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Trick Supply Creative Magic Challenge #239 · The Magic Guys

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They're guys. They do magic. They are the magic guys.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Magic Guys podcast, episode 239.
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I'm one of your hosts, Josh Norbedo, but to my left, we've got Nick Kay.
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Hi, friends. I'm Nick Kay. And joining us this week, we have Daddy Doug Kahn.
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What's up, y'all? And pardon me. You know what, guys?
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Before the pod, I set up this thread reel. Now I'm all tangled up in it.
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Let me just see if this thing works. Hold on.
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Oh, hold on. I am tangled as fuck that's how I got this needs work we'll get back to that item.
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I don't think we're going to sell any of those now I think it's worth mentioning
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that we do this live and unrehearsed we are just professionals at the top of
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our game talking about all things magic reviewing products and interviewing
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very cool people and sometimes those folks will be here in the chat we have Tim Askin in the chat,
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welcome tim good to see you there and he's saying where is
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everyone that's true so friends if you are in the chat say
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hello if you have questions let us know what's up
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because today we've had interview upon
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cool interview and it's been so long since we've had well just a freestyle fun
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jammy kind of session and so daddy doug has went and got like a whole bunch
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of cool toys for us to play with from trick supply there's a whole box full
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of magic yeah got bust the mic thanks of being here.
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So what's going to be cool, I think, about today is that we're going to be looking
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at some stuff that, I don't know, like some folks probably may not even know about. Right, Doug?
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Even I didn't know about it until literally Saturday afternoon as I was wrapping
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up the shop and I was like, oh crap, we got a podcast Monday about this store.
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Let me throw some stuff in a
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box. And so with that much preparation and little in between, here we are.
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We did it. We did it. And some of these things, I was just looking,
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because Doug sent us a couple of screenshots of things he might grab.
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And like some of the things I just, it's so funny, the rate in which we churn
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through stuff that comes out and we'll sort of think about it for a second.
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Is this relevant to our work? And if it isn't, you kind of forget about it.
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And now Doug's kind of brought up some things that I haven't thought about for like a year.
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But the idea of maybe considering how we would use it in our work is,
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What about Lou Bore Fiedler's Tenyo Banger from 2014, where you shoved cards in your face?
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What? See, this is all new to me. Who knows about this trick?
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You get bonus points if you do.
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I've heard of it. So the premise of today, you guys, is that there are some
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really good magic out there, as we all know.
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And there's also some super obscure magic out there. And the idea of today is
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that we're going to do this as a creative challenge where Doug has handpicked
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some absolute challenging ones to challenge both Josh and myself.
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And of course, you guys who are part of the show as well.
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You know, Nick is asking, is this the magic junk drawer?
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Kind of not. This is more like a purposely created challenge where there's some
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stuff that we might have found in the past that could suck, like this Mylar
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flower card. Let's be clear, there is junk in this drawer.
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Correct. It's very similar. It's like the junk drawer of Trix Applied, perhaps.
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Not junk as in bad, but junk as in stuff that's been to the side,
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hasn't had some love for a little while.
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Obviously, I'm trying to pick items that might be interesting.
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And hey, if you buy some, great.
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Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so I think we should do this kind of just not even looking.
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Reach into the basket, close your eyes, pull out a piece of crap or a good one.
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Look, we're starting with the buy bar card because this is what started this
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snowball rolling. That's right. I mean, we set this thing like I even know what's going on here.
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Yeah. And I'm proposing now. I proposed to the owner of Trick Supply that I'm thinking of his words.
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He said, Douglas, everything doesn't have to be a miracle.
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But the premise of this, I was going to do a series called Magic Tricks That Shouldn't Exist.
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And it was this item, the card to bag.
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Let me present it properly. There you go. The card to Mylar spring flower bag
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that inspired this series.
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And I don't know, I randomly pulled this piece of theater out last night.
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And that inspired us to think today of what we could do with the weirdness that exists.
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And tricks apply and beyond all right
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so that is okay so the listeners of the podcast
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let's just be clear like this is a very visual episode and this
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is a card that is red backed it's a six of clubs you can show it all the way
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around and it's perfectly flat or flat enough let's say that much and then after
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which it will open up into a little clear box that has a flower inside of it with a handle,
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not too reminiscent of the bag of nothing.
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And that's where my brain goes, where you can have a bag of nothing type effect.
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Yeah, so you guys have probably seen this trick where they show the bag empty
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and then they start pulling these nonsensical other bags full of nonsensical
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stuff like mylar flowers.
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So that's what this is, built into a playing card. We're just not sure why.
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So my first thought is, could you have two of them, one in each hand, and do a transposition?
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Like how fast could a transposition be done where you can fold the flower box
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back up and undo the card and have it look like they change places.
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The creator of this wonderful item obviously had some foresight here.
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They do send you several gaps.
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So it is cards to flower bats. You get, I think, four of them.
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Can you squish this flat quick enough? Probably not.
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It would be a slower transposition more than a visual one, but... Okay. Okay.
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Maybe like can it can it be done with one hand at all like
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can it be opened up with one hand to hang on the onto the
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flower yeah with some practice assuming you'd want
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to spend time practicing this oddity yeah yeah
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okay so my next my next thought is still
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in that manipulation realm could you have two of
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those cards back palmed and then
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like is it possible to instead of producing
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a card you produce the flower box like as you're
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producing it can your thumb slip into the thing i
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love how i get to be the hand model for all your ideas hey
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doug bring this to light i'm gonna ramble for three minutes about
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a method and then if you could just do it yeah i figured
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out if i hook my finger around this this card then
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maybe i could open it up quickly that way so okay
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this will allow me to do a one hand so i'm
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still on your last idea but that's more possible now by hooking the tip of the
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bag by the time we're done here this is gonna be a new murphy's release and
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we're gonna have a craig penny length tutorial on the cards to bag that kind
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of works hey got one yeah i feel like we can make this a cool hot item you know,
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i actually have an idea and i don't know if i mentioned this last week it's
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how a magician makes a christmas ornament so i'll come up to the christmas tree
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show the playing card do the thing
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pal and then hang this on the tree so that's what i'm gonna do with it.
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You could just put a paper clip on it so that it stays
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flat and then you could just flick it off with your thumb and then do the
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drop and that should expand making the little box yeah because if you add a
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little paper clip on it at a distance because it is a kind of b-back design
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that's that's right to the edge that gives this really nice camouflage if you
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will for that type of thing Yeah. And then...
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If that was the right way, that would actually look pretty dope.
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So I like the layering idea for sure.
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I'm trying Josh's back palm for the listeners at home. This is a pretty stiff
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piece of apparatus. There's not a lot of flexibility there.
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But in theory, you could produce it and then kapow it into that beautiful.
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Yeah. You know what would be great?
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Yeah, because you've got to have the six showing. if the red side was just black
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art so that you could do it in between your fingers like black art and make
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your hand look really singular so if that was like all black on the red side
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and then you could do the production showing the face of and then when you do the drop,
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yeah i like black art i mean if your act is going to be producing mylar card
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bags black art is a good way to go with this yeah because even if you wiped
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your hand over it so it'd look like a slow change like it so you hold it like
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this and then you just sort of do that pull down,
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and then you can just remove your hand across and then show that there's a box
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there that would look i think we're going to reserve some of my physical skill sets for more.
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Lucrative ventures let's move on still let's cart
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the bag okay the last thing i'll just say not
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a not a trick but more so like a fun like i could see this being a running gag
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throughout your show because it's so thin imagine you have one in every inside
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pocket of your jacket or whatever right and every time you're going to get the
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next prop it's like oh hang on i just let me
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just get this out of the way sit it down you grab your sharpie next time
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oh let me get this out of the way it's another one to get my deck of
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cards and oh this is in the way let me put my
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cards away oh i can't there's another one like that is a fun bit of stick you
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know throughout the show that can also be a transformation like you like you
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put a card in someone's pocket or you put into something of there some sort
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of receptacle then when you remove the card out it becomes the flower bag.
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Todd to flower bag. Look at that. Eight 95. That's a steal.
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Old school, cheap stuff. So that's what you're looking for. If you're looking
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for that at trick supply.
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Hell yeah. I like it. All right. We'll put it down to, yeah.
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We figured if we started with this, the whole show would be uphill after that. Yeah.
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All right. So let's look at product number two. What's on here?
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You know, this is actually, I don't think we talked about this.
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This happened to be on my desk. I just think it's a good product essentially
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for Paul Harris's Twilight routine.
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This is the moon from TCC.
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I didn't let you even guys know I was going to talk about
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it but it's just a really nice mirror with a
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velvet back on it and this
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allows for some really nice handling of these kind of routines
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where coins are hidden behind the mirror this mirror
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also has a light frame on it which allows for handling shells
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off the table separating them and
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so now you can do some hands-off visual splitting
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of the coins and if this happens to
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be of interest in anyone in the world and it is to me because
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that's why i had it at home anyway i just side share with it
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it's a nice letter holder a nice quality prop and
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then a great tutorial on some real visuals tcc's the moon if you have any thoughts
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on it great if not you know we'll move on what kind of effects can you achieve
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with it like uh so on a on a mat i imagine you have a coin you share the reflection
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paul harris back in the day when paul harris was developing He released an item called Twilight,
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and it's a half dollar on a table.
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You put the mirror on top of it, and when you pull it back, it looks like two, and then there are two.
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And that continues until there are four, and they go back into each other,
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and it's super visual. I think it'd be a great piece of social media.
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That's why I have it at home.
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But it's also been really in my world since 1988, I think, is when Twilight
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was released as a standalone manuscript. it.
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So if you want a great prop to do that routine, and if you're not familiar with
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it, it's in the Art of Astonishment volumes, which everyone should have. Amen.
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You know, not to bring up.
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Not to bring up double cross but i wonder if there's a
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way to do that effect with
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double cross on someone's hand so you
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have their palm out you've stamped them as you're you
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know moving the hand or whatever get the mirror there draw
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one and now pull it away and now it looks like two
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crosses pulled the mirror away boom now there is two
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crosses and then and then maybe the follow
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up is that now you do it without the mirror but now
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the cross is on the other hand that you know was never playing
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this game i love the idea
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of doing it on your hand and like using that visual to create another illusion
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i don't recall seeing that before and josh norbita you are a sub genius well
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i don't have one or have done it but that's what i when i think of roving and
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like how i might use something,
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yeah but that's what i was thinking is this prop in general
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is just cool like and it's you know it's produced
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for professional use how do you carry a mirror around if you're going to use
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it well here's a nice leather carrier so your your ship won't get banged up
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and yeah i think the premise of the twilight is interesting people used to i've
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only ever seen it done with a different take if you if i may it was twilight
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angels using the playing card and you would use a highly.
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Reflective Zippo lighter to do the same effect. Oh, yeah, he did take it that way.
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Yeah, Paul, you know, he originally had this idea as a shrinking card.
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So this, I think, is also an art of astonishment.
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But if you do this, it looks like the card kind of shrinks.
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So for those at home, I got the mirror on the back of a deck of cards,
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and as I push forward, it looks like it gets smaller, and then you can pull
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it away, and it's a miniature card.
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I think he also had some restorations and things of that nature.
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But yeah, uh, there's a marketed effect with the angels that uses,
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I'd love the idea of a Zippo for that.
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So the premise is interesting because you could use a Zippo that's highly,
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highly reflective and ask him to like, hold it in a certain way and then draw
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like stamp as you like, cause you could literally stamp someone's hand as you're drawing the other.
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And you got this big shield in front of you.
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So you could do a twilight effect like a double cross, but using something organic.
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Like I know half wonder if there's, if there's any kind of phone screen type
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of, you know, those ones where like people can't see when you're left or right.
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I wonder if there's any kind of phone screen things you could have where it's
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pretty much Chrome until, you know, like a mirrored Chrome until the actual
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phone lights up and you can see your home screen.
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I'm sort of curious if there's anything like that on the market because the
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principle still stands.
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And I think that's, we'll call it the twilight principle. I think,
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I think there's something in that.
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Yeah I'm sold on that now I'm gonna buy the Mylar card now
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I'm gonna buy the mirror I also wonder if Nick like I
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bet if anyone could do it you could I wonder if you could literally do the cloning
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of the coins on a spectator's hand like I wonder if they would even feel you
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know the extra bit of a coin behind the mirror before you reveal it you know
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yeah like imagine doing that and then you're doing the spring and then you know like,
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That would just be a fun extra visual that I've never explored.
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That could be a lot of fun. How fortuitous is it that you could actually hide
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the Mylar card behind the mirror and then do the mirror Mylar card?
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Now we're there. Yeah, yeah. All right, so now we're building an act out of
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these items, basically.
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Yeah. Well, the cool thing about doing a mirrored thing is that when you're
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building a shield in front of someone, you can drop things behind them.
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You could, you could stamp them.
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You could do whatever you could ring something in and, and, and it wouldn't
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be weird for you to put your finger on someone as you're actually holding or
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get them, get them to hold it themselves, you know, and then you can sort of draw that. And then you.
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Let me reiterate that I brought this home for social media. I think this is
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a great prop for that. And I think all the ideas we've talked about would make banger videos.
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The use of a mirror is a great hook to open a scene with, you know,
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you know how magicians do tricks with mirrors.
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When you do anything with this and it's good you're off to a good start we have
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a guy called dennis kim yeah he is amazing all right last thing i'll say i just
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had i just i can just see this visual and i might have to actually try and do
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this okay imagine this so you got the mirror.
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You're performing to let's say four people watching you stand up right roving
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magic okay so i'm performing there in front of me a little semicircle the two
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people on the outer edge One hand each Holding the edges of the mirror Almost
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like a crazy man's handcuff kind of setup, right?
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So they're still watching from this perspective But their outer hands are now
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holding the mirror You show a coin And you do the classic like big illusion
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type thing Both hands go in front,
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When your hands come back out, now there's two coins. Because this one goes
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in front of the mirror, this one goes behind.
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Then you let them check the mirror. Now you've done your business to do it again.
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Now you show the two coins go in front.
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Boom. It looks like both hands have coins because they're seeing the reflection
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of the same hand come back out. Now you have four coins.
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And then you could do it with any item that you can basically palm.
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Doing that stand-up is great.
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Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. they're holding one side each and they're seeing
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this visual of you know and if you if you can.
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Psychologically influence them in the right way you could be like grab any
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object right and it's like the closest thing they can see is like the sugar
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packet on the table yeah whatever yeah use that bring that to me and then you
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do that and you clone that into two things i bet you'd love me to clone money
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what who's got money you know like you i could just see like a little you know
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Drago Tiro was saying, would you use a bigger mirror?
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Now, again, let's just say for the sake of creativity, we use a larger scale
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mirror using this principle. Here's a fun thought, right?
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Just to gag it up. So you can put your hand in, and then as you pull your hand
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away, your hand gets smaller, right?
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And then you pull out both hands, and your hand behind is just this tiny little hand. Right.
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Like his little Donald Trumpy. I actually love the idea of this. The baby hand.
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Oh man, which is $40 now. Hanson Chin's new release. Oh man, the baby hand's $40.
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Ah, Hanson getting it. I think the idea of that mirror effect as a stage illusion has merit.
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So that's worth thinking about. Well, I mean, there is a stage version,
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right? The guy that did it on Fool Us and he now tours with it. It's really awesome.
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Oh. and he does big bags of money go in
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and they come out but at the start of the react shows everything's clean
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and yeah it's really good
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but i've never seen anyone try stand up
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roving i gotta get on this all
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right yeah i'm gonna so all right so yeah i'm definitely buying the mirror now
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all right that's a good one i think this is really great because i think every 10
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minutes we sort of press on so we just hit the 20 minute mark hit
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the next one just so we know the name of it
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doug what is the name of this particular mirror the moon
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it was a tcc release and
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then we got a few of them at the shop okay the moon
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and one day once i practice you'll
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see that on my social media awesome i'm gonna do
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it i'm definitely gonna do it and i'll put up a clip
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eventually and that happens you know
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speaking of coin magic it was a coin trick that got
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me started in magic when i was when i was a young man i
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had a grandfather that could do this trick with a coin and he would make the
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coin banish and then produce it from behind my ear so i practiced that trick
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and i got pretty good at it i got so good at it i could pull my ear from the coin yeah yeah.
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So for those watching, instead of the coin disappearing and reappearing on the last time, his ear!
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The coin turned into his ear. Classic. That was for Scotty P in the chat.
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Scotty P wanted the silicone ear, so this is always in my bag of tricks these days.
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Unscheduled appearance. We don't need to talk about it. We can move on.
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But it is fun. That is fun. Let's talk more about things that look fake,
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but look real, but are fake. And you mentioned using the Sharpie marker with the mirror.
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And I think this portable from Danny Weisner, is it Weiser or Weisner? Weiser.
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This is a portable by Danny Weiser. It's meant as like a slap bracelet that you wear on your wrist.
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And I recall seeing Jason Maher use this in some of his mega viral videos.
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And I know we have these on sale and I haven't even really looked at the props.
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I thought beyond what he offers in the tutorial, which is kind of terse,
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maybe we could jam out a couple ideas for this thing. Kind of makes a nice visual vanish.
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That's super visual. Like, I'm just seeing that turn to nothing. Yeah.
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So essentially it's a slap bracelet that looks like a Sharpie marker if you're listening at home.
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Yeah. That was my first intention. When I'd seen the product being demoed,
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it was presented as a slap bracelet.
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But to me, my immediate thought was you could just make it vanish so clearly
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at the tips of your fingers. And I like that as an idea.
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And I think that if you're going to vanish one, there's
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there's there's sort of whenever whenever something something
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goes the question is where does it go so the idea of
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like vanishing it and producing one like like you know
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here would could be a fun idea like producing a
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real one you know so for those
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unfamiliar with the product he's he uses this as a transformation from a regular
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sharpie into the slap bracelet and the sharpies I don't think we're giving too
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much up it's on a reel so this goes up the sleeve up the coat down the pants
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whatever you do and it goes away this thing is introduced and then bang it's a slap bracelet now,
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Is it printed on both sides Tim asked?
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Wow Oh it is yeah the back doesn't have Yay the back,
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marking but you know if you do if you were to do a switch and
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even some time misdirection like me he suggests
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the reel and you know that's a pretty aggressive approach to this i think you
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could switch this on the offbeat could you could you have it so that you're
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actually producing it so so have it coiled up but now you're actually doing
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it right you know i thought this would be a good like i haven't tried this but
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yeah if you could put it in a like a point purse maybe.
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So i'd like one of my favorite productions is the fps wallet
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by brent braun i use this thing all the time you want
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a great product that produces a sharpie this thing is
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the brent braun's fps coin wallet we do offer these
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at trick supply also yeah bang that's a winner but that's the most ideal way
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yeah well it's a good one it's a good utility purse but i'm saying if you don't
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want to use a gimmick purse then this would allow you to start with a regular purse and can I... Sure.
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Ooh. Come on, baby. Yeah.
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Because I'm thinking that if you had it looped in your thumb,
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your hands could look relatively empty, right?
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You could just reach in and pull up and then show. Like...
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You know what I mean? Can I just say, you could also do it the other way.
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You could be done with the Sharpie. Just do a casual switch to the one while
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they're putting the cards away.
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Yeah. Put the coins back in the purse and put the Sharpie back in the purse.
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Some things to work out, but I'm sure that could be done. I think if your finger's
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in there to kind of loop it around as it goes in.
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Maybe you actually put it behind the purse and it goes on your thumb,
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but it looks like it's going in maybe. Oh, that works great.
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I love using it on the thumb. That's a smart, smart move. How fun.
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The other idea I was thinking of pre-show was that the pen vanish in the napkin
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kind of thing, where you fold up the napkin, get the spectator to hold it,
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and then you would collapse it. You could pre-steal it.
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I've got a weird thought. If you actually did that and you put a couple of bits
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of double stick tape on the front of it, you could actually stick that to something.
24:56
And then when you snap, whatever it's actually stuck to it also vanish and wrap up with it as well.
25:02
So it could be something as simple as a tissue or some sort of wrapping.
25:10
Also magnetic. So you can hold it out with magnets and employ those methods.
25:16
Here, I'm foreshadowing the next item, this magnetic popsicle stick,
25:21
which I love. But it's my new favorite thing.
25:24
But yeah, it's magnetic too for, you know, holding it out under your coat or even ditching it.
25:29
Yeah, a nice one. So from memory, when Jason Ma used it, I think he used it
25:34
in a pretty standard way that he started with it on his wrist.
25:38
And I think he just peeled it off and then he did a change into a sharpie,
25:43
real sharpie and kept going.
25:45
Obviously you can do it the other way around. They finish with the sharpie,
25:47
you do the sharpie change where you just flip sticking one and the other is
25:51
producing and then just slap it on your arm. Obviously that's great.
25:55
But yeah, the idea of people never knowing that it's that gimmick switching
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it into it so you can vanish it or appear it like a, like an appearing straw kind of thing.
26:05
On sale now at Trick Supply, $12.99. When you order one, tell them you saw it
26:09
on the Magic Guy so they know we're working hard for the cause.
26:13
Hell yeah. You know what? You could do a vanish and then have Eject shoot another
26:18
one in the air. Oh, come on.
26:21
That's good. Yeah, baby. Yeah.
26:25
Like, yeah. Dude, that Eject thing, man. Are you loving it? Do you use it all the time still?
26:31
Yeah, I used it at Theater Magic. I used it at my corporate shows.
26:34
It's just, it now makes it fun to, it just adds an extra bit that would normally
26:39
just be you grabbing a Sharpie out of your jacket. But instead, it's boom.
26:44
Yeah, let's use this. It's only a matter of time before they make one for like
26:47
the Magnum Sharpie for stage.
26:50
They'll make a big boy. You know what I mean?
26:52
Here's something I noticed for anyone using it.
26:56
The really, oh yeah, these ones here. So the really big Sharpies,
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these ones that have like the push button.
27:03
I use these on stage because now I don't have to deal with a lid,
27:07
right? A lid and the spectator's messing that up, so I bring these ones out.
27:11
Because these ones are a little bit heavier and they're a little bit wider at
27:16
the bottom, when you put this in the eject and you crank up the tension really
27:22
high, you have to crank it up higher than normal because it is a heavier Sharpie.
27:26
Instead of the regular Sharpies that fly out spinning, this one shoots out directly.
27:30
It stays upright the whole time so it's super easy to grab out of the box whereas
27:38
the smaller ones you really have to like practice being able to grab it in midair
27:42
and i've dropped them plenty of times but this one shoots directly up it's like
27:46
perfect it's just and you can just grab it,
27:49
something you don't think about but you got to practice catching sharpies flying
27:52
through the air you know it's not a gimme right yeah and you got to be careful
27:57
how much you launch them because I have so many dints in my ceiling. Uh-oh.
28:03
So you just want to be careful if you're shooting it into the chandelier of
28:07
some sort of... It's a good trick and a nice self-defense. Yeah.
28:12
Okay, what do we have next? All right, let me see. This is the idea,
28:16
my latest idea with this thing. So it's with a penny.
28:20
Yeah, put me on there. And I'm doing a trick with a penny, for God's sake.
28:24
So as you can see at home, there's not much you can do with pennies.
28:28
There's not much you can buy with a penny. Although when I was a kid,
28:31
I could buy something with a penny. I could buy an ice cream bar.
28:34
It was just a little one, though.
28:36
So this is the introduction for the ice cream shtick paddle,
28:41
which also includes a one-cent rebate. Oh, it's back.
28:45
And using this paddle, we can do moves like this, where the coin apparently
28:49
goes from one hand back to the paddle.
28:52
And then there's also a surprise reveal of this.
28:57
Of this paddle where apparently some of
29:00
the chocolate melts to reveal essentially
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a playing card but i don't like
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that so i've been trying to think of other ways to finish this
29:09
the the reveal will be white
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and it will be smaller than this coin which is
29:15
hidden on this magnetic popsicle stick
29:19
so if you're not watching if you're not watching the
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video i'm holding a miniature popsicle stick it's
29:26
magnetic and it's hiding a penny on the
29:29
back of it in this case which is how i
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produce the stick with the spellbound move and then using
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the paddle paddle move i'm able to show
29:37
the stick clean and then the penny appears and
29:41
then using the magnetic i can also do like a false placement using the paddle
29:46
move and it comes back so those are some of the ideas from the instructions
29:50
i think this little paddle trick is a gem with a lot of uh potential beyond
29:56
what you're seeing and that final reveal as well what do you think so my brain goes a few places.
30:02
You could do the standardized sort
30:05
of routine but then you kind of want to take it somewhere you could i i
30:09
would make i would actually like turn it into a pop stickle
30:12
like the actual pop hate and pop stickle released by
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do scholar and like have the big one and just have a
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bite of it and and wrap up the yeah you know
30:20
you could do this if you're using the Popshtickle sight
30:24
gag and if you're not why not go buy one from Deuce
30:26
Gala yeah this would make a perfect high end
30:30
this little guy as a callback yeah Josh has got his going I don't have to be
30:36
the only one on full screen oh mine also I just quickly I just quickly loaded
30:41
up that big sharpie to see if it will if I can demonstrate what I've been saying
30:45
about it shooting up straight so let me give this a go,
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Okay, it didn't do what I said it would do at that time. That's okay.
30:53
Let me just try one more time here. Like an idiot. All right, here we go.
30:58
And there we go. So it stays in one plane. It might deviate a tiny bit.
31:02
But if I put a normal... I won't put a normal sharpie and it would put a hole
31:06
in the roof. But yeah, buddy.
31:08
Anyway, let me continue. Dragad here was saying that you could shrink it with
31:11
a mirror, which is interesting.
31:14
You can do it as a perspective illusion. You know, you could just be eating
31:18
the thing and then do a swap-a-roo and then use the camera and be like, oh man.
31:25
Yeah, because you could have the popstickle in like a tenkai, you know what I mean?
31:30
And then just do a rotation as it comes up. And yeah, that'll look.
31:34
Have we talked about the bombstickle yet? I happen to have this on my desk from
31:40
Deuce Gala. Do you guys get one of these?
31:42
Yeah, I've got one. Yeah.
31:45
I definitely have one. We'll circle back to the chocolate one.
31:47
I got one, but these aren't common in Oz. These aren't?
31:53
No. I guess, well, the red, white, and blue is kind of an American thing,
31:56
probably. That makes sense.
31:59
Sorry, the geoffer. Yeah, I got this one as well. So I tell you what I've been
32:04
trying to play with so far because, yeah, it's a little different in Australia with these.
32:08
So I can't find the one that you've got there, Doug, but that's the one I've
32:11
been trying out at the moment.
32:13
And so in australia that's just a phallic device yeah
32:17
pretty much so yeah i'm not really keen
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to just shove this in my mouth so what i've been doing is because
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in australia it's starting to get pretty hot at the moment so
32:27
what i've been playing around with is producing this
32:30
from my jacket and then going do you mind it's a little hot at the moment and
32:33
then just starting to like rub it across my face and my neck and just seeing
32:37
if like that gets a reaction as if like i'm trying to cool myself down and just
32:42
kind of like obsessively like because you know if you really were doing that
32:46
with an ice cream it would be super weird or an ice block because it's other ones,
32:50
water-based but anyway that's why i'm kind of playing with it at the moment
32:53
and i know this is gonna yeah thank you drag it here this is gonna end up as
32:58
a bad meme i can tell but yet so.
33:01
Starting to play around with it replace ice cream with penis yeah excellent
33:07
if only i could do that with everything in life since we're talking about also
33:11
a follow-up gag to this you know if you if you want to overdo it you produce
33:15
this then you pull this out you want one i got bomb bombs yeah Well,
33:20
I have a, another thought is if you take the ice cream, ice creams melt.
33:25
So you could take Tobias's liquid kit and maybe have the ice cream,
33:31
place your hand down and then have it melt to liquid brown, a brown liquid.
33:37
That would be a good tie in either one of those items.
33:40
Seeing it so little and it makes that little puddle. I feel like that would
33:43
kind of work pretty nicely if you were doing it at a table set,
33:46
especially, and then you could sort of lean into doing something.
33:48
You could maybe like go from melting it turning into a
33:51
hershey's which they can give them which i think it's something that he
33:54
teaches something of that caliber as well yeah or
33:58
you know getting a stick and turning it into a sort
34:01
of lint ball that's on a stick or something like that nature
34:04
but like it can segue into something if
34:07
you melted it using tobias's liquefy do
34:10
you do you have one of those either of you like yeah yeah
34:13
have you used it tried that played with it i i've only
34:16
ticket with it for parlor sets but not for my rooting sets yeah
34:19
yeah the other thing i'd put
34:22
out there for the that ice cream the one doug has
34:25
the magnetic one is you know since it's a silly prop anyway and we're talking
34:29
about juice gala why don't we lucky ladybug it like why don't you stick a ladybug
34:34
on one side and now you've got an extra moment in the routine where you bring
34:39
out the the ice cream you tap it boom you show it empty now you've got a.
34:45
I've been chatting with Deuce Gala with Buck. I had an idea for making the Ladybug a paddle trick.
34:49
And so I've had this idea for making, instead of cards with Ladybug, it's a log.
34:55
And it's kind of a fresh idea, and I'm letting the cat out of the bag,
34:59
but fuck it, it's my idea anyway.
35:01
So, you know, my initial idea was based on a hot rod trick called Transpot by,
35:07
I don't know, it's on the website, Johnson.
35:11
But it's a vanishing spot with a hot rod force.
35:15
So you show six colors, someone picks a color, and that spot vanishes from the paddle.
35:20
And I just said, well, this could be a log, and it could be bugs.
35:24
And now the ladybug trick is a log and a paddle.
35:28
And I think bugs still play with some ideas.
35:31
Recently, a rediscovery is Sawa published an idea with the paddle move and appearing
35:36
ladybugs in his library of magic books.
35:39
Great books. But if you want to kind of see this idea come to life, look there.
35:43
Hell yeah so yeah it's already in the ecosphere i
35:46
love it buck also sent me the his extension
35:50
pack of lucky ladybug where there's four cards now oh yeah it's essentially
35:55
if well it's it's just essentially if you want to be able to do two appearances
36:01
of luck of ladybugs because now there's four cards there's two that have it
36:05
and two that don't have it so you can do whatever.
36:09
Frustration counts or Mexican turnovers or just double lifts or whatever to
36:13
show that there was four of them and then you can have two people essentially
36:17
wave their hands over and Or start with three ladybugs and one vanishes and two going Yeah,
36:24
Yeah, and this new version has, instead of being logs, it's leaves on the back
36:29
of it. Yeah, that's right, which is kind of nice.
36:32
Hey, Buck Cohen, how happy are you? We're talking about your products for 30
36:35
minutes today. Yeah, boy.
36:39
Dude, he makes good stuff. Good guy, too. Deserves all the show. Great guy.
36:44
Yeah, I love it. So, yeah, I like all the brainstorming and thinking that's
36:49
going into not just what was already a great effect, But now this extension
36:53
pack and playing with ideas that you've got with the making a log is perfect.
36:57
Like I'm saying the ice cream could already work. And obviously it's just,
37:01
it's an ice cream is silly to have a ladybug, but if you're going to make it
37:04
into a log, bloody great.
37:07
15 bucks. Ice cream shtick. You can't buy a good trick for less than 20 bucks
37:11
anymore, but you can at Trick Supply. Ice cream shtick.
37:15
Terry LeGerald. He's a smart one.
37:17
Yeah. Hell yeah. What do you say we break it up with a gig story,
37:21
friends, and just have a little pellet claim? Yeah. Let's get out of the garbage.
37:26
Let's do it. So Gig Stories is a section of the show where we talk about things
37:30
that have happened in our magical life, either from day to day or doing gigs.
37:34
And Josh has a cool story to tell. and video yeah
37:38
well i'll just it's simple and it was
37:41
just a plan that i had in mind and i
37:44
executed it and fortunately it's on camera so i
37:47
can show you the proof but to set the scene i
37:50
was at an event and i invited these these
37:53
two people from the event to come and see the theater of
37:56
magic because that's one of the beautiful things about having a ticketed
38:00
show is that when you meet people and they ask you where do you normally perform you
38:03
have a place to you know tell them so I
38:06
invited them and I knew I had like three weeks before they were going to be
38:12
there and this gentleman his name's Jesse great guy and his partner Lara they
38:17
I know that he's the director of a rum company right they sell like a white
38:23
rum I tasted it at the event it's great.
38:26
So I'm like okay great I know what I need to do my plan was I'm going to order his rum,
38:33
and make it appear in the show because I already do a thing where I make a bottle
38:36
appear in the show how cool would
38:38
it be if it was his so I immediately immediately go online and I buy it
38:45
ships to my house I look at it I'm like oh this is a little it's short but it's
38:49
a little wider than I'm I'm usually used to concealing but I'm like I have to
38:54
do it so and I just patiently wait,
38:57
comes to the show he doesn't arrive straight away so I'm like oh I hope I haven't
39:02
done all this in like he might miss the first part of the show or not turn up or whatever.
39:06
But he turns up and him turning up almost as we're about to start.
39:10
Makes it even a little bit better because now he just has like even less assumption
39:15
that like i might include no one would think it anyway but like now there's
39:19
just less anything that i might do something knowing he's here specifically
39:23
so i'm in the show i tell my friends i tell nigel,
39:29
sean murgaard that's there like this whole thing and i and i pull out the rum
39:33
and they're all excited they're like oh my god this is so good this is gonna
39:37
be so good but in the back of my mind I'm like you know they might not react
39:40
at all and it doesn't matter and you know it's fine,
39:44
I'm not even going to bring it up that it's his
39:47
rhyme I'm just going to do it as a little wink you
39:50
know a little head nod move on with the show but what
39:53
I can say is I did it I made it appear in the show and I he definitely noticed
39:58
and I couldn't have asked for a better response so yeah I'm going to play this
40:02
moment so what you're going to see is me with a bandana and I'm like I'm doing
40:07
like my coin routine and like David Stone coin routine where at the end.
40:12
In like seven seconds into when I hit start, you're going to see this bottle
40:15
appear. And I've got two cameras.
40:17
I've got the footage of me and I've got Nigel's phone filming the guy.
40:22
So you can see it simultaneously.
40:24
Anyway, here it is.
40:26
A loud moment of misdirection to bring the coin back behind my elbow or as a
40:31
kid behind my ear over tonight to celebrate with a nice bottle.
40:38
Oh yeah!
40:44
Thank you thank you thank you,
40:49
that normally happens at the end of the show but i appreciate that,
40:55
nice and then i gave it away to someone box it up gave it away to the person
41:00
that was helping throughout that routine it was and then it was like a little call back to the rum,
41:04
and for anyone listening to that on spotify it probably just edited out all
41:08
that background noise but you can see it on YouTube.
41:11
Basically, he stood up and gave an immediate standing ovation like,
41:15
you know, seven minutes into the show.
41:18
So I think he noticed. That's a legit, real magic moment. It's like miracle class.
41:25
So deserve it.
41:27
I think, yeah, I think just the lesson for me to remember is like anytime I
41:32
can get some info on someone who's coming to the show and I can use that info
41:36
in some way, do it, you know?
41:39
It's the element of surprise is the same feeling as magic.
41:42
So it's, it's like, it's, it's like a watermelon just appeared under a hat for
41:47
him. It's like, Oh my God.
41:49
Like, I, uh, I just finished reading a book called, I just finished reading
41:53
a book called unreasonable hospitality. It was written by the guy who,
41:56
I forget his name, but he, he like had 11 Madison Avenue, which was the number
42:00
one restaurant in the world in New York.
42:02
And basically it's, it's like a magic thing.
42:06
Like his methods that he does to run the place are effectively magic
42:09
just by overhearing people and observing
42:12
people he will purposely have things in place to
42:15
ensure that they have an amazing experience so one
42:18
thing that he would do right is there was like a
42:21
bunch of foodies that came in i said you know what we've tried every michelin
42:24
restaurant in new york but we're flying off the only thing we haven't
42:27
done is we didn't bother getting like a one dollar hot dog from a hot dog stand
42:31
and so he heard that ran down the street grabbed like four hot dogs brought
42:35
them back to the chef and said plate these up pronto and then was like look
42:38
i know you haven't tried your hot dogs yet so here they are and they like gourmet
42:42
them up and gave it to them so just those little moments of like knowing your
42:45
audience when they're coming in,
42:47
and he talks about this whole process with regards to like just having tons of stuff prepared
42:54
and so i've started to think of ideas i'm like okay i
42:57
should just keep one cupcake for every show just in case it's
42:59
someone's birthday and then go boom happy birthday and
43:02
we all sing give it to them like one like when
43:06
someone rocks up with their luggage to to eat they're either just
43:08
arrived and it's the first place they're going or they're about to fly out
43:11
and it's the last place they want to go so identify that
43:14
and if they're about to leave yeah look the food in the plane is gonna suck
43:18
this is on us take this with you so you got something nice to eat in the plane
43:22
and all of a sudden their customer experience is like through the roof so short
43:26
of stalking think about it and know what you can bring to the game if you know
43:31
the special people are coming to Your show is the lesson.
43:33
So yeah. The other thing you can do is when you meet people after the gig,
43:38
just write down little notes of, of like specific things so that if you get
43:41
booked for that event the next year, you have some ammo, you know, ready to go.
43:46
There's a magician that gave some crazy fire advice to me, which was like at
43:52
a gig, they will do an effect.
43:55
I can't give it away because it's not really, I don't just have permission to
43:58
do this, but like he will get a bunch of information from a person for an effect,
44:03
but he won't reveal all of the things that he got information of.
44:07
So it's like he'll get them to write down like three things and he'll reveal
44:11
one of them, for example.
44:12
And the other two things he'll keep a note of for next
44:15
time he sees them in like six months so that
44:18
if he can if he can segue into them
44:21
thinking of something now it's in real time
44:24
no no writing stuff down no nothing
44:28
and just boom yeah so that's
44:32
power yeah yeah preparation is power baby all
44:35
right shall we circle back and get creative because one of
44:38
the things that doug said was we should bring one thing from
44:41
our drawers slash cupboards that maybe the
44:44
people may not know about so i would like to share
44:47
a little something that i do quite regularly so
44:51
let me share this with you guys so whenever you're producing a jumbo coin
44:54
someone inevitably is going to go like oh was this
44:57
filled with chocolate like they just it just happens all the time and so like
45:00
there's a cool little gap you can get where you can do this and you can show
45:04
that there is chocolate inside and just by like sealing it up like so you can
45:08
then give it back to them and away you go right it's awesome now this is a little gaffe made by.
45:17
How we've not had him on the show yet we're gonna have to ask him beg him to
45:20
come bizarro it is called foiled again so when i was in vegas i knew this existed
45:25
and so i said hey man like i know you do this thing with chocolate can you hook
45:29
a brother up and he goes yep and so,
45:32
i'm gonna assume that bizarro i know he pops into the shop would you have these
45:36
on hand at trick supply I have them in the counter in the showroom.
45:42
Uh yeah foiled again give me one second yeah yeah
45:45
i cannot recommend this enough
45:47
especially if there's kids and it's a great way to end stuff so like because
45:51
i do a lot of stuff where like i hand the chocolate out and
45:54
then i take this i peel back the foil and i just go cool you guys have fun i'm
45:58
gonna have my treat and i just walk away with the chocolate exposed like this
46:02
and just walk away from the situation so this for the money is a banger man
46:08
the recommendation This is Bizarro's version of a Paul Harris idea.
46:13
He put the idea for a chocolate coin in one of his early books.
46:17
It's in The Art of Astonishment.
46:19
Wow, who doesn't have Art of Astonishment?
46:22
And, you know, a good version of this Michael Weber published,
46:25
I think he called it Peeler or something like that.
46:29
You take a piece of a magazine and you peel back the top cover.
46:33
Like if it's a car magazine, you're like, yeah, you can look at the engine underneath
46:36
and you peel it back. and there's the, you know, image of a car underneath a car.
46:42
Yeah, so there's other applications for this idea. You know what this makes me think of? Separate.
46:49
Separate to food someone's got to make like an iphone version where you you
46:55
can pull back that you can peel back the back of someone's phone and it's like
46:58
all these like yeah that's a buy,
47:01
spyware things or something yeah man that'd be a that'd be a banger i've seen to buy go ahead,
47:09
i've seen tobias do it with a coin he does this whole bit where
47:12
he has a coin then he like opens it up and then closes the
47:14
coin back up again and gives it out like yeah like it's
47:17
an electric coin that does all kinds of stuff alex is
47:20
asking if it comes in a normal dollar size i have seen someone release
47:23
it recently this type of effect where you can do it with with a normal size
47:28
dollar but in my opinion it's so small that the squeeze ain't worth the juice
47:33
but with the jumbo it is yeah people by nature understand that like there is
47:38
like i mean it's an existing product like big Like,
47:41
chocolate coins are a thing.
47:44
Yeah, makes sense. I like it. Yeah.
47:47
And yeah, we need to get Bizarro on here. Like, he's the brother.
47:51
I see him a lot. He comes in the shop.
47:53
You know, even if he just needs a thumbtip, he'll come pick it up at Trick Supply
47:56
instead of ordering it online because he's just a bro.
47:59
You know, so it's like, always great to see him. I don't know that there's a
48:03
nicer guy. I mean, wow, what a creative force.
48:06
Yeah. Late Night Magic opening back up this month.
48:10
The magician's room and the link they built a whole room for magic on the link
48:15
promenade link promenade feral dylan's moving there dark stone show he's going
48:21
to do some illusions the late night magic show and also the conjurers are coming
48:27
back to town to work that room it's exciting right.
48:31
Damn, it's all happening over there. You know, a whole room for magic.
48:34
You know, a showroom devoted to magic is, I think, just great.
48:37
All day long, magic shows. And the late night show is a killer.
48:41
Stellar idea. All right, so Josh, what are you going to share with us today?
48:45
Look, man, I mean, to be honest, my Juice Gala, the extension pack was the thing I was going to bring up.
48:51
Oh, yeah. But I do also have this, which I've never used an actual trick.
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This is not even a trick. It's just you literally just buy this fidget spinner toy.
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But like it's essentially yeah two-sided rubik's cube
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the edges have colors on them as well but you can spin it and so i've used this
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for a trick once in a video where i started by showing this came back put a
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silk over it boom and now it's a real fully sized cube um i don't know like
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there's got to be a way to incorporate this somehow which would be a bit of fun right,
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like yeah i mean because like tinkering with a
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cube isn't too reminiscent of fidgeting
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with the spinner you know like there's there's
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a correlation between that i'm sure you could bridge that gap and have
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an effect that's a pretty cool idea yeah like
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and i know i know henry harris has the wafer cube
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out now which is great too but maybe there's something where like
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as this is spinning you're talking about something and in
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this hand maybe you are actually starting to solve it
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before this stops or you know something to be some kind of visual to play with
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i always see it sitting on my desk but i never take it out into the battlefield
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i just steve fierson had a method for floating fidget spinners you know using
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his uh right mega hookup floating cigarette okay.
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If you've seen people float coins or rings that's basically steve's you know
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lineage and doing a fidget spinner makes perfect sense yeah or maybe like you
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give it to the spectator like this and And you're like,
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I bet I can solve this big one before you can solve this small one or something.
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You know so they're like this and you're like ah too late i don't know yeah,
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actually maybe you do the bag gag where you have two
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solved ones but they think it goes in you know you know
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the gag you make them think there's an extra one maybe while they're
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quickly doing that you just shove mixed one the bag
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pull out the solved one ah see i did it they're like no you didn't yeah or
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if you have the thin one you put it on top you and it blows
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up into a bigger one like you can yeah you know
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some sort of like yeah so
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just a bit of a surrealist thing benjamin cox here says that
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i have a sponge cube and at the end of my rubik's cube routine when
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they ask to check it out i do the change i pass them a sponge
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cube and it freaks them out that's a clever idea yeah yeah i i've also i like
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the idea that um you could also have one that's glued together and doesn't move
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so like you give that to them i don't know if that make i don't know if that
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that enhances anything but like it's kind of funny,
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saying to someone can you mix up the cube and they can't because it's glued
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but then you bring it back and you're like what the hell like yeah just do that.
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That could kind of be funny yeah sponge cube is great yeah,
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There was a great trick at Magic Live, which involves the beginning part of the routine.
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When you hand it out, the cube just explodes when they go to mix it up. That's kind of funny.
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It just all falls apart. Like every piece just goes. Yeah, I was privy to see
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a very cool gaffe in order to allow people to mix cubes behind their backs.
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I will, I'll chat to you off air because I can't, I don't have the permission
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to share exactly what that is, but let me share something fun with you once I get off air.
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And let's circle back while we have, you know, a good six minutes left.
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What do we have in the bucket doug for sure
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i wanted to talk about this thing i've had
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the pleasure of meeting some local uh social
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media really icons pas magic has
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been in the shop this guy's got 12 million followers i
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think on tiktok and another six on youtube and then
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rodrigo they've been filming with matt franco what
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so if you're on matt franco's feed and you see a
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couple other magicians they've got a whole little powwow of just
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social media magic energy and you get
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a guy like with 12 million followers he knows what he's doing rodrigo is
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in the shop and he had this idea for a video in a coffee
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shop and he wanted to have a napkin come to
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life so we discussed some options for electronic thread
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reels there's some interesting things out there and i
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discovered this one and i had this idea for doing a
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a trick with a tissue where if
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a magician has to sneeze i was playing with hookups
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you saw me at the beginning of the stream i think i just figured out
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this one where i can use the coffee cup so there's the
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there's the tissue box now let's see if i can get this nope let's try again
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almost let me try it again let me do one more setup the murphy's law and i've
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never practiced this i'm going through this is an electronic thread reel on
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a 12 inch silk the silk is going into the box and it was probably tucked in the box too tightly.
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What I'm looking to do is get two movements from the silk. So I want it to fly
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away from me towards the cup and then come around and then come back.
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And then I would sneeze. That's great.
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Could you have a... Oh, you can't because you've got a trigger from your hand.
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But I was thinking like, could you have it hooked up so that then you can press
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it again and it flies off because it's still rigged to the next bit.
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Can I share... Quite a bit of rigging.
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You know what it is. It's a one-trick pony. It's got a button. It works by batteries.
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And there's a safety pin at the end of this. If I don't have any rigmarole,
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it's a great, it's just like zippy as it's, oh, it's a great little electronic reel. Yeah.
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There's, there's, there was one, I only did this once, which has upsets me because
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I guess I don't have the environment to perform it, but this is going to be great.
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Cause I might try and put this into a theater or magic show at some point.
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But what's really cool is if you do have a high ceiling, a large scale stage,
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you can do a bit with the balloon.
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Like like for example you could do like gypsy balloon do
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all your shtick and then you could have that balloon fly
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away and because it's attached to that thread when
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you activate it that balloon will now come back to you i feel like that's a
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valid idea but this this thing has one speed just for this reel anyway and it's
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go fast right so for a balloon effect probably not you want the most awesome
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bill snatcher in existence it's this right,
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But what else? Like what else could you attach it to? Yeah.
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How about you knock something over with it? So let's, could you have it like relatively loose,
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so that it's doing this type of thing flat and then you have maybe just like
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a pencil or a glue stick, something that's going to stand up vertically and
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then when you can reference it, the tension of it will just knock it over.
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Like the empty plastic bottle. Yeah, so you just put this in gear.
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So you have like, let's say that it'd be like a V shape and then just by pressing
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it like it'll just Oh, it's not animating an object it's triggering a secret
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action Oh, Nick, you're a genius,
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You have it anchored to the table and then you loop it around the bottle so
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it'll pull the pull it tight Yeah.
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Obviously you can do a rising card with it too if you have it anchored to the
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table the glasses in front of it Let me talk about the rising card for a second,
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I read a great one earlier today. I'll share a little.
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Here's a thought I had. This is, again, untested. But if you had a handkerchief in your coat.
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Yeah it was out and and if it
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hit the floor now theoretically yeah
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there it went so so now it's on the floor and
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when you need it back it gets back up there i like that a lot especially if
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you if you put a bigger nodule thing on on where you need to press so you can
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easily trigger it from in your pocket you know yeah this is pretty pretty tiny
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getting into it through the fabric but,
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that's the idea of having a pocket hang like you know dabbing
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your head for a second throwing it up and it goes back right like that's
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a great running gag yeah it looks
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really strong i just wonder if there could be some sort of propulsion in
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it as well because love the idea of
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using it secretly well here's here's the thing if
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you were to anchor it to to let's just say like
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to the camera okay so it's looking back at you and it's
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here if you press it and lock it
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is it tension at that point from now on it just unwinds it's loose and then
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it just reels it up okay so but okay so i want you to hold it between your hands
57:13
just so i can understand this work so if you pull it so that so there's slack
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in between it okay yeah and now hold hold hold the silk.
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Yeah push the button but as in hold it
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hold it tight don't don't let don't let it don't let it yeah and stop yeah
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okay i see so it's like you know
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it's like okay yeah maybe i'm over here and
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i'm like yes it's like a psychic shock right okay yeah why you could also do
57:41
is you just have that as an anchor point right now what you can do is you can
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anchor that to something a table or whatever else you've got this connection
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to you you could do a bit if you have like a folded,
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A bill would work really nicely as well.
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You could tear the bill in the center and then put it on the thread and then put it on the thread.
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And then what's cool about it is if you walk away from it because it's tensioned,
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it'll stay in place, right?
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And then when you want it to go down... There's no tension.
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Once you press the button... Oh, yeah, okay. There is tension once you press the button.
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Yeah, exactly, right? So now what you could do, if it's anchored here and it's
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tensioned, you can actually just clip the thread going from here through.
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You can clip it with your hands and then gesture it to go down. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Anyone who'd studied Masika's type of work on this would, yeah.
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And then this has got to be just a practical, easy, fun, magical thing to do.
58:44
Benjamin says, I've used mine with a paper plane. Looks pretty cool on big stages.
58:49
How goes that? Off stage, your assistant's got the trigger. You make a plane,
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just gently blow on it, flies off.
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I feel like for 50 bucks, this thing is that much fun.
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It's worth considering when you buy this from trick
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supply the batteries will be dead so you got to invest in
59:07
some double a battery triple a batteries this is
59:10
new old stock and it's a little gem
59:13
you know it's not maybe for everyone but if you need to make something jump
59:16
around you can spend a hundred or three hundred and fifty dollars on a thread
59:21
realty forty nine ninety five to goof around maybe if nothing else you just
59:26
have the world's best dollar snatcher and the last thing I mean, if you just...
59:32
Just say mention the podcast when you order please do we want we're really interested
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59:50
the last thing we didn't consider and if you just want to add a little bit of
59:55
spooky magic to your work if you're a card guy and you're doing a close-up set on a table,
1:00:01
chuck the box into a card box and rig it up so that when you're done with your
1:00:06
card, you can be like, oh, where's the box? Oh, it's over there.
1:00:09
And then it just comes to you. I guess you switch it around, right?
1:00:13
You'd have the matchbox in your hand, but you'd have it connected to the,
1:00:16
you'd have it tied to the box.
1:00:18
Boom. So the cards could really come out of it to begin with.
1:00:21
And as you sit it down, you're now undoing the thread reel and so to come back
1:00:25
you can just trigger it from your your suit jacket pocket or whatever,
1:00:30
comes back to your hand put the cards back in that's
1:00:33
a fun bit look i know we're already over but i wanted to talk about
1:00:36
this it's cool i read it today and maybe someone will find this useful you're
1:00:39
talking about it now rising cards in the card box so here's the deck of cards
1:00:44
your card is in here this is an un-gimmick deck going into an empty box and
1:00:49
one of these cards is your card I'm going to make it rise out of the box Here it comes.
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And there is your card.
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So it's an un-gimmick deck going into an empty box.
1:01:06
You just give it a few shapes, and one card rises from inside the box.
1:01:13
That card can be cleanly removed and handed to the spectator.
1:01:17
And I think that's just a banger rising cards out of the box. Hmm.
1:01:23
Have you have you tested that
1:01:26
to see what like an audience how they react
1:01:28
to it i literally read it earlier today in this book concerto
1:01:33
for a pasteboard nice and uh let's do a little tutorial
1:01:36
i don't think wary would mind this is wary he's a old german creator here's
1:01:42
here's the remnants it's a little piece of double stick paint right there at
1:01:46
the at the front cutout yes so it's i control the card to second from the face
1:01:52
so the audience sees this going in.
1:01:56
And then squeeze, so the tape adheres. And then this action of just shaking
1:02:00
it makes that card elevate out.
1:02:03
Sometimes the card's behind it, but then you can just push down and clean.
1:02:08
I love this little riser. You're self-working, man. Self-working, I love that. Right.
1:02:14
Yeah, that's a fun, yeah, that's really fun. I mean, that's just as fun as if
1:02:20
you do that thing where you cut the hole out of the front of it,
1:02:23
so it's coming out from the back.
1:02:25
You can do both. you're pushing your finger up and it opens the lid
1:02:28
and it's just fun and you
1:02:31
could also probably do like four aces so you could do like
1:02:34
one two you know if you wanted to make
1:02:37
it a four of a kind revelation right yeah anyway free lesson today you can also
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get concerto for pasteboards you know who's gonna love this you know who's gonna
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love this all the old people who have the shakes in the magic club like all
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the 70 year olds that's why I'm doing it that's me,
1:02:55
I'm there now keep my hand still one card will rise up and then just naturally does this anyway.
1:03:02
That's pretty great anyway that's what you get for sticking around the whole
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