1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 And so the fun begins. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,000 In 2003... 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:11,000 ...the mythbusters embarked on an epic journey. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 I reject your reality and substitute my own. 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Watch out! 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 It is in gentlemen 70,000 feet. 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 And with the tsunami of science done and dusted... 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,000 This is it. This is the end. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,000 The team is back for one final intimate episode. 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,000 You ready for the reunion? 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 All five hosts reunite. 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Beautiful! 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 It is awesome to sit around this table with you guys. 14 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 To look back... 15 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 And reminisce. 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 It has been a wild ride and we wouldn't have missed it. 17 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 They'll discuss the secrets of their success. 18 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,000 It's like science bait. 19 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Formulas for failure. 20 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 We did a lot of it. 21 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000 And as they walk away for the last time... 22 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 What the show meant to them. 23 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 It has fundamentally changed all of us... 24 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 In really significant ways. 25 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 It's destiny. 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 It is awesome to sit around this table with you guys. 27 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 That's kind of weird. 28 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,000 It's like we've never actually done this. 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Yeah, I know. We have never actually done this. 30 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,000 To start this off, I want to talk about how we became a team. 31 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 I mean, the four of us, we have all worked together... 32 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 ...but long before mythbusters. 33 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Yeah, industrial light and magic. 34 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 I wanted to be you guys when I grew up. 35 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 That's the whole reason I got the job from Jamie... 36 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 ...or came in here and asked to be an intern. 37 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,000 I'm not sure if I could do that. 38 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 I knew you from industrial light and magic. 39 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 But you actually worked for Jamie long before that. 40 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Yeah, Jamie gave me my first job right out of college. 41 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 I used to just go over to the model shop... 42 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 ...and harass him all the time. 43 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 And then finally he gave me a job. 44 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 We've got to build a rig that simulates an electric fence. 45 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 I was so nervous. 46 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 It's like, uh... 47 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 It's like, stop putting that camera at me. 48 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 How was your first day? Was it freaky? 49 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 It was weird. 50 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 I was so nervous. 51 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 You look so innocent, Grant. 52 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 I know. 53 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Great. Thanks. 54 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Everybody is watching you all the time. 55 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Their camera's all over him. 56 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 I remember what you said. 57 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 There is no dignity in television. 58 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Once you accept that, it gets a lot more fun. 59 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Don't say anything. 60 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 My first on-screen appearance was when you guys did a... 61 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 ...3D model of my butt. 62 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Oh, God! 63 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 I remember thinking, oh, just some silly cable show. 64 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Nobody's ever going to see this. 65 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 I never thought it was going to be the first thing you Google. 66 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,000 But you also came out on the very first episode... 67 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 ...Jato Rocket. 68 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 You drove yourself down to Mojave to be on that crew, right? 69 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Well, I was working for Jamie doing toy prototyping... 70 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 ...and learning a lot during the day, but I also needed a night job. 71 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 So I had to go work waitressing. 72 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 My shift ended at 11. 73 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 You guys were already in the Mojave, and I was like... 74 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 ...this job's awesome. I'm going to be a part of it. 75 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 So I drove all the way to the Mojave. 76 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 I get to the hotel where you guys are staying at like 4 in the morning. 77 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Your call time's 5 a.m. 78 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 So I sleep in the car for an hour, and I'm woken up by the truck lights... 79 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 ...and the caravan coming by, and I jump out of the car. 80 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 I'm calling! 81 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 And I just got picked up by the other interns... 82 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 ...and went out to the desert to help you guys. 83 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 And so began the greatest adventure of their lives. 84 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 I'm going to have to have a grin-act to me. 85 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 In the magnificent view of the city... 86 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 ...in the magnificent Mojave Desert. 87 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 If you do see something coming out... 88 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Oh, God, that's me. 89 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Yee-haw! 90 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 14 long years ago... 91 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Oh, it makes me nervous. 92 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Look at how young Jamie is! 93 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,000 The team hit the Jato jackpot... 94 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 ...and mythbusters took off. 95 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Fire! 96 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 God, I remember that moment. 97 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 That's so awesome. 98 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 This really is like the... 99 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 We stumbled on the formula for the show. 100 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Right, yeah. 101 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 When in doubt, it makes up the explode. 102 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 That was beautiful. 103 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Seeing that thing take off like that... 104 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 ...it was like seeing some kind of wild animal... 105 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 ...taking off across a savannah. 106 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 That'll be burned in my brain forever. 107 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 One of the things that I really liked about the show... 108 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 ...is how it captures the glee... 109 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,000 ...and the glean in your eyes. 110 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Oh, that's significant! 111 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 They squeak when I walk. 112 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Because it's like... 113 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 You guys can't believe that you're getting paid to do this. 114 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Whoa! 115 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,000 This is the thing, I think, is the formula. 116 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 It's like you can say it's about these bills... 117 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 ...and not knowing exactly what's going to happen. 118 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 But this is the... 119 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 This is the primary narrative of the doozy answer. 120 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 And it was infectious, because in the beginning... 121 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 ...it was like so hard to get permission to do anything. 122 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 But then, you know, as the show got more and more popular... 123 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 ...people were like, yeah, I got a car, blow it up! 124 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 No more car! 125 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 I think I'm gonna have to ask a question... 126 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 ...because this is the reunion. 127 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 The question that we always get. 128 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 What's your favorite myth? 129 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Oh, that's hard. 130 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 I mean, there's so many categories, right? 131 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 There's stuff that was ridiculously fun for us to do. 132 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Ready, hit it! 133 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 I predict... 134 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,000 ...that I'll be dancing on Jamie's intestines... 135 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 ...in minutes! 136 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Then there's episodes that, like, the science was really awesome. 137 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Wake up! Time for science! 138 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 And the result was really cool. 139 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Wow. There's no pig. 140 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 What pig? 141 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 I don't know anything about no pig. 142 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 There's final cuts that are your favorite to watch again. 143 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Here comes chaos! 144 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 When anybody would ever ask me that... 145 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,000 ...it was always the last thing we had just done. 146 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Right. 147 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 It was like, what's your favorite myth? 148 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 And it was like, well, just yesterday we blew this thing up. 149 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 It was the craziest thing I've ever done. 150 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,000 And that would, like, happen after every single myth. 151 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Whoa! 152 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 What was your favorite? 153 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Each of these episodes have something that are memorable or special about them. 154 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Things like the lead balloon, which, at an intellectual level, 155 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 I think that's one of the best things that we've done. 156 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,000 It was also such a wonderful exercise in internalizing 157 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 and understanding contingencies. 158 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 That is a lead balloon. 159 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,000 And then there are other things like the ping-pong boat coming up with solutions 160 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:19,000 that are so diabolically simple to address a complex problem 161 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 and then just sitting back and watching it work. 162 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 And...whoo! 163 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Whoo! 164 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Whoo! 165 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Yeah! 166 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Ha ha ha ha ha ha! 167 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:34,000 We've made a career out of making what seems impossible possible. 168 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 That's why I love lead balloon as well. 169 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 It was like the pointless exercise, and yet there's something thrilling in the storytelling. 170 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 That you got it to work. 171 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Yeah, exactly. 172 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,000 That's awesome. 173 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,000 You know, for me, I think it was wakeboarding behind the cruise ship. 174 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,000 That was insane! 175 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,000 It was just such a weird thing to do. 176 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 The ship just kept getting further and further out to sea, 177 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 so it was like at some point we had to stop. 178 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 So it wasn't like, is this myth possible? 179 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Is it possible for you to do it? 180 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Whoo! 181 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 And then we found out later that sharks follow those pre-shows. 182 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Yeah. 183 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Ah! 184 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Nothing just touched me! 185 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:16,000 For the two of you, I personally think Blue Ice is one of the best things that has ever been filmed. 186 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,000 That was actually one of my favorites because of the fact that I've heard that myth so many times. 187 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 We've been getting spin on the list since the very beginning. 188 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Yeah. 189 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 And I just remember all these rocket scientists looking around the world, 190 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 going, it's not going to work. This isn't going to work. 191 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 And they just kept, we're like, we don't know, we're just going to try it. 192 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Grant, coming up is one of my favorite things I've ever seen happen to Blue Ice. 193 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Oh! 194 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 I mean, what do you see? 195 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 That giant chunk of Blue Ice. 196 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 That's a surprise. 197 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 That's genuine surprise on our faces. 198 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,000 And what you didn't see behind us, behind the cameras, 199 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 were all the rocket scientists going, oh, I'm going to get a shot of Blue Ice. 200 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,000 And the rocket scientists going, oh my God, like, they were more excited than we were. 201 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:06,000 All right, well, you know, you alluded to this earlier, but it's not just the best myths, 202 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 but we've had some of the best days on set. 203 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,000 I mean, I feel like I've grown up on this show. 204 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 And for me, what was super duper memorable, 205 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 because not only was one of my favorite myths, but when we did car drop, 206 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,000 where we dropped a car from a helicopter and you remote controlled a car from another helicopter. 207 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 All this was on fire! 208 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,000 I remember just being really, really emotional about this myth, 209 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,000 and like, I was so, I was like running around, just like hugging you guys, 210 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,000 because it went well. 211 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,000 It did it! 212 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 What I found out when I got home is that I was pregnant on that shoot, 213 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 so it was extremely hormone, actually, hormone. 214 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 It's amazing. 215 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,000 I was less excited after my first kiss. 216 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 But it wasn't only unexpected hormones that caused the high notes to be hit. 217 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:07,000 More than a decade of adrenaline-fueled science forged a poignant on-screen bomb. 218 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,000 That's all group hug. 219 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Yeah! 220 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:18,000 I remember feeling really emotional when we were all standing on the third rocket car site in the desert, 221 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,000 all five of us. 222 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Well, I think our work here is done. 223 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,000 That was, it was really, really intense. 224 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 I started to cry. 225 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Yeah, that was an emotional thing. 226 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Totally. 227 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Coming up, congratulations on an amazing 14-year-run science! 228 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 It has all been accolades and warm hugs. 229 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Stop whining, go have a cookie. 230 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Because the good days have come at a cost. 231 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Hey, it's time for Billy. 232 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:56,000 It's time for the stars to shine. 233 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Thanks for 15 great seasons, Mythbusters. 234 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,000 I've set up a four. 235 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000 I'll say it again. 236 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,000 You made the scientific method feel like a guilty pleasure. 237 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Wherever your J. Doe rocket car takes you, you'll always be blowing stuff up. 238 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,000 In here. 239 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:19,000 The mythbusters touched hearts and minds from the very beginning. 240 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 It's a delicious memory. 241 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000 In its weird and wonderful way... 242 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000 I can't answer that. 243 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,000 You're tying a pig's stomach into a skeleton. 244 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 The show became part of the pop culture conversation. 245 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Tonight we take on the classic myth that a cat will always land on its feet. 246 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,000 But this is one reality show reunion. 247 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Stop whining. 248 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 You're such a sh**. 249 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Where the final analysis is going to be objective. 250 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Yeah, well, you know, we've padded ourselves on the back enough, I think. 251 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 A little more comfort in your design. 252 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Good days have come at a cost. 253 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Dude, we've never used the blue rugs. 254 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Seems that Adam needs another cookie. 255 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 We always use the blue rugs. 256 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,000 No, we haven't. 257 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I actually don't want to do this test right now. 258 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:06,000 The times that I've been the most upset have been in the early days in particular, 259 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:11,000 where they put us in situations that were unwise as far as getting hurt. 260 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Oh! 261 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000 F**k! 262 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 You did hook up the real thing. 263 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Yeah. 264 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 F**k! 265 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,000 No, just leave me alone. 266 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 And stuff like a Star Wars episode, 267 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:31,000 because there's like no reason to test lightsabers on higher ground. 268 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Oh, I hit myself in the groin. 269 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Oh, no! 270 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Sorry. 271 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Well, at least you got to build something. 272 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 It wasn't as bad as like pyramid power or primary perception. 273 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,000 You hear it screaming? 274 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 The boogie boogie stories from the early days. 275 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Mind control. 276 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Oh, the crystal! 277 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Double espresso? 278 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Do you know? 279 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Juice squeeze. 280 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 I think pyramid power is absolutely the lowest. 281 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 That was pretty bad. 282 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,000 I'm reading your thoughts right now. 283 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000 We gave it our best shot. 284 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 I mean, you know, you have this thing that you have to test. 285 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,000 You have to treat it as seriously as you would any other man. 286 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Real free energy. 287 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 If we're going to talk about worst days, 288 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 I think we all have the same worst possible day ever, 289 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 and it's going to be cannonball. 290 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Let's go. 291 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Alright, use his lit. 292 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000 He's going to be soon. 293 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Oh, yeah. 294 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,000 It's cannonball. 295 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Absolutely. 296 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,000 That was probably one of the most terrifying days on the show. 297 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,000 The popular Mythbusters TV show had an accident, shall we say. 298 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 The crew fired a cannonball. 299 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 It smashed all the way through and nearby house, 300 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,000 and then through the window of a minivan outside. 301 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 We were at the bomb range, took the shot with the cannonball, 302 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 which we've been doing all day. 303 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Every other cannonball went into our catcher and our hill, 304 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,000 and then the fire department showed up about 20 minutes later 305 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 after this last shot, and they were like, 306 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 are you guys shooting cannonballs? 307 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 And we're like, oh, yeah? 308 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 They're like, because one landed in a neighborhood, 309 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 and we were like, half a mile away. 310 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Oh, my God. 311 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 The news chopper showed up, and we were like, what is happening? 312 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 They were camped out out front here, too. 313 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Luckily, no one was hurt. 314 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,000 As nasty as it could have potentially have been, 315 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,000 who knows what it saved us from doing later on. 316 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Right. 317 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,000 We radically altered our entire safety procedure 318 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,000 and our approach and a mental approach to safety from the ground up 319 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 to move from things that are potentially deadly 320 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 to things that are merely awful. 321 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 They're already giving me nightmares. 322 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Answer all over my head, man. 323 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 What's your most uncomfortable day, Carrie? 324 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 There was a time where I had to try to extract 325 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 methane from your poop bag. 326 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Sorry. 327 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Oh! 328 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,000 And I had to handle that in a bag, but I mean, the one that was the most... 329 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 I had to poop in that bag. 330 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Oh, boo-hoo! 331 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,000 I pooped in a spin bag. 332 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 That's so gross. 333 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:12,000 The most traumatizing by far was the scorpions. 334 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,000 They put, like, 40 scorpions on me, 335 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 and I happened to paint my fingernails. 336 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 The color of their food. 337 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,000 I love my fingernails. 338 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,000 So they started biting my fingers. 339 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Because of that, when I get for real scared, 340 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 I uncontrollably either shake my hands or feet. 341 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 I can't stop shaking my foot. I can't stop shaking my foot. 342 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Stop it. I can't stop it. 343 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 That was the worst. 344 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 I think for me, probably every time I get injured on the show. 345 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 You are a little accident. 346 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Which is all the time. 347 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Oh! 348 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Oh, my God. 349 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,000 How did you not get horribly hurt? 350 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Oh! 351 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Oh! 352 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 I'm okay. 353 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000 You slid across the runway on your face. 354 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,000 If it had been a BMX bike, I would have made that easily. 355 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Bam! 356 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Bam! 357 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Ha ha ha ha! 358 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 My balls seem to be a magnet for injuries. 359 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Oh, wow! 360 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Oh! 361 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Oh, God, I hate that one. 362 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000 I hate that one. 363 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 I hate more than anything else. 364 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,000 That one's still... 365 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,000 I felt that one coming. 366 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 That's the first time I went to the emergency room. 367 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Oh, God! 368 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Why would you do that? 369 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,000 Oh, God! 370 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Oh, God! 371 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,000 You guys were tasing each other every morning for a few months, right? 372 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 It was like a coffee. 373 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Oh, God! 374 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Yeah, that's not a good sign. 375 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,000 It's a sign that there are deeper issues in play. 376 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,000 They were. 377 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:39,000 And you and I have the proclivity to refund whatever we've eaten recently. 378 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Oh, God! 379 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Yeah, vomiting. 380 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 What's your worst vomit? 381 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,000 That was, yeah, that was mixing your types of alcohol. 382 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Because it's like a reflex when I sit in that chair, the motion sickness chair. 383 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 I just sat down and she said, okay, it's time for the chair. 384 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 I don't know where. 385 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:07,000 I actually vomited the most in a single day while flying in the back of an F-18 hornet 386 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 with the Blue Angels. 387 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 Come on, stick with me, Adam. 388 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,000 You got it. 389 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 You got it. 390 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Stay with us. 391 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Stay with us. 392 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,000 We got it. 393 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Come back. 394 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,000 You with me? 395 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,000 I'm with you. 396 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000 I have phone calls. 397 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,000 I'll pass out there in a second. 398 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:30,000 And, shockingly, there we go. 399 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:37,000 It is the only time that vomiting repeatedly did not detract from my enjoyment of the actual event. 400 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 It was so awesome. 401 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 And that's why those flight suits have so many pockets. 402 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:42,000 There's one for each barf bag. 403 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Eww! 404 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Well, you think that those days are bad. 405 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Nobody's had a worse day than Buster. 406 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 I think we should call him Buster. 407 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Buster sounds pretty good to me. 408 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Every day is the worst day for Buster. 409 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 And the best part is, what he's designed for is car crashes. 410 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 And that's rarely what we use him for. 411 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Everything we use him for is worse than that. 412 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:08,000 You know, there's an international church of Buster because he's been resurrected so many times for your knowledge. 413 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Is that for real? 414 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Yeah. 415 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Rise, my son. 416 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:17,000 His head's gone. 417 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Nice work, Buster. 418 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Wow! 419 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:31,000 That was crazy. 420 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Now, we collected as much as we could find. 421 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:39,000 And I have for each of you a gift, a ruined camera, and chunks of Buster. 422 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 And a superhero costume from Buster finale. 423 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Oh, thank you. 424 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 It's hilarious. 425 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:50,000 All you know is I'm glad this isn't how I'm going out on the show. 426 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 It's kind of like Buster's ashes. 427 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Wow. 428 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Thanks, buddy. 429 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Buster is the best. 430 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 He's the best. 431 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 He's the best. 432 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 He's the best. 433 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 He's the best. 434 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 He's the best. 435 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 He's the best. 436 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 He's the best. 437 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 He's the best. 438 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 He's the best. 439 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 He's the best. 440 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,000 He's the best. 441 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 He's the best. 442 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 He's the best. 443 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000 So let's talk about the science. 444 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000 I know it's part of the DNA of the show, 445 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:47,000 but I think one of the things that blows people's minds is that none of us are actually scientists. 446 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,000 You have a degree in science. 447 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 I have a degree in engineering. 448 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Okay, that's closer than any of us. 449 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Which is adjacent to the... 450 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Way more qualified than we are. 451 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,000 What's your degree in? 452 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Setting things on fire. 453 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 We're popping popcorn with lasers. 454 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 I'm partial to exponential curves myself. 455 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 High explosives in electricity. 456 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Woo! 457 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Sometimes you just need a little extra lubrication. 458 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,000 The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. 459 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,000 I think one of my favorite science stories that we've done is Red Flag to a Bull. 460 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Dude, he's going for it. 461 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Well, I remember when we pitched that idea in the room, 462 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 and there was two producers that went, 463 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 oh, everybody knows that's not true. 464 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,000 And the rest of the room was like, no, actually, I don't know. 465 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Like, it's... 466 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,000 Oh! 467 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Pleasure answer. 468 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,000 It was just so cool to go through each of the elements 469 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,000 and find out exactly what causes it to charge you. 470 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,000 You're looking at color, looking at motion, 471 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000 looking at whether it's actually having a person there. 472 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 It's starting to feel like a bad idea. 473 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Culminating with actually Tori in a ring with Bulls. 474 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Good job, dude. Good job. 475 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Look at that. I know, I know. 476 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Early on, we had a story called Bullets Fired Up. 477 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Will a bullet fired into the air kill you when it comes back down to the ground? 478 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 And in the research we found, the most extensive study done on this 479 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,000 was written about in a book called Hatchers Notebook, a famous ballistics textbook. 480 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,000 And the U.S. Army had fired something like 2,000 rounds into the air, 481 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,000 and out of all of those rounds, they heard one and saw one. 482 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 We went out to the desert with a methodology. 483 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 He's going that way. 484 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000 He fired a handgun 11 times into the air. 485 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,000 We knew roughly how long it would take to come back down to the ground. 486 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,000 I was searching across the desert for a pencil-sized hole. 487 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,000 And we found six out of our 11 bullets. 488 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 There she blows. That's nine millimeter round. 489 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Woo, we found it. 490 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:55,000 And so in this one story, we substantively tripled the amount of information 491 00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:00,000 known at that point about the aerodynamics of bullets falling out of the air. 492 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 I'm really, really proud of that episode. 493 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 We found the science in action. 494 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:10,000 One example of our work getting into the literature also was drain disaster. 495 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Whoo! 496 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Where we replicated an explosion and a sewer due to methane. 497 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,000 And it was really fascinating for me that the burn of this gas 498 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 in the right conditions could go supersonic. 499 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Whoa! 500 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,000 You know, we were working with experts on it, 501 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,000 and we were able to do an experiment that was a significant step further 502 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,000 than anything they could actually do in the university. 503 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 I think that's a standout. 504 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 We're co-authors of that paper. 505 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Yeah. 506 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Along those lines, I've got this letter that I'd like to read. 507 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Dear Mythbusters, after hearing your show's ending, 508 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,000 I wanted to write you to thank all five of you from the bottom of my heart 509 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,000 because you literally turned my life around. 510 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:00,000 When I was at school, I was basically on the road to nowhere until I found Mythbusters. 511 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Your show inspired my teenage self to care deeply about science and engineering. 512 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Six years after I saw my first episode, 513 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,000 I became the first girl in my family to go to university. 514 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:17,000 And now, four years after that, I'm about to start a master's in chemical engineering. 515 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,000 You've been fantastic role models, and I cannot thank you enough. 516 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Your show literally changed my life. 517 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,000 It's really dusty in here. 518 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 That's incredibly sweet. 519 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 It's very humbling. 520 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Congratulations, and thank you for the difference you have made 521 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000 to young scientific minds all around the world. 522 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,000 One in doubt, C4. 523 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:46,000 My favorite myth was the original astronaut, Juan Hu... 524 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:51,000 I think Buster, aka Juan Hu, is ready for his launch. 525 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000 Who did not do enough testing in the lab. 526 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Boom. 527 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:05,000 So, clearly, we're famous for more than just blowing crap up, 528 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,000 but we're pretty much famous for blowing crap up. 529 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 When it comes to favorite explosions, 530 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,000 my favorite is the detonating water heater. 531 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:21,000 And the main reason is that they feel like what my wily coyote bug's bunny 532 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,000 inner child wants an explosion to feel like. 533 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Like, it's slow, and I have time to save for it. 534 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 I like the fuel ones. 535 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Like, the throw paint hang. 536 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Yeah. 537 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:39,000 It looks like the movies, like, it's supposed to look big, fiery, cookie cloud. 538 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,000 Terrifying. 539 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:47,000 One of my favorite things to do is to try to actually control what happens 540 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 and make it do something productive. 541 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Two blasts cancelling each other out, maybe. 542 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Taking this destructive power and chaos. 543 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000 Whoa! 544 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Being able to mold it and shape it and form it 545 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 into something that has an end result. 546 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 I love that about myth busters, 547 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,000 is we're not blowing things up just for the sake of gratuitous explosions. 548 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,000 It's a tool. 549 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Like, we are using explosives as a tool to push this experiment. 550 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,000 It's either a tool of experimentation or a tool of storytelling. 551 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Jamie and I get introduced on an Australian radio show, 552 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,000 and they said myth busters is a Trojan horse of reason 553 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 hiding behind a thin veil of explosives. 554 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,000 It's like science bait instead of jail bait. 555 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,000 That's another interesting thing. 556 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 That is a... I think we should stop right there. 557 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 Alright, let's cut to a montage. 558 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Okay. 559 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Everybody, say it with me. 560 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Jamie wants big boom. 561 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000 Big boom, big boom, big boom! 562 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Everybody okay? 563 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000 That's what we do on myth busters. 564 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000 We blow crap up. 565 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Look, we're here reminiscing about the whole history of myth busters. 566 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 Jamie wants big boom. 567 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 And we are done making this as a show, 568 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000 but it's important to let the viewers know 569 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,000 that myth busters is not done being aired. 570 00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,000 That doesn't get old. 571 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000 It is moving from discovery to the science channel. 572 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,000 The entire catalogue, 250 plus episodes 573 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,000 are moving over to the science channel. 574 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Oh, yeah. 575 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,000 Wow. 576 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000 I heard there might even be a lost episode. 577 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000 There is. 578 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Yeah, it's the sh** special. 579 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 I'm pretty sure they just bleeped that 580 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000 because we're not allowed to actually say it. 581 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,000 It's a lost surprise. 582 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Whoops. 583 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Eesh. 584 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Yeah, like Egyptians. 585 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,000 This might actually be happening. 586 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Yep, strap in and countdown. 587 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,000 In, three. 588 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Because the myth busters new home, 589 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:38,000 two, has one final premiere to launch. 590 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Beautiful. 591 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,000 What's this I hear? 592 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,000 You're not making myth busters anymore? 593 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000 No, I have none of it. 594 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000 You just began the show 14 years ago. 595 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 So, no, get back to work. 596 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:03,000 I can't even fathom a world without myth busters. 597 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,000 You know why? 598 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Because you help bring civilization to a state of rational thought 599 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:14,000 of how to analyze claims about what is and is not true in this world. 600 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,000 But I'm expecting you go on to greater things. 601 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,000 If there is such a thing, that's greater than myth busters. 602 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Wow. 603 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Yeah. 604 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,000 That was amazing. 605 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000 That is really cool. 606 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,000 One of the cool things about us all getting back together again 607 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,000 is that we can talk about things that only we can talk about with each other. 608 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Like, the doors that have been opened from this little scrappy cable show, 609 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,000 all of a sudden we're getting into places that are amazing. 610 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,000 It's a portable hug. 611 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Wow. 612 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Talking about access, we went to the White House. 613 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,000 Good to see you. 614 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,000 Welcome to the White House. 615 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:08,000 As Jamie likes to point out, we were testing poop hitting a fan the day before. 616 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:14,000 The next day we were shaking hands with the president. 617 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,000 Did you wash those hands? 618 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,000 We did. 619 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Actually, we're there loading our equipment in, 620 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000 and the secret services running the Sniffer Dogs past, 621 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,000 and Jamie turns to me and he goes, 622 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,000 we were at the bomb range two days ago. 623 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000 How are we not lighting them up like Christmas? 624 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,000 And I'm like, shut up. 625 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Don't talk to me. 626 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Just be quiet. 627 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,000 Southgate needs a little more security, everybody. 628 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,000 My personal favorite is getting to fly in the U-2. 629 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000 Wow, we're already lifting. 630 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000 That's crazy. 631 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000 Whoa. 632 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Wow. 633 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,000 That Be Allure for Space invited us in. 634 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,000 They only let one civilian take that ride every couple of years. 635 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Holy cow. 636 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000 The men and women that run that program 637 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,000 and have been running it for decades are super dedicated. 638 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,000 They were totally amazing. 639 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000 And now we just passed the top of my neighbors. 640 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,000 And they gave me and thus our viewers an experience 641 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,000 that very few people ever get. 642 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,000 This guy has got to be a very, very dark blue. 643 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000 What an unbelievably beautiful day. 644 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,000 Yeah. 645 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000 Aside from these six astronauts on the space station, 646 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,000 we are the two highest humans off of planet Earth. 647 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,000 This is not a bad way to spend your day. 648 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,000 I mean, for you, it was that ride, 649 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000 but I have learned so much, especially from you, Jamie. 650 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000 I have learned so much about building from you. 651 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000 We've gotten to do some really cool stuff. 652 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,000 Decapitation has it, everybody. 653 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000 This is going to kill you. 654 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000 Yeah, it's all about the builds. 655 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000 Come on. 656 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,000 I like it. 657 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000 It allows you to internalize what you're doing 658 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000 when you get physical with things. 659 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000 It's not like you're just designing stuff on paper 660 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000 or you're just thinking about it. 661 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,000 It's a different experience when you've got your own blood 662 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,000 smeared over your tools instead of somebody that's, 663 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,000 you know, typing away on an CAD or something like that. 664 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000 Look, it's like a clown's head exploded. 665 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,000 We built an earthquake table that rivaled the earthquake table. 666 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000 I had been to a museum. 667 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,000 That was beautiful. 668 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,000 It was a great build. 669 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000 It was a huge build. 670 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000 Huge! 671 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000 That was some heavy steel. 672 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000 And we knocked down a few buildings with it. 673 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,000 I mean, like, how cool is that? 674 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Oh, look at that! 675 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000 I mean, that's a cornerstone of the show. 676 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,000 From the beginning, we are not only figuring out the mess, 677 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,000 but we're also making all the things that go into it. 678 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,000 I know exactly what it feels like to be Michelangelo. 679 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,000 Do not try anything you're about to see at home. 680 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000 Don't try this at home! 681 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000 There are plenty of times when we're doing stuff that's scary, 682 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000 but what about stuff where you genuinely feared for your life? 683 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Oh, creamer cannon. 684 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,000 Right, yes. 685 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Absolutely. 686 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,000 We had an entire pallet of creamer, five flares, 687 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,000 giant air cannon. 688 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000 What?! 689 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,000 Fire this thing off, and initially nothing happened. 690 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000 And then it roared to life. 691 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000 So we're standing not quite far enough back when it just started. 692 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,000 Coming. 693 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Yeah, just making that roar, a physical roar. 694 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,000 What about the time when we tried to raise the little kid with helium balloons? 695 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,000 That wasn't dangerous, but it happened. 696 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000 No, that part was the safe part. 697 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,000 Right. 698 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000 Look at that! 699 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000 Oh, my gosh! 700 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 It worked! 701 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000 So if balloons got up into the rafter, 702 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,000 the solution was to shoot them down with the BB gun. 703 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,000 It's a fine solution! 704 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,000 The problem was, a lady heard somebody was shooting guns, 705 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,000 and two cop cars pulled in, and instead of dropping the gun, 706 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000 our safety officer starts running towards them going, 707 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000 it's a BB gun! It's a BB gun! Don't worry! 708 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000 And then that's when they drew the guns on all of us, 709 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000 and we all had to get down. 710 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,000 Including a little girl. 711 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000 We're all face down on the ground. 712 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000 That's twice on the show that I've had a gun drawn on me. 713 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Right, the other time is when we had the fake bomb. 714 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,000 It looked like it was a cartoon bomb, right? 715 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000 Candy Graham! 716 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000 So I'm literally standing outside the door, 717 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000 waiting for them to call action, and I hear, 718 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,000 put your hands up, and I thought it was the owner of the house, 719 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,000 so I turned around smiling, and then I am holding a bundle of dynamite. 720 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Oh, no! 721 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000 There's two cops with their guns drawn on me, 722 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,000 and I was like, we're on Mythbusters making a show, 723 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,000 and I dropped the thing, and I'm like, the producer's in there! 724 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000 I was just like, oh, my God, don't shoot! Please don't shoot! 725 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,000 My scariest moment ever is underwater car, the second one. 726 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000 Absolutely terrifying. 727 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000 Here we go. 728 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,000 It was terrifying watching you go through that. 729 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,000 What Adam didn't know is that as frightening as his experience was, 730 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000 it had an astonishing real-world impact. 731 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,000 Well, it was a typical day. 732 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000 It was right before Easter, and I got up and got Emily up, 733 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000 and got her ready to go. 734 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000 I left about 4.30 in the morning, 735 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000 and I got about three miles down the road, 736 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:22,000 and I hit a patch of slushy snow and went off into the water. 737 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,000 And I looked, and their car was filling up with water. 738 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,000 It was so happening so fast. 739 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,000 I crawled through the vehicle, got into the back seat with Emily, 740 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,000 unstrapped her from her car seat, and I tried the driver's side door. 741 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,000 That door went open. 742 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,000 I had Emily in my arms trying to keep her out of the water, 743 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000 and I'm going, oh, my gosh. 744 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:54,000 I need to get us out of here, and then, you know, the Mythbusters thing came to mind, 745 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000 and it was like, okay, I have to wait. 746 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,000 Even though I didn't want to, I had to wait until the pressure equalized 747 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000 in the vehicle so I could get the door open. 748 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,000 I waited until that moment pushed the door open, and it opened like nothing. 749 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,000 And I kind of swam, walked, and I kind of held Emily above my head 750 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,000 to keep her out of the water, and got onto the road. 751 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000 I still get emotional. I still, every year, on April 3rd, 752 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:33,000 I still kind of go, yeah, this could have been the day me and her weren't here, you know? 753 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,000 Wow. I don't know what to say to that. That's intense. 754 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000 We're not just blowing things up here, people. 755 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000 Bye-bye. 756 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000 Okay, so we all got into this as a job. 757 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000 You know, it's a TV show. It's entertainment. 758 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,000 But on the other hand, we've been on air for so long for a reason, 759 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:11,000 and we've had quite an impact on popular culture in some way. 760 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000 What do you guys think about that? 761 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:21,000 I think that it brought about a renaissance of making science fun again. 762 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:27,000 Am I missing an eyebrow? Breasts are expanding. Repeat. Breasts are expanding. 763 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000 Making it narratively interesting. 764 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,000 Quack, damn you. 765 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000 Yeah, something that people could relate to. 766 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000 My toes always land but aside. 767 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:40,000 You say, oh, science isn't boring. It's explosions. 768 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,000 Car crashes. 769 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000 It's really a fun world to open up to. 770 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,000 That is messed up. 771 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,000 And I think we hit kind of our stride right when the Internet was hitting its stride, 772 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,000 and, you know, there was all these urban legends and viral stories. 773 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000 All of a sudden, everyone was like, wait a minute, is that true or is it not? 774 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000 So we kind of came in at the perfect time. 775 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,000 We came along just when Geek started being cool. 776 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,000 I wouldn't say Jamie's an evil genius. 777 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000 Say hello to our little friend. 778 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000 Go get him, boy. 779 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,000 And we got to really be a part of that evolution. 780 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000 It's almost too exciting. 781 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000 All of that stuff was a wave that we're surfing. 782 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,000 We were able to ride it at the right time and the right place, 783 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:28,000 and take that ride in a way that at times was really pretty inspired. 784 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,000 I definitely like science better when it's got a view. 785 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:42,000 Absolutely, Carrie, you have done so much to inspire girls and women to realize 786 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000 that they can follow the thing that they're interested in. 787 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,000 You know, people ask us all the time, how do we get girls interested in science? 788 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000 And my response is, stop asking me. 789 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,000 Go ask a little girl. 790 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000 They're the most natural scientists you'll ever meet. 791 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,000 We also have the most amazing fan base. 792 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,000 They have really supported us and they have been, 793 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,000 they are an above average group of people. 794 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,000 And they are the reason why our show lasted so long, 795 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:10,000 because in the beginning there was just a small group and it just got bigger and bigger. 796 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,000 Well, speaking of Mythbusters resonating with fans, 797 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000 we have a video that bears directly on that. 798 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,000 Let's take a look. 799 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,000 I am a big fan of the Mythbusters. 800 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,000 I've even had them over at the White House a few times. 801 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,000 Now come to think of it, they never let me blow anything up, 802 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000 but I'm still going to miss them. 803 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:32,000 I'm grateful for the time they proved that, yes, America did actually land on the moon. 804 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:37,000 And for the time they came to the White House to debunk the Archimedes solar ray. 805 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000 That was fun. 806 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:43,000 So after more than a thousand myths tested, after more than 900 explosions, 807 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,000 after 83 miles of duct tape, 808 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,000 I just want to say thank you to Adam, Jamie, Carrie, Tori, Grant, 809 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,000 and all of the Mythbusters team for entertaining us these 14 years. 810 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,000 More importantly, thank you for inspiring so many of our young people 811 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,000 to ask the big questions about our world 812 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,000 and to seek the answers through math, science, and engineering. 813 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000 It's going to make a real difference to America's future. 814 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,000 I promise we'll be better off because of you. 815 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:16,000 But the Secret Service will rest easier without you around on our south lawn. 816 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,000 Congratulations on a great run. 817 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,000 Aww. 818 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,000 Wow. 819 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,000 That's cool. 820 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000 That is kind of intense. 821 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,000 Yeah. 822 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:31,000 I gotta say, it means so much that you guys came back to sit at this table 823 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000 to help us say goodbye to this show. 824 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:39,000 Mythbusters would not be Mythbusters without the three of you, without the five of us, 825 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,000 and it's vital that you came back to say goodbye, and I really appreciate that. 826 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,000 Well, it has been a wild ride, and we wouldn't have missed it. 827 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,000 You know, and some things are part of your life for so long, 828 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,000 it's hard to say goodbye, so... 829 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,000 Thanks for the chance to say goodbye. 830 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000 Jamie, thanks for giving me a job. 831 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,000 You were right. It did change my life. 832 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:08,000 Absolutely. It has fundamentally changed all of us in really significant ways. 833 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,000 And to the fans, we would not have been able to make this show without your enthusiasm, 834 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:17,000 your support, your encouragement, your ideas, your criticism, and your comments. 835 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:22,000 I've all made this show what it is, and it would not be here without you, 836 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000 so we thank you as well. 837 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,000 Thank you. 838 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,000 Thanks for putting it. 839 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,000 I'm Jamie Heineman. 840 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,000 And I'm Adam Savage. 841 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:35,000 We're gonna find out what happens when you strap a rocket to a 67 Chevy. 842 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,000 Oh, yeah. 843 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,000 I see trees and green, 844 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,000 I see red roses too, 845 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000 I see them blue, 846 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,000 I see them purple and pink, 847 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,000 and I see to myself 848 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:57,000 all the world before me. 849 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,000 I see skies of you 850 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,000 and clouds of white, 851 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,000 bright, sunny days, 852 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000 dark, secret nights 853 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,000 and I think to myself, 854 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,000 we'll walk the world away. 855 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,000 I can't breathe. 856 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000 The colors of the rainbow 857 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000 are so much more than the skies. 858 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000 I'm also on the basis 859 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,000 of people walking by. 860 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,000 That's beautiful. 861 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,000 Shaking his self. 862 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,000 I'm bleeding. 863 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:37,000 Thank you. 864 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,000 I really say we turn out. 865 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,000 That is worth it. 866 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,000 What a wonderful world. 867 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000 That was beautiful. 868 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,000 Thank you.