- When I say the word magician, what comes to mind?
Today we're looking at magician stereotypes.
Magic is a massive tree with a ton of branches.
So today, we're gonna take a look at
a few of those, six of those actually,
with the help of Alex Boyer and Wes Barker.
Go check them out, I left their channels below.
Let's have a look at these stereotypes.
First, the corporate inspirational magician.
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- I travel around the world spreading
my message of teamwork and communication
through magic and illusions, and I do conferences,
and trade shows, and conventions,
and corporate functions, and keynotes.
If you hire me, your productivity goes up 300%.
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Life's complicated.
There's a lot of challenges.
You guys could all feel that?
You feel a lot of challenges happening
in your life and sometimes it's confusing.
There's so many choices and so many options,
but when you come with the team,
when you come together as a team,
you guys are gonna have a,
when you come together as a team,
who here woke up this morning?
(loud cheering)
Clap your hands if you woke up this morning.
(crowd clapping and cheering)
You may have woke up this morning but you are not awake.
I am lucky to do it.
I spread the joy and motivate everyone.
When you had the card you chose, remember that?
Let me show you.
Is that the right one?
Hang on.
Remember the card you chose?
Remember we had the A in team, right,
and then there's a C and an E, right?
So then the O, and then, don't worry about the O.
We got another C, right, and then an L.
Just got the U over here, obviously,
and then, this should actually say, this should say
be communication, right, 'cause there's a B
for the B there, right, so then that's ACE
and the S here, so look at that.
That spells ace O' clubs.
Ace O' clubs, right?
See what happens when we put all
of our team and our positivity?
We take out the negativity squared.
We get our results.
Thank you.
My favorite thing that I do, it's what I live for.
- That was probably my favorite one.
Next up we have the stage illusionist.
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- Magic? (laughs)
I'm an illusionist.
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No, I don't do card tricks anymore.
Come on, sawing a lady in half,
you know what I'm saying, right?
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I made the Statue of Liberty appear
inside the Great Wall of China.
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I'm a rockstar, so women loves me, you know what I'm saying?
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I have three private plane.
I mean, come on, what do you have, Monarchs?
(coughs) (dramatic music)
I got four women pregnant just by looking at them.
- And that was the stage illusionist.
Now, we're transitioning onto the mentalist, of course.
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Some people call me a mind reader,
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others call me a psychic,
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but I'm known as mentalist.
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I can read people's minds,
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know their deepest, darkest desires
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and everything's fair.
Everything's always fair.
Everything's fair.
My hands are here, so fair.
I'm taking out my calculator as you can see here,
plain calculator, this is a borrowed iPhone
from a plain iPhone calculator.
Type in your age,
hit the multiplication button
put in your shoe size,
hit equals.
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That's how many words are in the English dictionary, m'lady.
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Think of a word.
You got it?
What is it?
- [Cameraman] Cat.
- Alright, let's get rid of that word.
I want you to look at the first word on this page.
Look at the first word.
Think of the first word on the page, you got it?
Reasons, the word is reasons.
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Alright, I want you to think of a word, you got it?
- [Cameraman] Oh, yeah.
- Perfect, I need you to write it down, right here,
right here on this little X where this line is.
- [Cameraman] Oh, I got it in my head.
- Right, but I need you to write it down.
- [Cameraman] Nah, it's fine, I got it.
- That's not how it works.
I need you to write it down so that
you know what the word is.
- [Cameraman] But I know what the word is.
- So write it down.
- But I. - And then when you're
done writing it down, can you just
write the word down on the paper?
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This list would not be complete if it wasn't for
that college circuit comedy magician.
- Are you guys ready for the Magicman?
Are you ready to laugh?
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I'm a comedy magician so I'm like 50% comedy, 50% magic,
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but I put 'em together for a comedy magic.
I mean, other guys, like I'm as good a magician as anybody,
you know, and the comedians look at me
and they say "Wow, he's so funny"
but I'm doing 50 50 like both.
Hey, hey, how's everyone doing tonight, huh?
Yeah, just shot in here from Detroit,
you know, and boy is my arm tired.
(laughs) Yeah!
You ready to laugh, sir?
You ready to get those teeth out and ready to laugh?
You're gonna be laughing tonight.
You guys have seen a lot of comedy tonight
but I'm here to do some comedy magic
for you guys at the comedy place we're at.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to your mom's house!
You know what I mean, sir?
Yeah, okay.
Who here likes balloon animals?
Okay, I can do snake, an eel, worm, anybody, huh?
What's this one look like, huh?
Yeah, huh, okay!
Did we do this one?
Yep, okay.
How 'bout this, you guys heard of Harry Potter?
How about Harry Plunger?
Magicman!
The comedy is important, it's like amusement
over amazement and that's what I always say.
I'm out there to be funny and everyone's
always laughing at me so I was like, yeah,
I'll put the magic with my already funny jokes,
and then I have, like, the comedy's
the most, but it's a funny, funny show.
- [Cameraman] Great.
- And this one I can probably identify the most with.
Although I probably draw from every one of these magicians,
this is the edgy, tatted, bearded, street magician.
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- I sold my soul to the devil.
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No guys, put me down.
Put me down. - You good?
- Yeah, that's a good shot.
That's a good shot. - You got this?
- Thank you so much.
- Alright, man, good work. - Thank you.
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When we're filming, I only use one take.
I don't believe in cameric.
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Kids, don't try this at home.
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I'm working on my new TV show called Mind (beep).
Are you ready, are you?
No, seriously, are you ready?
Are you ready?
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That's why I don't do any corporate, I do street magic.
I get paid by the reaction of my fans, AB fans.
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- And finally, the children's magician.
Hi, I perform magic for kids.
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There's something about kids' magic that's just so easy.
Hey, kids, who wants to see some magic?
I've got some magic tricks for you!
I really do it, you know, I started doing
it for the extra cash on the weekends,
and, well, yeah, it's still for
the extra cash on the weekends, really.
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But I do enjoy it, you know,
but the kids, they don't like magic, really.
They like to see you fail is what.
They want to see you bump your head.
It's a living, it's a living.
(muttering)
Hey, come on!
You know, if it wasn't for magic
I'd probably still be married.
One second kids.
Hello, oh, hi.
Oh, you want to book me?
Oh, that's great news.
How close is it to a school?
Yeah, that's a little too close.
Yes, 200 feet.
Okay, well, alright, yeah, 50 bucks sounds great.
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I do balloon animals, I'm a mime, I'm a clown,
I'm literally, I can be a punching bag if you pay me enough.
No, really, it's about 75.
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Alright, guys, we had a blast filming this.
This was actually hilarious to film.
Make sure you go follow Wes and Alex,
I left their links below, and if this is something
you guys want to see again, I've got more ideas.
Let me know in the comments below,
and actually let me know which one of these magicians
you identify yourself with the most,
if it's maybe not one or maybe two.
I think for me, it's probably like the edgy street magician
mixed with the mentalist, and I would say,
if I had to pick a third, it would have to be probably
the comedy magician I would say.
Let me know below which ones you identify with the most,
and thanks for watching, we'll see ya on the next video.
Peace out!
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