GMM 2117: We Try Life Hacks Without Instructions

How hard can 5-minute crafts be without instructions? – Let’s talk about that. Good mythical morning. – I’m a little nervous about today. With science without instructions, we had our engineering degrees to of fall back on. – Yeah. – And with magic without instructions, we had 10 years of experience making magic at this desk just for you. – Whoa. – But 5-minute crafts? – Well, you never needed instructions to cut holes in your jeans, did you? – No, just permission for my mom. – Oh, okay. Well, you never needed instructions to color. – No, except for the bit about staying within the lines. – Okay, but you’ve been crafting without instructions your whole life, so we’re still good. It’s time for Crafting Without Instructions. Do they know who we are? We’re masters of all trades, including, but not limited to wicked air guitar. Here’s how it works. We’re gonna be given a set of items needed to pull off particularly unique hacks found on the 5-minute Crafts, YouTube channels. There’s multiple channels, right? – Multiple. – If you’re not familiar, they post tons of crafts, hacks, and so on, to help you DIY some ease into your life, like so. – [Link] Okay, what is this? How to make a salad? How to put dressing on it? No. – [Rhett] I think that was, don’t you see, you have put too much dressing on this salad, but now I can just, – Yes! – [Rhett] I can do a little pee on it. – A little oil, a little douse of the oil from the little bitty burnt hole. – Okay, well, you gotta let that heal up, – All right. – before you start squirting through it. – All right. The catch is we’re gonna have no idea, ’cause we don’t have any idea, what these hacks are or how the items work together to do it. And there’ll also be decoy items that we’ll have to ignore. – Yeah. Right, just like decoy should be, – To throw off. – ignored. – They’re gonna try to throw us off. We’re gonna start off with 50 points. And if we get stuck during a round, we can spend some of those points on lifelines. – We’ll have 10 minutes to figure out each round. And if time’s up before we do finish, we lose five points. And of course our resident GenZ’er, Evor, is back. Hello, Evor. – Hello! – Yo, what’s up, guys? – Nothing much, man. – How you been? – I’ve been so good. How are you guys doing? – What? Great. I don’t think we’ve been as good you are. – No, probably not. I’m doing pretty freaking good. – Wow. – I love your attitude, Evor. – Honk, honk. Is this, is this like, what? Is this pulling? Is this like how a rig blows their horn? – You guys are so silly, oh my gosh. – Oh my. – Honk, honk, that’s how you get a rig to blow their horn on the interstate. – Yeah. Well, I think it’s how you get the bus to stop. – All right. – Okay. He’s gonna sing another great song for us if we can make it through this with at least 30 points remaining. So that’s what’s at stake here, Evor singing. – You boys know the drill. You’ll use some combination of the items in front of you to pull off your first hack. Your lifelines are as follows. I can tell you what category the hack falls into, like cleaning hacks, beauty hacks, et cetera, for one point. I can tell you which items are the decoys and you have two decoys, so they’re worth one point each. – Ah, two decoys. – And you can get a hint from Evor for three points. Now, your time is 10 minutes and it starts now. – Ooh, okay. – Okay. First thing I’m thinking is, – This fan has three levels. If we know that the garlic is the decoy item, then we know by default, implicitly, that it’s not a cooking hack. So we don’t have to ask that question. I think we should find out one decoy item just to start because there’s so many, – I feel strongly that this is a decoy item. Let’s get rid of it and then ask what the decoy item is. – I don’t know if there’s a philosophical difference there. – ‘Cause there’s two decoy items and they’re only gonna reveal one, right? – Yeah, but if you get rid of that and she says it’s another thing, then we don’t know that we were right about that. – Right. All right, so we’re going for lifelines early this morning. – Yeah, we just wanna know one decoy item. – Give us one. – The first decoy item is the garlic. – Okay. – See? What a waste. We already knew that. That was my point. – Yeah. But now we know it answered another question. We don’t, we know it’s not a cooking thing. And we know that the, I mean, it’s gotta be the fan is doing some sort of party trick. – I bet you, no, I mean, it’s a hack. It’s not a party trick. – Well, we don’t know. – What kind of party trick? – We don’t know what, we don’t know what it’s a hack for. – But this is tempting– – What would you need to do? You need to blow up a balloon? – Yeah. That, I mean, this would never blow up a balloon. There’s not enough force. I’ve experienced all three levels because I really, I mean, – There’s nothing to go on here. – Yeah. This is, we need a hint from you, Evor. – You guys want a hint? – That’s what we just said. – Here it comes. Funfetti is the most bustingest thing ever. Don’t at me. No cap, but you can’t always have it. So sometimes I like to use this hack. – I missed the very beginning of that. – Funfetti is the most bustingest thing ever. Don’t at me. No cap. – [Link] Okay. – Okay. So, – All right. – it was a party trick. – You’re right. It’s a freaking party trick. – And what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna make, we’re gonna, – We’re gonna make confetti and we’re gonna put it in this and then we’re gonna blow it out of the fan. ‘Cause Funfetti is that thing where you like, you twist it and it explodes confetti, right? – Yeah. We’re making a Funfetti cannon with this. So I know we’re gonna use this, we’re gonna use the tape, and we’re gonna use the thing that’s in your left hand. I think the balloon is probably a decoy item that we don’t need. Okay. I’m just over here. Cutting some confetti hair. – We are so freaking crafty. – Yeah, yeah, we’re crafty. – Look at this. I just made a funnel. I did a life hack within a life hack. – Yeah, it’s almost like we could be left alone in the wilderness, – And throw a party. – and we’d have a party in there. It needs to direct all the air into this. Right now, there’s so much air that’s coming around here. – Oh yeah. – Is there a way to like cover it up with more paper? – [Link] Or tape? Put this on that that, like that. – Yeah. This is part of it. – This is part of it. It’s taking more time. – Yeah. Don’t worry. This is part of it. – Now there’s three levels, so you gotta hit it three times real fast, okay? – Okay. – Don’t panic. – Okay. – You hit it once, go ahead and hit it two more times. – Okay. All right. I’m not gonna panic. – It’s like I tell my kids, “Don’t think, just do.” – The Neal way. I honestly don’t think from a physical standpoint, I don’t think that putting that paper on there did anything. I think it has to be a contained system. – I’ll hold it. Just blast, just blast it at me. – Okay. Here we go. – Here we go, Stevie, watch this. 1, 2, 3. – You turned it off. That’s it. Maybe you gotta suck on it. – Ooh. – Oh, you got a little something moving. – I told you, you made ’em too heavy. – They’re definitely too heavy. I agree with that. But I don’t think that that’s our only problem. – So… I’m okay. – Should we… – You have just over two minutes left. – Yeah. There’s air in a balloon and you can, you know what you can do? – [Link] Uh-huh? – You can tape that balloon to the bottom of this thing. Put all this stuff back in there. – [Link] Right. – Because how do you get the balloon? How do, how would you even… – Just put the confetti in there. – Yeah. But, and then hold it in my hand? – Don’t think, just do. Wrap the lips of the balloon around, – Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have to hold it really tight. – [Link] the pipe. – [Rhett] No you, I think you, no, that’s not gonna work. – [Link] Let me, let me hold the, – Do you think you’re gonna be able to get a balloon around the outside of that? – Pull it over, no, you are. Go, go. – There’s no way. I think, no, I think– – Let go. – It’s simpler than that. I think I have to push it, you have to push the balloon up against the bottom. There’s no way we can get this right around. Get the balloon real big, almost popping. We’re running outta time. Okay. That’s good, that’s good, that’s good. That’s good, it’s gonna pop. Okay. Hold it really, really tight. I got, I got, I got it. – Oh, excuse me. – Hold on. Hold on, and then– – Move the fan. – You’re gonna have to move your hands outta the way. – It’s 30 seconds. – Move it. It’s a decoy. Get it outta here. – You’re gonna have to move your hand, your left hand out the way and, and then just hold the balloon. – All right. And I’m, I’m, get your face in here. I’m firing it at it. – Okay. – Three, I can let go of this. – Yeah, yeah. Three, two. – Lift it up. Yeah. Yeah. We did it. – It worked for a little second. – We did it. That was it, right? – Um, um– – Evor? – Well, your time is up and no, but Evor’s gonna show you how it actually works. – That was it, Evor. – All right. That hack didn’t quite cut it, guys, because you missed out on the scissors. So what you’re gonna do is you’re gonna snip the balloon. – [Link] Oh. – And then you just wanna take that little top part and then you tape that around the little toilet paper roll. Let me just get that nice and secure. Where the heck does this tape start? You guys ever get confused by tape? Happens to me all the time. – This is not a good look for us to be shown up by this guy. Clearly he doesn’t have any brain skills. – Okay. What do you mean? I’m basically an engineer, honestly, with this hack, – [Rhett] He’s gonna tape it and then, – And then you’re gonna tape that around. – Oh! – And then the most fun part, you did great on the confetti. I thought you did a really good job, Rhett. You just didn’t quite get the mechanism. So I’m just gonna cut up some confetti here really quick. – Oh, he’s doing the same size as me. – Are you guys going to E10 this year? – What? – What is that? – E10 dese nuts. – Ah, dang it. – Got ’em. – I thought you were inviting us to play Battleship. – No, you silly, goofy guys. What’s Battleship? Then you’re just gonna take this confetti, – What’s Battleship. – You’re gonna put it all in the tube, and then pop goes the weasel. – Dang. That’s cool, man. – Ours was better. – Yeah. – No, I don’t think it was. – Ours was older. – Oh, you’re so silly, Link. – Okay, guys. Same lifelines as round one. And you have 10 minutes. It starts right now. – Paperclip, – Paperclip, – remote, – remote control. – I do not know if the remote is for this thing. – Is that like a sound bar? – This is a compact Bluetooth soundbar. – Let me see. See if I can turn it on. No, there’s not even any batteries in this thing. – Oh, okay. But there is a battery right here. A single battery, – A single battery, no batteries here but a single battery. – A light bulb, – A light bulb, – LED, a powered toothbrush, electric toothbrush with a charging port on the bottom. – That means there’s no battery in it. – I think we gotta get rid of that remote. – If you have a remote, but you only have one battery, how do you get the remote to work? – Wow, that would be advanced stuff. I thought we were gonna just turn the light bulb on using the power from the toothbrush. – I think if I just, – and I was being serious, – Everyone’s laughing though. – But based on that reaction that, ah, I tricked you. Aha, that’s not it. – If I push this battery in and then I take this paperclip and I make a circuit, is this gonna shock me? Then I can turn on– – To operate this? – [Link] Yeah, I can turn on the– – [Rhett] There’s no power in a paperclip. – Yeah, but there’s one battery. So I’m completing the connection, the circuit. And then I’m gonna turn it on. Does that work? – No. – [Link] I think I’m burning something. – Really? – Evor, you like to start fires? – Only on the track, yo. – Oh, you’re a track star? – No, you ding dong, like music track. – Oh. We are just not on the same wavelength, are we? – We gotta get a decoy. Tell us one of the decoy items. – Your first decoy item is the toothbrush. – Okay, yeah. So we can’t start the light bulb up now. – I think, I don’t think this is like a soundbar hack. It’s like, get your soundbar to, what, – I think, I think – you know? This is just to demonstrate that we can turn the thing on, power mode. – So what we really need, right? Okay, so you get one battery that’s in there, but now what I actually need is, I need the positive power from this battery that is actually working, to go to this positive terminal and I need the negative terminal to actually power the other negative terminal. That’s the only way to actually get, – I don’t think so. I think it just needs to be completed as a circuit. All right, we’ve been given another, – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – We gotta start over. All right. Evor, give us a hint, man. – I tell you what guys. It is absolutely lit, but sometimes it’s not. So thankfully this hack will give you all the energy you’re missing. – [Rhett] Okay. – See? It is. You only have one battery to go in the remote, or – Lit, sometimes it’s lit. The bulb, dude, – Oh! – We gotta turn on the remote control, we gotta turn on the light with the remote control. – With the remote control. This is, yeah, that’s what we’re gonna do. I think that the paperclip is the same size as, check this out, as the battery. So without undoing it, – But how are you gonna, the paper clip has got to be touching the base of the light bulb. – So, you know, I feel like there’s been a lot of, – Fail. – GenZ communication that you might be missing, you know? It’s lit, – All right, what– – Really, it means it’s cool. – Should we get him to repeat it? – No, I’m just saying maybe you took it too literally. – Literally? Okay, this is a decoy then. – All right, let’s hear it again. – It’s lit, – Cool. – but sometimes it’s not, so thankfully this hack will give you all the energy you’re missing. – I mean, we’ve done it. It’s just not working. It’s not our fault. Hold on. – Excuse me. Can you go from positive to positive? – It did work. – It worked. – It is working. It is working. – It worked. – Yay. – Yes. – Whoo. Let’s freaking go. – [Link] I can see the light. Can I play music? Oh, there it is. How did that happen? – Yeah, you guys did it perfect. You really must have gone to school. I failed AP physics. – Yeah. We went to lots of school, sadly. – I didn’t. But hey that’s okay, because TikTok got created. – In celebration of the Mythical Society anniversary, during the entire month of February, any purchase of 3rd Degree Annual Plan will receive their choice of one of the past 2021 quarterly items while supplies last. – Oh, you thought you’d missed it? This is the chance to get it. – So if you want any of that stuff, – while supplies last. – http://www.mythicalsociety.com for details. – Yeah. – Okay guys, you need 30 points to win. You currently have 37. I’m gonna start your 10 minutes now. – I want that song from Evor. Aluminum foil, and a lot of it. – Aluminium. – We’ve also got a dryer sheet. – A dryer sheet. – Don’t eat it, – or smell it. – Actually don’t sniff it because – It’s strong. – it’s really strong smelling. Speaking of strong smelling, we’ve got this – Aerosol? – dry spray, anti-perspirant deodorant spray. – CFCs? – Hm. That’s not bad. So we got, and we have a pencil, and we have a cellular telephone, a mobile phone. – Okay, if we’ve got 37 points and we need 30 to win, we can actually, I think we can use all of our lifelines if we need them. – Why not? – If we’d still get it. So I feel like we should at least just get, we should at least get rid of an item, right off the bat. – Let’s let’s remove an item. – Your first decoy item is the dryer sheet. – Oh. – Oh, good. Let’s get that outta here. – That would’ve been difficult. – Oh, it’s strong. – Okay, I mean, do we wanna remove the second? Let’s look. You wanna know what a genre? What genre we’re in? – Yeah. – You’re trying to execute a phone hack. – Okay. So we need the phone. – So we need the phone. – Well, let’s see what condition the phone is in. – A phone hack. I mean, it’s, I don’t even know if the phone, – [Rhett] No, it’s on. – I don’t even know what type of phone this is. It’s like, what? What is this? – It’s like a prepaid phone. – It’s like a burner. – All right, is there like a light or something? Like phone hack, what do you mean? – [Link] Does it have a light? – Make an antenna for your phone? – I think it might be something related to the outside of the phone, like a case around your case. Wait, let’s remove another item. – You want me to make a phone case outta this aluminum foil? – Yeah. – All right. – Let’s remove the other item. – The second decoy item is the deodorant. – Oh, good. Okay. – Save that for later. – All right. So it’s just foil and a pencil. – Oh, maybe it makes it where you can like, – Wrap it up. – You can listen from a distance through like a tube of aluminum foil. If you don’t want to listen, if you don’t want to touch your phone but you still wanna have a conversation. Well, the pencil is good for making holes in this thing or for wrapping it up and making like an antenna, like I was talking about. – You need an antenna for, oh, for, yeah, to get better service. – Get better service. – There is a hole up here. – If you stick an antenna into the headphone jack, doesn’t that do something? – No. – I’m pretty confident it does though. – All right, Evor, give us a hint. – Give us that hint. – You guys ready for the hint? Now, listen. I used to only think that old people and old wrinkly people, like my GMa used these things, and I kind of still do, but then they made a hack for making one, so it’s like marginally cooler now. – Antenna, man. Only grandma uses an antenna. – Antenna. Yeah. Make an antenna. You don’t have to roll up the whole thing, just use a little bit of it. – Yeah. I mean that’s a good enough antenna right there. – Yeah. And then what? So then really mush that down? – Here, stick this in there. – Stick it down in the headphone jack. Use the phone, oh yeah. – Now make a call. – Calling someone that I normally wouldn’t be able to reach. – Dude, you could talk to somebody in Alaska with that thing. Okay. So is that it? – I approve. Shred the documents. – Absolutely not. – That is not it. – Okay. Again, I would say there’s a generational age thing going on, ’cause I would say my mom would use this, but yes, perhaps Trevor’s grandmother. – Oh, a phone can vibrate. We’re gonna make a vibrator. It’s a thing where they can put the phone on their shoulder and talk in it. – Look guys, guys, you really gotta tap into your brain to get this hint. You gotta get this hack going, come on. Just tap in. – Tap in. Is that another hint? – I don’t know what to tell you, man. – [Rhett] Do you think I can make– – No, you’re right. It’s just a, it’s one of those. That’s, you’re right. – Dude! – No, it’s not. No, no. It’s tap in. – Tap, tap your phone. – Two minutes. – It’s, instead of using your thumbs, they do the one finger tap. – The first part of what you said was correct. And then it went, it’s… – They tap. – I think it’s a distance tapper. Well, I don’t wanna get too close to that technology. Oh, it is working, look. – Oh yeah. It is. – Okay. – So, – A stylus. – Yes. – It’s a stylus. – [Link] Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, ’cause you made it work. – Well, you gotta go back somewhere else. Let me open an app. Yep. You’re right. It’s a stylus. – It’s a pointy-pointy. – There you go. – Did we get it? – Oh man, you guys must have seen the latest edition of DevHour, ’cause you guys got that one so good. – Yeah, we did. Without any additional help from anyone like Stevie. Thank you! Evor, that means we won the right to hear a nice little song from you. – Look guys, I actually, this is a song off my unreleased EP, Evor Forever, and I wrote it just for you guys, so here it goes. ♪ Rhett and Link, ♪ ♪ You guys are so good at crafts ♪ ♪ It’s like you’re playing popular block based game, ♪ ♪ Minecraft, the way you craft, ♪ ♪ but you’re not miners, you’re crafters ♪ ♪ The way you hack these crafts ♪ ♪ Five minutes, five minutes, five, five minutes ♪ ♪ More like 30 seconds if you really get down to it, ♪ ♪ but it’s okay, ’cause you hacked them ♪ ♪ And you craft them ♪ ♪ You guys are the best ♪ Love you guys. Shout out to all my fans. So thank you. Thank you. Make sure to check out Evor Forever when it releases on Spotify, Apple Music, all that stuff, man. – I was searching for a structure there, and realized that, you know what? That was my age showing. – I think this is time you’re clinking that bell. – You know what time it is. – I’m Laura, – And I’m Andrew. – We’re here in Monterey, California, celebrating our honeymoon. We just got married two days ago, – [Together] and it’s time to spin the wheel of mythicality. – First I thought they were just falling through the sky. – Yeah. – You know? – And then all of a sudden they appear. – They’re surprisingly calm for falling through the sky. – Congratulations. – Yes. And click the top link to watch us guess what craft sauces and dressings have been combined to make new sauces at Good Mythical More. – I bet they got new names. – Yeah, they do. – And to find out where the wheel of mythicality is gonna land, – During February, 3rd Degree Annual Plan purchases will receive their choice of one of the past 2021 quarterly items while supplies last, visit http://www.mythicalsociety.com for details.

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