WEBVTT 00:00:00.017 --> 00:00:06.377 I immediately just had a flashback to when we did the cereal myth. 00:00:06.537 --> 00:00:09.957 Do you remember Jamie and Adam were doing the myth that there's more nutrition 00:00:09.957 --> 00:00:13.537 in a cereal box than the cereal itself? 00:00:13.737 --> 00:00:16.817 And they did a whole experiment with mice that went horribly wrong. 00:00:16.917 --> 00:00:19.777 Horribly wrong. Welcome, MythFits. 00:00:39.324 --> 00:00:44.684 Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of MythBits, the podcast. 00:00:45.424 --> 00:00:50.604 Carrie, it's been a while. You've been traveling quite a bit. Where'd you go? 00:00:51.444 --> 00:00:55.124 So I was just in Australia for a cybersecurity conference. 00:00:55.124 --> 00:00:59.604 I was doing a keynote on future-ready skills for the next generation and how 00:00:59.604 --> 00:01:03.244 we can inspire kids into STEM careers. 00:01:03.244 --> 00:01:09.384 It was a it was I basically took the job because it was in Sydney and I wanted 00:01:09.384 --> 00:01:10.604 to visit some friends in Sydney. 00:01:10.784 --> 00:01:13.564 So I turned it into like a work play trip. 00:01:14.224 --> 00:01:19.284 Yeah. No kidding. I mean, getting paid to travel. Those are the best jobs ever. 00:01:19.644 --> 00:01:23.704 Yeah. I also like that whole the STEM festival is like my my other gig where 00:01:23.704 --> 00:01:25.384 I'm trying to make it global. 00:01:25.604 --> 00:01:30.224 So I was pitching the National STEM Festival to Australia to see if like they want to do it, too. 00:01:30.224 --> 00:01:36.344 But the fun part was I got to go see both some old friends that you've never 00:01:36.344 --> 00:01:41.144 met, but our old cameraman Benny and I had like... I saw the photo. 00:01:41.144 --> 00:01:42.584 I'm so jealous. 00:01:43.244 --> 00:01:48.484 You two used to be bachelors in the city running around, having a good time. 00:01:48.484 --> 00:01:53.124 And now you're both dads. He's got three boys. I know. 00:01:53.384 --> 00:01:59.504 They are a handful. It's so weird because you know how like you meet somebody 00:01:59.504 --> 00:02:03.444 later in life, you know, your adult life and, you know, it's like the friends 00:02:03.444 --> 00:02:07.664 that you have when you're a kid, you stay close forever, right? 00:02:08.504 --> 00:02:13.004 But Ben was like a person who was like, how did we not, like we should have 00:02:13.004 --> 00:02:14.524 met each other when we were little kids. 00:02:14.684 --> 00:02:19.424 Like how did we miss out on hanging out this long because you're so much fun 00:02:19.424 --> 00:02:20.964 and one of my best friends. 00:02:21.124 --> 00:02:26.144 Oh, he was definitely your buddy on the show. The two of you were so tight. 00:02:26.324 --> 00:02:29.364 And I was so excited to have some glasses of wine with him. 00:02:29.524 --> 00:02:35.744 And while we were outside, because we were in Manly, which is like beach town. 00:02:37.164 --> 00:02:42.384 All of a sudden, like a skywriter started writing, marry me. 00:02:42.704 --> 00:02:43.784 Oh, no way. 00:02:44.264 --> 00:02:48.764 And I was like looking around, just like totally trying to see somebody who was excited. 00:02:49.004 --> 00:02:52.024 And like the boys were watching. We were all just like, oh, my God. 00:02:52.224 --> 00:02:56.864 Oh, my God. Are they going to say no? Where is this person? We could never figure out who was it for. 00:02:57.364 --> 00:02:57.524 Yeah. 00:02:57.924 --> 00:03:03.604 But I was it had me thinking because, you know, I posted it because I thought 00:03:03.604 --> 00:03:10.484 it was so, so, you know, it was adorable. So I posted on Instagram instantly, my DMs filled up. 00:03:11.454 --> 00:03:13.234 Kim trail conspiracies. 00:03:13.734 --> 00:03:14.994 Oh, whoa. 00:03:15.974 --> 00:03:19.634 I mean, that's when they came into Mythbusters all the time. 00:03:19.914 --> 00:03:25.394 The Kim trail conspiracy that like, you know, that erroneous long belief that 00:03:25.394 --> 00:03:32.514 the government is spraying chemicals in into the condensation out of airplanes. 00:03:32.634 --> 00:03:37.794 And that you can tell because they the trails stay longer than regular trails. 00:03:37.994 --> 00:03:39.594 And I think it was in the 90s. 00:03:40.194 --> 00:03:43.654 It started people were just going crazy for chemtrails but it's one of those 00:03:43.654 --> 00:03:46.834 conspiracy theories that's been debunked but i thought it would be like kind 00:03:46.834 --> 00:03:48.014 of a fun myth buster episode 00:03:48.014 --> 00:03:55.114 Wait who debunked it are you sure about that really i'm i'm telling you there's 00:03:55.114 --> 00:03:59.714 so many things that are conspiracy theories that are now coming true that it's 00:03:59.714 --> 00:04:05.214 like it's i feel like you you know you do a little bit of research because i 00:04:05.214 --> 00:04:07.454 like i don't know show me show me well i. 00:04:07.454 --> 00:04:13.934 Mean the scientific community has been, has debunked this over and over and 00:04:13.934 --> 00:04:19.694 over for many years that this, you know, it can't be true, that it's just condensation, 00:04:20.154 --> 00:04:23.114 that, you know, the government isn't spraying chemicals. But I will give you this. 00:04:23.294 --> 00:04:28.834 There was this book a long time ago. I think we've talked about this called Behold the Pale Horse. 00:04:29.014 --> 00:04:32.354 And it is like, it's just a hotbed for 00:04:32.354 --> 00:04:35.734 conspiracies and everybody my age who 00:04:35.734 --> 00:04:38.494 is super into conspiracy theories read this 00:04:38.494 --> 00:04:41.534 book long ago and there you put in 00:04:41.534 --> 00:04:45.254 a bunch of conspiracy theories that were untrue but a couple that were true 00:04:45.254 --> 00:04:52.254 just so it kind of gave it a basis one of them was that in 1950 the navy did 00:04:52.254 --> 00:04:58.634 an experiment to see what kind of biological warfare would work in fog so they 00:04:58.634 --> 00:05:00.774 basically sprayed a bacteria you 00:05:01.777 --> 00:05:04.517 That was like some sort of rhinovirus, something that would give you, 00:05:04.517 --> 00:05:10.777 you know, just like nasal congestion into the San Francisco Bay fog to see how far it would spread. 00:05:11.117 --> 00:05:15.317 And one dude actually died from his sickness. 00:05:15.617 --> 00:05:19.457 Like, but lots of people caught it. So it actually kind of proved that you can 00:05:19.457 --> 00:05:21.377 do this with bacteria in the fog. 00:05:21.657 --> 00:05:25.437 Thank God for climate change because there's just like way less fog out here 00:05:25.437 --> 00:05:26.517 now. So I feel a lot safer. 00:05:26.877 --> 00:05:31.057 I mean, like the whole MKUltra, right? 00:05:31.777 --> 00:05:38.337 That the CIA was experimenting on unbeknownst subjects with LSD. 00:05:38.437 --> 00:05:41.817 And they, you know, they had no idea. Are you familiar with that? 00:05:42.037 --> 00:05:45.337 I am familiar with that. That it was given to soldiers, right? 00:05:45.997 --> 00:05:51.797 Well, it was, they were experimenting on men who were going to brothels because 00:05:51.797 --> 00:05:55.537 they didn't, you know, the guy is not going to go, oh, I went to this brothel. 00:05:55.617 --> 00:05:57.917 And I started having insane thoughts. 00:05:59.237 --> 00:06:05.637 And so it was this whole program where they were giving, and they may have given 00:06:05.637 --> 00:06:09.437 it to soldiers as well, but they were trying to see if they could control people, 00:06:09.697 --> 00:06:12.017 mind control, with using LSD. 00:06:12.437 --> 00:06:13.497 Have you ever done LSD? 00:06:13.717 --> 00:06:18.777 That's all. No, I've never done LSD. I've done shrooms. 00:06:19.037 --> 00:06:24.957 I did it once at a Grateful Dead show because I feel like when in Rome and I 00:06:24.957 --> 00:06:29.277 could see how your mind would be controlled. It was a weird sort of young, 00:06:29.657 --> 00:06:31.197 misspent youth experience. 00:06:31.857 --> 00:06:35.837 I never did it again, but I just didn't like feeling that out of control. 00:06:36.077 --> 00:06:42.997 But suddenly I understood tie-dyes. Like, oh, I get this. I absolutely get jam 00:06:42.997 --> 00:06:48.237 bands and I totally get just really spirally tie-dyes. 00:06:48.397 --> 00:06:56.257 That's funny. It's funny. I saw that picture of Ben and you and I was so jealous. 00:06:56.377 --> 00:07:01.977 Cause I just, I love Australia. And every time I would go, I would go stay with him. 00:07:02.337 --> 00:07:05.937 And it's like they're trying to kill themselves. 00:07:07.403 --> 00:07:12.143 By drinking like it literally like every night we would go out we would have 00:07:12.143 --> 00:07:17.483 our you know they would order beers and then we wouldn't even be like halfway 00:07:17.483 --> 00:07:21.803 through and somebody's ordering another around it was just like how do you guys 00:07:21.803 --> 00:07:27.283 do it like you are literally drinking like there is no tomorrow yeah. 00:07:27.283 --> 00:07:31.063 I did I did have a couple glasses of wine with Benny when I was there for sure 00:07:31.063 --> 00:07:34.663 that's that's just kind of felt like Australian tradition our whole crew was 00:07:34.663 --> 00:07:38.503 Australian And they used to start kicking off, cracking open beers at like four o'clock. 00:07:38.643 --> 00:07:44.303 And we're like, yeah, dude, it's it's a Tuesday and I'm using a power saw. I can't join you. 00:07:44.623 --> 00:07:51.083 But he was one of the best cameramen on the show because before him are the 00:07:51.083 --> 00:07:55.283 cameramen where they were a little bit lazy sometimes where, you know, 00:07:55.843 --> 00:08:00.743 where he would try to be right where the action was. 00:08:00.743 --> 00:08:08.883 I remember we were doing an experiment at the trapeze school in Oakland, 00:08:08.883 --> 00:08:11.863 and I had to climb up to the top of this platform. 00:08:12.263 --> 00:08:17.563 I forget what the episode was, but he climbed up first so that he can get the 00:08:17.563 --> 00:08:19.263 shot of me climbing up the ladder. 00:08:19.443 --> 00:08:24.123 And I'm going, oh, my God, like every other cameraman would just be they'd stay 00:08:24.123 --> 00:08:28.223 on the ground and just film up at the platform. And this guy is like, 00:08:28.323 --> 00:08:31.023 I'm going to come up ahead of you to get the shot. 00:08:31.243 --> 00:08:34.903 And then I remember one time we were getting, I was getting dragged by a horse 00:08:34.903 --> 00:08:40.343 and he was following me on an ATB filming. 00:08:40.783 --> 00:08:43.843 You know, somebody was driving the ATB and he was holding onto the guy filming 00:08:43.843 --> 00:08:46.923 to, to capture me as I'm getting dragged by the horse. 00:08:47.063 --> 00:08:49.323 He was just the craziest cameraman. 00:08:49.703 --> 00:08:50.263 That was gnarly. 00:08:50.938 --> 00:08:54.618 Being dragged by a horse. That was such a gnarly experiment. 00:08:54.778 --> 00:08:58.498 And I remember that day it was over, it was like over a hundred degrees and 00:08:58.498 --> 00:09:00.018 I got heat stroke and fainted. 00:09:00.218 --> 00:09:03.538 Like just was like, like, and I wasn't even being dragged. 00:09:04.058 --> 00:09:07.318 You were, you were a delicate, you were a delicate little flower. 00:09:07.578 --> 00:09:08.778 Delicate little flower. 00:09:09.018 --> 00:09:10.878 That was, what episode was that? 00:09:10.998 --> 00:09:15.958 That was, uh, if your genes catch on fire from friction, right? 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It was just that, God, I don't know. 00:11:48.045 --> 00:11:55.085 I mean, you sent me a clip recently of an experiment that, you know, 00:11:55.705 --> 00:11:56.905 that somebody said they did better. 00:11:57.305 --> 00:12:02.905 Yeah. So we, this was an idea that came from Jamie years ago. 00:12:03.285 --> 00:12:09.425 And he always had this idea of a bus that didn't have to stop to let people off. 00:12:09.745 --> 00:12:14.605 So basically, as the bus is going, your stops coming up and it kind of ejects 00:12:14.605 --> 00:12:19.105 you and you just pop out of the bus and land on the street and the bus can keep going. 00:12:19.365 --> 00:12:23.505 He's like it would save traffic jams. It would save on time. 00:12:23.665 --> 00:12:28.905 It would just be so much, you know, a more efficient way to ride the bus. 00:12:29.185 --> 00:12:32.965 Jamie and his dangerous efficiency. Like, are you kidding me? 00:12:32.965 --> 00:12:37.825 Right now you jump off the bus while it's still moving 00:12:37.825 --> 00:12:40.665 So we came up 00:12:40.665 --> 00:12:43.945 with this concept that they were going to put a treadmill 00:12:43.945 --> 00:12:49.105 in the back of a truck and then i would get on that treadmill and then as we 00:12:49.105 --> 00:12:54.605 were driving the treadmill would shoot me backwards so that way when the when 00:12:54.605 --> 00:12:58.925 i'm off the truck the momentum of going backwards counteracts the momentum of 00:12:58.925 --> 00:13:02.005 the truck going forward and so i I would just drop straight down. 00:13:02.185 --> 00:13:04.945 But then the producers thought it was going to be too dangerous. 00:13:05.125 --> 00:13:08.245 Yeah. I mean, that was rare that they thought it was going to be too dangerous. 00:13:08.245 --> 00:13:10.365 I know, right? To throw you out the back of a moving vehicle. 00:13:10.505 --> 00:13:12.725 I mean, they threw you off of buildings. 00:13:13.085 --> 00:13:16.285 They dragged you behind a horse. You were buried alive. Like, 00:13:16.485 --> 00:13:18.865 why was this the line? You were willing to do it. 00:13:19.185 --> 00:13:25.285 Yeah. I don't know why. And I remember we came up with this, like, dumb excuse. 00:13:25.605 --> 00:13:28.485 You know, it was this weird, we shot this scene. 00:13:29.783 --> 00:13:34.983 Location where the producer's phone goes off and the insurance company says, 00:13:35.203 --> 00:13:37.163 oh, it's too dangerous for Tory to do it. 00:13:37.303 --> 00:13:42.363 I don't know why. I don't remember why they decided we shouldn't do it this way. 00:13:42.543 --> 00:13:48.443 And so it was like this weird setup where the director's phone rang and we're 00:13:48.443 --> 00:13:51.103 like, oh, you ruined the shot, case of beer. 00:13:51.303 --> 00:13:54.643 And like they turn the camera on the producer and he's like, oh, hello. 00:13:54.863 --> 00:13:59.043 Yeah, this is Australia. I'm talking to Australia. And they're saying that insurance 00:13:59.043 --> 00:14:00.603 won't cover this experiment. 00:14:00.603 --> 00:14:03.443 That was so dumb we hated that we're like why are 00:14:03.443 --> 00:14:08.083 you faking this like why are we doing this this is so dumb like can't you just 00:14:08.083 --> 00:14:13.863 like make it real because the show is mostly like 99.9% real except for the 00:14:13.863 --> 00:14:17.823 the blueprint room so like why would you fake this oh Tori can't do it why couldn't 00:14:17.823 --> 00:14:20.663 we just be like yeah nah we don't want to kill Tori 00:14:20.663 --> 00:14:23.383 I think it was so bad that it 00:14:23.383 --> 00:14:26.403 never made the episode like it it read so 00:14:26.403 --> 00:14:29.183 fake that they didn't even cut it into the episode and they 00:14:29.183 --> 00:14:35.683 just explained it you know one of us explained it on camera but so then we we 00:14:35.683 --> 00:14:40.823 the way we were going to test it is we took a air cannon put a soccer ball in 00:14:40.823 --> 00:14:45.703 it put that in the back of a truck and then grant would shoot the cannon at 00:14:45.703 --> 00:14:48.843 a certain moment and we would see if the ball, 00:14:49.976 --> 00:14:52.856 did literally just drop straight down oh. 00:14:52.856 --> 00:14:55.756 My god that one was so cool because it just looked i mean we tried it over and 00:14:55.756 --> 00:15:00.796 over and over to get the momentum exactly correct but when we did and the ball 00:15:00.796 --> 00:15:04.136 on the high speed looked like it was holding still like 00:15:04.136 --> 00:15:05.476 Yeah it was so. 00:15:05.476 --> 00:15:14.376 Freaking brilliant that this clip in particular is used in so many science classes 00:15:14.376 --> 00:15:19.876 like i went back to my old high school this was the clip that they were showing to explain it yeah 00:15:19.876 --> 00:15:22.916 You know it's crazy it took so long to 00:15:22.916 --> 00:15:25.836 get the timing right um and i 00:15:25.836 --> 00:15:29.036 remember oh god i was so mad 00:15:29.036 --> 00:15:31.876 because it was just like we were testing 00:15:31.876 --> 00:15:34.756 it testing it was just all day it was like it's not 00:15:34.756 --> 00:15:39.876 working it's not working and you know i'm just like standing on the sidelines 00:15:39.876 --> 00:15:43.776 trying to like make commentary all right that one went that one looked good 00:15:43.776 --> 00:15:49.036 let's check in with uh grant and carrie and i remember this one time the cameraman 00:15:49.036 --> 00:15:53.976 just went and he shut the camera off and put the camera down and i was like, 00:15:56.236 --> 00:16:02.576 what i was so i was like i bet you wouldn't have done that to jamie or adam 00:16:02.576 --> 00:16:06.596 like like i was it was I'm like, 00:16:06.816 --> 00:16:12.096 I am trying to come up with things to say, and you're just going to decide, 00:16:12.296 --> 00:16:15.056 eh, not interested, button off. 00:16:15.496 --> 00:16:19.276 Oh, my God. I was just, I was like, oh, I was livid. I was like, 00:16:19.336 --> 00:16:22.296 I cannot believe, like, what a dick. Anyway. 00:16:22.776 --> 00:16:25.876 I do, but I do remember the moment when it went right. Like, 00:16:25.976 --> 00:16:29.656 the three of us were just like, it was one of those moments of elation where 00:16:29.656 --> 00:16:32.476 the three of us were like, everybody's screaming. 00:16:33.316 --> 00:16:36.676 Yeah, because I feel like we had done it at two different locations. 00:16:36.676 --> 00:16:42.916 We did it once at the bunkers up near Tracy, and then we did it again out at 00:16:42.916 --> 00:16:45.476 Alameda Runway, and it was just, it was like, 00:16:46.699 --> 00:16:50.199 Like, we can't get this thing to work. Like, once we finally got it to work, 00:16:50.299 --> 00:16:52.139 it was like, thank God, we're done. 00:16:53.019 --> 00:16:55.459 I mean, it was just like a little bit of tweaking. I mean, back then, 00:16:55.539 --> 00:16:58.999 I think a lot of people watch the videos from Mythbusters with, 00:16:58.999 --> 00:17:02.399 like, the hindsight and the current technology in mind. 00:17:02.539 --> 00:17:07.359 And they don't realize we were doing this for no money and super scrappy and 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:12.919 just, like, going for it in a way that, like, now people have a lot of inspiration. 00:17:13.719 --> 00:17:18.959 I guess you could say where they can replicate what we did from those mistakes. 00:17:19.419 --> 00:17:24.359 But like like when we were doing it, it was it was very new and we were using 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:28.199 things that like were being invented, like an air cannon to fire a soccer ball. 00:17:28.379 --> 00:17:33.779 That's not just a common thing you have lying around. That was that was something created for us. 00:17:34.179 --> 00:17:39.179 Yeah, totally. And I remember Grant built that thing. It was dangerous. 00:17:39.179 --> 00:17:43.159 I mean, it was so much fun because we would just, we would fire it off in the shop. 00:17:44.419 --> 00:17:48.579 I remember another time when we were out on location on that shoot, 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:53.279 because we were there so long, like we just kept running it over and over and 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:58.879 everybody was getting bored, that Matt Pardova, he ran up on the hill where 00:17:58.879 --> 00:18:03.659 we were driving and he just would moon us every time we drove by. Do you remember that? 00:18:03.659 --> 00:18:06.819 Oh, my God. Yeah. The old days were different. So dumb. 00:18:06.959 --> 00:18:13.259 No HR. like something you could do in modern day sets like i took a 45 minute 00:18:13.259 --> 00:18:18.399 sexual harassment test last time i went on set anywhere can you imagine that 00:18:18.399 --> 00:18:23.179 would have been like one of the questions can you moon the hosts right 00:18:23.179 --> 00:18:24.339 And get away with. 00:18:24.339 --> 00:18:25.379 It so 00:18:25.379 --> 00:18:30.459 After we did that experiment i was really bummed that we never did it with a 00:18:30.459 --> 00:18:32.259 human like i you know i was just like, 00:18:33.052 --> 00:18:36.012 we've got to be able to figure this out but we never did we 00:18:36.012 --> 00:18:39.252 did you know they were just like no we we showed the 00:18:39.252 --> 00:18:42.312 the science we showed how the physics works we got 00:18:42.312 --> 00:18:47.492 it to to drop but we're moving on to another episode and it was a bummer because 00:18:47.492 --> 00:18:51.172 it was like where's the there's no danger in this episode like how how cool 00:18:51.172 --> 00:18:56.772 would that be if we actually had a person get launched backwards and land safely 00:18:56.772 --> 00:19:00.992 on the ground from a moving vehicle like that would have been a perfect I feel like a perfect Indy. 00:19:01.792 --> 00:19:08.072 But then this guy sent me this video online and I was like, holy crap, 00:19:08.272 --> 00:19:10.832 these guys did it. They figured it out. Let me show you. 00:19:11.092 --> 00:19:18.692 So you're basically the person on the vehicle, their momentum is with the vehicle, right? 00:19:18.872 --> 00:19:23.392 So if you were to jump off, you'd still be going forward like the vehicle. 00:19:23.552 --> 00:19:28.812 But what these guys have done, have created this mechanism on this back of this 00:19:28.812 --> 00:19:36.792 flatbed that actually like slingshots the person off of the vehicle to overcome the forward momentum. 00:19:36.992 --> 00:19:40.652 And so that back momentum cancels out. 00:19:40.792 --> 00:19:45.952 So when you are away from the truck, you drop straight down. You don't go forward. 00:19:46.152 --> 00:19:50.372 You don't go backwards. It's it's brilliant. Like this is what we should have done on the show. 00:19:50.512 --> 00:19:52.892 That is really good. I think we 00:19:52.892 --> 00:19:55.652 could have done that. We could have built that. You could have done that 00:19:55.652 --> 00:19:59.352 I mean look how look how safe that is you. 00:19:59.352 --> 00:20:04.572 Were we were driving at to match the air cannon we were driving at like 50 miles 00:20:04.572 --> 00:20:08.332 an hour and trying to shoot the air cannon at 50 right yeah 00:20:08.332 --> 00:20:11.872 What's even more insane is there is a technique for 00:20:11.872 --> 00:20:17.392 soldiers to get off of a moving truck as well they basically just run off the 00:20:17.392 --> 00:20:22.992 truck watch this i got a clip for you wait what so they train them They just 00:20:22.992 --> 00:20:28.412 basically run the length of the flatbed of the truck to get over the forward 00:20:28.412 --> 00:20:29.632 momentum of the vehicle. 00:20:29.792 --> 00:20:32.412 And so when they hit the ground, they just drop straight down. 00:20:33.340 --> 00:20:36.900 Oh my God, that hurts my knees watching. 00:20:37.100 --> 00:20:42.100 These soldiers are jumping completely off the back of the truck and landing like Spider-Man. 00:20:43.140 --> 00:20:43.840 Is that wild? 00:20:43.840 --> 00:20:46.900 I've broken my knees too many times watching that. Seriously. 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.860 Now look at this guy. This guy, he wanted to try it out for himself. 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:59.020 So he rented a little vehicle trailer and he's attached it to this truck and 00:20:59.020 --> 00:21:03.020 he's basically doing the same thing. He's just running in the opposite direction 00:21:03.020 --> 00:21:06.800 that the vehicle is moving, and that overcomes the vehicle momentum. 00:21:07.300 --> 00:21:08.940 And so then you just hit the ground. 00:21:09.560 --> 00:21:11.020 Dude, look at that. 00:21:11.260 --> 00:21:15.860 Tori totally could have done that. Right? I mean, that to me makes me nervous. 00:21:16.060 --> 00:21:20.520 Like, that looks pretty scary because what if you're not running fast enough 00:21:20.520 --> 00:21:22.300 or if you're running too fast? 00:21:22.300 --> 00:21:27.560 Well, I guess you've got to test how fast you can run and then drive at that 00:21:27.560 --> 00:21:32.720 exact speed so that you can jump off. I don't know. I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. 00:21:32.940 --> 00:21:39.060 That looks, I mean, you're canceling your momentum, but getting it wrong seems 00:21:39.060 --> 00:21:42.980 like worst case scenario hurts. Like really hurts. 00:21:43.320 --> 00:21:48.360 What I loved about the other testers was they created this flatbed slingshot. 00:21:48.360 --> 00:21:53.740 But one idea I thought we should have tried, this is when I was trying to figure 00:21:53.740 --> 00:21:55.460 out how we would test it with a human, 00:21:55.740 --> 00:22:01.300 was basically have like a harness that you hook onto and it's like, 00:22:01.460 --> 00:22:07.340 let's imagine a pipe that goes, you know, from the top of the truck down to 00:22:07.340 --> 00:22:12.660 the back of the truck and you would hook onto that and whenever you would release, 00:22:12.840 --> 00:22:17.760 you would slide down this pole and get enough momentum to land safely on the ground. 00:22:17.760 --> 00:22:19.360 Wait, but you're hooked to it. 00:22:20.080 --> 00:22:21.860 No, but it would be like a... 00:22:23.348 --> 00:22:26.748 Imagine like two pipes together like. 00:22:26.748 --> 00:22:27.728 A zip line almost 00:22:27.728 --> 00:22:33.368 Kind of like a zip line except you could be released from it when you get to the bottom i. 00:22:33.368 --> 00:22:36.888 Mean all of our troubles with quick releases and things not actually releasing 00:22:36.888 --> 00:22:42.308 i feel like that'd be your jackass moment it would be the bike jumping over 00:22:42.308 --> 00:22:45.928 the wagon moment where all of a sudden it's like oh god and then tory smashes 00:22:45.928 --> 00:22:48.268 his balls on the on the zip line 00:22:48.268 --> 00:22:53.168 It would have been it would have been so cool though if we could have recreated 00:22:53.168 --> 00:22:57.128 that but it just it's awesome to see that these guys did and that's what i love 00:22:57.128 --> 00:23:01.508 about you know youtube and instagram now it's like all these people that used 00:23:01.508 --> 00:23:06.168 to watch our show they're now retesting the stuff that we tested. 00:23:07.243 --> 00:23:12.143 Oh, wait, wait, wait. We have a clip of a guy who's like, thanks, Mythbusters. 00:23:12.463 --> 00:23:14.983 You know the one I'm talking about? Like you commented on it. 00:23:15.243 --> 00:23:17.563 Roll this clip. It was cracking me up. 00:23:18.083 --> 00:23:21.103 Does anybody else remember that episode of myth busters where they 00:23:21.103 --> 00:23:23.883 said that if you walk in the rain you actually 00:23:23.883 --> 00:23:26.543 get less wet than if you run i don't know 00:23:26.543 --> 00:23:29.803 why but that was like a core memory for me and i've taken it very seriously 00:23:29.803 --> 00:23:34.583 from that day on and i just found out recently that they made a updated episode 00:23:34.583 --> 00:23:38.183 where they said actually they were wrong and they did the testing correctly 00:23:38.183 --> 00:23:43.803 and you should be running never saw that one you know i'm dumb i've looked 23 00:23:43.803 --> 00:23:45.383 years of my life it's and pouring rain out. 00:23:45.503 --> 00:23:49.103 I'm like, people are like, why are you walking? I'm like, Mythbusters. 00:23:50.323 --> 00:23:51.963 Dude, so good. 00:23:52.523 --> 00:23:56.983 Oh, dude. He wants an apology and I'm like, you should apologize for not being 00:23:56.983 --> 00:23:59.843 a big enough fan to watch the follow-up revisit. 00:24:00.283 --> 00:24:03.983 Oh my God. You know what's funny is there's so many, there's like a lot of these 00:24:03.983 --> 00:24:10.683 video memes of people walking in the rain and going, yeah, Mythbusters. 00:24:10.963 --> 00:24:13.103 You know, they're like, what are you doing? 00:24:13.723 --> 00:24:17.503 Mythbusters. So the first time that we tested this, it was Jamie and Adam. 00:24:17.683 --> 00:24:21.123 And what they did is they took over this warehouse, set up a sprinkler system, 00:24:21.143 --> 00:24:25.323 and then put on these jumpsuits and spray the water. 00:24:25.583 --> 00:24:28.523 They would walk and run through. Then what they would do is they would take 00:24:28.523 --> 00:24:30.643 off the clothes and weigh it and 00:24:30.643 --> 00:24:35.103 see which one was heavier, which one had actually caught more raindrops. 00:24:35.363 --> 00:24:38.423 Yeah, the gimp suit underneath was the funny part because they went to Mr. 00:24:38.583 --> 00:24:45.003 S. Leather and got a for real, like, gimp suit. I mean, it was a weird rubber suit. 00:24:45.223 --> 00:24:52.103 I just, I loved how many times we had to go to the leather daddy shop to get things because like, 00:24:52.283 --> 00:24:57.323 you don't sell a full body rubber suit at a regular store, but it had, 00:24:57.343 --> 00:25:00.863 you know, openings and zippers in all the right places. 00:25:01.903 --> 00:25:06.863 San Francisco, right? I bet there's not a lot of stores with one of those. 00:25:07.023 --> 00:25:09.063 But then, so what happened was, 00:25:09.818 --> 00:25:16.318 Because they didn't account for windblown rain, that whole experiment was inconclusive. 00:25:16.558 --> 00:25:24.318 So the methodology was wrong. So you, Grant, and I had to go retest that myth. 00:25:24.538 --> 00:25:30.778 And I remember we were at the shop and it was a rainy day, but it wasn't raining 00:25:30.778 --> 00:25:35.298 constantly. So it was like as soon as the rain would come, we'd put on our jumpsuit 00:25:35.298 --> 00:25:39.398 and walk and run in the rain. That was such a crazy day. 00:25:39.818 --> 00:25:42.518 How is he wearing the GIMP suit? Is it comfortable? Like, 00:25:43.162 --> 00:25:44.442 No you've. 00:25:44.442 --> 00:25:46.702 Got kind of a hairy chest i imagine it would not be 00:25:46.702 --> 00:25:54.442 Awesome yeah it does it catches it doesn't catch it's not like a wetsuit a wetsuit 00:25:54.442 --> 00:25:58.042 is you know it's got the lining inside so it just slips on and off and it's 00:25:58.042 --> 00:26:01.602 like you know it's it's uh it does did. 00:26:01.602 --> 00:26:04.682 You have to do you have to powder yourself to get in that thing i can't remember 00:26:04.682 --> 00:26:10.622 I don't remember if we did we must have we powdered the suit we would have to powder the suit but. 00:26:10.622 --> 00:26:15.382 Yeah that's that's that's that's some uh experiential information i feel like 00:26:15.382 --> 00:26:17.902 most people don't know what it's like to wear a gimp suit so 00:26:20.982 --> 00:26:25.182 that's a takeaway for them like oh yeah you gotta powder your gimp suit 00:26:25.182 --> 00:26:30.442 Yeah but it's like because of the gimp suit that was to keep our sweat from 00:26:30.442 --> 00:26:34.842 skewing the results because if we're sweating profusely, 00:26:35.042 --> 00:26:40.582 we would be adding more moisture to the clothes and that would tip to scale, so to speak. 00:26:40.862 --> 00:26:45.462 Well, I don't know how many people went, but it was going for, you know, over a decade. 00:26:45.462 --> 00:26:54.482 But the Mythbusters Explosive Exhibition was our museum exhibition that traveled all over the country. 00:26:54.482 --> 00:26:57.582 And we had a constant experiment going 00:26:57.582 --> 00:27:00.582 with running or walking in the rain you 00:27:00.582 --> 00:27:03.142 and your friend would uh both you know 00:27:03.142 --> 00:27:06.462 there was two tunnels one where you'd walk one where you'd run but 00:27:06.462 --> 00:27:13.382 um there was like a iridescent um something oh yeah like so you look in the 00:27:13.382 --> 00:27:17.842 mirror you could see glowing drops you count how many drops were in it and then 00:27:17.842 --> 00:27:22.882 you'd add to the data so we've got over a decade of data to prove or disprove 00:27:22.882 --> 00:27:24.762 that myth at this point Yeah. 00:27:25.442 --> 00:27:29.502 God, that was... And even to this day, it wasn't until... 00:27:31.207 --> 00:27:36.447 This is how long ago we did this experiment that still to this day, 00:27:36.567 --> 00:27:39.427 I'm like, not sure. Is it better to run or walk through the rain? 00:27:39.747 --> 00:27:43.067 But it turns out it is better to run than walk. 00:27:43.427 --> 00:27:50.687 How many people have we sabotaged that didn't watch the revisit that are walking in the rain right now? 00:27:50.987 --> 00:27:51.087 Is that hilarious? 00:27:51.467 --> 00:27:54.467 Man, so many people are just getting needlessly wet. 00:27:55.109 --> 00:27:58.909 Well, you know what else is crazy? Did you see the one you sent it? 00:27:59.429 --> 00:28:01.329 So, yes, you probably saw this. 00:28:02.989 --> 00:28:06.869 That's a dumb thing to say. Did you see that video that you sent me? 00:28:08.229 --> 00:28:12.509 It was the one that the guy retested bull in a china shop. 00:28:12.789 --> 00:28:15.129 Oh, my God. Yes. 00:28:15.709 --> 00:28:18.089 And his result was completely different than ours. 00:28:18.209 --> 00:28:22.789 It was completely different. I just got so. So he set up the experiment almost 00:28:22.789 --> 00:28:27.009 the same way. I went and read all the comments because I thought the comments were really funny. 00:28:27.229 --> 00:28:31.549 He let a bull off into a china shop. He used movie glass china. 00:28:31.669 --> 00:28:35.389