 Thanks very much. What I'd like to do for you today is catapult a cabbage through the air and catch it on a spike on my head Thank you, I thought of it all by myself Now look I know what you're all thinking Luke Skywalker meets Albino Mick Jagger. I Get it relax. You're among like-minded friends I Designed this about ten years ago using the knowledge that I gleaned for my two years of first-year engineering And since then I've traveled around the world doing what you're about to see I performed in 13 English-speaking countries and every province of Canada Which which is pretty much the same distance covered if you think about it and and Yeah, I've settled in London now. I've lived in London for six years I London's an incredible city where people from around the world and different cultures They all kind of come together to avoid eye contact You have to respect that So yeah, my catapult is pretty simple But I would like to share with you one thing quickly before I move on the word catapult is really cool It's an English word, but it's made up of two smaller Latin words The Latin word a pult which means to throw and the Latin word cat meaning cat now The the English originally designed catapults in order hurl cats at the French Because they didn't like cats or the French and then this turns out to be a really good solution to both of those problems My catapult is is pretty simple. I'm just gonna Get this out of the way here It's powered by these high-quality Norco brand bicycle inner tubes That's a 18-inch bike inner tube. This is what holds the air and your BMX size bike tire They're super stretchy and I use them like this which is obviously not with the manufacturer had in mind and Because I use them like this they rip and they tear and they break and I have to replace them pretty much everywhere I go and at some point I thought to myself, you know, wouldn't it be great if I could eliminate that cost from my life Entirely if maybe in exchange for mentioning the Norco brand bicycle inner tube I could get free Norco brand bicycle inner tubes from the the people who make them So, you know, I I called them up and I told them my idea and they said hey Mike listen We the Norco brand bicycle inner tube people Would really rather not be mentioned in the crazy catapult show So I'm still buying them Now, of course catapults don't see a lot of use in military actions anymore except in the Canadian army Our troop has a catapult that he uses from time to time And as a result of this there are very few trained catapult operators in the world today So few in fact that I would be I would not be surprised at all if there were none in the audience here today No, so I'm not I am gonna need someone to help me out I'm not asking for you to be fully trained But there are some some characteristics that you must have some pre-qualifying characteristics If you want to be Mike Woods catapult operator here today, you need to be female 18 to 35 single with your own apartment There are any Actually, would you mind coming up and joining me that'd be great Let's bring up with a round of applause Hi, thank you. Your name is hi Becky. Hi Becky is a beautiful name. Yeah, it's it's gonna look so good in granite Yeah Okay, now Becky. It's pretty simple. You're gonna you're gonna be standing right here. Okay in the catapult operating area you'll be holding on to this rope and You'll notice right now the catapult doesn't look super dangerous it's in its sprung position later on it's gonna be in a cocked down position and The danger is that it could move rapidly from cocked into sprung And and when that happens, you don't want to be leaning into what I've named the face ripping area So so no leaning. No, we do need you in the catapult operating area for reasons that will become clear now I've made you feel unsafe. So I'm gonna get you some safety equipment here. This is a Safety vest If you just like to slip this on You just drop the rope that's fine. It will actually fit a little bit better if we can get you get out of the shirt. No, okay Put that on now Becky don't worry about it too much because as anyone here can tell you there's absolutely no safety in that vest Where the real safety is gonna come is in these Norco brand safety underpants So if you just like that's all right, don't worry about it. It's a it's a 40 pound site gag Now I'm gonna sorry, I'm just gonna slip past you here Becky. This is a cabbage. I'm gonna load that in here I'm gonna cock the catapult and then be off to the races okay now a Catapult operating area where you're standing is perfect. Hold on. We created some kind of not situation. There we go So you're gonna have to pull on the rope pretty hard not super hard But pretty hard and we would ask is that you have your left foot up on the frame of the catapult That's right right there on the bloodstain perfect Now you need to pull pretty hard not super hard, but pretty hard and because you're pulling so hard You need to step down equally hard because if those two forces are not equal and opposite The whole catapult will swivel Newton's second law kicks in and the whole catapult will swivel and yeah coal slaughter Okay, I'm just gonna slip this on here. This is my cabbage catching helmet I'm gonna be over here. Remember the whole audience is gonna count one two three pull when you hear him say pull You'll pull okay. Let's have a big round of applause for Becky just in case she doesn't survive Buddy all together and thank you very much Thanks Becky. I never said it was hard. I thought of it first and then I made it interesting Thank you