Why Indiana Jones Should Be Dead! 

k - but what if - and hear me out... Indiana Jones just invested in a solid backpack? Or a wheelbarrow.

For some reason, seeing Zack in there with Nate just reminded me of Grant. Make Zack a regular guest

every time i hear this Zack guy speak, i feel he has the voice, cadence etc of original TKoR Grant Thompson.... so watching him do a video with Nate was **almost ** nostalgic

Wow :D we got the Nate and Zack collab, reminds of the Grant and Zack collab a few years ago for using liquid nitrogen to remove the back glass on an iPhone 8.

This is so stupid, and I absolutely loved every second of it! Great collab!

When I was a teenager I was told a friend of a friend (someone I knew and talked to often but I never asked him about this) worked for an importation company. The company often handled high value goods. Well this friend of a friend found an opportunity to discretely pocket a gold and diamond necklace worth over a million dollars. I don't recall the exact value, also you'd think places like that would have metal detectors, but they didn't explain that. I was told he hid the necklace in an old hollow tree in the woods near his house. He was going to wait for the statute of limitations to run out and then try and sell it. Indeed he seemed like the kind of guy who might do something like that. Anyway, some years went by and my friend of a friend was tragically killed in a car accident. I hadn't thought about the story or the necklace at the time. Someone dying at such a young age was so tragic. More years later one of my kids was asking tons of questions about gold when something he said reminded me of the story of the friend of the friend. I told him the story and only at the end of the story did I remember that he was the same guy who was killed in a car accident, and he hadn't told anyone where he stashed the necklace, except that it was in an old hollow tree in the woods. Some Indiana Jones in the future is going to be really happy when they stumble on that one.

I hear the ghost of Archimedes 👏 Ancient Colombian artists created hollow objects, for example flasks and containers. Great skill was needed to produce them. The figure was modeled in clay and charcoal, and a thin layer of wax was applied to cover the final result. Over this another layer of clay would be added, and wooden pegs were inserted to fix the inner mold to the outer one to keep them in place when the wax melted. Controlling the flow of the metal to every single detail of the piece, its slow solidification, and then freeing the figure without damaging it was challenge that could only be achieved by the most experienced hands.

That Goldeneye damage sfx at 12:25 brought back so many memories- was not expecting that lol

Maybe it was a gilded wood idol. He still would need to know it was gilded. He may have done research beforehand. Good video.

This enriched my life, I don’t know how yet but it did.

Nate, PLEASE do a follow-up video testing the true weight of gold Mr. T has around his neck based on photos. Imagine the back issues carrying that much weight for years and years.

I like the 'Zack teaches stormtroopers how to shoot', 'unsportsman like comduct', and the 'red screen from taking damage's bits! 😆

I liked the title cards the editor put in and the gag of having Zack die/fail off screen for various reasons was a very unexpected but hilarious bit

Very interesting, Nate, and extremely entertaining. I always wondered if the idol of the Chachapoyas was made hollow, but of Electrum, a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver.

IF we take the time period that the "Idol" was supposed to be made it is likely that it was a wood core with thin gold applied. So, not as much weight. Still, fun to postulate.

Amazing how many people commenting on the video seem to have not watched (or paid attention to) the entire video. They demonstrated that tossing it would be very difficult, if not impossible, and also stated where they were able to gain access to the gold coins for the video. Anyway great video - as always - Nate! Keep 'em coming.

I have been watching you for a long time, I loved watching your forging videos it inspired me so much so i decided to order forge and try blacksmithing as a career, Much love Nate!

I love that Zack joined you! Such a good guy.

Great video! Hoping this video blows up, keep it up Nate!

Nate knows this, because he’s worked in a place that casts statues if I’m not mistaken, but usually metal statues and statuettes are hollow at the bottom. As they said, it could be a thin shell. This also isn’t just the case in modern times, people have made hollow statues for ages. It doesn’t necessarily have to get crushed as easily as they say. Everyone who works with gold usually makes an alloy with copper out of it to make it a lot less malleable. I do have to say, this is a great video to show something I’ve always wondered about.

I feel like we should wonder where they got 2.2 million dollars worth of gold coins

The collaboration we didn't know we needed... but now I need more of it

Love the video, good luck with future collabs

It was a weight sensitive pad, but it didn’t say that it was as calibrated for the SAME weight. Maybe just having some weight was enough. Of course, there statue still would have been prohibitively heavy. Great video.

Dude! Awesome video! I didn't know you did ones like this... is there more, or is this a first? Anyway, never even thought about this before, those are my favourite kind of videos! Also, lived the Doom reference when Zach was shooting the camera. Damn near a perfect video!

Great video!! I love the new logo!!

This is exactly what was needed from you guys. I never expected this collaboration, I guess I don't expect most of your collaborations, but I'm so happy that you have gotten together with other amazing RU-vidrs to make these type of videos. This is like Mythbusters with some of my favorite stars from youtube, and you nailed it! You guys are hilarious together 😂

Holy crap!!!! That was a lot of gold coins.

Loved seeing Zack alongside Nate in this video, and from looking at the channel it's nice to see Grant's legacy still carries on somewhere! Subscribed!

This was great. Would love to see you guys collab more.

The productions going up, im likin what im seein here!!

Dude, finally so happy! Been watching Zack for a while, then when you Nate on by yourself. Been watching you since you came on TKOR,

Cool my favourite two RU-vidrs are working together! 🤩

Fantastic collaboration!!!!!

just a little thought about the weighing part, you couldhave just done that on a person-scale and it shouldhave worked without the scooping because you wouldhave just read the before and after refill values

The Bank of England museum in London used to have a perspex pyramid you could put your hand in and lift a bar of gold. It had a lot of security around it, but for all I know could have been tungsten instead. Was still fun to try, and made me realise all those heist movies with people running around with bars of gold weren't exactly realistic.

This video made my day. Watching my favourite RU-vid creators together made me so happy 👌

Heck yeh The Power of Contact reation the Power of Media contact and or youtubers and Rumblers getting together for a Show Ep. creating is the key

Props to the editor (and cameraman?) editing was great and funny. Lol

That's one of thr coolest videos I've seen thanks guys

Finally got around to this video and it’s cool overall but its also the best material on your hand/forearm OF so far.

I had no idea gold was that heavy. Movies had me totally fooled!

Zack, good to see in this video. You both are awesome!

Please do some more of this type of thing.

I can attest to how heavy a gold bar is as an armored car guard one of my customers was a jewelry manufacture and we routinely brought then individual bars of gold. And for such a reletivley small size its weight was incredible. You don't just simply pick it up and carry it around. You have to be calculated with your movements. If the gold bar and your hand/fingers hit anything they are done for.

Plot twist: in the first scene, Indy discovers the statue is made of Balsa wood with a thin layer of gold leaf...

This video was so much fun :)

One movie (That I have seen) that portrays the weight of gold fairly accurately, is Die Hard 3. (Die Hard With A Vengeance) When John and Zeus are in the vault, John kicks a bar of gold left behind by Simons goons. Zeus picks it up, and is shown struggling with it. He is seen to be bearing a lot of weight when he uses it to break the window of a Yugo. And lastly, when he puts it onto the back seat of the Yugo, the seat compresses under that weight. The movie also shows Simons goons loading the gold with small skid-steer loaders. When scooping the stacks of gold bars (from the vaults of the Federal Reserve in NYC) it is also shown that the loaders meet very dense piles. So, Die Hard 3 is accurate in portraying the weight of gold. John - Bruce Willis Zeus - Samuel L. Jackson Simon - Jeremy Irons

didnt see this coming but, loved every second of it

What most people don't know is that the idle was made out of plastic, which is why the native people idolized it. Plastic was a rare material back then since it didn't exist yet. It was brought back with the time machine artifact from the new movie coming out.

Re: Jumping with heavy things. While jumping and carrying a thing is obviously more difficult, there is a technique that allows you to actually jump further, albeit at the cost of said thing. Take a running start while carrying it, then as you're pushing off for the jump, thrown that thing down as hard as you can. Something something Newton's Third law, so you will gain a small advantage, maybe 5-10% higher/longer jump. As a side note, neat channel logo on the wall at the end!

Woah! This is was a really fun video to watch! I’d like to see a fit athlete attempt the “Indiana Jones gold run”. I want to see it be successfully achieved by someone. 😂😁

Nate and his channel is the soul of Grants channel right now. He's not the better Grant, he's just the "that works" Grant! Keep on going! You're one of the few people who appreciate, what Grants channel was about.

Did they give you gold sample, did they check your pockets before you left the security😁😁🤣 thank you very much for the video that was great keep it up👍

Nate, I love everything about this!

Nate, I made the comment before but you need a logo or something to set your content so you visually stand out. This is the second video I missed that I know of, but just happened to look.... This was really fun!

Love the new logo!

Was watching this last night with the fam and made that exact comment. Amazing timing!

Jerry Rig Everything…the one and only JRE and quite the experience to watch. Great video guys.

I can’t believe that Nate got his hands on 1.7 million dollars of gold

I really love the diversity of content here

Actually a gold-aluminum alloy would not only make sense, but would be historically even more precious. Until recently Aluminum was the most precious of metals (even more expensive than platinum) due to difficulty of obtaining it. Only after a method of obtaining aluminum from bauxite was invented, this metal price dropped significantly becoming the cheapest metal there is.

Yes the Colab ive been needing

I think this is your best video yet!

I did not know I needed this collab but apparently I did...and so not disappointed!

As to the composition of the statue, I would assume the Dr Jones would have some extensive knowledge regarding the idol, as that was his field of study. But as none of that was shared with the audience, well, that just leaves it wide open to Indy falling down the pit while stuck full of poison darts. LOL Great video!!

When I saw you actually handling 65 lbs of gold I was thinking who would let you do that. Thank you for letting us know.

Zack?? This whole time I’ve been calling him Jerry!

Liking for the Goldeneye damage sound effect. Took me back.

loved the jerry slides need more of those jokes

I like your new branding! It's Nifty.

Smacks of Mythbusters. Love it!

11:50 😂 Stormtroopers

Stopped watching TKOR realized it was Nate that i wanted to watch

I'm sure you can't give specifics, but how did you locate a place with so many gold coins available?

Perhapse the idol was a thin layer of gold that wasn't hollow but made out of wood so it wasn't crushable?

Weighing the pitcher before and after filling to the 2nd line would get you the mass of water without scooping.

Nate, why not weigh it with water before adding idol then fill extra water to new line & weigh again?

Love your logo m8.

Love a good crossover

Zack is the closest person in recording style and personality to Grant, the real TKOR. And seeing him with you, when Grant was handing over the channel, is very heart warming and feels so full circle to me. I'm very happy to see this. ❤️

Fascinating topic

I was saying the same thing about the new season of obx, they were just holding it like it was made of foam

This is one of your best videos

So yeah.... I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume the idol was hollow

I really enjoyed this video. Good Job explaining how one of my favorite movies is impossible! My wife says... "it's just a movie. It's not real"

Easier way to find volume of object. Water in a vessel that is full to the brim, water cant be added with spilling, very slowly submerge item and water will be displaced/spill because of object. You can then weigh the vessel before and after item and easy to calculate after that once you subtract vessel weight

Btw. Weighing your pitcher before adding the water, then after, means you could just calculate the amount of water you added

You were featured in alec steels video for trying quenching in different liquids

That intro really made me laugh... it was great

instant thumbs up for Zack on your channel... More likely a ancient idol would of been gold plated and maybe made from clay or stone

Oh, my. That leather jacket and hat really suit Nate! Someone needs to cast him in a Hollywood blockbuster action/thriller.

Years ago I was at a museum and they had a display of a “gold” bullion bar. It was a facsimile of a standard size bar , but they had a cable hooked up to an appropriate weight through a hole in the table. You couldn’t lift it!

If I am not wrong, Dr. Jones had the weight wrong thats why the idol's base retracted inside & the place started to fall apart. The not being able to run with all that weight makes sense.

I seriously doubt a gold idol that size would have been solid.

If we are question why it was so light. Good shell around a wood/stone body. The shell could easilly be pounded into shape over the body. Thus saving quite a lot of weight. And it could then maintain its form, through all the rough running and jumps. Problem solved.

12:55 (1) The bag is large and has a lot of volume and unwieldy, the statue is smaller and easier to throw, (2) he could have underhand-between-the-legs lofted it across the pit.

This new Format ist awesome. Just Like mythbusters in some way.

I was thinking go with tungsten fishing weights for the dummy. Way more expensive than concrete but way cheaper than gold. Not far off in denseness either.

I thought you were totally trolling when you first mentioned the real gold, obviously you didn't just have $2 million in gold lying around... very cool! also shout out to the editor, this video is much funnier with your little captions and shots fired (metaphorically, but you hit a lot more than Zach!)