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What you're about to witness will be dangerous, a template for resulting

Don't try this at home.

On this episode of Believe.

Now!

You see that?

I want to show the world how you make multiple elephants literally vanish.

Houdini vanished one elephant. That was it. I want to do more than one.

It's a bit.

You're going to be fine.

Our life has turned into utter hell.

Chris Angel believes.

I have some fans coming by my house. I brought them here to blow their mind.

We've never met before. Isn't that true?

True. But I'm going to attempt to drive completely blind.

Oh, Lord.

This sonic is going to be the vehicle.

of my choice to try to do something like this. Now I'm going to ask you to go

into the car and inspect it to make sure there's nothing in there that could

possibly aid me in any way.

To ensure 100 % blindness, I'll tape coins over my eyes. I'll place a

on top of that and a hood over that that will be completely taped up. Is that

fair, ladies?

Yes.

This is the driver's side of the door.

You can hear us really good, right, Chris?

Huh? Good to go, right?

Yeah.

Oh,

my God, there's a gate.

Oh.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

So far, so good. But this is a scary ass.

Slow down because there's a red light.

I got to call Banachek. Call Banachek.

Calling Banachek.

We got to do this first.

Oh, my God.

Hello?

Banachek. Hey, how are you?

This is really, really difficult.

He's doing okay, but it's a lot of traffic out here.

Bye. Bye. How much further do I have for the left door? You got a long way.

Oh, my God. You got a divider on your left. Okay.

Oh, my God. Is this sign coming up yet? We're by the sign. We're by the sign.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God. We're getting ready to turn

the left door now. We'll go straight. Oh, you made it home, Chris. Hallelujah.

Try to pull this off of my face.

Just get it right from here. You want me to get it? Yeah.

Okay. I want you to see.

Look at my skin.

Oh, my God.

Oh,

my God.

And you can see the coin right there.

I'd rather Chris cut me in half than let him drive me blindfolded again, okay?

Cut my ass in half.

Chris was amazing.

That's all I can say.

Thank you all so very much.

Hey, Chris, what's up, man? Oh, hey, baby.

My approach has always been to take classic demonstrations and think about

to present them in modern day. I want to show the world for the very first time

how you meet.

multiple elephants literally vanish.

Houdini did one elephant on stage in a controlled environment.

What would fool people back then, the early 1900s, does not fool people today.

Absolutely. He had a box. Right. It was a big venue, like a Roman -style

amphitheater. What they did is these four guys would roll this box out.

And the elephant would come on stage and walk inside of the box. And then they

would turn the box and you'd look inside of the box and the box was empty.

And then 20 guys would roll the box.

That's traditional magic. I want to just kind of blow up tradition. I want to

take this from the theater and bring it.

outside i want to do it in an area that's open there's no way to hide the

elephant surrounded by a human chain i want people to literally connect their

hands together maybe even fasten their hands together like rope or tie them

zip ties or even maybe even handcuffs what would be the purpose of having

people like that well to obviously show that the elephants are not going out the

side or the back just random people random people Usually your audience is

in front of you, maybe some on the sides, usually never behind what's going

which makes this demonstration almost impossible.

How do we cover these elephants to make them disappear?

We want to have multiple layers of proof that the elephants can't go anywhere.

If we use something that has...

The ability to completely surround 360 degrees the elephant, so that's layer

number one. It has to go up quick and come down quick. But are we worried

like, the elephants maybe getting scared and stampeding or something like that?

That's an excellent point, Jesse. You know, here we are with a crowd of

spectators. If this elephant decides to go off on the deep end, you know,

there's no way to stop it.

You know, accidents do happen with animals and magic acts.

Let's get some baby elephants here for some rehearsals.

Chris, I can guarantee two to three elephants.

Please don't screw this up, all right?

Trust me, I got you on this.

He's exuding a little too much confidence. It makes me uncomfortable

screwed up some of these other demonstrations, and this demonstration,

no room for error.

We're going to make 40 ,000 pounds of elephants.

Pooh! Gone.

All right. I'm going to be right now. Gone.

See you later, guys.

This demonstration features a herd of elephants, a human chain. In an outdoor

location, Chris will attempt to make the elephants disappear with a 360 -degree

view. Category of magic, vanish.

Hi. Hi. How are you? Good, how are you? Could you do me a favor? Yeah. Go and

pick.

Any stuffed animals that you like that you think are me, okay?

Dog and a bear.

All right, cool. This bear right there. And let's see what he gets me. I hope

it's a cat.

Put them down on the ground anywhere you want.

Okay. I want you to point to any animal you like.

The dog, okay?

Before I do this, sure you want the dog? You can change your mind.

No, I'm good with that.

Which one? The elephant?

Yeah. Okay. Here, you hold on to the dog.

Hold on to the cat.

The polar bear, since that goes with your outfit there.

The elephant just started walking around, and it would fall over.

It was amazing.

It was mind -blowing.

It doesn't have batteries.

Does it have batteries?

Can you open it up? Here, come take a look.

Take a look. You want one?

All the stuffing just started flying out of this stuffed animal

that was walking around two seconds ago.

I've been grooming Kristen for some time, but now it's time to catch her off

guard and test her ability.

See if she can handle the pressure. What do we see?

This is a routine that I've had for a long time. I'm just, thank you, Doug.

I knew the time would come when Chris would say, bring it.

And the time is now, which is kind of overwhelming. How long is the routine?

I've got a minute. Do we have music? Not with this right now. All right, but I

think you're going to put something together for me to watch.

The routine, right, because we're going to redress it with everything else.

Okay, let's see.

Okay, I'm not trying to be rude or anything.

Okay. But that's not what I had in mind.

It's not just a ring routine. They make them fly.

I make them fly later in the routine. Make them fly. Do they float?

I mean, they float.

If I can just finish the routine, I mean.

If you can make them fly, like.

Well, yeah, I mean, then I would go, you know, into something here.

The problem is, it's what you expect from a beautiful blonde doing magic. You

told me you wanted to be provocative, right?

That's not provocative.

You in a cocktail dress is not provocative.

You doing something that people don't expect, then people will take note. What

want to do is propose an opportunity for you. I'm putting together a limited

engagement over at the Luxor. Uh -huh.

It's called Magic Jam.

I'd like to see you do something in that show, something that's going to reign

the bar.

Expect the unexpected from Kristen. I feel ready emotionally.

I think. This is a big test for you, but I believe you can meet the challenge.

Thank you. Okay? Okay.

Thanks. Going up. I want you to go through the movement.

Drop the gun!

Drop the gun!

Up. Stay.

Stay. Sit down.

Good boy. Give me a high five.

Good boy. Stay. Come on. Up. Good boy. Up.

Up. Yeah!

Let's go.

I am so stoked. We're going to play our game again.

Come on, Osa.

Come on.

Come here.

Have a seat.

Sit. Sit.

Good boy.

All right, let me tell them what we're going to do, all right, Oso?

We play a little game. It's a staring game. You should try it with your pet at

home. You see who will flinch first or who will remain frozen.

Let me try it.

You beat me again.

You're too good at this, Oso.

Like a freaking statue.

But better yet, you're like a picture.

What you see is not always what you get.

Perspective is an amazing technique that, if employed properly, might be a

method for my L .S. advantage.

Chris wants a big area.

Chris has had a lot of wild ideas.

You know, like Houdini has banished one elephant. He wants to banish a herd of

elephants.

Audience here.

There's a lot to be figured out. You know, how many people are there going to

be? Where are they going to be standing in relationship to the elephant? How

many elephants are there going to be? We got the elephant in this area here,

herd of elephants.

And then big people.

Where can we find a large enough venue?

for us to do this demonstration.

Where'd you get those? These are from my personal collection.

Chris wants to be able to do this in the round. And from a magic perspective,

that's very difficult.

Normally you have, this is the front view and that's your only view.

Let's go with like a fabric, something, you know, that's going to be really big.

So we need to have something that's lightweight. It's easy to handle.

This demonstration is a monumental undertaking in terms of the size of the

fabrication, the scale of the illusion, and the number of people it's going to

take to pull it off.

How hard do you think it would be to take a pencil eraser and punch it right

through a bill?

Try it.

This don't work at all. Can't do it. I don't know.

I'm trying.

I want you to see what we're going to do here. I'm going to take the pencil.

I'm just going to bring it straight down, just like so. I want you to see

it's completely fair. As a matter of fact, take a look.

Bottom. See that?

Now watch. This is what's going to happen.

You see that? It goes right through.

See that? Right through.

Now check it out. I want you to see 360 degrees.

It literally goes.

See that? See that? Completely goes through.

Completely fair.

Now, you can actually see the other side as well. I want you to see that. Look

at that.

Now, the hard part, the hard part is actually moving the whole. Watch. It's

moving the whole. Watch.

Yes!

You see that? Yes!

Why?

And you can actually examine everything. Take it all out. Take it out for

yourself.

You ready to go?

Yeah. I've been grooming Kristen for some time now. I believe she will be

amazing in my live touring show, Whimsical. But before I can commit to

going to put her in my live show at the Luxor.

And see how she can handle that type of pressure. So, you want me to take you

through it first? Yeah, yeah, let's go.

Chris has challenged me to prove myself with two of the most challenging and

physically intense pieces in his entire show.

You can bring me up, Eric.

Clear to go out?

You know, the straitjacket is very dangerous, but a lot of it's mental. A

it's in my head.

And what I do is I turn myself just a couple, gently.

To get me facing the audience.

So the next thing is, for me, it's all about this movement, which is the core.

Get yourself going.

Now if I want to stop, look how quick I stop.

See that?

I've hung upside down, but I have never hung upside down by my ankles five

stories over an audience. That I have never done.

Here we go. That's just before I can... Just relax. You tell us when you're

ready.

Okay. Here we go.

You've got to be in the moment, focus on what's going on, and get comfortable

with the environment.

If she does that, she'll be fine. I want you to imagine you have the straight

jacket on, and I want you to go through the movement as if the straight jacket's

invisible. I want to see what you're going to do.

What?

Stop, stop, stop.

If she's freaking out thinking about what's going to happen, she will never

able to pull this shit off.

I'm doing the most dangerous stuff I've ever done. I'm doing the most physically

and mentally demanding stuff I've ever done. This is a really big deal for me.

Well, dude, it's one more time. No freaking out. I'm going to put the

you. Chris has this vision of the way the straight jacket is supposed to look,

the way it's supposed to go. I'm really concerned about not being able to live

up to that vision.

Think about what you see in your mind. Let the whole thing play out for

yourself. Am I good? Am I good?

You're good. Just breathe. You're not breathing. In through your nose, out

through your mouth. Don't hold your breath. You all right? Yeah. Okay, so

you're going to be there. Oh, wow. And now they're going to say, are you ready?

Yes. Okay, go.

Oh, whoa.

Breathe.

Come on.

You're not using gravity, Kristen.

You're doing both arms at the same time. Do one arm first.

Okay. You're going to choke yourself that way.

You okay?

Yeah.

Yeah. There you go.

Come, come, come.

Don't drop the jacket.

Good, good. Come on. You're there. You're there. You're there. You're

You're there. Come on. Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

Drop her. Drop me.

You got to keep your arms like this. Stop moving around like a fish. Good

Yeah, nice job.

Here is a wonderful thing that you can use to your advantage.

It can allow you to be much more in the moment, much more focused, and able to

problem solve when things are wrong.

You're freaking out. I think you did good.

I think how great this will be, you representing women in magic.

You're doing something and dominating what most men can't do.

Right? Yeah. That's what it's about. And I know you can do it.

Yeah. Okay?

Coming up. If the elephants aren't in those enclosures, I don't think we can

have an audience.

Our life has turned into utter hell. Yeah.

For

me,

it's all about process.

When people watch me do a demonstration, they have no clue.

The process.

Wow. A lot of these things that began 20 years, 25 years ago are the actual

demonstrations that I do and believe.

I think that's great. I got John Farrell 20 years ago to work for me for free

based on a dream.

I discovered at a very early age, I think I was about 16 years old, when I

up with some illusion concepts that I just had built. I rushed into it. We

money and it didn't work.

So I came up with a system. For me, it's a process.

The first step is to take what's in my mind, doodle it out, have John create a

tableau of what that thing looks like. Then we move on to a model, which is

typically about 12 inches in size, and we look at it and see if it physically

will work.

When we're happy with that, then we move on to what I call a garbage bag test, a

full life model, even though it's put together with spit and glue.

and literally do it out of cardboard, duct tape, and staple gun to put this

together and see, is it the right proportion? And will it function within

movement and techniques that I'm employing? When we're happy with that

then we move on to the prototype.

And once I'm happy with it, then we'll actually finish it into a working

demonstration. And that process could take a year, and in some cases could

15 years.

Take the birth machine, for example. We built a PVC tube model of it.

Literally, in my mom's house, I had a little laboratory there.

And we probably built three versions of it. And one of which, the last one, is

in my live show, Believe, at the Luxor.

Which I perform ten times a week.

46 weeks a year, and I'll be doing it for the next five years.

Is the guy cool? We can rehearse with him? Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Chris wants to rehearse with Baby Elephants. So I've been making phone

working my connections, and I got the next best date.

Check it out, huh? Come on, look at them. Look how cute they look, huh?

Zero's in the think tank, and he's so confident. I can get Baby Elephants. I

get Baby Elephants.

And then he brings me...

Donkeys. You were supposed to get me baby elephants.

You got me two donkeys.

What is he, a jackass?

Come on.

Take him back to the trailer. Come on.

Come on.

You're going to roll yourself in.

So now.

That was not a. Okay, cool. So I've rolled in. You're going to roll. You're

going to roll in. So you're like, if you're over there, your hands come in

Right. And you just, you know, roll yourself. Okay. Flip it over. Chris

challenged me to prove myself.

and I'm still feeling a little nervous about the metamorphosis. The

is not an easy feat, and this box of fire certainly is not either. Your legs

will be up in the air. Now they'll disconnect you over here, okay?

If she wants to be on my live tour Wednesday, she's got to deliver.

Now you're going to lift up. You're going to get your mask and your goggles.

Right, and this is hard right there. I say, come on, boys. They get the lid on.

Now you know what you have to do. Think about it.

But I have yet to put all of the pieces together, and that's what I'm kind of

nervous about because there's no way for me to practice that until I'm in the

theater in front of Chris.

Okay, how are you feeling, Kristen?

Okay. Well, now we're ready for the pyro. What? Cool.

So I'm a little nervous about how all of that's going to come together.

Now it's going to stop.

Now you're going to do your, wait for it to stop, to come down.

Boom, boom.

And you're going to walk.

Right, but you're not going to stay here because you have a wall of fire on your

hand. Where do I go? Is this my mark here? No, your mark is as far as you can

go. Over here.

You don't want to be, you will feel this, the amount of heat that comes from

this wall of fire right over here is intense.

In magic, people's demonstrations are definitely prized possessions.

And for someone to give you that demonstration,

is the biggest gift that you can give someone.

Pyro's going to go off. You're going to stay still.

Pyro, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.

This is his baby. This is his life.

And I'm now getting to perform that?

Like, that's insane.

Everybody good?

Okay, here we go.

That pyro, it blows.

Like, there's a reason Chris is wearing a gas mask.

That is intense heat.

I thought she'd be overwhelmed by all the pyrotechnics.

But she did great. She was focused.

Good job, everybody.

Good job.

The straight jacket, on the other hand, is another story. She's got to step up

her game with the straight jacket and be able to perform both in front of an

audience if she wants to be part of my live tour Wednesday. Great job, Kristen.

Thank you. Very good job. Good job, everybody.

This is something that I have never seen anybody do. I mean, Houdini vanished

one elephant, right?

And that was it.

I want to do more than one. I don't care.

Three would be better than two.

Chris is pretty upset right now.

Spiro can't seem to find a herd of elephants for this vanish. He found two.

They're all the way down in Florida. And now that location is becoming a problem

as well.

We need to have people holding hands, handcuffed to each other. It's fine,

Those people will have to be around the barricades, outside the barricades.

The state of Florida won't let you have elephants, like, outside of this place?

They need a barricade between the public and the elephants. You've heard all the

disasters and all the things that have happened with elephants, right? Most of

them have happened in Florida.

What are the barricade requirements?

If the elephants aren't in those enclosures, I don't think we can have an

audience. I mean, it's just the law of the state. I don't give a shit. How we

it, whatever we have to do. I just don't want to go through this when we go

there and it's like, you know, we don't have a huge, crazy, unbelievable, holy

factor. Okay.

I don't know why. Spiro, why don't you tell us?

Our life has turned into utter hell.

Yeah.

Coming up.

You ready?

It's a bit.

Kristen, are you ready?

Tyrell's going to go off. You're going to bait Phil.

Tyrell, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.

Honestly, one of my biggest concerns with the metamorphosis is my hair

on fire.

It's a curtain of fire. It's a lot of fire.

I have a lot of hair.

I was so focused on just finding elephants.

that when I finally found some in Florida, I didn't consider all the

And now, that's coming back to bite me in the ass.

But I found two more in California, and it's a lot closer.

Dini made one elephant disappear in 1917.

Chris wants to make a whole herd of elephants disappear.

And I'd love to use this place. You think that would be possible?

Unfortunately, no.

Time is ticking.

Somehow, I have to find more elephants in a location that can handle it.

Whenever you're working with animals, whether it's the scale of an elephant or

something really, really tiny, it's always a challenge to manipulate them.

any cracker that you like, or you can grab an almond, whatever you want. Just

take one out right now.

Place it down.

I want you to watch this carefully. I'm going to do it really slowly.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Where'd it go?

have everything over i'm like shaking and completely freaked out i

know

it's an overwhelming moment right you're like 22 years old and you're in this

amazing scenario yeah but have fun with it and think ahead and be focused and

breathe breathe breathe I've given Kristen a challenge. Now it comes down

this moment. Can she rise to the occasion and meet that challenge?

You ready?

This is it.

You're going to be fine. All right?

Do a good job.

Take focus.

Take a breath. You're going to be great. Okay?

Okay.

The young lady that is about to perform for you has a lot of determination, a

lot of passion, and a lot of talent. So folks, give her a lot of love. Her name

is Chris.

Kristen did an amazing job. I mean, you heard the audience.

Wasn't that fantastic?

If you look at this as a first test for Kristen, she exceeded my expectations.

I'm so proud of you. And I think that she has a bright future if she stays on

this path.

It goes to show you that when you believe in a dream, that truly anything

possible. Thank you so much, folks. God bless you all. Good night!

That was just really meaningful that Chris believes in me to this extent.

I think that I can really be my own worst critic, and I think that I can be

hard on myself. And the fact that Chris is like, Kristen, you have this, is like

the biggest confidence boost there is.

You did it. You did it. Good job. Told you. Awesome.

Coming up.

I don't know how he did it, but you've got to give props to Spiro, man. He came

through in a big way. He secured four elephants from the Shrine Circuit.

He also secured the 50 -yard line at Missouri State University.

Now, the thing about Bo is he is one of the largest elephants. You haven't seen

him really yet. He's big. He's big.

Not only was Spiro able to pull off finding a herd of elephants for us in

Missouri, he's actually found one of the largest elephants in North America.

Well, there's two accounts on him.

All right.

Now that I'm actually here and everything's fallen into place, it's

Chris is actually going to pull this one off. He's not going to vanish just one

elephant, but he's actually going to outdo Houdini and vanish a herd of

elephants.

Not on stage like Houdini did. Chris is going to do it out in a football field.

He's going to do that herd of elephants with a group of people surrounding it

the entire time.

Ready? We got all of the elements. Now it's time for me to meet the challenge.

As you can see completely around you, we have four elephants literally in the

middle of the playing field, completely in the round, 360 degrees.

I've also asked for 40 people so that we can create, for the very first time,

ladies and gentlemen, a human chain that will be handcuffed around three of the

sides, creating another layer.

Attach it to your left hand. Head on that side over there. Attach it to your

left hand.

We have Banachek, Nathan, John that are handcuffing everybody to each other.

Left hand out. Okay.

So we're going to create literally a human chain around three sides of the

elephant.

Vanishing a herd of elephants is one thing, but handcuffing people around

that's extremely dangerous.

You know, we have Kristen who is part of our...

Excellent. Thank you. And I have a surprise.

Kristen, are you here? You're right there. I have a surprise for you.

I asked Larry, the trainer, and you can ride one of the elephants while we

handcuff them right now.

Yes, which one do you want to go on?

Is it okay? Can I go on both? You've got to be careful getting up there. Are you

serious? Yes, be very careful. Go ahead, Larry, whenever you're ready.

Okay.

Oh!

You're going to wave to the audience, but you have to wave above your head.

Okay. Okay.

Okay. We have our human chain complete. Is that true?

I'm literally in the University of Missouri State doing my

thing, and then I find out that my friend, Tony Orlando, happens to be here

watching. I've worked with Papa Phil.

Doug Henning, magicians in general, illusionists amaze me.

I've got to be honest with you, okay? I've never come across anything like

You're an amazing talent, but you're really in the category by yourself.

Wow. Well, thank you so much.

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