![]() There is a story that I don't want to do-it's just too freaking dangerous. We find ourselves in those parameters all the time, but that's the kind of challenge we really like. ![]() We rented enough seats and overhead bins for a full plane, we built a framework and a structure to hold them all in orientation, and the entire construction of that framework took-well, we only had two days to do it. We wanted to do a myth about boarding airplanes, but we couldn't find someone who would lend us a 747 to use for a day-so we built one. It's one of the most fun things we've ever done, because when else do you get a chance to do something like that?ĬRAZIEST MYTH FROM THE NEW SEASON: Airplane Boarding You work out what you're going to do-you put spikes on the car, you make sure safety procedures are in place-and then you realize that this story requires Jamie and me to drive cars in the same direction at 40 mph and start smacking them into each other. We built several different kinds-some from The Green Hornet, from Bond, and from Grease. Jamie and I were testing myths about having spikes on your tire rims that tear up other cars. And my mom is still, to this day, not allowed to watch that episode. When we finally did the stunt, it worked beautifully, but we did need every safety procedure we had added. You feel a little spooked about something, so you address what you're spooked about, but you never quite get rid of that feeling that you probably shouldn't be doing this. At this point I no longer think about it being crazy, but. As I was sitting in the car on the barge in the middle of a quarry lake-Jamie was on the shore, about to give the signal to drag my car off the barge and pull it upside down-I thought, what the hell do we think we're doing? There's no permutation in which this is not totally insane. We thought through everything that could go wrong, and really addressed it. ![]() It's not often we do something that's so dangerous. The whole time we were leading up to it, Jamie and I were kind of spooked. MOST DANGEROUS MYTH: Escaping a Sinking Car, Season 8Ī couple years after we did the first underwater car myth, we went and did it again-because most cars turn turtle when they hit the water, and it makes it much more confusing for the person who's in the car. They didn't want to let me do the test because of the potential of crashing on the far side of the water if I came out, so I figured out an ingenious way of solving that problem so that I could do the test. There was a problem with insurance on this story. We take all the safety precautions that we possibly can, but you play with fire, you can get burned. Having to push a motorcycle that's almost out-of-control fast to its very limits, and knowing that you're going to hit the water-who knows what's going to happen at that speed? It's thrilling, but your life is right there in front of you. In terms of something that is like, "Can you actually do that?" one of my favorites this season is trying to ride a motorcycle across water. Attaching rockets to a car, getting into a helicopter, and watching it take off and disappear-it doesn't get any better than that.ĬRAZIEST MYTH FROM THE NEW SEASON: Riding A Motorcycle on Water We have yet to top what we did with the very first rocket car. The cement truck was there, and then it wasn't there. We used 800 pounds of ANFO, which is a fertilizer/diesel fuel mix. CRAZIEST BOOM: Cement Truck Explosion, Season 3Įverybody seems to remember the cement truck as a favorite episode.
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