So I was challenged by Grant Thompson to do the Ice Bucket Challenge

and I want to do a video that's: smart, and teaches you something

, that's fun to watch

and something that actually ends up giving a lot of money to the ALS Research Cause.

We've got this dry ice, 'cause that's what Grant did

We're gonna put dry ice here in the, uh...

In the bucket.

We've got a phantom running about 1000 frames per second

Is this a good idea‽ -laughs-

(No)

It's not a good idea...

(bubbles)

Ha, are you ready ?

Do you wanna trigger it?

Okay, so here we go

ALS does affect your ability to react...

I don't really want to do this now...

Okay, so here we go

(sploosh)

(children laughing)

Yea it's funny, daddy's wet. Isn't it!

Okay my part is now done, now time for a little pseudoscience

Just for fun

What we're gonna do is test the reaction times for 4 different animals

As you know ALS affects the ability of nerves to fire muscles.

So we're gonna remove the ice so there's no danger to the animals at all,

and just put, just a little bit of water in there

so we can just startle them

Maybe splash beside them?

and see which ones react the fastest

This should be pretty fun!

Okay, take it and put some water in there

Yea, go put water in it!

First animal up:

My two-year-old son!

(laughs)

Are you ready to get wet?

Here you go!

Come here Buckshot!

Isn't that food good‽

(laughs)

She doesn't care!

Okay, now we're gonna test an old cat

Very good, Old Cat!

Man, look at all that food!

Lot of food, don't you like food, Speckles

(cluck cluck cluck cluck)

Okay, lets compare

Okay, in the end I hope you realised that:

This was an educational video

and you leaned something about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

or ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease

I hope it was entertaining,

I had fun, I hope you did too

And number three

I hope you recognize that we're gonna convert whisker shaving to scientific reasearch

to help people

(plop)

Okay, this time we're gonna let it get really really cold

with the dry ice before we drop it

so,

While we are doing that let me explain to you

how I'm actually gonna donate to ALS reasearch

I was listening to my favourite pod cast: Hello Internet

when my friend, Brady, did an ad for this

which is Harry's Razors

It's a really cool razor subscription service

that I use after I listened to him on Hello Internet talk about it

I really like it and I've taken it all over the world with me

So, if you're interested in supporting Smarter Every Day go to...

Harry's.com and you get subscription razors, like this

just do that, that one falls off you get another one

you're good to go, it's really awesome, I really like it

use that promo code SMARTER, they'll give you $5 off

I'm gonna use this money to help you donate to ALS

this should be cold now, let's do it

here we go!

(splash)

all right, there you go

if you're interested... uhh, go to harry's.com and use the promo code SMARTER

if I recommend it to you, and you do it

we can convert whisker shaving into scientific reasearch

which is pretty cool

by all means, don't let it stop you from donating straight up to ALS research

however, I like the product

and, if that gets more money into ALS reasearch

I'm all about it

so if you're interested go to harry's.com

use the promo code smarter

and you'll get a discount and I'll get cred for doing it

and maybe in the future they'll sponsor me and I can use it for other stuff

But for now...

harry's.com, the promo code SMARTER

I'm Destin and you're getting smarter every day

Have a good one!