[Captions by Y Translator] In today's video,
we're testing out what happens if we put Orbeez
into a microwave.
Cal is strangely attached to her Orbeez.
Have you seen them?
I think just because they're colorful.
They're so shiny.
Can you explain to us the simplified version
of what Orbeez are?
They're kind of a children's toy,
they're also used for types of plants to keep them watered.
Very, very simple.
They come in tiny little packets and little bead forms.
You put them in water and four hours later,
you have a jar full of colorful beads.
So just so you guys know, as pretty as these are,
you don't want to eat them.
No, really, that was my first thought was...
She tried to eat them.
I did try to eat them.
They are full of copolymer of sodium acrylic acid.
It's not really good for you.
The polymer that these are made of absorbs water
at a fairly astounding rate.
And that's what happens.
That's what change them from the tiny
little plasticy-looking beads to these much larger,
almost gelatinous beads.
And I thought microwaves do a very good job of exciting
the energy in water.
So since these have absorbed so much water.
What would happen if we put them in a microwave?
So, of course this experiment of putting them
in the microwave will absolutely not hurt my Orbeez, will it?
They're gonna die.
Why would you do that?
Oh, no, I have to resort them before we can start.
The idea is pretty simple.
We're going to try putting a lot of Orbeez.
A small amount of Orbeez and then just a few Orbeez
into a microwave and see what happens to him.
Let's take this jar of Orbeez and pop them in the microwave.
The back of the microwave is just a single metal plate,
and we actually cut a small hole into it
and have attached a cell phone back there using some duct tape.
We're hoping that this way we're going to be able to film
the inside of the microwave and really see what's happening.
This is like $10 total and I am very entertained.
All right, let's start with I'd say...
Two minutes!
See how that goes.
Nothing yet.
Well, not much happened.
It looks like a jar full of Orbeez.
Are they warm to the touch at all?
The jar is warm.
Yes!
Protip: that's not the way you should test
if something's hot.
We didn't get too much of result with two minutes.
Let's try longer.
My jar is considerably hotter now.
That's that's impressive.
Oh wait, this is weird.
There's bubbles in them now.
Did we start boiling the water within?
There were bubbles
and then before.
We're going to go ahead and try a smaller container.
The big ones,
they are so many that it takes a long time for it to heat up.
That has run for what, five minutes now, I think?
About that.
How long should I put these ones in?
Five minutes? We can try.
Five minutes.
Oh, I hear things happen already.
What?
Is that the water?
Is that actually them?
I don't know.
Something's sizzling.
Oh, one popped.
Sounds like popcorn.
No, one actually...
Did you see that?
You can see the pieces.
One actually just burst.
Whoa!
Are there any more in the jar?
I don't know.
That was like a baby explosion of orbs.
Probably enough time.
That was like one minute.
Put it in for five, and it hasn't even been one.
Okay, don't put Orbeez in the microwave.
It's been about 20 minutes of cleanup.
So now we're going to try an even smaller amount,
see if we can make
that happen in an even shorter amount of time.
It's making plasma.
Oh my gosh, that was set on fire?
It's plasma.
Is that what that was?
Yes.
That was insane.
They just lit up the entire microwave.
Oh the ones on top, were actually fried.
What?
Can I grab them?
They didn't explode the same way as before,
but, like, they're torn open.
Be careful.
They're hissing when I touch them,
but they're not that hot.
Let's try just setting them on the tray without the bowl.
All right, that should be weird.
Let's try that.
That took no time.
There's that plasma.
They are already gone.
Wait, nope.
It's just like the arcing.
Yeah, like, they're like all connecting.
There goes another.
I know.
Whoa, okay, that one.
That one actually was at the wall.
Like, jumped back.
And now there's smoke.
Might be steam.
Is it so? Might be.
What does that look like?
They look relatively fine.
I think these kind of fused together.
That's awesome.
But look at all
the little fissures running through them now.
Yeah, right.
I want to try again.
But this time, let's separate all of them,
so none are touching each other.
Because I think that's what makes the plasma happen.
Okay, it's taking longer
than it did when we had them all clumped together.
Nothing yet.
Okay, so nothing happened that time.
So we're going to tip the microwave,
see if we can get them to collide,
see what happens.
I would have waited just a little longer.
That did it.
So the plasma only happens when they're touching.
Yeah.
But weirdly it didn't really happen much in the bowl.
They exploded in the bowl.
Yeah, I think that was just too many in one place.
I think it just built up too much,
but one or two touching, you're getting that little...
That arc of some kind.
Yeah.
Okay, you can see the ones that ran into each other.
They're almost glued together now.
I wanna see them explode again.
Yeah. Here goes.
At this point we just want to watch something else go boom.
Popcorn sounds, popcorn sounds.
Well, things are popping.
It's like a bowl of popcorn just explodes, but in color.
Nothing, nothing, nothing, pop!
Anything else you want to see us do with Orbeez?
Anything else you want to see us film inside the microwave?
Let us know down in the comments.
We've got a couple minutes.
We're going to take some time and do some Q&A
Jasmine Higgins asks,
are you getting closer to getting a female co-host?
Yes.
I don't know if we'll keep that in but...
Shalayla Wesh....
I think that's the name here.
Shalayla Wesh asks,
"Why is it on some of the videos you list
where to get certain items for a project, but not all the items?
Like the magic faucet.
You listed
where to get everything except the clear tubing.
That would be a fun project to try, but not
if I can't get the parts."
We do try.
When it's a project build,
and we're trying to give sort of instructions on how you
can complete the project.
We tried to give instructions and where to get everything.
The real answer there is probably
that sometimes I just forget.
In the case of that plastic tubing,
where did I get that?
I got that at a specialty plastics store–
that happened to be about two miles from where I live.
That was after ordering some clear plastic tubing
on Amazon that...
I got tubing on Amazon.
It ended up being just
a little bit too big, then I went to the plastic store,
and they said
that they could get it for me like the next day,
so I was like,
"Oh, that's even faster than Amazon Prime!"
And Amazon Prime had the smaller tubing...
Sorry, Amazon had the smaller tubing but it
wasn't available with Prime.
So it was gonna be like five days.
So I was like,
"Okay, so I'll just get it from them."
And then,
it ended up taking them like five days anyway, but...
So the real answer is
that sometimes I forget and that you should go
to reddit.com/R/TheKingofRandom and make a post saying,
"Hey, where did you get this?"
And I checked that pretty regularly,
and I'm likely to see that question
and answer it for you.
So yeah, it's I forget and...
Just search on the internet
because that's how I find things.
I look online.
If I look online and I see
that it's available at a local store,
off to the local store because it's faster.
If I looked online and I don't see it anywhere local,
then I order it from online.
User Paul Sun says
"How do you upload daily with very hard projects?"
I think we've answered pretty similar to this before.
We have a team,
so I don't have to come up with all the ideas myself.
I have Grant help with that,
and I talked with Grant about how best to present the ideas.
I have a cameraman.
I have a team of editors.
I have an animator.
And so it's...
That's how we're able to do is we have enough people
that lightens the workload,
so no one person is bogged down too heavily.
So it does make it
so we're able to put out five videos a week.
We actually don't usually do every day.
Most of the time we do five,
and then sometimes we have like a little bonus month
where we'll do a video every day for that month.
Stuff like that.
That's the Q&A for today.
If you've got more Q's, send 'em our way.
We will A them.
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