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Mission Impossible and the Bourne movies would be a treasure trove of stunts and gadgets and techniques, but may suffer from the same issues as James Bond.
part of why we do this work with pleasure is because we get to do and play with stuff like that and tell stories to people about the things they would never get to do or experience with their comfy 9 to 5 desk job.
Well it was due to the denying of worker’s comp coverage if they did just that. They still have their own medical coverage, and probably short term disability.
Thus proving that, as least with us men, that you can grow older but that doesn't mean you've grown up! Personally, I feel that you live a better life by not letting go of your inner child, or in this case, inner teenager. _"Dad's told us no... PFFT... Who's bringing the camera, cuz we're _*_SO_*_ doing this!!_ 😏"
I think it makes a significant statement for the whole crew was that, even after being warned, that the VERY FIRST THING they did was to all go down the slide before taking it down AND to record the event for posterity!
As I remember Season 13. We were testing the saying, "Blow the boat out of the water." A WWII saying when a ship was destroyed by a mine or torpedo. We started by building a few 1/48th scale models of the JFK Pt boat (s) and a lexan/steel water tank, maybe 100 gals. With cherry bombs suspended with string at different depths below the model in the water, seeing how the explosive effected the boat model at the different depths. And filming the explosions with some really nice high def/speed cameras. As I remember, the explosion followed the string, because it's different than water and usually went up, less pressure than down. But! when the cherry bomb was put on the bottom of the tank, the explosive forces de-laminated and un-glued the tank and water rushed out and was coming out of the shop on to the sidewalk/driveway. End of tank. Then a two story tall motor boat war procured in Sac. (Next to an old Air Force base, where fire fighting planes were stationed) All the guts were removed, top half of boat cut off, and hull painted orange. I still have orange solvent based paint on my boots. The two boat parts were now of proper size to be shipped on two trailers to Ione CA. An old quarry, now filled with water, near where the cement truck was blown up, was used for the shoot. The boat was put back together with sheet rock screws and floated in the water. A pallet of the explosive."ANFO" was placed by Jamie, in this plastic watertite ball and sunk / attached to the bottom of the boat with rope. Afew trys later, the remote fuses didn't work. So old school fuse was used. I was sitting in a fire truck about 100 yards away. The explosion blew the boat to bits, with a water spout a few 100 feet tall. Pretty cool. Divers went down to see the wreckage, but deemed it to be too dangerous , sharp bits and low viability. We were allowed to leave the sunken bits but had to clean up everything floating or in the surrounding area. We had a pontoon boat, of questionable ownership, and for more than 2 days picked up boat parts, filling a 40 yard dumpster and more. A paint roller, with extension handle worked best to fish boat parts out of the water. A pool screen failed after a few min. I think they filmed both success and failure videos. The boat definitely blew out of the water, but in 2 and then 10,000 pieces. Was a lot of work but very cool. Makes a great story. I feel honored to have had the opportunity to work on the Show and still have the Leatherman "Wave" that Adam gave me at the Wrap Party.
MythBusters: "If you decide to use the slide, and somehow get hurt, you're to know Workman's Comp won't cover it. Just saying." The Entire Crew: "Frick it, we ball - we ain't gettin' another opportunity like this." I love it. _Edited to reference Workman's Comp instead of just saying "our insurance." That wasn't the point of the comment, but I was rightly corrected._
Workman's comp wont cover it, but their own health insurance would, combined with a once in a lifetime water slide opportunity makes the crews' actions almost guaranteed. Even the insurance company knew it was going to happen, given the details or possibly because they've seen it before, so they gave explicit warnings to deter, but to mainly put distance between any notions of coverage and any likely accidents that would result from the inevitable.
Fun fact in john wick 2 they full on tell you exactly what the fabric is supposed to be made of and all the layers, which would've made it easy to test
Yea, I figured it had to be an explosive cleanup, having to track down all the debris. As I've assumed, based on what Adam has said, that you all made it a point to leave a page looking better than the state of was in when you arrived. Like the exploding water heater and all the styrofoam participate feels like a nightmare scenario... lol Thanks for posting this! As those couple Tested episodes where Adam interviews some other crew members have been my favorite, and I suggested to bring in any and every person willing to share stories. So even your single sentence is a welcomed tidbit! 🍻
Adam, I love the water slide wipeout! I remember your scream as you launched, so funny, kinda a Doppler effect going on! Makes me laugh every time I watch it 😂. Thanks so much for what you do!
When thinking about the messiest episode of Mythbusters, "When the 'Stuff' Hits the Fan," is the first one to come to mind. Because that is the one someone would expect to make the biggest mess. A myth with a giant water slide was not the expected answer.
The Hacksmith suit genuinely astonished me. I was so sure that video was going to be clickbait, and while no it isnt John Wick levels of invulnerability, Ive seen so many examples of how completely unstoppable bullets can be, I just did not think they were going to come anywhere near what they pulled off.
Adam defending the usage of the hard “g” in “gif” is just one of the reasons he’s a personal hero of mine. Seriously, though - Adam, you’re an awesome person, and so is everyone else at Tested.
If you’re going to take the “G” from the word “Graphics” to use as the first letter of your acronym, then the acronym WILL get spoken with the same hardness or softness as the “G” in the word “Graphics”. If you don’t like that, you can go invent your own language instead of English, and then refuse to speak any other language than English.
I thought he was saying RUclips & Twitter gave them more myths to bust, as in a "Gift". Then I smiled when he said hard "g". Only then did I realize he was referring to the video being a gif.
The waterslide story still makes me laugh, "Don't slide down the slide" that like putting a bowl of candy in front of a 4 yr old and saying "don't eat it" what I want to know how long after you were out of sight did it take for the first slider to go ? I'm betting a nano second after you were out of sight 😂😂😂😂😂
There were definitely times in the 4th John Wick film where I just tuned out, because of the bulletproof clothes. The 1st movie was wonderfully grounded, but having to raise the stakes through sequel-itis took a flamethrower to it all
@@Troy_Built I got bored about halfway through the first movie! I just lost any belief in the basic concept, and it all just seemed to be Keanu Reeves beating up people in the half darkness.
I've never seen the sequels. Think I am better off for it. First movie has such a great simple concept. Man loses dog, wipes out entire mafia in retaliation. Stuff like the "Hotel" and the coins and whatever were good world building but.. I just don't really care about them beyond the "The Punisher avenges his puppy" story line.
Year that bulletproof clothers were really pushing it 😅 I mean you probably could produce something of that thickness that stops bullets, but guess what, all that kinetic energy still has to go somewhere, so you might not end up full of holes but certainly covered in bruises and with broken bones.
I was just in a discussion about the ranking of the John Wick movies and, for me, the first one stands head and shoulders above the rest. I almost put that series in the same bucket as Rocky/Rambo, where the first movie is practically a different genre from the sequels.
John Wick 1 is probably the best overall. But that top-down video game-y scene from 4 is the single coolest gun fight in any John Wick film or any film ever made.
Nice comparison. The first Rocky and Rambo movies were really about the character and caring about him, but the sequels were more about kicking ass. I can see ass being kicked anywhere, but a good hero is hard to find.
The scene in the first John Wick where Wick basically says "Yeah. I'm back." is so good. How he gets progressively more angry as he explains what the dog meant to him and his outburst at Viggo walks away is just so... visceral.
Maybe I've watched too much RUclips but saying "There are no blades in there" is probably going to make someone think it's safe to put their hand in a disposal/disposer. For anyone that had that notion, it's NOT safe. NEVER put your hand in a disposal/disposer, they absolutely can and will shred your hands and anything you put in them!!!!
I know this may seem random, but one movie myth I had come into my head was Home Alone. IIRC the scene, the kid sets up a blow torch on a door knob, and it caused the knob n the other end to glow red hot. There are many parts to a knob, so how much heat would transfer over to the other knob to cause physical harm, if it even could in a single tank of gas, or would the gas run out before then or the other side start to break from the constant heat. Would there be any risk to the door the knob is connected to?
From what I seen from Mythbusters.. any clean up would take the long time. But in all seriousness.. Merry (early) Christmas, Adam and everyone at Tested and everyone else.
Same here. As a Brit, I've always been terrified about American sinks and wonder why they have such dangerously terrifying blades in them. But it's nice to know that there aren't actually blades. I'm slightly less scared of American sinks now
There are, he's lying. My garbage disposal absolutely has blades inside... They might not have years ago when this happened but they absolutely have fixed blades on the grinding chamber ring and impellers or lugs which flail and spin. They couldn't chop and grind up food waste without them so saying they don't have blades is like saying a cheese grater is safe for your knuckles because there's no blades.
5:55 Didn't the Hacksmith do those..? As far as I recall, they made a functional jacket. And it was about as comfortable to wear as you'd think, that being not at all. I mean, it works on a catch-the-projectile level, but like all soft armor, you're still taking a LOT of kinetic energy.
This franchise exists before, during, and after Mythbusters, but I definitely wanted you folks to do a Pokémon Special at some point, testing things like destroying a bicycle with lightning (probably doesn't work, requiring a flamethrower to reproduce the result), and having a bird fly through a hot-air balloon (not invented by the show, but common on it).
I have not seen the Wick movies, but the description reminds me of the climax of Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man, where the badguys wore these long leather jackets (not unlike the later Matrix movies), and withstood bullets. That image looked so cool to me, it was also the reason why i loved the looks of a game called Syndicate, that uses a group of 4 cyborgs in long leather jackets to complete secret agent missions.
As a firearms enthusiast I will say there are jackets that have a scale armor looking layer in-between the fabrics that will stop pistol rounds. However the main problem is just because the bullet didn't pierce the armor doesn't mean you don't have crippling pain and blunt trauma damage that will incapacitate and/or still un-alive the wearer. It's almost like the same issues that chainmail possesses(also one of my pleasures to learn about)
It's interesting that you mentioned testing the bulletproof fabrics from John Wick because Kyle Hill did a video about that sort of thing, specifically when you hold the armor-augmented coat up away from your body like a cape. They had some interesting results!
To clarify what the disposal does: the outer edge is a big cheese grater type of thing, just metal with punched holes. What spins are specially shaped pinball paddle looking things that bounce the food waste into the walls at a variety of angles. It will break AND cut up your fingers if on. Without spinning, just a 90 degree metal edge kind of cutting.
My garbage disposal absolutely has blades inside... They might not have years ago when this happened but they absolutely have fixed blades on the grinding chamber ring and impellers or lugs which flail and spin. They couldn't chop and grind up food waste without them so saying they don't have blades is like saying a cheese grater is safe for your knuckles because there's no blades.
I think the video you mentioned about the guys trying to create a bulletproof suit was the same one I saw. spoilers: they succeeded, somewhat. I think they were able to stop small caliber pistol rounds and birdshot (possibly buckshot too), but I think they stopped there cause the suit would've become too cumbersome had they made it thick enough to stop larger calibers. but yeah, with the connections you guys had for the show, it woulda been great to have seen you guys give it a go.
An episode in the last season (8) of HOUSE had a human lung in what looked like an incubator for a premature baby, the lung having things hooked up to it to keep it alive, while they tried to cure the lung of a disease, so it could be transplanted into another person.
I would of liked a 2nd Video Games Myth episode. Stealth Games have some interesting mechanic tropes. Crouching for sneak mode and hiding in shadows and distraction devices and uniform disguises. They could have a pen tester on and use the high vis and clip board trick to show how people make assumptions based on clothing.
I know there is at least one myth that you've done before, that you would love to do over. What is the myth that has kept you up on some random night, since the show ended, because you realized how you would do it over? And you had to keep on planning it in your head?
The bullet proof fabric kind of turned the 4th John Wick movie into a joke for me. Every single gunfight in that movie is just people running at each other holding up the sides of their jackets.
Actual question, Would it be possible for you to produce a video testing that myth? You have the team in tested, and while it wouldn't be "Mythbusters" (would be amazing if discoverey let you license the name again lol, but I doubt it) it would be a REALLY cool throwback. It would be especially cool to cover it from a movie effects perspective, showing how different kinds of effects were accomplished/props made in a movie like John Wick.
I remember the video you're talking about, Adam. Hacksmith. They recreated the bullet-proof suit to the best of their ability and budget. It'll prevent bullets from going into you, but the drawback is you're still gonna break ribs and your insides are gonna be so rattled from the shockwave that you'd likely die anyway. Basically their argument being that the energy has to go somewhere. The bullet proof vests that law enforcement uses as well as the military, they're meant to absorb the energy and have it spread out, doing minimal damage. A tuxedo with bullet-proof lining would realistically not have that kind of benefit, so all the energy is going into one spot. That said, if you were to test that, I definitely would be interested to see it, especially if you ended up with a different result.
While that's a shape that would work, it would also be incredibly difficult to build safely on a budget. A water park uses formed fiber glass sections to make a curved shape for their slides to achieve that, but that obviously costs more and is more permanent. To build that shape (or just a v shape) out of plywood, carpet, and the vinyl sheet is certainly possible, but adds a lot of cost, time, and risk. The cost and time are pretty obvious (more materials and work needed), but the risk is less so. When you have a construction you're sliding down like that, if something goes wrong and part of it fails what happens? In the case of one or both sides failing, the best case scenario is the person continues without issues, but they're also pretty likely to get injured by either being launched off the slide or striking the section right after the broken section. I feel like the method they used was a compromise of the best safety and keeping close to the video they were replicating. The video had a flat slide, so making it a v or curved shape is a change. Arguably part of the myth is if a person could do the sliding and still be accurate. Additionally, they did add in a method to help keep people on the slide. They used a landscaping berm thing to create sides while keeping the center flat. This gave some protection from going off the slide while also being simple and relatively cheap to implement.
The youtube channel the hacksmith actually did a fairly close (as close as engineering youtubers can get) replica to the bullet proof suits from John Wick. Maybe that could be a future collab/tour that Adam does?
I would have loved you to test some of the stunts from the TV show Chuck. Especially the fall into the pool and a bullet hitting a bad guys forehead after going through a glass window from 1/2 mile away.
I had to replace a garbage disposal once. Of course I had to take apart the old one. There is still no way I am putting my hand down there without unplugging it.
I sent in a viral video through the suggestion page on the website, and it was done. I can't say it was because I sent it in, of course, but they did the whole car lifted by firehoses after I suggested it (along with several hundred other people, I'm sure).
The part about waterslide wipeout that wasn't mentioned, or directly tested, was depth. Could a pool that shallow stop you from crashing into the ground under it? Your testing for "Dive to Survive" indirectly proved that no, it couldn't, as even the professional stunt diver went deeper than the kiddie pool depth. But it would have been good to something set up to check that, too.
As far as the John Wick clothing.. a company called "second chance" made clothing that was bullet "proof" back in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Trench coats were the top seller for them. The stuff looked like normal business attire but would save your life.
Im certain i have seen a you tube channel make some bullet proof clothing. I think it was Hacksmith. I cant remember for sure if they got it to work, but i think they did. Adam must know of Hacksmith? Right? Unless thats the one he is talking about, lol.
@jamesmaybrick2001 i had some of my clients use the second chance clothing when I did executive protection after I retired from the Army. The stuff was rated to stop .357 point blank.
@tested its time to do a web exclusive special with the rest of the gang ! A 2 hour special of all the myths you want do to since the end of the show ! A special fundraiser for a good cause (children's cancer research since it was cut from the debt ceiling) and especially a tribute to Grant and Jessi !!
Regarding the bulletproof fabric/suits of John Wick: I'm willing to accept in a universe with that many contract killers the fabric could exists - what I don't accept is that your ribs and rest of your body wouldn't be broken and beaten to the point of blunt force death.
Tazers fire sharp electrodes that actually puncture the skin, so a jacket as a Faraday cage wouldn't have much effect unless it could keep the barbs from entering the body. And you wouldn't necessarily need a jacket made of conductive material, just something sturdy enough. Carhartt overalls might surprisingly be strong enough. I like the way your brain is going, though! Faraday clothes would be something fun to play around with. The more times people use the name Faraday in a sentence, the better, IMO. One of the greatest scientists ever.
I think driving by GPS and proximity sensors from bird box has mythbusters written all over it. They could use that abandoned neighborhood that they used for the car cash myths
I agree totally about the John Wick movies, especially about the fabric. By the fourth movie, everyone is running around with the bulletproof clothing, and it looks stupid.
ya, but someone else on youtube already "tested" john wick bulletproof fabric... they managed something like a thick jacket that would stop the smallest guns IIRC.
Hard to believe that the water slide episode took longer to clean up then the one where you drove a truck through hundreds of yards of stuff, blasting it out in all directions.
I don't know if anyone can ask a question, but mine would be: How close were people getting fired from the Arch of the covenant shock joke the crew played on you?
I'd love to see a mythbusters sort of series debunking all those nonsense fake history claims like the nonsense Graham Hancock spreads, all those "mysteries" based on people assuming that our ancestors couldn't do certain things and then they credit them to aliens and that sort of lark.
I would have figured the myth that was the hardest to clean up was the one where Jamie ended up swimming through syrup? I think the myth had something to do with being faster in syrup compared to water?? I might be misremembering, but I distinctly remember y'all building the... "moat" for the syrup and Jamie swimming through it in proper swimmer's form 🏊
I wonder if the reason insurance wouldn’t cover it was because you rendered it technically safe, but if they said so then people would use it more than they normally would, which would create the actual safety issue.
What was YOUR guess re: the dirtiest myth?
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The exploding cement car? Must have taken weeks to find all the pieces? 💢😁
Mission Impossible and the Bourne movies would be a treasure trove of stunts and gadgets and techniques, but may suffer from the same issues as James Bond.
WATCH HACKSMITH INDUSTRIES!!!! They spent a year on a John Wick style bullet ptoof suit! :)
Quick sand. The amount of sand and water involved, I would have thought the slightest spill of either would be messy to clean up
I might have guessed needle in a haystack, what with all the hay
asking a whole crew to NOT USE a giant slide next to a lake is humanly impossible.
Ok, we're leaving you guys to dispose of these hundreds of doughnuts. You are NOT allowed to eat any of the doughnuts. Clear?
Yeah right 😂
part of why we do this work with pleasure is because we get to do and play with stuff like that and tell stories to people about the things they would never get to do or experience with their comfy 9 to 5 desk job.
Well it was due to the denying of worker’s comp coverage if they did just that.
They still have their own medical coverage, and probably short term disability.
Thus proving that, as least with us men, that you can grow older but that doesn't mean you've grown up!
Personally, I feel that you live a better life by not letting go of your inner child, or in this case, inner teenager.
_"Dad's told us no... PFFT... Who's bringing the camera, cuz we're _*_SO_*_ doing this!!_ 😏"
@@DUKE_of_RAMBLEexactly! Being an adult is just learning when you need to be mature vs when you get to be immature
I think it makes a significant statement for the whole crew was that, even after being warned, that the VERY FIRST THING they did was to all go down the slide before taking it down AND to record the event for posterity!
Plot twist- only about one day of the cleanup and wrap-up was the actual work. The first day was all the sliding and fun and recording.
As I remember Season 13. We were testing the saying, "Blow the boat out of the water." A WWII saying when a ship was destroyed by a mine or torpedo. We started by building a few 1/48th scale models of the JFK Pt boat (s) and a lexan/steel water tank, maybe 100 gals. With cherry bombs suspended with string at different depths below the model in the water, seeing how the explosive effected the boat model at the different depths. And filming the explosions with some really nice high def/speed cameras. As I remember, the explosion followed the string, because it's different than water and usually went up, less pressure than down. But! when the cherry bomb was put on the bottom of the tank, the explosive forces de-laminated and un-glued the tank and water rushed out and was coming out of the shop on to the sidewalk/driveway. End of tank. Then a two story tall motor boat war procured in Sac. (Next to an old Air Force base, where fire fighting planes were stationed) All the guts were removed, top half of boat cut off, and hull painted orange. I still have orange solvent based paint on my boots. The two boat parts were now of proper size to be shipped on two trailers to Ione CA. An old quarry, now filled with water, near where the cement truck was blown up, was used for the shoot. The boat was put back together with sheet rock screws and floated in the water. A pallet of the explosive."ANFO" was placed by Jamie, in this plastic watertite ball and sunk / attached to the bottom of the boat with rope. Afew trys later, the remote fuses didn't work. So old school fuse was used. I was sitting in a fire truck about 100 yards away. The explosion blew the boat to bits, with a water spout a few 100 feet tall. Pretty cool. Divers went down to see the wreckage, but deemed it to be too dangerous , sharp bits and low viability. We were allowed to leave the sunken bits but had to clean up everything floating or in the surrounding area. We had a pontoon boat, of questionable ownership, and for more than 2 days picked up boat parts, filling a 40 yard dumpster and more. A paint roller, with extension handle worked best to fish boat parts out of the water. A pool screen failed after a few min. I think they filmed both success and failure videos. The boat definitely blew out of the water, but in 2 and then 10,000 pieces. Was a lot of work but very cool. Makes a great story. I feel honored to have had the opportunity to work on the Show and still have the Leatherman "Wave" that Adam gave me at the Wrap Party.
MythBusters: "If you decide to use the slide, and somehow get hurt, you're to know Workman's Comp won't cover it. Just saying."
The Entire Crew: "Frick it, we ball - we ain't gettin' another opportunity like this."
I love it.
_Edited to reference Workman's Comp instead of just saying "our insurance." That wasn't the point of the comment, but I was rightly corrected._
Workman's comp wont cover it, but their own health insurance would, combined with a once in a lifetime water slide opportunity makes the crews' actions almost guaranteed. Even the insurance company knew it was going to happen, given the details or possibly because they've seen it before, so they gave explicit warnings to deter, but to mainly put distance between any notions of coverage and any likely accidents that would result from the inevitable.
Some things you gotta give the “fuck it we ball” treatment lol
Fun fact in john wick 2 they full on tell you exactly what the fabric is supposed to be made of and all the layers, which would've made it easy to test
"Blow the boat out of the water" took 2-3 days to clean up. I should know. I worked on it.
Yea, I figured it had to be an explosive cleanup, having to track down all the debris. As I've assumed, based on what Adam has said, that you all made it a point to leave a page looking better than the state of was in when you arrived.
Like the exploding water heater and all the styrofoam participate feels like a nightmare scenario... lol
Thanks for posting this! As those couple Tested episodes where Adam interviews some other crew members have been my favorite, and I suggested to bring in any and every person willing to share stories. So even your single sentence is a welcomed tidbit! 🍻
Thanks for hopping on and adding your perspective! 👍
Andy? It's Jason! How have you been?
@@profanepersonality Fine. Still building things/ semi retired.
"Don't slide down the slide!"
*everyone proceeds to slide down the slide and record it*
That's too rich right there 🤣
And there was a DVD made of it as well for Adam
Everyone wanted to play with it since it’s a one time thing. Mythbusters unlocked a whole new business model on accident.
It was more of 'if you get hurt youre paying out of pocket' lol id have to take that risk, personally
Hacksmith did a "Make it Real" episode on the John Wick bullet proof suit.
Came here just to say that!
Kyle Hill also tackled the suit a while ago - very cool episode.
Likewise. It wouldn't surprise me if that was actually what he was watching.
Hacksmith worked on testing a John Wick bullet proof suit. It could only stop 22s, but it did work after a whole lot of rnd.
@@johnathanclayton2887 and if you were wearing something under the suit you could probably survive some heavy hits if very injured.
Adam, I love the water slide wipeout! I remember your scream as you launched, so funny, kinda a Doppler effect going on! Makes me laugh every time I watch it 😂. Thanks so much for what you do!
When thinking about the messiest episode of Mythbusters, "When the 'Stuff' Hits the Fan," is the first one to come to mind. Because that is the one someone would expect to make the biggest mess.
A myth with a giant water slide was not the expected answer.
The Hacksmith suit genuinely astonished me. I was so sure that video was going to be clickbait, and while no it isnt John Wick levels of invulnerability, Ive seen so many examples of how completely unstoppable bullets can be, I just did not think they were going to come anywhere near what they pulled off.
Adam defending the usage of the hard “g” in “gif” is just one of the reasons he’s a personal hero of mine.
Seriously, though - Adam, you’re an awesome person, and so is everyone else at Tested.
Really appreciate your kind words! Thank you!
If you’re going to take the “G” from the word “Graphics” to use as the first letter of your acronym, then the acronym WILL get spoken with the same hardness or softness as the “G” in the word “Graphics”.
If you don’t like that, you can go invent your own language instead of English, and then refuse to speak any other language than English.
@@shubinternet "Even the inventor of the format says it's pronounced 'jif'!" Well, good for him, but he's wrong. :)
I thought he was saying RUclips & Twitter gave them more myths to bust, as in a "Gift". Then I smiled when he said hard "g". Only then did I realize he was referring to the video being a gif.
@@shubinternet So this rule for acronyms would force something like OSHA to not have the SH sound in it. Neither Safety nor Health have an SH sound.
The waterslide story still makes me laugh, "Don't slide down the slide" that like putting a bowl of candy in front of a 4 yr old and saying "don't eat it" what I want to know how long after you were out of sight did it take for the first slider to go ? I'm betting a nano second after you were out of sight 😂😂😂😂😂
We need that DVD Adam
The addition of the magical bulletproof fabrics was a narrative convenience so they could have more gunplay, but it really did harm the films
“Do not slide down the slide.”
Reverse psychology deployed and they all went down.
Adam had to have known, "they totally are, aren't they?"
There were definitely times in the 4th John Wick film where I just tuned out, because of the bulletproof clothes.
The 1st movie was wonderfully grounded, but having to raise the stakes through sequel-itis took a flamethrower to it all
I stopped watching the series about halfway through the third movie.
@@Troy_Built I got bored about halfway through the first movie! I just lost any belief in the basic concept, and it all just seemed to be Keanu Reeves beating up people in the half darkness.
I've never seen the sequels. Think I am better off for it. First movie has such a great simple concept. Man loses dog, wipes out entire mafia in retaliation. Stuff like the "Hotel" and the coins and whatever were good world building but.. I just don't really care about them beyond the "The Punisher avenges his puppy" story line.
Year that bulletproof clothers were really pushing it 😅
I mean you probably could produce something of that thickness that stops bullets, but guess what, all that kinetic energy still has to go somewhere, so you might not end up full of holes but certainly covered in bruises and with broken bones.
@@christopherdean1326you're missing out
I was just in a discussion about the ranking of the John Wick movies and, for me, the first one stands head and shoulders above the rest. I almost put that series in the same bucket as Rocky/Rambo, where the first movie is practically a different genre from the sequels.
John Wick 1 is probably the best overall. But that top-down video game-y scene from 4 is the single coolest gun fight in any John Wick film or any film ever made.
Nice comparison. The first Rocky and Rambo movies were really about the character and caring about him, but the sequels were more about kicking ass. I can see ass being kicked anywhere, but a good hero is hard to find.
Dvd footage of crew having fun on slide please 🙏🙏🙏🙏
for testing myths from media, I would love to have seen them tackle trick arrows from Green Arrow/Hawkeye.
ADAM WE NEED THIS FOOTAGE 🤣 where is it???
The scene in the first John Wick where Wick basically says "Yeah. I'm back." is so good. How he gets progressively more angry as he explains what the dog meant to him and his outburst at Viggo walks away is just so... visceral.
Year that was maybe the best scene, only challended by Viggos call with the mechanic "oh." :D
Maybe I've watched too much RUclips but saying "There are no blades in there" is probably going to make someone think it's safe to put their hand in a disposal/disposer. For anyone that had that notion, it's NOT safe.
NEVER put your hand in a disposal/disposer, they absolutely can and will shred your hands and anything you put in them!!!!
It’s more of a crusher/grinder than a cutter.
Mine has blades in it much like a blender.
In one of the first episodes of Heroes, Claire puts her hand in a disposer to test her healing powers
He says it pulverizes. Having your hand cut off versus having it pulverized to bits are damn close
I know this may seem random, but one movie myth I had come into my head was Home Alone. IIRC the scene, the kid sets up a blow torch on a door knob, and it caused the knob n the other end to glow red hot. There are many parts to a knob, so how much heat would transfer over to the other knob to cause physical harm, if it even could in a single tank of gas, or would the gas run out before then or the other side start to break from the constant heat. Would there be any risk to the door the knob is connected to?
From what I seen from Mythbusters.. any clean up would take the long time. But in all seriousness.. Merry (early) Christmas, Adam and everyone at Tested and everyone else.
Every holiday season I watch my mtthbusters marathon. So many myths I can see would make great revisits 😁
Today I learned that there are no blades in a garbage disposal.
no "blades" but still things that spin and rip apart objects
@@MonkeyChessify Obviously.
Don’t put your hand in it but also you don’t have to shit yourself everytime a spoon falls in there lol
Same here. As a Brit, I've always been terrified about American sinks and wonder why they have such dangerously terrifying blades in them. But it's nice to know that there aren't actually blades. I'm slightly less scared of American sinks now
There are, he's lying. My garbage disposal absolutely has blades inside... They might not have years ago when this happened but they absolutely have fixed blades on the grinding chamber ring and impellers or lugs which flail and spin. They couldn't chop and grind up food waste without them so saying they don't have blades is like saying a cheese grater is safe for your knuckles because there's no blades.
5:55
Didn't the Hacksmith do those..?
As far as I recall, they made a functional jacket. And it was about as comfortable to wear as you'd think, that being not at all.
I mean, it works on a catch-the-projectile level, but like all soft armor, you're still taking a LOT of kinetic energy.
This franchise exists before, during, and after Mythbusters, but I definitely wanted you folks to do a Pokémon Special at some point, testing things like destroying a bicycle with lightning (probably doesn't work, requiring a flamethrower to reproduce the result), and having a bird fly through a hot-air balloon (not invented by the show, but common on it).
I have not seen the Wick movies, but the description reminds me of the climax of Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man, where the badguys wore these long leather jackets (not unlike the later Matrix movies), and withstood bullets.
That image looked so cool to me, it was also the reason why i loved the looks of a game called Syndicate, that uses a group of 4 cyborgs in long leather jackets to complete secret agent missions.
Adam, thank for the insight into the "behind the scenes" matters of Mythbusters.
As a firearms enthusiast I will say there are jackets that have a scale armor looking layer in-between the fabrics that will stop pistol rounds. However the main problem is just because the bullet didn't pierce the armor doesn't mean you don't have crippling pain and blunt trauma damage that will incapacitate and/or still un-alive the wearer. It's almost like the same issues that chainmail possesses(also one of my pleasures to learn about)
It's interesting that you mentioned testing the bulletproof fabrics from John Wick because Kyle Hill did a video about that sort of thing, specifically when you hold the armor-augmented coat up away from your body like a cape. They had some interesting results!
To clarify what the disposal does: the outer edge is a big cheese grater type of thing, just metal with punched holes. What spins are specially shaped pinball paddle looking things that bounce the food waste into the walls at a variety of angles. It will break AND cut up your fingers if on. Without spinning, just a 90 degree metal edge kind of cutting.
Hacksmith did a really good suit, also Xyla Foxlin made a bullet proof dress.
My garbage disposal absolutely has blades inside... They might not have years ago when this happened but they absolutely have fixed blades on the grinding chamber ring and impellers or lugs which flail and spin. They couldn't chop and grind up food waste without them so saying they don't have blades is like saying a cheese grater is safe for your knuckles because there's no blades.
I think the video you mentioned about the guys trying to create a bulletproof suit was the same one I saw. spoilers: they succeeded, somewhat. I think they were able to stop small caliber pistol rounds and birdshot (possibly buckshot too), but I think they stopped there cause the suit would've become too cumbersome had they made it thick enough to stop larger calibers. but yeah, with the connections you guys had for the show, it woulda been great to have seen you guys give it a go.
An episode in the last season (8) of HOUSE had a human lung in what looked like an incubator for a premature baby, the lung having things hooked up to it to keep it alive, while they tried to cure the lung of a disease, so it could be transplanted into another person.
I would of liked a 2nd Video Games Myth episode. Stealth Games have some interesting mechanic tropes. Crouching for sneak mode and hiding in shadows and distraction devices and uniform disguises. They could have a pen tester on and use the high vis and clip board trick to show how people make assumptions based on clothing.
I know there is at least one myth that you've done before, that you would love to do over.
What is the myth that has kept you up on some random night, since the show ended, because you realized how you would do it over? And you had to keep on planning it in your head?
The bullet proof fabric kind of turned the 4th John Wick movie into a joke for me.
Every single gunfight in that movie is just people running at each other holding up the sides of their jackets.
Actual question, Would it be possible for you to produce a video testing that myth?
You have the team in tested, and while it wouldn't be "Mythbusters" (would be amazing if discoverey let you license the name again lol, but I doubt it) it would be a REALLY cool throwback. It would be especially cool to cover it from a movie effects perspective, showing how different kinds of effects were accomplished/props made in a movie like John Wick.
I remember the video you're talking about, Adam. Hacksmith. They recreated the bullet-proof suit to the best of their ability and budget. It'll prevent bullets from going into you, but the drawback is you're still gonna break ribs and your insides are gonna be so rattled from the shockwave that you'd likely die anyway. Basically their argument being that the energy has to go somewhere. The bullet proof vests that law enforcement uses as well as the military, they're meant to absorb the energy and have it spread out, doing minimal damage. A tuxedo with bullet-proof lining would realistically not have that kind of benefit, so all the energy is going into one spot.
That said, if you were to test that, I definitely would be interested to see it, especially if you ended up with a different result.
I always thought Burn Notice would have been a great Mythbusters special
Absolutely would love to see that
They did some individual stores from Burn Notice. But, yeah, I think it would have worked for a themed show.
The jump out of the hotel window onto a mattress in a pool was Burn Notice
"Yeah, hard 'G'."
Respect
I would've guessed the cannonball due to the LEGAL clean up.
Yeah when John Wick added bullet-proof fabric, I was like "....Uh ohh"
I'm surprised on the Waterslide that no one thought to make the slide a shallow V rather than flat to keep the slider centered.
While that's a shape that would work, it would also be incredibly difficult to build safely on a budget. A water park uses formed fiber glass sections to make a curved shape for their slides to achieve that, but that obviously costs more and is more permanent. To build that shape (or just a v shape) out of plywood, carpet, and the vinyl sheet is certainly possible, but adds a lot of cost, time, and risk. The cost and time are pretty obvious (more materials and work needed), but the risk is less so. When you have a construction you're sliding down like that, if something goes wrong and part of it fails what happens? In the case of one or both sides failing, the best case scenario is the person continues without issues, but they're also pretty likely to get injured by either being launched off the slide or striking the section right after the broken section.
I feel like the method they used was a compromise of the best safety and keeping close to the video they were replicating. The video had a flat slide, so making it a v or curved shape is a change. Arguably part of the myth is if a person could do the sliding and still be accurate. Additionally, they did add in a method to help keep people on the slide. They used a landscaping berm thing to create sides while keeping the center flat. This gave some protection from going off the slide while also being simple and relatively cheap to implement.
A gif...yeah...hard G. Totally get that. Back in the day of TIFF files, a lot of people pronounced GIF as JIF
If you want to annoy tech folks, just pronounce "vi" the same as "rye." Hate mail will ensue.
@ as in vim? lol you're absolutely right if so. I know vi and vim are different, just trying to zero in if that's what you are talking about
The youtube channel the hacksmith actually did a fairly close (as close as engineering youtubers can get) replica to the bullet proof suits from John Wick. Maybe that could be a future collab/tour that Adam does?
6:30 ah yes, Keanu Reeves being... Excellent😎
I would have loved you to test some of the stunts from the TV show Chuck. Especially the fall into the pool and a bullet hitting a bad guys forehead after going through a glass window from 1/2 mile away.
Bulletproof fabric Myth testing, would be an interesting experience if this could be tested with Adam and Matt (of Demo Ranch)
Great work sir ❤😊
Hacksmith has a whole video on the John Wick bulletproof suit.
As soon as you said it wasn't one of the messy ones, I just knew it'd be the slide. Nice. And to be clear, the slide was my guess before hitting play.
"Be Excellent"
7:30 I'd love to see you do an episode on that!
I had to replace a garbage disposal once.
Of course I had to take apart the old one.
There is still no way I am putting my hand down there without unplugging it.
I sent in a viral video through the suggestion page on the website, and it was done. I can't say it was because I sent it in, of course, but they did the whole car lifted by firehoses after I suggested it (along with several hundred other people, I'm sure).
The part about waterslide wipeout that wasn't mentioned, or directly tested, was depth. Could a pool that shallow stop you from crashing into the ground under it?
Your testing for "Dive to Survive" indirectly proved that no, it couldn't, as even the professional stunt diver went deeper than the kiddie pool depth. But it would have been good to something set up to check that, too.
Some of the Kingsman stuff (like the umbrellas) would be pretty interesting, even though some would overlap with the John Wick material.
Upload the damn dvd already and share it with us.
7:19 - I don't know what the 2025 budget looks like for Tested but this sounds like it needs to happen.
As far as the John Wick clothing.. a company called "second chance" made clothing that was bullet "proof" back in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Trench coats were the top seller for them. The stuff looked like normal business attire but would save your life.
Im certain i have seen a you tube channel make some bullet proof clothing. I think it was Hacksmith. I cant remember for sure if they got it to work, but i think they did. Adam must know of Hacksmith? Right? Unless thats the one he is talking about, lol.
@jamesmaybrick2001 i had some of my clients use the second chance clothing when I did executive protection after I retired from the Army. The stuff was rated to stop .357 point blank.
@@jamesmaybrick2001 He recently did a video with them.
It’s a shame that Adam can’t get a crew together and some funding to test these myths/stunts.
@tested its time to do a web exclusive special with the rest of the gang ! A 2 hour special of all the myths you want do to since the end of the show ! A special fundraiser for a good cause (children's cancer research since it was cut from the debt ceiling) and especially a tribute to Grant and Jessi !!
a former crew-member who went against your wishes now working at Boeing makes total sense
Adam did say that most of the crew were Aussie! I'm not surprised rules were never followed...😅
Regarding the bulletproof fabric/suits of John Wick: I'm willing to accept in a universe with that many contract killers the fabric could exists - what I don't accept is that your ribs and rest of your body wouldn't be broken and beaten to the point of blunt force death.
Of course the safety guy went first! He wanted to make sure that it was safe 😄
Hacksmith made a bullet "resistant" jacket.
Adam.... We need that DVD posted online... Like duhhh dude. What are you even doing!!! Upload upload upload!!
You guys should put links to the shows he referencing. I almost always want to go find the show.
5:55 James from Hacksmith did that already and was able to stop some bullets
Kyle Hill did an episode about John Wick’s bullet proof suit.
I know they make Kevlar clothing John Wick and everyone could be running around in that fabric 😂
Love the big yellow book. As a young technician I was proud to receive my first copy from my mentor
Yep. The "if it exists, we sell it" company.
check out the HackSmith they made a bullet resistant suit based off of the Jhon Wick movies
A Faraday based jacket, for tazer defense, would be an interesting thing to test.
Tazers fire sharp electrodes that actually puncture the skin, so a jacket as a Faraday cage wouldn't have much effect unless it could keep the barbs from entering the body. And you wouldn't necessarily need a jacket made of conductive material, just something sturdy enough. Carhartt overalls might surprisingly be strong enough. I like the way your brain is going, though! Faraday clothes would be something fun to play around with. The more times people use the name Faraday in a sentence, the better, IMO. One of the greatest scientists ever.
Garbage disposals are essentially hammer mills. 🤷
lol physics becomes an optional suggestion in most action movies 😆
I think driving by GPS and proximity sensors from bird box has mythbusters written all over it. They could use that abandoned neighborhood that they used for the car cash myths
I agree totally about the John Wick movies, especially about the fabric. By the fourth movie, everyone is running around with the bulletproof clothing, and it looks stupid.
As James Gunn gets older he is looking more and more like Adam Savage.
ya, but someone else on youtube already "tested" john wick bulletproof fabric...
they managed something like a thick jacket that would stop the smallest guns IIRC.
Why not do a one-off Mythbusters style RUclips special for John Wick fabrics? I think many of us would love to see that!
5:40 Sure.
I still wouldn't put my hand in a garbage disposal.
I think a Adam savage mini myth tested type thing would be very popular
Do some James Bond myths on this channel!!!
Hard to believe that the water slide episode took longer to clean up then the one where you drove a truck through hundreds of yards of stuff, blasting it out in all directions.
There was no construction to take down with the finale like there was for waterslide.
Saying “Excellent!” several times while talking about Keanu Reeves and not saying it in Ted’s voice at least once?
The john wick jackets arent that fat fetched anymore. Hacksmith made some. Bullet resistant fabrics have made big leaps
I don't know if anyone can ask a question, but mine would be: How close were people getting fired from the Arch of the covenant shock joke the crew played on you?
The producer that gave Tory, Grant, and Kari the idea to prank Adam got fired.
I'd love to see a mythbusters sort of series debunking all those nonsense fake history claims like the nonsense Graham Hancock spreads, all those "mysteries" based on people assuming that our ancestors couldn't do certain things and then they credit them to aliens and that sort of lark.
I would have figured the myth that was the hardest to clean up was the one where Jamie ended up swimming through syrup? I think the myth had something to do with being faster in syrup compared to water?? I might be misremembering, but I distinctly remember y'all building the... "moat" for the syrup and Jamie swimming through it in proper swimmer's form 🏊
I wonder if the reason insurance wouldn’t cover it was because you rendered it technically safe, but if they said so then people would use it more than they normally would, which would create the actual safety issue.
Can The Mythbusters come back with the new myths and stories? Maybe 1 or 2 more seasons?