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ALEX: Listen up, everybody.
All hell's broken loose.
[KNOCKS]
Oh no, this is it.
This is the apocalypse.
You need to be ready for what's about to happen next.
EARNEST: Hey everyone, it's Earth Hour today.
So for the next 60 minutes, we're
going to be shutting off all our lights
and all our electronics to raise awareness
about energy consumption.
So how much energy do we really use?
Well, this much.
MALE SPEAKER: Quad is short for quadrillion British Thermal
Units, or BTUs.
A BTU is about the heat energy released
by burning a single wooden match.
So every year, it's like we're burning 1,000 million million
little matches.
EARNEST: So let's get started.
CARLY: No worries.
ALI: The most violent game of--
ALEX: We gotta go!
Armageddon outta here.
CARLY: Alex, we went over this 45 minutes ago.
We're doing Earth Hour.
ALEX: The end of the world is upon us!
It's happened before!
The "New York Times" did a whole retro report
on this very subject.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: We are in the midst
of what appears to be a colossal and history making blackout.
DAN HARRIS: People trapped in elevators and buildings.
They have activated the emergency command center.
MALE SPEAKER: You're staggering, trying
to take in as much information as you can.
DAN HARRIS: Mayor Bloomberg's advice is to go straight home.
MALE SPEAKER: The subway system is down.
CARLY: Calm down.
They actually improved the grid.
It's safer now.
ALEX: Safer?
Ha ha!
That hasn't been safe since the late 1800s,
since the guy who invented the light bulb started
electrocuting all the animals.
Me and two million other people learned all about it
from one of Drunk History's biggest videos,
starring Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.
MALE SPEAKER: Edison didn't like the idea
of alternating current, because he
owned all the patents on direct current.
He was like, [BLEEP] this.
And so he started this campaign to prove
that alternating current was, like,
the worst current you could use.
What he did is he began to publicly electrocute animals.
He was like, taking sheep, and being like,
look what happens when the sheep touches
the alternating current.
Oh, it gets electrocuted.
EARNEST: But, you know, Tesla actually won in the end.
CARLY: That's true.
Every single home on the planet today
is powered by alternating currents.
[HUMMING]
ALI: Do you guys hear something?
CARLY: Did we forget to turn something off?
ALI: What are you doing?
ALEX: Just trying to make sure we don't go crazy
in the silence.
CARLY: Oh God, is that a thing?
ALEX: Oh, yeah.
Last month Veritasium's Derek Muller
traveled to an anechoic chamber, one of the quietest rooms
on Earth, where people have been known
to go nuts in under 45 minutes.
DEREK MULLER: Anechoic is Latin, and basically means no echo.
And the way they achieved no echo
is through all of these foam wedges, which
are put on the walls, and even the floor.
You can see that I'm actually on a spring floor.
A violinist placed in one of these rooms
was apparently banging on the door
within a matter of seconds, trying to get out.
And so I'm going to put myself to the test, and in a second
I will tell the guys, shut the lights off.
OK, I think--
ALEX: I wish I could watch the end of this video
to see if Derek ends up in the loony bin, but oh no,
no power for us!
EARNEST: OK, Alex.
There's plenty of stuff we can do to have fun in the dark.
CARLY: Yeah, that's true--
ALEX: Oh, yeah.
ALI: Nope.
Nope.
CARLY: --No, no.
Turn the lights back on.
This is wrong.
EARNEST: I was talking about LED light suits.
Royce Hutain made an incredible costume for his daughter Zoe
for Halloween last year, and it's
gotten over 21 million views.
[YELLING]
ALEX: No way.
We can't be wasting our batteries right now.
We need those to throw at intruders.
CARLY: OK, then.
Hey, I got an idea.
We can tell ghost stories.
I know a superb one by Alex Winfrey
that only 2,000 people have heard.
ALL: Ooh.
MALE SPEAKER: In life I was a cobbler.
A cherry cobbler.
No, I'm just kidding.
I fixed shoes, and then I was murdered
and stuffed into a well.
It does get very lonely.
It's easy for me to get in a negative place, I guess.
But then I usually just try to fly around really fast,
and that usually helps me feel better.
ALI: That wasn't remotely scary.
I've got a real ghost story.
It's from David Sandberg, who won best director in the Bloody
Cuts Horror Challenge, and it's been
seen over two million times.
EARNEST: Ali, there's no way we're watching that.
CARLY: Hey friend, thanks for inflicting our lives
with nightmares.
ALI: Oh, come on, I bet Alex liked it.
Hey, where is Alex?
ALEX: By my estimation, it's been
about maybe six, I don't know, seven days, no food,
no water-- at night, the ice weasels
keep scratching at the door.
Fortunately, Bear Grylls posted a video last April
on the basics of how to survive in the wild.
BEAR GRYLLS: Successful survival involves four basic principles.
Protection, rescue, water, and food.
And you see all of the blood coming out of it's jugular
there.
And that really, in an emergency survival
situation is food, and life.
And really fresh blood like that is
so rich in minerals, vitamins, energy, everything
you need to survive.
ALI: Hey, you guys seen Alex?
MALE SPEAKER: No, no.
ALEX: All hell's broken loose.
[WHIMPERS]
They want in.
CARLY: Ahh.
ALI: Wow.
EARNEST: Let's go find Alex.
CARLY: OK.
ALI: All right.
[KNOCKS]
ALEX: Oh no, this is it, this is the apocalypse.
You need to be ready for what's about to happen next.
[KNOCKS]
ALI: Alex?
ALEX: Ahh!
EARNEST: Alex, what are you doing in there?
ALEX: Batteries!
ALI: What?
Dude, Earth Hour is over.
ALEX: Earth Hour?
ALI: Yeah.
ALEX: What's Earth Hour?
ALI: Seriously?
EARNEST: Now play us out, Journey.
[MUSIC - JOURNEY, "LIGHTS"]