1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 On this episode of Mythbusters, you want to do what? With what? 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Sit back for some retail relaxation as Adam and Jamie show you how to hunt for junk. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 I love it here! 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:24,000 From domestic appliances to deadly creatures and even daring underwear. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 At least it's sort of happy. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,000 And the man behind the mask, Adam opens the door to his private collection of stuff. 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Welcome to the Mythbusters shopping special. 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Am I missing an eyebrow? 10 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Adam Savage 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 I reject your reality and substitute my own. 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,000 And Jamie Heineman 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Quack, damn you. 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 I wouldn't say Jamie's an evil genius. 15 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Between them more than 30 years special effects experience. 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 When will the fun ever stop? 17 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 They don't just tell the myths, they put them to the test. 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Airplane toilets. 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Jato rockets. 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Inflatable bras. 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Pop rocks. 22 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Pigs that die to natural causes. 23 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:22,000 You know we get emails every day from fans wanting to know where we shop for the strange and bizarre things that we use on Mythbusters. 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 And on this episode we're going to show you. 25 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Welcome to the Mythbusters shop till you drop special. 26 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Shopping can be a real chore, but the Mythbusters shop with a style all their own. 27 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,000 When your job is busting myths. 28 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Dog with a very long tail. 29 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 A trip to the shops can be a ride into fantasy. 30 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 I come from a planet butthead. 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 What is that? 32 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Peace to your mother. 33 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 When most people think shopping, they think mall. 34 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,000 But Adam and Jamie are junkyard people. 35 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 They're not just a junkyard, they're a junkyard. 36 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 They're all, but Adam and Jamie are junkyard junkies. 37 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,000 We love shopping for industrial machinery and that's why we come here. 38 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 To machinery and equipment co in Brisbane, California. 39 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 In their lot, you can find just about anything. 40 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,000 And we have. 41 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Everything from small little funnels of tubes. 42 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000 To gigantic tanks. 43 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Even if you don't always know where they've been. 44 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Hey Adam, did you hear the guy tell us what this was for? 45 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 What was it for? 46 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 It was like a fecal matter. 47 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Sess tanks aside, scavenging through industrial graveyards 48 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 is their idea of shopping heaven. 49 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Cryo containers, beer kegs, what else we got? 50 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 You can keep your fancy fashion stores. 51 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 These guys get turned on by tanks. 52 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Wow, how can I just take this home? 53 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Adam's a shopaholic with a difference. 54 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,000 At his house, his home to mountains of weird and wonderful paraphernalia. 55 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 This is the hole of storage. 56 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Ow, ow, ow. 57 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 I don't know, for some reason I collect lots of headgear. 58 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 The door viewer goggles. 59 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Turn of the century optician set. 60 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 I bought it for myself for my birthday last year. 61 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Because I knew no one would know to get it for me. 62 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 It's my cigarette dispenser. 63 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000 It plays how dry I am and the bottle cap is a lighter. 64 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 That's the enemy of slumber. 65 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 All the artwork in my house is either mine or people that I know or family members. 66 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 I like that. 67 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Oh, here's a piece I made for Jamie, actually. 68 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Extremely light radiator. 69 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,000 I always wanted to make it look like a light bulb. 70 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 That's when I like, you know, when some salesperson comes to the door, 71 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 I always want to be standing at the front door like, 72 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 What? 73 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Like that. 74 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 The weirdest object I have. 75 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 It might actually be these. 76 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 It might actually be these. 77 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 I found them at a flea market and the guy says, 78 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 I'll sell these to you if you can tell me what they are. 79 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 And I knew. 80 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,000 And it turns out that they're masonic initiation goggles. 81 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:31,000 And he said, you're the first guy in eight years that I've had these at my table to know what they are 82 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 and they're to have the mysteries revealed to you, I guess, 83 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 at certain points during the initiation. 84 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,000 That's plausibly one of the weirdest things that I have. 85 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,000 A favorite source of weirdness is Urbanoir, 86 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 where the less orthodox shopper can mine a rich seam of esoterica. 87 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 I've been coming here for almost 15 years. 88 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 They've got a little bit of everything. 89 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 And that's what makes it perfect for mythbusters. 90 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,000 I mean, they've got everything from equipment like tools to bathtubs, toilets, 91 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 all of which we've bought for the show, 92 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 all the way down to household appliances. 93 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Which really can be among the most dangerous things. 94 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 I mean, me and household appliances don't always get along. 95 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Honey, I'm home. 96 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 For Adam and Jamie, there's no place like home. 97 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Mainly because so many urban myths feature domestic appliances. 98 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 When the mythbusters go shopping for household goods, 99 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,000 there's usually a disaster in store. 100 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 We're looking for a decapitating van. 101 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Okay. 102 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 A deadly van. 103 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Okay, that's usually not a popular choice by a lot of our customers, 104 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 but we'll see what we can do. 105 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Not many consumers buy with destruction in mind. 106 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Do you think that this could hold 50 pounds of clothes? 107 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,000 But on this show, it's a shopping mantra. 108 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 We're looking for something in a trombone. 109 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Okay. 110 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 And like for a student. 111 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Well, actually we want to blow it up. 112 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 You want to blow it up. 113 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Back at Bourbonore. 114 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 The thing I love about this place is that you've got to keep coming back. 115 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 They get new stuff all the time, 116 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 and you've got to crawl through it all. 117 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 And there's one thing I really love to do, 118 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 it's like crawl through a lot of junk. 119 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:24,000 They've got pianos, couches, fake plants, clothing, cookware, books, 120 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 camera equipment. 121 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 But I found something over here that's like, 122 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 it's hard for me to kind of pass up. 123 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 accordion carcasses. 124 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I mean, how cool is that? 125 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 This is exactly what I'm talking about. 126 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,000 This is called a micro-fractionator. 127 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 I don't have any idea what that is. 128 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 I'm secretly thrilled. 129 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Here you go. 130 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Okay. 131 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Perfect. 132 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,000 All right. 133 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 It's a stimulator of what kind. 134 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 I can't quite figure out, 135 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 but I'm thinking of trying it out on Jamie. 136 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 In the myth of the levitation machine, 137 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Adam and Jamie went bargain hunting at A&G Vacuum. 138 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Pete Anderson, a.k.a. the Vacuum Man, 139 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,000 has been repairing these suckers for 30 years. 140 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 I fixed 90% of the vacuums on the market, 141 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 and you name it, I do it, you know. 142 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 I can take them apart and put them back together in no time. 143 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Let's just see if it works. 144 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Here we go. 145 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Pete thought he'd seen it all. 146 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 But he'd never had a customer quite like Adam. 147 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,000 I got bitten. 148 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 You guys are bleeding. 149 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Am I? 150 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Yeah. 151 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 That was the stupidest thing I've ever done. 152 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Well, they do say try before you buy. 153 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 That was the end of Adam's television career. 154 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 No. 155 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 See, this is the show. 156 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 It's like four minutes of science, 157 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself. 158 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 They were so impressed by the power of Pete's machines, 159 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 they bought half the shop. 160 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 This is out enough. 161 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 I'm back and get some more. 162 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 The episode ended in Adam's complete humiliation 163 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 when he lost the levitation machine build-off. 164 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 I'm out of ideas. 165 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 I just ran out just a second. 166 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 We're here at Alameda Discount Center. 167 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 It's one of our favorite places to go, 168 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 because Jamie and Adam can totally geek out. 169 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000 We're about to show you why. 170 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 What other store can you just go in and pick up a parachute? 171 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 You know, if you're like a little nervous about flying, 172 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,000 you could just kind of take that as carry-on the next time you go. 173 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,000 That's why. 174 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Because it's a store full of people, 175 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 that's why. 176 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Because it's a store full of surprises. 177 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,000 And the unexpected is the cornerstone 178 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,000 of the Mythbusters shopping philosophy. 179 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,000 That is cool. 180 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Especially for airgun battle. 181 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 You know, when we go out together, Jamie and I, 182 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,000 I get recognized about twice as much as when I'm alone, 183 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 because I might be that guy from that show, 184 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,000 but he is without a doubt that guy from that show. 185 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 And the reason is, everyone knows the beret. 186 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,000 And the real reason we've come here to Alameda Surplus 187 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,000 is because this is where Jamie gets those berets. 188 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 I think the question that everyone really wants to know is, 189 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 why did you start wearing a beret? 190 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 It was kind of by default, 191 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 because I don't like baseball caps, 192 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,000 and I'm sure not going to wear one of those things. 193 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 So you just went to the beret? 194 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Well, it's a nice, simple hat. 195 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 It's not necessarily such a simple explanation, is it? 196 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 I mean, there are military connotations. 197 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,000 I mean, you know, it's definitely, you're making a statement. 198 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,000 It's a hat. 199 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,000 I don't think we've gotten to the root of it at all. 200 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,000 I think there's something deeper and more, you know, 201 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,000 but we'll leave that for, for Barbara Walters. 202 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Ah, the life of a TV celebrity. 203 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 The fame. 204 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 The fortune. 205 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Vegas, baby. 206 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 The luxury car. 207 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 And of course, the obligatory private jet. 208 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Though in the Mythbusters case, 209 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 it doesn't necessarily fly. 210 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 I'm in an airport salvage yard 211 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 with huge husks of planes around me. 212 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 I'm in pig heaven. 213 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Mojave Airport is where America's airliners come to retire, 214 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 or at least rest for a while, 215 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 before going back into service. 216 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 In the myth of explosive decompression, 217 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Adam and Jamie Kane shopping for a spare fuselage. 218 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 I've always wanted to close one of these. 219 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,000 For just three and a half thousand dollars, 220 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 they became the proud owners of an Hawaiian Airlines DC-9. 221 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 When do you ever get to do this? 222 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000 This is so cool. 223 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Wow. 224 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Ah, that's cool. 225 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 This is where the pilot sits. 226 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,000 So many little doodads and geegaws and doohickeys. 227 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Aviation myths come in all shapes and sizes. 228 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 And so do the spare parts on offer 229 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,000 at Interface Aviation in Hollister, California. 230 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Its warehouse is a three and a half acre treasure trove 231 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 of used aircraft interiors. 232 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 If it flew, you'll find it here. 233 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Everything from the stairway of a 747 234 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 to stainless steel toilets. 235 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 They've got every kind of toilet that's ever been made 236 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 for any kind of aircraft, or so it would seem to me. 237 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Yeah. 238 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,000 They were testing the myth about the woman 239 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,000 who got sucked onto a toilet in midair 240 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,000 and stayed stuck until the plane hit the runway. 241 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 The greater pressure inside would actually be trying 242 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 to push her through the hole. 243 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 The myth called for a vacuum toilet, 244 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 and they found the perfect unit. 245 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 But at nine thousand dollars, 246 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:00,000 it was a high price to pay for this tall story. 247 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 So they just borrowed it. 248 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Exposed, butchered. 249 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 There we go. 250 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Adam was the sucker, or Saki, 251 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,000 who took one for the team in the name of science. 252 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 That's significant. 253 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Oh my gosh. 254 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Oh wow, that was really significant. 255 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 I'm not sure what we proved here. 256 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 But at least it's good television. 257 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 You know, getting sucked onto that toilet 258 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 is a perfect example of a strange part 259 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 that we've got to find at a unique kind of place. 260 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Like here in Faith Aircraft in Sacramento, California, 261 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 that's spelled F-A-E-T-H. 262 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 One of the fringe benefits of working on this show 263 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 is that it completely expands the number of places 264 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 that I can find the esoteric and weird stuff 265 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 that I seem to just have to collect. 266 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 At these aircraft salvage yards, 267 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I've bought everything from little tiny switches 268 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,000 to gauges, to compasses, to the pilot's seats. 269 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 I've got them all in my house. 270 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 One more thing about Faith Aircraft, bring cash. 271 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 They don't take credit cards here, 272 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 and that's actually to your advantage. 273 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 It's usually easier to make a good deal with cash. 274 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 The last time Adam and Jamie were here, 275 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 they bought a fuselage and extra windshields 276 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,000 for just $324.25. 277 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Why? 278 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 So they could fire dead chickens at it. 279 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,000 What else? 280 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,000 We are arming the chicken cannon. 281 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Three, two, one. 282 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 The chickens flew, but the myth crashed 283 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 when the guys realized that their windshields 284 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 weren't bird strike certified. 285 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Where's the chicken? 286 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Oh, my goodness. 287 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. 288 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Dead chickens are cheap and cheery regulars on myth busters. 289 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,000 They start once more in microwave madness. 290 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,000 This is right up there with one of the weird things 291 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 that we've had to do. 292 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Trying to put a dead chicken in a tanning booth. 293 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Hello? 294 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 They busted the myth that people can be cooked 295 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 from the inside on a tanning bed. 296 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,000 A good example of how dead animals can be used 297 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 to test a human myth. 298 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 We can't test everything on ourselves, 299 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,000 and meat has become more and more a part of the show. 300 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Everyone knows where to get chickens, 301 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,000 but when we want to fire a machine gun into a full side of beef, 302 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 or tattoos, and pig skin, or even fill a stomach 303 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 full of pop rocks and soda, 304 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 we can do a place like Golden Gate Meats. 305 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 They become one of our regular suppliers on the show. 306 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Have you supplied pigs for any other television shows besides arts? 307 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Not to shoot. 308 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,000 What's the weirdest use you've ever had 309 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 one of your pieces of meat put to? 310 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000 I think you guys top out on that one. 311 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 That's what I like to hear. 312 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,000 In one myth, Golden Gate Meats supplied four whole pigs 313 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 so the myth busters could measure the kinetic energy 314 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 of a speeding boat. 315 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 The pigs weighed in at a total of 670 pounds 316 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,000 and cost $1,125. Gross. 317 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Yes, perfect. 318 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Really gross. 319 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Now that people have seen the show, 320 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 when we call them up and we say we're myth busters 321 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 and we want a side of beef, 322 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 they know we're going to do something strange to it. 323 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,000 But at first, we've got a lot of very curious responses. 324 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Like, you want to do what? 325 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 You want to do what? 326 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 With what? 327 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,000 I'm trying to locate a pig's stomach. 328 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 A pig's stomach. 329 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Um, should we continue further? 330 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Probably one of the most difficult things we ever had to find 331 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,000 was actually a full pig's stomach for Pop Rocks and Soda. 332 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,000 They needed one to understudy for a human stomach. 333 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Does it have like the esophagus and the intestines attached at all? 334 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000 It turns out that it's a pig's stomach. 335 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Does it have like the esophagus and the intestines attached at all? 336 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,000 It turns out that they prep them so fast out of the slaughterhouse 337 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 that they're usually cut in half. 338 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 In fact, the guy said to me that it was like a bathing cap. 339 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Like a swimming cap. 340 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,000 A very, very meaty swimming cap. 341 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000 So we actually had to go all the way out to Modesto 342 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,000 to find a place that would leave the esophageal tube 343 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,000 and the intestinal tube attached 344 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,000 so that we could actually get a real stomach in our test. 345 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 I think we should just get a real pig and feed him. 346 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 It'd be kind of fun to watch and see what a pig does 347 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,000 when you feed him a bunch of this. 348 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,000 See, again, there goes your lack of political understanding. 349 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 You've raised so much hell with that. 350 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 It's better to kill the pig first and then give it to him? 351 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Absolutely. People are much more comfortable with that arrangement. 352 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,000 They finally found the guts to test the myth 353 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,000 with four pig's stomachs at 20 bucks apiece. 354 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,000 It's actually becoming a reality. 355 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,000 In the mid-base, the guys had a gas making the belly burst. 356 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 That's pretty impressive. 357 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Oh, there goes a burp. 358 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Dude, your stomach's going to burst. 359 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,000 That's huge. That's like three times the size of what it was. 360 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 My car. 361 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,000 The other great thing about vendors like Golden Gate Means 362 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 is that we can send Carrie. 363 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Her response is always going to make good television 364 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,000 because she is visibly and clearly sickened by the entire process. 365 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Whoa. Whoa. 366 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Look, it still has little hairs on it. 367 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Oh, yeah. 368 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,000 I can't believe they got a spline with the meat on it. 369 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 This is disgusting. 370 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 I love that you love to bring it here. 371 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,000 It's always taking us past our point of comfort that makes the best television. 372 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,000 You know, I'm not a vegetarian. I'm an omnivore. 373 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 I eat lots of meat and love it. 374 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,000 I don't have a problem with almost everything we do with meat. 375 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000 I didn't like cleaning up the stinky car. 376 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 I mean, but that wasn't meat. 377 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,000 That was more like a hairy, bony pudding, let's say. 378 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:20,000 The baking tin came in the shape of a second-hand Corvette 379 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 bought for $6,000 off an unsuspecting enthusiast. 380 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,000 But as the money changed hands, he almost changed his mind. 381 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Oh, really? You want to tell him? 382 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:38,000 We have, waiting eagerly for this car, a recently dead pig 383 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:44,000 that we're going to put in there and let it sit for about maybe a month or two. 384 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,000 And I wondered what you feel about that. 385 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Well, not real happy to tell you the truth. 386 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 I mean, because it's a really nice car. 387 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,000 But not for long it wasn't. 388 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,000 The guys wanted to see if they could leave a corpse to rot, 389 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,000 clean the car, then resell it. 390 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Strictly speaking, they should have used dead humans. 391 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 But they are notoriously difficult to buy. 392 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 So they bumped for pigs. 393 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,000 We really wanted to find pigs that had died of natural causes. 394 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,000 We didn't want to have to kill them for the show. 395 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,000 And we had to go to some fairly specialized people in Hollywood 396 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:24,000 who actually specifically deal in animals that died of natural causes. 397 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Specifically, they headed for bishops, taxidermists of stage and screen, 398 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:34,000 where deceased animals of every stripe are stuffed and turned into stars. 399 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Have our jaguars and our leopards here and our whole bird area. 400 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Some of our favorite stuff is our stand-ins. 401 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Like this little guy over here, one of our stars you might recognize from the movies. 402 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Our little plug. This was been in black too. 403 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,000 In this case, Adam and Jamie were keen to interrupt the taxidermy process. 404 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,000 The stinky car myth called for the whole hog. 405 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 We have scary for the whole pig. 406 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:09,000 That means the guts, the animal, everything that a pig naturally dies with. 407 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Because as it turns out, it's not all that easy to get a hold of that 408 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 through like a butcher or other things. 409 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:20,000 We want to replicate what a human would be like if that person died in a car. 410 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000 That's what they wanted. 411 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Oh yeah. 412 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:29,000 And for 709 bucks and 50 cents, that's exactly what they got. 413 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 I stop. 414 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Oh man. 415 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,000 The two decomposed pigs had oozed into the very fabric of the vehicle. 416 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Oh, disintegrating. 417 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Now Adam and Jamie had to remove the carnage and sell the car. 418 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,000 The smell from over here is horrifying. 419 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 The gruesome job tested the mythbusters to the limit. 420 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:58,000 But after a day of forensic scrubbing, they were ready to reenter the used car market. 421 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 This time as sellers. 422 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:08,000 The first two prospective buyers turned up their noses and turned down the stinky Corvette. 423 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 This isn't a stand. 424 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Customer number three was made of stronger stuff. 425 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,000 And remarkably, he had it over $2,000. 426 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Myth Busted. 427 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Cars have always been a big favorite on mythbusters shopping lists, 428 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,000 but they've never exactly been careful owners. 429 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,000 That was magnificent. 430 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,000 In jet taxi, they tested a myth from Rio de Janeiro 431 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,000 that an airliner's jet wash could send a cab flying. 432 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:48,000 So it was off to buy a used taxi at Big Dog City. 433 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 So are we driving around the lot once? 434 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Well, yeah, just don't leave the lot. 435 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Okay. 436 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000 It would be quite an elaborate way to steal a car, wouldn't it? 437 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Bring your own camera crew? 438 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Yeah. 439 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 $900, not bad for a three-year-old car. 440 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,000 $900 to destroy a car sounded like a bargain. 441 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Hey, as long as the price is right, you guys can do anything you want. 442 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 Which is exactly what they did. 443 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Attention, everybody, we are ready to go. 444 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,000 The taxi didn't fly, but it was sent to the junkyard. 445 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,000 So all in all, a job well done. 446 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Cars and car parts figure into a lot of our experiments. 447 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000 We love buying them, we love testing with them, 448 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 and we really love destroying them. 449 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000 But the problem we have is what do you do with a wrecked car? 450 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 You don't want it, definitely nobody else wants it. 451 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Well, that's why we come to a place like this, Cercosta Metals. 452 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,000 They recycle metal, and they're usually the final resting place 453 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000 of most of our automobile experiments. 454 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 I love it here. 455 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,000 If you're ever here on business, be careful where you park. 456 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000 If this one fella would come in, he'd park the truck 457 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 and have the crane operator unload the truck, 458 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,000 and he'd walk away and start talking to someone, you know? 459 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,000 So one day he comes up to him, he says, 460 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000 listen, he says, what happened to the truck? 461 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 I says, what are you talking about? 462 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 What happened to the truck? 463 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 He says, I parked the truck here, my truck's not here, 464 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 somebody stole the truck. 465 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Well, what happened is we bailed it, 466 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 and we thought it was a piece of junk. 467 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,000 This is a baler. 468 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 That's the baler? 469 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Yeah, so what he'll do is he'll take about three or four 470 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:39,000 of those grapple loads and throw it inside the baler, 471 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:44,000 and it comes out as about a 2200 pound block. 472 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Wow. 473 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 The very first car myth that Mythbusters did 474 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 was the Jado rocket on the Chevy Impala. 475 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,000 It was very specific of 67 Chevy Impala. 476 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 We didn't think it would be that hard to find, 477 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,000 but in fact, it turned out to be very, very hard. 478 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000 First off, a 67 Oldsmobile. 479 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,000 The car, if you want a car, to put a rocket on. 480 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Oh, yeah. 481 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,000 A 62 T-Bird meant love at first sight. 482 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 It'll be kind of a shame to destroy it. 483 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,000 We don't have to destroy it. 484 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Adam was drooling all over the upholstery. 485 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Oh, my God, I'm loving this. 486 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000 But they were Chevy shopping, so the search continued. 487 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 We went to every place in San Francisco. 488 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,000 We eventually had to go about 100 miles out of San Francisco 489 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000 to find our Chevy Impala. 490 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 A 66, it was just one year off, 491 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:43,000 and it came complete with sexed-up suspension. 492 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Adam and Janie were sold. 493 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 This is without a doubt our car. 494 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 It's destiny. 495 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Here's a shopping tip. 496 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000 Always look under the hood before you buy the car. 497 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000 We are 8.5 miles from where we bought the car. 498 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Not exactly a perfect start to their car shopping career. 499 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 But they bounce back in style. 500 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Back at base, the Chevy was fitted with radio control, 501 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,000 suit up with a homemade Jato rocket, 502 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:20,000 then blasted off across the Mojave Desert. 503 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Now that's retail therapy. 504 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 The Jato rocket car was just the curtain raiser 505 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 in a string of motor myths. 506 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000 In another auto escapade, Adam and Janie set out 507 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:40,000 to send a Plymouth Sky High on a broken driveshaft. 508 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 They found their car, but they needed to fit 509 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000 a specially modified driveshaft, 510 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000 one that would fail on demand. 511 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,000 The guys went in search of driveshaft expertise 512 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,000 at the imaginatively named driveshaft by Frank Wallace. 513 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,000 This is Frank's nephew, Rick Brown. 514 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Driveshafts are a family calling. 515 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,000 This is probably the only shop where a hard-working joke 516 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,000 can show up with this bent, broken, twisted, 517 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 blown-up driveshaft and leave with a new, 518 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000 perfectly good guaranteed driveshaft 519 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000 for less than a couple hundred bucks. 520 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Well, I have never, ever seen this many driveshafts 521 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,000 in one place. 522 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,000 You probably never will. 523 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000 It looks like if you put all these end-to-end, 524 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 you could probably go from here to LA. 525 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 You know what? That's a great idea. 526 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 I wonder if... 527 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Guinness Book of World Records, most driveshafts 528 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000 ever laid end-to-end. 529 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,000 I guess it's good to have a specialty. 530 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Rick, have you ever heard the myth about the driveshaft 531 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,000 that falls out while the car is underway 532 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,000 and it falls into a pothole and povolts the car 533 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,000 way up in the air? 534 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,000 The Pogo Stick Theory. 535 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Yeah, I have heard about it. 536 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,000 I've heard of some cars being launched here and there, 537 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 but I only know of one. 538 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:58,000 My friend Bruce, hope you're seeing this, 539 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000 thought he was being chased late night 540 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 on State Street in Santa Barbara. 541 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 I guess he had already had a bad U-Joint he knew about, 542 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000 and when he gassed it, it twisted, punched it, 543 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,000 punched into the ground, and bent, 544 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 and it didn't lift the car all the way up, 545 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000 but it just jockeyed him over, 546 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,000 which of course ended his imaginary chase. 547 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,000 It turns out he wasn't being chased. 548 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 But anyway, you guys got a Plymouth, 549 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,000 and we'll come over here to this is all Dodge right here. 550 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000 I'm gonna go give it a measure. 551 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000 You can see we have them all measured. 552 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 I gotta comb my hair. 553 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000 My chance at Hollywood. 554 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000 There's any girls from here to here. 555 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 With Hollywood only a hairdo away, 556 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Rick showed the guys how to make a driveshaft fail. 557 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Drop it back in gear. 558 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Boom! 559 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000 It's gonna hopefully do what you guys want. 560 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,000 And I think for what you guys are trying to pull off, 561 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000 we can make this happen. 562 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,000 A-Left is satisfied as any driveshaft shoppers could be. 563 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,000 But let's have another look at the myth. 564 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,000 Adam and Jamie would need to be in the driving seat, 565 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,000 but not in the car. 566 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,000 So they look to install a radio control system. 567 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,000 They're the ultimate in accident protection, 568 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,000 and they're surprisingly accessible. 569 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000 We couldn't very well do a shopping special 570 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,000 without coming to a hobby store. 571 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,000 So we're here in San Antonio hobby in Mountain View, California. 572 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,000 This is one of the largest hobby shops in the area. 573 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000 And I come here in particular 574 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,000 because I get a lot of radio control stuff here. 575 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,000 Even before Mythbusters, Jamie was an RC pro, 576 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,000 building rigs for commercials like the 7-Up Sharpshooter 577 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,000 and the Nike Motorbike Shoe. 578 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,000 San Antonio hobby is an Aladdin's cave of high-tech toys, 579 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,000 but it's not necessarily for youngsters. 580 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,000 Mark, I've seen quite a few kids running around here. 581 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000 What do you think your average age of a customer is? 582 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,000 Well, that's changed throughout the years. 583 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,000 I suppose our average age of our customer in here is probably 50. 584 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000 We're kind of a big boys' toy store. 585 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000 Which means Jamie's right at home. 586 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 That's like some kind of a bug. 587 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000 The components that make up the remote control system 588 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,000 in a toy car or a chopper are small but highly sophisticated. 589 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000 And with a little tweaking from Adam and Jamie, 590 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000 can punch way beyond their weight. 591 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,000 The really cool thing about this is that the same controls 592 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,000 that control something like this can control really big stuff. 593 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,000 Like a pole vaulting Plymouth, for example. 594 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:46,000 Armed with various model receivers, servos and speed controllers, 595 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,000 plus a little modification, Adam and Jamie created RoboCar. 596 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,000 One second-hand Plymouth, some hobby shop Electronica, 597 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000 and an old driveshaft. 598 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000 Myth-plausible. 599 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000 The MythBusters pay no heed to the show biz maxim 600 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:19,000 about not working with animals or, well, animals at least. 601 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,000 Not surprisingly, Jamie's favorite pet store in the Bay Area 602 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000 is also the weirdest, East Bay Viveria. 603 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000 Hi Carlos, I'm Jamie. 604 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Nice to meet you, sir. 605 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,000 So you're the manager here at the East Bay Viveria. 606 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,000 Indeed I am. 607 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,000 Well, it's pretty unique in the Bay Area for what it has. 608 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000 How would you describe this place? 609 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000 Well, the store logo is the nation's oldest 610 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,000 and largest retail reptile pet store. 611 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Your motto ought to be the coolest pet store in the world. 612 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000 You've got some pretty wild stuff here. 613 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000 Viverium's mascot is Spot the Monitor Lizard, 614 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000 and he's quite a handful. 615 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000 You might recognize him from a popular movie 616 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000 back in the 90s called The Freshman, 617 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,000 Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick. 618 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,000 Hey Spot, how's it going? 619 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,000 Good boy. 620 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000 You know, he's active, he's got bright eyes, 621 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000 he's really interested in the kids, 622 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000 and the tongue is always flicking, so... 623 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000 good representative of his breed. 624 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000 How's it going, Spot? 625 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000 You haven't been rolling around in hamsters today, have you? 626 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,000 No. 627 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,000 As it turns out, a surprising amount of myths 628 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000 involve animals, and... 629 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,000 I guess I'd be a good choice as a myth buster in that regard, 630 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000 because I used to run a pet store, 631 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000 I grew up on a farm, 632 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000 and I actually like these guys. 633 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000 Believe it or not, 634 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000 I know how to handle them. 635 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,000 Animals are close to the myth busters' hearts, 636 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 especially as so many weird and wonderful myths 637 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000 are feathered, slidey, and furry friends. 638 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000 There's just no way that we could put a poodle on a microwave. 639 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Does the dain have to pee? 640 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,000 No, he doesn't just smell. 641 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,000 Oh no. Where's the likely tree? 642 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000 Any ideas where the most likely tree is? 643 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000 Hey, Jamie, they're calling you. 644 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000 They saw the mustache. 645 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,000 Yeah. 646 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,000 No animals have ever been mistreated in any way 647 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000 during the making of myth busters. 648 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000 Although Adam's goldfish didn't exactly live 649 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000 the high life during their stay in the workshop. 650 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000 Mine are eating their own poo. 651 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000 The fish fiasco aside, 652 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000 it's usually Adam and Jamie who do the suffering 653 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000 when there's animals around. 654 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,000 You deserve it. 655 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,000 At Viverium, Jamie's brushing up on his animal wrangling skills 656 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,000 with a 200 pound Burmese python. 657 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,000 For holding her, just support the heaviest part of her body 658 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000 as best you can. 659 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000 Allow her to wrap and hold on to you. 660 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000 That's not easy, let me tell you. 661 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000 It's like trying to hold on to a bag of water. 662 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,000 A really heavy bag of water. 663 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000 Anytime you make a fast movement, 664 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000 she's going to react to you like a fast moving prey item. 665 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,000 And throw coils around you, wrap you up, and constrict you. 666 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,000 Well, I don't exactly feel safe. 667 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,000 In fact, I kind of feel like ducking right now. 668 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000 Myths may come and go, 669 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,000 but segues like that live forever. 670 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,000 When the guys tested the myth that a duck's quack doesn't echo, 671 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000 the shopping list was simple. 672 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,000 One quack. 673 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000 In other words, one duck. 674 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,000 Adam and Jamie took a trip to Sonoma County Liberty Duck Farm, 675 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,000 one of America's oldest. 676 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Adam, don't let their looks deceive you. 677 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,000 These are actually quite deadly. 678 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000 It was a duck shopper's Shangri-La, 679 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,000 but actually bagging a bargain proved problematic. 680 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000 And it's going from this side. 681 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000 You go down that side, I'll walk him down this way. 682 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,000 Until finally they cornered a pair for $10 apiece. 683 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,000 That wasn't so bad, was it? 684 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,000 That wasn't so bad. 685 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,000 But predictably, when the time came for the ducks to perform, 686 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000 they had an attack of stage fright. 687 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000 Quack, damn you. 688 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000 Eventually, Adam and Jamie solved the problem. 689 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Like the myth musters themselves, 690 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000 oh, maybe that makes it bringing them together. 691 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000 Ducks work best in pairs. 692 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000 That's astonishing how well that works. 693 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000 Oh, and by the way, a duck's quack does echo. 694 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,000 Well, I never, he said. 695 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,000 In another animal antique, 696 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,000 the guys had to find out how to get rid of O.D. skunk. 697 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,000 Simple enough, but where in the world of wildlife 698 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000 could they acquire a skunk's services? 699 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,000 Easy. 700 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,000 A quick phone call and two stunt skunks are on hire. 701 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000 Courtesy of critter control. 702 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000 Watch out everyone, I've got a loaded skunk. 703 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Oh, God. 704 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000 The skunks came cheap, 705 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,000 but Adam and Jamie couldn't get them to squirt for love or money. 706 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Come on, left lie, bud. 707 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Well, Jamie, once again, 708 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000 we've proved something radical on myth musters 709 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,000 that skunks apparently don't spray and you can't f**k them off. 710 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000 The stage-struck skunks were retired from the screen. 711 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,000 The myth was enveloped in the sour stench of failure, 712 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,000 but some world-class shopping saved the day 713 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,000 in the shape of synthetic skunk spray. 714 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,000 And it's not even out yet. 715 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000 A bargain at $12 a vial. 716 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,000 Woo! 717 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,000 Hey, come with me. 718 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000 I'm going to show you where to buy something 719 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000 that nearly all of you have asked me where to get. 720 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,000 Come on. 721 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000 In the myth of the airplane toilet stuck on you, 722 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000 Adam and Jamie consulted their myth-busting Bible, 723 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000 the little black book. 724 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000 Times, what did we say, 3PS? 725 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,000 Fans emailed in wanting to know where they could buy this 726 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000 a miracle of all things DIY. 727 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000 Perhaps not surprisingly, 728 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000 the answer is in major hardware stores, 729 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000 one of Adam's favorite shopping locations. 730 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,000 I can come to a hardware store every single day of the year. 731 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,000 There's never not something that I need in one of these places. 732 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000 This is the pocket ref. 733 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000 It's got everything in it, 734 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000 not only conversion charts and other sort of things that you would expect. 735 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000 It also has zip codes for the entire country, 736 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000 mineral contents of various metals, 737 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000 and even what to do with the sucking chest wound. 738 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000 This is like absolutely should be in everybody's toolbox. 739 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,000 Myth Busters shopping trips are nothing if not diverse. 740 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,000 From a hardware store to a fetish shop may be a huge leap for mankind, 741 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,000 but it's a small step for Adam and Jamie. 742 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,000 What do you think? Does it work? 743 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,000 Could be fun. I always wanted to be a little taller. 744 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000 It's just something about a sheer fabric with feathers on the end of it. 745 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,000 Perhaps surprisingly, 746 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,000 Foxy Lady is a regular Myth Busters retailer, 747 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,000 and Jamie seems to be as comfortable here as in a junkyard. 748 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,000 Often replicating urban legends can require that we get the exact thing 749 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000 that the original myth involved, 750 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000 and that can be virtually anything. 751 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000 The fact is that Adam and I are just as at home with a welder 752 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000 as we are with a sewing machine. 753 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,000 And so, you know, sometimes we have to go get a big chunk of steel. 754 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,000 Sometimes we have to get something a little more kinky. 755 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000 Like in the myth of running in the rain 756 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000 when latex jumpsuits were the order of the day. 757 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000 Have you ever worn latex before? 758 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000 I've never worn latex before. 759 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000 I've heard it takes a lot of powder. 760 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,000 How do you feel? 761 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000 I feel kind of sexy. 762 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:54,000 From latex to lingerie, Adam and Jamie have shopped for the lot. 763 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000 Should we get two? Two of each? 764 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,000 Why do we need two? 765 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,000 We'll look for each of us to wear. 766 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,000 Oh man, these panties had no idea what they were in for. 767 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:10,000 This is like where panties come when they've been very, very bad. 768 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,000 Rubbing ladies panties on car upholstery may seem suspect. 769 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,000 It's like a sea of rubbing and vinyl and wet car seats. 770 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000 It's like high school. 771 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:25,000 But when it's to test the myth that static can cause gas station explosions 772 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:32,000 everyone can relax in the knowledge that the myth busters are acting in the public interest. 773 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000 It's a case of if the myth fits, wear it. 774 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,000 Well, this is San Francisco after all. 775 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,000 A lot of people watch this show. 776 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:46,000 I'm sure some of them are going to be thinking about me wearing this particular piece of clothing item. 777 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000 Oh, I'm sure they are. 778 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000 I'd love to see it. 779 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000 I'd love to see it. 780 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,000 Jamie's recognizable by his regular uniform of white shirt and beret. 781 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000 But on occasion, he has let it all hang out. 782 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,000 At least it's sort of happy. 783 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000 Oh my God. 784 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,000 You actually think you're going to see me get in these, do you? 785 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,000 I don't think. I'm actually quite convinced of it. 786 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:19,000 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. 787 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,000 You look ridiculous. 788 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:25,000 This way, the ridicule happens completely and naturally. 789 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,000 Well, thank you. 790 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:34,000 They were testing the James Bond myth that a covering of gold paint means curtains. 791 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:40,000 So it was back to their favorite fashion outlet, S-Leather, for a pot of liquid latex. 792 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:45,000 Which, unfortunately for Jamie, would not stick to anything hairy. 793 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,000 You're going to have to shave everything. 794 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,000 I know. 795 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:56,000 So a baby smooth Jamie was lacquered in latex, much to the delight of his myth-busting pal. 796 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000 Go Adam. 797 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000 I'm having so much fun. 798 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,000 Oh yeah. 799 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,000 These things are kind of, they squeak when I walk. 800 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:11,000 Jamie donned his gold hotpants to cover what was left of his dignity, and every square inch of his skin was painted. 801 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,000 Alright. 802 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,000 So, careful about moving. 803 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000 140 over 110. 804 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,000 So that means my blood pressure had elevated. 805 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,000 Yeah. 806 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000 Suddenly, this myth seemed alarmingly plausible. 807 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,000 I mean, I think it's kind of dangerous myself. 808 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:28,000 Yeah. 809 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:35,000 My life signs are showing questionable numbers, as well as I certainly don't feel normal. 810 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:40,000 I feel like I'm basically about to become ill. 811 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000 Okay, that's just quite strange. 812 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,000 Well, that's weird. 813 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,000 That feels weird. 814 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,000 He would be the pain the most. 815 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000 It feels like I'm being skinned. 816 00:40:50,000 --> 00:41:02,000 Ballistics gel dummies have been through hell and back on MythBusters, but without them, many urban legends would remain untested. 817 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:07,000 The most common question I get about MythBusters is, what is Ballistics gel and where do I get it? 818 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,000 Well, we're going to show you. 819 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000 Getting it is not that difficult. 820 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,000 Su City, Iowa is the home of Jolita USA. 821 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,000 It comes in a powdered form like this. 822 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,000 Keeps forever. 823 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:23,000 This is a 50-pound package, and it's about $350. 824 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,000 50 pounds will make a lot of Ballistics gel in it. 825 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:33,000 Ballistics gel is used to replicate human flesh, and it must be mixed just right. 826 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,000 Look at that. 827 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,000 It's a thing of beauty. 828 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:41,000 Just like any other casting material, it works best if you add the powder to the water while you're mixing it. 829 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,000 So slowly start to stir and add the powder. 830 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,000 The weight ratio is 10 parts hot water to one part powder. 831 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:55,000 Now, just like when you're mixing normal gel in at home, you want all the gel in granules to be dissolved in the water. 832 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:02,000 Hot water helps speed up that process, and an automatic mixer we've found is completely necessary. 833 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000 You can't do this by hand. 834 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000 Here's one I prepared earlier. 835 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,000 Okay. 836 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,000 You'll notice it seems a little foamy. 837 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:14,000 So the first additive you add is cinnamon leaf oil. 838 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000 It's actually, it's amazing. 839 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000 It's an anti-foaming agent. 840 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,000 It dissolves the bubbles, and it smells kind of nice too. 841 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,000 The key to good Ballistics gel is keeping it cool. 842 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:33,000 What we usually do is we usually pack it in ice overnight or put it in a refrigerator in order to set it up. 843 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,000 It's only Ballistics gel if it's within a certain temperature range. 844 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:44,000 This stuff melts under hot sunlight, and when they use it for calibrating weapons and Ballistics and things like that, 845 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:49,000 they actually can only use it within a certain range and for a certain period of time. 846 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,000 Above that, it gets too soft and things will move too far through it. 847 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,000 The last thing we're going to add to the Ballistics gel is propionic acid. 848 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,000 It is an acid, so you have to wear gloves when you're using it, 849 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,000 but it will act as a preservative for the Ballistics gel. 850 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,000 Here you go. 851 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,000 And that's how it's done. 852 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:20,000 You don't have to email me anymore, because I'm not going to reply. 853 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,000 I'm sorry. 854 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:40,000 But the nuts and bolts of busting myths can be found in places like triangle machinery, 855 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:46,000 where all sorts of hardcore hardware and industrial gadgets can be bought off the shelf. 856 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,000 We often only have a few days to build something, 857 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:55,000 and a lot of times by the time a normal engineer would get done drawing it on paper or in the computer, 858 00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:00,000 I've already got the damn thing built, because I can come here, just grab stuff off the shelves, 859 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,000 start putting things together, get a feel for actually how they're going to work. 860 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,000 It's a part of the process. 861 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,000 This is my Tinker toy set. 862 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,000 Linear bearings. 863 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,000 Here's a nice big laser. 864 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,000 This would be something like a screw jack. 865 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,000 This shaft goes up and down. 866 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:24,000 I'll start to just assemble stuff, and pretty soon you've got a machine that actually works. 867 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,000 You never know what we're going to need on MythBusters. 868 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,000 Sometimes it's weird plumbing. 869 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,000 Magnets. 870 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,000 Hinges. 871 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,000 Sometimes it's little weird electronic stuff. 872 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,000 Sometimes it's big stuff. 873 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:43,000 Occasionally the guys have needed enormous and highly expensive machinery for their Myths. 874 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:50,000 To procure such budget busters, Adam and Jamie have had to raise their shopping game to dizzy heights. 875 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:56,000 Finding a boom lift to make a human catapult is a pretty tall order, 876 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,000 especially when you're looking for a freebie. 877 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,000 But the MythBusters were up to the task. 878 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,000 I think this is great. 879 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,000 This is like a $50,000 machine or something, brand new. 880 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,000 It works. 881 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,000 It's everything we need. 882 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:16,000 Who knows, with a little tweaking it might be just a perfectly functional machine. 883 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,000 But some days you just can't give a boom lift away. 884 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:25,000 Jamie decided that this one wasn't long enough, so they said thanks, but no thanks. 885 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:30,000 What are our other choices and is there one with a longer boom on it? 886 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,000 The words gift horse and mouth come to mind, 887 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:39,000 but amazingly another bigger boom lift was just around the corner, and this one was free too. 888 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:45,000 Basically this boom has reached the end of its boom lift life, so I'm not going to fix it. 889 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,000 I could see someone having a lot of fun with this, getting into trouble. 890 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,000 It'd be very dangerous, very quick. 891 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,000 Just what the MythBusters like to hear, so John got himself a deal, 892 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,000 and the guys got themselves a very big toy. 893 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,000 Guys, I think this one's it. 894 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,000 You know, that arm really sticks out there quite a ways. 895 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,000 It's a heck of a lever. 896 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,000 Three, two, one. 897 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,000 That was? 898 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,000 Yeah! 899 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,000 The myth ended perfectly. 900 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:26,000 Buster got busted, and so did the boom lift. 901 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,000 I don't think we're going to be returning this lift. 902 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,000 That's why nobody hires out gear to the MythBusters. 903 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,000 They know they'll never get it back in one piece. 904 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:40,000 In fact, it's almost guaranteed to end up at the junkyard. 905 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:41,000 Hey! 906 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,000 There it is! 907 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:47,000 Like at Sucosta Metals, Adam stumbles across a MythBusters relic. 908 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,000 It's like seeing an old friend. 909 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,000 This is our cement truck. 910 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,000 We used this in an experiment. 911 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,000 See, we filled it with cement. 912 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,000 We couldn't blow it up. 913 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,000 These guys took it from us. 914 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,000 This is great! 915 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:09,000 The myth entailed cleaning out a cement truck with dynamite. 916 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,000 So rental was out of the question. 917 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,000 But it didn't faze Ron Nunes of Pacific Cement. 918 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,000 So apparently you've got some cement mixers that we can have our way with. 919 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,000 Yeah, you got about four of them. 920 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:22,000 Four of them. 921 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,000 I'll give you four. 922 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:24,000 Put it on the end. 923 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,000 Just walk down the end and it'll be fine. 924 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,000 I just purchased eleven brand new ones. 925 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,000 What does a new cement truck cost? 926 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,000 About $134,000 each. 927 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000 Well, that's all? 928 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:39,000 That's exactly $134,000 more than the guys had to spend on one. 929 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,000 So, lucky they were free. 930 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:45,000 It was like all the Mythbusters Christmases come at once. 931 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,000 Have you noticed the nice seat? 932 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:50,000 The trucks had seen better days, 933 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,000 but they were perfect for what the build team had in mind. 934 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,000 And as things turned out, they used all four of them. 935 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,000 I don't like this one. 936 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,000 I want to blow that one up. 937 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:06,000 Cleaning a cement truck's barrel using dynamite eventually proved feasible, 938 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,000 but not as spectacular as they'd hoped. 939 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:14,000 If we don't blow up the truck, we're going to have to drive it off a cliff or something. 940 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,000 So they took one last cement truck, a whole heap of explosives, 941 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,000 and did what they love to do most, to big, expensive things. 942 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,000 They blew it up. 943 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:25,000 Hey! 944 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,000 Woo! 945 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,000 He's a truck coming down, man. 946 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:30,000 Where'd it go? 947 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,000 It's all gone. 948 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:32,000 I don't know. 949 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,000 I don't know. 950 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:34,000 I don't know. 951 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:35,000 I don't know. 952 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,000 I don't know. 953 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,000 Where'd it go? 954 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,000 It's all gone. 955 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:39,000 I don't know. 956 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,000 I left it right here. 957 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,000 The bus just won cement trucks here. 958 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,000 So there you have it, where we get our stuff. 959 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,000 Well, just a small taste, actually. 960 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,000 There's a lot more places we really shop. 961 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,000 And remember, even though you see us do it, don't try it at home.