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On this episode of Mythbusters, there's peril on the high seas as the team tests out cures

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for seasickness.

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Well, they may work for Barry Mantelow, but they don't work for Kraft for me.

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And Adam and Jamie hit the road for a fuel efficiency special.

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That's it, I just petered out.

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Plus, the Mythbusters star in their very own cartoon, featuring shotgun shenanigans.

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It's time we're going for total annihilation.

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Can shoving your finger into a gun barrel really save your life?

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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Jamie Heineman.

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This is gonna kill you.

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Tori Balachy.

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Very excited about this.

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Carrie Byron.

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Look, he cracked into a skull.

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And Grant Imajara.

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Don't say anything.

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Between them, over 50 years of special effects experience.

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That's what I'm talking about.

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They don't just tell the myths.

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They put them to the test.

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Whenever the Mythbusters have sailed for science, Adam's dirty little secret has been shocked

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up.

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He and the sea just don't agree.

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And it's time to find a solution.

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Well, Adam, as we've seen, you have a problem with seasickness.

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We definitely need to find something for you, but things that are pharmacological often have side effects like drowsiness and dizziness and things that you don't want to do in a table saw.

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Well, I mean, there are also a lot of non-pharmaceutical remedies out there.

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I mean, there's wrist straps, there's electrical stimulation, there's sprays.

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These days, there are non-pharmaceutical cures of plenty.

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And the Mythbusters are gonna put them to the test.

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But the ocean is a fickle place.

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One day it's chuck-tastic, but the next could be mirror-flat.

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Sadly for Adam, Jamie's got a plan that guarantees the gratuitous gagging.

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I think what we need to do is something more like what NASA does.

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That is build a chair that moves you around in a certain way that's designed to make you seasick.

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And then every day we'll come back in and try, you know, a brand new remedy.

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You sound really excited about this experiment.

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I'm really looking forward to it.

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When it comes to making people puke, NASA are the experts.

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They've got the zero-gravity plane famously called the Vomit Comet.

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But believe it or not, the real spew machine is the seasick chair.

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At just seven revolutions per minute, it's surprisingly effective.

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And Cari's copying this lethal NASA design that the team can then ride right here in the shop.

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But why exactly do people get seasick?

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Well, Adam, you know, you're not alone in getting motion sickness.

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Fishermen get it, navy personnel get it, and our researchers even turned up that 90% of NASA's astronauts get it.

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Well, it is always a relief not to be alone in a specific ailment, but what causes motion sickness?

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Why are so many people affected by it?

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You're on a boat or something, and your eyes are telling you that the walls and the furniture, the table is all stationary.

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But your other senses, your inner ear, your fine muscle controls, all of those things are telling you something else.

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So it's this confusing input of signals.

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And the result is that I throw up.

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It's all down to the senses not singing from the same song sheet.

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And the poor old brain being barraged with conflicting information, well, just can't compute.

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Only people who get seasick can help find a cure that works.

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So before the experiment can start, the whole team must go for a spin to see who feels the effects.

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And likely spewer, Adam, is up first.

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I gotta tell you, it's already pretty disorienting.

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Alright, Jamie's gonna time it, and I'm gonna tell you what to do with your head.

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Forward, back, left, right.

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The time it takes NASA to induce seasickness varies depending on the victim.

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I'm starting to sweat.

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Right, back.

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Let's stop it.

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So you're claiming this is it for you?

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I'm claiming I already feel pretty queasy.

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After three and a half minutes, Adam staggers off knowing he's just become test subject number one.

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And will he be joined by Jamie?

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Given that this machine is designed to make you sick, I would say that it's entirely possible that I'll get sick.

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He will ride that chair, he will swallow his vomit, he will do whatever it takes to keep the myth up that he is completely unsusceptible.

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So we're never gonna get any symptoms out of him no matter what.

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His self-control is gargantuan.

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Right.

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But Carrie's got other ideas.

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Left.

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She's trying everything to turn Jamie green.

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Back, forward, back, forward, back, left, forward, right.

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After half an hour, how's he doing?

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I'm kind of like bored a little bit.

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He's just a little too amused with this.

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It's starting to get me off.

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That's it.

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You made it.

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With Sea Dog Jamie as fit as a fiddle, Adam's still waiting for a barf buddy.

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Sorry.

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But, worryingly for him, neither Carrie, nor Tori.

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This is fun.

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I can do this all day.

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So come to the chair.

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Grant!

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That just leaves Grant.

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We've got a plan for you.

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Forward, back, forward, back.

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It's an evil plan that soon seems to be working.

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There's something coming up in my throat.

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But, forward.

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I'm not in any immediate danger of spewing.

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Forward.

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No?

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Well, ten minutes later, that all changes.

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Uh-oh.

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So Grant's going to be Adam's puke partner.

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But before the clinical trials can begin, the team is going to hit the road with another myth.

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Well, it looks like we've got another driving fuel efficiency myth, a classic.

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This time, the myth is that driving your pickup truck with the tailgate down

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gives you better fuel efficiency than driving with it up.

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I've been driving a pickup for the past ten years and I live it up.

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Well, we're going to find out whether or not you've been wasting money, which I know you hate to do.

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Is tailgate down really more efficient than tailgate up?

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To test this driver dilemma, Adam and Jamie are going to drive to the desert.

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And back to see who runs out of gas first.

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The mythbusters have acquired two identical new pickups.

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Each vehicle has done the same mileage.

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Has the same tire pressure?

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35.

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We'll be carrying the same weight.

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Hey!

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226.8.

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226.8.

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You really had to go.

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And to ensure equal fuel consumption, Grant has even devised a set of driving rules.

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Number one, you must maintain the legal speed limit.

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Number two, all acceleration must be done by the cruise control.

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Number three, no drafting so you don't take advantage of any aerodynamic advantage.

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Number four, windows up and if you have air conditioning, it's got to be exactly the same in both cars.

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And away we go.

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That's the theory, so it's time to put this pickup parable into practice.

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And Jamie's leading off with the tailgate up.

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Carver speed limit is 50 miles per hour.

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Over.

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Roger that.

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I will cruise control at exactly 50 miles per hour.

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I am also on cruise control at 50 miles an hour as well.

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Thank you.

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The mythbusters are in for the long haul.

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These pickups are filled to the brim.

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That's over 30 gallons.

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It's going to be a hell of a trip.

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Later, Adam spews for science.

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Stop, stop.

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I hate this **** chair.

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But next, the team goes cartoon crazy.

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Well, I see you guys have gotten into the gun cabinet again.

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Are you up to no good or is this something to do with a myth?

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Well, we've chosen quite a fun project.

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It's an old classic from the sci-fi's, the movies, and definitely cartoons.

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It's the finger in the barrel.

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The idea is that if somebody points a gun at you, you can take your finger and stick it right in the barrel.

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When they pull the trigger, your hand will be magically saved.

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The gun will explode and injure or possibly kill the shooter.

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Well, guns, cartoons, maybe some big bangs.

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Sounds like fun.

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It's a cartoon classic.

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Who are the Myth Toons?

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Hunter Heinemann.

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Crack, damn you.

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And Savage Squirrels.

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Is my missing an eyebrow?

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Our sharp shooter is on the warpath.

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Stalking a snack-happy squirrel.

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But the ginger rodent has a life-saving trick up his sleeve.

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Faced with certain death, he plugs the barrel.

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And the hunter's plans literally backfire.

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But is this loony myth constrained to cartoons or does it really happen?

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Well, what's going on here?

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Are we going to just buy a bunch of guns and start plugging the barrels up and see what happens?

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I thought maybe we'd start with a shotgun, since that's the one that you always see in the cartoons.

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We're definitely going to need a hand.

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I'm thinking of maybe taking a Ballistics Gel casting and giving it some rigidity by casting a skeleton inside of it.

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And we're going to need to see what happens to the shooter if and when the gun explodes, so we'll need a bust.

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Well, it sounds good to me. Let's get started on it.

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They're going to make a Ballistics Gel bust of a shooter and line him up behind a shotgun.

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Then they'll plug the barrel with an artificial finger.

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Pull the trigger and see who comes off worse.

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So it's all hands to the pump.

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Hey, Tari, can you come give me a hand with something?

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What do you need?

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I actually need your hand. I'm going to make a Ballistics Gel model of a hand.

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And so you need a hand?

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I need a hand with my hand.

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Tari's lending a hand for what will become a Ballistics Gel finger that'll be stuffed into the shotgun barrel.

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Ooh, that looks like it came out good.

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Yeah, no ripping. All right.

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Next it's in with the plaster.

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As Carrie beats out the bubbles, Tari and Grant decide to get ahead.

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Okay, so why are we at the makeup shop?

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Well, we're going to do a live cast and we need the materials to do that.

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And we've decided that you're the one that we're going to do the live cast on, so let's go.

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Grant's been volunteered to be the live cast model for their Ballistics Gel shooter.

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How you doing?

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Hi guys.

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I'm Tari.

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Look, Joe, Joe Quartz. Nice to meet you.

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Grant, nice to meet you.

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All right, we need to do a live cast of Grant and he doesn't want to shave his head for some reason.

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No problem, we use a ball paint for that.

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It'll completely cover up your head.

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Great.

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All your hair is spared.

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Start from the back.

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Yeah, there you go.

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Dude.

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It's a good look, right?

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Yeah.

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Can you wear this out?

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Yeah.

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Can I borrow this for the weekend?

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Thank you.

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Oh, oh.

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There it is, mustache.

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Yeah, so when you're ready to cast, what you want to do is...

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A little bit of a drummer.

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You'll need somebody else to come by and draw a line exactly where you want.

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Great. Good.

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Are we done?

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Yeah, done. That looks great.

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Okay.

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But back at the shop, does Grant really know what he's letting himself in for?

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I've never had a live cast done of me before, but in the 12 or so years that I worked for Lucasfilm,

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I portrayed many costume characters and I've been encased head to toe in fiberglass.

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So this, I think this will be a walk in the park compared to that.

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Now that's a strange feeling.

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Just like they do in the movies, Tari's first going to cover Grant in blue mold mixture

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and then plaster him with plaster.

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Let's have a safety word in case you start freaking out.

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Oh, like...

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Like, like help get this stuff off me?

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Something like that.

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Yeah, I like help.

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Help's good to do.

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That's easy to remember.

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Okay.

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Easy to remember, but unlikely to be needed because these guys are trained professionals.

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Oh, that is just as nasty as I expected it to feel.

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Slowly, Grant begins his transformation into the creature from the blue lagoon.

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If you're okay, I want you to grant twice.

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I think he's alright.

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From a grunting swamp thing, Tari switches horror genre as the mummy returns.

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It's really frightening from this side.

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And with one of the straws falling out of his nose, it's here where panic can really set in.

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Coming up on Mythbusters.

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Can we get Grant out of this mold?

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The Mythbusters are investigating a classic cartoon calamity.

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Can shoving your fingers into a shotgun barrel cause an explosive backfire?

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Kari's been modeling a finger that she's going to shove into the shotgun barrel.

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While Tari's been making a model shooter,

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in this case, a live cast of Grant.

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Luckily for Grant, Tari has done this before.

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One time I had to do an actress's legs.

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I was making a mermaid suit and that was probably one of the times where I was most nervous

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because she was very good looking and I didn't know her.

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And you know, there were certain areas that you have to put the material on,

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but you're just kind of cautious about it.

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Okay dude, you ready to come out?

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For Tari, there's no more beating about the bush.

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It's time to rescue Grant.

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After some careful slicing and dicing, Grant finally busts out.

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The last part was difficult wasn't it?

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As Tari heads on towards a ballistics gel version,

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Grant's being honored for his bravery with a trip to the police firing range.

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Because someone needs to check that the Mythbusters shotgun still works.

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Bingo!

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This sure ain't no water pistol.

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If it's not touching you, it's going to kick you.

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In three, two, one.

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But best to double check.

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Much better, huh?

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Fortunately, Grant soon remembers that he's also here to ask gun expert Alan Normandy

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what might cause a banana peel explosion.

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And it's all to do with pressure.

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Whenever a bullet is being shoved down a barrel essentially,

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it's being shoved by the expanding gas.

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So as the gunpowder burns, the gases expand.

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Now if you plug that barrel, now you're not giving the escaping gases anywhere to go.

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So it's going to go ahead and find some way out.

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So let's get this straight.

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When a bullet is fired, a small explosion occurs.

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As the gas expands, it forces the bullet through and out of the barrel.

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But if the barrel is sealed shut, the gas has no way to escape

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and the pressure can build until the gun ruptures.

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We need to test this at MythBusters.

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What do you think is going to happen when we take our ballistics gel finger

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and put that in the barrel of a 12-gate shotgun?

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I don't think you can create a sufficient seal to contain the pressure

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just with a gelatin finger, a chicken finger or any other kind of finger.

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To get this myth to work, they're going to need to pull their finger out.

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Back with the Tailgate Challenge. Adam and Jamie are halfway through.

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They've driven over 300 miles and yet so far there appears to be no difference

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between tailgate up and tailgate down.

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So how much gas did you use?

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Just about a half tank.

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Yeah, I'm spot on a half.

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These things are like behemoths in the tank department.

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Well, there's something for them to dream about until dawn breaks

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and they set off once more.

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If the myth is true, then tailgate up Jamie should run out of gas

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well before tailgate down Adam.

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But eight hours and 200 miles later, there's a surprise in store.

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That's it. I just petered out.

302
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We're about 40 miles outside of San Francisco just in the Althamon Pass

303
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and I just finally ran out of gas with the tailgate down.

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As Adam refuels to get home, tailgate up Jamie carries on.

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Remember that these cars were carbon copies and they were driven in an identical way.

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Yet remarkably, tailgate up runs dry nearly 30 miles further down the track.

307
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Yeah, it's definitely out. I'm keying it off over.

308
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Because it's another counterintuitive result, Adam and Jamie head back to base to delve deeper.

309
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I don't think we're done testing this.

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I think we have to actually come up with a way to visualize how the air moves around the truck.

311
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I'm just not sure how we should do it.

312
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Well, rather than build a gigantic wind tunnel, maybe we should do what NASA does

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and build a water tunnel kind of version in miniature.

314
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Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.

315
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Thanks to NASA, they're building a donut-shaped tank that'll have water flowing around it,

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courtesy of an outboard engine.

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Within the main current will sit a scale model pickup truck.

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Once it's filled with water, they'll add food dye to the flow

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and hopefully will visualize the amount of drag created by the tailgate up and the tailgate down.

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Okay.

321
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That'll make it work fine.

322
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But as Jamie adds more and more food dye, the results aren't exactly crystal clear.

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According to the designers of these trucks, there's a sort of a circular pillow of air

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that forms behind the cab of the truck when the tailgate is up.

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And that is known as a separated bubble, or if you're really nerdy, a locked vortex flow.

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What that actual bubble is doing is that nice circular motion of slow moving air

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is actually keeping the fast moving air from contacting the truck,

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making it move right over the truck.

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When you move the tailgate down, that actually breaks down that bubble

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and the fast moving air gets caught and brought into the bed of the pickup producing drag.

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Believe it or not.

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Well, with the dye, it was hard to believe.

333
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So Adam tries again with oats instead.

334
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The vortex there that's in the bed of the truck is gathering oats slowly

335
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but at a very sort of steady measured pace and you can see they're mostly just staying there in that pocket.

336
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That's the elusive, a separated bubble that deflects the oncoming wind over the raised tailgate.

337
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Alright, I'm going to drop the tray down and we'll see if we can spot any difference.

338
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Okay.

339
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I think what I see is that it's gathering them at a much faster rate

340
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and it's right about here, they're hitting this critical point where I can see them kind of falling off

341
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and joining in with their friends.

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The lowered tailgate bursts the separated bubble.

343
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So the wind is pulled down right onto the truck bed, creating big time drag.

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It really is a less efficient way to drive.

345
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Well, I don't know what else we can do.

346
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I mean, we've got our own experimental data that verifies that it's better to drive with your pickup tailgate up than it is down.

347
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I just wouldn't have guessed that. It's totally surprising.

348
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What are you going to do?

349
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Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to wait for their emails to come.

350
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Coming right up, the search for a seasickness solution.

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Adam and Grant are putting their lunches on the line as the Mythbusters seek a seasickness solution.

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Each day they're going to test a different non-pharmaceutical remedy.

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And first up is the homeopathic tongue tingler.

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That burned!

355
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So apparently the directions are a simple way to get there.

356
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But ten minutes in and five sprays later, it's not going well.

357
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Grant, would you rely on this remedy in a seasick situation?

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If I were out on the open ocean, this wouldn't be my only choice.

359
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Good job because soon after, things turn nasty.

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I'm going to go get a new one.

361
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I'm going to get a new one.

362
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,800
I'm going to get a new one.

363
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,800
I'm going to get a new one.

364
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,800
Soon after, things turn nasty.

365
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,800
There's a bucket in front of us.

366
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Well that remedy doesn't work.

367
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So the tongue spray clearly doesn't float Grant's bow.

368
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Next!

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But Adam's not having much joy either.

370
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Just four minutes and he's had enough.

371
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,800
Alright let's turn it up.

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You look a little green.

373
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I feel a little green.

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After the boys make a full recovery, it's trial number two.

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Next up in our quest for a non-pharmaceutical remedy for seasickness.

376
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:10,800
We've got these little wrist straps, which I think I'm supposed to wear on my wrists.

377
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And supposedly Barry Mantelow doesn't travel anywhere without them

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and maybe I won't either after this test.

379
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They're especially effective when sailing to the Copacabana.

380
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,800
I feel better already.

381
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,800
Alright let's bring out this view.

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This time Adam spins first.

383
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,800
You're starting to like it.

384
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,800
There's nothing to like about this.

385
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:41,800
And sure enough, 90 seconds later...

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These aren't working at all.

387
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,800
Let's stop.

388
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,800
It's all instantaneous today, I don't know why.

389
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,800
Well they may work for Barry Mantelow, but they don't work for crap for me.

390
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And neither do they work for Grant.

391
00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,800
Okay that's it.

392
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:06,800
So it's chair two, Remedy's Zip.

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00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,800
Tori and Carrie have been building model body parts to help test

394
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whether shoving your fingers down a gun barrel can save your life.

395
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,800
This smells like crap.

396
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,800
And with the ballistics gel body parts chilling in the fridge,

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the teen turns the heat up on safety.

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00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,800
My job for this myth is going to be to make a remote firing mechanism

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since there's potential that the barrel is going to explode.

400
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,800
We don't want to have anybody nearby.

401
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,800
He's designing a remote controlled trigger pull

402
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,800
which means that no one needs to be in the shooting bunker to fire the gun.

403
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,800
But does it work?

404
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Perfectly.

405
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With Grant you get two for the price of one

406
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because his ballistics gel counterpart is ready to be demolded.

407
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,800
Oh, someone's head's going to roll for this.

408
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,800
Sabotage.

409
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,800
Grant's proving to be one big pain in the neck.

410
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:28,800
And Carrie's been handed the same problem.

411
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Luckily her second hand makes amends.

412
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Oh, yes, it's the best one yet.

413
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,800
Oh my God, look at this one.

414
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,800
Look how cool this looks.

415
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,800
You can totally see the skeleton inside.

416
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:50,800
With test time approaching, the team are one hand down and short by a head.

417
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,800
So Tari decides to recycle previous ballistics models.

418
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It's faster and harder to screw up.

419
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:07,800
And sure enough, with Adam and Jamie's help, the new Grant has come out in one piece.

420
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Little Imahara.

421
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,800
Looks like the doctor didn't reshape his head when he came out.

422
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,800
It'll be fine.

423
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,800
The last ingredient is ready.

424
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With the radio control shotgun,

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Buster complete with new hands,

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00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,800
and the ballistics shooter all locked and loaded in the bunker,

427
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the myth busting can begin.

428
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,800
Next up, the finger in barrel.

429
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,800
The barrel myth gets fired.

430
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,800
The myth busters have gone cartoon crazy.

431
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,800
Can fingers really stop a shotgun?

432
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,800
All the ingredients are ready,

433
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so let the firing commence.

434
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With the first test, Buster's gel finger is squeezed into the barrel.

435
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,800
Please do not try this at home.

436
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,800
This is test number one.

437
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Finger in a barrel, ballistics gel finger.

438
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,800
Everybody ready?

439
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,800
In three, two, one.

440
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:35,800
Oh.

441
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,800
Oh, hey, his hands go up.

442
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,800
Well, not only did it destroy the finger, it blew apart the hand.

443
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,800
All the blood is a little stomp of a wrist.

444
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,800
I don't think there's exactly an effective way to stop a bullet.

445
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:54,800
So for test one, Buster's whole hand was blown to smithereens.

446
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,800
Let's see that again.

447
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,800
Big bang, but no banana barrel.

448
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,800
Just an horrific injury to Buster.

449
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,800
And Grant the shooter gets not a scratch.

450
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,800
We're going to have to use a bigger plug.

451
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,800
We're going to go with another ballistics wax hand.

452
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:19,800
This time it's a little more robust,

453
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,800
but his test two's hand robust enough.

454
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:29,800
Sink these off in three, two, one.

455
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,800
The gun is clearly still intact, and his hand is totally gone again.

456
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,800
Something doesn't surprise me about that.

457
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,800
Dude, come here.

458
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,800
Look at the very tip of the barrel.

459
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:45,800
Aw, he darned.

460
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,800
The barrel has actually changed shape.

461
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,800
Do you guys see the barrel?

462
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,800
Oh, yes!

463
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,800
It is a full-on Bugs Bunny moment.

464
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,800
Man, that was enough pressure in the barrel to cause it to mushroom out like that.

465
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,800
That's amazing.

466
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,800
Adam's getting a little animated.

467
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:08,800
The finger did have an effect, but it's hardly cartoon comedy.

468
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,800
For this myth to be true, we have three very important criteria.

469
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One, the finger has to remain intact.

470
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,800
Two, the gun itself has to be the thing that explodes.

471
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,800
And three, the shooter has to be the one that's injured or killed.

472
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,800
None of this happened.

473
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,800
The finger blew off.

474
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,800
The end of the rifle just ballooned a little bit.

475
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,800
And the shooter's totally fine.

476
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,800
So at this point, I could call this myth busted.

477
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:44,800
Adam gets seasickness so badly that he vowed to find a solution.

478
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:49,800
So he and Grant have become chuck chumps as they test out different cures.

479
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:55,800
But they're avoiding regular medicine because they want a remedy that is side effect free.

480
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,800
And today, it's ginger pills.

481
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,800
So you took your ginger tablets an hour ago?

482
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:02,800
I did.

483
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:03,800
You're all set to go?

484
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:04,800
Yeah.

485
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:10,800
The roots of ginger have been used by far eastern sailors for centuries.

486
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,800
And for Adam, ginger seems to be working.

487
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,800
Are you feeling any signs of nausea?

488
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,800
Uh, no.

489
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:20,800
Nothing?

490
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,800
Maybe this one works.

491
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,800
It seems ginger has made Adam impervious to nausea.

492
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:34,800
Even the sickening width of Carrie's sneakers has no effect.

493
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,800
I mean, at this point, I'm trying to think of things that are sickening.

494
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:44,800
Like when you throw up and you can taste it in your nose and you've got to blow it out of your nose, that kind of stuff.

495
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,800
Still not doing anything.

496
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,800
After 25 minutes of thinking sick-inducing thoughts,

497
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,800
it's all smiles for Adam.

498
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:55,800
Good job.

499
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,800
And the same is true for Grant.

500
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,800
He does a full half hour with no illness at all.

501
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,800
Ginger, at least for these guys, gets the thumbs up.

502
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:13,800
Next day, it's the final non-pharmaceutical test, the electric stimulation wristband.

503
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:15,800
God, that feels weird.

504
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,800
I feel it all the way up through my two middle fingers.

505
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:25,800
Small shocks on the P6 acupuncture point can relieve the effects of seasickness in some sufferers.

506
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:31,800
It's a newfangled remedy, but for Adam, it's the same old story.

507
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:34,800
No, we've got to stop.

508
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:35,800
Stop.

509
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,800
Grant too feels little effect.

510
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:52,800
It seems that both Adam and Grant are suffering the age-old problem of clinical trials, mind games.

511
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,800
But Jamie has a cunning plan.

512
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,800
Jamie, I've been thinking about this a little bit.

513
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,800
How do we know they're not fooling themselves into believing that the remedies are not working?

514
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,800
There's a tried-and-true and very simple way of dealing with that, and that's called the placebo.

515
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:13,800
So what we're going to do is give them something that we're going to tell them is an over-the-counter pharmaceutical remedy

516
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,800
that they'll be thinking that if anything works this well,

517
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:22,800
and what we're actually going to be giving them is something useless like a vitamin or something else.

518
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,800
That's clever. Vitamins are useless?

519
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,800
Well, for seasickness.

520
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:36,800
So this time, Adam thinks he's taken a regular drug treatment, but in fact, he's had a vitamin.

521
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:43,800
Will his brain trick his body into believing that this remedy works, or will he get as sick as ever?

522
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,800
Oh, stop, stop.

523
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,800
I hate this sh** chair.

524
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,800
Well, you're looking at three minutes and 35 seconds.

525
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,800
No psychological effects with Adam. What you see is what you get.

526
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,800
But Grant...

527
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,800
Spin me, baby.

528
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:19,800
Twenty minutes in, and it's this point that Grant usually begs for mercy, but not today.

529
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:26,800
This is among the most effective, if not the most effective remedy that I've had so far.

530
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:33,800
He's fallen for the placebo, which means his previous results can no longer be trusted.

531
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,800
What's the result with you on this one, Grant?

532
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,800
I think it works.

533
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:39,800
You think it works?

534
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:45,800
I'm feeling like it was trying to do something, but it was just staying down there.

535
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,800
I apologize for this. It wasn't my idea.

536
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:57,800
But what you just took was B12, was a placebo.

537
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,800
Oh!

538
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:05,800
At the very moment that Jamie revealed that what we had received was a placebo, my very first thought was, ah, crap.

539
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,800
We have to do this again.

540
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,800
But only once more, today with the real medicinal drug.

541
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,800
And sure enough, it works.

542
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:25,800
I can definitely feel the pharmaceuticals in my body, and I can feel how they're not quite holding back all the sick feelings.

543
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,800
They're just holding back enough that, you know, I'm functional.

544
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,800
Although not that functional.

545
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,800
Sorry, I actually just fell asleep there for a second.

546
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:42,800
Seasickness has been a real problem for Adam, but will that still be the case?

547
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,800
After six stomach churning tests, the results are in.

548
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:54,800
Well, it looks like the pharmaceutical remedy definitely worked on both of you, but you both look a little loopy.

549
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,800
I don't think this is going to be the best working condition.

550
00:36:58,800 --> 00:36:59,800
No?

551
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:00,800
No.

552
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:09,800
So did we find a non-pharmaceutical remedy that'll work for either of you that's not going to leave you looking like you guys do?

553
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:14,800
I think the only thing that really worked without any major side effects was a ginger pill.

554
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,800
The next time I go out on a boat, I'm definitely taking those.

555
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,800
I mean, this is a really hard thing to test.

556
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:26,800
Seasickness is very individual, but I think that we can pretty much say ginger pills are plausible.

557
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,800
I would agree.

558
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,800
Stay with us as the cartoon caber heads towards calamity.

559
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,800
I think this thing is going to explode right now.

560
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:40,800
I hope.

561
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:58,800
Home on the range, the Mythbusters have shown that plugging a shotgun barrel with your fingers will not cause the gun to explosively backfire.

562
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,800
But they're not giving up just yet.

563
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:10,800
With fingers busted, Tari gets down and dirty with another real life gun obstruction, soil.

564
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,800
Okay, that'll do.

565
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,800
Although how real life this is is debatable.

566
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,800
I think this thing is going to explode right now.

567
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:20,800
I hope.

568
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,800
I want to see some action.

569
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:28,800
With eight inches of mud, could this be the real dirty Harry?

570
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,800
In three.

571
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,800
Three, two, one.

572
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:38,800
It looks good.

573
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:39,800
Oh!

574
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,800
Now that's a result.

575
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:44,800
That?

576
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:45,800
Look at this.

577
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,800
It looks like they've hit pay dirt.

578
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:55,800
The shooter's fine, but the gun's been soiled.

579
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,800
But not as soiled as they'd hoped.

580
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:05,800
There's some peeling back, but to get the cartoon banana, they're going to have to go for broke.

581
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:12,800
So they're abandoning real life scenarios as they prepare to ram a steel spike into the gun.

582
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,800
And this time, they're making sure it's sealed completely shut.

583
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,800
In keeping with the Mythbusters ethos, we have tested the myth, we have busted the myth,

584
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,800
and now we're going to see if we can prove the circumstances.

585
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,800
We've plugged the barrel with the steel spike that we've welded into the end of the barrel.

586
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:37,800
If anything will make it split like a banana and blow up in the operator's face, it's this.

587
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,800
No one in their right mind would fire a rifle in this configuration.

588
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,800
Please leave this one to the experts.

589
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,800
This time we're going for total annihilation.

590
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,800
In three, two, one.

591
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:56,800
Something happened.

592
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,800
Something happened, but it was no banana ring.

593
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,800
The gun simply shot the welded spike straight out.

594
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,800
Yeah, but this isn't going to make the cartoon hunter's face turn black and burn his hair off.

595
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,800
No dirt was more interesting than a steel plug.

596
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:16,800
Granted, we didn't get something dramatic here, but I think this is the most interesting result

597
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,800
because effectively the gun contained the explosion.

598
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,800
That it did.

599
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:28,800
It seems that modern shotguns are just too strong for this myth.

600
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,800
They're manufactured to withstand banana peeling.

601
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:38,800
But before busting the myth completely, Jamie has one last trick up his sleeve.

602
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,800
A squib load in a high-powered rifle.

603
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,800
A squib load is a round that has so little gunpowder

604
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,800
that it fails to exit the barrel.

605
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:54,800
If left unclear, the next bullet can have disastrous consequences.

606
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,800
And disastrous consequences is what this team thrives on.

607
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,800
Jamie's making a myth-busters squib load.

608
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,800
He's carefully removed the metal slug from the round

609
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:12,800
and is safely hammering it into the end of their carcano rifle.

610
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,800
Do not try this at home.

611
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,800
That ought to do it.

612
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,800
Well, there's a problem.

613
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:24,800
Grant's remote control doesn't fit the new gun, so they're going with the old-fashioned method.

614
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,800
Carcano rifles squib load in three, two, one.

615
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:32,800
Woo!

616
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:33,800
That sounded good, man.

617
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,800
That was no misfire.

618
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,800
No misfire, but was there a banana backfire?

619
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:40,800
Shooters still intact.

620
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:41,800
Hey!

621
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,800
Oh, no, that looks pretty good at the end.

622
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:45,800
What happened to the barrel?

623
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,800
Oh, you got a little bulge.

624
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,800
I definitely bulged it out.

625
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:55,800
It wasn't exactly the banana peel thing that we're looking for, which seems so hard to achieve.

626
00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:00,800
So hard, it's surely impossible.

627
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,800
Even the squib load refused to blow.

628
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,800
So can anything cause the banana ring.

629
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,800
I don't want to count our chickens before they hatch, but I think we may end up revisiting this one.

630
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,800
A revisit may indeed beckon.

631
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,800
But for now, that's all, folks.

632
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:20,800
You know, it's funny.

633
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:26,800
No matter how long I do this, I never cease to be amazed that there's an element of truth in everything we test.

634
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,800
The fact that a finger in a barrel can provide enough blockage to make the barrel blow out?

635
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,800
I mean, it's steel.

636
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:34,800
Your fingers flesh.

637
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,800
I would not have called that if it caught me by surprise.

638
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,800
The finger got blown off of both of the hands.

639
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,800
Both hands got blown off.

640
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,800
But we still didn't get that effect that we're looking for, the banana peeling of the barrel.

641
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,800
And the shooter was never damaged or covered with powder burns or anything.

642
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:57,800
The whole idea of this myth that you could stick your finger in a barrel, remain undamaged while the barrel blew up and the shooter was covered with gunpowder.

643
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,800
Absolutely bust.

644
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:01,800
I'll agree with you.

645
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,800
Remember, don't try this unless you're a cartoon.