Nobody Asked Season 1 Episode 1
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00:00Ever had a weird question you couldn't let go of?
00:02The kind you were almost embarrassed to share.
00:04Well, that's why we're here.
00:06Bizarre theories, unhinged experiments.
00:08And experts to guide us along the way.
00:11Together, we'll tackle the questions
00:13that nobody has.
00:14To me.
00:21You might not know, I used to take classical opera lessons.
00:25And yet, I've never qualified as a true tenor.
00:27I mean, you can just listen to how I'm struggling here.
00:30Oh, my high school chorus teacher's
00:32gonna be so disappointed in me.
00:33I'm sorry, Mr. Eberhardt.
00:34And since I don't have the time or the work ethic
00:37to make my dream come true, I'll just bring it down.
00:39Today, I'm on a quest to find out,
00:42can a singer use physics to hit a high C?
00:51The one thing about being a tenor,
00:53which is the highest, usually the highest male voice part,
00:57is that the crowning achievement is hitting a high C.
01:01And I have never in my whole life been able to hit it.
01:03So it's haunted me for years.
01:05In falsetto, I can hit a high C, but that's cheating.
01:09Because that's cheating, though.
01:12It doesn't count in the operatic sense.
01:12Oh, so you're saying Justin Timberlake cheats.
01:15He's always a cheater.
01:15And it should have been Jason Chazelle all along.
01:18Where have I heard that before?
01:19A different thing that I could do,
01:21and I don't know a lot about it,
01:22but there's a thing called the Doppler effect.
01:24If you're standing in one place
01:26and something moving fast, playing a noise,
01:28comes toward you, as it approaches, the pitch gets higher.
01:33If I'm going real fast and I'm singing
01:35as high as I possibly can,
01:36then maybe that extra oomph from going fast
01:40can push the pitch up.
01:41That's the science.
01:42We have to determine what the note is
01:44that you have to base that I know.
01:45I could be on a roller coaster.
01:47That goes pretty quickly.
01:49That sounds bad to me, but I support you.
01:52Probably meet kids behind you being all weird and stuff.
01:56We need to get a special roller coaster.
01:58There's also those G-Force simulators for jet pilots
02:02where people pass out and pee themselves,
02:04but I don't necessarily want to go that far.
02:06But maybe we do.
02:08But if you want me to go that far.
02:10As long as the piss sound doesn't interfere.
02:13Yeah, as long as it's quiet.
02:15Also, I just want to point this out.
02:17So operatic tenors can hit high Cs.
02:20There are maybe a handful of arias that do that
02:22because most people realize that that's a stupid thing.
02:25It is a ridiculous note to try to hit as a tenor.
02:28That is their whole deal,
02:29is being egocentric and wanting to show off.
02:32That's the most tenor thing you could possibly do.
02:34I will say I was trying to protect you from opera Twitter,
02:36but it seems like they're gonna be like,
02:39tenors are gonna pull up, big tenor tree.
02:45If he was right,
02:46the opera community might not be happy with me,
02:49both for my derogatory comments and for my plan to cheat.
02:52But since I do need an expert,
02:54I sat down with engineer Alex Whitmore,
02:56who I am much less concerned about disappointing.
02:59I'll start with the most simple question.
03:00Can you please explain what the Doppler effect is to me?
03:03So imagine that you're singing in A440, 440 Hertz,
03:07which means that as you're singing,
03:09you're making a pressure wave in the air.
03:12Every one 440th of a second, there's a peak in pressure.
03:17So when someone is listening to you
03:20and they're stationary with respect to you
03:22and the air isn't moving,
03:24they'll hear that same 440 peaks per second
03:27and think, oh, that sounds like an A.
03:29And what happens with the Doppler shift is
03:31as you're moving towards each other,
03:32those pressure peaks get a little bit closer together,
03:36making the frequency that you hear
03:38sound like a higher note.
03:40Gotcha.
03:41So the wave is getting squashed
03:43and it makes those peaks hit faster,
03:46which makes you think that it's a higher frequency.
03:48That's exactly right.
03:49And it is, it is a higher frequency.
03:51Even if I use the Doppler effect,
03:53I am still going to be singing a high C
03:56to the person that's listening.
03:57I think science would agree that you're singing a high C.
04:00That's what I wanted to hear.
04:01That's great.
04:02F, O for frequency observed.
04:05That is equal to...
04:07The way Alex explained it,
04:08the speed I needed to go all depended on the highest note
04:12I felt comfortable singing.
04:13I knew I could manage an A440,
04:16which when we plugged it into this really confusing formula
04:19meant that I had to travel 122 miles an hour.
04:24Okay.
04:25And if we solve out this fraction,
04:28523.
04:31A high C would be 523.3 Hertz.
04:34500, well, we're off by 0.3.
04:35I think that sounds like a win to me.
04:37Yeah, but you mentioned that's miles per hour, 122?
04:43Yeah, is that a problem?
04:44I don't, is it a problem?
04:46It is a problem.
04:47My mom says I can't go 122 miles an hour and scream.
04:51Hmm.
04:52So since I don't want to risk my life for this show,
04:56no offense, it meant that I'd have to sing even higher.
04:59So after convincing myself
05:01that I'd be able to reach a B flat.
05:03Let's try 83 and see where we come out.
05:05It should be pretty close to 523.3.
05:08That's spot on.
05:09That's exactly what we're aiming for.
05:10And that's a good 40 miles an hour less,
05:14which is maybe doable.
05:15It is doable.
05:16We are allowed to do that.
05:18Me going that fast is okay.
05:1983 sounds a little bit less illegal than 122.
05:23Yeah, so do you think I can hit a high C?
05:28You can hit a high C, I'm confident.
05:30Oh, that makes me confident too.
05:31And the method we decided on, race cars.
05:34Well, Teslas, they're quieter.
05:37That's why I'm here at the beautiful Irwindale Speedway,
05:40a venue well-known for its operatic performances
05:43to test this hypothesis.
05:45I'm going to see if I can fulfill my dream
05:47with the help of my two lovely drivers.
05:53Alex, welcome to the Speedway.
05:55Super excited to be here.
05:56Let's talk about the experiment.
05:57So we're doing three experiments today.
05:59The first one is going to be me singing in a car.
06:02How's that gonna work?
06:03We're gonna put you in a car singing the sound
06:05that we're trying to shift the frequency of.
06:07It's gonna sound higher in frequency to the receiver.
06:10And so for the second test though,
06:11I'm gonna be stationary.
06:13Rather than having you with your head waggling out the car,
06:16we're gonna put you in a fixed spot
06:17and we're gonna move the microphone towards you.
06:20So then the third test,
06:21we're going to throw everything at it
06:23and we're gonna use two cars.
06:24The microphone that we're listening with
06:26will be moving towards you
06:28while you're moving towards the microphone.
06:31And that's gonna squish up at both the source end
06:33and the receive side to get double the impact.
06:36Amazing.
06:37All right, here's the B.
06:39Ah!
06:44It's a pretty solid 510.
06:46All right, I'll take it.
06:50This is my high school choir tux.
06:53Wore it at all my concerts.
06:54Never hit a high C in it,
06:57but I'm gonna change that today.
06:58I think the last time I wore it was for my senior prom.
07:01Sure it'll fit just fine.
07:04We'll snug it.
07:06Zip up.
07:08Please.
07:09All right.
07:10Of course.
07:15Working fine.
07:18Can I unbutton this?
07:20Oh.
07:22Yeah, that feels much nicer.
07:24As long as we just keep it above the waist,
07:27everything's gonna be fine.
07:29Okay, let's do this thing.
07:31So let's go ahead and take a look.
07:33Ooh!
07:34Oh!
07:35And the top has-
07:36Hey, hey, Brian, where's the costume?
07:38Oh, yeah, no, that is what I wear every day, isn't it?
07:41I don't want the hat anyway.
07:44All right, let's do it, Ryan.
07:47Woo!
07:49Oh boy.
07:50Oh.
07:55All right, here we go.
08:02Ah!
08:07You're so close to the wall.
08:08So close.
08:10All right, next one will be better.
08:12Do you feel like a kinship with the driver now?
08:14I do, I feel it.
08:15I mean, he was, he got real close to the wall.
08:18There's a real hereditary feeling in this moment.
08:30Woo!
08:33Great work, Ryan.
08:34You smell the brakes?
08:35Yeah, jeez.
08:36How was the driver's voice?
08:38Oh, it was beautiful.
08:39He should have been the one doing it, honestly.
08:41That's true, yeah.
08:45Woo!
08:47Phase one complete.
08:48If this doesn't work, at least I got to experience
08:51what it's like to be a golden retriever.
08:52How'd that feel to you, Alex?
08:54I think we might've gotten it.
08:55There was a lot of noise from the car on that one
08:58like we thought might be a problem.
08:59Voice feels a little hoarse,
09:01but I guess I'm ready to go up into the crow's nest
09:05and try experiment two.
09:07Time for me to stand in place
09:09and let Steve, our sound guy, do the leg work.
09:13Er, car work.
09:19All right, here we go.
09:21Here we go.
09:28Hee, hee, ah!
09:38Okay, Alpha. Beautiful.
09:41Wow, the voice is going.
09:48All right, Alex, way less scary on my part,
09:50Uh, do we think it would have worked?
09:53Tough to tell.
09:54There was still a lot of noise.
09:56OK.
09:57We'll see how it turns out.
09:58Should we try the two car and maybe go a little bit lower
10:02in my register so I'm not screaming so much?
10:04I think that's our best shot at success, so let's get at it.
10:06Fantastic.
10:08With both cars racing toward each other,
10:10the Doppler effect would be doing double duty.
10:12Have fun.
10:13Assuming we don't crash and explode.
10:17Ah.
10:18Ah.
10:19Ah.
10:20Ah.
10:21Ah.
10:22Ah.
10:23Ah.
10:24Ah.
10:25Ah.
10:26Ah.
10:27Ah.
10:28Ah.
10:29Ah.
10:30Ah.
10:31Ah.
10:32Ah.
10:33Ah.
10:34Ah.
10:35Ah.
10:36Oh my god.
10:37Ah.
10:38Ah.
10:39You should not be allowed to have two cars drive like that
10:43in office.
10:44Look at you.
10:45Look at your face.
10:46Look at your face.
10:47Look at your face.
10:48Oh.
10:49Oh.
10:50Oh.
10:51Oh.
10:52Oh.
10:53Oh.
10:54Oh.
10:55Oh.
10:56Oh.
10:57Oh.
10:58My adoring fans, thank you.
10:59Oh.
11:00I almost caught it in my mouth.
11:01Do it again.
11:02Oh.
11:03Try it again.
11:04One more.
11:05That was exhausting.
11:06More.
11:07More.
11:08And exhilarating.
11:09Oh.
11:10Oh I forgot.
11:11And now we can listen to what we captured
11:12to see if any of this was even worth it.
11:13Where are you going?
11:14I've never sounded so squeaky.
11:24At the very least, it would make a great beat.
11:29These are the Carver's Car Passes?
11:31Mm-hmm.
11:32Well, that sounds spectacular.
11:35Sounds great.
11:37We're looking at the spectrogram view, that like little swoosh shape.
11:43We're starting like right there, and then we transition through cars next to each other
11:48and down to cars leaving each other.
11:51It's definitely high up there.
11:55That's all I can tell.
11:59I think it might be a C. I might have even broken the C. I might have even gone higher.
12:04Did I just put the car in Mariah Carey?
12:07We might have overcooked that one.
12:08I might be the best tenor that's ever lived, is what I'm saying.
12:13I'll take that title.
12:14Thank you to my great audience there.
12:15Brian, that was incredible.
12:16It was.
12:17It's so scary.
12:18Yeah, very, very scary for sure.
12:19How was your voice after the experiment?
12:20Oh, I couldn't like speak in a normal tone of voice for like three days.
12:21It was ... I have not heard the final recording yet, so-
12:22Ah!
12:23I mean, ah!
12:24Ah!
12:25Ah!
12:26Ah!
12:27Ah!
12:28Ah!
12:29Ah!
12:30Ah!
12:31Ah!
12:32Ah!
12:33Ah!
12:34Ah!
12:35Ah!
12:36Ah!
12:37Ah!
12:38Ah!
12:39Ah!
12:40Ah!
12:41Ah!
12:42I mean, ah!
12:43Yes.
12:45Is this the debut?
12:48I think so.
12:49All right.
12:50Oh my gosh.
12:58Here it comes.
13:10It was there! That sounded beautiful!
13:20It was there!
13:30It worked!
13:31Yeah.
13:33Finally.
13:34So they copied and pasted you in a car into your singing?
13:38Yeah, I believe they took the millisecond of time when my voice hit the high C and then repeated it over and over again.
13:48That's psychotic! Is that how everybody does it?
13:52Any advice for any future tenor wannabes?
13:57Gotta go fast, I guess is the only advice I can give.
14:01We actually have a little bonus.
14:03Shut up.
14:07No, out loud!
14:09Yeah, why are you...
14:11Brian, it turns out you did hit the high C, but you also hit it when you were in the recording booth.
14:19No!
14:20Not in the Doppler effect car situation at all.
14:24No!
14:25And we have that version to play.
14:28Well, okay. Okay, well, let's hear it. Hit it!
14:47The Tesla was inside of you!
14:51I needed to believe in myself. That's all it was.
14:55I'm a real tenor fan.
14:57I'm not Oprah Twitter.
14:59Hey, Oprah Twitter. Hey, you tried to come for Brian, Oprah Twitter?
15:03Well, you better check your facts, because Brian's actually a real tenor. Not just in a car.
15:11If you hinder a pro athlete enough, can an average person beat them at their own game?
15:18I'm not athletic.
15:20I'm not athletic either, but I'm always willing to play a sport or an activity.
15:26And I do feel like I have an innate ability for athletics that just simply wasn't nurtured.
15:32What would your athletic prowess be?
15:35Had it been nurtured.
15:36Had it been nurtured, right.
15:38Well, sports where I can physically... where I can be extremely physically reckless.
15:44Like, I love a full contact sport.
15:46So you'd be a good football player?
15:48I think I would have been a good football player.
15:50Yeah, I did play Quidditch.
15:52It's not too late, Ellie. You can still be a good football player.
15:54My bones are way more brittle now, unfortunately.
15:56Gotta do your jumping.
15:58Apparently, jumping strengthens your bones.
16:00Jumping promotes bone density.
16:05This sucks.
16:06I'm already tired.
16:08You definitely have the spirit of an athlete.
16:11Thank you. So I'm saying untapped potential.
16:13I'm sweating.
16:15So then, if you were to beat an athlete, is that motivation enough for you to start playing that sport?
16:21Or even working out.
16:23Yeah, that could be helpful.
16:24I think we need to do that experiment. Everybody in.
16:26Nobody asks on three. One, two, three.
16:32What's up, studs?
16:35Today I'm facing off against two pro football players.
16:38And in between you and me, they're going down, I think.
16:40Thanks for having us, Ellie.
16:42Thanks for having me.
16:43You're going down.
16:45I can already feel the vibes, the competition vibes.
16:48Absolutely rancid, but he has no idea what he's in store for today.
17:06You're not going to give me an advantage, right?
17:07I'll give you an advantage right now.
17:09I got these for you. They're sticky on this side.
17:12Wow, that is so kind. These are for me?
17:14Those are for you.
17:15I rubbed some sticky stuff on my hands earlier, so I wasn't expecting this.
17:18Okay, so here's the way this is going to go down.
17:21JD is going to be our quarterback. He's going to be throwing the balls.
17:24He's sort of our scientific constant.
17:26Now, Johnny is going to be our receiver.
17:29And we obviously are not evenly matched, so we're going to impair him a little bit.
17:34We're going to start with Butterfingers, and then we're going to move on.
17:37We're going to see what happens from there.
17:39Maybe we'll try a few other things.
17:41It's going to get messy.
17:42It's going to get real messy.
17:44Let's do it. It's football.
17:45This dropout football.
17:46Dropout football.
17:47Okay, so let's do some high knees first.
17:49You have to move forward. There you go.
17:51Get your knee to your butt.
17:52Okay, my knee to the butt?
17:54Butt kickers.
17:55I know these.
17:56My butt's a little further out than most, though, so I don't have to work too hard.
17:59Ace skips.
18:00Oh, cute.
18:02You got it.
18:03You got it.
18:05Last one, we're going to do karaoke.
18:07Not karaoke, but karaoke.
18:09We're going to go fast. Ready?
18:10Okay.
18:11Set, go.
18:12There you go.
18:17I just have one warm-up on my end.
18:19Your hands together.
18:20You shake it, let your jaw hang loose.
18:24Yeah, get that noise out.
18:29Somebody's going to gif that.
18:33Like that one?
18:34Okay, I feel warm.
18:35Let's do it.
18:39You're too good at this.
18:42Okay, easy. Here's the first one.
18:43Okay, sorry.
18:44Take it easy.
18:45Sorry about that. Sorry, everyone.
18:48Nice.
18:51Really got under that one.
18:55Don't drop it. Don't drop it. Don't drop it.
19:01Let's see. Yeah, there you go.
19:02Hey.
19:05Okay, I think that might be a...
19:06That's the $15 penalty right there.
19:11Now, I'm not an extremely braggadocious person,
19:13but I fucking crushed that.
19:15You did.
19:17Are you feeling nervous?
19:18I'm a little bit nervous,
19:19because the balls are a little bit slick.
19:21But not nervous enough that I'm going to lose to you.
19:23And honestly, there was one catch
19:24where I thought I wasn't going to catch it,
19:26but these gloves do rock.
19:27So, I think we're ready for phase one of the experiment.
19:30So, let's bring in the vat of hot butter.
19:33Hot butter?
19:34No, you're right.
19:35It might just be normal butter.
19:37It's definitely melted.
19:38Wow.
19:40Oh, yeah.
19:41That's slippery for sure.
19:43This is a decent amount of butter right here.
19:46It's glistening.
19:49You wore sunblock, right?
19:50I did wear sunblock.
19:51I'm probably just going to get burnt now.
19:53Be nice.
19:54Oh, okay.
19:55I was going to do like a hundred miles an hour.
19:56A hundred miles an hour.
19:57Pass, pass.
20:00What?
20:01Not enough butter.
20:02That is slippery.
20:06It was so soft.
20:07I couldn't even spike it.
20:08Did you guys hear that noise?
20:10There we go.
20:13Ellie, that was too easy.
20:15What else you got for me?
20:17Bring out the lobster claws.
20:21Here, easy in actually.
20:22No, it's not easy in.
20:23Oh, this isn't even a thumb.
20:25I'm not connecting.
20:26This is going to be hard.
20:28Are you worried about your hands?
20:29Shut up.
20:30You should be.
20:33We'll figure it out.
20:34Oh, man.
20:36Oh, no.
20:37It looks really hard.
20:38Let's get it.
20:39We got this.
20:42Wow.
20:43I did it.
20:47Here we go.
20:56What you got for me, Ellie?
20:58Reluctantly, I have to admit,
21:00Johnny cracked that wide open.
21:02The lobster claws were not an impediment,
21:04but let's see how lobster soaked in butter does.
21:09And if you could actually submerge the butter
21:11inside the claws too.
21:12No, I'm not doing that.
21:14You're going to look like that character
21:15from Of Mice and Men.
21:16Okay.
21:22All right, let's do it.
21:23Let's do it.
21:24Hey, make it hard.
21:26What are you whispering?
21:28I'm open.
21:30I'm open.
21:31Oh, come on.
21:36Shit.
21:39Let's go.
21:40Yeah, we should dip the ball in butter too.
21:46Oh, come on.
21:51He dropped it.
21:52He dropped it.
21:54He didn't.
21:55Unstoppable.
21:56Nice for you, Ellie.
21:57I'll give it up.
21:58That was great.
21:59You are a professional.
22:00All right.
22:01Okay, now let's try.
22:02If I can catch this,
22:04then that means I get drafted.
22:06Well, I don't know what to tell you,
22:08but Johnny's a pretty good football player
22:10and he caught everything we threw his way.
22:12Can you tell what finger this is?
22:13Yeah, I think you're doing like pinkies.
22:15Yeah, there you go.
22:16Were you taking it extra easy on him
22:18or something like that?
22:19I was just doing what the coach told me to do.
22:21Take those gloves off for me for a second.
22:23Why?
22:24Why am I doing it?
22:26There you go.
22:27Get all in there.
22:28Yeah, it feels good, doesn't it?
22:29Oh, actually,
22:30this is going to be really good for my cuticle.
22:32Well, I think this was a tie.
22:33What do you think?
22:34Good job.
22:35I'll take a tie.
22:36Ow!
22:37Just kidding.
22:38Out of all of the hindrances to not work,
22:41I can't believe it's not butter.
22:43Yeah.
22:44Iffy.
22:45Iffy.
22:46That's making it to the promo.
22:48Absolutely.
22:49So you're as good as a buttered athlete.
22:51Yeah, you're as good as a-
22:52I've heard that before.
22:53Yeah.
22:54Good game.
22:55Good game.
22:56Good game.
23:00Jazz.
23:01A distinctly American art form
23:03dating back to New Orleans in the 1910s.
23:06No one can deny this music has energy
23:08and even heat.
23:10But does that mean it has mass?
23:12Or volume?
23:14And even more stupidly,
23:16how much jazz does it take to fill a balloon?
23:23One of the principal rules of science
23:25is that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
23:29Now, would that be matter cannot be created?
23:31Like the conservation of-
23:33Oh, you mean-
23:37That's your fun fact, right, girl?
23:39Yeah.
23:40Oh, okay.
23:44It's gotta be jazz.
23:45Why jazz, though?
23:46Because I feel like you're blowing the most in jazz,
23:48you know?
23:49Because when you think about it,
23:50if you go to a jazz concert,
23:51that's all free air.
23:53Here we are dependent on gasoline.
23:55Yeah.
23:56And there's jazz happening all across the city.
23:58If I'm just picturing a trumpet player
24:01playing the trumpet
24:03and there's a balloon sort of
24:05encapsulating the trumpet hole,
24:07would we be able to hear the jazz?
24:09Like if you have a silencer?
24:11Or like if you played jazz under a pillow?
24:13Yeah.
24:14You used to play the trumpet.
24:16Did you ever put anything in front?
24:18Wait, what were you playing under, usually?
24:20Yeah, well, I was always under pillows, mostly.
24:22It was like a big fort, which was great.
24:24But they do got different mutes.
24:25They have like the plunger mute that goes like-
24:28Which means not only would you be answering your question,
24:31but we might have discovered a new sound a trumpet can make.
24:34Ooh, okay.
24:35Yeah, we could call it new jazz in you, jazz.
24:38And then rap over.
24:42You're not saying words, Impy!
24:44They're not saying words in new metal either.
24:46It's all good.
24:47It's all good.
24:48Your energy is like really, really unsettling.
24:50But can you use jazz to destroy a balloon also?
24:54Oh!
24:55I do need to know how much jazz is too much jazz for a balloon.
24:59You're overloaded.
25:00Do you know how to quantify air?
25:02Ify does, actually.
25:03Yes, I don't, but a physicist does.
25:07No problem, physicists not needed.
25:09Physicists have all the answers.
25:12Yeah, yeah, they'll know.
25:13They truly do.
25:14Definitely will ask them about God.
25:15Does he need to?
25:16Ify knows.
25:17So Ify will then tell us exactly the amount of jazz needed.
25:20And whether or not God exists.
25:22Okay, so I just want to say, like,
25:25if you try screaming into a balloon, it doesn't work.
25:28Well, have you tried...
25:29Ooh!
25:30It's a tragedy!
25:31Never!
25:32Is it uncomfortable for anyone else?
25:34I like it!
25:35You're so close to it.
25:36You're very close.
25:37It's like a mystery would be melting.
25:39It's actually way more complicated and interesting
25:42than I ever thought it was going to be.
25:44This is Piero, a PhD student who, we're lucky,
25:47didn't immediately block us when we reached out with our question.
25:50Have you ever noticed, if you're inflating a balloon,
25:53the toughest part of inflating it is actually...
25:56It's the beginning.
25:57It's the beginning, right?
25:58Yeah, I used to give up.
25:59And it gets easier and easier as you inflate it more and more.
26:03Are you about to say why?
26:04Yes.
26:05I'm going to freak out.
26:06If I were to sort of describe rubber,
26:08it's made out of a polymer, right?
26:10It's just like a chain of atoms, right?
26:13And these chains are sort of crumpled up together, right?
26:16They're all intertangled with each other.
26:18And when they start stretching, right,
26:20those tangles, they tend to resist being stretched out.
26:25Yeah!
26:26Oh my God, it's like when your curls get a knot
26:28and you just got to get the primary knot out
26:30and then it's like, oh, okay.
26:31Exactly, exactly.
26:33And then it's just a matter of just stretching them out more and more
26:36and that takes less energy.
26:37Like if I blow up a balloon part of the way
26:40and then I accidentally deflate it, right,
26:41it's sort of, it's pre-stretched.
26:43Rubber is so crazy.
26:44Rubber has like a memory, okay?
26:47That's so beautiful.
26:48The technical term for it is hysteresis, okay?
26:52If you ever see like professional balloon artists,
26:55they always stretch out.
26:56They do this!
26:57They always do this, right?
26:58They're stretching out the rubber
27:01and giving it a memory, sort of,
27:03that it's already been stretched out.
27:05It's so cute.
27:07Wow.
27:08So apparently balloons are alive.
27:10But will they be alive with the sound of music?
27:15One of the principal rules of science
27:17is that energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
27:22Question, is that mass or is that energy or is it both?
27:25That was correct.
27:26That was correct.
27:27It was the principle of energy.
27:28Hey, and you know what?
27:29Part of science is you have to admit that you're wrong.
27:32So, Ify, I'm sorry when you kind of stumbled through that fact
27:3545 times yesterday that I gave you a hard time.
27:37Can you guess what the average lung capacity
27:40of a healthy human is?
27:42In what...
27:43Unit.
27:44Unit.
27:45Not that it...
27:46Let's say, let's say liters.
27:48Liters, okay.
27:49So that's soda.
27:50Yeah, like soda.
27:51How many two liters of soda...
27:54I'm going to say .5 liters.
27:57I want to guess like 1.25 liters or something.
28:01It's actually six liters.
28:03Whoa!
28:04Three, like, standard soda bottles.
28:06Yeah.
28:07Let's do some real math here.
28:08Okay.
28:09Okay.
28:10Turns out there's a formula that you can derive from
28:13thermodynamics that relates the pressure of the balloon to...
28:18Pioro broke down his theory of inflatability.
28:21This formula is equal to some constant, K we'll call it,
28:25okay, not to be confused with Boltzmann constant.
28:27Which combined jazzology, stretchonomics, and rubber
28:30metrics to measure the pressure within a balloon up to
28:33the point of popping.
28:34The sudden spike in pressure.
28:35At a certain point though, this formula stops being valid
28:39and this is basically the point when the balloon is
28:44susceptible to breaking.
28:46I didn't get, you know, this DLC expansion pack, you know.
28:51I played math up until the Algebra 2 expansion.
28:55Right.
28:56The trumpet player is going to need to take this into
28:58account to, you know, push through that maximum.
29:02Right.
29:03Do you think we can actually achieve this?
29:04I think we can do it.
29:05Oh.
29:06I guess now, I guess it's time for the jazz portion, so.
29:13And for that, we need someone very special.
29:16Mark Pinder.
29:19How's it going, Mark?
29:20Hey.
29:21As for his accolades.
29:23You know, I started playing in clubs in Kansas City
29:26where I grew up.
29:27I went on tour and went to New York with the amazing
29:30jazz soul organist Charles Erland.
29:32I ended up on the Conan O'Brien show.
29:34I did that for the whole run, actually, 25 years.
29:37They might be giants.
29:38What?
29:39Wasn't he talking about working with Bruce?
29:40Yeah.
29:41Wow.
29:42Jazz in America.
29:44That's James Brown.
29:48I've kind of become a rock and roll guy.
29:51Yeah.
29:52But there's still jazz up in there.
29:53If anyone has the lungs for the job, it's Mark.
29:56All we need now is the device.
29:59And so we added a nozzle with a balloon at the end of it
30:02attached to the mute.
30:04I'll hand it to you.
30:07I'll step back and let you do what you do best.
30:21It's harder than I thought.
30:26You can do it.
30:27He's toying for it, though.
30:35Clearly, attempt number one was a bust,
30:37even though that's the opposite of what the balloon did.
30:40What went wrong?
30:41And I'm not sure that blowing harder was filling it any faster,
30:46which wasn't what I was expecting.
30:48Guys, I think I've got something to say about that.
30:50Okay.
30:51Something that Piero actually did.
30:54Something that Piero actually noticed.
30:56On the fly, Piero researched what a mute does scientifically.
31:00Air was escaping from around the outside of the horn.
31:04He couldn't get past that initial peak of pressure.
31:07Yeah, because he was losing air pressure.
31:10So what you'll do next?
31:12Well, we covered the whole damn thing with a balloon.
31:15Wow.
31:16Check it out.
31:17Rekha, why don't you bring in the new, improved balloon system.
31:22That's crazy looking.
31:24Are we ready?
31:25Yeah.
31:26I'm ready.
31:27I'm scared.
31:28We're going to step back and let you do all that jazz.
31:41Look at that.
31:42Wow.
31:48I love that note.
31:51Oh my God.
31:53Get it, sir.
31:54Yeah!
31:57Oh!
31:58It popped?
31:59Is he okay?
32:00Oh, he's tired.
32:01It broke.
32:04You can blow up a balloon with jazz.
32:06Yeah.
32:07That's amazing.
32:08He definitely can.
32:09He saved his tastier licks for the second round.
32:11Absolutely.
32:12That was great.
32:13He was feeling it.
32:14In conclusion, it took 15.74 seconds to fill our balloon.
32:19Using that metric, here's how long it would take to fill other stuff.
32:23Eight and a half minutes for an inflatable tube guy.
32:26That's a couple of jazz songs.
32:28Five and a half days for a Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade balloon.
32:32That's a full-blown jazz festival.
32:34And it would take 70 days to fill the Goodyear blimp,
32:37almost twice as long as a biblical flood of jazz.
32:42Well, we can't get a jazz man and only have him jazz up a balloon.
32:46For 15.74 seconds.
32:47Yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:48Jazz up my life.
32:49Watch him jazz up your life right now.