5 Weird Ways To Start A Fire

"Come on baby, light our fire."

5 Weird Ways To Start A Fire is the 28th episode of Season 8 and the 759th episode of Good Mythical Morning. It aired on September 16, 2015. In this episode, Rhett and Link test out 5 weird ways to start a fire.

Episode
The episode opens with a warning:

'''Warning: Do not attempt this at home. These activities are dangerous and can cause serious harm.'''

Rhett and Link start the episode by reminding viewers to keep voting for them for Show of the Year at the Streamys.

They then move on to discuss that one thing separates humans from other organisms is their ability to start fires. They then wonder how you can start a fire if you are stuck in the wilderness.

Let's Get Weird With It - Making Fire
Rhett and Link move outside to a campsite they have set up in their parking lot to attempt to start a fire.


 * Method 1 - Gum wrapper & AA battery

Rhett uses the foil wrapper to make a circuit with the battery which will heat up. It did not work.


 * Method 2 - Cell phone battery & steel wool

Scrape the steel wool over the conductive parts of the battery to make sparks. They also try a 9 V battery. It did not work.


 * Method 3 - Glass & bacon grease

Get a paper towel soaked in bacon grease and use reading glasses to focus the sunlight onto the paper towel to start a fire. It worked.


 * Method 4 - Human urine

Put some urine in a bag to act as a lens to focus sunlight to start a fire. The pee bag broke and leaked onto Link's hand. It did not work.


 * Method 5 - Brake fluid & chlorine

Put some pool cleaner in an empty bottle. Add the brake fluid. An explosive chemical reaction takes place making a large jet of fire. It worked. Link's chair is set on fire by the reaction. They acknowledge that this one was stupid and highly dangerous. They used too much of the reactants to make it very dangerous.

They plug the Hoverboard October 21 2015 T-shirt at the end of the episode. They then spin the Wheel of Mythicality which lands on "My strange addiction: mashed potatoes".

Details

 * Opening - "Today we make fire. Let's talk about that."
 * Wheel message - Anna from Orange, California at VidCon.

Trivia

 * The end-episode plug was for the Hoverboard October 21 2015 T-shirt.