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- What's up guys, welcome back.
I know I have not been very active in the last week.
Actually, not active at all, not on YouTube anyways.
But if you follow me on Instagram, you might know what's up.
I'm where I grew up.
Where I was born, where I was raised.
1,500 year old town near the Black Forest.
Beautiful architecture, history, wine fields,
and corn fields and farmland as far as the eye could see.
I was supposed to post a lot more videos
than I actually did.
But I ended up not doing anything,
and if you let the wine and the beer get the best of you,
and the food, oh my God, the food.
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And just enjoying family life, and sorta simple times.
Everybody here is kind of relaxed.
It's more of a small town living,
and so used to that rush of the city,
and the airports, and everything,
that I just kind of forgot what it was like to do nothing.
So it felt good to just kick back,
and it got the best of me, I'm not gonna lie.
But I'm back.
I shoulda brought a couple puzzles
I was supposed to solve while on this trip.
Ended up not doing those,
so I'll save those for when I get back.
But planning a meet up later today.
Probably going to go to Freiburg,
which is a city close to here.
Gonna meet some fans.
See who, always excited to see who shows up
at these things, especially abroad.
I have no idea what to expect.
Might be just a guy.
An old deck of cards, who knows.
Anyways, thought I'd keep you guys in the loop.
I'm gonna drop that video for the contest
on the 26th, announcing the winner.
And I'm going to MAGIC Live,
actually renting a massive mansion with a bunch of friends.
Just like we did in LA.
Gonna party it up there.
We actually brought in, you know what,
I'm not gonna say anything, keep it a surprise.
Anyways, I'm gonna go change, get ready for this meet up.
Let's go.
About to go to the fan meet up.
Also, don't really know what to expect
because it's such a small town
and literally eight hours away from Berlin
or Munich and that type of thing.
So kind of southwest.
I know a lot of people can't make it out,
just because it's a big trip.
So I don't even know if anyone will show up, to be honest.
Maybe I'll go there and it'll just be two people.
Which will also be cool.
It will be super low-key and chill.
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- [Chris] Hallo!
- [Cab Driver] Hallo!
(speaking foreign language)
- [Chris] Yeah!
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All right, so just got to this place.
I don't, oh Jesus Christ.
I hear there's probably a hundred people waiting outside.
I don't know if it's for me,
but it kinda looks like a tour guide thing.
But they all might be there for me.
So let's have a look.
Oh yeah.
Holy cow.
Hi! - [Boy] Hello!
(speaking foreign language)
- [Chris] I thought this was a tour guide thing
that you were doing.
(laughter)
How's it going?
Hi, how are you.
Hi, Chris, it's nice to meet you.
- Hi. - Hi, I'm gonna
shake everybody's hand.
(laughter) It might take awhile.
Hi, Chris, nice to meet you.
Hi, how's it going?
You all from around here, or just come from everywhere?
- [In Unsion] Everywhere
- [Chris] Geil.
(outbursts in German) (laughing)
- [Chris] Welcome to Germany, yeah.
(laughter)
Say hi to the vlog!
(cheers)
- [Chris] That's crazy.
Ah, man.
All right, so, what are we doing?
(laughter)
- [Chris] Do you guys all do magic?
If you guys want, we can take a few pictures.
If you guys want to take some pictures and stuff,
and sign some stuff.
I don't have a Sharpie on me, I'm sure.
(laughing)
- So I have an AEY Catcher deck for you.
- [Chris] Oh, cool!
- I'm from the team.
- [Chris] Is the AEY Catchers from Cartamundi?
- Yeah, this is the only deck with the cadistry stork.
- [Chris] That's pretty cool.
It's really easy for this type of stuff.
For pressure stuff, huh?
That's a cool deck too.
- Love it.
- [Chris] Yeah?
- I don't really do cardistry or magic tricks.
But he does.
- [Chris] Yeah, maybe I can show you something?
- Sure, actually.
- Okay, mix the cards.
Here, can you film?
Okay, we'll do it here.
We'll try this.
- I'm not really good with fingers, or anything.
- That's okay.
Can you shuffle?
Keep shuffling.
Then we'll do something.
Keep mixing, and we'll try something.
- Easy.
- Yeah, easy. (laughing)
Okay, so you've mixed the cards?
- Yes.
- Take these cards and I'll take those.
And place them behind your back.
And I want you to, here, I'll do the same.
I want you to cut the cards, anywhere you want,
behind your back.
Cut them, yeah?
In half.
You want to do it again?
You can do it again if you want.
- Yeah.
- And then you take the top card, you don't look,
don't look at the card, and you put it
in your pocket.
(speaking in foreign language) Take these.
We'll try something here.
Can you hold these?
Okay, I don't know if this will work.
But if it does, it will be really good.
What's that?
I always say this.
So we each have one card in our pocket, yeah?
I have the seven of Hearts.
- Okay.
- What do you have?
Oh, come on!
(clapping)
- Crazy.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Chris] Yeah? (speaking in foreign language)
- [Male] This is crazy, guys.
- [Chris] This is insane.
I thought, oh my God, there's more people.
(laughing)
I thought, there'd be, honestly, like five or 10 people.
I was like ah, it's Freiburg, I know I can't go to Berlin.
This is pretty insane.
- A friend of mine will be very disappointed now.
- [Chris] We'll say hi to him.
What's his name?
- Hey Louis!
- [Chris] Louis, (speaking in foreign language).
- It's great here, but, sorry. (laughing)
- [Chris] Yeah, nice shirt!
- Yeah, Ram Fam!
- [Chris] Right on!
And a deck. - Yeah!
Super!
- I bought a brick.
- [Chris] Oh yeah?
- I love these cards.
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- [Chris] Hi, Chris, nice to meet you!
What's your name?
- [Samuel] Samuel!
- [Chris] Samuel.
- [Samuel] Yes, please think of a card.
- [Chris] Oh, oh, is this a trick?
- [Samuel] Yes.
- [Chris] Oh shit, may I film it?
- [Samuel] No.
Think of a card.
- [Chris] Okay, yup.
Tell me.
- [Chris] Four of Hearts.
- [Samuel] Four of Hearts!
It's here.
It's right there, Four of Hearts.
Please, sign it for me. (laughing)
Will you please sign it for me?
You know what's going on?
- You, sir, are either the luckiest man
I've ever seen, or really, really good.
I don't even want to know.
Literally, he was like, "Just think of a card,
say it out loud."
I say four of Hearts, he turns the deck around.
Didn't do, did he do anything?
He just turns it around, right?
And it's the four of Hearts.
What's your name?
- Samuel.
- [Chris] Samuel.
Check this guy out, holy cow.
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- Oh, this guy! (laughing)
See, in the hot sun, here, and, what's your name?
- Lucas.
- [Chris] Shout out to Lucas for the beer.
And this is a Freiburg beer, yeah?
So this is Julian, and his girlfriend, your name?
- Hi, Tammy.
- [Chris] Tammy and she wrote me,
how many times did you write me, Tammy?
- 56! - 49?
- Yeah, 177 times.
To send him a signed deck for his birthday.
And then I did sign it, and I sent it to him.
I don't know if you guys remember the video,
she gave him the deck, it was super emotional.
It was a great, great...
Anyways-- - I was nearly crying.
- He was almost crying, I was almost crying.
And it's come full circle, because now I'm in Germany,
and here he is.
And he's brought the uncut sheet.
Thank you, sir. (laughing)
- I have a little present for you,
but I give it to you later, because you have
to hold it the whole time.
- Is this all beer? - Yeah.
(speaking foreign language) - Whoa!
- Got it?
- Thank you!
- Thank you guys.
Yes, absolutely.
Why did you bring me a Toblerone?
- Yeah, because I'm Swiss and I thought
to fulfill the cliche.
(laughing)
- All right, we're done signing and photos and stuff.
And now we're gonna go have a beer.
So, Martin's Bar?
- [Man] Martin's Brewery.
- Ah, Martin's Brewery.
Let's go; lead the way!
- One finger, okay yes?
(indiscernible chatter)
- Very nice. - Like this.
You can hold on so tight, that the fork has bended.
- Woo! - Woo!
- Just like so.
- Ooh!
That's really pretty.
Thank you, Alphonso!
All right, we're going to, change of plans.
We're going to the Biergarten.
Where they grow beer.
- [Fan Offscreen] No, they don't grow it.
- No? (laughing)
- [Fan Offscreen] Maybe they do it, too.
- It smells like pee here.
Can you smell it, it might be me.
- Do okay, we have your three cards.
- Yup. - You see, yes?
Yes, so I say, hmm, maybe I know you.
So we say this is money, this is family,
and this is, I don't know, cars.
- Okay. - What is your favorite?
What do you want to take?
- [Chris] Family!
- [Magician] The family, okay.
Then take Ace of Heart, but don't look at it.
So you got it; you got family.
- [Chris] Yeah.
Could have picked anything, but you picked family.
- [Chris] Yup.
- [Magician] So turn around; call me.
(sounds of amazement)
- [Chris] That's good.
Nice to meet you, man.
Good to meet you, thanks for coming out.
Tchuss!
Bye! - Bye!
All right, guys.
(speaking in foreign language) (cheering)
(glasses clinking) (indiscernible chatter)
(laughing)
- [Magician Two] So I got a slideshow.
- [Chris] He's got a picture on his Instagram,
of a spread deck of cards.
- [Magician Two] And I posted it four days before.
- [Chris] Four days ago, let's go.
- [Magician Two] Okay, you shuffle the deck.
- He's shuffled the deck. - Yeah, I shuffled the deck.
- [Crhis] Let's do it.
- [Magician Two] Just touch any card you want.
- And you can see it?
- I can see it.
- I take the two.
- [Magician Two] The two of Hearts.
You have any connection to the two of Hearts?
- [Audience Member] Not really.
- Not really.
I posted this picture four days before.
So I had a dream about you,
that you'd choose the two of Hearts.
Just place it in the middle.
- Okay.
- And I show you the post.
- Yes.
- We can show that I have four of them.
Four pictures, but it's a private account.
- Yeah.
- So I have my own thoughts about it.
And I just posted this type of thing, and you chose.
- No way.
(sounds of disbelief)
(applause)
- I thought what it would be like
to come by magic and cardistry.
But today we do something different.
Let's take, for example, the two.
And change it into a seven.
And we can also change the seven into the two.
But this is not what it's about today.
We all know, for example, this routine
where we place a card in the middle
and it jumps back to the top, just like, oh wait.
We just drop it here just like this.
So this time I want you to sign a card,
for example this one.
- [Chris] Yep, can you hold it?
- [Magician Three] Place it somewhere in the middle,
and I want to show you the card is not on top.
But we bring it on top with just the weight.
Look, like this.
- Wow! - You see?
So we can do this one more time,
and you'll see it happen really quick.
Like this.
- [Chris] Wow.
(applause)
- [Chris] What's your name?
- Moritz.
- [Christ] Moritz?
- Just pick a card, any card.
Don't let me see it.
- [Chris] Got it.
- Okay put it back.
So normally in magic, the magician does all the magic.
But in this trick, the cards themselves tell me
everything I need to know, okay.
This card tells me what's not your card.
- [Chris] Yup.
- [Moritz] Your card is not an Ace, correct?
- [Chris] Correct.
- [Moritz] This one tells me the color of your card.
Your card was a clubs, right?
- [Chris] Yes.
- [Moritz] This one tells me where your card is.
- [Chris] Yes.
- [Moritz] Three.
So I have to count three cards from the top.
One, two, what was your card?
- [Chris] The Jack of Clubs.
- Yes, that's right.
- [Chris] Whoa!
- [Moritz] Magic!
Nothing in Magic happens--
- [Chris] Bam, bam, bam!
Love it! (applause)
- All right guys, that's it for the meet up today.
What an amazing time.
I'm a little bit tipsy.
Had a little bit too much to drink.
But hey, had a good time (laughter)
Thanks guys for coming out.
You guys are awesome.
(applause)
Thanks for watching.
Like, subscribe, all that stuff.
We'll see you in the next video.
Peace, brah.
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