- (moans) Oh, I tried to break into this home
and it didn't work.
(bell dinging) - [Friend] Hello, hello.
- This is a bad time!
Hey everybody, today we're going to be testing something
you've seen in movies,
you've seen it in cartoons.
Are marbles a good way to fight off bad guys?
(laughs) I don't know why I'm doing this.
Yeah, I'm going to do my very own Home Alone trap,
no matter the physical harm.
I have a new place and I love it,
but I've had to stay home a lot recently.
And to be honest, I've been a little bored.
Really bored.
One day while revisiting the 1990's classic, "Home Alone",
I came up with the genius idea
to upgrade my now non-existent security system
to Macaulay Culkin status, with marbles.
Not Jenna Marbles, like marble marbles, ah forget it.
I mean it worked in the movie.
Right?
So, maybe they're coming in multiple boxes?
10 pounds of mar-
It's definitely 10 pounds.
I'm very proud of my eBay purcha-
I'm out of breath.
Quarantine has not been good to my body.
This is what we're going to be using
for our experiment today.
I'm just gonna try to.
(bag crinkles)
(groans)
And this is 1,000, that's 10 pounds of glass marbles.
(marbles crashing)
Watch your step.
With the marbles finally here it was time to begin testing.
First I would have to pick up around 178 marbles,
but who's counting?
(groans)
There's a few down there.
I decided before I ran the test,
I would call some loved ones
to see what they thought about my experiment.
So what do ya think?
- Is there any other ideas you've got?
- So what do ya think of the idea?
- I don't know how effective it is
as an anti-intrusion device, uh.
- All right, do you even like the idea?
- I don't hate it.
- I mean, I like the idea.
- Don't, don't, don't do this.
It's great to see you though.
(sighing)
- Like any reasonable person trying
to build a trap of marbles
you gotta protect yourself, right?
So, I went online to buy an attack dog suit.
This one is $1,600.00.
After not making a YouTube video in a couple of years,
I had no more YouTube money.
So, I decided to go in a different direction.
Can you do 30, 30 for the wetsuit, is that possible?
I bought a wetsuit off of Facebook Marketplace.
I just spent money on marbles.
- [Salesman] What was that?
- Nah, don't worry about it.
Um I got pillows, because the only wetsuit I could find
was an XXXL, and I'm probably,
skinny.
My goal of my idea, is I'm gonna pad the whole thing
with pillows so then, you know, I can be nice and safe.
Pull that one through.
Okay.
The problem is wetsuits are skin tight.
So, even if it's an XXL this did not go according to plan.
I think I need to ask my girlfriend to help me.
I don't know, you tell me what the move is.
You're much better at figuring things like this out.
I really think I need to protect my butt the most.
- Why do you feel like you need to protect your butt first?
- Well, it's one of my best features.
- This is like actually my pillow.
(laughing)
- You know, I need to lose the jeans.
I think that's what's causing all the friction.
- Do you wanna maybe keep your jeans on
since this is,
where I sleep?
I mean-
- Nevermind.
Thank you for your help.
I'll figure it out.
Appreciate it.
After a little elbow grease and a little help from Fido,
we're back on track.
This is kinda giving me the body of Danny DeVito,
when he was the penguin.
See?
Might be wondering why I have all this stuff?
Might be very surprised to find out
that I'm actually very into E-sports.
E-sports (laughs).
(marbles clattering)
Oh, yeah, that's pretty evenly covered right there.
I think this would absolutely stop
any kind of intruder coming in.
Whoo, okay.
Hey, I-
(crashing)
Oh, wow.
That was actually-
Stop it.
Stop it, stop it.
I almost ate it that time.
If I didn't know that I was about to slip,
that probably would have worked.
I'm gonna do it one more time,
except this time, I'm gonna come in a lot faster.
I'm an intruder.
Is anybody home?
Oh, I'm really in the-
Oh, Jesus.
Well, I learned two things,
one, it's working.
I need a little more marbles,
'cause I'm able to get my grasp too fast.
Two, I found out where all the marbles roll
when they roll off, is right there.
Oh my God, the whole mat is moving.
Or, when I let go of this one,
the whole mat has nothing to grab on to,
so the whole mat is starting to slide with the marbles.
This is for sure it.
This is right amount of marbles.
Whoo!
'kay.
It's time.
Keep the paramedics on standby.
Okay.
(loud crashing)
Oh!
Ohh ho ho ho.
It was working.
(loud crashing)
Ouch!
(laughing)
My idea was successful.
Okay, truthfully, landing on the marbles
might have been the worst part of it.
But, I still wanted one more bit of approval,
before counting this as a success.
Thank you, Bill, for tuning in,
and Zooming with us to help give me your seal of approval.
What's a little bit of your history,
'cause I know you're an expert in the field.
- So what are you, about 25 years old?
- I'm 26, yeah yeah.
- I've spent those amount of years, and a lot more
in the field of safety and security.
- I saw that you had the word "ninja" in your Twitter bio.
Do you think you could, fight me?
- Do I think I could beat you up?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- How many hands tied behind my back?
- Basically, I just don't want any naysayers
on the internet to act like what I did
wasn't considered secure.
So, I want you to make sure everybody knows
hiding marbles under a mat is actually a great way
to deter bad guys, just that alone.
- Yeah, yeah, so says you.
Sure.
You, don't think it's good enough?
- If you're in "Home Alone" and you have Joe Pesci
coming your way.
- So, what do you think would be missing
from my contraption?
- During the winter time, Grandma would tell us, "layer".
And, that layer effect should be the same thing,
when securing your home.
- So, I should get like a watchdog?
Is that what you're saying?
Because, like layers, like adding,
I'm just gonna do it.
After Bill was done yelling at me,
I knew I was at an all-time low.
Bill didn't think it worked.
- How many hands tied behind my back?
- My friends didn't like it.
- I don't hate it.
- My girlfriends mad at me.
- This is like actually, my pillow.
(laughing)
- But everything changed when I got a call from Troy's dad,
Coach Bolton, from "High School Musical".
- Hey, hey, it's me, it's Coach Bolton here.
That's right, leader East High, Wildcats!
And Blake, this message is for you.
Now listen now.
We all face adversity, in times.
And things will challenge us.
"Home Alone" trap, a 1,00 marbles, that's special.
It's ambitious.
Time to get focused, all right?
You face this challenge head on, my friend!
This is yours man!
You stay focused now, Blake!
Take through the home-stretch.
Coach is with ya!
You remember, once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat, Blake.
You build that marble trap,
and you get your head in the game.
- With a new sense of purpose.
Whoo!
I dove right back in to my experiment.
Thanks, Coach.
We gotta add layers.
Right? We gotta add a little bit more,
make it a little more complicated,
that's how I interpreted it.
One, I think we need to add net that falls.
To capture the person.
A little sensor, that will like, cue a sound,
that will help disorient the person.
And, then ultimately, I think we add an attack dog,
that comes in at the very end.
And, a little cannon that shoots peanut butter,
because, ya know, that will incentivize the dog.
We're gonna have to figure out the cannon.
All right, oof!
This is best I got, during the quarantine.
This is an air compressor.
It was perfect!
All I had to do was find a place to put it,
steal a little power from the neighbors,
and start it up.
The only problem was,
(engine roaring)
it was very loud!
Unfortunately, my neighbor Hugo,
was working on in the backyard,
so I had to test it out later. But, we'll come back to that.
So, I got the sensor set up here.
I'm gonna plug up my little smart speaker over here.
This is very exciting to me,
because I am not usually good at this kind of stuff.
Okay, let's try it out.
(beeping)
(zombies groaning)
(laughs)
What's scarier during a pandemic,
then zombie sound effects, right?
That's really the way to go.
And, wait wait wait wait wait.
- [Woman] I've fallen, and I can't get up!
- I think that's the extra touch, really.
Things were looking perfect,
and I was getting really excited.
Now, it was just time to test out our peanut butter cannon.
Oh, I really hope this works.
(engine roaring)
Let's test this bad boy out.
I don't know where to test it.
Maybe right here?
(air gushing)
You see how much it like, like that was-
It went all the way up the wall.
Can you see it?
This is perfect.
This is it!
It was time for the final test.
But, I notice the wall were a little dirty,
so I decided just to clean it up,
'cause I'm a good neighbor.
Nothing to see here.
Just watering the plants.
Now, it was time to put everything together,
and prove my "Home Alone" theory right.
This is taking everything we've learned from today,
combine it all into one,
one horrible idea.
All right, so the audio with the sensor is set.
The net is rigged to the doorknob.
The cannon is rigged above, to hopefully come raining down.
This was it, time for the final test.
You ready?
'kay.
This one is for all the marbles.
(door squeaking)
(loud crashing)
And just like that, everything fell into place,
the marbles,
(laughs)
the net,
(air whooshing)
the peanut butter cannon,
(air whooshing)
And finally,
( intense music)
the guard dog.
- Ahh.
What an attack dog.
Good boy.
- [Woman] I've fallen, and I can't get up!
(groaning)
I don't know about you, but I deem,
I deem this a success.
Let's see what Bill has to say, but boy.
Let me know in the comment section down below,
if there's any ridiculous questions that you want answered,
because I believe that I'm well equipped.
After I licked my wounds and cleaned the peanut butter
off my face, it was time to talk to Bill,
to see if he finally approved of my theory.
All right, so I took your notes, I read your book,
"Prepared Not Scared", and I think I did what I interpreted
from you, when you said, "layers".
I added a lot more.
- A bucket of water on top of the door perhaps?
- Well, my version of it, which is a peanut butter cannon,
that just shoots it out at ya. - Okay,
I can see you got a lot out of the book.
- Maybe I took some creative liberties.
What are things that proactively people could actually do,
at home to, you know, make their living situation
more secure?
- Think, "what if" scenario.
Lock your doors.
Layering effect.
Alarm system if you can afford.
A secure bedroom door, and lock that door
when you go to sleep.
What you need to do, is have a mindset
that will make you prepared, not scared.
- Good, good.
The title of your book, of course.
- Shameless plug, right there.
There ya go. - All right.
Although he never actually answered the question,
I think he saw it as a success.
Now I got a 1,000 marbles,
so I'm gonna use 1,000 marbles.
And, I'm gonna slide all the way across the floor.
Let's do this, let's see how this works.
(marbles crashing)
I thought that was just gonna be really-
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(marbles clattering)
(upbeat music)