Dominoes, Tank Shells, and a Shredder: Jimmy's Day of Destructive Experiments
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The video is framed as "the first of many experiments." Jimmy and the crew try a string of large-scale stunts: toppling what they call the tallest domino in the world, detonating a giant Minecraft-style creeper over a life-size village, launching an explosive-laden roller coaster cart off its track, and testing whether expensive safes can survive equal-value piles of TNT. Running through the whole video is a challenge. A crew member named Adam is given a Lamborghini and Jimmy's credit card, and has three days to defend the car against tank fire. A second Lamborghini is fed into what the video calls the world's largest shredder.
The Tallest Domino
The opening preview promises a store crushed by the world's largest domino. The footage itself centers on the fall. As it starts to tip, the group shouts that it is "actually working" and asks whether they will have to run. After the thud, Jimmy declares it "the new tallest domino in the world." The crew's main reaction is that they had been "way too close." Jimmy then says this was not even the coolest thing in the video and lists what is coming: "the biggest explosion in YouTube history" and a roller coaster launched off its track.
The Giant Creeper and Steve
Next the team plans to destroy an entire village with a massive creeper explosion. For scale, they first show a human-sized creeper, then say the real one is 50 times bigger. Jimmy points out that although it is 50 times larger, it carries 200 times the TNT. A Steve figure stands in the village. Jimmy notes that Steve "somehow" survived a previous creeper, but doubts Steve will survive this one. To show how big the creeper is, Jimmy adds that Steve is taller than Jimmy.
The crew watch from a bunker in what they call the Green Zone, unsure exactly when the blast will happen. Afterward Jimmy says they are "speechless, for once." Someone asks how they are allowed to do this, and the joking answer is: "We live in a country called America."
The Lamborghini Defense Challenge Begins
Jimmy hands Adam a new Lamborghini, then explains the catch. Jimmy has "obtained a military grade tank" and will rain shells on the car in exactly three days. Adam can use Jimmy's credit card to spend as much as needed to defend it. If the Lamborghini survives, Adam keeps it. Adam sums up the goal as "Stop shell, win Lambo."
Adam's first step is to call a construction crew to bring in building materials. The walls are meant to be about a foot taller than Adam's head, which Adam says should at least block direct shots at the car. The second layer is a set of water-filled pools. Adam cites a MythBusters episode in which rounds were fired into a pool, and reasons that water should heavily reduce a projectile's velocity.
The Explosive Roller Coaster
Jimmy says they bought "the world's most dangerous roller coaster." It is dangerous because Jimmy put bombs on the ride. The idea is that a rider should be launched off the rail, and the open question is where they would land.
The first run uses mannequins placed by the crew, with the cart pushed by hand. It goes off the ramp, but Jimmy admits expecting it to fly further. They repeat the run with "dozens of pounds of TNT" in boxes inside the cart and sprint to the bunker after pushing. The cart explodes. Jimmy concludes that it "might not have flown 100 feet, but at least we blew it up," and says the blast is "literally nothing" compared to the next one.
Safes Versus Equal-Value TNT
The safe experiment uses three safes costing $1,000, $10,000, and $100,000. The largest is bigger than Jimmy. For each safe, they spend the same amount on TNT and put an egg inside to see whether it survives. The explosives are brought in by Chandler, whom Jimmy jokingly calls "my dealer." Jimmy notes that the detonator is usually a wireless switch, but this time it is hardwired.
- $1,000 safe, $1,000 of TNT: After the blast, the egg "literally" doesn't exist anymore.
- $10,000 safe, $10,000 of TNT: The safe is described as 50 times stronger, with three-inch-thick steel, against ten times the explosives. Stacking the crates is compared to "explosive Jenga" and to putting presents around a Christmas tree. Someone questions whether a $10,000 safe is worth it if it can't protect an egg. Another replies that they don't know whether safes are meant to stop TNT at all. The blast leaves a divot in the ground. It also breaks the glass on the $100,000 safe nearby, and Jimmy says in hindsight the safes should have been placed further apart.
- $100,000 safe, $100,000 of TNT: Jimmy calls this the biggest explosion they have ever done "by far." Jimmy adds that their videos have become so extreme that people think they are faked, and insists this is a real explosion. Afterward they joke about waking up the whole city and state. The back of the safe is gone, and the concrete foundation is cracked. Jimmy's reading is that the manufacturer put its effort into the 37,000-pound door rather than the walls. The egg did not survive.
Adam's Fortress Grows, and the Rules Change
Adam builds through the night and remarks that it is still hot at 2 a.m. By morning the defenses include cars from a scrapyard, stacked at least two layers deep. Adam's "real secret" is to position them so the engine blocks face the incoming shots, reasoning that an engine block has more stopping power than the side of a car. Jimmy's tally at this point is two cinder-block walls, two layers of stacked cars, and three pools of water. Adam is confident: "That Lambo's mine, baby."
Jimmy then brings in two more tanks, so the car will be targeted from all sides, and tells Adam there is a little under 24 hours left. Adam admits being stressed and says the strategy would have been completely different with advance notice of three tanks.
While Adam keeps building, the crew test a tank against a 100-pound safe, a trampoline, and bulletproof glass. The round goes through, and someone can see daylight through the hole from behind. Jimmy notes this is the weakest of the three tanks and concludes "Adam is screwed."
Warming Up the Shredder
To show how powerful the shredder is before the Lamborghini goes in, the team feeds it other objects. A piano goes in first, and Jimmy remarks that it "doesn't sound like piano noises." Next comes a load of Coke, which Jimmy is "99% sure" will burst. Then a Hershey's vending machine, which gets stuck; Jimmy jokes that not even the massive shredder "can digest Hershey's." Finally, a porta potty is dropped in by Kris, whom Jimmy questions being allowed to operate the equipment. Jimmy notes they had been in the junkyard for 10 hours and confesses to having used it earlier. These shredder segments run alongside a sponsored segment.
Adam's Last Night
The final night goes badly for Adam. Nothing is open, resources are running short, and Adam is down to the last bricks. Adam calls stopping three tanks "just impossible" but refuses to sleep. When Jimmy returns, Adam is still building and asks for five more hours.
Over the last 24 hours, Adam has added 20 more cars, four more walls on the sides, and two more giant pools. One new pool is empty because Adam ran out of time to fill it. Jimmy suggests learning time management, and Adam agrees. Jimmy also notices far fewer cars on one side, and a wall filled with sand that Jimmy thinks may be easier to push over. Adam insists it will be fine, and Jimmy asks whether Adam even wants the Lambo.
Twenty Tank Shells
Jimmy says they have obtained 20 real tank shells and will not stop firing until all are used. The first shot hits the pool in front of the Lamborghini, and water pours everywhere. More shots follow, including all three tanks firing at once. Adam's walls block the view of the car from the firing position, so nobody knows its condition until the ammunition runs out. Adam's confidence fades: "I've done all I can do," and Adam's "only hope is that they're missing." For the final shot, Adam is made to pull the trigger personally and decides to "go down looking like a G."
When they reach the car, it has no holes. Jimmy's explanation is that the scrap cars were not strong enough to stop the rounds, but they deflected them away from the Lamborghini. A shell is also found in the pool directly in front of the car. Jimmy says the pool "caught a bullet for you," and Adam thanks MythBusters. Adam keeps the Lamborghini, and the episode closes with Adam squeezing into it to check that it fits.
The Lamborghini Meets the Shredder
The last experiment drops a Lamborghini into the shredder by crane. It hangs over the edge for a moment, then falls in and gets caught on its tires. The crew say it looks like it is dancing and that their building is shaking. Jimmy calls it the coolest thing they have ever seen. Because the car is "fighting back," the crane pushes it down until it is shredded. Jimmy then reassures viewers that this car didn't work and had been decommissioned.
This is the largest shredder in the world, and this Lamborghini is going to fall in it. We're also nuking an entire life-size village, shooting real tanks at a literal Lamborghini, and crushing this store with the world's largest domino.
This is the first of many experiments. You're going to love this video. You ready? Ready! This is going to be crazy.
All right. They're falling. Come on. All right, it's working. It's actually working. Are we going to have to run? You hear the thud? Oh, it's going.
All right, that was the tallest domino in the world. That was the new tallest domino in the world. Down goes the domino! Oh, my God!
That was insane! That was crazy! We were way too close!
This isn't even the coolest thing we're doing in this video. We're detonating the biggest explosion in YouTube history, launching a roller coaster off its track, and so much more! Let's go to the next experiment. We got a lot of experiments today.
And up next, we're going to destroy an entire village with a massive creeper explosion. And just for reference, a human-sized version looks like this. Oh! Oh, okay. But we're going to be detonating one 50 times bigger.
Steve, somehow you survived the last creeper. This one… I'm not quite sure you're going to survive. We don't believe Steve's going to make it? Oh, heck no. Even though this is 50 times bigger, it has 200 times the TNT. Bye, Steve.
Okay, let's head in the bunker. All right, Steve. Let's send Steve into the abyss. Just so you know how big this creeper is, Steve is actually taller than me.
He's getting close. We're in the Green Zone. This is going to be a massive explosion. It's getting closer, any second now. I don't know when it's going to happen. Oh, I'm scared.
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my God. I'm speechless, for once. I'm still processing that. That was insane. How are we allowed to do this? We live in a country called America. Go, America.
If you thought that was cool, I got news for you. It's about to get a whole lot cooler. For our next experiment, I bought another Lamborghini.
Adam, this is your Lamborghini. Thank you. And you're probably wondering, though, what's the catch? Yes. That's exactly what I'm wondering. How do I put this? Recently, I may have obtained a military-grade tank. In exactly three days, I'm going to be raining missiles on your new car. And you get to use my credit card to spend as much money as you want trying to defend it. If the Lamborghini survives, you have a brand-new car.
I'm going to spend whatever it takes to defend this Lambo. That's why I gave you my card. Okay, fine. I'm going to do it. A lot of things racing in my mind right now, but it's simplified into stop shell, win Lambo.
Adam's first move was to call a construction crew to bring in building materials and help him set up his first wall. I'm going to want all the walls to kind of be a foot over my head. That'll at least protect the direct shots on the Lambo.
Now for the second part of my process, it's going to be the pool. There was a MythBusters episode where they were shooting rounds into a pool, so that should stop the velocity heavily.
Adam's got a lot of work ahead of him to keep his Lambo from danger. And speaking of danger, we bought the world's most dangerous roller coaster. And if you're wondering why it's dangerous… Basically, I put bombs on the ride.
In theory, if you were to ride this roller coaster, you should get launched off this rail. The only question is where would you land? Let's see how far it goes when it gets launched off it. And obviously, before we launch it, we're going to put mannequins on it. Everyone, put your mannequin where you want.
He's got a good head on his shoulders. And the final touch. Push! As hard as you can! All right, get out of the way. Go! Go! Go!
All right, there it is. This thing's going fast. All right. Now, it's going to come down and go off the ramp. Here it goes. Go, go, go.
All right. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Oh, that actually scared me. To be honest, I thought it would go further. That was cool and all. Let's do that again, but with an explosive in the cart.
Inside these boxes, there's dozens of pounds of TNT. When we're done pushing, run to the bunker. You don't have to tell me to do that.
Go, go, go, go. We're going. All right, I'm running. Go, guys. Go! Go quicker. Go, go, go, go, go! Oh, my gosh! Get inside. It's going down!
That was awesome! It might not have flown 100 feet, but at least we blew it up. But that explosion is literally nothing compared to what you're about to see.
For the next experiment, we have three safes, one that costs $1,000, $10,000, and finally, the $100,000 safe. It's bigger than me. And we're going to see how many explosives they can resist.
These are actual explosives. Why is Chandler bringing them in? He's my dealer. Okay. Carefully set it down.
I know this doesn't look like a lot, but this is $1,000. For however much we spent on each safe, we spent the same amount on TNT. And we're going to see who wins: this $1,000 safe or $1,000 in explosives. I'm going to put an egg inside the safe. Let's see if it turns into scrambled eggs.
Usually during explosives, we have a wireless switch. This time, it's hardwired. Why?
That actually scared me. Well, the egg in the safe literally don't exist anymore. Let's try this again with 10 times the explosives and a safe 50 times stronger. No joke, this thing has three-inch-thick steel.
Grab a crate of explosives. This is like explosive Jenga. Oh, my gosh. We're like putting presents around a Christmas tree.
The last egg did not survive. Let's see if a $10,000 safe can protect it. Is this safe really worth ten grand if it can't protect an egg from TNT? I don't know if safes are meant to stop TNT.
This button is hot. You want to hit it? I do. 3, 2, 1, go! Oh!
What? Oh, my… Bro. The next one is supposed to be 10 times bigger than that one, which was ten times bigger than the previous one.
Which was ten times bigger than the previous one.
Oh, my God. He put a divot in the ground. Yo, can you guys believe Nolan's mom fell right here?
Oh, my God. It broke the glass on the hundred thousand safe. In hindsight, I should've put the safes further apart.
Ever since we were born, we've always wondered if you put $100,000 worth of explosives around a $100,000 safe, would it protect an egg? The age-old question. You're in luck because I'm about to answer it.
So heavy! This safe is now surrounded by $100,000 in explosives? You could say it's unsafe now.
Out of every explosion we've ever done, what you're about to see is the biggest by far. Our videos have gone so crazy that people think we fake them. This is a real explosion. Three, two, one.
I don't even have any words. We woke up everybody in the city. Everybody in the entire state.
Let's see if the egg survived. Oh, my gosh. Bro, the back of the safe is gone. Bro, it broke the foundation. It's all cracked in the floor.
It seems like they put all their effort in the 37,000-pound door and not the walls of the safe. And the egg did not survive. If you ever want to rob a bank, just buy a hundred grand worth of TNT.
In the meantime, Adam had been going all night building his structure.
It's like 2:00 a.m., still so hot out here.
And when I came back in the morning, I noticed he had some pretty interesting ideas for it. Adam! What am I looking at?
Scrapyard had a lot of cars. I'm going to have at least two layers of cars and I'm probably going to stack them. The real secret is I'm going to be using the engine block to stop it. That should give it more stopping power than just the side of a vehicle.
So far, Adam has two cinder block walls, two layers of stacked cars and three pools full of water, all just to protect this Lamborghini from the tank's shot. What do you think the odds are that the Lambo survives?
That Lambo's mine, baby. We're going to get it done.
But I wasn't about to go easy on it, so we brought in extra support for tomorrow. Boys! Bring them in!
Oh, my gosh. Jimmy.
Now that we brought in two more tanks, the Lambo will be targeted from all sides. Adam doesn't stand a chance. You have a little less than 24 hours left. Good luck, Adam. You're going to need it.
All jokes aside, I am actually stressed out about that. If I'd known there were going to be three tanks, I would've strategized completely different.
While you're building, we're going to go test the tanks.
Oh, great. Thanks.
Kris, do you want to do the honors? Yeah. Too bad.
The test we built consists of a hundred-pound safe, a trampoline and bulletproof glass. But…
Did it go through it? Oh, I can literally see through it from back here. This is the weakest of the three tanks. Adam is screwed.
While Adam was wrapping up his protection for his Lamborghini, we're going to throw one into a shredder. And to show you how powerful it is, I'm going to shred some other stuff first. Karl, send it.
Here we go! Yeah. Let's see what happens. Oh, yeah! That is so awesome!
That doesn't sound like piano noises. Yeah! I think we need to wash down that piano. I agree. Send the Coke. I'm 99% sure these are going to blow up.
Oh, there it goes!
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Oh, it smells. We've been in this junkyard for 10 hours, and even I took a poop in that earlier.
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While we clean out this shredder to get it ready for the Lamborghini, we're going to go shoot another one with tanks. And things aren't looking good for Adam because he was running into a ton of problems on his last night of filming.
We're hitting some issues. We need some things. Nothing's open, not being able to get enough resources. This is my last bricks. I can't believe we even got these done. Three tanks is just impossible. I got to work through the rest of the night. I wouldn't forgive myself if I went to sleep now.
Adam. Hi, Jimmy. Please tell me you're not still building. Can I get five more hours?
Over the last 24 hours, Adam has managed to stash 20 more cars, build four more walls to the sides, and he also put two more giant pools.
But you went out of your way to build this pool, but didn't fill it up. Yup. I ran out of time to fill it up. You should learn time management. Yes, I should.
Noticing a lot less cars over here. Yeah. Oh, I see you put sand in here. Does it make it harder to push over? It'll be fine.
Bro, do you just not want the Lambo? It's going to work. Okay.
This might be the last time we see this Lamborghini in one piece. Stay strong. I'll be back soon.
And I've obtained 20 real tank shells. Don't ask me how. And we're not going to stop firing until we use all of them. The boys are loading the tanks. This is going to be awesome.
Why is mine so small? You know why. The moment of truth.
The moment of truth. Are you ready? Three, two, one.
Oh. One of my pools. We got a pool. No, no, no.
Our first shot literally hit the pool in front of the Lambo. The water poured everywhere. How much water did you put in those pools? Oh, this is gross.
Fire in the hole!
Oh, my God. I'm still holding out faith. Hey, this one at the same time. All three. Oh, my God. Three, two, one.
Adam's walls make it impossible to see the Lamborghini from here. So until we run out of ammo, we have no idea if his car made it or not.
I felt that one. Yeah, this is not good. Reload the tanks. Kris. Karl. Nolan.
Your defense is not holding up there. This is not good. I'm kind of grasping at straws at this point. I've done all I can do.
Fire in the hole. I have way too much power. I was so confident today too.
I love how it's just rapid-fire tanks right now. My only hope is that they're missing.
Anyways, what were you saying? Last shot. Adam, this time you don't get a choice. You have to pull. If I'm gonna go down, I'm gonna go down looking like a G.
All right. Oh, he's running! Adam's car, it's done for. I can't see. I can't see.
Let's go! Come on! Wait. Are there no holes in it? Man, let's go, baby! You did it!
What's crazy is, even though the cars aren't strong enough to stop the rounds, they were able to deflect them away from the Lamborghini.
There's a bullet in the pool. Oh, my God. There's a bullet in the pool. The pool right in front of the Lamborghini caught a bullet for you. Thank you, MythBusters.
I owe you this, but I'm gonna keep the Lambo. Oh, my gosh. Oh, will he fit?
Hey, he fits! Hey, we're gonna make it work. That's fine. We're gonna make it work. Congratulations on the Lambo. Let's go shred another one.
And now, the moment you savages have been waiting for. This hunk of metal is going in the world's largest shredder.
Is it time? It's time! Let's drop it. Karl, are you ready? Ready! Send the Lamborghini!
This suspense is killing me. Oh, my God. It's hanging over the edge! Oh, my God! There it goes.
Lamborghini versus the world's largest shredder. It's about to... Oh!
Yeah! Look at it. It looks like it's dancing. This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. Bro, our building's shaking.
Oh. The car's fighting back. I think we need to push it down. It's stuck in the Lamborghini tires, so the crane's going to push it down.
Whoa. Yeah! Shred the car. Shred the car. It's doing it. Oh, my God. All right.
And that is what a shredded Lamborghini looks like. Don't worry, it didn't work. It was decommissioned.
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