[MUSIC PLAYING]
Here it is, guys.
So guys, welcome to the Greencoat Boy.
This is my mate's pub.
Thomas Topham was famous for doing acts in pubs.
He owned a pub.
Today, we're going to replicate one of Thomas
Topham's feats of strength.
NARRATOR: Thomas Topham owned several pubs around London
and kept his customers entertained
with strongman parlor tricks.
One of his famous feats was that he
could roll up a seven pound pewter plate
as if it were a piece of paper.
[SNIFFING]
All right. OK.
Because I kind of knew that the pizza plates were going
to be really easy to roll up, so I want to up the ante
a little bit.
And this is part of the Thomas Topham challenge.
I brought something for you guys to roll up.
A bit more modern day, a bit thicker, a bit stronger.
You ready for this?
[PANS CLINKING]
Frying pans.
Oh, great.
EDDIE: Now, I'm famous for rolling up frying pans.
I did it on a-- on a breakfast show here in the UK
a while back, and it went viral.
So I think we should make a little competition out of this.
Who can roll it up the thinnest?
ROBERT: Tightest?
BRIAN: Of course, Eddie is going to make us do a strength
challenge that he can win.
If I can beat Eddie Hall at his own game of rolling up
a frying pan, I'll seriously leave
England feeling like a king.
[GRUNTING] Give me some space, guys.
Come on.
Back it up.
All right, you ready?
BRIAN: Yeah.
It's not a race.
It's about who can get it the tightest.
Tightness, OK.
Remember that.
OK?
Right.
Off you go.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTING]
[SHOUTING]
So the main trick to rolling a frying pan
is if you can be fast with it, it's going
to bend faster and easier.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Yeah, this is--
it's going to be tough to get this rolled
up like those pewter plates.
NICK: Once you get to the silver part, it's freaking hard.
I kind of made a mistake, because I
tried to roll both sides of the pan and then roll the pan up.
I mean, it was my first pan.
So you make mistakes, you learn.
Won't happen again.
[GRUNTING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Woo!
NICK: Oh-- jeez.
[GRUNTING]
Jeez.
Well, that's about it for me.
You're done?
NICK: Yeah, I-- yeah.
EDDIE: B, you done?
Yeah, it's--
Right.
So I'll pick to make this fair.
We're going to measure around the middle of the pan--
around the circumference in the middle.
Not the end, not the start.
That makes it fair for everybody, OK?
ROBERT: Yeah.
EDDIE: Should we start with Oberst, just for a laugh?
All right.
Oberst, not a bad effort, buddy.
It's 15 and 1/2 inches.
My first time.
That's not bad.
Bang in the middle.
You happy with that?
Yeah.
All right.
10-- just a speck over 10 and 1/2.
Let's say 10.6 inches.
NICK: OK. - Yeah?
NICK: Yeah.
Brian Shaw.
All right, 10.2 inches.
OK.
So in order for me to win this,
I've got to beat 10.2 inches.
OK, you ready?
Mhm.
OK.
My measurement is--
ALL: Whoa!
9.4.
[LAUGHING]
[SIGHING]
Oh, yeah.
So I'm afraid the winner is myself.
BRIAN: Oh.
That's a-- that's a shocker.
[SLURPING BEVERAGE]
BRIAN: You got a good drink there.
It tastes like victory.
BRIAN: Being as competitive as I am, really
wanted to beat Eddie at that just to kind of rub
it in his face a little bit.
So I was disappointed that I didn't
get mine rolled up tighter.
EDDIE: I mean, obviously, guys, what I've proved here today
is to do these feats of strength,
you've got to be British.
ALL: Hm.
I'd rather not do 'em, then.
[LAUGHTER]
To Thomas Topham.
EDDIE: To Thomas Topham.
BRIAN: To Topham.
ALL: Cheers!
Mm.