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Most believe that
the greatest trick a magician can do?

What is going on?

No! Shit, that's impossible!

...is to convince the world

- that the impossible is real.
- Amazing.

What are you doing?

But when the magic is real,

No one is in on it.

Aah!

How did you do that?

...yet seems impossible,

Oh!

That's not... That's--That's real.

...that's
the greatest trick of all.

In magic, the most important thing
to a magician is his hands.

In that everything that you do is based on

being able to manipulate
and control, right?

So, this type of stuff, it looks simple.

But it's actually me
working for a long time

to figure out how to do this stuff.

And it's practice. It's hours,
and hours, and hours of practice.

Jesus.

So, the one thing that
a magician, I think, values

more than anything else
is just the hands.

There's a trick in magic, right?

Where the magician puts
some sort of a stake

under a bag or a cup... like this.

And, Kanye, the magician
doesn't know where the stake is.

So, what happens is,
a random selection is made,

and the magician slams his hand down

over one of the three objects.

And usually the magician is fine...

The three of us

will stand over there,
and we'll all look this way.

And, please, nobody give them a signal.

'Cause we're leaving this up to them.

And...

you guys are gonna decide which bag
you put the ice pick under.

You're gonna be the one picking the cup.

- So...
- That didn't fall over.

The f... The fate of my hands
lies in your decisions.

- Have you seen him do this before?
- Nah.

No. This is brand new.

That's why I had to scurry over here.

- I had to see this.
- Don't worry. It'll be good.

If he fails, I'm gonna leave
extremely shortly after.

Not sticking around.

Can you point to one of the four cups?

How much is riding on this?

- On this?
- Everything.

Everything?

Point to one of the bags.

Point to one
of the bags.

-This one?
-Yep.

-That one?
-Yes.

Oh, my God.

That was a good guess.

Point to one fast, point fast.

I saw your reaction.

See, both bags moved.

But one didn't move the same way.

Which means, technically,
that I know it's here.

Oh...

But the truth is...

Wow.

Maybe it doesn't matter
one way or another.

But ultimately,

when we watch magic,

the problem with this trick...

is...

you don't want this to really succeed

-because...
-No, of course not.

the real curiosity is...

What would happen
if that went through the hand.

This is my right hand.

This is the hand that I use
to do everything.

This is an ice pick.

This hasn't been switched in or out.

This has been here the whole time.

- Is that true?
- Yeah, I know.

Do you want to make sure
it's actually what it seems to be?

- Oh.
- Don't look nervous.

gonna try it on myself.

Y... Yeah, that's definitely
what it seems to be.

Here it is.

This is complete mind over body.

Oh...

- Mm. Mm.
- Oh, my God.

Hmm.

See how it really looks?

It's going through the hand.

Yeah. Cut...

And does it really look
like it's actually--

It is. Yeah. Oh, God, no.

-Looks like it's actually going in.
-Oh, wow...

But there's no blood.

See, this is ultimately

what they wanna see,
Kanye. See that?

Look, ultimately, in magic,
that's what people care about.

It's that, see?

You see? That's really
what they wanna see.

Oh, my God.

Wow, wow, wow...

Oh...

You can see the pressure.

- Oh...
- Aah...

Oh, no!

- Oh, my God.
- Oh...

Oh, it doesn't have to come through.

It doesn't have to... We get it. Oh...

No way!

Oh, you! Oh, God!

- Mm...
- I don't think you clap.

I don't think we clap.
'Cause then, he'll clap by accident.

That is through your hand.

There's no blood.

Why?

This is the part that could be messy.

By the way, do you wanna just feel it,
make sure it's actually

not an illusion, Kanye?

Man, I lost my erection entirely.

-Do I pull it like this?
-Pull it straight out, OK?

Grab it, just pull it right out.

Good, good.

Just pull that. Good. Just pull.

Oh... Oh.

Pull.

- Got it.
- Oh...

Oh-ah... Mm.

- Wanna hold my wrist?
- Ninja skills.

Just hold me steady.

Pull. Go ahead, pull. Pull. Pull. Pull.

Done.

Nothing.

- Oh, damn.
- No blood, nothing. Like I promised.

It went though your hand.

It feels like it went through your hand.
This is not a glove.

That doesn't retract.

Oh, my God.

Man, I was having a pretty drab day.

Wow. Wow. That's the craziest thing

I've ever seen
in my entire life, obviously.

-Um...
-Um, I can't even...

You're out of your mind in the most, uh

You're just out of your mind, um,
in the most beautiful way, um, possible.

-That is amazing.
-My God.

Open here, and you open here,
and just see when I squeeze...

you see how... you see how

your fingers wanna close with them?

You feel that?

-You feel how you--
-Yes.

This is all
happening in their minds.

It's not about the trick at all.

See how his wanna close?

Call it power of suggestion.
Call it involuntary reflex.

Regardless, one thing is true.

We all wanna feel connected to others.

That idea is more powerful
than any magic I could do.

I'm gonna try to sync
the two of you with each other.

I'm gonna try to sync
the two of you together.

So, you'll be connected just through...

Very simple psychological...

-Control.
-Yes, Jesus. That would be fantastic.

I wanna see that. I wanna see that.

That would be worth it.

Close your eyes. Good.

Her eyes are closed.

She can hear my voice
but she can't see anything that I'm doing.

Open your eyes for the first time.

Tell us exactly what you felt.

Tell us exactly what you felt. Say it.

-I just got full of emotion.
-Uh-huh.

And, did you feel a touch?

-I did.
-Where did you feel the touch?

-On my shoulder.
-Which shoulder?

-Which shoulder?
-My right.

Tell her what happened.

While your eyes were closed,
he touched my right shoulder.

When you said it just now,

you moved your right shoulder.

He just put his finger here
and pushed down on my right shoulder.

And your body moved accordingly.

And you weren't watching,
your eyes were closed.

Yes.

And you really felt something
for real. It wasn't just a--

You didn't touch me?

No.

Somebody touched my shoulder.

David.

He touched my shoulder
while your eyes were closed.

- Yeah, Mom. Mom.
- no.

Mom, nobody touched you.

- OK. Now, I'm about to cry.
- Yeah.

Are you serious?

- Somebody touched my shoulder.
- No.

-'Cause he touched my shoulder.
-Oh, my God.

OK.

- OK.
- Oh...

Wow.

Close your eyes.

Pay attention to everything.

Open your eyes.

I just saw you do a little...
I saw a little something,

-like a little reaction, which is OK.
-OK.

Tell us exactly what you felt. Tell us.

- You... like, pushed me on the shoulder.
- Oh...

Oh, my God!

Yo!

I wanna say one thing. It's possible...

that you think that
when your eyes were closed,

that we all set this up
on you in that one moment,

'cause your eyes were closed and I could
have said to everybody, "Pretend."

Well, we're gonna try
in reverse this time.

-OK.
-I'm gonna see if you can connect

with--with your dad
in the opposite direction.

Close your eyes.

Open your eyes.

Did you feel anything?

Yep.

- What did you feel?
- Well, what?

You touched me on the nose.

- Crazy!
- Yo! Wow!

He's dope. He's dope. He's dope.
He's dope.

- He's dope. Are you serious?
- Jamie!

He touched my nose!

Think of any color.

You're thinking of it?

So, when I say, "Think of any color,"

-say it in your head over and over--
-I got it.

- Maybe, come right here.
- Right here?

-Yeah, also--also... Perfect.
-You're both so in on this.

-I don't believe you--
-I'm tellin' ya--

- It's just bull. Bull.
- Stay--Stay here.

- Stay here. Stay here.
- Bull.

But listen to me.
Here's the part that's important.

Even if they're in on it,

nobody knows what color
you're thinking of, OK?

You want me to make it appear
right across the wall, your color, OK?

I'm gonna make it appear
right over "Love."

We were promised fire as well.

-I hope you deliver.
-OK. You want fire?

-I want fire.
-I need alcohol for that.

- Somebody has a drink with them, right?
- OK, do it.

- Do it. Do it.
- OK, good. And I need something

to light on fire.
Does somebody have... perfect.

Let me, uh...

-let me dip this roll in here, OK?
-Yeah, of course, of course.

-You're thinking of a color?
-Yes.

And I said that we're gonna make it
appear right here for you.

-Mm-kay.
-OK?

I won't flinch from that.

Your color will appear
right where you want it to.

Do you wanna tell everybody
what your color is?

No, I want you to tell me.

Love me.

- Indigo.
- What are you doing?

- Oh, my goodness.
- Is that yours?

That's my color.

What are you...

Wait, what? Where's the color?

- There. I-N-D-G-I-O.
- In-di-go.

Do you have a bill, uh,
like a big bill, on you?

-$20? That fine?
-Yes. Perfect.

-$20 bill?
-Yes.

Perfect.

Now, uh, can you give her the cigarette?

-Here's what I want you to do.
-Mm-hmm.

-You see the bill?
-Mm-hmm.

Can you burn a hole in the bill?

Y-yeah? Burn a hole.

Push it right through here. Slowly. Slow.

Push. Good. Push.

Yeah. Slow, slow,
so that it burns through.

See how it burns through?

Good. And let go of the cigarette.

Can you see how
it's through the bill? Yeah?

- It's OK?
- Mm-hmm.

-See?
-Yeah.

-Yeah? Do me a favor.
-Uh-huh.

Can you grab the cigarette
from the bottom?

from the bottom. Under here.

Carefully. Don't hurt yourself.

And just see how
there's a hole? Just pull. Pull.

See how big it is?

What?

Take it. check. Look. Look.
Make sure. It's real.

What?

That's impossible!

- Do you have a bill?
- It might not be big.

OK. Well, as big as you have is good.

The biggest one I have.

-Great. A twenty?
-Yeah.

An you do me a favor?
Let's--Let's use that surface.

Can you sign? Can you sign it here?

-Yeah.
-I'll just put it here.

-Can you just give her that?
-I have a Sharpie.

Perfect.

For autographs?

Look at that green, man.
When did that start?

You see that signature.
I can't copy that, correct?

- No one could.
- Is that fair?

- OK, let me, uh...
- Who'd want to?

So, this is your bill
that you signed, correct?

Yes.

Do me a favor. Could you just
p-pinch your fingers like this for me?

Yeah, good. Hold that.

See, if I bend,

if I... See how you give the...
the bill a little bend?

- Yeah.
- All right?

Here...

And it doesn't...
It doesn't ruin the value...

Well, I guess if you go through
both serial numbers,

it kinda decreases the value.

But is that... Is that really ripped?

-Can you... Will you pull the rest off?
-Me?

Yeah, pull at the edge. Just rip off.

Good. Perfect.

And can we put that
in my mouth, that little piece?

-This guy here?
-Mm-hmm.

What? What?

Oh, my God. Is it...

- That is... insane.
- Yeah.

That's insane.

How?

That's crazy. That's crazy.

I never let go of it.
And it was totally gone.

It's like a reverse bris.

All right.

OK. All right.

What I'm gonna do

is I'm gonna first shuffle

- half the deck face up into face down.
- Mm-hmm.

So, you can see them get shuffled
face up into face down.

Mm-hmm.

-See that?
-Yes.

You can see that
they're really... You can see?

- Yeah.
- OK. So...

Can you... You can all
see how they're shuffled

- face up into face down for real?
- Yeah. Mm-hmm.

- Yup.
- OK. So, do me a favor.

Hold your hand like this.

I'm gonna make you into the magician.
Maybe the other hand. That's good.

- Yeah. Like this?
- OK, yeah.

Hold that for me. Good. Perfect.

Who... Where's your camera?

-My camera's in my phone.
-Can you take the phone out?

-Mm-hmm.
-Good. Prefect.

Stand right here first.
I'm gonna get a picture of ya.

Good.

Well, that's good. that's all good.

Well, let me do this,
take a picture of you.

- Mm-hmm.
- with you holding the deck.

- Good. Now, let me... Can I give you that?
- Yeah.

Let me just... I'll close the deck up .

So, you can see when you
look at all the cards

some are face up, face down,
some are face down, face up. Correct?

Yes.

-Think of any card.
-Mm-hmm.

That's your phone that
we just took the picture with, correct?

Yes.

Say your card out loud, number and suite.

Three of spades.

-Tree of spades?
-Mm-hmm.

That's the card you want?

You don't wanna change your mind?
You want a three of spades?

Yes.

-Cause if you're not sure, you can change.
-No, I'm very sure.

Hand him the phone for a second.

I want you to come see this as well.

Can you press the last picture,
but not yet?

OK.

When you open the picture,
the whole deck will go back to normal.

Everything will fix itself
except for one card,

which is the card
that you just thought of.

Open the picture.

And look very closely--

-Let me see.
-Turn it sideways so you can see.

Oh, my... Oh, my God.

Look, everything.

- Yo.
- Oh, God.

-That's killer.
-Hold on, I'll show everybody.

Oh, my God.

...which was the three of spades.

-Honestly--
-And you could have changed to any color.

I'm just trying to think...

I'm trying to think
how that's physically possible.

There's no way for you... for him to know
you were gonna pick the three of spades

and take a picture of it
while you were asleep.

Yeah.

Can we just do one more
drink of it, just to...

-And that's a real glass for sure.
-Yeah.

You should really see someone about that.

You guys are missing this.

He's eating my glass.

The boyfriend I always wanted.

Yeah, that might be blood,

but I don't know if you
actually bleed like the rest of us.

OK, let's not do that anymore.
I'm scared now.

You want me to make a rabbit
appear out of your purse?

Preferably a rabbit, bunny, Shetland pony.

Oh, there is literally
nothing in it.

Well, actually...

That wasn't in my purse. Oh, my God!

Finally, he got a big laugh out of me.

Um, has it got teeth?

I want you to think of somebody important
in your life that I could never know.

-Somebody you're close to, OK?
-OK.

Just touch a card. it's not relevant
to, uh, anything. But just touch one.

-OK. is that the card you like?
-Yep.

Ace of hearts. Can I give you...
Hold this for a second.

Now, we don't need
the rest of the cards, OK?

I'm gonna...

I'm gonna write
your best friend's name down.

Um, Emmy is E-M-M-Y.

And your last name?
How do I spell your last name?

-R-O-S-S-U-M.
-R-O-S-S-U-M?

-Mm-hmm.
-OK. Perfect.

-So, uh, that's right?
-That's right.

-That's right?
-That's right.

You're thinking
of somebody important in your life?

-Yeah.
-Come closer

because you probably know
who her friends are.

Look what I do if I take this lighter.

Watch close. I just heat it...

I was thinking of the same person.
That is ridiculous.

That was crazy.

-That was crazy.
-Let me show you. Look.

And not just Matt. Matty.

Oh, my...

God. Oh, my God.

Oh, God, man. What are you doing?

How are you doing this?

Holy cow!

Oh...

Let me ask you a question.

Does anybody know how to shuffle,
like, actually...

Like that. You do?

- Like...
- Yeah, David, I can shuffle.

Do me a favor. Shuffle it.
I wanna try something.

Well, let's...

- that's one way to do it.
- They are shuffled.

There's a black card here
and a red card here.

-You shuffle... You shuffle three times?
-I did.

You're gonna deal them face down,
one at a time, in any order that you want.

Face down, one at a time,
in any way that you want.

-No, but on top. Like that.
-Oh.

Yes, like that. Doesn't have to be even.
You can do three or whatever you want.

Mm-hmm.

Here, keep them...

That's my... That's my job
in our relationship.

-I admit. I'm not very neat.
-Yeah.

You should see the way she opens up chips.

- Yeah, it's a disaster.
- It'll drive you crazy.

It'll drive you crazy.

- Honeycombs?
- Everywhere.

-Rips it up. Doesn't stay fresh.
-You know what,

you wanna mix 'em
in your hands a little bit.

Just push them or whatever, just so
you don't know. Good. Keep going, I'm OK.

So hard.

And remember there's
two black cards out. So...

OK, I think you did it fine.

So, look. Make sure I don't

here's where you felt
the black cards went, correct?

-Yes.
-Right here?

-Mm-hmm.
-So, this was your guess.

You dealt into this pile?

-Yes? After he shuffled.
-Yes.

-Yes.
-Right? You see that?

-Yes.
-And let me just say

here's where you thought the reds were.
Good. So, the blacks are sh...

Uh, it means that
the--the balance is right.

And here's what's interesting.

You actually got every single black card
exactly as you were supposed to.

Even though he shuffled and you dealt,

you actually go, look,
every single black card in the deck.

- Stop it.
- Well, because you knew. You dealt.

-You kinda knew--
-What?

But look, hold on, let's show these
just--just to see that we

That's the red pile,
and let's just break it here.

-You got it perfect.
-Come on, man.

-What?
-Red and black divide.

What?

- Liv...
- Wow.

Baby...

You're welcome.

Think of any card in the deck.

Great. Um, h-hold the deck.

You're thinking of a card?

Do I know what card you're thinking of?

Your card just left the deck.

Just now.

Look through the deck. Your card
isn't there. Go ahead. Look.

-Yeah.
-It's not there.

You won't see it there.

Now, it's nowhere.

Here's what we'll do.

Listen, do me a favor. Grab, uh... Grab
a piece of... Grab a piece of fruit for me

like, uh, one that we can open up.

Yeah, grab a piece of fruit.

Go ahead, whatever.

And, is there... Can we...
Can we cut this? Can we...

Can we take a knife
and put it right there?

-Yeah.
-Good. You can put it right here.

Say your card out loud.

Nine of hearts.

-Nine of hearts?
-Yeah.

Can you turn this sideways?

-Sideways?
-Yeah, so I can cut right trough it.

Let me not hit your hand.

Let's do...

-Hold?
-Yeah.

See, inside,

see, there's... See how there's a card...

- in the orange?
- No way.

See how there's one card inside?
Please remove it.

Take it out.

Go ahead, pull it out.

Open it up, Harrison.

Yeah, that's...
No, no. That's just crazy

Get the out of my house.

OK?

Whoa.

There's a very fine line

between a magician and a con artist.

Can you unlock the phone?

W-what's his code?
Tell me what his code is.

What's his code? What's his code?

- Oh-five-five-seven.
- Oh, my God!

How did you know my code?

- That the code?
- That is my code.

- Now you'll have to change it.
- I can't stop sweating.

-Now you'll have to change it.
-How did you know the code?

- We're at 112th Street, Madison.
- Yeah.

We're in Projects, man.
That's where we at, man.

My boy
David here.

And, uh...

-So, we're gonna shoot magic.
-No one knows, no one knows.

-This is the hood.
-But nobody's out because it's so cold.

So, they came out because
they saw us through the window.

This is all
a complete surprise.

So, they're bringing us...

I asked them if we could
go inside and shoot with them.

Nobody knows that we're coming.

That was the first time, buddy.

You know that game
that's called Three-card Monte?

Usually, you bet money. And if you can
spot the ace or the queen, you win.

This is a money card. This is...
All you have to do is find this,

and you get whatever
you got here doubled, you understand?

So, all you have to do is find this.

But, it's not gonna be with two cards.
I'm gonna use three cards.

So, I got the joker, right?

And I'm gonna pull out another joker.

Can you all see that?
You can all see that, right?

There's one joker. There's two jokers.

And here's the money card,

- the one that we're playing with, right?
- Mm-hmm.

OK. So, I do like this, right?

So, now you know
what to follow, OK? So, I do this...

Where's the queen?

- Right here.
- No. You just... Yeah, you just...

- Oh!
- ...lost.

- Yo! Oh!
- Hold on. Let's do it again.

Hold it... Here, come, come.

Hold your hand out. Watch,
watch, watch. Here, let's do it again.

'Cause here's the idea. Ready?

See, I do like this, right? OK?

And now, you know this time...

You know exactly where the...
where's the queen now?

-Right there.
-No, no. See, you just lost your money.

- Whoa...
- No, I'm outta here. I'm outta here.

So--so... But why? Here.
So, it's one, two, three. Yeah?

- Right.
- Hold your hand palm up.

Now, look. Here's the move, really slow.
I do that. I switch like this.

- Two jokers and a ace.
- No.

It's the ace here
'cause you got two jokers there.

- No.
- No?

So, hold on. Whatever you think
isn't what's happening. 'Cause, look.

Lower both hands. I want you to see.

The ace is wherever I want it to be

even to the point that if I want
the ace to be here and here,

-No.
-Yeah, it's that move.

- Oh, my God!
- Oh!

- Here. Here. let's hold--
- He generated two aces.

Hold your hands open. Look closer.

Y-yeah. So, watch.
Watch. Look, it's simple.

- I do this. I do this.
- Mm-mm! Mm-mm!

- See the ace?
- There is now three aces!

Obviously, you know where the, uh,
the jokers were kept the whole time.

Of course I do.

-Where have I kept them?
-They're in your pocket the entire time!

Theres no way
to ever win the game.

Everybody's got perfect control.

Nah,
you're killin' me, man.

Let's go,
let's go, let's go, guys.

Examine the deck.

It's brand new.

Yeah.

Because you just looked
at the entire deck,

subconsciously, it exists in your memory.

Now, you don't have access
to that part of the brain.

That's a photographic memory.
But even that isn't actually as it sounds.

Turn them face down and hold on
to 'em so you can't see 'em. Good.

And, Katie, just think
of any single card in the deck.

Any card that you want.

Say it out loud.

-Say it out loud.
-Yeah.

-Eight of hearts.
-OK.

And there is no way
I could have known that. Correct?

-No.
-Do me a favor, Katie.

Pick up about, like,
a quarter of the deck.

Like, pick up, like, a quarter.
So, uh, about whatever you estimate.

-There?
-Yeah, whatever you think.

-You thought of any card. Correct?
-Yes.

And you just cut

-wherever you wanted to. Correct?
-Yes.

-Did I make you do anything?
-No.

Let me see where you cut.

Do people ever cry sometimes
'cause it's so strange?

Gimme a dollar bill. Gimme a dollar bill.

- Whose $1 bill was that?
- It was his.

It was yours and you want it

-to become a hundred?
-Yeah.

If it becomes a hundred, you're sharing it

- among the four of you, right?
- Sharing. Yeah...

25, 25, 25, 25.

Squeeze. Squeeze.

- Yes.
- 25, 25, 25...

You want the print... you want it
to change to a real hundred?

On my Mama's, I do.

is about to happen.

Feel that?

Amen!

Open. Open it.

Hey, wa-wa-was it
a hundred or a dollar?

I don't even know.
I just did something. Thats it.

When I was a kid, I saw a magician
put a knife through his hand,

and there was a lot of fake blood.

It took me ten years
to figure out how to do it for real.

With no blood.

You know... this is used for ice.

Or other lethal mechanisms.

You're putting it through
this area over here?

Yeah. It's like, all different places
it comes out.

Right. So...

-And then this here...
-...how do you... How do you know

to avoid the nerves, the blood vessels,
the bones, the ligaments...

I brushed a nerve the other day,

and my hand was frozen
for, like, three days.

You can see how complex and how dangerous

to take an object and put it
through your hand is.

And especially where David is doing it,
there's a whole complex of arteries there.

David, as far as I know,
does not have X-ray vision.

So, he can't know where the arteries
and nerves are flowing in his hand.

He is doing this, as we say, blind.

No one believes this. No one.

I don't know what the trick is here.

But we're gonna X-ray this and see
if this really goes through his hand.

For the record, I advised against it.
Just wanna let you know.

Ah.

I see it.

All right, here we go.

- You want me to pull it out?
- Yeah.

Gnarly.

Let's get that out. Oh.

Nothing. Just a hole.

No blood. Nothing. Just a hole.

There's not even any blood
on this thing either.

Nothing.

Explain that one, Dr. Ruden.

You switched hands
on me in between.

How's it possible
that there's no blood?

Well, there
is a simple explanation, by the way.

You wanna know what the explanation is?

David has no blood
running through his veins.

That's the explanation.

OK. Look. Hol--
Can you hold your hand out?

Count ten cards into her hand for me.

One.

Two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Now, for this, we don't care
what the number and the suite is.

We don't care about anything other than

the actual paper that makes
the card, you understand?

You hold the big portion.

I want you to do a count
so they can all see it.

That's one. Make sure it's
not too stuck, right? That's one.

And you put it upside down on the bottom,
that's the second card, right?

- Two.
- Keep goin', out loud.

- Three.
- Right.

- Four.
- Good.

- Five.
- Yep.

Six.

Seven.

Eight.

Nine.

Ten.

-Hold 'em against your heart for me.
-All right.

Do me a favor.
Think of a small number.

- OK. Got it.
- Say it out loud.

-Three.
-You want three cards

to travel right there from here?

- You have ten. You want three, right?
- Yes.

-Have you been holding the whole time?
-Yes.

- Did you think of three?
- Yep.

Three cards just jumped
into your hand. Hold your hand out, see.

- Hold your hand out.
- Now, you should have 13 cards.

Thirteen cards.

Count the first ten, and then,
show the last three. Out loud.

Two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Show them Show them.

Two.

Man...

- You in on this.
- You know what? Take, take all...

Take all of them against your heart.

- I swear to God.
- Hold them against your heart.

-Think of a number upto ten.
-All right. I got it.

-Say it out loud.
-Nine.

-Nine?
-Yeah.

You're gonna feel it just got bigger.

OK.

-OK, now, count again?

- Count. Go ahead.
- Come on.

One, two,
three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

eleven,
twelve, thirteen.

- OK.
- One , two, three, four,

- five, six, seven.
- Seven.

Oh, wait, we're short two.

- Yeah.
- Reach in your pocket.

Go ahead. Reach inside.

Yo, you pull two cards
out your back pocket, I'm gon'--

Wow!

- And in the other one...
- That's insane.

No! Come on, man.

How'd you get two in there?
You--you working with him, right?

I swear to God.

- You're working with him.
- Yo, I live right over there.

yeah, you working with him.

I live right down here. I'm about to hit
those bars man. I'm about to work out.

Think of any card in the deck.

-Good.
-OK.

I don't know what
you're thinking. Is that fair?

-That's fair.
-OK. Good.

Let's use a Sharpie. Can you see the logo?

- Mm-hmm.
- Rub it. Rub it for me.

Good. And you know what?
Also check this side. Rub both sides.

Good. And hold your fingers like this.

Here's want I want you to do.
Just... No, like this. Good. Great.

Just squeeze it. Squeeze it.

And think of your card. OK?

-I don't know what you're thinking, right?
-Mm-mm.

Start rubbing the logo. Rub it with
your thumb and say your card out loud.

Five of hearts.

OK. As you rub it, look what's happening
to the logo. See how it's changing?

That did not just happen.

- Oh, my God.
- You see? You see what it says?

-Touch one. The jack of spades?
-Yes.

Yes? You--You guys all see
the jack of spades?

- Yeah.
- OK. So, here's what we do.

The rest. Can you... can you hold this?

Let's do this.
We'll--We'll do a little rip.

-You see?
-All right.

Um, hold this. Make sure
it doesn't go anywhere. Look.

- What?
- Now, if you fix that card,

then I'm going to just scream.

Yeah.

Well, before we fix it,
we need to find the piece for it.

Do you have
something personal of yours

like a... even a wallet or a case.
Just something... s-something.

Yeah.

Can you pull it out
and bring it here for a second?

- Did I go near your wallet?
- No.

- Oh!
- Yeah...

That's freaky.

See if it fits.

What?

Here. Put the piece
in my mouth. Go ahead.

Watch.

See how...

Oh!

Oh!

There are a very...

Limited number of basic effects.

Finding a card.
I mean that's been selected...

Well, that's an--an effect.

-You thought of a card?
-Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can you say it out loud
for the first time?

Spade five.

-Five of spades?
-Yeah.

Where do you want it to be in the deck?
Middle? Bottom? Top? Second? You decide.

-Top.
-Yeah? the top?

-Yeah.
-Look. Look.

Mm.

The card's not in the deck.

It just traveled through the air, Psy.

And it landed under your watch.

Look under your watch.
Turn your wrist over.

And I aimed it under his watch.

- Under his watch. Under your watch.
- It's right there.

Well, it doesn't matter
whether you find it under an ashtray

or up behind a picture on the wall
or in somebody's shoe.

There's still the effect
of finding an unknown card.

Although there are
thousands of tricks,

there are only, what you
might call, twenty basic effects.

No! That's impossible.

What?

Of course that's the way you take
eight notes in an octave on the piano

I mean, the number
of variations together is fantastic.

Growing up, I took cards with me
everywhere that I would go.

I never dreamed that those 52 cards
would take me all over the world.

OK. Let them see it.
Don't let me see it.

- All right.
- Let everybody else see it.

- You all seeing.
- Yeah, they see.

- Yeah?
- Oh, they see.

- Here.
- And they cant believe...

- You put it with that.
- ...that this is the one.

Now, you take
the deck and slide it in.

All right. Good. Prefect.

This is the one where you fall.
This is the one where you fall.

The one where I mess up?

This is the one.

This is the one.

- You put your card in the deck?
- Oh, I put it in the deck...

and I don't think there's--

- One more try.
- All right.

- Wait. We're gonna get this.
- All right.

Is this just a chance
to throw cards at my balls?

I got it. I got it.

- Did you feel what I just did?
- No.

Please tell me you didn't
put it in my pocket. Don't do that.

- This pocket?
- Reach in.

- Good.
- Wait, hold on.

Dude...

Oh, no!

Oh...-

Son of a... Well, I mean
it's just not right.

It's just not.

It's not right to do that to me.

Sometimes, the cards
are used or misdirection. Watch close.

Heres the move, and I'm gonna
teach it to you as I do it.

See how I switch just like that?
See how I do that switch?

Hold it tight so I can't...
Good. Like that.

Now, I have the club. Hold on.

Without looking, what would you bet on?

If you were to guess without looking,

would you bet the club
was on the top or bottom?

The club is on the top.

Would you be impressed if the club
was on the bottom and spade was on top?

-Yeah.
-'Cause you were holding tight

-...the whole time with us surrounded.
-Yeah, yeah.

-I would be very impressed.
-See, but with those guys,

they couldn't even remember
where the club or the spade was.

So, I had to come up
with a new way to get them.

-Yeah.
-That's why I came up with this.

-Just turn. OK.
-Huh? What's...

Wow.

Here, hold--hold--hold
this one here, and this one here.

H-Hold tight. I said tight.
Say... No, no, tight.

Say a number from one...
Well, think of a number from 1 to 20.

-Yeah, got it.
-Seventeen?

OK, I got a present for you.

- Was it 17?
- He's right. It was 17.

Yeah, yeah. But I have
a present for Mr. President.

- It's a...
- Oh, God!

He turned my watch around.

I was excited to travel to England

to perform for Professor Steven Hawking,

one of the world's greatest scientists.

Professor Hawking,
it's an honor to meet you.

- Thank you for...
- Hello, how are you?

He has suffered from
a degenerative disease

since the age of 21,

and even simple communication
takes enormous effort.

His staff also told me he wasn't
feeling well and wouldn't be responsive.

So, Steven, name any card
that you want out loud.

Any single card.

And I obviously did not influence you
and don't know what you're gonna say.

Nine of diamonds.

You said the nine of diamonds and I didn't
influence you at all. That's fair.

You could have thought of any card

and I put this deck of cards
in front of you before we began.

I don't even wanna touch this

because I don't want you
to think that I'm cheating, Steven.

But can you open up this box
that I put here before we began

But keep it in everybody's sight, and let
Steven see you open the box,

and one card...

one card is at the face of the deck.

Turn the deck over, and let Steven
and everybody else see what card is in.

Show them as well.

And, Steven, you could have thought
of any single card in the deck.

That's 52 different choices.

Amazing.

I don't know how you did it.

I've been obsessed
with this clip since I was a kid.

This is Hadji Ali, and he's putting
a deadly amount of water into his stomach.

Next, he drinks a bottle of kerosene
that floats on top of the water.

Then, he brings the kerosene back up,
creating enormous flames.

Finally, he extinguishes the fire
with the remaining water.

Within a few short years,
this act killed him,

and he took his secrets to the grave.

I spent over 20 years
trying to figure this out.

Then, a video leaked online of a man

water-spouting with more power
than I've ever imagined.

In the video, there were
numbers on the wall.

Through that, we were able
to find his location.

Finding him wasn't simple.

We had put ads on the radio
and the newspaper,

and posted flyers
in all the market places.

Finally, after three years,
someone recognized him from the flyer.

So, I immediately traveled
to Africa to meet him.

His name is Winston Carter,
and he's a 35-year-old security guard.

I showed him Hadji Ali's act,

and I told him about my journey
to learn the spout.

He was shocked because he didn't know

anybody else in the world
could actually do this.

For him, the spout has
nothing to do with entertainment.

Because clean water was so scarce
when he was a kid,

Winston learned to control
the muscles around his stomach.

That skill allowed him
to store clean water

that he could access
at any point for any reason.

No one inspired him
to learn this feat.

He generated it
purely out of his imagination.

The force is from here.

He shared his secret with me.

And for the first time in my life,

I did it.

Sort of.

Back in New York, I was making progress.

So, I wanted to perform
for one of my heroes.

Woody Allen is a germophobe
and a hypochondriac.

I'm gonna modestly avert my eyes,
and actually, consume a little...

So, to heighten
the experience for him,

I decided to add fish to the equation.

Mm.

-That's one.
-Seriously.

That's one down.

Ahh.

Yeah, the fish are
in your stomach, I got it.

I spent hours and hours
spouting nothing but water.

I was worried that
the fish might never come out.

I can't take you anyplace.

Fortunately for everyone,
I finally did.

- Oh.
- And they're alive and well.

Look, look.

Uh, I just made this malt, and...

I, uh... I would...
If I were you, I would drink it,

kill the taste of the fish.

-Wow.
-Yeah, don't spit it back.

- It's awesome!
- What can I say...

Some people have it and some people don't.

My next idea was
to combine it with street magic.

Think of somebody important in your life.

- You threw the quarter right there?
- Mm-hmm.

A name will appear right there.

See how it's starting to rain?

The water will make it appear.

I'll help.

Oh, my God!

- Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
- What the...

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

- What?
- Damn.

Oh, my God.

Weird! Weird!

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

That's my Dad.

Odessa?

Now that my spout
was getting stronger,

I was ready to try kerosene.

Every expert that I consulted told me
that I absolutely should not do this.

If you get any of that oil
into your lungs,

it will cause pneumonitis,
which is an inflammation of the lung,

which can cause severe damage.

There's a chance
that you could inhale some of this

and you could die.

I've done
extreme things with my body.

I've held my breath for over 20 minutes.

I've been frozen in a block of ice.

And I've even fasted for 44 days.

All of these were tests
of endurance with unknown outcomes.

But there's hard evidence that ingesting
kerosene will lead to death.

To force myself to go through with it,

I asked Robert De Niro

if I could attempt it
at the opening of his Nobu Hotel.

How you doin', Bobby?

Thank you so much for doing this.

As simple as it looks, this was
one of the scariest moments of my life.

Cheers.

My stomach
felt like it was on fire.

Kerosene was dripping from my nose.

I could hardly breathe.

But I considered my first attempt
a success because I made it through.

You want an alka seltzer?

This amazing feat that I once
thought to be impossible

was finally a reality.

-Look. Watch this.
-What?

-Lick it.
-Yeah.

You know, it's a game that you could
do as a magician.

-How did you make it spin?
-Here. Watch again. Look.

How the f...

-Look. Look again.
-Yeah. Come on.

-I would lick it a little bit.
-Yeah? Do that.

- I lick it evenly.
- OK.

-You fill up your lungs--
-Yeah? With 20 minutes worth of...

All right. OK.

Oh, that's ridiculous.

No, no, no. No... No.

What happened there? Seriously.

I guess it hit the current.

- It's stuck. That's pretty good.
- Just off.

He obviously
wasn't falling for it.

I figured that the only way to get to him

would be to do something that would
make him physically uncomfortable.

-You're gonna become a magician.
-OK.

I'll help you though. I'll start.

See hoe the needle looks... like...

-See how it looks like
-Yeah.

it's going into the arm?

-See that?
-Yeah.

See how it really looks.

Is this selfish?

I think if that goes through your arm,
it might hurt me as well.

There might be collateral damage.

Oh, that's...

-See how it really looks?
-Yeah.

-Yeah, it does.
-Like the needle...

is actually going...

Ah...

Oh, no. What the Seriously.

This is mental.

What the... This... Th-that's mental!

-See how it really looks?
-So-sorry, David. Seriously.

Ha... This isn't a trick. You're just
sticking a needle through your arm.

What are you doing?

- See how it looks?
- That's horrible.

...how it looks, Ricky,

-like it's really--
-You're a maniac.

See how it looks like it's--

That's the worst thing
I've ever seen in my life.

What are you doing?

-See how you really believe--
-Oh, God!

-I'm not good with this. That's crazy.
-You see that?

How the are you...

Wait. What--What do you mean
how are you doing it?

You stuck a needle
through your arm.

It looks pretty real right?

Uh, sorry, I don't understand.
How is that not real?

What do you mean it looks pretty real?

It's the same as what I just did to you?

What? This is all glue?

Well, it looks really real, right?

I don't understand.

Right. OK.

Obviously, if that's...
if that is a trick...

How is that a trick? How is that not
a needle going through your arm?

You know what? Ricky, here, do me a favor.

-Grab the needle right here,
-Yeah.

and pull it out so you can see
the magic trick. Go ahead. Grab it.

-Here. Good. Grab it--
-What do you mean?

-Pull it out, out all the way--
-Yeah, yeah, pull it out.

Good.

Just pull it right out.

- Right. OK.
- Pull it out.

Is that needle going through your arm.

Well, pull it out
and you'll see how it works.

Pull it.

- Oh, me. I don't understand.
- Yeah, pull.

-Pull.
-Oh, David! What have you done?

Are you a maniac?

-Pull.
-This is real. Sorry, this is real.

That's real. That's not a trick.

Oh, for sake!

How?

I don't... That's not a...
That's--That's real.

There's no... That's... He stuck
a needle through his arm.

You saw it. You saw it, right?

He stuck a needle through his arm.

I...

But...

he couldn't have.
Because no one would do that.

So, how did he do it?

Why would you?

Why would you do that?

Well, now, he's just gone.
Just gone for lunch.

This was something else.

I mean, it was amazing.

Either way, it's amazing.

One is that it's--it's one of the best...
the best illusion I've ever seen,

close up.

Or... you're a maniac.

Either way, well done.

Well done.

That it... I'm still...
I'm still on my first theory here.

That it did happen.

And that's not a trick.
It's a double bluff.

So, you just did something,

and you want people to think it's
an amazing illusion like your card tricks.

But actually, you just
stuck things through your arm.

That's brilliant.

If that's true, it's brilliant.

It's the best con ever.
'Cause it's not a con.

It's like someone pretending
to cut their foot off,

and then, they hobble off without a foot.

And they go, "Did you see that?
It looked like I cut my foot off."

"Where's your foot?"
"It doesn't matter."