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A lot of our magic tricks are designed to convince people

that bizarre, fictional products are real.

So, what better place to film

than a store full of bizarre merchandise?

We fit right in.

We could call it "As Seen on the Carbonaro Effect."

Hello. -Hey.

Okay.

Stick N Click light.

Did you want some of these?

Are they a single-serve thing?

Oh, yeah, you know, like, you make coffee

in a machine that does pods.

-Yes? -You know, like a coffee pot --

It's just for ramen soup.

But the noodles aren't in there.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's like -- You know how, like, when you --

How do you put it in the pod and then close it, then...

I'll show you, yeah, 'cause you wouldn't think

that it would all... you know, fit inside there.

'Cause I like really strong coffee, too.

Because it -- -It doesn't go in this, does it?

-Yeah, it goes in any machine. -That is so weird.

-Here. I'll show you. -[ Chuckles ]

They freeze-dry it, so they're smaller.

-Yeah, and they expand. -But they're still really good.

Yeah.

And you press the button.

And I hold down the large-cup button.

-Okay. -And that's pretty much

the same kind of hack for any machine you have.

-Yes. -And it will start up.

[ Machine whirring ]

Yeah. -That is so bizarre.

Yeah.

Noodles and the broth comes out.

Oh, that is so bizarre. [ Laughs ]

Okay.

The noodles come out of that thing.

That's it.

-Oh, does it really? -It expands usually,

and then, if you press he small-cup button,

you get a chive release.

See the chives come out? -Oh, that's wild.

-Yeah. -I'm, like...

-That smells like -- -Oh, that's absolutely wild.

-It's really wild, right? -Yes.

-Here. -I think I'll get some of these

for my -- -You want to get some?

I mean, you can smell that. It smells really good.

It's a good, you know -- -[Sniffs] Oh, yeah.

-Yeah, college -- -So, what is --

Are all the noodles together in this thing?

Michael: Yeah, there's noodles, you know?

They expand. -And what's that?

Michael: This one's chicken flavor,

so it has chicken inside. -How'd the chicken get there?

It expands in the hot water.

[Chuckles] That thing -- That came out of there?

Yeah.

Yeah, it gives you two pieces. -But that --

That chicken came out of this thing?

Came out of the pod, yeah. In the pod --

I didn't see that.

Oh, yeah, the pod, it has --

Everything that's inside the pod will expand.

That is so wild.

Okay.

-That's cuckoo, right? -I'll get some of these.

-[ Chuckling ] What? -I'm gonna get some of these.

-You want to get some of those? -This is so wild.

And not everybody likes their ramen with egg,

but when you're done with the pod --

'Cause everything inside's made to expand...

-Yeah. -...so this doesn't

come through, but...

the last thing that stays in the cup --

It's a dehydrated egg.

So the egg, you can put on top, too.

You know, you can freeze -- -It's like up on the shuttle.

-Right, that's exact-- -The space shuttle that they --

That's what they invented it for

was for astronauts to be able to have warm soup...

It's all freeze-dried. Whatever.

...because you get sick in space,

you know, the whole mission's off.

-Yeah. -So, having chicken soup

available, like, real good chicken soup

is a top priority of NASA, so...

Funny she brings up the space program

because I use NASA all the time

to explain the existence of bizarre products.

"It came from outer space" is always

an effective line of BS.

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This over here is a new vegetable cutter.

What is it? Where?

It's called a Blade Bag.

How does it work?

I was just reading the instructions,

trying to figure out how to do it.

The Blade Bag, it's lined on the inside

with all these little blades,

so it's supposed to make it simple

for when you just put a vegetable in.

And...

there's, like, certain ways to shake it.

That's why I was trying to figure out the difference

between crinkle cut and -- Yeah, see, that does that.

I don't know whether that's like --

Is this crinkle cut, or is that --

That's not waffle. I don't know what that is.

What?

I guess for, like, a party platter or something.

I just don't understand how it would be able to do that.

How does that work?

Uh, well, each blade has its own rotation on it.

Like, there's a little nub on each one,

and each one turns a different way,

some clockwise, some counterclockwise,

and some will flip forward and back.

So, depending on how it shakes, it falls between the blades.

-What? -Yeah.

Yeah. -That's ridiculous.

Let me see if I try --

I was just wanting to try different things.

So, a radish...

I'll just...shake it.

And...

Oh, that's kind of cool, though.

Oh, wow.

Let me see that.

How does it know how to, like, do it and,

like, shape it and stuff?

A caterer invented this so they didn't have to sit and --

'Cause, like, you can't do that with, like, a normal knife.

Well, I think it's just random.

Like, you know how, like, snowflakes are just random?

Yeah.

It's just the way the world falls together.

You just dump it in there and shake it?

Dump and shake, yeah.

So, can you, like, make 'em crinkly?

I can't figure it out. That's what --

I think there is, like, a technique to how you shake.

You know, if you grab from corner to corner

or side to side does one thing.

What if you accidentally put your hand in it?

Well, but the thing is, you can actually touch the blades.

I'll let you take one home.

The directions are here.

-Okay. -I'll fold them up inside.

And keep that.

And, uh, you know, if enough people are interested in it,

we were gonna carry them in the store.

-Yeah. -So...

Um, but I'll show you. What I do is --

Here, just hold it by the corners.

So just -- Yeah, shake and -- Shake it from corner to corner

like that and side to side a little bit.

Yep, and then, you would just pull it open.

If you had something in -- -[ Gasps ]

What?

Oh, uh, yeah, the dir-- I'm sorry.

The directions are in there.

Oh, wow.

Well, at least it made a snowflake.

Wow.

That's really nice. That's your first time.

-How did I do that? -That's a really good --

The symmetry on that --

That's -- You're like a natural.

But this -- You're not gonna be able to read these.

Yeah, so, I can't have it.

Let me see if I have another set of directions.

-Okay. -Hang on one second, okay?

They told us today, too, everyone gets a...

Here, I've got to give credit to the art department.

The packaging they put together helps make

these ridiculous products look believable,

like this ear de-waxing kit.

This took several weeks to build and design to look just right.

You clean it out. I'll show you how it works.

This is great if you have a lot of ear wax.

Uh-huh.

Make sure that's empty. [ Blows ]

And you roll one of these inside of it.

You know, you lower one of these down inside.

-Oh, uh-huh. -It's like a...

like a gauze wick. -Right.

And that gets lowered all the way down.

And it has a property that, I guess, you know,

wax could adhere to. -Oh.

And there's a little suction into it, like this.

-Oh. -So, it goes right in the tip...

-Uh-huh. -...like that, right?

-Uh-huh. -You feel it there.

And so, the wick -- You have to get the wick deep

into your ear like this.

If you can get it just... to where it's comfortable...

Uh-huh.

What's going in there? -[ Slurring ] Huh?

That's the tube. -Just the wick.

The tube and the wick.

All right, and there's a suction, and then you...

[ Normal voice ] Oh, you feel that coming out.

Oh, my gosh.

And then, it will --

The compacted wax makes a candle.

[ Gasps ]

Oh, my God. There was that much wax

in your ear?

In the inner ear, yeah.

Your inner ear has, you know, 25% more wax

than your outer ear,

so Q-tips really don't do anything.

-And it can go that far down? -It can go that deep, yeah.

-Oh, that's scary, that. -Oh, my gosh. Wow.

I know, but the first time I did it, it was very scary.

-Yeah. -But, you know, it's great, too,

because...

-[ Laughing ] I'm just amazed. -You know, they're trying

to make -- They're trying to make it fun, you know?

Uh-huh.

So families can -- You can make, like,

a little candle out of it.

Oh, no.

[ Laughing ] It's so gross.

It's a way to do, you know, a personalized candle.

That is a-- That is amazing.

-Yeah. -That that much...

-That much wax can go? ...can be in there.

Yeah.

All right. I was surprised by their reaction.

I thought they'd be horrified,

but they were mostly just fascinated and amazed.

And as you're about to see in this previously unaired clip,

some other customers also thought

this excessive ear wax was just hilarious.

Just release...

Ah. ...just a bit. Right?

[ Laughs ] Here. It's not --

It's just suction.

It's just suction, right?

And then extract... out like that.

Wow. [ Laughs ]

And then right from where you left that out,

it'll make a candle from your inner-ear wax.

No way.

Oh, my God. Yeah.

So this is good for -- you know, you can collect them

and use -- They do burn just like candles.

[ Laughing ] Oh, my God.

Whoa. Yeah.

And the come with dyes, too.

You can put, like, different colors, drops in your --

[ Both laugh ] Why is that funny?

I don't know. I don't know. Wow.

Yeah. You can do it only once every few months,

but you can save these up.

So I wouldn't say, like, if you're having a celebration,

you can be like, "Oh, quick, make enough candles"

'cause you'd hurt yourself. Sure.

Yeah.

Okay. Do you want to take that one?

I'm -- I'm good.

No. Okay. Okay.

I'm gonna put this in here

with the home ear waxing kit, as well.

Thank you. Make sure to sanitize

all the parts

before stabbing them in, okay?

Oh. Yeah.

♪♪

My magician buddies help me design

the tricks you see on this show,

and they usually work behind the scenes.

But on this day, my magic team member Derrin Berger

agreed to pose as a massage client on camera.

I know it sounds relaxing, but I think he got

a bit more than he bargained for.

You work at the massage school?

-Mm-hmm. -All right.

It's a very easy procedure. I'll take you through it.

So, you just lay back, Derrin.

I'm gonna create a little crevice

between his back and the table.

And lean up here. You know this.

-Mm-hmm. -Been coming in weekly.

You know the drill, huh? [ Laughs ]

-Yeah. -Every week.

And I will have you, Emily, take this bowl.

-Mm-hmm. -And I'm gonna find

the exact spot here. -Okay.

It's usually right under the solar plexus here.

If you could slide that bowl right under that area.

-Mm-hmm. -Yeah.

Get that lined up -- real good.

Okay.

Perfect.

Then, you can relax on that, Derrin.

Good.

And, now, these are the stones we use, okay?

They're cleansing stones.

It's a lot like, you know,

when you get a hot-stone massage.

It's the same types of stones, but these are imported, okay?

They're a little hard to come by in the States.

So, we're gonna focus right on this area here, okay?

We're gonna start with the black stone.

If you'll take that...

Emily, rub that between your hands,

and you're gonna get that area nice and warm.

And I'm gonna get the solar plexus nice and warm here.

Couple of taps.

All right, Emily, you can place that right there.

Excellent. -All right, it's good.

-It's good? -Yeah.

Okay, here we go. We're gonna "om" on "3."

1, 2, 3. Om.

Derrin: [ Breathes sharply ]

[ Bowl clatters ]

Excellent.

Go ahead and pull that bowl out.

[ Sighs ]

Great. Great, great, great.

Michael: And how are we doing with that?

-That was good. -Okay.

-Ohh. -A little slimy --

Michael: We got a little bit --

This is the residue here, so that's what --

that's what you're watching out for.

Emily: Okay. [ Stone clatters ]

And you can dump that right into the bin there.

-Just dump it in? -Yeah.

Okay.

That's pulling those impurities out, right?

-Wow, okay. -Yeah.

Uh-oh. -No, I'm fascinated.

I'm just like, "W-What the -- What just happened?"

-How did that feel? -It was pretty good.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

Okay, so, go ahead and slide that --

Back in? Okay. Yeah, back underneath

that area here.

-That about right? -It's in.

-Good? -Yeah.

So, we've opened the chakra,

and this, hopefully, is gonna get them spinning.

Do you see that, how it passes through?

Mm-hmm.

Okay, good.

Warm up the rose quartz for me.

Great. Oh!

I'm sorry. That --

Uh, you don't have gold rings on or gold jewelry?

-No. No, no, no, no, no. -Yeah.

You can actually end up pushing impurities in.

Okay.

I don't want to screw anything up.

Yeah, you'll see a lot of Reiki healers wearing silver...

-Mm... -...because it's the mirror

to the energy of the soul. -Okay.

Okay?

And go ahead and place that down.

Excellent. Okay.

Here we go.

All right.

-[ Breathes deeply ] -1, 2, 3.

-Om! -[ Grunts ]

[ Bowl clatters ]

Oh. My ring!

Uh, okay, Derrin, you just relax for just a moment.

[ Whispers ] Grab the bowl.

I will be right back,

and we'll, uh... try that again.

Just one second, okay? -Okay.

Just breathe together. Breathe together.

[ Both breathe deeply, door closes ]

Emily: Ready? 1, 2, 3.

[ Groans ]

Oh, man. Shoot.

We should -- We should maybe take a break.

Yeah.

I like to leave people alone

so that they can try a trick for themselves.

And in this case, I forgot that might get

a little painful for poor Derrin.

I promised not to abandon him with my second student,

who you're about to see in this unaired clip.

[ Breathes deeply ]

Om.

[ Stone clatters ] [ Grunts ]

Okay.

Could you go ahead and pull the bowl out from underneath?

[ Laughs ] Where did the stone go?

-What? -We're doing a passage.

Oh, my God. [ Laughs ]

Okay?

How did you just do that?

It's being passed through,

and you go ahead and drop that inside that.

As you know, I can't touch the stone

once it goes through to the other side.

Good. And place that back underneath his back.

Oh, my gosh. This is great.

Try it with the white stone

right here in the chakra.

Good. Deep breath in.

[ Breathes deeply ] Good.

And...om.

[ Stone clatters ] Excellent.

[ Gasps, chuckles ]

Wait. What?

How are these going into this bowl?

I'm not -- [ Laughs ]

It's a center-soul technique.

It literally just went through his chest.

It's passing through the flesh...

[ Laughs ] ...creating a channel.

What? Okay?

Will you take that out, please?

What?! What?

This is crazy.

And then I put this in here? -Drop right into the impure.

[ Laughs ] There's no...

Okay.

What?

Is this hurting you? How are you feeling?

-No. -Oh, my...

-You okay? -Yeah. It's pretty good.

You feel the pressure release? Most of it.

Yeah? Yeah.

Okay. Yes.

How... How is this...

What? Like, there's stones going through him.

Like, I'm not -- Right. Right.

Wow.

Okay.

You know, up until this point, all my victims were students.

But for this next trick, I had to pull some shenanigans

on an actual massage client.

And what I didn't know

was that she was a mystery shopper

hired to get a massage and review the experience,

so technically, we were both undercover.

...you know, right out the gate.

Oh.

And it's got nice elasticity to it.

Okay. So, I'm surprised

you don't exfoliate.

Yeah, no, I also don't use lotions.

[ Laughs ] -Oh, you don't use lotions?

Isn't that -- You know, some people

who don't need it shouldn't,

so that's good that you're not.

Okay, so, a lot of exfoliation treatments,

you know, they take off the first layer of skin.

You know, that's the dead skin that kind of gets

on the surface, which is not a bad thing to do.

Mm-hmm.

Do you ever use a sponge like this?

-Mnh-mnh. -Oh, okay.

You feel that?

Okay.

It's like a little Brillo Pad, right?

So, what it is is it's scratching the surface.

Yeah, you can feel the scruffiness on that.

Mm-hmm.

Wow. -Yeah.

And just see if we can get that first layer up.

Look at that. Is that a little...

[ Chuckling ] Where did that even come from?

-Yeah. That's crazy.

Yeah. That's dead skin.

Gross. I've never seen that.

-You've never seen that before. -[ Chuckles ]

You have probably never had it properly exfoliated.

I mean, I've done a loofah or something.

Yeah, you see it's starting to come up to the surface, right?

Yeah, I kind of see it's kind of splotchy now.

Yeah.

Okay, let me have you turn your arm over.

I'm gonna see if I can just...

That's good. -Oh, gro-- What?!

-Yep, that's good. -That's disgusting!

Okay, that's good. We got them out, though.

-What?! [Chuckles nervously] -That's nice.

That's insane.

-Yeah. -What?

Those are looking pretty healthy.

So, when's the last time --

Have you ever had these extracted before?

-No! [Laughs] -No? Okay.

Okay. -[ Chuckling ] Ew.

Gross. [Laughs] That's disgusting.

Also, did not expect that.

[ Laughs ] -Oh, yeah, well, that --

[ Laughing ] I didn't even know that could happen, so...

Oh, yeah. These are healthy.

I would recommend reintroducing these into the skin

this evening. -What?!

[ Laughs ] What do you mean?

Well, because they've been under there for a while,

so I would let them get a little bit of light today,

and then I would, just when you go to bed tonight,

you can drop them on your face before you sleep.

Or, you know, it's hard to get them right back in the arm,

but they'll find their way back down there --

much easier for them to get into the orifices of the eye,

the nose, the mouth, the ears.

That's how they're introduced.

I'm gonna get you a little vial to put them in, okay?

Okay.

And I will be right back.

-Okay, thank you. -Okay, thank you so much.

Uh-huh.

Just one moment. [ Door opens ]

-Okay. -Okay.

[ Door closes ]

♪♪

You are so weird.

Now and again, we put together these grand scenarios

designed to alter someone's perception of time.

We did both a time-jump trick and a déjà vu trick,

and for this piece, we settled on the idea

of a premonition.

Could we make a person believe that he had a vision

that predicted the future?

Okay, first one is the vase.

Um, and I'm gonna put it...

[ Speaking indistinctly ]

So, you're basically just -- Are you packing stuff

and then setting it up there? Is that --

Yeah, you know, this stuff, they just take.

Oh, okay.

So, it's like, if we know it's going right out there,

we just lay it all here, and that's when they come

with the forklifts and stuff and just take this stuff out...

Okay, cool.

...and they'll stack it up.

So, I just want to check.

Let's see here.

Okay.

And see how tall --

This is, uh, like, 20 -- 27 inches.

How tall is that vase?

The vase itself is 23 1/2.

Oh, good. Okay, that'll fit.

You want to bring that over here?

Sure.

Okay.

Yeah. Great.

Cool. Okay.

That's one less trip for you to come down.

That's right, yeah. It makes it easier for me.

[ Chuckles ]

-Thanks. -Sure.

Yeah, all right, so, that's A-01-D.

Is that what it says on the clipboard there?

A-01-D.

A-01-D? Okay, that's cool.

Yep.

They have such nice stuff here, you know?

Yeah.

Dude, this place is huge. -Yeah, man.

-Hey, Mike! -Yeah?

I'm heading out. -Okay, cool, man.

I'll see you on Saturday.

Ah, Sunday!

Right, okay. Awesome.

All right.

Oh, you know what?

I might have to wiggle it in, like, this way.

Whoop. -Oh!

[ Vase shatters ] Dude, you know what?

That's -- Grab the broom.

[ Chuckles nervously ]

I should have stayed over there.

Where'd it go?

Yeah.

Let me see.

This is, like, uh, 20 -- 26 inches

How tall is the vase?

The vase -- Where'd it go?

Michael: Oh, no, we're gonna load that one up here.

Oh, okay.

I just want to make sure it's gonna fit on the shelf.

This is 26 -- 20 -- 27 inches.

How tall is the vase?

20 -- 23 1/2.

Okay. Yeah, that'll fit.

All right, you want to bring that over here?

Dude, am I on crack right now? Didn't I just give you this one?

Sorry? Didn't I just give you

this one?

What? Didn't I just hand you

this one a minute ago?

-Hand me that? No. -Yeah.

Michael: What do you mean?

Dude, I could have sworn I already -- I could --

[Scoffs] I'm cracked out right now, I guess.

I don't know.

Wait, what -- What are you saying?

Man: I thought I handed you that one

just, like, a couple of minutes --

Michael: This one?

Yeah. A-01-D?

Yeah, A-01-D. You saw that on the thing.

But I th-- I could have sworn I already gave you that one.

What just dropped?

Michael: What? Just a second ago,

when that -- when that --

Didn't something drop?

I don't know. Were you having, like, a premonition

or something?

-I'm -- I'm... -Wow.

They have such nice stuff here.

-Hey, Mike! -Yeah?

I'm heading out.

Okay, I'll see you on Saturday.

Ah, Sunday!

♪♪

-Hey, Mike! -Yeah?

I'm heading out.

Here, we are doing everything in our power

to make this guy believe he experienced

a vision from the future.

This took hours of painstaking rehearsal

to get every detail just right.

And as you're about to see, I think we pulled it off.

What?

I'm just having, like, the biggest case of déjà vu ever.

-What do you mean? -Like, the weirdest --

Like, t-that dude that just said "bye" to you right there...

-Right. -Was there another guy

like two minutes before that said,

"Hey, Mike, I'll see you"?

I mean, Sandy took off like a half-hour ago.

No, it was just like --

Like, I'm freak-- I'm literally having, like,

t-the craziest déjà vu ever.

What did you -- What happened?

I could have sworn that I measured this for you.

Right.

And I brought it over to you.

Right.

And you went to go put it in there.

Right.

And something fell over here.

-Wait. Hold on. -Dude, I swear.

I'm even sober, too. That's crazy.

Oh, whoa! Oh, shoot!

Like, that --

That's what I thought happened.

Oh, that thing is loose.

Oh, wow. Oh, yeah.

Well, I can't put that up here.

Oh, that thing is loose.

The vase would fall right off if I put that up there.

Yeah.

I swear to God that's what just happened.

'Cause you said that --

You were like, "What fell?"

Yes.

And then, I checked the shelf, and this fell.

And it fell.

How did you know this was gonna fall?

I didn't know.

Because I -- The on-- Because I thought

it already did.

[ Chuckles ] Now I'm just trying

to backtrack here.

A-01-D.

We only had one of these vases, right?

Right, that's a one-of-a-kind piece.

I could have sworn I brought this to you once.

Right.

And then that fell.

How did you know this was gonna fall?

I'm freaking myself out now.

-Oh, my. -[ Chuckles ]

Wait, are you telling me that you, like, saw...

Swear to God. Swear to God.

That's whacked. I've never --

I've never had anything like that happen before.

This is one of those times that I didn't want to tell the guy

that he'd just been tricked

because, as far as he's concerned,

he just discovered he has the power to see into the future.

♪♪

So, that was a premonition.

That was a premonition.

That's crazy.

That's like "The Carbonaro Effect."

Do you know -- No.

Do you know what "The Carbonaro Effect" is?

Nuh-unh.

Oh, "The Carbonaro Effect" is the name

of a hidden-camera magic TV show.

Is it cool?

Actually... [ Laughs ]

...you're on it right now. [ Gasps ]

Are you kidding me?

I'm not kidding you.

I'm a magician.

My name's Michael Carbonaro,

and you're on my TV show right now,

"The Carbonaro Effect."

Are you [bleep] kidding, dude?

I'm totally serious.

♪♪

Dude, are you for real? I'm for real!

[ Laughs ]

How cool.