06x14 - Water Stun g*n

[bunniefuu]

Please, don't try anything

that you're about
to see us do at home.

Ever!

NARRATOR: On this episode
of "Mythbusters,"

Adam and Jamie go blind
and then get blind drunk...

Who you calling drunk?
Over.

NARRATOR:... as they test
an intoxicating car caper

from Hollywood.

[ Laughs ]

NARRATOR: Can a blind person
really drive without crashing?

We've got an actual blind person
driving a car.

NARRATOR:
Then Kari, Tory, and Grant

take a swing and a myth
at a golf trilogy.

Oh!

NARRATOR: Can your shoes turn
you into a lightning magnet?

Is a tree really
an impenetrable obstacle?

Fire at will!

NARRATOR:
And, à la "Caddyshack"...

Okay, you want to play rough,
little gopher?

NARRATOR:... can an underground
expl*si*n really sink a putt?

Boom, boom.

NARRATOR:
Who are the Mythbusters?

Adam Savage...

I can't believe
that this is my job.

-NARRATOR:... and Jamie Hyneman.
-That's kind of intense.

Between them, more than 30 years
of special-effects experience.

Whoa!

-NARRATOR: Joining them...
-We k*lled the ninja.

...Tory Belleci...

All right, what's the plan?

NARRATOR:
...Grant Imahara...

We're gonna be
meat waffles, man.

NARRATOR:
...and Kari Byron.

High expl*sives
and electricity. Whoo!

NARRATOR:
They don't just tell the myths.

They put them to the test.

Fasten your seat belts because
blind driving peels out first.

[ Imitates car engine ]

[ Imitates tires screeching ]

What are you doing?

I'm driving blind.

Why?

'Cause it's our next myth.

Oh, you mean like
in the "Scent of a Woman"?

It's like you're freakin'
psychic. That's awesome.

Yes, where Al Pacino's
character, who is blind,

is able to drive a sports car

by being given instructions
from his passenger.

That's what we're gonna test.

-Hoo-ah!
-[ Laughs ]

NARRATOR:
In "Scent of a Woman,"

a blind driver takes a sports
car for a high-speed spin.

By responding
to turn-by-turn instructions

from his terrified
sighted passenger,

they pull off
the seemingly impossible.

Here I go.
Here I go!

Ready? Now!

NARRATOR: But can such teamwork
really work?

I did it!

Oh, Charlie!

I assume you have a plan.

I do,
and it's a pretty simple one.

I figure
we need a blindfold, a car,

and [chuckles]
a closed course to drive on.

I'll put on the blindfold
and go wherever you tell me.

-And can we take turns?
-Absolutely.

I think it's imperative
that we both have a crack at it.

[ Horn honks ]

NARRATOR:
So, let's get cracking.

To try to re-create this highly
hazardous driving technique

in the real world,

the guys are using
a pedestrian-free zone.

ADAM: The lovely people
at the Alameda County Sheriff's

Emergency-Vehicle
Operation Center

have lent us
their driving course.

It is a blank slate.

I'm gonna set up
a whole bunch of cones

that will create our
city streets for blind driving.

NARRATOR: Jamie is going
to play the blind driver first,

so Adam sets up
the course alone.

This means
that the mustachioed maestro

won't have the advantage
of knowing its twists and turns.

In setting up the course
for our blind driver,

I've tried to add
all the obstacles

that we see in the movie.

So I'm starting out with a nice,

long get-your-bearings
kind of straightaway.

That also includes
a sharp left-hand turn.

Right after that, I've got
a second sharp left-hand turn.

[ Chuckles ] And...

I've included an obstacle
for Jamie to swerve around.

This ought to be
all the challenges

we need for our blind driver.

NARRATOR:
And that just leaves the car,

which, for this test, comes
complete with in-car cameras,

a driving instructor
called Derek,

and a crucial safety feature.

JAMIE: This car is specially
rigged with controls

so that he can hit
his own set of brakes

and stop the car
in case I get frisky on him.

That's gonna be tricky.

Are you feeling ready, champ?

Yeah, let's do it.

NARRATOR:
Just like in the movie,

Jamie will be totally
in the dark,

relying solely
on Adam's directions.

ADAM: All right, Jamie, go
forward, just get your bearings.

A little bit to the left.
A little bit to the left.

That's good.

NARRATOR: Cruising at an easy
pace down the straightaway,

they come to their first bend
in the road.

Okay, there's a turn
coming up to the left.

Excellent.

NARRATOR:
Made it with no cones down.

Straighten it out.
Straighten it out.

Okay, pick up the speed.
Let's pick up the speed.

NARRATOR:
But not for long.

ADAM:
Keep going, keep going.

To the right, to the right,
to the right.

Now hard to the left.

To the right, to the right.
More to the right.

NARRATOR: Soon their drive turns
into a game of cone Pac-Man.

More to the right. To the left,
to the left! Hard to the left.

[ Laughs ] And then
to the right. Beautiful!

Okay, stop, stop, stop.
[ Laughs ]

We need a new navigator.
[ Chuckles ]

NARRATOR: Like a couple
of out-of-sync co-drivers,

Adam blamed Jamie.

His ability to correct
on the fly on the straightaways

was pretty poor, even up to
and including his ability

to know left from right
at times.

NARRATOR:
And Jamie blamed Adam.

JAMIE:
You know, "More, more, more"

is like "What, what, what?"

It's easy to get confused

or not do something enough
or too little.

NARRATOR: If the guys
don't begin to work as one,

they're finished,
finished, finished.

[ Laughs ]

Fore!

So, Grant, what's with
the sweater? Did you retire?

No, I'm not retiring yet.

I'm merely appropriately dressed
for our next series of myths.

Is the next series of myths
about fashion disasters?

No.

With over 60 million golfers
around the world,

it's no surprise that
the website has been inundated

with requests
to do myths about golf.

The first one
is that a tree is 90 % air.

Yeah, I've heard that one,
and a lot of golfers say

if your ball
gets stuck behind a tree,

instead of sh**ting
around the tree,

it's better
to sh**t through it

because you have a 90 % chance
of getting through it

because it's 90 % air.

Great. So all we need
is a bucket of ba*ls,

some golf clubs,
camp out behind a tree,

see how many we hit through.

Sounds good to me.

NARRATOR: From a distance,
a tree may look like

a solid, impenetrable object.

But up close,
there's a huge amount of space

between its leaves.

So huge that some golfers think
you have a 90 % chance

of swinging clean through.

To find out
if this myth is all hot air,

Team Tee Off travels

to one of the most famous
golf courses in the world.

All right, let's do this.

I'm starting to feel
a little underdressed.

TORY: Where better to come
than world-famous Pebble Beach?

This is where Jack Nicklaus
and Tiger Woods play.

And now they're gonna
let us play?

NARRATOR: Yeah, I'm not sure
they've seen the show.

But with a world-class
golf course -- check --

some top-rate golf outfits --
uh, check --

now the team just needs a tree.

And this should do.

TORY: The tree that we picked --
it's a very average tree.

And it's the kind of tree that
you would try to play through

'cause when you look at it, you
see that there is enough light.

So you're thinking,
"I could get through this

and actually play through
to the next hole."

NARRATOR:
So, what's the plan, Tiger?

So, to begin our initial
research into this myth,

we're each going to hit
10 golf ba*ls into the tree

and see if we can
make it through.

NARRATOR: And if 9 of those 10
do sail through,

it's myth confirmed.

Having played golf
since high school,

Tory is going to tee off first.

The bad thing is,
I find myself

in this situation quite often
when I'm playing golf.

NARRATOR:
First shot went like a shot --

straight through the foliage.

-Look at that.
-KARI: Nice one.

See? Normally, I would have
to sh**t out into the fairway.

-KARI: One for one.
-I just cut the corner.

NARRATOR: But shot two
stops dead in its tracks.

I'm gonna have to say that one
didn't make it through the tree.

NARRATOR:
So, it's one apiece after two.

And after a montage
of the other eight ba*ls,

what's the final score?

So far, the score
is six made it through,

two went wacky,
and two came back at us.

NARRATOR: In other words,
for Tory, the tree was 60 % air.

Can Kari do any better?

-Sure you want to stand there?
-No.

NARRATOR: Kari quickly learns
that in golf,

no matter how bad
your last shot was...

KARI: Oh!

NARRATOR:
...your worst is yet to come.

Ba-na-na-na-na-na!
[ Laughs ]

NARRATOR: Of Kari's 10, only
one ball went towards the tree,

and that was along the ground.

But she's still better
than Grant.

Stee-rike one.

Yeah, Grant.

NARRATOR: In golfspeak,
swinging and missing the ball

is known as a whiff.

So his aim positively stinks.

Maybe you should take up tennis.

NARRATOR: So far, our threesome
has dug up plenty of dirt.

But nearing a conclusion,
they ain't.

Okay, well,
this was not very scientific.

Out of 30 ba*ls, how many
of them actually counted?

Yeah, not many.

We're gonna have to figure out
a way to get these ba*ls

to go at a consistent speed,

and we're gonna need to aim it
at the tree,

so that way we get a good test.

NARRATOR:
Now to swap places.

Driving gear on.

[ Laughs ]

JAMIE:
Okay, go ahead, Adam.

NARRATOR:
They start out good.

Doing good.
You're doing good.

NARRATOR: But it's not long
before things go bad.

Brake. Hard left.

Too hard.
Straighten it out.

NARRATOR:
If they were on a real street,

Adam would now be
up over the sidewalk...

Hard left.
Straighten it out. More.

NARRATOR:... and into the foyer
of an office building.

JAMIE: Right.
Right, right, right.

[ Chuckles ] Left.

Okay, stop.

-That was great.
-[ Chuckles ]

-Was it?
-Man, you nailed that.

[ Laughter ]

DEREK:
Every single one of them.

NARRATOR:
The blind-driver theory

is looking like it's on the road
to being busted.

But the guys
did confirm one thing --

there's no "I" in team.

This is all about teamwork.

It's not about the driver
or the navigator.

It's about how both of them
are working together.

They really have to get in sync
for this to work.

NARRATOR:
So, shall we take it to the max?

-We really need a blind guy.
-I totally agree.

No one will believe
this is plausible

until we get an actual blind guy
in the driver's seat.

NARRATOR: One of the most
frustrating situations

you can get in in the sometimes
infuriating game of golf

is getting stuck behind a tree.

To swing you
out of the jungle...

Nice.

NARRATOR:... the team
has been testing the myth

that when blocked by a tree,

you should try to sh**t
right through it.

I'm gonna have to say that one
didn't make it through the tree.

NARRATOR: The theory is that,
although a tree looks solid,

90 % of its volume is air,

meaning a ball will sail through
90 % of the time.

But so far, their golfing skills
have been so bad

that testing the myth
has been impossible.

And that means
they're gonna need a plan "B."

Oh!

I know, it's pretty obvious.

In order to test this properly,

we're gonna have to take
ourselves out of the equation,

-which means only one thing.
-We're getting Tiger Woods?

No, better!
We're gonna build a robot!

Mm.

We're gonna build a machine
that fires ba*ls

at the same speed and angle
as a professional golfer.

Then we sh**t a really big
sample size, like 100 ba*ls,

and see if they go through
the tree 90 % of the time.

What is it with you
and these robots?

NARRATOR:
Using compressed air,

Grant hopes to sh**t ba*ls
through the barrel

at the same velocity
as a proficient human golfer.

And that's something
they figured out earlier.

Before they left Pebble Beach,

the team met pro golfer
Laird Small

to precisely analyze his swing.

-How you doing? I'm Tory.
-Tory.

Welcome to Spyglass Hill in
Pebble Beach. Glad you're here.

NARRATOR:
Using the high-speed camera,

they determined
that when ball leaves club,

it does so
at around 150 miles an hour.

So that's what Grant's
aiming for.

He makes it look so easy.

Well, he is the pro.

GRANT: We don't want it
to be superhuman

to give it some advantage
at getting through the tree.

NARRATOR:
Time to test its oomph.

Dialed in at 40 PSI...

Here we go.
In 3, 2, 1.

NARRATOR:
...and what do you know?

The ball shot out
at 150 miles per hour,

just like the real deal.

Now we know how to make
foam cylinders.

NARRATOR:
Armed with their machine

and a serious amount of ba*ls,

the team
heads back to the course

for the 90 %-Air Invitational.

KARI:
We want to see how the tree

affects the distance
of the ball,

so we're going to sh**t 100
ba*ls without a tree in the way

and 100 ba*ls
with the tree in the way

and see how far they go.

Fire at will.
3, 2, 1.

Perfect drive!
You're on the green.

NARRATOR:
Not missing a single shot,

Grant's machine
skips years of aggravation

trying to perfect
the complexities

of the backswing, downswing,
and follow-through.

Last ball -- 100.

All right! Your cannon
is sh**ting like a real golfer.

[ Chuckles ]
A little hook to the left.

A little slice to the right.

NARRATOR:
Their control test is complete.

Without the tree
impeding their flight,

most of the yellow ba*ls
landed 500 feet away.

Now to see how far they go
with the tree in the way.

This time,
they're using pink ba*ls.

So, for this myth, which is
that the tree is 90 % air,

what we'll be looking for
is 90 of the pink ba*ls

will be at the same distance
as the yellow ba*ls.

NARRATOR:
But there's a twist.

Having assessed his competition
from the sidelines,

Tory is also going to pit
himself against Grant's robot

using blue ba*ls.

So, what are his chances?

Come on, it's Grant's robot.

It's got consistency.

He can make that exact.

I don't really think
that Tory has a chance.

NARRATOR: There's only one way
to find out.

Here we go.
In 3, 2, 1.

NARRATOR:
It's man against machine

in the ultimate
golfing challenge.

Each are firing 100 ba*ls
into the tree.

But how many
will sail clean through?

Will it be the 90 %
that this myth needs?

KARI: That's 100 ba*ls.
Test complete.

NARRATOR:
Now to tally up who won --

Tory, the machine, or the tree.

By counting
the pink and blue ba*ls

that made it into the same range
as the yellow,

they can calculate
the percentage

that were unimpeded by the tree.

27.

27 ba*ls made it
through the tree.

So 27 %.

-24 % on the pink.
-Wow.

So, about --

Well, that's about a quarter
of the ba*ls made it through.

That's not 90 % air right there.

No, it's not.

NARRATOR: With such
a low percentage of ba*ls

making it through the tree,

for proponents of the myth,
Kari's got some bad news.

Now, the myth says
that the tree is 90 % air.

That should be 90 % of the ba*ls.

That was only 25 % of the ba*ls.

That means this myth is busted.

I hate to say it,
but I beat the machine.

-He did.
-You beat the machine.

-He beat the machine.
-[ Laughs ]

You're better than a robot.

-Yeah!
-Whoo!

Doing good.

NARRATOR: Having already taken
this theory for a test-drive,

they set a new standard
in reckless driving.

Now they're shifting it
into high gear.

We realized that's not enough.

We need an actual blind person
behind the wheel of the car.

And more than that,
we need to raise the stakes.

A closed course isn't good
enough. We need city streets.

NARRATOR: Safely away
from inhabited neighborhoods,

the site for their trial
is an abandoned military base.

This location is amazing.

They are residential streets,
and they're totally abandoned.

And I got to tell you,
it's creepy as heck.

It really is postapocalyptic,
and I'm expecting a zombie horde

to come crawling out
of a basement at any moment.

Nice view.
Just like home.

NARRATOR: Not only have
they found the ideal location,

but also the ideal driver --
Jerry.

-Hi, Jerry.
-Jamie, howdy.

-Glad to meet you.
-Hey, man, good to meet you.

So, you're here to do a little
driving for us, I understand.

I certainly am.

Well, there are different
kinds of blindness.

There's legally blind,
as per the definition,

and then there's
"can't see a darn thing" blind.

-What are you?
-No light, no nothing.

That's perfect.
Are you ready to drive?

Hoo-yah!

[ Both laugh ]

NARRATOR: Jerry is one
gutsy guy, and he needs to be,

because his route
through the burbs

is full of twists and turns.

We start out
with a nice straightaway,

easing into a little bit
of a curve,

then a hard right-hand turn,

and an obstacle
just like yesterday.

But we're not done.

One more right-hand turn
before we get home,

and we've got to finish off
by parking in the driveway.

That's our course.

It's the blind
leading the bald now, isn't it?

-Yeah.
-Oh, very funny.

You have fun now.

Up next, we have
a real shocker of a myth.

That's right. This one involves
thunderbolts and lighting.

Very, very frightening.

Now, the myth is that

if you're playing a round
of golf in a thunderstorm

and you're wearing metal cleats,

you're more likely
to get hit by lightning.

KARI: We know playing golf
in a thunderstorm

is seriously dangerous,

but this myth is not about
holding a club in the air

or a golf umbrella.

That's obviously a bad idea.

This is about
whether the metal cleats

in the bottom of your shoes
actually attract the lightning.

NARRATOR:
This myth isn't out of thin air.

Golfers are sometimes
struck by lightning

because it's attracted to their
highly conductive metal clubs.

But could metal cleats
on their shoes

also be enough to attract
a bolt from the blue?

All right, well, this myth
is a little problematic.

First of all, not many lightning
storms this time of year.

And secondly, it's just
too dangerous to film in one.

Yeah, and the chances are
the camera crew

would be the first to get hit.

And we don't want that
to happen, do we?

GRANT: Agreed.

So, to keep all of us safe,

let's build
two ballistics-gel dummies

with the same electrical
resistance as a person.

We'll put regular plastic cleats
on one

and metal cleats on the other

and see which gets hit
by lightning.

Well, for the lightning, we
should go to an electric company

that has a test facility.

This way, we have
a controlled environment.

We can put our ballistic golfers
wherever we want them,

and then we can see
if we can fry them

with one of these
lightning bolts.

Good ideas.

NARRATOR: To explore
this high-voltage theory,

Tory gets started by modifying
a pair of mannequins.

Ballistic-gel golfer...

will lightning be attracted
to your golf cleats?

NARRATOR:
For the later tests,

it's crucial
that these golfer stand-ins

have the same electrical
properties as the human body.

And filling them
with a special ballistics gel

should do just that.

TORY: The ballistics gel
is gonna give us

the same kind of resistance to
electricity as the human body.

[ Straining ] Okay.
Yeah.

KARI:
He's a unicorn.

NARRATOR: When they're set,
they head out to the links

in search of lightning.

Wait!

NARRATOR:
The PG&E Technology Center

is one of the Mythbusters'
favorite playing grounds.

But even though from the outside
it looks like a giant golf ball,

there's not a fairway
to be found.

First up, Kari gets
the lightning lowdown.

How does
this simulate lightning?

This uses a generator
back in the shed back there

and creates very,
very high-voltage electricity

that comes through a ball
over there,

and it goes to the ground.

NARRATOR: Because lightning
is no laughing matter,

here's an important
safety message.

Even our crews,
who are specially trained

to work in extremely
hazardous conditions,

know that when the lightning
is coming,

they need to seek shelter
immediately,

and everybody else
should do the same thing.

This is our lightning source,

so we need to set up our golfers
equidistant from this source.

And then we dress
our golfer dummies --

one with plastic cleats,
one with metal cleats --

and see
where the lightning strikes.

This is gonna be fun.

[ Laughter ]

NARRATOR: First they need
to lay out some groundwork.

GRANT:
So what we're trying to do here

is simulate a golf course.

That's why we have this.

It's a copper plane,
and we have a clamp.

We're gonna connect the clamp
to the copper plane,

and that's gonna be connected
to the ground of the facility.

And that will give us
that electrical-earth simulation

that we need
to conduct this test.

NARRATOR: Then because
there's nothing like the feel

of fresh green turf underfoot,
they lay out some sod.

It's a golf course.
Sweet.

NARRATOR: Next...

You guys
got any power around here?

NARRATOR:... Tory removes
the tops of the dummy's heads

and soles of their feet,
so when the lightning strikes,

it will have a clear path
to the ground.

[ Giggles ]

NARRATOR: Time to get kitted up
in appropriate attire.

We want to give this myth the
best possible chance of working,

so we have found
some leather-soled shoes

with metal cleats.

It's gonna give us
the best conduction path.

Now, to be
a really good comparison,

we have our modern rubber-soled
shoes with plastic cleats.

NARRATOR: And all laced up,
they're ready to hit the green.

Wow.
That's a well-attired golfer.

Yeah, I've never seen a golfer
with just golf shoes.

That would freak me out.

NARRATOR: Finally,
they place both golfers

the exact same distance
from the lightning source.

This guy is at 46 1/2.

-Yeah!
-Great!

Perfect is good enough for me.

NARRATOR: Oh, no.
It's starting to rain.

Who will be struck out
of the game first?

And right here, right now,

it's time to put that theory
to the test.

Well, Jamie is just about
to get in the backseat,

while he lets Jerry control
everything to do with the car.

Jerry is 100 % blind,

and that means the stakes here
are pretty high.

And if I had to make
a prediction,

I think there might be
some curbage on this trip.

NARRATOR: Well, with those words
of wisdom, it's go time.

Jamie and Jerry,
are you guys ready to go?

-Ready to rock 'n' roll.
-Yeah, we're all set.

[ Laughs ]

Okay, we'll wait for you.

On your mark, go ahead.

I'd just let the brake go and
see -- We'll start to roll.

Cool.
That's perfect.

NARRATOR: Jamie's strategy
is to start off nice and easy.

That's perfect.

I think the trick here is gonna
be to work incrementally.

We're gonna start slow and
gradually build up from there.

Right.

Perfect.

We've got an actual
blind person driving a car.

You don't see that every day.

NARRATOR: Obeying all the rules
of the road,

other than having a completely
blind person at the wheel,

they come to a 90-degree turn.

JAMIE:
Okay, cool.

A hard right.

Straighten it out.

NARRATOR: And with that nailed,
Jamie utters the words

the insurance company
doesn't want to hear.

Give it a little gas.

NARRATOR: That's right. Jamie
gets Jerry to put his foot down.

More gas.

That looks good.
Okay.

That's a good speed.

He's going about 20 miles
an hour now.

This is for real, man.

A little more gas.

NARRATOR: Traveling over
the limit in a residential area,

Jerry is officially speeding.

ADAM: 35 miles an hour.
[ Laughs ]

NARRATOR:
Jerry's final test requirement

could be the toughest.

Now comes the last obstacle --
parking.

Start to brake.

Now turn hard left.

NARRATOR:
But it looks like Jerry

will successfully avoid
traffic school.

JAMIE: And stop.

You made it.

[ Laughter ]

With no injuries,
no impacts, no nothing.

-That was fantastic!
-Yo.

-Jerry, shake my hand.
-Yo!

-You are a natural.
-Yo.

[ Laughs ]

I had a good guide.

I think that Jerry
was better than either of us

'cause he has no preconceptions
about how he wants to drive.

Yeah, he followed
my instructions exactly,

and it was a piece of cake.

ADAM: Jerry's ability
to drive is astounding.

I wouldn't have known
he was blind,

watching him drive
around our course.

That was amazing.

NARRATOR:
But watch this space

because there's a dangerous
twist in the tale for this myth.

Would Jerry be as in control
if Jamie wasn't?

ADAM:
Jerry, what do you say?

Are you willing
to let a drunk Jamie

guide you while driving?

Sure, as long as I get
a shot at that bottle

after we're all over.

That's the spirit!

NARRATOR:
In this thunderdome,

the team set up
two ballistics dummies

equidistant
from a high-voltage source.

The only difference is one is
wearing shoes with metal cleats.

The other -- plastic.

So, what are they looking for?

To confirm this myth,
we need to see a definite trend

of lightning discharging into
the dummy with the metal cleats.

NARRATOR: And with the dummies
sitting pretty,

it's time to unleash
the lightning.

All right, you guys,
this is it -- 10 strikes.

We got two identical dummies.

One has metal cleats.
The other has plastic.

All right, fire it up.

KARI: Aah!

One on plastic.

Two on plastic.

Oh!
There we go.

Two plastic, one metal.

NARRATOR:
The guys are unleashing

10 bolts from the blue

and keeping a tally
of who gets hit --

the metal-cleat golfer or his
plastic-preferring counterpart.

Two on the metal,
four on the plastic.

NARRATOR: And after a shocking
few minutes, the results are in.

Six on the plastic,
four on the metal.

GRANT:
So, for our first test,

we had two identical
ballistics-gel dummies

at equal distances
from our high-voltage source.

What we saw
was a fairly equal distribution

of lightning strikes
between the two,

which indicates
that there's no difference

having the metal cleats.

So that means metal cleats
do not attract lightning.

This myth is busted.

-Busted.
-Busted.

NARRATOR: So, in bad weather,
wearing metal spikes

won't increase the chance
of lightning strikes,

but what about holding a club?

If you notice,
during your backswing,

you actually become
a lightning rod.

So what I'm gonna do is attach
this golf club to that golfer,

and we're gonna find out,
if you are crazy enough

to play during a storm,
what might happen.

[ Electricity crackling ]

-[ Electricity cracks ]
-Yeah!

[ Laughter ]

What a shocker!

NARRATOR: In less than a second,
a single strike of lightning

can heat the air
to 60,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Our guy is literally melting
under the pressure.

TORY: Whoo!

[ Laughter ]

Well, maybe that's why

you're not supposed to play golf
in a lightning storm.

NARRATOR:
But you got to hand it to him.

He never loses his grip.

Okay, our last myth
has to do with gophers,

explosions, and putting.

You're talking about
the final scene in "Caddyshack."

-I love that movie.
-Precisely.

The American classic.

Let me set the scene for you.
It's my favorite part.

Okay, the greenskeeper
is going mad

trying to catch a gopher
he just can't get,

so he decides he's going
to exterminate him with C-4.

He puts C-4 down
each of the gopher holes

and gets ready to blow him
to smithereens.

But before he pushes the button,
50 yards away,

there's a golfer
trying to make the winning putt.

He hits the ball, but it catches
just on the edge of the cup.

And then the groundskeeper
sets off the explosions,

with big bursts of fire,
destroys half the golf course,

and sinks the winning putt.

So we need to find out
if C-4 causes that much damage

and if it does,
is the shock wave strong enough

to knock the ball into the cup?

Exactly.

Okay, let's get some expl*sives
and head back to Pebble Beach.

Actually, your golf swing

already destroyed
half of their golf course,

so they're not letting us
come back,

so we have to find another place
to do the experiment.

Sorry, man.
Maybe learn how to play golf.

NARRATOR:
It's a great gopher golf scene

where you get two myths
for the price of one.

First, will C-4 really explode
into great ba*ls of fire?

And second,
will the resulting shock wave

be enough to knock
a teetering ball into the hole?

As a golf-course substitute,

the team has found a field
perfect for their experiments.

Here's our golf course.

Not for long.
[ Imitates explosions ]

-Yeah!
-Sweet.

TORY: We're at Riversdale Ranch.
It's a huge field.

It kind of looks like
a golf course.

There's tons of gopher holes.

And they've agreed
to let us blow it up with C-4.

How great is that?

KARI:
Gopher hole.

NARRATOR:
Sure enough, the ground

is riddled with
the telltale signs of gophers.

KARI: Oh, my God,
this thing has so many gophers.

TORY:
This field is perfect.

NARRATOR:
But don't worry, animal lovers,

this is a gopher ghost town.

For this golf myth,
we have two things to test.

They come from the last scene
in "Caddyshack,"

which is an American icon,
if you ask me.

First of all, can C-4
create the kind of explosions

that they have happening
in that last golf scene?

And secondly,
can the ground shake enough

to drop that golf ball,

teetering on the edge
of the hole, into the hole?

So, 50 yards that way.

All right.

NARRATOR:
From closely watching the movie,

they've calculated
that it was about 50 yards

from the expl*sives' detonation
point to the golf ball.

-50.
-Right.

Here.

NARRATOR: So they make a hole
the same distance away

and teeter a ball
right on the lip.

TORY:
Nobody breathe.

NARRATOR: And that just leaves
the expl*sives.

Oh, look who's just blown in --
retired FBI agent Frank Doyle.

Well, hello.
How are you?

Good.
Did you bring us the good stuff?

I brought the really good stuff
for today.

NARRATOR:
Channeling a "reach the end

of his tether" greenkeeper,

Frank delicately places
ba*ls of C-4

inside a series of gopher holes.

And he's placing so much
that Grant's very confident.

Seeing the amount of C-4
that we have out in this field,

I think it's probably
a 50/50 chance

of the ball not going
in the cup,

but actually flying over the cup
and across the field.

That's a lot of C-4 out there.

I'm expecting a big boom.

NARRATOR: But will it be
a big, fiery boom,

and will it sink the putt?

Fire in the hole!

Fire in the hole!

Here we go.
In 3, 2, 1!

[ Laughter ]

Oh, my God!

Yes! Yes!

That was awesome!

NARRATOR:
The boom sure was a blast,

but part one of the myth
is already up in smoke.

The main difference
between the expl*si*n

that we saw with real C-4
in real gopher holes

and what you see in the movie
is the element of fire.

And what we saw is just a blast
of dirt going straight up.

NARRATOR: In other words,
the movie fireball was a fake.

But what about
the blast's power?

Well, at gopher ground zero,
things are looking promising.

Hey!
Look at the size of these holes!

I think this might be actually

a very effective
gopher-extermination method.

This is an effective

golf-course-extermination
method.

-Yeah, no kidding, man.
-That's a crater.

NARRATOR: It's created
a gopher-graveyard crater

at the blast site, but what's
happened on the green?

Great expl*si*n.

[ Laughter ]

Oh, it didn't go in the hole.

You know what?
That's not surprising.

That was a cool expl*si*n,

but the shock wave
wasn't enough to knock it in.

I really thought it would.

NARRATOR:
So, where does that leave

their "Caddyshack" re-creation?

So, that's negative
on the golf ball,

negative on the expl*si*n.

-So this one's busted.
-Busted.

NARRATOR:
But as in Hollywood,

if at first you fail,
then just fake it.

Any way you look at this one,
it's busted,

but we're not done yet.

We want to replicate

the explosions that they had
in "Caddyshack."

And Frank has got
something special for us.

Real special.

NARRATOR: Yep,
Frank has something guaranteed

to get that Hollywood-inspired
fireball, gasoline.

Those varmints aren't gonna know
what hit them.

NARRATOR: He places
the containers in a line

all the way along a burrow,

and with the stage set, the team
can't wait to be entertained.

Da-da-da-da da da da

Da-da-da-da

3, 2, 1.

Boom, boom.

-Yeah!
-Yeah!

-Yeah!
-Yeah!

That's what you expect to see!

NARRATOR: At last,
they get their money's worth.

So, they may not have achieved
what they set out to do,

but just like in the movies,

they've all learned
a valuable lesson.

TORY:
You know what?

We showed that this one
is totally busted,

and we got a beautiful expl*si*n
at the same time.

And we showed how exciting golf
can really be.

It is exciting
without explosions.

-Sure, it is.
-No, it's not.

[ Laughs ]

[ Chuckles ]

NARRATOR:
But now they have an even more

intoxicating real-world tale
to try.

So, the story we have
is that a blind man

has actually been pulled over
for driving a car.

And the situation was, was that
a friend of his got so drunk,

he asked the blind guy
to drive for him.

NARRATOR:
This story heralds from Europe

where police saw a car traveling
on the wrong side of the road.

They discovered
the driver was blind

and being directed
by his intoxicated buddy.

Testing this drive
from the headlines,

Jamie is designated
intoxicated navigator

and is already flushed
in the face and a little frisky.

He gets drunk not like
anybody else I've ever met.

His head gets red.
He starts to giggle.

But he doesn't say much.

It's very peculiar.

NARRATOR: Now, to make sure he
is officially over the limit...

[ Sirens wailing ]

I know we're
supposed to be doing this,

but it doesn't feel right.

No.

[ Wailing continues ]

How much have you had
to drink today, sir?

-That much.
-That much?

We're gonna have to test him.

NARRATOR:... an on-the-spot
sobriety test is required,

beginning with a physical.

MAN:
Finger to nose -- left.

NARRATOR:
Then a breath test.

[ Breathalyzer beeping ]

MAN:
Keep going, keep going.

NARRATOR:
The evidence is irrefutable.

The Hyneman is drunk.

You are not allowed to drive.

Thank goodness.

NARRATOR: The responsibility
of driving home

is up to blind man Jerry
and his nerves of steel.

Okay, a little curb.
Up the driveway.

NARRATOR:
The effects of imbibing alcohol

include a decrease
in reaction time

and intellectual performance.

So will Jamie's directions
be as clear intoxicated

as they were sober?

Follow car to drunk navigator.

Follow car to drunk navigator.

Who you calling drunk?
Over.

[ Laughs ]

Well, you better be drunk
for this test to work.

Are you ready?

Yeah, whatever.

[ Laughs ]

Okay, whenever you feel like
going, we'll follow.

NARRATOR: A common consequence
of people being drunk

is that they think they're
funnier than they really are.

[ Engine turns over ]

Floor it.

[ Laughs ]

He knows better
than to listen to me.

NARRATOR: Another is that
their perspective of events...

Straighten out. Right.
Right, right, right, right.

NARRATOR:
...can be very different

to nondrinking observers.

Oh, I swear he is weaving
a lot more around the road.

It's like -- ooh!

We got some curb action there.

[ Laughs ]

Hard left.

NARRATOR:
Feelings of affection

can also become magnified...

Oh, you're so good.

NARRATOR:... and make others
feel uncomfortable.

JERRY:
Drunk Jamie as a navigator

made me a lot more nervous.

He gave a lot
of positive reinforcements,

and it wasn't as useful.

Get a little bit of left.

NARRATOR: But what's important
for this test

is that drunk Jamie
is making Jerry weave the road

like he's the one
who's been swigging bourbon.

For the first time,
driving instructor Derek

has to help Jerry
control the car.

JERRY: The situation
felt a little less in control,

and twice Derek intervened.

He grabbed the wheel once,
and he also hit the brake once.

Hard right.

NARRATOR:
But the guys do manage

to pull into the drive
in one piece.

You got me home,
and I was drunk.

[ Chuckles ]
Thank you, Jerry.

You're my best friend.

You bet your sweet bippy.

[ Laughter ]

NARRATOR:
From where Adam was sitting,

there was
a very distinct difference

between Jamie's navigation
skills sober versus drunk.

ADAM:
You were weaving much more

from right to left,
right to left.

There was a lot of delay
in correction.

And if I was a cop behind you,

I would be pulling
that car over,

thinking there's a drunk man
behind the wheel.

I don't know which is worse --
being blind or blind drunk.

NARRATOR:
So, if you ever consider

the blind-driving method
of getting somewhere,

call a cab.

JERRY:
Hoo-yah!

Can we stop doing these drinking
myths? I don't feel so good.

[ Chuckles ] Okay, I'll do the
heavy lifting in the wrap-up.

I think you and I proved
on the closed course

that, with a little practice,
it is possible

to drive while blindfolded

as long as your instructions
are competent.

And our blind guy that we got --

Jerry -- actually turned out
to be a great driver.

He did, and that combined

with the story we found
of someone actually doing it,

I'd say this one
is totally confirmed.

It's ill*gal, but you can do it.
It's confirmed.

You know what my favorite part
of this whole story was?

Was that after you got drunk,

your instructions made Jerry
drive as if he was drunk.

I would have never called that.

Hmm.
I thought I did pretty well.

Yeah, but that's
the whole point.