9 Sneaky Ways to Hide Contraband 

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"I took the battery out of my Smoke Detector, because the alarm was giving me a headache and making me dizzy"

Brian: *Eats old expired MRE* Also Brian: *Gags at the mere scent of Mayonnaise*

i hope they go against eachother in a test to see how many things each person can hide and or find in a room. would be a good video.

Suggestion inspired by a moment in this episode: An episode about "how to launder money" all about actually physically cleaning dollar bills without damaging them, released on April 1.

Modern rogue doesn’t carry a wallet jut a bunch of junk that secretly holds money. Pickpockets beware.

I read the title as "9 Sneaky Ways to Hide Cornbread" and was immediately confused

should have replaced the mayo with yogurt while Brian was gone. then just start eating it when he got back.

You need to talk to any geocacher. They are used to hiding things in plain sight.

When I flew back from London in 1991, they were still having the “troubles” in Ireland, I had left my suitcase at the hotel for the day so it had been out of my control since I had packed it. Security at the airport opened everything including opening the toothpaste and smelling it, but they did not empty it completely so I think I still could have used the toothpaste trick.

"Squirrels in your house, watching your Nutflix."

A buddy and I were living in a house together, and we discovered that the plastic cap that goes over the tap on a keg fits perfectly at the bottom of a red solo cup. And we had solo cups on our porch all the time, just because of old parties and generally being low level slobs. So we hid our key under the cap at the bottom of an old solo cup, and NOBODY ever found it in the 4 years we lived there.

"Mayonnaise is a Rorschach test." Brian, 2021

"Don't go sneaking in another man's soup! Leave my soup alone!" Had me literally spit whiskey out. The timing of it all. 😂😂😂

Taking out one of the cells in a 9volt would lower the voltage since they are in series to get up to 9volts. But someone could definitely confuse it for a near dead battery

or put "usb" in a Little baggy. then put baggy in the "condiment" bottle . no need to dump contents

I think these would be impressive if we hadnt seen a drug bust where the coke was hidden in fucking pineapples

Brian: *Eats chicken rust soup* Also Brian: gags at mayonnaise

This man would eat 50 year old junk food but mayonnaise nope 😂

I knew a guy who hid the weed he sold in Sharpie Magnums. It was a great idea since the smell covered the weed smell. But he got caught cause he kept bragging about how smart he is. 10/10 best way to keep things from being found is not to say anything about it.

Modern Rogue Only Fans name: The Modern Rouge

If applicable, the empty space/compartment you get when removing the weights from your pc mouse is a nice hiding spot.

Modern rogue drinking game: take a shot everytime they say "it's fine." Guaranteed double shot.

The king of random solved the issues with the Mayo several years ago. Using a container on the top to make it look like it is full.

Brian’s little “ahe ahe ahe” laugh is so cute

"I guess it's mayonnaise, but it looks like used motor oil."

In every episode of Live PD, the first place they check for drugs on someone’s person (besides the obvious places) is in their shoes. The amount of times they had drugs in their shoes was honestly hilarious

Anyone wanna quote Burn Notice about “slicks”? They’re easy to access and offer reasonable security

When you're so early the video isn't even up yet

Leaving just one cell in a 9v will not work because a AAAA only outputs 1.5v. the reason there are 6 cells in there is because they are connected in series and they add up to 9v.

I could see the marker being useful in a magic routine, having the card appear in the marker they used to sign it or something like that! As for actually hiding stuff, I think the battery and toothpaste are the best!

Every modern rogue video I watch gets me on a new watchlist

Criminals: definitely going to use all of these methods Police: definitely going to check all of these methods

So excited to finally be able to catch a premier from you guys! Love the content

This all really depends on your threat model. "onto an airplane" busts all of this, as your stuff is going through an x-ray. randomly in the house, there's way better stuff even commercially available like those fake outlets, or inside any number of innocuous household items (ever take a doorknob apart? what kind of maniac is going to take a doorknob apart?)

I can just imagine going to a friends house, fixing a bologna sandwich and getting a spoonful of cocaine or something out of the mayonnaise jar

You guys should do an episode on stash clothing, there are so many different cool ones and it’s in the same vain as this Rather than writing expired put opened:old date eg 12/03/2019, it very common in pro kitchens and it looks more like you forgot it rather than put back out of date condiments

I just stuff a 6$ whole roasted chicken to hide "stuff" lol

Brian: eats the nastiest 25+ year old MRE food Also Brian: hates mayonnaise so much it nearly makes him puke

The sneakiest thumb drive I ever had just looked like a frayed USB cable. I bought it because it was silly thinking that everyone would know it was just a neat looking usb stick, but I actually had to stop people from throwing it away multiple times. If one were to design it to be really sneaky, instead of a frayed cable it could be an actual working phone charger, but also a usb stick that needs to be booted into to access the memory Wall outlets are probably decent places to hide things. They're available everywhere and pretty quick and easy to get in to, and theyre extremely permanent and rarely opened. There isn't a ton of space but enough for a roll of bills or something. I wonder if police ransacking a place would smash or open wall outlets Under the floorboards is a classic place to store bodies, just buy a pair of noise cancelling headphones for the beating noise and youre good I like the battery idea, though I would probably try to leave as much of the circuitry in there as possible, to camouflage the memory chip. I guess maybe if youre like a reporter in some country thats sketchy and youve taken photos of some shit that went down you could hide an std card in your battery thats in your camera, and then just have normal things in the camera memory card itself. Is that decent? I dunno, might be better to hide the battery in something else, but what do we even carry these days thats electronic that isn't just our computers? And they might just straight up take or destroy the camera anyway, though the battery might survive. Also square batteries are better than round ones, which tend to be more common in higher tech devices. A 9-volt is nice because theyre cheap and easy to take apart, but what even uses a 9-volt? I guess you could hide something in your smoke-detector, thats similar to hiding things in wall outlets, but hiding things in a house doesn't seem as applicable as sneaking things through some form of security I think you should try to think about some sort of goals when you go through this. Like what are you trying to hide? Who are you trying to hide it from? What are some things you need to be able to accomplish for it to be a success? Are you hiding it in a stationary location or are you using it to transport something? Do you need to be able to hide from airplane scanners? A lot of these seem kind of vaguely about hiding small things in your house, but like, what does stashing money around your house even do? Make the game mechanics of burglarizing your house more fun? lol, this isn't legend of zelda, no one is coming into your house and breaking your pots The non-openable containers meant for hiding things around the house aren't really solutions to any problem. How would you ever use those? You cant store drugs, because theoretically you want to use or sell those. You cant store data, because why the heck would you need to just store data and not access it? I mean i guess if you have like a couple secret files that youre using to blackmail someone you could hide them in multiple places around your house, but thats totally over the top. Way before you get to that point they're finding ways to deal with you directly. And theres little to no reason to hide money in your own house unless you expect it to be broken in to, in which case you probably dont have much money to hide, or you'd just move somewhere better. So yeah, i guess some poor hiding a few hundred dollars is a potential application, but I would argue that that person should probably have that money "hiding" in some company or stock, not in a physical location. What good does money thats just sitting there do them? Containers meant to be kept at home need to be openable. The soup completely fails as a hiding place. It's not getting through an airport, I mean I guess you could carry it around in a bag on like a train but its big and heavy and pointless. The only thing the soup can is good for is providing electromagnetic protection for the data inside it Hiding things flat against surfaces of similar materials is a good way to make them appear less visible to machine scanning

Never give a squirrel your house keys! I learned that the hard way

The late Grant Thompson from "The King of Random" actually did a short video on the mayo jar concept a few years back with his "Miracle Safe." It was really clever too: he found a cat food can that fit the mouth of the jar perfectly so he could have a sort of "false top" that had miracle whip in it.

Love your content guys! Been a fan for a good few years now. Cant wait to see what shenanigans you get up to 😂👍

As a person who's already been using 'Privacy' for over a year now, I'm actually really happy to see it in a sponsored youtube segment. I genuinely feel like im in more control and safety than with just the bank card alone.

Some kids in my school actually smuggled alcohol on to a feldtrip by hiding it in cans which they sealed using an actual machine made to seal cans.

If you like hiding valuables around, you'll probably like this idea I've had. You can hide your valuables in whatever clever space you want, but I would recommend having a decoy for someone to steal. You have a small safe someone could pick up, a thief would probably grab that and leave. You could also put some things in the safe that would screw the thief over, like a GPS tracker, a USB with a virus on it, whatever you can think of.

Finally an actual useful video I've been looking to see how to hide contraband for a while

I feel like the easier alternative to the soup can is the paint can. Who doesn’t have a couple odd cans of paint in the garage?

Jason needs to start his own RU-vid channel where he just talks about his life and childhood.

Might be my favourite RU-vid channel. Enough said.

You could remove the piece of paper on the inside of the lid of the mayo jar, write a message on the part facing the plastic, and replace it. Or even a little bit of money or a small sd card.

I love how they're going at it, destroying every sigle hiding spot somebody could youse to hide anything... Great job guys👍👍👏👏

I knew a contractor that had installed a hidden room. Access was the clever part: open a cabinet in the kitchen, wave a magnet around in the right spot, and the shelves and inside of the cabinet lift up, exposing the portal. Once inside, one could drop the cabinet 'liner' back into place. The only problem was wear/staining: getting into the thing was a tight squeeze, and trim-edges got worn down a bit.

King of Random did the mayonnaise jar a few weeks back. Paint the entire inside and put a sheet of card stock in as a lining so the paint doesn't scratch. Find a small, short, can that fits within the mouth of the jar, but doesn't fall in, and fill it with actual mayo. That way if it's opened, you see actual mayo unless you pull out that smaller can to access the inside compartment.

Did someone relapse? The ridges on the soup can are a give away?!?! What about the nasty rotting soup?

jason doing the turning the paint can trick for the mayo reminded me of those commercials where someone is like "do you hate dusting?" and then they jam the duster into the roof and it breaks.

My spots always involved things most people wouldn't know how to take apart computer, tv, printer (one of my favorites), and even inside of a 2x4 that had a slot cut out that I drilled to the underside of my bed 😆

I would love to see you challenge each other to find 10 hidden objects in a room, the person who finds the most from the other person wins, obviously, the other person would have to prepare the hiding places the best they can. The ultimate easter egg hunt. Or the two guys could hide stuff from Josie.

When I was incarcerated I went to visit my brother in another unit. I had to travel and stay at other units before reaching my destination. While staying in a unit overnight, the following day we were in line to go board the bus. Standing there an inmate and myself heard something fall. We spotted a gold ring spinning on the floor. Quickly I pulled my eye glasses off and reached out and hooked the ring, pulled my face cream and stuffed it inside the cream. I managed to travel through several units and their shakedowns before getting to the place I was getting to. I gave it to my brother to trade off for whatever he wanted.

There are trade offs when hiding things and the two primary ones are security and accessibility. It's it's easy to get it's less secure if it harder to get it's more secure but you're not gonna be collecting it in a hurry.

Back in the day I owned a few mk3 Ford Capris. Those cars were like one big hiding place. You could pop off the side panels in the boot reasonably quickly and easily get 5 bottles of spirits wrapped in towelling in each side, and another 5 per side behind the quarter panel cards beside the rear bench seat. The fixed rear seat base also came up with a few screws and there was room for 10 or so bricks of 200 cigarettes under there (As long as no one sat in that seat). And my favourite. The steering wheel had an easy to pop out 2" centre trim piece that covered the mounting nut, but the nut was a good 4" below that cap. That was a perfect place to stash your condoms.......... where your girlfriend wouldn't find them. ;)

15:47 - The best part is, you can claim "This is just soup! For my family!"

Thanks for what you guys are doing!

Third time watching this episode, the first two times I was half asleep and the changling in the background kept scaring me everytime I was dozing on and off.

"Yo! You got them nuts?" Actually I'm drunk and laughing my ass of. Don't know why 🤣🤣

Bryan’s old school Casio watch.. Clearly a man of culture!

on the can of soup - there are some devices that remove the lid in such a way that there aren't any sharp corners/ridges and that it's "resealable" in a way that is more secure/inconspicuous

"A Buffet of Deception". I love it!

Read this as *Cornbread.... was just as interested. Keep it up guys!

I have one that's been tested in real life many years ago during the height of airline security: Lotion bottle with opaque lotion, obviously. Purchase the one with a snap off rather than screw off lid/pump. Remove carefully. You'll need to snap it back on for continued functionality. I put the contraband in plastic for protection (melted cig pack plastic to be specific) and then jammed the packages way down into the lotion. It got thru multiple flight gates and 2 physical inspections. The contraband scent and view remained hidden. These days you have to use really small bottles so it makes it a bit harder for airlines but the idea scales and any bottle can be used at home or regular travel.

Brian's story reminds me... When I was a kid I had a variety of magazine subscriptions and I would keep dozens of magazines on my bookshelf. One of the magazines one time had some kind of ad that had a little pocket in it. Of course can see where this is heading but no lie. Another kid I rarely hung out with comes over, and we're just chillin in my room. Basically none of the rest of my friends would ever even think to read one of my magazines but this dude did, grabbed the one that had the stupid ad in it, and when he got to the ad, actually reached into the little pocket and pulled out the freaking money. Being a kid, it was only like $10 so not a conspicuous amount of money. I still can't believe it happened. A totally bizarre thing.

get a glue stick, take the stick of glue out and cut it in half more or less. put the money in the plastic tube and put the glue back in and use it a bit to make it look older. love the vids keep it up.

Smoke detectors chirp when the battery is dead because they're hooked up to the house mains electric supply. The battery is there as backup for if the power gets shut off. When the house power is on, the battery isn't being used. They go dead naturally over time. Removing the 9V battery or putting a non-working one in will make it chirp unless the power is cut from the alarm as well. Leaving a single cell in the 9V battery wont work because it will only provide 1.5V (1.5V x 4 = 9V the way it is wired inside).

The two of you are what we used to call a think tank. Gather up a few dozen more like-thinkers, and you are a force.

Slide our little sandwich baggy of "coca-cola" in the marker 😅

I work in a prison. You'd be amazed at how ingenious they can get

have a six-tap with decorative flourish on the top and bottom which is intended to cover the socket, _but_ the original packaging left on it (because it's riveted in for some dumb reason) provides a paper barrier to hide contraband in _either_ the top or bottom, so then once plugged in and fastened to the wall's outlet as provided by its instructions, it would require the unit to be unfastened and removed to check underneath. It's completely socially invisible, because not many would think to check somebody's plugs.

Brian Brushwood will eat rations from WWII, but gags at the smell of mayonnaise.

I think something being big enough to fit a flash drive gives it a really big boost in score because flash drives especially now days can fit a lot of information and you could even encrypt it to add an extra layer of security

Old country legend: some 'illicit distillers' used to sell moonshine in jars they painted to look like other jarred products, jams, jellies, preserves, etc. The revenuers raided the market they were selling their wares at and busted some other moonshiners there, but their jars were painted so well they just looked them over and moved on.

2:35 I don't know what you are talking about, but YES DO AN EPISODE !!! it sounds so promising.

A 9v battery is 6 1.5v AAAA's in series. For every cell you take out you lower the voltage and make it less likely that the device still works. So it's not likely to be a functional battery, but you can still put it in an alarm clock that also connects to the mains as a backup battery and hope nobody unplugs it.

Teens hiding alcohol from parents: *write that down, write that down!*

Need to see more new ones like this awesome stuff

I like brian's new watch, 10/10 for good taste and content :)

There was a trend for a little while of making pocket survival kits/hiding cash in chapstick tubes. Apparently you're just going to break the bottom most of the time but if you get it off you can put quite a bit in there. My only problem is that I've never kept up with a tube of chapstick long enough to get halfway through one, and I'm not sure it's even possible to maintain ownership of a single tube for more than about 1 month so I've never been able to trust one with a couple hundred dollars lol. But take a flat head screwdriver and pop the part that twists off gently and try not to break the little tabs that hold it in place. Then you can stuff things in there and replace it, then screw the little bit of chapstick back on top.

At one of my old houses I used a 6 inch wide by 3 foot long piece of pluming PVC with a screw in cap that was water proof with a rubber gasket & a PVC cap also with a rubber gasket glued it all together , I dug a hole a little over 3 foot down in my yard & placed it in said hole like it was pluming for the house . It had a square knob on the top so you could use something to unscrew it , I put a coffee creamer canister with a string or paracord through the lid so I could lift it out of the PVC . I placed a concrete planter on top so no one could see it & me & my family used it for years to put stuff in like a house key , key to the shed ect nice ideal .

Here's an idea for the 9 volt batter. You could put the money on the inside of the shell and still have it work. Nobody could possibly tell.

I used to use the marker pen trick to take a single joint with me to work. Definitely best one on the list

For the toothpaste sealing, a soldering iron and straight edge to guide it would probably seal quite cleanly.

That music at the battery part was perfect

One of my good hiding spaces, long ago, was inside a carefully modified VHS cassette - smaller spools allowed for more room at the back of the cassette. Hide the cassette in the recorder, which would play, and people were none the wiser. If you were inclined, you could also use the cassette for trafficking purposes too.

The Chapstick reminded me that we used to make pop-guns out of empty Chapstick tubes. You can get the screw loose on the bottom so that it comes way out. Then you hit it back in to make the cap shoot off.

Be careful with those batteries! Disconnect each wire seperately and stop them from shorting XD

The first place I hid money before I had a bank about was in my high school diploma, cause I knew diplomas were worthless.

Brian's idea of the construction of a typical 9v is bewildering.

One of my favorites has always been the fake "covered cable intake". Using one of those wall boxes for outlets or cable lines from the cable company and a flat wall panel to screw it into. It isn't something you can easily remove quickly, but if you're going out of town or something, how many people start unscrewing wall plates when they break into a home?

Fwiw, Right there with you on the 'Roos sneakers!! 👍

Brian you would probably like my favorite kind of flip flops. Its the Reef brand, Fanning model. They have a nice arch support plus a bottle opener on the bottom. Yes, that's right, just pull off either the left or the right and open your favorite brew. Much better than stashing 25 cents for later.

For that mayo container, I'd want to paint the walls of it white then pour cement or plaster in there with a hollow to still give it some heft, but have a cavity large enough to put something substantial.