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>> Fan follicles.
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[calm instrumental music]
>> Did you ever read that XKCD comic about the 10,000 a day?
>> No.
>> So it makes the point that there's all these things
that "everybody" knows, but he points out that the
U.S. birthrate is four million babies a year,
so that means, by definition,
for everything "everybody" knows,
that means about 10,000 people a day are finding out
for the first time about something
everybody already knew about.
>> Why am I always in the 10,000?
>> Exactly, right?
For example, let's say today was the day that you found out
Diet Cokes and Mentos was a thing?
You could mock that person.
Like, what do you mean you haven't heard of it?
It's a whole thing.
Or, you could treat that like,
this is their special birthday.
I have the feeling that this is our special birthday.
We are one of the 10,000 on this one.
>> Well, happy birthday to us.
Let's blow something up.
>> Okay.
Welcome to the Modern Rogue.
[group laughs]
[matchbox pops loudly]
So in this case, our Canadian friend James Cobalt
hit me up on Twitter saying,
"How come you guys haven't done"
"the matchbox pop things?"
And I'm like, "What are you even talking about?"
He's like, "You know, the ones with the masking tape"
"and the matches, and they explode, and they pop real loud."
And I'm like, "Still don't know what you're talking about,"
and finally, he sent me a video
detailing exactly what we're about to try.
>> Outstanding, I love throwing things at the ground
and making them explode.
It's kind of our ethos.
>> Go away, bad guys.
[Brian screams]
Go away, bad guys.
[flash bang pops loudly]
Go away, bad guys.
[Brian screams]
[Brian laughs]
As he explained it, the idea is pretty simple.
So you've got all of these matches.
They're safety matches.
Once they start, of course, they only ignite
when they strike this surface, but once they do,
especially in a row, they create this chain reaction, right?
Now, that by itself would just create a big puff of smoke,
or whatever, but if we're able to bind them in such a way
that throwing them down strikes the matches on the surface,
and seal it up tight enough so that
all of that pressure builds, it'll pop,
creating a loud, shocking explosion sound.
>> And, the bad guys go away.
>> Yes, of course the bad guys go away.
That's the whole reason for any of this.
>> All right, so how do we do it?
>> Okay, we're going to begin by sort of plucking this off.
The important part was that you set all of the matches
right up against that striking surface,
and that you fold everything around in reverse.
>> So you're disconnecting the matches from the case itself,
and then turning the case inside out,
but you've got to make sure that the match heads
are on the striking surface.
That's probably the most important part, right?
>> Exactly, because we're going to use the blunt force trauma
of throwing it down on the ground.
Hopefully, that'll push all the matches
against that striking surface, and at that point,
that chain reaction starts, and here's the tricky part.
We want to make sure that everything is tight, tight, tight,
and he mentions that he's tried a number of different tapes
on this, but nothing seemed to work better
than masking tape.
I assume that's because of its paper composition.
It's something that once the pressure builds up,
it'll break all at once, unlike,
for example, cellophane tape.
>> Something that's a little more rugged and rubbery,
or something like that.
>> Exactly, so you want to run the tape off the side,
keeping everything super tight, because obviously,
if there's even the slightest vent, as that thing explodes,
it'll fill with gas, and then if there's an out valve,
then it won't get that pop moment.
>> Maybe it'll fly around the room.
That'll be cool.
>> Dude, that would be great.
>> I mean, that'll be terrible and unsafe.
That's what I meant to say.
>> It's fine.
We're in a safe spot.
[group laughs]
So at this point, it's obviously totally secure
on these two sides, but obviously these,
the pressure could just pop it right out,
so we're going to fold these edges over,
and we're basically making like, a big saltine cracker,
and I'm going to do the same thing.
I'm going to run it off the edge again, and keep in mind,
this is our first time trying this,
so we might have everything wrong.
>> We all know that this will be a disaster.
>> Yes, of course it will.
Welcome to the Modern Rogue.
Boy, that's great though.
Like, as a distraction device,
the idea that this thing just flings down
and it goes, pow, pow.
>> I love improvisational explodey things.
[Brian laughs]
>> It's funny, as I'm doing this,
I'm afraid to accidentally over manipulate stuff
for fear of striking that on the surface.
>> Yeah, actually having it blow up in our hands.
>> I'll tell you what, just for experimentation,
I'm going to do this one with a crazy amount of coverage on it,
so if the first one's like, what I'm afraid of is
that they'll heat up, and that it'll make a hole in it,
and all of a sudden, you'll just get like of a, whoosh.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Instead of like, a pop.
>> I'm not expecting anything particularly incendiary.
I'm expecting a little bit of smoke,
and hopefully a loud bang.
All right, I don't know if this is going to work.
What do you think?
What are the odds?
>> I think that out of four, one of them has to work.
>> Right?
>> Otherwise, we're going to make a whole bunch more.
[Brian laughs]
All right, so this goes out to James Cobalt.
Here we go.
Ready, three, two, one.
Go away, bad guys.
[matchbox pops loudly]
Whoa.
[group laughs]
[matchbox pops loudly]
[group laughs]
>> Louder than I expected.
>> Oh, much louder, much more percussive,
complete with flames.
Wow, that was so much better than expected.
Here, I'm going to try another one.
>> Yeah.
[matchbox pops loudly]
>> Oh, geeze, that's so loud.
[matchbox pops loudly]
>> Okay, my turn, my turn.
>> Okay, okay, all right, all right, go.
[matchbox taps floor lightly]
[Brian laughs]
>> Oh yeah, no, this is one of the ones you made.
[Brian laughs]
Here, let's switch places
so we're not throwing it at Brandt.
>> Sure, sure, all right, go for it.
>> Okay.
>> I don't like that.
>> Or at you.
>> Thrown at me, thank you, okay.
>> You want to wing that one?
>> Yeah, here we go.
>> Okay.
[matchbox pops loudly]
[Brian laughs]
>> It bounced and blew up in the air.
[matchbox pops loudly]
>> You want to strike it right on that corner
like a tomahawk chop.
>> Oh with the, okay, yeah.
>> If you can, but I mean,
you just want to hit it on the corner.
>> Okay.
[matchbox taps floor lightly]
Or not, or on my foot.
I could just throw it at my foot.
[Brian laughs]
[matchbox taps floor lightly]
What's going on, man?
[matchbox pops loudly]
>> Whoa.
>> There it is.
>> Wow.
[calm instrumental music]
[matchbox pops loudly]
>> Okay, we've got one more.
>> Yeah, this is the one that had
all the double-wrapped tape around it.
Theoretically, do you think this will make
a louder explosion, or be harder to make work?
>> You know, I'm going to err on the side of caution.
I think that it's not going to work as well.
>> Final boss, bad guy.
Go away.
[matchbox taps floor lightly]
You want to try it?
>> Might as well.
All right.
>> It does seem to matter that you fling it really hard.
>> Okay.
Go away, bad guys.
[matchbox taps floor lightly]
Can't get no satisfaction today, man,
but I love that smell of sulfur.
Keep it coming.
>> It could be that all of that extra tape
is actually padding it
and keeping it from striking properly.
>> What if you throw it and it's just building up in there?
Oh, it didn't work.
You pick it up, and boom,.
[matchbox taps floor lightly]
[calm instrumental music]
>> No.
>> All right, we're good.
[Jason laughs]
[matchbox taps floor lightly]
>> All right.
Wait, wait, wait.
Nope, we're good.
>> Okay.
>> As hard as you can.
[matchbox pops loudly]
Oh, geeze.
[Brian laughs]
[calm instrumental music]
[matchbox pops loudly]
My ears are literally ringing.
Holy cow.
Okay, super dangerous.
Nobody should try.
Thank you James Cobalt.
That was amazing.
>> Very loud.
I'm into it.
>> Shockingly good.
>> Yes.
>> Shockingly good.
>> Super successful.
Brian, what's up with your hair?
>> It's majestic.
>> It is.
>> It's beautiful.
>> Yup.
>> And it was not purchased at a gas station.
>> What?
That's where I get all my hair.
>> Well, I mean, they definitely have pills that say,
like, hair, other things.
>> Pills for everything.
>> That's it.
In fact, it's a pharmacy.
>> Dude, you want to go right now?
>> No, no, what I want to do is--
>> I know a pharmacy out of the back of a Texaco.
>> I want to go to GetRoman.com/ModernRogue
because I understand that people, at my age,
start to lose their hair,
and the best time to make the decision
to keep your hair is--
>> At the gas station.
>> No.
>> Sorry.
>> Before you lose it, while you still have it,
is when you've got to keep it, man.
Plus, also, it's the real drugs.
It's not some phony gas station garbage.
Go to getroman.com/modernrogue.
You get a free consultation.
You get free two-day shipping,
and you get a free month's supply of the real medicine
that causes hair to grow.
>> Yes.
>> Also, I should make it clear, I just haven't cut my hair.
I'm really enjoying the hippie phase of Brian.
People say I look like Obi-Wan Kenobi.
You think?
>> I think I'm tired of hearing about it, honestly.
>> You're already Count Dooku, come on.
>> I'm pretty good with that one.
[Brian laughs]
I'm pretty good with that one.
>> getroman.com/modernrogue.
Hair growth is a choice,
and you can have it from real medication from professionals,
not the advice of some guy at a gas station, but seriously,
the Obi-Wan thing, are you seeing it?
Are you seeing it?
Choose force.
Choose [mumbles].
Choose being in a begger suit
like you're in a freaking potato sack,
running around on a desert planet.
Choose grabbing a kid, stealing from his mom,
taking him off, and making him into
the most evil person on the planet.
I chose not to choose anything.
Just kidding.
I totally did.
It's me, Obi-Wan Kenobi.