My next guest proved years ago that he
knew exactly what I was thinking,
and now he's back to do it again.
From Waterford, Ireland, please welcome back
magician Keith Barry.
Hi, Keith.
How are you?
Virtual hug, virtual elbow, bumps, all that kind of stuff.
All that right back at you.
How are things in Ireland right now?
Yeah, we're back in another lockdown,
but I'm staying positive.
I'm locked in the cabin here performing virtually and doing
lots of cool things with kids.
At the moment actually teaching them magic on Facebook
with which they can share with their friends and family
during lockdown.
Very cool.
That's great you're doing that.
OK, I, as usual, don't like to know
what's happening ahead of time.
So what do you have today?
So I saw during lockdown that you were attempting at least
to try and learn a couple of card tricks,
but I designed a card trick specifically for you.
So I've got a deck of cards, and you
can see the names of the cards are all different.
But I'm not talking about the names on the faces just.
I'm also talking about the names on the backs
of the cards, Ellen.
Because I made this deck specifically for you.
You see, I've written the names of previous guests of yours
on the backs of these cards, favorite guests of mine that
have been on your show.
Now I'll show you something.
We've got Cher there.
We also got Bruno Mars and David.
David Blaine has been recently on your show.
I gave him the seven of diamonds.
Every person has a different personality
and a different card.
So for example, Bindi is there.
Alec Baldwin, I know you had him on your show recently,
and I gave him the ace of spades, a mystery card.
But here's the idea.
I'm thinking of the person who's associated specifically right
now with the four of diamonds.
And I'm mentally sending you the name of that person.
You've got to figure out which one of these it is.
I'll go through them, and you can tell me
whichever name you want.
Either say stop or just call out the name.
And we know it's not Alec or David.
We can have Cher.
You have Bruno.
Jayden, whichever one you think is the four of diamonds.
Bindi, Shakira is there.
Pink is also there.
Judge Judy is there.
Name any one of them out loud.
Ewan McGregor, Deepak Chopra, Wanda Sykes is there.
Lenny is there.
Garth Brooks is there.
Jamie, use your intuition.
Justin-- we've got Kai is there.
Britney is there.
Dido is there.
All right.
Is there any that you're thinking of?
I think I'm going to say Pink.
I'm going to go all the way back to Pink.
OK, so let's go back to Pink.
Let's find-- Pink should be back here somewhere.
So you think that Pink for some reason she
might be the four of diamonds.
And I'm going to take Pink, and I'm just
going to place her over here for a moment.
Because I also marked one of these cards as Average Andy.
Now I'm going to tell you now.
He's not the Joker OK.
That's too obvious.
The Joker is obviously the one and only Joaquin Phoenix.
Which card?
Name any card out loud that you think is Average Andy.
Just name a random playing card.
Go ahead.
10 of hearts.
Do you think the 10 of hearts might be Average Andy?
Let's go through here and find the 10 of hearts.
There it is right there.
So for some reason, you went with the 10 of hearts
for Average Andy.
And you believe Pink over here might
have been the four of diamonds for some reason.
Here's the interesting thing.
Check this out.
If I-- now there is no way you could
have known which one was the four diamonds
or which one was Average Andy.
No.
But, Ellen, you did an amazing job,
because you found the four of diamonds,
which was a deep pink.
And over here you also found Average Andy.
There they are right there.
You did an amazing job.
How?
Well, you did it, not me.
How?
All right, what's next?
OK, so then I want to go over to the States sometime soon.
I actually bought a new suitcase from Slate.
I've got it down here.
It's completely empty.
It's brand new.
Pump it inside.
I've also got a brand new luggage tag here.
So, Ellen, we're going to go on an imaginary holiday.
I'll take the luggage tag off, and I'll just
hang the luggage tag here for a moment.
Now, Ellen, as a matter of fact, this holiday
is going to take place in your imagination.
So here's what I want you to do.
Just make your mind completely blank for a moment.
That's hard.
And now I want you to imagine that you're
going on holidays with any celebrity in the world.
Now it doesn't have to be a celebrity
from the deck of cards, any celebrity you want.
If you were going on holidays right now,
because I guess it's difficult for you to travel too, right?
Yes.
OK, who would you go on holidays with right now?
Sia.
OK, so you'd go on holidays with Sia.
And I want you to imagine that you've
got Sia's number in your phone.
OK, and I want you to imagine that you're
scrolling through your phone, and you
see Sia's number in your phone.
Do you have Sia's number in your phone, by the way?
Yes.
OK, I want you to imagine that you can see the last three
digits.
What do you think the last three digits
on Sia's telephone number are?
615.
So Sia, last three numbers are 615.
And imagine that you're going to go anywhere
you want in the world with Sia.
Where would you go right now if you could grab a suitcase
and go there?
South Africa.
South Africa, interesting choice.
Now it is important-- you mentioned it,
but I'll mention it again--
is there any way that I could have
known in advance you were going to those three things?
Or more important, we didn't set anything up in advance,
correct?
Exactly.
And I didn't know what I was going to say either.
Yeah, those came from your mind.
But inside the luggage tag is what I'm interested in.
Because I wrote down something that was a gut intuition.
If we open up this luggage tag here,
laminated inside the luggage tag, check this out.
We're going to zoom in on this right here.
You can see.
Can you call that out loud for me, please?
Wow.
I have chills all over my body right now.
Sia, 615, South Africa.
Wow, that is crazy.
615, South Africa.
I think you'll see you should definitely go to South Africa.
Guess what, check your phone later.
Because a 615 is the last three digits
of Sia's telephone number.
That's insane.
I just have it with her name, because I text her
all the time.
But I don't even know what her number is.
All right, Keith has one more trick for us
when we come back after this break.
Oh my God, I don't know how you do that.
We'll be right back.
We're back with magician Keith Barry.
And one more trick, what are we doing now?
So, Ellen, I noticed a couple of months
ago during one of the lockdowns that you found
a cat that plays tic-tac-toe.
Do you remember that?
Yes.
Yeah, so we're going to have a little game of tic-tac-toe
here, OK.
There's a photograph here as well.
We'll get that photograph in a few moment's time.
But for now, do you want to be Xs or Os, your choice?
I'll be Os.
OK, so you get to start.
OK, so this O here, so this will be the top.
This is the middle.
This is the bottom.
You tell me where to place this O, top, middle,
or bottom and what position.
Top, right where you are.
So here?
Yeah, the corner.
Or in the middle?
Yes, right there in the corner.
OK, got it.
Plop it down.
Now you get to make my moves for me.
So how about this, this X here, where
would you like this X to go?
Tell me where you'd like to go.
Right below it.
So down here?
Yep.
Perfect.
OK, your next O, Ellen.
Now I'm trying to influence you, just so you know.
So you tell me where you want this O to go.
In the middle.
In the middle?
Plunk in the middle?
That's an obvious choice.
Yep.
OK, so the X here, this next X, where would you
like this one to go?
Right below the other X.
OK, now here's the interesting choice that you make.
And this is an important choice.
It might not seem it right now.
But do you want me to turn this X,
or do you want me to keep it this way?
You can keep it that way.
OK, I'll plunk it there.
Good.
OK, nobody's won yet, so this next O here.
This is yours.
Where would you like it to go?
The bottom corner, so I get tic-tac-toe.
OK, so you're already at tic-tac-toe.
So it appears like you've won, but let's finish the game out.
So this X here, where would you like this one to go?
In between the O and the X.
So down here?
Yep.
OK, perfect.
OK, this next O here--
now remember, I'm trying to influence you, Ellen.
Where do you want this O to go?
The top center.
Top center, so just in here?
Yeah.
OK, this next X, just two positions left?
Yeah, the center and on the side.
So you're not going to block yourself here.
So I'll plunk that one in there, and then just
finally, obviously, this O would go
over here, which means that you seemingly have won twice
with tic-tac-toe down here.
But here's the interesting thing, Ellen.
You recognize this photo right here?
Yes.
You do?
Because this is a photograph of me on your show at--
I don't know how many years ago--
I think it's 16 years ago, 14 years ago.
It was actually back in 2004, Ellen.
That's a photograph of me.
But on the other side of this is what
we're interested in, because I don't know if you can see that,
Ellen.
That's O-O-O, which is exactly what you did up here.
X-O-X in the middle, an X-X-O down the middle.
Actually, I win our game of tic-tac-toe, not you.
Wow.
I don't understand it.
I don't understand.
Ellen, what if I told you that wasn't the trick?
Oh, it's not?
No, no, look.
You see the photograph is the most important thing to me.
If I just remove this little board
that we have here, if I get rid of that,
you see you made all the decisions it seems.
But watch.
On the other side of these there is something I want you to see.
So look, on the other side of these
is actually a photograph of you with me all those years ago.
You made all of the decisions, Ellen, each and every decision
you made.
And you can see that you actually
formed the exact same photograph from all of those years ago,
both of us, back together, Ellen, each and every moment
back together.
Back to back, cheek to cheek, so to speak.
There we are there.
Oh my God.
Exactly back in time, Ellen.
There it is.
Oh my God.
You are incredible.
You're amazing.
To get tickets for Keith's--
Thank you.
--virtual Halloween show, go to KeithBarry.com.
And we'll be back.
Thank you so much.
Good seeing you again.