On January 24th, the Tonight Show featured Leyan Lo and Tyson Mao, two students at Cal Tech who gots mad skillz when solving the Rubik’s Cube. They were both invited onstage, Leno showed the audience a Rubik’s cube, explained that Leyan recently set several world records and then asked why Tyson was there. While he held some records until Leyan broke them, he was attending the show as Leyan’s mentor. Why did he lose his title in those events, you might ask? In Tyson’s words, “I was spending time in a mansion with eight beautiful women.” What a sneaky plug for Beauty and the Geek… As would be expected, Leno wouldn’t pursue that statement (shouldn’t plug another network’s programming if the person isn’t a featured guest), so he paused for a moment, stared at the Rubik’s cube in his hand and said, “Well, I don’t believe you.”
Leyan was handed a mixed-up cube, they started a clock and he solved it in about 18 seconds. It was definitely impressive, but could he put those mad skillz to use in some other practical fashion? Leno decided to find out, so he brought out a line of real hotties (there were five or six—I forgot to count because I was laughing so hard… oh, and last week, a friend of mine was absolutely shocked that a Mensa member would use a word like “hotties,” so I feel obligated to keep saying it from time to time…). Leno asked Leyan if he’d ever unhooked a bra before—Leyan nodded over at Tyson and said, “He’s probably got more experience.” But Tyson stood to the side and watched as his prodigy went to work, getting them all opened up in eight seconds. Solving bra straps faster than a Rubik’s Cube… I guess it’s all a question of motivation.
