Mythbusters: Sobering up techniques, part 1

Adam and Jamie have already drunk themselves sideways for science but there's no time to sleep it off in fact that's exactly the point of our next myth well I've been thinking it along the lines of drinking myths I have always wanted to do so bring up techniques specifically cuz I've always wanted to see a high-speed shot of somebody getting smacked in the face well as long as that somebody is you I'm okay with it almost it's the invention of alcohol people have been drinking too much and then fighting for one reason or another that they needed to get sober quickly they have tried a myriad of techniques techniques like drinking a big cup of black coffee vigorous exercise it's also supposed to work dunking your face in some iced water that's also supposed to work also your friends might be inclined down smack you in the face to sober you up of course it all begins at the bar I know though we're gonna test every one of these we got to get drunk first Buster set me up so the boys fall back off the wagon stay in town for a long time are you here for the convention shop leave me alone there's those people skills hard at work and that's just the first shot of five realizing that things might turn ugly the producers got Adam to pre-record the plan because this whole story hinges on whether or not we are more or less sober the researchers have found us the perfect test to determine that this is hand-eye coordination test that's very similar to one develop for astronauts it simply involves staying at arm's length from a screen with weights on your arm and tracing this gray line we are scored on both accuracy how many times our line leaves the gray line and for how long and speed how long it takes to make the whole journey we've got a number of these they're all different but they're all the same length and involve the same number of turns Jamie and I will each take one of these tests before trying a sobering-up technique and take another one after take trying the sobering-up technique and we will each act as each other's controls swapping out between techniques this trophy that's the Rabia they'll need to stay consistently drunk to validate the Cure's this is like taking medicine or screaming it's not it takes all the fun out of it I know what you mean brother Adam and Jamie are all set to test for mythical ways to sober up fast uh-oh so far all they've done is drink themselves stupid well stupider while Adam stays pleasantly pickled Jamie tries the first detoxifier that is black coffee what are you doing I'm the control see I don't think you're very much under control I'm not under control I am the control you drink that whole cup of coffee we wait five minutes and then we test you cognitively and breathalyzer Li again to see if there's any stark improvement and then I do the same to test to see if this difference in the improvement whenever you're ready your rapidly improving I don't know what to make of that I don't feel like crunching any data while I'm drunk okay and it's all about the data Oh Adam who also blew 0.07 completes his non-coffee control test 32 so it's back to the bar Adam treats himself to a few cups of joe so he and Jamie are back on a kind of even keel there's mud in your eye oh this is vile now for a much-needed spurt of spirits on the assumption that the average adult male of our size processes metabolizes as you might say one drink per hour we are having a maintenance drink right now it's about now we normally warn you about excessive drinking but those two miserable mugs tell the story that's plus technique number two for sobering up is vigorous exercise at Adams the guinea pig it's all a numbers game and here's a few more to consider Adam has to run this treadmill for five minutes at six and a half miles per hour scary his blood alcohol is 0.09 Wow I've got to concentrate on this Adam Tunga green-screen for inspiration but then realizes it won't work because you can't see it some decisions really are best made sober one minute oh my god I'm gonna die look we picked a treadmill because it's compact it makes it easy for us to film this thing but now that I'm looking at it I remember that it takes a fair amount of coordination just to stay on the dam and Adams drunk what can I say even soused the mans up prophet whoa Wow okay I'm totally cool now here's two advantages to being drunk as a skunk one he won't feel the pain till tomorrow and two Adams judgment is so impaired he gets back on the darn thing break any bones ten seconds hey did my watch six five three do one you're done the good news for Adams mom is that he's still breathing heavily he's a lot of competition but that might be the worst thing I've ever had to do on the show next

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Keywords: mythbusters, drunk, drinking, sober, adam savage, jamie hyneman, treadmill, coffee, alcohol myths, exercise

Id: T6-qEaJssdM

Length: 6min 32sec (392 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 15 2009