 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the bizarre magic of Brian Rushwood. So, since I needed to reconsider whether or not I should have that Paula Deen clip in the intro. So one of the things that Scott wanted me to do more than anything was to eat fire on stage. And he's like, hey man, how many handles of the fire eating thing? And I was like, well, it's probably best to wait until the day of and meet with them and just sort of show them and see if it's cool or not. He's like, you probably don't want to ask for permission in advance. He's like, great. Next day he says, we can't do fire eating. But, as luck had it, I talked to the manager. To kill these lights, the concept of resistance to fire is one as old as history itself. Well, let's get them all down. As far back as the ancient Greek tragedy Medea, references our age to holding Nevada red hot iron in order to prove innocence or sincerity. The first written account of a fire eater, however, occurs in 1607, when Sir Henry Watten wrote of an English sailor who could eat fire as though it were candy. With that in mind, I'm going to show you guys the simplest method to extinguish a torch with one smell. More like this. Reading Acts went on tour during the 1680s, was performed by a French man who was renowned not only for his ability to swallow flame, but for the apparent affinity he would display for it. In fact, people claimed that his teeth and gums were so calloused and immune to the heat and flame that he could actually hold a burning torch between them just like so. Oh, which boy, his audience would freaking nuts, it was awesome. This is a time when performers with names like Yama Deva or Chailing Fu, they shifted the focus of fire eating away from the tolerance of the heat and the flame, and instead they moved it towards the artistry and the skill with which they manipulated it. Reading had taken a nosedive and people said that fire eating was an art over which oblivion threatens to stretch their darkening wings. This is when fire eaters were kicked out of the theaters and into the streets, where they began to perform increasingly dangerous stunts like the tongue transfer. The single most difficult and dangerous fire eating stunt, this one's called the human candle. So after you get too greedy, a combination of feats has become my favorite thing to show people. Here we go.