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Remember, don't try this at home.

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We've got years of experience that keeps us safe.

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Yeah, look at that!

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On this episode of Mythbusters...

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I'm so excited, I just can't stand it!

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Jamie and Adam do a little painting and detonating.

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You're gonna paint your house with explosives? That's crazy!

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When they ask the question, can you decorate with dynamite?

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Fire in the hole!

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And the build team go mental when they test mind control techniques.

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I'm ready to make him take his prey out.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage

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and Jamie Heineman.

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Aren't Tracer rounds illegal?

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Between them over 30 years special effects experience.

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That's what I'm talking about!

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Joining them, Tori Belachie.

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Science is fun.

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Carrie Byron.

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Guess what I did today?

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And Grant Imahara.

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You guys ready for this?

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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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After extensive research, watching old TV reruns,

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Adam and Jamie have lit the fuse on a myth of explosive proportions.

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Attempting to take the paint out of painting,

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Mr. Bean shows us a home improvement shortcut.

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A bucket of paint, the mythical stick of dynamite,

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and a bucket of water.

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And the myth of explosive proportions.

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And the myth of explosive proportions.

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And the movement shortcut.

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A bucket of paint, the mythical stick of dynamite,

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and the perfect paint job.

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So that's our task.

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This British comedy show, the guy is lazy,

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he doesn't want to paint his room,

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puts a stick of dynamite in a gallon of paint,

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and blows it up, and that's going to paint the whole room.

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You know, it's a chance for us to do some creative exploding of things,

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and I think we can have a lot of fun with it.

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To recreate the myth, they'll need a small room,

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a gallon of paint, one unlucky neighbor for the human silhouette,

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and a dash of dynamite.

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What's the plan?

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Well, because it sort of defeats the purpose of this whole thing,

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if you blew up the actual house that you were trying to paint

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in the process of using explosives to spread the paint.

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So I think we should use a real house, like we did in Bug Bomb.

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Big Bomb, Big Bomb, Big Bomb!

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In Bug Bomb, they used a real house and did some real damage.

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But with house prices heating up,

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they'll have to build a house of their own.

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That's what we're talking about!

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To stick to the myth, their property needs just one property.

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It has to have the structural integrity of a real home.

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One of the first questions that comes up in looking at this myth is,

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can a room withstand an explosion?

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An explosion big enough to paint that room?

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So there'll be no shirking on quality,

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because when the paint hits the walls,

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they don't want to blow the house down.

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Now we're on the construction phase.

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We've got to build this house to blow things up in,

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and we can't just build the whole thing and take it on a truck.

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We've got to build the pieces.

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The modular house includes two floor and ceiling sections,

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which Jamie tackles.

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And Adam assembles the four sheetrock walls.

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Note the difference in styles.

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This is rockin' this thing!

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That is a cool ass.

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They're done and on schedule.

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This is...

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convinced me to hire someone else to do the renovation in my house.

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And with the neighbors a little sensitive about dynamite in the backyard,

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our team of painters and detonators pack up

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and head for the Alameda County Museum.

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And we're going to build a house in the back of the house.

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And we're going to have the detonators pack up

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and head for the Alameda County Bomb Disposal Range.

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Hold on.

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Don't tell me.

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So you checked the height on this, right?

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It's a miracle!

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The team load up and find that it's not the size of the house you erect,

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but whether it fits in the truck.

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I understand you guys have a real mind bender of a story here.

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Can you tell us a little bit about the classic,

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conspiracy-favorite of government mind control?

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Well, that could be all sorts of things, couldn't it?

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I mean, like hypnosis, for example,

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or I know they did some testing where they put electrodes into your brain,

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they put a little current through it, they can make you do certain things.

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Look into the hypnotic eye!

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It's long been a sci-fi favorite.

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In the 1950s, mind control was a recurring theme in B-movies,

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where people play things of a psychic psycho.

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Your brother is glowing stiff.

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Today, conspiracy theorists claim governments still use an array of mind control techniques

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to have their wicked way with Joe Public.

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Yes, it could be many, many things,

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but ethically, here on Mythbusters,

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we can't go around putting chips in people's heads.

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So we're going to start right off from the beginning

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and define it very narrowly.

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And our definition of mind control is a device

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which can remotely influence a person's behavior without their knowledge or their consent.

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We're also going to use the criteria that you guys used on free energy.

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We're only going to use plans, kits, or patents that we can find on the web.

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And there are a lot of them.

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Mind control follows the well-trodden Mythbusters path of oogie boogie myths.

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Wow!

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Adam and Jamie established the genre when they tested and busted

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the conspiracy theory that government microchips were being secretly planted in blood donors.

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All right, Grant.

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So we have three kits that we got off the internet for mind control.

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One here is psionic helmet.

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We got here an electronic hypnotizer.

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And then this is a silent sound mind control device.

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Which one do you think you want to do first?

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Well, I do the electronic stuff all the time.

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So I think I'm most interested in the psionic helmet.

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This is the psionic helmet.

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And I am not exactly sure what principle it works on,

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but if I would have to guess, I think it would be able to enhance my own inherent telepathic ability.

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At 290 bucks, the Build It Yourself kit consists of, let's face it, a bicycle helmet,

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and a wooden dowel wrapped in lentop with a crystal.

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But there's more to it than that.

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According to the plans, the psychic powers of the crystal rod require fine tuning,

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so Grant wires it up to a couple of control knobs.

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And the helmet's ready for action.

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Jamie and Adam are coming over here to do a blueprint.

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I'm going to see if I can use the helmet to influence Jamie to remove his beret.

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The beret one is unaware that he is the subject of a psychic experiment.

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Then he spots the hat.

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Hi, Jamie.

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What you doing?

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Nothing.

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Did you have a good weekend?

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Tori attempts casual conversation while trying to tune in the psionic helmet.

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Jamie's baffled, but Tori's feeling the force.

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That was perfect, because as we have a conversation, I was able to dial into a psychic energy.

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He has no clue.

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Now I'm ready to make him take his beret off.

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For 90 minutes, Tori summons up all his powers of concentration,

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but Jamie's beret stays firmly on his ponce.

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My opinion right now is that the psionic helmet is totally busted,

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but I'm not going to give up yet.

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I'm going to keep trying.

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Still to come, Tori is allowed out in public.

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Hey, what's happened on that one?

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But next, Adam and Jamie prepare to paint the house down.

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I'm so excited, I just can't stand it.

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Jamie and Adam are taking on Mr. Bean and tackling the explosive TV myth.

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Can you really decorate with dynamite?

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And for that, they pack up and head out of town.

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I'm sitting in a crater at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department Bomb Range,

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or as I like to refer to it, happiest little place on earth.

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That's me. Good to see you again.

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Joining Adam and Jamie for the TNT party are fellow explosive enthusiasts,

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Sergeant J.D. Nelson of Alameda County Bomb Squad and retired FBI agent Frank Doyle.

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The main thing I'm concerned with about this test is whether or not our room,

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which is built to code, building code, whether it's going to hold up to stick a dynamite in the middle,

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or is it just going to blow out?

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With the quantity of explosives we're going to use,

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I would say that the room will probably hold together, but don't hold me to that.

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Okay.

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Before they put FBI Frank's prediction to the test,

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they have to assemble their very own little house on the bomb range.

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I'm putting the foundation down.

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Cue the build sequence.

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And with a little help from the post-production department, they finish in record time.

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Remember kids, I've got health insurance.

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After Adam comes back to earth, he and Jamie check out their handiwork.

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The location could be a problem.

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After all, who wants a room with a view of the bomb range?

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But with a little interior decorating, it'll be home sweet home.

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We built a house in a half a day.

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It ain't pretty, but I think maybe it'll dress up with a nice coat of paint.

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To match the myth, the explosion has to completely cover the room in paint,

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except for the human silhouette.

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Jamie couldn't find a real volunteer to stick around while the dynamite detonates,

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so he volunteers rescue Randy the Simulade.

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I'm going to hang the Simulade.

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I'm going to put them about here because we want to get one of these sort of patterns on the wall

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from the spray of paint, hopefully.

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Adam takes care of the paint placement, but with a slight deviation from the clip.

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I took the paint out of its metal can and put it in a plastic bucket because, well,

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the Sheriff's Department, the owners of the bomb range, the FBI are all a lot more comfortable

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if we don't have metal creating shrapnel and we just use a plastic bucket full of paint.

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Makes a lot more sense than that.

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Which leaves just one key ingredient, the dynamite.

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And arson investigator Joe Kodafal arrives just in time,

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but he's not here to arrest Adam and Jamie for their history of explosive exploits.

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He's the man with the bang.

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We have his plastic container that contains one-third pound of...

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And that's about as much as we can tell you.

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Of course, even if you should happen to have the ingredients and blasting cap for a binary explosive,

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please don't try this at home.

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So in the clip we're working from, it looks like he's putting a stick of dynamite

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or something equivalent to a stick of dynamite in this bucket of paint.

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Is this roughly equivalent to that?

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Actually, it's... depending on what type of dynamite there's a whole bunch of dynamites,

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but this is pretty hot stuff.

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This actually detonates right around 21,000 feet per second.

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21,000 feet.

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So this is definitely...

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That's like more than 10 times as fast as a bullet.

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Yes, it would be.

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Wow.

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There's no turning back.

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The bucket of paint is in position.

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JD lays out the firing line.

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Non-essential personnel are cleared from the area.

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The blasting cap is attached to the explosive, which just like the myth, is simply placed in the paint.

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And finally, the firing line is attached to the blasting cap.

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With the system hot, the anticipation builds.

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I'm so excited, I just can't stand it.

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There's just one question. Who's the button man?

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Heads.

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Heads of this.

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Give me my quarter of a minute.

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With Adam's finger twitching, JD clears the area and...

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Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!

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Everyone gets serious.

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What does this do?

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Well, almost everyone.

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It's go time. Painting with explosives.

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In five, four, three, two, one.

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Tori has been trying to get his head around taking Jamie's hat off.

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Point with your knobs.

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But the beret remains firmly in place.

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Meanwhile, Grant has been busy assembling the two other mind-altering devices he found on the internet.

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First, the electronic hypnotizer.

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Believe it or not, its flashing light and pulsing tone can supposedly send people into an hypnotic trance.

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The tones go from very fast and very high pitch to very slow and droney.

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Mostly they're just really annoying.

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Next, Grant tackles every conspiracy theorist's favorite.

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Subliminal sound.

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This device works on audio.

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It takes your voice commands and embeds them in some kind of music or other program material.

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Audio program material.

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Subliminal messaging.

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That's...

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Exactly.

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That's cool.

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From the subliminal back to the ridiculous.

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Tori takes to the road to try out the psionic helmet on the American people.

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We are on a serious mission to test the mind control device.

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So we're going to take it out into the public.

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We're going to go to one of our favorite coffee shops.

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We're going to test it there.

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See if it works.

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Tori's psychic master plan is to place an order without moving his lips.

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He's also with drinks.

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With some lunch.

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General manager Rachel Lobb plays along.

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Suspecting this guy in the helmet may have escaped from an institution.

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Double espresso.

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Crippuccino.

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Juice, please.

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Coffee.

266
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She runs through every beverage on the menu.

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Except the one that Tori is trying to project.

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Spresso.

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Half-sour chitsu.

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This is so good.

271
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This is so good.

272
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This is so good.

273
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Alright, give me a mocha.

274
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Mocha.

275
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One single.

276
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Thanks.

277
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Make it two.

278
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Alright.

279
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So you didn't get the message of mocha.

280
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No.

281
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We did.

282
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We did.

283
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They did.

284
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We got it.

285
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We got it.

286
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I want some mocha.

287
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I think she can figure it out.

288
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Are you sure you didn't have it pointed the right way?

289
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Yeah.

290
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You must have it on backwards, right?

291
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That's what happened.

292
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Tori's fooling no one.

293
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If they want to test mind control properly, they're going to have to quit the clowning around.

294
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See you guys.

295
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Coming up on their quest for mental manipulation, Grant excites his half-herd sensory resonance.

296
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I should be feeling tension or sexual arousal.

297
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And is the Mr. Bean myth decorating with dynamite all busted up?

298
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Kind of hard on the room.

299
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Back at the Alameda Bomb Range, Adam and Jamie are about to test an explosive home improvement myth.

300
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My money's on that this is going to cover roughly 30 to 40% of the room with yellow paint.

301
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It's DIY myth buster style.

302
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Not so much do it yourself, more detonate it yourself.

303
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It all comes down to that moment when you hit the switch and then either works or it doesn't.

304
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If it doesn't work, there's always take two.

305
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If it does work, you'll get the I can't believe I do this for a living laugh.

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Three, two, one.

307
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There's the explosion.

308
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And there's the laugh.

309
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I don't think I'd want to be in that room.

310
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I think it got a little larger.

311
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It may have got larger, but what about the paint job, the state of the room after the blast and was there of a simulated silhouette?

312
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It was kind of hard on the room.

313
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That's hilarious.

314
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Well, I think we set everything up just right and when we set off the explosives, the first thing it did was destroy this room.

315
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The second thing is it only covered about 40%.

316
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I mean, both of those bust this thing wide open.

317
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It's not possible with something equivalent to a stick of dynamite to paint a room.

318
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There's your table.

319
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But what about the human silhouette?

320
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There's no outline to speak of.

321
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And more importantly, if you were in this room, I would say you would go from something like a Chuck roast to a filet mignon.

322
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In other words, you'd be very tenderized.

323
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Myth busted.

324
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Yeah, shockingly.

325
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What we saw on television is not replicable in reality.

326
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Having said that, I think there are ways that we can replicate the results of the myth and still keep to the spirit of it.

327
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So Mr. Bean and his bucket bomb are busted.

328
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But back at the workshop, these painter and detonators aren't giving up yet.

329
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They think with a little myth buster ingenuity, they can dream up a design to get that perfect paint job.

330
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I'm thinking about small scale experiments to try and ferret out the best technique.

331
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Yeah, I think we definitely need to go small scale and personally, I don't really have an idea of what I want to do, but working incrementally through it, I think is the answer.

332
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Yeah, so it's time for some creative conflagration.

333
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To learn more about how paint is distributed by explosion, they'll need to set up for small scale bench tests.

334
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Let's come back when they're ready.

335
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In the myth of mind control, Brant and Tori have been putting a so-called psionic helmet through its paces.

336
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In theory, it works by enhancing the wearer's own psychic ability.

337
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But in practice, it's done zip. It's time to inject a little more science into the proceeding.

338
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I think what we need to do is build some kind of a chamber that isolates the subject, gets rid of all the distracting variables, so that way we can kind of see if there is any influence that these mind control devices are having.

339
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Also, I mean, they all claim to affect the brain waves in some way.

340
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So I would really like to get an EEG in here and hook it up because that is how they measure brain waves in medicine.

341
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EEG machines monitor the working of the human brain in real time.

342
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A network of electrodes detects minute changes in electromagnetic energy, released when neurons in the brain fire.

343
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So using one to measure mind control is a bit of a brain wave.

344
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This is perfect because if we could see that these mind control devices affects any bit of the brain wave, that there might be some validity to this mind control stuff.

345
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So they get to work building an isolation chamber in which they'll test out various devices on an unsuspecting subject who will be wired up to an EEG machine.

346
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As well as creating a test arena, they're also on the hunt for more mind control products.

347
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They will test out Carrie's hypnotizer. Grant has been trawling through a pile of plans from the patent office.

348
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Well, we started with the patent search because these 94 patents constitute evidence that conspiracy theorists use to say that the government is in fact conducting mind control experiments.

349
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Alright, Grant, so you had all day and all night. Did you narrow it down?

350
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Yeah, I've chosen two. One has to do with pulsed air and the other has to do with a rotating bar magnet.

351
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And both of them excite the 1.5 hertz sensory resonance.

352
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Machines that pulse a weak electromagnetic field once every two seconds can supposedly excite the brain's half-hertz sensory resonance, leading to feelings of tension, sleepiness, or even sexual excitation.

353
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So out of all 94, these are the two that you think are the best for us to try?

354
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Yes. These were the two easiest things to build and they sounded like they had the highest chance of success.

355
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Grant swings into action on the rotating magnet device. Apparently, this spinning magnet is ideal to stimulate that half-hertz sensory resonance, as long as you get the speed spot on.

356
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In fact, it's got to go really slow. Half-hertz, which means one revolution every two seconds. That's about right.

357
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Meanwhile, Tari is struggling with the concept of the pulsed air machine.

358
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I'm building a subliminal acoustic simulator. No, generator, manipulator, nervous system, manipulator. I'm manipulating the nervous system and what I'm trying to do is manipulate that frequency by changing the atmospheric pressure.

359
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Tari might not be able to say subliminal atmospheric acoustic pulses, but he can rig up a fan to make them.

360
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Alright, so I've installed my wind interrupter and I'm about to attach the fan. If you want to take a look here, I'll show you how it works.

361
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Each time this disc rotates, it'll break the airstream.

362
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The fan blows air exactly once every two seconds. The magic half-hertz cycle that causes sensory resonance in the subject.

363
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But unfortunately, the rig sucks. Literally.

364
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Oh, man, the fan worked. Sucking out instead of blowing in.

365
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Tari flicks. The fan, that is. And at last, everything's in place for the great Mind Control marathon.

366
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Next on MythBusters, the build team tests the EEG machine and look into Carrie's mind.

367
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That's cool. That works.

368
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And then, attempting to prove you can paint with explosives, Adam and Jamie make a mess.

369
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That was a little more energetic.

370
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We're about to see it home.

371
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Adam and Jamie know all about the Big Bang Theory.

372
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For gratuitous use of T&G, look no further.

373
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Well, there's your problem.

374
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But today, it's all about subtlety. With a small-scale mock-up, they're using their explosive nouse to paint a one-room house.

375
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This blast chamber will contain the explosions, and the white walls will illustrate the paint coverage.

376
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That's beautiful.

377
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With standard 5-gram packets of black powder and a set volume of paint, the determining factor will be the delivery device.

378
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Their first test is a control using a replica of Mr. Bean's Bucket Bomb.

379
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A repeat of yesterday's results, and they know their scale setup is accurate.

380
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In three, two, just as likely nothing's going to happen, but here we go.

381
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One.

382
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That was fabulous.

383
00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:43,500
Well?

384
00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:44,500
All right.

385
00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:49,500
I didn't get to see this. That's great.

386
00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:55,500
Yep, with 40% of the rooms splattered unevenly, they've made the same mess as yesterday.

387
00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:59,500
Here's what I'd like to do. I think you've got a couple of ideas, and I've got a couple of ideas.

388
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I'd like to make using the 5 grams of powder, I'm going to try something.

389
00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:04,500
Okay.

390
00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:11,500
And when you try something, and we'll run a couple more tests, we can easily fit it in before the end of the day, and see if we can't get better coverage.

391
00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:12,500
Okay.

392
00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:18,500
So Adam and Jamie are two devotees of detonation face off for a blast off.

393
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Adam's approach utilizes tubes of paint with a straw packed with black powder suspended in the middle.

394
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In three, two, one.

395
00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:32,500
That was a little more energetic.

396
00:24:32,500 --> 00:24:33,500
That was.

397
00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:36,500
Well, I definitely got the middle of the room.

398
00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:38,500
Yeah, take a look at that.

399
00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:49,500
It's almost like just looking at this band where my charge was that in order to use this method to paint the whole room, you'd need a column of paint and explosives the height of the exact room.

400
00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:51,500
Jamie's idea is based on the mortar.

401
00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:54,500
A metal vessel will hold and direct the paint.

402
00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:58,500
An explosive charge beneath the paint will provide the spray.

403
00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:00,500
Here we go.

404
00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:03,500
In three, two, one.

405
00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:08,500
Well, that worked just like you said it would.

406
00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:14,500
Well, not perfectly even, but that's the most even spray that we got.

407
00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:21,500
So it's clear that making something very directional like a cannon is somewhat effective.

408
00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:23,500
It's time to scale up.

409
00:25:23,500 --> 00:25:27,500
Adam has some good information for his tube of paint idea.

410
00:25:27,500 --> 00:25:34,500
And Jamie's berate brain is bubbling away with grand designs involving clusters of pyramid shaped mortars.

411
00:25:38,500 --> 00:25:44,500
Our mind control masterminds have turned M5 into a psychic observation center.

412
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They've built an isolation chamber and several mind control devices which they're about to test with the help of an EEG machine.

413
00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:56,500
Behind me here we have mission control.

414
00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:02,500
We have our audio and visual feed so we can see exactly what's going on with our subject inside the isolation chamber.

415
00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:10,500
We also have a monitor which is going to show us their brain waves and we can see if there's any sort of odd activity when we're doing our tests.

416
00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:18,500
Everything is set, but before they try the mind control devices, Carrie volunteers to make sure the EEG machine works.

417
00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:20,500
But she could be in for a shock.

418
00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:23,500
Hand me a bobby pin, I'll tie this in a knot.

419
00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:30,500
Stylist Grant Imahara has come up with a new look which involves electrodes and conductive paste.

420
00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:37,500
You're doing great, Carrie. You're really...

421
00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:39,500
You sound like the dentist.

422
00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:40,500
Yeah, you're doing great.

423
00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,500
Whatever they're putting you through something painful.

424
00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:45,500
Okay, so now we're going to do your ear.

425
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:47,500
It's going to be weird. Ready?

426
00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:49,500
You just chill out here.

427
00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:53,500
Try and relax. I'll let you know it's done.

428
00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:54,500
Okay.

429
00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:58,500
As she settles, her neural activity decreases and stabilizes.

430
00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:04,500
But with the baseline established, Tari and Grant can't resist playing mind games with Carrie.

431
00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:07,500
We can see what's going on in her brain.

432
00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:09,500
Yeah, yeah, hang on.

433
00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:12,500
Okay, ready? Go ahead.

434
00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:15,500
Good, it's cool.

435
00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:16,500
That works.

436
00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:19,500
Grant's seen enough and what he's seen, he likes.

437
00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:26,500
We did see a huge spike in the response when Tori kicked the door.

438
00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:30,500
So that indicates that the system is working.

439
00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:32,500
I'm glad we know how to use it now.

440
00:27:32,500 --> 00:27:34,500
So it's all go for mind control.

441
00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:40,500
They have a working EEG machine that will quantify any changes in the subject's brainwave activity.

442
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:48,500
An important consideration because the five devices may be having an effect without any visible outward signs.

443
00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:51,500
It's time to get down to business.

444
00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:56,500
He's the only one in M5 still in the dark about the mind control experiments.

445
00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:58,500
So he qualifies for the job.

446
00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:03,500
How do you feel about high voltage shocks on myself or others?

447
00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:04,500
That's the right answer.

448
00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:08,500
John might actually make mind control material.

449
00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:10,500
After the break, John gets buzzed.

450
00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:12,500
Do you have the bees ready?

451
00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:16,500
And Jamie and Adam complete their paint bomb prototypes.

452
00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:26,500
And the world is my oyster to paint.

453
00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:36,500
After carefully replicating Mr. Bean's painting with dynamite myth, Adam and Jamie have blown it away.

454
00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:38,500
Right off the bat, Jamie. I think this one's busted.

455
00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:42,500
But this explosive tail is not over yet.

456
00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:45,500
The guys believe they have the designs to make it work.

457
00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:49,500
Jamie is working on a cluster of five pyramid shaped paint mortars.

458
00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:52,500
One for each wall and the ceiling.

459
00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:56,500
Meanwhile, Adam has built a pool raft for a short thin person.

460
00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:58,500
I'll tell you right off the bat, I'm really liking that.

461
00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:05,500
See what I'm thinking of is I use a thin strand of debt cord, which is detonation cord or primal cord.

462
00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:07,500
It's basically like an explosive rope.

463
00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:15,500
It's an extremely high speed detonation, which should vaporize the paint much more efficiently than black powder.

464
00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:24,500
So what I do is I wrap several, like a gallon's worth of tubes of paint around a central core of debt cord.

465
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And the world is my oyster to paint.

466
00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:30,500
Back with Jamie and his careful design work has paid off.

467
00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:37,500
Each set of four triangles goes to make what is known in the industry as a pot in the pyrotechnics industry.

468
00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:44,500
And the pot will have a charge at the bottom of it and a blob or a bag of paint in front of it.

469
00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:54,500
And these things are fairly precisely calculated to aim that paint when the explosives goes off out onto a wall.

470
00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:57,500
That are welded together quite nicely.

471
00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:03,500
After hours slaving over a hot welder, Jamie has the finished product.

472
00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:07,500
A carefully crafted five-way paint mortar.

473
00:30:08,500 --> 00:30:11,500
Well, should be fun.

474
00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:14,500
Well, I guess it's time to get back out there.

475
00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:16,500
Both of our devices are ready.

476
00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:19,500
All we got to do is do a little bit of rebuilding on that house.

477
00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:24,500
Yeah, I've got my device, which is going to paint each individual wall a separate color.

478
00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:28,500
Yeah, because of that, I'm worried that you're actually going to blow out some of the walls with this.

479
00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:30,500
So I'm going to go mine first.

480
00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:33,500
The paint tubes, I think, should be the first test.

481
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:35,500
Well, we got a lot of work to do. Let's get at it.

482
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:36,500
All right, cool.

483
00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:41,500
So it's back to Alameda County Bomb Disposal Range to meet Frank.

484
00:30:41,500 --> 00:30:48,500
Glad to have left the building roughly standing where the house that Adam and Jamie built needs to be rebuilt.

485
00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:50,500
This is without a doubt returning to the scene of the crime.

486
00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:57,500
I've got to somehow make this building salvageable and reusable within the next 90 minutes.

487
00:30:57,500 --> 00:30:59,500
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

488
00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:02,500
I'm not used to the terrain.

489
00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:08,500
He may look like a newborn giraffe, but with screw-gun in hand, Adam is on sounder footing.

490
00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:11,500
Could I have another string of nails?

491
00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:13,500
And I need another sheet of drywall.

492
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:18,500
Managing just fine without stilts, Jamie has fixed up the roof.

493
00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:21,500
And using the forklift, he slides it into place.

494
00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:28,500
Oh, that is good stuff.

495
00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:32,500
The room is ready. Rescue Randy is ready.

496
00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:34,500
And Adam steps up to the plate.

497
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:41,500
This is my super simple solution for attempting to meet all the criteria that we see in the Mr. Bean episode, i.e.

498
00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:46,500
a perfectly evenly coated room, a perfect outline of a person who was in that room,

499
00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:48,500
and a room that's still standing.

500
00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:58,500
This is tubes of, I think this is four or six mil polyethylene, heat sealed into long tubes filled with paint.

501
00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:01,500
There's a half gallon up here, half gallon down here.

502
00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:02,500
They're thinned down with water.

503
00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:09,500
And running up the center of them, this orange stuff, is, I think it's a 50 grain debt cord, debt nation cord.

504
00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:11,500
Adam's bag of paint is in position.

505
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:17,500
And after the bomb techs prepare the detonation cord for the blasting cap, we're ready to blow.

506
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:22,500
Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!

507
00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:28,500
As the team hunker down in the bunker, there's time for an expert prediction from Jamie.

508
00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:31,500
What the f*** do I know what kind of coverage is it going to do?

509
00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:36,500
There's going to be some paint that will get on the wall, and it's not going to be that even.

510
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:42,500
Painting with explosives in five, four, three, two, one.

511
00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:43,500
Help!

512
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:53,500
Back in the realm of mental manipulation, and John the researcher is the lucky lab rat.

513
00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:59,500
The build team are attempting to bend his brain waves from outside the isolation chamber.

514
00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:05,500
They have four mind control devices to try, but first they establish his EEG baseline.

515
00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:10,500
Five minutes without stimuli, and John's baseline is looking steady.

516
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:14,500
Time to fire up the first mind-molding machine.

517
00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:15,500
The interrupter is...

518
00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:23,500
They run the pulsed air experiment for ten minutes, keeping one eye on John's behavior, and the other on his brain wave patterns.

519
00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:28,500
These atmospheric pulses are supposed to excite John's half-hertz sensory resonance.

520
00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:36,500
The effects can range from sleepiness to sexual excitation to Grandentory's untrained eye, John appears unaffected.

521
00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:39,500
He hasn't fallen asleep and doesn't look excited.

522
00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:47,500
But for confirmation his brain waves haven't been affected, we'll have to wait for the EEG results to come back from the experts.

523
00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:48,500
Okay, I feel good.

524
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:49,500
Good.

525
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:51,500
Do you have the bees ready?

526
00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:53,500
It's time for the rotating magnet.

527
00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:58,500
Just like the pulsed air machine, it's supposed to excite the half-hertz sensory resonance.

528
00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:05,500
So, Tari and Grant are once again looking for changes in either John's brain wave activity or his behavior.

529
00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:08,500
But once again, John looks unmoved.

530
00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:14,500
Two tests down, and the only sign of a result are Tari's delusions of power.

531
00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:16,500
Don't change the channel.

532
00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:19,500
Next, Tari gets a subliminal boost to his bank balance.

533
00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,500
Give Tari your money.

534
00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:26,500
And Jamie and Adam finally light the fuse on their home improvement myth.

535
00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:28,500
You gonna paint your house with explosives?

536
00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:30,500
That's crazy!

537
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:42,500
Back at the psychic circus, Grant and Tari have subjected John to the rotating magnet and pulsed air.

538
00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:45,500
Next up is the subliminal sound device.

539
00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:53,500
This device apparently works by sending out a secretly encrypted audio message that can only be heard by the unconscious mind.

540
00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:54,500
Go.

541
00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:58,500
Touch nose, touch nose, touch nose.

542
00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:03,500
Eight minutes in, and it's Tari, not John, who starts to crack.

543
00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:05,500
Touch your nose, you little punk.

544
00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:07,500
I swear to God, you better touch your nose.

545
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:11,500
Touch nose, touch nose, touch nose.

546
00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,500
Don't make me come in there, touch your nose.

547
00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:17,500
The device remains untouched, and it's time for the final test.

548
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:19,500
Next is Tari's electronic hypnosis.

549
00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:27,500
This flashing light and tone apparently combine to induce an hypnotic state, which we'll be able to see on the EEG.

550
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:33,500
The thing we're gonna do is make the pitch a little bit lower now, because right now it's kind of annoying and fast.

551
00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:37,500
There's a jump in his brainwave.

552
00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:43,500
This time, John's brainwaves are clearly affected, and distracted by the pulsing tone themselves,

553
00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:49,500
Tari and Grant miss what could be the most significant result of the experiment so far.

554
00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:51,500
John touches his nose.

555
00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:54,500
Was it a delayed reaction to the subliminal sounds?

556
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:56,500
Or just an itch?

557
00:35:56,500 --> 00:36:00,500
The jury assembles, and it's time for the results.

558
00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:04,500
I gotta tell you, I really thought this was gonna be a pyramid power waste of your time,

559
00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:09,500
but it sounds like you might have gotten some real results on this mind control thing.

560
00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:11,500
The first one up is a psionic helmet.

561
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:12,500
Psionic helmet?

562
00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:14,500
Totally works.

563
00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:15,500
No.

564
00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:17,500
No, I'm just kidding.

565
00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:23,500
No, it's, until you can prove ESP, you're not gonna be able to test this one, so we're calling this one busted.

566
00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:29,500
Not surprisingly, a crystal mounted on a bicycle helmet does not give the wearer a third eye.

567
00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:30,500
Okay, pulsed air.

568
00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:36,500
The pulsed air, it didn't show any effects on the brainwaves, and there's no real scientific evidence that proves that it works.

569
00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:38,500
So, so far, it's a waste of time.

570
00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:44,500
The results from the EEG experts showed the rotating magnet may have had an effect on John's brainwaves.

571
00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:46,500
Rotating magnets.

572
00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:52,500
The rotating magnet actually did have an effect on John's brainwaves while it was spinning.

573
00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:57,500
However, there's a slight possibility that it was affecting the EEG itself.

574
00:36:57,500 --> 00:37:03,500
There is scientific evidence to say that direct electrical stimuli can influence behavior.

575
00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:05,500
So we're gonna call this one plausible.

576
00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:10,500
So with the score at two busted and one plausible, what were the results for silent sound?

577
00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:16,500
Although John did eventually touch his nose, it was during the final test with the hypnotizer.

578
00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:25,500
Plus, the expert analysis of the EEG readings came back negative, proving silent sound is busted, and it really was just an itch.

579
00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:27,500
Okay, hypnosis.

580
00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:30,500
Well, we did see a change in John's brainwave.

581
00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:34,500
There's evidence to suggest that remote hypnosis does work.

582
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,500
So this one is also plausible.

583
00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:43,500
But it's a really limited effect, and like all of these mind control devices, they're not sophisticated enough to say,

584
00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:47,500
make you buy more popcorn or drink more soda or kill the president.

585
00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:48,500
Yeah.

586
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:49,500
So that's it.

587
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:51,500
We can all sleep safely in our beds.

588
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:59,500
The final score is three busted, two plausible, and one more mind boggling myth laid to rest.

589
00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:04,500
Jamie and Adam are having a blast.

590
00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:10,500
Their quest to paint with explosives has led to two very different designs.

591
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:13,500
Adam is first, and he's painting by numbers.

592
00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:14,500
The numbers are...

593
00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:19,500
Five, four, three, two, one.

594
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,500
I see a lot of greens.

595
00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:26,500
And the building's still standing.

596
00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:27,500
Oh, that's a good one.

597
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,500
That is a very good thing.

598
00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:31,500
Let's go look.

599
00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:32,500
Are we clear to look?

600
00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:34,500
Let's have a look.

601
00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:36,500
Well, there's paint on all the cameras.

602
00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:38,500
But what about the walls?

603
00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:39,500
Oh, man.

604
00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:43,500
Yep, the walls have a coat of paint, but is it any good?

605
00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:46,500
I thought it would be a little better than that.

606
00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:49,500
The detonation cord looks like it was ideal.

607
00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:55,500
It's spread the paint in a fine mist without damaging the walls, but it's not a perfect paint job.

608
00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:58,500
Coverage total crap, unfortunately.

609
00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:00,500
Yep, that we can see.

610
00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:02,500
So how about some analysis?

611
00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:07,500
You think that it makes sense to your brain that you, like, get some dynamite near paint,

612
00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:09,500
and that paint's just going to go everywhere.

613
00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:12,500
But in fact, actually, it's quite obvious from looking at this.

614
00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:18,500
And from the explosion, there's a pressure wave, and it travels in a very predictable pattern,

615
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:21,500
360 degrees from the point of detonation.

616
00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:27,500
And if you don't have paint in its way all the way around in equal amounts, you're going to get screwed.

617
00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:33,500
I'm hoping that fans have a real problem with this, and email everybody about it so we get to revisit it.

618
00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:38,500
Before you send in those emails, Jamie still has to launch his pyramid paint bomb.

619
00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:40,500
Oh, are you ready to set up yours?

620
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:41,500
Yeah.

621
00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:45,500
Mythbuster Pride is on the line.

622
00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:50,500
Jamie at his pyramid paint bomb is the team's last chance for success.

623
00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:54,500
Precision is the cornerstone of Jamie's design.

624
00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:56,500
And as the actor said to the bishop,

625
00:39:56,500 --> 00:39:58,500
Dude, one more inch.

626
00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:00,500
That's dead center.

627
00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:04,500
Next, our explosive experts help give this paint bomb its bang.

628
00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:09,500
Through each of the five pots, they feed separate pieces of detonation cord.

629
00:40:09,500 --> 00:40:12,500
The blast is concentrated by tying them into a knot.

630
00:40:12,500 --> 00:40:14,500
Now to load the ammunition.

631
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:17,500
Are you going to try and coat each of all a different color?

632
00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:19,500
That's the plan.

633
00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:22,500
Excellent.

634
00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:27,500
With five half gallon paint bombs ready to pop, Jamie carefully tapes them into position.

635
00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:28,500
How's it going, neighbor?

636
00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:30,500
I'm going to paint my house.

637
00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:31,500
You better clear out.

638
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:33,500
You're going to paint your house with explosives?

639
00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:35,500
That's crazy.

640
00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:38,500
All five mortars are ready to fire.

641
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:41,500
I think we're good to go. Let's get out of here.

642
00:40:41,500 --> 00:40:43,500
And Jamie is as proud as Punch.

643
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:46,500
This is one of the most wonderful things about the work,

644
00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:51,500
is that oftentimes we're allowed to do things that nobody else has ever done before.

645
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:55,500
Back in the bunker, and Jamie's creation gets a Mythbuster moniker.

646
00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:57,500
The flower of death.

647
00:40:57,500 --> 00:41:00,500
Los Flores, Nidos Matos.

648
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:01,500
That's it.

649
00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:07,500
This is it. With the system hot, the flower of death loaded, Jamie just needs to count backwards.

650
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:10,500
Three, two, one.

651
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:19,500
The remote cameras take one for the team, but the force of the blast means the pictures are inconclusive.

652
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:23,500
And the view from the bunker is Jamie's pyramids ain't so great.

653
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:25,500
The window looks pretty red.

654
00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:28,500
Yeah, it doesn't look like it did what I wanted it to do from here.

655
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:30,500
But let's go find out.

656
00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:36,500
That's horrible. Dude.

657
00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:39,500
That is not at all effective.

658
00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:45,500
No, it's actually a fantastic way to do abstract expressionist painting.

659
00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:49,500
This is a masterpiece in here. I swear to God.

660
00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:51,500
Really, this is Jackson Pollock.

661
00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:54,500
Through and through and through.

662
00:41:54,500 --> 00:41:58,500
Each wall actually is like a different phase of his career.

663
00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:01,500
Adam is obviously talking complete Pollock.

664
00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:04,500
Let's see if Jamie has some science for us.

665
00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:09,500
The only thing that I can see that's some sort of indication what actually happened is that

666
00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:14,500
we've got more or less a vertical stripe here, a vertical stripe here, a vertical stripe here.

667
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:18,500
I mean, it did directionalize the paint. It just didn't spread it.

668
00:42:18,500 --> 00:42:24,500
There was direction, but each of the five colors hit its target wall with a splat rather than a spray.

669
00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:28,500
So Adam's patchy undercoat of green is still clearly visible.

670
00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:33,500
Basically, you won't be picking up Jamie's Flower of Death or Adam's Bag of Paint

671
00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:36,500
at your local hardware store anytime soon.

672
00:42:36,500 --> 00:42:41,500
With another couple of days and four or five more full-scale explosions,

673
00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:48,500
we might get pretty close to something that did some kind of reasonable, complete coverage of the walls,

674
00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:53,500
but it's still going to leave debris and shrapnel and all sorts of stuff.

675
00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:59,500
This proves to me that there is no way to viably paint your house with explosives,

676
00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:01,500
much as you would like to try.

677
00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:08,500
So our experiment in home improvement with Dynamite, painting with explosives, what's the verdict?

678
00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:12,500
Mr. Bean version, bust it. Our version was also busted.

679
00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:18,500
Yeah, I think the best that can be said about what we achieved was that you found a stunning way to make instant modern art.

680
00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:19,500
Yep, but it's still busted.

681
00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:20,500
Yeah, it's busted.

682
00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:25,500
.