hey everybody its Adam from Testim with
special guest Michael from Vsauce yes
okay um
Michael we're doing a project today that
involves us going out on the road
together on our 40 city tour yes and
I've done some stage stuff before but
I've always had that little like Britney
Spears mic yeah and it makes me feel
like a diva it's not really natural no
and I will tell you having worn one for
multiple tours it never quite molds to
your ear correctly they make new ones
that clip on both yours and I find it's
really constricting plus a change
onstage well that's the thing is I want
to shirt to come off and not hit
anything you want to wage flex it's the
whole reason I did this is just like Oh
show this off okay so what I found the
last tour the last couple of tours I did
I was changing my shirt a lot and it was
a nightmare it was undoing my mic and I
was losing my muffy which is a nightmare
and I got a tip from Penn Jillette he
does this because they have to do
costume changes in Penn & Teller stage
show he puts his microphone in his
glasses
really and so my sound guide Chris
actually expect a couple of elements and
these are my touring glasses and the
cables go back behind my head and this
is completely gives me all freedom and a
fantastic soundproof and I can't see
anything no these aren't bifocals though
these aren't bifocals these are
transitioned because I haven't I don't
need bifocals oxidation yeah it's a
problem with transition is when you get
older like me the the it doesn't quite
work so the whole universe flexes when I
move so later all night has that yet I
still just use one prescription
everywhere young fresh eyes so we are
going to build a pair of mic elements
into your glasses wait a minute where
are those mic elements are the are they
over there the little hold on just a
second okay this is not fully prepping
for the shoot here we have the mic
element and we are going to build one of
these into your glasses
pull
disclosure to you guys I either was not
told or didn't read the email saying
that we were doing this today so I came
here with just this pair of glasses so
we would use your hero glass there there
my day-to-day actual glasses the ones
I've worn in every episode since I got
them years and now you're gonna be well
using tools on them I am you won't
notice you know I break now trust me no
no no I'm not going to break them and
you can see here this is it's a very
very small amount of disruption with the
visual line of the glasses
in fact we're also not even gluing the
microphone to the glasses we're gluing a
little housing the microphone slips into
so yes you can pull that microphone out
and wear those glasses just fine and
right wouldn't be any trouble cool so
shall we let's do it art with a mod now
I guess while we're doing this you're
going to be blind I'm nearsighted so I
can see this stuff pretty well okay it's
you guys way out there that are just a
blur how your sighted are you because
I'm so nearsighted I couldn't read a
stop sign from 15 feet away let me see
your glasses a stop sign check check it
out let's actually read without any
glass this makes me want to talk like
Michael when then how I talk it's a
little bit I'm just trying to be you
know articulate and clear I will tell
you that the last time we were hanging
out in LA and doing writing for this
show I came back home and did a tested
video and when I was watching the rushes
I realized oh my god I sound a little
like Michael oh really well I really
like the way you speak and so this is
sort of infected like a silent kind of
like a Ross Geller I don't talk in the
same way I talk in videos in real life
it's their close sale but it a little
more precise and it's a little purse
it's a little like also I'm gonna give
you guys time to kind of catch up and
make sure on the same page yeah and to
make sure that I've said everything
correctly because I'm gonna look back
over what I just said yes correct
okay I will be kind of blind so maybe I
shouldn't man any tools but we'll see I
mean I I can see it clothes pretty well
so what I'm going to do is I'm going to
be using this tool which is a dremel it
is effectively a
high-speed spinning rotary bit oh wow we
hand see the little flutes on there and
how is it different than just a drill it
goes much higher speed and I can lower
that speed Oh relativity it takes a
multitude of different kinds of bits
there and I think this little round over
will be the one that I want and it'll
allow me to carve just a little bit of a
channel to give myself better surface
area alright Mike thing that we're
gluing in there and what's what material
are these made out of acrylic
um plastic that's a plastic I don't know
whether it's acrylic or abs or even a
thermoset resin I'm not sure but but it
doesn't matter it doesn't matter because
we're going to be gluing it in with a
cyanoacrylate acrylic glue basic great
and because we'll be taking this little
that little housing right there all I'm
doing is creating a little bit of a
channel so that that housing has a nice
amount of surface area to mate with your
glass right all right I would not hurt
your lenses so let me put this on there
and I want to put this on the left side
here and these arms are called they're
called temples the whole arm because I
usually call it like a maybe an arm I
never know what to say
temples having messed with and broken
glasses for decades I'm actually pretty
good at working on them these look like
they're quite spread out but they fit
your head do you have a larger head than
normal I don't think so I think I spread
them out because of the way I take them
on and off mm-hmm and sometimes I have
to retighten them so that they don't get
looser and looser yeah they were
actually pretty loose when I when I
started with them okay so let's see want
to match this yeah right about there
okay so here we go we're carving into
your glass these are going to be the
glasses I will be wearing on stage a
stirring brain candy you guys are
watching it
sounds like a dentist's drill yeah it's
the same kind of thing
it is the deadest Roe works on a very
high speed actually even much higher
than this yeah we air power yeah did you
get this going
really fast
I'm gonna do both sides alright I see
what you've done so far cuz I'm even
from this distance without them on I
can't see that what's going on I all
means so I've just carved a little
channel there and I haven't broken the
outside line here so that line is the
same right and then this little guy here
wow this is a little scary to me because
these are literally my glasses the only
ones I have at least here I think I have
some at home that are older but the poor
guys it's like seeing your kid get
maimed or like being there where your
kids getting operated on but I
appreciate that yeah you're not changing
the silhouette of them I'm trying not to
and you know this is a little bump
that'll be and my glasses have slightly
thicker frame than yours yeah we're
going to keep on going down with that
channel a little bit to try and just
make sure this sinks into the line yeah
just possible actually had a radio
producer watch my show and at the end of
the turn show all she wanted to know was
where the hell was my mic yep couldn't
find it
that looks like a good amount of surface
area about my glasses on you can see
just how blue my eyes are you see that
love you link they're brown they're blue
yours are blue mine are very blue it's
yeah which is great when I dress up as
Chewbacca because Peter Mayhew has blue
eyes not many people realize that
Chewbacca is blue-eyed I wouldn't have
guessed that alright so that is tell me
if I'm getting too close and I just
don't have any glasses on I am I'm not a
claustrophobic human so okay so what I'm
going to do is I'm just going to wet the
bottom of this in the CA glue and then
I'm going to
that is a little bit of accelerant that
helps the CA glue set immediately let me
do that
the carbon dioxide in your breath also
helps CA glue to color it's not just the
moving air it's also the carbon dioxide
and I'm also doing that because CA glue
can tend to cause crazy on glass on
glass or plastic but we shouldn't have
much trouble now it should be relatively
set here let me just blow it off so we
get that once you see how nice and neat
that is and that is actually going to be
a pretty good hold so if we put this in
there oh okay I'm going to need to carve
out a little bit more behind it
I can't believe I'm doing this to your
real glasses I know I mean honestly if
you break him it'd be a good story have
you ever had fans buy a pair of these
because you wear them no because I've
worn a lot of different glasses I used
to have a pair that were converse brand
converse and I did get a few emails
about them huh no one asks about these
but I've gone through a few different
pairs the the backup emergency pair I
have at home are totally messed up cuz I
took them into a sauna oh and when I
left
rather than being having temples like
this they were bowed out like some kind
of hula hoop you know next time we see
each other I can fix that and we can fix
it yeah I can fix it wait we heat it up
again or something mm-hmm I have a
hairdryer and some hot water in the next
time because they're cool they're like
red on the inside I think I only used
them in a couple of videos all right
okay so I think this is perfect
look at that it just slips right in
there awesome all right let's pop that
in okay and pop the temple on and
putting tiny screws in with big dumb
fingers always difficult so now you have
silvered coloured glasses so in order to
route these I am going to use some
aluminum tape this is second tested fans
know that I love this aluminum tape I
use this for making fake swords and what
is made out of it's actually luminol
it's actually so aluminum with a sticky
soft aluminum and a sticky it's used in
plumbing plumbers use this all the time
for sealing pipes or sealing ducts so
this is actually far better for sealing
ducts than duct tape why because the one
thing that duct tape is the worst at is
sealing ducts is it temperature base
well yeah and a duct tape tends to take
thermal heating and cooling cycles very
poorly
in a brittle in fact duct tape is not
duct tape its original name was duct
tape as like the animal yep I thought
that was just a pun No
so why the why duct tape um because uh
because of its waterproof properties Oh
but Ducks aren't known for withstanding
thermal cycles nope
they get brittle yeah which of Ducks do
a lot of right this is cool apparently
it sounds really good better than right
now I've got a mic hidden underneath my
sweater which someone had to like reach
up and I wore this yeah so I bring these
high tech corporate appearances and when
I spoke at Ted last year their sound guy
like every sound guy I bring these two
is a little bit dubious about it but uh
when we when I wore it onstage she said
it had one of the best sound profiles
he'd heard you have to bring this part
yes this is universal enough then no I
have an adapter for a dad it goes -
that's a sure XLR is that right many ish
um and I have a 8 inch adapter and what
is the grifone actually called that type
of microphone so countryman aha
and I don't know what well it's in there
what it's good but it's a super small
little yeah it's probably a v6 which is
a b6 um will actually will actually put
up the information about what this
element is so you guys know about it
yeah in case you want to do this
yourselves I actually have a couple of
friends who have implemented this as a
solution for stage work alright this
could also be good for people who like
to pace around and talk and record what
they're saying maybe that's just me but
I like to be all alone and just talk out
loud and then all of a sudden I'll say
things and I'm like what did I just say
that was a really good way to say it or
that was a good idea so what you really
mean is that even if you didn't have a
youtube channel you'd be recording what
you're saying and even before I had a
YouTube channel I was doing what you see
me do on a YouTube channel just no one
was watching that's all I was all alone
in my in my bedroom now I love that at
least I can share share the discoveries
you're making well the the curiosity
that I'm feel
and the discoveries that other people
have made that I'm celebrating yes sure
yeah all right I'm just trying to get
this to be really really weird and I
have glasses on
I put them on first thing in the morning
take them off when I go to bed oh and
there's sir I mean it's it's literally
like I start to get panicked if I don't
have them yeah the whole world has
collapsed in on me because what I can
make out is so much closer now that it's
claustrophobic okay there we go
almost there and are you saving this
down so it's Matt oh right I forgot
about that part thank you a little bit
of scotch brite I can make it less shiny
and slightly more match the texture of
your glasses which are now my brain
candy glass which is yes yeah those are
my touring glasses
just I can't talk very much while I'm
doing this because it's high degree of
concentration ya heard I'd say more but
I'm just fascinated by what's going on
and what its gonna be like to have these
like cyborg glasses oh it's so it's so
freeing I can't even tell you you know
we have three voices Adam we have three
voices wait explain you've got you've
got the sound waves that come right out
of your mouth like direct and you hear
that some of those actually reach the
inside of your ear right away right but
you also have the reflective voice the
way your voice is bouncing off of the
things around you so the acoustics of
your your entire day yeah here let me
grab these you can hear the difference
if you hold two cards up in front of
your ears now I'm not getting those
direct sound waves right from my mouth
into my ear hole so you're blocking that
so I'm only hearing the how the room is
reflecting my voice it's a good way to
check like how the room sounds and you
look awesome too and you look awesome
anyway the third is is something that
only you hear it's the voice in your
head literally that conducts through
your balls a conductive sound
cuz yeah your your your jaw bone your
cranial bones they vibrate and they move
your eardrum as well and that is a much
lower frequency that's why it to
yourself you sound really more bassy but
then you hear a recording of your voice
and it's like it's really really sound
like that yeah everyone's like yeah
that's exactly what you sound like cuz
they're not getting the bone conducted
noise so that's one of the reasons we
hate hearing ourselves in a recording
because it's just not accurate it's not
it's not really think we sound like yeah
it's some stranger whose way tenure and
higher pitched I tell people that and
you've had this experience I'm sure that
you get used to it
you get used to hearing your own voice
because you kind of I've sort of
separate out my camera voice that I hear
in my own voice you know it's like it's
a character right what give a name for
the on screen Adam
I did for me it's like it's Vsauce
Michael oh right right and they're not
that different but I find myself when
I'm like trying to talk about something
that I find really exciting in real life
yeah into that character and being like
hold back hold back right you don't want
to be performing for your friends as
your accent or how you pronounce words
changed because of being on TV and
having people from all over the world
listen to you and complain about that's
the that's when I stop reading comments
because someone mentioned that I use the
word actually too much which is a
totally valid complaint but after I read
that pretty much for the rest of my life
every time I say the word actually I
think of that guy and I don't need that
kind of noise bouncing around in my head
yeah yeah yeah exactly um I haven't
learned to ignore those voices I'm
trying to learn how to say situation how
do you know I sit situation Oh like with
the oh shoot I put too much pressure on
it and I delaminate it to glue yep okay
so cool that's good to know
looks like we've got a six you Asian I
don't know how to say that word I say
Sid situation and I say it all the time
and in the comments on YouTube people
are like situation with in Washington
situation so what I'm doing right now is
going yeah I'm giving a little bit of
tooth so that the glue has something to
grind breaking glasses did you know okay
so and I used to say thing for thing for
which I'd be like here's the thing aah
ang I mean I grew up in Kansas which
wasn't quite you know southern but yeah
I would always say here's the thing and
I couldn't pronounce the difference
between a writing pen meaning and a you
know sharp pin Oh until I was in college
and people were like what are you
talking about did you grow up drinking
soda or pop
you know what I grew up drinking coke oh
no way you're from that I'm from that
yeah and that is so weird I'm not making
this up I worked at a snack shop and
people would say hey can I get a coke
and I'd be like well yeah what kind
we've got sprite Dr Pepper and they'd be
like what regular and I'm like Oh
coca-cola yeah is a type of coke it's no
it's not yes he totally drives me crazy
really I don't understand
soda is what I would say now but you
know I haven't drank soda since I was a
sophomore in high school what yeah my
first heartbreak occurred then is this
episodes about to get really personal
and I was a mess I was like I cannot
believe that I was rejected yes or I
mean I could believe it right I it was
it was more sad than I expected yeah and
so I decided you know what I'm gonna
just I'm gonna make myself better and I
ran every other day and I lifted weights
that summer and I lost a bunch of weight
I got toned up and I stopped drinking
soda yeah cuz um you wanted her to
regret the decide I wanted her to see me
in the fall and go what did I lose ha
that's yes that's amazing and and
everyone was like you really transformed
like how did you do it I so I didn't
drink soda you did how did you not drink
soda and I was like wasn't that big of a
deal
so I haven't since yeah but you know
what I do drink energy drinks uh and you
might say what's the difference you've
got I only drink sugar-free ones okay
but what's the difference yeah what's
the difference you know they're they're
below sugar-free ones both have you know
carbonated water as a as a face like
well literally you rent this off that
you've read the stuff that the pheno
keto Newark's activate your your glucose
receptor is just the same as sugar does
your body thinks it your body responds
to the diet stuff just as if it's sugar
so for me though it's just a linguistic
ritual if right you don't drink soda
okay so I think we are good so what I've
done is I've
routed it up the side of the temple
using the buffed aluminum tape once we
got to the black part of the temple I
used a couple of wraps of electrical
tape so how do I use them uh you simply
fold them up like this and you wear them
on your shirt like this and then the mic
will pick up all the sound for you Oh
brilliant yeah it's really it looks
totally natural no one realizes there's
a mic there yeah your mic glasses are
finished for brain candy and this has
been a tested built with Adam Savage and
the fabulous Michael Stevens a mic for
Mike ol Stevens
thanks guys setup on the spot clever
