1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,800 On this episode, burning down the house in a mythbusters bug bomb bonanza. 2 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:19,360 Will this be the straw that breaks Jamie and Adam's backs? 3 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,440 As they search for a needle in a haystack. 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:23,520 My back is killing me. 5 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,600 I am soaked to the bone. 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:29,920 Strange voices in their heads. 7 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,640 The build teams talking to plants. 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:34,480 I hate you! 9 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,240 Who are the mythbusters? 10 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:39,640 Adam Savage. 11 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,320 I reject the reality and substitute my own. 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:43,760 And Jamie Heineman. 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,960 I kinda like it in here, it's private. 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:51,280 Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience. 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:52,120 That was intense. 16 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,960 They don't just tell the myths. 17 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:57,960 They put them to the test. 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:08,880 Bug bomb. 19 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,480 This one's gonna help us fill out our explosion quota for this series, huh? 20 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:17,360 The story is that a family in a 500 square foot house had a bug problem and decided to 21 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,160 take care of it with those aerosol bug bombs. 22 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:25,280 Unfortunately, they used 10 or 11 bug bombs. 23 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,040 Each one could handle a 700 square foot house. 24 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:33,960 So they went down the street to like wait out the bug-killing that they were doing. 25 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:38,160 And they heard a boom and they came back to find their entire house had been blown to 26 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:43,840 smithereens by the bug bombs igniting and setting fire to the house. 27 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:50,680 This story is either the ultimate roaches revenge or a mythbusters flight of fancy. 28 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:57,560 Every small house, enough foggers to fumigate a barn, a spark and... 29 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:02,000 It seems bug bombs could be very well-named indeed. 30 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:08,800 They'll get things started by cutting this myth down to size. 31 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:14,400 We've set up this little plastic house as a miniature experiment to test the explosive 32 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:20,640 qualities of bug bombs before we do it with a real house, a full-sized house. 33 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:25,160 But what household appliance could spark an explosion? 34 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:29,640 Adam is looking for a stove and a salesperson to baffle. 35 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:32,000 Jorge is his man. 36 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,960 Have you ever heard the myth of someone using too many of those bug foggers in their house? 37 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:40,440 You know, they put out the gas to kill bugs and then their stove accidentally ignited it 38 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,200 and blew the whole house up? 39 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,960 Well, no, I never heard of that. 40 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,400 Well, that's what we're going to do with your appliances. 41 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,760 We're actually going to attempt to blow a house up. 42 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:50,880 OK. 43 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,280 Appliances for blowing up houses. 44 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:55,880 That would be all four. 45 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,400 This one has the electronic system. 46 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,400 There's this part here and this one in the oven. 47 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,160 So I think this is your baby here. 48 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,680 That's perfect. 49 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:12,160 Jorge has the easiest sale he'll ever make and a very interesting story to tell the 50 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:13,920 relevant authorities. 51 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:16,960 Adam has his oven and some work to do. 52 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,160 I've never taken apart a stove like this before. 53 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,360 So these are the actual sparkers, the things that go... 54 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:38,240 The myth doesn't specify a stove sparker ignited the fogger gas. 55 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,120 So the guys will test several possible household culprits. 56 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:47,920 This is our igniter panel and I have four different types of ignition sources here. 57 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,880 One is a lighter, which is like a pilot light. 58 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,760 We have a standard wall plug-in sort of a device. 59 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,440 This over here is a standard thermostat for your house. 60 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,000 This one potentially could have a tiny spark created every time you move the lever. 61 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,440 And lastly, we have a stove igniter. 62 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,040 This just creates a continuous little spark. 63 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:18,040 All the igniters will be wired back to a single control box so they can be set off remotely. 64 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,040 That's probably wise given Adam is in charge of the electronics. 65 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,040 OK, you ready for a jolt? 66 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:27,040 Yeah. 67 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:28,040 Here we go. 68 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,040 So here comes the faulty wiring. 69 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,040 Uh oh, that just... 70 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:38,040 There's a short somewhere in the line because it just blew the thing. 71 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,040 That would be bad. 72 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:42,040 Let's see. 73 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:46,040 Dammit. 74 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,040 Why don't I make sure that everything else works? 75 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:57,040 When in doubt, the mythbusters rely on the never fail combination of random tinkering and dumb luck. 76 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:03,040 Alright, so I think my faulty wiring of the faulty wiring is no longer faulty so that it's correctly faulty. 77 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:05,040 Ugh, let's see here. 78 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,040 No short. 79 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,040 Let's test the circuit. 80 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,040 There we go, 125 volts. 81 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:23,040 We're good. 82 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,040 Time to take stock. 83 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,040 Model house. 84 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:28,040 Check. 85 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,040 Potentially explosive bug bomb. 86 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,040 Check. 87 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,040 Various open flames and electrical sparks. 88 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:35,040 Check. 89 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,040 What could possibly go wrong? 90 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,040 Highly flammable. 91 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:39,040 Highly flammable. 92 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,040 Turn off all ignition sources. 93 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,040 Open flames. 94 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,040 Pilot lights. 95 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,040 Running electrical appliances. 96 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,040 Thermostats. 97 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:50,040 Wow. 98 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,040 This is a bug bomb bomb. 99 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:54,040 Yeah. 100 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,040 Yet again, we're blowing things up in front of my shop. 101 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:04,040 And not only that, but there are noxious chemicals involved, which will probably leave a residue over the whole block. 102 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:08,040 And I guess it's okay. 103 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,040 I'm getting used to it. 104 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:10,040 So are the neighbors. 105 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:13,040 There you go. 106 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,040 Put it in. 107 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,040 And so it's bombs away. 108 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:23,040 A fogger is designed for an area 3,000 times bigger than this box. 109 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:29,040 They have no idea if it's explosive or how big that explosion might be. 110 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,040 Okay, not getting anything from the stove igniter. 111 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,040 That sound? 112 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,040 That means it's working. 113 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:34,040 Okay. 114 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,040 All right, thermostat. 115 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,040 Okay, thermostat's working. 116 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:40,040 Switching. 117 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,040 Nothing. 118 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:42,040 What a shocker. 119 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:43,040 Okay. 120 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:44,040 Faulty wiring. 121 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:47,040 Hey! 122 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:55,040 Not only is the fogger spray explosive, but Adam's rig worked. 123 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,040 Ready? 124 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,040 It's a red letter day and worth an encore. 125 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,040 Faulty wiring in three, two, one. 126 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,040 That was fantastic. 127 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,040 I had no idea it would work like that. 128 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:19,040 Oh, that was a rousing success. 129 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:25,040 It turns out the propellant in many aerosols has a petroleum or propane base and burns 130 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,040 in the right conditions. 131 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:34,040 The Mythbusters Demolition Service is open for business. 132 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,040 So we get to go to full scale now? 133 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,040 Now we go to full scale. 134 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:44,040 We need to gather up our ignition sources, the appliance timer, the thermostat, the 135 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:50,040 stove sparker, the open flame or pilot light, and then we need someone who's going to let 136 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:51,040 us blow up their house. 137 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,040 I hate you, you pathetic little plants. 138 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,040 The Mythbusters build team has something to say. 139 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:06,040 I don't like you. 140 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,040 I think you look fat in that green horrible shell. 141 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:14,040 Is this the end of a beautiful friendship or the start of something else? 142 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:18,040 I love you, love you, love you, love you, sweet, adorable peat. 143 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,040 Okay, so what are we working on now? 144 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,040 Our next myth is talking the plants. 145 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:39,040 Now there's a lot of people out there that think your plants will grow better if you 146 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:40,040 talk to them. 147 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,040 What if you hate plants and you're really mean to them? 148 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:44,040 We can try that too. 149 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,040 You know what I'd like to try is music. 150 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,040 They say classical music makes your plants grow better, but we should mix it up. 151 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,040 I'll get some heavy metal and classical and see which one works better. 152 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,040 Sounds good to me. 153 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,040 Sweet talking plants. 154 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:06,040 Normally the domain of eccentric old ladies with lots of cats, but anything for science. 155 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,040 So we're doing a little experiment. 156 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:14,040 We're getting some plants and seeing if they respond well if we talk nice or we talk mean 157 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:15,040 to them. 158 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,040 Have you ever heard of anything like this working? 159 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,040 I think it's an old wives tale personally. 160 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,040 So you don't talk to your plants then? 161 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,040 I don't talk to my plants, no. 162 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,040 So do you want to actually start from seed or little seedlings? 163 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,040 We'd like to start with scratch. 164 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:34,040 He might not believe the myth, but he's happy to sell them bush peas and plenty of other 165 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:35,040 stuff besides. 166 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,040 Do you have 70 of one kind of pot? 167 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,040 I think talking to plants works. 168 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:46,040 I mean, you know, I communicate with my plants in some way, I think, by thinking to them 169 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,040 and I have the best garden on the block. 170 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:53,040 I think the idea of talking to your plants is some foolish hippie crystal gripping nonsense 171 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,040 and it absolutely has no effect on your plants. 172 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:06,040 Armed with pots, fertilizer and peas to feed an army, the build team moves to phase two. 173 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:11,040 They're going to build seven self-contained greenhouses. 174 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,040 A control will have silence. 175 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:20,040 One will have 24-hour heavy metal music, another classical. 176 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:25,040 Two will be fed sweet talk and the last two will get abuse. 177 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:36,040 They'll set up on Janie's roof, which it turns out would be equally suited as a location 178 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,040 for wind tunnel testing. 179 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,040 It seems like we've made big giant box kites. 180 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:46,040 These things are pretty flimsy and it's very windy up here, so we're going to have to figure 181 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,040 out a way to keep these from basically blowing away. 182 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,040 Let's go see what happens. 183 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,040 Adam can use it as a giant parachute. 184 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,040 What they need is more weight and strength. 185 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,040 Tori's solution? Plexiglass sides. 186 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,040 I think these are going to hold up. 187 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:19,040 Once they're all together, I think they will, but that's going to be the challenge. 188 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:32,040 Soon enough, a little greenhouse village has grown up and no amount of huffing and puffing from Janie will blow it down. 189 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:37,040 Putting all these greenhouses up here on the roof, I think I'm going to get checked out by the police 190 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,040 for growing pot or something up here, you know? 191 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,040 It's like, what are you doing? It looks kind of suspicious. 192 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:48,040 There'll be 10 pots per house, one pea per pot. 193 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:55,040 It's like a little nasty thing that makes me sick. 194 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,040 It'll be shrivel and die. 195 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:05,040 To prevent immediate shrivel death, they've rigged a battery-powered automatic watering system, 196 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,040 overhead misters, and drips in the pots. 197 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:12,040 Every day at the same time, each pot gets the exact amount of water. 198 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:19,040 As far as possible, conditions will be identical for all the plants, except of course, the soundtrack. 199 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaking of normal, clear voice. 200 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,040 Okay, this next one goes out to my friend, Greasy. 201 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:31,040 I hope your roots rotten hell. The only thing you're good for is giving people gas. 202 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,040 You suck, freshman! 203 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,040 How's that? 204 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,040 Beautiful round green peas. 205 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:44,040 You nasty little awful green pea that's ruined every burrito I've ever had. 206 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:48,040 Each monologue will be played constantly throughout the experiment. 207 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:55,040 If the build team stayed all that time, the carbon dioxide from their breath might affect the outcome. 208 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:58,040 Dumbass peas. 209 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,040 But Tori needs something with a little more polish. 210 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,040 Do you have hardcore to the bone death metal? 211 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,040 Do we ever? 212 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,040 Yeah, this is good. 213 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,040 I think it's gonna work. 214 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,040 Cool. 215 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:29,040 Now the classical section. 216 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,040 Not a big selection. 217 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:40,040 Everything's ready. The greenhouses are built, the peas are in their pots and watered, the CDs are playing. 218 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:50,040 My timing is off. It's been a while since I've conducted. 219 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:54,040 This myth now lies in nature's gentle hands. 220 00:13:55,040 --> 00:14:04,040 Keep a clean house and watch my reward. Chasing out to disgusting cockroaches. 221 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:11,040 Ever since the invention of television and maybe even before, bugs have been a real nuisance. 222 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:21,040 Luckily for all concerned, those clever folks in white coats keep inventing neat-o-ways to bring a bug-free smile to your dial. 223 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,040 We're sending them to a motel. 224 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:29,040 And now the mythbusters have come up with their own extermination plan. 225 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:38,040 They're testing the myth that a family blew up their house after overfilling it with bug foggers. 226 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,040 This is perfect. 227 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:43,040 So they need a house to send into orbit. 228 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:48,040 And luckily enough, NASA has this one due for demolition anyway. 229 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,040 But it needs some work first. 230 00:14:53,040 --> 00:15:00,040 Here on Mythbusters Makeover, we're turning this lovely California bungalow into a disaster zone. 231 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:05,040 The house in the myth was tiny, just 500 square feet. 232 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:09,040 This place isn't big, but it's bigger than that. 233 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,040 That's almost 200. This is 250. 234 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:16,040 With basically up to this hallway is almost exactly 500 square feet. 235 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:21,040 We'll get like 5, probably 550 if we block off all the other rooms in the hallway. 236 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:22,040 Works for me. 237 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:30,040 They'll seal off several rooms so the remaining space in the house is exactly 500 square feet. 238 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,040 Bye-bye bathroom. 239 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:35,040 The flammable carpets have to come out. 240 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:40,040 And they need a way to ventilate the house in case the bug spray doesn't burn up. 241 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:44,040 Something really complicated, like say opening a door. 242 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,040 We don't need no friggin' flap. 243 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,040 This is how Jamie finds his way back home. 244 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:54,040 He seems like he's really smart, but he gets lost if he's more than 50 feet away from any one of us. 245 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,040 So they've got their house and ventilation. 246 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,040 Now, the sparky bits. 247 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:06,040 Formerly, these two plugs were actually our faulty wiring test rig. 248 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:10,040 What we did was we put a rocket igniter in there and wrapped some mattresses around it. 249 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,040 So in case our open flame pilot light doesn't work, 250 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:19,040 we have two emergency backup super-duper fail-safe foolproof ignition systems. 251 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,040 They figure 200 feet should be far enough away. 252 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,040 So that's where they'll fire the igniters from. 253 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:36,040 And now it's time to drop a bomb or 12. 254 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:37,040 Just fine. 255 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:45,040 Whoa! 256 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,040 It's all bold in this thing. 257 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,040 He becomes much more expressive. 258 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:55,040 Now he's like, oh. 259 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:56,040 Let's go do this. 260 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:57,040 Okay. 261 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,040 There's going to be two in the hallway here. 262 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:04,040 The plan is to set off 12 bug bombs inside the house, the same as the myth, 263 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:08,040 and more than 10 times the manufacturer's recommended amount. 264 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:14,040 Then they'll fire up each of the ignition systems until they get a blast. 265 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:18,040 I put our chances right around 90%. 266 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,040 I mean, there's always something that can go wrong, 267 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:25,040 but we've got fail-safe and foolproof ignition systems times three or four. 268 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:30,040 Plus, we've got, by my last count, like seven or eight fire departments helping us out. 269 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,040 And I think we've done our homework. 270 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,040 I've put us right around 90%. 271 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:35,040 You ready? 272 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:36,040 I'm ready. 273 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:37,040 And you go. 274 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:39,040 And yell loud and clear if you need help. 275 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,040 Okay. 276 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,040 That's what I'm here for. 277 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,040 I think I'm done. 278 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:48,040 Go ahead. 279 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:49,040 Let me out. 280 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,040 The air is turning thick and toxic. 281 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,040 Even with gas masks, they need to get out fast. 282 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,040 Okay, we're about to close the house up over. 283 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:08,040 Okay, the house is closed up. 284 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:09,040 We're moving away. 285 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:12,040 Starting the timer. 286 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,040 Stop and bring the clothes to go. 287 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:17,040 Okay, everybody behind the barricades. 288 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:19,040 Lighting stove igniter. 289 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:27,040 Nothing. 290 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,040 Something's not right. 291 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:32,040 Nothing. 292 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,040 Hey, it would help if I was plugged in. 293 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,040 Ignition's hot. 294 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,040 Lighting stove igniter. 295 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:40,040 Can you see it here? 296 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:41,040 Yes, lighting. 297 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:44,040 No ignition. 298 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,040 I mean, we got as much of a flame as we could get. 299 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:49,040 Interesting. 300 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,040 Do you want to open the door? 301 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:52,040 Yep. 302 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:59,040 As the air clears, the mythbusters are well mystified. 303 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:03,040 After all, they've blown this stuff up just fine back in the workshop. 304 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,040 Blowing up a house with bug bombs is maybe not quite as easy as we thought. 305 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:11,040 So we're going to have to persuade it to blow up. 306 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:18,040 To do that, they'll try a bigger, longer burning flame and more bug bombs. 307 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,040 Far, far more than is recommended on the label. 308 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,040 Far more than is safe or sane. 309 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,040 Man, that was dense. 310 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:44,040 As the house fills with fogger and the team takes its position behind the blast screen, 311 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:48,040 it's worth taking a brief diversion to San Diego, California. 312 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,040 It's the blast turned around the neighborhood. 313 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,040 Roach bombs that did much more than just kill a few bugs. 314 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,040 They knocked this home off its foundation. 315 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,040 This house could have ignited the myth. 316 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:04,040 It was blown apart in the same circumstances the guys are recreating. 317 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:08,040 Too many bug bombs and an ignition source. 318 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,040 In this case, a wall heater. 319 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:11,040 More isn't better. 320 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,040 Just pay attention to the directions. 321 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:18,040 That would have been good advice for Jamie and Adam as they prepare to press the button. 322 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,040 But, well, it's too late now. 323 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:22,040 Okay, you ready? 324 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:23,040 I'm making the ignition. 325 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,040 Okay, places everybody make sure you're out of range. 326 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,040 Okay, and when you're ready. 327 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,040 Faulty wiring here it comes. 328 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:34,040 It's lit. 329 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:35,040 It lit good. 330 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,040 It totally emptied the whole house out. 331 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,040 We got something. 332 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:55,040 The bug bomb myth is emphatically proved. 333 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,040 It was foggy and then all of a sudden it was very clear. 334 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,040 Hey, the smoke detector works. 335 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:03,040 Wow, look at that. 336 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,040 Popped the back door right off. 337 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,040 All the air just came out like a whoosh. 338 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,040 I wanted broken glass. 339 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,040 Oh, we got a fire in here. 340 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,040 We do. 341 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,040 There's smoke in there. 342 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:27,040 Did he put it out? 343 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:28,040 You know, he got it. 344 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:36,040 No roaches. 345 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,040 Go figure. 346 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,040 But you could never be too sure. 347 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,040 Jamie and Adam have all these foggers left over. 348 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,040 One more. 349 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,040 This is Mythbusters after all. 350 00:21:55,040 --> 00:22:02,040 Oh, man, that is rank. 351 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,040 Big boom, big boom, big boom. 352 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:11,040 In five, four, three, two, one. 353 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,040 That's what I wanted to hear. 354 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,040 That's all we're talking about. 355 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,040 Wow. 356 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,040 Did we blow out a window? 357 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,040 Yeah. 358 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:25,040 It's on. 359 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,040 Wait, what? 360 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,040 It's on. 361 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,040 It's on. 362 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,040 I don't know. 363 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:30,040 Oh, man. 364 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,040 I'm not the one who was there. 365 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,040 I was there. 366 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,040 I don't know. 367 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,040 I don't know. 368 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,040 I don't know. 369 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:37,040 It's on. 370 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:39,040 It's on. 371 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:40,040 It's on. 372 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,040 Yeah. Woo! 373 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:56,040 Over at the Environmental Protection Agency, they could have saved the mythbusters quite a bit of trouble. 374 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:02,040 That's no myth. It occurs in California at least once or twice per year. 375 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:09,040 They overload the number of these foggers in their dwelling to the point where it fills up 376 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:13,040 and then they forget to shut off their pilot light or other ignition source 377 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:18,040 and blow out windows or even to some extent can blow up and destroy the entire structure. 378 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:27,040 So always read the label and don't try this at home if you still want to have a home to go to. 379 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,040 Alright, what do you think guys? Is it busted, plausible or confirmed? 380 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,040 It's definitely confirmed. I mean, we blew the doors out. 381 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:40,040 You know, we had a little fussing around with the ignition source, but it's true. It'll happen. 382 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:45,040 Bug bombs plus ignition source equals boom, no doubt confirmed. 383 00:23:45,040 --> 00:24:03,040 Only reason I planted you guys was so I'd have someone to abuse on Mondays. 384 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:07,040 Things are just peachy keen in greenhouse world. 385 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:12,040 You suck! Carval ugly little gross disgusting peas! I hate you! 386 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:18,040 It's been a week since the peas were planted and it's time for a headcount. 387 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:23,040 I have five sprouts in my nasty... oh wait, six! There's one there too. 388 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,040 Okay, I'm gonna go check the nice and see how many I have over there. 389 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,040 Five. Nice has the same amount as nasty. 390 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,040 Peas are just busting out all over. 391 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,040 Wow, six sprouts in the nice greenhouse. 392 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,040 We started them a week ago, that's pretty good. 393 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,040 See how the nasty one's doing. 394 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:54,040 Not a whole lot going on in the house of nasty. Only three sprouts. 395 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,040 Nasty. 396 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,040 Hmm, maybe we're onto something here. 397 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:03,040 Seven sprouts have risen to the sweet sounds of classical music. 398 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,040 And over in the house of rock. 399 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:10,040 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. 400 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:15,040 Seven. It's neck and neck between classical and metal. 401 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:20,040 However, the metal seems to be popping up a little bit more. 402 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:25,040 While the plants seem to be coping, the build team is shaping as a fine study 403 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,040 in the effects of extreme audio. 404 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:32,040 We've been up here for hours and I just want to stab my eye out with a rusty spoon. 405 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:40,040 Life is good. Sitting here, playing with my plants, listening to classical music. 406 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:44,040 I mean, I am a blessed man. 407 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,040 I think that you're very unpopular as far as vegetable goes. 408 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:54,040 Answering this myth will take 60 days. It's sounding like a prison sentence. 409 00:25:55,040 --> 00:26:01,040 The Mythbusters are busting out all country. 410 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,040 This is a big bail of hay. 411 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:07,040 But why are these city boys down on the farm? 412 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:12,040 The answer is like finding a needle in a... 413 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,040 Jamie, I think it's time to go. 414 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:27,040 Jamie, I think it's time that we go for a new kind of myth, a new kind of experiment. 415 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:33,040 I think we should start investigating old adages and homilies to see if they're in fact still relevant. 416 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,040 You mean like the needle in the haystack. 417 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:42,040 Exactly. Can we use modern technology to render that phrase meaningless? 418 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,040 Well, that works for me. That means the first stop is a hay store. 419 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,040 Otherwise known as a farm. 420 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,040 The Hay Store 421 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,040 Barrett's Hay Farm, just outside Sacramento. 422 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,040 Have you ever found a needle in the hay? 423 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,040 No, I can't say that I have. I've never found one. 424 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,040 And Mike hasn't been short on needle-finding opportunities. 425 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:18,040 Barrett's makes more than 2 million bales a year. 426 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:24,040 Both hay, which is what animals eat, and straw, which is generally what they sleep on. 427 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:32,040 It's funny because if you asked me to pick out what I would think of as your traditional movie type hay, I would point to the straw. 428 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,040 Not to this stuff. 429 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,040 Traditional movie hay? 430 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:41,040 Yeah, you know, like the people are always getting stuck in a hay bale or rolling in the hay or whatever they do in the movies. 431 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,040 That's what I would think of as hay. 432 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,040 Having a roll in the hay with your girlfriend. 433 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,040 Yeah, don't get all red-faced. 434 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:56,040 To make their very own movie type hay stack, they'll load up with 20 bales of Mike's finest. 435 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:03,040 No, I don't enjoy loading hay at all. Actually, it turns out this is one of those things that I didn't have to explore. 436 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:10,040 So they have their hay now. Where can they find a needle? 437 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,040 Ah, this might be the place. 438 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,040 Hi, are you Kathy? 439 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,040 Needle expert Kathy gets straight to the point. 440 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,040 Well, the real question is what kind of needles? 441 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:29,040 Because needles for many, many generations were made out of bone, which would make them definitely much harder to find with modern technology. 442 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:34,040 Okay, so what we like is, I guess, two of the bone ones, unfortunately. 443 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:40,040 They also take a bunch of metal needles, and the mythbusters are ready for action. 444 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,040 Alright, well, we've got ten bales of hay apiece. 445 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:53,040 We've got four needles, one of bone, three of steel, and the producer wants us to have another one of those competitions. 446 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:59,040 I mean, this one's going to be really tough, because normally I just think like a metal detector or a magnet to find most of the needles. 447 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,040 But the bone one really throws it off. 448 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:05,040 We've got to come up with a machine that can separate out a non-metallic needle as well. 449 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,040 So it's a competition. 450 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:14,040 They'll split the hay into two stacks, hide the needles, and see whose machine finds them first. 451 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,040 What? 452 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,040 Love you. 453 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:26,040 You suck. 454 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,040 Suck. 455 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,040 Suck. 456 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:29,040 Come on, little peas. 457 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:30,040 Push it up. 458 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,040 I love you, love you, love you, love you, love you. 459 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:43,040 So, Christine, we're about to build a needle-finding device. 460 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:49,040 Normally, Jamie keeps his design simple, but all that fresh air has gone to his head. 461 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:56,040 We're going to take a leaf blower, and we're going to suck hay up at the other side into a long horizontal peter. 462 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:02,040 We're going to have that to feed into a metal pipe, feed into a metal 55-gallon, myron. 463 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,040 A picture might help. 464 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:09,040 Hay will be blown through a long rotating tube with slots cut in it for the needles to fall through, 465 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:13,040 and a magnet to catch them at the end if they make it that far. 466 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:20,040 As a fail-safe, the hay will then be channeled into a furnace and burnt, leaving only needles. 467 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:26,040 This mechanical approach will work where no electronic means would possibly work. 468 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:33,040 I mean, how could you possibly sort out a bone needle from the middle of a haystack? 469 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,040 That question's troubling Adam, too. 470 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,040 Plan A is a sifting table. 471 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:43,040 Shake the hay through and use a metal detector to find the needles. 472 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,040 Ha, ha, ha, there we go. 473 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,040 So, needle fell through on first try. 474 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:56,040 Now the problem is, how would one get a bone needle out of here? 475 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,040 Ha, ha. 476 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,040 Not with a metal detector, that's for sure. 477 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,040 Time for Plan B. 478 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:08,040 I'm going to build a new machine that will sift instead of using, like, grating holes like this, 479 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:13,040 but actually use water to separate, agitate the hay and separate out hopefully the needles, 480 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,040 and then I pick them out at the bottom of a sluice. 481 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,040 And then I get this needle. 482 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,040 Water and gravity. 483 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,040 Adam hopes he's onto a lethal needle-finding combination. 484 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,040 So the hay floats quite nicely. 485 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,040 Let's see what it takes to agitate it. 486 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,040 Alright, I'm going to look underneath. 487 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,040 Let's see if I can see this needle. 488 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,040 Is that my needle? 489 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,040 Oh, that is it. 490 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,040 There we go. 491 00:31:54,040 --> 00:32:04,040 This is actually the only method I've looked at so far that will also net me the bone needle when all is said and done. 492 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,040 And so the needle finder 2000 is born. 493 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:17,040 A shallow tank, three agitators, hay goes in, sludge comes out, and hopefully needles are left behind. 494 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:42,040 Once again, the Mythbusters ingenuity is on the line. 495 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:48,040 Will Adam's paddle-wheeled water sorting needle finder 2000 do the job? 496 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,040 Oh, she's going to blow captain! 497 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,040 I can't give it up much longer! 498 00:32:54,040 --> 00:33:00,040 Or will Jamie's high rotation tube with needle slots win the day? 499 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,040 The only way to find out is to put them to the test. 500 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:20,040 Our plant diary says it's been 27 days. 501 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,040 Ooh, here we are, dead of summer. 502 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,040 And we're like halfway there. 503 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:29,040 At Greenhouse Central, only the control house has had silence. 504 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:39,040 For the rest, four weeks of constant rotation CDs and cajoling to test if plants grow better if they're talked to. 505 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,040 We need to grow real big. We got the state fair coming up in about a month. 506 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,040 You guys look like champs, alright? 507 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,040 Yeah! Come on, baby! 508 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,040 Yeah, go! 509 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,040 Come on! 510 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,040 Yeah! Go, go, go! 511 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,040 Oh, yeah! 512 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,040 Woo! 513 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,040 That's going to be good for them. 514 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:05,040 That will really inspire these guys to grow a little bit better. 515 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,040 Oh my gosh. 516 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:13,040 Strangely enough, halfway through the experiment, trends are emerging. 517 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:21,040 My sweet words must have an enormous effect on my plants because these plants are growing much better than my nasty plants. 518 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,040 This guy here is huge! 519 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,040 It's got little arms reaching out, grabbing on. 520 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:29,040 So far, Talking Nice is actually working and I hate to say it. 521 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,040 Scotty might be proving me wrong. 522 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:35,040 Talking nicely to plants, making them grow better. 523 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,040 Is Carrie losing her mind? 524 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:42,040 Oh! Lovely morning to all you peas. 525 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,040 Look at all the nice little peas growing in there. 526 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,040 Oh, I love you peas. 527 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,040 I'm worried about all of us. 528 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,040 They know. They know how I feel. 529 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,040 I think we need some psychological evaluation. 530 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:04,040 I'm going to rip you out of your pots and turn you into pulp on the ground. 531 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,040 Got it? 532 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,040 Clearly, they need some time off this rooftop. 533 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:13,040 They'll leave the watering system to babysit their plants. 534 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,040 They're doing pretty well. 535 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,040 The plants are doing very well today, Tori. 536 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,040 Hi, Tori. What plants do you think are doing better? 537 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,040 How are you guys? 538 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:29,040 I think that having metal plants are better because there's so much anger in this world. 539 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,040 It really helps to listen to that kind of stuff and you can get it all out. 540 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,040 It's okay. 541 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,040 Oh, I can see what you mean. 542 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:38,040 That classical music really kind of makes the hairs on my neck stand out. 543 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,040 Let's get out of the sun. 544 00:35:55,040 --> 00:36:05,040 This is going to be the biggest hail-bay-hell thing of hay you've ever seen. 545 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,040 Let's roll it up. 546 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:12,040 Jamie figures the easiest way to find a needle in a haystack is to make the haystack go away. 547 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:17,040 His machine is designed to separate out the needles and burn the rest. 548 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,040 Adam is using water. 549 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:24,040 Hay floats and needles sink, he hopes. 550 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:30,040 Adam's rig is actually fairly clever, I think, and it may well handle a better volume than what mine does. 551 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,040 I think mine might be a little bit more thorough. 552 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,040 This Mythbusters team is going to win this one handily. 553 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,040 We'll be like sipping remoses on the baits of Jamie. 554 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,040 They'll be like, oh, I still have the two needles to find. 555 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:50,040 As the needles are buried by researcher Collette, it's clear the boys will need help. 556 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,040 Tori and Carrie will team up with Adam. 557 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,040 Christine and Scotty are with Jamie. 558 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,040 All right, you guys. 559 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,040 Ready? 560 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,040 The clock is ticking. 561 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,040 Go! 562 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:15,040 Adam's team feeds the hay along the water trough and out the other side, 563 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,040 hoping the needles sink to the bottom on the way through. 564 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,040 I'm not sure about this. 565 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:27,040 Jamie's hay is blown down the twisting tube, allowing the needles to separate and fall out slots. 566 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:34,040 At the far end, it's transferred to a furnace, which should burn everything but metal and bone. 567 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,040 Have you seen his machine working? 568 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,040 It's like Dante's inferno over there. 569 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:43,040 The fire department is on hand, just in case, which seems to be a good idea. 570 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,040 All right, beat it. 571 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,040 Go for it. 572 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,040 Working great. 573 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:56,040 Adam's going to have about, like, 50,000 pounds of wet hay to get rid of at the end of this story, 574 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,040 and I'm not going to have anything. 575 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:04,040 In fact, Adam might not have very much wet hay at all. 576 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,040 He's running out of water. 577 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:15,040 I don't know what the problem is, but I hear a lot of beating on something with a hammer, 578 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,040 and Adam's kind of looking pale. 579 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:26,040 I had to take a wheel off so I can manually kind of at least let some of the water back in. 580 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,040 As is their way, the fire department saves the day. 581 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:36,040 Cheating? Would I consider this cheating? Absolutely not. 582 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:43,040 And while Tory's coming to the rescue, he's also thought up a modification. 583 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:49,040 This is adding some magnets to the front end of our feed trough. 584 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,040 These are super, super strong neodymium magnets. 585 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:58,040 And see if we can't pick the needle out at the very beginning. 586 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,040 Yes, you just had your finger on it, right? 587 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,040 Good idea. Jamie thought of it ages ago. 588 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,040 That's the little one. 589 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,040 Woo! All right. 590 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,040 Oh, man. They found one. 591 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,040 It made it through the slots. 592 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,040 You found one? Just one? 593 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,040 Let's keep going. Let's keep going. We gotta go. 594 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:28,040 I was starting to think that they didn't put needles in the stack, and they were just trying to screw with us or something. 595 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,040 Well, now you know. 596 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:35,040 That little needle took more than four hours to find. 597 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:40,040 Turns out, that's how long it takes to find a needle in a haystack. 598 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,040 Hey! Hey! 599 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,040 Yeah! 600 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:50,040 That is one found needle in your face. 601 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,040 It was on Tory's super magnet. 602 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,040 Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold up. 603 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,040 Found another one. 604 00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,040 Yeah! 605 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,040 Oh, that's... Wow. Where'd you find it? 606 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,040 I saw it going down. It got on the magnet. 607 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,040 The magnets. 608 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,040 The magnets stopped it. 609 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:11,040 Yeah, okay. I spent two days building this, and he put down a magnet strip and... 610 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,040 All right. 611 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:19,040 Now that both teams know their machines work, finding the needles should be just a matter of time. 612 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,040 But it's a lot more time than Adam expected. 613 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,040 I can see the cut now. 614 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,040 Hey, we'll be drinking mimosas in an hour or two. 615 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,040 We'll be like sipping mimosas on the beach. 616 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,040 Cut to six hours later. 617 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,040 Adam's team is still going at it. 618 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,040 They found two needles. 619 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,040 They found two needles. 620 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:42,040 But still have the smallest needle and the bone needle to go. 621 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:46,040 But still have the smallest needle and the bone needle to go. 622 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:50,040 Things are no better in Janney's camp. 623 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,040 Oh, and the sun will be going down soon. 624 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,040 You know what sucks the most? 625 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,040 I keep getting little slivers of hay underneath my fingernails. 626 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,040 That kills. 627 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,040 I don't want to lose my fingers. 628 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,040 That kills. 629 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,040 I don't want to lose to those guys. 630 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,040 I like to win, so I'm just trying to block out the pain. 631 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:14,040 Only one thing will soothe Tori's suffering. 632 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,040 Found the last... 633 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,040 Found the last metal needle. 634 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,040 Yeah! Oh, yeah! 635 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:26,040 All right, so all we have to do is process this last bit of the pile 636 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,040 and then look for the bone needle. 637 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,040 But we are three for three in metal needles. 638 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,040 Put that on the victory cushion. 639 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,040 Oh, yeah! 640 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,040 Three needles! 641 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,040 All three metals! 642 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,040 All the metals! 643 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,040 Obviously something's working for them. 644 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,040 We only found one and they found three. 645 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:54,040 Suddenly, the needle finder 2000 is looking like a winner. 646 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,040 But with victory just a bone needle away, 647 00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,040 Adam admits a potentially fatal flaw. 648 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,040 I never got around to checking to see if bone floats. 649 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,040 I know it's kind of a critical oversight, 650 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,040 but it turns out to be the kind of one I'm capable of. 651 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,040 And here's some more bad news. 652 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:17,040 Oh, there you go. 653 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,040 Jamie's catching up. 654 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,040 That one was found in the good old fashioned, honest way. 655 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,040 It didn't even get to go through the machine. 656 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,040 It was just sitting right there on the top of the pile. 657 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,040 How many do they have? 658 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:34,040 Two needles. 659 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:39,040 This race is going down to the wire. 660 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,040 The light's almost gone, 661 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:48,040 but Adam's finished the last of his haystack. 662 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:52,040 All right, time to hand check for bone needles. 663 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:09,040 Bone needles! 664 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,040 Woo! 665 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,040 You know what? My hat goes off to them. 666 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,040 Let me out. 667 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,040 Oh, give me some sugar. 668 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,040 Oh, my hands are hurt. 669 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,040 That is one bone needle. 670 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,040 We have found all four needles. 671 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:28,040 Stick it in there. 672 00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,040 Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. 673 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:32,040 Good job! 674 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,040 Nice work, honey. 675 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,040 Let's wrap up and go home. 676 00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,040 Adam beat his parents' square. 677 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,040 It's about time he beat me in one of these contests, 678 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,040 so I'm actually happy for him. 679 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,040 I don't ever want to do that again. 680 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,040 My back is killing me. 681 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,040 I am soaked to the bone. 682 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,040 I don't even want to think about the brown wash 683 00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,040 that comes off me in the shower tonight. 684 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,040 It was a total nightmare to find a needle in a haystack. 685 00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:02,040 MUSIC 686 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,040 MUSIC 687 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:06,040 MUSIC 688 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:13,040 MUSIC 689 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:14,040 Hello. 690 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,040 Have you seen what happened to these? 691 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:17,040 What happened? 692 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,040 They did nothing. 693 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,040 What does that mean? 694 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,040 They look like albinos. 695 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:27,840 yellow. So let's check the other ones. Maybe it's just the sweetness is 696 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:33,880 wilting them. They know that you hate them. See? These ones are awful. They're 697 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:39,600 yellow and they're dying. After nearly two months, the Talking to Plants 698 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:43,800 experiment has a major problem. I'm gonna go check the watering system and see if 699 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:50,840 maybe the timers are off or what's going on. It looks pretty dry doesn't it? The 700 00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:57,080 build team hasn't been up here for a week. A long, hot week. Now, faced with 701 00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:02,160 withered dying plants, they wish they had. One of these timers isn't working. 702 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:08,800 Really? So it's not getting any water? I'm gonna check the moisture and this one 703 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:15,640 looks pretty moist on the top. But it's dry down there. Well, I guess they don't 704 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:21,600 grow on kind words alone. The problem is is the timer that was letting the 705 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,080 plants get water, the one that was actually feeding into the pots, the 706 00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:28,600 battery died. I just think the Talking Plants are committing suicide because 707 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:33,160 they're listening. Do I love you? Love you. Love you. All the freaking day. The only 708 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:38,440 upside, every greenhouse was affected in exactly the same way. So although the 709 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:43,520 plants aren't a picture of health, the experiment is still valid and now the 710 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,240 build team will reap what it's sown. I think to come up with our conclusion, 711 00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:51,880 what we need to do is pull the plants out of the pots, completely wash the soil 712 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:57,240 off of the roots and weigh the plant mass in each greenhouse. And that should 713 00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:04,920 give us a pretty good result. Hi, Jamie. Hi, Carrie. What's going on up here? You're 714 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:11,840 looking like a groundhog. I'm here too. Hi. Hi. Groundhog too. As is traditional at 715 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:16,040 harvest time, all the neighbors gather around to lend a hand. Here's the first 716 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:21,960 nice house. Little cute peas. Sweet, wonderful tiny. I really wanted to hear 717 00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:26,000 Jamie do this one. I really wanted to hear, you are the most beautiful plant I've 718 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:37,840 ever seen. I love you. So you're nice here and then you're nasty here. You called the 719 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:45,200 plant a freshman. I was running out of material. Now for the hard data. Does 720 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:51,120 talking to plants help them grow? So this is the classical music classical music. 721 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:57,440 Turns out not as well as playing them music. Wow. Dude, those look like very 722 00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,120 healthy. What their boss. Oh, you're this. 723 00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:08,280 Number seven, the metal house was the best performer of all. How many people? 724 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:14,240 But in both music houses, the plants were healthier, taller and had the biggest 725 00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:20,680 peas. My God, metal is huge. These plants are enormous compared to everything 726 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:27,880 else. I think heavy metal rolls. I think heavy metal. 16 inches. Talking nice or 727 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:33,240 nasty made no difference. Two pods. Two shriveled pea pods. Number eight. 728 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:38,440 Carrie's nice house did better than her nasty one, but the opposite was true for 729 00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:48,280 Scotty. 30 grams. 30 grams on number eight. And the solid control house was the 730 00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:54,600 worst performer of all. Say nine grams. Nine grams. Number six. So I went through 731 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:58,960 all the data of what your plants did and by and large, actually hands down, 732 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:03,840 talking and music did better than the control. That was larger biomass, larger 733 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:08,720 yield, bigger pea pods. So what do we think? Is it busted, plausible or 734 00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:14,000 confirmed? Well, this team did really good on this job, but the sample's not 735 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,800 quite big enough to say confirmed. However, I'm really impressed. It is 736 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:22,560 totally plausible. Wow. Interestingly, although talking helps, it doesn't 737 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,720 matter what you actually say to your plants. That's what our data says. It 738 00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:29,160 says you could curse at it. You could be kind to it. The plant doesn't know the 739 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:34,160 difference, but music for a bumper crop, let there be rock. 740 00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,680 Tori and I are going to try a pair of the death metal peas here. 741 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:56,680 Yeah, mine was too. They taste quite good. Oh, God. The ones that music was 742 00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,960 played to just taste fantastically.