This week on Scam School,
amazing slight of hand and a strength challenge
you will lose!
I am a talking sign!
[scam school theme]
This episode of Scam School, brought to you by Audible.
Welcome to the show that covers bar scams
all the way from A to...
where's my pants?
Scam School
the only show dedicated to social engineering
at the bar and on the street.
My name is Brian Brushwood, and this week we are back
with Pete Boie, and we're going to see
not only one of his best card effects,
but you are going to learn a miracle
that will make you stronger than other people. It's the gift of super- you're very strong!
[bell ringing]
[music swell] Here's to Pete Boie!
[music swell] Boooooooom!
All right, we're going to try something different.
We just wrapped on a whole evening of Pete Boie tricks, and I want to finish things
with you performing stuff for us.
I know you have a card trick you want to do,
and you claim you have one that I have never encountered before.
Yes.
Brand new deck of cards here,
but first before we do the card trick
I want to show you my super human strength.
[exhale]
[plastic crinkling]
Behold the beast!
[cheering]
Seriously, you can try it. Here.
Why do I get it?
[laughing] If you can tear it, I'll buy you a beer.
These guys know enough Scam School to know that something's not going to go right.
I will buy you a beer if you can tear that.
Hold on, let me see it!
I quit!
[laughing]
Brian! Brian, look.
You gotta do it like this. You just take another deck and you just...
[exhale]
You gotta use the breath.
The power of the breath.
I hate you.
[quiet laughing]
[plastic crinkling]
[exhausted grunt]
[laughing] God dammit.
Here, you try it. Seriously, try tearing it.
All right.
Are you using your fingernails or something?
All right, so Dennis Rogers, when he talks about tearing the decks
he mentions that it's all about, like, the precise, I don't know, pressure between the two.
And so it's like, in my mind, if you pinch hard enough and twist
it'll rip.
I think that's what you're doing, but I don't know.
I think you're wrong, Brian.
[laughing]
I want to say like you're using your fingernails as scissors, or something
How about you all just buy me a beer and then I'll tell you afterwards?
How about you do a stupid card trick? Jerk!
[laughing]
[frolicking music] If one had asked Brandt,
he would have said that this particular Scam School
was exactly like all the Scam Schools prior.
And he edit it the same way that-
[silence]
[music picks up] And he edited it the same way he always did.
And he edited it the same way he always did.
[silence]
Hello?
[music picks up] He edited it the same way he always did.
When some episodes would-
Hey, is someone there?
[music picks up] When some episodes would feature
really talented guests or even sometimes visually complicated tricks
Brandt just edited the episodes.
All right, who said I edit the episodes?
And how do you know I edit the episodes?
Hello?!
Thus,
Brandt's editing thrust him into the immitigable path of fate.
Little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous act
What?
Would result in this imminent sponsorship.
Would result in this imminent sponsorship. What?!
Would result in this imminent sponsorship.
Okay, hello? What do you mean, my sponsorship?
Oh! Of course,
I just left on my Audible app
I was listening to something out of the
meta-metaphysical psychological comedy drama fantasy section.
Weird.
But I have to see where this is going, I'm on the edge of my seat!
He had visited Audible.com/scamschool
to start his free trail.
And he chose this book from the over 150,000 available.
Hinged on the edge of his seat,
something deep within him already knew that.
[cash register ringing]
Here we go.
Brand-spanking-fresh new deck of cards.
Get rid of some jokers and stuff.
Give them a little shuffle.
JR,
I need your help.
He means emotionally.
[laughing]
JR, did you know that there's a magical card in every deck of cards?
I did not.
You didn't? Well let me tell you about it.
I love the way you're like, "Have you heard the good news about the ace of spades?"
[laughing]
It has magical powers.
Do you believe that?
I do now.
Well you shouldn't, it's a lie.
[laughing]
Go ahead and take one out for yourself.
I don't want to see it, make sure I don't see it.
But show everybody else too, I don't want to see it.
You got it? Yeah, we got it.
All right, cool, put it back to the center.
Do you remember what the card is, JR?
I do.
The ace of spades is going to help me find your card, do you know why?
I don't.
Because it's magical!
[cheering] YES!
Suspended the disbelief completely.
JR, hold your hand flat like a table, yes.
Hold it up a little lower.
[laughing]
It's a stupid joke, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
All I have to do is touch a deck, to the ace of spades.
It finds one card,
in the center of the pile is now different.
It's upside down.
JR, did you choose the nine of clubs?
I did.
Here, check this out.
[exhale]
[laughing and cheering]
That is awesome.
[laughing]
Dude, let's hear it for Pete Boie!
[cheering]
Cheers, guys. You're awesome!
All right, Pete. I know you're not going to tell me how you do your awesome card trick,
but tell me how the hell you screwed us with the- cellophane thing!
Oh, yes!
You have to cheat.
Brian, you have your handy-dandy knife.
Wait! You're talking about my utili-key!
This is the secret you have to do.
You need a little bit of a knife.
You ass! God, are you kidding me?
You do something beforehand.
[laughing]
All you do, is you take your knife
and just do a little one of these right on the corner of your cellophane.
Fine, you pre-cut it!
And by the way, screw you.
[laughing] Yes, thank you.
But I don't understand why I couldn't tear it, because I've torn cellophane before.
It's doubled over, first of all.
When you squeeze this together after you take it off
it's doubled over.
It's just impossible to tear it unless you have it started.
There's science behind it, I'm sure.
You're like, "Because of science, right?!"
The molecular structure...
Ah, screw you. I'm so pissed.
It's all acting! You just,
Cut that beforehand, and you say, "Hey, do you want to see some card tricks?"
And you break out a new deck of cards.
You take it off; you're right in the center.
Now this is what impressed me, was that
I thought you were doing this as a joke.
Like, "Look how strong I am. Hilarious, I'm tearing up a piece of plastic!"
And we're all like, "That's funny."
But that moment that you give us the middle finger
and you're like, "No, seriously, try to do it."
The magic happens when you guys try.
Because you realize it's impossible. You're just pinching right where the cut is, right?
Yep! You just, you have the cut right there
and you just
pretend that you're making a big deal out of it
and just slowly...
So as long as there's a notch to start it, it just peels right apart?
It just peels right away.
Give me my key back, jerk!
Here you go!
[fake yelling in agony] Ah! My eye!
All right, so as long as you have a notch to start it.
Whoa, jeez!
It just goes right in.
As long as it's split, it's nothing.
And it goes straight thr- Ah screw it.
All right, that was brilliant.
Now that, I will toast you and buy you a beer, sir. Well done!
Thank you!
[bell ringing]
O M G, first and foremost
We got to give a huge thanks to Pete Boie for slumming with us right here at Scam School.
Head on over to his channel. Not only will you see some amazing stuff!
But you have the opportunity to thank him.
Post a little comment saying,
"Thanks for being awesome on Scam School, ya jerk!"
And then draw "JK. LOL."
And then draw a boner out of ascii text.
Hey man, if you want to look awesome at the bar, why don't you head on over to scamstuff.com?
It's gear for the modern rogue.
You'll be like a James Bond wizard at the bar!
[theme music ramps in] Of course don't forget to join us next week
because we are going to learn how you can defeat a super computer at chess without 20 years of practice!
Pro-tip: It involves a sleepy guard, and an unguarded power outlet.
Take that, Watson!
You jerk!
Because littering is awesome!
Have you heard of Scam School?
Oh, you never heard of that either?
Yeah, have you heard of YouTube?
Well he's on it!
[laughing]
[unintelligible cheering] Waaaaaaahhhahaha!
Look how strong I am, hilarious. I'm tearing up a piece of plastic.