Modern Rogue Injuries

This is a listing of all notable injuries during the filming of Modern Rogue episodes.

Reset Conditions

• The counter is reset upon drawn blood.
• The counter is reset when pain / an injury impedes production in some way.
• Ultimately, any given reset is determined by the editor's discretion.
• The counter tracks time between published date of episode, not when the injury actually occurred.

Statistics

Reset Instigators

Jason	13
Brian	10
Rick Smith Jr.	1
Katelyn	1
John Rael	1
Number of Times Injured
Jason	13
Brian	11
Katelyn	1
John Rael	1

Injury Relationships

Jason self-inflicted	10
Brian self-inflicted	8
Katelyn self-inflicted	1
John R. self-inflicted	1
Jason injures Brian	3
Brian injures Jason	2
Rick Smith Jr. injures Jason	1

• The longest duration between injuries (excluding the first reset) is 118 days, which occurred on Turning Balloons into Deadly Slingshots.
• The shortest duration between injuries is 2 minutes, which occurred on Razor Blade Flail.
• There have only been 2 instances of the injury counter resetting twice in the same video, in these instances it counts minutes instead of days.

Timeline of Injuries

Experimenting with Armstrong's Mixture and Nerf Darts

Episode 284, 2020-06-05
Days since previous injury: 91

• Timecode - 10:52
  

Brian hits a pile of armstrong's mixture with a metal mallet and no hearing protection. The detonation is so loud that his hearing is impaired for days, but does eventually recover. Jason's hearing is already so bad that he hardly notices.

How Spring Traps Catch Beanie Babies

Episode 266, 2020-03-06
Days since previous injury: 35

• Timecode - 7:00
  

While propping up a large rock, the support structure of a small branch slips and the rock falls to pinch Brian's finger between the rock and the stick.

Brian vs. Jason for the Fate of the Channel

Episode 259, 2020-01-31
Days since previous injury: 63

• Timecode - 25:14
  

The CTA shows a moment from mid-episode, where the shoulder camera mount Brandt was operating spontaneously falls apart, dropping counter weights onto the floor. In doing so, John rushes over to investigate and help repair, but nicks his finger on metal debris. The smallest possible amount of blood to register on camera is drawn. Brian and Jason erroneously state that this is the first time the counter has been reset by a third party, but this claim is false. It is, however, the first crew injury caught on camera.

The Tool That Instantly Blasts Padlocks Open (with LockPickingLawyer)

Episode 239, 2019-11-29
Days since previous injury: 161

• Timecode - 5:20
  

After the episode was finished, cameras were still rolling as Brian notices in frustration that he is lightly bleeding from his index finger due to a metal splinter he gave himself while handling a piece of shrapnel from the blasted padlock.

Improvised Arrows and an ER Visit

Episode 194, 2019-06-21
Days since previous injury: 9

• Timecode - 7:33
  

After minutes of agonizing foreshadowing, Jason embeds his knife into his thumb by trying to cut a notch into a stick, cutting towards himself. Much blood is spilled, the crew rushes to his assistance, and Brian drives him to the ER, where he gets stitches that will be removed later in the video.

Experimental Weapon: Knitting Needles Slingshot

Episode 191, 2019-06-12
Days since previous injury: 19

• Timecode - 2:53
  

Jason cuts his thumb without realizing it, likely on a worm drive fastener, and only realizes it when he sees trace amounts of blood.

Desperate Defense: Glass Ashtray

Episode 187, 2019-05-24
Days since previous injury: 42

• Timecode - 2:18
  

In demonstrating that a glass ashtray can effectively bat away a knife attack, Brian hits Jason's hand harder than expected.

Sliding Across the Hood of a Car

Episode 178, 2019-04-12
Days since previous injury: 55

• Timecode - 3:21
  

Jason's hand gets caught on a knob on the hood of the car, drawing blood.

Jason also injures a leg off-camera over the course of numerous slides, this can only be seen in the FPE.

Crafting Knives out of Saw Blades

Episode 168, 2019-02-16
Days since previous injury: 20

• Timecode - 20:14
  

Katelyn cuts her hand while wrapping tape around her knife's base as a handle. It is not immediately evident that she was cut, but after a brief moment, blood is drawn.

• This is the first instance of a guest being injured.

A Fool's Guide to Nunchucking

Episode 163, 2019-01-25
Days since previous injury: 35

• Timecode - 4:18
  

Brian, immediately after being handed a pair of foam nunchucks, flails it around and hits himself in the right eye.

Minutes since previous injury: 16

• Timecode - 20:48
  

Jason develops two welts on his arm after attacking DAVE and having the nunchucks bounce off and hit his arm on the rebound.

Turning Balloons into Deadly Slingshots

Episode 154, 2018-12-21
Days since previous injury: 118

• Timecode - 5:06
  

After filming for the episode is finished, Jason is discovered to have a welt forming on his hand from a flying ball bearing launched by his own slingshot.

Razor Blade Flail

Episode 136, 2018-08-24
Days since previous injury: 49

• Timecode - 1:24
  

Brian attacks Jason with two makeshift shoelace whips.

Minutes since previous injury: 2

• Timecode - 3:27
  

Jason takes off his cut-resistant gloves for "dexterity," and subsequently pokes himself with a razor.

Improvising a PVC Bow

Episode 128, 2018-07-06
Days since previous injury: 21

• Timecode - 24:20
  

Jason releases an arrow at DAVE, a rubber man, who reflects the arrow back at Jason's hand that is holding his bow.

Throwing Cards Like a World Champion

Episode 125, 2018-06-15
Days since previous injury: 34

• Timecode - 9:40 for the injury, 11:37 for the reset
  

While Jason holds celery, a wound on his hand from earlier in the day is re-opened when Rick Smith Jr. hits it with a playing card.

Fighting with Quarterstaffs

Episode 117, 2018-05-12
Days since previous injury: 71

• Timecode - 32:20
  

Brian and Jason square off. Jason holds his staff horizontally, effectively acting as a guide for when Brian thrusts his quarterstaff, striking Jason in the groin.

Starting Fires with Batteries

Episode 107, 2018-03-02
Days since previous injury: 77

• Timecode - 11:56
  

Brian's hand starts bleeding... sort of for no discernible reason at all. He thinks steel wool poked him when reaching for a Leatherman.

How to Fight with a Sword and Buckler

Episode 96, 2017-12-15
Days since previous injury: 25

• Timecode - 14:53
  

Jason attacks with first ward, and Brian's defense had enough give that Jason's sword hit Brian's eye.

Making PVC Blowguns

Episode 92, 2017-11-20
Days since previous injury: 80

• Timecode - 5:18
  

Brian stabs his finger with a sharpened nail as he tries to push it through a paper cone.

Crafting Camouflaged Dead Drops

Episode 81, 2017-09-01
Days since previous injury: 35

• Timecode - 8:44
  

Brian cuts his finger with a razor blade while trying to shape foam.

12-Year-Old Stunt Driver Teaches Drifting

Episode 76, 2017-07-28
Days since previous injury: 28

• Timecode - 12:08 and shown again with the counter at 14:01
  

Jason punches a barrel from the passenger seat of a car that Brian is actively drifting in donuts.

How to Fight with a Longsword

Episode 72, 2017-06-30
Days since previous injury: 83

• Timecode - 28:14
  

While in a sword bind, Jason feigns kneeing Brian in the stomach but inadvertently hits him in the groin.

Shattering Frozen Locks

Episode 60, 2017-04-07
Days since previous injury: 377

• Timecode - 10:50
  

Brian hits a frozen lock with a mallet, sending icey shrapnel which burned through Jason's shirt and cut up Brian's hand bad enough to end the episode there. The next day he went to the ER, where they informed him that he waited too long to come in for them to do much.

• This is the first on-screen injury counter reset, and it is displayed during the title sequence instead of during the moment of the injury.

Converting Cheap Lighters into Flashbangs & Flamethrowers

Episode 54, 2017-02-24
Days since previous injury: N/A

• Timecode - 4:12
  

Jason pinches his hand multiple times while taking apart a lighter with a Leatherman.

• There is no counter reset during this injury because it did not exist yet.

Crack a Bullwhip and Do Tricks Like a BOSS

Episode 6, 2016-03-25
Days since previous injury: N/A

• Timecode - 6:34
  

Jason tries to do an overhead whip crack and manages to hit himself in the head.

• This is the first documented injury on the show.