(cultural music)
- Welcome back to What's Inside.
I'm Lincoln and this is Dan. They were in Shanghai, China.
- We came all the way to China to see this place.
We're here for 24 hours but we wanted to come around,
and experience the culture, and see what China is all about,
and of course, we got something that we wanted to cut open.
We got these balls that are called
Baoding ball, bow-ding balls.
In China, they might call 'em Chinese medicine balls
or iron balls.
There's a lot of different names that they use for 'em
but I remember growing up, I saw these things,
and I thought of 'em as, like, meditation balls,
and people would say that if you take 'em,
and put 'em in your hand,
it's like an exercise ball for your hands
but then it's also has this little noise inside,
almost sounds like bells.
You hear that?
(bells jingling)
- Oh yeah.
- You would feel more peaceful and calm.
- Buzz.
Was that helpful?
- Yeah, that bee noise helps. Thank you.
You keep going with that. - [Lincoln] Buzz.
(Lincoln shouts) (Dan laughs)
- Let's take a look around and test these things out,
and see if they bring some peace to us, and calm to us,
and then we need to cut them open,
and see what's inside of 'em.
- [Dan] Let's get out of here.
- [Lincoln] Yeah.
(footsteps)
(regal music) - I don't know
what's happening but they say that they're playing
the Chinese national song, and these people just walked up,
and the music started playing
so we will respect that for a minute.
(speaks in Mandarin)
(playful music)
We had a good time in China with these things,
and it's nice to be back home.
The temple was great.
Going to the park, and seeing those people out there
was incredible, like these Chinese people in morning,
they go, and they just work out,
and exercise, and dance to music, and--
- It's cool.
- It's pretty cool.
That's a great exercise, and it's great sense of community.
I really, really enjoyed that.
Chinese have a few things figured out.
They've been around for a long time.
They have deep traditions and cultures
so you know, we have these guys,
and we're gonna cut 'em open.
How's that for fancy?
I just put these paper in here to keep it in place.
That's so safe. Whoo!
(hip hop music)
- [Lincoln] Well, we kind of got it. (laughs)
- [Dan] It kinda jumped out and spun around
'cause this is so safe right here.
Look at that.
We got a chunk out of it,
the metal parts that we're getting.
It's almost like the plastic cover's coming off.
Okay, we changed it up a little bit.
The glove in there
just because the paper could catch on fire.
I just thought of that with the sparks
and then also we're just not keeping it in there
so here we go.
(hip hop music)
- We are so close.
- Ow, it's so hot.
There's like melted plastic on the outside.
Oh, it's smells like fingernail polish. It's nasty.
(bells jingling)
- I think that I should throw it at the ground.
I think that would be really cool.
- [Dan] Throw it to the ground and get it open?
Okay, Lincoln decided he just wants it thrown on the ground.
I think this is like pent-up from the bowling ball failure
when he threw it on the ground.
He wants to do it again so let's see the ball.
You got it. You got your safety gloves on.
Lincoln's gonna throw it right there on that rock.
(bells jingling)
Did you get it?
- No, it cracked!
Look at all that plastic pieces I got off!
Oh, look at all the metal now.
- [Dan] Now it's just a metal ball.
Can you pull it apart with your fingers?
- No, it's tight in there 'cause of this part.
- [Dan] All right. All right.
- Are you sure I can get that? Look how close that is.
(Dan shouts)
- [Dan] It's not.
- That's scary.
Oh, you're so close.
Oh yeah.
- [Dan] Oh, we are inside. - [Lincoln] It's not a bell.
- [Lincoln] It's a metal ball, it looks like.
- [Dan] Welcome to the inside. (laughs)
(bells jingling)
Are you surprised by that?
- [Lincoln] Yeah!
- [Dan] Marble? - [Lincoln] I'm so surprised!
- [Dan] Take a glass marble,
and then just some little wires inside.
- [Lincoln] That's crazy 'cause I really thought
that it would be a bell.
And on the backside of this, there is just like little bits
of the pieces left.
(bells jingling)
- [Dan] There's some kind of metal springs in there,
and then a glass ball.
That's so interesting! I love it!
That's a cool one, right, Lincoln?
- Yeah!
- You shake these things, roll 'em around.
You hear the bells. They make you happy.
You feel confident, comfortable, relieved of your stress.
We took an adventure to try 'em out.
We cut open those Baoding balls and--
- Saw what's inside.
- Yep, and it was an adventure.
That was an interesting one.
Thank you for suggesting that.
Please let us know what else you'd like us to cut open.
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and we love hearing from you guys.
(light music)