- Stop! (laughs)
- Magic! (screams) - She's good.
♪ (upbeat intro) ♪
How's it goin' everyone?
My name is Kevin Li.
I'm a professional magician, and today we are going undercover
to fool some reactors.
(cards snapping) Let's go.
- (FBE) Today we are going to see
how good of a magician each of you are.
- No way! - Oh no. (laughs)
- Wow.
- Oh! - Okay.
- Are you a magician? - No.
- I used to practice magic. - Really?
- In high school, 'cause I was really into it.
- Like card tricks? - Yeah!
- I love card tricks.
- I used to have a bunch of those like playing decks.
- Yeah. - That are like trick decks.
- I used to do tricks when I was a kid.
- No way. - (FBE) Oh really?
- I mean, let's not, it's not David Copperfield or anything.
- Right. (laughs) - It was card tricks.
- I've only seen the one show where they bust all the magic
and they show you what's behind the scenes.
- Oh the mask. - Yeah, the Masked Magician!
- Oh. - Yeah, so, I love watching those
'cause I love deconstructing how they do those illusions.
- Right, that's good. - But table magic,
I, we'll see how this works.
- (FBE) You're each going to be performing three tricks
each of which that we'll teach you how to do beforehand.
- Okay. - Nice.
- (FBE) And then you'll see if you can stump the other person.
- Ooh, okay. - You have an advantage here.
- (laughs) You know, with my expertise in magic.
- Yes! (laughs)
- (FBE) We're gonna be teaching you your tricks individually,
and the other person will wait and have an opportunity
to practice their tricks.
Then you'll come back and see how you'll do
at fooling the other person.
And so our audience can have fun playing along at home,
they will not see the instructions to your illusions.
- Oh, cool. - There we go, nothing's revealed.
- So we get to impress not only each other,
but the audience. Get ready to be blown away.
- (Kevin) Are you ready? ♪ (rock music) ♪
♪ (playful music) ♪
- (FBE) Alright guys, how did the practicing go?
- Eh? - Yeah.
It was difficult.
I think most of magic takes a long time,
so we were limited.
- I am definitely not smooth with the hand movements,
so we'll see how this goes.
- Magic is in my soul, you know? - Wow!
She's very confident.
I am like the opposite right now. (laughs)
- (FBE) Who would like to go first?
- Doesn't matter to me.
- Yeah, I'd love to see yours first.
- Okay great, I'd be happy to. - We'll start off with the winner.
- Mmm, okay. (laughs) - (FBE) Ooh, okay, alright.
- You just set, now the bar's too high.
We're gonna start this card trick like we do any card trick,
and I'd like you to pick a card, any card.
- Literally any? - Any card that you like,
but don't let me see it. - Okay.
- Alright, and then go ahead and take a look at it.
And then yeah, show the audience, yeah, let them know.
- Now you're gonna put it back in the deck.
Okay.
- Just gonna hit it. - Just tap it?
- Yeah, just tap it, and then I'll tell you what it does.
Alrighty, so what you did was you got your card,
and you turned it face up.
- No way. - Yeah, just by hitting it!
So... - What?
Wait. (laughs) - Was this your card?
- Wait, but I put it in the other way! - Yeah you did, but I'm a magician!
So boom.
- I didn't even see that sleight of hand!
- So if we do this right, it should be the card that you picked.
So... - No way.
- Probably not any of these, no, nope, nope, nope, nope, no.
Be a while, but this probably is your card.
- (laughs) That's cool.
I didn't see you do any sleight of hand.
- Yep. - Like, I put it in there myself.
- Yeah, you did.
- Let's see, hold on. - Yo!
- Is that it? - What, yeah!
- It worked!
- I didn't even slide it in that way though.
- Congratulations, sir. - I didn't see you turn that.
- You did your own magic. - Wow.
- You did your own magic, great job.
- That was really good.
(explosion echoes) ♪ (rock music) ♪
(eagle calls)
- Oh, is that, is this it? - What?
- Is this your card?
- Wait, put I didn't put it in that way.
How did it flip? - I don't, you, magic!
Magic! (screams) - She's good.
- Ooh, I, I messed it up, I think.
Let's see. - Okay.
I don't see my card. - Take that one.
See what's up with it. Is that your card?
- (laughs) That's pretty cool. She turned down my card.
- (FBE) So Kevin, did she fool ya?
- She fooled me. - Got 'em!
- That was pretty good, I like easy tricks too.
- Yeah, that was good.
- (FBE) Alright, Ryan, looks like you stumped him.
- Alright, nice!
- Gimme a high five! - That was good, high five!
- I did it, I did it!
- Yeah! - Nice!
Well deserved.
I'm trying to think back, like I don't remember her flipping it
and putting it back in.
- Oh, I missed a huge step in there too.
I'm upset at myself. - Still fooled me.
- (FBE) Kevin, you're up next.
- Okay, so a lot of magicians do like cool shuffles,
what I learned isn't really like a magic trick,
but kind of like a sleight of hand move.
Hopefully that can impress you. - Okay.
- Okay, it's called a bridge shuffle.
- Oh yeah yeah. - You've heard of that?
- Yes. - Okay, cool.
There we go. - Mm-hmm.
- Okay, that was a hard part. - Okay.
- This part is the harder part of it. - Mm-hmm.
- Can I, can I do that one more time?
- Oh! - Ah!
So close!
- You did better than I could ever do.
- (Kevin) Thank you.
- It was good. - Thank you.
- I mean, you had the even thing. - Yeah.
- And then it just kinda exploded a little bit.
- It's just like a flourish. - Yeah.
- It's like magicians add that in, so I was just trying to be cool.
- Okay. - You need to practice magic a lot.
- (FBE) Kevin, I'm gonna go ahead and say you did not. (laughs)
(Brittany laughs) - That's, you know what?
I bow down to Brittany for this one, she got that one. (laughs)
- (FBE) Alright, we're gonna kick things up a notch in round two.
Are you guys ready? - Sure.
- I gotta redeem myself. - Yes you do.
♪ (playful music) ♪
- (FBE) Alright guys.
So how did you do in round two?
- I feel more confident in this one.
- Yeah, I feel pretty good about this trick.
- I'm excited to see yours. - Thank you, me too.
- (FBE) Jeannie, you went first last time,
so Kevin, we're gonna have you go first this time.
- Alright. - Yeah Kev.
I'm rooting for you! - Okay, thank you.
- I'm rooting for you. - She's nice, okay.
So you can just reach in pull out any one you want,
I don't wanna see it. - Okay.
- (Kevin) Yeah, take one out. - And look at it?
- (Kevin) Yeah, please remember it, show everybody.
- Okay. - (Kevin) Got it?
- Mm-hmm.
- (Kevin) Okay, and then place it just face down over here.
- Face down? - (Kevin) Yeah.
- Alright. - Cool, and we're just
gonna drop the other cards on top.
Think of your card. - Got it.
- You've heard of sleight of hand.
- What's sleight, yes, I have heard of that.
- I learned sleight of finger. - Ooh!
- So what is your card again? - The Six of Clubs.
- Six of Clubs. Touch my finger, Six of Clubs.
What is your card?
- It is the Six of Clubs. - Watch the deck.
- Oh! - Oh! (laughs)
Yo! - Oh!
That's good! - Oh my God!
- That's good! - I got it!
- Holy cow!
(Kevin laughs)
- He was so amazed!
Oh my God! - Oh my God, I shocked myself.
- Oh my God, can I hold your hands?
Oh my God, I'm so proud of you! - I'm trembling, I'm trembling.
One, two, three. - Oh.
- Queen of Spades, yes! - Yay!
- Whoa. - No!
Wow. - That's really impressive.
- I just impressed myself. (laughs)
- (FBE) Alright, Kevin stumped you.
There's actually a really simple explanation
as to how Kevin did this one.
- Yeah.
- (FBE) Kevin is actually not a reactor.
- Okay.
- (FBE) Kevin is actually a professional magician.
- Aw, what? (Kevin laughs)
You mean I'm meeting a professional magician!?
So great to meet you!
- Nice to meet you, Ashby. (laughs)
- Is your name really Kevin?
- It really is, yeah. - Okay, awesome, awesome.
- (FBE) Kevin is actually not a brand new reactor.
- Stop [bleep].
- (FBE) Kevin is, in fact, a professional magician.
- No way! - (FBE) And we tricked you.
- Did you buy it? - I'm embarassed, stop!
- She's out. - (laughs) I shoulda known.
He's like "ah, I can't shuffle!"
- (FBE) Kevin is a professional magician.
We fooled you.
- What do you [bleep] mean? What do you [bleep] mean?
Are you freakin' serious?
- (FBE) Yep, he flubbed the first trick on purpose.
- Yeah. - Oh my God!
- She felt so sorry for me.
Thank you though. - That's so crazy.
- That was really nice. - I was so proud of you.
I thought you got a trick! - Yeah.
- But you're a real deal! - Kind of.
- (FBE) We just threw that last card trick at you
to throw you off, but this is not a competition.
Kevin is just gonna be showing you some magic now.
- Nice!
- Yeah, if you don't mind, I'd love to show you something more.
- I would love to see some magic! - Cool!
Mix these up like that.
- Oh wow.
- Gonna try a bridge shuffle. - Yeah. (laughs)
- Perfect. - Nice.
- So we're just gonna use the top card,
doesn't matter what it is. The Jack of Hearts.
Are you left handed or right handed?
- Right handed. - Go like this.
- Alright. - We take the Jack,
place it right here, you put your hand on top of the Jack.
- Mm-hmm.
- If I just go like this, one, two, three.
- (laughs) Wow!
- Four of Diamonds, I believe. - Yeah.
- Put your hand on top of it.
Perfect, watch, you're gonna feel this.
- Stop! (laughs)
- That was the trick you just learned.
What's the card underneath your hand?
- I have a headache.
- So all the cards are, in fact, different, right?
- Okay. - Perfect.
- Looks different.
- So we're gonna take that six
and push it out about halfway so you can still kinda see it, right?
Now take your right index finger. - Yep.
- Push it in all the way. - Okay.
- (Kevin) It's gonna jump to the top.
- Wait, what? - (Kevin) Turn that over.
- Okay. Oh, it didn't...
- Did I miss? - Oh! (laughs)
- Sleight of mouth! - That is amazing, sleight of mouth!
(both laugh)
- Take your left index finger and just push in the King all the way.
Yeah, all the way, watch the top.
It jumps to the top.
Did I miss?
- Stop it, I'm leaving! (laughs)
- Take your left index finger, push it in.
It's gonna jump to the top, turn that over.
Did I mess up?
- (laughs) I'm freaking out!
- Queen of Clubs.
Right? - Okay, yeah.
- It's about center. - Uh-huh.
- Is there anything in my hand? - No.
- Nothing?
- Whoa, you're so cool! - That's yours.
- I love magic.
I literally feel like a kid again.
I'm like gonna cry.
- That's a regular ring, right? - Yeah.
- It's not a magic ring?
- I mean, it's my wedding ring. - Oh!
- It's got magic in it.
- Do you mind if I hold it really fast?
- Oh course, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Cool, there's different ways of putting on your ring, right?
You can like slide it on. - Yep.
- Here, I'll leave mine here. - Okay.
- Or you can go like this. - Whoa.
- Kinda goes on like that. - Jesus.
- Watch, you take it, oh, it's a little tight.
Pull it right off. (clicks tongue) - Wait. (laughs)
- (FBE) Kevin has one more trick he'd like to show you as well.
- Yeah. - Yeah sure.
- Let's try something,
so it actually doesn't use any playing cards.
- Mm-hmm. - Do you have an iPhone?
- I do. - Perfect.
Do you have a passcode on your phone?
- Yeah. - Okay.
This is your iPhone. - This is my iPhone, yeah.
- I didn't ask you to write down anything
or tell anyone anything, right, before this?
- No.
- Can I borrow your phone really fast? - Yeah.
- Okay, let me see.
So when you enter in your passcode,
manually, without using your face print.
What finger do you use?
- Mainly my thumb.
- (Kevin) Go like this with your thumb.
Your right thumb, right? - Yeah.
- Go like this, push, one, two, three.
- Stop! He's gonna take my password!
- No, I'm just trying to get a better feeling
of what your passcode is.
But please keep a poker face, okay?
- Mm-hmm.
- Poker face, Ashby. - Yeah, poker face.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, hmm, that's an interesting choice.
- You twitched your eye a little, it's not an eight, it's like a five.
Give me your right pointer.
Just let me guide you.
Done.
(both laughing)
- What? - That really is unlocked, right?
Give me your thumb, let me guide you, watch.
- That is your real code? - Yeah. (laughs)
- This is your phone, and yeah, of course.
- What!?
I feel like you're in my brain.
- (breathes heavily) What's happening?
Oh my God, I feel like, I don't even know.
Am I in the Matrix? Like what the [bleep] is happening?
- This is really unlocked right? - What did you, how!?
Can I learn that? - (FBE) Probably not.
- Why? - It's just luck.
- No it's not. - Yeah.
- No it's not.
- (FBE) Jeannie, wanna know what the trick is, honestly?
Uh, magic. (both laughing)
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- Bye! (explosion echoes)
- I'm Kevin Li, if you wanna see more magic, unlike any other,
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