No Pain, No Gain! | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 12 | Full Episode 

Childhood is thinking that Adam is the crazy scientist and Jamie is the cool, level-headed one. Adulthood is realizing that Jamie is the crazy scientist, and Adam was the level-headed one who was just really hype about everything.

Normal person getting burned: "HOLY SH* THAT HURTS TAKE IT OFF AHHH!" Jamie Hyneman getting burned: "I would say that qualifies as pain. Ow."

good thing the electrical pain test didn't damage any of Jamie's subdermal circuitry

"Adam lasted just 59 seconds" - That's what she said.

It's a shame they didn't consider body weight/fat % as a factor with temperature tolerance, a lot of the guys were quite lean looking, and that one who lasted to the limit was a large bloke.

Wouldn't the testing on redheads be ruined by bias though? They were called in to prove redheads arent weak, which means they've got a reason to be tougher while the others would just see if they could take the pain

I got people doing the ice pain test at work for a week after seeing this episode. A few of my co-worker could do it for more than a minute but a lot couldn't manage 10 seconds.

Redheadedness tends to be a northern latitude adaptation. I'm not surprised at the resistance to cold.

i dont think the men vs women test is as clear as they say. looks more like that if you have sufferd extreme pain you can endure more after.

Ahh, I remember seeing this live, so many memories

They should have done a second no-swearing test, to ensure that the increase in tolerance wasn't because they'd experienced the pain once already.

Ive been looking out for this one.

The bleeping at 41:09 is morse code, the editors saying hello 😂

LOVE THIS EPISODE!!🤩🥰

The feed tank will never explode but I give them 10/10 for safety. LPG needs oxygen to ignite and the mixture needs to be 100% correct or no flame. A LPG Canister just doesn't have enough oxygen inside, if any at all, to get the correct mix. The pressure from inside + The need for oxygen will just stop the flame near the nozzle. We have done safety drills for this. But beware! Some gasses don't need oxygen to burn! These gasses use what we call a flashback protector. Acetylene is one such gas. Just for reference....I have been working with LPG for 15years. If your LPG bottle has turned into a flamethrower. Put something protective over your hand and close the valve "quickly". Don't pick the canister up and take it outside. You will burn the whole place down. If the valve is jammed or you don't have hand protection. Use a wet towel to stop oxygen from getting to the valve and the flame will die out. Proceed to take the bottle outside and be careful not to burn your hands on a hot gas canister. Allow it to decompress for safety and bring it to your local gas supplier for inspection.

I love mythbusters :).

This episode made me think video editing was really hard as a child since they said blurring the swearing mouth is expensive.

Totally agree on the propane rocket being plausible. There are special circumstances, but those circumstances can happen. Someone stores an old, partly full tank in a garage, there are leaks and the tank sits in water for years and starts rusting through. Later they move, the new garage is smaller, so they have to cram things together, and the tank sits between metal shelves. A fire happens and the shelves work as guiderails.

I haven't felt pain 10. I've had 9.5 from burns and since relate 10 with blackout pain.. that was severe shock though, then had to drive myself to hospital while intoxicated.. the shock actually helped with that though, was halfway there when I realised I was hoping for a police car to drive past to drive me the rest of the way.

48:19 this look exactly like torture in movie saw

Bleeping curses is such an American idea 😆

In this episode you can really see they hate each other when Jamie hit Adam with a rubber mallet. /s

42:18 Im wondering why it cost a lot to blur, software when this season aired and before had blurring tools that meant you could do it both quickly and easily

This would have been the perfect mother's day upload lol

Well, they forgot to account for two things with their pain tolerance testing. They did not separate out mothers from non-mothers in their redhead testing, like they did with the first ones. The aggregate average thus is not necessarily correct, because the mothers will, if you go by the last tests averages, have increased the total average. For the last test, it seems like they just picked random non-swear words, and did not account for whether the person actually uses said words as replacements to cursing. The effect may very well be subjective, and any random ol' word from down the street may not be able to be used to measure the desired effect. Essentially making the test flawed, by the onset of cursing being more "charged," for a lack of a better term. I certainly doubt it'd help me reduce or endure pain etter by shouting "hello" or something to that effect. Not that it matters, given how old this is. But eh.

12:00 My parents actually have a garage about that size in surface area, though it is taller it isn't fully head height.

RIP Grant 😭

3:20 Torture isn't so much about pain but about breaking someone's will. Order that you do it, words, the inviroment and many other things play a role.

Thank you for publishing these episodes for free

Last time I seen this episode I was in high school...16 years ago. Good memories

Baby Hippo 🤣

Couldn't you have just worn a face mask? So unusual for Adam to over engineer😂

You could just wear a mask adam, but no we are mythbusters we build it ourselvs😂

wonder how deadly a shockwave the full gas tank made

Um that launcher looks strangely familiar…fallout anyone? Mini nuke launcher haha

They should get Goggins to do the pain challenges😂

42:08 H E L L eating O

for those wondering, the morse at 42:08 was : ...././.-../.-../- - - H E L L O the morse at 44:24 was : ..../..-/.-./-/... H U R T S

The nociceptors are on the surface of the skin and send a pain signal to avoid frostbite. It's not actually about being cold, so fat should not be a factor. But other things might: For example, studies show that adults with ADHD have a lower tolerance for pain, and particularly cold. This corresponds with Adam struggling with both (since he's ADHD).

Not sure where they got the "men" but wr did 8min ice bsths after training in uni weekly.....

Not cursing but saying "fluffy" words with rage for me its the same thing as cursing (right Jamie?), i can´t say that was a logical test for him

Those dude's they got to do the test looked a bit wimpy!

This is one of my favourite episodes simply for its creative use of linguistics. 🤬🤣

I wonder if there's any bias in the ice bath testing of men vs women, in terms of BMI. Fat is obviously a good insulator, and thus might help keep the painful effects of the ice cold water at bay for a while. The people you see give up the soonest are quite skinny, and conversely the opposite seems to be mostly true for the ones doing the full 3 minutes. Of course i cant judge from their small sample group, but looking at the 2016 average BMI statistics, females are about 0.5 BMI point higher than males. Also, fat distribution between males and females is noticeably different, although I am not sure how exactly that affects fat on the arms.

I wonder what the real actual reason for the women/mothers having such higher pain tolerance on average than men have. Like I would assume it's probably main about fat composition. Fat is an insulator and women in general have higher body fat percentage than men (to have a healthy body functions). Also, women run "colder" than men, meaning they use less calories and why they feel colder when men do not. So this could mean they can handle cold easier as they are colder. But then we get to the experience: If mothers can withstand more pain because they've experienced a very bad one for a long period of time, shouldn't we assume this extends to another obvious thing related to pregnancy: Periods. Now, a lot of women don't actually have painful periods, so that could also impact the results. But... It's kinda weird to ask "how painful are your periods" unless it's a medical survey so I totally get why Mythbusters can't really do it lmao

On August 2018 the average US propane retail cost was approximately $2.48 per gallon. The wholesale price of propane in the U.S. always drops in the summer as most homes do not require it for home heating. The wholesale price of propane in the summer of 2018 was between 86 cents to 96 cents per U.S. gallon, based on a truckload or railway car load. The price for home heating was exactly double that price; at 95 cents per gallon wholesale, a home-delivered price was $1.90 per gallon if ordered 500 gallons at a time. Prices in the Midwest are always cheaper than California. Prices for home delivery always go up near the end of August or the first days of September when people start ordering their home tanks to be filled.

"Your peeps" they both are gingers ? 😅

Adam pull's out in just under a minute. 🎉

This is not the "no pain, no gain" myth. That is specifically dealing with the process of building muscle through weight training. You must induce the pain of lactic acid in order to build muscle. If you do painless low intensity exercises you do not build muscle, hence "no pain, no gain". It's also not really a myth, more of an established fact... This one is pain tolerance differences between people based on myth...

How is blurring expensive lmao

Do they have Mythbusters in any streaming platform??

Not to be rude but they pick the nerds

Me watching this as a college student, with a full apartment using my dual monitor PC to watch this:

Of course gingers don't feel pain as much as real people.

please please please release uncensored Kari's swearing 🤣🤩😝

"In your face, me-oh" was the moment I liked the video

34:45 Holly Jesus, that girl is/was amazingly pretty...

She:Its was maxed out.. He:Heh that was nothing:):)

Do you know what’s the Chinese slang for white race people here in SE Asia? That’s Ang Mo, that translates to Red Hair 🧑‍🦰. I wonder why 🤔🙄🤭

We successfully determined Adam is a wuss and Jamie's a stud.

so its not that women can endure more pain, its that they can give birth wich is on a pain level most men never expirience

Men showing less resistance to pain could simply be because pain is a protection mechanism. If you want to come home safely with the meat you have hunted, removing yourself from a painful and possibly dangerous situation could be an overall survival mechanism. Men who have been gravely wounded in war for example, don't pass out any more frequently than women in childbirth.

I feel like if women have more pain tolerance than men then it might be because men with low pain tolerance survived more. Men very often went to the battlefield or defended other people from animals or some enemy. The men with very high pain tolerance wil get cut, bruised, broken bones but they'll keep on trucking andd continue fighting which will probably lead to their death. Meaning the high pain tolerance "gene" will not get past natural selection. Meanwhile the men with low pain tolerance will maybe get a big gash on their arm and then try to get to the backlines, retreat maybe even run away because the amount of pain they're in makes them give up. This means that the men with low pain tolerance are way more likely to survive the battlefield and thus will replicate more and spread among the male population. Of course this is just a "fun" little theory that i got the idea for suddenly, so absolutely zero proof but I think it sounds plausible and i just wanted to share it.

*San Francisco men.

Small sample sizes, and only testing one type of pain. this is probably the worst test MB have done imo. because most real actual studies by actual scientist have come to the exact opposite result, that men have have a greater pain threshold.