1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,500 Tub of body latex, $22. 2 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:07,240 Tub of gold pigment, $6. 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:11,400 Watching your friend get naked, covered in gold paint, and jogging until he passes out, 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,600 prices. 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,920 Coming up, flying a lawn chair balloon. 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,600 Okay, last check before we let you go, Adam. 7 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,640 Can you fail a drug test after eating a bagel? 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:31,120 I think this is going to cure me of my love for poppy seed cake once and for all. 9 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:35,680 Gold paint, is it really a glamorous way to die? 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,680 The ridicule happens. 11 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:48,200 Here on Mythbusters, we're not just going to retell the legends, 12 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,400 we're going to put them to the test. 13 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,400 We're prepared to put our bodies on the line. 14 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,480 Why should you trust these guys? 15 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:02,360 Well, Jamie and Adam have over 30 years in model building, 16 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,040 animatronics, and toy prototyping. 17 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,600 They could build just about anything, and probably have. 18 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,600 This is M5, my special effects shop. 19 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,400 Come on in and have a look around. 20 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,000 If we can't find what we need here, 21 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,560 there's always Adam's junk collection. 22 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,560 My cigarette dispenser. 23 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:32,560 The guys are backed by experts in folklore, crime, medicine, and engineering. 24 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,560 And they'll need every trick in the book. 25 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,560 So where do we begin? What do we got? Let's go. 26 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:44,560 So the lawn chair balloon. 27 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,560 This is the thing that made it on the internet all over the place a few years ago, 28 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,560 of the guy who supposedly flew above LAX in 1992. 29 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:55,560 Larry Walters attached something like 45 weather balloons to this lawn chair. 30 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:00,560 He took up beer and beef jerky, and he was an unemployed truck driver. 31 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:06,560 And whoo, he shot straight up into the air and apparently went up to about 16,000 feet. 32 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,560 And he flew for something like 14 hours. 33 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,560 Larry's only way of descending was with a handheld BB gun. 34 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:23,560 We're actually just going to see if we can achieve some buoyancy with 42 helium balloons. 35 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,560 I don't think we're going to bring all the payload that he did. 36 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:32,560 He brought the beer, the sandwiches. We're not going to bring a pallet gun. 37 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,560 The plan is to build and fly the balloon as it's described in the myth. 38 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:44,560 The guys then have to show that they can make a controlled descent by shooting out the balloons. 39 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:53,560 Is this something that would be legal for us to do? 40 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,560 The myth says Larry was fined after the flight. 41 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,560 So we want to get permission before we take to the skies. 42 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,560 Whose jurisdiction does that fall under? 43 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,560 Fire department's going to know faster than the police department will. 44 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,560 Well, I don't think this is the FAA, but on the off chance it is. 45 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,560 And you have to do with the FAA rules and regulations. Please call me. 46 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,560 How high do you want this guy to go up to the building? 47 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:27,560 Not very high. We just have to prove the point. 48 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:33,560 He was transferring me to his duty officer upstairs who apparently was not on duty. 49 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:35,560 And so they'll call us back. 50 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:41,560 You know, it's a sort of thing where it's like you could call to your blue in the face and no one would know who you should talk to. 51 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,560 And then if you did it and there was a traffic snarl up and people got pissed off, 52 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:50,560 it would still take them like three weeks to figure out who should punish you. 53 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,560 Unfortunately, Sears wouldn't let us shoot inside their building. 54 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,560 And they seem to have discontinued Larry's original chair. 55 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,560 We found this. It's aluminum construction. It seems pretty sturdy. 56 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,560 And in fact, it looks fairly comfortable. 57 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:11,560 I could definitely fly this. 58 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,560 We're going to do these in basically four clusters. 59 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,560 Like Larry Walters did, they'll probably be closer. Four separate clusters. 60 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,560 Each cluster will be tethered to me on a different tie point. 61 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,560 Two shoulders, two on the waist. 62 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:32,560 So that even if one whole cluster goes, I fall to the ground and I'm going to weigh about 15 pounds at that point. 63 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:38,560 Let's get the chair over here and I'll sit it and it will try and bungee it to me. 64 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,560 All right, you want to try and raise me up and see how this does? 65 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,560 That's pretty uncomfortable. 66 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,560 What did the pictures show? 67 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,560 Adam's harness is too uncomfortable. 68 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,560 I'd get up if I could. 69 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,560 The chair is too dangerous. 70 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:03,560 That means we're going to have to find some other way of making this work. 71 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,560 I have a suggestion, Adam. 72 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:06,560 Bring it on. 73 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:13,560 We can take our square steel tubing that we use a lot around here and make a nice picture frame board or a square. 74 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:21,560 You know, weld it thoroughly to where you're not going to, you know, you could jump up and down on it. 75 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,560 You're not going to collapse it. 76 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:24,560 And then just anchor to it. 77 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,560 We can put four eye bolts into it. 78 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:28,560 We can put four eye bolts on it. 79 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:29,560 Yeah, I like that idea. 80 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,560 That seems pretty darn good. 81 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:38,560 And then we'll actually lash that to the chair. 82 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,560 The harnesses aren't supporting me. 83 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,560 They're just safety harnesses. 84 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,560 All right, someone want to lift the... 85 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,560 Oh, God, much better than the harness. 86 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,560 The harness was very uncomfortable. 87 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,560 I'm about to order the balloons from Science and Surplus. 88 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:01,560 Okay. 89 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:03,560 So, you know, we need 42. 90 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,560 Obviously we want some backups. 91 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,560 I mean, just in case they're not all fantastic coming out of the package. 92 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,560 Real kosher weather balloons are 40 bucks a piece. 93 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,560 Like brand new ones. 94 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:19,560 And that's the... like 10 bucks was the only price I found that was lower than 40. 95 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:23,560 The myth says that Larry got his balloons from an Army surplus store. 96 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,560 That makes them cheaper. 97 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,560 But there's a trade-off. 98 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,560 The latex has a limited shelf life. 99 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,560 All depends what kind of balloon. 100 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:40,560 Some balloon has a shelf life one year, some has two years, some could be five, six years. 101 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,560 Adam is taking up big risk. 102 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,560 His balloons are 20 years old. 103 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,560 It's a lot thinner than I thought it was going to be. 104 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,560 Yeah, I'd like to get a price code on some of the balloons. 105 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,560 I'd like to get some helium. 106 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:56,560 Okay. 107 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:57,560 Like 42. 108 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:58,560 Yeah, 42 with us? 109 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:59,560 Yeah. 110 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:00,560 To raise? 111 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:01,560 Yeah. 112 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:02,560 Oh, Lord. 113 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,560 Okay, well, I can get you... 114 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:05,560 Well, no... 115 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:10,560 I can get you a helium that is like a 291 cubic feet. 116 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,560 Right, the T-Sci cylinder? 117 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:13,560 That's the T-Sci. 118 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:14,560 Yeah. 119 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:15,560 And that would raise two of them. 120 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,560 Good Lord. 121 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:17,560 I know. 122 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,560 And you're going to order how many? 123 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,560 Probably five tanks. 124 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:22,560 Five tanks? 125 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:28,560 Didn't she just say one tank fills two weather balloons? 126 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:37,560 My calculations on the volume of helium for each balloon is based on just the volume of the sphere, 127 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,560 which is like 33 cubic feet. 128 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,560 But because the helium's under pressure, and it's not much, it's like, I think, 129 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,560 three atmospheres or five atmospheres or something like that, 130 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,560 under pressure in the balloon, it's likely we're going to need more. 131 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:55,560 We've got enough balloons, and because... 132 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,560 We've got enough balloons, we're just going to need more gas. 133 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,560 We might end up needing almost double this amount of gas. 134 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,560 This is $700 worth of gas. 135 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,560 We might need another $700 to $1,000 worth of gas. 136 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:17,560 Actually, we'll need four times Adam's original helium estimate. 137 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,560 We now have enough helium to get me a loft, correct? 138 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:22,560 Yeah. 139 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:31,560 Jamie's done a lot of this. 140 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,560 There we go. 141 00:08:33,560 --> 00:08:34,560 All right. 142 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:38,560 So, in theory, Adam can now get off the ground. 143 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:42,560 The next question is, can he come safely back down? 144 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:44,560 It looks like a big onion. 145 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:50,560 Did it hit? 146 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:53,560 Yes, it did hit, and it went... 147 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:55,560 It went clean through. 148 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:57,560 It went right through? 149 00:08:58,560 --> 00:08:59,560 Yeah. 150 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:01,560 Yeah, it went clear through. Check this out. 151 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:03,560 So, it actually did. 152 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:06,560 There's the hole on the other side. 153 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:10,560 But it is very slowly, obviously. 154 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:14,560 The BB descent technique doesn't seem to be very effective. 155 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:18,560 I'll bet you we could shoot this for another half hour. 156 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:20,560 All of us just taking as many shots as we want, 157 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:22,560 and we really wouldn't make much of a dent. 158 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:23,560 Probably. 159 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:29,560 This stuff is... 160 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:31,560 It's pretty... 161 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:37,560 Look at that. It's just falling apart. 162 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:41,560 That doesn't inspire confidence on the eve of Adam's historic flight. 163 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:45,560 Will our choice of cheap surplus balloons come back to haunt us? 164 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,560 Are you having some second thoughts about this thing, Adam? 165 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:50,560 Are you sure you want to do the do? 166 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:52,560 I'm just thinking through it. 167 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:55,560 And the balloons are a lot thinner than I thought. 168 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:57,560 I think it's fine. 169 00:09:57,560 --> 00:09:59,560 Of course, it's your neck. It's not mine. 170 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:01,560 Yeah. 171 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:06,560 So, 5 a.m. tomorrow, you're going flying. 172 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:07,560 Yeah. 173 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:21,560 We're trying to recreate the mythical flight of Larry Walters, the lawn chair balloonist. 174 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:24,560 I don't know how he did it all by himself. 175 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:28,560 We've got about 15 people here helping out. 176 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:31,560 Granted, we're going probably a lot faster than he went, 177 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:35,560 but I'm amazed that he did this alone. 178 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:37,560 Larry had a lot of help. 179 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:40,560 Larry's main support was his girlfriend, Carol. 180 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:44,560 Carol not only spent her life savings and maxed out their credit cards, 181 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:48,560 but she also helped inflate the balloons. 182 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:53,560 Mark Barry claims to know the truth behind the Larry Walters story. 183 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:56,560 So, where we're standing right now is San Pedro, California. 184 00:10:56,560 --> 00:11:02,560 This is where Larry launched from on July 2, 1982. 185 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:10,560 I'm very excited about this. 186 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:14,560 We're starting to lip. Can we get some more sandbags? 187 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:16,560 And that's not the only problem. 188 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:20,560 We're starting to pay for those 20-year-old balloons. 189 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:23,560 Well, we've lost three balloons so far. 190 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:26,560 It's plausible that they were balloons with flaws in them 191 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:30,560 or that it's pressure against the ropes or some of the other balloons. 192 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:38,560 The pressure's on to get a flight in before any more blow. 193 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:40,560 I'd get you in your clothes. 194 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:43,560 We want to get you up there because we're going to run out of helium pretty soon. 195 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:46,560 I think we've used up all the helium in the Bay Area, 196 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:59,560 so we kind of need to make this work. 197 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:04,560 First, the way it'll go is we'll unload the chair 198 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:07,560 and everybody will help hold it down while Adam gets in 199 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:11,560 and then the six of us will move to the tethers. 200 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:18,560 Here we go. 201 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:21,560 He should be holding the chair down. 202 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:25,560 Now... 203 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:26,560 That's good. 204 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:30,560 Okay, now let's just let him go as he's starting to... 205 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:32,560 Okay, so you can steady him, Alberto. 206 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:33,560 Okay. 207 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:34,560 Okay. 208 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:36,560 Go ahead and lift him up a little bit. 209 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:39,560 Let's let him up off the ground. 210 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:42,560 Okay, this is it. The moment of truth. 211 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:45,560 Okay, Upsy-Daisy, we don't need very much. 212 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:47,560 Go ahead. 213 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:49,560 There was so much pressure, so much force, 214 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:51,560 so much power in those balloons 215 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:54,560 that he shot up at 1,000 feet per minute. 216 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:56,560 Okay, now to control it. 217 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:57,560 All right, we're good. 218 00:12:57,560 --> 00:12:58,560 We're good. 219 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:00,560 Yeah! 220 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:04,560 Okay, last check before you let him go, Adam. 221 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:06,560 All right, it's been nice knowing you. 222 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:07,560 I love you all. 223 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:10,560 Thanks for all your help on the job. 224 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:11,560 Okay, Upsy-Daisy. 225 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:15,560 Then I found out there was an audio file of the actual flight. 226 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:18,560 Everybody get in the set, cut it out, get down now. 227 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:20,560 Cut your balloons and come down now. 228 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:22,560 Everyone watch it down now. 229 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:25,560 After we had this evidence, quote-unquote, 230 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:28,560 then all of a sudden the skeptics became believers. 231 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:37,560 Pretty soon it's going to come time to start shooting those balloons out. 232 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:42,560 I take the one that's right near you just crazy edge of it. 233 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:44,560 Crazy, try and cut it. 234 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:47,560 Good job. 235 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:51,560 Yeah! 236 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:57,560 Here we go! 237 00:13:57,560 --> 00:14:01,560 According to the myth, Larry was rescued by a helicopter, 238 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:03,560 but in reality he really wasn't. 239 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:05,560 He crashed landing right here. 240 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:08,560 Larry ended up blacking out part of Long Beach, 241 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:09,560 specifically this neighborhood, 242 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:10,560 because when he hit the power lines, 243 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:13,560 the only way to get him down was to cut the power. 244 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:16,560 All right, crew line, over we go. 245 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:19,560 All right. 246 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,560 All right, we need 10 bags over here. 247 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,560 Oh, that was great! 248 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,560 It went 100% successful, I'd say. 249 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,560 It got up to about 75 feet, got a really great view. 250 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,560 The shooting of the balloons worked out really great. 251 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:37,560 Hey, good job. 252 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:39,560 That was excellent. 253 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:40,560 Let's have a hand for Larry. 254 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:41,560 Definitely, Larry, good job. 255 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,560 It's a lot of work. 256 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:47,560 Logistically, it's with around 40, 257 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,560 in excess of 40 weather balloons, 258 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:50,560 it takes a long time to fill them up, 259 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,560 and it's a lot of tanks of stuff to get a hold of. 260 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,560 You can't just sort of do this, you know, 261 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,560 I think I'll go out and get a couple of tanks of helium 262 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:58,560 and see what happens. 263 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:00,560 It's a lot of tanks of helium. 264 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,560 The Federal Airport Administration 265 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,560 did not wish to be interviewed for MythBusters. 266 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:10,560 They did, however, send a fax confirming many of the key details 267 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:15,560 of Larry's story, including his $1,500 fine. 268 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,560 I would only do it again if it was sanctioned by the FAA 269 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,560 and if it had FAA approval. 270 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,560 So it doesn't look like I'd be doing it again. 271 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:26,560 When we first heard about this gag, 272 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:30,560 remember I told you, like, if there was one person anywhere 273 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,560 of any time in the Earth's history 274 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,560 that I would like to meet, it'd be this guy. 275 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,560 I think this is inspired, you know, 276 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,560 I'd like to just shake his hand. 277 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,560 Yeah! 278 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,560 So what do we have here? 279 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,560 We have the poppy seed drug test. 280 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,560 That's usually not even told in story form, 281 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,560 just as like an unsubstantiated rumor. 282 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:06,560 The myth is that eating a couple of poppy seed bagels 283 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,560 or poppy seed cake in the morning 284 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,560 could cause you to test positive for open use on a drug screen. 285 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,560 If I go out and look, I'll see as many people 286 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:16,560 are starting that you can't test positive with poppy seeds 287 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:18,560 as in many saying you can. 288 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,560 So it's still a live question. 289 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,560 So what do you think we're going to need for this test? 290 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,560 Well, we've got the bagels 291 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,560 and we've got some poppy seed bread, it says. 292 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,560 And we need containers for urine 293 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:39,560 and the drug test kits. 294 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:40,560 That's about it. 295 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,560 We are afraid of random drug testing. 296 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,560 I myself find the whole concept to be abhorrent, 297 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,560 yet I want my pilot and my bus driver to be clean. 298 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,560 I want them to be random drug tested. 299 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,560 So we're going to eat some poppy seeds. 300 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,560 We're going to eat some bagels and we're going to eat some cake. 301 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,560 I understand we can't eat anything else until we're done with this. 302 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,560 I think we need to drink lots of water 303 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,560 because we have to cough up a half a dozen urine samples today. 304 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:07,560 Yeah. 305 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,560 Keep testing about every hour, every two hours. 306 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,560 Maybe at four hours, eight hours, 307 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,560 and then tomorrow morning you can see where the test is registered. 308 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:18,560 Perhaps one of us should eat a very little, 309 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:20,560 and one of us should eat a lot. 310 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,560 We're both about the same body weight. 311 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,560 We're both about the same body weight, about 185, 180, somewhere in there. 312 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,560 We bought kits over the web. 313 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:33,560 A bargain at just $16.95 for ten. 314 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:37,560 So I think we ought to do a sample as a control before we start. 315 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:42,560 Adam. 316 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,560 Come on, hurry up in there. 317 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:47,560 Yeah. 318 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:51,560 This test sample will ensure its poppy seeds. 319 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,560 Yeah, I hope it'll get pea-shy. 320 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:57,560 And poppy seeds alone that is responsible for a positive result. 321 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,560 Whoa, whoa! 322 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:04,560 There's no tampering with the evidence on MythBuster. 323 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,560 You take three drops and put it on the end of the test. 324 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,560 This one for you, one for me. 325 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,560 Oh, it comes with an eyedropper. 326 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:15,560 How clever. 327 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,560 So if it's negative two lines appear, 328 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,560 one red line in the control, 329 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:22,560 one red line in the control, 330 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,560 one red line in the control, 331 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:28,560 two lines appear, one red line in the control region, 332 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:31,560 another apparent red or pink line should be in the test region. 333 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:34,560 Positive one red line appears in the control region 334 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:36,560 and no line in the test region. 335 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,560 So you put three drops. 336 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,560 That's low. 337 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,560 Okay, so that's testing showing negative. 338 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:53,560 The screening urine tests are an amino assay test. 339 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,560 What that means is they have antibodies 340 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,560 directed towards the compound that it's looking for. 341 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,560 They look for the codeine and morphine in the urine with this. 342 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,560 So those are exactly the same thing that it's tested for in heroin. 343 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,560 Because heroin is broken down to those two substances. 344 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,560 So we're both negative. 345 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:11,560 Yes. 346 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,560 Yeah, I haven't used drugs for weeks. 347 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,560 Now for the tough questions. 348 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,560 Cake is his head's bagels or tails. 349 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,560 But who is who? 350 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,560 Look, you call it in the air and you get to choose. 351 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,560 Okay, heads. 352 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:32,560 Cake! 353 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:33,560 Alright. 354 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,560 This is one of my favorite things in the world. 355 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,560 Love puppy seat cake. 356 00:19:53,560 --> 00:20:00,560 The puppy seats definitely have morphine and codeine in them. 357 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,560 So they are heroin puppy seats. 358 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,560 But they are very low concentrations 359 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,560 so you don't get the physical and mental effects from them. 360 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,560 One of the articles that said that somebody who had eaten 361 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,560 like 20,000 pounds of popcorn was a person 362 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,560 who had been eating more than 10,000 pounds of popcorn. 363 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,560 And that's a lot of people who have been eating more than 10,000 pounds 364 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:23,560 of popcorn. 365 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,560 And somebody who had eaten like 23 grams of puppy seats 366 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,560 had started acting silly and goofy. 367 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,560 And I'm not sure where you could determine 368 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,560 that that would begin with me. 369 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,560 I think this is going to cure me of my love for puppy seat cake 370 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,560 once and for all. 371 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:54,560 Oh, it's down to the last bite. Here we go. 372 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:57,560 There it is. 373 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:00,560 Oh man. 374 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,560 The cake looked like it was pretty good. 375 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,560 It's a lot better than a bagel. 376 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,560 I'm thinking twice now that it's 2600 calories. 377 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:16,560 Oh man. 378 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,560 Polish it off there big guy. 379 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,560 Oh yeah. 380 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,560 You animal. 381 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,560 You are an animal. 382 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:27,560 You first. 383 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,560 It's now half an hour since we started eating puppy seats. 384 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,560 Time for our second test. 385 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:43,560 I got a cold. 386 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,560 This may be a positive right here. 387 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,560 It kind of looks that way. 388 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:55,560 That's amazing. 389 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,560 That's impressively fast. 390 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,560 I've just tested positive for opiates. 391 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:01,560 Whoops. 392 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,560 No one expected that. 393 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,560 Now we'll see how long it lasts. 394 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,560 I feel like little goofy. 395 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,560 Wow. 396 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,560 I'm impressed that it's metabolized that fast. 397 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:14,560 I wouldn't have called that. 398 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,560 Yeah, I wouldn't either. 399 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,560 I think I'm going to take a nap. 400 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:21,560 I'm exhausted. 401 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:22,560 You're busted. 402 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:23,560 Yeah. 403 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:24,560 You're done. 404 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:25,560 No. 405 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,560 One of our employees has just tested positive. 406 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,560 Now what should we do? 407 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:39,560 I'm wondering if your opiate instant test for opiates 408 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:43,560 is sensitive enough that it might yield a false positive. 409 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:44,560 Wow. 410 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,560 My understanding is they won't show a false positive. 411 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,560 I've called about five of these folks and you're the first one 412 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:59,560 even like who's ever pretended to have heard of a false positive from puppy seats. 413 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:00,560 Really? 414 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:01,560 Yeah. 415 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,560 Well, a false positive is when the drug test comes back positive 416 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,560 for an illicit drug when that illicit drug was not taken. 417 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,560 The test can detect between 300 and 1200 nanograms 418 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,560 or billions of a gram of codeine. 419 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:22,560 At that level, there's no way to distinguish between poppy seeds and heroin use. 420 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,560 I mean, that's like the smoking gun we've been looking for. 421 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,560 You know, it's the first, believe it, we have to go to Europe for it. 422 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,560 Oh, there's a new bill in Congress to suppress all studies 423 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,560 regarding the fallibility of American products. 424 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,560 One study showed that some of them were actually at a 50% false positive rate, 425 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:48,560 meaning that you're better off just flipping a coin rather than even doing a test. 426 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,560 The indignity continues. 427 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,560 I think I've just succeeded. 428 00:23:58,560 --> 00:23:59,560 Yep. 429 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,560 I don't know what's that way of doing. 430 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,560 Looks like you might have tested positive. 431 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,560 Welcome to the club there, brother. 432 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:09,560 Yeah. 433 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:10,560 Dude. 434 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,560 Now we've got two employees testing positive. 435 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,560 Maybe we should double check our findings. 436 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,560 Do you guys provide a service whereby if we get a positive, 437 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,560 we can send it to you to confirm that it's a positive and not a false positive? 438 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:29,560 You don't. 439 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,560 We sell the products, but we don't get into that aspect of it. 440 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,560 Thanks very much. 441 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,560 Well, the pre-employment tests, you know, they should, 442 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,560 if they are doing things right, to do the screening tests first 443 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:44,560 and then go on to the more accurate gas chromatic of mass spectrometer, 444 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,560 which it also has its problems, but it is more accurate. 445 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,560 It's now four hours since bagel consumption, 446 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,560 and there is still no tampering with the evidence. 447 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,560 You're still positive. 448 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,560 I'm still positive. 449 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,560 Still positive after all these hours. 450 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,560 So is there going to be a girl or a boy, do you think? 451 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,560 I ate a hell of a lot, but you only ate three bagels. 452 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,560 That's not, you know, unheard of. 453 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,560 And you're still testing positive four hours later. 454 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,560 I'm pretty surprised. 455 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,560 I probably wouldn't have believed it myself if I actually hadn't been 456 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,560 the newspaper reporter there right after the test. 457 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,560 In 1997, Larry covered the case of a Florida woman 458 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,560 who sued after her employer withdrew a lucrative job offer. 459 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:34,560 She ate two poppy seed bagels in her car on the way to St. Petersburg 460 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,560 the morning of the interview, and that apparently was enough, 461 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:43,560 quickly enough, to make her turn up a positive result on one of these tests. 462 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,560 Here on MythBusters, 463 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,560 the news reporter, Larry, who is a former reporter 464 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,560 has turned up a positive result on one of these tests. 465 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:55,560 Here on MythBusters, nothing gets in the way of science. 466 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,560 It's now eight hours since bagel consumption. 467 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,560 Tonight we have a special dip. 468 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,560 It is the finest sauce in all of France. 469 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,560 How's it going? 470 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,560 Okay. 471 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,560 And we're both clearly positive for opiants. 472 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,560 Frankly, I'm amazed. 473 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,560 It's a very effective test. 474 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,560 Let's throw out this toxic waste. 475 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,560 The studies show up to 72 hours, testing positive after ingestion of a poppy seed bagel. 476 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:30,560 We probably average getting 10 calls a day of people who have been devastated, 477 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,560 have lost their jobs due to false positive tests. 478 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,560 And that is the cause that we get. 479 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,560 I mean, there's tens of thousands of people that just every year lose their jobs 480 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,560 and actually don't even know, 481 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,560 because they're not even told they tested positive on the pre-employment test. 482 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,560 Ready to get started this morning? 483 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:53,560 It's now 18 hours since bagel ingestion. 484 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,560 Do you think you're going to be positive? Do you think you'll still test positive? 485 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,560 I think I'm going to test positive. I don't have anything to base that on. 486 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,560 It just seemed awfully consistent, you know? 487 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,560 Right. 488 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,560 Yeah, it's a little faint. 489 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:12,560 I would interpret that as there's a trace, 490 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,560 because the other one is stronger. 491 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,560 I think on the literature, if I'm correct, 492 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,560 it actually states that if there's even a hint of a line, it's a negative. 493 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,560 Okay. 494 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,560 I mean, we don't have any way of knowing what that threshold is. 495 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:31,560 Yeah. 496 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,560 So, what's the verdict? Do you think it's a myth or is it true? 497 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,560 Oh, it's clearly true. 498 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:41,560 You know, we ate a normal amount of poppy seed bagels and poppy seed products 499 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:47,560 and they showed positive on the test for a fairly long period of time. 500 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,560 I think it's thought of as a legend because it has been downplayed by the drug testing industry. 501 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,560 You see a poppy seed bagel sitting on your counter and you think there's breakfast. 502 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,560 You don't think there's something that could cause me to lose a job, 503 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,560 get in trouble, get arrested. 504 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,560 It's just not what you think when you're looking at your first meal of the morning. 505 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:10,560 Goldfinger. 506 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:16,560 You may not know or you may remember that in 1964, the movie Goldfinger. 507 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:20,560 Shirley Eaton was an actress who played the role of a secretary. 508 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,560 For the evil or goldfinger. 509 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:28,560 After I think betraying her boss, she apparently was murdered by having her skin painted with gold. 510 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,560 The story goes that if you paint your whole body with gold paint, 511 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,560 your skin will not be able to breathe. 512 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:41,560 The solution to this supposedly is to leave a small patch at the base of your spine. 513 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:48,560 To test this, Jamie is going to run on a treadmill for ten minutes as we measure his vital signs. 514 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:54,560 Then we'll paint him up and he'll run again and we'll see if there's a change. 515 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,560 Do you have ideas about what we should cover you in? 516 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:01,560 I mean, I wouldn't do it with like oil based or enamel paint or something like that. 517 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:07,560 Obviously, I'm not going to grab a spray can of gold paint and just go for it. 518 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:08,560 That would be really cool though. 519 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,560 It would be fun, but it probably wouldn't be flexible enough anyway. 520 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,560 So if you're looking for a flexible paint, that would be latex. 521 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:22,560 And the gold, we can essentially make a gold paint. 522 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:29,560 I believe that's what they do for, sometimes people do this to go out and party. 523 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,560 They strip down and paint their clothing on. 524 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,560 We've got these for you. 525 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:39,560 And I think you probably want to wear these even after the show because they're so fabulous. 526 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,560 Oh my God. 527 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,560 You actually think you're going to see me get in these, do you? 528 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,560 I don't think. I'm actually quite convinced of it. 529 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:56,560 There's no way you're going to paint it with gold paint and slap on a pair of tidy whiteies and get on that treadmill. 530 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:57,560 You look ridiculous. 531 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,560 This way, the ridicule happens completely and naturally. 532 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,560 Well, thank you. 533 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:20,560 I think the concept of painting the skin with a substance and causing death is probably related to other chemicals that may have been included in the past in certain substances that were put on the skin. 534 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,560 In Elizabethan times, lead was an essential ingredient in makeup. 535 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:30,560 Wearers died from lead poisoning, but it was slow and painful. 536 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:37,560 We're going to do a test patch on Jamie to ensure the gold powder doesn't cause any complications. 537 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:42,560 Oh yeah. So this is the color we're looking to match there, gold boy. 538 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,560 Want to make sure that you're shiny. 539 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,560 Well, we can do that and it takes at least three coats. 540 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,560 So we'll get successively more dense with the pigment as we go up. 541 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:58,560 From what we've been told, the real danger here is from heat exhaustion. 542 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:04,560 Apparently at celebrations like Carnival where people paint their whole bodies with paint, there's a lot of people passing out. 543 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:10,560 So we should monitor your temperature absolutely while you're painting. 544 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,560 Yeah, that'd be the only thing I would worry about with this. 545 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:20,560 I don't believe for a second the little small patch at the base of the spine that sounds like nonsense. 546 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:26,560 Even the small danger that you'll overheat on a cool morning like this, I think it's important that we have an EMT team standing by. 547 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,560 Oh yeah. 548 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,560 You know there's only two ways to monitor your core body temperature. 549 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,560 Through your ear and the rectal thermometer. 550 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,560 I'm just going to have you take some breaths, big breath with your mouth. 551 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:46,560 Do you have a preference? 552 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,560 Yes, I would prefer the ear. 553 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,560 What pressure? 554 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,560 Especially if I'm running under treadmill. 555 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,560 Yeah, I was wondering about that. 556 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,560 134 by 90. 557 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,560 88. 558 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,560 Getting used to it. 559 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:03,560 It's so hard. 560 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:07,560 Janie's vitals are normal and there are no ill effects from the test patch. 561 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,560 Oh, that's going to be cool. 562 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,560 You'll end up with a Jamie suit. 563 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:17,560 Alright, smoke of fire. 564 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:24,560 5, 4, 3, 2, go. 565 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:34,560 First, for some kind of, some basis to test off of, I should work out for, you know, for about half of what my normal workout would be. 566 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:40,560 And so, let's just say that I'll do 10 minutes without the gold paint. 567 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:48,560 Okay, so heart rate 136. 568 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,560 Is temperature? 569 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:59,560 And we'll measure body temperature and, you know, everything that we can measure that's important. 570 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,560 And then we'll have that to compare with. 571 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:08,560 You're not going to be able to, do you want me to stop for that or what? 572 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,560 Here, you put it in your ear. 573 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,560 Put it in your ear and push that button. 574 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,560 Alright, cool. 575 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,560 96.8. 576 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:31,560 When we get overheated, the way the body responds to heat is by losing sweat and also by losing heat through our blood vessels. 577 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:35,560 We're right at the halfway mark. 578 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,560 Jamie's blood oxygen is 80%. 579 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,560 That's one mile. 580 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,560 At his body temperature is 97.8 degrees. 581 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,560 All perfectly normal. 582 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,560 Yeah, we're right at 10 minutes here too. 583 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:50,560 Okay, we shut it off? 584 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,560 Yeah. 585 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,560 Do you think there'll be any problems with getting painted with gold paint? 586 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,560 No, not at all. 587 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:06,560 If I get thoroughly sealed up, it's no doubt going to keep me from perspiring, 588 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:12,560 which means that I'm not going to be able to be physically active as long. 589 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,560 No, no, no, go put those on first, then we'll just paint it. 590 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,560 I'm not going to put those on until the last minute. 591 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,560 But you've got to put them on over the gold paint? 592 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:33,560 Come on, listen, you're already naked and running on a treadmill painted with gold paint. 593 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,560 There's no such thing as shame or embarrassment here. 594 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,560 Go put on the gold shorts. 595 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,560 Come on back, I'll paint the sun. 596 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,560 I got you some detail brushes for the insides of your ears and stuff. 597 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,560 Yeah, the human fresco. 598 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:57,560 Go out. 599 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,560 I'm having so much fun. 600 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:06,560 So Jamie, I am actually painting right over the small of your back in flagrant disregard of the gold finger myth. 601 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,560 I hope you'll be all right. 602 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:18,560 As a dermatologist, I would highly recommend that this is not done by any of you who are listening to this program. 603 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:24,560 And you could develop heat stroke, which is a very severe illness and can lead to death. 604 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,560 Oh, yeah. 605 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,560 These things are kind of, they squeak when I walk. 606 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,560 Okay, look at this. 607 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,560 You starting to feel guilty? 608 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,560 Are you feeling any heat sensations or dizziness or anything like that? 609 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:55,560 You know, the only thing I feel actually kind of cold and like shivers, which is not a sign of heat stroke, I don't believe. 610 00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:01,560 But I do feel something kind of, of course it's all, feels weird. 611 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,560 I guess it's all it is. 612 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,560 It feels strange to move because it pulls. 613 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,560 Otherwise it just feels cold. 614 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,560 All right, so careful about moving. 615 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,560 Time for a checkup. 616 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:26,560 Okay, so Jamie's blood oxygen saturation is 100% and he's definitely still breathing. 617 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,560 That's another myth busting. 618 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:29,560 Or is it? 619 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,560 The amount of oxygen that's absorbed through the skin is minimal. 620 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,560 The amount of carbon dioxide that we lose through the skin is also insignificant. 621 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:44,560 So in terms of respiration through the skin, this is really not an important factor. 622 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:54,560 Hmm, let's try it on the other arm. 140 over 110 on that arm. 623 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,560 Does that mean it's my blood pressure elevated? 624 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,560 Yeah, let's try it like they did before. 625 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,560 This wasn't part of the plan. 626 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,560 I'm afraid not. 140, 110. 627 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,560 140, 110. 628 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,560 Jamie seems to be suffering bizarre blood pressure fluctuations. 629 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,560 So what's the problem? What's, what are you guys... 630 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,560 Is this something that worries you guys? 631 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:29,560 Yeah. 632 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,560 Where is the danger zone? 633 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,560 I got a bottom number about 108. 634 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:33,560 It's close enough. 635 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:34,560 There you go. 636 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,560 Yeah, it's really strange to tell you the truth. 637 00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,560 Hello, I'm Shirley Eaton. 638 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:45,560 I expect you might remember me as Jill Masterson in Goldfinger. 639 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,560 The James Bond favourite film. 640 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,560 Well as you can see, I'm very much alive. 641 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,560 Shirley survived. 642 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,560 So what's wrong with Jamie? 643 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,560 His blood pressure has hit worrying heights. 644 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,560 The diastolic blood pressure. 645 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:07,560 That's the lower number and that is, that's a part of what the, the heart is doing at... 646 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,560 on the return, is that it? 647 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,560 Pressure should be low because when you squeeze, that's the bit of top number. 648 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,560 That's the pressure in your veins and your arteries, when your arteries are particular. 649 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,560 When you squeeze, the heart squeezes, the blood pumps through. 650 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:25,560 And the heart relaxes, so that number obviously drops, you know, 140 to 110. 651 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,560 That's a lower number, but that's still high. 652 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:33,560 110 is a high number for a relax, should be 80, I mean, 120 or 80 is kind of normal. 653 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,560 That morning wasn't pleasant. 654 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,560 I almost felt like I had flu. 655 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:43,560 I suppose becoming hot made me feel, and I suppose a little fear with everybody saying, 656 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,560 we must be careful with Shirley, we must be careful with Shirley. 657 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:53,560 I feel similar to what I would, I guess, right before I was coming down with a flu or something. 658 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,560 You know, it feels a little strange. 659 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:59,560 Could there be some truth to the myth, after all? 660 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,560 I would have to say it's weird. 661 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,560 I feel really, I'm starting to get really uncomfortable. 662 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,560 But I can't really say why. 663 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:12,560 It's mainly that these variations of being chilled in some areas, 664 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:16,560 and feeling like almost burning hot in others. 665 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:20,560 The only way I can explain this is, again, by the occlusion of the skin, 666 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,560 causing an increase in body temperature, 667 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:29,560 and then the body reacting in a fight or flight mechanism, 668 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,560 and increasing its blood pressure and heart rate. 669 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:37,560 Body temperature stuff is really, it's not something to play around with. 670 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,560 What we are doing here is potentially dangerous. 671 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,560 I could die, if I'm not careful with this thing. 672 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,560 You guys probably wouldn't recommend ten minutes of straightening, 673 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:51,560 a medium exercise or something with a blood pressure. 674 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,560 I mean, I think it's kind of dangerous myself. 675 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:55,560 Yeah. 676 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,560 I mean, 110 standing up, just, you know. 677 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,560 I would recommend not. 678 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,560 Hi, General. This is Parametric 920. 679 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,560 What you're wishing to do is come and consult with you. 680 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,560 I mean, we're modified. 681 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,560 We're going to get a second opinion on that. 682 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,560 We're just concerned about the pressure, 683 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,560 which we checked several times with no change. 684 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,560 Medic 920, I copy you. 685 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,560 Even though physiologically it doesn't make sense to have those changes, 686 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:26,560 I stall it, but it's really just by covering with latex paint. 687 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,560 But if really that's the number that you got, 688 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,560 then I would agree with you to advise the patient not to do that. 689 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:33,560 Over. 690 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,560 Jamie's symptoms are bizarre. 691 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:40,560 My life signs are showing questionable numbers, 692 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,560 as well as I certainly don't feel normal. 693 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:48,560 I feel like I'm basically about to become ill. 694 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:54,560 I could say it's almost like I'm a little light-headed. 695 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:55,560 I can tell. 696 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:56,560 I feel... 697 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:57,560 Let's get that off you then. 698 00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:58,560 Okay. 699 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,560 Well, there we go. 700 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:02,560 You want to start rubbing it? 701 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,560 We're going to pull the plug on this one. 702 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,560 The best thing for you to do is probably rub it with your fingers. 703 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,560 The hairs or what hair is left. 704 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,560 If we can get the head first, that would be really fun. 705 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:11,560 Yeah. 706 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,560 Okay, that's just plain strange. 707 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:20,560 Well, that's where the heat would be contained the most. 708 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,560 Oh, man. 709 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,560 I'm sorry. Am I hurting you? 710 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:28,560 No, go for it, but it feels like I'm being skinned. 711 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:29,560 Horrible. 712 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,560 Taking the paint off was a nightmare. 713 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:36,560 It's best to skin your Jamie before you prepare him for the frying pan. 714 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,560 One of the makeup ladies and wardrobe lady came with me into my dressing room, 715 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:44,560 into the bathroom, and they just scrubbed me down with sponges and soap, 716 00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,560 and I was all pink and sore. 717 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,560 I think you got something here though, 718 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,560 because we all kind of thought that this was going to be just no big deal. 719 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:52,560 Yeah. 720 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,560 It got nerve wracking quite fast. 721 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,560 Yes, it did. 722 00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,560 Are you starting to feel a little bit better, Jamie? 723 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:00,560 Feels better. 724 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:05,560 He was totally beat red before, and now he's a great color. 725 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,560 I think it would have been very bad. 726 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,560 He wouldn't have done well. 727 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:16,560 Jamie's blood pressure fluctuations are obviously related to the latex. 728 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,560 Exactly how remains a mystery. 729 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,560 So how do you feel? 730 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:26,560 Much better. 731 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:27,560 Yeah. 732 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,560 You know, I don't think it would have been a problem really, 733 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:36,560 but it definitely felt weird, and none of us here are doctors, 734 00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,560 and it's not a controlled experiment. 735 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:44,560 It's seeing the least little sign like a blood pressure rise, 736 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,560 and we don't know what it means for sure, 737 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,560 is a good, strong reason to pull the plug. 738 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:52,560 Okay, just relax your arm. 739 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,560 We're going to give him one last check, just to be sure. 740 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:00,560 We pull it over 90. 741 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,560 Okay, that's where we started. 742 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:03,560 Woo-hoo! 743 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,560 Back to normal, back online, back on duty. 744 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,560 Okay, 100% that's good. 745 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:12,560 And normal sinus rhythm at 76, that's all good. 746 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,560 It definitely had an effect. 747 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,560 You know, it was clear there was something going on there, 748 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:23,560 and so, you know, whether somebody would die, I doubt it. 749 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:24,560 Glad you're back. 750 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:25,560 Thanks. 751 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:33,560 All right. 752 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,560 Make the world safer for television. 753 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,560 After Goldfinger, I made seven more films, 754 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,560 and I wondered, you know, who started this myth, 755 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,560 apart from the fact that we know that it's unpleasant to be painted gold, 756 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,560 I thought, haven't they seen any of my recent films? 757 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,560 I'm still very much alive. 758 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,560 The irony of show business is I was in that film five minutes, 759 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:57,560 the shortest role I ever did, 760 00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,560 and it's the one that made me a piece of cinema history. 761 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,560 Yeah.