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Hoh boy, it's hot.
>> You're glistening.
>> Uh, thank you? Thank you.
>> I didn't say glowing.
>> You're welcome.
>> You're glistening, like a slug in the sun.
>> Eh, that's uh, I'm great.
>> Why did you buy that exactly?
>> Why wouldn't I buy a ghillie suit‽
I don't even remember what episode it was for,
but I just remember thinking like,
"Better wear the ghillie suit."
>> No, you didn't buy it for an episode,
you just had it!
>> Oh, that's right. No, this was my Halloween costume!
>> Okay. >> I hid in the bushes and scared children.
It was delightful. They called me Tree Man.
"Oh, over there is Tree Man."
And they're like, "Tree Man, come out!"
I wouldn't come out, then they'd get close
and I'd jump out and scare them, it was great.
>> You're like the Pennywise of your neighborhood.
>> We don't live in that neighborhood anymore.
>> I guess not. [laughter]
They drive you out with torches and pitchforks?
"Death to the Tree Man!"
[laughter]
[deep synthetic rumble]
[electrical pop] [gentle vinyl static]
[rising chime]
>> All right, Murphy, where did a ghillie suit first get used?
>> It was first used in like 1900
by the Lovat Scouts in Scotland.
>> I did not expect a real answer!
>> Boom, yeah, I got Wikipedia. Come on. >> That's amazing!
>> I would have thought it would have been much older than that,
because the idea of just camouflaging yourself looking like a tree
seems fairly elementary.
>> I think that's reasonable to say.
There were probably earlier examples,
but the ghillie suit, is named for Ghillie Dhu.
It's a fairy from Scottish folklore
that would cloak herself in leaves and moss.
There's also very many parallels to it across the world.
Like in Australia, there's the yowie suit,
which is named for--
>> Oh, named for the Australian bigfoot.
>> Exactly! >> They call it yowie, yeah.
>> Exactly, yeah. Since then, it's evolved,
and now it's really common.
It's often used with bits of burlap or twine,
and augmented with flora from the area.
>> Yeah, so I got this from Amazon for like 50 bucks,
and it seemed like a good value.
I've had a lot of fun.
>> They're way less expensive than I anticipated.
>> Yeah. Now I would imagine that there are
different ghillie suits for different locales.
Obviously you're not going to wear this
in winter arctic weather, right?
>> Right. That's the key, is that you really
have to have it blend in with your surroundings,
that's the whole purpose, because the shape and everything
is much better than traditional camouflage
because it gives you a three dimensional break-up
of your silhouette.
>> So the question we're trying to evaluate is,
$50 is sort of our baseline,
do you want to buy a ghillie suit,
or is it better to make one?
I can imagine that it might be better to make one
from scratch because you can make it entirely
out of local flora, right?
>> It's completely customizable.
Here, let me show you how you can make one at home.
I just got these pants from Goodwill.
I got them because there's a lot of grey-ish tan colors
out here on the property,
and so I picked these pants out for $6.
>> Yeah, this will blend with, like,
the limestone in the area.
>> Exactly. And then a similarly colored
long-sleeve button down shirt.
>> So you're already what, like 20 bucks in at this point?
>> Less than 20, the shirt and pants were like, $6 each.
I have so much fishnet at home now.
>> Why do you have so much fishnet at home?
>> Well, because I ordered it to make this!
[through laughter] >> Oh, okay. I thought you just had a lot
of fishnet laying around!
[affecting a gruff voice] >> You know me, Old Man Murphy.
Down getting fish on the docs.
>> And did you sew it to the sides here or... ?
>> Yeah, this is all stitched in. I didn't sew it,
I got my wife Allison to sew it.
>> Oh, man, see, that's not fair.
>> She did most of this. [laughs]
>> Okay, fair enough.
>> But yeah, you stitch all of the netting to the pants here,
and then it was just a question of
taking all of this jute in twine form,
it just came in a bunch of rolls,
and I would just cut it off at varying lengths,
and just tying it to all of the netting.
>> So I grabbed these weeds, just from the local area. Here.
And you're just tying, what, like overhand knots on there?
>> With the jute, anyway, I was looping it through,
kind of like that, and then,
doing a knot that I don't know the name of.
>> BRIAN: I mean really, if you just want it in there,
you just sort of have to poke the loop through,
and you just thread it through that eye-hole, right?
And then you just sort of tie it off,
like that?
Does that look bad, or good?
>> That's the thing, it doesn't have to look nice,
it just has to look a little irregular, right?
>> Oh, you know what just occurred to me?
I'm allergic to grass. So all of the sudden,
the idea of wearing all this grass
seems like a bad idea.
>> That's a really good point.
>> I hadn't thought about that.
>> I'm just going to cheat and put some in the pocket.
>> Oh, that's smart.
♪ [relaxing jazzy music]
>> BRIAN: Everything meshes together such
that you really don't have to do much in the way of tying.
I'd imagine you'll shed some of this walking around.
But I'm surprised by how much of it seem to just stay there.
>> Oh, yeah. So this other grassy stuff is raffia.
>> Oh, like you make Thanksgiving wreaths
and stuff out of?
>> Exactly.
>> This covers up a lot of area really fast.
Here we go.
>> JASON: Oh, we also have the hat.
>> Oh, yeah, what'd you do for the hat?
Because this one, the store-bought one,
you get this hood.
>> Yeah, see-- >> It goes right over.
>> I just got a floppy hat, and put the netting over that,
and then threaded a bunch of raffia and jute in there.
>> Upsides to buying it off the shelf,
somebody else does all this.
>> Yeah. >> Downsides are, you take whatever color scheme you get
and you don't get to really effect it,
whereas homemade you can make it
out of the local everything.
But I got to imagine that this is
just going to be dead and falling apart
within 24 to 48 hours.
>> Exactly, and to be honest,
this was way more expensive than I anticipated.
>> How expensive was this?
>> All of these materials, with the raffia
and all of the jute, and I still didn't have enough jute,
it was about $130.
>> Holy [bleep].
>> Yeah.
>> So this was like two and a half times more expensive.
Here's the real question,
how much time did it take?
>> It took a lot of time.
It was 12 hours.
>> Okay, so if conservatively,
we say you're worth $10 an hour
and you're wife is worth $10 an hour,
we are now up to like a $650
ghillie suit. >> We're in sweatshop territory.
[laughter]
It was ridiculous.
>> Oh my gosh. >> And I thought, "Oh yeah, I'm going to knock out
"this ghillie suit, I'm going to make it over the weekend,
I'll be ready to shoot on Sunday."
Creeping on in to the night
and Netflix was like, "Hey, are you still watching?"
[frustrated] "Yes I'm still watching!" [laughter]
>> BRIAN: So I guess if you don't have a ghillie suit,
if you're in a MacGyver situation,
you're up in the woods, you got nothing but time...
>> Yeah.
>> I assume you can make something like this.
>> The benefits to this are
if you already have the supplies, great,
and customizability to make it more like your terrain.
>> This will have to be a totally subjective test
to see how good either of these work.
Maybe both of them work equally?
>> Sounds good, let's do it.
>> Trever, thank you for joining us.
>> No, absolutely.
>> In fact, part of me wonders if, in a perfect world,
Trever wouldn't even know what either of us
were dressed as, but we don't have that.
That looks much better than I thought. >> Yeah. Uh, same.
>> My big question is whether or not
the color palette is going to leap out.
>> I know, the green is a little too much.
You can often dye your jute,
that's what a lot of people recommend.
>> "Dye Your Jute" should be a band name.
>> It should also be noted that I'm wearing a lot of jute-- >> Yeah?
>> -and a lot of raffia.
What did we learn about jute?
Is that yak hair? [bloop]
Are they just super flammable creatures?
[outrageous laughter]
>> Oh, it's very flammable!
>> I'm so flammable right now!
>> Oh my god, I didn't think about that.
>> Yeah. >> Very important. These synthetic fibers?
A little less flammable. >> Yeah.
>> So here's the game plan. We'll go hide.
There's about a half-mile of trails back here.
We're going to be within 30 feet,
like about 10 yards of the trail, >> Okay.
>> -and all of this have to be subjective.
There's no prize for catching us,
but we need you to sort of note
how differently, if you're able to see us,
how obvious each of us is.
[menacingly] >> But you better make sure that you see me.
>> Oh jeez, he's got a blade.
Well here, we're going to disappear into the wild.
Yowie, out!
Yo, where my jute at?
>> JASON: Jute en route! >> BRIAN: Jute en route! [laughs]
You match these light limestone colors,
which makes me feel like you should be
kind of closer to the pond.
>> JASON: Oh, yeah, probably so, right?
There's lots of limestoney grays and tans out there.
>> BRIAN: Well see yeah, this doesn't look too far off though.
>> JASON: Yeah.
>> BRIAN: Like with the dead leaves, so that's what you want to look for,
is a spot with dead leaves.
It's a random grave site, don't worry about it.
♪ [upbeat piano riff with soft percussion]
>> BRIAN: Should I be hugging a tree, or...
>> JASON: Or in one.
>> BRIAN: Oh! That's a great idea.
It's so early on the trail, I'm afraid to do it,
but how good-- >> JASON: This is good.
>> BRIAN: -does this look, right? >> JASON: Oh, that looks great.
You probably want to get
a little farther back, I would think.
>> BRIAN: Yeah. >> JASON: Just a little bit.
>> BRIAN: Well--
>> JASON: Don't want to make it too hard.
>> BRIAN: Whoops.
Hey! Turns out, ghillie suits? A little clumsy.
Also, they pick up sticks.
>> JASON: That's good, though, right?
>> BRIAN: Which I guess works, yeah.
You just put that there.
>> JASON: You're just aggregating more material
to disguise yourself with. [Brian yelping]
>> BRIAN: This will be just like, five feet off the path.
>> JASON: That looks really good.
>> BRIAN: Yeah?
>> JASON: I think so.
>> BRIAN: Do you think he'll see it?
>> JASON: Maybe.
>> BRIAN: Let's find a spot for you.
More twigs. Oh my God, I pick up all the twigs!
Look at this! >> JASON: That's a branch.
>> BRIAN: This is... [laughs] I picked up a whole tree!
[music cuts out] [to the tune of Katamari Damaci] ♪ Naaa! Na na-na na-na na ghillie suit, Katamari! ♪
[music resumes] Look at this! Look at this branch I picked up!
I feel like later in the trail would also be better
because he's going to run out of attention span.
Look at this, I picked up another damn tree.
[exasperated] This is--this is awful! [Jason laughs]
Okay, I'm giving advantage to the homegrown suit right now.
[winded] Dammit, I can't even throw...
[resigned] Whatever.
>> JASON: I really thought I was going to be the one snagging on everything.
>> BRIAN: Okay, now at this point,
legit, Jason, you are blending in very well with this background.
>> JASON: Awesome!
What do you think, should I go just straight ahead?
>> BRIAN: Here, try getting behind this tree maybe.
You're going to want to be someplace comfortable.
Like, maybe even just lay down.
Oh, there you go.
If you lay all the way down, holy [bleep].
Yeah, dude.
Can you make that work for awhile?
[muffled] >> JASON: Oh yeah, this is great.
>> BRIAN: Yeah, I barely see your face and that's it.
I say we risk it.
>> JASON: You like it?
>> BRIAN: Yeah. >> JASON: Yeah, let's do it.
>> BRIAN: Would it be crazy for me
to be, like, just on the other side?
Then it's all down to this one moment where he passes us.
>> JASON: That's actually good,
because if he sees one of us,
he's not going to think that the other one is that close.
>> BRIAN: Exactly! Exactly!
Maximize our chances here.
[muffled] >> JASON: This is super itchy.
>> BRIAN: Yeah?
>> JASON: Yeah. [laughs]
>> BRIAN: Ugh, yeah. There's not a lot of green cover.
Yeah, here we go.
♪ ♪
Maybe I can...
[breathes heavily] [branches snapping and leaves rustling]
Agh!
I'm snagged. That's going to be my downfall.
>> JASON: From here, it looks phenomenal.
>> BRIAN: Yeah?
>> JASON: I would not be able to see you at all.
>> BRIAN: Okay.
>> JASON: Though my vision is pretty occluded.
Yeah, that looks damn good.
>> BRIAN: Okay. [sighs] All right.
Oh, of course it won't do face ID. [quietly chuckles]
[phone chirping]
Trever, you there?
You have the all clear, godspeed!
[chirp]
>> All right you sons of [bleep], I'm coming to find you.
[over speaker] >> BRIAN: Good luck.
And by good luck I mean bad luck! Never find us.
[Trever laughs]
>> TREVER: So we're taking a right through the path, right?
Correct? Okay.
So, it's kind of biased because I know their colors,
but, with it being kind of dead,
grassy area, it might be harder to see Jason
than it is... Brian.
♪ [mellow beat]
Do I go all tracker-like and look for broken branches
where they may went off the path?
♪ [music rises]
I'm thinking there's too much sunlight here.
They would want a little bit more shadow
because you might pick up on the different types of green.
I'm wondering, are they laying down,
or are they standing up?
Because I would think with the trees,
they would want to blend in
and stand up and maybe,
as thin as possible and try to match the surroundings
because they're really tiny, thin, frail-looking trees.
Also, I think that Brian looks, he reminds me of Moss-Man
or Swamp Thing right now.
♪ [the beat has become more prominent and swirls with the occasional vocal samples -- it guides Trever through the damned woods that harbor Tree Man and the Raffia Reprobate]
See, it gets difficult because everything
starts looking the same.
♪ ♪
That's what kind of makes it hard because...
I mean, literally everything starts blending in together.
Now, I don't know much about nature,
but I do know that...
[plane passing by overhead]
typically...
cell phones aren't laying on the ground
next to the person that's right there.
>> BRIAN: If you would have stayed to [bleep] path!
Ah, [bleep].
>> TREVER: I saw you and then I saw the cell phone.
>> BRIAN: All right, then that's fair though.
[bleep] All right.
So what was the giveaway? Just the placement?
>> All of a sudden, the sun stopped.
>> BRIAN: Oh, that's wild.
You saw the dappling all around,
but the sunlight got absorbed by the ghillie suit.
>> Yeah, so--
>> BRIAN: Oh, that's actually a good tip.
>> Because I could see, like, little spots
here and there and all of the sudden,
it was out of the corner of my eye,
and then it was just a blob,
and I was like, "Wait a minute."
>> BRIAN: Dude, that's pretty good.
>> Then I saw your cell phone.
>> BRIAN: Oh, no, dude, that's great, yeah.
I tried to put it in my pocket,
but I couldn't get it,
like I'll be surprised if I can get out,
I'm so enmeshed in here.
>> Now I think he is going to be harder to find.
♪ ♪
[incredulous] Did you guys really hide right by each other?
>> BRIAN: Goddammit!
[laughter]
>> JASON: Aw, man!
[laughter]
I was so close!
>> Again, it was the sun.
>> Ah! No kidding.
I'll tell you what though, you do blend in really good.
>> TREVER: Yeah, he does.
However if that stuff was a little bit more dead,
I don't think I would have spotted him.
It was just brighter than the rest of it around him.
[groaning]
>> BRIAN: Dude, that's great though,
that you walked right past him the first time.
So, subjectively, of the two,
was one substantially better or worse than the other?
>> Well, in this terrain, his was better
just because of the--
>> Really?
>> Yeah, because of, like I said,
when you're trying to look for it,
everything starts blending together
and it's all starting to look the same.
>> Yeah.
>> With his, it's the same color,
so I would imagine I would have a harder time
finding him had I not known what he was wearing.
>> Okay, but, would you say
his suit was
$400 better than my suit? [laughter]
>> Definitely not.
>> So if you weren't looking for us,
what are the odds you would have just walked right on by?
>> Over 50 percent. I think they're pretty good.
>> Take those odds. We got two of us.
One of us could get found and killed.
>> We were really thinking you would see Brian
or see me first and then just move on thinking
that we were down the road. >> Yeah we didn't think you'd put it together
that we were both in the same spot.
That was pretty good.
>> That's kind of like Battleship when you put them together
and hoping they won't figure it out.
>> JASON: Yeah.
>> So I'm going to say, yes, doable,
possibly good, depending on location,
not worth it.
>> Yeah, no, I mean, if you can customize it
to look like your surroundings,
to look exactly like your surroundings, great,
that might be better,
but you've got to have the time and the money to invest.
>> I'll tell you what, dude, just walking around,
before too long I'll be nothing but the surroundings.
This is ridiculous.
>> You're going to get taken back by the forest.
>> Yeah, no, let's go back to civilization.
I'm just glad my judgment wasn't impaired
when I was doing this.
[Brian and Jason laugh]
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>> I did say it! And I'm offended >> You did.
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>> Oh!
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>> Sorry, what I meant to do was this.
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