- Hi, welcome back to the spring break no one asked for,
that's probably gonna last all summer.
So I'm sure at this point, most of you are familiar
with my wife, Amanda,
who appears on this channel from time to time.
- I'm an adult.
- Every time she shows up,
I get comments like,
"please put Amanda in more videos.
"Give your channel to Amanda.
"Wait, I thought she died in Afghanistan."
And let me just say, I hear you.
Everybody out there who wants more Amanda in their life,
I totally understand,
and today is your lucky day.
Because, Amanda and I,
are in quarantine.
(upbeat music)
So normally,
I work from home, obviously.
I sit on this chair all day long.
I've never left this chair.
But five days a week,
Amanda goes somewhere.
I assume to a job.
she's never told me.
She just leaves for eight hours a day.
But now, because of things beyond our control,
she is not going to work.
And she is here, in a chair,
just like me.
- And now that I have a lot of free time,
I can do my favorite thing.
Play Neopets.
And there's a lot to do on Neopets.
- So I've heard.
- You may think that there's not a lot to do,
- I do think that.
- but there is.
- Okay. (both chuckle)
- Gambling, betting.
- There's a whole stock exchange, right?
You can kind of like-- - Oh yeah. If Stock,
there's a stock market.
There's a whole economy.
- I was wrong.
That does sound like fun.
Amanda has been playing Neopets her whole life,
and I had never really played Neopets.
I played RuneScape growing up.
Those are our two things where I explain RuneScape to her,
It goes right over her head.
She explains Neopets to me, (plane engine roaring)
It goes in one ear and out the same ear,
'cause it does a--
- it doesn't U-turn
it does a U-turn - it does a U-turn
(both chuckle) back out the same ear.
It doesn't matter how many times she explains how it works.
I always forget,
and it's not 'cause I'm not listening,
but it is because I'm not listening.
- And RuneScape,
I couldn't tell you one thing about it.
- Uh mm, tell me one thing about it.
- Uh mm.... (suspense music)
- She's really trying.
So for today's video,
here's the game plan.
First, I want her to explain to me and to you guys,
what Neopets is, how it works,
why she still plays it,
why it's a great thing to do to get your mind off things.
But we also are gonna try some other quarantine activities.
We're gonna revisit some of the life hacks that we tried
in our last video together,
and who knows,
maybe we'll get our dumb ass cat involved.
Because she seems to want to be,
in this video.
- So first thing you gotta do is type in Neopets.
I've had my account since
December 30th 2003.
- So you were nine when you started.
- I was nine when I--
- And how old are you now?
- 25.(chuckles)
- And you still love it?
- Yes.
- When you first log in, in the morning to Neopets,
what's the first thing you do?
- Okay. So the first thing I do is,
I go to another website called jellyneo.
(both chuckle)
- All right. So we're already getting off of Neopets
to start.
- So, What I do every day is there's
your Dailies.
Check my stocks.
Uh mm...
- And stocks are up right now you said?
- Some of them are.
I've invested 1 million Neopoints,
- Wow
- and I've made 77,000 Neopoints.
(both chuckle)
There's no rhyme or reason to why things
are the way they are.
Another really fun thing that I still don't know
how to do it,
there's gambling.
So food clubs.
So you bet on these pirates, I guess,
I don't know how it works I just copy somebody's.
I've won like 10 million Neopoints.
♪ Damn it fees good to be a gangsta. ♪
- So the goal of Neopets is just to
acquire as many Neopoints as possible?
- Well see that's the magic of it.
You make your own goal.
You can do whatever you want.
If you wanna make as many Neopoints as you want,
and you can make that,
if you wanna have the best pets,
you can do that.
If you wanna collect the most things,
you can do that.
If you wanna play the most games,
you can have any goal you want.
- You mentioned games.
- Oh yeah.
(both chuckle)
- Show me some of the games.
'Cause I've seen over your shoulder,
you play some of these and,
I gotta say they're pretty riveting.
- So this is my favorite game.
It's called Fashion Fever.
It's really fun, ready? - Hm
- Yay...
Send my score.
- You're right.
This is fun.
- So when you play a game,
you can send your score three times.
And what that means is that when you send the score,
you get the Neopoints.
I'd say like a million Nepoints is like,
it's a lot.
I was very poor and a dumb kid.
You can zap your pet.
You can change their gender,
you can change their species,
you can change their...
(soft music) (waves lapping)
Show called Avatar and then the movie called Avatar.
(soft music) (waves lapping)
The main aspect of Neopets,
are the Neopets.
There's 55 Neopets to choose from.
You can battle your pets.
Like I can do this with my eyes closed.
- Do it with your eyes closed.
- Oh wow you weren't kidding.
(laughing) Victory.
- They opened up the NC Mall, which is the Neocash Mall.
So this is real money.
I have spent real money on Neopets before.
I mean, there's contest you can do,
you can send a Neo greeting.
That's pretty cool, right?
Krawk Island,
Mystery Island,
Maraqua,
Meridell,
Brightvale,
Faerieland
(soft music) (waves lapping)
Your pets can also have Petpets,
and your PetPets can have Petpetpets.(chuckles)
And then, there's the Neoboards where you can talk
to people.
There's news every week.
A Slorg wriggles by.
They got slot machines.
You can just kind of sit here
and play some slots.
So, I mean, this has just everything you could want
in a game.
Yeah. There's just, there's so much to do.
- That's awesome.
- Do you have any questions?
- No, I think I'm ready to take my pop quiz.
Okay so, from what I understand,
Neopets is a game,
- for kids.
- For kids. Okay.
See that now I understand.
(upbeat music)
Okay so maybe we changed our clothes,
and waited two days to film this part.
So last time we were sitting in this table,
in this spot,
we were reacting to
some of the Internet's most helpful relationship life hacks.
But there was one really important one,
that I actually saw,
and was the reason I wanted to make that video.
And then when we went to record it,
I totally forgot about it.
- He forgot about it.
(upbeat music)
- So they're eating like French fries, I guess.
But the problem is,
- he won't share with her.
- Which like, if your boyfriend won't even share
a snack with you,
I think you have deeper problems.
- Yeah, that's just... (chuckles)
- Let's see what she goes and does in the kitchen,
while her boyfriend's just on the couch like,
"babe, babe, you coming back?"
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- At least this one doesn't have any hot glue.
- Yeah, that's why I specifically chose this one.
Actually, the one that comes after this
is basically the same thing,
but with a spoon,
but you just make a spoon out of hot glue.
We're not doing doing that. - (giggles) not really.
- My burn,
turned into a scar.
It took like two weeks to heal.
- I don't even remember where mine was.
- Yeah. Yours wasn't that bad.
Sorry to belittle your problems.
But mine was way worse.
It was like almost down to my bone,
and now I'm gonna have this scar,
for the rest of my life.
(upbeat music)
So at this point I'm like, okay,
you're gonna make a bowl out of tape. Fine.
Wait, what, you're ironing it?
- You're not using hot glue then so you have
to use something hot anyways. - Yeah.
Yeah. Life hacks aren't life hacks,
if you don't have the potential to burn yourself
while making It.
(upbeat music)
Wow and it looks great.
- I switched bowls because I didn't wanna ruin my good bowl.
- She uses that for popcorn every day.
That's not an exaggeration.
(both laugh)
All right. So the ingredients for this one,
are
bowl,
tape, - Cling wrap.
- Which has been just collecting dust in our pantry.
We don't really use this.
(soft music) (paper rustling)
We're really bonding again.(chuckles)
Can we settle this,
cling wrap,
saran wrap, this shit sucks.
All right. There's a reason this was collecting dust.
It doesn't stick.
It doesn't work.
It never does what it's supposed to do.
- But the bowl's too tall.
- And the bowl's too tall,
which is the saran wraps fault.
We're not even to the hard part yet.
(upbeat rock music)
- Its gonna be the best bowl ever.
- This is gonna be a really good bowl.
- Okay.
- And that took way longer than it should have.(chuckles)
(upbeat music)
- Well, I wouldn't say it looks good,
but I will say that it does look like we put saran wrap
on a bowl.
So that's where we're supposed to be at.
- Hey honey.
How does iron work?
- You plug it in?
- Oh okay.
- Is this ASMR?
(paper crumpling)
Is this ASMR guys?
- Is this ASMR?
Ah!, its on. - No.
Oh, it's working now. (both chuckle)
- It wasn't like burning hot.
It just scared me.
- Me too.
When I thought you were in trouble,
I almost jumped in front of the table is protect you.
- What am I supposed to do?
It doesn't say how long?
or how hot?
or why?
- [Drew] (chuckling) or why...
- Why am I doing this? (scoffs)
- Why are we heating it up?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I don't know.
I'm not sure I understand--
- Shouldn't it already be?
It's tape.
- It's tape.
You don't need to activate tape,
by heating it up.
- Unless they know something, I don't know.
- This looks good.
It seems like it will work good.
But the ultimate test is going to be the popcorn test.
(popcorn popping)
- mmhh
- So now the ultimate test.
First pour some in regular boring bowl.
Boohoo!
No one likes you.
(crowd cheering)
So do we do like a taste comparison test?
- Yeah. Wait, I'm gonna close my eyes and
(Drew chuckles)
I'm gonna guess which bowl I'm pulling it from.
- Okay.
- [Man] The correct answer is,
tape bowl.
- Oh yeah.
Regular bowl.
(buzzer rings) - No.
But that's good.
That means that you,
that the average blind consumer can't tell the difference
between,
smart bowl
and silly bowl.
- I mean, if you have a lot of saran wrap
and tape lying around,
and an iron,
and you don't burn yourself,
then I think this might,
this might work.
(upbeat music)
- This will make movie night a little bit easier.
- Ow! The hell.
Well I'm stuffed.
What do you say we head back upstairs?
- Aah... - Oh man.
That was fun.
So fun. - So fun.
- That was awesome.
So now that you've told me all about Neopets
and I was listening of course,
And I remember everything you said,
I'm gonna do the same for you.
I'm going to tell you a little bit about RuneScape,
and I'm also gonna tell the people at home
all about my favorite childhood game.
Did you gonna say something?
- Is roomscape?
- Roomscape,
Is RuneScape. (both chuckle)
So there's two versions of RuneScape.
There's RuneScape three,
which is the new one that looks great but no one plays.
And there's old school RuneScape,
which people still play even though...
(soft music)
(cat purrs) (soft music)
But you don't have to do the random events,
you can skip them.
Wait, Amanda?
Babe?
Oh, there you are.
Babe did you change your clothes?
- Yeah. I wanted to get comfy.
So Bimbim And I have a lot in common,
actually.
We both sleep like 20 hours a day.
We both get extremely self-conscious,
when anybody is looking at us,
and we both get random bouts of energy late at night,
like we could both be tired all day,
but then 10:00 PM rolls around
and we're running around like crazy.
Moreso her than me,
I'm not literally running around,
scratching up the carpet.
That's her thing.
So I think the dilemma for cat owners
is you wanna play with your cat,
but sometimes it's not as straight forward
as it is like with a dog,
like a dog, you throw anything and they're,
they're gonna go put it in their mouth
and bring it back to you.
But with a cat, especially when like Bimbim,
we can tell she wants play,
but it took us a really long time to figure out how.
So it took us a couple of years but we finally figured out
how to play with her,
in a way that she seems to enjoy.
And I think it's really leveled up our relationship.
I feel so much closer to her now that I can bond with her
in this way.
Plus who knows if shit really hits the fan,
then you're probably gonna want your cat to be trained
to hunt food for you.
So that's ultimately the goal.
I think the general rule with cats is
if you buy a toy for them,
they're not gonna play with it.
You buy a scratching post,
they're not gonna scratch it.
But if you give them something that isn't meant for them,
they will love it.
- [Amanda] We bought this for her to sit on,
and she sits it under it.
- [Drew] She sleeps under it.
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- Sometimes it's a bit more of a workout for me
than it is for her.
(upbeat music)
- You really let me down Bimbim.
Now, I think because
it's her normal dinner time right now,
she sees this as a sort of standoff.
Like we're negotiating.
She already put forth her limit,
of how much effort she would put into getting dinner,
and ultimately she is gonna win the negotiation.
'Cause I am gonna feed her now.
Oh, now you wanna to play?
(upbeat music)
We both get extremely self-conscious.
(upbeat music)
Extremely self-conscious.
So this pretty much completes the triangle.
When you're trying to get her to play,
all she wants to do is sleep.
When you're trying to get her to sleep,
because we're asleep,
all she wants to do is eat.
And when you're trying to get her to eat,
all she wants to do is play.
(Amanda laughs)
So what the hell?
(Amanda sneezes)
also, Amanda is allergic to Bimbim.
And we still keep her.
Everybody's got to make sacrifices around here.
except for Bimbim.
She sacrifices nothing.
Everything is handed to her,
she's got the easiest and best life in the world.
So...
Hey, let's go back to the desk.
Well I think that's pretty much everything we needed to do.
I guess this is your,
- channel now. - channel now,
Mmhh
- So now that you have a YouTube channel,
what's the first thing you're gonna do?
- Uh mm...
Welcome back to WatchMojo.com.
Today we gonna be talking about the top 10 butterflies.
For this video we're gonna be excluding
caterpillars 'cause those are known as future butterflies
and cocoons 'cause that's when they're not caterpillar
or a butterfly.
So we're just talking about butterflies only.
- You're go...
You're gonna do top 10 lists?
- Yeah.
That's what I always wanted.
- Well, You can't do like a WatchMojo thing
'cause WatchMojo already does that.
- Well, then I don't wanna do it then.
- So this is still my channel?
- Yeah, I guess.
- Nice.
Sorry for taking you guys on a little bit of
an emotional roller coaster there.
I thought that this was gonna be her big break but,
I can't do WatchMojo.
Well, I guess since this is still my channel,
I can't make you do the brand deal for me.
So,
I'll be right back.
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