How One Cart Stopped an Entire Army — Transcript

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1. 0:00He drilled 82 holes into the wood
2. 0:02because down the hill an army is
3. 0:04marching straight for his fort. And
4. 0:05while everyone else sharpens swords,
5. 0:07he's in the corner still drilling. His
6. 0:09commander asks, "Are we fighting them or
7. 0:11grating cheese?" But it gets weirder. He
8. 0:14bolts [music] the wood onto a cart and
9. 0:15into every hole goes something long and
10. 0:17thin wrapped in paper, each with a
11. 0:19string. Then he twists all the strings
12. 0:22into one rope nobody's allowed to touch.
13. 0:24One soldier reaches for it and he slaps
14. 0:26his hand so hard the whole fort hears
15. 0:28it. That night, it pours, [music] so he
16. 0:30throws his coat over the cart and lies
17. 0:32on top of it like a human umbrella. One
18. 0:34drop gets in there and we're all dead.
19. 0:36The next morning, ladders slam against
20. 0:38the walls and the army charges. Everyone
21. 0:40screams at him to do something, but he
22. 0:42just watches them get closer and closer
23. 0:44until they're packed
24. 0:45shoulderto-shoulder, close enough to see
25. 0:47their teeth. That's when he rips off the
26. 0:49coat and lights the rope. The spark
27. 0:51races down it and splits into 82 [music]
28. 0:53tiny flames. And each one hits a tube of
29. 0:55gunpowder strapped to an arrow, turning
30. 0:58every one of them into a rocket. All 82
31. 1:00blast off the cart at once, flying every
32. 1:02which way. But with the army packed that
33. 1:04tight, not a [music] single one misses.