"Please don't try anything you see us do at home, ever." "Closed captioning provided by discovery communications" "you've got a myth for us to test, we would love to hear about it." "Xxxx we have a very rare opportunity to be able to view a very elusive television host in his natural habitat." "Xxxx Latin name hoosier-ous televisionous, and he seems to be communicating with his television viewers asking them for ideas." "And who knew?" "Not only did you respond to the call, you opened the floodgates and sent us a gazillion myths." "We selected a few of the best to test." "What's up first?" "Bam boo torture." "You had enough yet, because" "I can keep singing all day long." "I can take whatever you throw at me." "Sfroo all right then." "Well, how about that, wise guy?" "A tiny bamboo plant?" "What are you going to do with that?" "I'm going to plant it and grow it right through you." "Really?" "Does that really work?" "I don't know." "That's a myth, and I have always wanted to try it." "It's afar-fetched fable strafahtstrom the fan sit during world war ii captured p.O.W.S were supposedly stretched above and then penetrated by fast growing bamboo chutes." "What's your plant for this one?" "That's pretty straight forward, I think." "and we plant the bamboo under the analog and see if it grows through it." "Why?" "Normally I would say we use pig, but given the fact that this is going to take a few days, it's going to get way too smelly." "I tell you what, why don't we measure how much force it takes to penetrate pig flesh, and then we create a synthetic simulant that won't robbing rot." "And then put the bamboo underneath that?" "Exactly." "And so crouching savage, hidden heineman began their long and adviser with us search for the legendary torture technique in the mystical bamboo groves of Santa Cruz." "Luckily enough we live in California where bamboo grows beautifully." "It was there these potentially penetrating plants that's the thing right there." "Xxxx is Larry xxxx." "Is a bamboo chute physically capable of pushing its way through human flesh?" "Bamboo chutes in the ground have to push through the dirt around rocks, through rotten logs." "I have seem them push up walkway pavers." "So." "Yes, they push very hard when they're in the ground." "Let's say somebody owed you money, what kind of bamboo would you use?" "I think you should use this xxxx xxxx right now." "It's about an inch in diameter and very sharp." "Perfect with their potentially penetrating plants purchased, there's only one thing left to do." "Xxxx it's time to go back to the shop and torture some dummies." "Now Carrie, Grant, and Tori take the myth out of xxxx xxxx we're doing a myth about metal." "Not just any metal, but my favorite favorite metal, alkaline metal." "Xxxx we did some of that." "Xxxx why are we doing it again?" "Because fans want to see more." "They can't get enough." "Three, two, one." "When the team took on mcgooifr, xxxx a few grams of sodium and water can blast a hole through a wall." "That was an explosion, but this is not a high explosive." "But you -- yes, you -- want more." "What exactly did the fans want to see?" "They want to see more reactive metal." "Xxxx exactly there's this Internet video floating around where these guys throw it into a bathtub, and they liken the explosion to a hand grenade." "Fans want to fn that's actually true." "That company only mean a trip to the team's dream location." "The Alameda county bomb disposal range." "Xxxx toilet, bathtubs." "Xxxx the reason the bathroom furniture is on death row is the fan furor over a video clip that looks a little bit like this?" "Xxxx after demonstrating that the reaction between water and the alkaline metals becomes more violent as you move down the periodic table, they getto to robidium." "With what looks to be two grams they get a hand grenade sized explosion." "To find out if this is film fakery or fact, we're going to need a control." "Now, on the Internet video, they said that the reaction was equal to a hand grenade explosion." "This out to clean out the pipe." "So we need to see what that looks like in order to have something to compare with." "How great is this?" "We get to start off with a bang." "We're going to blow the crap out of that toilet." "Get it?" "Narrator:" "Ah, sure, but Grant and not Tori will explain how the team are going to safely" "explode the commode." "Snoo this is a grenade, but it's not a live grenade." "In a live grenade you would have tnt in here." "You pull the pin, and the clip pops off, and this is what would set off the explosion, but what we're going to do today is fill this with enough c4 to have the equivalent blasting power of tmt." "Then we're going to set it off with a blasting cap." "That way we can control exactly when it goes off and it will be much, much safer." "All right." "Fire in the bowl." "Three, two, one!" "Whoa!" "The toilet is gone." "Narrator:" "Yep." "Now you see it." "Now you don't." "Oh, we blowed it up real good." "That's nice." "All that's left is the water table." "The bowl just shattered." "Yeah." "We destroyed this toilet, and now I know what a real grenade looks like when it blows off." "Now we've got a great reference for what it should look like when we put our alkaline metals in the toilet." "Narrator:" "Coming up on the viewer special three-quel." "Jamie and Adam become one with a torture tale." "Xxxxx xxxx" "used in water wheels and weapons, construction and the culinary arts as a raw material, bamboo's versatility is virtually limitless." "In the Philippines they call xxxx narrator:" "But fans want to know if this flexible, fast-growing grass could have been used as an instrument of torture." "The whole point of this test is to come up with a human analog." "Yep to make xxxx xxxxx this ahas got to be the most gruesome thing I have ever made." "Narrator:" "The guys need to know exactly what that resistance is." "Xxx push through the meat very slowly." "Jamie is imaging himself to be a plant." "What's our peak?" "Eight Max." "Photo synthesizing, yearning xxxxx all these things from passing through his mind" "narrator:" "Several tests later the guys have a xxx 9.5 total." "Narrator:" "And decide to round up for simplicity sake." "Ten pounds seems to be the magic number, so all we have to do is find mixed materials around here that makes flesh that doesn't rot and stink." "There's some good stuff up here, Jamie." "Because rotting and stinking upsets Jamie." "It's kind of collapsing in on itself." "Yeah I know." "Narrator:" "Xxx after spending an hour looking for a synthetic flesh analog it's getting too tough." "Narrator:" "Jamie has a light bulb moment and they return to square one." "Our blesic material." "I think it's perfect." "Let's see what the needle says." "Ten pounds." "That is close enough for my money." "I love that." "And it's reusable." "Narrator:" "So clear ballistics material is the raw material of choice." "He is armless." "Get it?" "Narrator:" "Adam gets to work casting a torso to torture." "This is where wha a back rub looks like from the inside of your body." "Narrator:" "Next -- hello." "Narrator: " " The guys whip up a greenhouse and then assemble it, unsurprisingly -- rise, my son." "Narrator: " " On the roof top." "Stoo xxxxxx this might look nice and sunny, and it is, but it's also a torture chamber, or it will be soon." "Narrator:" "That's the greenhouse and bamboo in position, which leaves just one component." "Oh, you're mine now." "Narrator:" "And the torso is carefully positioned above several chutes that have yet to fully break through the soil's surface." "This version is the final stage of testing in the bamboo." "Will it grow through a person, and after experimenting with a bunch of different flesh analogs, those are the two growth points." "They're beautiful." "This blastics material is nonwater-based, and it won't rot." "Xxxxxx pressure it takes to push through." "If the bamboo grows through this chest, we can state that it would grow through you as well." "Xxxx xxxx xxxx we'll come back in a couple of days and xxxx xxxxx xxxxx three implz into the back of the dummy, then it's an effective means of torture." "All we have to do is wait." "Narrator:" "While we wait, let's take time out to find out where this torturous tale came from." "This is normally the portion of the show where we give scientific background to the myth we're tackle." "What do we have as bamboo as a torture device?" "Absolutely nothing." "Nothing?" "No official reports?" "No firsthand accounts?" "Nothing." "Cnuna." "Wow." "All right." "Narrator:" "Which is surprising, considering it's such an often repeated myth, so xxx to answer this fan fable, there's only one thing left to do." "Let the gruesome growing commence." "Next -- normally Grant the better shot in the toilet." "Narrator:" "Carrie Grant and Tori find out for the fans if their toilet tale is tall or true." "Then there are surprising results from the rture test." "Kari, Grant, and Tory are taking on an alkaline metal myth." "A video on the Internet claims that if you add tworams of am rubidium or si sfwl ium to water, it will blow up your bathroom furniture with a hand grenade sized explosion." "Can you clean out the peeps." "Reporter:" "To find out if it's actually true, we're doing a direct comparison." "This is the hand grenade." "Bring on the alkaline metal, but, first, here's the sciency bit." "Xxxx this is rubidium." "They're part of a special class of elements called alkaline metals." "What makes them special is they have one electron." "Normally what they want to do is react under things and give up that elecon." "Now, what happens when the alkaline metals react with water, they releas a lot of heat and the other byproduct is hydrogen gas, and the heat tends to ignite the hydrogen gas." "It's a perfect storm of something that causes an explosion." "Narrator:" "And to put these highly reactive metals in contact with water safely, the team has a couple of safety precallings lined up." "Pretty simple." "It's a xxx weight that drops down on to small glass vials which are holding the metals release it into the toilet, and we'll see what happens." "Normally Grant is a better shot when he is using the toilet, but what he is doing now is wetting down the ground, in case there's excess alkaline metals, xxx they'll hit the water on the ground and react so we're" "not leaving any of the metals behind." "Narrator:" "And the first metal to be flushed is rubidium." "Fun fact, this stuff, rubidium compound are put in fireworks to make the color purple." "In the video they said they used two grams, and they got an explosion the size of a hand grenade." "We're going it use 25 grams." "More than ten times the amount." "If it's true what they're saying, we're going to have a huge explosion." "Xxxx rubidium cam." "Xxxx three, two, one." "That was quick." "Look at that cloud." "Narrator:" "Well, it all went according to plan." "The string was cut, and it fell." "The rubidium was released into the water and cue the chemistry." "The sudden release of hydrogen gas and heat combines to give us a satisfying toilet bowl geyser." "But -- and here's the key -- it was nothing like the Internet video hand grede sized explosion." "We may not have had hand grenade, but at least we saw good chemistry." "Narrator:" "But we haven't given up yet." "Next up in an attempt to blow up the bowl is cezium." "Xxxx this is the most reactive alkaline megts that we can get our hands on that's not radioactive." "We're going to put this in the toilet bowl and see if it behaves when exposed to water e a grenade." "Okay." "In three, two, one." "Cool." "There was bit more reaction, more popping, but it was just a big cloud of gas." "Narrator:" "More energy, more flame, but definitely no explosion." "Now, I feel like I have been lied to, because what I saw on that Internet video was an explosion." "What I saw here was a cloud of smoke." "Now, a cloud of smoke is not going to destroy a toilet like a hand grenade will." "Narrator:" "So, Kari, what does that mean?" "Xxxx this is busted." "Narrator:" "The myth busters no strangers to tall tales of torture." "Xxxx they've already confirmed that" "Chinese water torture can send you round the bend." "Xxxxx now at your behest, they're testing the power of botony to bring you to the brink." "Xxxxx xxxxx the clock is ticking." "I would imagine that torture is a pretty results-driven business, and so we're looking for a couple of things here." "We're looking as to whether the chute can actually grow through this flesh simulant, and, also, how much time it takes for it to do that." "They're both really important because if it takes months to do it, it's not really an effective means of torture." "If it does it in a couple of hours or a couple of days, though, that starts to put it in the realm of possibility." "Narrator:" "And Jamie's prediction is spot on, because after just three days, our tortured torso is surely ready to talk." "The poor dude." "The experiment could not be going better." "We have already gotten exactly what we came looking for, which is at the point in which bamboo meets flesh, does it make a left-hand turn or does it just keep on going, and it's pretty clear that it just keeps on going." "Well, you know, I said earlier that if there was any penetration at all, then that's torture, so I say this myth is " "let's not call it just yet." "I want to see how far we can take it." "Let's let it keep on growing." "Okay." "Narrator:" "But over two weeks later the news isn't good." "Despite several other chutes making their way into the dummy," "Adam's wish to see complete penetration comes to not." "Look at that." "They haven't grown an inch in two weeks." "Those things are dead." "Yeah." "Look at that." "The ballistic gel has melted." "It must have got so hot in here that's what killed him." "We did prove that you could torture somebody with bamboo if youere determined." "We didn't see the bamboo grow all theay through the guy." "That was supposed to be the grand finale." "You know, we have one more dummy." "Let's check it up there and see what happens." "Okay." "Narrator:" "So a second ballistics material torso, this time with attractive wig and facial features, is taken to the roof, where the team has set up a second growing area, one that's open to the elements." "Our dude is set up, and this is our last chance to see bamboo grow through a person." "Xxxx it's our last viable bamboo chute, and it's pretty much the end of the growing season." "If it's going to happen, it's got to happen here." "Narrator:" "And what do you know?" "Adam's desperation is well rewarded." "Fast forward a couple of weeks, and this time the results are nothing short of astounding." "That's what I would call a through and through." "You wanted to fn the bamboo would grow all the way through you." "It turns out not only will it, but it thrives." "This is 12 feet of bamboo, and it's growing right through this guy's chest." "It doesn't get any more definitive than that." "I feel like it was almost an" "April fool's joke." "It's so perfect." "Bamboo can grow right through you, like it did over here, but for this to be a reasonable method of torture, if you can consider torture reasonable in any sense, it needs to do it fairly quickly, and our time" "lapse shows that this penetrated that body in a matter of a couple of days or so." "It's possible, as gruesome as it is." "That awesome." "Plausible, and awesome." "Plausible." "Next on Mythbusters extreme." "Narrator:" "And jamieand Adam " "I need a radio for science." "Narrator:" "Prepare for the blch" "imagine yourself on the frozen arctic tundra." "Your sled dogs have abandoned you, and you have run out of all your equipment and food, and slowly you are dying." "Your life ebbing away minute by minute." "Yeah, okay, I remember that." "Then xxxx you see relief, salvation on the horizon in the form of a St. Bernard traveling with you with xxxxx a barrel of Brandy." "Xxxx it warms you up just enough to keep you alive until the rescue team arrives." "Or this is like the pair of teeth before I eat the dog." "You can't say that." "This brave lifesaver say one man or, rather, a one dog rescue squad." "In fact, that cask around his neck is full of Brandy that he is taking to some lost traveller." "I have heard that alcohol has the opposite effect and it cools you down, not warms you up." "That's strange because I swear it has a warming effect when I drink it." "Should be pretty straight forward to try." "I think so." "I think all we need to do is find ourselves a nice big freedzer, a way of monitoring our body temperature, xxxx and see what kind of change occurs." "Works for me." "My ears are starting to sting." "But before the guys get to test this frosty fable in the freezer -- xxxx I'm delirious thinking about what I'll do when I'm warm." "Adam is insuring accurate info by ingesting a thermometer?" "Since this whole test is about whether or not there's any change in our body temperature from the drinking of the alcohol, we need to know exactly what our body temperature is, and this isn't a thermometer" "under the tongue or under the ear or many other skin ." "Xxxx we've done this on the show before when I got painted with gold paint, and I had a rectal thermometer." "Oh." "Xxxx will you respect me tomorrow?" "Oh." "Neither of us want to do that this time, so we're bringing in a brand new piece of technology, called a core body temperature capsule." "Here we go." "It's basically a passive radio." "It goes into our stomach, keeps track of our core body temperature, and we check in on it with this." "We hold this up to our bodies and, boop, it teltz us what our core body temperature is, and a couple of days later, we pass it." "They're disposable." "I ate a radio for science." "Narrator:" "But that super accurate body temperature thermometer is not all they'll be using." "The guys are going for data overload." "We're going to be doing some standardized tests at regular intervals throughout the day." "The one is the core body temperature." "Xxxxx swallow that puppy." "Hmm." "I know." "The second one is we're going to check in on how we actually feel." "On a coldness scale, one being the coldest and ten not being cold at all, where are we at?" "Eight." "Eight." "You're just a little bit cold." "The third one is we're going to be using a thermal imageing camera to check our heat signatures on the exterior of our bodies." "Wow." "You look funny." "I can see you breathing." "There's the temperature of your left hand." "94.1." "So armed with their battery of data gathering equipment and a warm weather baseline." "Tip of the nose." "96 degrees." "Narrator:" "The boys are ready for the big freeze." "All right." "Let's go tore it." "Let's get cold." "Narrator:" "Kari, Grant, and Tory have busted the myth that a few grams of cezium or rubidium can cause a grenade-type explosion." "The Internet is lying again." "Narrator:" "Now it's time for xxxx the ramping up." "Xxxx to blow up the bathtub we're stretching the budget and moving into the realm of ridiculous by using a massive 2.5 kilograms of sodium." "You ready to do this?" "I'm ready to do it." "Narrator:" "And to accommodate the 2.5 kilograms of sodium -- let's run." "Narrator: " " Kari has adapted her guillotine." "She's added a sledgehammer, which means there's only one thing left to do." "Find out the fans if super-sizing the sodium will blast the bathtub." "This is sodium." "In three, two, one." "Wait, wait, wait." "Oh, my God." "Poisonous gas." "Oh." "Narrator:" "Well, the team holds its breath, and let's check out the replay." "That was crazy." "We dropped the sodium into the water, and we got a huge explosion." "It actually cracked the bathtub." "The best part about it is two of the blocks didn't even react with the water." "They were thrown out." "That was incredible." "Narrator:" "Yep, spectacular, but it only caused a crack." "The tub didn't disintegrate." "How about taking it up a notch?" "Christmas." "That was amazing." "Up next is potassium, which is even more reactive and, yep, same amount." "Narrator:" "Uh-huh." "2.5 kilograms of potassium." "Take it away." "Narrator:" "School lab chemistry like you have never seen it before." "Okay." "We're good." "Let's go." "Narrator:" "But will it provide the big boom you and we have been waiting for?" "Two, one." "Whoa!" "That was awesome." "That was like fireworks." "Wow." "That was the fourth of July in there." "You know what, it didn't explode like -- it was like a bunch of little pops." "It wasn't one big boom." "Narrator:" "It's an exciting chemical reaction, but it's still not high explosives." "In conclusion, you can use ridiculous amounts of sodium and potassium." "You can use the more reactive elements in the alkaline metal family, but you won't get a hand grenade-sized explosion and blow up a bathtub unless you use c4, like this." "Fire in the hole!" "All right, j.D." "In three, two, one." "Nice." "Yeah." "Did you see how high it shot that water?" "Narrator:" "Yes." "The shock wave eminating from a c4 detonation is approximately" "8,000 meters per second, which is in a different league to alkaline metals in water." "Proving that that Internet video is nothing but science fiction." "Narrator:" "Coming up," "our explosive virtuosos find out especially for you" "if a burning piano explodes." "Light it on fire!" "Light it on fire!" "Adam and Jamie are about to chill out to find out if a shot of Brandy -- good boy." "Narrator: " " Will actually staif off hypothermia." "Or is it simply a furry fable." "Since we always want to be authentic on Mythbusters, Bob here is going to be delivering the Brandy to us." "Isn't that right, Bob?" "We are at the very perfect place to test this myth." "At a company called dean services, and they've got" "125,000 square feet of freezer cold rooms at zero degrees fahrenheit." "It's a temperature we're going to be working at." "Oh, what's your core body temperature?" "Let's get a baseline before we get into the cold." "98.29." "I'm 98.24." "Are you ready?" "Ready as I'll ever be." "Narrator:" "Remember, Adam and Jamie with their core body temperature capsules already in their stomachs -- it's cold." "I know." "Narrator: " " Are literally walking thermometers, but they'll also be monitoring their mood as well as the surface temperature of their extremities." "It's weird having a job with our only task today is to get cold and then drunk." "Narrator:" "Yep, stage one of the test is to simulate a situation in which the guys will need rescuing by a" "Brandy-carrying St. Bernard." "I'm starting to get uncomfortable." "Narrator:" "And that means getting very cold, very fast." "Right now I don't feel so bad, but it's changing rapidly." "Narrator:" "Stage two, once they've completely chilled out " "Cal Marie." "Get some Brandy." "Narrator:" "The drinking commences." "But just ten minutes you the test and the guys get the first piece of relevant information, and it's not what you would expect." "My temperature has been steadily going up." "It's now at 98.56." "What does yours say?" "I'm going up too." "I'm at 98.9." "I haven't read up on this, but the fact that my internal body temperature is rising while" "I'm feeling like I'm getting colder says to me something like my vascular system is clamping down on my extremities and keeping the heat inside." "Check out the big brain on Jamie." "Because he has nailed one of the key responses of all endo thermic animals to the cold." "The superficial blood vessels constrict, preventing heat loss through the skin and directing blood to critical internal organs." "Narrator:" "With such amazing evolutionary adaptations, it could take a while before the guys need rescuing." "So to hurry things along, they decide on some drastic action." "I don't think we're getting cold enough fast enough." "I think we should take off our hats and unzip our coats." "Really?" "I have to take my hat off?" "Narrator:" "Yes, you do, and with significant heat loss taking place through the head, xxxx" "it's just what you don't want to do when caught out in the cold." "I feel like I just dunked my head in a bucket of ice water." "I was happy before then." "Narrator:" "As they approach the hour mark -- my hand is starting to hurt." "Narrator:" "The guys reach a point where they knees rescuing." "They've reached the limits of their endurance." "At least for a voluntary, safely monitored situation like this." "So it's time for the crucial round of pre-Brandy data collection." "I'm 98.49." "Narrator:" "Their ingested thermometers are showing stable temperatures." "Xxxx coldness scale one to ten." "Hmm." "I'm saying I'm at least about a two." "Yeah." "I agree with that assessment." "Narrator:" "And the thermal camera, as well as providing" "Adam with entertainment -- wow, man." "I got to tell you, with your hat off, you look like a bond villain in this shot." "Narrator:" "Seems to confirm" "Jamie's earlier theory." "Despite their stable core body temperature, their extremities have plummeted by over 20 degrees." "My fingers hurt." "Okay." "Your face is 65 degrees." "Narrator:" "With the numbers noted, there's just one thing left to do." "My ears are starting to sting." "Yeah." "Help me, Bob." "I'm freezing." "Narrator:" "Bring on the Brandy." "I'm in a rare position of hoping the myth is true." "We've got a really weird myth." "Xxxx have you heard that a piano can explode in a fire?" "No, I have not, but it does make sense, because the strings are under a lot of tension." "Who cares if it makes sense?" "We might get to see a piano explode." "Xxxx before you do that, we need to find out how much tension the strings are under." "I know the perfect people for that." "Narrator:" "And that perfect piano place -- ready to get your tune on?" "Narrator:" "Is owned by John Callahan, the piano man." "So the myth that we're working on is if you put a piano in a fire, it will explode." "Wow." "I've actually heard people talk about that before." "I have never burned a piano myself." "I don't know if that's true, but" "I'm not sure exactly what's going to happen." "To me it sounds relatively plausible because, you know," "I understand there's a lot of tension on the strings." "Well, there sure is a lot of tension on the strings." "In a piano the steel wire is stretched across the cast iron plate, and there's about 200 pounds of tension on each wire on average." "We have about 230 wires in the piano, so there's a total of over 20 tons of force trying to collapse the piano." "Narrator:" "Now, that sounds promising." "The strings stretched across the cast iron plate holds 40,000 pounds of pressure, and if the flames cause them to fail, hey, protestero, exploding piano." "It's always a good day when you start it at the bomb range." "Narrator:" "Callahan's have kindly given the team a baby grand to ignite." "Now all they have to do is get it off the truck." "Moving pianos sucks." "Narrator:" "And into position." "I'm just going to do a little tension music." "Is the piano going to fall off the forklift?" "Narrator:" "While Kari does some, you know, actual work," "Tory and Grant serenade he the only way they know how." "Badly." "Xxxx grinding organ all day and night narrator:" "With the piano standing on its own legs, it's just one thing left to do." "Tune it." "All right.Xxx" "I know that tuning a piano at a bomb range is probably a pretty strange working condition for you, but we need to give this myth the best possible chance of working, so we need to get each one of these strings at the proper tension." "I'll do my best." "Narrator:" "As John brings the piano to perfect pitch, the guys pitch in to build the bonfire." "To all the piano owe fish." "Os out there, we want to let you know we love peen yoez." "Not enjoying this in the least." "Xxxx all there is left to do is throw kerosene on the wood." "Xxxx let's light it." "Light it on fire." "Find out if we have a bonfire." "Well, if there's truth to this myth, this thing could explode, so we better get out of here because it's going to be totally dangerous, and I'm okay with that." "Narrator:" "It's this baby grand's finale, but will the meltdown be a letdown," "or will it be a musical mushroom cloud?" "Wow." "That is a nice fire." "Narrator:" "Next on "mythbugsers"" "it's Adam and Jamie's frozen finale." "Xxxxx I'm thinking about what I'll do when I'm warm." "Xxxx narrator:" "Will the Mythbusters bust xxxxxx the myth of the exploding apino?" "Find out after these messages." "Narrator:" "Adam and Jamie are chilling out, literally." "My ears are starting to sting." "Yeah." "Narrator:" "At the limit of their cold weather endurance, they need rescuing." "Get some Brandy." "Narrator:" "Is the mythical shot of" "Brandy the right way to go?" "There we go." "Xxxx into that's good Brandy." "Narrator:" "The immediate signs, at least on a subjective level, seem to back up the myth." "Brandy sort of helps a little bit." "There's definitely a feeling, a distinct feeling of a warm glow happening down here." "Narrator:" "But really it's still painfully cold." "Honestly, gave me the choice," "I would pour it on my hands and set it on fire." "Xxxx narrator:" "A few minutes after downing the supposedly life-saving shots, the guys" "Russell up another set of date and although their body temperature remains stable " "99.15." "Mine is 98.6." "Narrator:" "The numbers for skin temperature is very interesting." "Face is 74 degrees." "Narrator:" "Which is an increase of nine degrees from their pre-Brandy temperatures." "Jamie, your face, 78 degrees." "Narrator:" "But, again, the science backs up the numbers." "Alcohol does, in fact, dilate your blood vessels, leading to flushed cheeks and more blood flow to your skin." "To see if this is really help fight off the cold, another shot is called for, and dually drunk." "I got a hair." "Narrator:" "Once again, the immediate signs are that the alcohol has a positive subjective effect." "I'm picturing big steaming pans of warm food and dunking my hands into them." "I'm going into delirium thinking about what I'll do once I'm warm." "Narrator:" "But assuming this is a life or death situation, maybe improving your mood isn't a priority." "I can already tell that my mental faculties are impaired." "Xxxxx" "I'm getting them wrong, aren't I?" "I don't think -- just from a subjective point of view I don't want to further impair them with alcohol, although, you know, caring less about the cold certainly has its merits." "You might do better by trying to, you know, light a small fire or something like that, get shelter." "Narrator:" "With that hurl of wisdom, it's time to gather the last set of data." "Okay, face." "72 degrees." "Narrator:" "Again, the thermal camera shows the guys' skin temperature to be higher than or equal to pre-Brandy numbers." "I just can't get over how funny you look on the thermal camera." "Narrator:" "Critically, the same can't be said for their core body temperature." "97.387." "Narrator:" "Which is a sudden and worrying drop of a whole degree." "Can we go now?" "It turns out that St." "Bernards carrying Brandy is a myth." "Now, if these guys actually saved anybody's lives, it would be due to their body warmth because, like Bob here, they're big brutes are really furry, and he is actually keepg me quite warm." "Narrator:" "Yep, a shaggy dog cuddle is the solution to this shaggy dog story." "In summary, alcohol dilates your vascular system, which sends blood to your extremities where it loses its warmth, and as a result, your core body temperature quickly cools." "You don't mind if I have a little nip, huh?" "I got it tell you, right after that second Brandy," "I thought I understand what this myth is all about because I was feeling pretty fine." "It's probably because you just didn't care about the cold so much no, alcohol also has a dll e diluting effect." "My blood was moving more for my extremities." "Xxxx it after that your core body temperature started to drop like a stone." "Which is precisely the opposite of what you want to happen in a freezing cold situation." "In the short-term, it might make you feel good, but ultimately it's the last thing you want to do." "This one is busted." "Save the Brandy for when you are curled up in front of the fireplace back at the lodge." "Narrator:" "Kari, Grant, and Tory love a good explosive bonfire." "In fact, any fiery fable ignites their inner pyromania," "and Adam's feet." "When viewers suggested that burning a baby grand might make it explode," "they couldn't wait to fire up -- run." "Narrator: " " And find out if it was true." "Oh, my God." "That fire is awesome." "Fire department gave me a pyrometer so I could find out how hot it is." "Xxxx ok careful." "Narrator:" "With it maxed out, their instrument inferno is burning at more than 1,000 degrees, which makes short work of the wooden frame, lid, and legs." "Boing, boing, boing." "Xxxxx narrator:" "Remember, if there's any truth to this myth, the 20 tons of tension in the strings has to be suddenly and explosively released." "I'm seeing a little caving in." "Stoo maybe it will collapse on I was." "Narrator:" "That's the theory, but as the baby grand slowly but surely burns down to the ground, the myth of the exploding piano goes up in smoke." "Well, no explosion." "In fact, all we've seen that's left of the piano is a smoking hole with a skeleton of the cast iron piece." "You can still see some of the strings, which is not what I expected." "I thought in all the heat, strings, which are very thin compared to the cast iron would go binge, bimg, bing." "We didn't hear anything." "There's no way it would ever explode, and I'm so confident that that's w I'm this close to the piano." "No matter how much tension is put on these wires, they're never going to explode and pop because auz the wires heat up, the metal is going to expand and stretch." "You're mefr going to get the snapping wires, and you're not going to get the exploding piano." "It's just not physically possible." "Narrator:" "And that's the key." "Yes, the tension will be released, but it happens slowly as the metal strings expand in the fire." "And so -- definitively busted." "Busted." "Busted narrator:" "Hold on." "Aren't they forgetting something?" "The myth that a piano will explode in a fire is completely busted." "Now we want to replicate the results." "We're going blow a piano up anyway." "The regular piano in the fire, kind of sucked." "Didn't explode." "We do have a back-up piano that we can explode." "What do you have for us?" "What I think you need is the" "Mythbusters concharitio in c4." "This one is for you." "Xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxx narrator:" "It's a catchy tune, and j.D. Hums along as he tunes the piano for the Mythbusters conce on ic4." "Are you ready?" "I'm ready." "Xxxxx xxxxx this is it." "In three, two, one." "Now, that's what I call an exploding piano." "Nice." "One second it was there." "The next second it was gone." "Look, it's all over the place." "Narrator:" "And because it's the viewer special, especially for you, here's the high speed ncore of the Mythbusters concerto in c4." "In pieces." "We wrecked that piano." "My 1980s rock band all had these." "Xxxxx that was cool, but the myth is still busted." "If your piano is on fire, it's not going to explode." "If it's filled with c4, well, that's another story."