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[01:58] we are very glad that you are here here what's going on well it's our very first Vsauce YouTube live stream they said it couldn't be done but actually the technology has been possible for years and now we've jumped on um and we're

[02:12] going to be answering questions today we're going to be uh showing you the inner contents of our brains and our minds um ask questions over Twitter send them to tweet sauce at vauce 2 at Vsauce 3 numeral 2 and 3 yep there's links down

[02:29] in the description for those oh yeah yeah perfect easy and then also uh Kevin is not normally this flat he is joining us from Pennsylvania he just is that dedicated and and uh we're also going to be unboxing the latest curiosity box

[02:42] which is amazing it's full of science we're going to be doing some of those we're going to be doing some of those experiments um but uh first things first the the most asked question I'm just going to get to it because the the most

[02:54] going to get to it because the the most asked question is why has Michael forsaken us where's the video when's the new video coming well if you're watching this live stream right now you're going to get

[03:06] you're going to get a sneak peek and you're going to get some 411 as the kids you're going to get some 411 as the kids say so um I've been obviously uh doing the brain Candy tour taking science and Vsauce all around the country we've got

[03:18] more of that coming and while I was doing that I was working on a whole series I'm going to do about should I say say it Dimensions space the nature of space and

[03:31] the nature of how little or much of it we live in the first episode is about Earth We're All familiar with Earth and I've been doing a lot of calculations research and I'm working with Eric our brilliant visual effects guy on some

[03:44] really cool things and I wanted to show you but we couldn't make that work away I can't even reach to play anything so you'll have to just you'll just have to wait I my my hope is that it comes out during VidCon I've also got a really

[03:58] exciting dong episode coming out then and you know I appreciate everyone's patience um I I'm doing dong episodes really frequently but the vau one episodes are like my passion on a plate it's what I've been obsessed with it's

[04:12] what I've just read 12 books about and I think it's worth it I think that tackling subjects even if it takes a while takes a lot of talking with and everything's kind of Novel and it's not just hey I googled this and here's

[04:25] what Wikipedia said I think that's worth it um but that said we've got got the dong Channel that's full of content and I don't want to say too much else about how I did like a lot of videos about Infinity for a while well just you wait

[04:41] I I I can't even tell you what I'm doing this summer but I really hope it's going to open my mind to things that have never been seen shown or felt that's all I can say you're also probably wondering what this box is in

[04:55] front of me I'm going to get to this before I actually uh get to questions this was made by a great guy named Mitchell he gave it to me at brain candy and it's a Jack In The Box but what could be inside of it well I'll just

[05:08] kind of quiet you might not be able to hear it oh it just popped open but but I'm kind of stuck kind of stuck who hey it's Michael the Jack in the Box

[05:22] how beautiful is that have you seen this Kevin no I haven't seen before but I like that it didn't actually pop up and you had to yeah I think that's kind of the story of my life but let's start

[05:36] with some questions the first one I want to get to came from Twitter even before the live stream started and the question was ooh let's just let's just dive was ooh let's just let's just dive into um what what would our channels

[05:53] taste like if they were actually sauces you can you can here's what I'd like to do I'd like us to say what what sauce our channel is that's like a real sauce okay so if there had to be a condiment that already exists that was renamed

[06:07] would it be um who wants to start because I didn't prepare an answer I mean I'll I'll go stealing anyone's sauce I would go with a nice hollay sauce tell me why it's

[06:21] it's it's rich and and creamy and satisfying but also probably not very satisfying but also probably not very good for you to have a lot of um Holland days was the first thing that came to my mind cuz it seems like a

[06:34] because no one's ever just like boy I want some hollay sauce right now yeah you don't really dip stuff in Holland days you cover things in hollay the question came from Super Deck 64 by the way Dean Murphy thanks for the question

[06:47] way Dean Murphy thanks for the question Kevin what sauce in the real world is vauce 2 um I I think sweet and sour would be V sauce too you know I like to blend kind of like hopeful messages with like a

[07:01] of like hopeful messages with like a little bit of of sadness so I think you get the sweet and you get the sour so I think V sauce too kind of covers those two elements of uh The Human Experience I like that and the taste experience

[07:15] really I like that a lot cuz I think that sweet and sour sauce is a dipping sauce you can dip things in it but you can also marinate things in it so it's both exciting for a second and exciting to live in okay V sauce one

[07:30] I'm I'm going to say brown sauce good old HP brown sauce it's more common in the UK in the Commonwealth but it's basically people will say I'm not ketchup with a whole lot more vinegar and it's brown so it's like this very

[07:48] adult kind of taste like it kind of tastes like maybe an old man might I don't know but also it's very serious brown sauce around I get very excited and I eat too much and I hope that's how

[08:01] people feel about V sauce they're excited when things happen and then they overboard and they uh but they don't regret it all right thank you for that regret it all right thank you for that question Dean Murphy um it is just 10

[08:15] minutes into the live stream which means it's time for us to take out the first item from the Curiosity box this has been going on for almost a year yeah it'll be a year what next month tell us Jake about what the Curiosity box is so

[08:31] we' had been working on for a really long time and it's a quarterly subscription box filled with science experiments science toys books t-shirts really like and what's really cool about it is that everything in here besides

[08:45] the book was uh was created by us that's right yeah yeah uh as soon as we start writing books like four books a year then it'll only be our books but vauce probably make them for my entire life but they're only auditory and visual

[09:02] this is tactile and it's even smell smell Vision sometimes you can get all your other senses wrapped around science it takes that passive makes it something that you can share with others physically exactly so what I

[09:16] want to do is look at just one of the items first the t-shirt that came in the box that you can currently get at curiosity box.com it is a mathematical that we let's not talk too much about it yeah let's not talk let's let's knife

[09:28] this open this is the safest way to do it this is literally how the Box arrives and it has these cool you probably can't see it but it has cool question marks on mention is that a portion of the proceeds from every box goes to

[09:43] we've worked with the Alzheimer's uh Alzheimer's Charities for a long time Alzheimer's Charities for a long time and man uh how how cool has that been like and how perfect is it for the box like the box is all about brain health

[09:56] stimulation that's super smart and and inspires you to explore but also all the money goes not just to um Alzheimer's Charities but to alzheimer's research specifically all right here we go I'm going to cut this seal off and I

[10:11] think I did some math earlier by the next box we should be at $100,000 donated that's amazing yeah that's amazing thank you guys for supporting the Curiosity box and its you know cause to both put science in people's hands

[10:24] and also help Alzheimer's research it's not just about people who are at risk or or currently have Alzheimer's it's going to help us learn all about all of our brains here comes the opening of the box I'll open it so that you can pretend

[10:37] I'll open it so that you can pretend that it's you opening it that it's you opening it whoa look at that it's an octopus named ink which is short for Kevin it is not short for

[10:51] Kevin it is actually short for inquisitive inquisitive he's a it's a there there he is here's a a physical version so cute that actually came in a previous box too okay so what is this right on

[11:07] top curiosity magazine that's right we write articles things that we find really cool that you're not ever going to find in a video like uh Kevin wrote about the fake rubber you chew if you want to steal this screenshot

[11:23] now and that's all you get okay Jake open the t-shirt for me all right here we go here's the T-shirt box and one cool thing with these boxes that actually for the next one but in this current one there's an image on every

[11:35] side uh that makes a larger image in total but here's the shirt let's open it total but here's the shirt let's open it up ooh wow oo mathematical so what's

[11:47] looking at well let me hold it and see if I can bring it closer to the camera check this out right I'm actually wearing it ah Kevin's wearing the shirt there you go he's a cool guy what a great fit oh my gosh Vsauce makes the

[12:01] great fit oh my gosh Vsauce makes the best T-shirt is that Egyptian cotton wow does does the tag literally say Vsauce and actually there is no scratchy tag and actually there is no scratchy tag Wow we must be experts so this this

[12:13] t-shirt isn't just a fun design that makes the Vsauce V it is an example of what's called a modular Tim table we've got numbers 1 through 40 around a circle clockwise and then each number is connected by a straight line to what it

[12:28] connected by a straight line to what it is Time 4 so the number one is connected to four the number two is connected to eight there's a line between 3 and 12 as you want if you get all the way up to 40 you can just start pretending that

[12:42] the number one is 41 and draw a new line we didn't because we didn't need that many but amazingly Cool Shapes come out of this uh and uh Kevin and I played around like for half a day trying to find one that kind of looked like the

[12:55] Vsauce logo and we found that 1 through 40 on a circle using the four times table looks like a V and V sauce and that's in yellow here and does this glow doesn't glow in the dark but future shirts might so anyway what I love about

[13:12] and look at the cool logo but when people ask you what it's about you have an opportunity to teach them the wonders of modular multiplication like that's a slam dunk that

[13:26] is okay so any other comments about shirts that I'm for well the thing is is you also don't have to memorize all of that because thanks to the magazine you could actually learn all about it here so we like wrot you can see this can you

[13:40] wearing the shirt for a second oh wow what a good looking yeah too close too close we can we can zoom back Jake is in the magazine lot of lot of oh that's me yeah there's a lot of there's a lot of cute uh fashion shots

[13:55] of us if you if you like that kind of thing and yeah Kevin's right the we love about the box is that it's not just physics toys and tools and stuff but you actually get what we think is a better explanation of the items then you

[14:08] can get anywhere else or even if you searched online for a long time um also searched online for a long time um also I wanted to say that um I'm going to be describing the math behind the shirt in my next video which like I said will be

[14:20] coming out at the end of next week while I'm at VidCon very excited for that one part of a series I've actually written two episodes already in the series so once once the once the first script is like where I want it to be then I can

[14:34] film both and the second one involves mirrors you may say how are mirrors related to how much of Earth you can see at once well stay tuned yeah I can't wait um all right now we're going to get to other things in the box but the next

[14:49] thing I wanted to do is challenge you guys to some lateral thinking puzzles and remember all of you out watching submit questions you want us to answer on Twitter at tweet sweat sauce at vauce 3 numeral 3 at vauce 2 numeral

[15:02] 2 and we'll get to those after this but I was looking through my bookshelf this have not opened since I was in Middle School and it's full of riddles that require you to think laterally okay it's not like you have to do a bunch of math

[15:16] down or up you just have to dive out and figure out what could really be meant by the puzzle all right I I I really have not opened this since I got it so I'm just going to randomly find one

[15:32] one okay a man sat perfectly still for 88 hours why h a man sat perfectly still for 88

[15:47] hours why let's see how many days is 88 hours it's it's not even an integer number of days about 3 and a half

[15:59] number of days about 3 and a half 3 hours is 72 so yeah then it's an additional uh 16 are they all in a row it sounds like 16 are they all in a row it sounds like they're in a

[16:16] it says 88 hours straight yeah oh it does say straight let me make sure no it doesn't that probably still for 88 hours oh yeah so he it could not be in a row so it could have just been over the course of a week or so he said still for

[16:29] that many hours yeah but why perfectly still like what's the is that a clue it's not just still but perfectly still maybe he's dead that's what I was laying down well right if he died and no one

[16:44] found his body for 88 hours then he was perfectly still for that time then he was discovered and moved yeah Kevin do you have a guess well what if he's an astronaut traveling to the Moon how long does that take and also

[16:59] are you TR are you perfectly still it it takes 3 days it takes 3 takes 3 days it takes 3 days um so 88 hours might be in the to the moon but I've seen Apollo 13 they float around they listen to music they

[17:14] float around they listen to music they do streams with President Nixon yeah he's still doing the streams they still call Nixon yeah they still they still well um he's now sitting still forever do you think I should look up

[17:27] to see if anyone else has some fun answers uh the riddle by the way is a answers uh the riddle by the way is a man sat perfectly still for 88 hours why man sat perfectly still for 88 hours why okay now wow I got 48 additional an

[17:42] someone said riger mortis yeah and I think that fits along with the he died and wasn't discovered for he sat there cuz he had a dentist appointment for 8 hours each week for 11 weeks I think that could be a good approach like it's

[17:55] just that we've added up him attending you know an MRI you know an MRI appointment or um he could be a street stand perfectly still on the street there just a statue but this book was

[18:09] know were street performers who froze like popular then I just didn't go out on the streets back in the early 90s cuz I was just a kid um I'm not sure let's just let's look up the uh answer here's here's the

[18:23] answer the answer is chapter 411 now the answer is oh my gosh you ready mhm the man had a nasty toothache and he went to the dentists at 5:00 p.m.

[18:35] on a Friday evening the dentist's assistants including the an dentist could not administer an anesthetic the man insisted that the dentist should operate even without anesthetic so the dentist said that he

[18:48] chair this was done the dentist then suffered a heart attack and died the and unable to move it was a holiday weekend and no staff reported for working until 9:00 a.m. on the following Tuesday Morning 88 hours later uh and

[19:03] the audio is out of sync is it out of sync Eric Eric Eric is is is listening to the live in the live yeah and then he's going to look up we can see what the delay is has

[19:17] headphones on so he can't hear us but he'll hear us in the live stream talking to him I'm excited for this moment he still hasn't heard he doesn't know that's crazy so but while we wait for this I've got a lot of questions about

[19:29] this shipping international oh yeah go ahead it does you if you go to the drop down menu on the right it should show uh a flag and you can just choose uh what country you are sorry yes Eric yes it's out of say what it's out of say

[19:44] oh how do we fix that how do we fix I looked it up already it's just a problem okay so we just heard from uh Eric that it's his fault he purposefully made the audio out of sync and I think what we should do is just keep it the

[19:58] way it is how bad is it Eric it's like a couple seconds it's a couple seconds off we're already 20 minutes into it so I say we just get to the next item and by like this isn't going to live on bauce one forever so yeah I think it's I think

[20:14] just deal with the audio being out of sync and um know that you still saw have a fear which is that I'm scared again that it will just go away forever exactly yeah and people they'll have to

[20:28] but we can invest while we do this Eric do you want to just investigate and see if we can have to stop start okay investigate uh Jake do you want to open we do that though I wanted to take a

[20:42] selfie of us doing the stream that's how all good streams it and talk about it I'm going to tweet that out okay so what do we have next and currently this is the one that is currently um shipping so if you want to

[20:58] order it you'll will get this very box ooh okay we're going to go to one of the ooh okay we're going to go to one of the experiments first um so in this box it comes with Ink's glow-in-the-dark wonderful world of slime kit and it

[21:10] that you can make yourself you can create your own non- neonian fluid which is pretty awesome um and I've already made one just for this very purpose to the glow-in-the-dark function right now maybe let's see if we can I have a black

[21:26] light uh but it's too bright here so so I can really let's see if we can hold on I got an idea I got an idea let's see let's see maybe if I get really close let's see maybe if I get really close and put it in the

[21:41] looks cool give it a poke while you're up close like an ASMR video oop it's dripping well it's only my laptop that literally my the script for my next get it comes with little containers so you can keep it and just make make some

[21:56] slime and play with it so that's one of the experiments it's really cool there's a little Kevin back there playing with it yeah the Box isn't like this isn't someone else's slime this is packaged up

[22:08] Michael if you want to open it it comes with a whole entire guide about different kinds of slime snail slime mucus um what a non- neonian fluid is what a Newtonian fluid is kind of goes through the whole thing oh there it is

[22:23] yeah so this is the booklet that comes in the box and like I said it's not just hey kitchen science slime slime isn't slime cool it's how would Vsauce do kitchen science in your home well we would provide you with a giant book full

[22:37] of what slime is scientifically how animals use it what it is that you've created what glow-in-the-dark means it's really really cool uh non- Newtonian fluids the whole thing about that we got a picture of Isaac Newton in there this

[22:50] a picture of Isaac Newton in there this is a Vsauce video in your hands for a good cause curiosity box.com well somebody even made Noah linning made an unofficial subreddit for the Curiosity box oh did he I love I

[23:04] love that um but let's go to a question so um this question actually came should have a question yeah should we just try and cuz I think what we can do we're all start it again it will be at the same watch page are you sure yeah so we could

[23:21] because they're saying it's 5 seconds and that's not very and that's not very good we'll be back in probably 15 seconds maybe more like 30 no here I

[23:44] again okay it is very hot okay so now we should be back I

[23:56] of the audio problems um and uh it is getting really hot in here I was waiting to turn off the air conditioner uh so that the audio would gotten a sweat rag all right now this is a question I'm curious to hear what you

[24:11] a question I'm curious to hear what you guys think because we we talk about um science and YouTube a lot we talk about memes sometimes this came from the uh the subreddit meme economy oh yeah and they asked with normification and

[24:25] economic bubble happening so often with memes what is the best way to find stable long-term memes with good growth for those of you who aren't followers of the meme economy let me explain that it's basically a

[24:38] it's basically a NASDAQ uh trading uh area for memes and jokes and they rate how fresh a meme is like if you've got a whole bunch of them lot of likes on you know Facebook or Reddit or Instagram or wherever you put

[24:52] them or is it already an old meme are you going to look like you're lame and they track the popularity of memes and I said NASDAQ but they they call it Nas dank uh obviously so the question is what's a good way to find stable memes

[25:06] always be funny or at least be funny for a long time and won't be and won't the bubble won't burst meaning you know some company tweets the meme and it completely becomes not funny and subversive

[25:19] subversive anymore um also there's still a delay there's still an audio delay which means I think there's just going to be a delay really do about it okay sorry so what was the question

[25:34] Kevin did you hear the question something about memes yeah question something about memes yeah exactly so um the question is a meme will pop up and it'll be funny for a while but then inevitably you know my

[25:48] mom shares it on Facebook and then a big company does and all of a sudden it's not cool and subversive anymore I think I think as soon as it's um trending as a moment on Twitter and it's over and and and so how do you what makes a meme more

[26:04] likely to be fresh for a long time and not burst I think it just has to be kind of withheld within like a certain subgroup withheld within like a certain subgroup and not um turn into like a trending

[26:18] and not um turn into like a trending moment yeah no I uh I 100% agree I think that elements that make something less likely to become mainstream like being way too niche or you know in a lot of cases it's just if a meme is offensive

[26:32] it's never going to be shared by companies it's never going to become mainstream um and I think that's been the story of human culture ever since it the story of human culture ever since it began you know like if something was too

[26:45] palatable to the masses it would lose its kind of like Edge right its coolness so um let's see are you guys see other questions coming in that you like thank you meme economy for that uh I should really do a whole video on that topic

[26:59] kinds of social theories about how long kinds of social theories about how long it takes for something to become uh lame and then come back like beards for instance beards were cool uh in old

[27:12] timey days but then for like my dad a beard was ridiculous that's what old men had so so I grew up with a whole generation of adults that didn't have beards and so when I got a beard it was like yeah take that I have my own

[27:26] identity and and you know I think my kids will probably think that beards are for old people and they'll all love shaving so hey good long-term investment shaving so hey good long-term investment razor blades that you heard it here

[27:39] razor blades that you heard it here first any other questions you want to do um oh here's a good one uh Gaga D asks do you say GIF or GIF

[27:52] good question Kevin you answer first I've always said GIF um I didn't hear sh until later until I kind of already made up my mind that it was gift so it wasn't really an instance where I was going to say you know all of a sudden switch it

[28:06] to to JF plus I love I'm a huge peanut butter guy and GIF is a peanut butter so I like to keep that in the realm of peanut butter and GIF in the realm of you know animated images um so I do know that the creator

[28:21] of the format said it's pronounced GIF correct however I go with GIF I mean Unique it's different gif as Kevin pointed out has already taken and also

[28:33] if we do want to be honest about it it is graphical not gical not graphical so it's still the same obviously that pronounced GIF and not GIF but for me GIF is is what's most reasonable yeah

[28:47] GIF is is what's most reasonable yeah you know what I I pronounce it gif all GIF sorry I pronounce it gif and it's all for the same reasons I am a language description I believe that what is correct is what people do not what some

[29:01] rule book says that would be a language prescription and I understand that the be pronounced GIF because they had the whole like choosy developers choose GIF uh you know slogan but here's the thing it became so popular that the Creator no

[29:16] longer owns it and that's a sign of huge success uh you can hear this from like I in Star Wars like it became bigger than his own personal thing and all of a anymore but it's you and the fans and the viewers and if all your viewers are

[29:31] the viewers and if all your viewers are calling it uh a gif because GIF is well I guess I don't know how GIF became more common but uh you just have to surrender and say Society is chosen I mean if everyone started calling vauce the sauce

[29:47] I would be upset but I would understand that if that became the common way to refer to us then that's the way it would be yeah I'm going to do one thing real so we're all aware I'm going to move the webcam off and just mess around with the

[30:01] computer and see if I can delay the video so it matches with the audio okay that I have and I like problem solving technology all right so so you'll keep the camera pointed at us so the camera will still be pointed at you make sure

[30:13] it's like lined up so you get Kevin and I ooh oh drama shot how's that oh no maybe a little bit up I like that you cut with my bald head people will think that yeah there you go let's keep that okay and let me play with the computer

[30:27] okay cool um okay so for those of you who have just joined us um the most asked question is when is Michael gonna make a video I hate him he has forsaken us and that couldn't be further from the truth I have done nothing but work on a

[30:42] new series that uh it's like my Infinity Series but it's going to be about dimensions and that next video the first video in that series should come out um at the end of next week this week if you believe the week starts on Sunday I'm

[30:57] really excited excited about it and it's taken an enormous amount of reading I've that's why it took so long I just like got so obsessed with mirror images that I wrote a whole other video and then I was like ah but I should film um I'm

[31:10] also working on a project that I cannot tell you about until VidCon starts it'll actually been very busy with it's why I went to London last week to interview an went to London last week to interview an amazing person and um we're here to

[31:23] answer your questions send them over Twitter in fact I'm going to look at the very first question that I see the very most recent are you guys ready this could be dangerous the newest question is it says it's good the video was

[31:36] already delayed the audio came before the video not a question the first question is when did Vsauce start and why Vsauce turned seven years old in why Vsauce turned seven years old in April uh of this year seven years um

[31:49] and Kevin you guys have also made hundreds of videos uh it's almost crazy how deep that archive gets after 7 years with like no breaks um that's something

[32:02] about us that we're not like TV where we don't take some kind of break between Seasons you know where we actually don't work at all not all TV shows are like that but as soon as I put a video out I'm working on the next one but uh it's

[32:17] worth it because every video is different and it's always something that I'm insanely passionate about it never feels old it never feels like a job and is like why are you working in reading and I'm like well because if I didn't

[32:31] have a channel I would be reading this same book right now but at least at least because I I have a a YouTube channel I can build a conversation about cool things that scientists and mathematicians are doing so that is very

[32:47] cool Kevin any questions coming in for you you want to answer yeah there was one that I think that you know we get a lot um and that's you know just any general advice for people trying trying to start a YouTube channel and um my

[33:01] advice is always to just do videos about stuff that you're interested in it doesn't make it feel like work you know um what Michael was just saying is definitely true like whenever I've been working on a video it's always because

[33:14] I'm really excited to see what it looks like when it's done um and it doesn't like when it's done um and it doesn't feel like uh a laborious activity at all so um often I think that people get this stuck on this idea that they have to

[33:28] make videos that you know that they think other people will like or something when it's really like sort of a marriage between like what you want to see and you know obviously what what other people want to watch too but at

[33:41] the end of the day you know you really should just be talking about and and working on videos that that is is exciting for the process and the journey and building um and not just like the end result the end result is kind of

[33:56] like a a present at the end that you get to unwrap and and and enjoy for a day or so but you know for all of the time leading up to that um it's it's got to be fun and exciting yeah 100% agree I I there's such a balance between making

[34:11] sure that people are happy that they're you know getting videos that they want to watch that they expect from you but also you have to evolve yourself and audience also evolves they're getting older they're seeing things they're

[34:24] doing the same thing all the time they'll eventually move on um you need sometimes that means you know changing up a format or you know I mean I used to do shorter videos now I do longer ones cuz I was like well this would be a lot

[34:39] more difficult I'll do it and I love a story about Pixar and how they they used that to motivate every movie they made you know they made like Toy Story and everyone was like that's cool but can you do like millions of creatures moving

[34:53] all at once and they were like screw it we're going to do a movie about ants you know and they did it like they they they literally chose that topic because it was something that people said they couldn't do and so that's why when

[35:06] someone tells me you can't show or help people visualize the fourth dimension and actually see a fourth perpendicular and I'm like perfect that'll be an episode I'm going to do um I'm spilling too many secrets about all the work that

[35:18] are going to be coming out soon but uh I'm going to reopen this box and I'm what do you think I should look at next Jake uh maybe the coaster all right so here's some coasters and as you may have noticed we're not using

[35:32] going to wait until we unbox them here's my glass of water these are glowing beverage lemats I love these because not only are they cool but they're a shout out to a video I did years ago so coasters protect your tables but these

[35:47] coasters protect your tables but these also fill your mind each coaster has a uh atomic symbol on it we've got vadium we've got sulfur we we've got gold and we've got sulfur we we've got gold and still inside here we have serium if you

[36:02] put these all together it of course spells vauce but what's really neat is that if you turn them on they light up can you see can you see it lighting up oh we have to pull the tab out that's how fresh this is can you see the you

[36:16] how fresh this is can you see the you turn it on is it lighting up check that out because it's so bright in this room of the glowing properties aren't

[36:30] happening here this gold one's working I don't know if you can see but when you put a glass down on it boom it glows purple yeah so you can find your drink in the

[36:45] dark and you can also appreciate the periodic table you can spell the word Vsauce this came from my video about uh what's the most precious metal and I Nottingham and I did experiments with all four of these elements

[36:58] all four of these elements vadium gold sulfur serium it was uh it was sweet those guys are so great Brady Heron is amazing and I mean thanks to and do those experiments um Jake is actually he's in

[37:12] the same room but he's working on the audio delay so can I save your bookmarks yes my laptop is the one we're streaming from so you're going to bookmark all tabs just call it like live stream save

[37:28] um and then okay so from the elm mats haha get it elements Elm mats I'm going to move on to the polymer spheres look at that packaging that is spheres look at that packaging that is called a premium experience these

[37:42] spheres they're tiny little beads they're made of a a polymer that absorbs water like insane it loves the hydrogen bonds that water molecules have and open this test tube up so you can see how small they are um

[37:58] they absorb 300 times their weight in water so there they are teeny tiny little beads and earlier well we forgot to put some in water overnight but I put some in about an hour and a half ago inside one of our uh glasses this is one

[38:14] of the Curiosity box beers and it's full of little beads okay you can see they're beads you fill this with water and they expand to 300 times their size this is what they look like after just an hour and a half that many became this they

[38:29] and a half that many became this they are full of water and the clear ones have the same uh refractive index is water so if you put them in water they become completely invisible plus you can dry these out and they go back to the

[38:41] dry these out and they go back to the small size and you can use them all over want uh I think I'll talk about this Beaker because it's in my hand the beaker this one of the goals of mine is to make things that are

[38:54] to make things that are both tool they're Tools in two ways this liquids but it also lets you measure things so rather than just telling you things so rather than just telling you 50 ml 75 100 we also put down some

[39:07] measurement so for example if you fill it halfway up to 150 mlit the the mug volume of blood in the human brain yeah so if you only want that much coffee you

[39:19] got to get the Curiosity box biger okay so Jake we're still streaming the tabs I'm trying to close all the tabs besides the one that we're currently in oh I see and I just can't pull it out cuz I can't find it far I

[39:32] have about 203 tabs open cuz like I said I've been researching for two episodes and I've got all the links open because I able to like Leaf through the tabs like a book you know or like a notebook full of ideas um I can see the

[39:46] tabs getting bigger so this will get easier okay do you think the problem is the uh number of tabs was causing issues with the bandwidth it's getting better using a lot of your M and also your CPU yeah yeah definitely so if we can close

[40:02] all these tabs then we should get more out of the encoding software all right so here's here's a question that I want to get to because I had a answer prepared and let me see who it came from because I want to give credit to the uh

[40:14] oh okay here we're going to do a question from Dragon beern Stewart it says on Twitter uh Stuart asks which video did you enjoy researching about and making the most and why Kevin

[40:31] um probably the video that I did about dragons uh called The millions Year War I've always been interested in like even as a kid you know dragons are always part of fantasy video games you know Final Fantasy and and movies um and once

[40:47] I got interested in like where the um Origins were of that symbol you know it it just became kind of like a you know a wormhole or a rabbit hole about so there was another question on here about workflow and I'll just kind

[41:03] of tie that into this you know uh one of the things that I do often is if I have a topic like dragons I'll just search Amazon for every book that I can find that has been written about um dragons well in a scientific manner you know not

[41:19] just um narrative stories I me we're run um I could just grab a pile of them just to show yeah show pile of the books I I I've got a pile of books over there that are related to my next episode and the one after that yeah but it's really

[41:34] fun to read a book and then look in the bibliography and see other books that they read in preparation for theirs and then read those and you wind up finding they've talked about things together or they've inspired each other and there's

[41:49] make a good video when you're really well versed on what's Happening and that's why the episodes sometimes take a while the delays better now yeah yeah going to interrupt for a second it's just because of uh how many tabs we had

[42:04] started using my laptop but it was the one that was just already logged in to the Vsauce YouTube channel let me reset this up it was a closeup of Jake's hand readers out there let us know what you can tell about Jak life

[42:19] can tell about Jak life Yep looks good to me tilt it down a little bit great

[42:33] okay hey welcome back okay cool so so we can't see ourselves anymore but that's health of the stream I want and also okay so part of what's going to be happening is in my mind and this isn't factual but I just believe it to be true

[42:46] application open and running on screen that it might use extra resources which prioritized since it's the one that's open however now everything should be fine we just Eric and I just listen to the audio and it sounds a lot better so

[42:59] let us know if it's in sync now and now we know not to try and stream with 200 tabs open yes yes and I hope you saved all those tabs because otherwise I won't be able to make a video for another four months I did okay so uh Jake thank you

[43:12] for your help is the very first Vsauce live stream ever Jake while you were gone we uh I got a question from Dragon buern who asked what was your favorite video to research and why favorite video to research and why

[43:26] is a a great question Dragon okay think about it I'm going to answer that it's not my next one but my next next one I've been researching it since February that's how long it's taken I've had to build things I've had to reach out to

[43:40] people who are much smarter than me and like well should I do an hourlong video should I make uh Eric do uh

[43:52] 17 uh days straight of visual effects work for it yes obviously yes to both of those questions and generally my answer to that question is my favorite episode because that's why I'm working on it it it's a topic that I was like so curious

[44:08] about I wanted to dive into and I can't wait to understand it well enough to wait to understand it well enough to explain it um that's how I feel you know something as well as you can at least when you can explain it to other people

[44:22] and your curiosity about the topic is contagious to them then you've done it um but of course I wind up looking at old videos and now that I've had like some time away from it I go there's a better way to have said that or there's

[44:35] you're going to see a lot of kind of callbacks and a lot of clarifications in like literally the episode coming out in about a week I'm going to talk about a claim that I made in my Earth is flat video that Kansas is flatter than a

[44:51] pancake Kansas is flatter than a pan well wait a second the reason I'm correcting it is that more precisely Kansas is smoother than a pancake but Kansas is smoother than a pancake but Kansas is not flat because the Earth

[45:06] isn't Kansas curves along with the Earth and crazy enough and this is going to video but that's why you guys are here you're the live stream people and you middle of Kansas people on the West and East side

[45:23] of the state would be 200 M away in each Direction and if you could see through the Earth you would actually see them about 8 km below you that's almost the height of Everest it's like 1 kmet short so they'd also be like tilted at a 2°

[45:38] so they'd also be like tilted at a 2° angle so Kansas is not entirely flat at that it's almost like standing on top of other sides if you could like see through the curvature of the earth that

[45:50] it was transparent or something that's pretty neat um okay so Jake what do we do next now that you made the stream perfect um what's happened let's let's let's ask or answer another question all right so

[46:05] would taste like a pancake because it's nice one Nicholas Merritt asks how did we meet ah yeah so it was uh okcupid.com

[46:18] is how uh we all met that's not true okcupid.com by the way could have been like 20 years as long as I've been around yeah Jake's

[46:30] Jake's going to be 24 this year we're very excited for him he'll be able to rent a car almost in New York with no in charge um and and and how old do you guys think I am a lot of you probably know I mean I know but I'm not going to

[46:44] know I mean I know but I'm not going to say you you you you say first let's see if people on Twitter are giving us any uh guesses but how did we meet well we all met well it was it was a staggered story Michael met Kevin cuz I'll just

[46:58] say your story and then you can fill in the blanks uh Michael was doing YouTube and Michael S and was like this is really cool and reached out to Kevin and said Hey Kevin you should do some videos for Vsauce cuz this is back when Vsauce

[47:10] was U more of a gaming Comedy Channel and there was multiple different hosts and there was multiple different hosts right let me clarify that Vsauce was a right let me clarify that Vsauce was a comedy channel problem is I wasn't very

[47:22] funny um but Kevin was funny and I was like dude you're making funny videos like literally the first thing was I was like can I give you money to put up one it was a video you would already put on YouTube wasn't it yeah it was an episode

[47:37] YouTube wasn't it yeah it was an episode of Julius bloop yeah the first two uh videos that I did for Vsauce were just re-uploads of videos that I did on my channel that you actually intro and then reuploaded on vau that's right how weird

[47:51] like I would never do that today but back then it was like there were even fewer you know rules and experience experiences and traditions um and then Vsauce 2 started like the same year Vsauce 1 did because at the time it was

[48:04] a trend everyone had a second channel that was literally the numeral 2 after their name in retrospect I wish that I'd called it you know uh Vsauce green Vsauce blue Vsauce Violet because then they would kind of stand on their own

[48:18] better and instead the number system makes it look like there's a hierarchy which there isn't um but Vsauce 2 was where I could do stuff that wasn't gaming and comedy related but was a little more educational that wound up

[48:31] working a lot better cuz I was better at that than trying to be funny and also it was hard to get access to like game footage and stuff because we weren't IGN we weren't some big company that that everyone knew and then um I think it

[48:44] person per Channel and kind of leading it from an individual's personality worked way better um they're called channels but they're not they're really different formats on one channel people get confused so I said Kevin why don't

[48:58] you just take the second Channel and do whatever you want there like um it's whatever you want there like um it's just yours and then um uh Kevin and I were going to lunch one day and we saw this uh homeless guy on the street and

[49:11] uh he said I really want I can't figure out what to tattoo on my finger and we said well have we got the logo for you no I'm just kidding tell tell tell your no I'm just kidding tell tell tell your story uh Jake yeah thanks um so I was uh

[49:24] well I I started working at Google in 20 and Michael and Kevin were also at Google um and we just kind of became friends and I was running a a a space Focus Channel at the time um that's right space lab yeah space lab I was

[49:38] of became friends cuz we worked in the same office in New York and it it just you know the the relationship blossomed and uh that was about it yeah we we should explain like wait you mean you worked at Google yeah we literally

[49:53] worked at YouTube the long the long story short is that when I first started making YouTube videos I was hired by a company called next new networks and I worked on a channel called barely political and then uh I created Vsauce

[50:06] and then YouTube literally acquired the company next new networks and so I became a Google employee and they were really hands off they just wanted someone on staff who knew how to help advise other creators to get the most

[50:20] out of YouTube to make the best content they could to build audiences and I had a channel so I had experience and as Jake and Kevin joined we became like three people who all had experience who were all literally walking the talk and

[50:34] Google was so hands off like they didn't know what we were doing or when and they they would they would have us help clients like they would say hey um you know this person or this company is going to do some Olympics videos could

[50:48] you help them make them like a little more exciting or or educational or surprising or you know whatever and so we we doing that for a long time and then uh it was just last year that we we all left and became independent so now

[51:04] yeah we have our own office that is a Vsauce office Kevin has a home Vsauce office he lives on the other side of the country um and you know after after that

[51:16] happened I moved back to uh the United States uh from London because I was I was working for Google in London so that's a really good question I think we forever M um we should really just write a book about it uh put that in the

[51:30] Curiosity box all right lot of questions coming in now um should we do another Jake I'm going to look through some questions okay

[51:44] ooh here's a good one maybe this one yeah do that one and and while you talk yeah do that one and and while you talk about it answer this question from um Sarah Nicole 9123 who asked on Twitter how do you decide what goes in the

[51:56] Curiosity boxes okay so that will lead into kind of this one so in every box we also have a a steam game for mac and PC so in this one it's called dub Wars and way of getting into the box where I I do a lot of work with Taco Bell um and they

[52:13] they help game developers indie game developers make their games and get out of the games that was part of it and the people who made it were so nice and the just feature it in the box so they gave gave it to us uh and let us put it in

[52:27] the box and it's really cool and this one you basically it's like a top down shooter but it uses music as the weapon uh so it's kind of fun and I'm going to scratch off the code and whoever wants it whoever gets it first can just get

[52:42] one who actually gets the game let us know because I always wonder who winds up winning these kind of events so let me put that up there there's the code for the free game there's the code is it focused it looks like it's in focus so

[52:56] there's the code and there it goes so enjoy Wars cool uh Indie developer game glad to help them out and Yeah like if you if you are the one person who got you really like the game write a good review on steam because you know the

[53:12] great they're they're a small company of entire game themselves over the course of years but so more like Michael we put stuff in the box and Kevin that we just find to be curious that's interesting to

[53:25] us that are things that we've liked in our lives or that we see like oh wow we need to make that we need to have that yeah and it takes a long time to like source and create the items that we need for the box so we have a whole list and

[53:38] it's like months out before we actually have confirmed that we can get get it in was like guys this is first of all like a classic physics toy we have to get one in the box and I've always wanted to do a video about how gyroscopes stay up

[53:53] because I don't know why so okay it's going to come out it came out in like the the holiday box from last year I was like great so around the holidays of 2016 I have to know how to explain gyroscopes in time because a lot of

[54:05] people are going to be getting them and it was so fun you know like I I had the the luck to grow up around science stuff around cool polymers around periodic table toys around gyroscopes around things with weird properties and I think

[54:19] it was great for my little tiny little Michael brain and uh the Curiosity box make videos and we'll keep making videos obviously but to get the science in your hands and connect it with the videos that's one of the big goals of um of the

[54:35] box I'm just going to grab this sticker right now and things take like this ink plush probably took what maybe 6 months to actually make yeah oh and also hold that ink plush up it's about the same size as this one in the back I don't

[54:48] know if they can see it if you're covering it but that's an optical same but let me go grab this big one and show you its actual size while I walk show you its actual size while I walk away check out the back of my

[55:04] doing that Kevin what's your favorite band this is from Daniel on band this is from Daniel on Twitter uh my favorite band right now is probably Paul Bearer uh which is a doom metal band they just put out a new album

[55:20] called heartless that's really amazing um but I also really love Gojira amazing um but I also really love Gojira which is a a French uh black metal band they came out with a new album last year uh called magma that if you guys are

[55:34] out they're super talented and their lyrics are always really cool and kind of atmospheric and esoteric they talk about uh I don't know kind of like about uh I don't know kind of like science e stuff it's less like Gore and

[55:49] like evil things that a lot of metal lyrics are are focused on um so I don't know I think if if you're sauce fan and into metal uh you definitely like goera for sure how did you get into metal Doom metal

[56:03] especially um I've always liked metal I think my first cassette tape because I think my first cassette tape because I am that old um was actually mle crew Dr am that old um was actually mle crew Dr Feelgood so um I mean I was I don't know

[56:17] 5 years old listening to mly crew now your your your wife is really into it did you get her into it or did you guys have that in common no we just had that have that in common no we just had that in common so um yeah um but yeah I've

[56:32] literally I was a little kid so it's not like something that I fell into when I was a teenager or anything like that it's um it's it's it's pretty much what it's um it's it's it's pretty much what I've liked always yeah so that Michael

[56:47] Jackson I loved Michael Jackson when I was like three and then by the age of five I matured to Molly Crew it's a natural progression story is old is Time Jake favorite band right now oh right now yeah not like well I'm sorry just

[57:02] favorite band I don't mean to make it I would say my favorite band that's the was growing up is Modest Mouse yep like um Interstate 8 moon in Antarctica uh that stuff like those albums especially those two particular

[57:17] are Timeless to me Lonesome crowded West West is really good but I think moon in Antarctica is one of my favorite albums on the planet I could listen to that and ly it's just so beautiful and and haunting and I just it reminds me of

[57:30] being in high school and like driving through the planes in Colorado right so this this shows how much hipper and younger I guess Jake is than me because modest Mouse's earlier albums remind me of being in college it's like that's all

[57:43] I listen to so I would say that that's my favorite band of my life right now I'm listening to a lot of Angel olon do you know her I think I found her through you know her I think I found her through her work with Cass momes and she's

[57:57] incredible um and I also really love uh black moth Super Rainbow and tobacco uh their music is so trippy black mon tweeted some playlists of songs I like and I always include either a tobacco

[58:12] song or a Blackmouth Super Rainbow I saw them live I saw a video of them never seen what they looked like I'd never seen them play and I was like yeah I picked well this is awesome um and one question we've been getting a lot on on

[58:26] Curiosity box doesn't come to their country ah so what you can do is if you go to the Curiosity box website um there's an email there and just email and request the the country because the basic be honest answer is that we have

[58:42] to create kind of um shipping agreements with different countries so we can get reasonable price and not an insane thing that has to go through customs so we people who want it there before we go through all the negotiations processes

[58:56] of of getting it shipped there so email so we know that you want it there and then we can start actually making that happen yeah yeah exactly because our goal is for this to be available to everyone just like the videos that we

[59:08] make on YouTube you know we could we could like uh you know sell them to on DVD but then we want to reach more people we want more people to catch the Curiosity bug and fall in love with these topics it's going to be laser dis

[59:20] only laser dis only they still sell cassette tapes at CVS do you know that I think they're used in medical equipment or something still anyway but that that about making videos is that I can pick any topic like it's almost a challenge

[59:36] to tr try to pick a topic that sounds the most like bizarre the brocone problem was one of those like no one can even pronounce that why would you do a everyone loves those and I'm like everyone's going to love the geometry of

[59:51] cycloids they just need to like be introduced to it the way I was months ago um and I want to do like a series that just tries to get more and more boring like the physics of how paint dries or

[1:00:03] how Grass Grows or I guess I did that Minefield episode where I was in a white room for 72 hours that's about as boring and lacking in stimulation as you can get um let's talk about the sticker because this shows a side of us that um

[1:00:16] talk about it and we can show it here yeah Kevin talk about the stier oh yeah okay so um you know we wanted to put a sticker in the Box um that represented V sauce in in a unique and kind of new way and um you

[1:00:32] know what I thought of was to come up with this this tree and it wasn't just with this this tree and it wasn't just any tree um it was you know a a a nebula tree so instead of leaves you know it's it's it's it's gases in outer space and

[1:00:48] and The Roots themselves spell vauce so you know the the nutrients and the water that gets absorbed absorbed into this that gets absorbed absorbed into this this cosmological tree um that's vauce

[1:01:01] you know that's kind of like the communicator of this like Heavenly Body uh life force I don't know if that sounds crazy but that's kind of where

[1:01:13] the idea came from and that's how I think of it in in my head so yeah yeah it it that doesn't sound crazy it sounds uh don't cover up the website curiosity box.com yeah put it up there put it there yeah I love it I love that also

[1:01:26] like we we worked for a long time on this to make sure it was it it was the way we wanted it to be and because we can include t-shirts and stickers and things you get to see as the the kind of aesthetic side that we have um that you

[1:01:40] those are more fact-based you can actually I mean Jake your your content is so cinematic now that it's almost like we do get both but mine are always terrible except for what Eric makes my little two-dimensional Photoshop

[1:01:53] animations are like hey this is what was in my head and uh using only two dimensions and some rectangles here's what I think it is um Dylan waffle says have you discontinued mindfield I love mindfield it has not been

[1:02:08] discontinued next week you might hear exactly what that means can you tell that I'm winking um but uh I'm also for those of you who are just now joining uh vsoft one videos the regular things that

[1:02:22] since my last one because I've been writing scripts many of them I want to do this whole series about dimensions and space time is a dimension as well the impossibility of imagining more than three or is it is it an impossibility

[1:02:39] tune in to Vsauce one to find out more subscribe o Sapphire asked I don't know if you guys are Doctor Who fans but this is an easy question go ahead Sapphire asked uh who is your favorite doctor my favorite doctor is David Tenant I think

[1:02:53] he was the best doctor and he is just so cool love him love David where was he in cool love him love David where was he in the order so he came after eckel okay so in the new series he was the he started the second season right and then after

[1:03:07] him was Matt Smith um that means nothing to me I'm not afraid to admit this but I have not gotten into Doctor Who yet oh it's great I know know Doctor Who but where do you start that's one of the so here's the thing you don't need to the

[1:03:20] way that the when the series was rebooted you don't like they do original episodes but it's more of like this cuz you're a big fan you can watch

[1:03:32] need to start with ecken um and then from ecken and he in my mind was the one that I that I kind of related to the most in expressed himself and interacted with others Kevin do you have a favorite

[1:03:47] doctor um I'm more of a Twin Peaks [Music] guy yeah I'm watching the new Twin Peaks if anybody out there is watching that can't wait to get back into it so I want to you don't need to watch the first um

[1:04:02] the earlier episodes do you because not really no I mean it would help if you spoke with someone like you could ask me for like a primer right I can give you in about 10 minutes well I want to I want to watch the earlier ones and I

[1:04:16] tried to actually back when I lived in New York I bought a a very discounted um VHS tape collection of all the Twin Peaks episodes but they were labeled out

[1:04:28] of order so I watched them out of order is our connection bad it says bad that's more probably just the Wi-Fi okay so so uh shadow kills 321 asks is this the

[1:04:40] next box coming in July or is it the previous the Box we're opening right now is the current one if you go to curiosity box.com and And subscribe now we haven't even shown you everything yet um but the box that's coming out next is

[1:04:55] don't listen were your ears my favorite I can't believe how awesome the next box is it's like but that's also one of our goals like we we have this opportunity goals like we we have this opportunity to like lower the quality of the box

[1:05:08] what our videos are like you've been watching for years it's always about yes for myself and longer and better yeah it needs to be a challenge it needs to be a challenge and so uh this one I think is the the best of any that have come out

[1:05:22] so far the next one is even better I mean there might be a day where we feel it'll always be for a reason oh yeah it'll be because it actually isn't the worst there's something you know what I mean uh so but this one's really I mean

[1:05:35] but the the thing that should be noted is that the next one is incredible as is one like to make sure you get it you should probably start with this then you're just locked in for the next one because we only make so many this isn't

[1:05:48] like made on demand so if we run out it's sold out and that happened uh last year with the gyroscope box the last two boxes oh it's Happ the last two boxes so we wind up with people subscribing they can't get the newest one we came up with

[1:06:01] a solution for that which is that if you subscribe and we've already run out of What's called the best of box and it's our favorite things from all the previous boxes you don't need things from the previous boxes they don't

[1:06:15] shouldn't start Midstream but you will get one right away uh and it's going to you want the next one the coolest I can't even tell you everything that's in it I've been working with the even the game the game is worth almost as much as

[1:06:30] the Box itself yeah the game in this nice one is literally huge literally like I see what you're doing there I like it I like it yeah and it's like I think it's the first box that is the one is it's taken us like a year to put it

[1:06:46] want this thing and I want something that that establishes this principle and and it took us a year and it all lined the next box and that's going to keep happening for all the next and next and

[1:06:59] next ones and all through next year it's going to be years of preparation before you actually get the box mhm um so let's go to the next item in here while we're let's do that little guy okay so we also have collectible items this one is a

[1:07:15] collectible enamel pen and it's uh ink our little octopus friend the mascot of the Curiosity box which before I get to the pen why an octopus well I'll tell you why uh and this I'm retconning here because um this isn't exactly why it

[1:07:31] began but if if the Curiosity box is the Hands-On science version of Vsauce videos the mascot should have a lot of hands now octopi don't have any hands but they do have a lot of arms eight of them in fact so he represents the like

[1:07:46] actually touching and holding things and experiencing them live in front of yourself which is you know miles better than just hearing an explanation anyway this pen has ink wearing a diving helmet and some floaties on two of his arms um

[1:08:02] which by the way makes no sense because he's an octopus he should be able to know what to expect that's why it's the Curiosity box and I'm getting a lot of questions about the simulation theory that Elon

[1:08:16] mention that we not going to really go too in depth because this a little bit of a spoiler for an upcoming vau 3 video I'm actually making a video on that I'm actually making a video on that topic with the YouTube channel in a

[1:08:30] nutshell so we're going to do a two-part series on that uh half of it obviously on uh the curs Art Channel and then half of it on Vsauce 3 but that'll be coming topic of the video that we're working on that'll be awesome that question comes

[1:08:45] working with in a nutshell what a great Channel we actually did did we put them in the magazine in the past or was that wind over that I'm thinking about we put comes with the Curiosity box also shouts

[1:08:59] out some of our favorite educational channels yeah this one is let me just Productions and we also feature one an artist that we like and this time it was kidmograph who Kevin and I both followed on Instagram independently and then

[1:09:12] probably follow him now but you probably found out later because you're you're such a follower who kidmograph yeah oh yeah yeah so anyway he's busy looking at questions while I'm trying to rib him uh but the point is that yeah we we use the

[1:09:27] what else you should be watching on YouTube uh Jake's got an article about film Kevin has one about uh rubber I have one about numbers and number names

[1:09:39] and how how the the first number alphabetically is eight in English of course the second number alphabetically do you guys know number alphabetically do you guys know don't

[1:09:57] look no 8 B billion oh yeah that makes sense B for billion um 8 billion 8 is through all the numbers alphabetically 8 through all the numbers alphabetically 8 billion 18 million 8 billion 18 million

[1:10:09] 8 you're okay you're dropping balls so I better stop um can I can I open the last item in the Box yeah open the last item so this one is really cool so this is why the box is so big and heavy because there's always a book in the Box and

[1:10:25] this book is especially cool cuz we've actually been getting a lot of questions about elements it's the elements it's a really cool heavy book it even has the cover is actually custom printed for us and it has the Curiosity box official

[1:10:39] something that we're doing in the future a little spoiler little tease if I may comes with this box actually has a custom forward by us yes yes it does and it the book that's in the next one I

[1:10:54] grew up with and I loved and I've never found anything like it before this is a book my dad used to have and you've you've shown some of the pictures it's then shows you how it's applied and they try to show you as pure of a sample as

[1:11:08] atomic weight density atomic radius the crystal structure oh the electron filling order all that stuff but this the photos are really really nice there's also a poster in the back of the book that is a periodic table I love

[1:11:23] Yeah and all these photos are on that PO poster that comes in the book sorry Eric Eric told me to hold it lower yes sir please put down the whip Eric um or please put down the whip Eric um or don't hey so so uh chadara 98 just said

[1:11:37] whoa whoa whoa It's octopuses not octopi who said octopi I didn't say octopi did I yeah you did I said octopi all right well let me say again that I'm a if something's technically wrong if everyone understands what you're meaning

[1:11:51] then you're fine however I totally am on board with you in fact in the magazine subscribe today or if you already do you have this there's actually an entire uh the very first page is from Inc but it

[1:12:03] was written by me because spoiler alert Inc is like a character and not a real thing but I wrote this and what and it's it's all about how you're right the plural of octopus is octopuses or octopodes ocpi here's the poster by the

[1:12:19] way there's the poster wow it's a gift that just keeps on giving that's really so that's all of of of this let's just wrap up the box stuff real quick and then we can do some more questions and yeah perfect perfect um but that's the

[1:12:32] currently get again curiosity box.com it's a great way not only to support Vsauce but also to support Alzheimer's research yeah we are getting very close to that $100,000 donation markc really awesome um and it's just a fun thing and

[1:12:46] box so you can get that and then that also puts you reserves you for the next box which is going to be amazingly even better than this when we think it's it's videos around it that it'll it'll probably sell out right away so you

[1:13:02] should subscribe now because you'll be really sad otherwise we only make so many of them uh people are saying it's frozen is it frozen frozen oh thanks for telling us Eric I just found out I think this start where did it end

[1:13:18] it's your audio still coming through oh oh okay no one spill any secrets oh because the the software is Frozen that's that's weird you minimized it okay yeah okay

[1:13:33] one second gang I'm just going to start was the last thing that I said oh no the was the last thing that I said oh no the audio was coming through so that's fine okay let yeah the video stopped but you guys can still hear us so so it should

[1:13:46] be coming through again camera froze yeah okay health is good so I think it should be back it it looks like Kevin is dabbing in the freeze like Kevin's dabbing I love dabbing okay oh we're

[1:14:03] still frozen on this that's the issue it's the camera that's frozen yeah so let's adjust wait now it's going to work there we go let's go back to that nope okay so we're just going to have to go to our webcam you do we should pretend

[1:14:19] that we're not frozen we should be like wow look no one

[1:14:32] now everyone aren't we amazing at it let's see if this is oh there we go unfrozen maybe tilt it down a little bit yeah see the table Nick Burns Company Computer Guy

[1:14:55] many things we're back so so I don't know if everyone saw the book um uh but we were talking about the box and how proceeds from the box go to uh Alzheimer's research we've raised almost $100,000 for Alzheimer's research

[1:15:09] because of this box Alzheimer's is something that affected my grandfather and it was extremely extremely difficult uh so I flew out to Chicago and I worked Alzheimer's Association and they taught me all about what we're doing where

[1:15:23] research can go what we can hope for in our lifetimes and I'm so grateful to you haven't seen my episode on don't know if there are a lot of resources that really dive into the kind

[1:15:38] of biology and chemistry behind um the disease and how it's different from other kinds of Dementia there's a lot of misconceptions out there and um it's really appearing as this like next thing as we make progress on heart disease and

[1:15:51] Cancers Alzheimer's and Dementia is kind of they're waiting for us it's all beyond that natural selection Shadow like you didn't have to live to be 80 90 natural selection didn't fix that it's like really up to us so so so excited to

[1:16:09] be working uh with Alzheimer's Charities on furthering research yeah I think is the thing that's affected all of us I remember like having to towards the end myself to him every time he like oh this is your grandson Jake and he'd be like

[1:16:23] college and I have to tell them every single time like where I went to college so we want to try and and help that as much as we can um uh let's look at some

[1:16:35] questions now we're taking questions over Twitter at tweet sauce at bauce 3 over Twitter at tweet sauce at bauce 3 numeral 3 at Vsauce 2 numeral 2 uh a lot if you find one that you were really excited toing the audio is off again I

[1:16:50] think I I might have just fixed that again I'm trying here only one man and a very small th when I don't have much much meat on me also like to point out this t-shirt I

[1:17:05] cool is that like the Star Wars in Japanese the actual poster yeah it's the Japanese poster for Star Wars it's kind of cool uh we should say Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there watching uh and Happy Father's Day to

[1:17:19] watching uh and Happy Father's Day to all of our fathers um because you know um what up daddy if any of you are recording this you can use that for memes in the future what up Daddy yeah uh one question that

[1:17:33] didn't get get too IND depth into it is uh what's your favorite video game answer first because I know the least about video games um I still love home

[1:17:47] World home World remember that Sierra I loved the slowness of it it was like playing chest with yourself cuz you had so much time and it was this 3D strategy so much time and it was this 3D strategy game and um I would I I I would play and

[1:18:04] then when I couldn't play anymore I would just go outside and ride my bike might do it was like because back then you couldn't watch other people play there was no YouTube but I did exactly what people do today when I wasn't

[1:18:18] playing I was watching other people play or I was talking about the game yeah no homewor was great so I'm just going to jump in because world was uh was by was published my favorite game which was the original halflife yep developed by Valve

[1:18:33] published by Sierra that game changed my life cuz it was the first time where a game was like cinematic it felt like you know you were experiencing the the wasn't a loading screen and then break and it does like a cinematic

[1:18:46] there and then all the modifications that you create for it were exciting I can make different skins for characters I can make different models um make my my friends that was really cool for me so halflife is my go-to Kevin uh mine is

[1:19:03] a game called Xeno gears which is for the PlayStation 1 it's a it's a role playing game and I I just think it has the coolest story not only in video games but it's one of the coolest stories that I've ever encountered I

[1:19:17] mean it takes place across thousands of years and it involves science and philosophy and psychology and religion and just it encap encapsulates kind of like all of what humanity is about and there's mechs I mean it just kind of has

[1:19:34] everything and um if I had an endless amount of money to dedicate towards remaking a video game it would definitely go towards an updated version of Xeno gears cuz like they didn't even even finish the story the second oh wow

[1:19:49] I mean you can read about this if you want to um but the second disc is just just sums up what was going to happen with the story because they kind of ran out out of time so it's this weird thing where the game doesn't even really end

[1:20:03] the right way it has like a cliff notes second disc it's it's it's weird but amazing uh I going talk about The Orange Box real fast not this Orange Box but I remember uh I was living in New York I had a weekend with nothing to do and I

[1:20:18] walked to a store and I bought The Orange Box and I played a game called portal I'd heard about portal but I had heard anything about it I played I was that it's not about working really quickly I like solving the puzzles but I

[1:20:33] had no idea what was coming in the end and I played that whole game without all the way through the night and I was like what I got so scared it was it was

[1:20:45] an amazing experience that you cannot replicate with just a movie or a book surprised about that is that it wasn't really even one of the main selling points of of The Orange Box you got like the new halflife chapter um for halflife

[1:20:59] 2 you got Team Fortress 2 I think you also got the old games for half life and called portal yeah I was like oh this is going to be a fun little like 30 minute diversion but it was incredible and the sequel was so much fun I remember

[1:21:11] playing that with um my friends cuz you could do co-op mode in Portal 2 right now can I say that I have ER was one of those for thanks you Eric for playing think could you would you play with me because I've never played Portal 2 why

[1:21:26] because I played portal one on a PlayStation and Playstation 3 I think right it would have been yeah three three and I wasn't good at the controls mouse because I played World of Warcraft like crazy it actually kind of was

[1:21:41] almost a problem and I leveled up a lot of characters to the Max and whatever mouse to look around so I want to play Portal 2 on a PC but I don't have the system at the moment to play it and I don't want to play it on a console

[1:21:56] because I don't think I'm good at joysticks y it is it is more difficult I much prefer mouse and keyboard being able to watch having my little mouse there um but there's also something for like the Simplicity kind of of of a

[1:22:08] console just oh grab the controller sit down and some games are obviously better there like one or two more questions that we want to answer before we before that we want to answer before we before we go yeah like one that I liked was

[1:22:26] to do a video on it I think Roger penrose's book uh what is it called The Road to Reality touches on that the best but it's a huge heavy thick book um I

[1:22:38] believe I don't even know what to believe I think that we we invent a lot of stuff mathematically but then it happens to already exist in the universe and so it's a combination of hey look what I invented it's called an imaginary

[1:22:51] number ah well it's imaginary it must not have any real existence uh and then does what the heck it's so useful and helpful so yeah I think it's a combination of both um also there's one dude's been tweeting a lot arsh AR I'm

[1:23:07] just going to say that's your name and I apologize if I pronounce it terribly I'm a horrible human being uh thank you for showing your friends our videos that's person and you know what going to give you a wink that's for you that was just

[1:23:20] for you for everyone else yeah everyone close your eyes AR everyone out there your eyes you can keep your eyes open did you do it cuz I closed my eyes their eyes again okay great you're welcome arsh um okay so when is the next

[1:23:36] Vsauce video coming if you've just joined uh it should be coming in just about a week I really appreciate you guys' patience the episodes that we all make are you know they're not cookie cutter things they require a lot of

[1:23:48] research and I have wrote written actually more than one episode so I'll part of a series that I've doing kind of like how I did a bunch of videos on Infinity for a while but this one's going to be about space and the

[1:24:00] philosophy of Dimensions oo but the first the first one is is got me excited about things and it's about how much of the Earth can you see at once that's my next episode and I started to just you know I keep asking

[1:24:15] I just want to say but why that but why that and I a lot of my script was about how the further you get away from Earth the smaller it looks but I wasn't happy with just that I wanted to know why why do things appear to look smaller when

[1:24:31] you go further away and the answer is just a very simple geometric uh reason wanted to know why do we live in a universe where angles work that way and their independence their linear independence from one another and then

[1:24:47] all of a sudden it became what my next year of vas videos are going to be um okay find another question yeah I think this is a pretty important one and this is from Mr Avatar and he says what do you think about pineapple on

[1:25:03] Pizza Kevin you go first well you know I think it's okay I I don't have a problem with it per se um would I ever order it explicitly I don't

[1:25:16] think so but um if I was very very hungry and there was pineapple pizza in hungry and there was pineapple pizza in front of me you know I'm going for it Michael um I I want to piggyback off of Kevin but you're taking can you guys see

[1:25:31] what Jake's doing with the balls um the polymer balls what they're overflowing cuz they're filling up with so much water just these balls are what come in subscribe at the website that's how many were in the mug before and that's what

[1:25:44] it looks like now over they're not even done growing it takes like 12 hours for they feel like probably eyeballs have you ever touched an eyeball before Oh murder people I just always take out their eyeballs and I like to eat them

[1:25:57] but put in my mouth a little bit like like an olive story is All This Time um so okay pineapple on Pizza uh I think you know Kevin I think really encapsulated there the Vsauce Spirit you know uh I don't hate anything I'm not

[1:26:13] full of hatred for for any kind of pizza topping I I might find it fascinating opinions about pineapple on Pizza I don't I don't eat pineapple on Pizza I have um I don't always like it but I think

[1:26:27] um I don't always like it but I think that it's part of the experience of life and if you count it out you're not experiencing the universe in its totality uh so I have a a much more abbreviated answer which is I love

[1:26:39] delicious pineapple is one of my favorite fruits on the planet I'll have pineapple anything um so yeah pineapple and pizza I also just like normal Pizza

[1:26:51] uh and that's that's that I oh here's something yep I think this this is a a would you give someone who wants to make educational videos but are afraid to educational videos but are afraid to fail ah step one don't be afraid to fail

[1:27:05] yeah that's I mean failing is the only way that you learn if you haven't failed good metric to have there and then also you're never going to do it amazingly be something that even if it it seems pretty good there's always something

[1:27:18] up to the standards that you originally thought and you just improve every time that you iterate uh so don't be AF I think that's the hardest Road I'm sure public you're always like oh this is the worst thing I've ever made yeah but I

[1:27:33] push yourself past that point that that wall that you have and just do it cuz if succeeded or failed to begin with what's that famous sports quote that I know

[1:27:45] about sports uh which is you you make are 100 oh yeah okay right so it's you you miss 100% of the shots you don't take Wayne Gretzky Michael Scott yeah that's a sport that's how I know the quote is from the office yeah it's from

[1:28:00] no it's from Michael Scott from the Gretzky and when you quote someone you should also let everyone know that it's now a quote from you so so yeah Jake I think you're 100% right I think if

[1:28:13] you're if you're afraid to fail then you're going to be the biggest failure of all time CU you won't even start um you have to always be making things and once it's finished the lessons start to gel in your mind and so I don't ever

[1:28:29] it out anyway especially when Vsauce was was just beginning I was doing like IMG type episodes I could make those longer I could put more things in them but I get them out because everything you do is a lesson and so you should make and

[1:28:43] make and you should always make things that challenge you don't ever ask yourself but what do viewers want because we live in the internet age we do there's going to be millions of people on Earth who are going to find it

[1:28:56] interesting and the problem is when you start to guess what they want or you start following what other people are doing and you you get lost in the crowd be yourself and I know that's super cliche but cliches are cliches for a

[1:29:09] reason they work and you have to really Embrace that if you if you look at a tubes this shape where's the word test tube come from what's a tube YouTube it was a pipe and video data went through it in the form of DVDs how wide

[1:29:23] would the pipe have to be all of a sudden that's a Vos video actually um that's after seven years I can just go and go but but yeah you should you should do you should answer questions and and and explain things the way you

[1:29:36] don't think of the audience as a huge mass of people in a theater think of it as one person your friend and you sit down and you say dude have you heard about the bonit tarski Paradox okay like here's this cool thing here's this other

[1:29:50] this isn't television anymore where people people are you know tuning in halfway through

[1:30:02] coming in you want to answer what does Derek asks if he orders the Curiosity box now if he'll get the one that we just unboxed yes yes this is the the one want to make sure that you get the second one or not the second one the

[1:30:14] probably start with this one cuz that puts you in line for it yeah and and this one might sell out so you should sign up as soon as you can because it's unfortunately that's just the restrictions we have like the box is is

[1:30:27] very like premium it's not like a oh yeah let's just crank out some more it's like how many can we make okay cool let's get these to everyone that we can um and then yeah I I really want to also start making videos uh we haven't we've

[1:30:40] talked about this a little bit I want to not not I want to start making videos on the Curiosity box Channel as well um uh where I can go through all of the really cool kind of sciency things that I have geometric toys and weird elements and

[1:30:54] Adam Savage and I was like holy cow I've got hours of content here um but the for a long time because it's actually been the next two uh I can't wait to get those out uh in fact just Friday I was working with Eric our visual effects guy

[1:31:10] on uh how we see and last night I had this like amazing idea well I shouldn't probably not that good uh you won't know until until I dive in and see how it even this is such a a Vsauce moment I was

[1:31:26] like how much of the Earth can you see at once well what does it mean to see so the episode's going to be like a bunch about even how the eye works and how Vision Works and the properties of light but I will eventually answer the

[1:31:40] question so don't don't worry uh should we answer one more yeah Michael make a good one do you have one I don't have one um I have one that I think is great okay go ahead it better be good what do you think that you would be doing if not

[1:31:53] you think that you would be doing if not for you YouTube Ah great question um I mean before YouTube I was writing music I had a band um I played guitar and sang and and wrote songs so I probably would have kept doing that I think that I

[1:32:07] ended up going to YouTube because I'm an introvert and um being a musician requires going out and playing gigs all over the place and traveling so um YouTube was a way for me to create stuff while um just being at home so that's

[1:32:22] really what I loved about it and I channeled my creative energy into YouTube so uh anyway yeah I would probably have stuck with the music stuff Jake uh I'd be making videos on Vimeo if if you so you would still be

[1:32:37] making videos um yeah I mean before I I did YouTube I was working in advertising and television making commercials um so I'd still be making videos the thing that was just so intriguing about YouTube is that it's it's yours right

[1:32:51] like you know you write it you host it you you edit it you direct it everything is is your interpretation of what you want it's not somebody else's and that to me is very exciting uh but i' still be I'd still be probably making videos

[1:33:03] be I'd still be probably making videos just not as happily as I am currently uh university because before YouTube before I started making mashups and edits for the first time I was working briefly as a a research assistant at the University

[1:33:18] what I thought I was going to do I was going to go to grad school I was going going to go to grad school I was going to a pursued degrees in neuropsychology and then when YouTube happened I started making things and some of those early

[1:33:30] like uh Hillary Clinton farts type videos got seen by millions of people professionally and I thought well this won't last forever I'll eventually go won't last forever I'll eventually go back and I'll uh uh work in a in a as a

[1:33:43] researcher and and then no I I became a science communicator and I celebrate what actual scientists are doing who are way better and smarter at everything but I'm I I love being kind of Bridge to get the public excited and kind of get their

[1:33:56] heads wrapped around how important and cool science is um I've gotten a few cool science is um I've gotten a few questions about Eric if they can see Eric who Eric is reveal yourself Eric come over here come on over here put put

[1:34:10] your clothes on P pants unplugged everything all right here's Eric this is

[1:34:22] Eric hello welcome to the stream you're just in time for the end yeah so just to wrap it up I'm also getting some questions about the Box uh does it ship internationally if you go to the website you can choose

[1:34:34] your country of origin and hopefully it's there if it's not then there's an something we really really care about and it's an expression of what Vsauce is but it's tangible you can touch it you can hold it you can share it it again

[1:34:47] Alzheimer's research um and it's something we're really really proud of we spent a long time making even this like a lot of the items in this box I remember the ink one in particular I think we had already had this designed

[1:34:59] and stuff in like December of last year and it took all this time to just have it manufactured and and approved and up to our standards so it takes a while um and it's something that we really we really love so hopefully you like it uh

[1:35:13] things Michael's working on a new video it's going to come out during VidCon which is soon and of course um I've been I've probably made more videos this year than any year in my life because of the dong Channel if you guys aren't already

[1:35:26] subscribed to dong check that out because uh we do obviously as you've seen way more projects than just the bauce channels we try to put science in people's minds in every Avenue possible I do the live show Brin candy live we're

[1:35:39] maybe I wasn't supposed to tell you that but uh out there whatever I'll we'll delete this live stream afterwards but anyway that's science like actually Channel which is a safari around the internet showing you the coolest things

[1:35:53] people have built online that you can do online now guys dong and you know what honestly follow our social media because a YouTube video takes a long time to make we make these kind of you know pieces that are labors of love but if

[1:36:07] you follow us on Twitter um I'll have everyone share all of their uh social media now but if you follow me on Twitter tweet sauce or on Instagram content almost every day especially little things that I want to show off

[1:36:19] little like geometric things I've built and and Science and physics that I I you would expect but I want to talk about now follow tweet sauce and electric pants on Instagram Jake you've got your social media handles which I

[1:36:35] mean I know them but yeah so there's either Vsauce that link is down Kevin description or you can follow my personal one which is Jake ra R personal one which is Jake ra R awr uh yep I made that a long time ago

[1:36:50] and I'm just keeping it sounds like mypace it's like my my scen kid and then Kevin um yeah I have uh Vsauce 2 on Kevin um yeah I have uh Vsauce 2 on Twitter and Kev Liber just just my name

[1:37:04] on uh on Instagram and that's your I was just in Atlanta for a couple days so you could see some of the uh eclectic mix of people that I met while I was there I'll just leave you with that good good what about you how can we follow Eric uh my

[1:37:18] Instagram is Eric L that's e h r i c hore l wow that's so hard to con follow Eric he has he actually has a YouTube channel where he's done like one thing

[1:37:30] your uh what if the world end what if the world ended the one that was like very 80s and art aesthetic so cool Eric is brilliant with uh the visualization and the making of uh beautiful beautiful things that teach so thank you to him

[1:37:45] and thank you to you guys check out curiosity box.com to help Alzheimer's research and to get vauce in your hands delivered to your door um we are going to get back to work we love everything that we're doing we love you guys and um

[1:38:00] should we say it yeah and as always as always thanks for watching for watching and now I'm going to everyone freeze and I'm going to walk over to the computer I'm going to walk over to the computer freame ending and I am going