The Alfredo Boys are at it again, learning how to crack whips with the help of John "THE WHIP" Maverick. They go over how whipcracking works, the origins of it as a stage performance, and technique for actually doing it. Be warned though, whips hurt and Jason can attest to that. Don't hurt yourself or others.
Brian and Jason take a generic disposable camera with a flash, rip it open and convert it into a taser. Sincerely: don't do this. We hope you're entertained by our idiocy, but electricity is nothing to be played with. You can seriously injure or even kill yourself. Please be responsible, since we'd like to keep making this series
Brian and Jason heard that "prison spears" are a thing, so they attempt to make one using only newspaper, a pillowcase, and a kitchen spoon. WARNING: Do not attempt. Dangerous weapons are dangerous. No. Seriously. This is a weapon. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. Or in prison. Or in the produce section. Sure, that melon had it coming, but you should be more forgiving than Brian and Jason. Newspapers are for reading and sometimes for lining your bird's cage. DO NOT MAKE STABBY THINGS.
Brian and Jason set out on a journey of self-discovery by forcing their brains to make sense of the chaos that is their lives, or something. It's the Ganzfeld effect! If you're asking yourself if you should have your eyes open or closed, well rest assured you will need them open. Go ahead, try this at home! Finally, this episode isn't about dangerous illegal weapons. (Although in some ways, your brain is the most dangerous weapon of them all.)
Jason's always wanted to learn how to use a butterfly knife, and it just so happens Brian has used one for years. So Brian walks Jason step by step through a basic flip open and close. BE SAFE AND ALSO DON'T DO ILLEGAL THINGS. Seriously, there are a bunch of varied regional laws concerning butterfly knives in particular. Don't play with knives and always leave a note.
Brian and Jason bring in a chainsaw artist to learn how to sculpt wood. This should probably go without saying, but chainsaws are literally designed to cut through things so they're probably pretty dangerous. Don't use one if you aren't trained or under the supervision of a professional who knows what they're doing.
Brian and Jason make cryogenic fluid by supercooling isopropyl alcohol with dry ice, and are obligated to freeze and shatter things. If for whatever reason you decide to make some psycho soup for yourself, take safety precautions and understand that this is some dangerous stuff. You definitely don't want to consume anything frozen with this stuff, you don't want to be anywhere near touching this stuff, and at the end of the day you probably just don't even want to make it.
It's sweltering in Texas, but Brian and Jason make it even hotter with thermite. Turns out volatile exothermic reactions are perfect for cooking some good old fashioned thermeat... Say, let's all thank Squarespace for making this possible! Start your free trial today at http://squarespace.com/rogue and enter offer code "ROGUE" to get 10% off your first purchase. Don't make thermite, light it, cook meat on it, look at it, or even think about it without a professional science person there to help you not die around it.
You can't Netflix and chill without a little Netflix skill. Brian and Jason don't even know what that means, but they've got some tips.
Brian and Jason are no strangers to the Internet, but they've spent their entire lives floating on the surface web. Today, however, they glimpse the depths of the hidden deep web, and subsequently the dark web.
Brian and Jason have been scanning the air waves for sstv signals for two months, but what they found was something else. An old standby from the Cold War.
John Rubio and Grant Davis of The Beerists podcast saw some episodes of The Modern Rogue and were appalled at Brian and Jason's complete lack of alcoholic expertise, so they tailed Brian to his house and made us film them.
Brian and Jason caught that episode of Spongebob where he got inflatable arms to look tough, but 2 pairs of real inflatable arms costs a ton so instead they're taking on The Evil Russian Hit The Deck Program.
Brian and Jason finally figured out HTML tags, so that got them thinking, what other sinister design lies just under the surface? They called up friend and hacker Jgor, who helps them understand one of the oldest security breaches in the books, the SQL injection.
Brian and Jason miss their friend and bartender, Trever, dearly. It's been weeks since their last drink and they're dependent so they'll take whatever Trever gives them. Nice guy that he is, he brought them Count Negroni's namesake.
Brian and Jason got kicked out of their gated suburban community center for an illegal public broadcast of a Fight Club and They Live double-feature, so with all their now-free time they decided to program you all. Is it really free time after all?
Brian watched a couple episodes of CSI: Cyber and it all just clicked. So in a manic digi-frenzy he rounded up Jason, Jgor, a Power Glove, and a few 3.5" floppies to really get to the bottom of... DDOS?
Brian's been professionally doing ill-advised things with lighters since before half of you were born, so now's his time to shine... so to speak. Don't smoke, don't play with fire, don't use steak knives, don't break things, don't do crime, don't do danger.
Jason started getting really paranoid so we all unanimously decided to do an episode about detecting hidden microphones and cameras. For no specific reason whatsoever.
Brian stumbled onto the perfect get-rich-quick scheme! Then some men in suits showed up, and this informative episode is serving as Brian's community service.
Jason had to clear his head so he went over to the Pizza Hut on Manchaca, and while on his last man in the Master Splinter fight, he realized that all it really takes to be a true ninja is the holy-coveted shuriken.
Jason was playing an unhealthy amount of Fight Night Round 3 and Brian started to get nervous with all of his haymaker talk. So Brian tracked down the one guy in Austin who could help protect him from Jason's fists of fury.
The Scam Stuff warehouse is filled to the brim with styrofoam packing materials. After Brian got bored with swimming in the foam pit like Scrooge, he demanded we get rid of all of the styrofoam specifically in such a way that would also give him primitive weapons. Obligatory: don't do crimes, know your nation & regional laws.
Jason called Brian a "nerf herder," but Brian heard "nerf hoarder." After so long he just got tired of being debased as a nerf hoarder and thought that if he's going to be accused of it, he might as well enjoy the perks of hoarding nerf products. Look into your local and state laws, don't do anything stupid or illegal. At the end of the day, anything shaped like a gun will be treated like a gun. Stay safe!
You would think Brian would be pretty knowledgeable about beer having hosted a show for almost 10 years about getting beer for free, but Rubio knew something had to be done when he saw Brian constantly interrupting a bartender with, "YOUR PRODUCT IS SWILL," and "I DEMAND ANOTHER, BARSERVENT!" He just kept throwing dirty nickels down the bar trying to land them in patron's drinks, it was really uncalled for.
Brian's "friend" hacked Jason's LotR Online account on first guess with "youshallnotpassword" and then "convinced" "Brian," who is totally not his own friend, to spearhead an episode on password security so that Jason can go back to securely hobbit frolicking or whatever else you're supposed to do in that game.
I tell you what, our House of Representatives sure must play a lot of Tekken during those special sessions because boy do they know how to stun with Law.
Trever left us to travel the world so that he could be trained a lost art in forgotten tongues. He scaled snow-covered crests and traversed ancient underground labyrinths in search of the gatekeepers. It was only after finding these Chosen Few, after many months of harrowing exploration, did he come to know the One Truth. Just outside the Temple of Exile, a place and time for which Trever knew he could never return, the eldest Few lay weak on his death bed. In his final moments, he confided in Trever what would become the last words he would ever speak. He leaned over and gravely whispered in his ear, "Old fashioned... jello shots."
Most people don't know this, but Jason was the two time back-to-back copycat world champion. He used to be able to mimic languages that hadn't been invented yet! But that all changed with the digital revolution. Suddenly people weren't so impressed with a kid from the burbs with a mouth like a mirror now that a computer could do it too, and with higher fidelity. It's been a hard road but he's finally at a place where he can talk about that experience, and maybe... even have a machine repeat him while he does it.
Brian and Jason just kept yelling "KRAV MAGA!" while walking up and down populated streets in Austin until a qualified professional offered to teach them if they would just stop shouting. Should go without saying, yet here we are: don't be a jerk, use the system to defend yourself and don't just go attacking people.
So Rubio had some time on his hands, and German beer in them, so he concocted a devious scheme to perfectly re-create past Beerists-Modern Rogue episodes down to everybody wearing the exact same clothes, sporting the same beard progressions, all against the warehouse in as much disarray and just as disheveled as it was four months ago -- but this time, they have the German beer to drink.
=== [ pair_of_normal_rogues_s1e01.mkv ] === summary: This week on Pair of Normal Rogues, Brian and Jason investigate a haunted wizard tower built on sacred land. There's something off about the caretakers of the tower, have these paranormal events driven them mad? ... or are these accounts of the supernatural just a product of their madness?
Jason logged onto Brian's computer to look up Brodyquest but he couldn't move the mouse without accidentally clicking on something lewd, improper, embarrassing, or incriminating. It's time Brian learned how to hide files inside of other files, for you know, safekeeping.
Brian opened up the command console, typed in the code 'smurfme' which turned all the weapons blue, but then the computer turned off in the middle of a save, which they really warn you not to do, and it un-digitized all of the weapons. So what better to do with a surplus of extraordinarily blue weapons, than learn how to defend yourself against them.
This week's episode is delayed, so now's a good time to talk about the shop and NUMBERS.
Finally, the "how to get rid of a body" episode! Just kidding. ...or am I?
We actually looked into getting a buckler just for everyday use so Brian could finally protect his hands, unfortunately Anthony and Bryant are all too familiar of Brian's reputation so they cornered the market in advance. Their one stipulation was to sit front row for another Brian and Jason duel, this time playing for keeps. (keeping the buckler, that is)
After years of abuse, we finally bought Brian a new hand. But for the assimilation to be complete, he must first disown his old hand one last time.
INT. DIMLY LIT ROOM -- NIGHT We see Jason standing eager, faced towards a wall. Bundles of newspaper structure the room, stalagmites of old media. Looking closer we notice he's face-to-face with a poster which appears to be crudely taped to a full-body mirror. There's an uncomfortable silence. CUT TO: over-the-shoulder, the poster is J. Jonah Jameson and the eyes are torn out. Jason's eyes are perfectly positioned in the reflection. He grabs at the poster and sheers a wedge down the face, revealing a now-lit cigar in Jason's mouth. It's an identical match. JASON (triumphant, but also kind of a whisper) Not today, Peter... No, today I become something so much more.
Brian and Jason have both authored books, so to better understand what people find valuable in them, they had to take a closer look...
Male. Early 40s. It's a grizzly scene, one we don't see often: spontaneous combustion. The block is taped off because it's procedure, but it's not really necessary here. He's encased, perfectly preserved behind a screen. It's as if he's on display, for all to see. There's a battery nearby. Nobody can figure out if the fire first caught the top of his head or his beard. He is only succeeded by one, his wife, Mrs. Willy.
Write phish, lament phish, read phish, sent phish. Rogue phish, gent phish, only with consent phish.
Mr. Harvard Wallbanger Esq. III and Dr. Cosmappel Politan sailed the seven seas and landed in Austin, TX for just one noble reason: to get cosmically smashed and teach us their sloppy, slurry ways.
The incredible but true story of the one man who took things too far by volunteering for a highly experimental and controversial operation. SomeBODY once told him it couldn't be done, most everybody wanted to have none, but in the end, it all came down to one. This summer, Jason Murphy is... THE LAST SHREK.
Brian and Jason have been driving around Austin declaring themselves the Potato Pirates and they have the cannon to prove it. It's really gotten out of hand, they commandeer cars in the neighborhood yelling, "AVAST" while they throw potatoes out of the windows. They don't even have a good potato pun or anything, they literally just keep yelling the word "avast" over and over again.
Hello, youthful gaming elite. This is an instructional digital computing guide that will aid you in your conquest to overthrow the "status" quo. Only on the world wide web can you get this "level" of past knowledge colliding with present computing. Now this is a rich multi-media experience that's all that and a bag of chips!
Forged in the dusk of the Cold War, the pants were imbued with a mystic mistrust. It is said these pants transform their bearer into a supernaturally deceptive creature, something beyond the sum of their parts. It is within these polyester confines that a man finds himself cruel and twisted, a puppet of the pantaloon. Evil Grandpants Murphy Esq. is but a victim of this sinister stitching and seam.
Basically, we’ve outgrown everything and are trying to buy seven acres out in west Austin and build the Scam Stuff/Modern Rogue World Headquarters. This would be the biggest step we’ve ever taken, and MAN we’ve got some wild ideas for it that you’re going to love. BUUUUUT, first we’ve got to come up with cash for the closing costs, and taxes just completely wiped us out last month. So we’re doing a sale this weekend. The biggest one of the year. We’re bringing back all the prices from Black Friday 2017, which I’m sure you know are the deepest discounts we ever, ever do. We’re thinking this is a win/win: we liquidate some stock, you guys make a killing on bargains, and we all get to enjoy the beginning of the next great chapter of this adventure. (Fingers crossed!) Hope to see you over at ScamStuff.com later today, and thanks for being there. You guys are really making some magic happen for us. Thanks, —Brian
Never look a grift horse in the mouth.
You find yourself in a red room, there is a life-sized velvet painting of a clown on the wall across from you. You find a box of matches in your one pocket. You do not remember how you got in this room. After a brief pause, Mambo No. 5 blares throughout the room and the clown from the painting drops in front of you from the ceiling like something out of Mission Impossible. It is clear he means you harm. Do you use the matches to defend yourself?
You find yourself in a small room, you are surrounded by incredibly life-like mannequins. You can hear one of them breathing, but you can't tell which one is real. All you have on you is a bobby pin in your hair. The breathing pauses for a beat, then the climax of O Fortuna blares as the walls to the room fall down and reveal an enormous live orchestra, they are all mannequins. Footsteps rapidly approach your location, do you even bother with the hair pin?
You awake to find yourself in a dark room! Your eyes begin to adjust to the glow of a red exit sign at the far end. Standing between you and the door, you can just barely identify the silhouette of what appears to be two men, one on the shoulders of the other. On your last of three wishes, you panic and wish for a light; your trickster genie hands you a single light bulb very sarcastically. She vanishes back into the dark vacuum of her lamp, which itself vanishes into the darkness of the room. Suddenly the Nokia tune plays over a low fidelity PA system, signifying the start of the tenth tournament in Mortal Kombat. Do you use this light bulb to aid you in saving the Earthrealm from Shao Kahn's reign?
I'm afraid Brian and Jason got Rick Smith Jr. to be on the show under false pretenses. What they didn't tell him is that they have a business plan to Honey I Shrunk the Kids paying customers, gently balance them on a playing card with a custom built harness (gaffer's tape,) and hurl them towards the nearest micro-city. It's a bold step for environmental conservation efforts, but these jokers know that to deal the right hand... you have to become kings of the card.
Number 7 would have been Brian and Jason's pruno.
Forward for this episode written by Stan Lee, probably: "Greetings true believers, it is me, the one and only probably real Stan Lee! I got a new superhero, ya dig? His name is Card Throwy-Man. His superpower is a supernatural ability to do highly improbably (but not impossible!) card flourishes, and his weakness is paper cuts. If he gets a paper cut, he will die. It's a scathing indictment of the razor's edge we perpetuate as creators, a card in hand is a deck best left dealt."
5 people who took such advantage of *the system* that they could have their own tv show. It could be called Manipulating the System, and the five of them will all look like experts, and they'll... I don't know, teach you how to pack your travel bags or something.
[extremely trailer voice] "Two men at the top of their game. With everything to lose, they put it all on the line when they get in the ring. Guided by actual professionals who know what they're doing, Brian Brushwood and Jason Murphy are... Some Old Guys Who Do Cool Guy Stuff." [SOGWDCGS text treatment slams onto screen] "We don't offer discounts on seating, even though you're only going to sit on the edge."
As the old saying goes, "You can lead a steed through reed, but if you feed the breed mead, you'll have to concede that you did indeed impede your speedy steed."
Tracy Flick might be the only president who hasn't bought votes.
Psychic surgery is a highly specialized form of surgery that only works on other psychics. This is possible because, and many people aren't aware of this, psychics can meld skin kind of like Odo and the changelings on Deep Space 9. They can do this because they're advanced brains run too hot so their skin melts. So they like goop their hands into your psychic stomach to goopify all of those intestine gremlins, but then the psychic has to absorb your goop into their goop, bonding with the gremlin's power level. This, as we all know, is how psychics get so powerful, but also why they're so afraid of being touched anywhere on their torso.
Don't let Brian kid you, he's been trying to bring Flashlight Turbo Snail Phase Cathartic Revelation Bracelets to the shop for years.
Jason thought that Bash Bunny was a Smash character so he showed up early with his GameCube, excited to learn how to "wavebash."
Our days since last injury counter has been reset about 13 times now, so it's about time we learned how to actually treat an injury. This isn't a substitute for actual medical training, it's more designed for public awareness.
Koffing evolves into Weezing evolves into Choking. This video isn't a substitute for actual medical training, it's more designed for public awareness.
After traveling all across the quadrant, Jason heard about a mythical life-saving martial art. The renowned Kirk double axe-handle strike can be inverted, the Bajorans discovered, to punch a Terran heart back into function. They call it Sep'iarh and are absolutely convinced that The Sisko discovered it in a vision from the Prophets. This video isn't a substitute for actual medical training, it's more designed for public awareness.
I don't get what the big deal is — one, two, and three degree berms are all kind of identical. This video isn't a substitute for actual medical training, it's more designed for public awareness.
Scorpion's Spine Palpation is low-key the best MK fatality. This video isn't a substitute for actual medical training, it's more designed for public awareness.
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Jason's been muttering "Nudity is wrong" under his breath ad nauseam for the past few months now. We weren't going to say anything until we found out all of those books he's written were just hundreds of pages of Jack Torrance at a typewriter if he were obsessed with vintage pants. Letting him have run of a vintage clothes shop seemed like a good way to get it out of his system.
You jolt awake in a cold sweat. Rushes of air hold you suspended in the void of an inhospitable chasm. As your eyes acclimate, a single rope floats in front of you. It communicates in a language unfamiliar yet perfectly understood, "to be, or knot to be." Every moment of indecision further slips your suspension above a most agonizing demise. In what way do you proceed?
Huge thanks to Josh for coming through and giving us the rundown on our many questions about radio. If you want to learn more about radio, you should check out his channel at Ham Radio Crash Course - https://youtube.com/hoshnasi/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Part 3 of the Rogue's challenge series
Testing homemade pepper-spray, part one.
Testing homemade pepper-spray, part two.
You hid what, where?
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
World's Smallest Potato Guns
Yep, Lithium Batteries Get Explody When You Open Them and Put Them In Water!
Sabrage: How To Saber A Champagne Bottle
Extracting Deadly Nicotine That Murders Royalty and Addicts Bees
Liar's Dice: Our New Favorite Game
World's Greatest Con (Full Episode ) - Fame and Shame
Biggest game show win ever! Almost everyone gets this story wrong. Michael's tale is not a cheeky, scheming success story... but a tragic tale of addiction. Here's why.
Place Your Bets: Exactly How "Radioactive" Are These?
Playing Card Tarot
Carbs are Satan's nutrients!
Rock Climbing: FALLING In Love With Bouldering
We Built a God-Tier Gaming PC The RIGHT Way! (And we're giving it away!)
Colombian Esgrima: 6 vs 1 Machete & Stick Duel
To celebrate 20 years of "Scams, Sasquatch, and the Supernatural," we're releasing a special annotated version of the show with commentary, behind-the-scenes insights, and updates and corrections. With live demos to follow along and an explanation of Psychic Surgery, the trick Brian did on Penn & Teller's Fool Us, this is a mega-feature!
Starting Leathercraft (w/ CJ Johnson)
Saddle-Stitching Leather (w/ CJ Johnson)
We’re In Trouble: Cutting Down a Tree Poorly (and How Not To!)
Hacking the System is on Disney+ and we take a look at how we pitched the show and watch original footage from the process.
Brian took a moment to share an old clip he sent to The Tonight Show so many years ago.
(Headphones encouraged)
Did He Even Lie About His Own Lying? (Probably.)
Yes, You Could Literally Ship Your Kids
We're not lawyers and none of this is legal advice--don't break the law, okay? Don't break any laws and join us as we chart a beginners path around the world via insecure web cameras.
Debunking That Kennedy Conspiracy
UAPs Confirmed, But Not Aliens? How?
Dark Board Game Origins
1995 Cyber Pranks/"Crimes" That Brought Us Together
Jason Made a Kid Speak in Tongues
Everyone Should Know How to Play 21
Hilarious & Hazardous: Food Bloopers!
Modern Rogue "Masters" Blackjack
When Sticking It To The Man Goes Wrong/Right
If this makes no sense, please watch the Great Night livestream. It's pretty much this for hours at a time. Thank you to Justin Robert Young for helping us process this abomination.
Questions That Should Have Been Answered Sooner
4 High Tech Solutions For Simple Problems
Using Math to Reveal Darkest Secrets (Part 1)
Secret Language Of NYC Bodegas
Building A Sailboat For Just A Dollar
Secret Languages: NYC Subways
The Middle Finger Gesture Is Exactly What You Think
Secret Languages - Sneaker Culture
Playing Music With A Sewing Needle
Lighting A Fire With One Match
Bunny Ears Are Fighting Words
Dangerous Pickle Lightbulbs
Where did Jason go?
Body Language Roulette
How to Play Mancala
Secret Languages - Tea Houses
We Desperately Try to Violate Copyright
We Found The Weirdest Tax Breaks
Making a Dollar Bow Tie
You CAN'T TAKE Your Tea Room With You! Whoops. You can.
Weird History (With Dr. Jordan Breeding)
Opening A Masterlock 875 Without Any Tools (with Deviant Ollam)
Grab a pen. This is fun. (Memory Test Challenge)
Learning To Use The Flipper Zero (with Deviant Ollam)
The secrets of Acoustics 101 w/Brandt Hughes
Hotel Hacking Havok with Deviant Ollam
Outtakes from Modern Rogue, "Hacking the Taco Bell Menu"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Homemade Gas Masks vs. Tear Gas Grenades"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "7 Awful Pranks Only Satan Would Try"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "How to Crack a Bullwhip!"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "How to Make Disposable Camera Tasers"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Making a Prison Spear"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Flip Open a Butterfly Knife Like a Gentleman Bastard"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Making an Insane Smoke Bomb"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Use Your Phone to Decrypt Soviet-Era Space Messages!"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Making an Award-Winning Martini (Shaken is a lie!)"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Sculpting with Chainsaws and Flamethrowers (with Griffon Ramsey)"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Taste Tripping"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "How to Decode Utility Graffiti"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "How to Make Supercooled Cryofluid (Homemade Liquid Nitrogen)"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Everything You Know About The Whiskey Sour Is Wrong"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Cooking Steaks with Thermite"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Does Booze Really Catch Fire? (Answer: It Depends.)"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Setting Up a Pirate Radio Station"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Why Do Ouija Boards Work?"
Outtakes from The Modern Rogue, "Making a Negroni"
Yup. We’re doing real, actual medical-grade safety for one run only. You want in?