"Fan Fueled Fables" | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 13 | Full Episode

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Fast growing bamboo used for torture, thermal brandy and explosive alkaline metals in the bathtub!
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
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[@Zorothegallade-gg7zg]

The real lifesaver is the dog. If you're in danger and a big dog comes to save you, you are going to keep yourself alive just so that it will know it did a good job.

[@TheDarkMatterESB]

Rip Grant, i will never forget those Joyful hours you gave me in my childhood😢

[@Druguaer12345]

Cool you respect Grant. But don't lie about saying he gave you joyfull hours

[@PlatoonGoon]

@@Druguaer12345 Do you have a single person that cares about you? Seriously. For all you know he was their favorite cast member, and if so he certainly would've. Do you seriously just talk shit for fun or what?

[@ellaadams109]

​@@Druguaer12345 You must be really fun to be Around for an extended period of time. Shut up your poorly wrapped pile of cow shit.

[@andrebarreto9177]

@@Druguaer12345 But he was funny.

[@prgenki7138]

@@Druguaer12345 you’re probably the useless human being irl

[@vivalafiaga]

jamies face at the "creature running the jamie" comment is bloody priceless XD

[@DrBarbequeSauce]

I'm so glad the voice over is symmetrical

[@nicholascrow8133]

Love how Grant gave it a shake at 14:45 we miss you Grant!

[@7thsealord888]

Always loved this show. Happy memories of watching it with my daughter. She's a science teacher now. :)

[@MaeckesPlanB]

That's so cool!

[@louisduplessis2075]

If you drop a piana on a military installation...you might get A flat major.

[@aaronbrown4390]

That's a terrible dad joke 😔🤣

[@Keys_9914]

Seeing Grant in these old episodes brings tears to my eyes

[@mortenhansen3455]

Drinking alcohol for warmth on Everest, is a big "no, no"! And there is a very good reason for that.

[@Azzameen99AZ]

Mythbusters Concierto in C4. My favourite tune.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Same here

[@derekrosenberg6466]

I remember chem class at school with the small explosions and different gasses from alkalines with water, there was even one that made the water turn purple. It was three of my class mates who went the step further and stole the whole container of sodium from the science lab. They wrapped the sodium in cling wrap and flushed it down the toilet. I was sitting outside with friends when we heard the muffled thud and then the little steel inspection plates that sat along the pipeline to the septic tank popped off and gas and liquids poured out as the reaction speed back up the line to the toilets where it emptied some of the toilet water and gassed out the toilet block. The three culprits were caught as they came running from the toilet block and ran straight into the vice principal who was by chance on his way past going to his car in the school carpark. He was a large man, not overweight but a solid 6 foot tall football coach in his spare time, he collared the boys and before asking what happened had to move from the cloud of gas spreading around. I don't rememeber if there was any damage but the septic system had to be inspected before we could use the toilets. Luckily being a large area school the primary school sat on the same grounds so we had to use their toilets for a time.

[@dorknuckle]

“ tear soaked eyes” that’s the best

[@markedis5902]

Regarding the hypothermia myth, we had a phrase when winter mountaineering that your not dead until you’re warm and dead. I’ve been hypothermic and Adam and Jamie were definitely not

[@Valfaun]

i did not expect the bamboo to just grow right through the dummy in a matter of a couple days. wow, what an amazing plant

[@ccibinel]

Given a body analog which provides nutrients it would be easier. I think a pig was needed.

[@thekingoffailure9967]

@@ccibinelthe body would not break down anywhere close to fast enough to provide food for the plant. If anything a rotting body would kill it. But youre supposed to be alive while you’re tortured, so 🤷

[@ccibinel]

@@thekingoffailure9967 I suppose I was more thinking blood. Can you water the growing bamboo with it and would it grow faster.

[@mikoro88]

It's cool that you upload these now! Thanks!

[@joelmulder]

Cold and slightly drunk Adam is a delight 😂

[@daza3620]

On the flur cam Jamie looks like dr Robotnic from sonic.

[@scramblerbricks7293]

I was literally about to comment the exact same thing!

[@draconicdusk5911]

How fitting to play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata to the exploding piano slowmo. Class act~

[@Grumpy-by1ui]

I read a book by one of the survivors of the River Kwai. This was something he saw his friends experience. I wish I could find that book now.

[@sammyblaze4234]

44:33 looks like the security glass is just there for dramatic effect😅

[@cyphi474]

When dog finds you, it means help is near. So even if its not great idea for warm up, it can help to keep you awake just little bit longer and easier to find(calling for help, stand up, etc.).

[@tuloxe]

4:46 the way he walked off with the bambu 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SonOfMeme]

bambu

[@alf3071]

love this show

[@HappyHauser]

12:06 & 18:26 Jamie’s revel in the idea of torture is…. entertaining to say the least😂

[@kennywise1]

Best episode they ever done

[@citizenbeats2023]

jamie looked so happy when he pulled a wheelie

[@XavierBetoN]

Hah! Kari shouting "rest in pieces" is priceless

[@a_921]

Yea, that was my thought as well: Why not just use the dog as a blanket. I bit heavy perhaps, but warm and (hopefully) friendly

[@jenibarra5]

I love it❤😊🎉

[@Whitewolf1984p]

The Bamboo torture, I've heard of that one, but slightly different. Put it this way, I hope your sitting comfortably.

[@starwar]

6:01 i dont like how passive aggressive this guy is to grant

[@Cptjonmiller]

I think should increase the surface area of the reactive metals by grinding them down, and submerging them into water instead of dropping them from above.

[@SloppySlapper86]

22:46 - "you can't say that" absolutely broke me

[@korpakukac]

17:03 bruh... He knocked it on the steel bit...

[@nathanwest2304]

43:34 actually, I think there could be an other aspect they didn't consider, what if you are in a situation where you know where you can find shelter but you are too cold to really move? some alcohol might help you "forget" about the cold and get some blood flowing to the extremeties so you can run for a while longer, kind of like a boost for the last dash. and the fact that your core would be cooling down wouldn't really matter because you are gonna be running generating some extra heat to make up for that drop in temperature you are gonna work up a sweat and once you reach the shed you're kinda warm already, but you can rest now. I guess this scenario may be oddly specific....

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

Well the thing is, if the dog has found you, you should be within an hour of being saved. So getting blood to the extremities to minimise frostbite as much as possible is way more important than losing a few degrees of core temperature

[@Olfan]

The metals don't need more mass but more surface area to react more violently. They could have achieved the same effect with a fraction of the material.

[@lsedge7280]

I wonder if the bamboo shoots didn't make it through the entire first torso, specifically because it was transparent. Normally you'd expect plants to grow better with light, but what if the bamboo shoots tend to commit more energy to forceful growth if they remain in the dark, only aborting in the case of resistance in the presence of light, as while growing through the soil or rocks they wouldn't experience any light, so aborting at that stage would hamper new growth?

[@randombutraredarknessislig9931]

Break the metals under water under pressure resulting in different reactions depending on volume and pressure

[@HappyHauser]

Why am I JUST NOW wondering what the Mythbuster’s narrator looks like?! 😜

[@kanter1598]

42:08 I love this xdd

[@petermoeller5901]

That's what they tell you at first aid courses. When you body cools, it will keep the core warm, that's organs like heart, lung, liver and also the brain. The blood vessels in the arms and legs will be restricted, so loss of heat is reduced. This makes us feel cold, cold hands, cold feed, cold nose. When we drink alcohol, blood vessels will widen. This makes our arms and legs fee warm, but the body will loose heat where it's really needed. When people with severe hypothermia are rescued, they put the body in a warm bath, but let arms and legs (with the cold bold in them) hang out. This really is an area that's well researched, so no visit to the walk-in freezer required. Just saying.

[@inkognito-dc8ot]

the grenade in the toilet-bowl at 8:03 looks like a weird turd... 😄

[@Tmanw8898]

One of the beat parts of the intro was trying to figure out if the explosions were "real" from testing the myth, or if it was from them going all out to get the result after busting the myth.

[@HappyHauser]

So fun to watch their relationship knowing in retrospect what it really was 🙃 😊

[@dreamguest3597]

What are you referring to?

[@defiante1]

@@dreamguest3597 Adam and Jamie didn't like each other, professional but never friends. Jamie's stoic nature did not mesh with Adam's excitable glee.

[@dragonsdynamite6403]

Not the bamboo torture myth I always heard. In fact, never heard the presented version. What I heard is, likely, during Vietnam war the invader is upright so it grows basically through anus up

[@DeetexSeraphine]

I wonder if they've considered surface area.... a single chunk of reactive metal is going to oxodize on contact, restricting the reaction... but if they were to run that chuck of stuff over a cheezegrater, get as much of the material as possible to contact the water at once... Oh well... an explosion we'll never get to enjoy.

[@PaulOllech]

The trouble with grating or trying to make powdered alkali metals is they oxidize in air quite readily, so it might not end up helping as much as it would with most substances. The more reactive elements have a different issue: Fewer reactions per gram, making less hydrogen and producing less energy, as each atom is heavier.

[@kanenstuff]

I love to sit back and watch a Mythbusters episode I have all the CD's ha that's how old I am 😂

[@nentash8566]

They didn't even get close to recreating or busting the alkaline metal myth...

[@renandavidsoriaahumada6093]

17:15 i know this was done years ago, and that my comment its useless now BUT the granade was INSIDE the water, the metal capsules are on top of the water even if it produces a big reaction cand push up quick or hard enought to do anything

[@Nathan_Virica_Comedy]

If anyone fancies replicating the immense pain, discomfort and inability to move from the bamboo torture segment, simply take a ride on a British train in 2024.

[@kingbobminions2504]

John Callahan looks exactly like the old toy store man from home alone

[@borntoclimb7116]

The piano myth is funny

[@prima946]

@44:35min mark the three of them are behind a blast screen and yet 8 others are in the open t the same distance lol

[@KathrynLiz1]

Alcohol will only help if you are in warm place already, hen the dilation of blood vessels will enable external warming a bit better. If you core temperature is down and you are still in the cold, alcohol will make you worse.

[@sickcxnt9444]

24:38 i'm sorry, i don't wanna say the full name of the device, how do you abbreviate that?

[@alanrose4827]

The other Japanese method was shoots curled up in food, in the gut the acid caused the shoot to uncurl and penetrate the stomach.

[@darrinrebagliati5365]

The brandy myth only proved to me that Adam is truly cooler than Jamie!

[@xxstepsxx4227]

Oh they did sodium, heck yea 🤣 it’s so fun,

[@notapplicable531]

So was the pianist playing during the high-speed footage crying while he/she was acconpanying the explosion?

[@abe-danger]

woo! stereo!

[@g1expert102]

I don't even need to test macgyver's contraptions to know they won't work Some of them are actually possible

[@xxstepsxx4227]

Plants can grow through concrete, asphalt etc, also through dead animals, shouldn’t be any problem if u have time, but on that time the guy be dead anyway unless u feed and take care of him/her to stay alive that long 🤣

[@YukiZero]

now imagine... that bamboo going up the rear end... jesus

[@xxstepsxx4227]

Sodium explode in contact of water. But u should drop it in and not like u did, u know u have different reaction the order element is added, in water is less reactive rather than if added to water, we have a saying in Norwegian, syre I vann går Ann, men vann i syre blir uhyre, Translating means acid in water if fine but water in acid is catastrophic, little different but my point here is u get different reactions the order things is added

[@TheMalcolm_X]

RIP Grant

[@GabrielPrime09]

The grenade is only effective with the shells shrapnel.

[@xxstepsxx4227]

For the piano was too much heat, haven’t u ever put a guitar in the sun? Not really and explosion but there u get u popping strings 😁

[@loginorc]

How TV program can be this good only 15 years ago - is there anything even close to matching it nowadays? I don't think so

[@itzxsliick7036]

Nope no never 😅

[@mocko69]

Yooo 1080p!! Previous videos were always 480p❤❤

[@josehumbertocruvinel1078]

Quando Jerry Lee Lewis escreveu great balls of Fire ele não imaginava isso. Kkk

[@dreamboards1056]

Question Did they watch for... Um.. the expelled radio? I woulda.

[@bishopsteiner7134]

"Explosion" requires containment. Duh?

[@ryanbuckley3314]

If you ever have cold, numb fingers, and have access to a live chicken, pick up the chicken and enjoy.

[@TubeYouGuru]

Even if it did take weeks or months, how do you suggest it wouldnt be a plausible source of torture? That would still be completely hortrible. It would fester and infect, everything would be sore as hell. I dont think it taking weeks would suggest it wouldnt be torture

[@Zorothegallade-gg7zg]

My guess is that eventually the victim will grow so weak from thirst and exposure that they won't react to the pain anymore.

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

The energy from the reaction is not restricted within a container...such as a gernade. Might it also have been the shrapnel from the gernade.

[@jeremymcadam7400]

It annoyed me they didn't put the metal underwater. But clearly not a huge amount of energy anyway

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

@@jeremymcadam7400 definitely wasn't a perfect experiment

[@Johnof1000Suns]

@@WilliamScavengerFish The myth claimed just the metal alone would cause a grenade sized explosion. The reaction had not enough power to cause such, regardless if it was fully underwater or contained.

[@jarrodbright5231]

The problem is alkali metal explosions aren't all that impressive in general. What is happening is that you are producing hydrogen and oxygen from the point of contact between water and the alkali metal while creating heat, which causes the hydrogen and oxygen to explode to create water. The problem is this reaction to produce hydrogen and oxygen is limited to the exposed surface area of the alkali metal and quite a bit of the heat it generates is absorbed by the water which turns into water vapor. This water vapor stops the reaction between hydrogen and oxygen from occurring rapidly as it gets in the way of oxygen and hydrogen molecules coming into contact with each other. This means the reaction between hydrogen and oxygen (the explosive part) is happening fairly slowly resulting in a "burning" effect rather than an "explosion". If you were theoretically able to capture all the hydrogen and oxygen produced from say 2g of alkali metal and water reacting without them instantly starting to burn, mix them together then introduce a large amount of heat and/or an ignition source, you would create a much faster and more destructive reaction. Even without the pressure of a container this will produce a massive fire ball. Add any container to put the gasses under pressure (even just a latex balloon) and you will produce a significant explosion. Unfortunately that's just not how physics works with the experiment in question.

[@PaulOllech]

@@jeremymcadam7400 I've actually tried this. It works better if you just drop it in!

[@seana9586]

Uf you really wanted the potassium to explode you would have to expand the surface area as much as possible... when its just chunks then they react not half as much as when you would have cut them in small pieces and maybe even squash them a bit so there is as much surface that can react all at once not bit by bit

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

Yeah but that puts gaps between it all, that's why they got a few pops like that, so making it into heaps of little balls will just give you heaps of little pops. I'd say the best way to do it would be to get one big block and put heaps and heaps of holes in it. Or, and I don't know much about alkaline metals so this is just an idea, but maybe melt it to a liquid if possible

[@Mrleejunman]

The glass vials should have been fully submerged under water not sitting on top of the water .

[@johntatman7477]

Sorry the Piano Myths not totally busted, around the end of the nineteen century with the rise of the middle class there was a boom in demand for cheap pianos. To save money they switched to wood, rather than cast iron for the frame to hold the strings. (admittedly in upright pianos, no grand) But a wooden frame might burn through before the strings lost tension and broke. More testing is needed.

[@omnirath]

Weren’t some coated with nitrocellulose btw ?

[@naoiseleane7489]

hey man ur like 10 years late.. this show doesent even exist anymore plus grant died 4 yrs ago

[@omnirath]

@@naoiseleane7489calm down we can still exchange and make the comment section a bit more interesting without ranting everybody knows the show is over.

[@john_molden]

Heat causes metal to expand, which in the case of piano strings, they would expand long before the pins holding them broke and there wouldn't be any twanging as the snap

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

The thing with the brandy dog is that if the dog finds you, that means you're within an hour or so of being rescued. So it critically gives your extremities some blood to drop the risk of frostbite straight away. It also gives some instant relief and drops the anxiety or shock, it does what its meant to do, so its not busted at all.

[@desel8737]

17:04 TOCK..

[@Kaelygon]

14:07 The camera man is built different and decides to stay recording the closeup explosion

[@dragonsdynamite6403]

Cameraman never dies

[@petermallia558]

You didn't cover the body. You should've put adams black t-shirt on the ballistic gel body completely blocking out the sunlight as the human body doesn't allow light through as it isn't transparent or translucent meaning the bamboo wouldn't have a guide that being the sun to grow towards, because sunlight penetrate the ground through ultraviolet rays. Need to do it again with a torso which can totalling blocking out the sunlight. Great show, been watching from series one episode one. Obviously I wrote this too soon and should've waited until I saw the rest of the experiment, although I was right to call it. Why, because bamboo already contains genetic information to grow upwards and know exactly where straight up is, even when blocked out from sunlight, a kind of instinctive nature although not conscious so can't be instinctive or can it? I think it can as plants are way beyond what we think of as a thinking creature, they communicate, fight, climb, track the sun, use chemical warfare, manipulation methods for procreation purposes, and many many more we don't know about. They even prefer to either invade or live amongst other species, so conquer or integrate, and some change their environments taking over preferring to live with just one species and know one species 9f insect can pollinate them.

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

Yeah, plants are crazy af. There's a thing where if you hook plants up to a polygraph machine and think negative/hateful thoughts towards them, they can register it. It's nuts. I think MythBusters may have done an episode on this too

[@katapo777]

if BOB appears in every video you will have more subs, debunk that

[@whoopontrose2517]

about the bamboo test, uhm, what about the squirming movements of the victim? wouldnt that probably enhance the penetration power?

[@MrShurthugal]

15:50 The point of reaction was not deep enough. It was on the surface... it's not busted, repeat!

[@Bimshelfahdwelf7973]

I have one if you stand to close the tv will your eyes go square

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

Is this a serious question??

[@Bimshelfahdwelf7973]

@@maxbracegirdle9990 not really

[@bishopsteiner7134]

Did they forget to include bones? Cuz that kinda matters.

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

In what way??

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

In what way??

[@frizzlethecat2084]

I thought so, too. But then again, plants can crack concrete while growing and bamboo is a very fast-growing plant. I doubt a bone would be a serious deterrent to get to the light. Or it might simply act as an obstruction and have the bamboo shoot grow around the bone and find an easier way. Once it's inside the body, it wouldn't matter if it grew through in a straight line. I

[@rgbgrandslasher1150]

Gotta love vpns

[@nubie1100]

But they set the piano on fire evenly and didn't submerge the first chemicals, would that not matter ?

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

The thing is, although this is a science show, and a serious one at that, they're not doing "scientific" experiments. Like, it's scientific enough, but they're never going to go through the hassle of eliminating all variables and everything. It is a tv show in the end.

[@distrsupport]

They never tried NaK

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

What do you mean??

[@distrsupport]

@@maxbracegirdle9990 Sodium and Potassium alloy. It produces much vigorous reaction

[@danielmadar9938]

😂

[@bryanlariviere5702]

Here i was thinking grant was just another Asian who was good at everything. Glad the piano was not one of his talents.

[@canada_isa_carnival]

Rip the three stooges intelligence. "2grams" not "25grams" ,,, said something about chemistry... sureee

[@Emesh83]

Poor americans.. I see why you guys are worried that youur slong tounches the water in a toilet... seeing them FILLED TO THE BRIM with water... how can Mythbusters NOT react to that part? (btw this means the reactions would be LESS due to less water to react with)

[@eliasjanssens1247]

F 😊

[@darthphilfy]

Surely it would be not only easier to use a homeless person or junkie for myth busting, but it would also produce more accurate findings whilst giving value to the dregs of society. They would also be a lot cheaper to use than constantly making and recycling ballistic dummies, and once used for the myths the remains can be used to feed local wildlife, or even other homeless people so that you can have a sustainable supply of real test dummies.

[@SorryThisNameIsRestricted.]

So if you're at the point where you are about to die from the cold, yes brandy could give you a couple more time to wait for help ? Why is this busted ?

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

Because the brandy will cause your core temperature to drop quicker, you can survive without limbs, but not internal organs. So you'll die just a little bit faster.

[@anteshell]

It only feels warmer because the heat from your innards starts moving faster towards your skin causing the warm feeling. Furthermore, the drunkenness also make the cold much more tolerable mentally.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

Hang on.....!? a "couple more time"!!?!

[@HalNordmann]

It could be useful in edge situations, where a rescue is coming, and you need just a bit of warmth in your hands to, say, prevent frostbite. Sometimes, you need the core heat elsewhere

[@mrjimjimjimmyjim9824]

another dumb conclusion. i havent seen the end of the video yet but theres more to a hand grenade than just an explosion

[@iconix89]

Have to agree. If all the Rubidium/Caesium made contact with the water at the same time, it'd blow up. Not slowly as they did it.

[@crokis-ue7em]

ii wwaannted him to put termometerr up hes hhole