The Modern Rogue a hundred years from now is just, "People used to do a thing called 'smoking.'"
And then our great grandchildren's clones walk up.
They set up the bozo dummy, they light the cigarette and they run away, and they're like,
"Oh, I can't believe it! It's doing it. It's smoking a cigarette!"
So much cancer! [laughter]
♪ 'Cause I'm a Modern Rogue! ♪
All I see, is a bunch of disposable lighters from litterers.
This is garbage, and you have garbage in my warehouse.
These are miniature flashbangs.
It's really really simple, not at all practical.
All right, you have my attention.
What's the story?
This is in '100 Deadly Skills,' written by an ex-navy seal and it's billed as a diversionary flash device,
something that you can distract the enemy while you run away.
That's right, okay, again... >> Smoke bomb!
Again, all right.
So you and I are holed up, the nazi ninja,
clones of Hitler, running around. And this is-and you bust out you're like,
"Brian, I've recently taken up smoking. I have a lot of lighters."
Talk to me into the theory of what we're trying to do here.
Essentially what we're trying to do is extract the flint, heat it up,
and then throw it at the ground and it makes an explosion of sparks.
So it doesn't even use any of the fuel?
No, the butane is untouched. It's way safer than it sounds.
I know, I believe you. To be honest, I thought for sure,
you know the trick to make the flame
go higher than its supposed to, right?
No. I know that's something you do but I don't know how to do it.
>> I do it for the stage show because often times for safety, they have these set to where it's like
they're dead and then super dead are the two settings that they have on there.
You'll notice that you got the butane and the valve,
and then you've got the steel wheel and the flint.
If you take off this casing,
and when you're pushing the "more than / less than" button here like that.
So right there, it's very, very low and then you turn it to allegedly high
and it's still very, very low right? >> Jason: It's pathetic.
>> Brian: So what you do is you turn it over to maximum
then you push it up, and you're going to feel that
it's not biting as it goes back.
And then you're going to lock it back in so you're essentially over-rotating.
So now you're getting a proper second turn.
[laughs]
Nice! >> Right?
>> That's actually pretty cool. >> Well, and it makes it more reliable of you
of course burn through the fuel a whole lot faster.
But also you-it's good for, I don't know, keeping away gremlins?
>> Jason: It's like you unlocked the upgrade to the lighter.
It was safety locked to the point where it wasn't even usable.
>> Brian: Well, and that's the reason I do it because on the stage show,
if I'm in the middle of talking and doing the fire eating,
I light the torches six, seven, eight times during the course of the five minute routine,
and it's awkward every time I have to go, tch, tch, tch.
So I make sure to kind of loosen them up a little past the default safety settings.
>> Jason: All right, that is super cool. >> Also, not what we're doing.
Not what we're doing. >> All right.
Take one of these lighters, pry off the casing. >> Brian: Okay. Same deal.
We're not messing with the fuel. >> Jason: See, it took me forever to do that,
and you just cracked it right open.
Part of it is having the right tool because it used to be like, you know somebody would take a
pen in high school or whatever, and just pop it off.
I had a steak knife. It took me like 20 minutes.
Why would you use a steak knife?! It was a bad idea!
It was really irresponsible. >> You use the proper tool!
>> Jason: Now we have to get the flint in the spring.
>> Brian: Okay, so I'm going to peel off the safety cover.
That's another thing man. Those safety covers make a pain in the butt.
>> Jason: Great! >> Brian: There you go, so we have the cover, the safety,
the wheel, the spring and the flint.
The flint, this is just rock right? >> Yeah.
Looks like a tiny bit of lead that you would put in a mechanical pencil.
Basically lighters work with the spring just keeps pushing the flint up and the flint
scrapes against the steel right? >> Yes.
>> So this is just constantly grinding it down, but the spring is always pushing it forward and foward.
So now what?
>> Jason: So now you want to stretch out your spring a little bit.
>> Oh this is getting good.
>> We're gonna want to hold it by one end, >> Yeah.
>> And thread the flint through the other end and wrap it around,
and this part is kind of a pain in the ass.
>> Brian: So I'm going to hold it here. I'm going to do kind of a winding motion.
It doesn't matter how far deep it is?
>> No. >> Okay.
>> No, I mean you want it towards the end a little bit
because you want to hold one end of it.
But the purpose is to hold the flint away from you.
>> Jason: Yes. Perfect. >> Okay.
To me, this is the montage where it's like,
"I have an idea for a diversionary tactic."
[Jason screams in pain]
>> Brian: What? What happened? Oh you did the pinchy thing!
>> I did! >> I told you don't do the pinchy thing.
That hurts. Oh, I broke it.
You got to be careful when you're prying that wheel off because you'll break that flint off.
>> In fact I recommend don't try to pry it off so much as break these sides.
>> Yeah. >> Brian: Just peel them back, and then this will fall right off.
Oh wow that's tougher than I thought too.
[sharp breaths]
What're--are you king of the pinchies? What are you doing?
>> Jason: Yeah, well it's this tiny damn thing! >> Brian: You are not allowed to use that!
>> Brian: Looks like the safety thing just--[inintelligible]
>> Jason: Felt something hit my head.
Yeah, you got to be careful because that flint is spring-loaded.
>> Brian: Oh! Lost a spring.
>> You're like one for 12. >> I know.
>> It's fine. >> Oh wait! Oh we've got... Okay, yeah.
No, I made a bunch while you were...
doing whatever it was you were doing. >> While I was mangling my hand?
[through laughter] While you were bleeding to death, I made five.
I broke so many of the flints.
[whisper] All right listen, we're going to move real quiet outside
and I'm going to create a distraction,
then you steal all the orphans and run across America.
[whisper] I've always wanted to steal orphans.
I'll die at the hands of the clone Hitlers.
I've always wanted you to die at the hands of clone Hitlers.
Let's go! [laughter]
>> Brian: We Scooby-Doo walk. >> Jason: ♪ Dun-dun-dun-dun! ♪
So we got four.
Sorry!
[affecting gruff voice] Listen man, those orphans, you better get them out of there.
We only have four chances to make this work!
All right, it's gonna take about 30 seconds to heat that up.
You want the flint to get red-hot.
>> Is there a chance of it exploding in my hands or something or...?
You know, that's a really good question.
You f--ker.
>> Yeah, you want it to start glowing red.
Yeah, you can see it glowing red.
>> Whoa. >> Jason: There it is it.
Ready? And... go away bad guys!
[sharp laughter]
Oh my god!
And I got to use my new catchphrase, >>> Both: "Go away bad guys!"
Yeah, that's a good one. That's,
that's right up there with "Up, up, and away," and "It's clobberin' time."
>>> Both: "Go away bad guys."
Wow, that was awesome. That was actually blinding.
I don't know, as far as diversionary flash devices, meh. But it's a cool party trick.
Oh my god, yeah. >> Let's do it again.
Yeah, you want to try two at once? >> Yes!
They're so entangled I can't get them apart. >> Oh, yeah.
So I'm going to make them into one.
>> Brian: Here hop in on this.
>> It's like s'mores on the campfire, but way more cool.
>> Brian: Yeah. This one's ready. >> Jason: Do it!
>> Uh, but it's only one! Oh, it's doing on its own!
[panicked] Go away bad guys!
>> Jason: Oh damn it Brian! >> Stop!
Go away bad guys!
>> Brian: Yeah! [Jason laughs]
I still got it. Well it was getting brighter and brighter and brighter.
It genuinely looked like there was like a ch-
>> Oh, like it was going to pop? >> Like it was sucking--Yeah! Yeah yeah yeah.
Now I don't know if it was just absorbing all of the heat from the wire
because you notice the wire doesn't stay red.
So there's enough heat energy in The Wire.
Which is a great series!
>> Brian: WOW!
Now that's how you make a distraction!
[laughter] >> Jason: Go away bad guys!
I should've run. >> You should've run!
Like vanished, and you would be like, "Oh! Where did he go?"
>> "What?!"
Dude! Super effective!
That was amazing.
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