we have uh with us tonight uh a thing a device and i don't even know how to describe it what
it does it shoots it shoots it's huge and it shoots pumpkins this thing shoots pumpkins and
it's like a it's like a cannon it's like a pumpkin cannon it's like a the barrel
of the cannon is a hundred feet absolutely that's the alludium q36 pumpkin modulator
there it is that thing shoots pumpkins and we're going to be shooting them to edgewater new jersey
all the way across the hudson river the town of edgewater new jersey has been evacuated
the the pumpkin cannon of course is owned by juan pablo montoya no it's not
go ahead and jump sir the show doesn't get any better um and the the gentleman the genius
behind the pumpkin cannon is max teasdale where are you max did we see max earlier
hi is that you max yes i'm right here dave are you excited are you ready i'm ready all
right i'm ready what's the record for firing a pumpkin how far have you gone the longest
distance we have ever fired is four thousand four hundred and ninety one feet for a guinness oh god
i hope you'll always use your genius for good and not evil who actually built this thing there are
five young fellas in hopedale illinois and around that part that actually built this machine in 1996
dave uh-huh okay and they've been attending pumpkin modulating contests since since 96.
yeah on autopilot uh but but max uh seriously now all kidding aside have you ever killed a guy
no i'm kidding thank you max thank you all right nobody ever tells me nothing
so the next time we go out there he's going to load it and then fire it or just load it
the next time after the break we're going to load it right the top 10 and then fire it
oh my god so you're adding the building suspense here okay so so the next step ladies and gentlemen
if you're keeping score at home and i know you are the next step will be the loading of the pumpkin
and you know who pulls the trigger don't you paul no juan pablo montoya
that's right just be between you and me he is zorro no kidding around
and uh the reason you're all here tonight we're going to be uh uh launching pumpkins from uh the
the new york side of the hudson the east side of the hudson to the west side of the hudson is that
right east to the west that's what we do here and into a little community edgewater new jersey uh
and now i believe it's it's time to load this is only the loading so get up really close to
the sets here we go max take us through the uh tricky and delicate the loading procedure
okay dave we're ready to load brad we're ready to load this pumpkin toss that up there
what's that what's the the pumpkins are wrapped in something well we put some glow in the dark tape
on there dave yeah it's getting dark out here and we hope that they'll you'll be able to see them go
a little farther okay i want to talk to you about that in just a minute max okay okay is it loaded
yeah that's a good idea stick your head in there sir oh yeah yeah get a good look matt is closing
the chamber he's pushing the locks down well how big how much does this thing cost that you guys
have built there oh we don't even keep track yeah we don't want to know it's locked we'd
really rather not know all right we're all set okay that's it's loaded it's loaded well
you can see ladies and gentlemen why we wanted this to be a separate uh step in the procedure
attention yeah okay all right max we'll be back later to fire that pumpkin okay
and we'll be ready all right sir thank you very much
during the commercial our executive producer rob burnett approached the desk
he asked permission of course and uh he said this to me he said this he said
to me look me right in the eyes and he said uh we're screwed on these pumpkins
and i said i said what's what's the matter and he says you're not going to be able to see anything
right you know that glow-in-the-dark tape doesn't work
no no i'm sorry go ahead pick up the remote control do whatever you have to do
uh but we knew that it would be dark right when we uh spent the money to bring the cannon here
yes well what did you think was going to happen like they'd be on fire or something
they'd be shooting tracer rounds it'd be like we thought they were going to be flaming flaming oh
flaming excellent idea can let me check in with max max yes dave can you set fire to
those pumpkins well we never have we never have and i don't think they burn very well
all right we'll get back to you max thank you
but i mean it's not like we do the show at noon you know we we've done
it pretty much at this time for the last 18 years
how much did we spend on getting the cannon out here really yeah 41 thousand dollars
so that's new jersey in the distance let me see
that shot again and they're going to be firing them and the the the muzzle
the barrel there's 100 feet long oh i think there's a chance you'll be able to see them
all right well stay tuned it's loaded don't worry it's loaded we're ready to go
here we go get ready ladies and gentlemen 41 grand down the drain
is there something people at home should be looking for is like
eclipse do you need special glasses for this i think they need an imagination oh you need
a very active imagination well okay okay max any time boy take take take it away here we go
okay i'm gonna put a little more pressure in here
how many how many psi's right now we've got just enough to reach new jersey all right
here we go are you ready i'm ready okay
so
wow pretty good
okay let's take a look at it now in slow motion instant replay here we go the pumpkin there
there you go well that yeah okay stop that glow-in-the-dark tape really does the trick
it's it's so bright it's hard to look at don't look directly at the pumpkin
we'll be doing that all night all night we're gonna be doing this all night now here we have
some never before seen footage of the pumpkin cannon is that right never before seen here's
what just happened it's mounted a camera right on the end of the barrel here's we
just launched one take a look at this there now watch this is pretty dramatic
i want to point out by the way ladies and gentlemen it's 41 000
cbs dollars not coming out of my pocket
and max said a little bit later if he wants if we want he will rotate the cannon
90 degrees and fire some off up the west side highway oh all right on fire though
light them up no they can't light them up that's why we have the glow-in-the-dark tape yeah right
that's so popular in the world of pumpkin cannons
all right there's max in a just a couple of seconds they're going to launch eight pumpkins
my thanks to the east harlem violinists juan pablo montoya and susan sarandon tomorrow night ladies
and gentlemen regis philbin craig kilbourne is next here come the pumpkins good night everybody
you