man i love the reactions you get doing
these tricks i really
when you're out on the street with these
people so let's start us off right right
first off with the trick do you have a
marker i brought one if you don't um i
got a i got a magic marker here yeah
here's the idea
okay from in the deck i want you to i
mean look at the deck
you could just choose one take a card
out okay any one all right yeah
and i want you to write your name big
across the face of the card and don't
worry if i see it yet it doesn't matter
okay
here we go i write my name big boss
places here
so everybody can see the card and then
show it to people
yeah great now look stick it up stick it
in the deck
just stick it anywhere that's good it
doesn't matter here's the idea the first
part
is a is a quick move see i make the card
hold your hand out
i make the card jump up well if you saw
it it actually jumped up to the top i
think this is it
oh it might not be it here let's see
oh we got it all right thank god okay
all right look the next part here no no
watch so look conan
put your other hand on top of the card
like a sandwich okay
yeah remember this card the four spades
can you all see that
yeah like if i wave the four you might
feel that
did you feel anything i feel a tingling
in my lower body look so you're calm
oh look at that just left your hands
look inside of your hand conan look
inside
ah oh man
that is i felt nothing
you know that is so cool i mean this in
this in this day of of
incredible stunts that magicians do and
they bring out these giant props
it's these tricks were like i'm right
here i don't know how you're doing it it
doesn't seem humanly possible
that's more impressive to me than the
smoke and the fog and let's saw a horse
in half you know i like it better
which you'll do later you're going to
saw a horse a nest okay we're going to
do another one
first of all how did you get into this
how did you start getting into magic i
just always wanted to be a professional
you got the look and everything it's
great that's what he wanted so it was
dentist lawyer you didn't care
no it didn't matter all right when i was
four i would stand in the middle of an
empty room
and i would just disappear
from there okay that sort of eliminates
dentist all right
uh let's let's let's try another one can
i see that marker again
yeah right here here andy this is for
you
oh thank you great andy thinks that's it
he's just happy he's getting a pen
which card do you want take one out
the ace of diamonds good just put it uh
face up right here all right and write
your name big across the face
i can't write
it's an abc after school special right
there
okay could everybody can see this card
andy's card
so like what i do is i place it into
about i mean i'm estimating but this is
about
center if i hit it just like that the
card will actually pop
up to the top here we'll do it again
look andy pick up about half of the deck
we'll drop the card in the middle you
put them on top
perfect watch closely you turn over the
top card
scene again
but wait wait now that you all know it's
coming we'll do it again this time we'll
leave it like this protruding so you can
see your name
so here's what happens it goes in about
12 cards down plus another
10 so it's 22 if i hit it again it comes
up but now wait no no the only way to
make them several people in the audience
are leaving right now
this is the work of the devil well look
andy andy here's a good part let's say
we bend the card that's called a crimp
you could see the bend in the card we'll
leave it like this protruding so you can
see that
right cards go right on top look see
what happens ah
okay
how do you do that
that freaks me out a little bit that
last one with the crimp
i this is not a sophisticated show we
can't do tricks with cameras
uh that was uh really amazing you know
it's funny because you're getting some
of the same reactions here in the studio
but but you really do when you when you
walk around the streets of new york and
you do these tricks for people you get
amazing reactions
what what is the most extreme reaction
you've gotten from people well one time
this girl had asthma
i didn't know it before i started doing
magic
so i'm doing these simple things to her
and somebody whispered into her ear he's
a devil which i guess she took literally
and she had an asthma attack
and oh another one she's fine now yeah
now she's okay
good now we can laugh and what else oh
another time is
uh one girl i was in atlantic city and i
was doing magic to these three girls and
the one girl
took it to such a level that she
actually wet her pants
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there's the siskel and ebert two thumbs
up and then and you know there's the
next level you know david now that you
mention it when you crimp that
well never mind
we had the uh
we had the couch scotch guarded a long
time ago
now uh can you uh can you show us
anything anything else before we
well did you did you want me to sort of
demonstrate how one is done
for everybody yeah and we got time right
all right let's see
here's the idea we use four well for now
hold both of your hands out
okay great so just remember this card
it's kind of just remember ace of spades
i think i can do that okay good we'll
put ace of spades on the right hand so
that's all you have to remember and then
ace of clubs
you put on their left hand like this
here me put it there
did everybody see those or ace of spades
ace of clubs
right now here's the move watch you get
them to look upwards and when they look
upwards you do that move and they're
licking into your eyes so they won't see
it
that is the lamest thing i've ever seen
sorry about that well look hold on conan
look see
the uh oh
all right thanks someone shouted out he
is the devil the audience is now getting
pitchforks that's incredible
that's amazing really and and i gotta
that's it pretty much right that's all
we got time for
we can do it do we want to do one more
thing we got time for we got time for
one more
let let's do this one the devil yeah
okay
i'm not all right actually i am not
you know when the devil does arrive and
he's accused he's gonna say i am not
okay that's how you'll know he's the
devil okay so
um this will do to andy and actually
everybody at home watching could try
this as well
so here's what we'll do we'll get rid of
a few cards these
okay andy i want you to try to see and i
want everybody to come in close so they
could see
just as well we're going to ask everyone
at home to really pay attention to this
show for the first time ever
okay really look closely and try to see
a card from in this portion not the nine
of hearts but look try to see one
nice it was too quick here we'll do it
again look closely try to see a card if
you can
okay did he get one yeah okay good don't
say it i'm not gonna guess it i know
that
first of all i know this is not the card
i know you wouldn't choose the
seven of spades but look andy hold the
seven for a second
great name your card out loud
ace of diamonds ace shoot ace of
diamonds look turn over the seven of
spades so they can see
oh man
i prayed to you to get this job remember
uh we got to mention the abc special you
they're now dawning on them what i'm
talking about the uh you've got an abc
special
later this season and this is just the
tip of the iceberg yeah stuff you're
doing
yeah it'll be really really and i should
tell people how david
came to us and came to the offices and
and did some stuff in my
in my office and it just freaked me out
so much and we thought
we got to have this guy on the show it's
amazing really best of luck and please
come by
back anytime david blaine everybody
watch for his tv show it's great
want to take a break