[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: What is up, YouTube?
Ladies and gentlemen, I've shrouded myself behind a dark
curtain to build suspense.
Can I get an ooh, ahh?
AUDIENCE: Ooh, ahh.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: There is a dude in the second row with
black hair and a blue button up shirt,
what's your name, dude?
Dude?
JESSE: Jesse.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Name, loud, what is it?
JESSE: Jesse.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Jesse.
All right, Jesse, you're about to get magished.
Jesse, name any vegetable or fruit.
JESSE: Strawberries.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Strawberry?
JESSE: Yep.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Shit.
Um.
Hello, what's up, YouTube?
How's it going?
This side, what's up this side?
This side.
[CHEERING]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Give it up for Jesse, everybody.
One day that's going to kill, though.
Can you imagine?
Dude says banana?
That could've been tonight, but Jesse is here.
Anyway, my name is Justin Willman.
I am a magician.
This is great to be doing a show in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles crowd, we're feeling good?
[CHEERING]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Normally I have to travel.
And you can imagine, being a magician going through airport
security, it is complicated, with like
banana suits and shit.
So I actually have a couple handy tricks to speed up the
TSA process.
I take all my metal objects, like my phone, and my watch,
and my ring, and instead of having them on me when I go
through security and setting off the metal detector, what I
do is, I put them in a TSA-friendly envelope.
We pop the watch in there, and the ring in there, perfect.
And the phone, you want to be careful not
to scratch the screen.
Now, Jesse, do you travel much?
JESSE: Yeah.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: You do?
JESSE: Yeah.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Awesome.
OK.
TSA, they don't have a sense of humor.
So when you write, "Not Guns," they assume it's guns and they
take whatever you just gave them and destroy it.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: It's cool, though, because I always still
have my ring, and I always still have my watch, and I
always still have my phone.
That's how I travel, people, that's how I travel.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: What?
Wow.
Magnets, magnets.
Pete Holmes, he's right.
Being a magician in 2013 is hard, OK?
Like when I was 14, I used to do shows at
kid's birthday parties.
It was adorable.
And I would close the show by pulling a rabbit
out of a hat, OK?
People didn't care how the trick worked.
They weren't trying to bust me.
They were just happy there was a rabbit there,
you know what I mean?
They wanted to pet it.
It's cute.
But if I did that now, I pulled a rabbit out of a hat,
right here on the stage, you guys would be like, pssh.
It's up his sleeve, there's a trap door, how
was the bunny treated?
[LAUGHTER]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Right?
And I think that audiences, you guys, have been
desensitized, partly because of the iPhone.
Like this is a magical device, it's in our
pockets at all times.
It does miracles.
We take it for granted.
Like I can hold this thing up to a speaker,
it'll tell me the song.
That's magic, right?
10 years ago, I could have closed with that.
That would have been awesome.
I can say, take me to the YouTube show-- using
satellites, it'll take me here.
Sometimes it'll make a phone call.
It's an amazing device.
So what I'd love to do is this, OK?
This is kind of improvised.
But I'm going to see if Siri, my lovely assistant, can teach
us a magic trick.
We're going to merge the classic art of magic and the
new world of technology.
Are you with me?
Give me a hell yes.
AUDIENCE: Yeah.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: I'm going to patch in my Bluetooth to the
sound system here.
All right, here we go.
[BEEP]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Hello, Siri.
[BEEP]
SIRI: Hello, Justin.
[BEEP]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Can you teach me a magic trick?
[BEEP]
SIRI: Did you say, teach me a magic trick?
[BEEP]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Yes, you're amazing.
It's amazing.
[BEEP]
SIRI: OK, I will help you create a magic trick using
ordinary objects in your vicinity.
[BEEP]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: OK.
[BEEP]
SIRI: What objects do you have nearby?
[BEEP]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Cloth napkin, banana, bottle of--
[BEEP]
SIRI: Perfect.
We'll use the cloth napkin and the bandana.
[BEEP]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Cloth napkin and a banana.
Banana.
[BEEP]
SIRI: Correct.
The bandana.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Hold on.
[BEEP]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Banana.
[BEEP]
SIRI: Pick up the bandana.
Now, fold the bandana in half.
[BEEP]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Banana.
[BEEP]
SIRI: Trust me, Justin.
Fold it in half.
Now, fold it one more time.
Take the folded bandana and hide it in your left hand.
Remember to keep your hand held in a natural position.
This is called palming.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Palming.
SIRI: Now that you have mastered palming, we
are ready to begin.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: OK.
SIRI: Open up the folded bandana.
Show the audience it's a regular bandana by waving it
up and down.
If an audience member does not believe it is a real bandana,
allow him to wipe his face on it.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: Jesse?
You're good?
SIRI: Pick up the cloth napkin and gather the corners
together, forming a makeshift bag.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: OK.
SIRI: Using your free hand fold the bandana along the
creases you made earlier and drop it into
the makeshift bag.
From the outside of the napkin, squeeze the bandana
into a small little ball.
JUSTIN WILLMAN: OK.
SIRI: What the audience didn't see is that you never really
put the bandana into the napkin at all.
You really kept it hidden in your left hand.
Remember palming?
JUSTIN WILLMAN: No.
SIRI: Now, make a magical gesture.
[LAUGHTER]
SIRI: For the big finale, fling open the napkin and
receive your well deserved applause.
[MUSIC PLAYING AND APPLAUSE]
JUSTIN WILLMAN: I'm Justin Willman,
thank you guys so much.
Good night.