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christmas. it's time for -- >> the 12 explosions of christmas. >> now meet the science daredevil who's going to reveal the grand finale. >> it's just a nice ending to the whole thing. >> a skier jumps an icy railing but -- >> the rail doesn't hold him. >> why this is not a christmas miracle. >> he turned a holiday shopping trip into a proposal and she -- >> was not expecting it. >> the dance that got a girlfriend to say yes. >> how to win an ipad mini. and you never heard this version of "silent night." >> i like that. >> time to celebrate the holidays iceland style, "right this minute." the grinch comes out in a lot of people this time of year and came out in one polish woman. this is a public thoroughfare. there's a snowman there.
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the snowman seemed to have been in a public display. this woman decided to help herself and carry it away. she was caught on camera, cctv but the cctv operators were there, it wasn't just a camera running for them to roll back the tape. they followed her as she made her way through town. the second camera shot is had them capturing her taking a picture of this snowman. she's capturing like look, what i got, a snowman. why she would take a picture of it i don't know. >> the snowman was wearing like lady gloves. >> he was. >> that was weird. >> saying it's a snowwoman. >> it could be. creepy. >> frosty's wife. >> shouldn't have done that. part of a public display for the christmas spirit. >> but as you notice cctv operators not only have tvs looking at you but they also have a phone. call police. there the police catch up to the woman and have a chat with her. guess what happens at the end? it has a happy ending. she goes back and returns the
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snowman or snowwoman back to the proper place where it belongs. >> that is good. taught her a lesson. like he ashe's 5 years old, something your mom would teach you if you were 5 and took something, make you return it except she's a grown woman and would have known better. >> true dat. little known fact, knowing says christmas like -- >> choking? like he had a hairball. >> oh, wow. are you kidding me? >> yes, my friends, slayer christmas lights. we're talking an entire light show set to the slayer song "hell awaits". >> perfect for christmas. >> nothing gets you in the mood like slayer. >> an elf playing the drums, santa on the guitar, shredding it. and then all the lights surrounding the house. frosty the snowman head banging. >> the the snowman is the lead singer. >> put together by slayer bob. >> i have a hard time stringing
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up one string of lights with a staple gun and this guy has a light show, computerized and animated. don't just walk into walmart and buy these lights. >>en cap i get the slayer christmas set? >> slayer bob says this took months of preparation and his wife now hates him and that he does have a few more gray hairs. >> we see a lot of these christmas crazy liht displays. this may be my fate so f. >>s th a tribute to jeff whos passed away in may, the founding member of slayer. >> oh, wow. >> guitar christmas tree. >> it's a pretty ek tensive light display set to "angel death" "war ensemble" and "raining blood." very christmassy tunes. >> this is the best thing ever. >> cold and the snow is falling, time for the videos to start rolling in. i have two. first one, guy jumps up here, urban skiing on that rail and bounces to this rail. the rail doesn't hold him.
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>> oh. >> the rail fell. >> the whole rail collapses underneath him. watch it again. >> i'm going to blame like the parks department. >> i think he did the city a favor here. if somebody walked up or down that, the railing fell, they fell, you have a lawsuit on your hands, thank you very much, mr. skier. next one from a snowboarder, pulls the trick off perfectly stopping and that's a problem. >> oh. >> the truck was just about to start moving when this guy can't stop or get any grip on the parking lot there, smacks into the side of the truck. >> what was their plan? >> only like a little snow and a parking lot. >> and another truck. >> and the plan was to fly down that rail. >> beyond that, you can't plan that. >> oh. hey, everybody. just in time for the holidays we're giving away an ipad mini.
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>> you need today's buzzword, u.s. resident and be 18 or old to enter. >> the buzzword is coming up in a little bit. your chance to win an ipad mini. >> good luck, everybody. greg and mike over at [ inaudible ] have a brand new way to light up the holidays. you've heard of the 12s days of christmas. >> yep. >> wheel they have the 12 explosions of christmas. here's one of them. in this video they have 12 mince pies and they're going to blow them up. hear the explosion. ♪ >> mince pie fire crackers. >> 12 mince pies that pop. >> 12 drummers drumming. this is way better. >> this is another one of their videos. accordings to these guys, the reindeer have rockets up their foot. >> we can goes faster. >> see how far up they get the
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reindeers. >> now. ♪ >> they didn't get very far. >> for that brief moment they went quick. >> to tell us more about this we have british science daredevil greg, right this minute, from the uk. he's the mastermind behind the 12 explosions of christmas. thank you for joining us. where did the idea come from? >> the guy did it with mike. he's a pyro technician and i present side shows here in the uk and america and like we should do something for christmas and this came up. we were talking about different carols and like 12 explosions of christmas. that's what we have to do. so we've got this one individual that has all of the explosions in it. so the 12 mince pies we showed and then 11 flaming bobbles on a christmas tree, 10 fiery stockings and it goes on and on. >> do you have a favorite explosion? >> yeah. i'm going to go for five flaming
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santas. >> oh, nice. >> instead of five gold rings. we filled them full of a mix of hydrogen and oxygen. hydrogen burns by it itself but as soon as you put a bit of oxygen in it it explodes. the explosion was so big that the shock wave hit all the other santa and all five just went. >> nice. >> why is it important for you to get into the science behind these explosions? >> i'm a science guy by training. it's now my job to go to chat to people about science whether it's at schools, on the tele, or festival. the final one is an epic firework treat. we fire off the firework tree. it's just a nice ending to the whole thing. >> if you want to see all 12 explosions head over to rightthisminute.com and click op today's show or also see it on our mobile app. santa's testing out a new ride. >> he's not going to be able to
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long and short about old santa claus, long beard, rosy cheeks, bowl full of jelly. haven't seen the jelly used like this before. ♪ >> playing "jingle bells" on these two faux santa stomachs. >> they're hitting pretty hard. >> yeah. >> how red the one on the left by his belly button. >> like welts all over his
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belly. >> they practiced before they started. >> this wasn't the first take. ♪ >> but it does sound pretty right on, right? they had to like slap these santa's bodies in such a way to figure out it was going to make the right sound here and different sound here and figure it out. that kind of takes some time and skill i think. ♪ >> i don't know if you're aware of this but santa is in the market for new ride. the sleigh he's in getting a little old. he sent out a santa's helper and elf. they're out test driving a nice new lamborghini for santa. ♪ >> santa is not wealthy he's just full of wishes. >> yeah. >> and santa may be wishing for a new lamborghini. don't know if he's leasing or buying but looking at the
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convertible model. the sled he has now, open top. it's important it looks good, drives great. >> dude dropped his phone. is he okay? >> he's not going to be able to carry all kinds of gifts in it? s are where is he going to go. i think the reindeer are also going to be quite enthused about this because now they don't have to go slogging through the cold night air. they can use the ponies underneath that lamborghini's bonnet. >> what, going to hang out at the north pole? >> don't you think they've done enough work at this point? >> keeps them young and keeps them happy. >> well, headlights guiding a lamborghini you want rudolph's bright red nose. >> progress, girls. progress. >> to royal mall in vancouver where mish and jason are you know, going to see santa and, of course, they're wearing their
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ugly sweaters because you have to see santa with your ugly sweater. this isn't just to let's go see santa day. bruno mars' song "marry you" starts playing ♪ hey baby i think i want to marry you ♪ >> mish starts noticing all her friends are dancing by her by the escalators. we talked to mish who is a huge fan of the show by the way and did tell us at this point she was in shock. she realized what was happening, not expecting it, because she thought he was going to propose on christmas, but came early for her. christmas came early. >> where's santa? >> who cares. >> she got her christmas wish. >> it's funny because she's being pulled around. she's a dog walker. walking dogs, on the clock. so jason walks over, gives her a smooch, and then gets down on one knee for the beautiful moment. it's funny how she's waiting there and the dogs pull her
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away. >> come on, run, run. >> somebody take the dogs for one second. >> finally she says yes. takes the ring. it's official. >> all her engagement photos will have the goofy sweater on. >> yeah. >> it's awesome. >> they seem really in love. it's fun to see these when they seem so in love because it's such a surprise, just a fun moment. we still have an ipad mini to give away. all you need is today's buzzword for your chance to win. we've got a backwards christmas carol. ♪ ♪ we wish you a merry christmas ♪
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different. >> i would like to see them pop. >> explode. >> explode. >> i think we're going to see explosions because you have electricity going on in there. >> it's pretty with the sparks and everything. >> too bad they don't do that when they're on the tree. that's really cool. >> the ornaments have been in for the allotted amount of time. >> looks like you could still hang those on your tree. >> that's right. they came out more artistic almost and if you notice they came out different colors. >> you were right. you predicted they wouldn't bust. >> i've seen ornaments that look like that. >> cracked glass look that people pay a lot of money for actually. ♪ >> ladies, i want to introduce you to a brand new christmas song. this one not so catchy, but does grow on you. ♪ >> i think it's also in a different language. like -- [ inaudible ].
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but hit it in reverse. ♪ we wish you a merry christmas we wish you a merry christmas. >> crazy. >> this guy is unbelievable. he's unreal, the way that he gets it all done and the syllableses are right and sound correct. >> his name is rob. we've had him on our show before talking about his backwards song. it's not perfect if you listen. ♪ ♪ good tidings we bring to you and your ♪ ♪ good tidings for christmas and happy new year ♪ >> sounds like someone with maybe a foreign accent singing. >> it's crazy he appears to be doing the guitar part backwards too. he's like playing the song backwards and singing it backwards. ♪ we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year ♪ >> all right. it's giveaway time here at rrt m.
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>> we're giving you a chance to win an ipad mini. all you need is today's buzzword, be a u.s. resident and be 18 or older to enter. >> enter on our facebook page. go to the first post and tap on that mobile link. >> time to reveal today's buzzword. >> it's sparkle. >> get to facebook.com/rightthisminute and click on the win an ipad mini button button. >> enter sparkle, spark-p-a-r-k for your chance to win an ipad mini. good luck, everybody. >> all is calm until -- ♪ silent night >> why it's anything but a silent night here. hehersrshehey'y's s isis m e than chocolate,
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>> basically you have a group ofs these cute little ones. >> i love the fact that they even get in australia a santa claus pinata. >> it's dragged in the yard and, of course, they all give chase. one of them just is taking the insides out of santa and not sharing with the rest of them. they have a frozen snowman with a nose and this thing does not stay together because dogs as we know like to tear everything they get a part. >> and pugs are so cute with their smooshed faces. >> like ugly cute. >> yeah. >> my favorite shot at the very end really tells santa. >> oh. >> peeed right on him. >> marking, saying he's my santa. >> good way to get yourself on the naughty list. >> the holidays are here, you're probably used to hearing the ding of that bell. >> oh, yeah. >> the volunteers for the salvation army collecting change. they've created a video to remind us how easy it is to give. >> it's the salvation army
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goldberg device. >> old super nintendo games. >> yes. in fact, everything you see in this goldberg machine or device all things that were donated to the salvation army family store. >> you have everything from bask basketballs to cds. >> teddy bears. >> oh, yeah. >> it's good because it's showing what you've probably got laying around the house you may not need that would make a perfect donation. >> a giant like medicine ball fun. >> yeah. kickball. >> refrigerator. this is my favorite. >> what's that called? >> tether ball. thank you. swings and swings and unravels until it hits all the cds. >> oh, cds. >> we need to make one of these devices around the office. >> those are old xbox games to a racket ball. >> reindeer. >> reindeer. >> keyboard. >> look at that. that's if fun. >> ultimately what this goldberg machine does is provide a coin for the salvation army donation bucket and you got to love their
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tag line. giving does not have to be this complicated. >> sure. let's go to iceland to get really into the christmas spirit with a beautiful rendition of "silent night." ♪ silent night ♪ holy night ♪ ♪ all is bright ♪ round >> tell me that's not making your skin just crawl. >> crawl. >> he's awesome. ♪ sleep in heavenly peace
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>> i feel like i'm watching one of those "american idol" reject clips, you know. >> oh. >> but he's doing it on purpose. >> merry christmas. >> love her. ♪ sleep in heavenlyshe's doing purpose. >> merry christmas. >> love her. ♪ sleep in heavenly peace >> happy holiday. >> that's it for our "right this minute" holiday special. thanks for joining us and have a fantastic rest of your holiday season.
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