Lasers vs Lightning- Which Is More Powerful?

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Transcript

00:00Which has more destructive power, lasers or lightning?

00:03Today, to declare a final champion among all the elements we've tested head-to-head on my channel,

00:08they'll be facing off in tests against seven household objects,

00:11including a CD, a crystal ball, and a safe full of cash.

00:14Let's go!

00:16And since Laser had to defeat Lava to make it to the finals,

00:19your favorite former middle school teacher turned to laser-worlding mad genius is back,

00:23Science Bob Flugfelder.

00:25Good luck, Mark!

00:26You're so positive!

00:27Representing lightning is Mehdi Sadagdar, a.k.a. Electrobit.

00:31He left his manners in Canada and brought some shocking bits of electric machinery

00:38to show off his mastery of electrons.

00:40I know what I'm doing, kind of.

00:42But once again, for the final encore performance,

00:45I'm not going to be watching from the sidelines either,

00:47as all seven objects will have to face my X-Factor method of destruction.

00:52Which, as always, is different for each object.

00:55So for example, this lava lamp might just get turned into an actual lava lamp.

01:00And as expected at this stage in the competition,

01:02the Nerd Trash Talk commenced immediately.

01:04Lightning beats everything.

01:05I'm just worried about you surviving.

01:07Wow!

01:08And by the way, winner of today's competition gets a safe full of cash.

01:12Really?

01:13Don't get excited.

01:13Actual cash!

01:14I still got a rusted boat in my driveway from the last one.

01:17It's gonna cost you more to get rid of it.

01:18Oh my god.

01:19All right, well, let's get started.

01:20You're doomed, Bob.

01:22Lightning.

01:22And with that, it was time to start our seven-item showdown of destruction,

01:26starting with the contest to burn a CD from our personal collections.

01:29Literally.

01:30And Bob was going to get us started by using a super powerful military-grade laser

01:34to destroy Rod Stewart's greatest hits.

01:37Full choice.

01:37I'm a big Rod Stewart fan.

01:39Especially crack night.

01:40So Bob fired up both his laser and his Rod Stewart D-pad.

01:43Whoa!

01:47What?

01:47Wait, it's gone!

01:49Where's the CD?

01:49It's gone!

01:50It's like the end of Avengers.

01:52What happened?

01:53We had to use a replay to realize that Bob's super powerful laser

01:57had folded the CD like a taco before incinerating it in an undeniable showoff.

02:02What is that?

02:02That's nothing, Bob.

02:03Oh.

02:04That's literally ash.

02:05You might still be able to play that.

02:07Yeah.

02:07Watch me do it.

02:08Mehdi, out of the gate strong with the trash talk.

02:11Yeah, let's hope he can live up to that.

02:12Yeah.

02:13Okay, wow.

02:14He's a mess.

02:15Now was lightning, so it was time to see how Mehdi planned to use the super mean-looking Tesla coil

02:20that he brought to Crunch Labs.

02:22So to burn my CD, I'm going to use this.

02:29Did you just get shocked?

02:30It went to the ground through my shoe.

02:32You're like talking slower, I feel like.

02:34It broke my CD.

02:35Poor Chris De Burgh.

02:39Time to see if the Tesla coil could shock the CD as well as it shocked Mehdi.

02:48And it worked beautifully.

02:49Arcing patterns lighting up Crunch Labs.

02:52They were so gorgeous.

02:53And like moths to a light, we just had to get closer.

02:57Until we remembered we were working by Mehdi's safety standards.

03:00Wow.

03:01Like a little bit longer, and I think it would have cut all the way through.

03:03I think we should try it one more time.

03:05I have second thoughts.

03:06I never have second thoughts.

03:07I try it again, and every time I learn something new...

03:10With a scar.

03:12I don't have a good feeling about this.

03:13But Mehdi had used a wire to ground the CD, so he could get close without having to worry.

03:19No!

03:24Mehdi had become the god of thunder.

03:26That's how you erase a CD.

03:28And this crystal ball CD was facing its Ragnarok.

03:31It's beautiful!

03:33Until Mehdi shocked himself.

03:35Okay.

03:36But despite the second self-own of the day, Mehdi had done a pretty great job at burning the CD.

03:41Because I know what I'm doing, kind of.

03:43And this is a good time to point out, even though Mehdi has made a career out of building

03:47really cool things that always somehow shock him...

03:52He does have a master's degree in electrical engineering, and is very smart,

03:55and actually does know exactly what he's doing.

03:57In other words, please don't try this with your own four-foot Tesla coil at home.

04:01Let's roll the X-Factor!

04:02It was time to show these boys what the X-Factor could pull off.

04:05Gentlemen, prepare to have your minds blown!

04:08Really?

04:09Microwave?

04:10It's not just any microwave.

04:12It's a microwave with two googly eyes.

04:14But googly eyes or not, Mariah Carey was in for a little excitement.

04:17Three, two, one!

04:19Now wait, I was always told you never put metal into a microwave.

04:22This is true.

04:23Do not try this at home.

04:24Only try this at Crunch Slabs.

04:28Whoa!

04:30The microwave put on quite a techno light show for us.

04:34And it did a great job.

04:37Don't breathe that smoke!

04:39But ultimately, besides destroying a CD beyond repair,

04:42final verdict was...

04:43I think Matty's was the coolest this round.

04:45I kind of, yeah.

04:46Of course it was.

04:47Bob.

04:48On to round two.

04:49So now that we have the first point on the board, we got ready for a chilly round two.

04:54Solid block of ice.

04:55I'm gonna make a swan sculpture out of it.

04:57I don't want to spoil anything, but I'm feeling good about my chances on this one.

05:00You do a chainsaw.

05:02And Bob was up first with the super powerful laser.

05:04All right, guys, let's go.

05:05And as he worked this laser across the surface of the ice,

05:08the dripping water indicated that his laser was...

05:11It's so weak!

05:12Is it even doing anything, Bob?

05:14Hey, this is how light works!

05:15And honestly, he's right.

05:17Since ice is more or less transparent,

05:19the laser passes straight through and doesn't bounce off or get absorbed by anything,

05:23which means it doesn't build up enough heat to cause any damage.

05:29So this time, Bob focused his laser on one spot and held it there.

05:35And it started to create a rough surface on the ice,

05:38which allowed the laser to finally interact with something

05:41and build up some heat, eventually...

05:46...boring a hole all the way through.

05:49That is cool, actually.

05:51It looks very bullet-like.

05:53It's a bullet that kills you in half an hour.

05:56It was time for Mehdi to back up all that trash talk.

05:58Let me show you how it's done.

06:00I'm gonna use a welding machine and run 650 amps of current through this...

06:06Like I was saying...

06:07Basically, Mehdi's plan was to use the buildup of heat from electrical resistance

06:11to create a hot rebar knife through icy butter.

06:15Oh, you got a sizzle!

06:16Give me more juice!

06:18Wow, that's red!

06:20Now watch this!

06:22Whoa, that's cool!

06:24That's how we do it!

06:25You're bending the rod!

06:27And it worked really well...

06:29...until it didn't.

06:30What happened?

06:30Wow, it's black in the middle now!

06:33I think your ice is too cold.

06:35So Mehdi added a little bit of elbow grease to try and saw his way through the ice

06:39by using the parts of the rebar that were still glowing hot.

06:42A little bit from that side...

06:43And despite his best efforts resulting in a little melting,

06:46but much more reheating and then subsequent bending...

06:50Stop it!

06:51No arcing!

06:52All right, I'm done!

06:54Ooh, so close.

06:56It was a failure, but it was a cool failure.

06:59Enough of these jokers.

07:01It was time for the X Factor.

07:03This, boys, is how you win a competition!

07:06I'm actually kind of excited to see this.

07:08With the red, hot, nickel ball!

07:12Whoa!

07:14Ah, it's a very satisfying sound.

07:16The question is, can I make it deeper than Mehdi did?

07:19Go, go, go!

07:20The core of this nickel ball had been heated to 2,000 degrees

07:24and it was slowly but surely making its way down the ice.

07:27Go in the distance!

07:28Is it?

07:29But unfortunately for me, the laws of thermodynamics...

07:31What?

07:32Had other plans.

07:33Oh no!

07:36It's full of water!

07:38It stole all of its energy!

07:40It takes a lot of energy to heat up water.

07:43I guess there's a clear winner.

07:45Is there a clear winner?

07:47Really, there were no clear winners in this group.

07:49I have a solution.

07:50This is how we're going to solve this.

07:51So we decided to add a little gravity.

07:53Push!

07:54And whoever's block broke the cleanest must have done the most damage.

07:58So they'd be declared the winner.

07:59And devastatingly, for the second round in a row...

08:02Wow.

08:03Dang it!

08:04Oh, Canada!

08:07You're getting all nationalistic on us.

08:09All right, 2-0.

08:11Next challenge.

08:12So we moved on to lamps and this one was going to be a little bit different.

08:15This is a science pop lamp.

08:17This is a science pop lamp.

08:18Because this time we wouldn't be trying to destroy lamps,

08:21we'd be using our chosen elements to create lamps.

08:25For my lamp, I have got some ultraviolet reactive slime.

08:28I'm going to hit it with a sparkle pattern ultraviolet laser filter.

08:32It should look pretty cool.

08:33Kill the lights!

08:35I can't see, Bob!

08:36Activate the laser.

08:39Wow.

08:40The world's first slime laser lamp.

08:46It was some of the prettiest slime I'd ever seen.

08:48That's kind of interesting.

08:50And I wonder what it would look like if you attacked it with the Crunch Labs Vortex Kit.

08:54Okay.

08:55Oh, yeah.

08:56There's like a little dance.

08:57Can I play with the laser?

08:58No, don't play with the laser.

09:00Ultraviolet slime laser lamp.

09:02That was not on my bingo card.

09:04You did well, Bob.

09:05I mean, it sucks.

09:06Try that one, Lightning Boy.

09:08Lightning Boy was about to whip out the Tesla coil and this fluorescent bulb.

09:12I'm gonna do Nikola Tesla's dream of wireless power

09:15and power this with a super large Tesla coiler.

09:18Is this like a good distance for us?

09:19If it is safe for me, it's safe for you too.

09:21Why do I not trust what you say?

09:24But when we turned it on...

09:25Oh, Matty!

09:26The electric field created by the Tesla coil in the air...

09:30Look at it!

09:31It's alive!

09:32...actually causes the fluorescent tube light to glow.

09:35What's happening is the gas particles in the tube are getting excited by the electric field,

09:40which breaks them into charged particles, releasing energy in the form of light.

09:44And it made it look like the coolest actual lightsaber battle ever.

09:48Woohoo!

09:56I'll just go less crazy this time.

09:57Okay.

09:57Light it up.

10:04Matty!

10:05Stop breaking things!

10:06I've learned my lesson.

10:07I just want to see how bright it gets, okay?

10:18That was delayed!

10:20Once we got the lightning man a light bulb that was too big to use as a lightsaber...

10:25Wow!

10:26...it was undeniable that it was a pretty cool trick.

10:28Lightning lamp, not bad.

10:32All right, gentlemen.

10:32For my lamp, I'm doing a lava lamp.

10:34As in a lamp that's filled with actual lava.

10:37Does Kevin the backyard scientist know you're doing this?

10:43No.

10:44This is our little secret, mom.

10:46But the question was...

10:48Lava!

10:49Lava!

10:50Did I actually get any in the lamp?

10:52This is the moment of truth.

10:54Hand marks do it.

10:55Because I only have one pull.

11:00And the anticipation had us feeling like Christmas morning.

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11:44Now back to my precision lava pouring skills.

11:57But had I poured too much...

12:05...ultimately I felt like the lava gods would be pleased.

12:10While it is beautiful, it's arguably less practical.

12:12So it's time to pick a winner.

12:14I'd like to point out something.

12:15You didn't make a lamp.

12:16You destroyed a lamp.

12:17I made a lamp.

12:18I guess.

12:24I suppose even the lava gods agreed with Bob's logic, which meant laser was on the board

12:28with one, lightning with two, and the x-factor with a very sad zero.

12:32Which meant I'd have to change that in the LiPo battery round.

12:35All right, here we go.

12:36More questionable science.

12:39Uh, right, right.

12:40Oh no, right!

12:41I changed the thing on mine to the right.

12:44Oh, the right.

12:45Okay.

12:46It's not going to blow up in our face, is it?

12:47And it did blow up, but it did it gorgeously.

12:51There it is.

12:52Whoa.

12:54The laser burned right through the battery's casing.

12:56Don't try this at home, kids.

12:58And quickly burned off all the excess energy left stored inside the battery.

13:01Laser did some sweet damage to that thing.

13:03Definitely did.

13:08And once it was actually dead, we were able to see the many battery layers of

13:11smoldering wreckage the laser left behind.

13:14Ooh, nice and sizzly.

13:15Bob, can I just point out how you kind of look like a fly right now?

13:18Do I?

13:19For lightning, I'm going to let the battery destroy itself by connecting its leads with

13:24a very low resistance wire that will allow it to kind of flow.

13:27A classic METI start.

13:30Don't do that.

13:31Oh my god.

13:32To an otherwise interesting plan.

13:33Because by connecting the leads, he's created a path for the electrons to flow

13:37with essentially no resistance.

13:39This basically causes a stampede of electrons trying to squeeze through the wire so intense,

13:44it generated a bunch of heat that melted the connections on the flimsy white wire.

13:48So in an effort to scale up that flimsy white wire so that the battery would

13:52have to fail from the inside, METI fashioned himself this giant mad scientist switch.

13:57It's a huge switch.

13:59I know, this looks really fun.

14:00I'm not going to lie.

14:01I'll step back, that's for sure.

14:03Because only one thing would die today.

14:05And it actually wasn't the battery.

14:08Hello?

14:08Boo!

14:10It was METI's winning streak.

14:11Is it getting warm?

14:12I don't know if it's the sun or the battery.

14:14Let's see what's wrong with the battery.

14:15So METI attempted to MacGyver's way to a solution, but he was shocked to find out

14:20You're shorting!

14:21Oh my god.

14:22That these batteries had a failsafe internally that prevent them from shorting themselves out.

14:26Let me use the knife.

14:28Whoa!

14:29Whoa!

14:30Oh my god!

14:31So in the end, the only thing that was actually destroyed was the knife.

14:35These batteries are not safe, man.

14:37So now the X factor was up.

14:39This is how you do it, boys.

14:41And I was going crossbow.

14:42Now last time my fatal flaw was aiming at a target that was physically impossible to hit.

14:48Dang it!

14:48So this time I was picking a distance that would be physically impossible to miss.

14:52You missed.

14:52Dang it!

14:53It's going to be a long video.

14:54Wow.

14:57This is how you do it.

15:06Oh my god!

15:11The puncturing metal dart did what METI couldn't do

15:15by connecting all the layers of the battery.

15:17First try!

15:18Right there!

15:18First try!

15:19Causing the electron stampede so small that resulted in beautiful flames.

15:26Well, boys.

15:27Yeah.

15:27Take it.

15:28Yours.

15:29Just kidding.

15:29There's nothing in there.

15:30And thus for the first time, X factor was on the board.

15:33And according to this crystal ball we were about to destroy,

15:35I saw many more points in my future.

15:38Laser versus crystal ball, Bob.

15:39I feel like lasers pass through glass.

15:41Yeah, I don't know why I'm here.

15:42Bob, have a little confidence, buddy.

15:45Some of the greatest discoveries in scientific history came from that aha moment.

15:48We might be about to find the cure to cancer here.

15:52Okay.

15:53Feeling inspired, Bob gave his laser a shot.

15:55And once it hit the crystal ball...

15:57Wow!

15:58It's beautiful!

16:00Double rainbow!

16:01It was a beautiful light show,

16:03but the infrared camera indicated that the only effect Bob had...

16:07I might be turning the wall into lava.

16:09You're laser.

16:10You're not lava, Bob.

16:12I'm both.

16:15I don't know if we cured cancer.

16:16It didn't even notice the globe.

16:18Loser!

16:19Meanwhile, Team X Factor had no doubts about its upcoming hole-in-one.

16:24This, while it might look like a normal golf club...

16:27Hard guy.

16:28This is actually a firearm.

16:30Goggles, where's my goggles?

16:32Three, two, one, four!

16:42New hole in the wall.

16:43Now you know what you're up against.

16:45I see shards of glass.

16:48I'm getting back.

16:49I don't see it being that strong.

16:51You're gonna regret those words, buddy.

16:53Three, two, one.

16:55Yeah, it was super ineffective.

16:58Oh, that feels very disappointing.

17:01And there are some cracks here.

17:02Oh, you know what I'm thinking?

17:03So I called in an assist,

17:05just like loosening the jar of pickles for my buddy, Isaac Newton.

17:08I thought everyone got one try.

17:10You guys might want to step back.

17:11Three, two, one.

17:16Oh my god.

17:18Oh no!

17:19You broke your logo!

17:20I'm literally destroying this thing.

17:23I'm literally destroying the floor.

17:25At best, you could argue I turned the crystal ball into a bowling ball.

17:29I think that's a win for glass.

17:31Bob and I are no match for this thing.

17:33It's up to you.

17:34It would all come down to whatever insane invention Mehdi had brought in.

17:37We brought in a huge capacitor that can deliver 100,000 amps,

17:41as much as one lightning strike.

17:43Okay.

17:44As much energy as a 50 caliber sniper rifle.

17:47All right, I think we get the point.

17:48It can power 100,000 homes.

17:50Really?

17:50For a microsecond, yeah.

17:53It's hissing.

17:55Three, two, one, zero.

18:00And the test run we set up.

18:02Gosh, that was loud.

18:04Show that he might have this crystal ball in the bag.

18:07I've never done something like this before.

18:09I'm excited.

18:10It's gonna be fun, yeah.

18:11Three, two, one, zero.

18:22Yeah!

18:24I didn't expect that at all.

18:26None of us did.

18:27But maybe that's because we'd finally harnessed enough energy

18:30to destroy that dang crystal ball.

18:32No way.

18:34The metallicized glass.

18:35Well, Bob, I think we got to give this one to Mehdi.

18:38Does that mean he cleans it up?

18:40Yeah.

18:40Yeah, winner cleans up.

18:41Sorry, Mehdi.

18:42Mehdi added another tally to the score as we moved to the watermelon round.

18:46So Bob let us know what he was planning to do with his adorable little friend.

18:50We're gonna go all James Bond on this guy and go right down that.

18:53Googly eyes now suddenly seem much more sinister.

18:55Well, they were sitting around.

18:56I figured, why not?

18:57We're gonna leave this to you.

18:58Okay.

18:58Chance of cutting a watermelon.

19:00Here we go.

19:01Three, two, one.

19:04Oh, there you go.

19:05Tell us where you hid the treasure.

19:07But the highly trained Double O Melon didn't seem like he was gonna crack.

19:11So Bob turned up the heat.

19:13Oh, no, Bob, stop!

19:15Oh, no!

19:16I'm so sorry.

19:18Actually, that was kind of fun.

19:20Oh, no!

19:22It's like LASIK.

19:23Oh, gosh, that looks horrible.

19:26Well, would you want to see what it tastes like?

19:28But all that and it only cut the watermelon about an inch deep.

19:31So I had to apply a little old-fashioned elbow grease.

19:36You said you work out?

19:38Clearly.

19:40Wow, that looks gross.

19:43It has a hint of laser.

19:44Yeah.

19:45Refreshing 100 degree watermelon.

19:47Gordon Ramsay, watch out.

19:48Next up was lightning.

19:50You remember what I did to the crystal ball?

19:51I do.

19:52Remember what I did to the crystal ball?

19:53I do, actually.

19:54We're gonna do the same thing to this poor watermelon.

19:57Paint the room with watermelon.

19:59This was one that might require the bulletproof safety barrier.

20:02Let's make the watermelon vapor melon.

20:05Three, two, one, zero.

20:13On second thought, the barrier was overkill.

20:15That didn't do anything.

20:20What happened?

20:22I call that an electro bust.

20:24No, no, you cracked the watermelon.

20:25You cracked the watermelon.

20:26You did, like, what a knife could do.

20:28Oh, my God.

20:32That looks disgusting.

20:34I think the watermelon absorbed all the shock from the explosion,

20:38and I wonder how it tastes like.

20:41And my entry would take some explaining.

20:43All right, for the X-Factor,

20:44you know if you have a soda bottle and you shake it up,

20:46it has a lot of pressure and wants to expand?

20:48Sure.

20:49I'm basically gonna take a really cold liquid that will give off gas

20:51and do the same effect and stick it in the bottle.

20:53I literally did this in an earlier video of yours.

20:55I don't know what you're talking about.

20:56Let's go to the clip.

20:57Wait, you can't call it.

20:58So back at the house, while Science Bob distracted the crowd

21:01with liquid nitrogen powered exploding watermelons.

21:03Cut the clip!

21:04Cut the clip!

21:05Stop it!

21:06Before I get interrupted again,

21:07let me put on the most important touch.

21:10It's a Cyclops.

21:11And then the second most important touch,

21:13which is the activating mixture,

21:14and then hightail it out of there behind the safety glass

21:17because this water minion was gonna go off any second.

21:22Now, this is real boring until it's not.

21:25Oh, I can't handle this.

21:27Oh, oh, oh, something's lifting up there.

21:29Uh-oh.

21:32Oh my god!

21:34That was loud!

21:36Yeah!

21:38Smashing success.

21:40Wow.

21:42It smells amazing.

21:45Oh, look at the ceiling.

21:47Well...

21:48Yeah, I know.

21:49You guys don't even need to say it.

21:51Fine, fine, take it.

21:52What's up?

21:53X-Factor!

21:54Only one round left.

21:55You got three points.

21:56I've got two points.

21:58Bob's got one.

21:58And in the two point finale, it's anybody's game except for Bob's.

22:02You can technically tie it best.

22:04And we'd all have to break out the big guns

22:06as we moved into our safest round yet.

22:09Cracking open a reinforced vault filled with cash.

22:12Whoever stagged the most money would win this round

22:15and potentially the whole championship.

22:17Finally, a challenge worthy of a laser.

22:20Any concern about lighting the money on fire?

22:22Lots.

22:22I'm assuming the money's down here.

22:24Therefore, I will cut in here and I walk away with all the money.

22:28Let's roll.

22:29The police are coming.

22:30We only got two minutes.

22:31Let's pull off this heist.

22:32And Bob's laser immediately started tearing deeply into the recesses of the vault.

22:37Wow.

22:38And we wondered briefly whether it would make through the thicker mechanism.

22:42Oh, yeah.

22:43But we didn't need to worry at all as it cut through them like paper.

22:47We did need to worry, though, about the sparks.

22:50Oh, I feel like there's some burning cash in that safe, Benny.

22:55The question was how much cash Bob would be able to salvage after he opened the door.

23:04You might have welded it back.

23:07I want my money.

23:09And so this operation depended on me to act as the muscle.

23:16After one final struggle, Bob finally opened up the door to his.

23:24There is literally nothing left in there.

23:27That's not true.

23:28Look, I see a dollar.

23:30Not all is lost.

23:31You have a corner of a dollar.

23:33You did it, Bob.

23:34So Bob's final score was 25 cents.

23:37And we moved on to see what lightning could do.

23:39What's the plan, Matty?

23:40750 amps of current cut through this like butter.

23:44Can you top 3,000 watts?

23:46Mine is 31,000 watts.

23:48That's way bigger than that, man.

23:50Okay.

23:50Let's do this.

23:54Wow.

23:55Holy cow, that's fast.

23:58Why did I pick lasers?

23:59That was beyond me because frankly, Matty's was stunning.

24:02It's like a real life lightsaber.

24:04It glowed brighter as it got hotter and hotter,

24:07making even quicker work of the vault's latching mechanisms.

24:10But eventually it got so hot.

24:11This is getting too hot.

24:12That Matty's gloves almost melted off his hand.

24:16Which of course, he had to show us up close.

24:18Careful, man.

24:18Careful.

24:19Ultimately, he made much quicker work than laser.

24:24But he also burned through the money.

24:26The money.

24:27Much quicker than laser had.

24:28My money.

24:29Come on, man.

24:30That's too late.

24:35Which meant Matty recovered even less than Bob.

24:37Fortunately, neither one of you guys got any money.

24:40Which means the stage is now set for the X Factor.

24:45We'll do cool sound effects with it.

24:48All right, gentlemen.

24:48You might notice this safe is sitting on a big red X.

24:52That's because for my final X Factor,

24:55my plan is to go with 170 feet of pure,

24:58unadulterated gravitational potential energy.

25:02Let's hook it up.

25:03Oh my God.

25:04Don't help him.

25:04It had come to this.

25:06Because I couldn't be sure this would crack it open.

25:08But...

25:10Yes!

25:11I think gravity's gonna win this one.

25:13If I even got one dollar out of this thing...

25:15Safe doesn't stand a chance there.

25:17That's really tall.

25:19I could win the entire championship.

25:22So let's do it.

25:23Okay.

25:25Ten.

25:26Nine.

25:27Eight.

25:28Seven.

25:30Six.

25:31Five.

25:32Four.

25:33Three.

25:34Two.

25:36One.

25:37Go!

25:38Let's go!

25:38Oh my God!

25:39It's going!

25:42Oh my God!

25:47That was a big smash.

25:49Wow!

25:50Let's go!

25:52Wow!

25:53At least your money is safe in the safe.

25:55But how many dollars have I gotten out of there?

25:57The door is cracked open.

25:59I could definitely get in there.

26:01I feel like I want to run it one more time.

26:03Three.

26:04Two.

26:05One.

26:06Hit it!

26:12The safe door flew off the hinges like a leaf falling off a tree.

26:17Or a bird flying through the wind.

26:19Or...

26:19My money!

26:21That's right.

26:22My money.

26:23Oh, too bad!

26:24Your money's flowing away.

26:25I didn't think about the wind!

26:27Oh, these are like hundreds!

26:29Put it in your pocket, yeah.

26:30Hey!

26:31With all the interference from the wind, it was hard to get a final tally.

26:34But I was pretty sure I could count more than one dollar.

26:37Well, I'm nothing if not a generous host.

26:40Oh.

26:40Here's a little something for your efforts.

26:43Thank you, sir.

26:44Sorry, gentlemen.

26:45There can only be one winner.

26:46I'm just happy it was me.

26:48Hey, there are some electronics in there.

26:50What is that?

26:50Oh, watch out, Matty.

26:51Those could be live.

26:54What did you put there?

26:55Now, you might have been just as surprised as me.

26:57The X Factor actually won.

26:59But what should not hopefully surprise you,

27:01after watching all the videos I've been making on my YouTube channel for the last 12 years,

27:06is that learning science and engineering doesn't have to be sucky and boring.

27:11Which is exactly why I started a toy company called Crunch Labs,

27:14with the express goal of helping kids think like an engineer

27:18through monthly toys that get delivered to your door,

27:20or you put it together with me.

27:21And having already shipped millions of these boxes, the data is in.

27:2587% of kids rated an 8 out of 10 on a fun scale out of 10.

27:29But here's the dirty secret.

27:31More than three out of four parents said their child

27:33gained a new passion around STEM and engineering from the boxes.

27:36Our secret sauce here, just like on my videos,

27:39is hiding the vegetable so everyone leaves feeling stoked about the outcome.

27:43On top of that, each month your box has a chance to contain the Platinum Ticket.

27:46And if you get it...

27:47Oh my God!

27:49The Platinum Ticket, oh my God!

27:50Well, then you're coming out here to Crunch Labs to build with me and my team for a day.

27:53So if you want to embark on this monthly journey with me

27:56and get a Christmas morning reaction like this...

27:58Oh my God!

28:00What's wrong?

28:02Just go to crunchlabs.com or use the link in the video description

28:05where we're giving away those two boxes free as a holiday special.

28:09Thanks for watching.

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