WEBVTT 00:00:00.017 --> 00:00:06.497 Now edgar i have a question for you most rational people try to avoid storms at any cost, 00:00:07.417 --> 00:00:11.837 you ever think to yourself hey maybe let's not go after the storm or better 00:00:11.837 --> 00:00:16.097 yet maybe let's go in the opposite direction of that storm not really because 00:00:16.097 --> 00:00:22.497 i i'm probably not a very rational person i think to do this so welcome myth fits. 00:00:42.115 --> 00:00:44.635 It's time for MythBits. I'm Keri Byron. 00:00:44.795 --> 00:00:49.615 And I'm Tori Bellacci. Welcome back, Keri. Good to see you. It's been a while. 00:00:49.995 --> 00:00:51.495 Well, not that long. It's been like a whole week. 00:00:52.895 --> 00:00:57.535 So listen to this. I just went to a friend's going away party. 00:00:57.715 --> 00:01:03.135 He's leaving California. And then another good friend of ours is moving out of California. 00:01:03.935 --> 00:01:09.495 Everybody's leaving the state. And in fact, my brother, he just moved his whole family to Texas. 00:01:10.235 --> 00:01:13.255 and so I get this call the other 00:01:13.255 --> 00:01:17.295 day from my parents and they're like okay you know we 00:01:17.295 --> 00:01:20.795 don't want to freak you out but we just got a call from your brother there's this 00:01:20.795 --> 00:01:26.435 huge storm going through Texas and they all had to move out of a room with any 00:01:26.435 --> 00:01:30.655 window so he basically just gathered up his whole family and moved down into 00:01:30.655 --> 00:01:35.995 the basement until the storm passed and I'm just like yeah like Like we have 00:01:35.995 --> 00:01:37.375 earthquakes here in California, 00:01:37.375 --> 00:01:40.875 but there's so few and far in between that to me, 00:01:41.055 --> 00:01:43.635 a tornado or storm, I'll take earthquakes all day. 00:01:44.035 --> 00:01:47.815 Oh, yeah. I always when I'm talking to people that come from from the Midwest 00:01:47.815 --> 00:01:51.175 and Tornado Alley, like they're always like, oh, my God, it's so scary. 00:01:51.315 --> 00:01:55.315 You guys live out there with earthquakes, but they happen all the time and it's like a little shake. 00:01:55.475 --> 00:02:00.155 And I'm like, I like it might wake me up. And I've had one really, 00:02:00.355 --> 00:02:02.055 really big earthquake like 1989. 00:02:02.455 --> 00:02:06.435 Mind you, that was terrifying. But I've had one in my lifetime, 00:02:06.735 --> 00:02:10.895 whereas tornadoes seem to be happening all the freaking time. 00:02:11.255 --> 00:02:17.835 I was actually just recently in Oklahoma City and I was I was hanging out with this guy, Val Caster. 00:02:18.075 --> 00:02:21.275 We were filming something and he's he's a storm tracker and a meteorologist. 00:02:21.635 --> 00:02:27.295 And OK, I watch those guys and I just think to myself, what is are you insane? 00:02:27.435 --> 00:02:32.395 Like, why are you doing that? You're literally heading towards disaster like that. 00:02:32.715 --> 00:02:36.895 What what happened to you? What happened that you're driving towards disaster? 00:02:37.175 --> 00:02:37.875 Tori. 00:02:39.028 --> 00:02:39.668 What? 00:02:39.888 --> 00:02:40.648 You're looking at me? 00:02:40.928 --> 00:02:41.748 I know you. 00:02:41.948 --> 00:02:47.268 I'm not that crazy. I do stupid stuff, but I'm not that. I'm not like a death 00:02:47.268 --> 00:02:48.708 wish. I don't have a death wish, Carrie. 00:02:49.348 --> 00:02:55.048 Dory, I've seen you jump off buildings, be locked in a coffin with snakes. 00:02:55.308 --> 00:02:59.168 I've seen you try to jump a wagon with a beach cruiser. 00:02:59.468 --> 00:03:01.288 I've seen you buried alive. 00:03:01.668 --> 00:03:07.928 I've seen you do so many insane things. there's no way you can tell me that 00:03:07.928 --> 00:03:10.688 you wouldn't have been a storm chaser before you were a family man 00:03:10.688 --> 00:03:14.208 Maybe i don't know it's just it's so unpredictable 00:03:14.208 --> 00:03:19.528 but you know like we tested we tested a lot of uh storm and weather related 00:03:19.528 --> 00:03:25.948 myths do you remember we were testing um do metal cleats attract lightning more 00:03:25.948 --> 00:03:30.648 than plastic cleats and i remember we went out to this facility It was like 00:03:30.648 --> 00:03:32.888 the electric company's facility. 00:03:33.148 --> 00:03:40.248 And they have this giant, like lightning creator. It would create these giant 00:03:40.248 --> 00:03:43.648 lightning bolts so that they could test their equipment out. 00:03:43.848 --> 00:03:47.488 So if, you know, if their transformers gets hit by lightning, will it explode? 00:03:47.888 --> 00:03:54.088 And so they let us come and bring our dummy, our ballistic gel golfers into 00:03:54.088 --> 00:03:57.848 this facility. And I remember it was like the coolest thing because it's, 00:03:57.928 --> 00:04:02.868 they would just charge it up. and then a huge bolt of lightning would shoot out of this huge probe. 00:04:03.595 --> 00:04:10.075 I love all the places that we got access to. I mean, we got to go to NASA. We got to go to IndyCar. 00:04:10.255 --> 00:04:12.795 But like this this was local. This was so crazy. 00:04:13.075 --> 00:04:18.495 You could actually see those giant lightning bolts indoors. And we did a couple myths there. 00:04:18.575 --> 00:04:23.575 We did like the kite for Ben Franklin to see if lightning could hit the kite 00:04:23.575 --> 00:04:28.175 and then charge up the key. Like, I mean, what a cool experience to be able 00:04:28.175 --> 00:04:29.615 to go into a facility like that. 00:04:29.715 --> 00:04:33.375 Like, there's no way without being on Mythbusters, I would have known that even 00:04:33.375 --> 00:04:35.415 existed. We're so lucky. 00:04:35.915 --> 00:04:39.035 I mean, when you're a little kid, you're scared of thunder and lightning. 00:04:39.155 --> 00:04:43.195 But like when you actually see it, it is terrifying up close. 00:04:43.615 --> 00:04:49.035 Yeah. You know, it's a good buddy of mine actually got hit by lightning when he was a kid. 00:04:49.375 --> 00:04:54.815 He's got this crazy story. Yeah, it's like it like blew his shoe off or like 00:04:54.815 --> 00:04:56.915 he was running through a graveyard. 00:04:56.915 --> 00:05:05.235 I forget the like the details, but he got hit by lightning and it is the most insane story. 00:05:05.515 --> 00:05:09.855 I almost wish we can get him. You know what? I'm going to call him right now. I know this is. 00:05:10.175 --> 00:05:11.195 Dude, you're going to call him. 00:05:11.495 --> 00:05:13.595 Well, I just want to see. I just want to. Yeah. 00:05:14.236 --> 00:05:16.836 It's such a good story that I feel like I'm going to screw it up. 00:05:16.976 --> 00:05:21.876 I'm not going to have all the details. And you're going to love this story. 00:05:22.796 --> 00:05:25.356 Let's see. Yes, please. Please. This is crazy. 00:05:26.316 --> 00:05:30.716 Walshy, what's up? Dude, what are you doing right now? I know this. 00:05:30.856 --> 00:05:34.756 We're recording a podcast. And I was wondering if you would quickly come on 00:05:34.756 --> 00:05:38.476 and just tell the story of when you got hit by lightning. 00:05:38.776 --> 00:05:40.816 Of course. All right. Let's go. 00:05:43.456 --> 00:05:47.796 Oh, Walshie. Thank you for coming on. This is Carrie. Carrie, 00:05:47.916 --> 00:05:49.576 this is Mike Walsh. He's a good friend of mine. 00:05:49.876 --> 00:05:50.416 Hi, Carrie. 00:05:50.516 --> 00:05:52.156 Wow, you don't look like you've been strapped by lightning. 00:05:54.016 --> 00:05:56.316 You don't see the bottom half of me. 00:05:57.136 --> 00:06:01.356 Oh, God. Oh, God. I want to know everything. 00:06:01.516 --> 00:06:05.556 Where were you? How did it feel? Oh, my God. I've never met anybody who's like... 00:06:06.260 --> 00:06:08.860 been just hit by lightning. This is crazy. 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.720 So I was 14, sophomore in high school. 00:06:13.100 --> 00:06:17.920 And my buddies and I used to go every every week we'd go to the Holy Cross football 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:19.660 game. This is in Worcester, Massachusetts. 00:06:20.320 --> 00:06:24.080 And we'd walk there. And our walking 00:06:24.080 --> 00:06:31.900 path took us through this really long cemetery called hope cemetery so great 00:06:31.900 --> 00:06:39.040 game great day beautifully blue sunny skies and we're coming back and we're 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:43.700 in the middle of the cemetery and it goes from like blue skies to pitch black 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:49.040 and there's nowhere to go and my cousin and i and the rest of our friends but 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:53.020 my cousin and i grew up next to each other in worcester and we always used to 00:06:53.020 --> 00:06:57.560 play in lightning storm i mean just like storms we used to love storms um so 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.800 anyhow we're in the middle of the cemetery it starts hailing 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:05.440 and we see lightning hit a tree and the 00:07:05.440 --> 00:07:09.740 tree just starts smoking but you know we're it's a very long cemetery so we 00:07:09.740 --> 00:07:15.800 just start running uh toward you know toward home which was we're still probably 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:21.680 two miles from home but we start running in that direction and uh and we see 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.220 the lightning hit a tree and my buddy Chuck, 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:27.880 we called him Scott and I just start sprinting. 00:07:27.980 --> 00:07:31.800 There are 10 of us, um, all good buddies. And. 00:07:32.997 --> 00:07:41.997 I don't know if it was the lightning hitting me or after I was hit or just before I was hit, 00:07:41.997 --> 00:07:49.057 but I remember seeing like a shelf of light because it was pitch black at this point, 00:07:49.397 --> 00:07:52.337 where it was like 10 foot tall and it was all bright. 00:07:52.777 --> 00:07:54.797 And the next thing I knew, I'm on the ground. 00:07:55.537 --> 00:08:00.537 My sock was on fire. I could smell smoke. What? Oh, my God, dude. 00:08:01.137 --> 00:08:01.877 That's so insane. 00:08:01.877 --> 00:08:05.317 Your sock is on fire? and just running through a graveyard 00:08:05.317 --> 00:08:14.217 Yeah it's crazy so i'm i'm on the ground and my buddy chuck is on the ground 00:08:14.217 --> 00:08:18.777 next to me i forgot which one said it first i think i think he said 00:08:19.337 --> 00:08:24.457 walsh i think i've been hit by lightning and i was like yeah me too and we caught 00:08:24.457 --> 00:08:29.937 up but everything was super disorienting like the brains my our brains just 00:08:29.937 --> 00:08:35.237 weren't working so i started running in the wrong direction. Sock is still on. 00:08:35.397 --> 00:08:38.357 That's what happened to you. Now it all makes sense, Mike. 00:08:41.377 --> 00:08:48.677 Still recovering. So my sock's on fire and I think I like kind of dusted it 00:08:48.677 --> 00:08:52.997 out and I'm running in the wrong direction and my friends turned me around. 00:08:53.477 --> 00:08:59.337 And I remember saying, hey, well, someone grabbed my leg and because I couldn't 00:08:59.337 --> 00:09:02.857 feel anything below my knee. So I thought and my leg was blown off. 00:09:03.237 --> 00:09:04.417 Oh, my God. 00:09:04.937 --> 00:09:09.117 Yeah, and whoever it was, one of my buddies is like, you have your leg, 00:09:09.257 --> 00:09:12.257 you're running. So you're good. 00:09:12.737 --> 00:09:14.737 You didn't like not touch your leg. 00:09:14.957 --> 00:09:18.117 You didn't mean touch it to make sure you had feeling. You meant you thought 00:09:18.117 --> 00:09:22.397 that you left your leg behind and somebody needed to pick it up and bring it. 00:09:22.717 --> 00:09:23.677 Exactly, yeah. 00:09:23.837 --> 00:09:24.557 Oh, my God. 00:09:24.737 --> 00:09:26.857 It was just, I couldn't feel anything below my knee. 00:09:27.557 --> 00:09:29.257 Did it knock your shoe off? 00:09:29.657 --> 00:09:34.357 It was hanging off. So it was, I had a pair of Chuck Taylors. 00:09:34.477 --> 00:09:37.637 In fact, uh, my friend Chuck's mom, uh, 00:09:38.785 --> 00:09:42.105 Called i guess because i don't even think there was email at the time and 00:09:42.105 --> 00:09:45.925 and called the ceo converse and told the 00:09:45.925 --> 00:09:48.725 story and we got free chuck free leather high top chuck 00:09:48.725 --> 00:09:51.565 taylor's because we couldn't afford oh that's awesome it was a 00:09:51.565 --> 00:09:54.345 huge win but yeah but my 00:09:54.345 --> 00:09:57.145 cut my canvas chucks were like hanging off so 00:09:57.145 --> 00:10:00.325 i had braces at the time so i think it hit it 00:10:00.325 --> 00:10:03.105 was it was um cut all along the 00:10:03.105 --> 00:10:06.545 side about three quarters or so but along 00:10:06.545 --> 00:10:09.505 the eyelets so the eyelets 00:10:09.505 --> 00:10:12.565 might have saved me otherwise it might have hit me in the face with my 00:10:12.565 --> 00:10:15.305 brace yeah dude yeah so we're 00:10:15.305 --> 00:10:18.025 running we're running and yeah i'm running 00:10:18.025 --> 00:10:21.365 on something that i can't feel with my foot my 00:10:21.365 --> 00:10:24.585 my sneaker flopping along and we run straight out 00:10:24.585 --> 00:10:27.305 and chuck and i somehow we're still kind of like ahead of the rest of the 00:10:27.305 --> 00:10:30.245 pack and we run into this house no 00:10:30.245 --> 00:10:32.885 knocking first house we see of course 00:10:32.885 --> 00:10:35.805 they're horrified and um this is 00:10:35.805 --> 00:10:38.505 still in Worcester and and they're like what's going 00:10:38.505 --> 00:10:43.345 on what's going on and we've been hit by lightning so we're sitting we someone 00:10:43.345 --> 00:10:48.965 calls an ambulance I guess my cousin had my home phone number um he calls my 00:10:48.965 --> 00:10:55.925 parents and we're we still can't process like we still can't hold a train of thought at all. 00:10:56.385 --> 00:11:00.305 And I remember we're sitting on there, Chuck and I next to each other, 00:11:00.505 --> 00:11:05.645 they're carpeted steps waiting for an ambulance or my parents to show up where we got there first. 00:11:06.285 --> 00:11:09.965 And our friends are like, you know, they're all like, what the hell was that? 00:11:11.265 --> 00:11:14.585 Are they going to make it? Because we weren't quite sure what was going on. 00:11:15.025 --> 00:11:16.245 I had heart palpitation. 00:11:16.985 --> 00:11:17.885 Oh my God. 00:11:18.765 --> 00:11:21.385 Could not think, like just could not hold a train of thought. 00:11:21.385 --> 00:11:26.765 Not the phone call your parents are expecting to get, like, when you're in trouble. 00:11:26.945 --> 00:11:31.305 Your son's been hit by lightning. Like, that's crazy. 00:11:31.545 --> 00:11:31.905 Right. 00:11:32.325 --> 00:11:36.385 Exactly. And then they got there before the ambulance, which is crazy, 00:11:36.665 --> 00:11:39.185 because we were only a couple miles from the house. 00:11:39.365 --> 00:11:42.825 But anyhow, they got there first, and... 00:11:44.286 --> 00:11:47.046 We said, cancel the ambulance or whatever. We didn't go in the ambulance. 00:11:47.186 --> 00:11:50.346 We're like, just take us to the hospital because we started feeling a little bit better. 00:11:50.806 --> 00:11:53.666 We knew we weren't 100% yet. 00:11:54.526 --> 00:11:55.246 You think? 00:11:55.666 --> 00:11:58.666 Yeah. But we thought we were pretty good. So we're like, no, 00:11:58.746 --> 00:11:59.746 I'm going to just go with my parents. 00:12:00.226 --> 00:12:04.926 And we get in the car. And going back to the fact that we used to run around 00:12:04.926 --> 00:12:08.846 in the storms and they didn't love it because my dad's tornado experience. 00:12:09.766 --> 00:12:12.506 They're like, you sure you're okay? You sure you're okay? We're like, 00:12:12.546 --> 00:12:16.326 yeah, no, we're going to be fine. I think I broke my elbow, which I did. 00:12:17.506 --> 00:12:20.366 By the way, our buddies said we're on the ground for like a minute, 00:12:20.546 --> 00:12:22.166 got thrown like 10 feet up in the air. 00:12:23.086 --> 00:12:27.226 And, you know, that could be 14-year-olds exaggerating, but that's what they said. 00:12:28.206 --> 00:12:31.226 But I did break my elbow. And when I told my parents, I'm like, 00:12:31.746 --> 00:12:35.846 yeah, I'm okay. I think we're going to be okay. 00:12:35.946 --> 00:12:38.786 They're like, what are you doing playing Thunderstorms? 00:12:39.386 --> 00:12:43.626 This is why I told you not to play in the Thunderstorms. 00:12:44.086 --> 00:12:48.206 God, the most I told you so moment of a parent's life ever. 00:12:48.966 --> 00:12:53.106 I just, all you kids out there, listen to us. You could get hit by lightning 00:12:53.106 --> 00:12:55.486 if you go play in a storm. My God. 00:12:56.358 --> 00:13:00.238 But then tell the story about years later, like in your adult life, 00:13:00.238 --> 00:13:03.038 you went to the dentist and tell, tell them that story. 00:13:03.358 --> 00:13:07.498 Oh yeah. So I, yeah, we, by the way, we, we get, so we get to the hospital, 00:13:07.678 --> 00:13:11.978 broke my elbow, had a heart palpitation and stuff. And we're like, what do we do? 00:13:12.358 --> 00:13:16.738 Um, what's, what do we do to like, is there any treatment? They're like, I don't know. 00:13:16.798 --> 00:13:21.018 Most people that show up and they show up in an ambulance and they die. 00:13:21.878 --> 00:13:23.578 Most people don't survive this. 00:13:23.818 --> 00:13:27.538 Yeah. So we don't, we don't really have any advice, but yeah. 00:13:27.718 --> 00:13:33.118 So then many years later, I moved to LA and from Boston and I had, 00:13:33.218 --> 00:13:35.818 um, I went to a new, a new dentist. 00:13:36.058 --> 00:13:41.678 She asked me, she's like, have you ever been electrocuted? And I was like, no, why do you ask? 00:13:41.698 --> 00:13:44.718 And she said, you have all these tiny micro fractures in your teeth. 00:13:44.838 --> 00:13:48.598 And I've only seen it before when people have been electrocuted. 00:13:48.638 --> 00:13:50.898 And I was like, oh, I was hit by lightning. And she's like, well, 00:13:50.978 --> 00:13:51.058 Yeah. 00:13:54.158 --> 00:13:57.538 Wait, so all of your teeth have micro fractures in them? 00:13:57.838 --> 00:14:00.018 Yeah, a lot of micro fractures, which. 00:14:00.138 --> 00:14:01.438 That's so crazy. 00:14:01.678 --> 00:14:04.318 I've moved a lot. So when I go to a new city, I have a new dentist. 00:14:04.658 --> 00:14:08.758 They're like, yeah, I guess that explains it. I mean, I don't know what else would have done that. 00:14:08.758 --> 00:14:10.158 Oh, yeah. I got hit by lightning. 00:14:10.718 --> 00:14:14.138 Yeah. Yeah. And also, can we just talk about the fact that your dentist sees 00:14:14.138 --> 00:14:19.498 a lot of people that have been electrocuted, so like knows what to look for? Yeah. Wow. It's true. 00:14:19.498 --> 00:14:25.498 There's this there's a crazy little side note to this whole thing about the 00:14:25.498 --> 00:14:29.938 brain part of it if you want me to go into that yeah go 00:14:29.938 --> 00:14:33.518 Ahead tell us tell us i'm so interested on the science of this like what happens 00:14:33.518 --> 00:14:35.818 to your brain when you get hit by lightning 00:14:35.818 --> 00:14:38.798 It was totally scrambled and and i 00:14:38.798 --> 00:14:43.178 can't really the only way to describe it is that i just couldn't hold a thought 00:14:43.178 --> 00:14:47.658 and chucks was the same way we just couldn't hold a thought in fact like 10 00:14:47.658 --> 00:14:51.938 years later i went back to massachusetts and we're hanging out he's like do 00:14:51.938 --> 00:14:57.818 you ever do you have any like um anything that happens as a result of the lightning i'm like well 00:14:58.906 --> 00:15:03.526 In addition to the obvious, I'm not quite right, but I hear this ringing noise 00:15:03.526 --> 00:15:08.166 every now and then, and it's really piercing and kind of like disorienting. 00:15:08.326 --> 00:15:09.746 He's like, no way I hear that, too. 00:15:10.326 --> 00:15:12.446 So that that was a weird thing. 00:15:12.766 --> 00:15:16.206 Oh, dude, thank you so much for coming on and telling that story. 00:15:16.446 --> 00:15:21.426 It's like it's so perfect. And I love you. I miss you. It's good to see you, dude. 00:15:21.846 --> 00:15:24.886 Same, brother. Miss you, too. Love you. Good to see you again, Carrie. 00:15:25.306 --> 00:15:27.426 Don't go walking through cemeteries in the rain. 00:15:27.826 --> 00:15:29.246 I won't. Yeah. 00:15:29.746 --> 00:15:31.066 You learn your lesson, kid. 00:15:31.506 --> 00:15:33.646 Yeah. All right. See you guys. 00:15:34.186 --> 00:15:36.726 Tori, I don't know about you, but trying to find the perfect, 00:15:37.006 --> 00:15:42.246 memorable, beautiful gift that just focuses on family and memories is difficult. 00:15:42.566 --> 00:15:46.546 That's where Aura Frames comes in. I got this frame for my mom and I love it 00:15:46.546 --> 00:15:49.946 because basically we put a bunch of digital pictures on this frame. 00:15:50.246 --> 00:15:57.386 And anybody who has access can add photos in. 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I mean, Tori, that lightning story was insane. 00:17:42.487 --> 00:17:48.367 I can't, I just, I can't even wrap my head around how crazy it is for him to 00:17:48.367 --> 00:17:52.547 be, like, running through a cemetery, get hit by lightning, and then, 00:17:52.607 --> 00:17:54.487 like, his parents answer the phone. 00:17:55.327 --> 00:17:59.407 Like, that is the strangest explanation. Oh, my God. 00:17:59.807 --> 00:18:03.347 Yeah. And what's funny is, like, he is insane. Like, I mean, 00:18:03.447 --> 00:18:07.447 he's like a great time. Like when we go out, we just get crazy. 00:18:07.927 --> 00:18:11.607 But now it makes sense. Like he got his wires fried. 00:18:11.847 --> 00:18:17.407 It all makes sense now that Mike Walsh is the way he is. And I love that. 00:18:17.647 --> 00:18:21.147 I love all your friends have like nicknames. He's Walshy. 00:18:23.087 --> 00:18:27.607 That's how you, I know you love somebody is they have some sort of nickname to them like that. 00:18:28.007 --> 00:18:30.887 You know, there's one year we went to Sundance and it 00:18:30.887 --> 00:18:33.607 was like this big group from manhattan beach that 00:18:33.607 --> 00:18:37.007 he would hang out with and so we get into salt lake 00:18:37.007 --> 00:18:40.147 city and this guy brought a cane and 00:18:40.147 --> 00:18:42.987 a neck brace and he we would just go into 00:18:42.987 --> 00:18:46.767 the shopping centers or you know in the grocery stores and he would just fake 00:18:46.767 --> 00:18:51.347 like falling he would just fall in the middle of the grocery store and people 00:18:51.347 --> 00:18:55.867 would come over like are you okay are you okay and uh i that's not a bit on 00:18:55.867 --> 00:19:00.547 video but it was just like they're just hilarious these crazy uh. 00:19:00.547 --> 00:19:04.167 Guys were ahead of your time with all of that social media 00:19:04.167 --> 00:19:06.507 Stuff. No, we're actually behind the times. 00:19:06.927 --> 00:19:08.427 We're... Oh, this is when you were old. 00:19:08.707 --> 00:19:11.487 This was like a couple of years ago. Oh, okay. 00:19:14.567 --> 00:19:18.607 I, you know, I've been obsessed with lightning for a long time. 00:19:18.607 --> 00:19:19.867 I just think it's so cool. 00:19:19.927 --> 00:19:24.027 And I remember sitting on the back porch of my Aunt Betty's house and just watching 00:19:24.027 --> 00:19:25.107 the thunder and lightning. 00:19:25.347 --> 00:19:28.167 And just, it was always so cool. 00:19:29.109 --> 00:19:36.929 In fact, I was on a date one time where he was a pilot and he flew in for this date. 00:19:37.269 --> 00:19:40.569 It was it was we were, you know, out on the wharf. We're kind of like walking 00:19:40.569 --> 00:19:42.489 around and we decided a blind date. 00:19:43.089 --> 00:19:46.609 No, sort of. It was a fix up. It was a fix up. 00:19:46.669 --> 00:19:50.409 But you knew like you kind of did you know what he looked like or. 00:19:50.929 --> 00:19:57.409 I sort of knew what he looked like. Honestly, our friend Craig Ferguson hooked me up with him. 00:19:57.509 --> 00:20:01.209 It was his pilot. And so he came with references Wait a name drop? 00:20:02.929 --> 00:20:07.269 Well Megan his wife was really the one that fixed me up They're like we love 00:20:07.269 --> 00:20:12.509 him He's single You're single Anyway he came with references right So Okay 00:20:13.346 --> 00:20:16.826 We're walking around. It's starting to get stormy. And all of a sudden, 00:20:16.946 --> 00:20:18.486 the thunder and lightning starts. 00:20:18.726 --> 00:20:23.726 So we've got a bottle of wine. We're just sitting on a bench watching the sea 00:20:23.726 --> 00:20:27.686 kind of get higher, the bay getting higher and higher and start to like the 00:20:27.686 --> 00:20:32.186 waves are kind of crashing up really, really high up onto the pier. 00:20:32.186 --> 00:20:37.106 And then we watched lightning strike the Bay Bridge. 00:20:37.386 --> 00:20:37.806 Whoa. 00:20:38.906 --> 00:20:43.686 I mean, the whole sky lit up. I mean, this turned out to be the thunderstorms 00:20:43.686 --> 00:20:46.606 that started the epic fires that happened in California. 00:20:46.826 --> 00:20:48.026 I remember that. 00:20:48.286 --> 00:20:48.986 It was just a wild night. 00:20:49.266 --> 00:20:56.186 I remember that. Stupidly, we went on the roof of where I was living at the time in San Francisco. 00:20:56.806 --> 00:21:01.486 Because we saw the lightning strikes were hitting Twin Peaks. 00:21:01.486 --> 00:21:04.806 And so I was like getting these slow motion shots on my phone. 00:21:04.946 --> 00:21:06.406 It was like the dumbest thing. 00:21:06.746 --> 00:21:09.606 You look at a lightning storm. Why don't you run up on your roof? 00:21:10.886 --> 00:21:15.166 Seriously, you got to clearly from Walsh's story right there. 00:21:15.346 --> 00:21:18.866 You probably don't want to be outside when this kind of stuff happens. 00:21:19.066 --> 00:21:22.686 So that's why I was like, I think it's time to end this date when we're seeing 00:21:22.686 --> 00:21:27.706 that happening. And he couldn't fly home. So he had to spend the night at a hotel downtown. 00:21:27.706 --> 00:21:30.846 Speaking of lightning strikes, do you have a photo of that? 00:21:31.146 --> 00:21:36.166 I do have a photo of that, actually. So one of our – it's funny enough. 00:21:36.306 --> 00:21:39.546 I saw a photo of it online. 00:21:39.786 --> 00:21:43.746 And the photographer that took this photo was – 00:21:45.475 --> 00:21:50.675 See that that photo? I saw this photo on Instagram later and I'm like, 00:21:50.815 --> 00:21:52.255 yes, this is what was happening. 00:21:52.575 --> 00:21:56.395 So it turns out the photographer that took this photo, Carlos Gonzalez, 00:21:56.975 --> 00:22:01.475 is the cousin of one of our old producers on Mythbusters. 00:22:01.855 --> 00:22:02.755 No way. Small world. 00:22:02.955 --> 00:22:06.735 Very, very small world. So I asked if I could, you know, have a copy of this 00:22:06.735 --> 00:22:11.975 photo because it was just such an epic night and such a beautiful thing to watch. 00:22:12.055 --> 00:22:13.675 And like I I will never forget it. 00:22:14.335 --> 00:22:18.815 You know what? I'm going to see if I can pull up the video from when I was on 00:22:18.815 --> 00:22:24.275 the rooftop because it's literally one of the craziest slow motion videos I've ever taken. 00:22:24.415 --> 00:22:25.595 You took a video of it? 00:22:25.775 --> 00:22:26.155 Yeah. 00:22:26.495 --> 00:22:29.015 So you're standing outside with a phone up in the air? 00:22:29.155 --> 00:22:30.075 Right. So dumb. 00:22:30.075 --> 00:22:31.415 It's getting worse. Yeah. 00:22:31.795 --> 00:22:35.995 But I posted it and some news network reached out and they're like, 00:22:36.095 --> 00:22:38.735 is it okay if we use this footage? Really? 00:22:39.235 --> 00:22:43.115 Yeah. It was nuts. I'll pull it up and post it. I'll send it to you. 00:22:43.115 --> 00:22:46.195 I wanted to show you this video that's going viral. 00:22:46.615 --> 00:22:50.855 It's like a basketball court during a storm. 00:22:51.535 --> 00:22:58.795 The lightning hits the court and then it liquefies and gets molten and falls down. 00:22:59.753 --> 00:23:04.173 Now, I am sure at this point that a lot of you guys have seen this video right 00:23:04.173 --> 00:23:07.053 here claiming that they captured some sort of glitch in the matrix. 00:23:07.353 --> 00:23:10.973 This clip has been going viral everywhere. I've been tagged in it and DM in 00:23:10.973 --> 00:23:14.773 it many, many times, and it shows this guy recording some sort of sports field 00:23:14.773 --> 00:23:15.913 where lightning is striking. 00:23:16.273 --> 00:23:20.113 Strange part about this, though, is that the lightning turns into a liquid directly 00:23:20.113 --> 00:23:24.073 after striking the ground. And as you can see, the field is covered in this liquid. 00:23:24.253 --> 00:23:28.153 There were a lot of people in the comments as well, I assume going along with the joke. 00:23:28.273 --> 00:23:30.793 But here's the problem. Even if you're going along with the joke, 00:23:30.973 --> 00:23:33.513 other people that don't know what this is are going to believe you. 00:23:33.713 --> 00:23:36.293 This comment right here claims that it's called lightning liquidity, 00:23:36.653 --> 00:23:38.193 which actually does sound pretty legit. 00:23:38.413 --> 00:23:42.413 It only happens when the temperature is below zero degrees Celsius and the dew point is low. 00:23:42.833 --> 00:23:46.393 The lightning absorbs the dew. This comment got 50,000 likes, 00:23:46.433 --> 00:23:48.113 and I'm sure a bunch of people believed it. 00:23:48.393 --> 00:23:51.453 I'm going to burst your bubble, though. This is absolutely fake and edited. 00:23:51.973 --> 00:23:56.893 There we go. Busted. Look at that. We're busted in viral videos as we talk. 00:23:57.273 --> 00:24:00.513 When he said liquid lightning, I'm like, That's not a thing. 00:24:00.873 --> 00:24:04.273 Right? But I thought it was funny. 00:24:04.773 --> 00:24:09.133 Tori, remember that clip you sent me of Alan Pan? He was the guy. 00:24:09.553 --> 00:24:12.753 He was one of the contestants on the search for the next Mythbusters. 00:24:12.973 --> 00:24:16.573 And he did like a lightning, like a cool lightning video. 00:24:17.013 --> 00:24:17.373 Yes. 00:24:18.053 --> 00:24:22.693 Okay, so you sent me this clip. It's Alan Pan, and he's kind of doing something 00:24:22.693 --> 00:24:25.913 that we did. It looks a little familiar, 00:24:26.233 --> 00:24:26.693 Doesn't it? 00:24:26.693 --> 00:24:30.493 Yeah, it's a Tesla coil. And it's just kind of like it's he's, 00:24:30.493 --> 00:24:32.233 you know, seeing who's going to get hit. 00:24:32.393 --> 00:24:36.173 But yeah, he's got he's got these four dummies set up. There are these wood 00:24:36.173 --> 00:24:39.453 dummies that he made. And then one of them is holding a sword. 00:24:39.713 --> 00:24:45.233 One has a golf club and one has an umbrella. And he's trying to see which lightning 00:24:45.233 --> 00:24:49.553 strike would hit first. Like, where would the lightning go to first? 00:24:50.697 --> 00:24:54.817 Yeah, in case you're, you know, walking around in a lightning storm with a sword. 00:24:54.957 --> 00:24:56.257 Actually, one of your friends might do that. 00:24:58.097 --> 00:25:02.957 That Alan Pan guy is crazy. I feel like we need to have him on the show sometime. 00:25:03.217 --> 00:25:04.297 He's like crazy like you. 00:25:04.417 --> 00:25:09.597 Oh, my God. That's a great idea because he was one of the contestants on the 00:25:09.597 --> 00:25:11.877 search, Mythbusters search. 00:25:11.977 --> 00:25:15.657 So I would love to hear what he has to say while filming that show. 00:25:16.097 --> 00:25:20.917 Get all the dirt. Yeah, I mean, I think that they are using the same Tesla coil, 00:25:21.077 --> 00:25:26.217 or at least the same concept of what you used for the White Rabbit project when 00:25:26.217 --> 00:25:30.177 we were trying to simulate superhero powers. 00:25:30.497 --> 00:25:32.977 Yeah, I was like Lightning Man. 00:25:33.437 --> 00:25:41.977 Yeah, you were like Lightning Man. It's kind of crazy because they put me in the steel mesh suit. 00:25:42.157 --> 00:25:46.277 You know, it's like the suit of armor underneath the chain mail. 00:25:47.141 --> 00:25:53.481 And so that allows the lightning or the electricity, the bolts to pass through 00:25:53.481 --> 00:25:55.321 the suit and not through your body. 00:25:55.421 --> 00:25:59.701 So I was literally shooting bolts of lightning out of my hand. 00:26:00.261 --> 00:26:04.821 And it was cool because we had these like ninja set up, but they were like balloons 00:26:04.821 --> 00:26:06.721 filled with methane gas. 00:26:06.901 --> 00:26:09.961 So I would hit the heads and they would explode, you know, make these fireballs. 00:26:10.341 --> 00:26:15.021 But what happened is when we first started, there was a hole in the chain mail. 00:26:15.021 --> 00:26:19.001 And so it was like tasing me in the hand. 00:26:19.161 --> 00:26:21.661 And I'm like, ah, is this supposed to happen? 00:26:21.881 --> 00:26:24.201 Like, this isn't supposed to be happening, right? Like, isn't it supposed to 00:26:24.201 --> 00:26:26.161 pass through the suit, not into my hand? 00:26:26.681 --> 00:26:32.121 And they had to like readjust it. But then it was totally safe. But it was pretty fun. 00:26:32.301 --> 00:26:34.241 What a weird experience to have. 00:26:34.441 --> 00:26:35.101 I know. 00:26:35.501 --> 00:26:41.681 The job that you and I have held has 3,000 weird stories. Like, 00:26:41.801 --> 00:26:48.741