- Alright, we're set.
Yo, what's up guys? Chris Ramsay here.
And welcome back.
(clears throat)
So I do these 'ask me anythings'
and I do these Q and As and stuff like that.
We just had a live one which was awesome
but a lot of you people still want to know some things.
So I've put together, this is for you
a list of 25 things you may not know about me.
Some of these are slightly embarrassing.
And some of these are really fun facts.
So let's get into it, number one.
I was actually born in Germany.
So I was born in a small town called Havel Time.
Southwest Germany by the Black Forest, by the Rhine River
so the border of France.
And I still have a lot of family there.
Number two, I can speak three languages.
I speak German and I speak French.
I speak German which is like a dialect.
There's an accent to it, but I speak perfect French.
I can read and write French as well.
Number three, I'm actually a decent basketball player.
I used to be able to dunk, I used to.
Now that I'm super old and out of shape
I play with cards.
I can dunk, I can dunk a mean cookie into my morning coffee.
Number four, I used to lay tiles.
I used to tile, so like tiles in peoples homes
and showers and stuff.
I used to be like an expert.
I worked for this German company, I was living in Canada
but I worked for this German company
where I was basically a rep for their cement
that was used to adhere tiles.
That was my job.
Number five, I have two brothers.
I have an older brother and a younger brother.
We're each five years apart.
And none of them do magic.
Number six, I grind my teeth when I sleep like hard core.
So like this tooth here, it's like flat
from grinding my teeth.
I gotta get like this really weird brace that I gotta wear.
I look like a tool when I go to bed
but that's a thing.
Number seven, I get this question a lot.
I'm actually 6'3 so I'm a fairly tall dude.
Number eight, I can actually palm a card
laterally so...
For those of you frustrated because you have windows
and your hands are too small to palm cards
I don't actually feel your pain.
I'm sorry, I know.
(laughs)
I can actually probably palm a whole deck laterally.
I got like, wide mitts.
I got like catchers mitts.
Great for palming obviously.
Palming cards makes it a lot easier
but just for the hell of it, I can palm a card laterally.
Number nine, I've never performed torn and restored rope
linking rings or cups and balls.
I know, very classic magic effects.
I'm just not attracted to them in the least
in the slightest.
I don't want to learn them.
It's like you know, chemistry at school, in high school.
I just didn't care about it.
I'm never gonna be a chemist you know.
Unless I was Walter White making meth in the desert
I don't see a use for chemistry for myself
so it goes the same for linking rings.
Number 10, I used to rap.
I used to and I still do and I still kinda want to.
This is like, still on my bucket list.
I've done an album, I did mix-tapes.
I did shows, probably like dozens of shows rapping
so I'd write my own lyrics and I'd rap with friends.
We'd have beats, producers, and all of this.
I keep writing, I kept writing, I write all the time.
So I write poetry, and I write spoken word
and I write rap lyrics
and eventually I'd love to make an epic rap video
maybe using magic as a context but maybe not
and put it all together in this massive project
and throw it on my Youtube and see what you guys think.
What do you guys think about that? Should I do that?
I think I should do that.
Bit nervous about that.
You guys let me know.
♫ Got a soul like Nat Cole
♫ Mix up a bad flow that goes deeper than black coal
♫ Spit like a pack of chewing tobacco
♫ Feel smart like a retard dressed in a lab coat
♫ Funny like a fat kid doing the back stroke
♫ Matter of fact anybody get money for this rap show
♫ Nope not me
♫ Ramsay's on stage again doing this shit for free
♫ For free for free
♫ And you still found a way to hate and get sick of me
♫ Fuck you stay home
♫ Because it will take you way too long to get rid of me
♫ Feeling me
♫ Bars
I've never skied or snow boarded in my life.
Yes, I live literally one minute away from a ski hill.
I can see the ski hill from my front door
and I've never skied down a hill
and I've never snow boarded down a hill in my entire life.
And do not intend to.
A lot of friends are like, "Well you're missing out."
And I'm like, "You know what?
"I like my limbs where they are, intact
"and just working for me."
Number 12, I can't drive stick.
Yeah, that sucks. Moving on.
Number 13, I've actually been to
over a dozen schools in my life.
I'm not talking about visiting schools.
I've actually attended over a dozen schools.
Probably way more than that.
My father was in the military, I was born in Germany
and I moved around back and forth, back and forth
many, many times to different Providences
different schools.
I went from French school to English school.
French immersion, I just moved a lot.
I think moving around a lot
is actually part of what got me into magic
in an indirect way.
I had to get into the crowds alright?
I had to sort of become a chameleon
and the one thing that was beautiful
about moving around so much
is yes, it builds character
you become a little bit more worldly.
You learn how to become a new person every time
and I know that sounds weird
but you have this incredible sense of, "No one knows me.
"I can be whoever I want."
And so every time it's like you're starting over.
And so you get better and better at starting over
until you've like, mastered it on the social end.
And that's kind of why I see myself here today
is a combination of my journey
through all this renewal and starting over
and acclimatizing and adapting.
Number 14, I play at least a dozen games of chess every day.
I play on chess.com, on League Chess
and I just knock out a couple blitz games.
One minute, two minute, five minute, whatever.
While I'm in the bathroom, taking a dump.
You name it, in bed, whatever.
I'm always playing chess during the day on my free time.
Number 15, I'm agnostic so I'm not religious.
I do not practice any religion
but I do not have a problem with religion.
I just don't feel like having a conversation about religion.
Don't care, do what you love, love what you do
keep going, words to live by.
(chuckles)
Number 16, my favorite PS4 games are Overwatch
Battlefield One, NHL 2017.
Name one more, can we name one more?
UFC Two, love UFC. I love all sports games basically
but I also love any first person shooter.
So I'm a huge PS4 nerd.
Which brings me to number 17.
I actually want to start a separate channel
streaming me playing PS4 games.
If you guys are interested in that, let me know below.
I would love to know if you guys
would watch some of that.
So I would literally just set up like a green screen
and stuff and have my own channel going
where on the weekends or on the evenings
just something, because I'm playing games anyways
but I get to have a conversation with you guys.
We can talk magic or we can talk whatever.
We can just goof around and play games.
I thought that would be cool
and it's something I wanna sort of dabble into.
So having my own streaming channel.
Might be lame but I kinda think it might be a good idea.
Let me know.
Number 18, I wear size 15 shoes.
You know what they say about guys with big shoes right?
Right? Because I don't.
(chuckles)
Number 19, I taught Penn Jillette some cardistry.
So after I met Penn Jillette at Wizard Wars.
I was on Wizard Wars as a matter of fact.
But we spent lunch together and we kept in touch
and I kept sending him videos on one handed cuts
two handed cuts, fancy false cuts
and this type of thing.
And I just kept sending him unlisted Youtube videos.
Because he's a juggler, he really loves cardistry.
He loves that stuff.
He just, he doesn't have the time to devote to card magic.
Obviously he's busy actually performing
and making millions of dollars.
But Penn Jillette is a sweetheart
and I still kinda keep in touch with him every now and then.
He's a cool dude.
I once met Patrick J. Adams on a plane.
I was with Pete McKinnon and we were going to L.A
to shoot an Ellusionist thing
and I sat beside Patrick Adams, the star from Suits
and showed him a cool magic trick
became friends, chatted for like five or six hours
on the plane, ended up going to the Magic Castle with him
and he's just a really genuinely cool dude.
Number 21, I performed for the cast of Star Trek.
So we hung out with Patrick Adams and his wife
at the Magic Castle.
He then invited me to his wedding, I know.
And at his wedding, it was kinda surreal
there was Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine
who obviously are the stars of many movies
including Star Trek and I got to perform magic for them
for like an hour, like I was on fire.
And they were dying, they were loving it
and I have all that footage by the way.
I just can't actually show you exactly what went down
or anything, it's kinda like on the D-low
because you gotta get permission and stuff like that
but that did happen so that was pretty cool.
Number 22, I was once in a feature length movie.
So I used to act, I used to be in short films
and stuff like that.
In my career, really what I wanted for my life
was acting, I wanted to be an actor.
And you know, if it wasn't for all the tattoos I have now
I'd probably still be pursuing that.
But I love magic way more.
Acting just was something that I've always been attracted to
and within magic, now I've got my own camera.
I am the producer, director, writer, and actor
of my own stuff.
So I'm kinda fulfilling that acting need within me
through this medium.
I was in, I played a Russian human trafficker
in a feature length movie.
Yes, my name was Nichol.
I like to take women and bring them to like customers
and stuff like that.
Good movie films, you should watch like okay.
I'm obsessed obviously with accents and impressions
so I love accents, I love impersonations.
I actually love language.
I will learn a sentence in a language perfectly
to the point where I say it in that language
and they believe, so here's a secret
that you guys may not know.
When I travel and I'm alone
I will try to impersonate the accents.
So if I go to like England, Southern United States
or anything like that
I will try to impersonate the accent.
Or Germany or France, and get away with it.
So like, go buy bread in the morning and have breakfast
but I will order it in that accent and stuff
and just see if I can get away with it.
It's just like, I feel like a James Bond spy when I do that
so that's a personal thing with me.
I don't know, I might be weird.
Probably weird.
So like one sentence in Russian that I've learned perfectly
is, and you can tell me if I'm wrong
because there's some Russian viewers here
but I know how to say, "Excuse me miss.
"Can I ask you a question, do you speak English?"
(speaking Russian)
so let me know if that was correct.
24, I used to skate board.
I used to skate board, like street skate boarding.
Kick flips, rail flips, that type of thing
for a couple years and I still kind of do.
I've got a skate board and a long board
so there's that.
And number 25, I have your name tattooed on my ass.
So not actually your name
but the words your name.
What's funny is that when I got that
I was inebriated okay? I was under the influence.
And I was with my brother who didn't have any tattoos
and he was like, "I want a tattoo."
And I was like, "I'll get a tattoo with you."
And you know, we were three sheets to the wind at this point
going to the tattoo shop
and I was like, "Oh this is gonna be funny.
"I'll get your name on my ass cheek."
And there's the big bearded like tattoo biker guy.
He's like, "Hey what's up?"
I'm like, "Hey so I want like your name tattooed on my ass."
And he's like, "No."
I'm like, "That's what I want though.
"So I'm gonna pay for it so that's what I want."
And he was like, "No, I'm not doing it."
I was like, "Dude, just come on."
And so he ended up doing it
but he was so pissed about it as I was getting it.
So I was, I had my pants down.
I'm sitting on this, I'm laying down on this bed flat right?
And I turn to him and I say, "This will be the first time
"someone's playing around with my ass
"while I'm biting a pillow."
(laughs)
Okay, not a joke for everyone.
And him especially, he did not appreciate that joke one bit
but I thought it was funny.
Guys, that is 25 facts or more about me
that you may not have known.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
Fun for me to just sit here, turn the camera on
and be able to film something and share with you guys
without necessarily having to teach you anything
or set up some big production.
This is just fun to have this conversation
every now and then.
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Peace!
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