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00:00 How's my hair?
00:07 My voluptuous, strong, stainless hair.
00:15 It's good?
00:16 Okay.
00:17 Okay.
00:18 Okay.
00:19 Anyway, so yeah, this is a three-card Monte routine of mine.
00:22 Great thing about it is that it is all done in the hand, so you don't need a table.
00:27 So yeah, along with this routine, you're also going to learn a couple really interesting
00:31 slights that you can utilize in your own routines.
00:34 So let's get into it.
00:35 We're going to play a little game of three-card Monte.
00:39 For those of you who don't know what this game is, you're living under a rock.
00:44 But besides that, I'll explain it.
00:46 Very simple.
00:47 This is three cards.
00:48 We'll go with two red queens and one black eight.
00:52 Now, the object of the game is very simple.
00:55 You just have to try and follow the card that's different from the other ones.
00:58 So in this case, we're looking at that black eight.
01:02 Right now, it's in the middle.
01:03 But as soon as I bring it down, now it's a little more difficult because there's a mirror
01:07 image of what you just saw.
01:08 So if you had to guess where that card was, where would you say?
01:12 The middle, right?
01:13 It should be in the middle.
01:14 However, it's not.
01:15 However.
01:16 I don't know.
01:17 Anyways, that's the queen.
01:18 We'll give you a hint, though.
01:20 It's here at the bottom.
01:21 So where would you say?
01:22 Is it the bottom?
01:23 Yeah, yeah.
01:24 You're a trusting person.
01:26 But this is three card Monty and everything's not always as it seems.
01:30 And in this case, we're actually looking for the different card, which is the queen.
01:36 I'll give you another chance, all right, to win your money back because I took all of
01:39 it, every single one, even your pennies.
01:43 But right now, the queen's in the middle.
01:45 If I were to bring it up, though, just like before, it's now a mirror image of what you
01:50 just saw.
01:51 So if you had to guess where that queen was, where would you say?
01:54 You still think it's the middle?
01:56 Okay, no, it's not.
01:58 I'm trying to teach you here.
01:59 It's actually on the bottom.
02:00 Okay.
02:01 I'll tell you what, though.
02:03 We'll play with the cards face up.
02:04 Why play face down when you can play face up?
02:06 Move these cards here, this one here, this one here.
02:11 Now they're all mixed up.
02:12 Where would you say the different card is?
02:14 You still think it's there?
02:16 I thought I taught you.
02:19 We're actually playing with the backs this time, in this case, at eight.
02:25 That's the one that's different.
02:26 But I think I know what the problem is.
02:29 The problem is that there's three cards here and you only have two eyes.
02:34 So I'll tell you what, we'll get rid of one of the cards, so now we only have two, right?
02:39 So if you had to guess where that different card was, which one would you say?
02:42 It's 50/50, can't go wrong.
02:44 But you think it's this one?
02:46 Well, unfortunately, this is three-card Monty and that Queen, but the different one all
03:01 along.
03:04 So a little bit of history before we actually get into the explanation of this effect.
03:16 The whole concept of having the cards switch secretly while they're out jogged was something
03:22 that Tony Chang and myself came up with.
03:25 We were jamming one night and we came up with this way to have two cards selected, but the
03:33 spectator would actually see the same card.
03:35 So you'd go to spectator one, show them in this case this card, and then when you go
03:39 to spectator two, who had the bottom most card, you'd show them that they had that card
03:43 selected as well.
03:44 So that was the basic concept that we came up with.
03:47 However, it wasn't until I posted this concept on a Magic forum, and I believe it was Jack
03:54 Carpenter, who all of a sudden came on and was like, "Hey, you could use that."
03:58 I don't know if that's how he sounds, he probably doesn't, but he was all like, "Hey, you guys
04:03 can actually use this move for a color-changing deck Monty routine."
04:07 And I was like, "That's a little random comment, but let's try it out."
04:12 So that night I came up with a color-changing deck Monty routine, and that's what you guys
04:19 see now.
04:20 Now obviously that night it was a little unrefined, but over the years I've managed to cut out
04:26 the fat and leave just the good.
04:28 I've basically turned down the suck and turned up the good.
04:33 That's what I've done.
04:35 So yeah, let's get into the explanation now, shall we?
04:42 So the move that is used for this routine is a move of mine called the Lazy Rise.
04:46 This is a move that I came up with because I wasn't good enough to learn Ray Cosby's
04:53 Raise Rise.
04:54 Over time I've managed to get his handling down, however I still prefer using a Lazy
04:58 Rise for this routine.
05:00 But for those of you that can do Raise Rise, then you can definitely use it for this routine,
05:07 you just have to play around with the handling a little bit.
05:10 A little thing about Lazy Rise is, like I said, it was inspired by Ray's Rise routine,
05:15 but the first person to actually come up with the concept of having a card out-jogged the
05:19 deck and rising to the top was Jeffrey Lada, and that was published in Spectacle by Stephen
05:25 Minch under his routine Deadlier Than the Mail.
05:29 So let's get into how to learn Lazy Rise.
05:37 So the key to this routine is the grip.
05:40 If the grip is not correct, then this move is not going to work.
05:44 So it looks like I'm in regular mechanics grip, however what I'm actually doing is I'm
05:48 holding the deck with just the back two fingers and it's being pushed up against my palm here.
05:55 Now if you have fat hands like I do, this move will be a lot simpler because you'll
05:59 see that the skin just kind of overlaps on top of the card.
06:03 So eat a lot of food and I think you'll be good.
06:07 But you should be able to do it with skinny hands as well.
06:10 I've seen a lot of people do it like that.
06:11 So anyways, the grip, like I said, pressure is on the back against these two corners and
06:18 these fingers are just kind of free to do whatever they want.
06:21 They can move around as free as possible.
06:24 Look at that.
06:25 Look at how free they are.
06:28 So that is the grip.
06:29 Now with this grip, you should be able to shove your thumb into the deck as far as you
06:33 want and the cards won't spring out.
06:36 You'll find that if the grip isn't correct when you're doing this, these cards are going
06:39 to kick out from underneath here and fall everywhere.
06:43 So I do practice.
06:44 I would recommend practicing this over a bed or some kind of surface where you don't have
06:48 to keep bending down.
06:50 But the grip should be sturdy enough to where you can shove your thumb into the deck and
06:54 it doesn't move.
06:55 And that's when you know you have the grip correct.
06:57 Okay.
06:58 Now you're not going to be having a death grip on here.
06:59 It's still a light touch.
07:00 You just want to make sure the pressure is on the back.
07:04 So let's get into the actual mechanics of this move.
07:07 Okay.
07:09 So for the mechanics of this move, you're basically going to be up-jogging a card with
07:13 your thumb.
07:15 So how does this work?
07:16 Since you have this grip here, what's going to happen is the thumb is going to riffle
07:19 down to where it wants to go and it's going to almost roll into the deck.
07:24 You're not going to bend your thumb inwards because if you bend your thumb inwards, you're
07:27 going to find that the top and bottom portion of the thumb is going to get caught and you'll
07:33 be dragging two cards out, which you don't want.
07:36 So what you're going to do is almost roll the thumb inwards like this.
07:40 All right.
07:42 And what happens is when that does, you're going to find that the knuckle is going to
07:46 be contacting the upper portion of the cards, not this part, the knuckle.
07:51 And then the flat part of the thumb is going to be contacting the corner, the bottom half
07:57 of the deck, that corner.
08:00 When that happens, all you do is now just straighten your thumb out and it's going to
08:04 drag that card out with it.
08:06 Now this is going to become angled and all you do from here is the thumb just pushes
08:11 it straight flush.
08:13 But that is the basic mechanics of what you're going to need for this routine.
08:18 So once again, you riffle, thumb kind of rolls in, drags that card out, and then pushes it
08:24 straight.
08:26 That's done slowly, done fast, looks like that.
08:33 So one more time, riffle down where you want and push out.
08:39 So that's all you need for this move.
08:41 With this move, there's tons of different applications that you can use for it.
08:45 However, we're going to teach you guys the Monty routine.
08:52 So now this is the setup that you need for this Monty routine.
08:55 You're going to need a couple different cards from an indifferent deck.
08:58 So you'll have one deck of normal, everyday cards, whatever you want to use.
09:03 In this case, I'm just using some Dr. Leon's.
09:06 And just some other cards, in this case, just some red bikes for me.
09:08 So it's a nice contrast.
09:12 So now what you're going to do is these red cards need to be as follows.
09:16 You're just going to have an indifferent card.
09:17 I always like to use the four of hearts for some dumb reason, not too sure why.
09:22 And you're also going to have two pairs.
09:24 So one being either queens or whatever you'd like to use.
09:28 The other being two eights or some kind of contrast.
09:32 Now from the regular deck, you're going to take out one of the matching eights.
09:37 In this case, I used the eight of spades.
09:40 And then I like to take out the matching cards with these as well.
09:45 That's just because I don't like the deck, when these are in, the deck's going to be
09:49 pretty thick.
09:50 So I like to take these out.
09:51 However, you don't have to.
09:52 You can leave them in.
09:53 And at the end of the routine, you'll have a completely normal deck and it'll be full.
09:57 However, I like to take these out.
09:59 But that's just me.
10:00 Plus, you run the risk of seeing double cards if you're running through the deck.
10:06 So if you want to leave these in, I do recommend placing them maybe five cards down from the
10:12 face of the deck.
10:13 Because that way, you'll never spread into those.
10:16 But I'll just take them out for now.
10:21 So here's the setup as follows.
10:23 Starting from the top down, we're going to do this.
10:24 You're going to find two pairs.
10:27 In this case, I'm going to go with the two aces.
10:29 You're going to place these about ten cards down from the top.
10:33 Okay?
10:34 It doesn't have to be exactly ten, but roughly about ten cards.
10:37 From here, you're going to take the eight that matches the deck, place it face up, and
10:43 then take the eight that is from the other deck, the other one, in this case the club,
10:49 and place it face down.
10:51 Now the reason why you have that pair there is so that that's your kind of key point to
10:55 know when you have to start doing a block spread.
10:58 So you can cleanly spread these out.
11:00 Once you get to those two aces, you know that you have to push those cards off so that they
11:04 don't flash.
11:05 Right?
11:06 That's why I like to have the aces there.
11:07 So now about ten cards away from those, you're going to take one of your queens and place
11:13 it face up.
11:16 About ten cards or so from that, you're going to take the other eight, place it face up,
11:20 and then at the very bottom of the deck, you're going to have your four and your queen, like
11:27 so.
11:28 So the setup is as follows.
11:31 Pair about ten cards down from the top, followed by the eight that matches the deck, and then
11:36 an eight that is from the other deck, and it has to be the opposite eight.
11:40 So if this is the spade, this would be the club or whatever you're using.
11:43 This is face down.
11:46 About ten cards away from there is your red queen.
11:51 About ten cards away from that is your black eight, and then at the very bottom is a red
11:56 queen, and then your indifferent card.
12:00 Seems like a lot of setup, and it is, but the payoff is worth it.
12:03 So once you get used to this, honestly, you can do it in a couple seconds.
12:08 It takes no time at all.
12:09 So now let's get into how the trick works.
12:15 Okay, so there are three phases to this routine, and each phase has about two magical moments
12:23 or so.
12:24 So this is the first phase.
12:25 What you're going to do is just spread through the deck, and once you get to these two aces,
12:31 you just do a little block push off so that you don't flash those cards there.
12:34 All right?
12:35 And you just explain to the spectator about the game three card Monte.
12:38 You can make up whatever you'd like.
12:40 I just like to tell them exactly what the game is.
12:42 It's a game of three cards.
12:44 From Hanky Poo, the queen's for me, the black for you.
12:48 It's a dumb, dumb line.
12:51 Anyways, you do this, and you just flip over the three cards that you placed in the deck.
12:57 So this is the first nice display because you're just kind of randomly thumbing through
13:01 the cards and flipping them over.
13:03 So this is a great convincer that the deck is red.
13:06 Of course, it's not red.
13:09 Now what you're going to do is score everything up, and you're going to come up and show that
13:14 the cards are indeed the two red queens and the black eight.
13:19 This is another nice convincer because here they see red.
13:23 Here you see that in a different card, which is also red.
13:25 So right now the spectator's mind, they think the deck is red without even having to say
13:29 anything.
13:30 Okay?
13:31 So now from here, this is when you're going to do that Monte move.
13:35 Okay?
13:36 So basically what happens is the thumb is going to riffle down, and you're going to
13:40 be kind of looking downwards at the cards while trying to focus on the spectator as
13:46 well.
13:47 I kind of pretend like I'm staring at the cards, but really I'm just staring at the
13:50 back of the deck.
13:52 What's happening is the thumb's just going to riffle down until you see those two aces.
13:57 Once you get to those two aces, you know that the card is going to be fourth from there.
14:00 So you count one, two, three, and this is the first card that you're going to upshot.
14:05 Okay?
14:06 Now if you really want to, you can shorten one of these cards, one of the aces, so that
14:12 you can get to that instantly.
14:13 But honestly, like it's all just estimation.
14:16 Like I know that it's about ten cards down, so I'm just going to riffle down like ten
14:21 cards and I'll get to that card in no time.
14:24 Okay?
14:25 And you can take your time with this move.
14:26 That's what's nice about it, is that you can just slow it down and go as slow as you want
14:31 because to the spectator, they don't see anything.
14:33 All they see are those cards outjogged.
14:36 Once you get to that face down card, what you're going to do is that lazy rise move
14:40 that I was talking about.
14:41 Your thumb's going to go in, pull the card out, and straighten it up.
14:45 And you can gauge when that card's going to flash.
14:48 Obviously, from here, the spectator can't see anything and when you do this, you just
14:54 got to make sure it stays behind these cards.
14:56 If it goes up above the cards, like this, then from the top, they're going to see little
15:01 corners poking out and whatnot.
15:03 So you just want to make sure that it stays below that guise there.
15:06 Alright?
15:07 Once it's there, all you're going to do is just continue explaining the game and whatnot.
15:12 And as soon as you come down, this is when the switch happens.
15:15 Basically, this finger is going to contact this card at the face and it's going to start
15:21 pulling it in.
15:22 And you can go as slow as you want because it's going to be covered.
15:26 As soon as you bring it down, you just need to pull it in this way so that's covered under
15:30 the cards.
15:31 So from here, when you bring it down, the finger just pulls it inwards.
15:35 So now you can't see it and it's still there.
15:38 And then I can continue to just push it inwards like so.
15:42 Alright?
15:43 So now it's already square with the deck.
15:44 I'm going to do this one more time so you can see.
15:49 Finger reaches down, pulls this card out, and as the hand comes downwards, you're going
15:57 to pull this card in.
15:58 Now usually I can get this on one go, one pull.
16:01 However, if you don't and you miss, just keep pulling it down.
16:04 No need to worry.
16:05 Everything is done very slowly.
16:07 Don't do this fast because if you do it fast, that's when it becomes awkward and it looks
16:10 like you've done something.
16:11 But if you just do it very slowly, it's as if nothing has changed at all.
16:15 And nothing in the specter's eyes has changed.
16:18 You've still got three outdrawn cards face down, but unbeknownst to them, you've actually
16:22 switched that Red Queen for an 8.
16:27 Now this is where the first magical moment comes into play.
16:30 You're going to just ask them, "Where do they think that card is?"
16:35 Now the key word here is you don't want to have the specter think they're dumb.
16:38 So you don't want to say, "Yo, where's that Red 8?"
16:44 Here, wrong.
16:45 What you want to do is you want to say, ask them, "Where do you think that card should
16:50 be?"
16:51 You want to put your emphasis on where it should be because that kind of lessens the
16:57 thought that they're dumb and that you're smart.
17:00 Because it should be here, however it's not.
17:02 That's where the Red Queen is.
17:03 All right?
17:04 So always use the word "should."
17:05 It's always good.
17:06 It's a tip.
17:07 Howard Hamburg talks about that.
17:10 Anyways, they think it's in the middle.
17:12 You show that it's not in the middle.
17:14 So that's your first magical moment because it should be in the middle, but it's not.
17:19 The magical moment from here, you just give them a hint.
17:21 Help them out a little bit.
17:22 Say, "It's right here."
17:24 And technically it is.
17:25 However, when they agree and they say it's there, what you're going to do is you're going
17:29 to displace all these cards downwards a couple cards.
17:32 So what I'd usually do here is just pull out this bottom card just a little bit because
17:37 I'm going to place this card second from the bottom.
17:40 So I just do this as I pull this bottom card, like so.
17:46 Once they say that that's where the card is, you say, "Yes, you are correct."
17:49 You just place it near second from the bottom.
17:54 Another thing that's important is the grip here.
17:57 Their thumb's just on top and these fingers are on the bottom, like so.
18:00 Okay?
18:02 So that's just the basic grip.
18:03 From here, what you're going to do is you're going to pull this card out and show that
18:07 it's the Queen and stuff this.
18:10 And what you're doing is you're pulling it out and then you're moving it downwards about
18:14 five or so cards.
18:16 And now from here you get that second magical moment because now all of a sudden everything's
18:20 reversed and that Queen's the indifferent card and it's no longer the eights that are
18:24 -- the eight that's different.
18:26 From here, you're just pulling this out, placing it once again about five, ten cards downwards
18:31 so they've just moved down a little bit.
18:33 This is going to come into play for the second phase.
18:36 All right?
18:37 So that's the first phase and we'll move on to the second phase which also has a couple
18:42 nice magical moments.
18:45 All right, so now for the second phase.
18:50 So you've just showed that the Queen is now the different card and not the eights.
18:55 What happens from here?
18:56 Well, I'll tell you.
18:57 You're going to go and do that same Monty move again but this time with the cards face
19:02 up rather than face down.
19:03 So you're going to explain to them, right now the Queen's in the middle.
19:06 However, when I bring it up, now where is it?
19:10 Now as you do this, you're doing the exact same thing.
19:12 You're riffling down until you get to those two aces and you know to slow it down and
19:17 then pull over one.
19:19 You're going to get to that eight of spades.
19:21 Now what's happening here once again, the finger's just going to push this up secretly
19:25 but from this angle they can't see it.
19:29 This finger, as you come down, is just going to pull this card inwards.
19:32 All right?
19:34 So now you get this nice visual switch of the Queen jumping from the middle to the bottom.
19:39 So that's the second magical moment right there as it jumps from the middle to the bottom
19:44 with nothing happening apparently.
19:47 From here you're going to switch grips back to that grip I was just talking about, thumb
19:52 on top, fingers on the bottom.
19:55 You can spread these cards out a little bit.
19:56 I don't like to spread them too much because I find that if you spread them too much then
20:01 it starts to get out of control and you'll find that the cards are all over the place
20:05 and this might flash down here.
20:07 I like to keep it a nice tight spread.
20:11 That's probably the most difficult part about this routine is keeping the deck as square
20:15 as possible because you don't want the cards to be going all over the place.
20:19 So I like to keep a nice tight spread and make sure not to spread over the bottom cards
20:24 there because you'll flash those.
20:26 So just a nice tight spread.
20:27 Now from here you're just going to lead the spectator along because the switch is already
20:32 done.
20:33 Now I have an indifferent card here but they don't know about that.
20:37 So what I like to do is I like to take the 8, the middle card, and place it where the
20:42 queen was and take the queen out.
20:45 Now I place the queen where this 8 was, take this 8 out and place it in the middle.
20:52 So this is kind of like your classic Monty mixing sequence, although really they can
20:58 follow it along very easily and you want to make it easy for them to follow because if
21:02 they think that some kind of switch happened as you did it, then the whole thing is ruined.
21:07 So you want to make it very slow, very easy for them to follow.
21:10 You just ask them, "Where do you think that indifferent card should be?"
21:15 Now right now they're thinking it's the queen because that's the one that's different.
21:19 From here you just smack them in the face and you say, "No!
21:23 No!
21:24 We're using the backs!"
21:25 You don't want to say it like that though or else they will get insulted and they will
21:28 kill you.
21:29 I've had it happen to me several times.
21:31 I'm actually a ghost right now.
21:33 But what you're doing here is you turn these cards face down, show the red, but what's
21:39 this?
21:40 Oh my gosh!
21:41 We got a black card up in there somehow.
21:44 Just showed up randomly.
21:46 So now that's your second magical moment and that's the second phase.
21:50 Very simple, very easy to do.
21:52 And we'll get into the last phase which lets you end clean.
21:57 That's the nicest part.
21:59 The phase three coming up.
22:06 So now for the third phase of this routine which ends clean which is really nice.
22:11 So you're in this position where you just revealed that these cards are face down.
22:15 You want to make sure that this card is a good chunk away from the bottom.
22:20 You don't want it near the bottom.
22:22 So I usually put about 10 to 15 cards up above it.
22:26 And now this is what's going to happen.
22:27 You're going to ditch this card.
22:29 But as you ditch this card, you're going to be ditching the dirtiness that's underneath
22:34 this deck which is here.
22:37 So this is how it works.
22:39 You're basically going to be doing the Vernon Strip Out addition.
22:43 However, we're going to be using Ernest Earegg's handling from his book By Forces Unseen.
22:48 So this is what it looks like.
22:51 Looks like you're going to get rid of this card and then you do.
22:54 But what you're doing is this.
22:56 Basically the pinky is going to be pulling down on those three cards.
23:01 Now you don't need to necessarily get the three cards.
23:04 I usually just try to pull down as many as possible.
23:07 It usually ends up being three because I'm lucky.
23:10 But you want to make sure that you get at least those three cards.
23:13 So even if you get like four or five, at least you're getting the dirty cards that are underneath
23:18 the deck.
23:19 All right?
23:20 You want to get more than less.
23:22 You don't want to get two and be left with one card in there or one and be left with
23:26 two cards in there.
23:27 See, more is better than less.
23:28 But anyways, you're going to pull these down.
23:31 What's happening is these fingers are going to be grabbing the deck from above or from
23:37 below.
23:38 And that same grip that you've been doing the entire time.
23:41 But as you do that, these fingers here are going to straddle these cards.
23:47 Okay?
23:48 Let's see.
23:49 But from above, it doesn't look like that.
23:51 From above, it looks like you're just holding the deck.
23:53 But really, these are in straddle grip.
23:56 Okay?
23:57 And you do that very simply by just pinky pull down.
24:00 You grab these cards from above.
24:01 This is still a mechanic's grip.
24:02 So now all you do is you just move your pinky downwards like so.
24:06 But this is all done under the cover of the deck.
24:11 Now what I usually like to do is I like to spread these out as much as possible because
24:14 that will give you the most cover for this ditch.
24:18 So you come over here, you straddle these cards, and all you're going to do is just
24:23 line those cards up with this card here.
24:27 Okay?
24:28 And once they're lined up, you're going to, your thumb's going to pinch this card and
24:32 pull everything out.
24:35 And you ditch this into your pocket or wherever you want.
24:38 I usually throw it at the spectator's face and blind them for a split second.
24:42 Or you can just put it in your pocket.
24:43 Either one works.
24:45 From here, you're going to grab this and put it in your pocket.
24:47 Now you don't want to go too fast or else it's going to look weird.
24:50 It's going to be like, "Oh, we're going to get rid of this card."
24:52 But you don't want to go too slow either because if you go too slow, they're going to see this
24:57 packet of cards.
24:58 So you just go at a very leisurely pace.
25:02 And I'll do this one more time.
25:04 You just grab them and place them in your pocket.
25:06 Right?
25:07 And you're ditching all these cards now into your pocket.
25:10 So now this deck is pretty clean except for this card.
25:13 But that's the card that you can either give away or just you're going to end with it.
25:17 It's the most powerful one.
25:19 So from here, place these away into your pocket.
25:23 And now you're here for the final reveal.
25:25 And the final reveal is just revealing that this deck has been black the entire time,
25:29 not red.
25:30 Because in the spectator's mind, they're convinced it's a red deck.
25:33 So from here, you spread out a little bit as you say, "Which one would you say is the
25:37 indifferent one?"
25:38 It doesn't matter which one they say.
25:39 If they say this one, you say, "Wrong.
25:41 It's this one."
25:42 And then you ask them again.
25:44 Doesn't matter.
25:45 Anyways, once they say it's this one, you pull this out, place it face up on top of
25:50 the deck, and then turn everything over.
25:53 So right now, they see that one card that you placed.
25:56 Everything's the way it should be.
25:57 But now as soon as you fan out all the cards, now this is a shock.
26:01 This is where the spectator's just like, "What?
26:03 What just happened?
26:04 I don't know."
26:05 And as they do that, you just turn this over and place it in the deck, sticking out, showing
26:09 that this was the card that was different the entire time.
26:13 So this is a very strong moment for the spectator because it reminds them that they were convinced
26:17 this deck was red.
26:18 Now, all of a sudden, it's all black except for the one red card.
26:23 And the deck is completely clean.
26:24 You can use this for any other routine you'd like.
26:27 You can use this card for another routine if you'd like.
26:30 I usually just ditch this and continue my entire close-up set using this deck.
26:38 So we'll go over that one more time.
26:39 Where are those cards?
26:41 We'll get back into setup.
26:45 So this mess is on the bottom of the deck.
26:52 You got these cards here.
26:55 And just for clarity's sake, I'm just going to use this as the middle card.
26:59 So once again, you spread these out as you say, "I think I know what the problem is.
27:03 The problem is you have three eyes and I only have two cards.
27:07 I believe that should be the other way around.
27:09 If you're using -- if you're doing this to someone with three eyes, I would run because
27:13 they will kill you.
27:15 Anyways, they have two eyes and I have three cards.
27:18 Pinky pull down until you get to that card or chunk if you want.
27:25 Fingers insert here as you straddle grip the cards.
27:29 Then from here, you just pull this out and place those in your pocket.
27:34 And now you're ready to end the trick by simply revealing what has always been there.
27:40 Magic.
27:41 Magic has happened.
27:44 So just a couple of thoughts on this trick.
27:50 The most important thing that I can recommend is that before you go out and do anything,
27:56 just practice the sequences.
27:59 You'll find that when you're learning it, there is a lot to take in.
28:03 You're constantly moving cards out in the heat of the moment and coming down, doing
28:08 all these switches and whatnot.
28:10 But once you get down to the routining, then you can start playing with the different performance
28:14 speeds that you want to do this at.
28:16 But the main thing is just memorizing the sequences.
28:19 So you start by outdrawing the cards, bringing them up.
28:23 That's when you do the first switch.
28:25 Now you have all the time in the world to start doing those reveals.
28:28 Then you come back up, do the second switch.
28:31 And then you have, again, all the time in the world to do those reveals again.
28:34 So practice the routining.
28:37 Get down the sequences first, and then you can work on the different speeds that you'd
28:40 like to perform this at.
28:42 That's the biggest thing.
28:43 The only other thing I can recommend is trying to keep the deck as closely spread as possible.
28:50 Because the further out the deck is spread, the more loose and uncontrollable the deck
28:57 will get.
28:58 And I do it myself.
28:59 I have sometimes I'll forget to keep the spread close, and then the deck starts to get kind
29:04 of out of hand.
29:05 And it doesn't look pretty when you've got this nice display and the deck's just all
29:09 over the place like that.
29:11 That's not...
29:12 People are going to be like, "Does this guy have...
29:14 What is going on with this guy's deck?
29:16 It's all messed up like that."
29:17 So try to keep the deck nice and tight, and that'll make sure that it looks nice when
29:23 you're doing this routine.
29:24 And it'll make it easier for you to do.
29:26 Now, the only other thing I could think of is sometimes I find that it's difficult to
29:32 get these cards in.
29:33 You'll find that most of the time it gets caught on the cards.
29:37 What I like to do is I like to see these little spaces, I kind of pull down and angle the
29:43 card.
29:44 If you put it straight on, you're going to find it a little difficult.
29:46 Or if you do it like this, you might find it difficult to get into some of the spreads,
29:51 especially when you've got a death grip on this.
29:54 But if you angle the card and then place it in, and you kind of just hold down, you'll
29:59 find it is a lot easier to insert those cards.
30:02 Because there is a lot of taking cards out and inserting them back into the deck.
30:06 And if you're getting caught up on those inserts, it's going to ruin the pacing of the effect.
30:11 And pacing is very important because this is a fairly long routine for a Monty sequence,
30:18 you know?
30:19 So you've got to have the pacing correct.
30:20 If the pacing is off, then it's going to get awkward and people are going to be wondering
30:25 why it's taking so long to get these cards in the positions that you want them to be
30:32 in.
30:33 So those are a couple tips for this routine.
30:36 And yeah, just practice it.
30:37 Get down the moves first.
30:39 I recommend just practicing the Lazy Rise move amongst anything else.
30:43 And once you've got that down, then start practicing the routine, okay?
30:48 So good luck and have fun.
30:50 So, just a couple of acknowledgments before we leave.
30:54 I just want to thank Peter McKinnon, Eric Jones, and Jason Brumbelow, as well as all
31:00 the rest of the Illusionist team for really helping out with this.
31:04 I appreciate it.
31:05 I'd also like to thank my mom, Mr. Tate, and my dad for just helping me out with everything.
31:11 As well as Tyler Wilson, Andy Gladwin, Joshua Jay, Ben Train, Brent Smith from the Vanishing
31:18 Rabbit Magic Shop.
31:20 Who else?
31:21 There's tons of people.
31:22 Tony Chang.
31:23 So many people to thank that I'm having trouble remembering.
31:28 Yeah, everybody.
31:29 Thank you.
31:30 Especially you for learning this and applying it to your own magic.
31:36 So yeah, there we go.
31:38 And before I leave, here's a little extra.
31:41 This is a flourish I created called the Robo Spring.
31:44 Just a Robo Spring.
31:46 Robo Spring.
31:51 Do it to people.
31:52 It's shocking.
31:54 Robo Spring.
31:55 Do it to people.
31:56 It's shocking.
31:57 Robo Spring.
31:58 Do it to people.
31:59 It's shocking.
32:00 Robo Spring.
32:01 Do it to people.
32:02 It's shocking.
32:03 Robo Spring.
32:04 Do it to people.
32:05 It's shocking.
32:06 Robo Spring.
32:07 Do it to people.
32:08 It's shocking.
32:09 Robo Spring.
32:10 Do it to people.
32:11 It's shocking.
32:12 Robo Spring.
32:13 Do it to people.
32:14 It's shocking.
32:15 Robo Spring.
32:16 Do it to people.