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KAYSVILLE — A Kaysville father and son duo known for their YouTube channel "What's Inside?" met with Bill Gates in New York City this week.
Daniel Markham and his 10-year-old son, Lincoln, were one of three YouTube groups invited by Bill and Melinda Gates to join them for a conference focusing on their latest annual letter.
The prestigious invite all started with a video of the two in the Philippines highlighting the need for clean water around the world.
As part of a project at Endeavor Elementary School, Lincoln only needed to answer one question that was on his mind and then make a poster board presentation. Little did he know, that question would turn into 1.6 million subscribers on YouTube.
Lincoln's question: What's inside different sports balls?
He and his father posted a video of them cutting open a baseball, golf ball, tennis ball, soccer ball and basketball. Initially the idea didn't catch on, but a year later their couple-hundred followers turned into a couple thousand.
"Even more than that, people started asking us to cut this and that open and people from all over the world were asking us to cut things open," Daniel Markham said.
The two listened to the requests and a YouTube sensation was born. They dissected a lava lamp, sliced open a drone and even cut open a rubber-band ball. But the duo admits they don't always get the video in one take.
"I stumble over my words a lot so we always have to keep on doing it over and over again," Lincoln said.
"We both stumble over words sometimes," added his father.
They say it actually takes hours to put together a five-minute piece. They do at least one video a week. Daniel Markham believes it's worth the time, especially since they spend it together.
"No matter what happens in the future to me or anything, we will always have these videos together. It's almost like our journal in a way," Daniel Markham said.
