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00:00 Hello, and thank you for purchasing Cosmos.
00:21 Most of my magician friends know that for the last 20 years, the color separation plot
00:28 has been this brain tease that constantly goes on in my mind.
00:33 In these 20 years, I've been looking for the ultimate way to do out of this world.
00:39 And in my opinion, I think that Cosmos is truly the holy grail of color separation plots.
00:47 It's very, very strong, mainly because it is not only impromptu, but also the fact that
00:53 it's done just with a bar of deck of cards.
00:54 It is so free.
00:56 The spectator shuffle the cards, the outcome at the end does not require any of the packet
01:00 switches or any of the other kind of inconsistencies that has been in the past of out of this world
01:07 plots.
01:08 So, let's get started.
01:10 I hope you enjoy Cosmos.
01:19 Well tonight, I want to finish by showing you something that's not even a trick.
01:25 In fact, just recently, the University of San Diego released a paper that was inquiring
01:32 about the power of the subconscious mind when it is placed in competition.
01:37 Now to be able to show you this experiment, I need a deck of cards.
01:40 So would either one of you happen to have a deck of cards?
01:43 Actually, I have a deck of cards.
01:45 I always carry one with me.
01:48 Always.
01:49 Okay.
01:50 Well, let me tell you a little bit about this experiment and why the whole scientific community
01:53 is excited about it.
01:54 Here's what they found out.
01:56 They found out that they set up the most simple experiment imaginable because everybody knows
02:01 that a deck of cards is made up of red cards and black cards.
02:04 So as you're watching me shuffle the cards right now, there's just a blur of cards that
02:10 are going by, right?
02:11 And for the conscious mind to memorize where actually every card is, would be impossible,
02:18 right?
02:19 But they've proven now that the subconscious mind can do a perfect job of memorizing these
02:24 cards.
02:25 So, Andrew, I'm going to start separating the cards out and they're different colors.
02:28 If you could please reach in there and pull out any red card you like the most.
02:33 And Sylvia, if you could reach in there as I'm throwing out the black cards, just pull
02:37 out any black card you like the most.
02:38 If you're waiting for a certain one to go by, obviously that's fine too.
02:42 Oops, there we go.
02:46 Andrew, do you see a red card, Sylvia, that you like the most?
02:50 Oh, a red card, too?
02:51 Yes, if you could please pull out a red one here.
02:53 I like the kings.
02:54 There we go.
02:55 Okay.
02:56 Andrew, you have a black one, you have a red one?
02:58 Yes.
02:59 Okay, we're all set to go, right?
03:00 Oh, you like actually the kings, you pulled out the kings there.
03:02 Alrighty.
03:03 So, let me just finish up over here.
03:06 Alright.
03:08 So if a card was just to be shown, if I was to hold out one card, okay, and ask you to
03:15 guess if that card is red or black, then the probability of that would be simply 50/50,
03:20 right?
03:21 Right.
03:22 So, we're going to do an experiment for the entire pack, and remember that any time you
03:26 can just reach in there and stop and say, "We've had enough."
03:29 Okay, so, are you both ready?
03:31 Yeah.
03:32 But before I start, because we have to have this be a scientific experiment, reach in
03:35 there and just mix it all up, you know?
03:37 Mix it all up like this?
03:38 Yeah, see, this is going to be a scientific experiment, so I have to make it as fair as
03:42 possible, you know?
03:43 You have to forget that I'm a magician for a moment, that's why I have to keep my hands
03:47 off, that's minimum contact with the cards.
03:51 Like a double blindfold test.
03:53 Okay, is that good enough?
03:54 Yeah, please gather up all the cards.
03:58 Yeah, that's one of the problems with that crazy shuffle, you have to square them all
04:12 up.
04:13 I don't know how to shuffle any other way, so this is good.
04:15 This is good enough.
04:16 Alright, so Andrew, I'm going to be the random number generator.
04:18 Okay, as I start throwing the cards out, your job, if you think that that card is red, you
04:22 simply put it in front of the red card.
04:24 If you think it's black, you're going to put it in front of the black card.
04:26 Sylvia, you're going to do the same thing.
04:27 Remember, the key word here is competition.
04:30 You're going against each other.
04:31 Alright, ready?
04:32 Let's do it.
04:33 Face down, okay.
04:34 Face down, absolutely.
04:35 This is where the power of the subconscious mind really comes into play.
04:37 Now, like I said, since I'm going to be the random number generator over here, okay, please
04:41 keep in mind that sometimes I'm going to throw more cards his way, less cards your way, okay?
04:46 It's all good.
04:47 I'm not being an idiot.
04:48 I know, I'll give you some cards.
04:51 Don't feel bad.
04:52 I'm not going to leave you out.
04:53 Okay.
04:54 Alright.
04:55 Sylvia, you're really, really, I need you to concentrate.
04:58 Remember, you're in serious competition.
05:01 Yeah, but he's getting more.
05:04 It's okay.
05:05 She's got no chance to win.
05:06 She's got no chance to win.
05:08 Tonight, I'm feeling something about the guys tonight, Andrew.
05:11 So, by the way, remember, anytime you can stop me, doesn't matter.
05:15 Oh, stop.
05:17 You want me to stop?
05:18 Okay.
05:19 I want to show you something over here.
05:20 Watch.
05:21 I want to show you that, are all the cards still mixed up?
05:22 Yeah.
05:23 They are, right, Andrew?
05:24 All the cards are still mixed?
05:25 Yeah.
05:26 Okay.
05:27 They are.
05:28 You really want me to stop?
05:29 Continue.
05:30 You want me to finish?
05:31 Okay.
05:32 Let's do it.
05:33 Let's do the whole deck.
05:34 Okay.
05:35 Here we go.
05:36 Let's keep doing.
05:37 Andrew.
05:38 And one last one for Andrew.
05:43 Done.
05:45 We come to the moment of truth.
05:48 All right.
05:49 Let's see.
05:50 If you could please square up the cards.
05:52 Like I said, I want to keep minimum contact.
05:54 Sylvia, if you could square it all up.
05:55 Okay.
05:56 Okay.
05:57 Now, normally, probability would tell you that 50% of the cards that are in front of
06:02 each pile should be correct, right?
06:05 But in this experiment, they found that the probabilities were a little bit higher than
06:09 50%.
06:10 They were going up to maybe even like around 55, 60%.
06:13 And this is what's perplexing the entire scientific community.
06:16 Well, let's see what we got here.
06:18 Let's bring it all together.
06:20 Okay.
06:21 Here we go.
06:23 I can hardly wait.
06:24 I can hardly wait.
06:25 I can see something over here.
06:26 You said all these cards over here are supposed to be red.
06:28 Let me count.
06:30 I guess so.
06:33 What?
06:35 I can't believe this.
06:37 I can't believe this.
06:38 You need to.
06:39 I don't want to touch the cards.
06:40 Could you please?
06:41 No, no, no, no, no.
06:42 Could you please pick that up and show the camera and show Andrew what is all the cards
06:47 there?
06:48 What do you got?
06:49 Wow.
06:50 What?
06:51 Oh.
06:52 Wow.
06:53 Those are all red.
06:54 Those are all black.
06:55 Those are in front of the black card.
06:56 Black.
06:57 Okay, now hold on, hold on.
06:58 Andrew, Andrew.
06:59 Wow.
07:00 We got some tough competition over here.
07:01 All these cards over here.
07:02 But they're all red.
07:03 Oh my God.
07:04 Wait, wait, wait.
07:05 Now hold on.
07:06 Sylvia, if you could please pick up all the cards that are in front of your red pile.
07:07 Turn those over.
07:08 Let's see how well you did on the red.
07:15 Wow.
07:16 These are all red.
07:17 Every single one of them.
07:19 Andrew, you've got some serious tough competition over here.
07:23 Okay?
07:24 All right, so let's see.
07:25 Let's see.
07:26 Hold on a second.
07:27 If all these are red, if you could please turn the red ones over.
07:32 And that is absolutely unbelievable.
07:37 If you could please put them down on the table.
07:40 Every single one of them are red.
07:43 And then, please turn these over over here.
07:47 That's unbelievable.
07:49 Every single one of them, black.
07:51 Okay.
07:52 Now, let me just say something here for closing thoughts on this.
07:56 This is so unbelievable that imagine if I only had one card in my hand and I was to ask you,
08:02 what are the chances of yes and that right?
08:04 And we already said that that's 50%, right?
08:06 Now, by the time--it's 50/50, right?
08:08 By the time there are two cards that are face down, now the chances are just one over four.
08:13 One out of four.
08:14 Now, in this case, we actually have about 48 cards.
08:17 There's four of them face up.
08:18 They were face down.
08:19 It's actually one out of hundreds of trillions.
08:22 Wow.
08:23 And guess what?
08:24 Tonight, we were lucky enough to see it.
08:29 Something that beats the odds.
08:32 Higher odds than any lottery in the world.
08:35 That's amazing.
08:36 Excellent work.
08:38 Thank you.
08:39 Thank you.
08:40 Bravo.
08:41 That's very cool.
08:44 I don't know how he did that.
08:46 Well, I would like to take the explanation of cosmos and break it into three different phases.
08:59 The phases are the initial shuffle of the cards and then the separation of the cards by the spectators.
09:07 And then finally, the reveal.
09:09 Now, there is work that happens in all three phases.
09:12 And so let's get started with the first phase, which is the shuffling of the borrowed deck of cards.
09:17 Well, the principle of cosmos is very similar to Paul Curry's principle of one spectator is getting all the red cards while the other spectator is getting all the black cards.
09:28 So how do you do this with a normal everyday deck of cards?
09:31 Well, when I first get the cards, I obviously start shuffling them.
09:35 Now, this first shuffle is very important.
09:37 You notice that I'm going to shuffle face up.
09:39 You only need to do this as a riffle shuffle only three times.
09:42 That's all you need.
09:43 But you want to do an extreme bend in the cards.
09:47 You're seeing me do it here right now.
09:48 It's a tremendous bend that I'm putting into the cards.
09:50 I do the riffle shuffle and then squeeze them together.
09:54 Do maybe a couple of overhand shuffles and that kind of breaks up the pattern of the cards.
09:58 But you want to do that once again.
10:00 Riffle, a very, very hard riffle shuffle face up.
10:04 Now, at this point, you're calling attention to the fact that all the cards are just a blur as they go by.
10:10 I mean, you are delivering the line that it would be impossible for the conscious mind to remember it.
10:15 Now, by this time, all of the cards in the deck of cards, as you can see here, if I give you a side view, they have a very definitive bend down.
10:23 Which means the middle of the card is actually being bent up while the rest of the card is being bent down.
10:29 So we have this kind of a--I'm going to call this a positive bend to the cards.
10:32 All of the cards now have been positive bend marked.
10:36 You can see that from the side view.
10:37 Now, at this point, I start separating the red cards from the black cards right in front of them.
10:42 Now, you're welcome to use either Leonard Green's or there's been a variety of different calling techniques that recently have become very popular.
10:51 But I find that just simply separating the cards red and black right in front of the spectators is very fair and never really has raised any suspicion.
11:00 But if you want to be a little more clean about it, you're welcome to use like any calling method that you like the most.
11:05 Okay.
11:06 So once the cards have been separated between red and black, you want to keep the speed going here by asking the spectators to reach in and pick out any black card they like the most or red card.
11:15 So one spectator from the right chooses that.
11:18 Okay.
11:19 Red card, black card.
11:20 Now, please make sure that the red card the right spectator is going to have is always going to be to the front.
11:26 Okay.
11:27 I always go with the rule of right and red because both of them start with the letter R.
11:31 So right, red, there's a red card on the top.
11:34 The spectator to the left is going to choose once again a black card and a red card.
11:37 Now, the spectator on the left, just make sure that the black card is going to be at the top while the red card is going to be down at the bottom.
11:43 Okay.
11:44 So now, as we square up the cards, pick up the red pack and shuffle it like a traditional riffle shuffle which is going to be face down.
11:55 And you're once again noticing that now I'm marking the cards by bending it in the negative bend.
12:01 Now, please see how I'm doing this.
12:03 It's just to the audience, it seems like a normal everyday riffle shuffle when in reality I'm putting a tremendous amount of pressure to the middle of the cards.
12:11 You can see it there right there.
12:12 A lot of pressure, it cuts it together.
12:14 And now we have this negative kind of bend to the card with the middle that goes down while the edges of the cards are not sticking up.
12:21 So now we have cards that have been pre-programmed.
12:24 The black cards with the positive bend, just like that.
12:28 And then the red cards with the negative bend.
12:30 You bring the cards together now and instead of doing the riffle shuffle through the middle, this is going to be a bad idea because now you're going to be taking out the programming.
12:36 You're going to do a riffle shuffle very similar to a gambler's shuffle or a casino shuffle which is through the edges.
12:42 Just like that.
12:43 Square it all up and give it a couple of cuts and maybe even another shuffle.
12:47 Now one of the first things that you'll notice is because of the cards being bent, the cards are going to sit very, very high on the table.
12:54 You can actually see that there very clearly there.
12:56 And you don't want to keep it like that for a long time.
12:58 So that's one of the reasons why immediately at this point you throw the cards out and you start the beginnings of this kind of a children's shuffle, slop shuffle, whatever you want to call it.
13:09 People actually start shuffling the cards together.
13:11 Now at this point, please point out to the spectators that they can shuffle it as much as they want.
13:15 When they do, they randomly toss the cards around and also point out to them that they can pick up the cards and look at the faces to make sure they are truly shuffling.
13:23 And they will.
13:24 They'll turn over the cards and they'll see that they're really shuffling.
13:26 They are really being shuffled together.
13:28 It's as fair as fair can be.
13:29 Now at the end, when all the cards are squared away, once again, please make sure that you do not have the spectators looking at the side view for a long time.
13:39 Because it's going to be obvious that the cards are going to rise just a little high.
13:42 Immediately push the cards on the table and now you are ready for the separation phase.
13:47 So we're now done with the shuffling phase.
13:49 Here's the separation.
13:51 The separation is easy.
13:52 As you push a card off the top of the deck, you're looking for either that positive or negative vent.
13:57 Now right now, I can very clearly see that this is the positive vent, which means this card over here is black.
14:02 In fact, I'm going to show you it's black right now so you can see that that's the proper one.
14:06 Immediately, the black ones always are going to go to the left.
14:09 Remember, right is red.
14:12 Once again, I pull off another card.
14:13 I can see how it's marked that it's this positive vent.
14:15 I throw it to the spectator.
14:17 That's to my left.
14:18 I see a card over here that's not bent right.
14:20 Now you can see that very closely.
14:21 I can see how the ends of the cards are sticking up away from the table while the center of the card is riding right on the surface of the table.
14:28 So it's very easy for me to determine what that is.
14:30 Now if you can make that determination while looking at the card while it's still on the face, that's fine.
14:35 You can see it over there.
14:37 Or what I might do is just simply pulling off the card over here and throwing it out.
14:40 So here's a very important thing you must remember.
14:43 Try as much as you can not to look at the faces of the cards as you're separating them.
14:48 Because it's going to be, you know, maybe if somebody is looking, not these two spectators, but the other spectators that are watching,
14:54 they might notice that you're paying a little too much attention to the backs of the cards as you start throwing them around.
15:00 So, you know, talk to the spectators.
15:02 Just give a little quick glance at the cards as you're throwing it out.
15:05 You can see how I'm doing it right now.
15:06 Just a quick glance at the cards.
15:08 I throw it out.
15:09 Quick glance, throw it out.
15:10 And now, as you're doing this, the energy level actually is beginning to come down.
15:15 Because this is kind of boring.
15:16 You always want to keep the energy level high by telling them at this point that at any time they're welcome to stop.
15:21 And also, make sure that you're doing this as fast as possible.
15:25 Because it seems very fair when it's fast and nobody is suspecting any separation taking place.
15:31 Okay?
15:32 Now, since you're telling them to stop at any point, sometimes people will say stop, okay, which is a wonderful thing if they do.
15:37 Because you will take the remaining cards and you will show the faces to the spectators so they can see that all the cards are obviously shuffled.
15:44 Because, sure, they just shuffled them.
15:46 They should be shuffled.
15:47 At this point, if they do stop you, after they have seen the cards, please make sure that you shuffle just a couple of overhand shuffles.
15:53 Now, the reason why you want to do that is because somebody might remember those first few cards there.
15:58 Okay?
15:59 If they're a very, very observant spectator.
16:00 And if I throw that card out, let's say the spectator to my right.
16:04 As I throw that out, if he pushes that intentionally towards the black side, even though I know that's red, then that's going to make me mess things up.
16:10 That's why, after you show that to them, you turn away as you do that.
16:14 A couple of overhand shuffles.
16:16 Continue.
16:17 If they want to continue.
16:18 Okay?
16:19 It comes to this really quickly to finish it all up.
16:21 Okay?
16:22 Blacks, reds, reds, reds.
16:24 Okay?
16:26 And we're done.
16:27 So, now, at this point, obviously it doesn't matter where they put the cards.
16:30 They're going to put some of the cards in front of the black pile, some of the cards in front of the red pile.
16:34 I'm just going to kind of arbitrarily cut the cards.
16:37 Okay?
16:39 Now, if you notice that the spectators are putting too many cards in front of one pile in contrast to the other, please just warn them that, listen, that would be impossible.
16:51 Just keep things a little more fair.
16:53 Distribute the cards more fairly.
16:56 Now, I've been doing my version of the color separation, which Cosmos, for years and years, and I've never had somebody really have a very uneven pile.
17:06 But if you do find something like that, please just correct it and tell them, let's keep things even.
17:09 Okay?
17:10 So, now, you can instruct the spectators to square up the cards, and they will.
17:14 Now, please notice the orientation of the cards.
17:17 Okay?
17:18 What we're now doing is that we're getting ready for the last phase of the trick, which is going to be the revelation, which has also involved the last bit of work that we need to do.
17:26 As they square up the cards, what you're doing is that every time you square, you're bringing the cards together.
17:30 Okay?
17:31 Please notice that I start from the upper right-hand corner.
17:33 This order is very, very important.
17:35 I start from the upper right-hand corner.
17:36 I come to the lower left-hand -- to the upper left-hand corner.
17:40 I bring those cards to the center.
17:41 These cards are, once again, over here.
17:43 I bring those to the center.
17:44 Now, by the time I get to these cards that are far away, I slide these cards in, but as I slide this one, I kind of get bored.
17:49 I stop because I say, you know, I just can't wait.
17:52 I need to see how you all did.
17:55 So, there are two different ways you can finish this.
17:58 The right hand is going to cross the body.
18:01 You notice that the natural position for my right hand to go is down.
18:03 But my right hand is going to cross the body and pick up this pile that's in front of the red cards.
18:07 Please remember, all of these cards here are right now black, okay?
18:10 And all the cards that are here are red.
18:12 What we want to do in the third phase is that we want to switch these two packets around without the spectators noticing it.
18:18 So, we need some natural misdirection.
18:21 So, the right hand crosses the body, picks up the red pile, and as I turn it over to look at it, I pretend like I'm seeing a bunch of red cards.
18:29 Obviously, they're not.
18:30 These are all black.
18:31 But I'm like, oh my God, these are all red.
18:35 That is unbelievable.
18:36 So, your acting right now is really, really important.
18:38 Please make sure you keep the cards close to your body because if there's people that are around you, they might see what's going on.
18:43 So, you might -- you don't want to do that.
18:45 Just keep the cards close to you because you want to count it and make fair.
18:48 At this point, you close the fan and the cards are now being held in your right hand just like this, slightly over the packet that's right below it.
18:55 Now, instruct the spectator to your left to pick up the cards that are in front of the black pile.
19:00 So, the moment that he picks it up and turns it over, this is where all the attention is there.
19:05 Tell him, please spread the cards out and show everybody how well you did.
19:09 When that is happening, every spectator is looking at that pile.
19:13 This hand, my right hand, does nothing more than drop.
19:17 I want to give credit here to Teller because Teller is the inventor of this idea and I had other switches that were not as smooth as Teller's simply just dropping the hand.
19:28 So, at this point, when the cards are dropped, you're welcome to do a gesture like this.
19:32 Now, you notice what I'm trying to mimic is this.
19:35 If I was going to take this packet and put it over to the right, I would do it like this.
19:39 The packet's in my hand. I just looked at the faces. I think they're all red.
19:42 I'm going to pick it up and do that.
19:44 Now, obviously, that's not going to happen. What I want to do is I want to switch.
19:47 So, as the hand drops, you notice it's dropping now in front of that empty space that I had left before.
19:52 The hand continues the motion with the other packet.
19:56 So, because everybody is looking at the cards over here, their subconscious eye, actually their peripheral vision, will think that you simply slid that packet in front of their red cards when in reality you did not.
20:07 You switched packets on them.
20:09 At this point, the trick is now over.
20:11 All the work is done. You can simply relax, ask the spectators to turn over the cards.
20:16 At this point, all the theatrics and your performance starts becoming important.
20:21 So, you want to really highlight that the spectator to the left got all the cards right.
20:26 So, the spectator to the right has got some really tough competition.
20:29 So, let's see how well he did or she did.
20:31 As they turn the cards over, spread them out one at a time slowly.
20:36 Now, in the presentation video, I didn't get a chance to do this kind of slow spreading of the cards because I just asked them to pick up the cards and turn it over.
20:43 I wanted them to do it, but to bring up the tension of the moment right now, to really, really build up the effect.
20:50 Try to pack it over yourself, but with your finger, just start spreading the cards out like this one at a time.
20:56 So, the sense of them seeing each individual face building up is very, very powerful.
21:01 And once again, this goes back to the original Paul Currie presentation of Out of This World.
21:06 There might be some magicians that are going to be uncomfortable with the final phase when you do the switch.
21:15 Now, please, I've been doing this trick so many times and I have never been caught.
21:21 The misdirection is perfect.
21:23 Some people might say it's gutsy.
21:25 It's not.
21:26 It works.
21:27 I've never been caught.
21:29 Please try it.
21:30 You're going to be fine.
21:31 But, if you're uncomfortable with that last switch, here's what I recommend.
21:36 Once again, I'll put the cards back to the way they were, which means that the cards to my left are all black.
21:43 I'll show that to you.
21:44 And the cards to the left are all red.
21:47 Here's how you can end.
21:49 Take the cards and drop it on top of their indicator cards.
21:52 Very fair.
21:53 Spread it out slightly so they can see that.
21:55 Once again, the spectator to the left.
21:57 Drop it.
21:58 Take that entire packet and drop it on top of the packet that's to the left.
22:03 Do the same exact thing to the packet that's now down here in front of you.
22:07 So, you're bringing everything together.
22:09 You have this configuration here of cards spread like that.
22:13 Your indicator cards clearly mark where everything is.
22:16 At this point, very slowly, you set every card above this card is supposed to be red.
22:21 And you gesture the person to your right.
22:23 As you pick up these cards and you turn it over, one at a time, slowly spread, they are all obviously red.
22:30 Same thing over here.
22:31 Very openly, slowly pull that card aside.
22:33 Turn these cards over.
22:35 Very slowly spread the cards to show that all of these cards here are black.
22:40 Now, at this point, this is going back to the original Paul Curry out of this world, one of the subtleties of Paul Curry.
22:47 He brings the cards together.
22:49 Simply turn the cards face up.
22:51 As you turn the cards face up, the audience is going to forget the orientation.
22:55 So now, as you spread the cards, the cards are falling exactly in the right orientation,
23:00 which means that this side over here, this spectator should see all the red cards being in front of these black cards, which makes logical sense.
23:07 At this point, with the cards face up, place it in front of that spectator.
23:11 You're like, "Look, every card above your indicator card here is red."
23:15 Do the same thing to the spectator to the right.
23:17 You're showing all the black cards, which now are corresponding to the reds on the table.
23:20 Please place those down.
23:22 Spread those out.
23:23 Show that they're all this way.
23:24 Now, the cards that are in your hand right now are the wrong indicator cards.
23:28 And once again, the genius of Paul Curry, all you do, turn them over, place them down like that.
23:33 Okay?
23:34 Once again, let me do that again.
23:35 It's not a move here.
23:36 Don't make it into a move.
23:38 The only thing you're doing is that there's two cards.
23:39 They assume that this is the red indicator.
23:41 That's the black indicator.
23:42 Okay?
23:43 You don't have to say anything.
23:44 Just turn it over, put it down, and now it perfectly matches up.
23:47 The red indicator is going to be lining up with the red cards.
23:49 The black indicator is going to line up with the black cards.
23:52 And once again, you've come up to the end of the trick.
23:55 So, that is the explanation for the impromptu version of Cosmos.
24:01 Well, tonight I want to finish with something that's not even a trick.
24:13 Actually, this is a scientific experiment that was just done recently in the University of Berkeley.
24:18 Now, when scientific experiments are done, that means that since I'm the magician,
24:23 I have to keep minimum contact with the deck of cards.
24:26 So, Sylvia, if you could please pick up the cards.
24:28 Pick them up.
24:29 Okay?
24:30 I want you to shuffle them up.
24:31 Shuffle them up.
24:32 Shuffle them up any way you like.
24:34 There you go.
24:37 It's the classic overhand shuffle, sometimes known as the Hindu shuffle.
24:41 See, that's what happens when you do magic for a long time in your life.
24:44 Your time makes it great.
24:46 I think that's good.
24:47 Is that good?
24:48 Yeah?
24:49 You're satisfied with that?
24:50 Yeah.
24:51 Sylvia, if you could please look through the cards and pull out any red card and any black card you like the most.
24:52 I'll let you do that while I do that.
24:53 It actually doesn't matter.
24:54 Do I show you?
24:55 Yeah, it doesn't matter.
24:56 You show it to Andrew, too.
24:57 Any black card you like.
24:59 There's a black one.
25:00 Black card.
25:02 And there's a red one.
25:03 Right now, please give the cards to Andrew.
25:05 Okay, Andrew, you shuffle up the cards as much as you like.
25:08 And you're going to do the same thing.
25:12 In fact, you can make it really, really sloppy.
25:14 So, turn some of the cards around.
25:16 Let's make it as fair as we can.
25:18 Okay.
25:19 So, turn the cards around.
25:20 And you pull out any red card, any black card you like the most.
25:22 Now, as you're doing that, actually show the cards like this so Sylvia can see the cards.
25:26 But go ahead and pull out any red one, any black one you like.
25:30 Okay?
25:32 Okay.
25:37 Now, here's what just happened.
25:38 Okay, you can leave the cards now face down on the table.
25:40 Because remember, I'm going to keep minimum contact with the cards.
25:43 Remember, when you pull out your red card and black card, you looked at the cards.
25:46 Andrew also looked at the card to pull out his red card and black card.
25:49 Now, for the conscious mind to remember where all those cards were is absolutely impossible, right?
25:55 But the University of Berkeley experiment showed that the subconscious mind can perfectly remember where these cards are.
26:02 Really?
26:03 Yes. It's unbelievable.
26:04 Okay, so here's what we're going to do.
26:05 The experiment is as simple as we can make it.
26:07 All I'm going to do is I'm just going to simply throw out cards.
26:10 Like Sylvia, when I throw out a card your way, if you think that that card is black, you put it in front of your black card.
26:15 If you think it's red, you put it behind the red card.
26:17 Just, okay.
26:18 That's it. It's as simple as we can make it.
26:19 Andrew, we're going to do the same thing.
26:20 I give you a card. If you think it's black, black card, red card and red. Okay?
26:23 I'm going to keep it just like this.
26:24 Yeah, all right.
26:26 He's already got his confidence way up there.
26:29 You ready? We're going to do it.
26:30 Sure.
26:31 It's the moment of truth. We're going to go really fast.
26:32 Okay? One at a time.
26:33 Okay.
26:34 Here we go.
26:35 Actually, yeah, let's do it.
26:38 Andrew, I'm rooting on you, man, because you're the guys here, you know, so.
26:45 Andrew, Sylvia, you're doing good.
26:47 Now, by the way, as we're doing this, at any time, if you feel like you want to stop, you can stop me at any time.
26:52 We don't have to do the entire deck of cards.
26:55 Oh, okay.
26:56 Yeah, we don't have to do the entire deck of cards at all.
26:58 Okay, well, you could stop.
26:59 You want to stop right here?
27:00 Yeah.
27:01 You sure? Okay, I'm going to show you something.
27:02 Like, from the cards that are left, are these still mixed?
27:05 Yeah.
27:06 These are all still, Andrew, they're still mixed?
27:07 Yeah.
27:08 They are? Okay.
27:09 They're perfectly mixed.
27:10 Are you sure you want me to stop?
27:11 No, go, go, go.
27:12 You want to keep going? Okay, all right, sure, no problem. We'll keep going.
27:15 He wants to see the whole thing happen.
27:19 Sylvia, I'm feeling something from this side, man, you know, the guys.
27:23 You can't let the guys pull ahead of you.
27:25 No.
27:26 Andrew, how are you, what are you feeling? Are you confident?
27:28 Absolutely.
27:29 She has no chance.
27:31 Tonight, no, there's just nothing and there's no way.
27:34 It's my night.
27:35 It's your night.
27:38 All righty, finally, last one.
27:42 All right.
27:43 Okay.
27:44 So, this experiment shows that if the results were just 50%,
27:52 let's say 50% of the cards that are in front of you, black card right now, were black and the other 50% was red,
27:56 that would simply follow the laws of statistics.
27:59 But they saw that when people were in competition with each other,
28:03 this percentage rose to such a level that it was unexplainable.
28:07 Sometimes 55, up to 60% of the cards were actually correct.
28:11 So, it's the moment of truth, we're going to count.
28:13 We bring all the cards here together.
28:15 This Andrew's red pile, black one.
28:17 I can hardly wait.
28:19 I really need to see what happens.
28:21 I need to count.
28:22 Sylvia, you said all these cards here are supposed to be red.
28:26 Let's see how many of them are red.
28:27 How many did I get right?
28:30 Oh, my God.
28:33 You are not going to believe this.
28:37 If you could please, you need to show Andrew.
28:39 Pick up those cards in front of the black pile and show Andrew.
28:41 Show Andrew.
28:42 No, show it to Andrew yourself.
28:43 Take a look.
28:44 What is that?
28:45 Oh, wow.
28:46 They're all black.
28:47 That's unbelievable.
28:48 How did you do it?
28:49 Wait, wait, wait.
28:50 They're all black.
28:51 They're all black.
28:52 All of them.
28:53 Wait, wait.
28:54 Put those down for a second.
28:55 They're every single one of them.
28:56 Yeah, they're all black.
28:57 Sylvia, I want to show you why I was so amazed with the cards that were in front of your red pile.
29:00 Please pick up the cards in front of the red pile.
29:02 Turn those over.
29:03 Okay.
29:04 Wow, they're all red.
29:06 All of them are red?
29:07 Every single one of them.
29:08 Every single one of them are red.
29:09 Put those down.
29:10 Take a look at the faces.
29:11 Andrew, you've got some really, really tough competition over here, man.
29:16 You're going to have to help us for the guys.
29:18 Please, turn over the cards in front of the red pile.
29:20 How did you do that?
29:23 Look at this.
29:24 Every single card in front of the red card is red.
29:29 Andrew, all the cards in front of the black, please.
29:32 Every single card, completely black.
29:37 How did you do that?
29:38 Wow.
29:39 Okay.
29:40 Very interesting.
29:41 Hold on.
29:42 There's something that I've got to say.
29:44 If there was only one card, and I was to ask you, "What's the probability of you guessing that card to be red or black?"
29:50 It would just be 50/50.
29:52 1/2.
29:53 A half of a chance, right?
29:54 Now, if there were two cards that were face down, then the probability of getting both right is now 1/4.
30:00 25%.
30:02 In this case, there were 48 cards that were face down, and you separated between red and black.
30:08 Which means the odds are in--
30:10 One in a million.
30:11 That's actually hundreds of trillions.
30:13 Wow.
30:14 That is absolutely--far exceeds anything that can happen.
30:20 Tonight, we were lucky enough to see--
30:22 That's just amazing.
30:24 That's just so wonderful.
30:25 Something that beats every lottery ever in the world.
30:27 That's very well done.
30:29 Thank you very much.
30:30 Thank you.
30:31 And that is Cosmos.
30:33 That's just nuts.
30:35 I would now like to do the explanation of the non-impromptu version of Cosmos,
30:47 sometimes I like to call it the gimmicked version of Cosmos.
30:50 I think that a lot of professional magicians might find this an ideal way of doing Cosmos,
30:55 because when you are doing professional work, obviously you're going to have your regular red back or blue back bicycle deck with you throughout the evening,
31:03 and you're going to do a lot of other tricks with your deck of cards, your regular deck of cards.
31:07 So having something prepared for a finale of Cosmos is ideal.
31:13 So let me show you how I do it.
31:15 So what you want to do is prepare the cards, and I'm going to show you my marking system.
31:19 What I've done--the first thing you want to do is just make sure you separate the red cards from the black cards.
31:23 So there you are.
31:24 Put the black cards away, and you're only going to mark the red cards.
31:28 This is my marking system.
31:29 I'm going to take up one of these cards here.
31:32 Go to any stationery store and pick up yourself one of these red Sharpies.
31:37 They come in a variety of configurations.
31:39 I really like the new Sharpies now that have the little clicker, so you never have to worry about putting the cap back on again.
31:46 Just click it, and the tip comes out, and you have a very nice, sharp tip for your marking.
31:51 So here's how it works, and here's how the marking is going to happen.
31:54 I prefer marking cards very close to the center line, and the reason why I do that is so if somebody is aware of checking for marking when they riffle cards,
32:05 they're going to be looking for patterns either in the top or at the bottom as they turn it around,
32:09 but they're not going to be able to see anything change through that center line.
32:12 So let me show you exactly where I mark.
32:14 Close to the center of the bicycle pack, you'll be able to see this little curlicue that comes up.
32:18 You want to basically darken that little bubble that comes at the end of that curlicue.
32:23 Now, if you were only to do one side and not do the other side, this seems suspicious
32:28 because as somebody just is glancing at the cards, they would notice that there is a lack of symmetry from one side to the other.
32:34 That's going to catch their eye because obviously a deck of cards is symmetrical both from the top and the bottom.
32:39 That's why please make sure that you mark both the top bubble and the bottom bubble.
32:44 All you need is a couple of little dabs, and you're set with that one.
32:47 And once again, please make sure you keep the symmetry, which means now just turn that around and do that again with the other side.
32:54 Just a little bit of dab of paint, red paint, and there you go.
32:58 You have now marked your first red card.
33:02 So it doesn't matter what the orientation of the card is going to be.
33:06 It doesn't matter if it's like this or like this on a table.
33:08 You're going to simply look at that corner, and you'll be able to see that mark.
33:11 When you are done with all the cards, please make sure that as you're marking the cards, do not leave the cards on top of each other
33:18 because there's a possibility that maybe some of that wet paint might smear across the other cards.
33:25 So as you're doing it, just keep the cards separate from each other.
33:27 Let the ink dry.
33:29 As a matter of fact, please make sure that as you do that, you keep the cards face down so that the backs of the cards can air dry.
33:37 So all the red cards are mixed.
33:38 Actually, all the red cards are marked, and now your deck is ready to be shuffled.
33:43 So this is now your deck of cards that you would use throughout your performance
33:48 and do your famous favorite ambitious card routines or any other card tricks you like to do throughout the night.
33:53 And then when it comes time to perform Cosmos, you know that the only thing you've got to do is just throw the deck of cards out there and have them shuffle the cards.
34:04 So you notice how this is very different in the beginning than the impromptu version because it's such a fair way of doing it.
34:12 You're handing the cards off to them.
34:13 You say, "Look, I don't want to do a trick for you.
34:15 I want to do a scientific experiment," which means I don't want to shuffle the cards.
34:18 Please, you shuffle the cards.
34:19 So obviously, the spectators will shuffle the cards.
34:21 And then they will look at the faces of the cards.
34:23 Now, at this point, you are calling attention to the fact that they are memorizing the faces of the cards as they're looking at the faces.
34:31 You ask them to remove a red card and a black card.
34:33 So one spectator removes whichever card they like.
34:36 Remember, the black one is going to be always on the left-hand side.
34:41 The black one is going to be over here.
34:43 You have them hand--the spectator is going to hand the cards to the other spectator.
34:47 The other spectator, once again, shuffles the cards but then shows the faces to the first spectator.
34:53 And the reason why you're doing this is you're calling attention to the power of the subconscious mind being able to memorize all these cards.
34:59 So once again, that spectator will pull out any red card and any black card you like.
35:05 Now, from this point on, the presentation is exactly like the impromptu version.
35:10 The only difference being that as you're pushing the cards off, you're no longer looking for the little bubble of it either being bulged up or down or positive or negative bulge.
35:20 You're looking for the little mark.
35:21 You know that the mark indicates that you have a red card and because right always means red or red always means right, just make sure that the marked cards always go to the right.
35:32 Once again, remember from the previous explanation, you don't want to pay too much attention to it.
35:36 Let your peripheral vision see that darkened area that's close to the center and just do it as fast as you can go.
35:44 Now, ironically, one of the things that you'll notice is looking for that little marked area is much more difficult than looking for the bulge in the cards because the bulge of the cards is just so obvious.
35:56 But the marking is a little harder to see.
35:59 So you're going to probably notice that when you first start doing this, you are going to be doing it slower than the impromptu version which is somewhat ironic but that's okay.
36:07 It just tends to work out like that.
36:09 Nobody's going to notice it anyway.
36:10 So you go through the trick as we did before and obviously the ending with the switch is exactly the same as what we had for the impromptu version.
36:20 So that is the gimmicked or gaffed version of Cosmos.
36:25 I hope you've enjoyed it.
36:28 Both the performance and the method.
36:31 First of all, I want to extend a big thanks to the people that have really inspired Cosmos.
36:38 And of course, you cannot mention anything about Out of This World plots without the genius of Paul Curry.
36:45 And over the last 20 years, there have been so many other magicians that have inspired my thoughts further and further into this plot.
36:52 Paul Harris, Harry Lorraine, they've all contributed so well to this plot and magic.
36:59 I hope that you will give Cosmos the practice that it deserves.
37:03 It is a wonderful trick.
37:06 It is extremely powerful.
37:08 Please highlight to your spectators the fact that from a probability point of view, it is really, really impossible.
37:14 You will find that the more intelligent your spectators are, the more of an impact Cosmos will have on them.
37:22 Because they recognize that everything has been so fair, but still, the incredible ending of the colors being separated.
37:29 So, I hope you enjoyed performing it just as much as fun as I've had putting Cosmos together.
37:35 Have fun with it. Thank you.
37:38 [Music]
38:05 (bell dings)