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00:00This is what it looks like to close out a year of your life trying to answer one of life's most basic questions.
00:05Exactly how high can elephant toothpaste actually be launched into space?
00:09Now if this looks sort of familiar, it's because this isn't my first attempt.
00:13Last year my buddy Fletcher and I were here with this monster of a flask, but with one critical oversight.
00:18We didn't make the floor stiff enough because I just didn't consider the forces to be so high
00:22they'd lift a one-ton structure five feet into the air.
00:25And so while that attempt did yield a new Guinness World Record of 60 feet,
00:29I couldn't stop thinking about just how high it could have gone
00:32if only all that stuff that came out of the bottom was actually forced to come out through the top.
00:37Like what would happen if I spent the year designing and building something that weighed five tons and was basically bomb-proof?
00:43And then what if we could just go on to make the world's most epic surprise party
00:47by building a massive slip-and-slide skateboard ramp along with the 26 million Orbeez pool
00:52plus a devil's toothpaste explosion two and a half times bigger than previously?
00:56And the only thing that would be missing would be someone to throw the surprise party for.
01:00And that's where my new friend Brody comes in.
01:02Now to understand who Brody is, all you really need to know is that as him and his family were going through an incredibly difficult time in their lives
01:08as he narrowly fought through his battle against blood cancer for three years,
01:12Brody used his one and only Make-A-Wish chance to buy a brand new ATV for another kid with cancer he didn't even know
01:19when he heard that kid had his ATV stolen.
01:22By the way, I told my friend Mr. Beast this story and he had some thoughts on what we should do about this situation.
01:27So now that we had a plan for the surprise party and a kid who definitely deserved the world's most epic surprise party,
01:33it was time to return to my buddy Dale's walnut farm in the small town of Gridley, California and get to work.
01:38And while I'd love to take credit for single-handedly digging out the entire Orbeez pit,
01:42the truth was, as word got out about Brody's story, the good people of Gridley came out to help in droves.
01:47So Arnie here, who's been operating a backhoe for 60 years, volunteered to dig the Orbeez pool
01:52while Dave, the town master carpenter, started working on the skateboard ramp.
01:56I even harnessed some child labor to prep the devil's toothpaste troughs.
01:59Although it sort of backfired when they began to protest against their harsh working conditions.
02:04No!
02:05Which just left my nemesis, the giant elephant's toothpaste flask.
02:09And this time, I was taking no chances, and so for the base, we laid a concrete pad,
02:13which would be attached to the flask with 30 ¾-inch bolts with a total clamping force of 80 tons.
02:19And then instead of a structure made of 2x4s, the plan was to use 5 tons of steel, all fused together by the town welder, Jeff.
02:26On top of that, we designed the flask to be 20% bigger.
02:29So now all we needed was a 20-second build montage to get it all done.
02:34And so as the party construction continued on for several days in the 105-degree heat,
02:54let me take a moment to try and debunk a myth about elephant toothpaste floating around on the internet.
02:59There are some wildly popular videos on YouTube, some with over 30 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes,
03:05which demonstrate that when you simply add a bunch of soda to some Orbeez,
03:08and then create a Mentos Sprite solution and pour it over the top, you get this.
03:13Which is pretty impressive.
03:14Look at that!
03:15This also works with Mentos?
03:16Why didn't Mark Rober tell us that?
03:18Maybe he didn't want us to break his record.
03:20True.
03:21Bob and I had a slightly different hypothesis, which was that these guys were faking the science and lying to people for YouTube views.
03:27So as firm believers in the scientific method, science Bob and I tested that hypothesis.
03:31And as it turns out, if you follow their exact methodology, then combine the mixtures and run real fast, exactly nothing happens.
03:38And even if you don't trust our demonstration, well then you're gonna have to explain how the balloon shadow somehow stops right here at the edge of the hole.
03:46And where these orange globs are splashing up from.
03:49And how the hole itself completely changes shape from this frame to this one, once they've removed their layer mask.
03:56The way they actually did that is the same way elephant toothpaste is always made.
04:00And that's to mix the correct amounts of hydrogen peroxide, soap, and food coloring.
04:04Then you just add a catalyst, like potassium iodide.
04:07And in preparation for this year's party, we also played around with the devil's toothpaste formula we discovered last year.
04:12With at times, very interesting results.
04:19Now as a reminder, this is normal elephant's toothpaste, and this is devil's toothpaste.
04:25It reacts insanely fast, and I don't give out the formula because it's super dangerous even if you are, for example, wearing some very nice protective gloves.
04:33And so back in Gridley, with Brody's arrival slated for the next morning, the afternoon turned into the evening as the feverish pace of work continued late for the third night in a row.
04:42If this dang mega flask somehow bested me again, at least I could console myself on the fact that it wouldn't be from lack of effort.
04:48And so when morning came, with only a few last minute bits of preparation left to go, I headed to a doctor's office about an hour and a half away,
04:55where Brody thought he flew out to see some more specialists for a day filled with medical tests.
04:59Okay, you'll be right and help you out.
05:01Okay, thank you.
05:02Fletcher and his incredible hair also came back out to help with the surprise.
05:08And I just want to preemptively say, I know I'm quite possibly the world's suckiest actor.
05:15Hello, I'm Dr. Fletcher. We got a lot of stuff to look at, tests, because today, this actually isn't a doctor appointment at all.
05:25And while I think I'm being all tricky here, he later said he figured it out was me as soon as he heard my terrible doctor accent.
05:30What up, buddy? I actually brought someone to help us out today, too. This is Fletcher. Fletcher here. He was with us last year.
05:38We did a big party, so today we're going to do another party, and it's going to be fun. You brought someone with you?
05:44Gavin. Gavin. Let's go meet Gavin.
05:46How's it going, buddy? Here. I saw you when I was like six. I've known you for so long. I've known your videos.
05:54Oh, thank you. This is Fletcher. Hi, that's me, too. And that's Isla, Fletcher's sister. Hi, that's me, too. Hi.
06:00All right, let's bounce. Here we go. So step one is to get in the test lot.
06:06So we actually have, and I'll leave the skies up to you guys, we have two ways to get to Gridley. Option one is to take the Tesla.
06:16Does everyone want to prematurely just say they want option one or do you want to hear option two?
06:19I want to hear option two. Are you sure? It's a Tesla.
06:22Okay, option two, and again, if you guys get a vote on this, uh, private jet. Option two.
06:32Option two. Option two. Option two.
06:34Have you guys ever ridden on a private jet? No. Let's ride on a private jet.
06:39Your guys' private jet's ready. Private jet's ready.
06:43Remember, guys, act like we've done this before. And the private jet was definitely out of my budget, but a generous benefactor caught wind of what we were doing and let us use his.
06:51Which actually helped, because it cut the one and a half hour drive down to just 12 short minutes.
06:56So guys, uh, we just landed. I knew it! There he is! I knew it! I knew it was a limo!
07:04Can we go in? Yeah, get the heck in there.
07:07I'll need the finest. We live in luxury.
07:11And so after a short trip and a sweet ride, Brody had arrived.
07:16And so, let's get to go for a nice day.
07:18At number 1, let's get to go for two.
07:19Thank you!
07:20Thanks, everyone.
07:53So now that the party was rolling and we were feeling refreshed, it was time to head
08:20over to see some explosive chemistry in the form of six massive devil's toothpaste troughs.
08:25Now I need to pause here to make two points.
08:28The first is that because each trough holds two and a half times more volume than the
08:31barrels last year, we couldn't just dump it on the top because it reacts so fast the
08:35catalyst wouldn't even make it to the bottom before it was launched out.
08:38So each trough that contained the mixture of the hydrogen peroxide, soap, and food coloring
08:42basically has a massive syringe attached to the side that contains the catalyst.
08:46Then we put a big fat pressurized air tank here so when you open this butterfly valve,
08:50the air would rush into this chamber, thereby sliding the piston over and causing everything
08:54to mix really well.
08:56And as you can see in real life, this happens pretty fast.
08:59And the second is you might notice it looks like one of the troughs already kind of went
09:04off.
09:05And the truth is, when I walked up, things looked like this.
09:08We tested for so many different things to prepare for this.
09:11But one thing we didn't think to test was if the food coloring manufacturer added some
09:15new ingredient only to the purple color, so now it randomly reacts with hydrogen peroxide
09:20all on its own.
09:21So after a bit of leaf blowing, we were ready to power through, even if we did lose two of
09:25our six troughs to that little mishap.
09:27Here we go, here we go, here we go!
09:29Three, two, one!
09:32Four, four, five, four, five, five, five, five, six!
09:46My God!
09:51Look at the house, you can't even see it!
09:54That was crazy!
09:59I love you.
10:29And so while I helped clean up like a bonafide Ghostbuster, we had to get all hands on deck
10:50to prepare for the grand finale mega flask.
10:53Like last year, the idea was to start the reaction by having these troughs dump the catalyst
10:56into the hydrogen peroxide pool below.
10:58So chemicals had to be loaded in super carefully, because even if a small amount splashed out
11:02prematurely, we'd have an even more disastrous situation on our hands than with the purple
11:06food coloring.
11:07But Brody still had no idea that was coming, so we distracted him with a different surprise
11:11first in the form of some quality time in 26 million orgies.
11:15What the hell is this?
11:18Did y'all do it at once?
11:22Oh no, this is so exciting.
11:26How do you think that was going to move?
11:30Here we go.
11:34What do you think?
11:35Up, up, up, up.
12:00And subversing yourself in millions of Orbeez is such a wild feeling because it's like having
12:11a squishy, slippery, weighted blanket compressing all around you no matter where you move.
12:17And while we could have stayed there for a few more hours, soon enough we got the message
12:20that the flask was in its final preparations, so we all headed back over.
12:24And word apparently had spread at this point, so quite a crowd had gathered, including the
12:28mayor of Gridley, so the pressure was really on for me to finally avenge that L from last
12:33year and to give Brody a dang world record.
12:35Look at this.
12:36Huh?
12:37Hi, YouTube.
12:38And so with that, all that was left now was to place all our hopes and dreams on our engineering
12:43abilities and dump the troughs.
12:45Five, four, three, two, one.
12:50Five, four, three, one.
12:53Oh my God.
12:55Oh my God.
12:59Oh my God.
13:02Oh my God.
13:02Oh my God.
13:07Oh my God.
13:10Oh my God.
13:15We actually had a pressure sensor in the flask.
13:43And it turns out the force pushing all the elephant toothpaste out the top is about 50 times the
13:49force you feel when pushing against a fully inflated football.
13:54Oh my God.
14:02Oh my God.
14:03Oh my God.
14:04Oh my God.
14:05Yeah.
14:06Oh my God.
14:07It's still coming.
14:08That's insane.
14:08Oh my God.
14:09Wow.
14:10Yes.
14:11Yes.
14:12Wow.
14:13Oh my God.
14:14Yeah.
14:14Wow.
14:14Dude, he's dead.
14:16That was so cool.
14:17The mannequin.
14:18The mannequin's still there.
14:19Wow.
14:20Wow, look at that! It's like a volcano!
14:24Whoa!
14:25See, it's still, like, barfing out the top.
14:27Oh, my gosh.
14:28Is that better than going to the doctor's office?
14:30Yeah.
14:31Look how far over it went!
14:34Wow!
14:35The flask! Stay together!
14:37You got me once, elephant's toothpaste.
14:40You don't get me twice.
14:42And, in fact, when you do a side-by-side comparison
14:45of the max height from last year to this year,
14:47I'm happy to report we absolutely destroyed the previous record
14:51by nearly a factor of five,
14:53rising to the height of a 25-story building at 250 feet.
14:57And so with the new Guinness World Record under his belt,
15:00I still had one grand final surprise for Parodi.
15:03So back at the house, while Science Bob distracted the crowd
15:05with liquid nitrogen-powered exploding watermelons
15:08and trashcan rockets,
15:11nearly taking out our drone pilot, Nurk, in the process,
15:15I called up a friend of mine.
15:18What up, buddy?
15:19Hi.
15:20What up, Mr. Beast?
15:21Uh, this is my friend Brody.
15:23We've been hanging out all day today.
15:24How's it going?
15:25Did he do the Orbeez thing?
15:27He told me he got 25 million Orbeez.
15:28Yeah, yeah.
15:29Is that more Orbeez than you did?
15:31No.
15:32We had a pool, though.
15:34I think Mr. Beast has one more surprise.
15:36Do me a favor and turn around real quick.
15:39Oh, my gosh!
15:41That's your hog right there.
15:43Delivered by none other than Dale himself.
15:47Well, get on, buddy.
15:48It's not mine.
15:49It's yours.
15:50And what's cool here is this is the exact model he wanted to get
15:56for himself before he gave it away to someone else.
15:59And he didn't do that expecting to get something back in return,
16:02just like those who worked so hard to put this party together for him
16:05didn't expect anything either.
16:07Which is why I believe when you try to be a good person,
16:10it may not always come back to you immediately,
16:12but somehow it always comes back.
16:35It doesn't seem to pay off your kingdom when you look at him.
16:37It's a great day.
16:38You're the only one in the room,
16:41although I'm like,
16:42it's a great day.
16:43And he was like,
16:44you know,
16:45he's like,
16:46it's a great lounge.
16:47It's the big guy.
16:48And he's like,
16:49I'm over here.
16:50You know what?
16:51It's a great thing.
16:52You know what's cool.
16:53He's like,
16:54you know,
16:55you're like,
16:56that's you're good out of nowhere.
17:00I can't do it.
17:01I can't do it.
17:02You know.
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