- Can we figure out mind blowing experiments all on our own?
- "Let's Talk About That."
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Good Mythical Morning.
- Today we're attempting
to successfully pull off wild science experiments
without the help of any pesky directions,
- Ah, who needs those?
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- Now we're gonna conduct some science experiments
without instructions or adult supervision.
It's time for, The Idea of Directions Simply Disgusts Us,
So Let's Hope These Experiments
Don't Spontaneously Combust Us.
- We're gonna be given some items
to conduct a certain scientific experiment,
and we have to try our best to figure out
which of those items we need
and how we need to put 'em together
in order to get a specific, crazy scientific result.
And there's gonna be some fake-out items thrown
in the mix to try to throw us off of our game.
Now, we're gonna start with 50 points
and if we can't put the right pieces together
in order to make this science happen,
we can ask for a lifeline.
- But all these lifelines cost points
and the more helpful the lifeline is,
the more points that it costs.
We've got 10 minutes to figure out each experiment
and if we still haven't cracked it when the time is up
that's a five point deduction.
What we're trying to do is at the end still have 25 points
or more because that means
that we will win participation ribbons
and a special message
from Senior Scientist, Chase. - Special.
- It's a special message. - Special.
(air whooshing) (liquid bubbling)
- [Stevie] In this first round,
you will use some combination
of latex rubber balloons, a carton of milk and oranges
to achieve an unexpected result.
As a reminder, one of these items
is a decoy item that you do not need.
And your lifelines are as follows,
a message from Science Mike,
about the scientific principle - Oh!
- at play which - Okay.
- [Stevie] will cost you one point.
- Oh, that's not a lot.
- [Stevie] I tell you which item is the decoy.
This would cost you two points.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] And I tell you what result
you're trying to achieve and that
would cost you three points.
So, with that good luck.
- So, if we remove the oranges it's both orange obviously.
- Well, as a man whose thing - Yeah.
- is basically pouring milk- - Not these two oranges.
I really wanna keep the milk so I can do my thing.
You wanna treat this like a bowl of cereal don't you?
This is gonna get blown up somehow.
This is gonna get blown up.
What else can happen?
- Let's get Science Mike in on this.
- Yeah, it's just one point.
- All you need to do is find
the right pairing of hydrocarbons.
They're very alike so you'd think they'd be great friends
but they can really wear each other out.
- I think we need to mix these two and see what happens.
- You think the balloons are goin' out?
- Based on what Mike said yeah,
'cause it was like two things
that seem similar. - Then we're gonna
be left with just milk and oranges?
- Well, I'm gonna put the orange juice in the milk
and I think it's gonna curdle.
I'm gonna put the lid on and it's gonna bust the lid off.
- Squeeze it in there.
See this amazing reaction - It would.
- that's gonna happen.
There's no way that milk is going
to explode right here in front of us.
They wouldn't do that, but I'm willin' to go down this road.
(milk sloshing)
Okay.
Boom!
- It's not gonna bust
that off. - Oh God!
You just got orange juice in my eye.
I think we gotta remove an item
because there's only so many ways
that these things can interact.
- Okay, Stevie, we want to remove an item.
- [Stevie] You do not need the milk.
- Yeah, I'm not surprised.
- Well, what Mike said didn't make any sense.
- He said it would wear it out.
I think we have to blow up this balloon separately.
And then I think we have to do something with the orange
that's gonna make the balloon pop
because the acid from the orange
is going to pop the balloon.
- Okay, let's blow up some balloons.
(air hissing)
Pretty good.
Did that.
Do you think that then rubbing an orange on a...
You do it man, 'cause that's gonna,
you're gonna look stupid.
- Oh, the juice should be inside of the balloon.
You blow the balloon up,
you get orange juice inside the balloon and you shake it,
you set it down and it will pop the balloon.
You can get some juice in there.
I don't think it takes much.
- Okay.
- Just a little bit- - Now-
- goes a long way.
- Now see if you can blow that up.
'Cause what I think it is, I think it-
(balloon pops) (Rhett gasps)
- Yeah, that was it (groans).
- I'm startin' to hate science, Stevie.
We're gonna have to go with her third thing.
(balloon pops)
- Okay, you gotta tell us what we're trying to do.
- [Stevie] I will say this.
You have already said what you're supposed to do,
but you have not done it.
- There's orange juice that needs to be inside the balloon
and then you shake it.
I think that's what it is.
So let's do that again and I won't blow it up so big.
- And I've got a hole in this one now.
- Yeah.
Squeeze it right out of your hole tight into this.
- Okay.
Juice is goin' in.
Now what?
- Now I blow it.
But I can't blow it too big.
- [Stevie] 45 seconds.
- Come on, come on.
- Just a little bit.
- No, that's not big enough.
A little bit more, a little bit more.
- No, last time it exploded really early in the process.
- But it didn't stop,
you wanna put it in this hole?
Maybe it goes in here.
- Okay, now I shake it.
- [Stevie] 15 seconds.
- Aw, dang it.
Come on, that ain't doin' nothing.
Here, put it in here.
Put it in here.
Oh yeah, look at that. - There you go.
Now, squeeze that hard.
- [Stevie] Five, four, three, two, one.
- We did it! (buzzer buzzes)
Man!
What is it? - You guys were so close,
but you didn't get it.
Let's cut to a clip of Katelyn showing you how it's done.
(upbeat music)
- [Link] Oh, that music is horrible.
- Oh.
It wears the balloon out.
It's the very first thing that I said,
and we never went back to it.
- What?
Mrs. Wizard over here. - So-
- What did you do?
- [Stevie] Yeah, so it turns out-
- Do you just put a little juice on a balloon?
- [Stevie] Not the juice.
Orange peels - Peels!
- Contain - Peel.
- [Stevie] a hydrocarbon compound called limonene.
- Here, I've got one already.
- [Stevie] And when limonene and oil comes
in contact with another hydrocarbon like rubber,
the rubber dissolves which weakens the balloon
and causes it to pop.
- Hydrocarbons, see? - So you said it,
you just didn't ever really do it.
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This round you'll use some of the following items,
a glass, gummy worms, - Okay.
- [Stevie] water and ground cinnamon
to reach your surprising discovery.
Your lifelines are the same as round one.
So, your 10 minutes starts now.
- A pitcher and a cup are the same thing.
- Yeah.
I'm gonna say let's not use the cup but if you mix,
if you create a paste
with the cinnamon- - The cinnamon water.
- Let's do that.
- You know what we don't need?
We might not need the water.
- Or what if we don't need the cinnamon
and you just wanna make worms swim?
- Put some worms in there.
- Okay.
I'm gonna save some worms - We're gonna load
if we're wrong. - them up with cinnamon.
- I don't believe we're wrong, but-
- Can we use our own spit?
- That would be an item.
Okay, so you put cinnamon on gummy worms?
- It can't be this simple.
- It's nothing.
Nothing.
(crew laughs)
Wow, they taste good.
- Really? - Yeah. Taste one.
Christmas morning.
This is how you catch Santa Claus.
- You know what feels like the most distracting thing here?
- For us just to eat these and not play the game?
- The worms.
Let's forget about the worms for a second
and let's make a cinnamon and water paste,
and then we're going to rub it
on ourselves and see what happens.
- You know what?
If you add water, that's enough, to cinnamon,
you know what happens?
- Don't add much.
Make a paste
- Now what?
- Now put your hand over - What do you?
- the top and shake it. - No, you do that.
You're like a bartender man.
We're gonna have to get Science Mike in on this.
I like seeing him in that environment
anyway. - I think it
was not enough water.
He's like he's trapped, man.
All right, let's see Science Mike.
- The key scientific principle at play here is one
that many may mistake as a fear of water.
But when you get down to the root of it,
it's more of a pushing away of that
ever so complex H2O.
- Okay.
- The cinnamon and the water
are gonna do somethin' crazy.
- All right, all right.
We need a new glass because this is a surface tension thing.
- Hydrophobic.
That's why he said my fear of water.
So- - I'm not stupid, Mike.
- I think we're gonna take this all the way
to the top and then over the top like that.
And now a gummy worm.
- You think a gummy worm can float?
- Maybe with the surface tension it'll float.
- That'll be surprising.
- Right.
But Hey, that's what we're after, surprise.
I think the worms are a distraction,
but I'm willin' to go down this...
Yeah, now you've effed the whole thing up.
Just a little bit, just a little bit of...
- [Link] Look at that.
Wow.
(crew laughs)
- No, seriously.
Look what's happening.
That's surprising.
- It's stayin' dry.
It's not, and the more you put on
it's not turnin' to mud.
That's it.
Look, look, keep goin'.
Look at that.
We've created, this is how-
- This is like a drink at a bar.
Would you like water with cinnamon on top of it (laughs)?
- This is how islanders
make it. - I guess I could do that.
- You ever been to Hawaii?
This is how it happened-
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Now, what's happenin' there?
- There's stream. - Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Look. - Whoa, whoa!
- It's all...
That was it, right?
Give it, give it, give it, give it, give it.
- [Stevie] You guys have five minutes left.
You are close.
I will say you are close.
- Oh, so, we need to- - But there is something-
- What we need to do,
we need to stick our finger through the top.
We need to stick our finger in cinnamon,
stick it into the water-
- And it'll be dry.
- And it'll be dry. - Yeah.
Coat my finger in cinnamon.
- Gladly.
This is how, before wetsuits,
this is how the ancient peoples-
- They swam. - The oceans, they-
- [Rhett and Link] They dusted themselves in cinnamon.
- And then they- - Why is Gorb not wet?
Well, he's coated in cinnamon.
- Right.
You wanna help? - Yeah.
- And then- - I wanna feel
like a part of this. - Okay.
Pushin' it down.
It doesn't feel wet, doesn't feet wet, doesn't feel wet,
doesn't feel wet. - Holy mackerel,
what happened to your finger?
- Look and...
It's kinda wet.
That didn't work.
- It's not that wet.
- It's a little wet, though. - It's not that wet.
- [Stevie] Well, I'm gonna give it to you guys.
You went- - Got it?
- [Stevie] You went really deep,
but yes you have everything in place that you need.
So, if you didn't go as deep-
- [Rhett] Yeah, see?
- [Stevie] There you go.
Yeah, so unlike happily hydrophilic substances
like salt and sugar that easily dissolve in water,
cinnamon powder is hydrophobic and does not dissolve.
So when you stick your finger in
the cinnamon continues to stick
to itself while still repelling the water, keeping it dry.
- Yeah, like skin divers. - But we had our gummy worm
with cinnamon on it 'cause y'all should do that.
(upbeat music) (liquid bubbling)
- [Stevie] All right, for this one
you will use a medley of forks, a lighter, toothpicks,
a potato and a candle to make some magic happen.
Same lifelines again-
- Oh, not science this round?
Pure magic.
- Pure magic. - Yeah.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] And your 10 minutes start now.
- Obviously something ends up,
potato is like flammable
in some way that no one ever imagined.
- I wanna use fire.
But I don't think - The lighter is-
- we need the candle.
I think the-
- I feel like the candle is a distraction.
That's what I was gonna say. - Right,
but if you got rid of this, then what's the good of this?
- What about-
- But if you get rid of this
this is still really good.
- But do we need the forks and things?
'Cause everything a fork can do a toothpick can do.
- You know what?
Forget their potato.
- We can use our lifelines by the way.
- Yeah.
Which one do you wanna use?
- Well, I love seein' Science Mike.
- All right, let's see Mike again.
- The intersection of Newtonian physics and thermodynamics
can create an almost magical series of events.
Even when you make it with your own hands and see it
with your own eyes, it can be mesmerizing to see
what the intricate balance of those two principles can do.
- Oh, come on Mike.
Who do you think we are?
- Newtonian and what? - Thermodynamics.
- So, heat- - So, physical
things happening-
- Heat and rubbing something to make something burn.
I think-
- No, no, no, no, no.
- [Rhett] Rub the two toothpicks together.
- No, we have a lighter but Newtonian
is gravity or like inertia.
- We don't need the lighter,
the lighter's a distraction.
The lighter is a cheat.
We're going to make fire using just these things.
- We have to throw this really hard at the lighter.
- We just have to get 25 points.
We should get rid of one of these items.
- All right.
Remove an item, Stevie.
- [Stevie] You do not need the potato.
- See? (Rhett laughs)
- The potato distracted us. - All right.
Toothpicks-
- Do you know how sometimes when you blow a candle out
and the fire goes through the smoke?
So like, this thing.
We'll just do that just for...
Right, right, right, right, right, right.
So, you get this thing goin'.
- Okay, it's goin'.
- And then you, hold on, and now blow it out.
- Does it need to burn a little longer first?
- No.
And then you light the smoke
and it goes back down and re-lights it.
It means light goes a little bit longer (smirks).
- Now that doesn't have anything
to do with a fork or a toothpick.
If I put toothpicks all around this and make
like a campfire the flame would probably
get a lot bigger which would be-
- That's probably not what they want us to do.
- That's what I wanna do. - Uh huh.
- Look at that, Stevie. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is that what you wanted?
- No, no. - Put the fork in that.
- I don't want that. - Make the fork-
- In fact please put it out. - Make the fork hot?
- Thank you. - so, that didn't work.
Okay, Stevie, we need your lifeline.
What are we trying to do here?
- [Stevie] In this experiment,
you will be creating a forking
incredible spinning and balancing act.
- So the fork, I think we can like put the fork.
- Yeah, no, stick the toothpick in the wax.
- [Link] I've seen people balance stuff
on the internet all the time.
Here you go.
- Okay, all right.
Now we're on to somethin'.
And now we just heat one side of this.
I'm just gonna propel it.
- No, no, no, no.
Light the candle.
- [Rhett] I mean, that's not going to do anything.
- But you were impressed that I balanced it on there, right?
- Yeah, I can't believe it.
What if we put a toothpick on the fork
and then lit it and it's like a little thruster?
- Now light that. - Yeah. Here we go.
Now we're in business.
- [Link] You still got two minutes.
This is gonna work.
- Yeah, look at that.
We've done it.
- Yep, yep, yep, yep.
- Look at it, look at it thrust.
Look at it thrust. - It's gonna start spinning.
- This is how rockets work.
Is sticking this into a candle part of it?
- [Stevie] Is sticking the toothpick in?
- Yeah. - Yes.
- Okay, so Stevie, I think we were close, man.
- I think that what you're doing
with the balancing is right.
I just don't know where-
- [Stevie] And I'll give you an additional hint.
You do have to use both forks
and you have to do it in 22 seconds.
- Oh, God, then you've gotta-
- Why wouldn't they just stack?
I think it is like this.
- Oh, yeah.
You gotta put that and then it catches itself.
- Oh no.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
What if you did this?
Did this deal right here?
Like that.
- Oh, like two youngsters on a date holdin' hands.
- [Stevie] Oh, you were so close, but your time is up.
- I bet you Katelyn can do it. - Oh, you know what?
The whole thing will spin.
- All right. - Yeah, let's see
what Katelyn's got.
(upbeat music)
- [Link] Forks on the side?
- [Rhett] Yeah, see?
We got that at the very end.
- [Link] Where does that go?
Oh no.
Oh no she didn't. - What?
- [Link] And now she's gonna light it?
And now it's, whoa, no!
- [Stevie] By inserting the toothpick between the two forks,
you create a new center
of gravity that can balance
on just anything. - How did...
- Then as the lit candle - I think she went like this.
- [Stevie] causes the air to heat up, rise and expand,
cool air quickly follows to replace it
and a convection current is created,
which makes the forks slowly move.
- How did the fork...
How did the toothpick go into the forks?
- Oo!
- Now we see if it spins.
- Now the heat from the flame is going to spin.
- Maybe you gotta give it a little,
let's give it a little encouragement.
We just want to encourage you to spin.
Just a little.
- Look at that.
(Rhett chuckles)
Look at the science that's happening.
- You can power a small Scandinavian town with this thing.
- Don't do tappage. (Rhett tapping)
- No tapping.
- Hey, and we wanna thank Science Mike
for helpin' us be scientists today.
Be sure to check out Mike every week on his show, oh!
"The Cozy Robot Show" here on YouTube and also as a podcast.
- All right, Link.
We actually, we did pretty well, man.
- Yeah. - We were there for 30 points.
We got participation ribbons. - You tried.
- Here you go.
- Oh, thank you, Chase. - Does this go
around my neck? - You did amazing, sweeties.
- Do you want a fork brand?
- It's too small, Chase.
- [Chase] No, thank you.
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