Instructions to my students earlier this evening. I realized that this is my fifth year running this show at UW-Shaboy again Which means it's gonna be the best show ever despite the rain Now they're going to be some announcements, but we're going to start the show off Hopefully impressively right now. So first I'm going to call up my organic students So we have we have Eric Chen Yu Kyle Lisa Jar and Alexandra, I'm not actually sure what order they're going to be doing this first, but Okay, so We're going to start off with something that Sort of worked can I keep the the lights up the stage like that just for a moment So this is a saturated solution of sodium acetate It's a salt very similar to sodium chloride the what you put on your food and if you pour it out No Okay, see we're not starting off on the right foot here. We're starting off with something that unfortunately happens with chemistry Things don't always work. So as far as the best show ever. I'm not off to a good start But we're going to change it up. Okay, so can I have the stage lights down, please? You guys ready? So first We're going to be using like a podium powder like a podium is a moss If you dry that moss you get a very fine powder that looks like off-white flour And if you have ever seen flour and flame mixed together, you know what can happen And if you blow it through a piece of tygon and to be you can make a little flamethrower, but Doing it once well, we'll we'll work on that in a minute So we're going to try the bubbles so we're going to get back to that in a moment so many of you probably have Natural gas helping to heat your house and to heat your water It's very flammable And if you bubble it through soapy water Ready if you lift up some of these bubbles, I know we're being very mysterious here the jar has some of these bubbles in her hand Now natural gas one of the reasons why we can use it in our houses is it burns very cleanly and it burns very quickly but So I gave these students an exam today and they're kind of mad So they they promised that they wanted to have set me on fire So I think I should let them do that. Don't you think please So this is what you can do when you're in a lab on a Thursday afternoon and you're searching for something that can be a lot of fun to do and to begin a cool chemistry show and When your instructor gets involved I end up, you know Setting my hands on fire, but I tell you it's a lot of fun I'm dr. James cabral And one of the chemistry instructors on this campus the second chemistry instructor is dr. Carrie root camp she was helping in taking the tickets and getting everything else organized So please give a round to Carrie and her students who have also been helping you'll see them around I Would not be able to do this without her. I Want to remind you before we even begin that after the show directly after the show if you proceed out if you if you go to Exiting the theater if you go to your left and follow the signs all the way up to the second floor of the science building our beautiful science building Everyone will able will be able to make slime. I think well flubber actually And you'll be able to take it home. So you will be able to take something home with you Also when coming in Something new this year. I made a little print out of a couple of experiments that you could do at home and As I've said in bold letters on that handout make sure that an adult is always present So there were three experiments one was homemade lava lamps One was dry ice bubbles, which you will see tonight And the third one was cornstarch and water to make a non-Newtonian fluid You will also see that tonight all of them can be done very Inexpensively and as long as you have one of these plastic drop cloths around you can clean up quick So I'm a big fan of plastic drop cloths, you know, whenever you're doing something like this you could see they're around so Tonight you're gonna see a lot of color a lot of flashing and My general camera street students doing all variety of things Remember science always has to be safe. So whenever you see my students up here, they will have their goggles on We will from time to time during the show have assistance Now we are going to call you up if you have a Pink or blue I forget the colors pink or blue tickets, which are coming down to me drum roll, please drum roll Oh, they're all blue, okay, they're all good Okay So when it comes time to have assistance, I will ask you to get your tickets out big raffle And I will pick Depending on what the nature of the experiment is an older assistant or younger assistant If your ticket is called, please make your way to where the projector is We will have a set of goggles for you We will have some gloves for you because we want you to be as safe as possible Please if you come up on stage follow either my instructions or my students instructions. We want you to be very safe Some of the experiments will have you come up with or bit flashy if you get my meaning So we're gonna have a lot of fun tonight so without further ado, I'm going to ask rain and Jess to come up front and You'll notice that we have a set of balloons up here first. So We're gonna start off with Jess and Rain is very direct with the The fire so what we're gonna start with is a balloon that contains just oxygen So oxygen you breathe it in It's what keeps us one of the things that keeps us alive now oxygen Oxygen is required to burn things, but oxygen itself is not very flammable But we have something else that is a little bit flammable. So what I suggest is for you to put your fingers in your ears What's that? Oh Can we have the lights down, please? Okay, so The gas in that particular balloon was just hydrogen hydrogen is lighter than air. That's why it was floating up It's very similar to helium in its size helium is not flammable, but hydrogen is now What happens if you combine hydrogen and oxygen again fingers in your Fingers in your ears. I think we're gonna skip it still burns But there's more energy created when you combine hydrogen oxygen if you combine hydrogen and oxygen They could see it already if you combine hydrogen and oxygen you make water waters the byproduct We're getting a lot of water coming down out of the sky today, unfortunately Now that was a smaller version This is the bigger version now Moving targets, so you really want to have your fingers in your ears for this one I thought you said you could hit a moving target go So this is thicker latex than the other balloons You know sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but that little that effort that you get to put into it is really worth the weight And the nerves if you're a professor Thank you rain and Jess Big it right now So I have to tell can I have the lights up, please? So I have to tell you a story when rain and Jess We're getting this together Rain said to me so how big can we go? And What did I do I did this? I'm never going to do that again Was it really that bad? No, it wasn't as bad as I expected. Are you all right? All right Rain is what we call hardcore So next we're gonna have Keen and Trevor come up. We're gonna do a little change of pace They're gonna be doing the magic bottle. So while they get set up. We need our first volunteers So this is going to be two younger volunteers. So I'm going to take the younger volunteers So make sure you have your tickets out So I'm gonna pick two at random. I'm gonna move these around So make sure that if you are picked, please come down front to where Trevor and Keen are Standing and we'll make sure we get you gloved and goggles. Okay 703 7 5 5 Come on down. You're the next contestant on cool chemistry. All right Our other assistant is 703 3 773 Don't worry. We'll have more opportunities for assistance So this is the magic bottle experiment. You'll notice that what Keen and Trevor are doing right now They're filling a variety of beakers with clear liquids and they're gonna do six of these So if you've ever done red cabbage indicator, how many people have done red cabbage indicator Maybe I should have included that one on that list of cool experiments So if you take red cabbage and you put it in a food processor with a little bit of warm water You get cabbage juice. Everyone wants to drink cabbage juice, right? I wouldn't either I promise you that but what happens is if you take that red cabbage juice and You add a few drops of a variety of household liquids if you add in vinegar if you add in bleach If you add in salt solution, you're gonna get different colors. So depending on what you add it could turn Blue it could turn green it could turn red Now we don't have red cabbage indicator, but we do have What do we have Trevor and Keen, what do we have? See Keen is a little bit of a showman. So I'm surprised he didn't have a little remark for me right there His grade is not at stake Please don't believe anything. He says Keen was just in God's Bell recently. So if you had attended the the performances of God's Bell in this very theater So What you can do if you have the right magic solutions is that you can change them color. So our assistants are going to be assisting with this Now with any experiment not every experiments, but some experiments take multiple steps So what are we adding here? I'm trying to look at the label. I can't see it from here You can have the move around front of it's easier to So what are in these solutions are called indicators and red cabbage is an indicator It indicates whether or not you have an acid or a base present Vinegar is acidic bleach is basic If you've ever tasted anything that had vinegar in it, it's a very sour taste acids taste very sour if you ever had lime juice lime juice contains a little bit of base and it's kind of Bitter and some experiments take a little longer than others Don't worry folks. We'll get there in the end. I Can always start cracking jokes If you ask my students, they'll tell you they don't want you they don't they don't want me to do that Because I'm not very funny See they're they're laughing because and clapping because I'm not actually funny okay, so So ours our assistants are stirring right now and once they're done stirring ah There we go if we could have them If we could have the assistants move aside whenever you guys are ready So I highly suggest the red cabbage indicator so I Can see from here and we'll get okay Do we get there? Okay, so the clear solutions that were originally added You'll notice that all these solutions are now colored So one of the things that was added. What was added? And a OH sodium hydroxide which is another name for sodium hydroxide of soda ash It's basic and the indicators if you look down the row when you add sodium hydroxide They all turn a different color when you add in that base Now can since this is the magic bottle experiment does the magic bottle. Can I make it disappear? Oh? Okay, you think so Okay, see this is this is the kind of thing that happens in class to sort of back and forth These are the funny guys. I'm not you know as I've shown already.  I think I'm gonna go assist So once you have something that's basic if you add acid back in so if you had bleach and you added vinegar You could make that color go away So if you ever do red cabbage indicator you add in bleach it will turn blue if you add in vinegar It will go back to purple so something you could try out at home. So thank you very much for our assistants so Next on the list is Lauren and Sarah They're going to do colored flames. So we're gonna let them get set up So what we're going to do is we're gonna get set up and they're gonna show you first and then we're gonna have two volunteers to come try it So I think we'll get those volunteers now. So this is going to be the older subset our older assistants So I'm gonna mix these up 703 375 and 703 379 So make sure those assistants that come up make sure you get goggles and gloss So as you'll notice what we're gonna do is we're gonna sort of go back and forth between fire and Something else and fire and something else Doesn't it doesn't really you know, it's not great to have all the fire all at once. Where's the fun in that, right? I feel like I need to make a public service announcement never play with matches Please What I suggest is when you get to the college level come here and you could do all this cool stuff Okay, so if our assistants can come ahead and please step back behind lard and Sarah first Can I have the how the stage lights mostly down not completely but mostly death so notice the color so The propane in the tank is burning blue But if we add our specific solution or another magic solution, we can change the color of that flame So that was a copper salt am I correct? Okay So that was green which one's next? Potassium chloride so this is potassium. So that was I think supposed to be white pinkish purple white some combination thereof and The next one is Sodium chloride so this is table salt so very very bright orange Okay, so now we're gonna have our assistants come up. Please make sure you're spraying towards the slate tiles there So spray down and away red and if I if I'm correct red is strontium Strontium chloride and the only one I know that's left is boron, which is borax. So if you dissolve borax, so How many people love fireworks? I? Should ask how many people don't love fireworks, right? so If you ever get to talk to a person who makes fireworks, they're most likely a chemist So the salts that you see here we dissolve them in a little bit of water and a little bit of alcohol and when they burn Specific chemical reaction occurs where you actually change Make a little bit of different colors. So whenever you see the colors of Fireworks, they're different salts. So we have those same salts here, but of course in fireworks It's a little solid material that propelled hundreds of feet up in the air and it's really awesome on 4th of July Now unfortunately, we don't have the means to make fireworks here It'd be cool if we did but the same kind of chemistry occurs right here So that was our magic spray bottle. So give a hand to our assistants and to Lauren and Sarah Next we have a mirror and Sierra and this is going to be elephants toothpaste. This is one of my favorites There's nothing like having to involve a kiddie pool If you could if you were able to see down from the top row You could probably tell that we've used it quite a bit over the last couple of years And I don't we've used it recently and haven't washed it completely out So we're going to need one older assistant for this Let me mix this up again 703 752 Please come on down goggles and gloves, please Now in most medicine cabinets Most likely people have hydrogen peroxide. So if you ever get a cut Unfortunately, you may have to use hydrogen peroxide which can sting from time to time But you'll notice that it tends to bubble a little bit when you get on your skin Hydrogen peroxide is a very similar structure to water chemically If you look at the structure of water, it's two hydrogens and one oxygen So what Ray and Jess were making earlier when they were doing their balloon experiment They were making water which is falling down on this as I said Peroxide contains an extra oxygen and that extra oxygen allows A release of energy and that peroxide That's okay. I think that's enough That extra oxygen helps kill the bacteria that you get on your skin. So you don't get an infected cut now You can release that oxygen a lot faster if you have the right catalyst and our catalyst today is potassium iodide But it's not fun enough If you just release that and and you get a little bit of you know, the oxygen coming out It helps if you have a little bit of soap along with it. So what we're mixing in that two liter bottle I was getting a look. I thought I was doing something wrong. Okay If you mix all of those within a two liter bottle, we'll see what kind of height we can get on this So we've done this previously anyone who has been to this show before It's probably seen this done in a graduated cylinder So a law of glass tube and sort of flows out and it really does look like toothpaste Keep in mind that a two liter soda bottle has a much thinner exit And if you have a much thinner exit things escape a little bit quicker and faster We're gonna have to redo this one a little bit later We need more potassium iodide. Well, we'll come back to this one. So what I would like instead is to have The three amigos come up So we're gonna do something a little bit similar We're gonna do diet coke and Mentos Okay, you guys gonna do this all at once. Okay so Wait for my signal My my signal one to Okay, ready one two three So I knew they'd love this one. Okay, so This works best you can try this at home again, I would suggest doing this outside in a kiddie pool or on the grass so Make sure that what you get is diet soda not the regular regular will work, but it won't get that kind of height I mean that was a good about six feet. I think in that one of them. So Unfortunately the sugar that it is regular soda changes the density and changes the makeup of the solution of soda that you do get a little Bubbling, but it doesn't get that distance without the sugar. You really release all of the carbon dioxide gas all at once so Again, I suggest trying this at home, but make sure you do it outside not in the kitchen I know that there are a lot of experiments that you think the kitchen is the best spot to do it. I Suggest outsider in the garage because kitchens have nice counters and a lot of these things Do it outside? Okay, so what do we have next? So we have Taryn and Kevin this is sort of a two-part experiment, so we're gonna set this up first It's a little longer experiment, so we're gonna set it up and then we're gonna come back to it later Just like we're gonna come back to the elephant's toothpaste later Um put it on that way. So what we're going to use here is something you can also buy it's a battery Batteries can generate energy So what we're going to do is use the battery the large battery that we have to do a chemical reaction Now this one is gonna take a little bit of time. So what we're doing is showing you the setup first So what they're making is a complete circuit To complete the circuit requires a solution of a salt and the salt that bright blue salt is copper sulfate What's attached to the alligator clips are pieces of copper metal Now What are we gonna do with that? We're gonna turn that blue solution into copper metal But we need something to deposit it on and it's going to be that piece of silverware. So you'll notice hold up That's our piece of silverware It's silver looking right now, but I can tell you that after about 20 minutes. It's not going to look silver anymore So go ahead and start So that circuit is now complete if you have a solution of a salt many salts It will conduct electricity. So if you Connect this appropriately to say a light it would generate light But we're going to use it for chemistry instead. So we're setting this up right now We may need to check on it Okay If you need to come up and adjust it go ahead and do so. So we're going to come back to this one So this is something a little bit different that we've shown previously And we're just going to let that react and we'll see what happens with that solution when we come back a little bit later So we'll do a round of applause for them after we show you again. Okay. Okay good So next we have Brian and Hayley And and Brian's awesome just for the fact that he's wearing a bow tie Well, I should say Hayley's awesome because she's got a genius shirt geniuses in the elements. So It might might be hard to see but I want one of those shirts So we're going to do that.  I mean these people have seen in the movie Aladdin Disney One of the best ever When you rub that lamp The genie comes out now Unfortunately, we don't have a real genie or robin williams See these are the kind of jokes that I tell in class and I get that kind of reaction So go ahead and start with one Or are you going to do all of them at once? Oh, we're going to do them all at once So normally when you rub a genie's lamp The genie comes out in this case We're doing it via a chemical reaction. So there was a little bit of a bag of a powder material manganese dioxide You drop it down into peroxide and much like The elephant's toothpaste experiment you're releasing the oxygen gas. So in this case, we're just releasing the oxygen gas and it Generates a little smoke And you can see that sometimes when you run three different experiments one works better than the other So that red one is really going And that's very patriotic by the way red white and blue Can I keep those? Again, I love the bow tie. I need to get a bow tie. It's quite warm Is that smoke toxic? It's water vapor. Are you worried ray? We'll just let it go. Is that better? Comedians i'm surrounded by comedians That's okay. At least it's more funny, right? Okay, next we're going to have hydrophobic sand. So this is going to be travis the grams. So we're going to need to turn on a projector for this So yes, we're including much more technology this year So it's going to take a little bit for warm-up So This is another one that you can do at home as we watch the genie still coming out of the bottle and pandasonic So what we have is craft sand. So this is sand that I purchased at hobby lobby close-up So I believe what we have here is an ordinary beaker of ordinary water. Is that correct? Okay, very correct And you're going to pour in just some of this red graft sand and see what happens so the sand Unreactive with water just like if you were at the beach and you picked up some sand and dropped into the water It's more dense than water. So we'll sink to the bottom So is this the moon sand that you're adding it? Okay, so What travis and graham have done they have sprayed some of this craft sand With scotch guard, which is a protectant. It's a sealant So you'll notice that it's falling down I haven't seen this before so So travis, maybe you can you can explain a little bit more project All right Yeah, good. Um, we baked the sand at like 200 degrees for an hour to get all the moisture out of it And then once all the moisture is out of it, we can spray it with the scotch guard spray And it absorbs the spray much like it would normal water Except for the scotch guard spray is waterproof. So when you put it in the water, it actually doesn't absorb any water And the kind of silvery covering you see on it is actually air that's trapped in the sand Because the water can't get into it and that is what happens when you spray the sand with scotch guard And we have one other little small thing to show you This was this was a new one for me this year. So I'm glad these guys come up came up with it. So again So there are a couple of things the ones that we've described that you can do at home That I didn't include on that little sheet. I handed it out. I did include my email address Um, and I'm more than happy to share some of these experiments. Um, the students have provided me all the instructions So I will be able to send those to you The other thing that you can do is that all you have to do greatest thing in the world is doing a google search Just search for moon sand and you should be able to find Instructions to do so. So now we have some of the sand between two watch glasses okay, so They okay, so one watch glass and we've got some of the sand on top of it And now they're putting a little bit of water on top So normally if you were to add water on top of sand, it would start to permeate right through So in the the sand that they've made It prevents that water from going down and so it's sort of collecting In the middle So scotch guard, which is something you could buy at walmart or target or kmart any of those stores And craft sand you can use regular sand if you wish Craft sand is colored and so anything that's colored is more fun That's really cool So all of that water Okay mop that up Get the water away from the technology There are the towels underneath on that shelf there. I really like that one that one's Might be a little bit messy, but again plastic drop cloths Okay, so Next we have lis and tanner doing an oscillating reaction and thankfully we're going to keep that projector back up Now we're going to do what's called an oscillating chemical reaction And what they're placing on the projector Is what we call a stir plate So it's magnetically stirred and what they're going to do is mix a sequence of clear chemicals Now just like the magic bottle experiment, can we make a little bit of color from these clear solutions? And you can probably guess that yes, we can do that So this is solution a Was it solution c I forget the order they told me the order earlier Potassium iodide so A lot of these chemicals are very versatile. They're used in a lot of different chemical reactions. So that was potassium iodide this is manganese And this is the peroxide peroxide is also So we've got one color So the combination of those three Oh my gosh, it worked So watch so if you guys can move move back just a little bit you'll notice that this changes color from amber To blue back to amber and we're not doing anything. It's like magic So I feel like it could do this So this is why it's called an oscillating reaction because it goes back and forth I have to tell you They've done this what four times now. This is the first time it worked So now they're going to add in a fourth chemical sodium thiosulfate And it should stop the reaction Now let's see if it goes back I think this actually worked properly this time completely There's magic on this stage seriously. There's magic on this stage All right, so that is called the briggs rousher oscillating reaction So in the course of that reaction you take potassium iodide and you make iodine so I don't think they do this much anymore, but instead of peroxide Nurses used to put iodine on your skin to kill infections and it's a very purple crystal So what you're doing in the course of this reaction is making some of that purple crystal And that was the bluish color that you saw in the oscillating reaction And in the course of the reaction that iodine gets used up and you turn back to amber and it goes back and forth so Theoretically that could run for 10 or 15 minutes. I believe and just keep going back and forth So thank goodness cool chemistry. Sometimes things really do work So we're going to come back to Elephant's toothpaste so we're going to pick a another helper Oh, you mean, okay 703 609 Just put a beside Okay, so once again, we're using potassium iodide the same salt that was used in the previous experiment So again versatile chemicals So we still have our mixture of soap food coloring And hydrogen peroxide and we're putting that potassium iodide right in So when we tried this one A week ago we didn't get that much height And there's still a little bit of soap stuck up there So you'll notice it's still going And it probably will still be going much like oh it looks like our genie in the bottle. So finally stopped So it does take a while. Thank you. Thank you to our helper So we're just going to let that go. I don't think we need the kiddie pool for a while So the the next group we have up are new and michael we're about halfway through and they're going to be doing handheld fire I haven't seen this one yet no Okay, so this is one that I would not suggest trying at home.  I made sure to get 100% cotton so ball of cotton And what they're putting on is lighter fluid Now lighter fluid also burns very quickly You can you can wipe off there's the the bucket of water here So it burns fast enough as long as you move it around You don't have to juggle it. I juggle from time to time So I'm getting calls from from the people behind me that I should start juggling these but uh, I don't think we have enough of them to juggle Okay Okay One of the things you can always tell if it's an active lab where things are being burned You always get that slightly burned smell. So if you come up to the stage you get that slightly burned smell It looks like our elephant's toothpaste has finally died out um, but That was awesome. I always love that one I will tell you a little bit of a story My wife who is in the audience. She's the chemistry one of the chemistry professors at uw manitowak They have their own cool chemistry show coming up on may 8th May 8th If you've ever been up to manitowak's theater, they have a theater where the stage is raised up above And they did that very same experiment if you look at the panels up above the stage in manitowak There's a little bit of a stain there That stain is from elephants toothpaste So that's where I got the idea to do it in a two liter coke bottle. So I think we're definitely going to do it that way from now on So next we have yang and mai moa and they're going to be doing bubbles and again We're going to need volunteers. So while they get set up I'm going to do one from each group Okay seven zero three three five one and seven zero three three six two Okay, so How many have had those little bottles of bubble solution that you get the little thing that you blow through and you make these little bubbles that go up I always loved those when I was a kid well You could do this on a much larger scale and that's what we're going to do now Maybe I'll turn that So come on around So this is a bubble solution of regular dish soap water and corn syrup And what we have here are two dowels, but you can also use yard sticks And we have a little piece of string connected there and the weight is just a washer And all you have to do is pull them apart Now this doesn't always work perfectly when we did this when we practiced this it was a windy day last week If you want to lift it up and maybe point it more directly This doesn't always work perfectly now you can actually buy Oh Bubble solution that is pre-made But it's kind of expensive. This is the really easy way to do it again on a summer day It does take moving moving the moving the dowels out very slowly Unfortunately, we don't have the the greatest wind in here with this little fan, but uh This is something you can definitely do at home. Let's try one more Oh one more try one more Okay, so what we have first is called onion skin paper. It's a very very thin paper Keen is going to be collecting what what finishes up once we burn it So this is going to burn pretty quickly It's so thin that even the the smallest breath of wind cannot get over Unfortunately, I'm sort of blocked from view right now. I can't see what's going on. Okay. You're good Okay. Yes, I did set him up So it burns until there's very nothing left and you can see that it's so light that it sort of floats away now There's not enough of the embers left to cause a problem. We would just wanted to make a little fun of keen I I should say He makes fun of me all the time Okay, so now the second experiment is we're going to light this newspaper on fire Not with any matches, but with the chemical reaction. So they're combining glycerin potassium permanganate and a little acid What's Acetone acetone Acetone is the main component of nail polish remover. It's a it's a it's a solvent. I'm crossing my fingers Okay, so the combination of glycerin potassium permanganate and acetone Is exothermic And it will burn down completely But the newspaper is heavy enough that it's not going to go up in the air like the onion skin paper did I believe It shouldn't and with something like this that that may be a little bit still burning We want to make sure we put it out with a little bit of water Just to be safe So that's burning paper via a chemical reaction. Yeah, just leave it there for now You guys can actually move that up so We're going to need one assistant Actually, you can put it up on the tiles where we're just burning the paper. There should be enough room up there So this is a chemiluminescent reaction. So we need one assistant 703610 Okay, we're going to do a chemiluminescent reaction. So if we could have the lights down, please So if you mix the certain amount of chemicals again, we're using hydrogen peroxide here You can get what's called a chemiluminescent reaction Many of you have done a chemiluminescent reaction before How many of you have ever used a glow stick? So the chemiluminescent reaction that the three guys up here are doing right now is a very similar reaction Now, unfortunately, it's exposure to air makes this chemiluminescent reaction Burn out pretty quickly, but if you self-contain it in a glow stick So what they're doing is they're mixing it in a separatory funnel It's mixing there and they're letting it go slowly down that tube in the collecting dish So the operative chemical here is called luminal So I think they're going to do another one here So here I have a glow stick and you could see it's a slightly different reaction So we can we could mimic that a similar very similar reaction Personally, I like the blue better than the green. All right. Thank you very much guys Lights up please I love glow sticks Okay, next we have Eric and Jacob and they're going to do bouncing balls So we're going to need two volunteers. I should say two assistants We have seven zero three three six one three six one and seven zero three three five six Please come on down Now this is another fun thing to do The two chemicals here that that We're being used are sodium silicate Soda glass which you can buy in various places and just regular old ethanol or alcohol So what we're going to do here is we're going to use these two chemicals and make a polymer So a similar kind of reaction To this is what you're going to do when you make flubber upstairs in the science building later Not exactly the same polymer, but it's the same kind of reaction a polymerization reaction So we're going to start with the sodium silicate solution in one beaker And the alcohol in another beaker and what we need to do is mix Have a little bit more room. So as these two chemicals react They will slowly solidify as the polymerization reaction Happens Now it does take a minute or two to really get going but what we'll end up having Is a white solid that you can pick up and turn it to a ball Eventually when you're stirring this it'll become very difficult to stir because you're really stirring kind of a jelly Now when you pick that up go ahead and squeeze You can go ahead and if you have gloves on you can go ahead and take in your hand and go ahead and squeeze And try to squeeze that into a ball If it comes off the tongs This one's a little bit It's a little bit messy now this particular polymer is a little bit brittle This is not going to work as well as the super bouncy ball. I love the super bouncy balls It won't work as well as that But there is some elasticity. There we go Oh not too easy now We don't want too many things going into the audience Go ahead and gather those pieces if you will we don't want to be leaving too many pieces around I think we could be assured that these beakers we're not going to get these back So a simple polymeric reaction No Only only bounce them on the table. We don't want to be sending things flying. There's still a little bit of alcohol with these As I said not perfect, but it works Okay, thank you very much Eric and jacob and our assistants So so while vang and gabriel are set up we're going to go back to our electrochemical reaction So remember the color of that piece of silverware was obviously silver. So We've been running that reaction. So the battery has been supplying the current or the power So we're going to get this projector up and so we'll be able to show you what that piece of silverware looks like So some of the copper sulfate is in that solution. So that blue salt Through an electrochemical reaction has turned into copper metal. So copper metal is that nice bronze color Or orange color There we go So we can show you a big picture of what it looks like So if we look at our piece of silverware now It's the same color as that little piece of copper foil that we were using as part of the electrochemical cell So it's a way of turning anything that you have that silverware into copper So this is copper plating if you've ever had any metal that's plated by whiting ring is plated with rhodium It's an electrochemical reaction. So now we've deposited a layer of copper on the top of that piece of silverware Unfortunately, we can't make it gold As someone behind me just suggested I was just told by taren that if you have the right solution you can turn it gold The problem with that is the solution that we would need would be extremely expensive They promised they would give this to me as a gift to take home. So now I have a Looks like a copper butternut Okay next with vang and gabriel We have the screaming gummy bear So what they are doing right now is heating potassium chlorate. It's a salt. It's another salt And for this reaction to work we need to turn that Solid into a liquid now these kind of salts melted very high temperatures So we're using our propane torch And it does take a few minutes. So what we're going to do when it's completely melted We're going to drop in a gummy bear now. How many people like I will say gummy bears, but candy in general most people most people It releases a lot of energy. Can we have the lights down please? Hold on one second. All right go for it So all of the energy that you get From eating sugar is released by that potassium chloride. So all the sugars get oxidized And it generates a lot of light and heat That was not as loud as the ones we've done before but it certainly was light enough So that's the energy you get. What do you eat a single gummy bear? Just imagine the energy you get if you ate a handful It's hot enough that we won't be able to touch that one for a while and again Just it's another genie in the bottle with releasing some of the smoke Okay, next we have christina and emily and they're going to be doing invisible ink and we are going to eat some volunteers for this Well, so you stood up you could help with the Okay So two from the younger jar I'll mix them up We have seven oh three six zero three And I swear I did this at random seven zero three six zero two Six zero three and six zero two go up to the side, please We're going to do this with a smaller one too since we have two So what we're going to do is we're going to take some similar solutions to what keen and trevor did a little while ago and our Our assistants are going to be doing a little bit of painting, but you'll see originally when they paint It's going to be invisible. So it's really like invisible ink. So go ahead and paint whatever you like So you can make some some invisible inks that you can make come visible using lemon juice or heat And if you do a little searching for some kitchen Experiments you can find some invisible inks the ones that we have are special to us Again, these are going to be indicator solutions Now once we have our vengo artists Complete with their sketches. We're going to be spraying These pieces of paper in order to get the drawings to appear Okay, once finished Both finished. Okay You'll move to the side But stay here so you can see your masterpieces Unfortunately, I can't see from here, but that's okay. Is it not working? Okay, did it work? Okay, well some things don't always work as well But the idea was the indicators can turn into color once you add the right solution. So that's what their spray bottles have Thank you very much Okay, we've got four left next is matt f and garret with thermite what we have here is a mixture of aluminum oxide powder I'm sorry iron oxide powder and aluminum metal and finely powdered form Now this reaction is going to make molten iron So what we have in order to get the reaction to go We have a sparkler just something you could buy for the 4th of july now. Can we have the lights down, please? Step back Okay Okay, so usually usually The the iron is supposed to drip through and not break the clay pots Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way, but you saw the sparks you saw the energy from the reaction And the reason why we do it on the portable lab bench is because we can burn the portable lab bench and it not be a problem In fact, if you walk within about two feet of that you could feel the heat coming off that So I think our portable lab bench is sort of out of commission for the time being Okay, that one always makes my heart go a little bit fast Okay, so next we have victoria and chantel and we have dry ice bubbles Yes Now dry ice is solid carbon dioxide We need one volunteer. So before I continue with my explanation, we will take one volunteer 703 601 Okay, so dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. It's called dry because it contains no water The other thing special about dry ice is that it does not melt It's sublime. So it goes directly from a solid to a gas Now one of the things that's particular to dry ice. It's very very cold About minus 78 degrees celsius as I recall Or lower So you want to make sure that you do not handle this with your bare hands You always want to be wearing gloves or you want to have tongs if you're ever working with this Now dry ice as I described on that little handout you can buy at places like praxair You can buy it at air gas and there are some gas stations to sell out as well It's used for for cold storage. Sometimes it keeps things very cold Sometimes you can just drop some a little bit of warm water. You can see it bubble You see sometimes and if you ever see special effects, you can see it right now What's happening right now is as the dry ice is subliming and making carbon dioxide gas that carbon dioxide gas is still so cold That it's crystallizing the moisture in the atmosphere and that's why it looks like flowing out So if you ever see sometimes gas machines can you know if you're ever doing special effects just like that. So What we're doing this time Is using a little soap solution and you can make some really cool bubbles with this Sometimes you just need a little bit more soap and remember soap is cheap Victoria, can you move the cooler back a little bit? I wanted to see what was going on So it's slowly creating the carbon dioxide gas and it's filling that bubble It's going to just keep growing and growing and growing and fill this room No, I'm kidding. I think our assistant should pop that with his finger Yeah, but yeah, but see one of the great things about this particular experiment You could just get it to go right over again Try it one more time. It looks like they want one more time I think they do want it to grow and fill the entire room I can I can tell you that if you let it do that we'd be here all night Someone doesn't want to go to school tomorrow. I think I just heard that I think there used to be a show called the things that kids say I just had one of my students ask me if class was canceled tomorrow No, no, you cannot poll the audience You can also not phone a friend Eventually the the elasticity of the bubble will break on its own before it did get to grow and fill this room Sorry to say I know Oh, see there we go So unfortunately the bubble would not grow enough in order to fill the room Although maybe if we used our soap solution from earlier with the big bubbles we could get it pretty big But unfortunately we're running out of time Okay, so now we have a so our penultimate Demo is Amy and Janet. They're going to be doing non-Newtonian fluid and they have a special setup So what I would like to do is get Andrew and Matt are To prepare the final demo the final countdown And this might be the easiest thing to make in the world you buy a box of cornstarch for about 88 cents You get some warm tap water and you mix them together Now one of the great things about this non-Newtonian fluid Is that you can lift it up And you'll notice how Amy's having a little bit of trouble there If you add pressure to it it acts like a solid you can actually Now We're going to try this and see if it works But if you add the right tones if you add, you know some bass tones to it you can make it dance Now it's not unfortunately We don't have a large enough speaker the size of the stage so everyone can see so this is I'm going to try this at first But then we're going to we're going to bring this back up to the projector One of the great things about this non-Newtonian fluid You could add food coloring if you want you can make all sorts of different colors One of the tricks that What's up? Up we need we need special bow tie assistance The other thing that you can do is if you have a highlighter You can take the tip out of a highlighter and that highlighter solution when it dissolves in water If you take that and a black light which you can buy for about $9.99 You can get that solution or you can get that non-Newtonian fluid to glow We got it going What we're going to do is show you on the projector Multiple things going on here, so That looks like it's a lot of fun. It's very messy So what you can do is lift it up and simply add pressure so you can turn it into small balls and you can see it sort of sticks to your hand So this is a preview of what you can do at home So this one I really suggest trying at home and again outside On a warm day where you can simply wash away the residue with a hose Okay So unfortunately we won't be able to use the speaker, but um That's non-Newtonian fluid. So thanks to jenna and Amy for that So while we're getting this set up A couple of reminders when we're finished here Please make your way out to the left around the side of the building and out towards the broth science building right up the stairs Just follow the balloons in the signs And you'll be able to make your flubber While you're up on that second floor these students have created posters to sort of describe Visually some of those experiments that we've done up here and some of them that didn't work out so well unfortunately Again those flyers that that I provided if you didn't get one, please email me my email address address is also on the uw shibuyon website We hope you had a wonderful time tonight. I love doing this. I love science And hopefully my legacy is that some of these students not only do they go on to great have great careers because I know that they will Some of them will be in science And I really hope they take something away more than just what they learned in class that they had a little bit of fun They love science a little bit more and I hope Every one of you comes here if you don't come here you go somewhere else But enjoy science in your own right science is fun. Science is everywhere. We should all love science Okay, okay, so What we have here is dry ice So wait for my signal Okay, so dry ice the same dry ice that we had in that little bubble experiment in sep We have it out on the bench top here It turns out that magnesium Can burn in an atmosphere of carbon dioxide. So we're going to light that magnesium So as soon as the magnesium is lit, please turn down the lights And I suggest not trying not to look directly at this light Because it'll get very bright white once it gets going So that magnesium that magnesium can still burn Even when it's in right now, it's in pure carbon dioxide atmosphere So I should stop looking at it myself. So magnesium burns a very very bright white So if you had magnesium chloride and fireworks, that's your white So what's going to be left is a very very small ball of carbon So in our thermite experiment, we made iron metal here My heart goes, you know, whenever we do one of these it beats a little bit faster So this will go for a few more experiments, but you could tell it's sort of dying out now that it's sort of just glowing So most of the magnesium has now reacted It was like a strobe light Okay, can I have the lights back up, please? Okay, so you can see the reason why we saved this one for last because we generated a little bit of smoke Okay, so We hope you enjoyed the show Thank you for all the assistance to help us on stage We are definitely going to put this on next year. So please be safe. Have a good night. I hope the rain has mostly stopped


What is up everybody, Jason here for jazbyzcasewrakes.com. We just sold out this last little mini filler to give away the last spot in the R&B for Flawless, guys. Pikachu number three. This mini pack filler here, guys, is $22.23 per unit of dollars basketball hobby pack number, well, it's supposed to be number two, actually, but I guess I just re-put it back to number one. Let me change that right there. It should say number two. I've got to change it there. But in the skew, though, you guys will notice it does say number two. I just noticed that right now. So, so, all right, come on now. Load, load, load, load. All right, anyway, guys, remember, this is number two. Although, like I said, it does say number one. I switched to the title. You guys look at the skew, it does say number two, guys. But like I said, this is the last filler here, guys, that we have to do to unlock the R&B. Now again, guys, we get to random team first. We'll do the randomize the names, distribute the hits out, then once the break is over, we'll gather the list of names that originally bought in, randomize them, and number one gets a spot in the R&B, guys. So, also as an added bonus, if the filler sold out tonight, we were gonna give away eight free spots of this filler. So instead of selling 30 spots, we only sold 22. So this dice roll here will be for the free spot giveaway. We'll paste in the eight winners, then we'll randomize the names, teams, distribute the hits out, then at the end, we'll have the list with the original names and the winners, and then we'll give away that one full spot in the R&B, guys. So there we go, let's roll. And it is a two and a three, five times. One, two, three, four, and five. Five times, five, five, eight. So Andrew, Russell, Joe, Michael, Jason, Kay, Joe, Andrew and Jason Kay, congratulations. Little extra couple spots there for you guys. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Now I'm gonna paste this here for later for you guys, right? Now I'm gonna go five times and listen names and teams. One, two, three, four, and five. Michael Hughes down to Joe. Five times, one, two, three, four, and five. Hawks down to the Celtics. I'll give you guys a quick minute to see your teams.  But I'll let you guys quickly see. All right, here we go, this. Jordan Poole, number 199. Got a Marvel's Luca, crunch time. Jimmy Butler, press proof. Tar-Eason, J-Dubb, Jaden Harney. All right, do a little J-Dubb, J-Dubb. All right, guys, cool, there you go. Now, the moment you guys have all been waiting for, guys, let's give away that last R&B spot, guys. Last R&B spot. I remember you get a full spot on this break here, guys. Here we go, there's a list of names with the winners of the free spots that we gave away earlier. Dice Roll It, it's a four and a five, nine times this time, guys. Nine, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine. Nine times, nine, nine. Just missed out, Joe. But Michael Hughes, congratulations. Boom. You have won the last spot. There you go, buddy. Congratulations, man. And again, coming up next, guys, is the R&B for Flawless, and then Flawless basketball, guys, thank you.


The key messages from my presentation this morning really related to the contemporary threats facing those responsible for protecting the biggest events internationally. So threats ranging from terrorism to cyber security threats, fan violence, all the way through to geopolitical issues need to be a concern for those responsible for planning policing and security for the world's biggest sporting events. We also touched on the key challenges and really opportunities and trends related to major event policing and security. So from a challenger's perspective we spoke about the importance to ensure cost-effective security delivery. That is often a disincentive for countries and cities to host these major events. So being able to share information about what is proportionate security for a major event amongst the range of stakeholders involved is actually absolutely crucial. We also spoke about the need to ensure that these events remain sporting events and not security events. Security is not the driver. It really supports the effort from an event experience perspective and to ensure that everyone involved in these big events, from athletes through to the spectators at the venue and at home, have a safe and secure and pleasant experience when they're involved in the event. And then the third major challenge is really around integration and getting the key stakeholders involved in delivering these big events, be it the private sector, the event owners, to the local organising committees and the public and safety and security authorities to work together effectively to deliver the big events. The real opportunities to deliver resilient, safe and secure big events are really around technology, ensuring effective deployment of technology across a range of areas particularly related to cyber security is a key emerging threat. Also looking at the people who we trust to protect our major event, particularly the private security sector, there's been challenges since South Africa 2010, the World Cup in South Africa to effectively deploy private security workforce to protect our big events. So that's a real opportunity I think to enhance delivery of safety and security into the future. And the third area is really around processes and how we can ensure effective risk management, providing all the stakeholders involved in delivering police and security for big events. Also looking at how our processes prepare our police and security authorities to deliver a safe and secure event through testing and exercising and preparing effectively to deliver safety and security. So the technologies that we're seeing integrated into major event infrastructure to deal with things like the insider threat include biometrics technologies, so wide proliferation these days of fingerprint identification used for not only access to venues but also for background checking of key individuals involved in delivering police and security for these big events. Also looking at facial recognition technology, there's been some very interesting trials I guess of facial recognition technology in recent times and the algorithms and the technology used for facial recognition have really evolved a lot in recent years and there's some I think potentially some very valuable deployments of that sort of technology for future major event hosts. At Project Stadia we are building a centre of excellence related to major event policing and security. It's a 10-year project in partnership with Qatar at about the halfway point and we run until 2022 and we have two main objectives. The first one being supporting Qatar and their preparations for the World Cup in 2020, Football World Cup in 2022, but also supporting all other Interpol member countries. 192 Interpol member countries involved in delivering policing and security for the world's biggest events. So we have a range of activities from expert groups to training activities to partnerships and strategic relationships that we have developed to gather good practices, knowledge and experience and share that with the Interpol network and particularly Qatar as they prepare for the World Cup in 2022. We're sharing all that information through our online Stadia Knowledge Management System which we actually launched two weeks ago at our conference in Doha and that will be the online platform, secure platform for the world's law enforcement community and other stakeholders involved in delivering major event policing and security to tap into the good practices that we are gathering as Project Stadia but also to tap into an international network of expertise related to major event policing and security.


Navy leadership in the USO congratulated 21 sailors for being named the Sailor, Junior Sailor or Blue Jacket of the Quarter at their respective Naples Area Commands. To show that we value those that do their job day in and day out is very important. It's important to morale, it's important to everybody to know that the leadership from the top all the way to the the lowest levels of leadership value that performance. The sailors received a awards for demonstrating the Navy Corps values and an excellent work ethic on and off duty. One of the recipients said awards like these can serve as a tool for encouragement. To help show them that there is a way for them to be recognized for all the hard work they do, all the dedication and time they take to do their job in an outstanding way. The USO hosted the celebration and presented the award winners with complimentary tickets to an upcoming tour. The recipients were thankful for the recognition they received for all their accomplishments throughout the quarter. Seaman Mandy Washington, Naples, Italy.


So we're here at the Image Expert. So who are you? Yes, so my name is Kyle Pucci and I'm an applications engineer at Image Expert. And so what we do is for the inkjet industry, we are producing the jet expert product. And what this is used for is visualizing and then performing measurements on various print heads, any print head in the market. So whether you're trying to develop new ink, develop new print heads, this product would be useful for your R&D. Another big aspect of the company, which is what it was built on for the past 20 years, are our inspection systems. For example, print electronics, it's important to see that the print quality is what you need. And so these systems are high resolution, offline, easy to use, ready to go. So what are we looking at right here? So this is a screenshot of the jet expert actually in use. And this particular feature, so we'll make a switch. So this is for visualizing the drop surface interaction as you're printing. So this is a Kyocera print head printing onto the substrate. And then another option, once again with the Kyocera print head, this is what's known as the print station. So this is integrating the same jet expert drop washer we see here. With quick sample printing, using the same print head, the same driver, same ink. And it's a big time saver consolidating two machines into one.  Anyone who is developing inkjet is using the jet expert? They're already using it. That's right. That's right. About 250 systems on the market. What are all the big brands? Lexmark, all these guys? I don't think I can talk about all of them, but let's just say all for the sake of the discussion. And then in terms of inspection solutions, it's anything from printed electronics, to food, to apparel, all sorts of applications for inspection. Food. That's right. So how would it be used for food? Some companies are interested in the, I can't really explain too much. I'm trying to gracefully dance around what these companies are doing. They're interested in looking at the density of the food, the characteristics of the food. This is not low quality fast food. They really want for the best of the market, certain density, certain textures, stuff like that. Do you think about extremely high frame rates or how does it work? Well, rather than doing a high frame rate, because the print head is firing so quickly, you would need a very, very expensive camera to get that kind of frame rate. What we're doing instead is having a very high speed strobe light. So the camera is open, but the strobe light is flashing very, very quickly. And that's effectively giving you a very high frame rate. So then you can analyze the shapes and the density, the consistency, all kinds of things. And how it affects the material and all that stuff. Yeah, so what you're looking at is with a traditional, before the jet expert, you would be able to control the composition of the ink, and then you would be able to look at the end printed result and try to connect those two. What the jet expert does is it breaks it down into several intermediate steps.  And so by breaking that big, complex process down into smaller parts and making measurements along the way, it's a lot easier and a lot quicker to try to diagnose problems and make improvements. So in the printed electronics world, does it also look like this? The system would look exactly like this, and then you're able to mount different print heads depending on which one you happen to be using. And they all can be mounted somehow, the print heads. That's right. You have to customize them for the test. Well, no, no, no, you use a standard print head and we offer different mountings for every print head on the market. So depending on whether you're using Diabatics, Kiasera, Epson, there's a different mount here, but everything else would remain the same. So what do you think about the show here? Are you talking about a lot of printed electronics people? There are. There is a fair amount of printed electronics using inkjet, using aerosol jet, as well as the 3D printing. And we hope to see the industry moving more into the inkjet direction in the future. So what do you think about the show? I've enjoyed it very much. This is my first time in Europe, so that's also been fun.


Thank you. It's a real pleasure for me to be here and I was just thinking of the 100 billion dollars and the African Development Bank estimates that Africa will be importing $110 billion worth of food per year if we don't transform our food systems. So my hope is that we can really fund nature based solutions to bring local food security while ensuring biodiversity comes back. I'd like to thank you all and greetings to all attending in Luxembourg and everyone joining online globally. It's an honor to be with you at the 6th GLF Investment Case Symposium. What an incredible conference it has been. We've had an impressive turnout of 300 people in Luxembourg online. 4,000 people have joined us from 160 countries. We've heard from 106 changemaking speakers, half of whom are women. And on social media, we've reached 10 million people with more than 230,000 engagements in the conversation about sustainable finance. These are no small figures. What they reflect is a shift in thinking about how we can solve global challenges and the critical role that finance sector can and must play. It's no secret that the pursuit of short-term financial gains has come at a devastating cost to our natural world. Our planet is in crisis. Blistering heat waves, extreme flooding and scorching temperatures are becoming the norm in many parts of the world, hitting countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America the hardest. And women are on the front line of these crises. While wealthier countries have the resources to weather these changes, that's not often the case for poorer countries, but it doesn't have to be that way. Amid these immense challenges is the opportunity to solve problems together through global partnerships, alliances, knowledge sharing and action-oriented platforms like what we've seen today. Most of those who share their thoughts on the vision wall seem to agree that the current economic system cannot support life on earth, nor can it deliver environmental justice. We must think together about how to change the entire system. It's not about mobilizing finance. It's about inclusive finance and ensuring that everyone has access to it. As we learn today, we need to continue developing tried and tested, as well as innovative financial instruments to mobilize new sustainable finance. Solutions in South Africa, Vietnam, Guatemala and Madagascar, to name a few, show how we can mainstream good practices and lessons learned. They show how we can invest in community-led projects that protect nature, address the needs and challenges different regions and communities face in a nuanced way and support local stakeholders. And important programs like the International Comic Finance Accelerator show us that with the right support and technical assistance, we can significantly increase the number of climate investment funds. We also learned that harnessing local, national and regional markets through, among other things, developing collectives, identifying new markets and diversifying revenue streams, we can change the still dominant globalized north-south trade model. Lastly, we still critically need to secure corporate finance to ensure scalability in nature-based investments. I am positive that by facilitating knowledge sharing between financiers, indigenous peoples, global leaders and local communities and supporting women, we can overcome our greatest challenges. And that's what makes this conference in Luxembourg so important and unique. It brings so many people together from different backgrounds, giving us the opportunity to collaborate and share stories of obstacles overcome, lessons learned and ways forward that build trust. This conference is also meant to catalyze implementation on the ground, whether it is nature-based solutions that need funding or commercially viable projects. The GLF is launching a process to identify more investable and community-led nature projects and connect both worlds with one another. New digital opportunities allow us to build these much-needed bridges online like today, connecting participants in Luxembourg to local communities in Cameroon, Peru, El Salvador, Indonesia and many more through hybrid networking and workshops. Just a day away from Women's Day on March 8 and the fourth annual GLF 16 Women Restoring the Earth campaign, it's clear that no real progress can be made unless we make it together. I want to thank the government of Luxembourg and Environment Minister Wolfring as well as Finance Minister Bakas for their support in making the Luxembourg GLF Finance for Nature platform a reality and for providing a platform to discuss increasing finance for nature globally. As I look around and am hopeful that the time for greenwashing and lip-surface is over, it's time for action, it's time for system change and it's time to push investment into innovative solutions developed for countries that need it and by those impacted by these crises. I hope you leave this conference feeling inspired and I hope you made useful connections and I hope you are re-energized to keep pushing forward to find synergies and find better ways to do business. I'm ready and I know you are too. Let's keep the momentum and create a better future for our planet, for each other and for future generations. Thank you all for joining us today.


Introducing... ...South Hollywood. Right, Mr. Morgan, we're all set at the truck. Good, we'll take it. Where's Roy? Okay, Roy. Roy, go first. Right here. We're ready to go, Roy. Now, this is supposed to be a police barricade scene, you know. The cops have the highway blocked, and you're driving this truck here. Just go down that hill as fast as you can and crash into the barricade. You got it? Sure, it's the same. Fine, we'll shoot it. We'll be right behind you in the camera car. Go ahead, Roy. You're really traveling. Watch it up the camera. From Hollywood, the motion picture capital of the world, we bring you the thrilling, two-life experiences of those men behind the scenes. Those daring unsung heroes whose breathtaking adventures on the screen have thrilled millions.  Those men who comprise the strangest fraternity on earth. The suicide squad. The movie stuntman. The daredevil of Hollywood. Ladies and gentlemen, in bringing you this copyrighted feature, we are privileged to have as our guest one of the leading stuntmen of Hollywood, Ken Cooper. It is through his cooperation that we are able to reenact some of the highlights of his dangerous profession. The thrilling scenes you are about to hear are his own actual experiences. Ken Cooper is here in the studio right now, and later in the program we'll bring him to the microphone. But first, let us learn something of his job. It is the summer day in 1932. The scene is a lonely road near Calabasas, California. We find an RKO location company shooting scenes for the picture Scarlet River. The time is approaching for the big scene of the picture. A thrilling scene and a very dangerous one. To make that scene, the studio is called in one of Hollywood's ace stuntmen, Ken Cooper. Did you get the OK on script for that shot, Mr. Gordon? Yes, Cooper. We'll do it just like we tried to yesterday, just like it's written. A team of six horses runs away with a wagon. You're doubling the star and you're supposed to transfer to the team from a saddle horse. Yeah, and that's where I have the fight with Fred. That's it, right in between the horses. You'll probably have to stand on the wagon tongue, won't you? Well, during the fight we'll crawl around on top of the horses between them and everywhere else.  That's when you're fighting on the front team. Yeah, and the horses and wagon run over me, and I swing up on the rear axle and crawl back to the seat. That's right. And then you're supposed to knock the other guy off the seat and stop the wagon, thereby saving the girl. I figure the entire run will cover about a mile. Maybe a little later.  You'll probably have two cameras in each car. I'm not taking any chances on missing any part of that action. Thus it was planned to film an actual fight between Ten Cooper and another stuntman.  But instead of solid ground to stand on, these two daring actors must clamber about on the backs of six horses running at top speed. Every second will expose them to the danger of falling and being crushed to death under the wheels of the heavy wagon. It is now Wednesday morning, seven o'clock. Preparations are being hurriedly made for the big scene. Well, Ken, I think everything's all set, so we'll take it. Now, you've got the horses rigged up as we decided, haven't you? Yeah, they're harnessed far apart. I think I can fall between them without getting stepped on. Okay, then let's shoot it. I'll be in the camera car right alongside of you, Ken, and start the action when I signal it. Okay, I'll ride down the road here a ways and wait for the wagon to come by.   Have you got a fresh load in the cameras, Pete? Yeah, everything's okay, Mr. Gordon. All right, everybody, signal the team. Let's get the camera car and start moving. Here, let me sit on this side. You all set now? I'm sure we can get this on the first take, Mr. Gordon. Yes, I just hope nothing happens to the boys. This is dangerous business, that is. Well, here's where it starts. Camera! Come ahead, Ken. Keep turning those cameras no matter what happens. A little faster, driver. Hey, those horses are running like they were going someplace. Look at that wagon bouncing along. Here comes Ken. He's going to make the change. Yeah, Fred's ready for him. That's a dangerous place to have a fight on the backs of runaway horses. Yeah, we can blame the writers for that. There, there, he's making the transfer onto the team. And Fred's crawling down from the seat to start the fight. There they go. Watch them slug each other. Man, what a fight! Keep those cameras on them. Look, they're working their way toward the front team. Ken's getting ready to do the fall.  I guess it's all a knowing how. Look at them smash each other in the jaw. A little faster, driver. They're gaining on us. He's going to the fall now. There he goes. Look at that. Watch yourself, Ken.  There goes the wagon over him. I think he's going to make it right between the wheels. He did make it. He caught the back axle. He's climbing back up the wagon. Oh, boy, he's not wasting any time. There he is. Watch him fighting again. This is where he knocks Fred off the wagon. That's going to be a tough fall. Those horses are really running. There it is. Fred's falling. Look at him hit the ground. That boy's bound to be hurt. Cut, cut. Ladies and gentlemen, it is our pleasure to present one of the courageous young man who made that scene. Ken Cooper. We shall now learn just what happened for Mr. Cooper is to be interviewed by Glenn Hardy. Well, Ken, I'm sure that everyone is anxious to know what happened to the other stuntman. Was he badly hurt? Oh, it wasn't so bad. When he fell off the wagon, he just broke a shoulder blade. Oh, only a shoulder blade, eh? Yeah. Fred was laid up a few days, but everything was soon okay. I should imagine that you had a pretty close call there yourself. He was pretty close, all right. One of the horses almost stepped on my head, missed by about two inches. Oh, that was plenty close. Say, Ken, I've been noticing that very attractive charm you're wearing. Does it have any particular significance? Yes, it does, Glenn, and I value it very highly. It's what you might call my good luck charm. It was given to me by an extra one day just before I was to make a very dangerous scene, and I've always wondered if it didn't have something to do with my getting through okay. This time, a horse actually stepped on my head. It was while we were making the crusades for Paramount. We were all down at Chatsworth on location and the direct... Pardon me, Ken, we want to hear about that in just a moment, but first, you don't mind if we have just a word from our sponsor. Now then, Ken, tell us all about the horse stepping on your head. Well, it was in a picture where a lot of hand-to-hand fighting took place. You know, soldiers with swords and armor. Some of us were on horseback. I'm doubling the star, and at a certain point in the fight, I'm supposed to rear my horse and fall off backward. Well, some of us were wearing paper mache helmets and some steel helmets. I wanted to wear the light helmet because I could get around easier, but the director was trying to talk me into wearing a steel helmet. In the fall from the horse, a paper mache helmet might get broken or crushed, and that would spoil the scene. Now, this must look real, you know. If you insist, I'll wear the steel helmet, but it's pretty heavy. It makes it hard to move around in the fight. Well, do the best you can. Ken, remember the other fella comes up and you do a little fighting with your sword, and keep your horses in clothes. I'll give you the cue to rear the horse and fall. Okay, I'm ready. All set, everybody. We're going to take it this time. All right. All right. Action. It's good from here. Those boys can handle their swords, all right. Yeah, even the horses look good. They're fighting. Okay, Ken. Talk me into wearing this steel helmet. It saved my life. Well, Ken, it was very lucky for you that you were wearing that steel helmet. You certainly had a narrow escape. I sure did. Maybe it was fate, but, you know, I've always had a hunch that this charm we spoke of had something to do with my good luck. And I'd say the expert who gave it to you should be very proud and happy to know that you feel that way about it. And I hope it always brings you good luck. Now tell me, Ken, in this dangerous stunt business of yours, do you occasionally get banged up? If a stuntman gets hurt too often, he soon loses out. Studios don't like to take chances on men getting hurt. But, of course, we all get a few bones broken now and then. Well, speaking of that, Ken, what bones have you had broken? In the 11 years I've been doing stunts for pictures. My broken bones have included ribs, shoulder blade, foot, ankle, wrist, and vertebrae. Well, is that all? I should say that was enough. Well, Ken, what is your attitude toward the danger of your job? Do you really like it? Frankly, I think there's not so much danger if the stunts are figured out correctly in the beginning. Then you think it's possible to do practically anything without getting seriously hurt? Oh, of course, some things are impossible to do and still live. But you'd be surprised at what we can get away with. There have been stuntmen, however, who were a little too optimistic. Well, what about the optimistic fellows? Well, they're just not with us anymore. I see. Well, Ken, yours is certainly a unique profession. And we've enjoyed your thrilling stories about your experiences. On behalf of our listeners, I want to thank you sincerely for coming here. I know that everyone joins me in hoping that we may have you on this program again very soon in the future. Good luck, old boy, and happy landings.


Russia says it may close its main gas pipeline to Germany if the West goes ahead with a ban on Russian oil. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said a rejection of Russian oil will lead to catastrophic consequences for the global market, causing prices to more than double to $300 a barrel. The U.S. has been exploring a potential ban with allies as a way of punishing Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, but Germany and the Netherlands rejected the plan on The EU gets about 40% of its gas and 30% of its oil from Russia and has no easy substitutes if supplies are disrupted. In an address on Russian state television, Novak said it will be impossible to quickly find a replacement for Russian oil on the European market. Pointing to Germany's decision last month to freeze certification of Nord Stream 2, a new gas pipeline connecting the two countries, he added that an oil embargo could prompt retaliation. We now have joining us on News Now, a professor of energy electricity law, University of Lagos, Professor Yemi Oké. Good evening, Professor. Good evening, thanks for having me. Well, thanks for joining us. But the UK is going to end the import of Russian oil by the end of this year. Also, the U.S. is ending importation of oil and other energy products from Russia. What are the foreseeable implications for Russia? As a non-trivialistic, I definitely say non, in terms of global politics and politicking, Hoyn, as we should know, is a major strategy to impose a kind of global pressure or sanction But in this situation, let nobody make or be under any illusion or exclusion that Russia is being punished. No. Russia is not being punished. I mean, not going back that route being punished. But if the UK imposes a kind of product restriction, and the U.S. imposes a kind of small on Russia's product, that will definitely not punish Russia. It will only punish innocent citizens of the world, including Nigeria, Ghana, Afghanistan, and other countries that are already stressed in terms of energy demand and supplies. So it's going to end up distorting global supply and demand chain. So even though it's going to affect Russia's source of revenue, you're saying it's not a punishment at all to Russia? It's not a kind of punishment to Russia talking about the kind of political measures that we should be talking about. Talking in terms of international or transnational diplomacy, when you attack Russia by their product, talking of food or energy war, so to speak, you are not likely to punish Russia or other countries by the U.S. that already have strategic results, both within their country and other countries. Russia is huge in terms of gas and pressure. But then Russia has a normal strength in other areas that we're not even looking at. It's not going to hit Russia the way it's going to hit innocent citizens and countries of the world. Before Russia would blink, as a result of those strategies, the world would probably laugh about it more. Okay. Well, the ban has triggered a surge in Brentwood to almost $140 a barrel. That's its highest level since 2008. Naturally, because when you go down the route, trade ostracization of a kind of imposition that would lead to the boycott of products from a particular country. The country should, I mean, be it a reasonable country, it would have had in place strategies that would make it survive for at least a year or two. But by the time we caught Russia being a major supply, the world would definitely not be the same. Well, is Nigeria prepared to benefit from this situation? And how can Nigeria benefit maximally? Nigeria is not going to benefit because, I mean, previously we had a kind of surge, upward surge in the passes of crude oil during the Gulf War. And some of it, some of the outcome of it, talking precisely, some of the monies and the gains fell less from such, like after the war, slush funds embezzled to production structures that we have in place. So, I mean, very little to show in terms of structural improvement and investment in medication, as you know, as it's on strike so many, just we decided not to take it. So those are the kind of slush fund that will have been invested to drive socioeconomic development, to improve infrastructure, to stimulate economic development and growth. But naturally, trust me, even the state government, because most of, let me not say most of them, a significant number of the state government in Nigeria, bankrupt, technical bankrupt, no project, good bankruptcy now, will not allow for that government to save for any days. We had it before, when the WELA regime were state governments or state government glamour for sharing, or for strategic results until that got depleted. So even if Nigeria is able to save three loans as a result of... Okay, okay, so Nigeria cannot benefit, you don't see it because of corruption. All right, well, analysts are listing Venezuela, Iran, the U.S. aid as possible options, should that take effect. Do you see how other oil producing countries going to be able to harness this to benefit us? When a doctor of other oil producing countries, they definitely have been able to diversify the economy and economies and they have other stuff like, for instance, UAE now, doesn't really depend so much on crude oil, though it still forms a major chunk of their hand. But they are huge in terms of, for instance, the same table of Saudi Arabia and other countries or other Middle East countries that you might want to reference. And corruption is not as right in those countries because of course, in some cases, that has capital punishment. And not advocating capital punishment, corruption here, definitely not. But, you know, having that kind of push-phone at the time the country is going into election definitely being a kind of distortion in our economy. And I'm already distorted the economy. Well, thank you so much, Professor. Time will not allow us to continue with this conversation. Professor Yemi Oke, is a professor of energy electricity law, University of Lagos. Thank you so much for your time. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


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