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On this episode of Mythbusters, we get behind the wheel, ride the rails and take flight.

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As we go behind the scenes, get the inside story.

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He for some reason forgot to turn off the key.

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You're sitting there watching it, your mind cannot process it.

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Countdown the top 12 plane, train and automobile moments.

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That was definitely the strangest thing I had ever done in my life up till that point.

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Today it's just another day at the office.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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It's scientific.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Is that hot enough for ya?

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Joining them, Grant Imahara.

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He's a liar.

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Carrie Byron.

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I was less excited after my first kiss.

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And Tori Bellegi.

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That was the coolest thing I've ever done.

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They don't just tell the myth, they put them to the test.

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Buckle up and stay on track because it's chocks away for the planes, trains and automobiles special.

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What are you doing?

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Oh, I'm adding a little special effects wizardry to the opening of the show.

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Wizardry, huh?

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Yeah, check it out.

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I could be in space.

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Or underwater.

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Or in the case of this particular episode, a plane, a train or an automobile.

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That's what this whole episode is going to be about.

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Our favorite behind the scenes moment and never told tales about anything we've ever had to do with planes, trains and automobiles.

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You mean like when you peed on the third rail?

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Oh, exact.

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There we go.

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Or when you got sick with the Blue Angels?

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Precisely.

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Or like when you crashed your concrete glider?

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Okay, are we going to be totally negative about everything to do with this episode?

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No, I'll go along for the ride.

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Good.

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Let's go.

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And to kick-start this dirty dozen, where do we begin?

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Vehicles have always been fertile for us.

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You might even say that vehicles have provided the cornerstone of mid-buster material.

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Trying to pick out 12 moments in all of these years?

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It's going to be tricky, but if we're going to start anywhere, I would start with planes.

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Roger that.

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Because the aviation wing of Mythbusters has been in full swing for some time.

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And for our first moment, here's Captain Heinemann.

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.

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Put your tray tables on the ground.

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.

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Put your tray tables and your seats in the full upright position.

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Make sure you have all your seatbelts engaged and kiss your ass goodbye.

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It's the magic moment the Mythbusters earn their wings being talked into land.

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The pilot has died for some reason.

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I'm the one they turned to to land the plane.

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I get on the horn and say hello.

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Hello.

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Air traffic control, dog, we had a fly this beast.

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Land these people safely man and he says yes.

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That's my task.

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And to test that, they got their hands on one heck of a big boy's toy.

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Over the years, we've been given some pretty amazing toys to play with.

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The Bloodhound, for beat the Bloodhound.

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Fighter jets for Sonic Boom.

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Oh, holy crap.

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And that huge hurricane producing thing called the Medusa for Hurricane Window.

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That is awesome.

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But we've never been actually allowed to fly a plane for an experiment.

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It turns out the FAA is pretty strict about the rules

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and where someone's allowed to fly a plane and we don't apply.

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But thanks to air traffic controller Terry Rager, they didn't need to take to the sky.

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Welcome aboard.

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Eventually we were able to get the next best thing

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and we got access to a flight simulator at NASA.

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Of course, we broke it in the process, but what are you going to do?

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But the control where the guys had to land without any assistance from the tower.

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Terrain, okay.

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That means I'm really close to the terrain.

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Went just about as well as could be expected.

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I pretty much crashed and burned almost immediately.

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It was it was grizzly.

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Okay, wait.

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Oh, I don't think I did so well.

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I was really surprised how difficult it was to try and fly that plane with no

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help and no experience at all.

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The thing was that all the gauges in the plane, they're not really labeled.

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I need to find my speed.

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Why can't I find my speed?

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And inside the ultra realistic simulator,

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not being able to find the controls was the least of Jamie's problems.

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Why is it telling me not to think?

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We were wondering what sort of narrative occurred at the FAA for them to put this

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phrase into a plane to start yelling at the pilot under some kind of crash conditions.

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Don't think?

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Yeah, shut up.

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It was only later we realized that the plane was saying, don't sink.

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Oh, and after two crash landings, enter air control, swami Terry.

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Okay, could he talk our rookie pilots down?

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The most astonishing thing was though, with guidance from our air traffic controller,

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we were able to land the plane.

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Okay, what's your pitch out attitude?

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Oh, I'm at five degrees.

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Very good.

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Yep, despite flying blind, Terry calmly and precisely talked not just one myth buster.

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Ah, congratulations, Jamie.

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You made it.

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About two through two landings.

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Okay, pull those out.

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That plane wasn't going to fly again, but all the people inside of it were alive.

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It might have been a different story with 300 passengers, but quite honestly,

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if if I'm ever in a plane and someone asks, can someone fly this plane?

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I might just raise my hand.

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Next is a moment about staying on your toes.

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Though towing is our best choice when we're trying to crash vehicles,

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because we're not going to drive them.

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It can't present a few problems.

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Indeed.

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And those problems are familiar to every mythbusters viewer.

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Is that going to go into the water?

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes!

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Which is why occasionally we get professional help.

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Specifically in the area of crashes.

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We've needed a level of accuracy that exceeds anything we've been able to achieve on the show.

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And in those cases, we've actually resorted to specialized crash test facilities.

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Not these testing facilities.

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They crash cars all the time.

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That was so Hollywood!

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They have ironed out all the butts.

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They do this every single day.

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Except for when we show up.

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For instance, instant convertible.

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I don't think that went quite as planned.

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Not quite as planned.

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But it's no accident that this memorable mistake made the countdown.

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And we are testing the myth that you can drive a car underneath a semi-truck trailer.

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Cut the top off, turn it into a convertible and continue on driving.

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Get in there.

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All right, good luck buddy.

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Myth seems simple.

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The setup was simple.

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But getting the thing to work was far from simple.

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Now we knew the roof was going to come off.

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We knew we were getting ourselves a convertible.

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And 70!

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What we didn't know is that it wouldn't stop.

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It kept going.

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Sometimes failure is not only an option, it's a spectacular surprise.

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What's on the other side of that berm?

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Uh-oh.

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Ha ha ha.

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When I watched the rough cut and saw that look on Carrie's face,

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that mix of fear, panic and excitement all together,

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if there is one facial expression that sums up the totality of Mythbusters, that would be it.

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Yep, you'd think the Mythbusters would be used to it by now.

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They should always expect the unexpected.

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What I always wanted to imagine is what the people on the freeway were thinking

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when they saw a car fly up into the air vertically.

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That must have been a crazy sight.

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It was one of those moments where I'm glad nobody got hurt,

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but I'm also very glad that it went so wrong.

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After the break, there's more automotive mayhem.

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Well there's your problem.

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And even a flying car.

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There's more rails, wheels and wings as we count down the top 12 plane, train and automobile moments.

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Next is the story that proves road rage doesn't pay.

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I think it's the fact that either rising gas prices hit us all where we live,

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or the fact that everybody at some point or another has had to tinker with their car.

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Well there's your problem.

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And thus can really kind of get into what we're talking about.

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We've done truck tailgate up or down, windows versus AC.

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This test is being done by professional drivers on the closed track.

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Your results may differ.

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We've done dirty versus clean car and turned a car into a golf ball.

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Fact is it worked. I feel like eating my beret.

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We've also tried a whole bunch of mythical gadgets you could purchase like magnets and

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super carburetor filters and all sorts of other crap.

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This is such total of horse.

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Ha ha. None of it has increased fuel efficiency by more than two or three percent.

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And most of it hasn't worked at all until Kari Grant and Tori tested whether or not

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your mood had a large effect on your fuel efficiency.

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And it's the astonishing result of don't drive angry that puts this story into the countdown.

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After the boys had completed driving the circuit normally, Kari began her psychological torture.

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So getting to the truth of this myth is not something that I remember fondly.

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There are a lot of people that don't understand this.

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Nine out of 10 people do not understand this.

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However, that 10th person is like, yes, I totally get you.

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And I don't like the fish touching me either.

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Imagine this being stuck in a car, loud noises,

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blaring in your ear.

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A rat crawling all over your body.

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Where did those rats go?

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Where did you go?

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You have to.

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How do you think you would drive?

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Well, as it turned out, three times more extensively than a mild-mattered driver.

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Which is to me that, you know, people who drive angry are going to be angry, not only

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it's people on the road, but they're going to be really angry because they're using all this gas.

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And then they're going to be even more angry at that.

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So remember to save on gas and cash.

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Don't drive angry.

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And at number nine, we're bending the rules.

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Plains, trains and automobiles are all very well and good.

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But when you're talking sheer fun, nothing beats a motorcycle.

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You're not strictly within the remit, but the mythbusters and bikes have a memorable relationship.

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None more so than trying the Indiana Jones myth that a flagpole could flip a motorcycle.

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Three, two, one, go!

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It totally doesn't work like that, but it was really fun to dress up as Indiana Jones.

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Jeannie actually got into the character of Henry Jones and called me Junior.

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Well, the timing was perfect.

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If you say so, Junior.

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But that was just a precursor to the ultimate in motorcycle mayhem.

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Without a doubt, the best two-wheel story we've ever done is tablecloth chaos.

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The myth here was that you could pull a tablecloth out from under a banquet table full of settings

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without upsetting a single dish.

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But here's the catch, using a motorcycle.

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What other story has Jamie trotting out his muscle bike?

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Walking around for several days in full leathers, which he didn't complain about in one bit.

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And then the repeated destruction of flatware and China tumbling onto the ground.

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I've been riding a bike since before I had a driver's license,

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so I never miss an opportunity.

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And especially on this show, because we're often allowed to do things that you're really not supposed to do on a road.

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Despite Jamie pushing the throttle to 105 miles per hour,

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it was impossible to pull off this trick without filmic fakery.

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A lot of viewers wrote in after that episode and said,

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my bike goes a lot of faster than 100 miles an hour.

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I could have done that stunt.

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You missed the point.

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The point was taking off a dead stop.

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And you're just not going to get anywhere near fast enough to do that with any kind of vehicle.

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Nope, it won't work.

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Unless like Adam and Jamie, you use special effects wizardry.

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It's busted.

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At number eight, it's the myth that a car could skip a leg.

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Car skip was one of those stories that happened while I was on maternity leave.

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The car is armed. This is it, you guys.

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Hit it.

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It was the perfect myth buster story.

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Perfect. But the start didn't go quite to plan,

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which is often the case with our remote control escapades.

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That car didn't skip.

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Now Grant is known for his remote control skills.

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I don't know if he did a lot of video gaming when he was a kid,

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but he is our go to guy when it comes to their remote control.

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And with good reason because this car had a nitrous booster,

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making it twice as fast.

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And also exponentially harder to control.

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I could potentially have a rocket on my hands.

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With that kind of power comes a lot of pressure.

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This is crazy, man.

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This is totally crazy.

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We're like Thelma and Louise.

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We are.

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In three, two, one, hit it.

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But it was water off at Dutch back as Grant skipped the car across the lake

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and into remote control history.

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Please skip the car across the lake.

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Yeah.

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That is a moment of joy for me to see that car get across the lake

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and then just keep going.

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I mean, that's sort of the pinnacle of an experiment

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when it works exactly as you planned.

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Buckle up because this moment is all about designated drivers.

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Whoa.

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Looking good, Grant.

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Hey, on target.

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It's fun to make cars remote control.

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But when you need real precision in a myth,

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you got to drive the cars yourself.

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And thanks to some extreme driving tuition.

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Sorry about that.

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The mythbusters have tried all kinds of stunt driving.

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Okay, I'm buckling up.

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But for Grant, the biggest test of his wheel man skills

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bringing it on in was for finding out if you can save fuel by drafting.

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They wanted me to drive within inches of the rear bumper.

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That is crazy.

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Yeah, boy.

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Which is a really scary thing.

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I mean, it's it's one of the scariest things you can do in a car.

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Nicely done.

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Grant confirmed that drafting saved fuel, but they weren't finished yet.

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Here you go, Power Ranger.

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All right, I'm going to go save the universe.

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Now, one thing that didn't actually make the show

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is the fact that we not only did drafting with a car, but with a bicycle.

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Tori drafted a big rig on a bicycle.

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I just go.

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I just had like a helmet and some body armor.

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20 miles per hour maintaining speed.

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I mean, if that truck goes off course or stops,

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I'm going to be right underneath the back of it.

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Maintaining 20 miles per hour.

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That's not going to be good.

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Luckily, Tori stayed in the saddle.

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This is ridiculous.

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It's so easy and proved that drafting on a bike is a smooth ride.

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Once I got up to 20 miles an hour,

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it felt like there was no resistance whatsoever.

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But when it comes to big rigs and stunt driving, one myth reigns supreme.

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I can't wait to do this.

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The stunt driving move that I'm most proud of on the show has to be Knight Rider.

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The point of the story was to see whether you could drive onto

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or off of a moving semi-trailer truck.

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The TV show may have made it look easy, but for Adam, it was anything but.

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So the testing procedure looks like it's pretty straight forward.

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Truck drives in front of me with a ramp down

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while I drive up behind it at 55 miles an hour and drive up the ramp and into the truck,

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except that it started to rain.

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We couldn't abort.

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We only had one more day at that location.

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So I had to do that stunt without actually being able to see the 18-wheeler in front of me

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until I was right up on top of it.

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And this spray of rain is spraying in my windshield.

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And I'm going on pure faith that I've aimed the car correctly, which I did.

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And luckily it worked.

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The stunt certainly worked, but one thing didn't.

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There was one problem with the sequence, and it was in terms of coverage.

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Back then on MythBusters, we were using tape cameras,

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magnetic tape read by little magnetic heads.

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And at the moment, my car hit the ramp of the 18-wheeler.

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We bumped all the cameras, disengaged the heads for a second,

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and they all stopped recording for that key moment when I went into the 18-wheeler.

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Thankfully, however, the main camera caught all the action.

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Just like it did when Jamie tried this stunt backwards.

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That night writer stunt was either the most fun I've ever had with a car

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or the most terrifying, I'm not sure which.

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Fun and terrifying.

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That's exactly why it makes the list.

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Well, for now at least.

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Would I say that was the apex of my stunt driving career?

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I wouldn't think so.

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I would like to think that the high points are yet to come.

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Indeed, at our next high point is the most controversial myth of all.

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I must say I was surprised when playing on a conveyor belt turned out to be so darn controversial.

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This myth was basically a thought experiment that said that if you were a plane trying to

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take off on a conveyor belt that was going in the opposite direction that the plane wanted to go,

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you wouldn't be able to take off.

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In the beginning, Jamie didn't even want to do this story because when I first explained to him

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that it was a controversial concept, he was like,

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why would anyone believe the plane wouldn't take off?

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That's idiotic.

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It was like, I'm going to be able to fly if I flap my arms fast enough.

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It's not going to happen.

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I had to print out two inch thick pile of internet arguments to show him that this was

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absolutely worth us doing on the show.

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And once they started testing, I'm ready.

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Okay, go.

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Their mini plane and makeshift conveyor belt proved the myth was clear for takeoff.

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Is that a flying plane?

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That is a flying plane and it was on the paper when it took off.

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Excellent.

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So it was time to go full scale.

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Because we couldn't find a conveyor belt that would accommodate an airplane taking off,

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we decided to go out to a runway and just cover the entire runway

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with a material that was like a conveyor belt.

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It's like making a very big bed.

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And then we pulled it.

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A light sport, you're clear to take off.

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All right, this is full size airplane on a conveyor belt for real this time.

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Go Jamie, go.

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The result of the test showed that the plane actually was able to take off.

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Because what the wheels are doing on the ground doesn't have any relevance to what the plane is doing.

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The plane flies by moving forward through the air and there's nothing that is happening

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with the conveyor belt that is keeping it from doing that.

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That was beautiful.

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But despite proving once and for all that a plane on a conveyor belt would take to the air,

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believe it or not, there are still some who say the plane would remain grounded.

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For those of you who still do not believe me, here is an experiment you can actually do at home.

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Go buy yourself a little balsa wood airplane with a rubber band propeller.

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Take that treadmill you've had sitting in the closet and pull it out into the living room

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and turn it on its highest setting.

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Put the plane on it and you will notice

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that no matter how fast your treadmill is going in the opposite direction,

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that plane will still move forward.

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Myth busted.

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Coming right up.

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What can I say? It's nuts.

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It's the kind of thing you'll only see on nuthbusters.

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So far on planes, trains and automobiles,

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getting from A to B has never been so much fun.

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Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

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And coming in at number five is a myth all about risking life and limb.

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Now a lot of times on the show we have to use a human being to test the myth.

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There's no way around it.

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And when it comes to thrills and spills, one shocking moment has it all.

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Urinating on the third rail was about somebody that peed on the electrified portion of a railroad.

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Allegedly, he got electrocuted.

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Testing this involved several key components.

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We had to replicate an anatomically correct human body.

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That body had to be able to urinate.

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Looks like a pretty convincing stream to me.

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Yeah.

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And we had to have an electrified third rail.

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And to replicate an accurate human flow rate,

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they needed a point of comparison.

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And at that point, I had to pee on high-speed camera.

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All right, here we go.

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This is not our ballistics dummy that we're looking at here,

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right?

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Peeing for the high-speed camera was definitely

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the strangest thing I had ever done in my life up till that point.

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Today, it's just another day at the office.

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All right.

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Adam passing water past mustard.

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And they put the data to use with their anatomically correct

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dummy.

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We've gotten a few complaints over the years

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from the fact that we built what we called an anatomically

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correct buster and then hid that part behind a fig leaf.

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But the fact is, it was a tube.

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It was a tube that looked a little suggestive for our show,

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which is really, you have to admit, a family show,

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and thus, the fig leaf.

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Well, fig leaf or not, the myth was busted.

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Nothing.

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Not a thing.

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Until the viewers challenged the result.

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A lot of people are sending us emails saying that, well,

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I peed on an electric fence on the farm, and I got a shock.

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And of course, that shocking statistic

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had to be put to the test.

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Oh.

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It didn't work.

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So Adam was volunteered to literally put his body on the line.

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I'm not looking forward to it, but I'm

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ready to try the experiment.

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Are you?

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I'm not doing it.

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Can I point out that I've already

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been painted with gold paint and had an anal probe today?

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You're doing a wonderful job.

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Adam was a good sport anyway, and he took one for the team.

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OK, we're going to try and aim here.

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I tried to watch Adam pee on the electric fence,

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but when I started to look down there,

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I realized I'd have to look at his junk,

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and so I decided not to.

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Well, there's no doubt our shock jock took charge.

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Wait, I got to work one up.

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Hold on.

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Is there a problem there?

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I'm just grateful that the shock was that small.

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Oh, there we go.

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I got to see a hot one.

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It was nothing.

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I have been shocked by the full force

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of that electric fence in the Baghdad Battery episode.

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And I'm really glad I didn't take that in my privates.

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And at number four, it's the ultimate automotive

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transformation.

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We've done a lot of weird things to cars.

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Oh, and it's away.

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Nice try.

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00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:37,920
We put rockets on them.

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Fire.

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Covered them in clay.

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We've installed diesel-powered speakers in them.

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And yet, I think we're doing it.

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We're just getting started.

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I'd say without a doubt, cutting a car body off

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and reattaching it backwards was the wildest thing

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we've ever done.

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And that's what we did in reverse engineering.

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This is a myth I heard in the 80s

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that there is a certain model of sports car we shall remain

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unnamed that was so poorly designed,

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it was more aerodynamic going backwards than forwards.

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So to test that, look at that.

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The guys reversed the engineering of a car.

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Nice.

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I'm confused.

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Exactly, it was good.

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The result was a car with its lid literally flipped.

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Well, I know for all intents and purposes,

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it looks like I'm sitting on the hood, but check this out.

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That's the exhaust.

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It was an unmistakably MythBusters mod.

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What can I say?

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It's nuts.

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It's the kind of thing you'll only see on MythBusters.

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But for our backseat driver, the most important test

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was if the reverse engineered car could

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vanquish its right-sided counterpart.

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A lot of people say, oh, you can't race one car against another

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like that because the engines could be tuned differently.

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That's exactly why we went to the drift.

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Reverse engineering, drift off.

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Gentlemen, start your engines.

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Three, two, one, go.

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Think of it.

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When we get those two cars neck and neck up to 100 miles an hour

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and then cut into neutral, those cars drift.

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And drift.

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As they head towards the finish line,

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the only difference between them is their aerodynamics,

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not the engine tuning, not the exhaust tuning, not anything.

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So we were eliminating all of that as a possibility

499
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,120
in terms of the aerodynamic efficiency of both cars.

500
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,400
Thus, the first one off the finish line

501
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,480
is the more aerodynamically efficient.

502
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,320
I love how simple that is.

503
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:46,080
Simple.

504
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,680
And since the reverse engineering didn't engineer a win,

505
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:50,160
busted.

506
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,680
Next, the plane's trains and automobile special

507
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:58,880
goes supersonic.

508
00:28:58,880 --> 00:28:59,380
Oh, no.

509
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,840
Coming in fast and furious at number three

510
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,480
is one for the speed freaks.

511
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,960
Oh, no.

512
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:20,040
The Memphis prison speed go together like this.

513
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,520
Best friends forever.

514
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:22,360
We love speed.

515
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:23,400
We love going fast.

516
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:28,240
We love things that go fast and even Jamie.

517
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,440
Get some big fat smile on that mustachioed face

518
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,800
when he goes really, really fast.

519
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,640
That need for speed has seen the team put the pedal to the metal.

520
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,280
Ah!

521
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,760
And put rockets on cars for explosive acceleration.

522
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,320
Or not.

523
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:56,040
But those can't compare to traveling at the speed of sound.

524
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,000
It is absolutely easy to determine the fastest we've ever

525
00:29:59,000 --> 00:29:59,680
gone on the show.

526
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,400
It is when I flew with the Blue Angels

527
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,600
to test the sonic boom.

528
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:04,520
Strap in.

529
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,480
It's time to go supersonic.

530
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:09,920
The question here was whether or not

531
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,640
every time you have an aircraft creating a sonic boom

532
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,680
when it flies over a house, it's going

533
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,920
to break glass in that house.

534
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:17,760
You ready to go flying?

535
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,920
I am.

536
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,520
We discussed it in-house, who would fly.

537
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,360
And we realized that it had to be me,

538
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:25,800
because I was going to get sick.

539
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:30,000
And that was going to be funny, as opposed to Jamie's stoic face

540
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,600
under 7Gs, which would just look a little heavier.

541
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,240
And from the very first surprise rapid ascent.

542
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:38,040
Ready to go flying?

543
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:38,520
I am.

544
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:39,280
Ready, hit it.

545
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,640
The G-Forces had Adam's stomach churning.

546
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,240
I'd like to add a couple of notes about the vomiting

547
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,360
and the passing out.

548
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:55,480
One is I didn't actually vomit until the third time we pulled

549
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,040
7Gs in some kind of barrel roll.

550
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,680
I managed to make it two full times without getting sick.

551
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,280
I'm starting to feel a little nauseous.

552
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:04,680
I think I may throw up.

553
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:05,560
All right, you got the bag.

554
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:06,560
I'm going to take that.

555
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:11,160
The other one about the passing out, which really surprised

556
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,760
me, was that the pilot knew that I was about to pass out

557
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,400
before even I knew.

558
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:17,960
Pulling on up to 5Gs.

559
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:18,720
We got 5Gs.

560
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:19,320
Five and a half.

561
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,720
And he's looking at me through this tiny little mirror.

562
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:26,280
But he could see this telltale sign of my eyes going cloudy.

563
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,080
And then my head is like, stay with me, Adam.

564
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,200
Well, stick with me, Adam.

565
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:29,840
You got it.

566
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:30,480
You got it.

567
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:35,520
And I was like, and I brought myself back out of the tunnel.

568
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,400
And then I went all the way in the tunnel.

569
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:38,400
I totally passed out.

570
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:39,000
Come on.

571
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:39,720
Stay with us.

572
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,400
Stay with us.

573
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:41,920
We got it.

574
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:42,480
Come back.

575
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:46,320
You with me?

576
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:46,840
I'm with you.

577
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,040
I almost probably passed out there in a second.

578
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,240
But Adam's aerobatics were just the beginning.

579
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,720
Mythbusters, Blue Angels, test site.

580
00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:00,600
The real question was, would the Sonic Boom shatter glass?

581
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,800
I don't know how to do it.

582
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:10,600
We are headed straight for the 2000 speed at top 1.07.

583
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,120
Wow.

584
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,360
That was something.

585
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,280
How loud was it on the ground?

586
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,560
Well, we were wearing earplugs and earmugs,

587
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:19,840
if that tells you anything.

588
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,280
The sound may have been ear splitting.

589
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,920
But despite flying as low as 200 feet.

590
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:25,920
Oh, no.

591
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,440
It wasn't the boom that broke the glass.

592
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,800
But the distortion of the frame.

593
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,680
Well, there's your problem.

594
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,000
But for Adam, it was all worth it.

595
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,600
You know, when you're a kid, you always

596
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,680
want to end up being some kind of secret agent or superhero.

597
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,960
And Mythbusters has really allowed

598
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,040
me to explore so many aspects of that.

599
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,600
I have literally been faster than a speeding bullet.

600
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,040
I have not yet leaped a building in a single bound,

601
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,960
but that's on our list.

602
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,120
Coming in at number two is a story so big, we did it twice.

603
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,760
The myth was that a taxi drove behind a jet airliner

604
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:14,960
as it was taking off.

605
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,640
And the blast from the jet picked up the taxi

606
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,320
and just threw it.

607
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,400
The first time the Mythbusters tried to test this myth,

608
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,240
the insurance company took the wind out of their sails.

609
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:30,680
Jet taxi was our first intimate experience with insurance.

610
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,840
And the thing that I couldn't wrap my head around

611
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:37,000
was how we were going to damage a jet airplane

612
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,200
by putting something behind it.

613
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,280
We don't know what the jet will do to the taxi.

614
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,040
That there's no way in hell that taxi is going to do anything

615
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,320
but go farther away from the jet.

616
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,600
I didn't get it.

617
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:54,080
Oh, that would have flipped our taxi.

618
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,240
But two years later, the guys got

619
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,560
wind of another chance at a jet.

620
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,280
When an opportunity came up again to do it,

621
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,480
there's no way we're turning it down.

622
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,280
Yep, in Michigan, Khalida Air and their 747

623
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,840
were more than happy to let the Mythbusters blow off some steam.

624
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:13,800
I love you, man.

625
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:14,800
I love you.

626
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,960
The taxi was lied down and the engines roared into action.

627
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,480
And all of a sudden, part of the runway peels up.

628
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,120
We lift it off the ground.

629
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:31,400
This whole bed of pavement just flies away,

630
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,320
kind of like a roof in a hurricane.

631
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,000
And that was it.

632
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:34,960
I was like, that's it.

633
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:35,920
They're going to shut us down.

634
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,960
They're not going to let us continue testing.

635
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,480
The owner came out, looked at it, laughed, and we kept going.

636
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,280
By this stage, it was clear, come hail or high water,

637
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,120
the cab was going into the jet stream.

638
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,000
Coming up to power.

639
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,480
I had no idea what we were about to see.

640
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,200
That taxi tumbled down the lawn, just head over,

641
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,640
heels over and over.

642
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,760
I mean, it was so much force.

643
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,840
Getting the cab to flip was good enough.

644
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,400
I mean, this is the one chance that we

645
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,160
get to play with an actual 747.

646
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,360
I mean, do you really think we're going to stop there?

647
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:24,680
You're going to be a bus driver now.

648
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,160
This is a full-size school bus.

649
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,960
And the jet wash just picked up the bus like it was nothing.

650
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,720
Flipped it over and slammed it down right on its roof

651
00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:43,120
and crushed the whole thing.

652
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,680
It was amazing.

653
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:51,720
Yep, it certainly was the school of hard knocks for our bus.

654
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:54,920
Making the jet taxi myth literally a blast.

655
00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,480
You know, with footage like this,

656
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,160
it's easy to see why this is the biggest and most bad ass

657
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,200
moment.

658
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:05,680
Well, not quite, Grant.

659
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,320
There's one more to come.

660
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,800
Next up, the ultimate planes, trains,

661
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,000
and automobile moment.

662
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,120
I highly recommend it.

663
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:18,920
Forget therapy.

664
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:33,400
And now the number one moment, the fantastic finale

665
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,640
of planes, trains, and automobiles.

666
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,080
And it's all about our destructive relationship

667
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:42,560
with cars.

668
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,880
We've set them on fire.

669
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,720
We've shot them up.

670
00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:48,600
We've crashed them.

671
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,680
We've dropped them from helicopters.

672
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:55,560
We've blown them up.

673
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,560
Bye-bye.

674
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,840
In fact, as we've destroyed so many,

675
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,640
the choosing one as a perfect representation

676
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,480
of the ultimate car explosion is impossible.

677
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,480
It's like trying to decide which is better,

678
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,880
Star Trek or Star Wars.

679
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,560
Star Wars, by the way.

680
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,880
At any rate, we've each decided to pick our own favorite.

681
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,280
With so much car carnage over the years,

682
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,120
our hosts just can't agree on the best.

683
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,760
And that means that we've got five times the awesome

684
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,960
automotive man.

685
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,640
So my favorite car destruction sequences

686
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,560
was when we split the car with a snow plow in Wisconsin.

687
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,400
Now that is the plow we're looking for.

688
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,840
So picture this wonderful snowy landscape, car at one end,

689
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,680
giant razor sharp snow plow blade.

690
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,720
At the end of this giant snow plow, at the other end.

691
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:53,400
In three, two, one, go.

692
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,760
Tow the car really fast.

693
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,120
Go straight down the track.

694
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,760
And the thing splits like a banana peel.

695
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:04,260
Oh.

696
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,280
Good car.

697
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,680
Almost split in two.

698
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,560
That's once in a lifetime.

699
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,520
Once in a lifetime, like driving a car stuck together

700
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,080
with duct tape after Kari has had her evil way with it.

701
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,320
All right.

702
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,960
Time to wreck this car.

703
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,240
Personally, my favorite way to destroy a car?

704
00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:31,440
By hand.

705
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:38,680
I love destroying cars, breaking glass, crunching metal.

706
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,920
It's awesome.

707
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,360
Taking a car apart, completely destroying it,

708
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,480
is this really amazing cathartic experience.

709
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:51,120
The shattering of glass, the smoking of the torch,

710
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,080
the just metal falling apart before you.

711
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,720
Every bit of angst you've ever had gets released.

712
00:38:58,720 --> 00:38:59,720
Woo!

713
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:01,720
I love it.

714
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:04,720
I highly recommend it.

715
00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:05,720
Forget therapy.

716
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:10,720
Yep, for the Mythbusters, the best therapy is destruction.

717
00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:12,720
Something Jamie knows a lot about.

718
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:18,720
I have to say, I think Dukes of Hazard was my favorite,

719
00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:21,720
because that involved running a car at a ramp at high speed,

720
00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:26,720
and it had to go through the air something like 175 feet

721
00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:29,720
without going splat.

722
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:32,720
And for that, all they did was build a ramp.

723
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:35,720
Nothing like a good hump, that's what I always say.

724
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:39,720
And then remote control a car over it at 70 miles per hour.

725
00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:41,720
Simple, right?

726
00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:44,720
The thing was that it all had to come together perfectly for it to work,

727
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:46,720
and that was a pretty tall order.

728
00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:48,720
You can totally do it.

729
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,720
A tall order, which Jamie more than matched.

730
00:39:56,720 --> 00:40:06,720
Oh my lord.

731
00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:09,720
The car flew 173 feet through the air,

732
00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:12,720
but the landing was a little rough.

733
00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:18,720
The car is busted, the myth is busted.

734
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:20,720
It's very hard on a car if you do that.

735
00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:22,720
Hard on the car for sure,

736
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:24,720
but when it comes to automotive torture,

737
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:29,720
Tori's choice has it all.

738
00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:31,720
The Green Hornet episode,

739
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:34,720
we probably did more damage to cars

740
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:37,720
than we've ever done in the history of Mythbusters.

741
00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:40,720
I mean, we took this beautiful classic car.

742
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:42,720
Now that's a pretty car.

743
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:44,720
Shot it up with machine guns.

744
00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:48,720
That didn't suck.

745
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,720
Then stuck it in a steel elevator to see if we could crush it in half.

746
00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:56,720
Stop.

747
00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:58,720
Yeah!

748
00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:01,720
That didn't work, so then we just chopped a car in half

749
00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:07,720
and drove that around.

750
00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:14,720
It was brutal.

751
00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:18,720
Brutal indeed, they did everything by blowing it up.

752
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:22,720
But that's okay, because Adam's favorite has that covered.

753
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,720
Mine is the viewer's special explosion.

754
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:30,720
This kid had written to us saying he wanted us to blow up his parents' car

755
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:32,720
and we agreed to do it.

756
00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:34,720
And in typical Mythbusters style,

757
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:38,720
they granted this wish not once, but twice.

758
00:41:38,720 --> 00:41:41,720
First time, it's going to be a movie style explosion.

759
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:44,720
Like from the 70s TV shows that you grew up with.

760
00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:46,720
For that movie style explosion,

761
00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:49,720
the guys created some movie style action.

762
00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:51,720
Jamie and I stood a safe distance away,

763
00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:53,720
I think it was about 100 feet.

764
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:56,720
I had a mat in front of me and Jamie had an explosives plunger.

765
00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:58,720
I'm in a hole!

766
00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:01,720
Three, two, one!

767
00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:04,720
Jamie's action was to push the plunger

768
00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:10,720
and mine was to be running and to be hopefully in midair at the exact second he pushed that plunger.

769
00:42:14,720 --> 00:42:16,720
So that when the actual explosion went off,

770
00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:19,720
there I was in midair on that high speed shot.

771
00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:25,720
Man, it is my favorite high speed shot.

772
00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:30,720
It is me reliving my 7 year old desire to be an action movie hero.

773
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:37,720
And we got the shot.

774
00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:40,720
But the Hollywood stunt action took a dive

775
00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:42,720
when it came to the real world explosion.

776
00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:44,720
Fire in the hole!

777
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:49,720
Three, two, one!

778
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:57,720
Because one thing is for sure,

779
00:42:57,720 --> 00:42:59,720
with the mythbusters around,

780
00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:01,720
it doesn't matter how,

781
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:08,720
it's gonna be karma-geddon.

782
00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:12,720
No more car!