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Let’s talk t-shirts.
Hello you beautiful bosses. Brian Brushwood here, tapping this out on my iPhone as I sit on the same cruise ship you saw in today’s episode.I’ve got a quick question for the $30 per month fans (though I’m posting this to everyone so I can gauge interest): for those of you guys who are receiving the super-exclusive quarterly T-shirts, are you cool with those designs ever being available to th...
6 Unreal Prison Builds
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/TiXk0RQqTSMNumber 7 would have been Brian and Jason's pruno.—Reference Material The 6 Craziest Things People Have Made In Prison (Ohio.gov) Inspector General's investigation on the ceiling computers - Report of Investigation - Exhibit 3 (The Verge) the ceiling computers saga (Express) a report on the prison coffee creamer (Daily Mail) Escape from Colditz—...
We’re on TV!
No, I don’t mean that episode of “She’s the Sheriff” where Brian played the drifter-with-a-heart-of-gold. And no, I’m not talking about Jason’s episode of Cops. And no, not Jason’s OTHER episode of Cops. This morning our card throwing episode was on Right This Minute, which is apparently kind of a big deal.http://www.rightthisminute.com/post/learning-card-throwing-best- Jason(Heh. Di...
Extended Outtakes: Ken Griffey Jr. Ricky Card
Extended Outtakes: https://youtu.be/PibOHwquPVg Original Episode: https://youtu.be/1BC4flpntpU Outtake Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp0X6DVFEcg6ikP9znw7e8n95nymY0HM ($5 tier) First Pass Edit: https://patreon.com/posts/19537704Eyes like balloons.Brandt H. -- editor, camera operator
First Pass Edit: MR125 - Throwing Cards
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/G-C0sGgxZ2U First Pass Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp0X6DVFEcil7oLxZ67SsMp5rGkGb8fn Original Episode: https://youtu.be/1BC4flpntpUAt 1:20:22, 68.9% of our footage hit the cutting room floor.We brought Rick Smith Jr. out to the warehouse for a couple of episodes, next one posting in a week or two. A lot of the unseen work in this session went into f...
Throwing Cards Like a World Champion
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/1BC4flpntpUI'm afraid Brian and Jason got Rick Smith Jr. to be on the show under false pretenses. What they didn't tell him is that they have a business plan to Honey I Shrunk the Kids paying customers, gently balance them on a playing card with a custom built harness (gaffer's tape,) and hurl them towards the nearest micro-city. It's a bold step for ...
Our new cast member needs a name!
Those vacant eyes. . . They haunt me. <br><br>So what do you think? Kyle? Lord HellScourge? Cindy?<br><br>XOXO<br>-Jason
Desperate Defense: Light Bulbs
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/_8aqkY9EIwIDesperate Defense Week comes to a conclusion! If you missed any, there are three quick episodes that led up to this: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMviV1kG2V2hqjNkAzDDuKK7KzbfTt8IKYou awake to find yourself in a dark room! Your eyes begin to adjust to the glow of a red exit sign at the far end. Standing between you and the door, you can just barely id...
Desperate Defense: Bobby Pins
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/fVucX_HLz-YWe're progressing through Desperate Defense Week with day 3 of 4 with our snackable episodes!You find yourself in a small room, you are surrounded by incredibly life-like mannequins. You can hear one of them breathing, but you can't tell which one is real. All you have on you is a bobby pin in your hair. The breathing pauses for a beat, then the cl...
Desperate Defense: Matches
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/KyZgn6mxzZIContinuing our Desperate Defense Week with day 2 of 4 back-to-back quick episodes!You find yourself in a red room, there is a life-sized velvet painting of a clown on the wall across from you. You find a box of matches in your own pocket. You do not remember how you got there. After a brief pause, Mambo No. 5 blares throughout the room and the clown from t...
Desperate Defense: Hair Spray
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/QgPbKrfd4TEYou find yourself in a barren room, a lone can of hair spray at your feet. You do not remember how you got there. After a brief pause, a klaxon blares throughout the room and an aggressor emerges from a shadow-engulfed corner of the room. Do you use the hair spray to defend yourself?—Reference Material(Amazon) A Guide To Improvised Weaponry—We are fund...
5 Outrageous Con Men
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/5F7WG4twkCoNew articles every weekday at http://themodernrogue.comNever look a grift horse in the mouth.* none of our con artists are actually horses, unfortunately—Reference Material 5 People Who Took Con Artistry To Crazy New Heights--- (YT) The Great Reality TV Swindle (Variety) Inside Move: Doc chronicles U.K. contestant con (The Guardian) The forgotten story o...
Episode Ideas?
Howdy, Rogues! I’m sitting here listening to organ music and steepling my fingers as I plan the next batch of episodes. I’ve got a month to prepare!I’ve got books and emails and years of research in front of me. PLENTY of ideas for Modern Rogue.But what do YOU want to see? If we can afford it and it won’t get us killed or arrested, we might film it this summer!-Jason
First Pass Edit: MR119 - Alkaline Hydrolysis
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/KhiQLqEFyTs First Pass Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp0X6DVFEcil7oLxZ67SsMp5rGkGb8fn Original Episode: https://youtu.be/2-eMOCMDQj8At 3:19:39, 91.6% of our footage hit the cutting room floor. This basically includes a completely additional episode with all of our day 1 footage, watch the chaos unfold in real time.It should go without saying, but I&#...
How Not to Dissolve a Body in Lye
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/2-eMOCMDQj8Start protecting your internet experience today with 77% off a 3 year plan by using code ‘ROGUE’ at https://NordVPN.com/ROGUEIt's Memorial Day weekend, so you already know what it is! That's right, a good old fashioned cookout. Grab the kids, grab the psyonic wildebeest carcass, invite over all the relatives! No need to lye, it's just some b...
First Pass Edit: MR117 - Quarterstaffs
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/kn1U2IUqa0U First Pass Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp0X6DVFEcil7oLxZ67SsMp5rGkGb8fn Interview with Anthony ($10+ Patrons): https://patreon.com/posts/17663029 Original Episode: https://youtu.be/3bmcpjBO4a0At 2:04:25, 71% of our footage hit the cutting room floor. Anthony and Bryant always make filming a good time, even if it takes us a little while ...
First Pass Edit: MR116 - Building a PC
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/07H7RACj3Yc First Pass Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp0X6DVFEcil7oLxZ67SsMp5rGkGb8fn Patron Livestream: https://patreon.com/posts/16509649 Original Episode: https://youtu.be/0JcosG0rohEAt 3:46:20, 86.4% of our footage hit the cutting room floor. This was a rather long session, but the actual build was a respectable 2 hours. The whole last hour and c...
First Pass Edit: MR118 - Secret Spy Cameras
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/aErEJ3N-oAo First Pass Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp0X6DVFEcil7oLxZ67SsMp5rGkGb8fn Original Episode: https://youtu.be/pEnKR1kzoHcAt 1:12:09, 70.4% of our footage hit the cutting room floor. Spy cams and all, watch it all unfold in riveting detail as Brian studies up on show notes for a completely different episode.Brandt H. -- editor, camera opera...
Secretly Spied upon by 4 Devices
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/pEnKR1kzoHcForged in the dusk of the Cold War, the pants were imbued with a mystic mistrust. It is said these pants transform their bearer into a supernaturally deceptive creature, something beyond the sum of their parts. It is within these polyester confines that a man finds himself cruel and twisted, a puppet of the pantaloon. Evil Grandpants Murphy Esq. is but a v...
Fighting with Quarterstaffs
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/3bmcpjBO4a0Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony, then everything changed when Brian and Jason got to use quarterstaffs.—Reference Material (YouTube) Soul Calibur - Kilik Kata—We are funded in part by you lovely patrons. Thank you. Special thanks go to contributors Mark Gibson, Todd Kopriva, Vladimir Edelman.MR Articles: htt...
Building a Computer
Hello, youthful gaming elite. This is an instructional digital computing guide that will aid you in your conquest to overthrow the "status" quo. Only on the world wide web can you get this "level" of past knowledge colliding with present computing. Now this is a rich multi-media experience that's all that and a bag of chips!—Reference Material (YT: Techquickie) Is PS/2 or USB...
Potato Cannon vs. Human Head
(Here's the full episode of the video we posted earlier today in case you missed the link)YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/ME7U5XFzrZUBrian and Jason have been driving around Austin declaring themselves the Potato Pirates and they have the cannon to prove it. It's really gotten out of hand, they commandeer cars in the neighborhood yelling, "AVAST" while they throw potatoes out of the...
Can a Potato Cannon Kill You?
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/WNfnlXRZb5IHello you beautiful life-changing Rogues! Brian Brushwood here.Today we're trying something new, and as our bosses, we'd really like your feedback:The Modern Rogue is doing just fantastic on our content these days. Feedback on the articles has been great, and the episodes seem to be getting better and better. We're looking to increase the amoun...
Extended Outtakes: Making Videos is Wicked Easy
It's been a while, old friend. Extended Outtakes: https://youtu.be/LnbCu8F4ccU Original Episode: https://youtu.be/BQxoJ5cg22s ($5 tier) First Pass Edit: https://patreon.com/posts/18062579 ($10 tier) Patron Livestream: https://patreon.com/posts/17610183 This will go public for non-patrons on Thursday.For more extended outtakes, check out the playlist!Brandt H. -- editor, camera operator
Making a DIY Ballistics Gel Human Head
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/h6qRA-aYQP0Bill tried to tell Jason that x-ray vision didn't really work the way that comic books had led him to believe, but he just couldn't live with the disappointment in Jason's face. So he set out to recreate every living person in ballistic gel, starting with Jason himself.—Thanks to Bill for making this even remotely possible. http://punishedpro...
AMA with Jason
Howdy Rogues! You got questions? I’ve got answers! (As long as it’s about Spider-Man or horror movies. I’ll make the rest up!)<br><br>Let’s hear it!
Parkour Fundamentals: Underbar and Lache
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/hNig-gEtNKgIt's just Baby's Day Out but Brian and Jason instead of the baby and parkour instead of Chicago.—Tremendous thanks to Dmitri and Eric from Laché, who without this episode would have been far from possible. https://lachemove.com/ https://instagram.com/acrospidey https://instagram.com/ericscalibur—We are funded in part by you lovely patrons. Tha...
First Pass Edit: MR112 - Molding and Casting a Head
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/So_NA08A_1U First Pass Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp0X6DVFEcil7oLxZ67SsMp5rGkGb8fn Patron Livestream: https://patreon.com/posts/live-recording-17610183 Original Episode: https://youtu.be/BQxoJ5cg22sAt 3:16:33, 80.3% of our footage hit the cutting room floor. Bill is always fun to have around, so we were pretty excited to have him fly in for Seattl...
How to Copy a Face
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/BQxoJ5cg22sThe incredible but true story of the one man who took things too far by volunteering for a highly experimental and controversial operation. SomeBODY once told him it couldn't be done, most everybody wanted to have none, but in the end, it all came down to one.This summer, Jason Murphy is... THE LAST SHREK.—Immeasurable thanks to both Bill Doran and G...
2 Vodka Cocktails: Harvey Wallbanger and Cosmo
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/E2MCBvoZYg0Mr. Harvard Wallbanger Esq. III and Dr. Cosmappel Politan sailed the seven seas and landed in Austin, TX for just one noble reason: to get cosmically smashed and teach us their sloppy, slurry ways.—To make a Harvey Wallbanger, you'll need: fresh orange juice vodka — tito's galliano a glassStep-by-step instructions: add ice to your glass pour 1Â...



























