- [Jamie] Three, two, one, go!
(springs clatter)
- In the hole!
(laughter)
- Yeah!
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- This week at Vat19, it's all about cornhole.
If you know us, you know we like doin' it jumbo.
We like building giant things,
and we like playing giant games.
- Yeah, last year we played giant peer pong
against Joey and Ben, and to avenge that loss,
we're challenging them to some cornhole games.
- Normally, cornhole is played with beanbags,
but this week I wanna play with beanbag chairs.
- Now, it's gonna be kinda hard
to throw these beanbag chairs kinda far,
so we need a way to launch them through the air.
Now the mini cornhole game has little flippers,
so we automatically thought maybe a catapult would work,
but from our experience with playing
giant beer pong with catapults, they break pretty easily.
So we came up with a trebuchet,
which is a centuries tested design
that works really well to send things really far.
- We looked on the internet and didn't find
any plans to build a trebuchet that launches beanbags.
So we're going to the hardware store,
we're gonna just kinda wing it.
- This is how engineers work!
They just go to the hardware store and wing it.
(upbeat music)
- So we still have to figure out
how tall we need these uprights.
He's got the general ratios, because a lot of people
have made trebuchets in the past, but to our scale,
we've gotta do some of our own things.
And this weight is a different size
than some people would use.
The only thing I'm worried about
is the arm that all of this hangs on,
the bar that everything swings around,
that needs to be really strong,
because this is gonna weigh almost 700 pounds.
(saw spinning)
(drilling wood)
- It melted the plastic.
Might be time to buy a new drill.
- Shopping!
(upbeat music)
(drilling)
- All right, so whichever team loses
the giant cornhole game is gonna have to take
a cream corn ice bath wearing some pretty weird swimsuits.
Where are the corn speedos?
- Why?
- I wanna show Ben what he's gonna be wearing
when he loses.
There they are!
Just so you know what you'll be wearing later.
Joey, that's what you're gonna be wearing
after me and Danny beat you--
- Uh-huh.
- In this game.
- That's what you think.
- They don't make the right size bit for what we need
so we're having to do it the slow way.
- I think we're about to hit our medieval trifecta, right?
We've made a catapult, we've made a guillotine,
and now we're making a trebuchet.
They gotta go test it, see if it works,
and then build another one.
Well if the first one doesn't work, what do we do?
'Cause we need two to play.
(trickling liquid)
- Let's go check out this trebuchet.
(folk music)
- This is our cornhole target.
This is half the hole.
The other half's here, so these two pieces
will come together, and we'll bolt 'em together.
We won't be able to get 'em out the door
if we don't do that.
So we gotta finish it outside.
- It's gonna be really cool or really lame.
Those are the two options.
- I just hope it doesn't fall apart first launch.
- We're a little concerned about this.
This is what holds our pin, but when it swings down,
it might break.
I don't know, we'll see.
On!
- We gotta go low enough that the barrel doesn't hit it,
high enough that the bean bag makes it under it.
It's not going in.
I have to get new screws.
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Can you get four new big screws?
The ones that we cut off won't go back in the wood.
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- Just made a phone call with my sunglasses!
That's crazy.
- We only have two days left,
they're testing out the first trebuchet.
I got my fingers crossed that this works really well
because they have to make another one.
- Ayo!
- 650 pounds of sand for our counterweight.
- I'm excited to hook the sling up
and see how this thing works, if it works at all.
- I'mma catch this bag.
(laughter)
- [Danny] Didn't go far.
- Hey, it partially worked!
I'd mark that as a success.
- Take two.
- Wanna launch a basketball?
- Let's just launch something first.
Let's see if it works. - Yeah.
(laughter)
- Give that a solid kinda.
It's close, we're gonna get it.
I'm staying optimistic about this.
We're changing the release mechanism
so that the beanbag doesn't hit it.
- Optimism level's at about a six.
- We trebucheted!
- It went like four feet.
- So like right there-- - So it's losing slack.
- Yes, see it gets really-- - That's our problem.
- Loose and then there it goes.
- That pipe is definitely not straight.
- I'm a little discouraged that it's 4:40 on Thursday
and we're taking it apart.
Why is this pole gonna work and the other one didn't?
- This is ready to hold a thousand pounds.
You know, it's a barbell, for weightlifting.
I don't know why we didn't think of this off the bat.
- So we got one day left, and I think it's a little late
to build a second trebuchet,
so we'll have to play half court.
- I can win on half court.
No problem.
- Oh, look at that bar!
Your bar is bending!
- Supposed to do that.
- So much weight in that barrel!
- That went really fast!
- We are putting tape on our sling so it's more rigid.
- That didn't work at all!
That's the first time we haven't had a release in like--
- Since the first one.
- Since, yeah, the first one.
Putting some reinforcement on the side,
little buttresses to kinda keep it from rocking sideways.
Hopefully that helps.
- Oh, snap!
That was the best one!
- Leg in.
- All right, it's time for the main event.
We're gonna play giant flippin' cornhole
with the trebuchet.
The losing team has to take a cream corn ice bath
while wearing just a pair of these.
- You ready, Ben? - Let's do it!
- [Joey] A little right!
- I'm gonna point it a little bit left,
since theirs went a little bit right.
- That's lookin' real good.
Three, two, one, go!
- In the hole!
- Yes, yes!
(laughter)
- Yeah!
- That was the most satisfying cornhole throw ever.
- All right, you ready, Ben?
- I'm ready!
- Three, two, one!
- [Ben] Go, go, go, go!
Ahh!
- Oh, no!
- [Joey] A wheel fell off, guys.
- Some other stuff definitely broke.
How the heck are we gonna lift that up
to get that wheel back on?
- I got a jack.
- Back in business, guys.
(grunting)
I almost went up with it!
- I hate to try to adjust after the issues
we've had with these wheels, but I feel like
we gotta kick it this way.
Now let's straighten the wheels.
- I'll take it!
- Okay.
- So you feeling good about this line, Joey?
- Wanna go a little right?
- Yeah.
- They got it aimed so wrong.
- Three, two, one!
- Oh!
- They weren't aimed as wrong as I thought.
- This bag is hanging over the edge, it's ready to go.
- Three, two, one!
- Oh, baby!
Oh, baby!
- Yes!
- Okay, now we're talkin'!
- Still got one more, we still got one more.
- We're still winnin'!
- This is it, this is our last bag.
- We have to get it in.
- Three, two, one!
Yes, yes!
Oh!
- So good. - Oh, yeah!
- So good!
Oh, man.
You need to go get your hot pants on
for your cream corn ice bath, Joey.
- So, hang on.
So it's a doubles cream corn bath.
- Oh, I actually gotta go, so.
- So you're leaving me solo?
- Here's what you can do.
Livestream it, and it'll be like I'm there with you.
- You're gonna take the pants with you then?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- I just wanna say, this was awesome,
super proud of everyone, especially these two guys
who built that trebuchet.
That was probably the most fun game of cornhole ever.
That was super cool.
- That was fun.
- That's a lot of storm comin' in!
- Holy moly!
- This is a 180 on the weather, man!
- Ten minutes ago, it was not like this.
- All the gear's blowin' away!
- We got a storm rollin' in.
- I know, I see that!
- Have you bought the ice yet?
- Yes.
- Ah, dang it.
We were gonna say hold off on buying the ice, 'cause...
- We might not be able to do this today,
we might have to wait until Tuesday.
- I have so much ice though.
I have like 500 pounds.
- Wow!
- 500 pounds?
- Okay, well we gotta try to save that ice
or do it today, 'cause that's a lot of money in ice.
- Ice bath in the studio!
- [Camera Op] Catch that camera!
- We gotta get stuff inside! - Ah!
- What is happening?
- I went inside for five minutes,
it's like a tornado out here!
Whoa!
(funky music)
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
I got a lot of cream corn for my boy Joey!
Bet he wishes he had gotten that last beanbag in.
- [Camera Op] Action!
- You thought we weren't gonna do it 'cause of the rain,
- I hate you guys.
- But we did it, we made it happen fast!
- Good job building the trebuchet!
Now humiliate yourself.
(ice jostles)
Guys.
Guys!
Holy crap this is cold.
- It's an ice bath.
- Holy crap!
Ah!
- Some corn.
- Oh, my gosh, that's cold too!
Ah!
Okay that's enough, I can't feel my legs.
- All right.
Get him out!
- Oh, oh, that's hypothermia, guys.
That's too much ice!
- I told you it was too much ice, Dana!
- It's too much ice.
- Sorry, bro.
- I hate you.
(laughter)
- I hate this place.
(laughter)
- Trebuchet?
Trebuchet.
- [Joey] Trebuchet.
Trebuchet. - I think-
Trebuchet.
- How do you pronounce trebuchet?
- Trebuchet, or trebuchet.
- Trebuchet.
- Trebuchet or trebuchet.
I'm not saying trebuchet!
- Trebuchet. - Trebuchet?
- No.
- Let's go build a trebuchet! - Woo!
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