Can Your Fillings Catch Radio? - Mythbusters - S01 EP104 - Science Documentary
Join Jamie and Adam as they debunk myths: Can a penny from a skyscraper embed in concrete? Is it possible for tooth fillings to pick up radio signals? They also unravel the mysteries and misconceptions surrounding microwave ovens in this electrifying episode of MythBusters.
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6:50 "I guess we should get out of here, that's mercury vapor". One of the most intelligent things I've seen someone say on TV
6:37 he he he hehehehe whoops hehehe heheh
28:00 exploding water , myth is less about water and more applicable to soup where a super heated layer can form sub surface, there was a phase where glass rods were bought to help disipate layer heat in microwaves , and they worked out that actually making the turntable wheels less round , (making the plate wobble a little ) is sufficient to disturbe super heating layers so the jerkey movement of the glass tray , is actually by design , BET YOU DIDNT KNOW THAT 43:00 Turn off the phone repeater while filming live on air ??? guys lol
in these early ones where you can see a comparatively young Jamie and Adam getting used to each other and actually rubbing each other up the wrong way quite a bit more- they try to sugar coat it but you can see why some of the crew predicted the show wouldn't last as long as it did, once you take in to account that we now know they didn't really get on. it also makes the bits where they actually say they enjoyed doing something together and respected each others abilities all the more wholesome- like whenever they have to co-ordinate movements in excavators.
Pretty sure that Adam has actually said that the producers tried to play up the drama between the two of them in the early episodes to make sure they got ratings, only for them to get less pressure later on since the studio knew the show was successful
Adam also said that both him and Jamie were not into it. There was tension between them and arguments but they didn't really want it to be a main part of the show. It wasn't that bad, since you often could see them sharing a joke, or laugh, or high five etc. And as I understand producers at first wanted to see more heated arguments and tension, and there were this parts with Jamie saying some (actually truthful) unflattering words about Adam.
Adam had worked for Jamie on a number of occasions before the filming of the show....they knew each other's personalities extremely well. Jamie was the one who had recommended bringing Adam on because his personality was not as hyperactive as Adam's and he knew he needed someone to play off his more straight-man persona. And they were never shy on saying that they were colleagues, not friends. My understanding from various interviews from prior employees of Jamie's is he's ridiculously knowledgeable about nearly any subject, but he's not the best leader. He wants things done his way and does not enjoy suggestions counter to that. You can sometimes see that in episodes when Kari was still more in the background and Jamie is directing her rather sternly (remember at that point she was still on his payroll, not Discovery's) and often when Adam expresses his opinion on how an experiment should be done. I imagine working for him would be both excellent on the learning but frustrating on anything else.
You know the two facts that they didn't become friends like at all, and still having the show alive and going for like fifteen years shows how professional they are. They were only colleagues, but very successful as that.
I hate that producers think we want to see fights and such. I cannot stand shows the feature that and even push the cast to behave that way. I think Jamie is very knowledgable and skilled in various ways, but I wouldn't have lasted 14 years. On the other hand if the show was me and Adam, it would have been a blast. I can be a pretty good ham, and we would have bounced of the walls together.
At 4:29 the primary jumper says something to Adam but it looks more like he's nibbling on his ear 😂
I have personally experienced this. We have a 50,000 watt clear channel station (WHAS) that I picked up in my head after having multiple fillings. It was FREAKY!
It is so much fun remembering to watch these as a kid and being amazed at the results but now that I'm rewatching them as an adult and as a scientist, I can often say immediately whether something is real. The penny off the Empire State Building won't work because terminal velocity keeps it from becoming dangerously fast. The tanning bed one doesn't make sense because ultraviolet light (which is used to tan you because it simulates the sun) is literally on the completely other side of the EM spectrum from microwaves. Tanning can give you skin cancer, but it can't cook you.
Well, the point is that some people may not know that
@@HalNordmann I know the point, I'm just saying it's fun to watch again with a deeper understanding.
It will dehydrate you, If you are dumb enough or pass out in one. There was a case study of someone ending up severely dehydrated by being left in a bad for several hours. Honestly, tanning beds are just a nuisance and bad for your health. More over I agree with rewatching these when you’re older and wiser, it’s fun to peel away the fun, tv magic and science
@@kyuofcosmic Totally agree with your opinion on tanning. I find that almost everyone looks better in their natural skin color anyway, but if you really need a tan, just go out in the sun.
Tanning can quite literally cook you. The UV light is well capable of denaturing the protiens that you are made of.
6:00 "On that note, the MythBusters go their separate ways." That's too bad. This show had so much potential, I wish they'd done more with it.
If only they made many more seasons, that would be great 😆
Shame, right? I have a feeling they could have made at least a dozen more episodes.😆
14 seasons is alot
@@h.Freeman pretty sure they're joking because this was the first season
The bloke who taught me about computers, a Royal Navy radar technician, had fillings that gave him migraines until radio 2 turned their transmitter off at midnight then they would immediately stop.
Did he ever get them removed to see if that helps?
@@gownerjones1450 not while I knew him.
@@rather_be_a_cat What a shame, that would have been a great test of the hypothesis!
That one always bothered me. I am reasonably sure that you could build a (very bad) AM radio from fillings, but they never tried that.
@@mrkv4k I remember my grandad telling me when I was a kid of how he made a receiver using a crystal and some copper wire and he showed it his grandmother and she ran out the room screaming thinking it was haunted.
"16 500ths of a second" What would've been wrong with saying 32 milliseconds!?
Why not reduce to lowest terms? It's 4/125 of a second.
Jokes aside, they probably thought at the time, like so many people do, that a "millisecond" is a hundredth of a second instead of a thousandth. It drives me nuts.
they are americans. they are not capable of measuring anything in meaningful and usable ways.
It is a part of Discovery's narration style. Instead of saying actual number they would often make some vague comparisons. 16/500 doesn't make any sense tbh. Can't see any other reason than to make it seems more significant.
@@d4slaimless I think its an American thing leftover from the imperial system, because instead of saying 4 or 5 millimetres, they'll say 3/16ths of an inch which is also stupid
28:24 The same way water can be super frozen, cooled slowly below freezing, and yet NOT actually freeze until it gets bumped or shocked. My wife accidently did this to a bottle or "Spumoni Bambino" LOL.. by placing it in between the outside door and screen door during winter (we live in Canada), she for got about it, and when it was brought inside? ... It FROZE, instantly before our eyes from the bottom up, the moment it bumped the counter top! :) .. very impressive actually!! :)
That works with chocolate overnight, at least in Las Vegas, so long as it's cold enough to not melt.
Man gotta love the tension they had in the first few seasons total opposites on approach’s to things but ended up getting along, just saw a podcast Jami and Adam still meet up
My dad was gifted season 1 dvd box set when I was about 5 years old. Watched this shit so damn much. I definitely have adam savage to thank for being a maker, specifically this season of the show. Thanks for uploading these.
Same one out of 3 disc broke but I’m replacing the broken disc disc C but I have the other ones I still watch them every now and again. It’s great to see it on KZhead thus brings many great memories I grew up in this show loved it
When I was a kid, we lived close to an AM radio station. We could hear the toons from the station when we opened the dryer! At first it's like am I hearing things?!😆But everyone could hear it!
47:28 Remember Lucy reported the incident to MGM's Security Department, back then the Department was no joke, they had armed officers, and an investigation team equal to ANY Local Police Department at the time. It would be quite reasonable for them to insulate Lucy and MGM against any "negative press" regarding the incident, and keep her out of the official reports.
Really enjoying the early series, thanks for uploading. Looking forward to more and of course, eventually seeing the baby build team
With microwave ovens, the two worst foods to prepare in them which shortens their life is popcorn and defrosting bread. Because the mass of the food is low, most of the microwaves are not absorbed, they get reflected back into the magnetron antenna and cause it to burn out over time. I have a burnt out magnetron from a customer who nearly burnt their house down because they only cooked popcorn in it and the machine was only three years old. There is an easy fix though, just put a cup of water in the microwave with the food to absorb the remaining energy and extend the life of your machine.
I've never understood people who say microwaves cook inside out cause my reaction is always the same. "Have you never had a frozen burrito?" I've had many frozen burritos in my life and I always have to be careful because I'll get the outside nice and warm and the inside is a block of ice. Or the outside will be a hard, crispy shell and the inside will be hot enough to achieve fusion.
@@glenngriffon8032tbh I think it's all on where you place it and how high cause there are different peaks of the wavelength
I definitely heard a radio after i got fillings. Only for a brief time and hasn't happened since
This could only have happened if you where near a AM transmitter (NOT the more common FM transmitters) AM=amplitude modulation is really wasteful and needs to transmit enormous amounts of power that could feasibly vibrate metals (some old radios didn't have batteries at all, they relied only on the power from the transmitter, such a radio only had the power for a tiny earpiece but it worked)
Music and editing in S1 is wild
Yes fillings can receive radio especially if you are near a radio tower. I had my metal filings removed / replaced with ceramic just for that reason.
On a dewy morning, an entire field of cabbage began to play music near a high-powered AM radio transmitter. The myth is true.
Think this is relevant. Was retro fitting Conway Middle school in SC. The auditoriums major complaint was they often pickup the radio station across the street. The Auditorium had an old Bogen amp, with tubes in it, could hear the age from its hum. It was replaced with a 250 Watt Peavy amp with isolation transformers. The audio from the radio station could still be heard in the back ground but lessened from the aged one and no more hum. Next i took the wiring apart. the audio path was solid steel negative wire a copper wire and a steel single shield. All the wiring was then replaced with stranded and a braided shield. Perfect audio no hum, no radio.
Wow what a weird coincidence I lived in Conway n myrtle my whole life I have no idea where the middle school is but kinda remember where the HS was these old mythbuster episodes are something else too cool story!
@@revalution1965 You maybe correct it was a HS, as I recall it had/ has an ROTC program, names often confuse me, and I worked every school in SC. NMB schools too. Once got so frustrated with NMB HS room temp equipment i took the door off the room to vent it.
Picking up radio signals from fillings is a real thing. I experienced it a few times after getting fillings as a child when we drove by a radio station. It did not happen every time we drove by. Their test was inconclusive because they did not consider all the possibilities. It has more to do with the nerve and the filling acting like an antenna. The signal has to be strong and you have to be close to the source. It also has to be AM radio.
Happened to me too when I was a kid
This actually makes sense, AM frequencies haven't been used in a long time due to it being so affected by interference, it could be where it came from
When I was a youngster I had a mattress that would pick up radio sometimes. I did know a person who claimed their dental braces did the same.
When he drops the handfuls of pennies, I got worried for the folks on the ground. 😅
I think the "super microwave" didn't work because the magnetrons were placed out-of-phase of each other and cancelled out each other's output lmao
The escalation of the tinfoil hat 🤣
There's a town near where I'm from that was close to a big radio station. They'd pick up the radio signals in their sinks, fridges, and many other metal things.
i have experienced the radio in the mouth thing, but it only worked till I went to the dentist again!
You must have been VERY close to an AM broadcasting station's transmitter which was very high power
Thank you for uploading these
I refer you to Crystal set radios, however as we no longer have AM or Analogue radio it's no longer a problem.
where don't you have am or analogue radio? I've heard of DAB taking over in the uk but i didn't think it had a strong foothold elsewhere
@@deepfriedkraken UK we only have limited FM on the analogue. Mostly dab.
The dentist got shook when he realized it was a real skull haha 34:42
I was thinking balistic gel - no, Adam puts his hand... that was good season :)
Jaime is the stoic one, Adam the jokester, but when Jaime has something funny to say he's absolutely the hilarious. Like.. 30:27 "Are you a turkey?" Implying that .. Of course you are.. And 13:00 "I always enjoy seeing Adam in pain"..
"i wouldn't say he's evil and i wouldn't say he's a genius. But uuuh- hehehehe" his face in that moment is hilarious
"Do tanning beds put out microwaves? They put out nothing of the sort, they put out light waves". ummm - Jamie. Microwaves are light waves. So they definitely put out something of "the sort"! The correct answer is "no. they put out much higher frequency UV waves" which don't penetrative past the skin.
That is the biggest nitpick you absolute nerd
25:07 I routinely use the family microwave to evaporate the moisture out of old welding electrodes, so they work properly. as long as they do touch the sides it's fine.
2:11 great info Jamie 😋 I could be confused.. 8am in the evening would make me doubt
Keep ’em coming
While Lucy's stories seem exaggerated, I can verify by personal experience that it is possible to receive radio with fillings in teeth. I heard music coming out of my mouth for a short time. It was soft enough that I could only hear it when there was no other sound. It was coming from one specific location in my mouth. I was not able to figure out any more than that before it went away. My mouth had more fillings than teeth. Since then I have had crowns on all my teeth. Given that I had a large number of fillings for 20+ years and only heard radio once, it must take very specific conditions for it to happen.
I had a filling done when i was early 20s i think it was. Later in the day after i was home and in my bedroom i suddenly got a blast of radio like white noise/tuning tones, just a couole of seconds and not long after another blast. I could vaguely sense there was a station behind it. It definitely involved my new filling area but it blasted and echoed around my head really loud. It did it twice and fortunately never again.
walking out of the microwave store at 24:00, a classic T-bird on one side of the street, a classic mustang on the other...
About the microwave, there are radio connections using the microwave radiofrequencies for a high power radio beam. And the maintenance people need to be very careful not to stand in the wrong spot, when the transmitter is working. It really is dangerous. And it is NOT a myth, it is as true as you can get it.
Fun fact; If you have a vibration in your cheek bone, you can hear it in your ear drum. My evidence? I once pinched my cheek real hard and it was throbbing in pain. Each throb transmitted to my ear drum and it was very disorienting.
Well, back in the winter of 2012, in Colorado (at the Colorado Center for the Blind), my roommate in the apartment accidentally put a frozen foil, wrapped potato in the microwave, and tried to start it up. The resulting sparking, burning, smell, and aluminum oxide smoke definitely didn’t do very good things for our health. The microwave still worked afterward, but the potato was a total loss. 25:34
4:29 did the guy on Adam's back kiss him on the side of the head? 😅😆 Absolutely love those microwave tests, those Magnetrons are amazing! Cheers always Mythbusters for being so fascinating and wonderful.
Lol he was talking into his ear
The radio in the mouth thing is busted here, but somehow it does happen. My uncle had the same problem back in the 1970s when he got a gold cap in his mouth. He also had a situation where he said it felt like he was getting a shock from his teeth and dad said when they looked in his mouth in the dark, you could see a spark jumping in his mouth.
NO NO NO ITS JUST SCHIZOPHRENIA we couldn't possibly have the technology (builds 2 million more cell towers)
@@Memevze HAHAHAHAHAHA
I have heard of this . I was at a friends house and his duct work resonated with the talk radio from a near by radio tower. Sound is an electro magnetic wave. It vibrated mechanically the sheet metal duct work.
i think Adam was genuinely pissed that Jamie wasnt excited about the wind tunnel lol
Fun old memories!
This is my top five narrators, modern marvels is probably number one
Years ago on local TV they had an advert by a cleaning product company that would give kitchen hygene tips. 1 tip was regarding kitchen sponges, which said that to disinfect your kitchen sponge, just wet it and put it in the microwave for 30 seconds. I tried this & set my brothers microwave ON FIRE!!!
wtf i did this 2 weeks ago lol. Obviously you shouldn't do it too long. 30 seconds should be fine xD
I have actually superheated water once in the microwave. Luckily when I put my teabag in, the splash was not as violent as the on in their test, and I only got small droplets of water in my hands
Just because the FBI couldn’t prove what Lucy said a lie , doesn’t make it a lie . She was an actress , and quite funny at that , but the reason she was so funny is because she TOLD THE TRUTH .
Fun fact. Microwaves were discovered while working on Radar druing before America joined the WW2. The guy working on radar discovered a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted when playing with the radar, which used Microwaves.
Ok, THIS IS A REAL-TIME PREDICTION... I haven't seen this episode before. I am stating this based on scientific studies. I predict that the tanning bed won't cook your insides. Microwaves work using the Microwave part of the E-M spectrum which isn't just below visible light.[that title goes to Infrared. Microwaves are even below Infrared. The Sun doesn't work on that type of energy. The Sun uses Ultraviolet[UVA, UVB, & UVC] light. UV is in the opposite direction from Visible Light[VL]. UV is next going up the spectrum cozied up to VL on the other side. I don't see a magnetron to generate Microwaves in a tanning bed. Y'all wanna know what I do see friends and neighbors, UV lights. Yes, my Peeps those bulbs that look like black lights in the tanning bed are, you guessed it - UV lights. All black light bulbs produce UV rays. So the Sun is working with electromagnetism that is much further up than a microwave oven.
I said it. I don't claim to be a Scientist moonlighting as a Mathematician just for a motto or on whim.
Yah , the microwave oven cooks when the object is placed in a container . ( but this is the weird part , ) the object should be compressed of water . It’s the water molecules that do the cooking . And I’ve found that the object has to be in contact with a serface in the container .
And in the Netherlands there is a museum for the radio's that were used for telephoning to Indonesia. In those years they used low frequencies, which means very long wavelengths, and huge power. When people in the village close to these enormous antenna's rode a bicycle, the headlight would burn all by itself. The dynamo has a coil and magnets, well, that coil picked up enough energy, it didn't need turning anymore. I think Lucille Ball had such a powerfool radio station nearby, too. And those dangerous mercury and gold mixtures ARE metal, maybe these tune to certain radio bands. Ask the experts. It would not surprise me if this myth gets confirmed. Miss Ball is a great witness. But now you need smart ass radio amateurs, or the professionals in the military or communication companies. There are people who know how exactly how antenna's and radio receivers work. The challenge is finding one who is both friendly and knows it all.
Insanity comes in all flavors . 🤣
fun fact: Americans most of the time boil their water in the microwave instead of having a waterboiler
42:54 Just for context especially for younger people watching .. In that time radio transmitters AND receivers were HEAVILY regulated, you needed a LICEBNSE to own even a common AM Radio reiver. All units were serialized and limited to power levels that would be normal at that time. Enforcement as strict and the local Ham Radio Club, and local operators, would NOT let anyone transmit, without literally, knowing who they were.
Lucy was probably experimented on with voice to skull radio technology.
The microwave one, I have done it many times with hot milk by accident. Be careful as it works well with milk, or it's my microwave I'm assuming its a very clean mug or it will just boil. 1 drop of sugar was enough to explode about a third of a mug. 2nd time the spoon touching surface.
It's not the metal fillings that catch the radio waves, but the saliva and exposed tooth-nerves, ask me how I know...lol...?
8:49 This taught me how to use an Allen wrench properly.
its context dependent, if you need the extra length you hold the short end, and if you need more torque you hold the long end. Here he's holding the short end because the long end would hit the metal next to the screw, meaning he'd have to take it out and reposition for each turn. if the screw was on a flat surface holding the long end would be more efficient
A minor but much more widely believed myth they just kinda throw out as a parenthetical aside is the idea that microwaves cook food from the inside out, which of course they do not, for what should be obvious reasons.
All they had to do was just go to the KGO transmitter site near the Dumbarton bridge. That station is known for its high wattage transmitter
12:06 ‘I’ll do it... But you’ve gotta do it too. Otherwise, you know, you’re like, a wuss’ - Adam Savage
Microwave vs UV-A. totally different frequencies. Metal cover can make more damage than it helps against it.
I feel like we moved on waaaayyyy to quick from Adam’s dad just casually owning a human skull😅 like sir who is that and where did they come from?!?! I have questions
Spin the penny vertical you will have very diffrent results terminal velocity depends on aerodynamics 😊
I don't remember who tested this myth before, maybe Mark Rober, but they threw pennies from an empire state building height helicopter and learned that pennies spin in the air which limits their ability to travel fast enough to do anything under normal conditions.
Why are these full Myth busters episodes being posted everywhere? 😅
I'm glad they are, haven't watched them for years.
yes ! normal episode is back XD
Agreed. This is good, (Season 9) but I like this (Seasons 1-8)
It’s not friction that creates heat in a microwave oven, it’s the vibration of the molecules as they align themselves with the wave. They spin and stretch the nuclear bond.
a famous actress actually help find ussr numbers station because she heard voices in her head caught on her fillings
would the terminal velocity of copper or a steel penny be different?
38:21 Adam. Where's the door?
Radio frequencies and your teeth . Intriguing . That is interesting indeed . Ya and Lucy located a Japanese radio transmitter . Um , you can touch a battery to your tongue , and you’ll feel a tickle . But understand that the bigger the battery is , is the bigger the charge . So be careful . I heard about this phenomenon . And I believe it . This is no myth !
Adam is like me. I went to Orlando Florida and spent 2 days on the beach for only around 4 hours and then 1 day at Universal Studios for around 11 hours and i git sun poisoning on my legs lol. Being a Ginger is rough sometimes when we wana have fun.
Adam the Masochist Jamie the SADIST💯🤣
Highly flawed penny results. Like a lot of their testing.
I throw a penny with spin. It rolls down my index finger.. spinning gives it stability and it doesn’t tumble the same as just letting go of a penny at hight
I do have to admit when I was 7 years old I did try to throw a penny off the top of that building I also tried the same thing on the top of the twin tower.I went up lol
When i was about 14, standing on the second floor, i was able to hear a NYC AM radio station. I ived about 30 miles from the antenna
People who throw pennies off of tall buildings have no cents.
The buzz heard is from the 60 hertz power in the building.
I've seen sparks in a microwave just from a twist-tie.
Season: 1 N° In season : 4 , Overall episode 7 October 17, 2003
Has anyone actually tried to microwave and entire chicken from raw before? That seems insane.
Interesting that tanning myth never reached Europe. Like we had a version where woman was spending hours tanning and got skin cancer but like... yeah.
I'm tired of myths being busted when they are not. Robert Hunsucker, a professor at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, explains how this phenomenon can actually occur. A radio receiver is made up of an antenna, a detector to convert the radio wave to an audio signal, and a transducer, which is anything that acts like a speaker. In very rare cases a person’s mouth can act as the receiver and their body acts as the antenna. A metallic filling can act as a semiconductor that detects the audio signal, and the speaker would be something in the mouth that vibrates enough to produce noise, like bridgework or possible a loose filling.
his molds always leak...... have they not found a way to fix this issue by now ???
21:47 😂 🦆 👈🏽 Why was this shot up for SOOO LONG
48:48 actual information.
A Penny weighs 2.5 grams. That's about the same weight as .22 LR projectile. A .22LR traveling at just 1000 FPS will easily penetrate a skull. The Penny at 3000 FPS didn't? It had to hit with the flat side making impact. If it hit on the edge, it would have penetrated for sure. It's not that it didn't have enough mass or enough energy. The sectional density is just incredibly poor for a projectile when it strikes on the front or back. That's a different story if it strikes on the edge. If you melted the penny & casted it into a ball, it would also have fully penetrated the skull.
Disagree. As a radio technician we were taught that dissimilar metals join l in the presence of a strong radio signal became a diode. The response curve caused a distortion of the radio frequency , which with a small amount of capacitance became a detector of the radio frequency modulation. This was a real problem around two stations. Wire fences were renouned for picking up rf, rusty joints in the wire detecting and re radiating the signal even on a new frequency. Read about intermodulation products. This might be a busted MYTH, but it remains scientifically FACT.
I understand The theory And The workings Of 99% Of your experiments in all your videos But the teeth with different fillings in vinegar 🤯
The exploding water one is not a myth, it happened to me personally with tap water, fortunately the water missed my body and face.
19:47 ... Why is the folklorist girl? ... Sitting in a machine shop?? (Without safety shoes on?)
They couldn't get Lucy's dental records? Come on.
How many of us bult 'crystal radios' back in the day. All you have is a coil of wire and a simple diode. I could believe a filling could act as a diode, and we know for sure a persons body is electrical and can act as an antenna. With just the right conditions I would put this a s plausible.
Seeing this again after all these years I have to disagree with the folklorist in the radio story, I doubt this was as much of a comforting tale and more a tale to confirm people's fears. Also it's crazy how much more afordable such measurement gear (of that quality) would be today...
microwaves are not radio waves... both are electromagnetic waves but the distinction of various wavelengths are quite precise.
Whoa .. short hair Adam! And 90s left earring!