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Mark Rober's Revengineers (2023) Season 1 Episode 1
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00:00In three, two, one.
00:03My name is Mark Rober, and I'm an engineer.
00:08I used to work at Apple, helping design their products.
00:11I also worked at NASA for nine years,
00:14helping to build the Mars Rover.
00:15And now I make videos that combine science,
00:18engineering, and technology.
00:21Ho, ho, ho, ho.
00:23Since hundreds of millions of you
00:24have shared in my joy in exacting revenge on port pirates,
00:27I've decided to set my sights on other everyday wrongdoers.
00:31Hit it!
00:33Who also might benefit from some high-tech punishment.
00:36I'm washing hands, ma'am.
00:40Here we go.
00:42So I've assembled an elite team with a particular set of skills
00:45to engineer the perfect pranks.
00:47Thea, the welder.
00:49Miss Stephanie, the programmer.
00:51And Alan, the maker.
00:54Our mission is simple.
00:56We'll fabricate an arsenal of complex contraptions,
00:59find those who violate the basic rules decent people follow,
01:03and engineer some karmic justice.
01:05This isn't just a prank show.
01:07This is revenge.
01:17One of the greatest joys in life is eating.
01:20So it would stand to reason that one of the happiest places on Earth
01:23should be the place where they have ice cream and potato chips.
01:26And this magical place does exist.
01:30It's called the supermarket.
01:33And yet, one of the great achievements of human civilization has become a source of anxiety,
01:39aggravation, and fury.
01:44It seems that when it comes to shopping, basic rules of consideration go right out those sliding glass doors.
01:51How can craziness like this even happen?
01:54Well, it starts when people ignore the simple courtesies.
01:57I hate when people stop in the middle of the aisle with the cart.
02:02When some people enter the market, they think only of themselves.
02:07Rules are for others.
02:09People have more than 15 items.
02:12I want to give them a kick.
02:14And what's with the people who don't even put their shopping carts away?
02:17What I even say is just annoying.
02:19I think people should be considerate.
02:21So I sat down with the team to figure out what makes us maddest at the market and what we
02:26can do to fix it.
02:32I always return the shopping cart.
02:34Really?
02:35Yes, every time.
02:36Do you guys?
02:37Yeah, yeah.
02:37I may sometimes be a curb placer.
02:40No!
02:41Okay.
02:42But I'm vowing to change.
02:43I'm vowing to change.
02:45The shopping cart is like a litmus test for humanity, I think.
02:49Because if you're not willing to put in the, what, 60 seconds?
02:52No, like seven seconds!
02:54Yeah, not even.
02:55To return the shopping cart to the place where it's supposed to go.
02:58And you're actively making it harder for everyone else in the parking lot.
03:02So how do we get these people then?
03:04What do we do?
03:04It's tough because they're just getting in their car and leaving.
03:07We could just put the shopping cart right behind their car so they can't leave.
03:10Or they move it and then we put it back.
03:12You make it seem like the wind just like naturally pushes it back.
03:16We could probably find some like, like hubbed electric motors where like all the actuation
03:21is kind of like in the wheel itself.
03:23That, I don't think anyone would be wise to that.
03:26This is a great idea from Alan.
03:28Rather than sneaking about pushing carts around the parking lot,
03:31we can make robot carts that we can move around remotely without anyone knowing what's up.
03:36But before we get to that, some stores have samples, right?
03:39Yes.
03:39Where it's like, please take one.
03:40My roommates in college were literally, their meal was going and just eating all the free samples.
03:47Maybe that's too many.
03:48It's really annoying when someone feels like the samples are there for them.
03:52And only them.
03:54We all agree that not returning your grocery cart and people who take too many samples.
04:00Can we agree?
04:00Those are social norms that are violating.
04:02Yeah.
04:03Well, I think we got our work cut out for us.
04:06I say we just kind of get to work and see what happens.
04:13One of our main ideas to punish the sample hogs, just a simple grape shooter like this.
04:18So we've got a PVC pipe and a grape.
04:22And it shoots it.
04:23Bullseye.
04:26It's a similar principle that I used on my YouTube channel,
04:29where I built a compressed air cannon to shoot Orbeez at a dummy.
04:41Now let's see what happens when we switch out the Orbeez for grapes and switch out our mannequin
04:46for an unsuspecting volunteer.
04:49This is a trust experiment.
04:51I don't like the amount of protection that I need for this.
04:54Now I'll just take this off.
04:57Looks like an air cannon, Mark.
04:58What?
04:59An air cannon?
05:00No.
05:02And while Alan has correctly introduced that this is an air cannon,
05:05what he hasn't deduced is that the tank is pressurized to 100 PSI
05:09and it's loaded up with two pounds of fresh grapes.
05:12Three, two, one!
05:16Say hello to the grapes of wrath!
05:23Oh, my God!
05:30Okay, so maybe we need to dial it down just a little bit.
05:34But one thing's for sure, we will shoot fruit at greedy grape rubbers.
05:39Alan and Stephanie and I are heading to a local farmer's market while Thea stays behind to prep the
05:44robot shopping carts for our next prank.
05:48So we've landed here where we have pranks that are going to test whether people are going to choose
05:53to do the right thing and take one sample or do the wrong thing and face the cannon.
05:59All right, so we're here.
06:01Why don't you guys tell us what we've cooked up for the fine folks of Sacramento, California today?
06:06Well, we've got some very expensive, very organic grapes here.
06:10So you're only allowed to take one.
06:11Okay.
06:12And if I take two?
06:13If you take two, you've actually got two barrels hidden there in the table.
06:17Do you see that?
06:18And those are connected to two pneumatic air cannons.
06:21They're going to shoot grapes at anyone who tries to take more than one grape.
06:23How do you like them grapes?
06:25All right.
06:26We'll be in the RV firing fruit while Estefany specifically tells people only one sample each.
06:33We are armed and ready to go.
06:36Hey, you want some free samples?
06:38We got some free samples right over here.
06:40Help yourself.
06:41Please take one.
06:43One sample.
06:44Estefany has clearly told them to take only one, so there's no excuse.
06:51One sample, please.
06:53Oh, I don't think so, buddy.
06:59He will never take more than one sample ever.
07:02Right in the mouth.
07:06We were there all morning and nobody followed directions.
07:09Even at a farmer's market, the problem is worse than we thought.
07:13I think it's time for something a little more heavy-handed.
07:17So I had an idea to build a prop that would deliver a big punch.
07:21And I tasked the team to build it into the table with the grape cannon.
07:25There we go.
07:26Next up, we need to build the pneumatics for the robotic boxing glove.
07:30And for that, Alan is our guy.
07:32Once air comes in this way, this pops out.
07:35This solenoid valve lets us choose when to actually move that piston.
07:40And that moment will be controlled by a button on a remote device that Estefany is buttoning up.
07:45Time for us to make it very clear to these shoppers that one sample means one sample and no more.
07:52One sample.
07:53Please, just one per person.
07:55It is a small farm.
07:56Oh, they're beautiful, aren't they?
07:59Oh, he took more than one sample.
08:03Oh!
08:07Got organic samples, fresh from the farm.
08:11Please, just one per person.
08:13It is a small farm.
08:14Oh, he took more than one sample.
08:18Oh!
08:20Now, before anyone gets upset that we just knocked out a random guy at the market, we didn't.
08:25That's noble.
08:26A stuntman and amateur boxer.
08:29I mean, we're not monsters.
08:36Oh!
08:38This prank proved our theory going in that when unsupervised,
08:42most people don't follow instructions and do whatever the heck they want.
08:46So, in order for them to get the point, there needs to be consequences for their selfish behavior.
08:51Someone has karma.
08:53Now we know what happens when you grab a second sample.
08:58If our next prank is going to be successful, we're going to have to hit our shoppers hard.
09:03Time is our most valuable commodity. It's the one thing we can't get back.
09:07How many times have you been in a hurry and found that perfect spot in the grocery store parking lot,
09:12blocked by a shopping cart?
09:13So we're giving shopping cart deadbeats a taste of their own medicine and wasting the one thing they
09:19apparently value most, their time.
09:22The plan is to turn a normal, innocuous-looking shopping cart into a vessel of justice.
09:28Now to pull this off, the cart's going to have to be fast and remotely controlled.
09:33First, we're going to have to remove the mobility system from a typical hoverboard.
09:38Then we're going to cut off the wheels from these actual shopping carts that we bought,
09:42and then modify the housing so it now fits with those hoverboard wheels and motors.
09:48When it comes to welding, no one does it like Thea.
09:52Even more impressive than her creations is that she used to be an aerialist in the circus.
09:57Not unlike being acrobatic, welding requires physical strength,
10:00exceptional hand-eye coordination, and an attention to detail.
10:03But what good is a motorized shopping cart if we can't remotely control it?
10:07That's where the coding part comes in.
10:09As a highly skilled software engineer, Stephanie is the ultimate authority when it comes to computer science.
10:15If it can be coded, cracked, or hacked, Stephanie can bust into it.
10:19Side note, she tells everyone she meets she also loves cats, shoes, and chocolate,
10:23but unfortunately, that's not going to help us here.
10:25Is this the code we're running?
10:26Yeah. Oh, some of it is secret.
10:28Ah, don't look at this code.
10:29Oh, okay.
10:30Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
10:32So that's what you did.
10:34It's taking me a little bit longer to solder this because the pins are very,
10:38very small because we're just hacking this thing.
10:40We're taking these carts out into the public, so they have to take every precaution
10:44that they're not going to run rogue because of faulty wiring or coding.
10:47No one wants their obituary to say killed by a shopping cart.
10:51This here is lipo battery.
10:53It's got a lot of energy.
10:54It's also, like, a little unstable.
10:56Like, I've heard of these things exploding before,
10:58but as long as we treat these real gentle, it should be fine.
11:01If there's anyone I trust not to blow us up, it's Alan Pan.
11:04As a gadgetry master who uses his engineering expertise to bring the only before imagine to life,
11:10when it comes to building prototypes, there's no one better.
11:13Just don't tell him I said that because his ego is already big enough.
11:17Alan, top speed.
11:18What are we talking?
11:19What do you think?
11:19I don't know.
11:20Maybe five, ten miles an hour?
11:22Alan, this is looking pretty good, but I'm still going to shoot you for good measure.
11:25Oh!
11:26Why?
11:27I've definitely assembled the best team for the job,
11:29and I'm super stoked to try this contraption out in the field.
11:33Transmitter's on.
11:34Let's see if this thing does anything.
11:36Whoa!
11:38All that's left is for Stephanie to put some finishing touches on these bad boys.
11:47Now that the build is complete, it's time to load into the RV, head to the market,
11:51and turn our monsters loose.
11:55We're here in the parking lot of a friendly neighborhood grocery store.
11:59We're about to unleash three turbocharged remote control carts on lazy inconsiderate shoppers.
12:04Stephanie is in the RV acting as our spotter while the rest of us are manning the carts.
12:09I feel very powerful right now, guys.
12:12Like, y'all are looking very suspicious just looking around with your carts, by the way.
12:16I'm playing it cool.
12:17I'm just on the phone.
12:18We need clicker keys.
12:21Alright, so look at these two.
12:22They have no excuse for not returning their cart.
12:25There are literally two of them.
12:27One of them could start the car, turn on the air conditioning, or even drive around to pick up the
12:31other
12:31one who's returning the cart to the cart return area.
12:35But no, they couldn't be bothered to spend the seven seconds it takes to do the right thing.
12:39And this is just unacceptable.
12:41No, they're leaving it.
12:49Like the wind, like the wind.
12:51Oh, perfect.
12:52That's very windy.
12:53I'm right in their line of sight.
12:55Oh, perfect, perfect, Thea.
12:58There you go, there you go, there you go.
13:03My hands are sweating.
13:04This is great, this is great.
13:05Alright.
13:13Attention shoppers, in aisle four of the parking lot,
13:16we're running a two-for-one sale on revenge.
13:19Just harass him.
13:26Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, what's going to happen?
13:31We've been spotted, guys.
13:33Is this your horse or who is this?
13:34Um, uh, oh yeah.
13:37I need to get out and I'm going to remove it unless you want to remove it.
13:40Uh, yeah, yeah.
13:42What do you want me to do?
13:42Uh, yeah, I, uh, let's see.
13:46That means we've always done it.
13:48Yeah, yeah.
13:49It kind of has a mind of its own.
13:53Bernie Sanders would like his sticker back.
13:56They're really hard to control, sir.
14:02Another mark.
14:03We had a non-returner.
14:08Alright, I'm giving Thea backup.
14:10She's a non-returner, my car is in place.
14:14Let me know when you need reinforcements.
14:16I'm slowly backing up, Thea.
14:19Okay, yep, yep, cool, yeah.
14:21Like wind, mark like the wind.
14:23Okay, okay, okay.
14:29We are not sneaky at all.
14:32Uh-oh.
14:33She seems very confused.
14:38She's so mad.
14:40What should I do, you guys?
14:41Do you want me to let her push it away?
14:43Let her push it, let her push it.
14:45Go with it, go with it.
14:46Oh, Mark's getting in position.
14:52Now, maybe you're thinking, perhaps we've gone too far.
14:55In which case, I can assure you, we're just getting started.
15:05We needed a mobile command center to execute these pranks, so I purchased a brand new RV,
15:10but in this case, RV stands for revenge vehicle.
15:13Also, it's not brand new.
15:16And I bought it primarily just because it reminded me of the Winnebago from Spaceballs.
15:20The front is classic 80s chic, but in the back, it's high-tech mobile command.
15:26When we're out in the field, this is the nerve center, so all the video and audio feeds,
15:30not to mention the high-tech gadgetry, reports back into here.
15:34That way, we can run the operation as we watch things unfold real time.
15:39It might be party in the front, but it's all business here in the back.
15:49My team and I are in position at my local neighborhood grocery store with a fleet,
15:54right? Okay, three remote-control shopping carts, taking on all those thoughtless people
15:59who don't return their carts to the corral.
16:04Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, she is not happy.
16:08She is very mad. She's very mad right now.
16:11She's gonna destroy that shopping cart. Oh, no.
16:16And the fact that we left this lady screaming alone in the parking lot
16:19means we've made our point.
16:23All right, I see someone else.
16:25Okay, this woman is actually loading her car,
16:27but watch what she does next.
16:30Red alert.
16:32She actually leaves some groceries in the cart
16:34and goes to load them in the front of her car.
16:38She's about to leave.
16:39Get her, Thea, get her.
16:41In the time it took her to load her car twice,
16:43she could have returned her car.
16:46Okay, I got this.
16:47I got it.
16:47Got her, I got her.
16:49All right, so there's a lot of different ways
16:50this shopper could back her car out,
16:53so we need to do a three-pronged approach to box her in.
17:12Oh, she went forward!
17:14Oh, no, she's pulled forward!
17:16She pulled forward!
17:20Oh, no, she's determined to get out of this.
17:23Play cool.
17:24I'm hiding behind this truck.
17:26She's getting up.
17:27She's getting up.
17:28Don't act suspicious.
17:29She's going to be so ticked.
17:32Yeah.
17:34Yeah, yeah.
17:40I mean, look at this.
17:41The nerve of this lady.
17:43You've got to admire the irony here.
17:45She's complaining about the very problem
17:46that she creates for others
17:48by not returning her car.
17:50Sorry, I'm on the phone.
17:54She's pushing yellow away.
17:56She's not looking happy.
17:59Let her go?
18:00Yeah, let her go.
18:01Let her go.
18:01Get the yellow car out of the way.
18:02Make it move like the wind.
18:04Remember, as wind-like as possible.
18:05That does not look like the wind, Thea.
18:07That does not look like the wind, Thea.
18:09Thea, Thea, Thea, stop!
18:11Thea, you are about to lose privileges.
18:13You guys, subtlety.
18:14Not my strong suit, okay?
18:17White van.
18:19And now this guy.
18:21First off, it's the middle of the day on a Tuesday,
18:23and he's in a freaking tracksuit.
18:25Nothing says I have a lot of free time
18:27more than head-to-toe velour.
18:29You're in position?
18:29I'm in position.
18:30I'm in position.
18:31Okay.
18:31I got him.
18:32I got him.
18:36He didn't put it in the corral.
18:38I got him.
18:39I got him.
18:43Here we go.
18:44Here we go.
18:47All right.
18:47I moved in position.
18:49Wait.
18:50Oh, okay.
18:51Shh.
18:52Okay, I got him.
18:53I got him.
18:53I got him.
18:53I got him.
18:54I got him.
18:54I'm going to move it out of his way.
18:55Watch this.
19:09He's looking for it.
19:20Oh, my God.
19:22This is not good.
19:23This is not good.
19:23I'm doing it.
19:26This is incredible.
19:33Give chase.
19:35Go get him.
19:35Go get him.
19:36We're getting him.
19:37We're getting him.
19:38We're getting him.
19:42Yeah, get out of here.
19:43Get out of here.
19:45Yeah.
19:46Return to his car next time.
19:48This is our parking lot.
19:52And stay out.
19:54That'll teach him.
19:55And not everyone derelicted their duties and left shopping carts for someone else to deal with.
20:00In fact, a lot of people did the right thing, in which case we gave them a healthy reward.
20:04Thank you for being a good person.
20:08I feel like that was a success, you guys.
20:11And I think we could all be grateful that Thea didn't kill anyone with her driving.
20:14So.
20:15End of the day.
20:16Time to go home.
20:18Peace out, suckers.
20:19Yes.
20:19Leaving us here.
20:21He's going for it.
20:22Wow.
20:23See you guys tomorrow.
20:26All right.
20:26What do we do now?
20:27We got food.
20:28Yeah.
20:29All right.
20:30So hit us up on socials and let us know what social norms you want us to target next.
20:36And in the meantime, just remember to be a good person.
20:39It's not that hard.
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