>> Ix-nay on that, dude.
>> Oh, really?
>> I'm sure our search histories,
particularly my search history,
is already on some sort of list.
When I asked you if you had flown internationally
since we started all this, I was serious.
>> Oh, like, you were pretty sure that they wouldn't let me.
>> But no issues at all?
You didn't get sweated down by--
>> Sweated down?
And they make you dance?
>> Sweated down?
That's not even a phrase.
>> Sweat him down, Larry.
And the guy just jogs over you.
And just drips.
>> That's gross.
>> Sweating him down, boss.
>> Don't give them any ideas.
It's already hard enough.
>> It's a new treatment.
So book safes.
>> Yeah.
[dramatic music] >> Modern Rogue.
>> Announcer: The Modern Rogue joins a book club.
>> So first we did the dead drop spike,
which is a camouflaged way to transfer materials
between two espionage agents.
We made a fake rock that was sort of camouflaged
in the environment that we hid our cigarettes and booze in.
This is like socially invisible camouflage, right?
>> Yeah, this is hiding things in plain sight,
which I think really kind of most effective way
of hiding stuff.
You could hide a radio in there in times of war.
Maybe a weapon, those are the more--
>> Cellphone, if you're not allowed to have cellphones.
>> Cellphone.
You often see a flask hidden in a book.
>> See, okay, I guess that makes sense
if you're trying to keep your alcoholism quiet,
then that seems like a sensible solution.
Nowadays, though, with the rollback
of marijuana prohibition,
we're seeing probably more of this in many states
because we have some states where it's totally legal,
other states where it's not, people want to be discreet.
>> That is way more effective than,
I think, hiding it behind a secret panel
or tucking it in something that is obviously
a hiding place, right?
>> Yeah, I agree.
[laughing] >> Cool.
On the same page.
>> Let's start with the most obvious one.
We've got the classic book safe right over here.
>> Oh, yeah. >> Nothing sneaky about this.
Not the most subtle.
Show that there's a second, there you go, yeah.
>> That's how they ship it,
but I guess that's just the packaging.
I'm pretty sure this is a real book, actually.
>> I'm pretty sure I'm not hallucinating right now.
>> Looks pretty normal. >> Yep.
>> JASON: Open it up and, of course, about 70 pages in--
>> BRIAN: Now this is nicer
than I normally would picture it to be.
>> JASON: Put, hey, hey, hey, hey.
>> Yeah, get a box cover in there now.
And then you just, just smooth as silk.
>> Smooth as silk. >> Just easy as can be.
[both laughing]
>> BRIAN: How much does one of these things run?
>> They're pretty cheap.
I want to say you can get them for less than $20.
>> Yeah, that's cheaper than the original book.
>> Yeah.
>> I bet the author's not thrilled.
He's like, great, that's what my book is good for?
>> Contraband. >> Hiding contraband.
>> Hiding box cutters.
[both laughing]
But yeah, you just put it in there,
put it back on the shelf, and it looks legit, right?
>> BRIAN: Yeah, well, and that's a good size.
We also have smaller storage things as well.
>> Now this one, I laughed.
I also got this off of Amazon.
Speed Stick, right?
Okay, see, take the lid off.
>> See, this is like that scene in "Jurassic Park,"
I'm like, ah-- >> It's a Barbasol.
>> It's actually a--
>> You can actually buy Barbasol canisters--
>> No [bleep].
>> Yeah, just like "Jurassic Park" in there.
>> Dude, that's amazing.
>> This was, I want to say it was like three bucks
or something like that. >> Yeah?
>> I thought it was going to be
completely fabricated and everything.
No, they actually just ordered
a bunch of Speed Stick deodorant in bulk,
and you just pop the bottom off like that.
See how they just broke the little corkscrew thing off?
>> Oh, okay.
You could hide some microfiche in there.
Microfiche.
>> Microfiche?
[both laughing]
Money?
You can put some money in there.
>> Actually, the money thing, I didn't even think about that.
If you're traveling in a foreign country,
and you want discrete ways to,
because you have to keep all your cash on you--
>> Oh yeah.
>> Then that would make sense, because you'd could be like,
hey, man, don't take a man's deodorant.
>> I used to go to Mexico all the time
and they would tell you,
keep a reasonable amount of money,
or maybe even most of your money, in your shoe.
>> Like maybe underneath the insoles support
or something like that. >> Yeah.
But this would be a good alternative, because, yeah,
who would think to actually pry that off?
>> This is the one that blew me away,
because this feels from the outside
like a full can of Dr. Pepper.
This definitely feels like it's filled with liquid in it.
And yet--
>> JASON: Yeah, this one's six bucks on Amazon.
>> BRIAN: What?
And you could tell what they did is they carved off the top
and then they filled it with some kind of heavy liquid
and then they put what looks like a pill bottle
or something that they put in there.
And it just arranges right on there
and there's a decent amount of storage in there.
>> Yeah.
Yeah, it looks like an Advil bottle or something like that.
>> For your Advil.
You can store your Advil.
>> Now, you've got some other stuff over here.
>> Yeah, so these are some stuff from our friends
over at Schomer-Tec.
Some of these show up over on the Scam Stuff store.
But these covert coins, they take two coins
and they milled them so they fit into each other.
For example, this first one with the head side,
they grind out a vessel on the inside,
and then the other coin,
they grind off a bunch of the edges.
So what you have is you have two pieces of a quarter,
there we go, that interlock with each other, then that's--
>> JASON: They use actual quarters for it?
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, they start as real quarters.
All of these coins start off as real coins,
because otherwise that would be counterfeiting, right?
>> Oh, right.
Now it's just defacing.
>> Exactly, well, but even that's allowed
as long as you're not seeking to alter the monetary supply.
>> Oh. Okay. >> Yes.
That's why magic tricks are able to change up,
and in fact, we've done that on Scam Stuff.
We did stuff where we altered currency
so that you could get five bills that are exactly identical
and so we had to look up all the laws on that
if we were doing that right or not.
>> But this one is pretty much just good
for like a MicroSD card.
>> Yeah, I can't think of anything else.
Basically you just set the two sides on each other
and then you pinch together.
And you'll want to make sure they arrange
so that they face the same way.
For example, you see the head's there and then now the--
>> Who's going to check that, though?
>> Nobody, I have spent so many magic gimmicked coins.
Like double-headed quarters
or stuff that was designed to change on coin into another.
>> Did you do it on purpose?
>> No, no!
Goodness no, that was [bleep] was expensive.
And to get them out, all you have to do is just bang
that on there and it pops right open.
This one is my favorite, though.
If you really have something that you don't want found
and you have to travel with it,
I think this might be the best solution.
The idea is you take whatever it is you're hiding,
you put it in there, and then you drop it
into a scalding hot cup of coffee from Starbucks.
Because if you get pulled over,
they're going to search everything.
They're not going to pour out your scalding hot coffee
that you just got.
And meanwhile, you're able to hide
whatever you need hidden inside there.
It's totally waterproof.
It's food-grade plastic so that it can't get through.
So how can you make this stuff at home if you want?
>> All right, this is actually pretty easy.
[Brian laughing]
>> Famous last words.
>> I say that because we do have a propensity
for just screwing it up.
>> Okay, I would imagine, what do you got to do?
You just cut a hole in the book?
>> Essentially, yeah.
So you pick a good, thick book.
You can get these at any thrift store like Goodwill
or something like that. >> You picked it up.
>> Tell me this was on your shelf
and you were learning HTML 3.2?
>> Which explains why I'm so terrible at coding.
[both laughing]
>> You're like, I don't understand.
I'm following the instructions.
>> Yeah, it's like I've read every page.
>> All right, well, step one,
I'm going to get gloves, how about that?
>> Why you getting gloves?
>> Because we're about to deal with knives.
>> Mm, all right.
>> Do we cut first and then glue?
Or do we glue and then cut?
>> Cut first, and then glue.
>> Get this Netscape window.
This book is a treasure.
This is a line break to a clear margin.
>> JASON: When was it published?
>> Copyright 1996.
>> 1996.
>> Oh, that's great.
Why did they even sell those, just pulp?
I guess in case people need a place to hide things.
>> BRIAN: So what, just like this?
>> JASON: Or you can use a Sharpie.
>> Oh yeah, drawing.
That's spinning, that's a good trick.
I'm going to actually probably not go this deep.
Seems like-- >> Oh yeah, that's--
>> Somebody underlined this.
This book was deeply loved.
>> My father gave me this HTML book and it's very treasured.
Very dear to me.
A person of gentle breeding.
[Brian laughing]
This is not the HTML book.
Good solid line work there.
>> Yeah, it doesn't matter.
We're just going to carve it all out.
So just start digging down, right?
>> Yeah. >> Okay.
Oh, okay, I just destroyed the page.
>> Hmm. [Brian laughing]
>> No sympathy, huh? >> Hmm.
>> First lesson is you got to push down really hard
on the cross part, because that's the part
that's going to break it.
So it's like the first cut you're sketching out the borders.
Then after that, you're sort of...
There we go.
Yesterday you learned about HTML 3.2 extension font
for setting the font size, and the font name.
>> JASON: They used to call me the Font-ze.
[both laughing]
Because I was so good at fonts.
>> I want to believe that's true.
They're all like, huh, I don't know, guys,
Century Gothic or Comic Sans?
And then all of a sudden across the room you hear,
>>> BOTH: Ay!
>> You hit the font machine and--
>> Comic Sans is for chumps.
>> So are we going to glue these afterwards, or what?
>> Yes. >> Just dig out a hole?
>> Yeah we've got some Mod Podge paper glue
to reinforce everything.
>> BRIAN: Can make a point too.
[bleep]
>> Sorry. [laughing]
>> What did you do?
>> I just [bleep], tearing out pages, man.
>> BRIAN: Mm.
>> JASON: Christmas.
>> Seems like the places we get into trouble
are where we rely on just tearing off a tiny bit
and we think it's going to tear off okay,
but instead it totally rips off the whole page.
So this time, I went over each cut
like three or four times to see if I can pluck this out
as one big group.
There you go.
Kind of helps, it comes out as a block that way.
You know what, even though most audio and video files
are stored offline in external files on the web,
sound and video can provide an extra bit of oomph
to your web presentation.
Particularly if you use a MIDI version
of Magical Mystery Tour.
>> Does it say that?
>> No. [both laughing]
[upbeat music]
[Jason humming]
[Brian laughing]
>> So I'm going to bet that hardcover is pretty much universally
the better way to go on these?
>> Oh I would think so,
because if you're not using hardcover
then it's more the internal papers of the book
that are providing the support, right?
You kind of need that spine to the hardcover
to keep everything upright when you're sitting it
on the shelf. >> Yeah, I want to spine
like a fatality from Scorpion.
>> From Scorpion? >> Yeah.
>> Does he remove the spine?
I don't remember. >> Pretty sure.
>> We call this, Got Your Spine.
>> Yes, and it does.
It feels like you're about to do Scorpion's finishing move.
[grunting]
>> Announcer: Sub-Zero wins.
>> All right, I can hide a paperback book
inside this book. [both laughing]
>> I don't know about yours, but mine's looking a little...
>> A little janky? >> Yeah.
[soft music]
>> BRIAN: The good news is, oh, [bleep]!
>> Did you cut yourself?
>> No. >> Oh.
>> All right, you were a little too excited
for that to be the-- >> No, no, no.
>> I ripped a page, and I'm sad about it.
>> Oh, Jason. >> Okay.
>> Oh, Jason.
>> What are you doing? >> No, just a bad job.
>> Oh. [laughing]
>> I'm sitting there thinking, how do they do it
for the legit one?
Because the lines are just perfect and clean.
>> Well, I don't know if they are.
There might be an illusion. >> Oh, because we've got
that little container in there?
>> BRIAN: Should we rip out the container
and see how they did it?
That looks pretty--
>> Whoa. >> They definitely used
some kind of power tools on this.
>> JASON: It's just smooth.
>> In fact, this looks like they did a die cut thing.
Maybe they had a die that just go,
and carves it right out. >> That's it, yeah.
>> BRIAN: Are your fingers starting to hurt?
>> No, I'm good.
>> Yeah, I'm good too, I was just asking
because some other people might.
Maybe their fingers are hurting from pressing so hard.
Not me though.
Look at this.
It's a Yahoo front page on Netscape.
[both laughing]
Man, very quickly it seems like I don't mind
spending the $8 to have somebody else do all this.
>> JASON: Right?
>> Yeah.
Now we're talking.
Look at that.
Bet you didn't know
that there was a secret deck of cards in there.
>> I think that's pretty good.
>> Yeah, right?
>> All right, I'm just going to put this one aside.
>> Okay, well, then, here, let's, what do we?
We got to glue it now?
>> Pretty it up a little bit. >> Yeah?
>> Let's just trim the edges
because we are going to actually need to put glue on the inside.
>> BRIAN: Ooh.
Mm, yeah about that.
>> Yeah, that's, no.
>> BRIAN: Yeah, not so--
>> No, it's not happening? >> Not so much, yeah.
>> So the idea is that you get all of this cleaned up
in here, and then you would put some paper glue.
This is just Mod Podge.
>> Dude, just gloober that straight in.
>> JASON: So you pour it, just get that in.
Yeah, there you go. >> Okay.
>> Get that all around.
Glop.
Oh, we did something wrong.
>> BRIAN: What, what did we do wrong?
>> We got to wrap this in cellophane.
>> Why?
>> So that it doesn't stick to the glue.
>> Okay. >> Here, hold that up.
>> BRIAN: Keep that erect, sir.
>> JASON: All right, you can let go.
There we go.
Okay.
>> BRIAN: It seems like what we should do is close this
on it, but then it's not going to be able to air out.
You want it to be flat.
I almost wonder if it would--
>> JASON: Yeah, no we're going to have to close it on it.
And like weight it down.
>> Like this, right?
And then we can get it to dry quicker
because it'll be exposed to air,
but we can also have it dry in the right shape.
Like that.
Does that do anything for ya?
>> How is that exposing it to air?
>> Its not.
Turns out it's not.
It's not a great idea.
>> Cool. >> All right.
>> We're also going to do a coat on the outside.
>> Oh, great.
For everything below that part?
>> JASON: Yes.
>> BRIAN: Oh, great, okay.
>> And this isn't going to be like super sturdy glue.
It's just like Elmers basically, right?
>> Yeah, you can also get the exact kind of glue
that they use for the book binding on there.
>> It's like we're kind of cool like MythBusters, you know?
There's a little bit of Jackass,
but really it's all just about [bleep] arts and crafts.
>> I think you've been broken by the comments.
[both laughing]
You have the voice in your head
and you're just constantly berating yourself
before they have the chance.
So now the question is,
how long do we let this sit for?
The outside parts, I would imagine,
would be fine in an hour, but--
>> We really slopped it on in the inside.
>> Yeah.
So I say we'll come back, check on it in two hours?
>> Yeah, that sounds good, let's do that.
[tape reeling]
>> All right, so 90 minutes.
I did turn the big fan on,
ultimately when I opened up there was still some undried--
>> It was tacky. >> Yeah, right?
Because it's a water based one, you're going to want to let it
get to the elements a little bit.
But, I don't know, you want to see how it turned out?
>> Yeah, let's see.
[soft music]
>> BRIAN: Yeah, you can see it's still--
>> JASON: It's still sticky, but--
>> You can see it's a little bit warped.
That warping can actually go away over time.
We got a bunch of books that were warped
for the book test trick and we found that just by stacking
a bunch of weight on them, it's amazing,
all that warping ends up going away.
>> But this is still pretty functional.
Can we try to hide--
>> Yeah, it's a little tacky, but I think it'll be fine.
Like the big thing is from the side
you want to see it looks,
although, I guess if it's going to be on your shelf,
you're never even going to see this side over here, right?
>> JASON: Right, right.
>> BRIAN: And so this is all kind of one brick here.
>> Yeah. [Brian gasps]
>> BRIAN: There was a CD-ROM the whole time.
>> Oh, unused too.
Teach yourself web publishing with HTML in 14 days.
There we go.
That'll work-ish. >> Here we go, okay.
>> Man, I got to- >> That's effective.
[both laughing]
>> It sounded like you were trying to cut me off.
Man, I got to tell you-- >> Woo!
[Brian laughing]
>> I'm going to say this is highly tedious,
but also extraordinarily simple, right?
>> Yeah, you could do it, and if you don't want there to be
a record of you ordering it off of Amazon,
or something like that, you can DIY.
You've probably got some books laying around
that you can cannibalize for this little project.
>> And you know what, here's my theory.
I say buy one of these every month.
And then that way you have a pattern
of being somebody who buys books safes.
>> All of your books.
>> And it's like, I'm not trying to save anything.
I'm not trying to hide anything.
I'm buy these all the time.
>> Yeah.
And someone goes to your house and they're like,
why do you have 30 copies of "Heritage of Cyador"?
>> Hey, man, it's the best in the series, all right?
I'm not afraid to say it.
One thing we should downplay,
which is the idea that only something illegal or nefarious
belongs in this stuff.
There are plenty of things that there good logical reasons
that people would want to keep something secret and discrete,
but available at all times.
For example, the salt gun that we practiced with.
I really like having that be available.
I don't know that I want my kids seeing it
just out on the shelf at all times.
Whereas putting it inside a book or something like that
might be a fun way to just have it
within arms reach at all times.
>> Until your kid decides to learn HTML.
>> You think we have to worry about that?
Dad, I'm so sorry.
I just wanted to learn HTML in 14 days and I found this.
[both laughing]
Practical, usable, good idea?
>> I think it's practical, usable, and a good idea,
but there are easier, cheaper ways to accomplish it.
>> You know what, I'm going to say it's all of the above
just don't make it yourself.
That's a pain in the butt.
If you have to be in secret, then make it yourself.
Otherwise, eight bucks for one of these?
>> Something like that, yeah.
>> Die cut in there, looked all super fancy and whatnot.
>> Yeah, do you want to compare?
>> BRIAN: Oh, you know what?
I'm going to say it stands up.
I'm going to say pretty much the same thing, right?
>> Agree to disagree.
>> Fine.
Well, you're going to be in fantasy land.
I'm going to learn HTML.
>> Oh good, I'm sure all of that is still very applicable.
>> Align left and align equals right.
Figure 7.9.
Mystery tulip murderer strikes.
That's the page that it's on.
>> I have a book on Coball
whenever you're ready to take the next step.
>> Hey, man, what if you want to stop filling in the space
and start the next line underneath the image?
A normal line break won't do it.
It'll just break the line!
[Jason laughing]
>> JASON: It looked like big, strong hands.
[both laughing]