Episode 14 Epic Quick Blast

Welcome to the world of epic,

the place where you can become a master at everything on the planet.

No matter what it is,

this programme shows you how to do it.

So sit back, strap yourself in

and get ready to become epic at everything!

Welcome to your quick blast of epic-ness.

First up, this guy is going to show you a must-have piece of know-how.

I'm Aaron Stannage, and this is how to fix a bike puncture.

Aaron is a champion wheelier.

So he WHEELIE knows his stuff.

First, turn your bike upside down, and take the punctured wheel off.

Makes sense. What's next?

You need to take your tyre off, and pull the punctured inner tube out.

Inner tube out, check.

But how do I know where the hole is?

Dip it in water, we're going to find the bubbles,

and the air will be escaping from where the hole is.

Bubble equals hole. Genius.

We're going to mark the punctured area with chalk.

Sand it down to make it rough.

Apply a patch from a puncture repair kit, to seal the hole.

Fix a puncture with a puncture repair kit -

sounds crazy, but it might just work.

Put the tube back on the tyre, inflate, and ride.

And that is how you fix a puncture.

Easy. Thanks Aaron!

Now for something different.

No mistake, I'm Max Byrne,

and I want to show you how to get this egg into this bottle.

Why?

Your mother has sent you to school with a hard-boiled egg in your bag.

It could happen.

-But she hasn't given you anything safe to put it into.

-Typical.

Apart from a bottle.

Ah, that has actually happened to me.

But it doesn't fit into the bottle. It doesn't fit!

What do you do?

Now, you're going to need an adult for this.

Safety first, guys.

You light this match, you drop it into the bottle.

You place your egg on top of the bottle.

What happens next...

is awesome.

That match is burning up all the oxygen inside the bottle.

Now, in theory, that should create a vacuum strong enough

to suck the egg into the bottle.

Come on, egg!

BLART

And that's how you get an egg...

into a bottle.

Nearly.

Well, you should never put all your eggs in one bottle anyway.

Well, half of it anyway.

Oh, Max!

Right guys, it's time for one last stop

on the train line of ep-er-iffic.

Get your mates round quick,

you're about to become the master of this magic trick.

Hi, I'm Fergus Flanagan, and I'm here to teach you guys at home

how to make one solid pass through another solid.

No way.

I'm going to start off by wrapping the tinfoil around the plastic cup.

So it looks like that.

Now, I'm going to place the cup over the coin.

On the count of three, that coin is going to pass

straight through the table. Are you ready?

Three...

two...one.

Er, non-epic.

That one didn't seem to work.

I'll tell you what, we'll try again.

Instead of the coin going through the table,

why don't we make cup go through?

Ready?

Whoa!

And that is how you pass a cup straight through a solid table.

Now, how did you do it? Come on, spill the beans.

So the first part of this trick

is to wrap the piece of tinfoil around the plastic cup.

So, take your cup and place it over the coin.

Now, when you lift the cup,

obviously, the coin hasn't gone through.

Now, this is where the secret move happens.

You're going to drop the cup out of the tinfoil,

onto your lap.

And I bet you didn't even see - it's gone.

Unless you can slow it down,

and see it from multiple angles.

Epically sneaky.

"This time," you say, "we're going to take it one step further."

So, you say, instead of the coin, you're going to pass the cup

through the table, which is obviously much more difficult.

Three, two, one.

And then you can show that you've impossibly

made a cup pass through a solid object.

Right, to amaze your mates, you need to wrap your cup in tinfoil

and claim you are going to make a coin disappear through a table.

Fail on purpose, then sneakily drop the cup on your knee.

Then claim you're going to make the cup pass through the table instead,

and slam the foil flat.

Boom!

Your mates are going to think you've done real magic.

Eat that, Harry Potter.

Now go and practise, and have fun fooling your friends.

Thanks, Fergus!

So, there you have it.

Your quick blast of epic-ness.

Now, go forth,

and be epic at everything!