1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 On this episode of Mythbusters, there's earth, wind, and fire. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 As the Mythbusters top 12 most precious places. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 I was less excited after my first kiss. 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Get declassified. 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Here comes chaos. 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Why are we banned from Aquarque? 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 And that's why we can never go to a spardo again. 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 What really happened at the White House? 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 I swear, Damien actually got a little choked up. 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 And what keeps all five Mythbusters awake at night? 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 After dark it's pretty scary. 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,000 So pack your shades, your thermals, it's really cold here, and your bond suit. 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,000 To get the inside scoop on the Mythbusters most dangerous destinations. 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Fire! 15 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Woo! 16 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Who are the Mythbusters? 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Adam Savage. 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,000 And Jamie Heinemann. 19 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 I call him my little pop gun. 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience. 21 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Together with Randy Mahara. 22 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 I was totally scared. 23 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Carrie Byron. 24 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Giving them all their shots. 25 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,000 And Tori Velaichi. 26 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Let's talk this car up! 27 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,000 They don't just tell the Myths, they put them to the test. 28 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Get ready, because this is going to be quite a journey. 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Throughout Mythbuster history we've been to some incredible places. 30 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Wilderness both blisteringly hot and bone-chillingly cold. 31 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Explosive quarries and crash test facilities. 32 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,000 High deserts and frozen lakes. 33 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,000 The jungle and the deep blue sea. 34 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 In this episode we've gathered together the dozen best Mythbuster locations. 35 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 And we're going to count them down. 36 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 So let's start the show. 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:04,000 And first up in this location countdown, we're better to start than Home Sweet Home. 38 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Oh! 39 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 I want this off the front! 40 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Because over the years, these little shops have seen a lot of horror. 41 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,000 But as to why they make this location countdown, here's the landlord. 42 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 He's a trooper, man, I'll tell you. 43 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Nowadays M5 is pretty well dominated by Mythbusters. 44 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Surrender your candy. 45 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:34,000 But when I started it about 15 years or so ago, this is M5, my special effects shop. 46 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:40,000 It was where a director could go and pretty much anything he could dream of, we could make it. 47 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Jamie's built entire special effects sets out of lard. 48 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 And I called M5. 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Jamie had a contest among his employees over what the name of that studio should be. 50 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I said you should call it M5. 51 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Because I was thinking that was the name of the British Secret Service, which I didn't realize was MI6. 52 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 It's Heinemann. James Heinemann. 53 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:05,000 He's never formally credited me with coming up with the name, even though it's the wrong name. 54 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:10,000 And I've never gotten my $50 prize for coming up with the name of his business. 55 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Big baby. 56 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 On the side, M5 is the perfect location. 57 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Hey, we got one! 58 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000 For the Mythbusters, the boldly go where no scientist has gone before. 59 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Are they getting bigger? 60 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Roger that, Mrs. Controlled. My breasts are expanding. Repeat, breasts are expanding. 61 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 But as time went by, with more myths came more mess. 62 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Don't tell Jamie, okay? This is a secret between us. 63 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 And more room was required. 64 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 The thing is, M5 is my shop. I own it. 65 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:49,000 But Mythbusters, well, let's just say they're not really very good tenants. 66 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,000 I swear, I think I can smell through the concrete. 67 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Eventually, I put my foot down and they got another space. 68 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:04,000 And so halfway through season two, half the Mythbusters move to M6. 69 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,000 That was the stuff that Scotty, Tori, and I were going to work out of. 70 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Our neighbors didn't quite like us so much. 71 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 The amount of noise... 72 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 and stink... 73 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 discomfort really, we caused them... 74 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 caused us to lose the lease on M6, and thus M7 was born. 75 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 M7. 76 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 The new home of Cary Grant and Tori. 77 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,000 A space in which they would spread their experimental wings. 78 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 And supposedly, cut down on neighbor-related issues. 79 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 I just want to let you know, I had a little accident in the shop, 80 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 and I punched a small hole through the wall. 81 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,000 You got to stay on your toes when you're a neighbor of Mythbusters. 82 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 It's a little funny coming here every day. 83 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 I mean, for us, this is the place where we work. 84 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Wow! 85 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,000 We drive up to a really nondescript grey concrete building 86 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,000 inside of which we've spent almost ten years making 200 hours of this show. 87 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 This is our job! 88 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:30,000 So much of our lives and history is tied up in this place that, you know, it feels in a way like home. 89 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 A home with a difference. 90 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Don't try what you're about to see at home. 91 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 A home where science lives, 92 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,000 breathes, and fires chickens into the wall. 93 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 That was so cool! 94 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Hot on the heels of home, it's some blasts from the past. 95 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Mythbusters and quarries have a special relationship. 96 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Very simply, because if you want to make a really, really big explosion, 97 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 there's no place else to go. 98 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Oh, look at that! 99 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Where else can you go to launch a car off the cliff? 100 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Or shoot a torpedo at a boat? 101 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Ooh! 102 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,000 I don't know, maybe that was a little too powerful. What do you think? 103 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Well, the first time we went to a quarry was one of our all-time biggest explosions. 104 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000 It was cement truck. 105 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 We had actually filmed that entire episode of cement truck without the final explosion. 106 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Three, two, one. 107 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 It sounded like you hit it with a pledge hammer. 108 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,000 And they got it back to the edit suite and they cut it and they looked at it and they thought, 109 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 it's missing something. It's missing a big finale. 110 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 No, Antiquamactic that was. The fire truck's leaving. 111 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 So we had to find a location big enough to completely decimate this truck in, 112 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 and that's when one of our producers found the rock quarry we eventually blew it up in. 113 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 It was a picture-perfect location for that story. 114 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Several square miles, with a body of water separating us from the explosion 115 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,000 so we could watch it safely from a mile and a half away. 116 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Three, two, one. 117 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,000 As a first quarry blast, it was a steely success. 118 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,000 It was just one cement truck zero. 119 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,000 But when testing the myth of knock your socks off, things didn't go quite so well. 120 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,000 After trying different techniques and failing to get the socks to be knocked off, 121 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 we decided to go to explosives. 122 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,000 So we go to a quarry, which is just outside of the town of Esparta. 123 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Wow! 124 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Oh my gosh, this is awesome. 125 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Now with the help of Frank Doyle and the local bomb tanks, we set up a giant antifo explosion. 126 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 You know what they say, safe exploding is good exploding. 127 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 And a perimeter of different legs with socks on them. 128 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Our blast zone is set up way over there, but we've come really, really far back to make sure all mythbusters, big and tiny, are perfectly safe. 129 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 We set off the explosion. 130 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Three, two, one. 131 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Yeah! 132 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,000 And we got a lot of feet blown off, but no clean socks having been blown off. 133 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 That's definitely not blowing your socks off. 134 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000 But that's not all we got. 135 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:35,000 We set off the blast wave and despite the advice of our experts, it's much larger than any of us have anticipated. 136 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:51,000 And so we start getting reports from the town that people have been knocked off their sofas, windows have broken, car alarms have gone off, ceiling tiles fell down. 137 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 That's the reality. 138 00:08:53,000 --> 00:09:03,000 The news reports in the hands said that we had leveled the town accidentally, and the mythbusters had done this, which is not the case. 139 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 I'll tell you something really funny about a Spardo. 140 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:10,000 When we started getting all the phone calls that things had gone awry, you might say it was a blast. 141 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:19,000 The producer grabbed me being that I was extremely pregnant and said, you're coming with me, nobody can be mad at a pregnant lady. 142 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,000 So we went from place to place begging for forgiveness, because really, can you be? 143 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,000 And that's why we can never go to a Spardo again. 144 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Next. 145 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,000 And the elephant goes, eugh. 146 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:42,000 If you ever do anything stupid like that again, I'll come up there and break your legs. 147 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 And later, find out the ultimate mythbuster happy place. 148 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,000 You know something great is going to happen. 149 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 From the desert to the deep blue sea. 150 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Apparently sharks like medieval armor. 151 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 The mythbusters are counting down. 152 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Three, two, one. 153 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 They're all time favorite locations. 154 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,000 One. 155 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 And next up is a destination with light. 156 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 We don't travel a lot for this show. 157 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,000 We have almost every climate we want within a day's drive of us here in San Francisco. 158 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Today's forecast, 70% chance of science. 159 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,000 It's well over 100 degrees out here. 160 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,000 It's cold. 161 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:40,000 So when we found out we were going to go literally halfway across the globe, we were psyched. 162 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 The focus of the trip was sharks in false space out in Africa. 163 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:50,000 There are great white sharks that leap completely out of the water when they attack seals. 164 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Little do they know that death is lurking below. 165 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,000 If you've seen footage of great whites leaping out of the water. 166 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 There she is. 167 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 That's where it happens. 168 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 And that's why we went there. 169 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 I've spent a lot of time on the water and I've seen a lot of wildlife. 170 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Crack, damn you. 171 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,000 But normally a top predator like a great white is actually pretty rare. 172 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:21,000 So to go someplace like South Africa where they're just jumping out of the water like salmon. 173 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 There's no place else in the world like it. 174 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,000 But there was more to South Africa than jumping the shark. 175 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Wow, that was awesome. 176 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:35,000 So we're in South Africa filming with the sharks and an unseasonal hurricane comes through. 177 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Now for our crew, this is potentially a disaster. 178 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000 We're trying to figure out a way to salvage what we're getting in South Africa. 179 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,000 And we thought, hey, let's do the story Elephants are Afraid of Mites. 180 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 I found out that there's a preserve that's in little ways. 181 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 It's out of this weather and they have elephants. 182 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 What are we going to do with elephants? 183 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Mice. 184 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:05,000 We had no idea we were about to film an actual and astonishing myth. 185 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:10,000 And that astonishing myth, you go that way, I'll go this way, don't get eaten by a lion. 186 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Okay. 187 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 began with a surprisingly awkward question. 188 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 How are we going to introduce the mice to the elephants? 189 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Slung shark. 190 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Slung shark. 191 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Are we going to just release both into a paddock and wait for them to approach each other? 192 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,000 No, of course not. 193 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000 So we take this big chunk of elephant dung. 194 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Hey, Adam, got some. 195 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:32,000 And we cut it in half and hollow it out and make it a little shell to hide the mouse in. 196 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,000 The mouse wasn't too pleased about this arrangement. 197 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 A ball of dung is set and ready to go. 198 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:43,000 We took this shell of elephant dung with a mouse underneath it and we actually puppeted it. 199 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,000 That's right. 200 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:50,000 We puppeted dung so that as the elephant approached the path, we would pull aside the elephant 201 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 dung, the mouse would be visible and the elephant would react. 202 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Let's see what happens. 203 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Okay. 204 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 What actually happened though is astonishing. 205 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:03,000 The elephants walked down the path and we pulled the dung and the elephant goes, errr. 206 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:09,000 And then very carefully, if it's possible for an elephant to move carefully, it's exactly 207 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,000 what it did. 208 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Carefully tiptoes, I swear, around the mouse. 209 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,000 What just happened is a classic myth buster scenario. 210 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:23,000 It would seem that elephants are at least somewhat wary of mice. 211 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 It was certainly a memorable myth busters moment. 212 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000 What do you think? 213 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Hello. 214 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:35,000 That was all thanks to the South African Savannah and an unseasonal story. 215 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,000 This is the case where the location really provided the story. 216 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,000 It was because we were in South Africa and we knew we could find elephants close by in 217 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 the wild that we went and did this story. 218 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 We might never have done it otherwise. 219 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Next, it's time to run away to the runway. 220 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,000 We've probably been out on the runway at Alameda more than any other location on the show. 221 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 In fact, we were just out there yesterday. 222 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Okay, rims versus manhole covers in three, two, one. 223 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,000 The thing is that it's got about a mile and a quarter of straight open road. 224 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 And it's also the most beautiful place in the Bay Area. 225 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,000 As many times as I've been out there, I still love going. 226 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Look, with the sun setting behind San Francisco in the distance. 227 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Nice gun, but you got some accuracy problems. 228 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Yeah, I need to practice. 229 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:42,000 With the towering cranes that inspire the ad-at walkers from Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back, 230 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,000 the Alameda runway is probably the most iconic of Mythbusters regular locations. 231 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,000 In fact, we use it so often. 232 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Here comes chaos. 233 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,000 That most people that say hi to me on the street, they follow up with, 234 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,000 so you guys are based in Alameda, but actually no. 235 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,000 We're based in San Francisco, but we tested the runway a lot. 236 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:10,000 But despite the obvious fun and frivolity of the runway, for Janie, it's always tinged with regret. 237 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:16,000 One of the earlier episodes we did was called Tree Cannon, and we shot that out on the runway. 238 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:23,000 The thing was that it involved firing a cannonball that I had meticulously carved out of a piece of granite, 239 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 and it was perfect. 240 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,000 It was just this beautiful little sphere. Everybody was impressed. 241 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,000 You think we'll be able to find it? 242 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:36,000 You know, I'm feeling pretty certain that it's going to launch that thing a fair ways. 243 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 So we fired it. 244 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Firing the hole. 245 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:44,000 And the cannon actually worked really well, and it shot it down to the length of that runway. 246 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 I don't have a clue where that went. 247 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 I didn't see a darn thing. Did you see anything? 248 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:56,000 That day, Janie searched high, low, and everywhere in between for his beloved ball. 249 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 But it was all in vain. 250 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:05,000 A little bummed out not to find the ball, you know. I put a lot of work into that thing. 251 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:11,000 And seven years on, he still mourns this tragic loss in the name of science. 252 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Every time I go out there, I kind of poke around in the bushes to see if I can find it. We never have. 253 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Later. 254 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 It's like the comb before the storm. 255 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 But first. 256 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 It's like a post-apocalyptic wasteland. 257 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Who works? 258 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Nasty. 259 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,000 It's the Mythbusters location special countdown. 260 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 And next, it's the dawn of the dead. 261 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Look, it's no secret that most of our experiments over the years have had to do with destroying things. 262 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Or hurting things. 263 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Or leaving them in a state much worse than when we started. 264 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Alright, go ahead and fire up the engines. 265 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Including the locations we're filming at. 266 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Didn't plan for that one to happen. 267 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,000 I guess the Mythbusters were here. 268 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:19,000 What that means is that we're often looking for locations where people don't mind that we might leave a big hole in the ground, or the side of a building destroyed. 269 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Starting the timer. 270 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Big boom. Big boom. Big boom. 271 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,000 And that's when abandoned military bases, houses, and bunkers come into play. 272 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 As it happens, there are a number of ex-military bases in the Bay Area. 273 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Like a post-apocalyptic wasteland. 274 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:46,000 But there's one in particular that's an abandoned residential neighborhood. 275 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,000 And when the military pulled out, they just left it all intact. 276 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,000 With streets, and parks, and houses, and everything. 277 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 And let me tell you, after dark, it's pretty scary. 278 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 We call it Zombie Town. 279 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 It's creepy as all get-out. 280 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:05,000 It is like those post-apocalyptic zombie movies. 281 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:09,000 It looks like a regular town, but there's just no one around. 282 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:15,000 But Zombie Town is child's play compared to the setting for elevator of death. 283 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Abandoned locations are so creepy. 284 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 The very worst of all of those was for elevator of death. 285 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Oh my god. 286 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Since we're here anyway, can we film a horror movie? 287 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,000 The elevator of death story is basically this. 288 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,000 People imagine that if you're in an elevator that is plummeting to the basement. 289 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:41,000 If you time a jump perfectly at the moment that elevator hits the floor, you will survive. 290 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Now this building had been condemned for asbestos, and it had been condemned and abandoned for a long time. 291 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,000 92 feet to the top of the pulleys. 292 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 92 feet to the dead bird. 293 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,000 We need to clean it up before we can use it. 294 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,000 Particularly the basement. 295 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,000 Two words. 296 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Nasty. 297 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:14,000 To clean this up, we had to gear up in Tyvek suits, and respirators, and goggles, and gloves that needles couldn't pierce. 298 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:22,000 So that we could clean up trash, old food, rat carcasses, hypdermic needles, and some really large women's clothes. 299 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:29,000 I have no idea what went down there, but I sure wish somebody else cleaned it up before we got there. 300 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Don't leave me alone. 301 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Oh my god. 302 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,000 But once clean. 303 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 I'm terrified. I'm totally excited. 304 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 The experiment worked like a charm. 305 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,000 And a myth like Buster was Buster. 306 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 This is more damage than we've ever done to Buster in one myth before. 307 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:54,000 The elevator of Death's Story is one of the earliest abandoned locations, and honestly one of the all time bests. 308 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,000 That blew my face. 309 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Man, that was intense. 310 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:06,000 We got the ability to take that elevator and do anything we wanted to it in a building slated to be completely destroyed. 311 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:11,000 I think Buster feels good about a job well done, and he just hopes that we don't put his head on backwards. 312 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:18,000 It gave us a tremendous amount of freedom to test this myth at a scale I don't think anyone else has ever tested it at. 313 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:23,000 From locations to fear, to locations to cheer, and here's why. 314 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:31,000 Now one of the great things about MythBusters is we get access to some incredible university and government research facilities. 315 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Wow. 316 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:37,000 We did a brain scan at UCSF, one of the premier brain labs in the world. 317 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,000 You're going to fry my brain. 318 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,000 We got a chemical analysis on our homemade diamonds at UC Berkeley. 319 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Chirkel. You've got a chirkel. 320 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,000 No diamonds? 321 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,000 I don't see any diamonds here. 322 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,000 We tested the myth of blue eyes at the ICI Research Tunnel at NASA Glenn in Cleveland. 323 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Oh, that's people walking on giant chunks. 324 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:04,000 And then there's New Mexico Tech, which I have to say is my favorite because of two words. 325 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Rocket sled. 326 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Rocket sled in three, two, one. 327 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 We've crushed cars. 328 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 We've split cars in half. 329 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:27,000 They actually have a major at their university in energetic materials. 330 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:32,000 I hear since the MythBusters episodes have aired that they've had a lot more applications. 331 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Without doubt, science centers of excellence play a key role in much MythBusters mayhem. 332 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 That's awesome! 333 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,000 But be they spectacular stunts or data to die for? 334 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 That's pretty cool. I want to see the high speed. 335 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Yeah. 336 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:57,000 It's not only the location that counts because the experts found therein are just as important. 337 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,000 The thing that surprises me most about this job is what I've learned. 338 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:06,000 And it's not just because of the experiments we've done or the things we've been allowed to do. 339 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:11,000 It's about the people that we've had access to because we've gone into some of these institutions 340 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,000 where these people are just absolutely brilliant. 341 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 They're at the top of their field. 342 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,000 And to see things through their eyes has been incredibly enlightening. 343 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Six to go. 344 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,000 And you might say, the best is yet to come. 345 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Starting with a location that's truly shocking. 346 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,000 The thing about electricity myths is, while they seem like a good idea in theory, 347 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:03,000 in practice they're often very, very difficult. 348 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Come on! 349 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000 How hard is it to get a light bulb to light? 350 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,000 But it's not just that electricity myths are awkward. They can also be pretty unvisual. 351 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Alright. 352 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 It's working. 353 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Okay. 354 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,000 There aren't these gigantic Frankenstein lightning bolts flying around all over the place. 355 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 One. 356 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 Wow, that was great. 357 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:28,000 There is one exception to this. Our local power company has a testing facility about an hour north of us. 358 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 It's a light dome. 359 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Why is it a cool location? 360 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:37,000 I don't know. I mean, except for the fact that it's a huge, de-desig dome that looks like a mad scientist laboratory. 361 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 What are your plans, my master? 362 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 We're going to take over the world. 363 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Oh, yes. 364 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:48,000 The mass of lightning generating balls you can turn on and off it will. 365 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,000 That actually worked. 366 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 That was beautiful. 367 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 It's not that interesting. 368 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,000 That was awesome. 369 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,000 We've done several stories there, like Phone in a Thunderstorm. 370 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,000 It's a lot. 371 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Franklin's kite. 372 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000 And golf club. 373 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000 What a shocker. 374 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:19,000 There's something that doesn't quite come across on television, which is before we generate any lightning bolts, there's this whole protocol where doors are shut, red lights are set to spinning. 375 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Okay, I'm going hot. 376 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,000 And then these massive capacitor banks are charged up and it hits you. 377 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:30,000 It really feels like you're in Frankenstein movie. 378 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,000 It's really unnerving because you know the charge is building. 379 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,000 Okay, we're up to 243, almost 250 kV. 380 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,000 You just don't know when that lightning bolt and that big crack is going to happen. 381 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000 We're at 440,000 volts. We're going to go to 480. 382 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000 And then it goes, CRACK! 383 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000 CRACK! 384 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,000 And then you just see this like, lightning bolt. 385 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,000 There's nothing better. 386 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,000 I think based on how awesome it is, they should rename it the Thunderdome. 387 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Don't you? 388 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Write them and tell them. 389 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Beyond the Thunderdome is a place to let it all hang out. 390 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:22,000 I think one of my all-time favorite hangers is Hangar 2 out at Moffa Field at the NASA Ames Center. 391 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,000 It is 230 feet from the floor to the center of the arch. 392 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,000 It's a quarter of a mile long. It's overwhelming. 393 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,000 It used to house these big airships for the Navy. 394 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Now they don't use those anymore, so it left this great piece of architecture that's completely made out of redwood. 395 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,000 Hundreds of feet high. It's a beautiful indoor space. 396 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,000 It's cavernous and echoey. It smells great because of all the wood. 397 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,000 And we got to do our whole experiment there on the floor. 398 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,000 That experiment being the world record breaking seven paper fold. 399 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 We're basically going to have to fill this whole area. 400 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Exactly the type of test requiring protection from the elements and acres of space. 401 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 But for this myth, the hangar did have one drawback. 402 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:17,000 We had laid out this giant, giant piece of paper, like 100 yards long or something like that. 403 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 And we had to leave for the night. 404 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:29,000 So we come back the next morning and this perfect pristine sheet of paper that is gigantic is now covered in owl dung. 405 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,000 It's everywhere. 406 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Nasty. 407 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,000 They saw this giant white surface and said, let's bomb that. 408 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,000 So first order of the day, go around and scoop up all the owl dung. 409 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 There's another one over here, dude. 410 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:47,000 Poop cleaning his side. One of the biggest tasks the team has ever tackled. 411 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Everybody to this side for six. 412 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 Weren't like a charm. 413 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Turns out you can fold a piece of paper more than seven times. 414 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,000 You just need to supersize the paper and the location. 415 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Reven folds. 416 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000 I didn't think it was possible. 417 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Should we go to the NASA gift shop? 418 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,000 Yeah. 419 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Reven. 420 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Still to come, this location countdown has friends in very high places. 421 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000 I don't think it gets any cooler than that. 422 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 That is an iceberg. 423 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Next up in the Mythbusters location special, we're going straight to the top. 424 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:41,000 You know, some viewers may be watching us and thinking, huh, the boys are standing on a very accurate set of the White House library. 425 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,000 But they'd be wrong. 426 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,000 When it comes to locations, how do you get any cooler than the White House? 427 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000 I don't think it gets any cooler than that. 428 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Hey guys, welcome to the White House. 429 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Thank you, Mr. President. 430 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:57,000 In the space of one year, I was at the White House three times and I met the president each time. 431 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,000 Did I ever think I would do that? 432 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,000 No, not at all. 433 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,000 So what can we do for you? 434 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,000 I think that we've got a big one that hasn't been thoroughly tested. 435 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,000 Which one is that? 436 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Well, it is Archimedes solar ray. 437 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Well, that is a classic. 438 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,000 It is a classic, but I'm not sure that we've really finally disproved or proved this myth. 439 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000 And so I'm hoping that we can take one more crack at it. 440 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,000 We chose that story because while we had tested that myth twice before... 441 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,000 I'm standing right in it and I'm not dead yet. 442 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,000 We had never done it the way it was actually originally described, 443 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:35,000 i.e. with 500 soldiers holding polished shields along a shoreline trying to set fire to a boat. 444 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,000 Do you want Marcellus to take your city of Syracuse? 445 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,000 Yeah! 446 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Those soldiers could be kids, we realized. 447 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:51,000 In fact, we ended up getting 500 students from the school that Jamie's wife has been a science teacher at for 20 years. 448 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000 How's that for serendipity? 449 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000 That's the spirit, soldiers! 450 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Using people power was the ultimate way to test this presidential challenge. 451 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,000 The intensity from these mirrors is incredible. 452 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000 But the result was not good news for Archimedes. 453 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,000 One, two, three! 454 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,000 Get lost in here! 455 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,000 Can you hear that? 456 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,000 I got one more thing. 457 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,000 When we were rehearsing the lines before the president showed up. 458 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000 Here we go. 459 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000 There is an exchange between the president and Jamie where Jamie says, 460 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Why do you want us here? 461 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000 So what can we do for you? 462 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:31,000 And the president gives this long speech about how important he feels mythbusters are in educating kids in science. 463 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,000 But when the president finally showed up and did that in front of Jamie... 464 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000 What can we do for you, sir? 465 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000 I swear that Jamie actually got a little choked up. 466 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Nothing's more important to our country's future than getting young people engaged in math and science. 467 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,000 So I'm just thrilled that you guys do such a great job making it fun. 468 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000 I think you can hear him go, 469 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Well that means a lot to us, Mr. President. 470 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000 Well thank you, sir. That means a great deal. 471 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,000 Like he was seriously bowled over by hearing the genuine tone in President Obama's voice 472 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,000 about his feelings about our role in educating kids in science. 473 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Next on the Countdown Conundrum, it's time to break the ice. 474 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:16,000 There's nothing quite like the awe-inspiring majesty of snow-covered mountains. 475 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,000 At least until the mythbusters turn up. 476 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:28,000 Because it's no joke that whatever cold case they're cracking... 477 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Bye-bye! 478 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:35,000 Chillsome carnage ensues. 479 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:42,000 But one thing is for sure, the toughest snowy situation was actually in California. 480 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Now spinning ice bullet was probably done in the worst conditions that we've ever seen on mythbusters. 481 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Rumor has it there's a lake out here. 482 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,000 Let me set the scene. 483 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:56,000 We are in the Sierra Nevada, in the area where the Donner Party experienced all its problems. 484 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,000 This looked a little more picturesque than the brochures. 485 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:07,000 We're at 9,000 feet, so just walking from the car to the curb, you're already exhausted. 486 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,000 Save yourselves! 487 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000 It was a blizzard. 488 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000 I'm getting that feeling again, that loft feeling. 489 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:18,000 It was like zero visibility. It was like 60 mile an hour winds, well below zero temperatures, 490 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:23,000 and the whole time it was dumping snow on us. I mean, the entire time. 491 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000 Brad, get yourself some snow shoes! 492 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000 Oh, there are shoes for this? 493 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,000 And when they got to the lake, things weren't any easier. 494 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,000 Spinning ice bullet means we have to get down to the icy surface of the lake. 495 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,000 It's buried under four feet of snow, so before we even start the experiment, 496 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,000 we have to dig out four feet of snow just to get down there. 497 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:50,000 It's like we keep digging it out, and Mother Nature just keeps filling it back in. 498 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,000 By showing true grit, the mythbusters persevered. 499 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Whose... 500 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000 idea of a myth is this... 501 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000 Until after several misfires... 502 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,000 I can't feel my fingers, and I can't see any bullets. 503 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000 They finally hit paydirt. 504 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,000 One. 505 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,000 It's spinning! It's spinning! 506 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,000 Look at that! 507 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Seeing that little bullet spin in the ice like a top, I mean, it was worth it. 508 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,000 It was worth the 60 mile an hour winds. 509 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,160 It was worth trekking through the snow and shoveling off the snow from the ice. 510 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,040 It was worth losing my foot from the frostbite. 511 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:29,040 It was worth it. 512 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:30,040 Where is that rescue party? 513 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,040 We are the rescue party. 514 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,040 Next up, this is it. 515 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,040 I'm ready. 516 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:34,040 Are you ready? 517 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,040 The final most spectacular location, location, location. 518 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,040 It is our favorite location. 519 00:32:37,080 --> 00:33:04,080 After thrills, spills and chills, we're almost at the finale of the location special. 520 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,080 It's my best work yet. 521 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:10,120 And at number two, it's off to the middle of nowhere. 522 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,120 There are some myths that are too big for the runway. 523 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,120 Wow. 524 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,120 Too big for the bomb range. 525 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,120 Wow! 526 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,120 Oh my God! 527 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,120 Too expansive for even a quarry. 528 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:21,120 Say it with me. 529 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,120 Jamie wants big boo. 530 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:29,120 And that's when we've packed up all our gear and headed out to the Mojave Desert. 531 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,120 Listen. 532 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,120 It's quiet. 533 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:35,120 Too quiet. 534 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,160 It's like the calm before the storm. 535 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,160 Ming dynasty astronaut. 536 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:42,160 Disaster on fire! 537 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,160 Luxury car drop. 538 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:50,160 Jato rocket car. 539 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,160 I'm gonna have to have a green egg to me. 540 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:56,160 These are myths that need a wide open space. 541 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:57,160 Okay, red light. 542 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,160 Okay, coming out of the bomb drop. 543 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,160 And that's why the Mojave is perfect. 544 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,160 Okay, helicopter's at speed. 545 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:08,200 Something you may not know about the original Jato rocket car is that I was there. 546 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:12,200 Three, two, one, fire! 547 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:19,200 I was actually interning for Jamie at the time and I drove all night to catch up with them. 548 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:27,200 Left in the parking lot of the hotel, jumped in the car with them and then said, 549 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:28,200 I will help out. 550 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:29,200 What can I do? 551 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,200 That was absolutely outrageous. 552 00:34:31,240 --> 00:34:38,240 Thanks to Kari and the whole team, Mojave was the location that put mythbusters on the map. 553 00:34:38,240 --> 00:34:39,240 That's true. 554 00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:40,240 That's not good. 555 00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:41,240 It's so beautiful. 556 00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:45,240 But it's not without its problems. 557 00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:49,240 The Mojave Desert is a really difficult place to work. 558 00:34:49,240 --> 00:34:50,240 I mean, it's the desert. 559 00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:51,240 It's either really, really hot. 560 00:34:51,240 --> 00:34:53,240 We're four hours into the experiment. 561 00:34:53,240 --> 00:34:54,240 It's still hot as hell. 562 00:34:54,240 --> 00:34:56,240 Or really, really cold. 563 00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:01,280 I don't usually associate the terms freezing cold with desert. 564 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:06,280 And yet I gotta tell you, it is freezing, expletive, cold out here. 565 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:10,280 There's no power anywhere and there's definitely no bathroom. 566 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:16,280 It can also be muddy as Jamie found out. 567 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:21,280 We're on Confederate rocket and we've got our massive 20-foot truck out on the desert floor 568 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,280 and Jamie gets it stuck in the mud. 569 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:24,280 And we're stuck. 570 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:29,320 So we call up this tow truck and the tow truck slowly, excruciatingly, 571 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,320 drags the truck back out of the mud. 572 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,320 And instead of then backing out the way he came, 573 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,320 Jamie makes a left turn and gets the truck stuck in the mud again. 574 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,320 Is there anything I could say that would make this more poignant? 575 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:46,320 I don't think so. 576 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:51,320 So the tow truck has to come back out again and drag the truck back out of the mud. 577 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,360 I think we spent $1,500 on towing fees on that one day alone. 578 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:04,360 But despite the mud, sweat and tears, Mojave is a must-have location. 579 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,360 Here goes the big boom, Civil War rocket. 580 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,360 In three, two, one, ignition. 581 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,360 And it's a location that comes with an added bonus. 582 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:16,360 Go! 583 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:17,360 Oh no! 584 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:18,400 Yeah! 585 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,400 One of the unique things about Mojave is that there are places that we can go 586 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,400 that have existing permits in place that will allow us to shoot a rocket straight up in the air 587 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,400 thousands of feet and not worry about hitting an aircraft. 588 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,400 Although that's a bonus that as of yet, go ahead and make the system hot. 589 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,400 The mythbusters haven't exactly made the most of. 590 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:46,400 This is a salami rocket firing in three, two, one, ignition. 591 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:48,400 Hey! 592 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,400 Look out! 593 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:58,400 The final stop on this whirlwind tour of most loved locations is the home of the countdown. 594 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,400 Fire in the hole, fire in the hole, fire in the hole, fire in the hole. 595 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,400 The Situation Room Control explosion. 596 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:08,400 I'm ready. Are you ready? 597 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:09,400 Anywhere the explosives. 598 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:10,400 Charging. 599 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,400 Three, two, one. 600 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:26,400 It's always a good day when you come into work and see that the bomb range is slated for the day. 601 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,400 Because you know something great is going to happen. 602 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:33,400 Yep. 603 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,400 Coming in at number one, the bomb range sure is a blast. 604 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,400 But the real bonus of this home from home, 605 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,400 I feel like I'm ready to go out clubbing, 606 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,400 is that it's a uniquely versatile experimental space. 607 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,440 What can we do there? 608 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,440 What can't we do there? 609 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:54,440 Build troughs to swim and surf, fire cannons, blow up bombs, build houses. 610 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,440 Whatever you do, don't do this at home. 611 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,440 Watch them as they burn. 612 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:07,440 Roll giant Lego balls downhill and always have fun. 613 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,440 It is our favorite location. 614 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:18,480 What a lot of people don't realize is that there's a very, very good reason that we use the Alameda County Sheriff's Bomb Range. 615 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:25,480 And that is that a lot of the stuff that we need to do would normally be just flat out illegal. 616 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:31,480 So we figured it'd be a good idea to just do it there with all the cops watching. 617 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:35,480 Then it's okay. 618 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,520 At its two cops in particular, Frank Doyle and J.D. Nelson, 619 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,520 that really put the bomb in bomb range. 620 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:50,520 The chief bomb tech at the Alameda County Sheriff's Bomb Disposed Range is Sergeant J.D. Nelson. 621 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:55,520 I'll tell you what, if I have a problem with taking to J.D. Nelson, I know he'll make it disappear. 622 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,520 In three, two, one, go J.D. 623 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,520 He's very professional, but he's just totally relaxed. 624 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,560 And when you're working with explosives, relaxed is a good thing. 625 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:12,560 On the record, I'm just gonna say I'm totally against this burning of wine and champagne. 626 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,560 Who is Frank Doyle? 627 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,560 I can tell you he's a retired FBI Special Agent. 628 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:25,560 I can tell you that he led the task force that stormed the Univomers shack. 629 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,560 But really, I feel like at some point in my life when I'm in real trouble, 630 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,600 having his phone number is gonna help me out. 631 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,600 In the vicinity of five minutes, his pants should be in New York. 632 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:46,600 But despite our bomb tech specs, there is a behind the scenes situation that they can't help with. 633 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:53,600 There is one complicated limitation to the bomb range, which is that the land of the bomb range has been blown up 634 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,600 and carved up and dug up for so many years. 635 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,640 There is nothing approaching topsoil. 636 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,640 In the whole area, it is all clay. 637 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,640 This is the sweetest mud dance. 638 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,640 Litsunda endoishin. 639 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,640 So when it rains at the bomb range, you're gonna ruin your shoes. 640 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:12,640 It's horrific. 641 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:13,640 You alright? 642 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:14,640 Oh no. 643 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,640 It makes working there really, really, really difficult. 644 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,640 And then it makes it all worth it when you get to watch the high speed of things blowing up. 645 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,680 And speaking of explosions on high def, high speed, 646 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:32,680 the fan favorite moment at the bomb range was the super-sized sawdust cannon, 647 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,680 where things didn't quite go to plan. 648 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,680 So we said, okay, this is Mythbusters, let's ramp it up. 649 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,680 What's more flammable than sawdust? 650 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:43,680 Coffee creamer. 651 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:45,680 Not dairy cream or cannon! 652 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,680 In three, two, one! 653 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,680 I don't think we quite expected the results we got, 654 00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:59,720 because we were standing awfully close to what turned into a giant, growling ball of fire 655 00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:06,720 that started to come towards us, dripping napalm of burning sugar. 656 00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:10,720 It was like Armageddon, and everybody took off running. 657 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:16,720 That was frightening! 658 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,720 It was one of those moments where you're just like, oh crap. 659 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:27,720 But it's exactly that type of chaos, coupled with the diversity of Myth Mayhem, 660 00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:32,720 that makes the bomb range the Mythbusters' most loved location. 661 00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:35,720 You gonna paint your house with explosives? 662 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:41,720 So while the credits roll, here's our tribute to the team's home away from home. 663 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,720 That was perfect.