- Yo, what's up guys and welcome
(clapping) back.
Few things that I wanna add to these things.
Number one, being at the beginning of every one
of these episodes, I'm gonna be featuring
a new deck of cards.
I'm gonna be using these decks throughout the video,
so I thought it'd be a good time to feature them.
So today we're lookin' at the Jerry's Nuggets
Limited Edition, one of 5,000.
(laid back groove)
These are a pink edition, distributed by Riffle Shuffle,
produced by Expert Playing Card Company,
printed by USPCC, all right, so, I mean,
get your ducks in a row if you don't understand
what I just said there.
They feel good.
They feel great.
They feel like a standard deck of cards from USPCC.
Comes with a blank card.
That's cool.
Always appreciate that.
Also comes with a double-backed card.
Everything else is absolutely standard.
Jokers are identical.
Here's the box, by the way.
Simple box.
And that's it.
That's gonna be the extent of these deck reviews.
They're not gonna be longer than that.
I won't put you through any more.
One more thing, I am hosting a contest on the Reddit page.
I'm gonna give away $5,000 total, so $1,000
divided into five different people.
And there are some guidelines,
so before we get into reviewing the magic stuff,
I'm gonna run through that first
and if you wanna compete.
Ranting a lot, I'm doing a lot of ranting today.
Rule number one, the video cannot exceed one minute long.
I'm not watchin' nine minute routine times 30,000.
I'm not doing that.
I appreciate you.
The only items that you are allowed to use
for this particular challenge are the following.
Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, gloves, masks, or soap.
So all the things that revolve around
the sort of pandemic and all these items that
normally magicians wouldn't be able to justifiably use.
Right now, great time to use toilet paper
for a magic routine, people get it.
Write them down.
You don't have to use all of them, you can use
just one of them.
You can film a routine or a trick,
but it has to be original in some way.
It has to be unique.
I can't be there and be like, "I know who made that trick."
You're automatically not going to get reviewed
and or chosen to win, period.
You know, I'm not gonna only be judging it
on camera quality.
I'm not only gonna be judging on whether
it fooled me or not.
And I'm not only going to be judging it
on the performance of it.
I want raw ideas.
I want things that have potential.
These type of things.
And the more clever it is and the more
well put-together it is with what you're given,
the more chances you have of winning.
So next Friday we will be reviewing few of those videos
and five of those I will choose to take home $1,000 a piece.
(scraping)
That's enough ranting.
That's like four minutes of ranting.
How 'bout we make it five?
Currently at home editing.
I forgot to mention two things, so this is me editing.
First thing, one submission per person, period.
Second thing, don't forget to use the appropriate flair.
That's the only way I'm gonna be able to see it.
Fan art for you. I am an Army veteran, don't sleep much.
Painted this, I hope you like it.
That's pretty dope.
I look so dreamy.
You could add like, some nice dreamy music to this.
(dreamy music)
Imagine that.
That's pretty good.
Hi, my name is Jason.
Ah, nice to meet you, Jason.
Friends, family, the order of a playing card deck from 2012.
Say Jarvis, wanna hear the order of a card deck
I memorized in 2012?
That's pretty funny.
What's this now? (shimmering)
Oh, a little compilation?
(jazz piano music) Nope, music.
(laid back groove)
Whoa, that was pretty clean.
It's funny, he's actually using the Jerry's Nuggets as well,
as am I.
That was pretty clean too.
This guy's pretty good.
See what he does here.
Okay, all right.
Oh.
I mean, that's pretty good.
This guy's got some smooth hands here.
Good angles.
This says here, "This is the best, cleanest, easiest
"3Fly you'll ever see!!
"Please make Chris see this."
I'm seeing it.
You better not have hyped me up for nothin'.
Here we go.
(laid back groove)
Three, okay.
Very nice, very nice.
Very nice.
This guy's been practicing, man.
Gotta appreciate that.
Oh.
Okay.
I mean, it was clean.
I'm not a hard guy to impress when it comes to coin stuff.
I always, I always feel like it's just in the other hand
all the time.
Like, I mean, that's just how I feel.
I'll be like, "Oh, what a clever way to make me
"think it's in that hand, but now we know it's
"in the other hand."
Not diminishing the amount of practice that you've put in,
because obviously you've put in way more than I ever have
into coin magic.
That's just how I feel about it in general.
Prove me wrong, I guess.
A little snap change with a card and a coin.
Ooh, a little routine, showing his palms empty.
That was pretty clean.
Good job.
Mercury by David Kong.
All right, let's see this.
Got four kings.
Give it a little shake.
Okay, it's like a little twisting the aces.
Now we got two upside-down.
Now we got three upside-down.
Four?
Ayy, figured it out. (laughing)
And now they're all aces!
That's actually pretty good.
I love that.
You're figuring out the plot as it goes along.
He doesn't have to say anything.
We all know where it's going
and we're all kind of like, "Okay, it's gonna be another."
And then he turns all four of them into aces.
And that's really good.
The impossible card castle.
I wanna see this.
I mean, already this is pretty impressive.
Card castles are an easy thing to understand for everybody,
magician or not.
'kay.
That's cool.
That's very cool.
I love that, man.
That is very simple.
It's not over the top, and what's fun about that
is it's borderline impossible.
And I think that's even more impossible
for a lot of people to understand.
When something bends your reality without breaking it,
it uses what you already know, the physics
that you're familiar with against you.
I think that's really where it's strong.
'Cause now you're like, caught somewhere between,
"Was that real or was that like a gimmick?"
(trippy voicing) Do aliens exist?
Teaching online quarantine martial art classes
and throwing in card tricks, my students like them.
Okay.
- [Teacher] I'm gonna put it about in the center
of the pack like this.
- Okay.
- [Teacher] Is that fair?
- [Student] Yes?
(snapping)
- [Teacher] Watch.
It's actually on top.
So look, I'll do that again.
Watch, I'm gonna take your card.
I'm gonna put it about in the center.
And look, that is still your card, right?
Your three of hearts?
So look, I'm gonna take it, and watch, when I push it
into the center (cards shuffling), is that fair?
- [Student] Maybe?
- [Teacher] Not quite, 'cause it's still on top.
Now watch, I'll do that again.
This one's gonna be super fair.
I'm gonna take your three.
And I'm gonna push it all the way into the center.
That one was completely fair, you gotta admit.
- [Student] No!
- [Teacher] Yeah, you're right, 'cause it's actually
in my back pocket.
Which is kind of weird, 'cause these things don't
even have pockets.
Figure that one out.
(chuckling)
- That's pretty cool.
I like the little touches he added there.
Using one of my favorite card controls,
which is this one here.
That's the king of diamonds.
Watch it go in the middle.
(sighing)
Really well done.
I personally hate when someone says, "Is that fair?"
or, I feel like, it's just I've heard it so many times
from magicians because it's kind of like thumbtip guilt,
where you're guilty about the move that you did,
so you're like, "That's fair, right?"
and you're trying to over-prove it to compensate
for your, you know, your guilty feeling of
hiding something in plain sight or lying to them.
Working around that can be difficult.
I found myself, I find that happens to me a lot in patter.
Want to be able to correct that in future performances.
Just keep your head open for like,
don't, never lie.
I'm not saying that, like, it's a big lie, or a bad lie.
It's just, you're creating this fiction
around the trick, right?
This fiction, we all know it's fiction.
We all know it's not real.
We're all aware of that.
And then you say something real, like, "It's fair, right?"
Like you're the character and the narrator, right?
And then it becomes weird because then you're like,
"Wait, I thought this was fiction
"and now you're trying to sell it to me
"as if it's real."
It gives you that vibe.
So if you're gonna stay within that character,
stay within the character.
Or if you're gonna play the narrator, play the narrator.
Just try not to jump to both.
I hope that makes sense.
All right, moving on.
Insane sleight of hand coin vanish.
(laid back groove)
Wow.
No way.
(gasping)
What?
(laughing) That made me so happy.
Okay, at first, I'm gonna say, like,
at first, my initial thoughts were, there's gotta be
an easier way to vanish a coin.
Like, that's a lot of, like, steps.
But then, bringin' it back completely friggin' blew my mind.
Like, we all feel like we know it's in the left hand
and he's just hiding it.
What fools me here is him turning both of his wrists over.
That messes me up to no extent.
Where did that come from?
Huh?
I am completely fooled.
Holy cow, okay.
Movin' on.
My first collection.
Pretty nice.
Pretty impressive, holy cow.
Levels of fanning.
Loading levels.
(grinding)
That has music here, for sure.
Yep.
All right, level one.
Level two.
Okay.
Level three.
Ay, I love that one.
Level four.
Little color change there.
This is very satisfying to watch.
Ooh.
Ooh, I like that.
Hmm, then you just turbine.
Level 10.
Level 999, oh my god.
Yeah, one of my favorites is the riffle fan.
I'm still afraid to do it.
I actually hung out with Dimitri Arleri,
who invented this, who came up with it
and has a tutorial on YouTube for it,
for anybody asking me how this works.
Whoa!
And that's what I dread most.
Movin' on.
- What!
Wa-chow, wa-chow, wa-chow!
(laughing)
- Best reaction ever.
Snap change to a coin, because why not?
I mean, that's been done.
How to make apple juice.
Apple juice (laughing), what?
Okay, kind of flash there.
Okay.
Second take over, big flash, obviously,
but I was not expecting the juice box
to be that size.
Replay video?
Okay, it's a poker chip.
And he shows both sides.
Whoa, what the hell?
That is really clean.
Yeah, I don't know how that works.
That was really insane.
You guys are so talented, by the way.
Day five learning cardistry.
Can already do the worm?
Yo!
That's crazy.
Wow.
I can't believe you did the thing with the cards.
We'll stop that for today.
You guys are super, super talented and amazing.
And for some reason, I feel like you're all getting
so much better, especially during this quarantine.
Exponentially so.
You guys are learning so quick and your performances
are getting smoother and better and more fooling
and more original, which is why I'm really excited
to be reviewing your videos.
One submission per person.
Make it fooling.
Use those items that are required.
Five $1,000 prizes will be going out to you guys
to help you out during COVID-19.
Thank you guys for watching.
Really appreciate you.
Hope you enjoyed this video.
If you did, show me some support.
Like, subscribe, comment, join the Reddit,
and we'll see you on the next video.
Peace.
(laid back groove)