and organ) (both laughing)
- [Dan] Yes!
- Oh my gosh!
- My heart was pounding, I was nervous!
(Dan laughing)
Oh my gosh!
- [Dan] Okay, look how clean.
- [Jared] Kids, you are safe.
- Ellie, aren't you relieved right now?
- Still, really surprising results.
We had three with mold, two definite, one growing,
and then six without.
- [Dan] Wow, okay.
All we did is cut them open.
We had no agenda to get these guys in trouble, right Jared?
- (Laughs) Right, I mean, our kids love these!
- I have three kids, Jared has two kids,
families are super important to us.
- You guys let us know like in the comments,
what should we do with these?
I'm gonna reach out to the company.
I don't know anybody there, I don't know if they'll respond.
And then you can watch us on our family channel,
where we do a lot of like behind-the-scenes
and vlogs and different things,
and we'll give an update at some point.
But, um, yeah.
A little surprising and disappointing.
- 33 percent of the ones that we cut open
had signs of mold inside of them.
- I'm gonna take these home and show Lincoln the results,
but big thanks to your wife Ellie for bringing this up,
(Jared laughs)
and for sending me the tweet,
but also go check out Jared and Ellie's channel.
They do daily vlogs, really inspirational.
- Well, thanks for having me, I appreciate it.
- Yeah.
- [Dan] Woo, okay, set it down and go wash your hands.
- Seriously. (laughs)
- [Dan] We're out of here.
(organ trills)
(toy squeaks)