<v Speaker0>Now edgar i have a question for you most rational people try to avoid storms at any cost,

<v Speaker0>you ever think to yourself hey maybe let's not go after the storm or better

<v Speaker0>yet maybe let's go in the opposite direction of that storm not really because

<v Speaker0>i i'm probably not a very rational person i think to do this so welcome myth fits.

<v Speaker1>It's time for MythBits. I'm Keri Byron.

<v Speaker0>And I'm Tori Bellacci. Welcome back, Keri. Good to see you. It's been a while.

<v Speaker1>Well, not that long. It's been like a whole week.

<v Speaker0>So listen to this. I just went to a friend's going away party.

<v Speaker0>He's leaving California. And then another good friend of ours is moving out of California.

<v Speaker0>Everybody's leaving the state. And in fact, my brother, he just moved his whole family to Texas.

<v Speaker0>and so I get this call the other

<v Speaker0>day from my parents and they're like okay you know we

<v Speaker0>don't want to freak you out but we just got a call from your brother there's this

<v Speaker0>huge storm going through Texas and they all had to move out of a room with any

<v Speaker0>window so he basically just gathered up his whole family and moved down into

<v Speaker0>the basement until the storm passed and I'm just like yeah like Like we have

<v Speaker0>earthquakes here in California,

<v Speaker0>but there's so few and far in between that to me,

<v Speaker0>a tornado or storm, I'll take earthquakes all day.

<v Speaker1>Oh, yeah. I always when I'm talking to people that come from from the Midwest

<v Speaker1>and Tornado Alley, like they're always like, oh, my God, it's so scary.

<v Speaker1>You guys live out there with earthquakes, but they happen all the time and it's like a little shake.

<v Speaker1>And I'm like, I like it might wake me up. And I've had one really,

<v Speaker1>really big earthquake like 1989.

<v Speaker1>Mind you, that was terrifying. But I've had one in my lifetime,

<v Speaker1>whereas tornadoes seem to be happening all the freaking time.

<v Speaker1>I was actually just recently in Oklahoma City and I was I was hanging out with this guy, Val Caster.

<v Speaker1>We were filming something and he's he's a storm tracker and a meteorologist.

<v Speaker0>And OK, I watch those guys and I just think to myself, what is are you insane?

<v Speaker0>Like, why are you doing that? You're literally heading towards disaster like that.

<v Speaker0>What what happened to you? What happened that you're driving towards disaster?

<v Speaker1>Tori.

<v Speaker1>What?

<v Speaker0>You're looking at me?

<v Speaker1>I know you.

<v Speaker0>I'm not that crazy. I do stupid stuff, but I'm not that. I'm not like a death

<v Speaker0>wish. I don't have a death wish, Carrie.

<v Speaker1>Dory, I've seen you jump off buildings, be locked in a coffin with snakes.

<v Speaker1>I've seen you try to jump a wagon with a beach cruiser.

<v Speaker1>I've seen you buried alive.

<v Speaker1>I've seen you do so many insane things. there's no way you can tell me that

<v Speaker1>you wouldn't have been a storm chaser before you were a family man

<v Speaker0>Maybe i don't know it's just it's so unpredictable

<v Speaker0>but you know like we tested we tested a lot of uh storm and weather related

<v Speaker0>myths do you remember we were testing um do metal cleats attract lightning more

<v Speaker0>than plastic cleats and i remember we went out to this facility It was like

<v Speaker0>the electric company's facility.

<v Speaker0>And they have this giant, like lightning creator. It would create these giant

<v Speaker0>lightning bolts so that they could test their equipment out.

<v Speaker0>So if, you know, if their transformers gets hit by lightning, will it explode?

<v Speaker0>And so they let us come and bring our dummy, our ballistic gel golfers into

<v Speaker0>this facility. And I remember it was like the coolest thing because it's,

<v Speaker0>they would just charge it up. and then a huge bolt of lightning would shoot out of this huge probe.

<v Speaker1>I love all the places that we got access to. I mean, we got to go to NASA. We got to go to IndyCar.

<v Speaker1>But like this this was local. This was so crazy.

<v Speaker1>You could actually see those giant lightning bolts indoors. And we did a couple myths there.

<v Speaker1>We did like the kite for Ben Franklin to see if lightning could hit the kite

<v Speaker1>and then charge up the key. Like, I mean, what a cool experience to be able

<v Speaker1>to go into a facility like that.

<v Speaker1>Like, there's no way without being on Mythbusters, I would have known that even

<v Speaker1>existed. We're so lucky.

<v Speaker1>I mean, when you're a little kid, you're scared of thunder and lightning.

<v Speaker1>But like when you actually see it, it is terrifying up close.

<v Speaker0>Yeah. You know, it's a good buddy of mine actually got hit by lightning when he was a kid.

<v Speaker0>He's got this crazy story. Yeah, it's like it like blew his shoe off or like

<v Speaker0>he was running through a graveyard.

<v Speaker0>I forget the like the details, but he got hit by lightning and it is the most insane story.

<v Speaker0>I almost wish we can get him. You know what? I'm going to call him right now. I know this is.

<v Speaker1>Dude, you're going to call him.

<v Speaker0>Well, I just want to see. I just want to. Yeah.

<v Speaker0>It's such a good story that I feel like I'm going to screw it up.

<v Speaker0>I'm not going to have all the details. And you're going to love this story.

<v Speaker1>Let's see. Yes, please. Please. This is crazy.

<v Speaker0>Walshy, what's up? Dude, what are you doing right now? I know this.

<v Speaker0>We're recording a podcast. And I was wondering if you would quickly come on

<v Speaker0>and just tell the story of when you got hit by lightning.

<v Speaker0>Of course. All right. Let's go.

<v Speaker0>Oh, Walshie. Thank you for coming on. This is Carrie. Carrie,

<v Speaker0>this is Mike Walsh. He's a good friend of mine.

<v Speaker2>Hi, Carrie.

<v Speaker1>Wow, you don't look like you've been strapped by lightning.

<v Speaker2>You don't see the bottom half of me.

<v Speaker1>Oh, God. Oh, God. I want to know everything.

<v Speaker1>Where were you? How did it feel? Oh, my God. I've never met anybody who's like...

<v Speaker1>been just hit by lightning. This is crazy.

<v Speaker2>So I was 14, sophomore in high school.

<v Speaker2>And my buddies and I used to go every every week we'd go to the Holy Cross football

<v Speaker2>game. This is in Worcester, Massachusetts.

<v Speaker2>And we'd walk there. And our walking

<v Speaker2>path took us through this really long cemetery called hope cemetery so great

<v Speaker2>game great day beautifully blue sunny skies and we're coming back and we're

<v Speaker2>in the middle of the cemetery and it goes from like blue skies to pitch black

<v Speaker2>and there's nowhere to go and my cousin and i and the rest of our friends but

<v Speaker2>my cousin and i grew up next to each other in worcester and we always used to

<v Speaker2>play in lightning storm i mean just like storms we used to love storms um so

<v Speaker2>anyhow we're in the middle of the cemetery it starts hailing

<v Speaker2>and we see lightning hit a tree and the

<v Speaker2>tree just starts smoking but you know we're it's a very long cemetery so we

<v Speaker2>just start running uh toward you know toward home which was we're still probably

<v Speaker2>two miles from home but we start running in that direction and uh and we see

<v Speaker2>the lightning hit a tree and my buddy Chuck,

<v Speaker2>we called him Scott and I just start sprinting.

<v Speaker2>There are 10 of us, um, all good buddies. And.

<v Speaker2>I don't know if it was the lightning hitting me or after I was hit or just before I was hit,

<v Speaker2>but I remember seeing like a shelf of light because it was pitch black at this point,

<v Speaker2>where it was like 10 foot tall and it was all bright.

<v Speaker2>And the next thing I knew, I'm on the ground.

<v Speaker2>My sock was on fire. I could smell smoke. What? Oh, my God, dude.

<v Speaker0>That's so insane.

<v Speaker1>Your sock is on fire? and just running through a graveyard

<v Speaker2>Yeah it's crazy so i'm i'm on the ground and my buddy chuck is on the ground

<v Speaker2>next to me i forgot which one said it first i think i think he said

<v Speaker2>walsh i think i've been hit by lightning and i was like yeah me too and we caught

<v Speaker2>up but everything was super disorienting like the brains my our brains just

<v Speaker2>weren't working so i started running in the wrong direction. Sock is still on.

<v Speaker0>That's what happened to you. Now it all makes sense, Mike.

<v Speaker2>Still recovering. So my sock's on fire and I think I like kind of dusted it

<v Speaker2>out and I'm running in the wrong direction and my friends turned me around.

<v Speaker2>And I remember saying, hey, well, someone grabbed my leg and because I couldn't

<v Speaker2>feel anything below my knee. So I thought and my leg was blown off.

<v Speaker0>Oh, my God.

<v Speaker2>Yeah, and whoever it was, one of my buddies is like, you have your leg,

<v Speaker2>you're running. So you're good.

<v Speaker2>You didn't like not touch your leg.

<v Speaker1>You didn't mean touch it to make sure you had feeling. You meant you thought

<v Speaker1>that you left your leg behind and somebody needed to pick it up and bring it.

<v Speaker2>Exactly, yeah.

<v Speaker1>Oh, my God.

<v Speaker2>It was just, I couldn't feel anything below my knee.

<v Speaker0>Did it knock your shoe off?

<v Speaker2>It was hanging off. So it was, I had a pair of Chuck Taylors.

<v Speaker2>In fact, uh, my friend Chuck's mom, uh,

<v Speaker2>Called i guess because i don't even think there was email at the time and

<v Speaker2>and called the ceo converse and told the

<v Speaker2>story and we got free chuck free leather high top chuck

<v Speaker2>taylor's because we couldn't afford oh that's awesome it was a

<v Speaker2>huge win but yeah but my

<v Speaker2>cut my canvas chucks were like hanging off so

<v Speaker2>i had braces at the time so i think it hit it

<v Speaker2>was it was um cut all along the

<v Speaker2>side about three quarters or so but along

<v Speaker2>the eyelets so the eyelets

<v Speaker2>might have saved me otherwise it might have hit me in the face with my

<v Speaker2>brace yeah dude yeah so we're

<v Speaker2>running we're running and yeah i'm running

<v Speaker2>on something that i can't feel with my foot my

<v Speaker2>my sneaker flopping along and we run straight out

<v Speaker2>and chuck and i somehow we're still kind of like ahead of the rest of the

<v Speaker2>pack and we run into this house no

<v Speaker2>knocking first house we see of course

<v Speaker2>they're horrified and um this is

<v Speaker2>still in Worcester and and they're like what's going

<v Speaker2>on what's going on and we've been hit by lightning so we're sitting we someone

<v Speaker2>calls an ambulance I guess my cousin had my home phone number um he calls my

<v Speaker2>parents and we're we still can't process like we still can't hold a train of thought at all.

<v Speaker2>And I remember we're sitting on there, Chuck and I next to each other,

<v Speaker2>they're carpeted steps waiting for an ambulance or my parents to show up where we got there first.

<v Speaker2>And our friends are like, you know, they're all like, what the hell was that?

<v Speaker2>Are they going to make it? Because we weren't quite sure what was going on.

<v Speaker2>I had heart palpitation.

<v Speaker0>Oh my God.

<v Speaker2>Could not think, like just could not hold a train of thought.

<v Speaker1>Not the phone call your parents are expecting to get, like, when you're in trouble.

<v Speaker1>Your son's been hit by lightning. Like, that's crazy.

<v Speaker0>Right.

<v Speaker2>Exactly. And then they got there before the ambulance, which is crazy,

<v Speaker2>because we were only a couple miles from the house.

<v Speaker2>But anyhow, they got there first, and...

<v Speaker2>We said, cancel the ambulance or whatever. We didn't go in the ambulance.

<v Speaker2>We're like, just take us to the hospital because we started feeling a little bit better.

<v Speaker2>We knew we weren't 100% yet.

<v Speaker0>You think?

<v Speaker2>Yeah. But we thought we were pretty good. So we're like, no,

<v Speaker2>I'm going to just go with my parents.

<v Speaker2>And we get in the car. And going back to the fact that we used to run around

<v Speaker2>in the storms and they didn't love it because my dad's tornado experience.

<v Speaker2>They're like, you sure you're okay? You sure you're okay? We're like,

<v Speaker2>yeah, no, we're going to be fine. I think I broke my elbow, which I did.

<v Speaker2>By the way, our buddies said we're on the ground for like a minute,

<v Speaker2>got thrown like 10 feet up in the air.

<v Speaker2>And, you know, that could be 14-year-olds exaggerating, but that's what they said.

<v Speaker2>But I did break my elbow. And when I told my parents, I'm like,

<v Speaker2>yeah, I'm okay. I think we're going to be okay.

<v Speaker2>They're like, what are you doing playing Thunderstorms?

<v Speaker0>This is why I told you not to play in the Thunderstorms.

<v Speaker1>God, the most I told you so moment of a parent's life ever.

<v Speaker1>I just, all you kids out there, listen to us. You could get hit by lightning

<v Speaker1>if you go play in a storm. My God.

<v Speaker0>But then tell the story about years later, like in your adult life,

<v Speaker0>you went to the dentist and tell, tell them that story.

<v Speaker2>Oh yeah. So I, yeah, we, by the way, we, we get, so we get to the hospital,

<v Speaker2>broke my elbow, had a heart palpitation and stuff. And we're like, what do we do?

<v Speaker2>Um, what's, what do we do to like, is there any treatment? They're like, I don't know.

<v Speaker2>Most people that show up and they show up in an ambulance and they die.

<v Speaker0>Most people don't survive this.

<v Speaker2>Yeah. So we don't, we don't really have any advice, but yeah.

<v Speaker2>So then many years later, I moved to LA and from Boston and I had,

<v Speaker2>um, I went to a new, a new dentist.

<v Speaker2>She asked me, she's like, have you ever been electrocuted? And I was like, no, why do you ask?

<v Speaker2>And she said, you have all these tiny micro fractures in your teeth.

<v Speaker2>And I've only seen it before when people have been electrocuted.

<v Speaker2>And I was like, oh, I was hit by lightning. And she's like, well,

<v Speaker1>Yeah.

<v Speaker1>Wait, so all of your teeth have micro fractures in them?

<v Speaker2>Yeah, a lot of micro fractures, which.

<v Speaker0>That's so crazy.

<v Speaker2>I've moved a lot. So when I go to a new city, I have a new dentist.

<v Speaker2>They're like, yeah, I guess that explains it. I mean, I don't know what else would have done that.

<v Speaker0>Oh, yeah. I got hit by lightning.

<v Speaker1>Yeah. Yeah. And also, can we just talk about the fact that your dentist sees

<v Speaker1>a lot of people that have been electrocuted, so like knows what to look for? Yeah. Wow. It's true.

<v Speaker2>There's this there's a crazy little side note to this whole thing about the

<v Speaker2>brain part of it if you want me to go into that yeah go

<v Speaker1>Ahead tell us tell us i'm so interested on the science of this like what happens

<v Speaker1>to your brain when you get hit by lightning

<v Speaker2>It was totally scrambled and and i

<v Speaker2>can't really the only way to describe it is that i just couldn't hold a thought

<v Speaker2>and chucks was the same way we just couldn't hold a thought in fact like 10

<v Speaker2>years later i went back to massachusetts and we're hanging out he's like do

<v Speaker2>you ever do you have any like um anything that happens as a result of the lightning i'm like well

<v Speaker2>In addition to the obvious, I'm not quite right, but I hear this ringing noise

<v Speaker2>every now and then, and it's really piercing and kind of like disorienting.

<v Speaker2>He's like, no way I hear that, too.

<v Speaker2>So that that was a weird thing.

<v Speaker0>Oh, dude, thank you so much for coming on and telling that story.

<v Speaker0>It's like it's so perfect. And I love you. I miss you. It's good to see you, dude.

<v Speaker2>Same, brother. Miss you, too. Love you. Good to see you again, Carrie.

<v Speaker1>Don't go walking through cemeteries in the rain.

<v Speaker2>I won't. Yeah.

<v Speaker0>You learn your lesson, kid.

<v Speaker2>Yeah. All right. See you guys.

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<v Speaker1>Hey, guys, welcome back to MythFits. I mean, Tori, that lightning story was insane.

<v Speaker1>I can't, I just, I can't even wrap my head around how crazy it is for him to

<v Speaker1>be, like, running through a cemetery, get hit by lightning, and then,

<v Speaker1>like, his parents answer the phone.

<v Speaker1>Like, that is the strangest explanation. Oh, my God.

<v Speaker0>Yeah. And what's funny is, like, he is insane. Like, I mean,

<v Speaker0>he's like a great time. Like when we go out, we just get crazy.

<v Speaker0>But now it makes sense. Like he got his wires fried.

<v Speaker0>It all makes sense now that Mike Walsh is the way he is. And I love that.

<v Speaker1>I love all your friends have like nicknames. He's Walshy.

<v Speaker1>That's how you, I know you love somebody is they have some sort of nickname to them like that.

<v Speaker0>You know, there's one year we went to Sundance and it

<v Speaker0>was like this big group from manhattan beach that

<v Speaker0>he would hang out with and so we get into salt lake

<v Speaker0>city and this guy brought a cane and

<v Speaker0>a neck brace and he we would just go into

<v Speaker0>the shopping centers or you know in the grocery stores and he would just fake

<v Speaker0>like falling he would just fall in the middle of the grocery store and people

<v Speaker0>would come over like are you okay are you okay and uh i that's not a bit on

<v Speaker0>video but it was just like they're just hilarious these crazy uh.

<v Speaker1>Guys were ahead of your time with all of that social media

<v Speaker0>Stuff. No, we're actually behind the times.

<v Speaker1>We're... Oh, this is when you were old.

<v Speaker0>This was like a couple of years ago. Oh, okay.

<v Speaker1>I, you know, I've been obsessed with lightning for a long time.

<v Speaker1>I just think it's so cool.

<v Speaker1>And I remember sitting on the back porch of my Aunt Betty's house and just watching

<v Speaker1>the thunder and lightning.

<v Speaker1>And just, it was always so cool.

<v Speaker1>In fact, I was on a date one time where he was a pilot and he flew in for this date.

<v Speaker1>It was it was we were, you know, out on the wharf. We're kind of like walking

<v Speaker1>around and we decided a blind date.

<v Speaker1>No, sort of. It was a fix up. It was a fix up.

<v Speaker0>But you knew like you kind of did you know what he looked like or.

<v Speaker1>I sort of knew what he looked like. Honestly, our friend Craig Ferguson hooked me up with him.

<v Speaker1>It was his pilot. And so he came with references Wait a name drop?

<v Speaker1>Well Megan his wife was really the one that fixed me up They're like we love

<v Speaker1>him He's single You're single Anyway he came with references right So Okay

<v Speaker1>We're walking around. It's starting to get stormy. And all of a sudden,

<v Speaker1>the thunder and lightning starts.

<v Speaker1>So we've got a bottle of wine. We're just sitting on a bench watching the sea

<v Speaker1>kind of get higher, the bay getting higher and higher and start to like the

<v Speaker1>waves are kind of crashing up really, really high up onto the pier.

<v Speaker1>And then we watched lightning strike the Bay Bridge.

<v Speaker0>Whoa.

<v Speaker1>I mean, the whole sky lit up. I mean, this turned out to be the thunderstorms

<v Speaker1>that started the epic fires that happened in California.

<v Speaker0>I remember that.

<v Speaker1>It was just a wild night.

<v Speaker0>I remember that. Stupidly, we went on the roof of where I was living at the time in San Francisco.

<v Speaker0>Because we saw the lightning strikes were hitting Twin Peaks.

<v Speaker0>And so I was like getting these slow motion shots on my phone.

<v Speaker0>It was like the dumbest thing.

<v Speaker0>You look at a lightning storm. Why don't you run up on your roof?

<v Speaker1>Seriously, you got to clearly from Walsh's story right there.

<v Speaker1>You probably don't want to be outside when this kind of stuff happens.

<v Speaker1>So that's why I was like, I think it's time to end this date when we're seeing

<v Speaker1>that happening. And he couldn't fly home. So he had to spend the night at a hotel downtown.

<v Speaker0>Speaking of lightning strikes, do you have a photo of that?

<v Speaker1>I do have a photo of that, actually. So one of our – it's funny enough.

<v Speaker1>I saw a photo of it online.

<v Speaker1>And the photographer that took this photo was –

<v Speaker1>See that that photo? I saw this photo on Instagram later and I'm like,

<v Speaker1>yes, this is what was happening.

<v Speaker1>So it turns out the photographer that took this photo, Carlos Gonzalez,

<v Speaker1>is the cousin of one of our old producers on Mythbusters.

<v Speaker0>No way. Small world.

<v Speaker1>Very, very small world. So I asked if I could, you know, have a copy of this

<v Speaker1>photo because it was just such an epic night and such a beautiful thing to watch.

<v Speaker1>And like I I will never forget it.

<v Speaker0>You know what? I'm going to see if I can pull up the video from when I was on

<v Speaker0>the rooftop because it's literally one of the craziest slow motion videos I've ever taken.

<v Speaker1>You took a video of it?

<v Speaker0>Yeah.

<v Speaker1>So you're standing outside with a phone up in the air?

<v Speaker0>Right. So dumb.

<v Speaker1>It's getting worse. Yeah.

<v Speaker0>But I posted it and some news network reached out and they're like,

<v Speaker0>is it okay if we use this footage? Really?

<v Speaker0>Yeah. It was nuts. I'll pull it up and post it. I'll send it to you.

<v Speaker0>I wanted to show you this video that's going viral.

<v Speaker0>It's like a basketball court during a storm.

<v Speaker0>The lightning hits the court and then it liquefies and gets molten and falls down.

<v Speaker2>Now, I am sure at this point that a lot of you guys have seen this video right

<v Speaker2>here claiming that they captured some sort of glitch in the matrix.

<v Speaker2>This clip has been going viral everywhere. I've been tagged in it and DM in

<v Speaker2>it many, many times, and it shows this guy recording some sort of sports field

<v Speaker2>where lightning is striking.

<v Speaker2>Strange part about this, though, is that the lightning turns into a liquid directly

<v Speaker2>after striking the ground. And as you can see, the field is covered in this liquid.

<v Speaker2>There were a lot of people in the comments as well, I assume going along with the joke.

<v Speaker2>But here's the problem. Even if you're going along with the joke,

<v Speaker2>other people that don't know what this is are going to believe you.

<v Speaker2>This comment right here claims that it's called lightning liquidity,

<v Speaker2>which actually does sound pretty legit.

<v Speaker2>It only happens when the temperature is below zero degrees Celsius and the dew point is low.

<v Speaker2>The lightning absorbs the dew. This comment got 50,000 likes,

<v Speaker2>and I'm sure a bunch of people believed it.

<v Speaker2>I'm going to burst your bubble, though. This is absolutely fake and edited.

<v Speaker0>There we go. Busted. Look at that. We're busted in viral videos as we talk.

<v Speaker1>When he said liquid lightning, I'm like, That's not a thing.

<v Speaker0>Right? But I thought it was funny.

<v Speaker1>Tori, remember that clip you sent me of Alan Pan? He was the guy.

<v Speaker1>He was one of the contestants on the search for the next Mythbusters.

<v Speaker1>And he did like a lightning, like a cool lightning video.

<v Speaker0>Yes.

<v Speaker1>Okay, so you sent me this clip. It's Alan Pan, and he's kind of doing something

<v Speaker1>that we did. It looks a little familiar,

<v Speaker0>Doesn't it?

<v Speaker1>Yeah, it's a Tesla coil. And it's just kind of like it's he's,

<v Speaker1>you know, seeing who's going to get hit.

<v Speaker0>But yeah, he's got he's got these four dummies set up. There are these wood

<v Speaker0>dummies that he made. And then one of them is holding a sword.

<v Speaker0>One has a golf club and one has an umbrella. And he's trying to see which lightning

<v Speaker0>strike would hit first. Like, where would the lightning go to first?

<v Speaker1>Yeah, in case you're, you know, walking around in a lightning storm with a sword.

<v Speaker1>Actually, one of your friends might do that.

<v Speaker1>That Alan Pan guy is crazy. I feel like we need to have him on the show sometime.

<v Speaker1>He's like crazy like you.

<v Speaker0>Oh, my God. That's a great idea because he was one of the contestants on the

<v Speaker0>search, Mythbusters search.

<v Speaker0>So I would love to hear what he has to say while filming that show.

<v Speaker1>Get all the dirt. Yeah, I mean, I think that they are using the same Tesla coil,

<v Speaker1>or at least the same concept of what you used for the White Rabbit project when

<v Speaker1>we were trying to simulate superhero powers.

<v Speaker1>Yeah, I was like Lightning Man.

<v Speaker0>Yeah, you were like Lightning Man. It's kind of crazy because they put me in the steel mesh suit.

<v Speaker0>You know, it's like the suit of armor underneath the chain mail.

<v Speaker0>And so that allows the lightning or the electricity, the bolts to pass through

<v Speaker0>the suit and not through your body.

<v Speaker0>So I was literally shooting bolts of lightning out of my hand.

<v Speaker0>And it was cool because we had these like ninja set up, but they were like balloons

<v Speaker0>filled with methane gas.

<v Speaker0>So I would hit the heads and they would explode, you know, make these fireballs.

<v Speaker0>But what happened is when we first started, there was a hole in the chain mail.

<v Speaker0>And so it was like tasing me in the hand.

<v Speaker0>And I'm like, ah, is this supposed to happen?

<v Speaker0>Like, this isn't supposed to be happening, right? Like, isn't it supposed to

<v Speaker0>pass through the suit, not into my hand?

<v Speaker0>And they had to like readjust it. But then it was totally safe. But it was pretty fun.

<v Speaker1>What a weird experience to have.

<v Speaker0>I know.

<v Speaker1>The job that you and I have held has 3,000 weird stories. Like,

<v Speaker1>oh, this one time I came to work, put on a chainmail suit and just radiated lightning.

<v Speaker1>Like these are not these are not regular bar stories when you're sitting around

<v Speaker1>being like, oh, yeah, let me tell you about the old days.

<v Speaker0>Like the old. Yeah, totally. Anyway, speaking of golfing in a storm,

<v Speaker0>there was this guy at a driving range.

<v Speaker0>He hits a golf ball.

<v Speaker0>And let me show you what happens.

<v Speaker1>Oh, wow. So he hits a golf ball into the air and lightning strikes the golf ball before it lands.

<v Speaker1>That's bananas because it's the highest thing in the air.

<v Speaker0>That's so wild.

<v Speaker1>Okay, what are you doing in a lightning storm with a golf club,

<v Speaker1>dude? Have you not seen Mythbusters?

<v Speaker0>Look how crazy that is. The lightning strikes the golf ball. It's so rad.

<v Speaker1>You never know what's going to happen. I can't believe the things that people catch on on video.

<v Speaker1>Like they're just filming this guy

<v Speaker1>at a driving range and all of a sudden lightning hitting his golf ball.

<v Speaker0>But how crazy is it that they're still there? I mean, that storm is insane,

<v Speaker0>but these guys are still at the driving range. They're like, no, I'm not giving up.

<v Speaker1>I feel like we clearly need to have a conversation with everybody.

<v Speaker1>We've gotten a little too relaxed around lightning.

<v Speaker0>I got another clip that I want to show you. It's this phenomenon that happens

<v Speaker0>during a lightning storm if it will hit like a power line and then that surge

<v Speaker0>of energy will just run up and down the street following the power lines. Check this out.

<v Speaker0>what right it almost looks

<v Speaker0>fake it does look fake it's

<v Speaker0>like is that ai so you see the you see this city street just for people who

<v Speaker0>are listening it's a city street at night during a lightning storm you see the

<v Speaker0>lightning hit like a telephone pole way down the street and then you see this

<v Speaker0>ball of white light follow the power line cross the street and then head back

<v Speaker0>down the other side of the street.

<v Speaker0>I mean, it's just, it's just unbelievable.

<v Speaker1>I mean, I hate now that anytime I see something cool, I assume it's AI before I assume it's real.

<v Speaker1>Like that is just way too cool looking.

<v Speaker0>Sad that that's the state we're in. It's like, yeah, it's hard to,

<v Speaker0>it's hard to believe what you see anymore.

<v Speaker1>All right. After looking at all these clips and hearing the story from your

<v Speaker1>friend, clearly we're all getting a little too relaxed around lightning and storms.

<v Speaker1>So we've got our friend Edgar O'Neill, the storm chaser, to come on and bust

<v Speaker1>a couple myths for us about what you should do if there's a tornado, lightning, or a storm.

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<v Speaker0>Welcome back, MythBits. Now we are about to talk to Edgar O'Neill.

<v Speaker0>He is a storm chaser, and he's going to give us some tips on what to do if you're ever stuck in a storm.

<v Speaker1>Hey there! Welcome!

<v Speaker0>Welcome! Hey, how are y'all? Thanks for coming on our show. How are you?

<v Speaker0>I'm doing fantastic. I'm excited to be on the show and, you know,

<v Speaker0>talk to the MythBusters.

<v Speaker1>I gotta say, it's so strange. I have slowly just gathered a friend group of

<v Speaker1>more and more storm trackers, storm chasers.

<v Speaker1>Like, I guess it's just people who are really into adrenaline and science.

<v Speaker0>Yeah, yeah, for sure. If you like adrenaline and science, I mean,

<v Speaker0>what better thing to do than storm chase? It like merges those two things together.

<v Speaker0>Yeah, it's insane. Now, Edgar, I have a question for you.

<v Speaker0>Most rational people try to avoid storms at any cost.

<v Speaker0>do you ever do you ever think to yourself hey maybe let's not go after the storm

<v Speaker0>or better yet maybe let's go in the opposite direction of that storm does that ever cross your mind,

<v Speaker0>not really because i i'm probably not a very rational person i think to do this

<v Speaker0>so uh yeah it's it always is funny when you you know you're there's several

<v Speaker0>times where you're just beelining it towards a tornado and you just see all

<v Speaker0>these cars running away from it you're like,

<v Speaker0>Yeah, I'm doing this. Yeah, it tells me I need to make better decisions sometimes.

<v Speaker1>All right. Since you're an expert in tornadoes, what kind of advice would you

<v Speaker1>give people who are trying to prep themselves?

<v Speaker1>Like just a layman that's like, okay, one's coming. I'm inexperienced. What do you do?

<v Speaker0>I think that's a great question. The first thing you should do is be prepared

<v Speaker0>way before it ever happened. Like know where your safe spot is in your home.

<v Speaker0>If you have a storm shelter, that's the best case scenario.

<v Speaker0>If you don't have a storm shelter, like recognize which room in your home has

<v Speaker0>no exterior walls and is the farthest away from the outside.

<v Speaker0>Those are the things that I always encourage people to do. And it's not time

<v Speaker0>to think about that whenever the tornado warning happens, because you need to

<v Speaker0>just be able to know and go there.

<v Speaker0>So I think the best thing you could do if you live in those areas is to prep.

<v Speaker0>Now, if you're in your vehicle and a tornado is coming towards you,

<v Speaker0>see, that's something there needs to be that myth.

<v Speaker0>I need to find out of getting out of your car in the middle of a tornado and

<v Speaker0>getting in a ditch is safer than staying in your vehicle.

<v Speaker0>That's a really that's a hard one for me. And I mean, even then I think the

<v Speaker0>National Weather Service maybe even suggests that if that's the case,

<v Speaker0>get try to get out of a ditch.

<v Speaker0>I don't think I would ever do that just being around a lot of tornadoes.

<v Speaker0>But that would be a really fun myth to try to to try to bust.

<v Speaker1>How can you tell when a storm is truly dangerous versus just like loud and dramatic.

<v Speaker0>Yeah. I mean, the first thing you want to know is if this is supercell and all

<v Speaker0>a supercell is, is a storm that's rotating.

<v Speaker0>So you can look at radar and see that if the storm itself has rotation in it.

<v Speaker0>And then, you know, you start looking for all the signs of a tornado.

<v Speaker0>One of the first things you'll see is a wall cloud come down,

<v Speaker0>which is just basically any lowering that comes down from the base of one of those supercells.

<v Speaker0>And a lot of times you can really tell a tornado will happen because when that

<v Speaker0>wall cloud comes down, you can already see that wall cloud cranking,

<v Speaker0>just spinning and spinning and you're waiting for that contact with the ground,

<v Speaker0>which makes it officially a tornado at that point. But yeah, you're you're just.

<v Speaker0>The tornadoes are it's insane when you you go through those stages of,

<v Speaker0>you know, you know, spinning storm, then a wall cloud, then a funnel cloud and a tornado.

<v Speaker0>And, you know, sometimes I could take three or four hours for a storm,

<v Speaker0>sometimes like five minutes.

<v Speaker1>It's insane. I was wondering what that waiting game is like.

<v Speaker1>Like, do you spend a lot of time just sitting in the car hoping that one's coming?

<v Speaker1>I mean, or is it is it just hours?

<v Speaker0>Oh, it's hours. Average storm chase day, you know, people only see the exciting part.

<v Speaker0>It's like 14 hours of waiting and doing nothing for two hours of excitement, adrenaline.

<v Speaker0>You know, there's there's special days where there's like multiple tornadoes

<v Speaker0>and they happen all day long. But most of the time you're just sitting and waiting

<v Speaker0>and trying to be patient.

<v Speaker0>And yeah, that's the hard part. Sometimes I always say you just drive around

<v Speaker0>in circles a lot when you're storm chasing, trying to be patient in the beginning.

<v Speaker0>It's the thing I have the hardest doing. I don't sit still. So it makes it a

<v Speaker0>little difficult at times. You don't seem like a person that sits still for long. Not at all.

<v Speaker1>So what's the biggest myth about storm safety that people still believe?

<v Speaker0>Every town. This is it. You come in, you're a storm. Oh, they never hit our

<v Speaker0>town. They come right to our town. They go up. They go over our town and come down.

<v Speaker0>Yeah, that doesn't ever happen. But every town that I go in says that.

<v Speaker0>Or there's like, oh, we have a river here and it won't, you know,

<v Speaker0>it won't cross the river. So there's a lot of those types of things.

<v Speaker0>Or we live in the mountains.

<v Speaker0>There's not, tornadoes don't happen in the mountains. That's a lie.

<v Speaker0>I've seen tornadoes and mountains and bluffs. I mean, they happen everywhere.

<v Speaker0>So I think that's one of the biggest myths.

<v Speaker0>A lot of people get very comfortable because, you know, their town hasn't ever

<v Speaker0>been hit, but that's not because it can't get hit. It just means a tornado hasn't came there yet.

<v Speaker1>Myth busted. Cautionary tale. Nice.

<v Speaker0>Edgar, thank you so much for coming on MythBits. This has been so fascinating to hear what you do.

<v Speaker0>I mean, it sounds a little crazy, as dangerous as it is, but hearing what you

<v Speaker0>go through, it's just Something I would never do.

<v Speaker1>Bulls. Tori, in another life, you're a storm chaser. You just have a kid and a family now.

<v Speaker0>I would never do that. I would never do that. Yeah, I had a lot of fun. Thank you so much.

<v Speaker1>Those were actually some really good tips. And next time I'm out in a tornado

<v Speaker1>alley, now I know what to do.

<v Speaker0>That was awesome. Oh, my gosh.

<v Speaker1>Thank you, everybody, for listening. Stay weird. Stay safe. and don't go running

<v Speaker1>through graveyards if there's a lightning storm.

<v Speaker0>Don't run outside during a storm.

<v Speaker1>No golf, nothing. But you can stay weird. Till next time. Later, Misfits.

<v Speaker0>See you, Misfits.