[laughs]
>> Ooh man, they just all snapped.
>> That happened so fast,
I can't even register exactly what happened,
except for that is a dead mouse.
>> There's a lot of fire and carnage.
>> Yeah!
>> Look at that!
Knockoff.
>> Can I take the spandex off now?
[laughs]
>> I mean we'll fix it in a pause.
>> Man you want to talk about something
that looks straight out of a cartoon,
this will always and forever be just the Ewok trap,
but it's a real trap?
>> Well, I think someone saw "Return Of The Jedi" and said,
"I'm going to make that work."
>> So, in the movie, you had two people looking and,
coordinating their strikes,
and then they both came down to the logs,
blew up the AT-ST,
but this looks, because we've done enough of these now,
that I see that you have Y sticks and,
I see you have the naturally growing PVC pipe.
[laughter] >> Yeah.
>> So I assume.
>> I got a crop of it out there, it's weird.
>> I assume it's some version of,
these are poised and pulled back.
You have multiple triggers,
and then an unfortunate something hits this.
They all break and then this comes back
and squishes your skull.
>> And it comes in, boom!
>> Okay, now I know that they
just threw a lot of information at you,
but I think I know what you really want to see.
>> Well, that's not what I wanted.
[laughter]
[bleep]
So how did they [bleep] go there?
>> Okay, so a few days before this recording,
Jason and John got together,
and they tried to build this contraption.
I'm going to walk you through just some highlights
of the b-roll that they got during that.
So it seems like first they grabbed a couple of logs
that had relatively flat faces and enough mass,
to actually do some damage.
Then Jason tied some rope around both sides of the log,
and suspended it under a large branch.
I don't think he really knows very many knots,
even though we did a knot episode before.
So for these knots I've been told that a clove hitch
would work fairly well.
Maybe a clove hitch on top,
and a Bowline knot on the bottom one.
So after a while of trying to suspend this log
from the branch up above,
Jason kind of had to fine tune
and dial in exactly what he wanted
the height of the trap to be.
Certainly you can set the height
to whatever you want it to be.
It really depends on what your target is.
He did a little bit of stress testing to make sure that,
the first log would remain secure when in motion,
and then work really began on the second log,
doing the same thing,
tying a rope around each end of the log,
and suspending it from the branch above.
After stress testing both of those logs,
to make sure that they would remain secured while in motion,
and after impacting each other.
Then Jason went to work on,
trying to figure out how to suspend the log,
at the height that it'll need to be at,
once the trap is set.
>> Whoops!
>> They spent some time reinforcing the log,
and then after having some difficulty
with suspending the log at height,
they realized that they could use a carabiner to,
run the rope through.
Now Jason's creating the toggle by tying this short stick to
the end of the rope,
which he's going to use to precariously balance,
under the Y stick to set the track,
and of course there's the Y stick,
which we've talked about on episodes previously,
and he got to work on setting up the second carabiner
for the other log.
Now that both logs are prepped,
Jason's going to cut this rope to size,
and then he's going to hammer in the second Y stick,
and now that both logs are set,
he's ready to test the demonstration back with Brian.
>> Not going to be real effective against woodland creatures,
or probably even people.
Maybe bipedal mechanized Imperial assault vehicles.
That might work.
>> You're saying there's a chance,
we're really going to need this.
[Jason and Brian laugh]
>> It could happen.
[laughter]
>> Okay, this is interesting.
In this case, we have a single PVC pipe,
and I assume we'll have two triggers on,
but it could be a tripwire as well.
>> Well, the idea with a PVC pipe is that,
you've got these two toggle sticks, right,
At the end of. >> So do we set this thing?
How do we, how are we doing this?
>> Well, we certainly can if you're ready.
If I can reach it.
>> This required a lot of effort.
We've got to swing sets.
that you have to set up.
Then you got to set up through a loop, two triggers.
>> Yeah, essentially what you have.
You're suspending your logs here and you want them to be,
roughly, even right so they'll smack together.
>> Yeah.
>> So you got to get all your links correct.
Even on an uneven branch here.
>> Yeah.
>> But then you have the secondary string here,
that's tied around your toggle stick.
>> Your trigger.
>> Yeah, okay remind me
how do we set the toggle trigger?
>> Threaded through the front.
>> The front.
Yep, right, go underneath this way.
Through that side.
>> Got it.
>> And then with the PVC,
>> Just sort of link it on there?
>> Yeah.
>> Okay, all right.
Now I'm going to hold this cause
I don't want it to swirl around and hit you,
but at this point,
this is a very light kind of hair trigger action.
And I'm going to guess if I let this go,
this is going to swing in and smack a bat, right?
>> Exactly.
Yep.
All right, that'll give you a headache.
So theoretically, this guy said I'll hold it,
while you set that side.
>> JASON: All right.
[relaxing music]
>> Oh, so this is one of those moments where,
we've got to coordinate, all right?
>> We're here, try flipping it around.
Is it set?
Is yours set?
>> JASON: It's set.
>> Get back away slowly.
>> Ha!
>> All right. >> Okay.
[Jason and Brian laugh]
I expected That to take longer and,
for me to use more profanity.
>> Look, there's still plenty of time
for us to screw this up.
[Brian laughs]
>> There's always time for us to screw it up.
>> I guess let's throw a rock on that,
it's not going to hit me, right?
>> Well, I mean.
>> I'll back away, yeah!
>> Be quick.
>> I am a dumb animal who doesn't see it coming as I,
Whoa!
[laughter]
[logs bang]
>> BRIAN: Well that would be a bad day.
>> Hey, that worked!
And it worked well!
>> And Nobody got hurt.
>> Okay. >> Yet!
>> Man, I just say we set this trap and we kill us a bad guy.
[wind blows]
[suspenseful music]
[sighs]
[dramatic music]
>> You know, Murphy!
Murphy, Murphy!
E chu ta.
[flare rumbles]
Murphy we've got a mouse.
[flare rumbles]
We've got a mouse in coming!
[flare rumbles]
Secure the bunker!
[flare rumbles]
We've got a mouse!
Get in the bunker!
Come on kiddo!
I'll tell you this much kiddo.
If the lab can combine an elephant and a crustacean,
you'd think they could at least get rid of our bad luck.
>> What, what my bet?
First racist!
What second, what are you talking about?
>> We got a mouse.
>> What?
>> 20 clicks to the south.
>> You led a mouse to our house?
>> I didn't lead it just followed me, I couldn't help it.
>> I don't do well with mice!
>> It's just the elephant, don't worry about it.
Listen, it's in the crystal cornfields.
>> It's going to flushes us out.
>> Yeah, like we got 20 minutes,
and then it starts letting fly.
You know what it means?
>> Oh, we got to set the trap.
>> We got to set the trap.
Okay.
>> Lets go.
[suspense music]
[grunts]
[loud thuds]
>> Hey!
[machine beeps]
Why don't you pick on someone your own size?
>> Come on your big mousy piece of garbage.
It's called fair use.
>> We got you.
>> That's right, come on!
>> Come on, do it!
>> Come on, go go, go!
>> Kill me!
[flares rumbling]
[screams]
>> By the claw, I will remember you!
>> There's actual neighbors.
[talk drowned by background noise]
Its coming!
[lively music]
>> Were you as surprised as I was?
>> I'm a little surprised. >> That worked so well?
>> I'm a little surprised cause,
there were so many points of failure.
We had to get everything lined up correctly,
the logs lined up at the right height,
which we had to cheat a little bit.
>> Plus there were multiple triggers,
that had to be activated,
but I tell you just that moment we tested it.
Turns out legitimate scientists say yes, Ewoks.
>> Yub nub mother[bleep]!
[laughter]
>> You know, yub nub is super racist?
>> Oh, man, I use that all the time.
>> Yeah not anymore, man.
>> That's their word?
>> It's Lucas's word and he's ashamed of it.
>> Oh.
>> That's why they changed it.
>> Putting that in the holiday special box.
>> Right next to the weird sexy dance,
And the leering Chewbacca dude.