- Alright guys I am so excited about this video right now.
I just discovered a bunch of these videos online from like
eight years ago, a bunch of people supposedly
was a trend, back in the day,
just made smoke come out of their mouth.
They're not using a cigarette, they're not using
a vape, they're just making smoke in their mouth
and then releasing it.
Do you understand what I, that seems,
do you get what I'm saying?
You know what, I'm just gonna show you
this video, just watch.
(clicking)
Did you guys just see what I just saw?
I'm gonna play it again, watch!
This guy is a (bleep) dragon.
I wanna be a dragon.
And yeah I know, this is probably a completely useless
skill that I'll never use again but guess what
by the end of today, I'm gonna be a dragon.
Alright, I don't think this is gonna be too hard to learn.
There's only two steps.
All the guy did was like make this noise:
(clicking)
There we go, it just goes...
(clicking)
With a closed mouth.
This clicking move was actually really hard.
I practiced all over the office, mostly so that I could
make a cool montage but
then I actually couldn't get it down and I was really
trying and I was ready to give up until I sat
on the bathroom and this happened...
Eh, that was not worth the joke.
Alright yeah, I'm gonna give up for now.
This is really awkward, everyone's making fun of me
and looking at me weird cause I'm just
clicking away around the office.
What I'm gonna do is see if anyone in the office
can do it and then explain it to me.
(laughing)
- I don't think it's possible.
- Yeah I have a theory, that kid's full of (bleep).
- This is fake.
They want people to try this and it's embarrassing.
- So everybody thinks the video is fake
so I tried to fake it.
I thought if I made a hot cup of coffee, made my mouth
super hot then steam would come out
but I just burned my mouth.
Then I thought if I made my mouth cold enough,
steam would come out just like it does when it's
cold outside but my friends messed with me.
And it also didn't work.
I think I should talk to an expert so I reached
out to somebody who really knows science,
understands the body, I'm gonna ask them if this
video is possible and if it is, what's going on?
- I'm Azeen Gerachie, I'm a science
reporter at Buzzfeed News.
- And so you saw the video I sent you.
- Yes.
- How is it possible?
- I have no idea.
- Great.
Okay guys so I didn't get any answers from the
science writer and I thought, why not reach
out to the source, the kid who made the video,
he's gotta know how this magic is happening.
He's also gotta know if it's real or fake.
So I'm gonna reach out to this kid right now.
I just found his name on YouTube,
his name is Pete Mahon.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna comment
on the only status I see so I wrote,
Hey, I'm a BuzzFeed video producer seeking permission
to show a clip of your smoke youtube video.
Wanted to make sure you saw my message so I'm
commenting on your job update.
By the way, congrats on the job.
This is psycho.
The kid didn't respond for a long time.
I think it's cause he's in Australia and you know,
time difference but I didn't give up
and finally, this happened:
- Hi, my name is Peter Mahon,
I'm from that smoke video you just saw.
Thanks so much for congratulating
me on my new job.
- So you made that video seven or eight years ago?
- Yeah it was in 2011, so seven years ago now.
- Wow, are you still making smoke with your mouth?
- I knock it out at parties and stuff occasionally.
- So it's real.
- Yeah, no, it's 100 percent real.
I saw a video online once.
It was somebody spinning a plastic water bottle
and it was heating up the air in the bottom
of the water bottle.
Since my mouth is a warm container, why wouldn't it work?
- You discovered this?
- Yeah, I think so.
- Can you explain the science behind it,
like how does it really work?
- The air is in my mouth it's getting hotter
and it's like vaporizing.
- Do you believe that I can even learn this or
are you the only person in the world who can do it?
- Just keeping it a go and you'll get there eventually.
- So I'm going to practice and practice and practice.
I'm gonna compress air in my cheeks all day.
I'm gonna condense my saliva for hours
and hours till I get this down.
I'm not gonna bore you with that footage
so right now, I'm gonna cut to my success or failure.
Whatever happened after an entire day of practice,
you guys are gonna see in three, two, one...
(clicking)
(light music)
I did it!
I'm a dragon!
Freaking did it!
I'm a human vape pen.
I feel like I'm in Harry Potter
or something and my soul just escaped me.
I gotta go call my mom, she's gonna be so proud of me.
I gotta tell her what I just did.
Hey mom, mom, mom...
I just learned how to make smoke come out of my mouth.
(slow music)