Try putting a stick of resin instead of the toothpick in the Ice cube BEFORE you freeze it. And use it to hang the ice in the cup without letting it touch the sides or bottom, while setting the whole cup. The resin stick wouldn't have to be removed like the toothpick would, so there would be no hole to have to fill.
I have an idea for this! You should get a silicone ice tray. Then put a layer of UV resin on the bottom and all of the sides (probably a couple layers and brush it on) and cure that completely. Then fill it with water (probably leave just a little bit of space because it'll expand when it freezes) and let it freeze completely. Now, take the tray out of the freezer and immediately put the UV resin on top and torch it from there. No need to hold it and it'll be in the shape of the ice cube. You could then encase that in normal resin and turn it into an egg! You could also try freezing the try with the coating of UV resin in it, so when you add the water, it's already super cold and should help with the freezing of the water.
My vote is Stingy, of course. Who can resist those goggley eyes?? 🥰 Adding color to the cubes is a great idea. Blue or green, maybe purple. Good luck in trying it again. 😊💜
Guess I'm gonna have to rewatch it, I didn't notice anything. But I am also watching this at, technically, 5am (mentally/sleepily, 4am), so I could miss an elephant walking around lol.
I was listening to it but not watching it at the start … and I was thinking to myself 👀 if anyone hears this -they might question what I’m watching hahah
Fishing line is ideal. Its clear and wont be seen once its trimmed away. Then you can just dip in resin and set it. Freeze some cubes with line attached
I think if you paint a thin shell of uv resin in an ice tray and make a flat slab for a lid you can fill it with water, freeze, then use uv resin to seal it closed befor the ice melts.. then you can put it into the pot.. but if the seal breaks, it'll be a very exciting potcam!
There are freshwater stingrays, they can go in freshwater aquariums but they will need a really big tank. Saltwater stingrays can not be converted. Cool project!
Hey Ben, here's an idea. Take snow and press it into a mold/freeze it and then take a solution of UV resin and isopropyl alcohol (just enough to thin it out) and a spray mist bottle. Either inside a fridge/freezer or outside in the cold mist the UV resin solution onto the snow and slowly cure it. The idea being the misted solution will cure quickly without melting the snow allowing you to build up a solid shell of resin around the snow/ice.
Hate to go this way but, one should definitely be watching the video for the first 5 minutes and not just listening. Did watch the entire video and as always, great content.👍
You could have made the ice with a bit of fishing line already embedded, may need to tie a knot for grip Brush a base and set first, then lay the ice on it and cover
Just watched the vid. Cool idea, no pun intended, but if I may suggest. Coat a silicone ice cube tray with epoxy resin, then fill with water and freeze, remove from freezer and coat the tops with resin before removing from the silicone. No guarantee but it is just a thought.
Great episode and results. Love Stingy. I was wondering, as the ice cubes partially melted during the process, what if you placed these back in the freezer, would they then remain frozen, now that they are fully encased in resin?
If my first idea doesn't work, how about coating the sides & bottom of a silicone ice tray, cure it & then fill it up with water to freeze. Then, you can do the top after its frozen right in the tray. Then you dont have to touch it at all or shoce a stick in!
Could you make a bowl or outer cover of resin then add water and freeze it, once frozen add a top cover to seal the water inside? Love your videos. Hello from Logan Village.
Stingy. But Cubey looked like an ice-cube so that worked too. Coloured water would be better as you could see leaks more clearly. Adding a "stick" of some description while the ice cube is freezing may work better too. Lovely to see Nicole again this week. Two heads are better than one!
Have you tried painting the uv resin insde a flexible ice cube tray then fill with water and freeze then coat the top of the cubes before you get them out. I always watch your shows and it was the pumpkin one that gave me the idea with the ice.
Here is an idea that should work. Step 1: get a resin cup mold and use that to make a cup from resin. Step 2: pour a separate layer of resin to create a top for the cup note: must be wide enough to fully cover the open end of the resin cup. Step 3: fill the cup full of water. Step 4: use UV resin to glue the top onto the cup sealing the water in.
Black 3.0 inside of resin!! Hi Ben! I've watched your videos for a quite a while and absolutely love them. I know you have been really responsive to your follower's ideas/suggestions, so I thought I'd throw one in to the mix. I really love the pieces when you place a cube (rubiks or otherwise) inside of a sphere of resin. I think it would be incredibly cool if you tried putting a object (doesn't need to be a cube) that is entirely coated in Black 3.0, which is a paint that absorbs nearly all of the light that is incident upon it. Objects painted with this pigment appear nearly flat or two dimensional. I think this would look incredible inside of a resin sphere. Cheers from Canada!
Resin ice cube tray form, thin layer of resin all around the mold then let it harden to form hollow tray form. Use it to freeze water so then you only have one side to uv resin.
Rays can go in tanks. There are salt water rays and fresh water rays. Actually quite common here in the states. Need a good size tank though and I am sure there are certain fish that work better with a ray than just any fish.
Years ago my husband and I had a pet stingray, Thor, in our 55-gallon fresh water tank. We also had Greta, a gar, in that tank. Thor ate frozen brine shrimp and we put in live goldfish for Greta, but one day Thor started attacking and eating the goldfish! It was gruesome seeing him pin the fish against the glass, then suck it into his mouth. We had him a few years.
I'm all emosh watching the birth of Stingy, how you both fought tooth and nail to save him, now Jimmy needs a nose at least let him smell his way around 🤣Love seeing you team up 💖 Thanks so much 👍
Cute. But personally I would have made a base layer for Stingy. Then ploaced the cube on the hardend base. Would have been easier, I think. No bottom leaks.
I always just recharge my old dead batteries. I've been doing it for years and never had a problem. Todays new chargers use low pulses to charge the batteries so they never explode from overheating.
Stingy is my favorite. I actually went down a rabbit hole online looking up stingrays and if they can live in freshwater...some can...usually found in rivers. And there's one who's scientific name is Heliotrygon, that has a small or non existent "sting". After Steve Irwin, I kinda...hated stingrays. Taken too soon. But I guess they're pretty fascinating creatures.
You could have just dropped it in that little cup, filled the rest up quickly and torched it. Would still be nearly a perfect cube inside. Good try though! Pretty cool
In regards to Freshwater stingrays, I would recommend checking out a channel calle "King of DIY". Joey currently has three breeding freshwater stingrays... but its not a hobby to get into lightly, they need a huge tank as they can live for up to 25 years and grow massive!! Instead of using cocktail sticks/toothpicks, could you make/buy some clear resin rods and pre-freeze them into the cubes (like little ice lollies), then the excess rod could be cut away once you've covered the cube. My vote, has to be for Stingy!!
I was thinking you could just dunk a popcicle in uv resin, but then i began to wonder about other things sealed into uv resin. Do you think a twinkie sealed in UV resin would last any longer than one open to the atmosphere? would it matter to the twinkie?
i know your are trying to film it all but what if you first pour a small base on a mat or in a square mold of uv then place the cube on it in the freezer with the door open so you can work and then slowly incase the cube in uv resin. maybe the cold air will help keep the ice frozen while you cure the resin with the torch.
You could also put like fishing wire in the ice mold and freeze it with the wire in there. Then so what some of other suggestions were and suspend it but the fishing line would be damn near invisible
I wonder if it would work better if you made 6 flat sections of uv resin, so that you can cure the resin before putting in the ice.....kinda like making a box for it. That way, you can keep the ice frozen longer and the resin will actually cure, without interacting with the ice. You wont need a mold, just make the sections on the silicobe mat.
What about laying a piece of thread across the top of the ice cube and sprinkling a half pinch of salt on it to melt, then refreeze the surface of the ice cube? It’s a common magic trick that, if you use a thin enough thread and the right lighting, can make the ice cubes seem as if they’re suspended between your hands.
By the way, I took advantage of an opportunity to pet a small stingray (about the size of a saucer) at an aquarium. They had a team of people that made sure the people’s hands were clean before and liberally dosed with hand sanitizer afterward.
Stingy is my favorite for sure. I'm curious if you'd be able to boil the water in cubey. I suspect that it may be risky since it would increase the pressure in a closed container but I'm curious if we'd be able to see the water boiling inside the resin bubble. Don't do it if it can't be done safely but maybe this could be a future video 😀
Why not try setting the whole tiny cup when you dunk it in instead of removing, uving and redunking? Also, set whatever stick you use in with the ice as it's freezing (like popsicles) so you don't have to melt it by shoving a stick in!
i would like to see you use the new lets resin uv light that has a top and bottom then a clear try in the middle so it gets light from top and bottom. I think it will help your ice cube get harder faster.
Can't let it melt. Bundle up and try it in a walk in freezer, or outside in winter. Using the brush method of course, since the resin probably won't work right if it's below freezing for the dip method.
You know, there was just something about the two of you being essentially a pair of hands on screen that seemed so familiar to me, and I couldn't put my finger on it (so to speak) until now. I don't know if you got these ads in your neck of the woods, but back in, it had to be the 90s, there was a series of commercials for Country Crock margarine, where the spokesperson/people were almost entirely offscreen; and all you saw was their hands, putting margarine on various foods, talking offscreen. I can't remember if it was right away or an evolution of the format, but eventually there was a male and female spokesperson, that were just hands on screen; talking about margarine, but being flirty... And somehow these recent videos with Ben and Nicole reminded me of that... and I haven't thought about those commercials in probably _decades..._
I would think this would work best in a container. Put down a base of UV resin, light it up and just before it starts to harden, put the cube in and then cover the rest in UV resin.
I want to see sodium metal and water somehow in resin in a bubble then mix and see what kind of explosion would happen or a firecracker then try to light with a laser😊
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I just want to say, I am Happy to see/Hear you wonderful wife has joined you doing videos. Also I love Stingy.
Setup 3 toothpicks so you can set the ice on it fast as a stand, and fast coat / or 4 or 5 whatever you need.. can get rid of toothpick later
😂😅 oh said this at 1m not 3:00
Try putting a stick of resin instead of the toothpick in the Ice cube BEFORE you freeze it. And use it to hang the ice in the cup without letting it touch the sides or bottom, while setting the whole cup. The resin stick wouldn't have to be removed like the toothpick would, so there would be no hole to have to fill.
Yeah, just like making popsicles.
Came to say the same! Great minds hey.... lol
Stingy
@@darrellkrank485 Why do you say THAT?
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I have an idea for this! You should get a silicone ice tray. Then put a layer of UV resin on the bottom and all of the sides (probably a couple layers and brush it on) and cure that completely. Then fill it with water (probably leave just a little bit of space because it'll expand when it freezes) and let it freeze completely. Now, take the tray out of the freezer and immediately put the UV resin on top and torch it from there. No need to hold it and it'll be in the shape of the ice cube. You could then encase that in normal resin and turn it into an egg! You could also try freezing the try with the coating of UV resin in it, so when you add the water, it's already super cold and should help with the freezing of the water.
You can get various silicone ice cube trays and moulds, you could coat the bottom in UV resin fill with required liquid freeze then coat the top
i come here to comment the same thing
Or the silicone reusable ice cubes, but that it cheating 😂
There are freshwater string rays, but they need a really big tank. I love the creation! It’s really cute with the googly eyes
My vote is Stingy, of course. Who can resist those goggley eyes?? 🥰 Adding color to the cubes is a great idea. Blue or green, maybe purple. Good luck in trying it again. 😊💜
Yeah definitely going to try again with color 😊
3:30 until 4:15 sounds like a convo me and my Missus have every friday night
An alternative to freshwater stingrays is the hill stream loach. They are great little fish that look like rays!
This episode has a lot of moments where you need to SEE what they're saying, because some of the banter is a little suggestive 😂
I take it then I'm not the only one that was giggling like a 12 year old then.
Guess I'm gonna have to rewatch it, I didn't notice anything. But I am also watching this at, technically, 5am (mentally/sleepily, 4am), so I could miss an elephant walking around lol.
@@mystic_tacosListen without looking at the video from about 3:35-4:10
5:05-5:52 (especially 5:48-5:52)
I was listening to it but not watching it at the start … and I was thinking to myself 👀 if anyone hears this -they might question what I’m watching hahah
@@techywill🤣🤣🤣👏
Fishing line is ideal. Its clear and wont be seen once its trimmed away. Then you can just dip in resin and set it. Freeze some cubes with line attached
I think if you paint a thin shell of uv resin in an ice tray and make a flat slab for a lid you can fill it with water, freeze, then use uv resin to seal it closed befor the ice melts.. then you can put it into the pot.. but if the seal breaks, it'll be a very exciting potcam!
There are freshwater stingrays, they can go in freshwater aquariums but they will need a really big tank. Saltwater stingrays can not be converted. Cool project!
Hey Ben, here's an idea. Take snow and press it into a mold/freeze it and then take a solution of UV resin and isopropyl alcohol (just enough to thin it out) and a spray mist bottle. Either inside a fridge/freezer or outside in the cold mist the UV resin solution onto the snow and slowly cure it. The idea being the misted solution will cure quickly without melting the snow allowing you to build up a solid shell of resin around the snow/ice.
Hate to go this way but, one should definitely be watching the video for the first 5 minutes and not just listening. Did watch the entire video and as always, great content.👍
The googly eyes on stingy was a nice touch. Definitely my favorite of the two. The ice cube is cool with how smooth it is also though.
Agreed ❤
You could have made the ice with a bit of fishing line already embedded, may need to tie a knot for grip
Brush a base and set first, then lay the ice on it and cover
Love your collaborations with Nicole! ❤❤❤
Just watched the vid. Cool idea, no pun intended, but if I may suggest. Coat a silicone ice cube tray with epoxy resin, then fill with water and freeze, remove from freezer and coat the tops with resin before removing from the silicone. No guarantee but it is just a thought.
I love that you've been including Nicole in your videos lately!!
You guys make resin work seems so romantic! ❤
it's been so great that nicole's been in more videos!
Great episode and results. Love Stingy. I was wondering, as the ice cubes partially melted during the process, what if you placed these back in the freezer, would they then remain frozen, now that they are fully encased in resin?
No, ice will even thaw in insulated water bottles and coolers
If my first idea doesn't work, how about coating the sides & bottom of a silicone ice tray, cure it & then fill it up with water to freeze. Then, you can do the top after its frozen right in the tray. Then you dont have to touch it at all or shoce a stick in!
Could you make a bowl or outer cover of resin then add water and freeze it, once frozen add a top cover to seal the water inside? Love your videos. Hello from Logan Village.
I'd be excited to watch another one with more testing that people have suggested in this comments
Yay, Nicole makes an appearance!!!❤
Stingy. But Cubey looked like an ice-cube so that worked too. Coloured water would be better as you could see leaks more clearly. Adding a "stick" of some description while the ice cube is freezing may work better too. Lovely to see Nicole again this week. Two heads are better than one!
Have you tried painting the uv resin insde a flexible ice cube tray then fill with water and freeze then coat the top of the cubes before you get them out. I always watch your shows and it was the pumpkin one that gave me the idea with the ice.
I love how the ice looks with the uv lights on it.
That was pretty cool! Stingy is my favorite and kind of cute for an ice cube!
I vote for Stingy! Y'all made a pretty cool project! So glad it worked out for y'al.
I was gonna say colored ice cubes would be cool. I vote for Stingy. 👍
I like stingy's eyes, but cubie has a cool natural vibe. I vote Cubie!
Spending time with you two is just the best!
Stingy is lovely, but I cast my vote for Cubie because it'll probably be the only vote he'll get. I love you Cubie!
Thanks Lynn 😊
That was pretty cool, and I was just impressed that you didn't impale your fingers or hand with the stick trying to push them into the ice cubes.
Here is an idea that should work.
Step 1: get a resin cup mold and use that to make a cup from resin.
Step 2: pour a separate layer of resin to create a top for the cup note: must be wide enough to fully cover the open end of the resin cup.
Step 3: fill the cup full of water.
Step 4: use UV resin to glue the top onto the cup sealing the water in.
Stingy with his off centre tail is definitely my favourite 😅 great fun video ❤
Black 3.0 inside of resin!!
Hi Ben! I've watched your videos for a quite a while and absolutely love them.
I know you have been really responsive to your follower's ideas/suggestions, so I thought I'd throw one in to the mix.
I really love the pieces when you place a cube (rubiks or otherwise) inside of a sphere of resin. I think it would be incredibly cool if you tried putting a object (doesn't need to be a cube) that is entirely coated in Black 3.0, which is a paint that absorbs nearly all of the light that is incident upon it. Objects painted with this pigment appear nearly flat or two dimensional. I think this would look incredible inside of a resin sphere.
Cheers from Canada!
Resin ice cube tray form, thin layer of resin all around the mold then let it harden to form hollow tray form. Use it to freeze water so then you only have one side to uv resin.
Rays can go in tanks. There are salt water rays and fresh water rays. Actually quite common here in the states. Need a good size tank though and I am sure there are certain fish that work better with a ray than just any fish.
Years ago my husband and I had a pet stingray, Thor, in our 55-gallon fresh water tank. We also had Greta, a gar, in that tank. Thor ate frozen brine shrimp and we put in live goldfish for Greta, but one day Thor started attacking and eating the goldfish! It was gruesome seeing him pin the fish against the glass, then suck it into his mouth. We had him a few years.
I'm all emosh watching the birth of Stingy, how you both fought tooth and nail to save him, now Jimmy needs a nose at least let him smell his way around 🤣Love seeing you team up 💖 Thanks so much 👍
Cute. But personally I would have made a base layer for Stingy. Then ploaced the cube on the hardend base. Would have been easier, I think. No bottom leaks.
Really neat, Ben. Maybe stick the ice cube back in the freezer after you insert the stick.
Bill
I always just recharge my old dead batteries. I've been doing it for years and never had a problem. Todays new chargers use low pulses to charge the batteries so they never explode from overheating.
Stingy is super cute!
Awesome job guys, love watching your experiments together ❤
Stingy is my favorite. I actually went down a rabbit hole online looking up stingrays and if they can live in freshwater...some can...usually found in rivers. And there's one who's scientific name is Heliotrygon, that has a small or non existent "sting".
After Steve Irwin, I kinda...hated stingrays. Taken too soon. But I guess they're pretty fascinating creatures.
Drill a small hole in them add color and seal it back should work may be worth a try?
You can't convert most salt fish to fresh. Brachish can sometimes go back and forth but it's not always ideal. You can get teacup stingrays in fresh.
Aww poor blind Cubee doesn’t stand a chance next to Stingee and his googly eyes 😂 Great experiment- thanks guys
You could have just dropped it in that little cup, filled the rest up quickly and torched it. Would still be nearly a perfect cube inside. Good try though! Pretty cool
Jazza just made a resin project, and all I could think the whole time was, "that's not how Ben would do it"
Hi guys, love watching your videos and to answer your question about fresh water stingrays. The answer is yes. They live in the Amazon river.
In regards to Freshwater stingrays, I would recommend checking out a channel calle "King of DIY". Joey currently has three breeding freshwater stingrays... but its not a hobby to get into lightly, they need a huge tank as they can live for up to 25 years and grow massive!!
Instead of using cocktail sticks/toothpicks, could you make/buy some clear resin rods and pre-freeze them into the cubes (like little ice lollies), then the excess rod could be cut away once you've covered the cube.
My vote, has to be for Stingy!!
@thekingofdiy is his channel name
Love seeing Nicole in your videos. Love stingy.
Definitely Stingie...too cute!😂 Yes, coloring the ice cubes would be cool. Y'all have a great weekend. ((Hugs)) from Texas!
i never thought id see the day that id wanna put some ice in resin but here i am and here i go to the craft store 😂
Stingy is my favorite! You need to make him a brother with a blue ice cube
Stingy is my fav. Love the collab videos with both of you ❤
Stingy is the new workshop mascot!
I was thinking you could just dunk a popcicle in uv resin, but then i began to wonder about other things sealed into uv resin. Do you think a twinkie sealed in UV resin would last any longer than one open to the atmosphere? would it matter to the twinkie?
i know your are trying to film it all but what if you first pour a small base on a mat or in a square mold of uv then place the cube on it in the freezer with the door open so you can work and then slowly incase the cube in uv resin. maybe the cold air will help keep the ice frozen while you cure the resin with the torch.
And when your batteries are done in the TV remote you can take them to Bunnings. They have a battery recycling bin at the entrance.
I am in love with Stingy oh my gosh I love himmmm😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Stingy is perfect! You guys crack me up!
Thanks Linda 😊
That would make a COOL necklace!
You could also put like fishing wire in the ice mold and freeze it with the wire in there. Then so what some of other suggestions were and suspend it but the fishing line would be damn near invisible
Hi, use a blue cleaning roller to better see whether water comes out when dabbing😊
I'd lay the cube flat side down the mat cover it with the uv cure it. Turn it over, dry if necessary, cover other side, cure that.
I’ve been wondering what would happen if you put a tea bag or tea leaves in resin. That could be an interesting experiment.
What if you were to create a hollow resin shape , with a hole, then fill.with water and freeze, then cover the hole?
I wasn't expecting to have my mind blown my D battery adapters. 😂 I've never seen those before!
I just love these sessions, you are a real fun couple :) and stingy, definitely stingy, lol
Thanks Lisa 😊
What about putting a layer of resin in the ice cube tray then put the liquid in & freeze then put a layer on top?
I wonder if it would work better if you made 6 flat sections of uv resin, so that you can cure the resin before putting in the ice.....kinda like making a box for it. That way, you can keep the ice frozen longer and the resin will actually cure, without interacting with the ice. You wont need a mold, just make the sections on the silicobe mat.
stingy is the most perfect creature i ever did see
Awesome Video Ben's Worx and Nicole also my favourite one is Stingy.🙂
I was waiting for you to freeze them again in the end
I think the ice cube will alway melt unless you could somehow keep it cold. Brilliant well done mate
What about laying a piece of thread across the top of the ice cube and sprinkling a half pinch of salt on it to melt, then refreeze the surface of the ice cube? It’s a common magic trick that, if you use a thin enough thread and the right lighting, can make the ice cubes seem as if they’re suspended between your hands.
By the way, I took advantage of an opportunity to pet a small stingray (about the size of a saucer) at an aquarium. They had a team of people that made sure the people’s hands were clean before and liberally dosed with hand sanitizer afterward.
Omg please try this with coloured cubes.
Stingy is my favorite for sure.
I'm curious if you'd be able to boil the water in cubey. I suspect that it may be risky since it would increase the pressure in a closed container but I'm curious if we'd be able to see the water boiling inside the resin bubble. Don't do it if it can't be done safely but maybe this could be a future video 😀
Why not try setting the whole tiny cup when you dunk it in instead of removing, uving and redunking?
Also, set whatever stick you use in with the ice as it's freezing (like popsicles) so you don't have to melt it by shoving a stick in!
i would like to see you use the new lets resin uv light that has a top and bottom then a clear try in the middle so it gets light from top and bottom. I think it will help your ice cube get harder faster.
Can't let it melt. Bundle up and try it in a walk in freezer, or outside in winter. Using the brush method of course, since the resin probably won't work right if it's below freezing for the dip method.
Outside in winter in Queensland just would not work doesnt get nearly cold enough
could you work over an ice bath, freezer blocks etc to reduce the ambient temperature?
Omg I am dying😂😂 Stingy should go on the wall with your fish. 😂😂😂
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stingy looks awesome! 😊
You could perhaps try to drill in a long screw into your ice cube for easy removal? 🤞🏻
Nice work!
It would be cool if you made some Christmas themed nesting dolls out if resin
Ben, you have a sea otter in your work bench. See, for example, 1:16.
50/50 for my vote.
You can get freshwater sting ray. I think Stingy is so cute ❤
Stingy is awesome!! ❤❤❤
You know, there was just something about the two of you being essentially a pair of hands on screen that seemed so familiar to me, and I couldn't put my finger on it (so to speak) until now. I don't know if you got these ads in your neck of the woods, but back in, it had to be the 90s, there was a series of commercials for Country Crock margarine, where the spokesperson/people were almost entirely offscreen; and all you saw was their hands, putting margarine on various foods, talking offscreen. I can't remember if it was right away or an evolution of the format, but eventually there was a male and female spokesperson, that were just hands on screen; talking about margarine, but being flirty... And somehow these recent videos with Ben and Nicole reminded me of that... and I haven't thought about those commercials in probably _decades..._
Damn, it was the 80s...!
I would think this would work best in a container. Put down a base of UV resin, light it up and just before it starts to harden, put the cube in and then cover the rest in UV resin.
I want to see sodium metal and water somehow in resin in a bubble then mix and see what kind of explosion would happen or a firecracker then try to light with a laser😊
Ok, during the stick going in part at the beginning... my wife shot me "you better not be watching corn." Omg, I died laughing.
I can't be the only one catching all those jokes right!? lmfao!!!!
3:36-4:10 Had me Dying