- Quick boil some rocks.
(laughs)
What is this?
Hey yo, what's goin' on everybody?
My name is Mike Corey of Fearless and Far.
I'm an adventure traveler, YouTuber and television host
who has been traveling this big beautiful world
for almost a decade now.
And I've had this YouTube channel for most of it.
And about 2 1/2 years ago,
I became a travel presenter on BBC News.
So it's safe to say
I have experienced the world of travel.
So when a friend sent me this video of
"Travel hacks that will divide your life
into before and after",
oh my god, it's got 23 million views.
I thought I might take a look.
We're filming this video in April 2020,
so no one's traveling anywhere right now.
So hey, maybe we can learn some things
for our trips coming up, who knows, in 2021?
All right.
Let me get some headphones and we'll dive in.
This looks ridiculous.
(peppy whistling music)
Okay, here we go.
So it's a vertical video on YouTube.
Strange.
We've got toothpaste, being put on wax paper.
Sprinkled. This looks like a dessert.
Let it dry.
Oh, when you dry the toothpaste out
and then you put ...
oh.
So on the go, actually you can get
artisan versions of this at a lot of wellness stores,
like a Lush I believe.
Though I've never really understood the exact
reason why that saves any time.
I mean, if you didn't have water,
sometimes it's hard to find running water.
But generally not something
you have to worry about too much.
This (snaps) happy clap whistle
it makes me want to (gun shot).
(mellow techno music)
These are like, adventures.
Where it starts and I have no idea where it's gonna go.
Okay, so we want to apply a black charcoal face mask.
Shove it inside some deodorant
and there you go, boys and girls.
Especially all you boys out there
who I know this is very important.
There you go.
And now you're black face.
All right, so you've got a black backpack
and someone stole your wallet!
Take a bar of soap.
(laughs)
Oh man,
is that $100?
Yeah, sure.
Just make sure you don't take that
into the hostel bathroom.
(laughs)
There's easier ways to hide money
than drilling.
Oh now we've got
now we've got
a hairbrush.
Oh guys.
There's things, these really cool things.
I don't know if you've heard of them
that you can wear around your waist,
that you put your money in
and it hides it right there.
Where you don't have to drill holes
in everything you hold dear to jam money in.
(laughs)
Oh there we go, lipstick too?
Fold it up so when you hand that over to someone
to buy a Pepsi it's just smeared with red stuff.
They'd love that, I guarantee it.
Juicy Fruit, shove some money in there too?
You're gonna do it.
Hundred bills? Yes, there you go.
Where's this person get all these hundreds from?
And where's the one that's now dyed completely red?
There ya go.
(laughs)
Hundred dollar show in the shoe.
(bangs table)
And then the toothpaste.
This video is like how to smuggle
$10,000 U. S. dollars
in one hundred dollar U.S. bills
across the border.
(laughs)
Your shoe gets wet in the river.
Quick boil some rocks.
(laughs)
What is this?
What are you ....?
Put the rocks in the shoes?
Why?
Oh.
To be fair though I have burnt so many shoes
taking soggy hiking boots,
putting them on sticks,
and putting them next to a fire,
and it getting too hot
and melting the plastic on the outside.
I never tried putting boiling rocks.
Why are we watching a diaper?
Why is there chocolate in the diaper?
(laughs)
What is this?
I have to go back, I was too busy talking.
Why are we putting, what was the poopy diaper for?
Hold on, rewind. I missed it.
Oh it's the phone and the keys.
(laughs)
Oh you put it in and then you put ...
'cause then nobody will take it.
Which is a legit problem.
You go to the beach.
You have your phone, your wallet,
your keys, your credit card
and you don't know what to do with it
because you wanna go swimming
you don't want to leave it on the beach.
What I normally do is I have a towel,
I dig a hole under the towel.
Put all that stuff in a plastic bag,
put that stuff in the hole,
bury the hole, put the towel on top.
And then you can go swimming without
covering your stuff in melted chocolate
and making it look like baby poo
and putting it next to a diaper.
What if someone takes out the trash?
It's gone forever because you
and your silly poop ideas.
All right. Let me compose myself.
We're making some kind of clothing sandwich.
I don't do this.
I know people who do.
I think it's legit to be able to, yeah,
it saves some space.
And it keeps things relatively wrinkle free.
This is something you can do.
All right.
So, we're gonna fill it with money again?
No, we're putting a glue gun and we're cutting...?
This person loves plastic straws.
But like, why wouldn't you just bring
the spools of thread anyway?
I mean, these are interesting ideas.
Just not really practical.
Okay so we have a plastic bottle.
We have a second plastic bottle.
They go together.
To make a blower
for fire?
Ooh! Nailed it.
That's an interesting idea.
I mean you could just blow
(blows)
with your mouth.
(blows)
Works really well too.
No soap in the restroom?
Take a balloon.
(laughs)
Oh these are adventures.
Everyone is an adventure.
Okay, take a balloon,
then you attach the balloon to a ...
Now you cut off the toothpaste.
Okay.
Right.
Oh, okay.
Then you have made your own
disposable soap
travel kit.
That is kinda cool.
I wouldn't trust it to stay together.
Great, she is obviously a pill head.
Oh my god.
All right, you magically put them inside the bag.
That was a good little magic trick, catch that?
So you light a knife,
and you cut it.
Okay.
See, that's kinda cool but I really don't think
that's gonna withstand any kind of actual travel.
Yeah, all right, it works.
It melts the plastic
and you have little sectioned baggie.
But there's way easier ways to do that,
like buying Ziploc bags, which actually won't break.
So you're filling ...
(laughs)
hey, if they're going to a bar-be-cue
you could do the same thing
with mustard, relish and ketchup too.
Because hey if you're traveling,
it's hard to kind good ketchup sometimes.
Just get a plastic glove and fill it.
(laughs)
Oh my god.
These are
listen, I have to say,
are very resourceful,
which is an important part of being a traveler.
And also very creative.
Okay.
(laughs)
Make sure you get your meat tenderizer
that you always travel with
to mash up your make up.
(laughs)
Wax paper.
all right, where's the adventure going?
Pour your makeup into a ...
And you paint it on.
You let it dry.
And then you can ...
I obviously don't wear enough makeup.
Does that work, girls?
And do you like blush it?
Okay.
That's good.
All right.
I mean normally you have the ...
A compact blush paper.
I just think there's easier way to do all of these things
than what they're showing right now.
See, these are interesting
but do you have to go out and buy special equipment
anyway to do these hacks,
you might as well just go buy things
that do this exact job.
Like little tiny vials to keep creams in.
And like the actual items that are built for the purposes
of these things can't be much more expensive
than all the odds and ends.
Wax paper and mallets
and everything else that you need.
I don't even know what we're going ...
Ew.
See, that's a really big problem that happens
when you put all your creams in straws
and try to seal it with a hot knife.
That's exactly what's gonna happen.
Blisters on your feet?
Duct tape.
This is a really good one actually.
And I've done it before myself.
By putting duct tape, it puts an extra layer
and your blisters won't bug you as much.
Also, it's a good preventative for blisters, too.
Thumbs up for this.
It actually works in a pinch.
Solid.
All right, more plastic bottles.
Where are we going in this adventure?
Tin foil.
Is that a glass bottle now?
Okay.
D-I-Y thermos?
Yeah, maybe. Yeah.
Well I guess the principle is, right?
The insulating layer on the outside.
I mean, yeah I guess that would work.
Your friends would probably think you're homeless.
Ahh this one's really good, too.
Sewing an extra secret pocket into your jeans.
This is something that I've seen quite often.
Personally, never done it.
But it's a great way
because the money belts are kinda annoying, right?
I actually don't wear them that often.
But being able to have that extra pocket in there,
fantastic idea.
Good at sewing, too.
Sewing is a good thing to know.
There you go.
So you can sneak another couple hundred dollars on your body
while crossing the border. Shhh!
All right, she's on the phone.
Important call.
I have to leave right now.
Oh my god!
That's convenient.
Okay.
We got eggs.
Oh, I'm excited for this one.
All right.
Do you travel all the time but love omelets?
(laughs)
This is the hack for you.
Great! Eggs and see,
they're already pre-scrambled
you just put them in there, cook them.
And you shake them up.
This is the last one to keep that toilet paper
from getting soggy and dirty.
That, that's legit.
And always guys, always, that's the last one it seems.
Oh you can tie it to a tree.
I didn't think we were going there.
Always travel with toilet paper
or wet wipes because many places in this world,
you end up in the bathroom stall and there's nothin'.
Especially places where people use this as toilet paper.
And you don't wanna be the person
who has to find out and learn
in the last minute crisis scenario.
I guess that's our P-S-A to end the video today.
Well that was a blast.
There was a few in there that actually are legit,
great travel tips.
And a lot of awesome ideas that
if you're living in a trash heap
and you wanna have the luxuries of a modern life,
now you know what to do.
But for the most part I think
some of the products you'd have to put together,
you could just buy something meant for that purpose
on Amazon or at a convenience store
for almost the same price.
That gave me a nice, jolly Santy Claus belly laugh.
Something that I need right now since we can't travel.
Thank you so much for stopping by and watching the
video here on Fearless and Far.
My name is Mike Corey and if you haven't
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I'd love to know which one was your favorite.
Mine, definitely the diaper.
I might have to start doing that one.
(laughs)
Catch you in the next one guys.
Peace.