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All right Jason Murphy, I want to take a whole bunch
of fireworks and light one fuse and get a whole bunch
of them to go off at the same time.
[fuse sizzling]
I've made fuses before with Grant Thompson,
the king of random.
[sizzling] >> No way.
>> What? >> No way.
Even while it's wet.
If I remember correctly, we took the same fuel that
we made smoke bombs out of.
Holy [beep].
>> I didn't expect that.
>> Holy [beep].
And basically just coated it over a piece of string, right?
>> Essentially, yeah.
You're not just coating it in the string, you're actually
letting the string absorb
the potassium nitrate and the sugar.
>> Right.
>> Now the sugar slows down the burn, right?
So these will be slow burn fuses.
And we're going to use this in our project
so that we can-- [crackling]
>> What was that sound?
[crackling]
[laughing]
>> 36 grams of potassium nitrate in this
Spectracide Stump Remover
that you can get at most hardware stores.
>> BRIAN: And then we'll combine it with what?
Sugar?
>> With sugar.
We're going to use 24 grams of sugar.
>> So just 60 grams total.
And, if I remember correctly, we've already
pre-heated this, do we have a spatula or something?
>> First, we want to shake that up real good to
make sure it's completely mixed.
We're going to take about a third of a cup of water.
>> Yeah?
>> We're going to pour it in here.
>> So here, you got the stir.
Mix this around.
This is also one that you don't want it to get
too hot too fast.
>> Yeah, exactly we're going to cook this for a bit
until the water starts to evaporate off.
We're going to know that it's evaporated because the
water starts to get all frothy and bubbly.
>> And, if I remember correctly, it's like a creamy,
peanut-buttery kind of texture, right?
>> Right, but we're not really going to let it get to that.
>> Oh, oh.
>> Yeah, because we put that water in there and we
don't want it to get all creamy and peanut-buttery
because then it won't soak into the string.
>> Oh, this is looking good. >> Yeah.
>> I'll bet we're fully saturated here, right?
>> I think this is about as good as it's going to get.
>> Yeah, okay, well here, let's throw the foil on there.
>> All right.
>> Then we'll lay out these strips.
>> Do we want to now nest these together
to create a mega-fuse?
So that you light one fuse, and it just goes out and out
and out and out?
>> Let's do that, yeah, okay.
>> You can kind of tell that we only have a limited window
to manipulate these before they all--
>> Before they get crusty and hard?
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> JASON: Oh so, you're not even tying them,
you're just twisting them?
>> Yeah, yeah.
Well, because once this dries,
they all kind of conglomerate together.
So we're making like a giant lightning bolt basically.
>> Looks pretty good.
>> Yeah, okay.
>> So we let them dry?
>> Yeah, I guess uh, time.
Cause time to pass.
And activate the spell.
All right, so it took what like, 24 hours for them to dry.
And then another two weeks for us to find time to shoot
the rest of this.
>> Yeah, something like that. [laughing]
What we've got here, I think, are going to be some
remarkably effective potassium nitrate fuses.
>> All right here, I'm going to move these over on this side.
I'm going to pull out the fire extinguisher.
>> JASON: Okay.
>> Oh, that's fast.
>> See, it's not super fast, but.
>> BRIAN: Also not super reliable.
>> Not super reliable.
This is, yeah. >> Oh, oh.
>> This could happen.
>> Oh.
>> But it's going to keep.
>> It doesn't look like it quite stops,
it keeps on going.
Maybe I didn't get it quite hot enough to begin with?
>> No.
>> BRIAN: Maybe we didn't get it even enough.
>> And I don't know if this crust around here is
sugar or potassium nitrate.
I'm honestly not sure.
>> So maybe that was, it seems to be consistent.
>> Yeah, it might not have been mixed well enough,
remember how we we're having trouble getting it
to heat evenly?
>> So we've got like some that are good, some that
are having issues.
>> Yeah.
[fuse sizzling]
>> That's not bad, man. >> It's not bad.
>> That looks like an improvised legitimate fuse to me.
>> It could be better.
>> So, since it's Fourth of July,
I got some of these roman candles.
Maybe we just kind of loop this on.
>> That should work, right?
>> And wrap it around, should we duct tape it on there too?
>> Could it hurt?
>> I'd be more worried about it burning and not
igniting the other one
because it doesn't have enough fire juice.
Fire juice, that's a thing.
Everybody who was enjoying me looking like a pro
during the fire eating episode is like, ah, that's
the Brian we know.
>> Fire juice? [laughing]
>> You know how to, you just hold it straight up, right?
Oh, it says do not hold in hand.
>> Since when?
>> BRIAN: How are you supposed to hold this?
>> Since when?
>> Are they serious?
>> I thought this was America.
>> For outdoor, bury tube halfway in sand or soil.
>> Like we're in 'Nam.
>> And point away from flammable.
>> I'm holding it, you want me to hold it?
>> You do you.
[laughing]
All right, just make sure it stays pointed.
Again, you got to really get that thing started.
Otherwise...
>> Give it another.
Okay.
>> Ooh, it's taking it's time on that one.
>> Come on.
>> Oh no, did we make bad fuses?
>> Is this God's way of telling me, hey, don't
hold the roman candle [beep].
>> BRIAN: Definitely don't hold it
towards the cameras. [laughs] >> Oh.
Come on!
>> Oh, maybe it's just one bad fuse.
Technically, we're still in the...
>> Well, now the real one's lit.
>> Up up up.
[popping] Whoo.
[popping]
I'm starting to think we shouldn't be holding this
in our hands.
>> I'm starting to think that this feels a lot like
poor man's Iwo Jima.
[fireworks crackling]
I'm not feeling real good about how that went down.
>> No, me neither.
I'm feeling like our fuses are fairly inconsistent.
Here's the only one I care about, is whether--
>> JASON: The hydra?
>> The mega hydra is going to work.
We have 10 little tendrils on the end, and we
have seven of the big ones left.
I say we just try to get this one hooked up.
>> Yeah, you want to go for broke?
>> Yeah, let's see how many of the seven we can
get to ignite with our crappy fuses.
Okay, so we're going to make a big old
Yosemite Sam TNT thing. [laughing]
Here's what we'll do.
First, we'll tape it down and then, I'll tell you what,
why don't you gather a bunch of rocks for us to make
a little pyramid around it?
>> JASON: All right.
>> We'll essentially do what the instructions say
and bury it.
Yeah, does that feel secure enough to you?
>> Oh yeah, no that's not going to go anywhere.
>> You haven't even touched it.
>> Look at it, it's not moving, it's not going anywhere.
>> All right, all right.
So then now, I guess we take, what we need,
these tendrils, you want to start tying these around?
You hold it alongside it, and I'll go ahead and...
[slow music]
Here we go.
>> Okay, you're hoping for three?
>> Yeah.
>> I'm expecting two.
>> Really?
>> Yeah.
>> This seems secure, these seem attached, this seems
like a lot of fuse material.
>> Man, the word seem is doing a lot of work today.
[laughing]
>> I mean, I think at this point, we just go for it, right?
You're betting two, I'm hoping for three.
>> I'm hoping for seven, I'm betting on two.
>> You grab this, I'm going to light it what, right
here in the middle? >> Sure.
>> Where are we going to go?
You want to stand back here to watch?
>> I don't think we need to get that far, but yeah,
we'll just take a few steps back, should be fine.
>> Whoa.
Whoa.
That's one, we got one.
That's like two.
We got two.
["The Star-Spangled Banner"]
That seems like maybe three.
Four?
>> JASON: No way.
>> Did we get all of 'em?
>> No.
>> Dude!
[fireworks crackling]
Holy [beep].
>> Did that work?
>> I think it got all of 'em.
This is where we very carefully approach.
>> We got all of them.
>> Dude, it did.
All seven of them.
Okay, so why did that work?
I don't think each individual fuse was very trustworthy,
but I think bundling them all together brought enough
heat down that, by the time it got to the bottom,
just everything was all fired up.
>> We had so much fuse here, if you look right
over here, a bunch of it fell off while it was
still burning, was coming over here.
So a bunch of it, while it was still burning, I think
also fell down onto the actual fuses.
So, even if it didn't work, we had some redundancy built in.
>> Yeah yeah, it's almost like we did.
We had a redundant array of independent fuses, arrayf.
>> Arrayf, there you go.
>> Man, I'm going to say we did a fine job.
>> I think that was surprisingly successful.
>> Home made fuses legend tested.
They work kind of.
Boom.
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>> Okay.
>> This is going to look an awful lot like something
we did before, but it's not he thing we did before.
>> It's not.
>> Just touched the hot plate, it's hot.
>> Ooh, are you okay?
>> That's very hot.
>> Yeah, it's warm, see the light?
Doesn't come on.
So how are you supposed to know?
Aside from the fact that I told you a couple of times.
>> Well, and the heat, yeah.