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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:15 Hi, can I take your order?
00:17 Oh, hey, how you doing?
00:18 I'm Mark Gines, and today I'd like to show you what I call "Miracles While You Wait."
00:22 These are very powerful magic tricks that are quite easy to perform.
00:25 In fact, you'll notice that all of the props that I'm going to be using are inexpensive, ordinary household items.
00:30 They all fit in my pocket, and they all reset in little to no time whatsoever.
00:35 In just a couple of minutes, I'm going to take a short break and accost the gentle, decent, and hard-working people of Hollywood Boulevard
00:42 for what I call "Miracles While You Wait."
00:45 Boss, would you mind if I took a quick break?
00:49 [MUSIC]
01:01 [MUSIC]
01:19 Actually, are you shy?
01:21 I forced myself to do this.
01:23 How you doing?
01:27 Balloon?
01:28 You believe in magic?
01:30 Oh, boy, I wish this guy wasn't busy.
01:32 Wow.
01:33 So they don't give you a special outfit to wear while you're working?
01:37 No, this is my everyday casual stuff.
01:39 Actually, you know what? You're an expert balloon tier, aren't you?
01:42 Eddie is your name?
01:43 Go ahead and just grab one of those.
01:45 I don't have any of these special balloons like you do, so what I do...
01:48 This is a regular balloon.
01:49 Yeah, well, I mean, you're apparently the balloon expert here, right?
01:52 You can testify to the fact that this is an ordinary balloon, correct?
01:56 Thank you.
01:59 Name an animal.
02:01 An animal, uh, pig.
02:03 A what?
02:04 Pig.
02:05 Hmm.
02:06 Perfect.
02:08 There you are, Eddie.
02:10 A big fat pig.
02:12 I'm not saying that I'm as good as you.
02:14 It's just that you're working here and I'm not, you know, so there you have it.
02:18 Wow, that's great.
02:19 I'll tell you what.
02:20 I normally ask people for a dollar.
02:22 I'm going to supply the dollar myself.
02:23 Is this a bargain or what?
02:25 I'm going to have you sign this dollar.
02:28 Do you have a free hand or can you just...
02:30 Signing your name.
02:38 It's my dollar, but it's your name, so even if I were to do something funny here, you would know.
02:42 Because that has your name on it.
02:44 His name being Mr. Gefeindenling.
02:46 Hang on just a sec.
02:48 Now, being a professional magician as you are, you probably have seen or you are able to do the following.
02:53 You're able to take a dollar bill and just like any of the greatest magicians in the world, ladies and gentlemen,
02:59 be able to fold that dollar bill into eights and with considerable skill, cause the dollar bill to vanish just like this.
03:08 Now, unfortunately, I am not able to do that, Eddie.
03:13 As I'm saying, the greatest magicians in the world, they don't have a problem with that.
03:17 My wife taught me an alternative method, which is a little bit easier than the aforementioned method.
03:24 You simply put the dollar bill away.
03:26 Now, I'll give you a chance to keep the dollar or that balloon which you hold or I've got something here for you.
03:31 Oh, well look, it's the number two pencil. Have you ever seen one of these?
03:35 I'll do this real quick for you.
03:37 I used to think this stood for no two, as in no two.
03:41 See what I'm saying?
03:43 If I squeeze the eraser in, I can make the two appear.
03:46 You can keep the fabulous no two pencil where you just rub and it shoots down to the bottom.
03:51 Or you can keep the balloon or I can even blow up another balloon for you.
03:55 Or you can keep that crummy old tacky looking dollar bill. It's up to you.
03:59 That's a tough choice. How about the dollar?
04:03 He likes the dollar. Wise choice.
04:05 I wouldn't have picked the number two pencil. Actually, I would have, but I would definitely not have picked the balloon.
04:09 You know why? Defective. It rattles. Go ahead, shake it around.
04:13 Hang on just a second, just so I can get it close to the mic.
04:17 Can you hear that? Why, there is something inside.
04:19 If only I had something with which to pop the balloon.
04:22 The number two pencil, of course.
04:25 I'll tell you what, here's what I'm going to do.
04:27 I'm going to give you the number two pencil. I'll take the balloon.
04:30 Now, would you be a honey bun, Eddie, come right down here with me.
04:33 I will not move a muscle. My hands will stay completely still.
04:37 Pop straight through the balloon.
04:40 Now, would you please pick up the dollar and verify that that is in fact Mr. Giffeinenbinden's writing.
04:53 And there it is.
04:55 I don't know that one. That's good.
04:58 Thanks very much. Yeah, see, now you can do that all day.
05:01 He's got an endless supply of material here. I'm going to keep the buck if you don't mind.
05:04 So what was inside the balloon causing it to sound like a dollar bill?
05:08 Guess what, it was actually another little piece of balloon.
05:11 Unless you perform this effect for Bell Laboratory scientists,
05:14 all of the evidence will be hidden at the end of the trick.
05:17 Take a little flap of balloon about this big.
05:19 See its relative position in my palm?
05:21 It's a little bit bigger, roughly the same size as a silver dollar.
05:24 Fish it into an opaque balloon. That means you can't see through it.
05:28 That's very important for obvious reasons.
05:30 Do that about 12 times and you've got your bag of gaffes,
05:34 which you will place in your right jacket pocket.
05:36 You also need something with which to pop the balloon.
05:38 I use a marketed effective mine called the number two pencil,
05:41 but you can use anything you like.
05:43 Place that also in your pocket and you're ready to rock.
05:45 When you blow up the balloon, make sure not to shake it around,
05:49 and then hand it to the spectator.
05:51 Very important that they hold the balloon. They will not shake it.
05:53 They'll handle it like a Ming Bos, don't worry.
05:55 Take a dollar bill. Normally you would borrow this from a spectator,
05:59 but balloon man couldn't get to his pockets, so I gave him a dollar bill.
06:04 Let's say his name is Moondoggy.
06:06 He writes that on the dollar.
06:08 You then fold it once, twice, three times.
06:11 That's folding it into eights.
06:13 Then use my gag here. It's great in front of a group.
06:15 Say, "Only the finest magicians in the world have the uncanny ability
06:18 to cause a dollar bill to vanish just like so."
06:22 Unfortunately, I can't do that.
06:24 That'll get a cheap laugh and afford you the opportunity
06:26 to place the dollar bill in your wallet.
06:29 Now, as you do so, under cover of this flap of wallet,
06:33 secretly finger palm the dollar bill.
06:37 You will do that as your fingers are inside your wallet.
06:39 Now, as far as the spectator is concerned, the dollar is gone.
06:43 Put your wallet back and remove the number two pencil.
06:47 As you're fishing around for it, secretly ditch the dollar bill
06:51 in your right jacket pocket.
06:53 We'll retrieve it in just a moment.
06:55 You can do a trick with the number two pencil or whatever else you bring out of your pocket,
06:58 but the important part here is that you're going to acknowledge
07:01 that you're giving them the dollar back.
07:03 Now, before you hand them the pencil, you need to re-palm the dollar bill,
07:07 which is inside your pocket.
07:09 Again, pat your pockets down.
07:11 Put it in a classic palm position, just like so.
07:14 This is very important.
07:16 Hand them the pencil, implying that this hand is empty.
07:20 Trade them the pencil for the balloon,
07:23 and they can even shake it around so it sounds like the dollar is there,
07:26 and they'll beat you to the punch.
07:27 Now, slap the classic palm dollar bill onto the balloon.
07:31 You can shake it around, and it'll look like metal arc lemon,
07:34 just like you're palming a basketball, and simply hold your hands perfectly steady.
07:38 That's important, too.
07:39 You don't want them to think that you're tossing the dollar bill out.
07:41 So hold your hands perfectly steady.
07:43 When the balloon pops, the pieces of balloon will coalesce with the dollar bill,
07:49 making it appear that it's a perfect illusion.
07:51 It looks like the dollar bill came from within the balloon.
07:55 And, of course, read the dollar bill and verify that that is their signature.
07:59 You've got a great and easy and automatically resetting magic trick called balloon.
08:06 Now, you may have seen any one of the greatest magicians in the world
08:11 take an ordinary dollar, which you have signed, Perry,
08:15 fold it into eights, and by using considerable skill, training,
08:21 and superior technique, cause that dollar bill to vanish, just like this.
08:26 Now, I can't do that, but--
08:28 [laughter]
08:30 Come here. Let me show you something.
08:32 I get all my clothes here. You know why?
08:34 They're having a half-off sale.
08:37 Everything half-off.
08:40 Everything half-off. Did you get that?
08:42 [music]
08:53 Oh!
08:55 Fiona Apple.
08:57 [music]
09:01 [inaudible]
09:05 Now, are you a card player? Are you a card man by nature?
09:07 I play blackjack.
09:08 You play blackjack. You play--oh, blackjack. Hold on. Let me see what I have here.
09:12 I got--oh, it's a redjack.
09:14 You don't mind.
09:15 [laughter]
09:16 What a quinkie thing.
09:17 Happens to be the most magical of all cards, though.
09:19 Can you see that there?
09:21 That's the one-eyed jack.
09:22 They refer to that as the one-eyed jack.
09:24 You know that as a card--
09:25 [buzzer]
09:26 Oh, okay.
09:27 That's right. This is a G-rated video, so you don't have to get--
09:29 [laughter]
09:30 All right.
09:31 Now, watch.
09:32 You may have noticed that it's actually not the one-eyed jack.
09:34 I'm going to turn it into a one-eyed jack.
09:39 First, the easy way, and then the hard way with this guy.
09:44 See that? The one-eyed jack.
09:46 Sometimes that elicits a response, and sometimes it doesn't.
09:48 You know, you kind of go with the flow in this business.
09:50 I'm going to show you something, because I know a lot about card magic.
09:53 You probably thought that I didn't know jack.
09:55 Right, right.
09:56 You're wrong.
09:57 Actually, I'm going to show you an even better trick with this.
10:00 Of course, I've completely destroyed this card.
10:04 Boy, I'm so unprepared right now.
10:06 I'm so terribly unprepared.
10:07 Come on in and take a look at this.
10:08 Take your time.
10:09 In fact, I need a magic wand.
10:12 Did you happen to bring a magic wand or anything like that with you today?
10:15 Not even a pen or something.
10:16 You don't have anything at all that I can use?
10:18 I just need something to wave over the playing card.
10:21 I tell you what, I do have something in my pocket right here.
10:24 Something that you may have on your own person, as a matter of fact.
10:28 Chapstick.
10:29 I mean, it's black.
10:30 It has white tips.
10:31 It kind of looks like a magic wand, right?
10:33 You got anything better?
10:34 I wave it over the playing card.
10:36 Actually, hang on to that little piece there, would you?
10:38 Very good.
10:39 And on the count of one, two, and three, the rest of the card completely vanishes.
10:46 You probably didn't know that.
10:47 Hey, well, frisk me if you will, with your permission, of course.
10:51 Now, look, it says right here, "Helps healing and prevention of dry, chapped, and sun and wind-burned lips."
10:56 You've got to read the fine print.
10:58 It also says, "In case of emergency, may also be used as an impromptu magic wand."
11:03 Just play along.
11:04 Thank you.
11:05 But if I could use this to make the playing card disappear, I should also be able to use it to make the playing card reappear.
11:11 Oh.
11:14 So it trunk it up, huh?
11:16 No, absolutely not.
11:17 Would you do the honors there?
11:18 Would you be a dear?
11:19 Sure, I would.
11:20 Just make sure that those two pieces match perfectly.
11:27 It wouldn't be a very good magic trick if they didn't.
11:29 He's a little chapped there.
11:31 Yeah, let me show the folks there.
11:33 Let me just dress him up.
11:35 Okay.
11:37 I don't know how he did it, but he did it.
11:39 Sadly, I don't either.
11:43 Chapped trick is a great way to get a lot of mileage for very, very little effort.
11:47 First, you're going to need a chapstick container, which I chose because, of course, it bears a resemblance to an authentic magic wand.
11:54 It's black and has white tips.
11:56 You need to clean it out.
11:57 Take the cap off, pull it apart, disassemble it, clean it out, and put it back together again, but not before gaffing it up this way.
12:05 I'm going to tear off one corner of a jack of diamonds, and then with the other three-fourths of that card,
12:12 roll it up into a little bite-sized tube and then place it inside the chapstick container.
12:20 Place the chapstick inside of a right jacket or pants pocket and its matching corner inside of a left jacket or pants pocket.
12:28 Take a jack of diamonds, which, by the way, you're using because the other two-eyed jack, the jack of clubs, is not perfectly centered like this one is.
12:35 So I chose the jack of diamonds for the following gag.
12:37 You're going to tear the jack of diamonds, bisecting its two eyes.
12:43 This, of course, simulates the rip that you made in the chapstick jack of diamonds.
12:47 Now fold this tear over the bottom jack, and you've got a wonderful little setup for Chris Smith's favorite gag,
12:56 "Hey, you thought I didn't know Jack."
12:58 [laughs]
13:00 Oh, bang!
13:01 At any rate, you're now going to tell them that you're going to effect a little card vanish with it by folding this into fourths,
13:08 and just very casually tear off this piece.
13:10 "Oh, look what a mess I've made," you say, and tear off that corner.
13:16 Now you're going to get this in position for a shuttle pass, but not before getting the other little corner just like this.
13:23 Say, "Gee, I forgot a magic wand. Did you happen to bring one? Let's see."
13:27 Now while you're patting yourself down, you will take the corner of the jack of diamonds, which you placed there earlier, and finger palm it.
13:34 Then suddenly remember, "Wait a minute. I've got something in this pocket which looks like a magic wand."
13:38 Perform the following shuttle pass.
13:40 Turn your right hand down, placing your thumb over the playing card inside, and turn your left hand up at the same time.
13:48 You'll flash this little corner of the jack of diamonds.
13:51 You'll be able to see that, and that will afford you a moment just to go inside,
13:56 and only leave your hand inside your pocket for two or three seconds.
13:59 Bring the Chapstick container immediately out, and then hand them, before you vanish the card,
14:04 the little flap of corner jack of diamonds that you had.
14:09 Cause the rest of the card to vanish, and then suddenly remember,
14:13 "Hey, look. Helps healing and prevention of dry, chapped, sun and wind-burned lips. Look at this.
14:17 Also, in case of emergency, may be used as an impromptu magic wand."
14:21 You've got to read the fine print.
14:23 Pop off the cap, put it on your pinky, and then very slowly and deliberately, just because you can,
14:30 cause the card to come twisting out of the Chapstick container.
14:33 This looks great, and they can't wait to pull it out, and match it up to the little corner that they've been holding the entire time.
14:40 Chapstick is a trick which recycles itself, because you have the next gap in your right pocket.
14:45 The jack of diamonds that you just ripped.
14:47 You don't see this every day, do you?
14:49 No.
14:50 You know, sadly, I do. You may not.
14:52 You can still have a piece of it.
14:54 And thank goodness, she...
14:55 I'm going to match it up myself.
14:57 Would you, could you?
15:01 I've seen this before.
15:03 It wouldn't be a very good magic trick if that didn't match exactly.
15:09 And there it is, the greatest card trick you've ever seen in your entire life.
15:16 Those were real friendly people.
15:18 Hold on.
15:21 Sit.
15:23 Sit.
15:24 Roll over.
15:26 Roll over.
15:28 Sit.
15:29 Stay.
15:30 Watch out, your bike's...
15:32 Careful. I'm just warning you. You can laugh all you like.
15:36 [indistinct chatter]
15:38 Pardon me. Excuse me.
16:04 [indistinct chatter]
16:06 Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me.
16:08 I beg your pardon. Wow.
16:10 Good taste.
16:11 Hey, do you have just a quick second?
16:13 Sure.
16:14 Just visited my favorite magic shop, Hollywood Magic.
16:16 Yeah?
16:17 And a guy behind the counter showed me something really, really interesting.
16:20 I mean, if you have a second. Do you mind?
16:21 Sure. Why not? No.
16:22 I didn't mean to interrupt you.
16:23 No. She'll stay there.
16:24 Okay.
16:25 Guy takes a British penny, let's call that the copper coin,
16:30 and a silver half dollar,
16:32 places them in his palm, and if I'm not mistaken,
16:35 takes out the silver coin, just like this,
16:37 and puts it away.
16:39 Puts it right here in his...
16:41 See, that's not right.
16:42 Do you mind if I start over again?
16:43 No.
16:44 Yeah.
16:45 No, actually, I beg your pardon.
16:46 It wasn't the silver coin. It was this copper penny.
16:48 The British penny.
16:49 What he did was he took the British penny out, just like so,
16:52 placed it over here in his pocket.
16:54 You know what? I was right the first time.
16:57 Excuse me.
16:58 I was right the first time. It was the silver coin.
17:00 Yeah. You mind if I just start one more time?
17:02 No.
17:03 He takes the silver coin, and then he puts this in his pocket,
17:07 and then, if I'm not mistaken, the silver coin returns?
17:11 But then again, it may have been the copper coin.
17:14 I tell you what, would you help me out here?
17:15 Would you say... Excuse me again.
17:17 Would you say either copper or silver,
17:19 and I'll take out whichever coin you say.
17:20 Silver.
17:21 All right. Let's say he took out the silver coin.
17:23 That leaves the copper, and he put the silver here.
17:26 Oh, then he showed me something great.
17:28 Let's see. That's the part that I don't remember.
17:30 Anyway, thanks.
17:33 Hey, that was great.
17:34 Yeah. Thanks very much.
17:35 Short Hop, the poor man's hopping half,
17:44 is my version of the hopping half coin set.
17:46 Although mine uses two real coins,
17:48 a British penny and a real half dollar,
17:52 you also need to go out and buy a relatively inexpensive gimmick.
17:55 This is called a copper-silver coin,
17:56 showing silver on one side and copper on the other.
17:59 Classic palm, this coin, with the silver side facing out,
18:03 as you display these two coins.
18:05 You can even hand them out for inspection if you want.
18:07 Now, the coins will always stay in this relative position in your left hand.
18:12 Silver on the pinky side, copper on the thumb side.
18:14 You will make it look as if you're going to take out the silver coin
18:17 by allowing the copper-silver coin to drop to fingertip rest,
18:21 and then sliding it out to your fingertips and apparently removing it.
18:25 This is all covered by the closed left fingers, like so.
18:29 Now, every time you take a coin out or pretend to take a coin out,
18:32 your left fingers will close and the hand turns over, like so.
18:36 Display the silver coin and re-palm it as you apparently place it in your pocket.
18:40 You really leave it there, copper side out.
18:43 Now show that the silver coin has apparently returned,
18:46 and then you're going to do the same thing with the copper coin
18:48 using the following Ross Bertram move.
18:50 The left fingers point slightly to the right,
18:53 and many things happen at once here.
18:55 As you remove the copper coin,
18:57 you're going to drop the copper-silver coin right about in this area.
19:00 Flip the copper coin up in the air, place it in your pocket,
19:04 and again at the same time, you're going to close this hand, just like so.
19:08 When you open up that hand, it looks like this copper coin has returned,
19:12 just like the silver coin before it.
19:14 Now you very fairly take out the silver coin, place it in your pocket,
19:18 and then as you close the hand, allow the copper-silver coin to turn over in your hand
19:22 and occupy the position formerly taken up by the silver coin.
19:26 Now you're going to show both coins using just this one.
19:29 When you show the silver coin, go in this way, taking it from its position.
19:33 When you show the copper coin, go in this way and do this.
19:38 Lever it up, pinch it, pull it right out in one continual motion.
19:42 Now the spectator can say copper or silver.
19:44 You can really take out either one.
19:46 If he says copper, reach in this way and take out copper.
19:48 If he says silver, reach in this way and take out silver.
19:52 Oh, one other little subtlety here is if you're wearing a finger ring,
19:56 simulates the sound of a second coin if you say, "Great, I'll take silver and leave the copper."
20:01 Place the copper-silver coin in your pocket and you are done.
20:05 That's called short hop, the poor man's hopping hand.
20:09 [music]
20:35 I need five singles. If you get $1.25, five singles and $1.25, okay?
20:44 Can you give me some money too?
20:46 [laughter]
20:47 For no good reason? Just bring me some cash.
20:50 All I have to say is my grandparents had 22 children and they all disappeared.
20:55 [laughter]
20:57 [music]
21:01 [silence]
21:13 How are you?
21:15 [silence]
21:20 Do you have time?
21:21 I've got to go.
21:22 Oh, no, no, no, no.
21:23 You don't have time for like a real quick little piece of "Légère Demain"?
21:27 Of what?
21:28 "Légère Demain."
21:29 What's that?
21:30 Do you eat "Légère Demain"?
21:33 No, are you from Texas? That would be "Légère Demain."
21:36 "Légère Demain," or magic as it's known to you and me.
21:40 Right.
21:41 People are trying to figure me out.
21:43 Yeah, do you have time for a quickie?
21:45 Magic trick, of course.
21:47 Just settle down there, sister.
21:49 I just wanted to show you.
21:51 I'm wandering up and down Hollywood Boulevard just kind of depressed over the fact that I didn't get the promotion that I wanted.
21:56 See, I used to be Director Magic Division at the World Pog Federation.
22:02 That means I used to create "Légère Demain."
22:05 Magic.
22:06 Can you say--thank you.
22:07 Can you say "Légère Demain"?
22:08 "Légère Demain."
22:10 Very good.
22:11 [laughter]
22:12 You do the trick.
22:13 Give me--what I'd like you to do then.
22:16 What is your name?
22:17 Tammy.
22:18 That is correct.
22:19 Hi, Tammy.
22:20 Mark.
22:21 Nice to meet you.
22:22 Well, there I am right there.
22:23 I'm going to make you head of the company.
22:24 You know how I'm going to do that, Tammy?
22:25 I'm having you draw your head right above World Pog Federation.
22:29 Go right ahead, Tammy.
22:31 You can draw your initials, your name.
22:32 Just draw like your little face, a little happy face right up there.
22:37 What I wouldn't give to turn this voiceover off.
22:41 Do you remember the World Pog Federation?
22:43 They were really hot for about ten minutes.
22:45 The little things.
22:46 Yeah, it was the little things, right.
22:47 Papaya, orange, guava.
22:49 That was it.
22:50 It was pineapple juice, orange juice, and guava.
22:53 A little trivia, also included at no extra cost.
22:56 It started in Hawaii.
22:58 Yes, it did.
22:59 Tammy, this used to be a 30-second trick, so.
23:02 That's right.
23:03 Yeah, anything--anything--okay.
23:06 Okay.
23:07 Expert Pictionary player.
23:08 Okay.
23:09 Tammy, is that you?
23:10 No.
23:11 Tammy is now head of the company.
23:13 That entitles you to give me the promotion that you feel I so richly deserve.
23:18 Does that make sense?
23:19 What I'd like you to do is put your hand out just like so.
23:21 I'm going to place this card in your hand,
23:24 and I'd like you to change my title from Director of Magic Division
23:28 to whatever it is you feel that I so richly deserve.
23:31 Have you thought of something?
23:33 Yeah.
23:34 Okay, just--just with your mind, with the power of your mind,
23:38 put it on the face of the card.
23:40 Okay.
23:42 I'm tingling.
23:43 Seriously, I'm tingling.
23:44 It might be the dandruff shampoo, actually.
23:46 Finally--finally kicking in.
23:48 Go ahead, and let's see what you gave me.
23:52 Insignificant peon.
23:54 I didn't give you that.
23:57 Apparently you did, Tammy.
23:59 I made you head janitor.
24:01 Head janitor?
24:02 But that was the same.
24:03 Yeah, but you printed insignificant peon?
24:04 That's what you think of me?
24:06 That's pretty good.
24:08 That's good for you.
24:09 Here, your card.
24:10 No, there you go.
24:11 Thank you very much.
24:12 Thank you.
24:14 Demotivation is a very natural way to hand out your business card.
24:17 This is what's called the out-to-lunch principle, which is this.
24:21 I have a stack of about 20 or 25 business cards,
24:24 which have some phony baloney information on them.
24:27 In this case, insignificant peon.
24:30 Now, I cut in half the bottom portion of a real business card.
24:36 I used to work for the World Pog Federation,
24:38 where I was director of the magic division.
24:41 I simply place this over the bottom half of the stack of business cards,
24:45 and the cut-off section is covered by a rubber band,
24:49 which holds it in place, and everything looks just peachy keen.
24:53 Now, you need to have a spectator sign the top half
24:56 to prove that this is their card in their hand a little bit later.
24:59 Have them sign it, initial it, draw their head on top.
25:01 That's what I like to do.
25:03 Now, watch the wonderful retention of vision that you get here
25:06 by pointing the top edge of the stack of business cards
25:10 perfectly in line with the spectator's eyes.
25:14 Pull up the top portion of the top card,
25:17 and then simply slip it out and put it face down inside the spectator's hand.
25:21 Pinch the bottom half of the stack of business cards with your thumb and fingers,
25:26 and that way everything looks exactly the way it did before you gave them the business card.
25:30 Now, you effect the trick.
25:31 Have them give you the promotion, so to speak,
25:34 and then when you look at the business card, it says "Insignificant Peon,"
25:37 and you react to it. You say, "Why'd you want it?"
25:40 Incidentally, if you are not comfortable with this,
25:42 "Insignificant Peon," you can choose any of these fabulous titles.
25:47 Isn't that one hilarious?
25:50 And that's called demotivation.
25:52 [music]
25:56 What am I--
25:57 Oh, wow. That's cool.
25:59 [laughs]
26:00 Insignificant--
26:01 [laughs]
26:03 Insignificant peon?
26:04 I don't know what I was thinking.
26:06 [music]
26:09 How you doing?
26:10 Oh, bread and butter. Bread and butter, they would let me in.
26:13 [music]
26:16 Excuse me, ladies. Did you drop this pencil over there?
26:22 No.
26:23 You did not drop this pencil over there.
26:25 Well, it's not my pencil. My pencil doesn't do this.
26:28 See, I've never seen that before.
26:30 Squeeze the eraser in and you make it appear.
26:32 See, I just made that appear instead of down there.
26:36 Looks like you see this every day.
26:38 What are you feeding these people?
26:40 Watch, I just squeeze the eraser in and it pops right back up to the top.
26:43 And just for you girls, I'm going to do an impression for you.
26:46 I don't normally do impressions, but I'd like to make one
26:49 on the back of the No. 2 pencil, just like this.
26:52 Disappointed. She was expecting Don Ho.
26:55 This is the one that I slide down to the bottom end like this.
26:59 Of course, I could have done it like this, but frankly, I think that's showing off.
27:02 Don't you?
27:03 [laughs]
27:04 You need to pipe down.
27:05 Okay, what I'm going to do is click the eraser in and it pops right back up to the top.
27:09 Or I could have slid it up to the top like this,
27:11 but frankly, I think that's showing off as well.
27:13 So what I'm going to do instead is just rub the 2, not this end, but this end,
27:17 and cause it to shoot down to the sharpened end.
27:19 You can try this also.
27:21 Well, you're busy. Your hands are busy. I'll move on.
27:24 I'll move on.
27:32 So just pondering the possibilities with a marketed effect of mine called the No. 2 pencil,
27:37 I'm going to spend just about a minute describing some advanced moves for this
27:41 because I like to use it so often, as you've seen.
27:43 The No. 2 pencil has a 2 on the eraser end and on the other side on the sharpened end.
27:48 And you apparently cause this 2 to vanish using the tap and turn move in the directions,
27:54 the paddle move also in the directions, tap and turn,
27:58 and also another move called the wipe down, bringing the 2 down to the sharpened end.
28:03 I'd like to show you three ways to bring it from one end to the other.
28:07 The first way is called the periscope move, and it looks like this.
28:10 It looks like you literally just wipe the No. 2 right back up to the eraser end.
28:14 What you're really going to do, the right hand simply does this.
28:18 It just goes right up the barrel of the pencil.
28:20 Your left hand does all the work.
28:22 The left fingers are going to rotate the pencil 180 degrees,
28:26 and then you lift up your left middle finger to expose the No. 2 there.
28:30 When you combine those actions, it looks just like that.
28:33 That's called the periscope move.
28:35 There's also a great move called the swivel move.
28:37 You're going to take the pencil and apparently just rub the 2 on this end down to that end.
28:44 The swivel move.
28:45 Now, what I'm doing here is I'm swinging the pencil in a circular motion,
28:50 but as I do that, I'm also allowing it to roll like a log 180 degrees
28:56 until I feel this symbol down at the sharpened end,
29:00 and that's when I expose it and expose that it is no longer here.
29:04 Finally, once you've got it down at the sharpened end,
29:06 remember the old rubber pencil illusion we used to do when we were kids,
29:09 and some of us bigger kids do it too?
29:12 You do this.
29:13 Look, my pencil's made of rubber, and then rotate the pencil 180 degrees,
29:17 like it literally just wiggled down to the other side.
29:20 That's it.
29:21 Some advanced moves for the No. 2 pencil.
29:24 [music]
29:26 Slit it up to the top just like so, but then that's ridiculous also.
29:29 I've got two 2s over there.
29:30 If it's my wife, tell her I'm not here.
29:32 I was supposed to be home like an hour ago.
29:33 Are you sure?
29:34 Yeah, absolutely.
29:35 You want me to lie for you?
29:36 Yeah, and if it's your wife, tell her you're not with her.
29:38 Ah! What a great deal of trouble he'd be in now.
29:42 Hello.
29:43 He is not at a strip show.
29:44 He is not at the strip show.
29:46 [music]
29:48 The old No. 2 pencil.
29:50 And then you give it a little rub just like so, and it pops right back up to the top.
29:53 She's persistent.
29:54 She'll keep calling and calling and calling.
29:56 Yeah.
29:57 Tell the strippers to stop for a moment.
29:59 [music]
30:11 I'm going to show you the old pick a card, any card trick.
30:13 What is your name, sir?
30:14 Albino.
30:15 Albino.
30:16 Mark Janest.
30:17 Nice to meet you.
30:18 Nice to meet you.
30:19 I'm going to start by using a phrase so unique in the field of magic,
30:22 you've probably never heard this before.
30:24 That phrase, Albino, is pick a card, any card.
30:27 Go ahead and grab one as they fly by at a dizzying speed.
30:29 Is that the one you like?
30:31 All right, go ahead and take a look at it.
30:32 Do not show me the card.
30:33 Instead, show your friend the two of clubs.
30:35 Do not show me.
30:37 Did you get the two of clubs?
30:39 I lost a little something in the translation.
30:41 Now, hold on just a second.
30:42 Would you say that you put that about halfway down in the deck?
30:45 Watch.
30:46 Just a little snap, Albino, and it pops right back up.
30:49 You're very good at that.
30:50 That was wonderful.
30:51 Did you see that?
30:52 Watch.
30:53 I'll take the two of clubs again, place it all about in the center of the pack,
30:56 just a snap, and it pops right back up from whence it came.
31:01 Now, Albino, I have to tell you, this takes years of studied dedication,
31:05 skill, perseverance, but most importantly, Albino,
31:07 it takes a full deck of twos of clubs.
31:10 It does make the trick a heck of a lot easier, I must confess.
31:13 No, but I will show you something with these cards anyway.
31:16 How could we separate one of the twos of clubs from the rest of them?
31:20 How could we do that?
31:21 Why, by having you sign it, of course.
31:22 Did you happen to bring a black Sharpie felt tip marker with you?
31:25 Ultra fine?
31:26 No?
31:27 How about a blue one?
31:28 Thank goodness one of us planned ahead.
31:29 Go ahead and grab one of those.
31:31 You want the blue one?
31:32 I'm going to take that.
31:33 What I'd like you to do is sign the two of clubs right across the face of it.
31:37 Put your name, yeah, sign it right across the face of the card.
31:43 Very good.
31:44 Now, oh, that's fine.
31:45 Now, if you see this card, it will stand out from the rest because it says Albino on it, right?
31:51 And the card itself is Albino.
31:53 What a coin kidding.
31:54 Now watch.
31:55 If I were to cut that card into the center of the pack, how do you suppose you could find it?
32:00 Well, by looking at the front, of course, at its face, it will say your name.
32:04 Now, I want you to tell me when you think you see your card just by looking at the backs, Albino.
32:10 You see anything that stands out at all?
32:12 Oh, you like this one here or this one?
32:15 One card and one card only has turned red, and that card is, of course, the two of clubs.
32:22 Isn't that spectacular?
32:23 You look very underwhelmed.
32:25 What's the--what did I--there's a reason why he looks completely underwhelmed.
32:30 I'm sorry.
32:34 Your card had your signature on it, right?
32:36 I don't see your signature.
32:38 In fact, Albino, I don't recognize any of these cards.
32:40 Do you?
32:42 Do any of these look familiar at all to you?
32:46 See, then you must have been right in the first place then.
32:48 Let's take another look.
32:50 And that is, in fact, Albino's two of clubs.
32:54 To perform the classic farce, you need two decks of cards.
32:57 This one is called a forcing or a one-way deck.
33:00 This basically shows one card 52 different times.
33:04 I have 52 twos of clubs here.
33:06 You will also need a regular deck of cards, not specially prepared in any way,
33:12 except for that you have the two of clubs at the bottom or face of the deck.
33:16 Now, you will also need a Sharpie marker, which goes in your left breast pocket or anywhere else you want to keep it,
33:21 and some sort of partition to help with the deck switch coming up in just a moment.
33:25 This is a card wallet used for packet tricks.
33:28 Put that inside your pocket after you place the real deck in there.
33:32 The real deck of cards goes in with the two of clubs against your body in your left jacket pocket.
33:39 Now take your partition and put it on one side or the other, however you happen to prefer it.
33:43 Now you're going to offer these cards without showing their faces to the spectator, as if it's a normal deck.
33:49 Be sure not to show them that the bottom card is a red-backed two of clubs.
33:55 Offer the cards for selection.
33:57 They'll obviously take a two of clubs, and when they do, you have a choice here.
34:01 You can either do an ambitious card routine with it, where you place it into the center of the pack
34:05 and pretend to make it come back up to the top, or you can simply have them replace it
34:10 and then apparently pick another card, and it again ends up being the two of clubs.
34:14 The choice is yours.
34:16 At any rate, after a while, they catch on. After two or three times, they say,
34:19 "Wait a minute, maybe they're all two of clubs," and you show them that that is in fact the case.
34:25 They're all two of clubs.
34:26 This will elicit an enormous groan, after which you offer to perform a magic trick with these cards anyway.
34:32 Now casually peel off the top card--it's the red-backed card--and offer it to the spectator on your left for signing.
34:39 Take out the Sharpie marker. I'm just going to make a quick X on it.
34:42 That's your spectator's signature.
34:44 Now while they're signing, you do two things.
34:46 The first thing, very important, put your finger on the card so they don't turn it over in an attempt to sign the back.
34:51 Also, you're going to do a deck switch here.
34:54 You could do a chimp flip back here while they're signing this card, and they would not see you.
34:58 There's that much heavy misdirection.
35:00 You just boldly shove this hand with the deck inside your pocket,
35:04 and now everybody's looking at the card being signed.
35:06 You casually bring out the real deck with the two of clubs at the face.
35:11 Take their signed two of clubs, put it on top of the real two of clubs or blue-backed two of clubs,
35:16 turn the whole kit and caboodle over, and cut the red-backed card somewhere into the center of the pack.
35:22 Now tell them, "I'm going to let you find your own card," and thumb through the cards one at a time.
35:26 Tell me if you see anything unusual.
35:28 Eventually they will, of course, see that one card is red-backed.
35:32 You need to switch the red-backed card with the blue-backed card that is above it.
35:36 I simply drag the cards in opposite directions like this.
35:40 Now the reason why you're doing that--you're going to cut the red-backed card to the top.
35:45 The reason why you're doing that is because now you do a double lift,
35:48 apparently showing them that their card turned red.
35:51 Now you don't look here, though.
35:53 You don't see that their card does not have a signature.
35:55 You would, again, take the double card and replace it with just a single red-backed card on the table.
36:01 They'll say, "Well," and they'll look kind of awkward, and they'll be upset that you didn't find their card.
36:06 But you look at it, and you, too, act as if you're upset that it doesn't have their signature.
36:10 Of course, it does.
36:11 Now pretend like you're in a mad panic to find their signature and say, "You know what? I don't see it.
36:16 In fact, you know what? I don't recognize any of these cards."
36:20 This will also get you a great big groan, after which you say, "Well, maybe we were right the first time,"
36:27 and show them that the red-backed card has their signature.
36:31 [music]
36:34 This is the tallest one in your class.
36:36 It's the old "pick a card, any card" trick.
36:39 Is my nose bleeding?
36:41 Can I just pick a card, any card?
36:44 This one? I'm feeling a little stiff today.
36:46 The six of spades.
36:48 Look at it. Remember it. The six of spades.
36:53 I do my phony bologna shuffle, accompanied by music, of course.
37:00 Can you feel the tension?
37:01 I notice your attention's wandering just a tad.
37:04 What was the name of your card? Do you remember?
37:06 Six of spades. That is correct.
37:07 There it is, the seven.
37:09 Did you pick the seven of spades?
37:10 I went one higher because it seemed to make sense.
37:14 The seven of spades.
37:15 But actually, our tall friend Bob actually picked the six of spades.
37:19 So as I rub, it becomes the six of spades.
37:25 I can get a better reaction.
37:27 [music]
37:35 Have you seen one of these before?
37:37 This is the Chinese finger torture, stainless steel version.
37:40 I'm stuck. I can't get out.
37:42 I'm free.
37:44 Actually, this is called a jigger.
37:46 It's used for, normally, behind a bar, dispensing alcoholic beverages.
37:49 And I'm going to be using it today in an impromptu sobriety test.
37:52 In order to follow--in order to pass the sobriety test,
37:55 I simply need to follow the little green olive.
37:57 Now, I may place it here, hide it underneath the jigger,
38:00 or I may place it here in my hand and put it in my pocket.
38:03 Where, for instance, would you say the olive is now?
38:07 Remember just a second ago, three or four seconds ago,
38:09 I showed you the olive going in my pocket?
38:11 Okay, this is going to get harder before it gets easier.
38:14 So follow the olive as it goes into my pocket.
38:16 Forget about the jigger because the olive can't, if you're sober,
38:18 appear underneath the jigger.
38:20 So follow the olive as it goes to my pocket.
38:22 If snapping has anything to do with getting the olive to appear from my hand,
38:25 then eventually from my pocket underneath the jigger.
38:28 Because you saw me put it here in my hand and eventually in my pocket.
38:31 So if I snap, it cannot appear underneath the jigger,
38:33 unless, of course, you're completely inebriated.
38:36 Or you don't know the phony bologna magic explanation, which is this.
38:39 See, I'm not actually placing the olive in this hand.
38:42 I make it look like I'm putting the olive away, but nothing goes in there.
38:45 See, then by using proper magic technique, I cleverly palm the olive.
38:48 You don't notice me sneaking it underneath the jigger.
38:51 If you're buying any of this, it's probably time for you to put a cork in it.
38:55 You know why I'm concerned that you might at this point be seeing double.
39:00 Shall we get our table?
39:02 Table for two, please.
39:07 Jigger Knot is a condensed, let's call it a reader's digest version,
39:11 of a longer, more elaborate cup and ball routine of mine called Sobriety Test.
39:15 I used to call this Pocket Sobriety Test, and then Chris Smith of Magic Smith fame
39:19 renamed it Jigger Knot, which I thought was a better title.
39:22 You need two corks.
39:24 You need a jigger, which you can get at any bar, supply store, supermarket, anywhere,
39:28 for about $3 or $4, and not one olive, but two.
39:31 These are artificial olives.
39:33 You can use real ones or cherries or rolled-up dollar bills, anything that fits the theme.
39:37 Place everything in your left jacket pocket, and when you're ready to perform Jigger Knot,
39:40 take the jigger out, explain to your spectators what it is,
39:43 and tell them you're going to be doing just exactly what you're going to be doing,
39:47 which is hiding the olive either underneath the jigger or in your pocket.
39:52 Now, the first time, you really place the olive in your left pocket.
39:56 While it's there, you will finger palm the second olive.
39:59 Ask them if they know where the olive is, snap, and show that it is not underneath the jigger,
40:04 which they think it is 9 times out of 10.
40:06 Show them that it's at your fingertips from your pocket.
40:09 Now, replace it in the small end of the jigger, and as you dump this olive,
40:14 the visible one, into your right hand, you will also roll the olive from finger palm
40:19 into the large end of the jigger.
40:22 Let's set that back down on the table.
40:24 Now, do the same thing as you did before.
40:25 Really put the olive in your left hand, put it in your pocket, but don't let it go.
40:29 Retain it in a left finger palm position, snap,
40:32 and then show that it has apparently come back to underneath the jigger.
40:36 As you put the jigger in your left hand, you will do the standard cup and ball load,
40:41 letting the olive in finger palm roll into the large side of the jigger.
40:45 Now you'll do a false transfer with the visible olive.
40:48 You're going to place your thumb on the olive and prevent it from dropping into your waiting left hand.
40:54 Your left hand behaves as if the olive is really in there and goes inside the pocket.
40:58 You've really got the olive hidden in a finger palm right here.
41:01 Snap and show the olive underneath the jigger.
41:03 Show your empty left hand.
41:05 Place the visible olive inside the small portion of the jigger.
41:08 Now you're going to do a bobo switch, but from the jigger.
41:11 It will look like this olive is falling into your left hand.
41:15 What you do in actuality is cover the mouth of the jigger and at the same time,
41:20 allow the finger palm olive to fly from a finger palm position into your open left fingers.
41:27 So it looks just like this.
41:28 There's the olive.
41:29 They should think that this is the same olive that is here inside the small portion of the jigger.
41:34 Now you really place this in your left pocket and allow this olive to roll into finger palm.
41:41 Now everybody thinks that for the third time in a row, the olive is under here.
41:44 You snap and show them that that is not the case.
41:47 So you remember when I placed it in my hand?
41:49 And here I'm going to let the olive and finger palm jump into the small portion of the jigger, just like so.
41:56 They don't see that.
41:57 They are convinced that it's in your pocket.
41:59 So you put your left hand in your pocket and take out the first cork.
42:02 Hold it in a finger palm as you expose the olive.
42:05 This is a nice little magical moment and allows you nice cover here to load the cork into the large end of the jigger.
42:14 Everybody is looking here at the olive, which you take and then offer the phony bologna magic explanation, which is this.
42:19 I take the olive, put it in this hand, and you really do put it in that hand, and then place it in my pocket.
42:25 As soon as you place it in your pocket, come right back up with your empty hand.
42:28 Now everybody is convinced, "Yeah, he didn't take it. It's here. He's bombing it."
42:31 So you do a really bad palm.
42:33 You kind of look like this and go, "Yeah, but by using proper magic technique, I sneak it underneath the jigger."
42:38 Now you show them that that's not the case and expose the first cork.
42:42 At the same time, your left fingers have stolen the second cork, which you load in the jigger the same way you did the first cork.
42:49 Set down the first cork, snap your fingers, and expose the second cork.
42:54 That is a trick that, again, recycles itself. It's called jigger knot, an effect that I hope you start using tonight.
43:00 Oh, the bill. Please, let's not haggle over it.
43:10 In fact, I'd like to treat you today. I just got a new credit card.
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