75mph Bird to the Face with Adam Savage (@tested) and @bobbyfingers - The Slow Mo Guys

whoa oh my God I lost the

bird hello there I'm gav welcome to the

slow-mo

Guist you may be thinking to yourself

why is a ballistic gel Goose covered in

animal birthing Lube being fired out of

a 20ft air cannon and who's this

Majestic looking bloke about to take the

goose to the

grid well that's an excellent

question a while ago my friend Gus told

me about a YouTube channel called Bobby

fingers did you see that YouTube video

of the guy sculpting M Gibson's DUI uh

arrest no no he makes these insanely

detailed meticulous diaramas of famous

moments in time such as Mel Gibson being

arrested Steven cagar getting slammed

into the ground and Michael Jackson

catching on fire after realizing I was

subscribed to the channel Bobby fingers

sent me a cheeky email he said for his

next video he'd love some slow-mo shots

of a ballistic gel Goose hitting a

silicon head and immediately I knew we

were doing some Fabio so we arranged to

meet up in our usual Quarry in Texas I

brought the highspeed cameras Bobby

brought the Fabio heads and geese and

alltime hero of mine Adam Savage from

MythBusters assembled a 20t air cannon

with an absolute honken pressure tank

big 20 footer we had to rent a 26t van

to fit it in we're using the TMX 7510

and we'll get some nice 4K shots at

1,000 on that one and go up to

80 2,000 on this one not sure we'll need

it it's not going it's not a supersonic

Goose when I'm ready to fire it I'll

bring this over and connect it the

moment that's connected no one goes

past actually everyone should be back

behind here once that's connected

effectively this uh first set of tests

is going to be really straightforward

I'm going to put a little Lube in the

end of this I'm just going to fire it to

fill the end with Loop fill the tube

with Loop then I'm going to disconnect

it grease this bird dip it in the in the

loop here pop it in and we'll power it

up to like 60 PSI and just see how far

the bird goes and hopefully the

highspeed camera will give us some idea

of its speed after a shot before anyone

proceeds to go see what happened wait

for me to say all

clear that's just making sure I'm not

putting anyone in the end of a barrel

where there's still pressure in here for

any

reason he's doing my job we'll thicken

this up it's a um you're supposed to

powder it on your hands before you're

pulling a cow out of another cow and it

uses the cow juice to to uh no no you

wet you put the powder on your hands and

then you wet them and it greases them up

so you can add this to the bucket and we

get lube for the bird have you ever got

any into your peronal cavity say not to

does not

to I mean it is sold

specifically but you can get it into

other cavities just fun this is bargain

Lop what kind of ratio do you go for I

have no idea I think we dump most of

this bottle and we get our

L yeah it's um like a methal cellulose

oh yeah it's like alien

slime oh you can oh it looks

thick

now wow yeah any any cows need to be

born here we can

help that's our breach loading system

Loop shot in three two

one all

right I don't think the bird's going to

make it to the end of the barrel sounds

good though I have no idea if this is

going to work oh look we get a Reverb

now that the barrel was lubed we wanted

fire this test Goose to see how close to

75 mph it would come

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out oh the cing is

smaller got it you got

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it you saying you didn't want to go up

to a higher PSI say no no I am going to

a higher PSI okay cool yeah yeah it's in

down it's mostly about how much volume

here we can move through there and it's

possible we can get the bird up to

speed again won't know anything until we

fire this one in three 2

one exceeded every expectation she was

that was

great she bounced real Qui I had no idea

that was great I'm so happy and the

other ones are going to go faster cuz

that bird was Heavy yeah they're lighter

jellous Let's uh let's find out from

these Geniuses how fast that went this

is this is such a

sight it looks like a Concord com out

it's so aerodynamic so good look at it

it doesn't budge an inch it's just

completely still this is we talked about

this in San Francisco I said I didn't

think the head would fly back when it

left the barrel was going to bend around

all right so you need a measurement of

the bird yeah ideally yeah I need the

software to do a proper measurement but

I guess we can just figure out the

framing right let me grab a tape back

you want to measure from the barrel to

the end of the frame and we can figure

out that distance okay that doesn't

sound

right so oh right right

right you can barely see 74 mph is that

right s me check

my 62 in in 47 milliseconds that feels

exactly right so did did you just

literally nail it yeah I've got the same

75 mph yeah I literally nailed it on the

firsty 75 what a professional come up

yeah come over this way do he go so hard

to aim something so

long I have tons of experience with

that yeah I got it what's that I just

like these moments where I'm like going

to go how the did I get

here so yeah in aquari with you clown

shooting ke Cannon you just kind of stop

and assess and go did I get here I I

will tell you and I'm sure you guys have

had this many many times but Jamie and I

talk we called it the myth buzzer moment

for us because we'd be sitting at the

top of a greased slide after weeks of

work going who who who what how no one

asked us to do this no one asked us and

by the way we are at pressure the barrel

isn't hooked up but I'm ready to load

the crap bird and fire it into crap stop

talking about ourselves as start

shooting some GE

the moment like that that Bobby

mentioned is one of my favorite feelings

basically just realizing you're standing

right in the middle of such a surreal

moment having watched every episode of

Mythbusters in my youth I've seen Adam

interact with Phantoms multiple times

but there was that realization for me

right here where I was watching Adam

load up the pipe with the goose as if I

am watching an episode of Mythbusters

Gavin are you guys ready for a potential

and then he turns to me to check if the

Phantoms are ready I just found that

moment so fulfilling

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it's just best if they're unconscious

next up to test the aim of the cannon

we'd be firing the ugliest bird at the

ugliest Fabio head yeah it's

great going

on whoa oh my God I lost the

bird I lost the bird have you gone far

it did oh

no pre lubed it was a real struggle with

the lube one

oh yeah come out yeah awesome I've got

it the bird is

loaded bird and defabio on three two

one

awesome the unfortunate thing with these

faster cameras is that we're searching

through like 400,000 frames oh

yeah that's 50,000 frames a second 50

yeah Jesus I can speed up a little slide

over God look at the splash on his chin

oh my God it's like literally going in

his

mouth oh

yes it's like pushing his

no [ __ ]

AR look like you got hit by an be hit by

an eel

yeah stop making that that noise

specifically is pretty bad ballistic St

is made for

smacking yeah it looks like this one

will fly pretty proud oh yeah you will

get him yeah she's a Bea oh look at her

she might take a little Force to get in

but don't let go of the tail absolutely

not the first time I've done

this

absolutely go

get in your graci she

goes I have her I

have all right all right here we go

beautiful bird into beautiful Fabio

three two

one that was a good blow the sound

specifically good we're going to have

some good eyeball action

there good grief

range is clear Adam Savage you're going

to want to see

this it's the hopeful look on his face

very Disney prince clearly enjoying

himself on his on his ride yeah you can

just imagine his

exactly oh my God the bird is perfect

now he's seeing

the force equals mass time to

acceleration flip wow it's almost like

he closed his eyes for a

second the bird is just going into the

into itself

Cronenberg speed

up oh my

God that is the most perfect glancing

blow one eye

is it just completely changes the

face amazing

oh he got the whipping he got the tail

in the

neck

sh nice bit of movement down the rack

too oh yeah the thing like had a bit of

recoil that time yeah that's

good oh that's

spectacular most qualified person in the

world and doing speciic this succession

of ridiculous skills I'm pretty good at

the best he was most qualified before

ever started doing any of this as well

what do you think you're the best at oh

I think I'm just all right at loads of

stuff you could have get in giant

balloons I'm pretty well practiced at it

these days without Lube we should just

get some of this animal Lube yeah I know

why didn't we think of that never

thought of that and

uh get in your

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pup in three 2 1

oh blew his hair off oh yeah oh I can't

believe his eye didn't pop out oh it did

no it didn't no it didn't it didn't

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and three 2

1 oh eye popped

out what'd you find there Dan just found

the eye you know popped out quite a

far

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detention oh

oh whips

around run it back very

good

you I'm starting to think Fabio's

telling the

truth the white silicon test goose is

heavier than the ballistics gel geese so

we were curious if it would do even more

damage to the Fabio head

what oh that's what we're talking

about who's the first to find the

eyeballs me found both of them

one it's not like they look like every

other thing on the ground yeah yeah

yeah did it fall out in yes it's deeply

um damaged him it's like gone into his

nose

that's booking it

oh hell that one's really gruesome I

think that's going way faster than the

other

one oh the mechanical coupling between

the bird and the face that is going to

smarten the all

Jesus

Christ God Adam then wanted to see which

Goose would go the furthest distance the

Silicon or the ballistics gel here we go

3 2

1 nice and clean look at that I'm really

curious about which one went farther

oh oh

no I got I

ah I got to rinse my shoes bistic gel

bird went 100 F

feet this one went 150 ft so silicone

wins God damn

it the hard part about the slurry is

that it's a quarry which means it's not

dirt it's it's Clay it's it's under dirt

and it's tenacious as hell it sticks to

everything if you were walking around

here in the rain it gathers up on the

bottoms of your boots until you're like

four or five inches higher I'm not

kidding that would that would stay on

you I have to chip this off of the

screwdriver unless I get it off right

now yeah I can uh I can move about the

cabin

now last shot of the day the

martini you happy Bobby here we go 3 2

1 all in all this was one of my favorite

days ever feel free to subscribe to the

channel if you want to see more slow-mo

and make sure you check out the videos

on Adam Savage's tested Channel and of

course the full Fabo video over on the

Bobby fingers Channel thanks for

watching see you next time oh my God

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