- 5/27/2025
🔥 **Lasers vs Lightning: Which Is More Powerful?** 🔥 Ever wondered how these two titans of nature and technology measure up against each other? In this electrifying showdown, we explore the incredible energy of lightning flashes compared to the precision of powerful lasers! 🌩️✨ Join us on a journey through science as we uncover the secrets behind their power, speed, and application in the real world. Which forces do you believe reign supreme in the ultimate battle of LASERS vs LIGHTNING? 💡⚡️ Stick around till the end for mind-blowing comparisons and demonstrations! Don't forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for more epic content!
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00:00Which has more destructive power, lasers or lightning?
00:03Today, to declare a final champion among all the elements we've tested head-to-head on my channel,
00:08they'll be facing off in tests against seven household objects,
00:11including a CD, a crystal ball, and a safe full of cash.
00:15Let's go!
00:16And since laser had to defeat lava to make it to the finals,
00:19your favorite former middle school teacher turned to laser-wielding that genius is back,
00:23science Bob Fluefelder.
00:25Good luck, Mark! You're so positive!
00:27Representing lightning is Mehdi Sadakdar, a.k.a. Electroboot.
00:31He left his manners in Canada and brought some shocking bits of electric machinery
00:38to show off his mastery of electrons.
00:40I know what I'm doing, kind of.
00:42But once again, for the final encore performance,
00:45I'm not going to be watching from the sidelines either,
00:47as all seven objects will have to face my X-Factor method of destruction.
00:52Which, as always, is different for each object.
00:55So, for example, this lava lamp might just get turned into an actual lava lamp.
00:59Oh my god!
01:00And as expected at this stage in the competition,
01:02the Nerd Trash Talk commenced immediately.
01:04Lightning beats everything.
01:05I'm just worried about you surviving.
01:07Wow!
01:08And by the way, winner of today's competition gets a safe full of cash!
01:12Really?
01:13Don't get excited.
01:14Actual cash!
01:15I still got a rusted boat in my driveway from the last one.
01:17It's gonna cost you more to get rid of it.
01:18Oh my god.
01:19Alright, well, let's get started.
01:20You're doomed, Bob.
01:21Lightning.
01:22And with that, it was time to start our seven-item showdown of destruction,
01:25starting with a contest to burn a CD from our personal collections.
01:29Literally.
01:30And Bob was gonna get us started by using his super-powerful military-grade laser
01:33to destroy Rod Stewart's greatest hits.
01:36Full choice.
01:37I'm a big Rod Stewart fan.
01:38Especially at Track Night.
01:39So Bob fired up both his laser and his Rod Stewart demon.
01:43Whoa!
01:47What?
01:48Wait, it's gone!
01:49Where's the CD?
01:50It's gone!
01:51It's like the end of Avengers.
01:52What happened?
01:53We had to use a replay to realize that Bob's super-powerful laser
01:57had folded the CD like a taco before incinerating it in an undeniable showdown.
02:02What is that?
02:03That's nothing, Bob.
02:04Oh.
02:05That's literally ash.
02:06You might still be able to play that.
02:07Yeah.
02:08Watch me do it.
02:09Mehdi, out of the gate strong with the trash talk.
02:11Yeah, let's hope he can live up to that.
02:13Yeah.
02:14Okay, wow.
02:15He's a mess.
02:16Now it was lightning.
02:17So it's time to see how Mehdi planned to use the super-mean-looking Tesla coil
02:20that he'd brought to Crunch Labs.
02:22So to burn my CD, I'm gonna use this jack-
02:29Did you just get shot?
02:31It went to the ground through my shoe.
02:33You're like talking slower, I feel like.
02:35Broke my CD.
02:36Poor Chris the Berg.
02:37Oh.
02:38Lady in the red.
02:39Time to see if the Tesla coil could shock the CD as well as it shocked Mehdi.
02:43Whoa!
02:44Whoa!
02:45Whoa!
02:46Whoa!
02:47Whoa!
02:48And it worked beautifully.
02:49Arcing patterns lighting up Crunch Labs.
02:52They were so gorgeous.
02:53And like moths to a light, we just had to get closer.
02:56Whoa!
02:57Until we remembered we were working by Mehdi's safety standards.
03:00Wow!
03:01Like a little bit longer and I think it would have cut all the way through.
03:04I think we should try it one more time.
03:05I have second thoughts.
03:06I never have second thoughts.
03:07I try it again and every time I learn something new.
03:11With a scar.
03:12I don't have a good feeling about this.
03:14Mehdi had used a wire to ground the CD so he could get close without having to worry.
03:18Mehdi had become the god of thunder.
03:26That's how you erase a CD.
03:28And this crystal ball CD was facing its Ragnarok.
03:31It's beautiful.
03:32Until Mehdi shocked himself.
03:34Okay.
03:35But despite the second self-own of the day, Mehdi had done a pretty great job at burning
03:41the CD.
03:42I don't know what I'm doing, kind of.
03:43And this is a good time to point out, even though Mehdi has made a career out of building
03:47really cool things that always somehow shock him.
03:52He does have a master's degree in electrical engineering and is very smart and actually
03:56does know exactly what he's doing.
03:58In other words, please don't try this with your own 4 foot Tesla coil at home.
04:01Let's roll the X Factor.
04:02It was time to show these boys what the X Factor could pull off.
04:06Gentlemen, prepare to have your minds blown.
04:08Really?
04:09Microwave?
04:10It's not just any microwave.
04:12It's a microwave with two googly eyes.
04:14But googly eyes or not, Mariah Carey was in for a little excitement.
04:183, 2, 1.
04:19Now wait.
04:20I was always told you never put metal into a microwave.
04:23This is true.
04:24Do not try this at home.
04:25Only try this at Crunch Labs.
04:27Whoa!
04:28No!
04:29The microwave put on quite a techno light show for us.
04:33Whoa!
04:34And it did a great job.
04:36Whoop.
04:37Don't breathe that smoke.
04:39But ultimately, besides destroying a CD beyond repair, the final verdict was, I think Maddie's
04:44was the coolest this round.
04:45I kind of, yeah.
04:46Of course it was.
04:47Bob.
04:48Under round two.
04:49So now that we had the first point on the board, we got ready for a chilly round two.
04:54Solid block of ice.
04:55I'm gonna make a swan sculpture out of here.
04:57I don't want to spoil anything, but I'm feeling good about my chances on this one.
05:00Did you do a chainsaw?
05:01And Bob was up first with the super powerful laser.
05:04All right, guys.
05:05Let's go.
05:06And as he worked his laser across the surface of the ice, the dripping water indicated that
05:10his laser was...
05:11It's so weak!
05:12Is he even doing anything, Bob?
05:14Hey, this is how light works!
05:15And honestly, he's right.
05:17Since ice is more or less transparent, the laser passes straight through and doesn't
05:22bounce off or get absorbed by anything, which means it doesn't build up enough heat to cause
05:26any damage.
05:27Wow!
05:28You're dying.
05:29You're dying.
05:30So this time, Bob focuses laser on one spot and held it there.
05:34Oh, uh-oh.
05:35And it started to create a rough surface on the ice, which allowed the laser to finally
05:40interact with something and build up some heat, eventually.
05:45What?
05:46Pouring a hole all the way through.
05:49Oh, that is cool, actually.
05:51Yeah.
05:52It looks very bullet-like.
05:53It's a bullet that kills you in half an hour.
05:56It was time for Mehdi to back up all that trash talk.
05:59Let me show you how he's done.
06:00I'm gonna use a welding machine and run 650 amps of current through this...
06:05Oh!
06:06Like I was saying...
06:07Basically, Mehdi's plan was to use the buildup of heat from electrical resistance to create...
06:12A hot rebar knife through icy butter.
06:14Uh-oh.
06:15Uh-oh.
06:16We got a sizzle.
06:17Give me more juice.
06:18Wow, that's red.
06:20Now watch this.
06:22Whoa!
06:23That's cool!
06:24That's how we do it.
06:25You're bending the rod!
06:27And it worked really well.
06:29Until it didn't.
06:30What happened?
06:31Wow, it's black in the middle now.
06:33I think your ice is too cold.
06:35So Mehdi added a little bit of elbow grease to try and saw his way through the ice by using
06:40the parts of the rebar that were still glowing hot.
06:42A little bit from that side.
06:44And despite his best efforts resulting in a little melting, but much more reheating and
06:48then subsequent bending.
06:50Stop it!
06:51No arcing!
06:52Oh!
06:53Alright!
06:54I'm done!
06:55Oof!
06:56So close!
06:57It was a failure, but it was a cool failure.
06:59Enough of these jokers.
07:01It was time for the X Factor.
07:03This, boys, is how you win a competition!
07:06I'm actually kind of excited to see this.
07:08With the red, hot, nickel ball!
07:12Whoa!
07:13Oh, that's a very satisfying sound.
07:16The question is, can I make it deeper than Mehdi did?
07:19Go, go, go!
07:21The core of this nickel ball had been heated to 2,000 degrees, and it was slowly but surely
07:25making its way down the ice.
07:27Go in the distance!
07:28Is it?
07:29But unfortunately for me, the laws of thermodynamics had other plans.
07:33Oh no!
07:34It's full of water!
07:38It stole all of its energy!
07:40It takes a lot of energy to heat up water.
07:43I guess there's a clear winner.
07:45Is there a clear winner?
07:47Really, there were no clear winners in this group.
07:49I have a solution.
07:50This is how we're gonna solve this.
07:51So we decided to add a little gravity.
07:53Push!
07:54And whoever's block broke the cleanest must have done the most damage, so they'd be declared
07:59the winner.
08:00And devastatingly, for the second round in a row...
08:03Oh!
08:04Dang it!
08:05Oh, Canada!
08:07You're getting all nationalistic on us.
08:10Alright, 2-0.
08:11Next challenge!
08:12So we moved on to lamps, and this one was gonna be a little bit different.
08:15This is a Science Pop lamp?
08:17This is a Science Pop lamp?
08:18Because this time we wouldn't be trying to destroy lamps.
08:21We'd be using our chosen elements to create lamps.
08:24Ooh!
08:25For my lamp, I have got some ultraviolet reactive slime.
08:29I'm gonna hit it with a sparkle pattern ultraviolet laser filter.
08:32It should look pretty cool.
08:34Kill the lights!
08:35I can't see, Bob!
08:36Activate the laser.
08:38Whoa!
08:39Wow!
08:40The world's first slime laser lamp!
08:44Whoa!
08:45It was some of the prettiest slime I'd ever seen.
08:48That's kind of interesting.
08:50And I wonder what it would look like if you attacked it with the Crunch Labs vortex kit.
08:54Okay.
08:55Oh, yeah!
08:56Feels like a little dance.
08:57Can I play with the laser?
08:59No, don't play with the laser.
09:01Ultraviolet lime laser lamp.
09:03That was not on my bingo card.
09:05You did well, Bob.
09:06I mean, it sucks.
09:07Try that one, Lightning Boy.
09:08Lightning Boy was about to whip out the Tesla coil and this fluorescent bowl.
09:12I'm gonna do Nikola Tesla's dream of wireless power and power this with a super large Tesla
09:17coil there.
09:18Is this like a good distance for us?
09:20If it is safe for me, it's safe for you too.
09:22Why do I not trust what you say?
09:24But when we turned it on...
09:25Oh, Betty!
09:26The electric field created by the Tesla coil in the air...
09:29Look at it!
09:30It's alive!
09:31...actually causes the fluorescent tube light to glow.
09:35What's happening is the gas particles in the tube are getting excited by the electric field,
09:40which breaks them into charged particles, releasing energy in the form of light.
09:44And it made it look like the coolest actual lightsaber battle ever.
09:56Now you just go less crazy this time.
09:57Okay.
09:58Light it up.
10:05Matty!
10:06Stop breaking things!
10:07I've learned my lesson.
10:08I just want to see how bright it gets.
10:09Okay?
10:14That was delayed!
10:19Once we got the lightning man a light bulb that was too big to use as a lightsaber...
10:25Wow!
10:26It was undeniable that it was a pretty cool trick.
10:29Lightning lamp.
10:30Not bad.
10:33Alright, gentlemen.
10:34For my lamp, I'm doing a lava lamp.
10:35As in a lamp that's filled with actual lava.
10:38Does Kevin the backyard scientist know you're doing this?
10:40Oh!
10:41Okay, that's enough!
10:42More!
10:43More!
10:44No.
10:45This is our little secret, Mom.
10:46But the question was...
10:47Lava!
10:48Lava!
10:49Lava!
10:50Lava!
10:51Lava!
10:52Lava!
10:53Could I actually get any in the lamp?
10:54This is the moment of truth!
10:55Can Mark do it?
10:56Because I only have one point.
10:57Oh yeah yeah yeah!
10:58Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
11:01And the anticipation had us feeling like Christmas morning.
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11:44Now back to my precision lava pouring skills.
11:46No, no, no, no, there you go!
11:48You're doing it!
11:49You're doing it!
11:50Keep pouring!
11:51Keep pouring!
11:52Keep pouring!
11:53Keep pouring!
11:54Oh!
11:55Oh my god!
11:56It's going in!
11:57But had I poured too much?
11:59Oh!
12:00It's like a real lava!
12:01It's like a bucket of lava!
12:02Oh my god!
12:03Oh my god!
12:04Get out of there!
12:05Ultimately, I felt like the lava gods would be pleased.
12:09Yeah!
12:10While it is beautiful, it's arguably less practical.
12:13So it's time to pick a winner.
12:15I'd like to point out something.
12:16You didn't make a lamp.
12:17You destroyed a lamp.
12:18I made a lamp.
12:19I guess.
12:20You fall in.
12:21Oh my god!
12:22Give it to you!
12:23Run!
12:24I suppose even the lava gods agreed with Bob's logic.
12:27Which meant laser was on the board with one.
12:29Lightning with two.
12:30And the x-factor with a very sad zero.
12:32Which meant I'd have to change that in the LiPo battery round.
12:35All right, here we go.
12:36More questionable science!
12:38Uh, right!
12:39Right!
12:40Oh no!
12:41Right!
12:42Right!
12:43To the right!
12:44Oh, the right!
12:45Okay!
12:46It's not going to blow up in our face, is it?
12:48And it did blow up!
12:49But it did it gorgeously.
12:51There it is!
12:52Whoa!
12:53Beautiful!
12:54The laser burned right through the battery's casing.
12:56Don't try this at home, kids!
12:58And quickly burned off all the excess energy left stored inside the battery.
13:01The laser did some sweet damage to that thing.
13:03Definitely did!
13:04Whoa!
13:05Hey!
13:06Hey!
13:07Hey!
13:08Yeah!
13:09And once it was actually dead, we were able to see the many battery layers of smolding
13:12wreckage the laser left behind.
13:14Ooh, nice and sizzly.
13:15Bob, can I just point out how you kind of look like a fly right now?
13:19Do I?
13:20For lightning, I'm going to let the battery destroy itself by connecting its leads with
13:24a very low-resistance wire that will allow its-
13:27Oh no!
13:28A classic medi-start-
13:29Don't do that!
13:31Oh my god!
13:32To an otherwise interesting plan.
13:34Because by connecting the leads, he's created a path for the electrons to flow with essentially
13:38no resistance.
13:39This basically causes a stampede of electrons trying to squeeze through the wire so intense,
13:44it generated a bunch of heat that melted the connections on the flimsy white wire.
13:49So in an effort to scale up that flimsy white wire so that the battery would have to
13:53fail from the inside, Matty fashioned himself this giant mad scientist switch.
13:57Love the Frankenstein look.
13:59I know, this looks really fun, I'm not going to lie.
14:01I'll step back, that's for sure.
14:03Because only one thing would die today.
14:05And?
14:06And it actually wasn't the battery.
14:08Hello?
14:09Boo!
14:10It was Matty's winning streak.
14:12Is it getting warm?
14:13I don't know if it's the sun or the battery.
14:15Let's see what's wrong with the battery.
14:16So Matty attempted to MacGyver his way to a solution, but he was shocked to find out-
14:21You're shorting?
14:22Oh my god.
14:23That these batteries had a fail-safe internally that prevent them from shorting themselves out.
14:27Let me use the knife.
14:29Whoa!
14:30What?
14:31So in the end, the only thing that was actually destroyed was the knife.
14:36These batteries are not safe man.
14:38So now the X factor was up.
14:39This is how you do it boys.
14:41And I was going crossbow.
14:42Now last time my fatal flaw was aiming at a target that was physically impossible to hit.
14:47Dang it!
14:48So this time I was picking a distance that would be physically impossible to-
14:52You missed.
14:53Dang it!
14:54You missed the video.
14:55Wow.
14:56Whee!
14:57This is how you do it!
15:09Oh my god!
15:10Oh my god!
15:11That was fun!
15:12The metal dart did what Mehdi couldn't do-
15:14Yeah!
15:15By connecting all the layers of the battery-
15:17First try!
15:18Right there!
15:19First try!
15:20Causing the electron stampede-
15:21So slow-
15:22Yeah!
15:23Oh my god!
15:24That resulted in beautiful flames.
15:26Well boys!
15:27Yeah.
15:28Take it.
15:29Yours.
15:30Just kidding, there's nothing in there.
15:31For the first time, X Factor was on the board, and according to this crystal ball we were about
15:35to destroy, I saw many more points in my future.
15:38Laser versus crystal ball, Bob.
15:40I feel like lasers pass through glass.
15:41Yeah, I don't know why I'm here.
15:43Bob, have a little confidence, buddy.
15:45Some of the greatest discoveries in scientific history came from that aha moment.
15:49We might be about to find the cure to cancer here.
15:52Okay.
15:53Feeling inspired, Bob gave his laser a shot.
15:56And once it hit the crystal ball-
15:58Wow!
15:59It's beautiful!
16:00Double rainbow!
16:01It was a beautiful light show, but the infrared camera indicated that the only effect Bob had-
16:07I might be turning the wall into lava.
16:10You're laser, you're not lava, Bob.
16:12I'm both!
16:13I don't know if we cured cancer.
16:17It didn't even notice the globe.
16:18Loser!
16:19Meanwhile, Team X Factor had no doubts about its upcoming hole-in-one.
16:24This, while it might look like a normal golf club-
16:27Hard guy.
16:28This is actually a firearm.
16:30Goggles!
16:31Where's my goggles?
16:32Three...
16:33Two...
16:34One...
16:35Four...
16:36New hole in the wall.
16:39Now you know what you're up against.
16:40I see...
16:41Shards of glass.
16:42I'm getting back.
16:43I don't see it being that strong.
16:44You're gonna regret those words, buddy.
16:45Three...
16:46Two...
16:47One...
16:48Three...
16:49Two...
16:50One...
16:51Yeah, it was super ineffective.
16:52That feels very disappointing.
16:53And there are some cracks here.
16:54Oh, you know what I'm thinking?
16:55So I called in an assist.
16:56Just like loosening the jar of pickles from my buddy Isaac Newton.
16:58I thought everyone got one try.
16:59You guys might want to step back.
17:00Three...
17:01Two...
17:02One.
17:03Oh my God.
17:04You broke your logo!
17:05I'm literally destroying the floor.
17:07So I called in an assist, just like loosening the jar of pickles from my buddy Isaac Newton.
17:11I thought everyone got one try.
17:13You guys might want to step back.
17:14Three, two, one.
17:19Oh my god.
17:21Oh no!
17:22You broke your logo!
17:23I'm literally destroying the floor.
17:25At best, you could argue I turned the crystal ball into a bowling ball.
17:29I think that's a win for glass.
17:31Bob and I are no match for this thing.
17:33It's up to you.
17:34It would all come down to whatever insane invention Mehdi had brought in.
17:37We brought in a huge capacitor that can deliver 100,000 amps as much as one lightning strike.
17:43Hmm, okay.
17:44As much energy as a 50 caliber sniper rifle.
17:47Alright, I think we get the point.
17:48It can power 100,000 homes!
17:50Really?
17:51For a microsecond, yeah.
17:53It's hissing.
17:54Oh god.
17:55Three, two, one, zero.
17:59And the test run we set up.
18:01Oh my gosh, that was loud.
18:04Show that he might have this crystal ball in the bag.
18:07I've never done something like this before.
18:09I'm excited.
18:10It's going to be fun, yeah.
18:11Three, two, one, zero.
18:15There he is.
18:18Oh my god!
18:19Oh my god!
18:20Oh my god!
18:21Oh my god!
18:21Oh my god!
18:21Oh my god!
18:21Oh my god!
18:21Oh my god!
18:22Oh my god!
18:23Oh my god!
18:23Oh my god!
18:24Oh my god!
18:24I didn't expect that at all!
18:26None of us did.
18:27But maybe that's because we'd finally harnessed enough energy to destroy that dang crystal ball.
18:32No way!
18:34You metallicized glass.
18:36Well, Bob, I think we gotta give this one to Meddy.
18:39Somebody cleans it up?
18:40Yeah.
18:40Yeah, winter cleans up.
18:41Sorry, Meddy.
18:42Meddy added another tally to the score as we moved to the watermelon round.
18:46So Bob let us know what he was planning to do with his adorable little friend.
18:50We're gonna go all James Bond on this guy and go right down that.
18:53Googly eyes now suddenly seem much more sinister.
18:55Well, they were sitting around.
18:56I figured, why not?
18:57We're gonna leave this to you.
18:58Okay.
18:59Cancel for cutting a watermelon.
19:00Here we go.
19:01Three, two, one.
19:04Oh, there you go.
19:05Tell us where you hid the treasure.
19:07But the highly trained double-O melon didn't seem like he was gonna crack.
19:11So Bob turned up the heat.
19:13Oh no, Bob, stop!
19:15Oh my god!
19:16I'm so sorry!
19:18Actually, that was kind of fun.
19:19Oh no!
19:22It's like LASIK.
19:23Oh gosh, that looks horrible.
19:24Yeah, I think!
19:26Well, would you want to see what it tastes like?
19:28But all that, and it only cut the watermelon about an inch deep.
19:31So I had to apply a little old-fashioned elbow grease.
19:36Oh!
19:37You said you work out?
19:38Clearly.
19:38Wow!
19:40Wow, that looks gross.
19:43Oh.
19:43It has a hint of laser.
19:45Yeah!
19:45Refreshing 100-degree watermelon.
19:47Gordon Ramsay, watch out!
19:48Next up was lightning.
19:50You remember what I did to the crystal ball?
19:52I do.
19:52Remember what I did to the crystal ball?
19:53I do, actually.
19:55We're gonna do the same thing to this poor watermelon.
19:57Paint the room with watermelon.
19:59This was one that might require the bulletproof safety barrier.
20:02Let's make the watermelon vapor melon.
20:04One, two, three, two, one, zero!
20:13On second thought, the barrier was overkill.
20:18That didn't do anything!
20:20What happened?
20:21Wow.
20:22I call that an electro bust.
20:24You cracked the watermelon.
20:25You cracked the watermelon.
20:26You did what a knife could do.
20:28Oh my god, look at that!
20:30Wow!
20:31Oh my god, that looks disgusting.
20:34I think the watermelon absorbed all the shock from the explosion and I wonder how it tastes like.
20:40No, it's gonna be overkill.
20:41And my entry would take some explaining.
20:43All right, for the X-Factor, you know if you have a soda bottle and you shake it up and it has a lot of pressure and wants to expand?
20:48Sure.
20:49I'm basically gonna take a really cold liquid that will give off gas and do the same effect and stick it in the bottle.
20:54I literally did this in an earlier video of yours.
20:55I don't know what you're talking about.
20:56Let's go to the clip.
20:57Wait, you can't call it!
20:58So back at the house, while Science Bob distracted the crowd with liquid nitrogen-powered exploding watermelons.
21:03Cut the clip!
21:04Cut the clip!
21:05Stop it!
21:06Now before I get interrupted again, let me put on the most important touch.
21:09It's a Cyclops.
21:11And then the second most important touch, which is the activating mixture, and then hightail it out of there behind the safety glass,
21:17because this water minion was gonna go off any second.
21:22Now this is real boring until it's time.
21:25Oh, I can't handle this.
21:27Oh, something's lifting up there.
21:29Uh-oh.
21:32Oh, my God!
21:34That was loud!
21:36Yeah!
21:39Smashing success.
21:40Wow!
21:42It smells amazing in here.
21:45Oh, look at the ceiling.
21:47Well...
21:48Yeah, I know.
21:49You guys don't even need to say it.
21:51Fine, fine, take it.
21:52What's up?
21:53X-Factor!
21:54Only one round left.
21:56You got three points.
21:57I've got two points.
21:58Bob's got one.
21:59Heading into the two-point finale, it's anybody's game, except for Bob's.
22:02He can technically tie a vest.
22:04And we'd all have to break out the big guns as we moved into our safest round yet, cracking open a reinforced vault filled with cash.
22:12Whoever snagged the most money would win this round and potentially the whole championship.
22:17Finally, a challenge worthy of a laser.
22:20Any concern about lighting the money on fire?
22:22Lots.
22:23I'm assuming the money's down here.
22:24Therefore, I will cut in here and I walk away with all the money.
22:28Let's roll.
22:29The police are coming.
22:30We only got two minutes.
22:31Let's pull off this pipe.
22:33And Bob's laser immediately started tearing deeply into the recesses of the vault.
22:37Wow.
22:38And we wondered briefly whether it would make through the thicker mechanism.
22:41Oh, yeah.
22:43But we didn't need to worry at all as it cut through them like paper.
22:47We did need to worry, though, about the sparks.
22:50Oh, I feel like there's some burning cash in that safe, Eddie.
22:53Whoa.
22:55The question was how much cash Bob would be able to salvage after he opened the door.
23:00Oh.
23:01You might have wailed it back.
23:07I want my money.
23:09And so this operation depended on me to act as the muscle.
23:14And Betty.
23:15Oh, Betty.
23:16But after one final struggle, Bob finally opened up the door to his.
23:21Oh, man.
23:24There is literally nothing left in there.
23:27That's not true.
23:28Look.
23:28I see a dollar.
23:29Not all is lost.
23:32You have a corner of a dollar.
23:33You did it, Bob.
23:35So Bob's final score was 25 cents.
23:37And we moved on to see what lightning could do.
23:40What's the plan, Matty?
23:41750 amps of current cut through this like butter.
23:44Can you top 3,000 watts?
23:46Mine is 31,000 watts.
23:48That's way bigger than that, man.
23:50Okay.
23:50Let's do this.
23:51Oh.
23:52Oh.
23:52Wow.
23:53Wow.
23:53Holy cow.
23:56That's fast.
23:58Why did I pick lasers?
23:59That was beyond me because, frankly, Mehdi's was stunning.
24:02It's like a real-life lightsaber.
24:04It glowed brighter as it got hotter and hotter, making even quicker work of the vault flatching
24:09mechanisms.
24:10But eventually it got so hot that Mehdi's gloves almost melted off his hand, which of course
24:17he had to show us up close.
24:18Careful, man.
24:19Careful.
24:20Ultimately, he made much quicker work than Laser.
24:22Oh!
24:23Yeah!
24:24Yeah!
24:25But he also burned through the money.
24:26The money!
24:27Much quicker than Laser had.
24:28My money!
24:29Come on, man.
24:30That's too late.
24:31Ugh.
24:32That's it.
24:33Ah!
24:34Ah!
24:35Which meant Mehdi recovered even less than Bob.
24:38Fortunately, neither one of you guys got any money.
24:40Which means the stage is now set for the X Factor.
24:45We'll do cool sound effects with them.
24:47All right, gentlemen, you might notice the safe is sitting on a big red X.
24:51That's because for my final X Factor, my plan is to go with 170 feet of pure, unadulterated
24:58gravitational potential energy.
25:01Let's hook it up.
25:02Oh my god.
25:03Don't help him.
25:04It'd come to this, because I couldn't be sure this would crack it open, but...
25:08Yes!
25:09I think gravity's gonna win this one.
25:12If I even got one dollar out of this thing...
25:15Safe doesn't stand a chance there.
25:16That's really tall.
25:18Haha!
25:19I could win the entire championship, so let's do it.
25:23Okay!
25:24Ten!
25:25Nine!
25:26Eight!
25:27Seven!
25:28Six!
25:29Five!
25:30Four!
25:31Three!
25:32Two!
25:33One!
25:34Go!
25:35There we go!
25:36One!
25:37Go!
25:38There we go!
25:39Oh my god!
25:40It's going...
25:41Oh my god!
25:42Oh my god!
25:43That was a big smash!
25:44Wow!
25:45Let's go!
25:46Wow!
25:47At least your money is saving the safe.
25:48But how many dollars have I gotten out of there?
25:49The door is cracked open.
25:50I could definitely get in there.
25:51I feel like I want to run it one more time.
25:52Three!
25:53Two!
25:54One!
25:55Hit it!
25:56Gravity!
25:57Oh my god!
25:58Yeah!
25:59Yeah!
26:00The safe door flew off the hinges like a leaf falling off a tree.
26:03Or a bird flying through the wind.
26:05Or...
26:06My money!
26:07That's right.
26:08Hey!
26:09My money!
26:10Oh!
26:11Too bad, your money is blowing away.
26:12I didn't think about the wind.
26:13Oh, these are like hundreds.
26:14What do you think you'll poke at you?
26:15Hey!
26:16With all the interference from the wind, it was hard to run away.
26:18I'm not going to run it one more time.
26:21Let's go!
26:22Jack, let's go!
26:23I'm not going to run it over there!
26:24Let's go!
26:25I'm not going to run it one more time!
26:26Three!
26:27Two!
26:28One!
26:29Hit it!
26:30Gravity!
26:31Oh yeah!
26:32from the win it was hard to get a final tally but i was pretty sure i could count more than one dog
26:37well i'm nothing if not a generous host oh here's a little something for your efforts thank you sir
26:44sorry gentlemen there can only be one winner i'm just happy it was me hey there are some
26:49electronics in there what is that oh watch out mary those could be live what did you put there
26:55now you might have been just as surprised as me the x-factor actually won but what should
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