- [Chris] Two Psi
- That's good, lad.
- Yo, so first of all
I'm the worst with appointments, by the way.
You should know this by now.
'Cause I got my,
I literally walked in today and I was like,
Do you have-- - Walk in
- Yeah. - Very lucky.
Chris is lucky.
- Very lucky.
Especially this time of year, you guys are--
- Yeah. - Are super busy.
But that's, it's interesting cause that's like
it's kinds what this trick's about.
Uh, it's about time.
Because we've all wished we kinda had more time,
and managed our time better.
- Yes, yeah.
- Right so I-- - It's managing the time.
- I started wearing a watch because,
ya know I wanna be more on time with my appointments.
I'm really bad honestly with appointments,
you know that by now.
- [Man] I know about that.
- I wanna tell ya an interesting story.
There was this one guy, I read this book,
and this one guy, it was about time travel.
I don't know if it's real or not.
But it's an interesting story.
And the guy he would dress up,
he would try to time travel, basically, okay?
And it's a real thing.
But his theory was that if he,
if he imagined himself,
in the time he wanted to be in,
it would eventually happen.
So he rented out this room
and he had the room decorated like it was like the 1920's.
Alright, and people came in, the staff, everything
they had to dress up and act like it was the 1920's.
He dressed up like and went to bed and closed his eyes
and every day looked up and opened the door and it was,
and then he says one day,
he did it for months and months and months
and just immersed himself,
and one day he woke up
and he said he was in the 1920's when he opened his door.
He was in the 1920's.
Crazy story, right?
- [Man] Yeah.
- Now I don't know if it's true.
But I thought it was an interesting story.
I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try to do that with you.
To time travel a little bit and we'll see,
we'll see you know we don't obviously
have months to devote to this,
but we have a little bit of time.
So here's what we're gonna do.
I got, I'm gonna take this watch,
here's what we're gonna do.
Could you open your hand for me?
Alright.
So, right now it's , what time is it now?
It's like 1:25, right? - Yeah, 1:20.
- Here's what I want you to do .
I want you to take yourself back in your head
to the moment you woke up this morning
and the first time you, you know how every morning you
wake up and you look at the clock?
- [Man] Yeah.
Whether it's your alarm clock or something?
And the first time you looked at it,
and think of the exact time.
The exact time in your head think of the exact time.
Do you have it?
- It's not working a second, uh.
- [Chris] When you woke up this morning,
you looked at the clock for the first time,
what was the exact time?
What was it?
- Was 7:30 cause my alarm rang.
- 7:30 exactly?
- [Man] Yeah, 7:30.
- 7:30?
- Yeah.
- I want you to imagine yourself this morning,
waking up, looking at your clock.
And just picture yourself there, alright?
Can you do that right now?
- Yeah.
- Are you there?
- Yeah, oh yeah.
Trust me. (chuckling)
- Let's see if this worked.
Have a look at that watch.
(laughing)
(soft piano music)
- [Chris] Show the camera.
(laughing)
- Ahhh!
7:30.
What, what.
(laughing)
What?
What the hell?
Man.
(laughing)
That's a good one, man.
Time traveling.
If only.
- Alright, let's cut the beard.
(upbeat music)
- Alright Chris, just wanted to give you a heads up
that I'm going to be famous some day.
And because you got me hooked on magic,
I'm sending you a signed deck.
So you can make some big bucks in the future.
Caleb Carl dot, dot, dot.
I'm halfway serious.
Caleb, I'm gonna hang on to this.
The future, Caleb says.
I'm gonna be famous in the future.
What if Caleb knows something that we don't?
Imagine having the ability to see the future.
Or to look into the past.
What's up guys? Happy to be back.
Hope you enjoyed that performance today.
Today I wanna talk about my favorite plot in magic
and that is time travel.
I'm also going to be talking about the routine or the
effect that you guys seen in the intro using the watch
and where you can get your hands on that watch.
The reason time travel is my favorite plot in magic
is because I think it borders, it sort of fringes along
the line of reality
and not necessarily fantasy, but fiction.
It's very hard to use time travel as a plot in magic
without sounding fantastic.
Without it sounding too out there to be believable.
Which is why it makes it really hard to use that in a plot.
I mean no one's gonna take you seriously
if you say that oh, this deck allows me to travel in time
and the cards reverse themselves to before
when you picked one.
It's all fun and games, but no one really
really wants to believe that.
I've aways been fascinated with stories of time travel.
Whether it's someone telling a BS story on a youtube video,
or reading about it in a book.
I always think there's something there that really
sparks the imagination.
Much like the story I mentioned in the effect,
which is an actual story that I read.
Or the story of the guy;
I don't know if you've seen this video,
the guy crawls under his kitchen sink
and finds a wormhole
and meets himself in the future
and then takes a video of him,
his future self with him.
Like, I don't necessarily believe that story.
However, having that video on your phone
and being able to show that to people as a premise.
As a premise to a magic trick
I think is very strong.
I think it's very powerful because I think people will
suspend their disbelief a little bit.
I think they will allow themselves to imagine
what time travel would be like.
And I think that's where
my interest in time travel lies.
Not in actually convincing people that time travel
is real, but allowing them to imagine if it was
and then taking them there,
little by little using magic.
I think any time you mention something
so out there and crazy,
if you don't dedicate time to...
If you don't dedicate time to thinking about
what's going on in their heads,
and then how to bring them to a space
where they'll allow themselves to be imaginative,
if you don't devote that time to that effect,
what's gonna happen is,
they're just gonna be spectating.
They're just gonna be onlookers and,
ya know, maybe wowed by the magic trick,
but all in all they're not gonna be
immersed into your story,
into your world.
Alright, enough talk.
I just, I could talk about time travel
and all this stuff for days.
But I wanna mention,
I wanna mention something today.
I wanna talk to you about this watch, the Turner watch.
By a company called Nobody Knows.
It's a company started by a few friends of mine.
And before you guys troll me in the comments,
this is not a paid promotion.
I'm not paid
to talk about this.
I have zero agreement with these guys.
But I legitimately have not been this excited
about a magic trick in a very long time.
I can't remember the last time
I was this excited about a tool.
And the reason for that is cause this watch
allows you to not only
predict what time of day they're going to say,
in real time.
It allows you to create a bigger story
when performing magic.
That story obviously revolves around time travel
and that's why I really love this.
There are different ways to predict
what a spectator is going to say.
Using a piece of paper, using a phone.
That type of thing.
This is just so organic
because it is just this analog watch.
This, this ticking watch that looks simple
with it's leather band and simple face,
not too many dials.
It looks like an ordinary watch that you would;
And in today's technological age
it's hard to trust technology.
Especially when it comes to magic.
Which is why this is so fitting
because it just looks like your grandfather's watch.
Which might also be
hmm, my grandfather was a time traveler.
The Turner Watch.
Right here, Ladies and gentlemen.
This is what allows you
to uh, predict the future.
Or in my case, change the present.
That's how I present it.
There are a lot of different ways
that you can perform with this.
I'm gonna show you a clip of a friend of mine
named Chris James.
He's one of the owners of Nobody Knows
and he performs, he performs something really
interesting with this watch.
Have a look.
- I'm gonna set a time on my watch.
Okay. - Okay.
- But the thing is, I don't want to see it,
and I don't want you to see it either.
So I'm gonna keep the watch face down.
And I want you just to spin the crown.
And you can hold the watch to if you like.
And keep spinning it until you feel like you want to stop.
- I'm trying to mess you up here.
- [Chris] Oh that's okay, yeah, please.
Uh, now do you know what time it said on the watch?
It's impossible.
- Yeah - And I don't know what
it is either, right? - No, yeah.
You don't know. - If you had to guess,
what time do you think would be set on the watch?
- 2:30?
I'll look away.
See if it's 2:30.
But don't tell me what it is, if it's not, okay?
Alright, you have it?
Memorized?
- Yes.
- Okay, put it face down again.
Okay, and I want you to spin the crown some more.
And then when your done just go ahead
and push the crown in so it's set at a new time.
I want you to think of the time
that you looked at on the watch.
And it wasn't 2:30, right?
- No. - Alright.
Keep thinking about the time.
- I don't think that your that off though.
Was it 1:20?
(girl screams)
- Yeah, it was.
(laughing)
- But see...
What you--
- No, it was.
That's great. - It was?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] You know what you really wanted to happen though?
- That's scary. - Was for it to be at 2:30.
- Yeah.
- I remember you had set the time more on the watch.
You spun the crown,
and you had pushed it in.
- Yeah.
- What time does it say on the watch now?
- That is so crazy.
Oh my god, wait how did you do that?
That is so weird.
In a good way.
- [Chris] Thank You.
- Oh my gosh, I wanna see more.
- [Chris] Sure yeah, I can show you another one.
- So as you can see with that sort of
performance you're getting a multiple effect.
And honestly it's really up to your imagination.
And when I say that, I mean if this doesn't spark
your creative sense,
if this doesn't spark
your imagination as a
performer, as a creator of
performance art, I don't know what would.
I'll leave the link below
if you guys wanna check this watch out.
It definitely is something I'm gonna
carry around with me from now on.
On a daily basis.
And I'm not just sayin' that.
I have been carrying it around.
And it's very, very powerful.
That I will-- (ringtone plays)
Oh.
Peter McKinnon.
You guys wanna say hi to Peter?
- Yo.
- [Peter] Yo.
- Nice to see your face.
- [Peter] Yeah, what's up?
- Uh, I'm filming a video.
Do you wanna say hi?
- Sure. - K, go.
Say hi.
- [Peter] Hey everybody
watching the video that Chris is filming.
(laughing)
That's uh...
That's awkward.
(laughing)
- Good enough then.
Alright, let me shut this off
so I can give you a proper hello.
Ladies and Gentlemen, that was Peter McKinnon.
I literally just spent an hour talking to him.
I haven't spoken to him.
He's been all around the world.
Went to Dubai and B.C. and
what not.
If you told me three years ago that we would travel
into the future and this was the life we were living
like, no one , I would like that would...
Anyways guys that's all I got for this video.
I wanted to just ramble a bit about my thoughts
on time travel plot within magic.
But let me know what your favorite plot in magic is below.
Not your favorite card trick,
not your favorite card plot.
But your plot in general in magic.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
Comment below.
Leave a like of this video
if you thought this was interesting.
Also I left the link to the watches below
where you guys can check out.
I didn't want to get into the methods of this watch
'cause that's not what this video is about.
I'm not disappointed with the method,
that's all I can say.
You guys can find that out for yourselves
if you're a serious magician, 'cause these are not cheap.
So check em' out if you if you're so inclined.
That being said, I'm gonna leave you guys with a
with a little bit of a reaction.
I showed Two Psi, my Barber, the V2 1st Playing Cards
and this is his reaction.
I'll leave you on that.
Thanks for watching guys.
We'll see you on the next one, peace!
- [Chris] So these are the new cards,
we're not gonna show it on camera.
- Okay.
Oh really?
That shit is dope.
- [Chris] Dope, right?
- That shit is so dope. (laughs)
You know I have to buy my deck.
I'm gonna buy a deck.
- [Chris] Yeah, I'll, I'll hook you up.
- No, no, no I'm gonna buy it cause ya know,
you need to support the local thing, man.
Ya know, that's what's up.
Yo, that shit is slammin'.
What's here? - 1st.
- Ah, nice.
Okay, yo that's dope.