- In fact, more than 85% of people, Chris,
believe it or not, cannot take these three coins
and split them so they have 11 cents in one hand
and 25 cents in the other.
More than 85% or people can't do that.
(electronic music)
Alright, just got Spidey's house.
I need to pick something up because I'm going to New York
in a couple days and he's got
a trick that I want, that I need.
Let's go see what he's up to.
(apartment buzzer)
- It's in the middle of my tutorial.
- [Ramsay] Really? Did I screw it up?
- No, it's fine.
- [Ramsay] Oh, what's goin on here?
- Filmin' a tutorial.
- [Ramsay] What's happening? You filming? What's...oh!
You've got the setup, you've got billets.
And you've got playing cards.
This definitely looks like a Spidey tutorial.
- [Spidey] Do you want to see the thing?
- [Ramsay] Can we? Can we show it on the channel?
- Yeah and then they can go on my channel
to learn it if they want.
- [Ramsay] Alright, give me a sec.
- It's more of like a game. It's done
with four pieces of paper, borrowed paper...
- [Ramsay] Alright
- and a pencil. You want to play?
- [Ramsay] Yeah!
- Okay. So I'm gonna write down number one...
- [Ramsay] Okay.
- number two, number three, and number four.
So four pieces of paper, and I'm gonna do it like this.
Can you see it on the table?
- [Ramsay] Mhmm.
- So it's just a series of questions and I bet
that you're gonna get at least one of these
very simple questions completely wrong.
If I were to tell you that this over here, if I were
to tell you that that's number one,
what number is on that piece of paper?
- [Ramsay] Obviously number two.
- [Spidey] Obviously number two...correct!
Let's do this now, what is the total of the face-up numbers?
- [Ramsay] Five!
- [Spidey] Five...correct! Three plus two is five.
What is the total of the face-down numbers?
- [Ramsay] Five!
- [Spidey] And that is the one you got wrong.
- [Ramsay] There's nothing on that one.
- [Spidey] I know.
- [Ramsay] You cheated!
- [Spidey] I didn't cheat! That's it!
- [Ramsay] Where's the one?
- [Spidey] That's what I'm saying.
- [Ramsay] But where's the one?
- This is a bar bet that you'll always win...get free shots
- [Ramsay] So what's the bet, what's the bet,
like if you can add up these two...
- Yeah, so you ask them the three questions
and you say they're gonna get at least one wrong
then they will always get that last one wrong
because they will never know that that is
a blank piece of paper.
- [Ramsay] What was that other question game?
Oh, here it is, okay I remember it.
Alright, I got a bet for you.
If you answer these correctly, you lose.
- Oh, so I have to give the wrong answers
- [Ramsay] You have to give the wrong answers.
- [Ramsay] How old are you?
- 86.
- [Ramsay] Where were you born?
- Germany.
- [Ramsay] Ah, so you've played this before?
- I have.
- [Ramsay] Oh, you're good.
(Ramsay / Spidey laughter)
It's a good one, though.
- It is great, yeah, because
"Oh, you know this one", they go.
- [Ramsay] So you're supposed to say
"No, I haven't played this."
- No, I haven't played, I swear I haven't played.
- [Ramsay] Ah! But you haven't played it.
- Uh, that's why I said I have.
- [Ramsay] But have you?
- Are we still playing?
(Ramsay / Spidey laughter)
- [Ramsay] Spidey's tutorial interrupting, uh, go man!
Go, explain it, how do you do it?
- Wait, I'm explaining this on your channel?
- [Ramsay] No, uh, maybe?
(Ramsay / Spidey laughter)
I'm just gonna steal your tutorial.
- You're so much faster at editing,
so it's gonna be up on yours before I even have
a chance to put it up on mine.
- [Ramsay] It'll be up in nine minutes.
(Ramsay / Spidey laughter)
- I'm gonna go get a snack, I'm gonna come back
and there's a new video with like
hundreds and thousands of views.
- Thumbnail's already done, you're like
"I didn't take that picture."
(Spidey laughter)
Uh, if you want to check out Spidey's video,
head on over to his channel.
He has the explanation for this. Hopefully it's up.
This video will probably be up way before his tutorial
but just saying.
- Mine comes out on Monday.
- Monday, the...? Oh the Monday coming up?
Oh, that's pretty soon.
- December.
- Whatever. Go check out his video. Link below. Spidey?
- Yeah, buddy?
- [Ramsay] Since I'm here watching your tutorial...
- Uh huh.
- [Ramsay] watching you teach something to your fans
What about my fans, bro?
- Your fans get to learn another bar bet.
- [Ramsay] Heeeyyyyyy!
- Because I know the holidays are coming up
and you know, you guys might find yourselves
at a Christmas party and this is a great one
to get yourselves like a ton of free shots all night.
- Alright guys. So apparently, I crashed Spidey's tutorial
obviously he's gonna end up teaching,
so I came here and stole content, is what I'm saying.
I hijacked his tutorial and I'm stealing content.
I forcefully told him to teach something, so he's got
actually a really cool bar bet.
It's not a magic trick, this is a bar bet.
You want to win free drinks, you want to get a phone number,
you want to sleep with your best friend's mom,
extort your ex-boss, any of these answers above.
This trick is for you! It's not about fooling
or not fooling, it's about winning or not winning
and that's the premise of a bar bet.
This isn't about close magic connection.
So Spidey's gonna go ahead and perform this little bar bet.
- The bet is, you can either borrow some change
or you could say "Look I've got some change
and we're gonna do this."
I've got a quarter. This is a Canadian quarter,
but this works as well with any currency.
I've got a dime as well.
I'm gonna put that on top.
- [Ramsay] Got it.
- [Spidey] And I've got a penny, as well.
That's a Canadian penny, but again,
any currency works.
Like that. You see the quarter?
- [Ramsay] I do.
- A dime and a penny, yeah?
Most people, in fact, more than 85% of people, Chris,
believe it or not, cannot take these three coins
and split them so that they have 11 cents in one hand
and 25 cents in the other.
More than 85% of people can't do that.
- [Ramsay] Well 85% of people are stupid!
- Do you think that you could split these coins
into your two hands in such a way that you're holding
11 cents in one hand and 25 cents in the other?
- [Ramsay] 100%.
- How would you do that? 11 cents in one hand...
Here take them.
- [Ramsay] Yep, okay. Okay. So you put 11 cents
in one hand and 25 in the other?
Uh, one.
Oh.
Oh, you son of a bitch.
(Spidey laughter)
- [Spidey] Can't do it, can you?
And now I win a free shot!
- [Ramsay] You just glued the dime to the quarter
so that I can't take it apart!
- [Spidey] But you lost the bet.
- [Ramsay] I did lost the bet.
- [Spidey] Because you can't do it. So now I get
the free bottle of bubbly that we bet on.
- [Ramsay] That's smart.
- [Spidey] Cool, right? Shall we learn it?
- [Ramsay] Let's do it.
- [Spidey] So this is a really fun piece you can do,
like I said, at a bar or wherever.
- [Ramsay] First you glue a dime to a quarter.
- That's what you do, that's the first thing you do.
So you're gonna glue, you're gonna take your dime
and a quarter or whatever currency works for you,
whatever country you're in.
You're gonna take a small coin and crazy Krazy Glue it
to a bigger coin...
- [Ramsay] Got it.
- [Spidey] so it's stuck.
There's no...and put a lot, that way nobody can ever
be able to split it.
You're gonna put that in your pocket along with a
duplicate of that coin that's stuck on top
and then another, let's say a penny, in this case,
but it could be anything.
That all goes in your pocket.
So you come up with the quarter and you show it this way.
Evidently, the dime is stuck under here.
- [Ramsay] Ooo, so you turn it upside down.
- [Spidey] Now you come out with the dime, it's here.
And now you're gonna go, it's gonna look like
you're putting it on, but what happens is, you make
that noise, that clicking noise, but actually turn
the coin over.
- [Ramsay] Ditch it back in your pocket.
- [Spidey] And yeah, this just stays in your hand,
it's not a fancy magic thing at all.
Remember, they're not expect...they're playing a game.
In their heads, there's no magic, so...
- [Ramsay] "I'm a magician, let me show you a bar trick."
- No, let me show you a bar trick.
(Ramsay laughter)
- Add this and then turn it over and there it is.
It just looks like you...
Now you're gonna go back to your pocket with the dime
and you're gonna come out with the penny
and you're gonna place that here,
so in their heads, they saw three separate coins
and now you simply tell them "85% of people
cannot take these three coins" or "More than 85% cannot
take these three coins and split them so they have 11 cents
in one hand and 25 in the other."
Now in their heads, they go "Well that's stupid.
Of course you can do that.
All you would have to do is take the ten cents and the one
cent in one hand and the quarter in the other one."
What they don't know is that can't be done.
So you go, "Let's bet a shot over it.
If you can do it, I'll buy you a shot"
- [Ramsay] For sure they're gonna give you a shot...
- Right, so they'll be like "Yeah."
- [Ramsay] Cause you went through all the trouble
of gluing quarters together, they're like
"You know what, you deserve that shot."
(Spidey laughter)
That's 100% what they're gonna say.
They're gonna be like, "You know what, you took the time
to glue, just for me, I'll buy you a beer, buddy."
- Okay, sure, I thought it was more cause
they lost the bet, but whatever.
- [Ramsay] No, no. They're appreciative of the effort
and of the glue.
You know what's even funnier, if you give that
to like a cashier and say "Just, can I
have the change back please?"
(Spidey laughter)
And just watch them struggle mentally for a second.
"Yeah, here's...that'll be 32 cents alright."
"Here you go...
- "Here's 35..."
- [Ramsay] can I have that three cents back please?"
There's like, "Well...we can't accept this here.
Sir...call security!"
- And then insist that it wasn't in that state
when you handed it to them.
- [Ramsay] "Yeah why'd you glue it together, cashier clerk?"
"I'll bet you a drink...that
- Or your phone number if they're cute.
- [Ramsay] you can't unstick them. I just called the cops."
- [Spidey] I wonder I if I can split this.
- [Ramsay] That's a glittery shirt.
- [Spidey] Thank you, buddy.
- [Ramsay] I'm not gonna lie. No, that wasn't a compliment.
- [Spidey] Why?
- [Ramsay] It's just a statement. Snake.
You put Christmas decorations? Ha! The poor snake,
the shit you put him through, Spidey.
Like, he's just trying to live his best life
and you're like impeding on his wilderness.
- Last year, all of a sudden, at night,
I saw him like, his whole body was going upwards
and his head was just resting on the ornament.
- [Ramsay] That's probably a sign.
He was probably telling you like...
- Take this shit out of here?
- [Ramsay] Yeah, I'm gonna eat this in a second if you don't
Is he still alive?
- [Spidey] Yeah!
- [Ramsay] Oh, good for you! Good for you!
(Christmas music)
You got a Christmas tree! Spidey! Oh, and you
got a little Christmas sock!
Spideeey, you're so lonely.
That's a nice tree.
- [Spidey] Thanks, buddy.
- [Ramsay] Is it a real tree?
- [Spidey] Yeah look, no. There's Yoda.
- [Ramsay] It's synthetic?
- [Spidey] Do you see Yoda?
Like why isn't he just sitting there?
Ironman's facing the wrong way.
- [Ramsay] Ooh, Ironman.
- [Spidey] And then Spiderman up there...
- [Ramsay] Near the top, Spiderman.
- [Spidey] there just chillin'.
- [Ramsay] Kinda barren under there
- [Spidey] Gotta put some gifts. Here.
- [Ramsay] Oh, Spidey, for me? Thank you!
Thanks, man. I got what I came for.
Food's here!
(bossa nova music)
- Do you believe, cause I have a certain theory,
when it comes to like mentalism
if you're gonna do mentalism in a show
you should exclude magic.
If you bring magic in, then it puts the mentalism
into question when...mentalism is a bit of a gray area
with a lot of people
they don't know if it's true or not
and I think that's part of the allure.
- It really depends, in my opinion, on what you're trying
to sell the mentalism as.
If you're trying to sell it as a real thing like you're
a real psychic or you have the real ability to read minds
and stuff, then yeah, keep magic as far away as possible.
It's kinda like gamblers, right, when gamblers are gonna sit
at a table and either do cheating demonstrations
or actually cheat, they wanna look like they are
masters with a deck of cards,
so you don't flourish and then do gambling things.
You want it to look like as natural as possible.
One of the biggest pet peeves I have, and this is important,
beginner magicians who print out a business card
and it says "Close up magic, mentalist, kids' birthdays...",
like what are you, what?
You're gonna go do color changing bunnies...
- Juggling, mime, balloon animals
- You're gonna go do balloon animals and color changing
bunnies during the day and then at night you're gonna
go read minds?
I want to brand myself as like, it's a unique, prestigious
experience. You get to come see me in this theater
and you won't see me at your kids' birthday, you won't see
me at your grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary.
- You will see me there...
- Book him, book him.
- In a long trenchcoat. One word answers only:
magic or mentalism?
- Mentalism
- What's your favorite thing about mentalism?
- Mind-f---ing.
- That's two words. Favorite go-to effect.
- There is no way in hell I can...
- One word!
- Situational.
- Mmm, okay.
What do you think about Criss Angel?
- Influencer
(music pause)
- I'm an influencer.
(bossa nova music)
If you had to change your name, your real name,
what would be your name?
- Damien
- Who's a magician you hated working with the most?
(music pause)
- I was paired up with this dickwad on wizard wars...
- I know where this is going.
(bossa nova music)
- If you could bring someone back from the dead...
- Theodore Annemann
- I knew you were gonna say Annemann
- Did you really? People say...
- You don't think that like he would be bothered by that?
- No, I think he'd love that.
- Seems kinda rude.
- Annemann is more comprehensive, there's more routines
in there that you go "Oh, okay, I can go do this."
- Of the other ones, thirteen says more about the
principles and they don't give you clear, concise ideas.
- Yeah, and there's a lot of things in there
that are outdated or you're like "This doesn't work today."
- That concludes this section of a Judge on Food with Spidey
- Mental with Mentalisms
- Mentalists and Junk Food
Alright guys, that about wraps up this vlog.
Hope you enjoyed that little conversation,
that little bar bet.
Be sure to use that wisely.
Do not use that for any monetary gains unless you
count me in and don't forget to give this guy
a follow on his page and a sub.
I'll leave the link below.
Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed it and uh, peace.
(hip hop music)