- Welcome back to What's Inside. I'm Lincoln, this is Dan.
- And today, we're gonna take a moment
before the Geode video just to acknowledge
that a few days ago, we hit a million subcribers
on YouTube.
- It's crazy.
- I don't know who all you guys are,
but we are blown away with your support.
So, thank you so much. It was kind of funny,
I was out of town for work, and so Lincoln
happened to get out of school, my parents came over,
my wife and daughters were there, they watched the ticker
as it switched over to a million
Actually, let me just show you that moment.
- [Voiceover] Five, four, three, two, one! Yay!
(cheering)
Woah.
(cheering)
- It went to a million and down to 999, and went back up.
- Yeah.
- Over the next couple of months,
we have some awesome videos that are planned.
Once you get a million, you get the gold plaque
from YouTube and so that should come within the next
three or four months. We're crazy that we're going
to be getting that, and we're super excited.
Let us know in the comments below if you want us
to actually cut that giant gold button in half.
- It's gonna be crazy to do.
- Lincoln's great grandfather's Earl Beistline
and up in Alaska, he was a gold miner for years.
He is actually inducted in the National Mining Hall of Fame.
So now, since Lincoln has earned gold in his own way,
the gold play button, I think it's fitting that we
show some of his rock collection today.
Again, thank you so so much.
We're here at the rock specimen collection
of his great grandfather. What they would do
is take these rocks and cut them in half
and then they would look inside for sparkles
then once they see the little specks of gold,
they would know that this dirt area has some gold in it
that they could mine for.
- I've got some petrified wood. It is very cool.
It feels just like stone.
- We're going to go to somebody that has a stone-cutting saw
and we're going to take some geodes like this
and cut them open, and see what's inside of them.
This is Lincoln's cousin, Alex. So, he's along today
with us too. He lives up here in Alaska. What a lucky boy!
We're here with our friend, Frank,
up here in Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Well, all this rocks are from around Fairbanks
and as far north as Wiseman. This one, we started cutting
but the pattern it had was very familiar.
(laughing)
There are two crinoids and a part of a seashell.
But it looks like something else.
- [Lincoln] It does.
- [Dan] It's a happy face rock. That is one lucky rock.
- This is a rock that had a pattern on the outside,
something circular, but this is called a horn coral.
And when we cut it open, you can see the rest of the body
going down through the rock.
- That's cool. It just goes through layers and layers.
- We have three geodes. I'm gonna let you guys choose first.
We're gonna see who gets the cooler one. But you never know
because you don't know what's inside.
There could be crystals inside,
there could be nothing inside.
- [Dan] All right, Alex. This one's your rock.
There goes the snowman rock.
- [Lincoln] The snowman's starting!
(stone cutting sound)
- [Frank] What's in there? Is it solid?
- [Dan] Looks solid.
- [Alex] We're gonna get all win.
- [Frank] That's cool.
- [Dan] It has a little bit of a whole inside of it.
Nice job, Alex.
- Here goes the rough one. The rough one, I guess.
- [Dan] The rough one, that's what you named it?
- Yeah, the rough one.
- [Dan] Roughy?
- Yeah, roughy. This is roughy.
- [Dan] Mine's really bally.
- No, no, this is roundman.
- I'll call him halfy, because he's broken half.
- Yeah, halfy.
- That's halfy.
- [Dan] We'll all be halfy in a few minutes here.
- Yeah.
- [Dan] The saw blade has a high concentration
of special grade industrial diamonds designed specifically
for cutting hard materials very smoothly.
And the liquid you're seeing is not water,
it's oil that's used as a coolant.
It takes quie a bit of time to cut the rock.
But at the end of it, at least,
the stone's with a polished look to them.
- [Lincoln] We did it!
- [Frank] There you see the inside of that one.
- [Alex] Wow.
- [Lincoln] Woah. It's crystals.
- [Alex] It's like a whole.
- [Dan] Wow. There's Lincoln's and Alex's.
(stone cutting)
- [Frank] Ooh. Different colors.
- [Dan] See this one? Okay.
All right. There's Alex's, the very first one,
there's a whole in it, but looks like
we just missed the cave part. But it's kind of neat
because you can look inside of there
and try to see the crystals. His has more
of a bluish tint to it and white.
There's Lincoln's, we got right in the middle.
You can see the crystals that are forming inside of there.
And then here's mine. Mine's pretty similar to Lincoln's,
maybe doesn't have as big of a cave, and as big of crystals.
But same type of gold colors that are in it.
- Each one of them is very unique, very interesting
to see what's inside.
- So, I think, for the competition purposes,
we're gonna say, we can't judge a rock by its cover.
Every single one of them is unique, like Frank says.
We are all winners. All the geodes are beautiful
in very different ways, right? Just like people.
Everybody's unique and different and everybody's beautiful.
We had a lot of fun. Thanks a lot to Frank
and for sharing his diamond-cutting blade with us
and all of his knowledge with rocks and fossils.
Like the video below or add some comments
on some things that you'd like to see us cut open.