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Brooke: Life hacks are supposed to make your life better.

Kevin: So if any of these hacks make it worse,

stop what you're doing immediately.

[ Screams ]

♪♪

Ladies, welcome to the fantasy suite.

-Wow. -Wow.

I need a drink.

Wait. Before you pour...

♪♪

...i want to share a hack with you.

Let's aerate the wine using a blender.

-Okay. -All right.

[ Pouring wine ]

♪♪

[ Blender turns on ]

The blender spreads the oxygen through the wine,

making even the cheapest wine taste fantastic.

Looks awesome!

I love wine!

And that'll do.

[ Blender turns off ]

♪♪

Wow.

[ Clears throat ] Wow.

Go on, drink.

Drink away.

[ Slurping ]

Wow. This is good.

It actually is pretty good.

I'm just gonna go dim the lights.

Things are already heating up at the ranch.

Who will Ben decide to share his life hacks with forever?

That's coming up on "the hackchelor."

Kevin: Tonight on "hack my life"...

Brooke: Kevin learns an amazing hack for banishing car dents.

Ha-ha! Hack!

We determine the fastest hack for peeling garlic.

I'm hearing a ding from the microwave.

Plus... Oh, yeah.

...a hack master shows us how to hack your home

into a gym.

Here I am!

Shake what your mama gave you.

Olé, olé!

This is "hack my life."

Whether you're making a marinara

or you're prepping for some vampire hunting,

peeling garlic, it's just -- it's nasty.

We need to find a way to get this done quick and easy.

This is hack vs. Hack.

To assist me through this hack vs. Hack,

I've assembled three of the keenest culinary minds

when it comes to cooking garlic --

actual grandmothers.

Please welcome Lorraine, Heidi, and Greta.

You all ready to see your hacks for peeling garlic?

-Hmm. -Okay.

A microwave,

a bowl of warm water,

and a cocktail shaker.

We're gonna put three minutes on the clock,

and whoever can peel the most garlic

using their hack,

will be declared the winner.

All right, so it's time to choose our hacks.

And, Lorraine, we'll start with you.

Which would you like? -The microwave.

'Cause I feel when I zap it, it's gonna peel really fast.

Okay. Just melt the peel right off?

Heidi, do you want the bowl of warm water

or the cocktail shaker?

I think that I can peel the garlic

and get a workout with that.

Cocktail shaker is yours.

Greta... -What?

You're gonna get a bowl of water.

Let the garlic soak,

the peels should just come right off.

Mm-hmm...

Why don't you go ahead and take your positions

in front of your hacks?

You'll have three minutes to use your hacks

to peel as much garlic as possible.

Okay. And we're gonna kick this off

in three, two, hack!

-Grr! -[ Laughs ]

Some cloves going into the shaker,

cloves going into the microwave,

hot water and garlic in the bowl.

An aggressive shake.

[ Singing in native language ]

I can feel it.

Olé, olé!

The shaker is stuck.

Aah! Okay. Now I can't -- oh.

Shaker top is off, and, oh, wow! Oh, wow.

-I want to trade hacks. -Some of the cloves

got peeled right off the bat.

[ Microwave beeps ] I'm hearing a ding from the microwave.

Let's see how Lorraine's doing down there.

Garlic's coming out.

-Oh, yes. -Yeah!

Excellent.

Greta, what's happening with that bowl of water?

Does it help you peel it?

-It's hot. -Okay. A little too hot?

-Mamma Mia! -There's still one minute left.

The full-body-shake method is good.

Yeah.

Lorraine has the cleanest peeled cloves, by far.

The microwave helped, really, a lot.

Greta, how's your world?

It's slippery, making it a little difficult.

All right, ladies, you've got about 10 seconds.

Ahh, it's working.

Get those last peels in there.

Five... -No!

...four, three, two, one.

And that's it. That's time! -Oh, my gosh.

Are we doing some cleanup work after the clock?

Well, that one just had half left.

I like your style. I like it.

I appreciate it when anybody gets cut-throat.

All right, Lorraine, talk to me about the microwave hack.

Oh, man. It works beautifully.

I'm gonna use it at the house.

-Look at that. -I am. I really am.

Took them out, started peeling them,

and they were just falling off so easily.

But I have 15.

15? Yeah.

Very impressive.

Greta, how'd the bowl of water go?

23.

23? 23.

It actually worked.

However, it takes longer for it to soak.

And you were very stingy with the time.

I -- incredibly.

All right, Heidi, talk me through

the cocktail-shaker hack.

Some would be totally peeled... Yeah.

...and then, there were some that were eh.

But overall?

31.

31 pieces of garlic?!

Three great hacks, a very, very close competition,

but there is a winner, and it's Heidi.

Congratulations. -Yay!

The cocktail-shaker hack reigns supreme today.

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: The dry-erase board --

inescapable accessory of classroom, conference room,

and a highly contentious hack from history.

Flashback to the 1950s.

Iowa photographer Martin heit

gets a phone call while in the darkroom.

Sorry, Anita mandalay isn't in. Can I take a message?

Lacking paper, Martin jots down notes

on an old negative.

Your name, sir?

Hugh jasole.

To his surprise, the ink wipes right off the film.

Huh. That's weird.

Inspired, Martin mounts film on the darkroom wall

to use as an erasable note pad.

And the dry-erase board is born!

Heit sells the patent to dry-Mark

and retires from the invention business.

Meanwhile, in Georgia,

someone else is discovering the same hack.

Salesman Albert stallion

peddles enamel-coated steel siding

for people's homes.

Dirt and stains wipe right off.

Sure, wood looks good,

but what's stronger than shiny steel?

Finding few takers, Albert starts selling the siding

as replacements for chalkboards,

and makes clapping erasers history.

Debate rages to this day

as to who first invented the dry-erase board --

the photographer's botched note

or the salesman's failed sale.

Let's just agree that it's a hack so nice

they invented it twice.

Dry-erase board, you've left your Mark on the future,

provided no one accidentally leans against you.

What a great hack from history.

[ Raining ]

Whew!

It is raining cats and dogs out there, Brooke.

Oh, Kevin, you're getting the floor all wet,

and you've ruined your shoes.

Oh, yeah, they're pretty messed up.

Man, if only there were some way

you could waterproof them using, I don't know...

Everyday household items? -Everyday household items?

[ Both chuckle ]

Both: This is hack or wack.

The idea behind this hack

is that you can waterproof your shoes

by covering them in petroleum jelly

and then baking them in the oven.

All right, well, let's get started.

All we need is a brush and some petroleum jelly.

Of course. Really work it into the seams.

I think it's important to note, too,

that these are canvas shoes.

That's good and gooey.

Yeah, I would agree.

Now, it's time to crank up the heat.

So, you want to set your oven to about 150 degrees,

pop them in there for about 20 minutes.

And then when it dries, well,

that should form a seal which repels water.

And that's why I can't chew gum anymore.

Whoa. Oh!

Hey!

Okay. I think they're done.

Comin' through. Hot sneaks.

Look at that. The sheen is gone.

Okay, let's pour some water on them.

We should probably run down the parameters of our trial.

Yes. We are both wearing a pair of white socks,

and we've added blue food coloring

to this watering can over yonder.

The purpose of the food coloring is that

if any seeps through our shoes on our socks,

we'll know that the petroleum jelly

was, in fact, a ginormous fail.

Also, our left shoe is the baked shoe. Yep.

And our right foot is good old normal shoe.

Got it. I'm ready to get wet!

Me too!

Stick your left foot in.

Hit me with it.

Let's give you a little whoosh. Ooh!

Ooh. Look at it beading off.

Okay, but let's try it on the...

Let's make sure it's not just...

...on the control shoe.

Oh, yeah. No. Definite...

Oh, that's fully soaking in.

Look at that. That's an immediate difference.

Oh, wow.

All right, petroleum-jelly shoe.

I am a little nervous 'cause they're canvas.

Oh, no.

-I actually liked these shoes! -Oh, no!

Okay, I really got in there with it. Okay.

I don't think this is a hack for canvas shoes.

Okay, this is the non-protected shoe.

Oh, that's just sad.

Okay, here we go. The right foot

is the regular, untreated foot.

And, oh, yeah.

It's actually so dyed,

it's hard to see where the dye isn't.

I know. It just looks like a blue sock at this point.

All right, our left foot

was, in fact, the hacked foot

where we put petroleum jelly.

And...oookay. Hmm.

This one is definitely pretty soaked.

I look like I got snow cones for feet.

Well, it's officially hack or wack verdict time.

And when it comes to

protecting your shoes from water,

petroleum jelly is, in fact, wack.

The good news is, you can go back

to using petroleum jelly for whatever it is

you use petroleum jelly for, you know?

And you don't have to let us know what that is.

No. We don't need to know it.

My feet are soggy.

They're so soaked. Yeah.

Kevin: Up next, Brooke shows us

how to upcycle an ex-boyfriend's jeans

into a drink coaster.

Let me get these atrocities out of my face.

And are these pizza scissors

a real hack or a waste of money?

Kevin: This is like a bonsai-dairy project.

Kevin: Find out when the hack comes back.

♪♪

Hey, um, is that a chandelier

made out of a bike wheel?

Yes, it is.

And it's also a hack.

Ladies, would you care to join me?

Um... Did you hack that bed?

I did.

The mattress

is hacked out of old, re-purposed pillows.

Mm-hmm.

And the frame is hacked out of wood pallets.

Why? Wow?

I -- I can't do that.

Wait. What?

Where are you going?

Girls? [ Both girls crying ]

Stop!

♪♪

My tum-tum is a grumblin', Brooke.

Just so hungry.

I want that pizza. The pizza.

[ Doorbell rings ] Ooh!

Hurry, now. I'm about to eat my hand!

Don't do that. You need those hands...

For eating pizza. Yay! A little his and hers.

Okay.

Where are the -- where are the triangles?

[ Crying ]

What sort of cruel joke is this, Brooke?

We need a hack delivery.

[ Doorbell rings ]

What's in the box? Oh-oh!

It's a...Scizza.

Pizza scissors!

Wow. Okay.

And I think it's supposed to be "sizza",

but if it's a play on pizza... Oh. Got it.

...it's a scizza.

According to the claims on this sheet,

you can easily cut and serve any size hot pizza.

Extreme strength.

And a revolutionary design.

Should we try it out? Yeah.

I guess you're gonna have to go up against

regular, old pizza slicer.

[ Chuckles ] I forgot I had it.

You just carry that around?

Yeah. It's in my purse.

I'm gonna be slicing with this new hotness.

Okay. Good luck to you.

In three, two, go.

Oh, I'm at extreme strength, tearing on through.

Ahh!

You get a two for one.

You get both sides in a single roll.

I know. That's the whole point. But at the moment...

Oh, no. This is like a bonsai-dairy project.

How are you doing over there? [ Laughing ]

Geez. I'm on my last two slices.

I'm done! So am I.

Oh, wow.

Okay, Brooke, let's run down the claims...

All right. ...From the scizza.

Does it easily cut through

and serve any size hot pizza?

I'm gonna say no. Okay.

The notion that you were going to

cut and serve with this didn't even make sense.

I mean, is it that hard... To do this?

No, it's not.

Extreme strength!

Ooh, yeah!

Yeah, it was able to cut through the pizza.

Although, I think my forearms were more tired

than any part of your body using the classic roller.

Yeah, all the clamping your hand like that.

Revolutionary design?

It's scissors with a spatula.

All right, Brooke, I think we've given it a fair assessment,

but it's time to make it official.

Are we going to keep or return the scizza?

Pizza is always good.

Scizzas?

They're bad. Let's send them back.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Your ex might be garbage,

but his jeans don't have to be.

Instead of putting these in the dumpster,

where he belongs,

why not hack yourself some super fun little denim coasters

and toast to your new-found freedom?

Take a pair of scissors.

We're gonna cut out the inseam,

and we're just gonna cut along each side, one long strip.

Could never get him into a more fitted,

you know, style of jeans.

Always wanted to wear his bootcuts, you know,

like it was 2004 constantly.

And I'm just gonna cut it like so.

All right, let me get these atrocities out of my face.

So, next, you just take some fabric glue,

and you're just gonna make a strip of glue

all the way down the middle of this inseam.

Whoops. Got a little prematurely excited,

like someone I know.

Knew.

Okay, now just roll it tightly, inward.

♪♪

Okay, then you just let it sit and dry for 5 minutes.

You know, I think I'm gonna take a picture real quick,

just let everyone know that

everything's fine and perfect over here in brookeland.

Wow.

Just hacking some coasters...

Out of Derek's ugly bootcut jeans.

Hashtag available.

[ Chuckling ]

Up next, Kevin learns hacks to keep your motor running.

What a quick fix!

Kevin: And later, we save you money on a gym membership.

"Kevin's hopped up on his detergent again".

Brooke: When we come back.

♪♪

Honestly, it's starting to feel like

you care more about hacks

than you do about us. Yes.

I'm sorry

if I've overwhelmed you with my hacks.

Aww. Aww.

I think I might have something to make you feel better.

-What is it? -What is it?

It's a hack.

[ Sighs ] Oh, my god.

They're stress balls.

I made them with balloons and sand.

Squeezing them can help to

release physical and psychological tension.

I'm allergic to latex.

I'm not.

You can have both.

I may have hacked you something special, as well.

Non-latex stress glove.

Wow.

Who will Ben choose?

Find out on the dramatic conclusion

of "the hackchelor."

Have you been there the whole time?

I have.

♪♪

Sometimes, if you want to discover

the best hacks in all of the land,

you got to put down your digi machines

and head out into the wild.

This is Kevin pereira, hack hunter.

Many people have cars,

but very few really know how they work

or how to fix them,

myself included.

And that's why I'm at Charlie's speed shop,

where they're gonna give me the hacks I need

to shift my car game into high gear.

♪♪

Okay, that's...

Hack number one -- knock.

That's an all-p--

okay.

That is a misleading door. [ Laughs ]

Sorry. How you doing? I'm Kevin.

Mario. Nice to meet you.

This is my partner, Rob.

Rob, pleasure to meet you. How you doing?

All right, so you guys have some hacks

that can help me get my car

looking and running a little bit better?

-Let's do it. -Yeah, let's do it.

Okay, great.

Kevin: Looks like a car.

Looks like a car. I don't see the pro--

oh. -There's a dent there, for you.

So, just grab some warm water, here,

and a plunger.

Okay, so hot water right onto the dent.

I guess, what, it affects the material?

Yeah, it heats it up,

and the molecules are loosening up.

And I put the plunger right on the dent.

And then...

Ha-ha!

And it just pops right out.

That's incredible.

And then now you have to spend five hours

making an invoice to charge somebody

thousands of dollars, right?

Yes. Okay.

Kevin: I was amazed by this basic hack.

But surely things were gonna get more complicated

once we looked under the hood.

Ah, now we're talking. All right, Mario.

Yeah, this one here has a real bad squeaky belt.

And, again, I know this.

This is just for that one guy out there.

What does the belt do, Mario?

The belt turns the alternator, the fan,

the power-steering pump.

It basically runs your whole truck.

Rob, you want to turn it on so we can hear it?

[ Engine turns on ] [ Belt squeaks ]

No. Okay. Okay.

Oh, god!

[ Squeaking continues ]

Thanks, Rob. -Okay, turn if off.

Yeah, that's terrible.

The way to fix it is actually bar soap.

No one soaped their car.

Yeah, they have. Wait, really? Let's do it.

Here, let me rub some of this stuff on here. Yeah, go ahead.

You rub this on the belts,

and it goes through the whole system,

and it acts as a lubricant for the belt.

It's like wax.

Go ahead, turn it on, Rob.

[ Engine turns on ]

What?! And it's a winter wonderland

with the little soap flakes... Do you smell it?

Yeah.

It's sweet, sassy, molassy.

What a quick fix.

Yep. That's amazing.

All right, do we have more hacks? Yes, we do.

All right, I see an engine bay,

which tells me we're gonna

put shampoo on something or light sage.

Mario: No. We're just gonna put some regular oil in it.

Okay. What we're gonna do is,

we're gonna take a regular -- you know what the oil comes in.

Yeah. And we're gonna make a funnel out of it.

So, we're gonna take the knife.

We're just gonna cut it, pretty much in half.

♪♪

All right, so, now you basically see the little funnel.

Yeah. So, just take the lid off,

and there's your funnel.

The funnel was the thing that you're pouring into it.

I mean, that's a bonus hack.

And now we're good to go. We're out.

Rob, thank you so much, man.

Thank you.

Brooke: Up next, we've got all the hacks you need

to turn your home into a gym.

This is a great whole-body movement.

Kevin: When the hack comes back.

♪♪

Ben, are you ready to choose your soul mate?

Yes. I think I'm ready, Chris.

♪♪

Sarah.

Claire.

Sarah.

Now, I've come to love both of you.

But tonight, I only have one Rose.

And I could only choose one of you

to share the rest of my life hacks with.

Through this experience,

I've come to realize that I need to give...

Oh, my god.

...this Rose to...

♪♪

...neither of you.

I choose hacks.

What?! What?!

I can just always depend on hacks.

Like, my shoelace is frayed,

so, by melting the ends, good as new.

Laces easy again.

What the [bleep]?

Goodbye.

[ Scoffs ] Bull-[Bleep].

You know what? I'm married anyway.

I slept with the host.

Chris: She did.

Join us next week on "the hackchelorette."

[ Door rattles ]

Ha.

Oh, I feel gross.

Yeah, I think I want to start working out, but it's like...

Who has the time? And you find the time, and guess what?

Everybody else has the time,

every machine is taken,

and they don't want you doing salsa dancing.

Right? What if someone came to our house,

showed us how to work out here?

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

We need a hack master.

Hackers at home, I'd like for you to meet

executive editor ofgood housekeeping

meaghan Murphy, everybody.

Woot-woot! Yeah, she's also a certified fitness expert.

We can transform any space in your house

into a home gym.

And it's not even gonna cost you a cent.

So, we've got a basket of old neck ties.

And I'm gonna put you to work, but not in an office.

All right, so grab a couple of ties,

and we're gonna secure them together.

We're creating jump ropes.

-Okay. -Out of neck ties.

Out of neck ties. Okay, yeah.

Okay, that's -- oh, we're not gonna

actually jump rope.

Now, if you can keep this up for 10 minutes,

it's the equivalent

of running 30 minutes on the treadmill.

I can't. I got these extra ties in the way.

Oh, yeah.

It takes coordination.

You save 10, 15 bucks.

But, even bigger than that, you're saving yourself

from having a piece of ugly, big-ass cardio equipment

in your house. Yeah. Yes.

You can tone right at home.

Kettlebells -- it's a really awesome way

to dynamically strength train.

But you don't need a fancy kettlebell.

Da-da-da-da!

Oh! Hack master laundry detergent.

-Hey. Okay. -Okay.

This is a great whole-body movement.

It's burning calories, it's toning your hamstrings,

your butt, your arms, your abs.

Are you going underneath? Okay.

I can just take your word for that.

-Oh, no, no. -Okay.

-Nobody gets off the hook. -Oh.

You're toning all your posterior chain,

so, that way, you look good coming and going, right?

You're gonna want to start backing into the room

if you do enough of these.

No one's gonna want me to come into any room

if I've got my deter-- here I am!

"Oh, Kevin's hopped up on his detergent again".

But this is a totally viable substitute,

and it's a super easy-to-grip handle, by design.

So, you can do 1,000 different workouts with this.

I'm gonna turn a basic gym move called a mountain climber

into something you can do in your living room

using these paper plates.

So, the key is, you get into plank position,

engaging your core, and then you're gonna

drive your knees in and out,

climbing that mountain.

So, it's bop, bop, bop, bop.

That move alone

pretty much takes the place of the gym.

Shoot back into push-up position.

-Ugh. -Great.

What's going on, kev? Action.

Oh, I j-- I was not gonna do it if it wasn't gonna ma--

okay. -Oh, no, no, no.

You have to start. Yep.

Okay, so keep it down nice and level,

and then you're gonna drive your knees to your armpit,

in and out, in and out.

So, this is a really great no-impact cardio

that you could do in your living room.

Unlike running, there's no stress

or pounding on your joints.

Yeah.

All right, guys,

how about we work on our heart health next?

Here's a good way to work our arms.

Cheers! -Cheers to that!

Meaghan Murphy fromgood housekeeping,

you truly are a hack master.

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