- What happens when you leave a PS5
in a volcano for a month?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
(volcano erupting) (upbeat music)
(flames sizzling)
Good Mythical Morning!
- Remember playing the floor is lava,
where, inevitably, you would accidentally drop something
like your phone on the carpet,
and then just imagine it sinking
into the boiling lava,
and then wonder what would actually happen
if you drop things like that into an active volcano?
- No, but I do remember being in the running
to host that Netflix game show,
The Floor is Lava.
- I thought we weren't going to talk about that.
- We're not. (Rhett laughing)
- Well, today we're doing some (beeping)
- Yeah. - Research like never before
for the lava of science, get it?
- Ah, yes.
- So let us now head to the geological feature
that we leave things in, which we call
The Geological Feature That We Leave Things In.
- Please welcome back to the show,
from the Cozy Robot Show
and from our real life friendship with him,
it's Mike Mchargue.
(all cheering) - Woohoo, how's it going,
everybody?
- Glad to have you back, man.
- Good to see you, Mike.
- Oh, it looks like you're-
- Looking very svelte.
- Your mobility has increased.
Does that hurt?
- Not at all.
That is a true articulation joint with massive mobility.
(arm thuds) - Whoa, hey, man.
- Whoa, hey. - Only the finest
engineering here.
- Okay, Mike.
Will you, once again, do us the honor?
- They've done Coke, bleach, air, Guinness, salt,
pool water, nail polish remover, mouthwash,
champagne, Shamrock Shakes, and Irish whiskey,
a '93 Infiniti G20, margaritas, dirt, wine, glow sticks,
citric acid, Red Bull, eggs, Febreeze, coffee, pumpkin beer,
hot sauce, and eggnog, but today,
they're truly gonna blow your minds.
It's time for left on a shelf, volcano edition.
(woman screaming) (volcano rumbling)
- Okay, so this is Mount Palo Flores,
on an island 170 miles off the coast of Northern California.
And yeah, we've left an assortment of items in,
well, kind of in, kind of over this volcano.
- Here's what actually happened.
Mad dog Lucas connected with a volcanologist
from UC Berkeley, and worked with him to suspend items
just off the edge of the volcano's vent for a month,
and this is in an area where they're already doing research.
- Yeah, finally, your friends have paid off for us, Lucas.
(Mike laughing)
All right, so here's the deal, Mike,
if we get three or more of these right,
we get to watch a personalized video message
from the hottest rock on planet Earth.
Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson himself has a message for us
in Good Mythical More,
but we can't see it.
- No pressure.
- We can do this. - No, we can't see it.
- We can do this, Mike.
- Unless we do it right. - Yeah.
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Okay, first up, we left both a Nintendo Switch
and a PS5 in Mount Palo Flores for a month.
Which one completely disintegrated,
like Davin, after I spoiled the ending
of the Falcon in the Winter Soldier.
- Oh. - Sorry about that, yeah.
- You spoiled that for him?
Or what?
Oh, it's just- - It's just which one
completely disintegrated.
- The Switch, the PS5, both,
or neither. - Or neither.
- Oh, four options.
- Mike, you ever been to the cusp of a volcano?
- So I love to watch them on TV,
but not a thing I've visited personally.
- Okay, but if you did put a Nintendo Switch
and a PS5, I mean, is there anything
about either one of them that you think
maybe makes them different
in how they could withstand the heat?
- Both are made primarily of
semiconductors and plastic by volume,
and the most durable and robust plastics
we can make have a melt or burn temperature
somewhere between five and 600 degrees Celsius,
while the absolute coolest magmas in the world
are about 650 degrees Celsius,
and magma can get up to 1800C and greater.
If this volcano's active at all,
and any amount of lava came into contact
with these consoles, they are gone.
- Okay, so he's saying both
were completely disintegrated. - But
the PS5 is newer.
It's got, I mean, it's got better tech.
- Yeah. - Well, the only hope
you'd have there, common materials
that could conceivably survive
would be things like cast iron or stainless steel.
So, if there was like a stainless steel EMI shield
somewhere in the PS5-
- Get the special edition. - That would have to get
above 1500C to melt,
so that could be plausible,
but I just don't think that stuff's in there
in any significant degree.
I'm still going with both.
- But you're agreeing with me
that it's probably the PS5 that's still got some pieces?
- Yeah, yeah.
- I'm sorry, Mike.
I know you know more than us, but-
- I don't think this is worth doing
if there's not something to see.
So first let's show the Switch,
which we think is completely disintegrated.
- All right.
Oh yeah, that's, it's-
- Okay, there's not-
- That's nothing.
- It's kinda, it's just ash.
- I mean there is-
- Okay. - Yeah.
That's just ash.
- All right.
But the PlayStation, let's take a look.
Oh. - Oh.
- The exact same. (buzzer beeping)
Okay, all right, sorry, Mike.
we didn't trust you on that one.
- [Rhett] Okay, well, we'll work this out.
- Volcanoes are really dangerous,
very hot places.
- Well, I mean, okay.
- You were right on that one, but listen,
we've got three more.
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(flames sizzling)
- Okay, next up we left a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos
and a Domino's Lava Cake
in a volcano for a month.
Which snack was totally incinerated,
like all of my puba-looba-loobies
when I tried to warm my junk with a Yankee candle?
(Rhett laughing) - Oh gosh.
- I didn't think I was filming that.
- Yeah.
- Showing it to anyone.
- No, Christy told us about it.
- Sorry, Mike.
- Mike, as you can see,
I think the writers got a little cute with this one,
because we've got Flaming Hot Cheetos and Lava Cake,
it's got the, sort of, the fire theme,
but which one survived is really the question.
- I mean, you're talking about two food items
that are primarily carbohydrates and lipids,
which are just absolutely energy-dense and love to burn.
Either of those items.
Lava Cake would be a little more resistant,
because there's a higher moisture content,
so it would steam before it burned,
but it would still burn.
We're talking about magma being pressurized
by tectonic activity.
- Yeah.
- Heated by the core of the earth,
which gets energy from the cycle of the moon
orbiting the earth.
The energy levels here are not comparable.
Both of those food items are ash, and ash quickly.
- I think the Lava Cake survived.
- It's got lava. - It's got lava in the title.
- Right, I mean, Cheetos- - There's lava in it.
So, I mean, does lava incinerate?
- Cheetos are literally, listen.
Cheetos are literally on fire on the bag.
So, you know those are-
- You think they made it too?
- No, they literally burned really early,
like I think as soon as the scientist hooked 'em up,
it was like (flames sizzling).
They'll probably send us the video.
- Right, but like- - But the lava cake-
- But lava on lava, what happens?
- Let's just confirm it. - It'd go hard.
- No, the water becomes steam,
and it's a violent reaction if something like a Lava Cake
or a high moisture content
gets anywhere near lava.
- Mike, you weren't there.
Okay? (all laughing)
All right. - That's true,
I was not there.
- Listen, there's only one way to prove this.
- What's the point if they both incinerate?
- I think this one's gonna be completely incinerated.
- [Link] This one's obliterated, yeah.
See?
- We were right, nothing but ash.
- Mike, but you were also right, Mike.
- Yeah, you were right about that one.
- I mean, look, if I'm going to use it,
- [Rhett] Not a Cheeto to be found in it.
- [Link] Nothing, not one little Cheeto.
- [Rhett] All right, yeah, right.
- Okay, but the Lava Cake.
- Yeah, on the other hand.
(buzzer beeping)
- There's gotta be some cake in there.
- Is there any?
- It's ash.
- Nothing, nothing but ash.
- Is that cake? - No.
It's just a piece of ash.
- Is that cake?
- Mike.
- Okay, Mike, you were right.
- I'm gonna apologize again, Mike,
I should've listened to you more closely.
I was just waiting for you to stop talking,
so I could say that Lava Cake is made out of lava.
- Well, listen, we just lost the opportunity
to have a fricking personalized message from the Rock.
We needed to get that one right.
- But there's still more to learn.
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(flames sizzling)
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- Yes, okay.
Mad dog Lucas left a Tickle Me Elmo,
a Furby, and even Baby Secret
in a volcano for a month,
which one was reduced to ash
like Gina Carano's character
in season three of the Mandalorian?
(all laughing) - Oh.
- Gosh, oh, wow, okay.
All right.
Yeah, how are they gonna pull that one off?
- Okay, Mike, was it the Tickle Me Elmo,
the Furby, the Baby Secret, or none of them,
or, I guess, any two, any three,
which one's incinerated?
- They're children's toys,
so they have to have some flame resistance properties
generally by regulation.
- Would you like a strawberry?
It's burnt.
- But it's not gonna work in a volcano.
I mean, these are plastics, these are fabric materials.
Even if they resist ignition for seconds or even minutes,
ultimately the intense heat and thermal energy
of a volcanic vent is going to burn
all three of these items completely.
The closest thing I could see in this entire time
to having something that remains
would be like a heat pipe or shield
in the Switch or the PS5,
and knowing that neither of those made it
makes me think none of these toys have a chance.
- Okay, well, that's just what you think, Mike.
(crew laughing)
- Mike, would you like a burnt strawberry?
- How about a burnt egg?
- A burnt egg?
Always.
Oh, that's delicious.
- Yeah. - Wow.
- So good.
- Makes you- - Crispy.
- It really cleans you out.
All right, that Elmo's going up in flames.
Furbies are hard to kill.
- Yeah.
- We know that.
- We know, I mean, we know that Elmo's burnt,
you're right.
Furbies are hard to kill, but it's still fur and plastic.
Baby Secret literally is home to at least one demon.
- I mean, listen to her.
Watch.
(Baby Secret mumbles)
Pull the string.
- I like to sleep with you.
- I mean, come on. - No, no.
- We're gonna see either a completely intact Baby Secret,
or at least the head under there.
So let's just confirm.
We're going with Baby Secret.
- So the Elmo and Furby obviously, yes.
- Oh, yeah, of course. - See, just as we suspected.
- Yeah, burnt to a crisp. - Mike, you were right, man.
There's nothing there.
Nothing there.
- No trace of anything,
- But Baby Secret.
- On the other hand.
- Yup. (buzzer beeps)
She is a-
- [Rhett] Are you in there?
- [Link] Baby Secret, if you're in there, say something.
- Well, I feel like she might have,
she might be able to reconstitute.
- I know, like (creepy music).
- Okay, Mike.
- I would leave so fast if that happened.
- Okay, all right, we got one more round.
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(flames sizzling)
Okay, so technically, according to the rules,
we have no chance of winning that personalized media message
from the Rock, but Stevie told us
we paid a lot of money for it, right?
- [Stevie] Yeah, I had to pull a lot of strings
and pay a lot of money for this video, so-
- Right, so you're saying if we get this one right,
you're going to let us see it, right?
- [Stevie] Yes.
- Okay. - Oh yeah.
- Still got a chance. - We're back in this, buddy.
Okay, finally, we put our very own
Tour of Mythicality Blu-ray in a volcano for a month.
So now the question is
when we put the Blu-ray in its post-volcanic state
back into a Blu-ray player,
will it still play
like Ridiculousness every hour of every day on MTV?
- Yeah. (Mike laughing)
- Or be not work at all like teaser clips
at the top of Good Mythical Morning?
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, come on.
- Hey.
- Too soon.
- I mean, I thought they teased.
- Too soon.
- They teased in a certain way.
Mike, I don't know if you were following that escapade,
but we tried that and they did not like it.
- [Rhett] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You know, that happens.
- I can see that. - It happens.
We're not all right all the time.
Kind of like you today, man.
We'd be watching the Rock
if it wasn't for you and all your science input.
- Are you talking to me or Mike?
- I'm talking to Mike. - Well, Mike's been right
every time. - I know.
(Mike laughing)
I didn't know if he would notice.
- So- - I was kind of looking for
a scapegoat here.
- All right, Mike, I'm really,
I want to get this video message from the Rock,
or media message, as I called it,
because that's the technical term.
- Yeah.
- Give us the science behind this.
What's gonna happen to this DVD?
- I just gotta be honest.
I feel a lot of pressure right now
because, in addition to being the most bankable star
in Hollywood today, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
is also my favorite movie star.
I will watch the Rock in literally anything.
What a delightful and entertaining personality.
- Yeah, he's good.
He's so good.
- And, I'm trying to think this through.
Blu-rays were designed to be a superior archival media
to DVDs before them, they have a polycarbonate coating
on one side of the disc to be scratch resistant.
They also needed to do that because the dot pitch
of a Blu-ray is so much smaller, hence the need
for a blue laser to scan the surface
and get an information read.
- Yes, the dot pitch.
- And some Blu-rays are designed
to cope with temperatures pretty hot,
80 degrees Celsius plus, but that's still, again,
far, far short of the hundreds
or thousands of degrees Celsius that we're gonna find
in proximity to a volcano.
So my suspicion is that the disc and package
would be completely destroyed
and therefore unable to convey
any sort of digital information to the reading mechanism
of a Blu-ray player.
- We've gone against Mike every time.
- [Rhett] Okay, well, you sound pretty convincing.
- And he's been right every time.
- Yeah. - There's no way around it.
- And I actually listened to him that time
when I was like that, I don't understand it.
- Yeah, it seems real. - But it seemed like
I should agree with this.
- Seems real. (Mike laughs)
- Okay. - Okay, so we're going to say-
- We wanna see the greeting.
- B, will not work at all,
like the teaser close at the top of Good Mythical Morning.
- We're agreeing with Mike.
- All right, let's see what happens.
- We're going with you.
Yeah, all right.
- Okay, all right. - This is a good sign.
- Now I will say though, it's just ash,
but the only way to know if we're right
is we got to actually see, put it in the DVD player,
and see if it doesn't play.
Now, I have no reason to believe that it will.
- But queue up that-
- It's literally impossible.
There's no way it can play.
- Right.
- Based on how optical media works.
- Yeah.
- But it would still be fun
just to put the ash in here.
- Yeah, right, yeah.
- Don't you think?
- Ruin a great player.
- That's probably enough.
- I mean the packaging is in there.
It's total chaos.
Entropy rules the situation,
no order remains. - Need a little help.
- Get it a little bit- - There we go.
- [Rhett] I think maybe I can just hold it down
in the front like that.
- [Link] That's not gonna work.
- I got it.
No, I got it, I got it.
- As long as, if you hold it down,
it will work.
There's a catch mechanism
that determines whether it's closed
that allows the laser to power on.
- All right, here we go.
- In order to spin,
but there's no disc.
- I'm pressing play, Mike.
- Okay, here we go.
- I can kind of wear this-
- Whoa!
- Like some sort of-
(buzzer beeps) - Look at that.
- I then realize- - Look at that, Mike.
- Well, we shouldn't be too happy with that.
- That's ridiculous, that's impossible.
- We just freaking lost our Rock greeting.
- Does that mean we don't get to see the Rock?
- [Stevie] I'm gonna watch it myself privately.
- Oh, dang it, Stevie.
- All right, screw this.
- Okay, well we don't get to see the Rock,
but we did leave Link's glasses in a volcano for a month.
(metal rattling)
I don't think they stayed intact.
- So that's where those have been.
(Mike laughing)
- Thanks again, Mike, for joining us today,
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- CozyRobots.com/watch.
- Oh, yeah.
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- Now you say, you know what time it is?
- You know what time it is.
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