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Give us a break.

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Don't try what you're about to see at home.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage

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Dangerous Mind

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Middle-Mine

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and Jamie Heidemann

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The behavior we're going to make you into a coat.

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Between them, over 30 years, special effects experience.

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Joining them,

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Tori Balechi

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Bang in the bang in the bang

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Carrie Byron

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Don't try what you're about to see at home.

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and Grant Imahara

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He's alive!

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They don't just tell the myths.

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They took them to the test.

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What's the myth?

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Quite simply, it's that you can extinguish a fire

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using only the power of a human voice.

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You're making that up.

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I am not.

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It actually comes from an early 20th century naturalist named Charles Kellogg

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who claimed foreign wine that he could put out fires

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using only his voice.

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And didn't he also invent cereal or something?

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No, wrong guy.

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Charles Kellogg, unlike the cereal guy, was a vocal genius.

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In the early 1900s, he traveled the states in a hollow redwood tree

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and wowed audiences with his bird impersonations

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which could supposedly put out fires.

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He claimed he could do this not with his exhale breath

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but with the sound waves themselves.

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As sound travels through air, it creates pressure waves.

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These pressure waves can cause air molecules to vibrate

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and if they vibrate enough, a flame can apparently be blown out.

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Do we have a plan?

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Well, I think we have a reasonable plan.

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Kellogg claimed he could put out a fire with his voice

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and he demonstrated it.

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We should find out how, replicate that demonstration

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and see what we get.

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Okay.

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What I have here are the rudiments of Kellogg's exact experimental setup

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for using his voice to extinguish fire.

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It consists of gas feeding into a chamber that has a membrane on it

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and the membrane moves in relation to the sound in the room

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and affects the pressure of the fire.

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You can see as I'm talking, the fire is moving

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and it doesn't have to do with my breath,

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it has to do with the sound of my voice.

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With the so-called sensitive flame fired up,

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Adams got a copy of a 1905 gramophone recording of Kellogg singing like a bird.

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Alright, here's a little history.

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His human voice was analyzed and found to be normal under 4,000 Hz.

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However, his bird voice soared into the inaudible above 14,000 Hz.

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His voice reputedly had a range of 12 and 1 half octaves

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while the normal range of a singing voice is just 2 and 1 half.

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We will see.

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Kellogg's bird voice is astonishing.

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I don't care whether he's whistling or grabbing his neck and doing this or whatever.

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The comes out of a person is amazing.

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The high-frequency bird voice makes the flame go ballistic,

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but extinguished it ain't.

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That's kind of spooky actually.

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Isn't it?

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There's a specific bird call of Kellogg's

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that makes the flame do the largest differential dance.

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Bango, bango, bango, bango, like that.

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Is he saying red rum?

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Despite their lack of success, all is not lost.

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It's possible that Adams' CD of a recording made over a hundred years ago

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is simply not good enough quality.

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I'm going to try to put this flame out using my dog voice.

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So to keep testing this myth,

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the voice must come up with a way of replicating Kellogg's full vocal range

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before Adam goes barking mad.

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Now my dog voice doesn't work.

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MUSIC

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MUSIC

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Look into my eyes.

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Deeper.

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You will fall into a deep, deep sleep.

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What are you doing?

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Trying to hypnotize Grant.

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Why?

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We're working on hypnosis myths.

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Hypnosis has long sparked a spiral of myths about its so-called powers.

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Myths that are about to get the myth busters treatment,

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starting with an all-time classic.

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An evil hypnotist can plant a post-hypnotic suggestion

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that forces you to do something against your will.

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You mean like in the movies when there's like a sleeper agent

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and they give him a code word and he wakes them up and he kills people?

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Exactly.

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So we probably won't kill people.

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Who is the most effective assassin?

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Well, I would think anyone who manages to conceal his identity as an assassin.

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One who doesn't know is an assassin.

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It's another mad movie plot line.

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An evil villain uses hypnosis to plant a trigger

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that turns an ordinary person into the perfect assassin

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without them even knowing.

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I must kill Papshbir.

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Papshbir.

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Will that be with cream and sugar, sir?

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So is this Hollywood hocus pocus or can it really happen?

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Alright, so which one of us is going to get hypnotized?

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Unfortunately, it's not that easy.

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Apparently not everyone can be hypnotized.

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So I think first of all, we need to go find a hypnotist.

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Find out which one of us is susceptible.

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And whoever that is, that's the person that gets the post-hypnotic suggestion.

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Great.

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Let's go find a hypnotist.

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To put this myth to the test, the starting point is to see if any of them

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can actually be hypnotized in the first place.

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Here we have a hypnotherapist and a neurotherapist.

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They're going to figure out which one of us can be hypnotized.

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For this test, we need post-hypnotic suggestion.

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And if none of us can be hypnotized, we're stuck.

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And first up is Torey.

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The plan is that Karrion Grant will monitor his progress

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with the help of neurotherapist Cynthia and her EEG machine.

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So it's like if I get a wrong answer, then you shock me.

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While clinical hypnotist Seth will try to put him under her spell.

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Just keep on focusing on my hand.

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Noticing that your eyes start to feel heavy.

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Allow that feeling of heaviness to get more and more, more and more heavy.

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Do you know what percentage of people are able to be hypnotized?

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Easily 85%.

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85%.

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To some degree.

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Despite the odds, they're not off to a good start.

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Because even after 10 minutes, Torey's brain activity has only dropped by 5%.

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I would want to see it get to about half of what it was.

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So if he was about 9.5, I'd like to see it at about maybe 4.

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Torey's inability to relax means he's out of the race.

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So next up is Karrion.

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And the boys have high hopes for her.

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I actually think that she's a reasonable candidate to be hypnotized.

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Why?

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I don't know, it's kind of a gut feeling.

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Could you tell her to do things and she doesn't?

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No, that's definitely not the reason why.

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But their hopes are ill-founded because Karrion won't go under either.

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I think I would start to get relaxed enough that I was almost in a sleep-like state.

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But then I'd be like, oh, I'm trying to be in a sleep-like state.

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I'm trying so hard.

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So it's almost like I couldn't let myself completely relax.

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So with the score standing at 0-2, it all boils down to Grant.

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But will Mr. Science submit to Seth?

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Deeply, deeply down.

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More and more relaxed.

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Despite Grant's initial discomfort, after 5 minutes, things are looking good.

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Like a rag doll, deeper down.

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The EEG machine shows Grant's brain activity has already dropped from a level 9 to a 4.

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I think he's in a deep state.

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I think he's more hypnotizable.

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There you go, look at that.

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And what that means is he's just the kind of highly suggestible subject they're looking for.

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Grant would make a good subject for a post-hypnotic suggestion.

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He's a very susceptible person.

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You're the winner.

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Okay, what does that mean?

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Well, you know what that means.

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Now we're going to see if we can hypnotize you and see if we can get you to do something that you wouldn't normally do.

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She's not going to embarrass me or anything.

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Don't worry, it won't be too humiliating.

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Still to come. More firefighting with sound.

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Fun!

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From song...

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Yeah, yeah, yeah!

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...to sonic booms.

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But next...

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Can I be hypnotized to do something against my will?

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Popular in the early 1900s, Charles Kellogg was a naturalist cum showman with an extraordinary talent.

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Not only could he sing like a bird, but he could also supposedly extinguish a sensitive flame with his voice.

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But when the mythbusters tried to replicate this feat, they failed to douse anything.

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But in case the 100-year-old recording they used was of insufficient quality,

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they've now called in the big guns.

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Hey, Roger!

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Hey!

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How you doing?

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Good to see you.

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Come to help us do some detective work?

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Yeah!

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Sound engineer Roger has brought a tone generator to replicate the full vocal range of Kellogg's bird voice.

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In Kellogg's day, this was the way that you generated a precise frequency.

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This is what they used to tune pianos and other things, I believe.

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Not that I've ever done it.

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But these days we have things called tone generators.

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And so we'll be able to get any frequency that we want within any conceivable range.

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But before getting into a frequency frenzy, let's get a few things straight.

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Sound is vibrations traveling through the air in waves.

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Its frequency is a measure of how many times the sound wave vibrates in one second.

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The higher the frequency, the higher the pitch.

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Kellogg's bird voice could supposedly reach a barely audible frequency of 14,000 Hz.

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Something that the tone generator can match.

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I'd love to sweep all the way up through and into the inaudible range.

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Because again, we keep on seeing, and all the material Kellogg said,

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that he thought it was the high frequency that affected the flame more than low frequency.

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Roger cuts straight to the chase and tunes into 14,000 Hz.

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But the flame keeps burning bright.

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So, we're down?

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So the team decides to change tactic and lower the frequency and what do you know?

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What? Oh! Hey! What was that at?

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At 166 Hz, the opposite end of the spectrum to Kellogg and the sensitive flame does go silent.

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And Adam's not entirely satisfied.

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This is a rig that utilizes fire, it's true, but I can put this fire up by doing that.

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That's the rig failing to maintain a fire.

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That's not a fire being extinguished.

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And I think that's a really key difference.

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What I'd like to do now that I've got all this equipment set up,

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is just put a candle in front of the speaker and see what kind of responses I get out of it.

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It's an ordinary household candle about as simple as fire can get.

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And unlike the sensitive flame, it has no special trappings to make it reactive to sound.

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Ready? But... yeah.

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They start with high frequencies but get nowhere fast.

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No appreciable effect on the flame at all.

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It's not until they lower the tone that they get the result thereafter.

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Oh!

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So at low frequencies from a tone generator, a flame can be extinguished with sound.

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The low-pitched sound sends out a pressure wave which vibrates the air so much that the flame gets snuffed out.

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My question now would be could you and I replicate that with our voices?

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Can we pipe our voices to this thing?

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Yeah.

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So, can the human voice replicate this feat? Time to tackle this myth karaoke style.

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Just like in real life, Adam is loud but he's not very deep.

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Ba-ba-ba.

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And the candle keeps candle-ing on.

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That's as low as I can go.

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Will Jamie be able to do any better?

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Ladies and gentlemen, right now I'd like to bring up to the mic a very good old friend of mine, Mr. James Heidemann.

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James Heidemann, let's bring him on up. Come on.

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Jamie's dulcet tones ring out but the candle keeps on keeping on.

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Is that all the volume we've got?

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In desperation, Jamie adopts the birthday cake approach.

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That seems to be working.

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But it doesn't look like he'll be getting his wish anytime soon.

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Can you really be hypnotized to do something against your will and without your knowledge?

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Will that be with cream and sugar, sir?

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The team has already determined that Grant is a suitably susceptible subject.

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So, all that remains now is for Carrie and Tori to figure out what they want him to do.

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A little apprehensive as to what the other two might have come up with in their little minds.

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And apprehensive he should be.

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I like that.

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The plan is when Tori says the words, quantum physics, Grant will suddenly decide to draw love hearts on his beloved robot, Dead Blow,

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something he would never normally do.

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And when Carrie yawns, he'll jump up and down, something he might normally do.

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It's back into the chair for Labrad Grant, and it's only a few minutes before the souped up EEG machine

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shows that Grant's brain activity has dropped by 50%.

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It's kind of creepy. He looks like a zombie.

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With Grant well and truly under, Seth plants the seeds of post-hypnotic suggestion,

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starting with one he would never normally do.

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When you hear the words, quantum physics, on your right butt, you're going to draw a beautiful, feminine heart.

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Oh my God, she just gave him the command, and he agreed to it without cracking a smile.

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He can't, I know he's not that good an actor.

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So far, so good. Now for the much easier second suggestion.

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Whenever you see Carrie yawn, you are going to have this uncontrollable urge to jump up and down.

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He looks like he's putty in her hands.

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I'd like you now to get ready to come back.

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So the seeds have been sown. They'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if they've taken root.

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Later, the team witness an event that leaves Jamie mad as a hatter.

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But first, it's Mythbusters the musical.

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Coming up next on Mythbusters.

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Can a human voice put out a fire?

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Jamie and Adam are trying to overturn conventional firefighting techniques

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by putting out fires with the human voice.

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But the results so far aren't about to set the world ablaze.

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So where are we at with this myth?

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Well, we have successfully demonstrated that we can put out a fire using a sound,

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but we have not demonstrated that a human voice can do it.

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Doesn't that mean it's busted?

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Not exactly. I mean, just because we can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done.

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Remember shattering a wine glass?

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When Adam and Jamie tried to shatter a wine glass with their unamplified voices,

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they got nowhere fast.

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Not surprisingly, I don't think I can do it.

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It wasn't until they unleashed the power of rocker pro Jamie Van Derra

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that they got their lucky break.

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I think it's time to bring in some professionals.

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Like some singers.

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Exactly.

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Q local acapella group hook slide with their most bizarre gig to date.

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Whenever you're ready, take it away and try and put out that candle.

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Sure, they can hold a harmony, but are they firefighting material?

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One of you hit a really specific note.

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Once again, it's the low frequencies that have the most effect.

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So bassist Jonathan gets his chance for a solo.

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At first, even his lowest low doesn't work.

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Do the buzz, do the see, get the beat.

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But as the saying goes, if at first you don't succeed, well...

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It turns out that it is possible to put out a flame with an amplified human voice.

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Of course, we can't leave it there.

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On the tails of that success, I think we should set up a bigger flame

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and some bigger speakers and put you on to the test.

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With mission accomplished on the candle, it's time to turn up the heat to record breaking proportions.

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This is our next test bed to try and put a fire out with sound or a voice.

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This is simply propane that you took up to your barbecue.

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It's really simple.

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We're going to kind of supersize it here.

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We've got a much bigger flame, much bigger speakers.

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We'll see whether we can get the same effect.

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It's back to the booth for our beatbox bassist.

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Blowing raspberries in the name of science.

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Try as he might, even at a whopping 146 decibels, Jonathan's raspberries are no match for the bigger burn.

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I think it's time to move on to tones. Thank you so much.

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I appreciate it.

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Roger, it's all up to you now. You ready?

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Ready.

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Armed with $80,000 worth of audio equipment, is there anything Roger can do to put out this fire?

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He works his way through the frequencies and cranks it up to a bone jarring, painfully loud, 155 decibels.

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But even that can't put out the fire.

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There's stuff falling off of the ceiling.

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But Jamie's got one last idea.

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We're going to give it one last shot.

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We've reconfigured the speakers so they're more or less coming at the flame in one wall.

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Frankly, we're a little baffled. We don't know what else to do.

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Will the V formation be V for victory?

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Roger cranks up the base at Adams on his hands and knees, praying for a sweet spot.

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It's less about intricate planning and more about trial and error, but suddenly...

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Oh my God.

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It's a red letter day for science because at 55 hertz at a room shaking 149 decibels, they've achieved a world first.

328
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No one has ever put out a fire of this size with sound until now.

329
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This is yet another in a long line of cases in which I completely didn't expect the result we got at the very end of the day.

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Everything we've done up until we got that flame to go out was telling me not going to happen.

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The difference between a candle and a real fire is significant and we were not going to get any positive results.

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And we did. That's stunning. I love being wrong.

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But it's not over yet because before this myth is extinguished, there's an explosive twist to the tale.

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This one's about putting out fire with your voice.

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If you want to see other interesting ways that sound and fire interact, log on to discovery.com.

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It's hot stuff.

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It's like any other morning at Mythbusters.

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Except today, Grant is a ticking time bomb.

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Yesterday, he was implanted with two post-hypnotic suggestions.

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It's time to see if those seeds have taken root.

341
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The two triggers are one, we're saying quantum physics, and that's going to cause Grant to pull out his marker and go draw hearts on his robot.

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And then the second one is, Carrie's going to yawn and that's going to get him to jump around.

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So either way, it should be a very entertaining day.

344
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Neither Carrie nor Tori have spoken to Grant about yesterday's hypnosis session.

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As far as he's concerned, he's designing a diet coke and Mentos rig.

346
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So bring on the trigger words.

347
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You know what I can do is make something that will just push them all in really quick.

348
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That just seems like a lot of extra work.

349
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I think getting too complicated.

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I mean, it's not like this is quantum physics.

351
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That was the trigger.

352
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Okay.

353
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But the robot remains graffiti free.

354
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Maybe the more subtle suggestion will stand a better chance.

355
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I have some...

356
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Some...

357
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Carrie yawns once and twice, but nothing.

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The triggers are enough to give him the giggles, but not enough to put him under their power.

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So what went wrong?

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I had a clear idea of what they wanted me to do.

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And all through, I was trying to say, okay, well, maybe hopefully I'll forget and then it'll be subliminal, but just kept coming back.

362
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So it didn't work on Gray, but is it a little too soon to call this one game over for the myth?

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I think the real problem is you always knew you were going to get a suggestion while you were under.

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You didn't know what it was, but you always knew.

365
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All right.

366
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Well, maybe what we'd do is we find somebody from the crew who believes in hypnosis and wants to change.

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While they're under, we secretly put a post-hypnotic suggestion in there.

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I have the perfect candidate.

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Alice, who's one of our producers, wants to stop chewing the tops of her pens.

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And she is a big believer in alternative healing techniques like hypnosis.

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So I say we bring her in, give her hypnosis for chewing the tops of the pens, but while she's under, we give her our own suggestion.

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Producer Alice has been working with Jamie and Adam on another story and has no idea what this team is up to.

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She thinks she's here to be hypnotized to kick her disgusting, pen-chewing habit.

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Just allow your eyes to close and allow yourself to double the relaxation.

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But what she doesn't know is that while she's under, something devious is going on.

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So we're going to give her post-hypnotic suggestions the same way that we gave you.

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We're going to give her one that is something that she could easily do, like grabbing her ear.

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And then the second one we're going to do is completely against her moral fiber, something she would not do.

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That is.

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Slapping me in the face.

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With the session in full swing, it's time to plant the first suggestion.

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When you hear the word Adam, would it be okay with you if you were to scratch your ear?

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I don't like the idea of this. This is trickery.

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She's hot.

385
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Despite an encouraging start, it doesn't look like producer Alice is going to take the bait.

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I did not agree to this before.

387
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Looks like this myth is sinking faster than a lead balloon.

388
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She knows we're trying to sneak in some post-hypnotic suggestions and it's not working.

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We didn't even get to the fun part. I wanted to see what she would do if we told her to do something totally crazy, like slap me.

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Instead, it's a slap in the face for post-hypnotic suggestion. It works fine in the movies.

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I must kill the queen.

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But in the real world, well, even hypnotists say it can't be done.

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Hypnosis can't control you. You have to want to accept the suggestion.

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But if you don't want to do it, it's not going to happen.

395
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I'm so sad. I really wanted this one to work.

396
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You wanted to get slapped in the face?

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Well, we did get a good result. As soon as the hypnotist tried to make Alice do something against her will, she came right out of the hypnosis.

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So it is just like they say, you never really go totally unconscious.

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And most hypnotherapists and hypnotists agree that you can't make anyone do anything that's against their moral fiber.

400
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So this one's busted?

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Busted.

402
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It's too bad, because I kind of wanted to take over the world.

403
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Later, the mythbusters get all fired up and try to put it out with a bang.

404
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Fire in the hole!

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But next, Jamie and Adam act for science.

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When was that?

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And put the team's memory to the test.

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I can't remember anything else.

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Hey, don't try what you're about to see at home. We're what you call experts.

410
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,000
That's right. We do this for a living.

411
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Grant and Tory have been having so much fun exploring hypnosis myths...

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I don't like it's fun to visit.

413
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...that Adam and Jamie can't help but join them.

414
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,000
What are you doing?

415
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,000
I'm carrying Grant and Tory are doing hypnosis myths.

416
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And as long as they're exploring the subject, there is one I have always wanted to try.

417
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Now, what's that?

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Well, it's that you can remember more details under hypnosis than under normal circumstances.

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The police could put you under hypnosis and you'd remember all sorts of things about a crime you witnessed...

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...that you had no conscious memory of witnessing.

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It's one of the most pervasive myths associated with hypnosis.

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But can going under really unleash a vast resource of hidden memories?

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So to put this myth to the test, they've enlisted the help of local actors Brian and Brian...

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...to stage a scene that will take place in front of Carrie, Tory and Grant.

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The goal of this scene is to elevate their stress levels a little bit...

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...make them view something that's slightly uncomfortable and then they're going to have to remember exactly what happened.

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We're going to fill a little scenario with a bunch of details that they're supposed to remember.

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And we're going to see if they can remember more of those details under hypnosis than under normal conditions.

429
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Excellent.

430
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The basic scene is that Brian and Brian are going to be delivery men with attitude.

431
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Wait, wait, wait, wait.

432
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You're a big man, huh?

433
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You're a big star.

434
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...who push Jamie over the edge.

435
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Well that ought to work.

436
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That is perfect.

437
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This is going to be an ideal test.

438
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Yeah, there's a lot for them to remember there.

439
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What's important for this myth is that there are plenty of actions and words to remember.

440
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,000
But Adam wants to leave a series of visual clues as well.

441
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Look at that.

442
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A tattoo here, a few name tags there and some company logos for good measure.

443
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These are the kinds of quality clues which, if remembered, could break a real life crime case.

444
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But over at M7, will an unsuspecting Kari, Tori and Grant be able to remember more of these clues when under hypnosis?

445
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:22,000
Only the camera crew have been led in on the little secret so they can record it going down.

446
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So, let the scene be seen.

447
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I have a package for M7.

448
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I can take it.

449
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,000
You're that guy, man.

450
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,000
Hey, how's it going?

451
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,000
This is the guy from the show, right?

452
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,000
You're from the show where they blow stuff up and stuff?

453
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Oh my God.

454
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You mind if I get a signature though?

455
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A whole array of clues are being dropped as the scene gets underway, but are any being picked up by the team?

456
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Just put something like, live the myth, live the dream or something like that.

457
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You got to be kidding me.

458
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At first, they don't take much notice.

459
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000
Can I take a picture of you, you and me?

460
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,000
I'm going to wear the beanie.

461
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Until things escalate.

462
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They leave the hat alone and say it's cool.

463
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000
We got to get back to work here.

464
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,000
Big TV star, huh?

465
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,000
Yeah, you don't have to.

466
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,000
Now, the scene has got their undivided attention.

467
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,000
You know what?

468
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,000
You know what?

469
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,000
Screw that.

470
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No photo, no package.

471
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God.

472
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Movie star.

473
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What?

474
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It's coming.

475
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It's time for this.

476
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What was that?

477
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The only way that any of that would make sense if some music started and he started taking his clothes off or something.

478
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It was like a...

479
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It was like a...

480
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000
With the show over, it's time.

481
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,000
It's time to let them in on the scan.

482
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000
How'd you like that?

483
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,000
It was pretty good.

484
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,000
It was crazy.

485
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:37,000
We constructed that whole scene to give you guys a bunch of facts to try and remember.

486
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:45,000
The myth is that under hypnosis, you might remember more about a crime or an event that happened in front of you than you would under normal conditions.

487
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,000
That's good.

488
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:53,000
So we wrote down a whole bunch of details about the physical appearance of those guys and about the narrative of exactly what happened.

489
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000
And we have those questions in here.

490
00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:02,000
We're going to ask you guys this questionnaire, not under hypnosis, and then under hypnosis and see if there's a difference in the results.

491
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:08,000
Time to find out, as Tori, Carrie and Grant submit to the Mythbusters memory exam.

492
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000
I feel like I'm back in high school.

493
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,000
No, because if you're back in high school, you'd be cheating off of me.

494
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000
I wouldn't have been a cheat off of you.

495
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,000
I'm a cheat off of Grant.

496
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000
Ready?

497
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000
One, two, three, and begin.

498
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:24,000
They're going to be asked the same set of questions before and after hypnosis.

499
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,000
Right?

500
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:33,000
Questions about the culprit's names, their distinguishing features, and even their smell.

501
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000
That's a weird question.

502
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Will test their range of recall across all the senses.

503
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000
I think that's it.

504
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,000
I'm done.

505
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000
I can't remember anything else.

506
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000
So how do they rate their recall?

507
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,000
I mean, I know there's a lot of details that I probably got wrong.

508
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:55,000
I remember things, but I don't remember specifics about those things.

509
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,000
He's not kidding.

510
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000
Although they could all remember some general info about the scene,

511
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:05,000
no one was able to recall anything critical that could lead to an arrest in a real life case.

512
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:10,000
But will hypnosis help paint a clearer picture before this case goes cold?

513
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000
Those guys don't seem to be doing too well with the Mythbusters memory exam.

514
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,000
No, they're not.

515
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000
Think you can do better?

516
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Log on to Discovery.com slash Mythbusters, where you'll find a video you can use to put your own memory to the test.

517
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Coming right up, the team goes into a trance.

518
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Sleep, sleep, sleep.

519
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,000
But first, fighting fires with fire power.

520
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:40,000
In Voice Fire Extinguisher, Adam and Jamie have something to shout about.

521
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:47,000
They've just used amplified sound waves to put out a record-sized flame.

522
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:53,000
So where does that leave the Myth?

523
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000
Are we ready to call this one?

524
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000
I think based on what we've gotten so far, yeah.

525
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:05,000
I think Charles Kellogg's original claim, the source of our myth that you can put out a fire with an unamplified human voice, is totally busted.

526
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,000
And yet, like any good myth, there is an element of truth here.

527
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:16,000
Oh no, I could not believe the results we got when our singer was able, although amplified, to put out that candle with his voice.

528
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:24,000
Yeah, and with a tone generator and a truckload of amplifiers and speakers, we were able to put out a pretty good-sized flame.

529
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Which is really impressive.

530
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,000
And yet, I don't feel like we can let this one rest here.

531
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,000
Well, what about explosives?

532
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,000
I mean, sounds a pressure wave and explosives create a pressure wave.

533
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:42,000
As far as I know, they actually put out oil rigged fires with explosives.

534
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,000
Sold, let's do it.

535
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Once again, we find ourselves at the Alameda County bomb range.

536
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,000
JD, Frank Doyle are helping us out.

537
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,000
We're going to try and put out the fire with explosives.

538
00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,000
In other words, they're going to fight fire with fire power.

539
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:06,000
A technique that was developed to put out arguably the most dangerous infernos of all, oil well fires.

540
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:12,000
This technique was made famous by the late Red Adair, is probably the most famous firefighter ever.

541
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,000
He put out over 2,000 fires in his career.

542
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,000
The guy was amazing.

543
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000
But how exactly did he do it?

544
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000
Sound is nothing but pressure.

545
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:27,000
In the case of a sound wave, we've got repeated cycling of this pressure wave over and over again to create something that you hear.

546
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:36,000
The theory of using an explosive to put out a fire is that the single pressure wave the explosive creates removes all of the oxygen from the fire so it can't burn.

547
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,000
To put this theory to the test, the first thing they're going to need is a fire.

548
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000
And that's Jamie's department.

549
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,000
OK, sis.

550
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,000
Let's check in 3, 2, 1.

551
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,000
That worked perfectly.

552
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Is that beautiful or what?

553
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Look at that thing.

554
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000
Yeah, it doesn't get much neater than that.

555
00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:01,000
And first up for the fire in the hole test is black powder, a low velocity explosive.

556
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,000
Are we ready?

557
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000
We are ready.

558
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000
This is the borrito.

559
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000
The black powder borrito.

560
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:14,000
With the black powder burrito in place, it's time for the three amigos to hunker in the bunker.

561
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000
OK, are we set?

562
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000
This is for real.

563
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
OK, black powder test.

564
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,000
I'm going to go ahead and ignite now.

565
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000
Fire, we have fire.

566
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000
OK, it's all yours now.

567
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000
OK, pulling in.

568
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000
We're in place, go.

569
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000
Beautiful!

570
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000
That worked perfectly.

571
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000
That could not have gone better.

572
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:43,000
The fire rig and explosives delivery system work like a charm.

573
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:49,000
But through fighting fires, they'd have been better off using black magic than black powder.

574
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:55,000
Because as the high speed shows, the post boom flame is burning as strong as ever.

575
00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,000
So they'll have to try again with something that has a little bit of a spark.

576
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,000
They'll have to try again with something that has a little more bang for their buck.

577
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
That's fun!

578
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:39,000
With all three flunking the Mythbusters memory exam, now it's time to find out if hypnosis will help them remember any critical clues.

579
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,000
Hypnotist Dave Hill thinks it will.

580
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,000
I'm going to do everything in my hypnotic ability to help you gain more memory.

581
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,000
Sound like fun?

582
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:57,000
Dave spent the last 20 years putting people under, and he's convinced he can refresh memories using the technique of rapid hypnosis.

583
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Just give me your hand if you would.

584
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,000
I'm going to place my hand here if that's okay.

585
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:06,000
By the time I reach the count of one, you'll be in a very deep state of hypnotic sleep.

586
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000
That's fine, you're doing perfectly in sleep.

587
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,000
The idea is to overload the mind with sudden, firm commands.

588
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Close your eyes down, my friend.

589
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000
Roll your eyeballs up to the top.

590
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Try and open your eyelids once, twice.

591
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000
Notice they don't work.

592
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Way down on sleep.

593
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Way down on sleep.

594
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,000
Now, I want to help you with your memory.

595
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:45,000
What we're going to now give you in your mind's eye is a wonderful TV set with a remote control that allows you to fast forward, to reverse scenes, to put the scenes in slow motion.

596
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:51,000
With Dave at the helm, the team retakes the very same test in their hypnotic state.

597
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Did their uniforms have name tags or patches?

598
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
Look at them carefully.

599
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,000
What was written on their name tags?

600
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:09,000
Did either delivery men have a tattoo?

601
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:20,000
Several probing questions later, and it's time to reemerge and find out if hypnosis helped them remember any additional information

602
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000
that'll crack the case.

603
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,000
The papers have been graded, and the new scores are in with exciting results.

604
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Carrie has remembered some important dialogue.

605
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,000
You're that guy, dude. You know that guy from the show? They blow stuff up.

606
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000
This is the guy from the show, right? You're from the show where they blow stuff up.

607
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,000
Wait, I want to call my brother.

608
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000
You know what? I'm going to call my brother real fast.

609
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000
All of that, I remembered after we relaxed with the hypnosis.

610
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:56,000
But it's Grant and Tori that have come up trumps with the types of quality information that would really help a real-life investigation.

611
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:01,000
I don't even remember name tags, but when we went under hypnosis, a name popped up.

612
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Was it the right name?

613
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,000
Yeah.

614
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,000
What's his name?

615
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Joe.

616
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,000
And Grant was able to describe the tattoo in detail.

617
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:13,000
For purposes of identifying someone at a crime scene, that's really important information.

618
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000
I'm totally impressed by the results.

619
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,000
So, thanks to hypnosis, looks like the case might be solved after all.

620
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,000
So, did you guys do any better remembering details under hypnosis?

621
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Well, I remember that one of the guys had a tattoo on his neck under hypnosis.

622
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000
That's really important.

623
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,000
Oh, yeah.

624
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000
Tori remembered a name.

625
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:37,000
I totally did not expect this to work. I mean, given that, are we calling this confirmed?

626
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,000
We have what it takes to be confirmed.

627
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,000
Confirmed?

628
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,000
I'm a believer.

629
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,000
That's amazing.

630
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:52,000
Coming right up, will an even bigger boom silence the sizzle ring?

631
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,000
Two, one, go.

632
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:12,000
At the bomb range, the mythbusters are trying to put out fires with explosives.

633
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000
I'll let Adam explain why.

634
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
We have already tried putting out fires with sound.

635
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000
We started out with our voice.

636
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,000
Then we moved on to sound generating equipment.

637
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Now we're trying explosives.

638
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000
We have already tried black powder to put out fires.

639
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000
Now we're going with high explosives.

640
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:36,000
The throughput here, the key point that travels through all these experiments is attempting to use waves,

641
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,000
either sound waves or shock waves, to put out fire.

642
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,000
And next up in this thread, it's the mythbusters favorite.

643
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:51,000
We've used high explosives a number of times on the show, exploding safe, exploding pants.

644
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:57,000
And then there, of course, is the granddaddy of them all, which was 22,000 foot fall.

645
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:04,000
The thousand pounds of high explosives triggered not only the biggest blast in mythbusters history,

646
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:10,000
but also, rather alarmingly for this test, set the surrounding hillside ablaze.

647
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:18,000
Now, in a reversal of fate, Jamie and Adam want to know if the same ingredients can be used to put out fires.

648
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000
That's high explosive, huh? That is a high explosive.

649
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Wow, it looks more like a taco.

650
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,000
So why would high explosives work when low explosives fail?

651
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Is there a real qualitative difference between a high explosive shock wave and a low explosive shock wave?

652
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:47,000
Oh, very definitely. A high explosive shock wave is much more intense. It's more of a wall. It has more push and more speed.

653
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:55,000
It's that push, that immense pressure wave that should apparently be able to extinguish the flame.

654
00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:01,000
This is, can we put out a fire with high explosives? Three, two, one, go.

655
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,000
There it is.

656
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000
We got fire. Taking out spark.

657
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,000
Spark off.

658
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:12,000
We're putting explosives into position. It's in. And firing.

659
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,000
Wow!

660
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000
That was awesome!

661
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,000
Woo!

662
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:30,000
For Jamie's fire, it was a boom of doom. It's been completely and utterly extinguished.

663
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:36,000
The high explosives sure did the trick. By removing the oxygen, they suffocated the fire.

664
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,000
But as a firefighting technique, Jamie spotted an obvious flaw.

665
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,000
It's not something you want to put out a fire in your house with or you'll remove your house.

666
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:52,000
You don't want to put out a fire on your car just because you happen to have some firecrackers in the trunk.

667
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:58,000
This is a very specialized thing that works sometimes if it's set up exactly right.

668
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,000
So what do you think? Does the fire big enough?

669
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,000
I think so.

670
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,000
Well, talk about fighting fire with fire.

671
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,000
We were able to put out a fire with explosives.

672
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:19,000
I gotta say, this one has carried us very far afield, but it's been some of the most fun experiments I think we've ever done.

673
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,000
And it was pretty high up there on the don't try this at home list, wasn't it?

674
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,000
Absolutely.