Viral Video Myths | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 17 | Full Episode

[@Jorn2bealive]

Funny how then a video with 2 million views is a worldwide viral vid, how times have changed! Still loving these full Mythbusters episodes! Perfect nostalgia

[@occasionalart7597]

It's fun to see just how much the internet has changed since then

[@elmaildecamiloruiz]

was gonna write the same thing hahaha yes, is crazy

[@RatSmasher88]

And how its an innocent and fun video instead of some clickbait slop or horrible rage bait "content"

[@SPACECOWBOY_Hej]

its a figure of speech lmao what are you 5

[@andrewwang7699]

the internet was a smaller place 15 years ago, yeah

[@somerandompersonintheinternet]

26:16 Wait, I can get Adam Savage to come personally to my house? Maybe I SHOULD try this at home.

[@lavarsch]

Why would he go to some random person in the internet? ;)

[@robbierootbeer8056]

@@lavarsch uh, because he said he would obviously

[@zerocalvin]

@@lavarsch "If I find out that you try this at home, i will personally come down to your house and kick you butt":- Adam Savage.

[@lavarsch]

@@zerocalvin (it was a joke because of his username)

[@josecamacho5522]

That soubds like an invitation

[@mocko69]

The lego people were like: Nobody's gonna fact check this. Mythbusters: Hold my LEGO

[@suicidalbanananana]

I was always bothered by this episode because of how they build the lego ball, it was always gonna fall apart when built like that (out of bricks of lego instead of the entire shape made out of pieces of lego that inter-connect a lot more)

[@borntoclimb7116]

Lol

[@bern9642]

@@suicidalbanananana the video is still fake though.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

​@@bern9642 mythbusters are fake and they suck.

[@alsternerd]

It's weird that the off-speaker is always on the left and everything else on the right channel.

[@kijaramell1835]

i am glad i am not the only one wo noticed that

[@SwompyGaming]

why is that weird? wouldnt it be weirder if its always different? since it's all probably exported in the same way.

[@potloodgum]

I thought it was mixed for old tv speakers or something.

[@kaptein1247]

With surround sound inly the voiceover is on the left

[@mrheisenberg83]

I have a stereo speaker setup and the sound mixing on these videos is highly irritating since the narrator is also always too quiet for some reason.

[@vitololol]

love that the narrator audio balance is left speaker only for some reason lol use only the right ear on headphones to a episode with no contextualization of what they are doing

[@thesciencefurry]

Years ago when I was still in school I watched this and when Adam said: "I personally come to your house and kick your butt" I got motivated by that instead. So I started buying matches every week. At some point the people at the store refused to sell them to me. So I ended up with a smaller amount, idk how many. I set it off with a gas canister because it wasn't close to a million. Fun times

[@elonmarkuspagaragan5941]

hope he sees, because the series died a long time ago

[@elonmarkuspagaragan5941]

you could have released a video

[@thesciencefurry]

​@@elonmarkuspagaragan5941 The video should be on my old channel but I can't find it. However it is in the video "I wanna see some explosions" on this channel, but unfortunately I didn't press record on my good camera and I only ended up with a supper crappy video a friend made :c Also it seems like people made videos with bigger amounts too.

[@DustyChapter]

I do wonder how well the lego ball would have held together if they had used glue to hold it together, like some pro builders use occasionally.

[@fireandcopper]

Proper interlocking instead of bigger cubes would be so much stronger

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

Using flats would helped too.

[@benslimen7001]

Using flex glue would bust the busting of the myth

[@callmearebel3347]

@@benslimen7001 og comment

[@Slashresto]

Yea there was alot of techniques aparently they could have used but i also tought of glue as ive seen pro builders use that in bigger builds. There was also no mention of not using glue or how they built the ball so technically i dont think we can call it a bust just yet ;) Should ask Adam to review it again on his webshow!

[@dlmperformanceandracing]

The Spinning Tire Fire myth was not tested anywhere near extensively enough. Considerations need to be made when you look at the Australian burnout cars that regularly catch fire.... most of them are running race fuel, over 1000hp, and have rear exiting straight pipes with no catalytic converters. This causes the exaust to spit flames, which then can ignite the rubber particles coming off the tires.

[@fujijackamora]

Exactly...they should have asked an Aussie. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hovRg5Z9qq-VjZY

[@Billy-burner]

It happens even when the pipes aren't aiming at the tyres. There's videos where the pipes come upwards out the hood, and the tyres still catch fire

[@AGrumpyPanda]

You said it yourself though, that's a separate source of flame igniting the tire, rather than the tire igniting just off friction between it and the road.

[@Billy-burner]

@@AGrumpyPanda wrong

[@petergriffin9554]

Break Rotors can get stupid hot and if a wheel is burning I'd guess it's because of them.

[@doonual6034]

Mythbusters out here with another classic. Its cool that we get to see these again

[@myztklk3v]

im so glad these are being posted officially now for free

[@a_921]

Original lego video is so obviously fake. I'm not even convinced they made a cardboard ball, I mean, how would they not get ... maybe not arrested, but certainly questioned y police for obstructing traffic like that?

[@all4runner316]

Spinning tyres definitely catch fire, watch Aussie Summernats burnout competitions, horsepower is the key.

[@jarrodbright5231]

Worth noting they use smoke tyres not standard tyres for that. Softer tyres make a bit of a difference too.

[@dlmperformanceandracing]

Also, straight pipes with no catalytic converters or baffles, and over 1000hp means flames often shoot from the exhaust igniting rubber particles being thrown from the tyres.

[@asjmpickle]

​@@jarrodbright5231not true, all burnout cars I've seen and worked on used regular road tyres. But they have a very long gearing wheel speed over 300km/h is common. Also almost all burnout cars run exhaust past the rear bumper because methanol fires are a big deal. If you can see the flames they aren't due to the engine... It's the tyres. They just took a stock car low on power and standard gear. Psychics says the faster it spins the more friction will be and the more heat produced. You need higher wheel speeds that weak little Camaro can't do.

[@asjmpickle]

​@@dlmperformanceandracingburnout cars run the exhaust past the rear bumper and run methanol fuel If you had a burnout car dump at the rear axle it would be dangerous because of methanol fires. The thing is those cars are doing atleast double the wheel speed that MythBusters tested. They need more power and a longer gearing.

[@LuisQuintanaGlidder]

the original lego ball is so clearly CGI it's painful.

[@AwardWVP]

It’s also 15 years old

[@yourRandomMusic_creater]

its just made of painted boxes

[@LuisQuintanaGlidder]

@@yourRandomMusic_creater only when they interact with it at the beginning. Every instance of the ball rolling is CGI

[@LuisQuintanaGlidder]

@@AwardWVP i know! That's what I mean, 15 years ago this video sparked debate when seeing it today the answer is painfully obvious. I find that kind of thing fascinating. The constant exposure to the internet, but also the easier access to creator tools, has forced us all to become much more media savvy than 15 years ago.

[@giannisksanthopoulos4300]

I think is not CGI because this episode was aired 2007. I am not saying that CGI didnt exist, but back then only big studios can make you that good of quality CGI. I think could be just VFX. Green ball and some markers on the ball... and then After Effect... P.S after i watched the original clip i just think this is not even a VFX, just made by cardboard and painted to look like Lego ball.

[@laudysmartinez1475]

Watching that Lego ball disintegrate in slow motion was art

[@MrKanibaal]

I have to say thanks for the Mythbusters team...grew up watching this series. Now I can rewatch full episodes on youtube. Thanks.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

That original Lego ball in the youtube vid, to my eyeballs, looked like a single object. And I'm sure I saw it bounce, exactly the way a mass of bricks wouldn't. But what do I know, I'm rubbish at physics. The bowling ball cannon subverted my expectations in the coolest way possible.😸

[@kaptein1247]

Saw a comparison of matchheads and black powder in a flintlock pistol. It was very similar in power an reliability. Tries it myself too (but by crunching the powder off the heads with pliers) Took an entire large box of matches to get enough powder, but worked great

[@R-Tex.]

Nostalgia hitting hard!

[@DeadAndAliveCat]

Fun to think that people couldn't identify the extremely obviously CGI back then

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

According to allot of comments here, many people still can't.

[@lyinarbaeldeth2456]

"It weighs three thousand pounds, there's no way it can be easily moved around." The trio: (easily moves it around)

[@MaiTai16]

I'm loving these full episodes on KZbin - it's so long in coming! 🎉

[@PlatypusMusiq]

why is it weirdly stereo like that? Not very enjoyable

[@Googledybunkers]

each block of lego weighs between 1.64 grams and 2.5 grams......5 million would be between 8,200,000 grams and 12,500,000 grams which is between 18,000 pounds and 28,000 pounds.....thats 9-14 tons....It would do a HELL of alot of damage to a car

[@narendra_lm]

5:33 "I love it when common materials are dangerous." Sums up the Hyneman

[@abe-danger]

arghh, fix the mono issue please!! its annoying to keep switching over from mono to stereo whenever watching a mythbuster vid

[@andreiven4653]

first world problems. poor you

[@andresrodriguez8377]

Ohhhhhh poor you

[@irishnovember5900]

You mean the free episodes online that you are watching for free? You mean the sound on those? The free episodes? Yeah no well get right on that princess.

[@the980tigamer9]

Skill issue.

[@WHH-z5y]

Stfu all you morons. Try watching this with AirPods on. It’s so annoying I can’t watch anymore. It’s not a lot to ask for audio that every single other video on KZbin manages

[@LukeTheJoker]

375hp? Yep, that explains why they didn't get fire, they were about 1,000hp short of the Burnout Masters...

[@DeltaNovum]

The commentator = left.

[@djvic4u]

29:51 Green shirt had some intentions with that brick before the video cut 🤣 edit: Is that Kari? 🤣

[@profusemoose1488]

at the time Tory was dead on about the jack costs. I bet with wish you could get that cost under a dollar now :P

[@mocko69]

I get the jist of if but come on that's so clearly a cardboard blocky ball.

[@DeltaNovum]

They couldn't just lose out on some of that lego sponsorship $.

[@myztklk3v]

I used to buy boxes of wooden strike anywhere matches and attempt to make all kinds of explosives and stuff with them when I was a teenager.

[@winnielombaard8984]

As for the tire experiment, what about the fact that maybe there is not enough oxygen due to the smoke? So, if it was driving/moving, the smoke would be displaced with oxygen and you could get fire?? My husband's thought...?

[@halt1931]

lmao I just realized the MYTHBUSTERS seriously tested one of the very first crappy DIY clickbait "life hack" videos ever put on youtube

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

LOL, busting the chemtrails myth with a quick sideswipe at the outset. Brilliant!

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Never heard of cloud seeding huh?

[@Nefrea]

It's 100% not a myth, fully documented and well known to be a real thing.

[@JamesBiggar]

Cloud seeding is real. That doesn't mean all contrails are actually chemtrails, but the reverse isn't true either. Even legacy liberal media acknowledges it. Refer to recent news coming out of China for an example. This episode didn't age well, and you need to play catch up.

[@Maolo92]

yo team, the audio sonds weird since a few episodes back, it started from the 2 Hours special episode you uploaded

[@QuinnKallisti]

The narrator audio channel is on one stereo side, and the rest of the speech audio is on the other side... Must be an audio editors copy.

[@martinsnow6641]

Audio is screwed

[@hopexiaorosetheroyal3588]

1:40 I don’t know where that channel is…

[@riggles]

Sometimes mythbusters are really dumb. How on earth couldn't they tell that the Lego ball was obviously a CG render in the rolling shots? It's so obvious with the lighting and the way it moves especially in the horizontal shot. I think captain disillusion mentioned this once. Anyway, the audio gor this video is terrible, commentator in the left ear only and it's all unbalanced.

[@johndeaux8815]

It was almost certainly because they wanted to test it for the fun of it, Adam and Jamie worked in SFX for years so they would've spotted it in their sleep.

[@deslow7411]

28:15 dude has been in a fight.

[@Mythikal13]

Spoiler: Audio sucks 👎

[@josefolsson5343]

One way to actually make a fully functional, even cordless, high rez "speaker" on a less-than-a-shoestring budget is to simply cutt a hole near the bottom of a Pringles-tube (or any other hard paper tube at your disposal), then putting a phone with clear, crisp built in speaker and alakazam, you've got some bass thrown into the mix!

[@kaptein1247]

Making a speaker from a speaker...

[@josefolsson5343]

@@kaptein1247 It's actually more of an acoustic amplifier rather than a speaker. 🙂

[@kaptein1247]

@@josefolsson5343 thats my point😂. Its a cool trick, like putting your phone in a bowl. But making a speaker is something else entirely

[@MaThista91]

So weird seeing the camera and audio crew standing next to the blast shield while the Mythbusters hide behind it xD

[@frabrezial]

47:50 lard 👋🏻

[@DarkGodSeti]

The Lego ball probably would have held together better if they didn't stack the block segment direct on top of one another, you pile them like bricks/crosshatch(?)... I knew that as a kid and the first time I watch this way back then. Shame on you Mythbusters...

[@charisanna4914]

I wish they'd put up the metric on-screen for the rest of the entire world whenever they use imperial

[@michaelwoodhams7866]

They could have blown pure oxygen over the smoking tire. If it worked, this would be 'reproducing the effect' rather than 'proving the myth'.

[@johndeaux8815]

As an Australian I instantly knew the answer to the car tyre myth 😂 most of us have witnessed it

[@Draganter1977]

the lego ball should have been built differently, you built big cubes on the other without anchoring, that can't hold, you can see that when the ball falls apart, you should have anchored the layers into each other restart and do it right

[@AlekMadeDis]

Oh, man, it was so long ago. When, what we call now meme videos, was called viralvideos. Ehh times change, kinda painful melancholic it is

[@pieterterwen1498]

What kind of strategic advantage does a diesel submerene have over a nucleair submerene? And what do there missions look like? :D

[@ultru3525]

I can't believe people would just lie on the Internet like that

[@Hannah-ee7st]

I have a close relative who is a pilot and the plane trails are fuel dumping as they need to regulate fuel mileage between airports flying on just above minimum needed.

[@bfg9000zx]

God I love the people that say there scientific method or there testing method wasn’t good enough… just watch the show guys!

[@Guilherme_Sena]

tf is this audio

[@bensinjoy2122]

Jamie said 1m match heads burn like a rocket engine so am asking can we really power a rocket engine with matches??

[@rotbarrt2182]

my Problem with the Legoball was the "bigger Bricks" wo weren't interlocking within themselves... but anyhow...

[@boxie95]

I couldn't watch this one- the audio really needs fixing.

[@borntoclimb7116]

I remember the legoball viral Video. Nice memories.

[@lamMeTV]

Really needs a reupload with the voice over to mono

[@lemoneyesalt5513]

Yo how did the narrator end up on the left stereo channel lol, mega weird to listen to, great episode though

[@RJ13Davies]

Tires will catch fire. You Americans just don't know burnouts

[@MyAlbyx]

they should have used racing tires. i have seen tires catch fire with 1000hp+ cars

[@PlatypusMusiq]

the original vid of the lego sphere looks animated

[@Levita_]

Awful audio, should have just published as Mono sound its that bad here.

[@DarkInos]

I would actually be interested to see how would the 1000 000 matches would go off if you ignited it from bottom of the barel. Would it go wooosh everywhere? As the flame would try to expand explosively outwards? Would it not go off that hard thanks to lack of oxygen?

[@motelghost477]

That youtube lego ball was mostly cardboard boxes.

[@TheCatherineCC]

Mythbusters was responsible for the Shinzo Abe thing!

[@benjaminbotley]

Lol I’m safe from the Adam butt kicking, because my buddy and I did something similar to the match head experiment, but used the scrapings from sprinklers in a coffee can before this episode came out

[@StefanRachev]

The tire igniting is very hard with that setup... Fire needs 3 things- fuel(the tire), heat(the friction does it), a catalyst(oxigen) the smoke is smuldering it...

[@garmregnator969]

Well, if I want to have a personal meet-up with Mythbusters, I just have to make a 1M. matches inferno. Hmm...sounds like a deal!

[@elliejohnson2786]

I hate that only part of it plays entirely in one ear :(

[@57thorns]

45.08 Who ordered the jumbo sized lardypop?

[@adnanbhamra3444]

Tarry did before Australia Olympic player😂 18:24

[@picobyte]

I dump the audio on my bluetoorh speaker to cut the sound issues here. Also paying ten dollar for those cheap headphone cables is pretty overpriced. One or two dollar would be an proper retail price.

[@echonomix_]

Self-igniting tires are a regular occurrence in 2024 high-power drifting events. I can personally recall at least a few videos showing it.

[@axelthesergal1997]

just hilariously realised in the scene transition with the rolling wheel for the burnout myth, its an AU ford falcon forté wheel and hubcap lmao

[@markhalson7078]

There would not be enough oxygen near the tires for ignition to happen because of the thick fumes. You could probably throw a lit match on it and it would just go out.

[@polocriss]

Feet destroyer ball: It's to round , it need to be more pointy!

[@SomeA-1]

Noone talking about how the narrator is only in the left channel?

[@Caricanalisis]

Cannonball bounce foreshadowing

[@MartinWillett]

Been there. Done that. Match powered cannon. Slightly smaller scale.

[@dalemorton2364]

I have seen tires catch fire but with over 1000hp not 300hp

[@MrKanibaal]

I tried the matches at home...but with a firecracker in the middel...only used avout a 100 matches...but damn it was amazing

[@dariusbecks3356]

How the hell do they only get 375 ish horse power from a v8

[@whatevernamegoeshere3644]

Man, calling chlorate a fuel left a bitter taste in my mouth

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

the match thing is true i used to do that, not that many but still.

[@dkxtro2562]

"just another brick in the ball" Ok he got me with that one. Nice PF reference

[@RudydeGroot]

Is there a version of this video where the sound is corrected?

[@oiytd5wugho]

panning the VO is genuinely insane. Who mixed this🤢

[@Renevas]

38:39 call me crazy but this piece of music recall me Ornstein and Smough OST from Dark Souls

[@DK_1983]

12:06 Those headlights are so cool! Makes it look like a sort of amphibian animal XD What car is this?

[@shmod97]

I remember this episode, the lego ball was so stupid

[@Plushi_Stolas]

I love the irony of a speaker myth episode with sound problems.

[@QuinnKallisti]

Damn why the hell is the narrator panned hard left.

[@axelthesergal1997]

shoulda watched some aussie burnout comps lmao

[@saint7412369]

14:30..... Does it not have a differential? Wtf

[@Simoxs7]

They really wanted to destroy that scirocco?!

[@gatovillano7009]

at 2:07, muon catalyzed fusion is a thing.

[@MAarshall]

This was really annoying for my hearing sense. I had to stop watching. ^^

[@LeVarito]

Tf r you talking bout😭😭

[@reptilianinmateusz8533]

26:20 that line tempts me even more to do this at home

[@madmartigan4141]

This show brings me back. I totally forgot about the huge crush I had on Kari, haha

[@Gugernoot]

Only 375hp? must be a spec engine.