i'm obsessed with cheeseburgers no okay a little but i'm talking about secret rooms here hidden
doors and passageways that lead to somewhere like this oh sorry like this now i've always
dreamed of having a secret hideout and believe me i've tried everything to find one and well
i think i'm better off just trying to build one myself okay so building a secret room is gonna be
pretty tough you have to have a secret door that leads to somewhere unexpected and the secret door
has to be hiding in plain sight like a warp pipe in mario or the wardrobe from narnia now i have
no idea how i'm gonna do that but first things first i'm gonna build a room so here's what i got
a bunch of lumber now i gotta build a room that's big enough for me to fit in but small enough for
me to disguise and once the room is totally built i can bring it out to the public where no one will
know that it exists besides me which is super cool now you might be wondering have i built a secret
room before no do i know what i'm doing absolutely not am i gonna wing it in hopes that i end up with
a decent product a hundred percent dude i don't care about the rules but what i do care about
is checking operation fulfilled childhood dream of building a secret hideout off my list which
is why when this happened i was super bummed out i've got a bit of a problem if i'm gonna hide this
thing in public it's gotta be small and discreet and i made this way too big so i literally have
to take this apart and cut everything shorter ugh i didn't have time for this in fact i had to get
this project done as soon as humanly possible you see having a secret hideout has been a dream of
mine since i was six and exactly five days from now is my birthday and i'll be turning 29 years
old which according to society is too old to be goofing around so i couldn't afford to waste a
second on careless mistakes like this not with the days of my youth disappearing i had to keep
pushing forward i had a sink full of dishes to do but i first had to make my dreams come true
you know that feeling when you're crushing it in mario kart and then you fall off the map putting
you way behind well that's exactly how i felt and i felt pretty hungry too but i didn't have
time for that my childhood was at stake here oh steak the clock was ticking and i couldn't stop
until i had a super cool secret hideout all right the room is finally done and it's pretty sick but
this thing isn't very secret in fact it's kind of huge and obvious so i gotta figure out how to
what's my line how to disguise i'm gonna figure out how to disguise this thing my first initial
thought was to cover it with my invisibility cloak but that felt a little too much like cheating so i
decided against it i was gonna have to be way more creative than that so i went to the city
to get some inspiration what could i disguise my room as that would blend in with the environment
there had to be something and then it hit me a bush there's bushes all over the place no one's
gonna notice a secret room if it's just another bush so i quickly hopped online and got some bush
material stuff it was all coming together now so while i wait for that to be delivered i'm
gonna start working on the inside so every secret room has to have some cool stuff in it otherwise
what's the point but first things first i can't see anything in here so i pulled out the old
lights i used for my cardboard airbnb these lights have gotten me through some dark times get it
wow it is very very bright in here but it wasn't very comfortable so i laid down some floor mats
to make it more cozy oh this is so much better i could fall asleep in here but that would be
a dire mistake because it's 98 degrees in here and it's easily 20 degrees hotter in here so i
needed a way to control the temperature in there like the air conditioning in a house
but i don't know anything about air conditioning and the internet wasn't much help so i had no
choice but to resort to a more unconventional form of research so what do you guys think i should do
honestly i wish i could help you but i don't know anything about air conditioning yeah are
you talking about air conditioning i got you bro i've been doing an hvac for like 15 years you got
to get the cold air from outside to go inside wow this guy really knew his stuff but i was
thoroughly confused but amidst my confusion i had a genius idea i could use an air mattress pump as
the air conditioner effectively getting the cold air outside inside just like the dude said this
would give me just enough airflow to survive the crazy heat when i take the room out to the public
but i was forgetting the most important thing electricity but the electricity was gonna have
to wait because i got a package at my door that was going to change the course of time
well maybe not the course of time but definitely changed the course of my monday afternoon
it was time to get down to business before my birthday arrived then as swift as a coursing
river and with the force of a great typhoon i made a bush out of this room and much like
this absolute banger song you're listening to the bush was pretty sick oh my goodness
that guy just came out of a bush what is the reaction that people will probably have if
they see me coming out of this thing the park was popping that day with my bush in position
i was ready to put my secret room to the ultimate test i was nervous to say the least
i am officially in the park i can hear people walking by right now
i don't think anyone knows i'm here at first i got a crazy adrenaline rush and then i got
bored when i realized that there was nothing to do in there besides playing my phone and take a
nap i was in there about 15 minutes when i realized i had made a horrible mistake
i forgot to give power to my air conditioner and now there was nothing protecting me from
the brutal texas heat it was 102 degrees outside making the inside of my secret room 120 degrees
easy i tried to hold out as long as i could but my body was dripping sweat and my brain was melting
like butter it's so hot in here i just couldn't hold out any longer and just like that i blew my
cover and it turns out i didn't have much cover to begin with because everyone seemed to find
the bush pretty suspicious does this bush look suspicious to you oh yeah so it was back to the
shop with a whole new heap of problems it was too hot it was super boring and this bush aesthetic
isn't fooling anyone because let's be honest it looks like a minecraft bush so first things first
we gotta fix this air conditioning situation cause i just lost like 10 pounds of sweat but i can't
just plug this into a wall or else everyone will notice my secret room so i think my best course of
action is to hook it up to this car battery but i can't just plug it into a car battery so i'm gonna
need a power inverter which is pretty expensive but we've already spent so much on the lumber and
the fake bush but i had no choice so i left to go get oh wrong way i left to go get a power inverter
which basically just lets you transfer the power from a car battery to anything that plugs in
oh my goodness now before i spice up the inside i had to fix this disguise so it was back to the
city for inspiration i walked for miles and miles and i started to notice a pattern that gave me a
brilliant idea and one of my all-time favorite movies ready player one the main character wade
watts has a secret hideout located in a pile of junk cars now i don't have a bunch of junk
cars to hide in but what i do have is garbage of course there was garbage all over the city
and if i disguise my room as a pile of garbage no one will even notice it's there no one pays
attention to garbage this plan was pure gold and i was gonna use this big trash can as a secret
entrance to the room and it was in that moment i realized i got myself into a pretty sticky
situation i've spent so much money on lumber the bush material the power inverter and now
i destroyed a very expensive trash can and i was about to destroy another one all to build a secret
room not to mention i still had to make the inside of this thing super cool and fun but at this point
i was broke so i needed to replenish my budget i need to raise some money it was time to channel my
inner entrepreneur and figure out a way to fund the rest of this build so as you might already
know i'm not an engineer i'm not an electrician and all my builds are done by me myself and i
some and sometimes that guy so my genius plan is to build an online merch store using shopify
so my supporters can buy some really cool merch and help me pay for this project but i'm also by
no means a web developer and i've never built an online store before so i'm pretty nervous but my
anxiety quickly subsided when i realized that our sponsor shopify has all the tools needed to build
an online business and building my merch store was so easy i didn't even need me or myself i did it
completely alone and even even that guy made his own store and if he can start his own store that
means anybody can even you just go to shopify.com jake carlini to start your own business today and
our shopify store is done and i'm selling a super limited supply of this hat that was inspired by
this build i'm also selling this t-shirt with the most motivational sentence i could possibly think
of ooh so handsome so if i can sell all this merch that should be enough for me to recoup
my losses and buy myself some new trash cans so it was time to get back to work and i definitely
procrastinated a little bit but eventually i thought of a game plan and hit the ground
walking because this was a very slow process and it literally took me forever but i had to make
this the most convincing pile of garbage so the people of austin texas wouldn't know what hit him
this is pretty sick now that i have my secret entrance i want to make this section look like a
box that's full of garbage so i had to do some arts and crafts and with a little creativity
and stapling a bunch of trash to the top of the room the illusion was looking pretty believable
i was nearing the end of construction and things were getting real even more real
than they've been this whole time i have no explanation as to what that means but
i assume you understand what i'm saying because i'm not crazy here but what is crazy is that when
i took a seat to admire my work i started to feel really strange i was unusually dizzy this
could only mean one thing i was suffering from heat exhaustion which makes sense because it's
106 degrees out i've been working in a garage with the door open all day and i'm definitely
dehydrated remember to stay hydrated guys water is super important especially if you're a fish
yes four percent of my subscribers are fish so please be respectful in the comments but anyway
i passed out i awoke the next morning with a different shirt on for some reason but i was
feeling good as ever the sun was shining the birds were chirping i was certain it was going to be a
great day that was until of course i opened up the door and realized something horrible
it was my birthday oh i thought i had more time but my childhood was gone over donezo i
was too old to be goofing around i was just going through the motions of my party but deep down i
was screaming in pain i guess it was just time for me to grow up i was heartbroken to say the least
jake what's got you down man it's just i thought i could get the secret hideout done
by now and now it's too late why is it too late because i'm 29 now man like i'm too old
for this according to whom i don't know society who cares what society thinks you got to do you
if you want to build a hideout when you're 29 then do it that's no one's decision but yours wow
i was speechless jeff was spitting some straight facts and all i could do was make undivided face
contact with him you can't live your life for other folks you gotta live your life for you
man jeff was right i had to finish i tried so hard and got so far and in the end it doesn't
even matter what anyone else thinks but me it was my dream to build this secret room and nothing
was gonna stand in my way this was going to be the coolest disguise any hidden room has
ever had and the inside was gonna be even better i was going to install a tv and a nintendo switch
so i could chill and play video games in peace and quiet and no one would even know
i was there it was going to be my own secret hideout paradise oh i was so excited for this
the day was finally here it was time to load this thing up and bring it on out to the city
i found a super busy spot with lots of cars and foot traffic this would really test the limits of
my secret room if i was able to go unnoticed in a place like this then it was truly a job well done
the nervousness was starting to set in it's go time i had to get in the room without being seen
so i had to move quickly i saw a break in the traffic and i took my shot without hesitation i
jumped in the secret door once inside i saw the coast was clear i did it i made it in my secret
room safe and sound so you know what that means it's time to play some mario kart i could hear
people passing by as i chilled inside it was crazy to think that i'm in the middle of a public place
and no one knows i even exist i'm so happy my boy jeff talked me back into doing this i was
literally having the time of my life and no one suspected a thing i knew deep down that my younger
self would be proud now i might just be a 29 year old man living his childhood dream but i learned a
very valuable lesson growing old is inevitable but growing up you don't ever have to grow up
that's all i got