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Let's see what we got here.

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Hi, this is Adam.

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That is a good thing.

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Oh, hold on just a second.

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Hi, this is Adam.

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Yeah, that's a terrific idea.

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Can you hold on just a second?

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I'm getting another call.

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Hi, this is Adam.

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Okay, everybody, hold on just a second.

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What the heck was that?

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Suggestions.

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But for stuff we got wrong or stuff we should retest.

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All of the above.

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Sounds like we have some unfinished business.

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What's all this?

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This is a bit of unfinished business for us.

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Every single letter here represents a fan's request that we either A, retest a story they

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think we got wrong or B, take a new tack on an old story.

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Is any of it any good?

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Actually, there is a bunch of really fine material in here.

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We've got stories about holding on to hand grenades to keep them from going off.

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Fans that want us to revisit some aspect of our old Spy Car episodes specifically involving

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the tire bursting tax.

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And we've got a story about reloading automatic pistols.

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Can you really do it as fast as they do in the movies?

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Anything else?

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Yes, the first one I think we should tackle involves video games.

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Fans want to know if you're playing a video game that is representing a real world skill,

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can the video game make you better at that actual skill?

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Video games is a teaching aid.

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Yes, I think we should test that.

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I'm up for it.

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In the video game special, the Mythbusters had a blast.

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But fans say there's unfinished business.

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Because Adam and Jamie didn't test an idea that's as old as gaming itself.

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Can virtual practice provide real world skills?

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To find out, Adam and Jamie first need a blank slate.

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Four!

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When it came time to choose a skill that video games might make us better at, we ended up choosing golf.

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Hop in, fancy pants.

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All right, let's go play golf.

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It turned out a fun discussion that neither of us had ever played a game of golf in his entire life,

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either in real life or in the virtual space.

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Thus, golf it is and golf is perfect.

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We're here at one of the most beautiful and certainly one of the most famous golf courses in the world,

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the legendary Pebble Beach Golf Plants.

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The fact that Adam and I with absolutely no knowledge of golf whatsoever are playing our very first game here is,

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well, it's kind of a travesty actually, but what are you going to do?

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Well, luckily for the course, that travesty will have to wait,

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because first it's time to swing for science.

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At this point, neither Adam nor I have played any golf at all.

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The first thing we're going to do before anything else is we're going to take a swing here on camera

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in front of this high-tech golf swing analysis system.

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And we're going to compare it to a later analysis that we'll do after we've received training and played a game of golf.

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Having a good swing is one of the key skills for all golfers.

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There it is, in all its glory.

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So precisely comparing swings, pre- and post-training, will be one of two crucial pieces of data.

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That felt terrible.

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And with the pre-swinged in the can, it's onto the second metric,

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comparing their before and after scores on the course.

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And for that, our golfing greenhorns,

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Shall we play?

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must fare to the fairway.

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We're going to investigate improvement. We need a baseline to compare that improvement to.

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I think we're supposed to go that way.

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That means we need a control, and that means Jamie and I are going to play golf as the blind slate Neophytes we really are.

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I've never played a game from scratch before.

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We're going to tally up those scores and then separate for some real training.

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Jamie's going to spend a day getting trained by a machine. I'm going to spend a day getting trained by a person.

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Do we have any balls?

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And you get those little stick things, right?

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So for the training, we will reconvene on the golf course, play the same holes,

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and tally up and see just who has improved the most.

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Coupled with the swing analysis, the guys are pulling out all the stops.

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Go for it, sir.

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And first to tee off, it's Jamie.

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Who can literally only get better.

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What do I know about golf?

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Maybe you need a different club for that.

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Seems like it's as good as any.

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which I seem to recall applying to a car to improve its gas mileage.

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That's the coolest thing ever.

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Beyond that, I understand there's something that you hit the ball with to make it go specific places.

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I don't think you're supposed to use the tee every time.

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And that's about it.

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Oh, that was beautiful, Jamie.

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By hook or by crook, the guys slowly approach the green.

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Oh, hey, Jamie.

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Uh-oh, sand pit.

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Uh-oh, uh-oh.

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And that's where the fun really begins.

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Oh, that's bad.

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But eventually, they escape the sand.

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Hope, hope.

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And get down to the business end.

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Putting.

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Looks like it slopes that way.

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I know enough of watching golf that you want to account for the slope and the momentum.

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I mean, come on. I know a little bit about physics.

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In the hole.

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In the hole.

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This is a very interesting process, trying to learn a game as complicated as golf without being told anything.

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There we go.

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Not bad.

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It's pretty clear that Jamie and I are improving certain things.

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Dude, that was so close.

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But it's also clear that it is this mountain of knowledge that we're not even touching.

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It feels like sort of stabbing around in the dark with a fork trying to kill a bear.

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We should have been able to do this in four.

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That's a par four.

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Taking a break from the fairway, what's next for unfinished business?

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So what was the issue with how we did spike our tax?

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Well, fans noted that while we correctly replicated spikes we'd seen in movies.

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There we go.

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Heterohedral in shape and spike heat.

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They also noted that those would let air out of the tires a lot more efficiently if they were hollow.

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Well, that kind of makes sense and we can easily test that.

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I know. I think we should.

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Hollow tax should make for a better getaway gadget.

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But will they immediately stop the chase car first time every time?

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In our previous Spycar episode, our spikes looked like this.

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But fans have told us that they want hollow tax and that is where this stuff comes in.

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This is a bunch of hollow steel tubing.

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I'm going to use it to fashion some hollow spikes.

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but I'm a big believer in the assembly line process.

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So this bending, this is actually the first step in my assembly line for these spikes.

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It's the first step in a four-part process.

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I love blacksmithing.

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So what's next for our resident queue?

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Step two of my assembly line process, the cutting.

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So now there's two halves of one spike and there you go.

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That's how that puppy is going to work.

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Boom! We have our hollow spikes.

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With Adam cutting corners for science, it's soon onwards and upwards.

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Step three of my assembly line process, the welding.

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You may recognize the rig I'm going to use for welding as the one I built for the first episode,

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and it works like this.

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Look at that. You sit the two parts in there and weld in the middle.

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Bang! You're done. Isn't that cool?

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Because only a small weld is required per tack,

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it's not long before Adam sealed the deal on all 50.

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Ah, awesome. That's the last one.

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Now, normally if I was a cop making my own road spikes on the weekends,

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I would leave them this color because they blend in with the road.

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But we're making a television show and I want these things to be bright.

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So step four of my assembly line process is to paint them bright pink so we can see them on camera.

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Aw, yeah! Look at that! So pretty!

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It's worth covering why the tack is the structure that it is.

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Why two 90-degree angles join perpendicularly at the center?

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Well, it's because when you do that, what you end up with is called a tetrahedral arrangement.

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A tetrahedron is a four-sided regular polygon, one of the platonic solids.

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and that means it's ready to pierce the tire.

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That's the theory.

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But at the runway, will it be licensed to kill?

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Tic-toc grandpa.

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To find out if you can gain real-world skills from video games...

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I went off the cliffs. There were cliffs!

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Adam and Jamie are attempting to play golf.

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See the flag right there?

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I do. It's another stick. They should just call this game sticks. Sticks and balls.

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They'll call the myth based on two tests, a pre- and post-training swing analysis

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and a before-and-after score comparison.

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There we go.

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It's worth repeating right here that Jamie and I know absolutely nothing about the game of golf.

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Where'd it go?

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I think it's gone.

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But as far as, you know, what these clubs do...

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Okay, feed the ball. Why there's so many of them?

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Pretend that ball owes you money.

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Nice!

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What they're good for?

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I'm going with a five iron.

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I don't know why.

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Having no prior golfing experience is the only way to see if video game training can work.

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And after sinking the final putt...

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Give me a high five.

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God, that is such bull-***.

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What are you, 12?

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We now know the score is to beat.

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You beat me.

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Woo-hoo! Yes, yes, yes, yes.

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But seriously, I guess now it's time for us to go away and get some learning

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and come on back and try this contest again.

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That's what it's about, isn't it?

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Back at the shop, Jamie plugs in and goes to work upgrading his internal golf app.

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There are a lot of different virtual golf games out there,

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but we've chosen one in particular called John Daly's Pro Stroke

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because it claims to help you improve your swing.

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Now a golfer's swing is crucial to his game,

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so I'm going to see if it helps me improve mine because I could improve a great deal.

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So we're on the first hole and I've got to go 440 yards to get that ball into the hole.

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I'm going to have to hit it as hard as I can, which means that I'm going to have to come all the way up.

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Using the game's motion capture wand, Jamie's off and swinging.

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Almost hit some people.

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And despite being instructed what club to use and when...

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Okay, so it says I need to use a three iron.

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Oops. What'd I do?

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His virtual start is as bad as his real world start.

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I bumped the ball and it only went a foot.

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That was bad.

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Watching me practice with this software, you might think,

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there's no way it's going to actually help me improve my game.

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Did I overshoot that?

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But if there's one thing I've learned on this show, it's to not be so sure of myself.

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I'm back where I was.

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So we've got to give it its due chance.

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Where's my caddy?

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A double digit start is not great,

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but Jamie soon realizes that there is information he can glean from the game.

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At this point I'm noticing a whole bunch of stuff.

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I guess I'm going to try to mimic what he's actually doing physically

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and we'll see whether that helps.

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And it does seem to be very exacting about what it requires.

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While I'm in the rough, the little subtleties of a slight change of the angle, of the swing,

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the head of the club and a certain orientation to the ball.

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Well, I'm not in the sand pit.

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So this is pointing out that even the most minute variations on that

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are going to make a huge difference out on the field.

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After two hours of intense practice.

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Nice.

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Bogey.

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I made a bogey.

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Jamie's swing seems to be improving.

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Looks like I got fairly close actually.

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He's also learning how to read the wind and the greens.

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Well, it is teaching me that I need to account for the angle of the train.

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Something that's reflected in his scores.

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Oh my goodness.

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I made par.

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But will any of this help him back in the real world, as the myth would suggest?

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I've spent a day with this golf teaching program and I did dramatically better here

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than I did out on the actual course.

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How about that for a shot?

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I made my first birdie.

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Now, does that mean when I go back out on the course, I'm going to do dramatically better there

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because of what this has taught me?

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That's what we're testing.

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When Adam and Jamie recently took aim at grenades, there was fire in the hole.

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But fans have found a new detonation drama.

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So get a grip.

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Get a grip yourself.

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No, no, no.

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That is actually the name of the story that we're doing.

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There is a TV show called The Bridge and on this show, a bad guy took a mother with her kids

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and locked them in a shed.

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But before he locked them inside, he handed the mom a live grenade.

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So that she's holding on to it, knowing that her ability to hold on to it is her only line

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between life and certain death.

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And after a couple of hours, she can barely hold on any longer.

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Her forearms all cramped and she's just about to let go when the hero shows up and saves the day.

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But here's the question.

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Is holding on to a grenade really that difficult?

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Well, I hope when we go to test this, we can use an inert grenade.

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That was the plan, yes.

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Well, do you mind if I put something a little extra in there, a little surprise maybe?

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Something to raise the stakes?

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Just a little.

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That sounds good. Let's do it.

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If I'm going to test these myths' ability to hold on to a grenade for more than a couple of hours,

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I could just sit on the couch and do it while the camera rolled.

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That's it.

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But where is the television interest in that, I ask you?

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Oh, no, no, no.

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We are going to conduct this experiment in an experiment conducting kind of place.

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Good enough.

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A room in which I will be locked in for a couple of hours to see how well I can hold on to a grenade.

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With Adam's flat pack pad signed, sealing and delivered, now that's an experimental space.

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It's over to Jamie, who's preparing some extra motivation.

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To try to replicate the pressure the woman in the clip was feeling,

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I think it's important that our genuine grenade not be completely inert.

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So I've rigged a little consequence for Adam if he lets go.

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Let's just say he's in for a shock.

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Both Jamie and Adam are trying to make sure that everything matches the clip, including...

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Nice outfit.

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Well, never let it be said I'm not willing to go the extra mile for science.

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And with that, it's go time.

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Three, two, one.

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There we go.

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In the TV show, the woman had to hold on to the grenade for about two hours.

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So far it doesn't feel so bad.

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But the thing is there's a spring behind this that wants to flip that lever away.

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So over time, this could be really difficult.

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A lot harder than you think.

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25 minutes in and Jamie's prediction is turning out true.

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I have to say, I seriously thought this was going to be just a ridiculous cakewalk.

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But I am starting to feel a little fatigue in my hands.

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Well, I'm not exactly sure what Jamie set up in terms of his consequences.

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I have to tell you that it adds a genuine psychological aspect.

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Knowing that I will unleash some version of Hellfire if I let go of this,

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it definitely makes it a little bit more accurate.

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Adam's basic instinct is to hang on for dear life.

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But will he go the distance?

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Next up, they're returning to the runway for SpyCar 2.0.

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Do you have to tailgate me like that?

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No, but it's fun.

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Shall we set up the course?

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Yeah.

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Our plan today is pretty straightforward for a Mythbusters car day.

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In general, it's a little bit of driving and a little bit of man.

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In specific, it's about a quarter mile course starting with a straightaway.

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Last one.

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Jamie will drive down that straightaway in a pickup truck at about 40 miles an hour.

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And I'm going to chase him about three car lengths behind.

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At a certain point, he'll drop his load of tax and then make a U-turn,

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coupled by a slalom.

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Obviously, by chasing, I'm going to drive over those tax,

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and I've got to follow him through that U-turn and that slalom as closely as I can,

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if I can at all.

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Our goal is to see how well our new HoloTax work compared to the old non-Holo ones.

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There's no doubt that HoloTax will puncture the tires.

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But will it stop the car's stone dead, as many viewers claim?

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Are you ready, Adam?

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Dude, I'm ready. Let's do this.

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Okay. HoloTax on the road in three, two, one, go.

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Oh, this is going to be fun.

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All right. We're at the speed.

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Jamie's got his bucket ready.

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Here it goes.

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Oh, ho, ho, ho.

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Oh, yeah. Oh, I feel him in my tires.

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Oh, now I'm making the turn.

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Okay. Hey, I'm still making the turn.

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Yeah. Yeah, I'm still making the turn.

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Oh. Oh.

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Oh, s***.

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Go on, go, go, go, go.

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Now that's what I call a result.

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That was freaking awesome.

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So I'm driving behind Jamie when, like, it's Johnny Appleseed of Death.

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He starts sprinkling these steel tacks along the road.

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I drive right over them, and immediately I start hearing them.

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I took a, took a, took a, took a, took a, took a, took a, took a, took a, my car.

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And then almost as fast, I start hearing my ribs hit the ground,

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and the car rolled to a complete halt about 300 feet later.

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No, no, no, no.

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That is an effective tool for stopping cars.

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Yep. Just 15 seconds after impact, Adam was brought to a grinding halt

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as all four tires got trashed.

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One of the things I noticed about this particular design

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is that if they stick into the tire, they form a nice tube through which air can flow

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and deflate the tire quite quickly.

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But if the tire is moving really fast, they can sling back out again,

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and instead of leaving a narrow hole that will close up like the solid spikes did,

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they're cutting a rubber plug out and taking it with them.

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And it's pretty cool.

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No, I want to start this wrap up by saying,

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I don't think we got the tax wrong on the first try,

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because we were imitating tax we've seen in movies, right?

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Yeah.

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All right. But with our new Holo tax, were the fans right?

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Yes. They're deflating tires in seconds as opposed to minutes with the other one.

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Totally confirmed. Let's get out of here in a car that runs.

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With one piece of unfinished business now finished,

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it's back to the Hurt Locker.

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These safety goggles are starting to give me a headache.

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Where Adam's testing if he can derail a detonation by gripping a grenade.

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I've been holding this grip so long that I actually can feel that my fingers are a little bit weaker.

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I can feel the spring of the spoon wanting to push my fingers outwards.

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It is interesting and not a little scary.

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The reason Adam is struggling is down to cramp.

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Because the muscles in his forearm and wrist have been contracting for more than an hour,

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the chemical balance inside is out of whack, which causes the muscles to contract more than normal.

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Now, not only is that painful, but it means that Adam is not in full control over what his arm is doing.

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So he may just let go yet.

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That's the theory.

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How you doing?

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What are you, a Marionette?

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But because Adam's grasping with a light touch, he's able to keep most of the cramp at bay.

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And while it is undoubtedly uncomfortable,

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it's not long before time's up.

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There it is. Two hours. I'm still alive.

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I just want to point out that in the show, she was saying that her arm was all cramped up and really hurting.

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But I don't feel anything like severe cramping.

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I can easily go for probably a couple more hours at least before, I don't know, I'd switch hands and I'd get another four hours.

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Yep, despite the odd twinge, Adam got a grip with way less hassle than the clip.

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And that's not all.

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So I was thinking, why take the risk of getting cramps at all?

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I don't love this. I don't love it. It's too wide.

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I mean, this woman had access to all sorts of stuff.

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My pantyhose.

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Stuff she could have used to tie down the spoon of the grenade.

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And I thought this experiment couldn't get less dignified.

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Surely that is going to be the easiest of all options.

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Yeah.

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That's what I'm talking about.

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I only had to sacrifice my dignity to make it happen.

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With a grenade bound and gagged, there's no chance of a boom.

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Until Adam takes one for the team.

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This one's for you.

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I'm also kind of curious about what's going to happen.

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Here we go. Three, two, one.

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Ah!

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That was beautiful.

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So the myth that you can't hold onto a grenade for longer than two hours?

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Totally busted. And I think in a mighty fine way.

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Can playing video games really set you up with real world skills?

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To find out, Jamie's the test subject taming the technology.

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Bogey. I made a bogey.

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While Adam can't resist competing, courtesy of more traditional training.

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My training today is going to happen at the legendary Pebble Beach Golf Academy.

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I'm going to be playing the game.

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I'm going to be playing the game.

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I'm going to be playing the game.

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Today is going to happen at the legendary Pebble Beach Golf Academy.

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Founded in 1996, it encompasses both the latest cutting-edge technology

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as well as some of the United States' best golf teachers.

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Mine today, Laird Small, was voted PGA's Golf Teacher of the Year.

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Adam's receiving a solid grounding in the fundamentals.

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Here's your driver.

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The clubs, the grip, and the mechanics of the swing.

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Hey, look at that. Wow.

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That is spectacular.

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It went like that way.

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Yes.

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And after a full day of this traditional training,

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Wow.

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Adam has clearly lifted his game.

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I felt great.

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It's about refining your physical movements and your body memory

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until what you're about to do is predictable.

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Yes.

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And amazingly, I'm starting to see how it could actually work as a game.

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It is no longer a mystifying game to me.

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I now start to see its outlines and think,

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maybe I could actually play this.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Woo-hoo.

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I think I'm ready for the Heinemann.

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Back at the shop.

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It's really pretty out here.

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The Heinemann has also been puttin' in the hours,

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and he too is showing signs of improvement.

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I earned another trophy.

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Next.

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The swing seems less shoddy.

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196 yards?

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Hardly seem like I hit it at all.

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And he's picking up tips about club use.

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Okay.

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So I need to use a three-iron.

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Nice.

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As well as putting technique.

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All off to the side.

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I didn't compensate for the angle of the train,

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and I should have.

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But to find out if that all translates to real-world improvements,

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it's back to the beach to see if Jamie can pull this one out of the bag.

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But not quite yet.

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Over the years, we have done tons of stories about guns and ammo.

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Now fans want us to tackle the modern version of the Quick Draw.

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What's that exactly?

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Well, there's a classic trope in action movies when the hero empties his gun.

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He's able to reload in a ultra-superfast blink and you miss it fashion.

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And the fans want to know if that's actually possible.

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And so do I.

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Okay then.

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Let's get shootin'.

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First up, Jamie and I are going to try to shoot three full magazines of bullets

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as fast as we possibly can.

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Now this first test is about speed, not accuracy,

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and so the bullets will be using how this funny little pinched end,

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that's a blank, not a real bullet.

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Start shooting in three, two, one, go.

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Mechanically firing and reloading the gun is a pretty basic process.

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When the magazine is out, you press a button, out comes the magazine.

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You put another one in and you're ready to go again.

491
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:07,000
But the thing you have to remember is that there's this horrific noise and percussion.

492
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,000
It's a really kind of disturbing, violent action that is going on here.

493
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:17,000
And so trying to put that sequence really smoothly together, it's not easy.

494
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,000
That's it.

495
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,000
38 seconds.

496
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000
He got slower towards the end there.

497
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:30,000
Jamie's shoot speed was solid, but his magazine change was nothing like the slick and quick action hero.

498
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,000
My turn.

499
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
Can Adam do any better?

500
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,000
Three, two, one, go.

501
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,000
In the annals of things that we learn while doing things that we don't normally do,

502
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:52,000
that is up there, just firing three magazines worth of bullets.

503
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:57,000
My finger got exhausted and I stopped being able to go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,

504
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000
and I started to go...

505
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,000
What was my time?

506
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,000
27.66.

507
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,000
Woohoo!

508
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:13,000
At a rate of two trigger pulls per second with a reasonable reload, Adam has upped the ante.

509
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,000
But what if their shots had to count?

510
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000
A lot of work to load three magazines.

511
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000
Cue the live ammo.

512
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000
Here's the accuracy part of this test.

513
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Our goal is still to fire as fast as possible.

514
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Three, but this time to stay with all of our shots.

515
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000
Two, landing within this seven ring.

516
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000
One, go.

517
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,000
Nicely done.

518
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,000
You improved on your time the first one.

519
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,000
33 seconds.

520
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:51,000
Marginally faster, but from reasonably close range, Jamie missed a stationary target several times.

521
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Well, looks like three landed outside the target area.

522
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:11,000
And when Adam also misses the mark, with minimal improvement to his time, Hollywood's mythical depiction of the magazine reload is looking like film fiction.

523
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,000
Adam and I have acquired some experience with guns over the years,

524
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,000
but we're not that good of a metric as to rapid firing and reloading.

525
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,000
We do have a guy that is though, and his name is Travis Tomasi.

526
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Travis Tomasi is a competition shooter with 18 years of experience.

527
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,000
He is legendary at his ability to swap magazines.

528
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,000
That's pretty cool.

529
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Thank you gentlemen.

530
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
That's promising.

531
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:50,000
But can he pull off that seemingly superhuman movie move while taking out the target?

532
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000
Go.

533
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000
Claire.

534
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000
That was amazing.

535
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000
What was his time?

536
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,000
17 seconds.

537
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000
17 seconds.

538
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,000
That was incredible.

539
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,000
Watching Travis work is kind of like watching a machine gun.

540
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:33,000
It's almost surreal because, I mean, he's moving so quickly that you can't really even see what he's doing, but the real test is right here.

541
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:41,000
Not only was he doing it almost twice as fast as I was, he was pretty much hitting dead center on the target.

542
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:49,000
You know what I like about this is for years on this show, we've been finding things that are really common in movies and demonstrating how ludicrous they are in real life.

543
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000
But in this case, we've done kind of the opposite.

544
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:56,000
We've actually taken something that seems ludicrous in the movies and we've bettered it in real life.

545
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,000
That's pretty cool.

546
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Yeah, that much lead being put through a pistol in that amount of time accurately, it's unreal.

547
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Let's get out of here.

548
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Okay.

549
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:25,000
In addition to learning what it's like to play golf on a real course, we have also learned that proper playing of golf involves adhering to the rules of etiquette and there are many of them.

550
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:33,000
Among the most important are, the green is for putting, not for sitting, not for your golf clubs and definitely not for lying down.

551
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000
Golf requires lots of concentration.

552
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000
It's totally frowned upon and yell on a golf course.

553
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:45,000
And it's vital when teeing off to yell the customary for to warn golfers ahead of you, lest you strike one of the months suspecting Lee in the head.

554
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:05,000
After a truly abysmal game of golf, Jamie and I went off to get some training him by a video game.

555
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,000
Where's my catty?

556
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,000
We need by a person.

557
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000
Now we've come back to the lengths of Pebble Beach.

558
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000
I'm going to put those potential skills to the test.

559
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,000
Remember, this isn't about whether machine learning is better than person learning.

560
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:22,000
It's about whether learning from a video game has any efficacy at all.

561
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000
That's one.

562
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:30,000
I'm just here to provide a control and control is what I hope I finally have over this guy right here.

563
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,000
Let's get started.

564
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Having been trained by a pro.

565
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,000
Nice.

566
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,000
Cool. That felt good.

567
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,000
Adam's first two shots show immediate improvement.

568
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,000
That worked like exactly how I wanted it to work.

569
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000
The key question is what happens to Jamie?

570
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Nice.

571
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,000
Will his video game training result in any improvement at all?

572
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Oh, f***.

573
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Well, not so far.

574
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,000
In the real world, his swing is still unbalanced.

575
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000
That wasn't very good at all.

576
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:11,000
And without computer assistance, he's guessing which club to use when.

577
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,000
Look how I'll try this one.

578
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,000
Still not really sure why, but looks right to me.

579
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000
And that's reflected in the scores for the first hole.

580
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:27,000
Traditional training has seen Adam score plummet, while Jamie's only betted his best by one shot.

581
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000
There are several things that cause me concern about the video game instruction.

582
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,000
And one of the key ones was that it seemed virtually impossible to miss the ball.

583
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,000
Now, I know that it's possible to miss the ball.

584
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Well, you're on the fairway.

585
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,000
I'm just saying.

586
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000
On hole two, although Adam's tee shot.

587
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,000
That was terrible.

588
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Was less than ideal.

589
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Well, you hear about rough, but boy, this stuff is practically jungle-like.

590
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,000
His post-training recovery is the shot of the day.

591
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Nice.

592
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000
That felt pretty good.

593
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,000
Try as he might.

594
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Jamie's not only unable to emulate Adam...

595
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000
Well, it didn't go in a bunker anyway.

596
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,000
He's also unable to better his own benchmarks.

597
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,000
Oh.

598
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,000
I could do better than that.

599
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:28,000
...as he takes one more shot on hole two than he did pre-training.

600
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000
And that's a pattern that continues on the final two holes.

601
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000
Right into the sand pit.

602
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:44,000
So it's no surprise when Jamie stops trying to improve his own game and starts trying to sabotage Adam's.

603
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Adam and I compliment you on your socks.

604
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,000
Jamie, shut the f*** right now.

605
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Are you kidding?

606
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,000
I'm just saying, I mean, they're really nice socks.

607
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,000
It's not... okay.

608
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000
As they finally sink their final putts.

609
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Nice.

610
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,000
Yes!

611
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000
That felt good and complete and not stupid.

612
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000
In terms of scores alone...

613
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Alright, let's tell them our scores and have a beer.

614
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,000
Yeah.

615
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
It's not looking good for the myth.

616
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Adam took ten fewer strokes on one hole.

617
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Adam took ten fewer strokes on round two, meaning he improved by 25%.

618
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:28,000
But Jamie, the key metric for the myth, took just two shots fewer,

619
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,000
which statistically is no difference at all.

620
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000
But there's more data to come.

621
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Frankly, looking at the numbers, Jamie and I don't feel like they tell the whole story.

622
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,000
Luckily, because we're thorough types, we did grab one other metric,

623
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,000
unarguably the most important metric in the whole of golf,

624
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
and that is the swing.

625
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,000
Laird examined our swings both before and after training,

626
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,000
and the results are pretty interesting.

627
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,000
How did I do, Laird?

628
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,000
Well, come on over.

629
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,000
So you can see that as you swing the club back,

630
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,000
you can see how your weight is more between your feet.

631
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,000
You can see over here that you've landed beautifully on your left foot.

632
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Right foot's perpendicular to the ground.

633
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Laird, on a scale of one to ten, what would you say the comparison is?

634
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Well, I think on the first one, I'm going to give you a three

635
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,000
on what we finished up with.

636
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,000
I give it eight and a half to a nine.

637
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,000
I think he did really great.

638
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Wow.

639
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000
As on the course, Adam's improvement is immense.

640
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Can Jamie compete this time?

641
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:31,000
The difference that we see is in terms of how much more range of motion you have.

642
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000
So because of that, you can develop more speed.

643
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,000
By developing more speed, you have a chance to hit the golf ball farther.

644
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,000
But what's the all-important score?

645
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000
On the first swing, give you 1.5.

646
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,000
The second swing, I'm going to give you a two at the best.

647
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,000
There's not real any improvement in terms of the striking of the ball.

648
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000
There is some in the range of motion in your athleticism, so that's great.

649
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,000
But in the delivery of the club to the ball, sorry, no improvement.

650
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Excellent.

651
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:06,000
Yep, despite his hours spent flying solo, Jamie's swing is still not the thing.

652
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,000
So what do you think, Game Jockey?

653
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Do you think we've answered the question as to whether video games can make you better at real world games?

654
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,000
I think we have.

655
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,000
And that answer would be?

656
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,000
No.

657
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,000
That's pretty definitive.

658
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000
Shall we play another round of real golf?

659
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Sure, it's nice out here.

660
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,000
I agree.

661
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,000
I've learned some things about my swing I could tell you.

662
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Oh, shut up.