Kids react to viral videos!
This episode: The Epic Split!
I've had my ups and downs.
My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds.
That's what made me what I am today.
This is kind of boring right now.
-Now I stand here before you. -What's he standing on?
What you see is a body crafted to perfection.
A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics...
He's standing on two trucks?!
And a mind set to master the most epic of splits.
Oh geeze. He's gonna do a split?! Owch!
Wait...is he crazy?
Ow!
Oh. Oh.
Wow.
Why are the trucks going backwards?
Won't his legs break?!
He probably takes gymnastics class.
He probably did gymnastics.
Are you Bat Dad?
Ah...ow.
Re--it's a car commercial!
They have good dynamic steering.
What? What's Volvo Dynamic Steering?
It was carried out by professionals in a closed-off area.
Do not try this at home.
Anyone could do that. Like, my auntie can!
-(Finebros) On top of trucks?! -Okay, not on trucks. (laughs)
Ow.
Question time!
(Finebros) So what did you think of that video?
I thought that might hurt a lot.
Pretty cool.
It was really cool how he's good at gymnastics and yoga.
Scary because he's, like, up in the air
and I-I thought he was gonna fall off or something.
Why would someone do that? They could fall!
(Finebros) What was the purpose of this video? Why did they make it?
I don't know.
I mean, I read some stuff up there, but now I forget it.
Maybe just to show off him doing the splits?
To, like, show people you can do anything.
To test something?
To test the Volvo's handling or something.
To show how dynamic the steering was!
It's a commercial for Volvo's steering.
(Finebros) It actually was a commercial.
Huh?!
For what?
(Finebros) Why do you think they would choose someone
doing the splits to advertise steering ability for a car?
I have no idea why. It's just crazy.
Because they're saying it's so smooth.
You can nap and you'll feel like you're in your bed!
Because many people would see it and will want to buy it or something.
Well that's something that'd catch somebody's attention.
And that it would always be memorable and they'd say,
"Hey! Have you seen the car commercial of the guy...
doing the splits between the two trucks?!"
And they go, "Oh yeah! I've seen it."
And everybody would know it.
Do you mean on other trucks if someone's doing the splits...
then the truck is bad and it'll make them fall?
(Finebros) Well that's what this company would make you want to think
that their trucks are so good that you could do splits on them.
-I get it a little bit! -(Finebros laughs)
Do you know who that guy was?
No.
I have no idea who that guy is.
No.
No, I don't know him.
No, he just looked like a guy who didn't know what he was doing
and was just doing it because he was getting paid a lot.
(Finebros) His name is Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Bad word at the end!
I have no idea who he is.
Who's that?
That's a long name.
Is he French or something?
(Finebros) He used to be a very, very famous actor
-back when we were your age. -Oh.
When were kids, if we saw that, we'd go,
"Aw! It's Jean Claude Van Damme!"
Which means that someone really famous now, when you're our age,
won't be famous anymore. What do you think about that?
Well...fame is-you're only famous until someone is more famous than you.
That nothing lasts forever.
I think that sucks because I like a lot of them.
Why would the people just stop being fans of them?
It happens! I mean, you just drift out of the picture.
And that will never happen to One Direction. Don't even!
I'm sorry for you, Jean Claude Van Damme.
I thought that was really cool how you could do the splits.
(Finebros) Do you think that he's happy to be in this commercial
instead of being in movies like he used to be?
I think he'll be happy because you haven't done movies probably in a long time.
I don't know if he has the option to do the movies now.
Probably not. He's like, "So you guys want me to do a split
on two trucks instead of a huge movie?! Alright, fine."
I bet while he was filming that he was thinking,
"What am I doing with my life? I was such a movie star.
Now I'm doing the splits between two trucks."
-"Okay, cut!" -"Great day, guys! Let's go home."
(Finebros) Do you think that this was real or fake?
I think that it was fake.
Fake.
It's probably fake cuz', like, in real life you wouldn't be able to do that.
I think it was real.
I think it's real.
I think it was real, but there had to be some kind of
safety precautions so he didn't fall on the road.
-(Finebros) You're completely right. -(Rafi Fine) You got it.
(Finebros) He was wearing a safety harness that they
digitally took out so you couldn't see it.
(Finebros) It didn't help him do the stunt. He did do it.
(Finebros) But if he had fallen, they had a way to catch him.
(Finebros) But they don't let you see that. Does that change the way you think about it?
Not as impressed.
You see, wearing a harness kind of makes it not as cool.
You can see a guy bungee jumping with, like,
20 chords all around him, hooked up to 20 hooks all around him...
that he had no possibility ever of falling, then you'd go,
"It's not that cool."
I'm still impressed that he could do the splits.
It's not only the danger that we like.
It's just how film and commercials and TV and movies work.
Safety first.
(Finebros) Do you think that people will want to buy
Volvos because of this commercial?
Some people would.
Yes, because the trucks are really stiff and stuff,
so if something crashes into them, they'll just keep on going straight.
Not really.
All it showed was, "If somebody stands on trucks, they can balance."
Hmmm. No.
Because that's just a guy doing splits.
It hasn't anything to do with the motor, how strong it is.
And it's-if it bumps, then it'll break or not.
They're not going to call up their friend, like,
"Hey! You wanna do a split on top of my car?! I got a Volvo steering wheel!"
"Hey, honey! Um, can we- can I go get two Volvo trucks?"
-"What do you need two for?" -"Well..."
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Do any of you have a Volvo?
If you do, call me. We'll do some splits on it.
Alright, guys. See you later. I gotta "split"! Get it?
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