Science? – Yeah. – Directions? – Yeah, right. – Let’s talk about that. (upbeat music) – Good mythical summer. – Today, we are, once again, tackling science experiments without any instruction and we did a pretty good job last time we did this. You’ve been doing anything to practice up? Get your mind ready? – Well, I’ve actually been going to the mental gym six days a week, man. – Oh, so your brain is pumped? – There is no mental gym. See how weak your brain is. – Oh, I guess I need to go to the mental gym, hey. – It’s time for “Science Without Guidance,” featuring the Beaker Boys. – Here’s how this is gonna work. We’re gonna be given a set of items used to conduct a crazy science experiment and then try our best to figure out what we need to do with those items in order to get a specific and wild scientific result. – Why? Because we’re the Beaker Boys. – Beaker Boys. Now, there’s also gonna be a decoy item thrown into the mix in every round. It’s gonna – Beaker decoys. – throw us off, just basically not meant to be there for the experiment. We’re not gonna know what that is. We’re gonna start out with 40 points, and if we can’t put the right pieces together for an experiment, we can ask for a lifeline. – All right, the more helpful the lifeline, the more points it’s gonna cost us. We’re gonna have 10 minutes to figure out each experiment, and if we still haven’t cracked it when time’s up, that’s an additional five point deduction. – If we still have at least 20 points at the end, we’re gonna win a cheer from the Mythical crew for exactly pi seconds. – Wow. – And if we don’t, they’re gonna boo us for pi seconds. Science can be so cruel. (upbeat music) – [Stevie] Okay, gentlemen, in this first round, you’ll use some combination of the items in front of you. What have you done? – Nothing? – Well, I tried to catch it. – Nothing, teacher. – One Beaker Boy threw a bouncy ball to the other Beaker Boy and the one second Beaker Boy tried to catch it with no look, and it went into the Beaker Boy’s coffee. – Oh, you did a no look? – Yeah, I was trying to do a no look. – [Stevie] Well, you guys have already figured out the experiment. It’s can one Beaker Boy not look at the Beaker Boy’s ball. – The Beaker Boy’s ball bounced out of the Beaker Boy’s coffee. It’s not in there. – Oh, really? – It bounced out. – [Stevie] Okay, so you know what you’re trying to do. You’re trying to figure out this experiment, and so there are lifelines. One is a message from Science Mike about the scientific principle at play, which costs one point. – They were helpful last time. – [Stevie] I tell you which item is the decoy, which costs two points, and I tell you what result you’re trying to achieve, which costs three points. – Okay. – Now, guys– – We’re not gonna need any lifeline, Stevie. – [Stevie] Okay, that’s how it went last time too. – I thought that these were gonna be magnets. – [Stevie] You only have 10 minutes, and we’re going to start a real clock that counts down, and considering you’re already touching everything, I’m starting the clock right now. – We thought it already started. – Okay, Link. I think the reaction is this is one long string of beads. – Here’s my reaction. This is a long string of beads. – If you can find me one end of this bead, I think I know what this is. The decoy item is the bouncy balls. What we’re trying to do is we’re trying to… We’ve got to get all these bouncy balls out of this. Okay, bouncy balls are just distracting. – Okay, what about this Beaker Boy? – [Rhett] The beaker is very important. You take all this– – Have you ever smelled a rubber ball? – Link, stay with me Beaker Boy. Don’t be a Beaker Loser. – All right. – Okay, here’s what I’m gonna do. We’re going to begin pouring this out into that beaker… Maybe this should have gone in the beaker. In fact, yeah, put this in the beaker. – What? Okay, okay. – This is gonna be like a momentum, it’s gonna have its own momentum and it’s gonna work just like water. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got this. – Why is it so fricking long? It doesn’t need to be this long. – The bouncy ball in the coffee is a really good omen. – Yeah, that was just for entertainment purposes. Do you want to confirm? Let’s watch Science Mike’s video. It’s only one point. – Okay. – This experiment may seem like it’s defying gravity, but it’s really a surprising interrelationship of physics, energy and momentum. – See, this is totally consistent. – That is totally amazing. – Totally consistent. – Have you seen this or something? – No, I thought this was a bunch of magnetic balls. – Oh, God, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, it’s already doing it. – [Rhett] Oh, it’s already doing it. Don’t let it happen. – Oh, oh, it’s too early, it’s premature. – Don’t let it happen. Don’t let it happen. I’m gonna hold this down here and I’m gonna catch it. You’re gonna hold it up high and you’re gonna start it and let it go, and we’re gonna wow. The Beaker Boys, the Beaker Boys… – We’re back. – We don’t need tips. – It’s like siphoning gas. – You’re doing it again. – Oh. – Here, you know what? – No, I want it. – You’re so shaky. – This starts. (beads clicking) – Oh my gosh. (both laughing) Oh my God. – Try to keep… Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. – Oh, oh, hold on. Oh, God, hold on, okay. If you can get it to come out of that and to go into this and I can get it to come out of this and go into that, it could be a perpetual motion machine. The Beaker Boy, now you put your freaking chair on it. – You want this to go into that? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay, all right, I think we did it, right? (gasps) – [Rhett] It’s still happening. It’s still happening. – This is the longest pull cord in the history of… You want to be that far away from my lap? Okay, Stevie, that was it, right? – [Stevie] You are all over it, all about it. Why don’t you watch a clean video of Caitlin demonstrating it? – Yeah, I want to see a clean video of Caitlin. (upbeat music) Yeah, yeah, we did, yeah. Been there, done that. – What? – Yeah, that’s what I was hoping we could get. – What? Ours didn’t do that. It arced up. – No, that was happening. It wasn’t happening as much as it was happening with hers, but it was beginning to happen, but there was just too many things going on. We didn’t do this. – Guys, I’m really proud of you. Do you want to know the science behind what you just did? – Yeah, momentum and inertia. – [Stevie] Well, it’s surprisingly complex and still being studied. To the best of our understanding, due to the combination of kinematic energy and the rigidity of the bead chain’s structure, when you pull upward on the chain, an equal downward force is created. However, since the downward force is not able to equally expend that energy, due to the limits of the jar, a sort of kickback is created pushing the energy back in an upward direction, causing a surprising self siphoning phenomenon. – To answer your question, no, we don’t want to hear the explanation. (upbeat music) – [Stevie] Okay, guys, I want to see if you can keep this streak going with this next experiment. The lifelines are all the same. The costs, the points, everything’s the same, and your 10 minutes is gonna start right now. – This is a marshmallow. – Here’s an egg. We have some tongs, that can tong an egg, could also tong a marshmallow, and then we have a lighter, and then we have some water here. We have a that. – I’m just doing this for ambiance. I think that the candle is expendable and it’s just here to make us feel good and make it a little romantic. – All right, so light the marshmallow on fire. – So then I think we have to burn a marshmallow. – Will that even light? It’s something we’ve seen on… – Yeah, yeah, it will. Will a marshmallow light on fire? I’ve got a lot of experience with this, yes. – Yeah but it can’t hurt to do it again, right? – An egg, now, I get– – I’ve got plenty of water to put it out with. – Here’s the thing. I think the marshmallow might be designed to catch the egg and keep it from breaking. Watch. See? Do we have another egg? First of all, just put an egg in water and see what happens. – And I definitely think this plus an egg is part of it. – And let go of it. – I can’t, because the bottom of the… It’s too narrow down there. – You could’ve let go at the top. – Oh, that’s cool. – That’s added to the ambience, the old egg underwater. – And then if you boil it– Just wait till it boils. – I honestly think you’re on the right track here. This is going to float the egg to the top when it heats up, and we just wait. – My arm got tired. – Okay, we need Mike’s video, in the very least. – A metallic optical illusion can be achieved by a combination of incomplete combustion, water repulsion and light reflection. – Incomplete combustion. – He said an optical illusion can be achieved with incomplete combustion, that’s smoke. – Yeah, exactly. – What was the second one? – I just heard illusion and incomplete combustion. – [Link] I can’t get the egg out now. – I think we just call it a wash. Deal with other eggs. – All right, so I think we need to use this to make smoke. – [Stevie] Guys, I’m gonna give you a hint. I’m not gonna take away any points. There’s nothing that we decided to do that would catch on fire and cause a lot of smoke. – Like this? Like you didn’t want us to do this? – [Stevie] Yeah, yeah, yeah, so anything about just– – You mean like this right here? – [Stevie] Yeah. – Well, what’s the second lifeline? Give us that one. – [Stevie] The decoy is the marshmallow. – [Rhett] Yeah, I knew it. – Okay, go ahead and give us the outcome. – [Stevie] You have to make something dark for it to really shine. – Reflection. – Make the egg dark. – Here’s another egg. – Might have to burn that egg. – How do we make smoke? I think they’re fine with lighting this, and then the egg’s not gonna catch on fire, – Here, you take these. – And you hold that and then you make the egg dark. – Oh, gosh, the egg gets dark so fast. Holy Moses, look at that. – So once we make this egg blackened– – It’s gonna be shiny. – What? How’s it gonna get shiny? – We’re gonna put it into the water, so this is incomplete combustion, – Yeah, we charred it. – then we’re gonna put this black egg into the water and something amazing is gonna happen. – [Link] All right, so we’re gonna drop it in here and– – Get rid of that one though. Let’s get a new glass, and I think that this is gonna blow our minds, Link. – Oh my gosh, holy, what the, crap? Did you see that. It was like a blue reflection. Crazy blue egg. – You guys. – It makes a metallic egg. – [Stevie] It makes a metallic egg. You’ve done it again. – Yes. – What about one of those clean videos though? – Yeah, let’s see a clean video. – Yeah, clean. (upbeat music) – It’s clear. The egg– – It’s so shiny. It looks clear. – [Stevie] It’s like metallic, and Caitlin got hers fully all black. – Then when you take it back out– – [Stevie] So it was even more metallic. So by holding the egg over the candle’s flame, the oxygen and its combustion process is restricted, which causes soot to form on the egg’s shell, and soot – And soot’s shiny. – [Stevie] is hydrophobic, so when you drop the egg into water, it repels the water and forms a thin layer of air. The silver you see is simply an illusion caused by light, reflecting differently in that air layer, compared to the water. – So if you want to look like Silver Surfer under water, you should just burn yourself – Burn yourself. – a little bit, and then hop in. (upbeat music) Real quick, we want to remind you that all of the episodes, the entire first season of “Ronstadt,” the scripted podcast that we’re starring in, is out now, so now you can just do the whole binge listening thing right now, wherever you get your podcasts, go check it out, mythical.com/ronstadt. – Immersive audio experience. Lots of positive feedback on “Ronstadt.” – People are loving the stories, so get involved in the conversation. – All right, start the timer. – [Stevie] Are you guys gonna go three for three? – Yes. – On your marks. – We’ve been underestimated – That’s right. – Get set. – every time. – [Stevie] Go. – We technically can’t lose at this point, but you know what? – Beaker Boys. – Beaker Boys love a challenge, so we’re adjusting the scale. We’re saying that if we can get out of here with 27 points– – Which requires us solving it. – Basically we’ve got to do it, then we’ll still take the cheers. – We’re that confident, sight unseen. – Now, we know that cornstarch and water makes a… What do you call that kind of liquid? – A Non-Newtonian– – Non-Newtonian. – It’s not a Euclid. – It’s awesome. – Oobleck. – And we should just make that, just because it’s fun. – But then what are we gonna make? I think we can make it in the bottle. – I think the TP is the culprit here. – Man, if Mr. Wizard could see us now. Eddie– – Is he still alive? – Am I old enough to call you Eddie? I don’t know. – I don’t have a funnel. You could cheat and use the inside of the toilet paper, even though I think it’s a decoy. – That’s a good idea. – Okay, all right. – That worked. – Yep, perfect. – Don’t get too much cornstarch on the microphone because that’ll probably be– – I got a little in my mouth. – So shake it. – We don’t have enough cornstarch in there. How do people build ships in these things? We can’t even make oobleck. – Okay, Science Mike, please. – Yeah. – The interaction of air pressure and water’s attraction to itself can really overturn what you thought was possible. – Air, water, attracted to itself, overturn. So I think we put air. – Oh, oh, you’re right, okay. – And we turn it upside down and nothing will come out. – No. – But it has nothing to do with cornstarch. It’s a simple lifeline. – Do you want to go there? – For pride, you don’t want to? – The Beaker Boys. Well, but it would be nice if the cornstarch was not a part of this. it would be nice to lay it aside, because it’s causing quite a mess. – Yeah, it is. Okay, what is cornstarch? – Stevie, do we have to use the cornstarch? – [Stevie] Yeah, it did cause quite a mess, didn’t it, but you don’t need it. (Rhett groaning) – You stinker, all right, well, I’ll save that for my biscuits. – All right, I’m getting rid of this. Water and air. Water sticks to itself, and air, what did he say? Under pressure? – I think what you were getting at is that you pour this in here. (water trickling) – [Link] All of it, you think? – I think halvsies. – Why halvsies? – And then I think you turn it upside down. – Hold on, we have to use the toilet paper. – Oh, I think that’s just a wipe up the corn starch. (both laughing) – I’m gonna try what you say because– – Just turn it upside down. – I’m gonna use my hand thought. – The toilet paper’s just to wipe your hands up. – And then you’re saying if I remove my hand, the water– – The water will stay. (laughs) – It’s not gonna happen. – No, no, I’m saying put it on the ground. – Oh, and then yank my hand out? – Yeah, but you gotta hold it tight, but don’t break anything. – Well, of course that’s gonna– – No, no, no, no, no, no. It’s like one of those Reddit… It’s like one of those Reddit… You know what? Screw, y’all, we don’t need the cornstarch. (laughs) The Beaker Boys. the Beaker Boys present cornstarch toilet paper water tower. – I don’t think so. – We can still win if we know what the reaction… Just put it down. What’s the reaction we’re going for? – [Stevie] When you think you’d get wet, things stay surprisingly dry. Bottoms up. – Yeah, so we’re all over this. – Toilet paper. – That was not helpful. – Do we just need the middle? I think it might be something about just a simple little square of toilet paper. – [Stevie] Less than half of your time is left. – Just put on the top as a cap will hold the water. Turn it back over and get this a little bit wet, like this, and now just drape it like this. – Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. – And now turn it over slowly. – [Link] Do you want me to go slowly? – Slowly, Beaker Boy. Slowly, slowly, slower than that. – What do you mean slower than that? – Hold on, I think… You’re doing it, you’re doing it, you’re doing it, you’re doing it, you’re doing it. You did it. He did it. – [Stevie] You did it. (Rhett laughing) – We did it? – [Stevie] You did it. You got all three. – I bet Caitlin made it look more cool, huh? – [Stevie] Yeah, she did. (upbeat music) – [Link] Oh, she filled it to the rim, all the freaking way. Oh, one square? Oh, and then she even took the… – That was way cooler than ours, because I thought that this was… This is a little bit a cheaty thing that we did. – I feel like you gave us… You should give us half credit, ’cause our bottle was half full. Man, she has a way of being a lot cleaner than us. – Okay, so what’s the principle there? – [Stevie] So it all comes down to air pressure. When you turn the bottle of water over onto the toilet paper, some water leaks out and creates a seal, but also lowers the amount of air pressure inside. With the air pressure on the outside of the bottle being higher than the inside, the pressure moving in an upward direction is enough to counterbalance the gravity pushing down on the water, allowing you to turn it over with no spillage. – You’ve got to get it all the way to the top, so that it’s bulging. There you go. And then you take this and place it on there, so it catches, and then you just pull down and then you turn it over. – Then you turn it over. (both laughing) – Take that, Caitlin. (laughs) The Beaker Boys strike again. – What do you have to say for yourself? – [Caitlin] I did it cleaner. – But we still get 3.14 seconds worth of cheers. – Pi clap. (audience cheering) – Oh, that ended abruptly. Thanks to Science Mike, our close friend and knowledgeable science person, for helping us today and check out Mike’s show, “The Cozy Robot Show,” every week on YouTube, also his podcast, plus watch the brand new “Mythical Society” series with Mike, “Friend Science.” It’s airing Tuesday. It’ll teach you how friendships work by using our friendship? – Yes, thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is? – Hi, I’m Britney Franklin from Houston, Texas, and I just finished Space Camp, and it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – Oh, man, everybody’s dream. – Never went there. – Never went there, wanted to. (audience laughing) Click the top link to watch us find out what the cube personality test will tell us in “Good Mythical More.” – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality’s gonna land… – [Rhett] All nine episodes of season one of “Ronstadt” are out now. Check out the whole series on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.