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>> Yeah!
[laughter]
>> I was trying to think of anything extra to say.
>> Yeah. >> And I was like, "You got it all."
[laughing]
>> Why don't you give it a little air guitar on that one too?
>> Yeah.
[air guitar and laughing]
>> So last time we did those miniature flash bangs,
those surprised me.
Whoa, go away bad guys!
[yelling and laughing]
[through laughter] Oh my god!
I mean they weren't true flash bangs,
but they were a surprisingly big explosion.
>> I think they were fun,
and they could be effective
given the right circumstances.
>> This came from the same book?
>> This comes from Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction.
There's an entire series of these books
with interesting hacks.
This one is kind of the same thing,
where you have something small and you throw it down,
it makes a loud noise, and you make your get away.
>> Yeah, or you use to distract them.
You throw it over,
you're hiding in a corner, you throw it, it goes pow.
And they go, "Oh, what was that?"
>> Exactly.
>> And then you run, and you get shot,
and then they go, "Snake!"
>>> BOTH: Snake!
♪ [upbeat music]
>> ROBOT VOICE: DIY bang snaps.
>> In a perfect scenario,
if everything goes according to plan,
what is supposed to happen?
>> We take these little pop cap strips,
a lot of people won't be familiar with these--
>> Oh my gosh, are these hard to find now?
Wait, do kids not have cap guns anymore?
>> I looked everywhere before I found this.
[wilting] >> Oh that makes me so sad.
>> It was at a grocery store.
>> Because there was two different type of cap guns,
there was this one, the paper one, this was the crap one
because it went penh-peh-hre.
But then the good ones were
the ones where you loaded the magazines. >> And they had all the white powder in there.
>> And it was a revolver in there. Pow, pow, pow!
>> Yes, those were good. >> Yeah.
These have just a little bit of
something in there, some explosive powder.
>> But basically the hammer would strike
and it would-- >> Put it on the...
>> BRIAN: Hold on. Ah!
It's loud.
It's loud indoors.
This is why mom always told me to go outside.
>> So it's just popping these individual things
and they pop on impact.
We're going to take these,
wrap them around this penny for weight,
throw it at the ground and it's supposed to pop.
>> How m--?
>> I'm skeptical.
>> How much wrapping around do you do?
>> About a hundred of these little dots
>> A hundred?
>> -is more than sufficient.
>> But it doesn't seem like this is very heavy.
>> Right.
>> And it's like even if its me, and granted this is wood.
[hammer thumping the wood]
>> Try there, yeah. >> Maybe on the vice.
[popping]
Well that works better, but then it's quieter.
Listen, like its louder the sound of it hitting the vise. [pop]
Was this book written in England?
Do maybe they mean an English penny?
Which is the size of a quarter.
[through laughter] I don't know.
>> Is there any [mumbling] lets try it.
>> This actually only works with a Spanish Doubloon.
[laughter]
>> I say we try it with a quarter and a penny.
>> I'm okay with that.
>> So about a hundred, so these are what, rolls of 600.
>> In fact they're separated into strips of a hundred.
>> Oh yeah great, okay great, and do we have to
fold it a certain way or we just wrap it?
>> You're supposed to fold it in half
>> BOTH: -length wise.
>> BRIAN: I'm going to tear off the parts that don't have
what I assume is gunpowder in there.
>> Essentially we're taking these and converting
them into bang snaps, right?
>> Exactly.
>> Which I guess is fine, but it's like if it's
only going to be as loud as a bang snap...
>> Why don't you just get a bang snap?
>> You should probably just have a bunch of bang snaps.
>> Well, you know this is also
improvisational
not that people have these just laying around.
>> What kind of odds do you give on the first throw of
us getting any bang at all?
>> Zero.
I don't think it's going to work on the first bang,
I think we're going to have to throw it repeatedly
and then when we do its going to be disappointing.
>> Welcome to the Modern Rogue, people.
[laughter]
>> So you wrap it just every which way direction.
>> Yeah, wrap it up really liberally
and then once you get to the end
put a little bit of scotch tape on it.
>> I'm kind of doing your criss-cross pattern.
Oh I see what they're going for now!
Look, when you keep on rolling it over,
you get this giant UFO-looking shape on there
and I'll bet it slams down
on that side with enough force to
trigger one of them.
I criss-crossed it every which way.
I bet you're only supposed to wrap it around one direction.
>> Oh, really?
>> Yeah.
>> Why do you think that?
>> Uh,
I don't know just seems right.
>> I'm thinking, instead of using the penny,
or the quarter,
the hex nut.
>> Oh, wow. Yeah, I feel like that almost certainly would work.
>> Do you want to do it?
>> No, [stammers] you do you.
Yeah, well just wrap it all around the outside.
No no, not even across-ways, just around the circumference.
>> Oh! Yeah, oh okay.
>> Oh, that's going to work well. That has to work!
>> Yeah, I'm liking this one, I'm thinking this
is going to be our best bet.
>> Yeah.
All right, Murphy we got three options.
One, is made exactly as written with a penny on the inside.
>> Okay.
>> One, we used a thicker and heavier coin with a quarter,
but also made exactly as written.
The third one, much heavier, much thicker,
we went off book and just did the perimeter
around a hex nut.
Which one do you think is going to work the best?
>> I think this one's going to work the best,
but I think we're going to have multiple failures
with all three of them.
>> So this one, I think there's a definite chance
of it landing just on its side and it doesn't
hit any of those parts.
So this one, if it does work, we know that it's flawed
because you've got to hit it on the side, right?
>> But these have just...
exposed areas no matter where it hits, but it doesn't seem
like they're heavy enough.
[laughter]
[yelp that trails off to faint laughter]
>> I think none of these are going to work. [laughter]
>> Yeah? Okay. >> Yeah, here.
Which one do you want to do?
>> Uh, I don't care.
>> All right I'm going to do the penny. >> You go ahead and try it.
>> The penny, ready?
>> I'm stepping back like its going to be dangerous.
This is a children's--
>> Go away bad guys!
[tiny pop]
>> BOTH [consecutively]: It did pop!
>> It did pop.
There was a quick flare.
[through laughter] >> There was a flare.
>> Try it again.
>> But we were better off with the tiny flashes, right?
The flash bangs. Ready? >> JASON: Yeah, way better.
>> Go away bad guys!
[light tap]
>> Well, it popped again.
[Jason vocalized affirmation]
[resonant pop echoes out]
[hastily] >> Go away bad guys!
[a sharp snap]
[the same snap, slowed, with a now-apparent unfurling sizzle]
>> Well that was--
>> That's three for three of it igniting.
>> So this one worked every time so far,
but only one of them was
>> Was loud. >> -really a success I think.
>> Well, maybe let me get some distance
and throw it down there.
>> Okay.
[melodic grunting]
He's going to throw it at the back of my head.
>> Go away bad guys!
[roomy pop]
Man, apparently it has multiple firings on it too.
Now I'm going to lob it...
like I'm over here,
and I'm like, [whispering] "go away bad guys."
[impotent impact, almost inaudible]
No.
>> You got to really throw it.
>> All right, let me try one more.
>> Okay. >> Ready, and--
[a soft sizzle]
>> Ho!
Okay that was cool.
[a more powerful combustion blast]
>> That was neat and kind of unexpected.
Do we still have the doors open?
[laughing] I think we should.
>> Look at this.
This one started a chain reaction
that just fizzled everything.
I don't know how good it is as a life saving thing, >> That's pretty good.
>> -but this [is] working much better than I expected.
>> It's a fun little trick.
>> All right here, you try with the quarter.
>> Okay.
[pop]
>> Wow!
Smoke ring! Smoke ring.
>> That was pretty effective.
>> Pretty dope, all right let's get this away from the--
go away smoke detector!
>> Okay so a lot of these are spent, as you can see
from just that one throw but not all of them.
>> Yeah. >> Do you want to give it ago?
[deep room tone]
[percussive burst echoes out]
>> So now,
that leaves the big boy.
>> Yeah.
>> This conversation is awkward, vanish!
[light snap]
[initial bang, followed by sizzling unravel]
>> I mean, that's not enough of a puff of smoke to get away
but think about how skeptical we were,
a hundred percent of these worked,
all of them worked.
>> Yeah.
>> As long as you slammed it down.
I think we're in agreement
that this is not going to save your life,
but its pretty cool.
>> Yeah, its a neat little trick
based on an obsolete children's toy.
>> They're all the thrill of the bang snap only
you get a burst of flame too.
>> Yeah, I'm going to use it to Batman out of parties.
[hearty chuckle]
>> "No, we're not mad that you left unannounced, Jason,
we're mad that you burned a hole in the carpet."
[laughing] >> And you're like,
[affecting a deep, gruff voice] "It was all part of the plan."
[laughter]
[still in character] "I had no other choice."
[laughter]
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[a swirling concoction of the slowed snap, static, wind, thunder, and fading music]
[slowed laughter]
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