- So, every magician has a magic drawer.
What a magic drawer is basically,
like after you're done at a gig,
you just throw, dump your old deck in there.
Or like if you buy a magic trick online
or at a convention that you're never gonna use
in your life but you bought it 'cause you were
sold by the trailer,
you throw it in the magic drawer.
Business cards, all that stuff,
just ends up in the magic drawer.
And eventually it gets so full,
the magic drawer you can't really
close or open it anymore.
And that's when Spring cleaning is upon us.
In light of myself having a new desk
and a new office, I'm getting rid of the drawer.
I have no drawer on this new desk.
I'm going to empty out my magic drawer on camera
let you guys see what kind of skeletons
lay in wait in my closet.
Honestly, I have no idea what's in there,
I haven't opened it in a while.
We're gonna have a look,
probably bring back some memories.
And also at the end,
I'll probably do a give away with a lot
of the stuff that's in here,
it's gonna be junk, but I'm sure, you know,
one man's trash is another man's treasure.
So, find out at the end of the video,
how you can win the contents of my magic drawer.
Alright, let's get into it.
(rustling contents of drawer)
Alright, so, emptying out the magic drawer,
let's see what's up here.
And honestly guys,
I don't know what I'm gonna find in here.
I haven't opened this thing,
I haven't looked through this thing,
I open it all the time
but I haven't looked through this thing in forever.
Notebooks.
Oh my God, look at this,
some old notes for lectures.
Oh look at this, this is the original,
this is interesting, the original Pocket.
You know, when I released Pocket back in the day.
These are the original notes that I had on it.
I think I may have a Pocket.
Check this out, oh bam!
These are like some old Pocket prototypes.
This is interesting.
These are the actual Pockets.
I think I have the prototypes in here somewhere.
The idea of this effect,
let me see if I can uh,
have playing cards in here somewhere, I do.
What the hell is this?
Oh, this is Ric Flair, the Nature Boy,
Ric Flair's autograph.
I performed to him at Comicon,
I did omnideck to him, and this is his signature,
which is pretty funny,
I thought I threw this away.
The spectator would sign a card,
I would place that card back in the deck,
and I would say something to the effect of
it's already in my pocket, have a look,
boom, and I'm over here,
and oh wait, I told you it was in my pocket,
now if my pocket is over here,
and the rest of the deck would be in my pocket.
And that was Pocket.
That was the effect that I released Pocket.
Which was too similar to an effect called envy-lope
by Chris Turchi and Paul Harris, Brandon David.
So I decided to pull it from the market,
but I had all these leftovers,
I think I have like five left overs.
I think I might keep one,
maybe I'll do a little give away.
I'll put a little pile aside for give away.
I'll even throw in the Ric Flair autograph,
how's that for a deal?
So yeah, this is the notebook.
I was supposed to do something for Window Nation.
Window Nation is a company that does windows
and they want some magic in their commercials
with Ricky Smith, Jr.
We had all sorts of ideas.
This one says ski suit to boxers,
I don't know what that means.
I guess like notes,
but I have no idea what they mean in today.
Oh, I was on like, oh my God,
let me pull all of these out right now.
This is back in my fidget spinner days.
I was coming up with an effect using fidget spinners.
I actually paid like hundreds of dollars
for these fidget spinners for some reason,
which have like little Bluetooth speakers in them.
But they are so cheap.
And I was just gonna make like a
fidget spinner magic video,
and then I thought to myself well that's lame
and I wouldn't wanna be my friend if I did that.
So, I didn't.
I'm left with these fidget spinners
which I will gladly give away.
The glow in the dark one was kinda cool.
I had this idea of using, bare with me,
glow in he dark fidget spinner,
and I'd have another one but it would be completely dark.
So I'd have like a black paper over it
so you wouldn't see it,
and then would have them teleport.
Someone would just be moving the papers,
like boom, boom, boom.
It was kinda cool but I only have one of these.
But maybe if you wanna buy another one
you can do that video and link me.
Oh, this is cool.
The Informant by Bobby Motta.
I don't actually use the Informant.
I know a lot of people who swear by it.
Oh, check this out.
This is a fidget spinner,
I wanted to do like, kind of like a vanish on a video,
and I had it on a reel, and then,
I would like, but,
that was my concoction for a fidget spinner on a reel.
Terrible idea.
This is,
huh, just a dollar, nice, OK.
I mean, I'll throw this in the gift pile,
I don't use it.
You guys can probably put some good mileage on it.
And it's brand new.
Blackpool magic convention.
I keep these, so I'm gonna keep this aside.
Scotch tape.
You know I'm making gimmicks
if there's scotch tape involved.
Who is this signed by?
This is also signed by someone I'm supposed to know.
Ooh, sparklers.
(sparkler sizzles)
Wow.
Oooh, red, gold seals.
What are these doing in there?
There's gotta be a trick here somewhere.
The gimmicks in here.
It smells like fire in here right now.
Red seals are amazing.
They're a Richard Turner produced these.
Feel great, and they are also traditionally cut
for your, her pleasure.
(cards shuffle)
I'm gonna keep those read seals,
but we do have a couple gimmicks in here as well.
I guess I did like a color-changing
deck routine or something in a video once.
Oh, there's this.
This is a five dollar bill,
obviously not a five dollar bill, ooh.
Forgot about that.
I'm keeping that, by the way.
Henry Evans, risky bet.
Another Henry Evans thing is this,
which is a color changing card,
which I'm also keeping.
Ohh, this is a good business card to have,
except it doesn't have his number on it.
This is my buddy Devon who made my suit.
I have your number Devon,
so I don't need your business card.
Le Bernardin, this is Eric Ripert,
one of the top chefs in the world.
One night Doug McKenzie, Xavier Spade,
Yann Frisch, and I were at Ludlow house,
which is like a little members club of New York,
and we were hanging out with Eric and
Anthony Bourdain, and did magic for them.
So that was a cool souvenir, but I don't need this anymore.
Oh this is a cool deck laying around.
Didn't know I had this here either.
I have a feeling I'm gonna have a ton of new decks of cards.
This is uh, Red Knocks,
with a little black lining Laura London edition
by Alex Pandrea and Laura London.
Great.
I guess I'll keep this.
You know what, I will put this in the gift pile.
You guys can have this.
A bit of a give away for you.
Oh, this thing.
Man, this is my old logo.
These are like 20 bucks and you can get them custom made.
This blew my mind.
So when I would sell stuff,
I would be like, boom.
Chris Ramsey dot com approves this product.
I have no use for it.
I'm not going to send it to anyone
'cause I don't want you guys stamping
Chris Ramsey on stuff.
I got a dark slide gimmick here.
So let me show you how this works.
Do you guys know of dark slide?
I would have you choose a card, and then put it back,
and then that card would then
reverse itself in the deck,
and then I could freely hand out that reversed card,
which was really cool.
I'll put that in the gift pile,
make you a nice little bag of gimmicks here.
What else we got in here?
This is fun.
These are uh, oh,
it's like a short and long deck I guess.
Alright, here we go,
this is some real magic happening now, baby.
(shimmering noise)
Let's go, oh that was your selection?
What was it?
The nine of spades,
the nine of spades gets lost in the deck,
we shuffle all you want,
and just like that,
nine of spades.
I can throw that in.
You guys want like a little trick deck.
This is a little bit gimmicky, but hey.
Getting rid of stuff today, that's what this day's about.
This is when I lectured in Italy at Masters of Magic,
so that's pretty cool.
So, this is uh, heh,
kids this isn't what it looks like.
This is instant snow, insta-snow powder.
So not try and cross the border with this though,
they will stop you, and shoot you.
This is cool actually.
Let me demonstrate, be right back.
Again, this was for like a silly video idea,
but, you take this snow powder,
and I won't use too much of it
cause this stuff's pretty crazy.
Put it into here, and as soon as I add water to it,
watch what happens.
It turns to like,
it turns to snow.
It's like literal, looks like snow.
I wonder if we put some more in there.
I'm getting my close-up pad wet, look at me.
Kinda useless.
I mean, there's a lot of uses for it actually in magic.
But uh, didn't work out for my video.
Brand new desk, everything was going fine.
And I will not be sending this to you,
A - because I want to keep it, but,
B- I'm afraid it'll get stopped at the border,
for some reason, so.
Oh this, this thing.
It almost looks like some type of suppository.
This is actually used for a magic trick
and maybe I'll let you guys guess
what magic trick this is used for,
I'll send that to you as well.
Ooh, this is not a condom.
This is a magic trick,
there's actually a folded card in here.
This looks like a shiv.
Looks like some shank someone would have in prison.
I don't know why I used this,
I will put that away in the garbage as well.
A little silver half dollar action going on.
Another business card, FlyNYON,
a helicopter ride I took in New York.
Oh, this is part of the Blackpool Prediction,
Peter McKennon, one of his releases at illusionist.
The card you're thinking of is the, womp.
Sharpies, and markers, and rubber bands.
Ohh, a quarter, nice.
So far I've found like $1.75 during this video.
Oh my God, a cockroach.
It's fake, it's for a magic trick,
Boris the Spider, this is the cockroach version.
Let me focus here, OK.
It's a fake cockroach.
Oh wait no, my fake ones are in the,
oh no!
No just kidding, it's fake.
Just an old deck of verts.
These are actually pretty used,
and pretty worn in.
A gift for you, my peeps.
I will throw that into the gift pile.
Oh, Vitaly.
I had ordered something from them a while back,
way too small for me, as you see.
So there you go, there's a Vitaly bracelet in it for you.
A YouTube pen, sick.
Some more business cards, look at this one.
Oh, this was an early Pocket.
And uh, oh God.
An early version of Pocket.
It's pretty bad, I will give that away.
I feel really bad about this,
a pen from the Magic Castle.
I was paying the bill,
I grabbed everybody's bill,
I left a very generous tip,
and I signed this, and I put this in my pocket.
And it wasn't on purpose.
It was only until I got home that I realized,
so the next time I go back hopefully
I'll remember to bring this back to them,
they can have their pen back.
Delights, that are almost not working.
Score.
The Baby Grand in New York.
My buddy Eric who owns this bar,
this is a little card where you put your song name on
when you're singing karaoke.
This was given to me, remember the run deck at Murphy's?
Here I'll give that away too.
An that is it for my magic drawer.
If you wanna watch the cleaning out
of a magician's closet video
I'll pop up somewhere, you guys can check that out.
Probably around up here, or over here actually.
Alright guys, so that was the magic drawer video.
Hope you enjoyed this.
Also, let me know,
what is the weirdest this you've found in your magic drawer?
Comment below, like this video,
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the contents of this magic drawer,
including a really rare deck of cards,
which I didn't know I had down there.
And, I will choose one of the comments,
in the comment section,
and hit you up and send you a box full of stuff.
So guys, thanks again for watching this video,
we'll see you on the next one.
Alright, peace.
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