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This is what it looks like to close out a year

of your life trying to answer one of life's most basic questions.

你窮盡一生試圖回答人生最根本的問題之一。

Exactly how high can elephant toothpaste actually be launched into space?

大象牙膏實驗的噴射高度最高究竟能達到多少？

Now if this looks sort of familiar, it's because this isn't my first attempt.

如果你們覺得這有點眼熟，那是因為這不是我第一次嘗試了。

Last year my buddy

去年我的哥們

Fletcher and I were here with this monster of a flask, but with one critical oversight.

我和弗萊徹當時帶著這個超大號保溫瓶來這兒，卻犯了一個關鍵的疏忽。

We didn't make the floor stiff enough

我們把地板做得不夠牢固。

because I just didn't consider the forces would be so high they'd lift a one -ton structure five feet into the air.

因為我之前根本沒料到那些作用力會大到能把一噸重的結構抬到五英尺高的空中。

And so while that attempt did yield a new Guinness World Record of 60 feet,

因此，儘管那次嘗試確實創造了一項新的吉尼斯世界紀錄，達到了60英尺，

I couldn't stop thinking about just how high it could have gone

我一直在想它本來能漲到多高啊。

if only all that stuff that came out of the bottom

要是那些從底下冒出來的東西都能這樣就好了

Was actually forced to come out through the top

最後居然是從頂部擠出來的

Like what would happen if I spent the year designing and building something that weighed five tons and was basically bomb proof?

如果我花一整年時間設計並製造一個重達五噸、基本上能防彈防爆的東西，會發生什麼事？

And then what

然後接下來呢

if we could just go on to make the world's most

要是我們能繼續打造出世界上最頂尖的……

epic surprise party by building a massive slip -and -slide Skateboard

一場超震撼的驚喜派對，現場搭建了巨型滑水道滑板裝置

ramp along with the 26 million Orbeez pool plus a devil's toothpaste explosion two and a half times bigger than previously

坡道、2600萬顆水寶寶組成的泳池，還有一次規模是之前2.5倍的魔鬼牙膏爆炸實驗

Then the only thing that would be missing would be someone to throw the surprise party for

那剩下唯一缺的，就只是一個能讓我們為他辦驚喜派對的人了。

and that's where my new friend Brody comes in Now to understand who Brody is all

這時候我的新朋友布羅迪就派上用場了，接下來我要好好介紹一下布羅迪是誰。

you really need to know is that as him and his family were going through an incredibly

你真正需要知道的是，當他和他的家人正經歷一段極其

Difficult time in their lives as he narrowly fought through his

在他艱難挺過人生那段最困苦的時期時

battle against blood cancer for three years Brody used his one

與血癌抗爭三年後，布羅迪用盡了他最後一次機會

and only make -a -wish chance to buy a brand new ATV for another kid with cancer

只有通過許願機會，才能為另一位身患癌症的孩子購置一臺全新的全地形車。

He didn't even know when he heard

他甚至不知道自己是什麼時候聽到的

that kid had his ATV stolen by the way I told my friend Mr. Beast this story

對了，那孩子的全地形車被偷了，我把這事告訴了我朋友野獸先生。

and he had some thoughts on what we should do about this situation

他對於我們該如何應對這種情況有一些想法。

So now that we had a plan for the surprise party and a kid who definitely

現在我們已經有了驚喜派對的計劃，還有一個肯定會……的孩子

Deserved the world's most epic surprise party

配得上這場全球最盛大的驚喜派對

It was time to return to my buddy

是時候回到我哥們兒身邊了。

Dale's walnut farm in the small town of Gridley,

戴爾位於格里德利小鎮的核桃農場

California And get to work and while I'd love to take credit for single -handedly digging out the entire Orbeez pit

The truth was as word got out about Brody's story the good people of Gridley came out to help in droves

So Arnie here who's been operating a backhoe for 60 years volunteered to dig the Orbeez pool, while Dave, the town master carpenter,

started working on the skateboard ramp.

I even harnessed some child labor to prep the devil's toothpaste troughs.

Although it sort of backfired when they began to protest against their harsh working conditions.

Which just left my nemesis, the giant elephant's toothpaste flask.

And this time I was taking no chances, and so for the base we laid a concrete pad,

which would be attached to the flask with 33 quarter inch bolts with a total clamping force of 80 tons.

And then instead of a structure made of 2x4s, the plan was to use 5 tons of steel all fused together by the town welder Jeff.

On top of that, we designed the flask to be 20 % bigger.

So now all we needed was a 20 second build montage to get it all done.

And so as the party construction continued on for several days in the 105 degree heat,

let me take a moment to try and debunk a myth about elephant toothpaste floating around on the internet.

There are some wildly popular videos on YouTube, some with over 30 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes,

which demonstrate that when you simply add a bunch of soda to some Orbeez,

and then create a Mentos Sprite solution and pour it over the top, you get this.

Which is pretty impressive.

Look at that!

This also works with Mentos?

Why didn't Mark Rober tell us that?

Maybe he didn't want us to break his record.

True.

Now I had a slightly different hypothesis, which was that these guys were faking the science and lying to people for YouTube views.

So as firm believers in the scientific method, Science Bob and I tested that hypothesis.

And as it turns out, if you follow their exact methodology, then combine the mixtures and run real fast, exactly nothing happens.

And even if you don't trust our demonstration, well then you're gonna have to explain how the balloon shadow

somehow stops right here at the edge of the hole and where these orange globs are splashing up from,

and how the hole itself completely changes shape from this frame to this one once they've removed their layer mask.

The way they actually did that is the same way elephant toothpaste is always made, and that's to mix the correct amounts of hydrogen peroxide,

soap, and food coloring.

Then you just add a catalyst like potassium iodide.

And in preparation for this year's party, we also played around with the devil's toothpaste formula we discovered last year, with at times...

Very interesting results

Now as a reminder, this is normal elephants toothpaste and this is devil's toothpaste

It reacts insanely fast and I don't give out the formula because it's super dangerous

Even if you are for example wearing some very nice protective gloves

And so back in Gridley with Brody's arrival slated for the next morning

The afternoon turned into the evening as the feverish pace of work continued late for the third night in a row

If this dang mega flask somehow bested me again, at least I could console myself in the fact that it wouldn't be from lack of effort.

And so when morning came, with only a few last minute bits of preparation left to go,

I headed to a doctor's office about an hour and a half away,

where Brody thought he'd pull out to see some more specialists for a day filled with medical tests.

Okay, you'll be right in.

Okay?

Okay, thank you.

Fletcher and his incredible hair also came back out to help with the surprise.

And I just want to preemptively say I know I'm quite possibly the world's suckiest actor.

Hello, I'm Dr. Fletcher.

We got a lot of stuff to look at, tests.

Because today, there actually isn't a doctor appointment at all.

And while I think I'm being all tricky here,

he later said he figured out it was me as soon as he heard my terrible doctor accent.

What up, buddy?

I actually brought someone to help us out today, too.

This is Fletcher.

Fletcher here.

He was with us last year.

We did a big party.

So today we're gonna do another party and it's gonna be fun.

You brought someone with you?

Gavin.

Let's go meet Gavin.

How's it going, buddy?

I saw you when I was like six.

I've known you for so long.

Oh, this is...

I've known you for videos.

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Oh, thank you.

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This is Fletcher.

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Hi, I'm so cute.

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Hi, nice to meet you.

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And that's Isla, Fletcher's sister.

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Hi, nice to meet you.

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All right, let's bounce.

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Here we go.

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So step one is to get the Tesla.

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So we actually have, and I'll leave this guy's up to you guys, we have two ways to get to Gridley.

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Option one is to take the Tesla.

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Does everyone want to prematurely just say they want option one or do you want to hear option two?

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You want to hear option two.

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Are you sure?

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It's a Tesla!

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Okay, option two, and again, you guys get a vote on this.

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Uh, private jet.

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Option two.

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Option two.

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Have you guys ever ridden on a private jet?

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No. Let's ride on a private jet.

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Your guys' private jets ready?

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Private jets ready.

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Remember guys, act like we've done this before.

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And the private jet was definitely out of my budget, but a generous benefactor caught wind of what we were doing and let us use his,

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which actually helped because it cut the one and a half hour drive down to just 12 short minutes.

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So guys, we just landed.

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I knew it.

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I knew it.

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I knew it was on my bum!

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I'll leave the finest.

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We don't even luxury.

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And so after a short trip and a sweet ride, Brody had arrived. so So

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now that the party was rolling and we were feeling refreshed,

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it was time to head over to see some explosive chemistry in the form of six massive

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Devil's Toothpaste troughs.

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Now I need to pause here to make two points.

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The first is that because each trough holds two and a half times more volume than the barrels last year

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We couldn't just dump it on the top because it reacts so fast

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The catalyst wouldn't even make it to the bottom before it was launched out

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So each trough that contained the mixture of the hydrogen peroxide soap and food coloring

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Basically has a massive syringe attached to the side that contains the catalyst

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Then we put a big fat pressurized air tank here

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So when you open this butterfly valve the air would rush into this chamber

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Thereby sliding the piston over and causing everything to mix really well

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And as you can see in real life

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This happens pretty fast.

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And the second is you might notice it looks like one of the troughs already kind of went off.

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And the truth is, when I walked up, things looked like this.

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We tested for so many different things to prepare for this.

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But one thing we didn't think to test was

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if the food coloring manufacturer added some new ingredient only to the purple color.

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So now it randomly reacts with hydrogen peroxide all on its own.

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So after a bit of leaf blowing we were ready to power through even

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if we did lose two of our six troughs to that little mishap

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Here we go, here we go, here we go

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Three, two, one

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Oh my god

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Look at the house!

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You can't even see it!

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That was crazy!

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It's coming for us!

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Oh no!

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Let's check it out.

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Yes!

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Oh my goodness.

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Oh, you can feel the heat.

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Ooh, it's hot.

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We have a camera.

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Go get the cameras.

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Where are they?

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Right in the middle.

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I got it.

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What'd you guys think?

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That was crazy.

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And so while I helped clean up like a bonafide Ghostbuster,

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we had to get all hands on deck to prepare for the grand finale mega flask.

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Like last year, the idea was to start the reaction by having these troughs dump the catalyst into the hydrogen peroxide pool below.

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So chemicals had to be loaded in super carefully because even if a small amount splashed out prematurely

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We'd have an even more disastrous situation on our hands than with the purple food coloring

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But Brody still had no idea that was coming

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So we distracted him with a different surprise first in the form of some quality time in 26 million orgies

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Oh Subversing

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yourself in millions of Orbeez is such a wild feeling because it's like having a squishy,

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slippery weighted blanket compressing all around you no matter where you move.

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And while we could have stayed there for a few more hours, soon enough we got the message that the flask was in its final preparations,

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so we all headed back over.

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And word apparently had spread at this point, so quite a crowd had gathered, including the mayor of Gridley.

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So the pressure was really on for me to finally avenge that elf from last year, and to get Brody a dang world record.

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Look at this.

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Huh?

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Hi, YouTube.

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And so with that, all that was left now was to place all our hopes and dreams on our engineering abilities, and dump the troughs.

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Five, four, three, two, one.

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Oh We

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actually had a pressure sensor in the flask

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and it turns out the force pushing all the elephant toothpaste out the top is about 50 times the force

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you feel when pushing against a fully inflated football That was so cool.

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The mannequin, the mannequin's still there.

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Wow.

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Oh, look at that.

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It's like a volcano.

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Whoa.

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See, it's still like barfing out the top.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Is that better than going to the doctor's office?

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Yeah.

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Look how far over it went.

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Wow.

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The flask, stay together.

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You got me once, elephant's toothpaste.

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You don't get me twice.

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And in fact

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when you do a side -by -side comparison of the max height from last year to this year

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I'm happy to report we absolutely destroyed the previous record by nearly a factor of five

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Rising to the height of a 25 -story building at 250 feet.

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And so with a new Guinness World Record under his belt, I still had one grand final surprise for Brody.

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So back at the house, while Science Bob distracted the crowd with liquid nitrogen powered exploding watermelons and trash can rockets,

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nearly taking out our drone pilot, Nurk, in the process, I called up a friend of mine.

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What up, buddy?

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Hi.

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What up, Mr. Beast?

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This is my friend Brody.

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We've been hanging out all day today.

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How's it going?

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Did he do the Orbeez thing?

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He's only got 25 million Orbeez.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Is that more Orbeez than you did?

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No. We had a pool though.

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I think Mr. Beast has one more surprise.

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Do me a favor and turn around real quick.

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Oh my gosh!

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That's your vlog right there.

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Delivered by none other than Dale himself.

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Well, get on, buddy.

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It's not mine.

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It's yours.

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And what's cool here is this is the exact model

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he wanted to get for himself before he gave it away to someone else.

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And he didn't do that expecting to get something back in return,

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just like those who worked so hard to put this party together for him didn't expect anything either.

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Which is why I believe when you try to be a good person, it may not always come back to you immediately,

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but somehow it always comes back.

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這節口語課以影片“World's Tallest Elephant Toothpaste Volcano”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：toothpaste, Brody, Orbeez。這段影片共有 160 個句子、2366 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 16:16。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 146 個詞，很適合跟讀。只有 81% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
buddy	/ˈbʌdi/	哥兒 /哥兒, 夥伴
elephant 名詞	/ˈɛlɪfənt/	щён, 象
hydrogen 名詞	/ˈhaɪdɹəd͡ʒ(ə)n/	氫 /氫
catalyst 名詞	/ˈkæt.ɪ.lɪst/	觸媒 /觸媒, 催化劑 /催化劑
preparation 名詞	/ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/	準備 /準備
ton 名詞	/tʌn/	噸 /噸, 公噸 /公噸
formula 名詞	/ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/	公式
epic 名詞	/ˈɛp.ɪk/	史詩 /史詩
purple 名詞	/ˈpɝ.pl̩/	紫色
slide 名詞	/ˈslaɪ̯d/	滑梯
mixture 名詞	/ˈmɪkst͡ʃɚ/	混合
soap 名詞	/soʊp/	йизы, 雪文
hypothesis 名詞	/haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/	假說 /假說, 假設 /假設
splash 動詞	/splæʃ/	濺 /濺, 潑 /潑
attach 動詞	/əˈtæt͡ʃ/	附上, 附

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
turn out 動詞		原來 /原來
come back 動詞		回來 /回來, 返回
come out 動詞	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	出, 出來 /出來
figure out 動詞		弄清楚
go through 動詞		通過 /通過
take out 動詞		取出
turn around 動詞		轉身 /轉身

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

You brought someone with you?
I've known you for so long.
Remember guys, act like we've done this before.
You got me once, elephant's toothpaste.
You don't get me twice.

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	who's been operating · We've been hanging
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	be launched · Was actually forced · would be attached
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	they've removed · I've known · we've done
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	kid who definitely · hypothesis, which was · those who worked

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 37 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 didn't, I'm, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: hypothesis /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, myth /mɪθ/, thereby /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, splash /splæʃ/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, flash /flæʃ/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/
長單詞——注意重音位置: preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, hypothesis /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, manufacturer /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəɹə/, demonstration /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/, arrival /əˈɹaɪ.vl̩/, drove /dɹoʊv/, volunteer /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/, protective /pɹəˈtɛk.tɪv/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: elephant /ˈɛlɪfənt/, catalyst /ˈkæt.ɪ.lɪst/, react /ɹiːˈækt/, dump /dʌmp/, upbeat /ʌpˈbit/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/, arrival /əˈɹaɪ.vl̩/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, volunteer /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 buddy, elephant, hydrogen 這類單詞。

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