This episode of Scam School, brought to you by Domain.com.
Welcome to the show that believes that knowing is half the battle,
the other half: tanks, thousands of them.
Scam School, the only show dedicated to social engineering at the bar and on the street.
Oh you beautiful people, my name is Brian Brushwood
and this week we are back at the Nomad bar
where we combine two different effects to create one of the best mysteries,
the best effects,
and one of the most useful, evil devices we've ever shown!
[Brian toasting guests]
Back at the Nomad Bar; we got JR, we got Tammy
and I'm feeling, I don't know, risky.
I'm going to bet money. I'm putting money on the table.
Nice.
I can't count that high, but that's a lot of money last time I checked.
I'm going to put that right here,
and I'm going to bet my card trick will work. If it doesn't work you get all the money, right?
What? That's not bad!
If I do blow your mind however,
I don't know, you could buy me a beer. If you you feel like it.
Let's do this. First of all, we're going to shuffle up all the cards.
Do you want to shuffle the cards, or are you satisfied that they're totally mixed up?
I'm never satisfied.
You're never satisfied, that's the problem.
That's what a woman is.
[laughing] Oh, poor Tami!
Here you go!
I would say they're pretty mixed up, you know I'm going to let Tammy
because I don't trust you, JR,
Tami just say stop whenever you want.
Stop!
All right, do you want to stop there or do you want to keep going?
Keep going.
I want to be fair!
Stop.
All right, that's your card. Can you remember your card?
Remember your card?
I want you to see, no breaks!
No, no sneaky "I know it somewhere in the middle" so we're going to go ahead and shuffle
and make sure it's totally lost.
Did it look like a lot of money?
No.
They call that "flashin' cabbage" is what that is.
[snap]
What was your card?
The four of diamonds.
No it's not!
[laughing] All right, screw you.
[laughing] All right hold on, no no no!
You got to give it a shuffle
you gotta do three-- You're so good!
You gotta do three cuts and then,
what was your card?
The four of diamonds.
Boop!
All right, no no no no, I got this!
Here, what's your- ah Tami, how do you spell Tami?
T - A - M - I
and it went down to the ground, what was your card?
The four of diamonds.
God dammit.
We'll do
How do you spell JR?
[laughing] J R
What was your card?
The four of diamonds.
God dammit.
I feel like I'm screwed, I feel like--
[laughing] I got money!
Well now this is weird.
What the f***?
[cackling]
It seems like there's only one thing in my wallet!
Where'd my money go?!
I don't want to touch it, I want you to reach in and pull out the card.
I want you to show it's the four of diamonds!
[laughing]
I'd rather have the money.
[laughing]
I'd rather have the beer, toast me!
Good job! You had me going, I thought you sucked there for a minute.
[exhale]
Wow, I'm a little out of breath.
What could I have been writing?
Let's see.
Domain.com, what is- what is that?
Remember Lana Janko.
Now I do remember Lana Janko. One of the few things I can remember.
Fast, easy, and reliable.
You said we talk before? I don't remember that.
Yeah, but but it's not amnesia.
I remember everything up until my injury
I just can't make new memories so I don't exactly remember talking to you.
What did we talk about?
Oh Lana Janko?
I guess I tell people about Lana to help them understand.
Lana's story helps me understand my own situation.
Now you see Lana used to write herself endless amounts of notes,
but she got mixed up. I have a more graceful solution to the memory problem.
I'm disciplined, and organized. I use habit and routine to make my life possible.
Lana had no drive, no reason to make it work.
Me?
Yeah, I get a reason.
Hm, dot coms and dot nets.
That's it! Finally someone credible.
[electronic distortion] Wait-- what?!
Uh, my computer just shut down. I didn't get to register my domain.
Okay, stay focused. Find a pen, find a pen.
Keep it in mind. Concentrate, concentrate, concentrate. I'm going to write this down.
Domain dot com, always use
Domain dot com. Focus, remember Domain dot com.
All right. There's two parts to make this work.
The first part
we actually covered over 200 episodes ago.
It's super super simple.
And basically if you're not familiar with the idea, I forced a particular card on you.
We're going to learn the simplest force,
the first force that I ever learned. It's called the Hindu Shuffle force.
And the idea is, you take whatever card you want to force, you put it on the bottom.
And this is called a Hindu Shuffle, right, you hold them
lengthwise in your hand, you're going to pull them off the top and let 'em drop down
and you'll notice as you keep going, that you're only taking cards off the top.
So the card on the bottom stays the same.
So for example, if I were to go 1, 2, 3
and you said stop, I would show you this card.
But I can go 5, 6, 7, 8
and no matter what you do you're leaving the bottom card the same
but it feels as though you're doing a shuffley thing,
and then showing us a random card that you stopped on.
Once you show it, you're going to drop it right in the middle and mix all the cards up.
Here's the best part.
The only way the trick screws up is if you accidentally do find their card,
because once you force the card you go through just nonsense, I just made all this stuff off the fly.
The more confident you act, the better this works.
There's nothing people love more
than watching a magician douchebag fall on his face, right?
So be that douchebag.
I thought you were that douchebag at first, I was like, "You suck!"
Exactly!
So every time you screw up be like, "No no no, it's fine, it's fine."
Keep saving it, the more they think that you're actually twisting, and you're spelling things out,
and then it doesn't work, you're like, "gah, dangit!"
Yes, there is the off chance that you might accidentally get their card,
in which case, they'll kind of be amazed I guess. But!
None of this is the real trick, the real trick was how
the hundred-plus dollars vanished and instead
all you found was the card inside the wallet
You have a magic wallet.
I do have a magic wallet, and the best part is it cost me nothing to put together
and this is what we're gonna learn how to make!
You can make your own magic wallet
out of duct tape and newspaper, and do exactly this effect. You guys ready to do that?
All right, let's
arts and crafts time!
Boom ba-ba-boom!
First of all I want to make it totally clear that nothing you ever see on Scam School
is because I'm smart, it's because people way more brilliant than me have come up
with all this stuff and in this case it was made by the amazing magician
Bob Neale who made it like 30 or 40 years ago.
I wrote him recently and he gave us permission to show it right here on Scam School.
We're going to make a short change wallet. Now in this case, I just grabbed one in the
free publications from around here.
You want it to be about 14 inches wide and 12 inches tall.
So you see we got all these columns here, if you use one of these columns as a guidepost you
could sort of divide along it. So the first thing you're going to do is you're going to
fold it in half like this.
Try and get the booty in it.
[laughing]
We'll try to make that happen.
Once that's folded in, you're going to fold
these in as well like this, okay?
Now remember, your end result
is that you want a wallet where you're able to have one pocket
on top filled with all the cash, and then another pocket
on bottom that's filled with only the card.
Understand that you want to make this
top gives you one thing, bottom gives you another. Right?
It's just like sex.
[laughing]
You're going to fold them in like this, and then you're going to fold it down.
Oh look, it's looking good.
You wanted this sexy lady on the outside right? Yep, I wanted the booty.
And then you're going to fold this in, to get a guideline here.
And then you're going to fold this in to get a guideline there.
Because what you want is sort of
a quad-sicle all the way around like this, right?
So once it's folded in, you're gonna sort of close it like a book
like this, right there.
Now these inner pockets
right here, we're gonna fold inward. Does that make sense?
So we're going to make the first main pocket just by grabbing all these
and the idea is you want to keep these corners held down, so in fact,
you do me a favor. Hold down two pinkies there, there we go.
So everything on the inner part, all of this inner stuff is going to fold
straight down, so this corner goes up in there, this corner goes up in there.
And the idea, this is gonna make your main first pocket.
So you can tuck in one at a time, here I'll have you pinch that.
And then this one goes all the way down, and again you want it to get in
as tight and as pretty as possible. You don't want a lot of crumpling in there.
All right, so you'll notice right down here you can see we have our first pocket down on the bottom.
So now we're going to make the other pocket on top,
which means all of this like salad on top,
we're going to take this, and we're going to fold it over
and tuck it in on top.
Kind of like a boat.
Now here's the awkward part, this is where it wants to get all crumply.
You sort of
just shove that s*** down in there.
[laughing]
You just sort of shove it down in there.
Now if you can shove it without crinkling it, you'll be a happier person.
But now at this point, look at this. You can already see it coming together.
Right? So like the top part is one opening.
You flip it over, you have another opening.
Now at this point, you want to sort of-
I don't know I guess cover-up
a little bit of camouflage.
Don't cover my lady, though!
[laughing]
For you, I will not cover up your beautiful lady.
Thank you!
So to set this up- Yeah, f*** the face.
[laughing] You just want the body, that's what he did.
[laughing] He tried covering her face.
We'll cover that side, we'll also cover this side.
You want to make it about the same amount over here.
So you want it to look the same on both sides, you don't want to be a giant clue
All right, now try that out.
See if, here in fact, I'm going to give you the wad of cash.
Oh look at that, I have openings in both sides!
So now you gotta put a wad of cash in one,
and you gotta put a...
Bye!
[laughing] Show's over!
Hope you enjoyed it!
And then you gotta put the card in the other.
All right, so any questions at this point? You've got the wallet made that you've built.
It's in your pocket, you got half with cash and half with the card in there.
There you go. We got to sit on it for a minute too.
See? You got to get it smooth and lovely.
You got to make it have like that butt-roundness to it. Like it's been used! Like it's not something new!
I don't want a used butt, for the record,
what I do want is for you to perform the trick for us.
Can you perform it?
I can try my hardest. All right, that's good enough for me.
Hello, Tami. I hear that you're a wizard!
I am a wizard. Do you guys want to make a bet?
What? I do. Let's do this.
I got all kinds of cash money!
Look at all that money, that's a lot of money that's in your wallet!
Does this- Don't touch my money. Okay?
Money's dirty.
Wash your hands.
Okay, so if I find your card, all this money that you saw right here
the cash money, the dirty money that you touched!
The filthy money.
Can be all yours.
What?
All yours!
I hope you fail then!
I know! But if you do, I mean I suppose I would
buy you a drink. It seems like the least I could do.
[laughing] That's reasonable.
All right, I'm going to shuffle these cards now so you can win the money.
Sir, I want you to go ahead and tell me when to stop.
Tell me when to stop.
Stop now! Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop
Are you sure?
I am sure.
There's your card. Okay. I've, all right, that's great.
Now I want you to lose that card. You just put that card on the bottom, I'm up to you.
Can I shuffle those cards? Yes.
Oh dude, you're not going to find those cards.
See I know, a-ha! I saw your secret move.
You want to win the dirty money! The dirty money!
All right, what's your name?
Brian. Brian.
No. What's your birthday, Brian?
January 17. January 17.
[laughing] For one!
Yes. For one! 17?
That's not my card. I'm feeling like the money's mine.
At this point, I mean unless you got something else.
How much money do you think I have in the wallet?
Uh, like, I saw it looked like a hundred and thirty dollars.
You're wrong.
What? What're you talking about? You're wrong.
It's a million.
It's a million?!
Okay, we've got two more chances, y'all.
Why do we have two more chances?!
I have two more chances. Okay.
What's your name?
JR. JR.
[laughing] Nope, that was not it.
What's today?
Today is Thursday.
It's the fourth day of the week, right?
No that's not it!
S***.
Fork it over, dude!
A-ha, the mon-- What?!
There's no dollars in here at all, there's a card. And it appears to be
my card! How did she do it?!
I'll buy you all the beers for eternity! Well done!
Hey, guess what?
Oh s***, no don't no.
I get all the money!
[laughing]
All the money's mine.
You don't get to do that, that's not part of the trick!
It is!
Holy crap, do I love this effect and I can't thank Bob Neale enough
for giving us permission to share it right here on Scam School.
Check out his book, Tricks of the Imagination, or anything that Bob Neale created.
The guy is a friggin wizard genius and if you want to look like a genius,
head on over to scamstuff.com
It's gear for the modern rogue. If it's sneaky, underhanded, and
designed to give you the edge
it belongs on scamstuff.com.
Now you're not gonna want to miss next week, because you're going to learn how you can convert
a paparazzi into a pastafarian.
Join me brothers!
Let us all be touched by his noodley appendage.
[brian trying to emulate an angelic chorus]
It's like Obe Wan Kenobe, but with a**holes.
[laughing] Nice.
Are you still recording?
It's my butt circle right now. Butt circle.
Sir. Madam, you.
Madam. Sir Madam!
January.
[cackling]
I'm sorry.
It should be two! January. 17th.
[laughing]
I'm a bad magician!
[laughing]
You're the best magician we've ever had.
I don't want a used butt, for the record.
Flashin' cabbage.