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- I remember my last year of high school wondering
what the hell am I gonna do with my life?
None of the career choices really resonated with me at all,
I knew that I wanted to work with people,
but never thought I'd end up being a magician.
I mean if you were going to tell me that
I'd be traveling the world connecting with people
using a deck of cards I'd think you were crazy.
But here I am.
(laughs)
You can't make this shit up.
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A card. A playing card. Any card.
If you had to name one, yeah.
Which one would you choose?
- Seven.
- Seven of? Clubs? Hearts? Spades? Diamonds?
- Spades.
- Seven of spades?
Okay. Give me a bag over there, one of those brown bags.
- These bags?
- Yeah yeah. The brown bag.
Can you open it up?
- Open it?
- Open the bag.
(laughs)
Thank you.
She reacted really well too.
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See that deck there? See it?
I'm gonna show you something really cool
but see these are your cards.
Any one at all.
- This one?
- Yep.
Have a look at it, if you don't mind showing the camera.
I won't see it.
Alright, put it right here.
I'll put the deck on the top.
I'm going to cut it into the middle.
This is your deck that I found here.
Watch this if I snap my fingers.
- What?
- Like, you shit yourself, let's be honest.
It's this one right?
- Oh my god.
- Okay but hold on, hold on,
it wasn't blue when you chose it.
Alright.
Okay I'm gonna put the hat, I'm gonna put the card down,
I'll put the hat over it, I won't touch it,
I won't go near it, alright.
Just say stop whenever you like, whenever you want.
- Stop
- Okay, have a look at this card.
Got it? Remember it.
So one card in here should now be blue,
the card that you just saw, that you just chose.
All that was was a misdirection,
because while I was doing this,
now flip the hat and have a look
at the card under there, flip the card.
- What?! - Oh my gosh.
(laughs)
What? - Woah.
- What just happened?
(laughs)
- That just made our day.
- You guys are awesome, that made my day too.
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- I can't even speak right now.
- Name any card out loud, for the first time,
whatever card you're thinking of,
just go ahead and name it out loud.
- The nine of hearts.
- The nine of hearts?
You know what's interesting Renada?
Is that I left this morning, I left the house,
I had some change left over from when I was
like out and drinking and stuff,
and I just grabbed it and put it in my pocket alright,
so like there's nothing in my hand here, look,
let me go in and literally all the
change I have is here, right?
How much change is that?
- 17 cents.
- 17 cents right?
Can you count 17 cards in my hand face up?
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 hold on.
You said 17, well you said nine of hearts,
and I had 17 cents before I left the house,
and legitimately that's all I have in my pocket.
- Yes.
- Turn the card over.
(laughs)
I don't believe that children need magic.
Because to some extent it's real to them.
Grownups however, have developed an objective view
of their reality there are laws that they live by.
So I believe it's up to the magician
to challenge those laws in a place
that lingers between reality and fiction.
Alright, I'm gonna ask you to put these in your ear.
I want you to think of your favorite song.
Alright?
I want you to think of your favorite song right now.
Let's see if this works.
- Holy shit.
(laughs)
- What are you hearing?
- I hear Heroes by David Bowie.
(laughing)
- These are your headphones.
- That was insane.
Uh, yeah, wow.
I don't know what to say.
That was (bleep) gnarly as (bleep).
That was (bleep) insane.
- Alright so I want you to think of an actor.
Got it?
Are you also thinking of a movie?
Oh so you are, okay.
Um, let's try getting a movie.
Alright this is an older movie yes?
And the actor is male?
Yeah, like a broody actor kinda like,
yeah a little bit.
I get the feeling this guy's been in a lot of movies.
- Yes.
- Like a shit ton of movies.
Um and the movie you're thinking of is
like a darker sort of movie,
like a Tim Burton movie are you thinking
of Edward Scissorhands with Johnny Depp?
- Yes.
(laughs)
- Who works for Apple?
Oh you work for Apple?
This will be interesting we'll do this with you.
Um, do you have your phone with you?
- I do.
- Alright this is the seven?
- Uh, the 6s.
- You work for Apple. Shame on you.
- I like my 6s.
- Alright I want you to think of the
first number in your passcode,
just think of the first number.
Say it out loud in your head
over and over again,
like scream it out loud in your head.
Can you take off your glasses?
Say it in your head over and over again,
first number only.
This number also repeats itself in your passcode.
- Maybe, yeah it does.
- You gave it away.
- Did I?
- Yeah it's a three.
It was subtle, but your face kind of
moved there at three, so I'm gonna go with three.
Think of the second digit.
- Okay. - Alright.
It's really hard, it's like a nine or a zero,
I'm gonna go with zero.
And then you repeat the number,
so it's either the zero that repeats
or the three that repeats, I'm thinking it's the three,
so it's either now, or the next number,
I'm gonna go with now, think of the last number,
just think of it, that was quick.
Three.
- [Girl To The Left] Wow.
- Now I gotta change my password.
- 'Cause everybody's gonna see it,
you might as well change it.
That was pretty cool, thanks man.
Thanks for your time.
Name any card out loud right now,
first card you think of name it, go.
- Four of hearts.
- Four of hearts?
- Yeah.
- Look, nothing.
I want you to reach into my pocket.
Take the card out.
(laughs)
I don't have 52 pockets.
Look, and there's no other card in all these pockets.
Just name one, don't look--
- Two of hearts.
Yeah, yeah.
- Okay good.
- Okay and one or two? Just answer, one or two?
- Two.
- Two. So two of hearts, two?
- Yes.
- Alright pick out two cards.
- So one, two. - Two, right there.
- What?!
- Could you name a card?
- Ace of spades.
Alright, um, could you give me a number
between zero and ten, just right off
the top of your head?
- Four.
So here's the idea, what I did with him
is that he named two, you named four and Ace of spades.
What we're gonna do is the same thing,
if you hold your hand out.
There's one, make sure it doesn't fly away,
two, three, four, see it just kinda happens
like that all the time it's weird.
People just get it, I don't know what it is,
it's just like a luck thing, but it always works out for me.
Which I'm kinda happy about.
I hear about magicians that are
worried about the future of magic.
That somehow it will die out through the internet,
and exposure, but I believe that it will force us
to rethink what it is that we do, and why we do it.
Somehow weening out the slackers and leaving only
those who are truly pursuing a greater magic.
You say stop whenever.
- Okay.
- Right there?
Okay I'm not gonna look at this card,
I don't want to see it, you see it?
- Yeah I see it.
- Okay I'm gonna take it, and I'm gonna rip it.
Okay?
- Okay.
- Now watch, watch.
Okay, now look behind you on the window.
- Oh my god.
- Get a shot, get a shot of it.
Look is it inside or outside the window?
- It's outside.
- It's outside?
- Yes.
- What?
- Oh my god.
- Is it the same piece?
- It's the same.
- The same piece.
- Oh my god, you are a great magician.
- Thank you sir. Alright have a good day.
- You too sir.
- So I suppose that many believe that magic is slowly dying.
And that the golden age of magic is behind us,
and we'd all be happier being fooled by
silk scarves and pulling coins out of our ears,
in a time where magicians were thought to have powers,
when no spectator would challenge us.
But let me ask you.
Where's the fun in that?
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