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Dan, over the years, we've put you inside some very strange things, haven't we?
Oh, I like being inside strange things.
But usually, you're inside a strange thing just sat on the floor.
- Yeah. - So, today, how about we shove you in this human sized inflatable hamster ball and use six fire hoses to lift you completely off the ground?
So, it's almost like a very safe jet pack?
Yeah. Well, I'd say mostly safe.
- Oh. - Like, 70% safe.
That'll do.
- Yeah, check that off, good to go. - Yeah.
- Good enough for me. Sort of, yeah. - If you go.
- Okay. - By the way, this isn't just six hoses.
This are six water trucks.
Each pumping all that pressure into these hoses.
It should lift about 900 pounds in theory.
- Oof! - That was a graceful entrance.
- ( groans ) - You want me to zip you up?
- Uh, listen, - ( farts )
Oh, God. It echoed!
It echoed.
Right, just do this over.
No, oh, it stinks.
( laughter )
What? You did it.
( blows air )
So, I guess I just stand like this, right?
What does it feel like in there?
Well, like I'm a giant hamster.
All right. Well, I'm gonna stand back at safety.
- Good luck in there, Dan. - Cheers.
Ooh, careful.
Has this been done before?
( truck starts )
( water spraying )
Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh!
More!
- Gav: Oh, my God! - Give me more!
Whoa-oh! Whoo-hoo!
Whoo!
- Dan, you're off! - Whoo-hoo!
Whoa-oh!
Whoa!
( laughs )
( laughs )
Uh, this should be a real thing.
That's fun.
That's a lot of water.
How was that? You got some clearance.
I've survived.
You were like three or four feet up.
- Was I? - Well, maybe.
It felt much higher than that for some reason.
- Did it? - Yeah.
I feel like this should be a thing.
Like, people should be able to come along and do this.
Well, it is a thing now.
- It's fun. - ( laughs )
All you need is six water trucks, a hamster ball and an idiot.
( laughs ) You know?
Gav: It's such an odd sight isn't it?
That is completely surreal.
Dan: The hoses were constantly tilting.
I was having to adjust my body.
Gav: Just like flopped in a heap.
Dan: Yeah. Occasionally, you get it perfectly, right?
Like you go in there handed and it was just perfect, but other times it was moving around all over the place.
I had to move my body here, there, backwards.
So, it was trying to buck you up.
Dan: That looks like some sort of movie alien.
Gav: It really does.
It's sort of like a "War of the Worlds" feel to it.
Dan: Looks like a video game boss.
( laughter )
- Gav: It's like you're in a big floating Death Star. - Dan: It's like... a big floating Death Star tadpole octopus.
Dan: It's a very odd day for lighting because the sun's in and out, and it just makes the clouds look so cool.
You have all these flares from the sun, it looks wicked.
Gav: These cords that are attached to it that are holding it down a bit.
- Dan: Yeah.
I think, slacking them off, I want to get into like ten feet.
- Ten feet. - 'Cause it felt high already, but I want to get higher.
Do you think ten feet will make it more unstable?
I think it would go down from 70% safe to like 55% safe.
- ( chuckles ) - But it's still the majority.
Still in the realms of my capabilities, so...
- Let's do it. - Yeah.
( high pressure water shooting )
Bloody hell!
Whoo!
Whoa! Whoa!
Oh, my God!
( laughs )
( shouting )
Oh.
( coughs )
- Cheers. - ( laughter )
Whoof!
I think I snapped a Go-Pro out there.
( laughs )
- Dan: You're trying to kill me. - God.
You came right at me.
Did I? All right.
- Oh. - How are you?
I almost fell off a couple of times there.
- Gav: Yeah? - Yeah.
- Come on. - ( laughs )
Dan: God, right. First thing's first, right.
It was going all over the place.
It was like one of these mechanical bulls that was trying to throw you off.
I feel like the people in the water trucks were like, "Whoa," trying to get me off.
Whoa!
- Gav: ( laughs ) Oh, my God. - Dan: Oh, man.
- Look. - Gav: You're completely...
Dan: I just look like one of those eggs that's not quite ready yet.
Like, it's not formed in the middle.
Gav: Yeah. It's like you're a tadpole.
- Dan: Yeah. - Dan: Perfectly eclipse the sun.
It's like perfect backlighting there.
Oh. This landing could not have been worse, by the way, right?
I literally landed head first.
- Gav: ( laughs ) - Dan: Not only-- look at this-- look. Look.
It's head and neck.
Head and neck, first, right?
Oh, straight to the floor.
Gav: That's enough.
Oh-ho-ho!
That just looks so good though.
I love all this lens flare.
That might be unintentionally one of the most cinematic movie-looking shots we've ever done.
That was a lot of extremely safe, 70 to 50% safe fun.
Very successful.
Incredibly cinematic footage.
For what it was, which is six fire hoses and a big inflatable ball.
- Six foot dude in a flying ball, yeah. - ( laughs )
Would you do that again?
Yeah. I would love to, yeah.
Well, hopefully, you enjoyed that post.