@Waldo P. Schmeer -- yep (though the second one starts with "Can" instead of "Will"). I remember it from my old magic books. This Life mag excerpt has them: books.google.com/books?id=kVUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=%22will+soo+sue+foo%22&source=bl&ots=04txIELBdJ&sig=ACfU3U2zlBpMnnd7jdBHzEH7yfoEdmVUTg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfofL2lYXqAhVYRjABHWMnBegQ6AEwAHoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22will%20soo%20sue%20foo%22&f=false
Yes, but this guy is pretty lazy and doesn't edit the videos properly. He just stands there reading some wikipedia articles while pretending to have a writer.
Try the movie The Raven with Vincent Price, as the good wizard, Boris Karloff as the bad wizard and Peter Lorre as the duplicitous wizard that is turned into The Raven, with Peter's son played by a quite young Jack Nicholson. OK so it has little to with Edgar Alan Poe's poem, though it is recited by Vincent, but it does have a wizard duel at the end. Much of the acting by Nicholson and Lorre was improvised and the two of them winging it was pissing off Karloff. Ethelred Hardrede
@@brightestdarkness7882 Only in fiction. Lots there in books, few in movies. Try anime for that. There is one in Disney's Sword and Stone but its more of comedy, much like the book in that. Quit a few Harry Potter.
I find it hilarious that people would be appalled at finding out that William Robinson wasn't Chinese. I mean the whole point of going to magic shows is to get tricked.
Just goes to show how ignorant of the world outside their immediate home region “back then”. Of course show business has always done this, that’s part of the entertainment😎
Just like Borat found out Pam Anderson was not a virgin on his way to put her in a sack and then carry her against her will until she agreed to the forced marriage.
1900-1918, no internet, so unless you were in the military and stationed overseas or were very rich so could afford international travel for weeks to months on a ship there was practically 0 chance to see a real Chinese man. Sure, some did live in larger cities as migrant workers but back then most people lived in the middle of nowhere since cities were dirty, smelly places most people avoided if they could do so (horse manure and carcasses everywhere as well as smog and coal smoke).
What was missing was Robinson's fake backstory was that he was half Chinese, but orphaned where a Chinese magician raised him. He also used greasepaint to darken his skin.
I can believe it. People even now can be fooled that someone’s Chinese. My friend back in college is very obviously Indian. He grew up in a small Texas town and managed to fool his entire high school that he was Chinese.
Silent “Chinese” robed magician who never breaks character, is famous for his fishbowl trick and (like many of his colleagues) eventually resorts to the somewhat risky bullet catch ... Sounds like a great idea for a Hollywood blockbuster ...oh wait
I don't know why, but finally hearing Simon say, "Hi, V-Sauce Michael here." Was *SO SATISFYING!* I feel like I've finally scratched a persistent itch. 😁
@@Napoleonic_S 3:20, yeah, as I'm not proud to admit, in my early years of the two channels I mostly confuse both of them. Im not a reliable witness, for sure...
The Glorious Deception is a super well written account of William Robinson's life. It could be a very long movie or miniseries and if they did it without any embellishments or creative license it would be an amazing and compelling piece. The book is fascinating.
I was reading the title and the first thought I had was, "Man these are the names that people would come up with if they were asked to come up with a Chinese name on the spot."
@@thatterenceguy95 As another Asian, I think you're perfectly correct in your assessment of today's world. Black and white are joining forces to discriminate all other races. If the Black lives matter people and companies really do support the notion that all lives matter , they would be publicly denouncing China's systematic persecution of Tibetans, Hongkongers and Taiwanese, and stop doing business with China. Too bad money matters more than lives. All lives matter.
Love megaprojects, Today I Found out, Biographics, Business Blaze, Highlight History, Simon Whistler Show, Top Tens, Visual Politik EN, Geographics, and any I may have forgotten. You go Simon.
Harambe Mc lovin, I added it, there’s so damn many. I couldn’t decide if I should leave out Highlight History because he hasn’t posted one in a long time.
The American museum of magic in Marshall Michigan features the story of Chung Ling Soo’s death. They have hundreds of vintage magic posters and a lot of Harry Blackstone’s original equipment. Great place
Go watch American and European movies from that era. Actual Chinese people were not allowed to be the actors in films about Asians. Instead, it was white people with taped eyes. If that's what you've been told Asians look like. >shrug< Well, that's all you know. Also - racism. Better to see some white guy making fun of another culture than to be forced to learn and be respectful. Sigh.
The book mentions Ching Ling Foo quite a few times, and the movie mentions Chung Ling Soo. The Victorian Era, the golden age of magic, has a rich history of intellectual property theft and cultural appropriation... and people dying doing the bullet catch. As for the latter this happened often enough that among magicians it is considered cursed.
@@TheGreatCigma only in magic can something that would seem to be a stupid idea in general be seen as "cursed" "I must be cursed or something. Everytime I shoot myself in the foot, I lose a toe!"
What if, you and Michael switched places for a video? Like whole video just go on like it's your normal channel and content. Him acting like you, shouting out your other channels as if they're his own. You, doing the same. Never mentioning the swap as if it never took place.
This beg the question: are scams easier in pre-internet era or in the internet era. Like most people living in London at that time had never seen a Chinese guy.
One of the nice advantages of the Internet era (if you're a scammer) is that almost all activities can be automated - and if you turn other people's computers into an involuntary bot net, you even don't need a good computer net of your own. So less manpower, less manhours for a potentially worldwide scam scheme - making it more effective.
This kind of sounds like the inspiration for the Dr Who episode: "The Talons of Weng Chiang". The white actor who played the chinese magician was in yellow face.
This story makes THE PRESTIGE a little bit tamed (with hilarity for good measure) in comparison. It's like the guy failed to open his SHARINGAN before doing the bullet-catching illusion.
Wow! This story seems a lot like inspiration for The Prestige movie by Christopher Nolan! That story just feels all too real, to be 'just a film'. Thank you!
Yup, even the Chinese magician and his fish-bowl trick are in the movie. Although I believe in the movie it's the actual Chinese magician and his "trick" is pretending to be a weak old man whenever in public so nobody would suspect he would be able to physically hold the giant bowl of water between his thighs.
This video can give you an idea for a new channel. Call it in Vs. They're pretty of stories of people, companies, states, schools, and groups that have rivalries that go back for several years.
You are correct when you suggest that Americans did not know what Chinese looked like. From 1868 to 1943 , Chinese immigration to the US was more and more restricted, until indeed the average American would have had no idea what a Chinese person looked like.
G'day, Yay Team ! Thanks for posting this. I saw a version of that "Bulletproof" trick done in the Tent of a Magician at the Glen Innes Agricultural Society's Annual Show, in about 1972... It featured the Magician's female Assistant standing between two Dinner-Plates held up vertically on metal Stands, one in front & one behind her.... The Gun was a .22 Rifle, a Pump-action Repeater with a Tubular Magazine under it's Barrel..., and the Brass Case of the Bullet was marked with Ink by an Audience-Member before being loaded into the Rifle. When it fired, both Plates broke simultaneously while the Assistant between them was unharmed, and the Projectile was supposed to have passed harmlessly through her..., and afterward the Audience member udentified their mark on the fired Cartridge. One surmises that the underslung Tube-Magazine may have fired a Blank Cartridge featuring a Wax Bullet - which broke the front Plate, while the metal Stand holding the rear Plate "must have" been tricked up to smash the second plate while everybody was fixatedly gazing at the bare abdomen of the Assistant. Presumably the Magician palmed the marked Cartridge and duplicated the mark on a fired Case - via prestidigitation while the Audience's attention was misdirected onto the assistant...? Or, the Ammunition may have simply featured a Grey Wax Bullet masquerading as Lead & fired through an unmodified Weapon - with the Audience-member being a "Dummy/Ring-In"...? Years later I heard that the same bloke accidentally shot the Assistant on stage, when an Audience-Member cunningly palmed the Cartridge they were asked to mark & replaced it with a regular .22 Cartridge from their own pocket - and marked the regular one before passing it back to the complacent "Magican". Under modern Gun Laws, it's probably illegal to attempt to perform the trick...? Such is Life. Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
Personal Illusionist to the Emperess of China.... Does that include windshield time, retirement benefits, and not being trampled by wild elephants? I'LL TAKE IT!
Kudos for the very polished and professional take on reminding people to "like and subscribe." Subtle and effective! --and wonderfully NOT obscuring anything on the screen! I hope that you influence others!
It's always fun figuring out who wrote the article they're making a video on, they've been doing a good chunk of vids on mr. Smallwood's articles lately
The moment I saw the title I was very intrigued. In the end the biggest entertainment came from Simon's reactions of unbelief and astonishment during the whole video :)
Im always impressed at the amount of channels but was really blown away when Simon delivered my grandmothers eulogy out of nowhere (sponsored by Nord VPN)
I don't know if it's the subject matter, or the beard...but your charisma has increased ten fold! I like this version (not so effectively holding in a chuckle) much better! Thanks for the free short classes, as yours are among many TH-cam personalities that have aided my overall knowledge. Is there a historical evolution of philosophy coming some day???
There was a secret compartment in the gun the bullet was suppose to drop into, there was no slight of hand in loading. He was so secretive about the gun he wouldn't let anyone see or service it and it was said to work perfectly, only needed to be cleaned. It's a shame. He's shows we're said to be beautiful.
"Chain firing" was (is) always a concern with multi-round black powder (pre-metallic cartridge) guns. This is when the burn from the intended fired charge, flashes over and fires one, or more, of the other loaded chambers, at the same time. So this trick could be done with any revolver, both modern metallic cartridge types, or older style percussion cap. Just make sure the chamber with the "live" round is NOT the one that gets fired, and all other chambers filled with blanks. Using a percussion cap revolver was (is) not a good idea !
Did anybody else lose it at the Golden Poo bit and had to rewind at the end of it like five times in order to continue the story because you just kept laughing at that whole exchange? Just me?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂💩
Your business Blaze Corona virus was amazing lol . I gave it the full 10 minute watch time ROFL.. One of the 1st videos I enter deuced my wife to Simon. perfect!
You didn't quote some of the headlines of the time like "Will Soo Sue Foo?" and "Will Foo Fool Soo?"
@Waldo P. Schmeer -- yep (though the second one starts with "Can" instead of "Will"). I remember it from my old magic books. This Life mag excerpt has them: books.google.com/books?id=kVUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=%22will+soo+sue+foo%22&source=bl&ots=04txIELBdJ&sig=ACfU3U2zlBpMnnd7jdBHzEH7yfoEdmVUTg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfofL2lYXqAhVYRjABHWMnBegQ6AEwAHoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22will%20soo%20sue%20foo%22&f=false
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣OMG!!! That made me laugh😂🤣😂🤣😂
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Reminds me of the time I walked into the WONG FUK HING bookstore in old Hong Kong. Seriously.
@@eurofox994 more like racist
Irony of ironies. You know there's a guy pretending to be Simon on a channel called "Business Blaze"?
Yes, but this guy is pretty lazy and doesn't edit the videos properly. He just stands there reading some wikipedia articles while pretending to have a writer.
yeah also those geographics and biographics guy theyre just copying him smh
I've heard that he doesn't even have a real beard. He wears a fake one to look more like Simon!
HE'd fool me...
Allegedly
I was hoping for wizard duels.
Try the movie The Raven with Vincent Price, as the good wizard, Boris Karloff as the bad wizard and Peter Lorre as the duplicitous wizard that is turned into The Raven, with Peter's son played by a quite young Jack Nicholson.
OK so it has little to with Edgar Alan Poe's poem, though it is recited by Vincent, but it does have a wizard duel at the end. Much of the acting by Nicholson and Lorre was improvised and the two of them winging it was pissing off Karloff.
Ethelred Hardrede
So there not any?
@@brightestdarkness7882
Only in fiction. Lots there in books, few in movies. Try anime for that. There is one in Disney's Sword and Stone but its more of comedy, much like the book in that. Quit a few Harry Potter.
Native American medicinemen duel. They fight and defend all the time, for years. Unreal here but very real on the Rez.
Lightning bolt!
I find it hilarious that people would be appalled at finding out that William Robinson wasn't Chinese. I mean the whole point of going to magic shows is to get tricked.
Just goes to show how ignorant of the world outside their immediate home region “back then”. Of course show business has always done this, that’s part of the entertainment😎
He doesn’t even look Chinese.
william robinson... if you're surprised he isn't chinese...
Just like Borat found out Pam Anderson was not a virgin on his way to put her in a sack and then carry her against her will until she agreed to the forced marriage.
@@sushanalone Borat don't even look Kazakh and yet... most of the western world was fooled in the modern day
He doesn't even look Chinese. These people hadn't seen a real Chinese man before, apparently.
1900-1918, no internet, so unless you were in the military and stationed overseas or were very rich so could afford international travel for weeks to months on a ship there was practically 0 chance to see a real Chinese man. Sure, some did live in larger cities as migrant workers but back then most people lived in the middle of nowhere since cities were dirty, smelly places most people avoided if they could do so (horse manure and carcasses everywhere as well as smog and coal smoke).
Shoto Todoroki ...what??
He look more like Moe, from the three stooges!
What was missing was Robinson's fake backstory was that he was half Chinese, but orphaned where a Chinese magician raised him. He also used greasepaint to darken his skin.
I can believe it. People even now can be fooled that someone’s Chinese. My friend back in college is very obviously Indian. He grew up in a small Texas town and managed to fool his entire high school that he was Chinese.
03:20 "It just wouldn't work."
The Michael inside my head: "...Or would it?" [Vsauce music]
Silent “Chinese” robed magician who never breaks character, is famous for his fishbowl trick and (like many of his colleagues) eventually resorts to the somewhat risky bullet catch ... Sounds like a great idea for a Hollywood blockbuster ...oh wait
I don't know why, but finally hearing Simon say, "Hi, V-Sauce Michael here." Was *SO SATISFYING!* I feel like I've finally scratched a persistent itch.
😁
Now I realised the itch and I will suffer with every video where Simon doesn't say it.
What? Where? I didn't hear such a thing in this video
@@Napoleonic_S 3:20, yeah, as I'm not proud to admit, in my early years of the two channels I mostly confuse both of them. Im not a reliable witness, for sure...
THIS, exactly ... LOL
3:27
The Glorious Deception is a super well written account of William Robinson's life. It could be a very long movie or miniseries and if they did it without any embellishments or creative license it would be an amazing and compelling piece. The book is fascinating.
Yes it's a GREAT book!
I was reading the title and the first thought I had was, "Man these are the names that people would come up with if they were asked to come up with a Chinese name on the spot."
Even in the black and white photo, I can see he's white.
niccolom
Haha
Does that make "Chung Ling Soo" a.... FOO FIGHTER
(Sound of Dave Grohl facepalming)
stevenaudet I would even claim that he was a more legitimate Foo fighter.
@stevenaudet that's a prize winning comment right there. Uh...just speak with Simon if ya wanna collect heh, heh, heh.
🤣🤣🤣
His end by a "trick" gun reminds me of people who accidentally shot themselves or others with the famous words "It's ok....it's not loaded".
One of my favorite actors from the 80's - Jon Eric Hexum- died from that exact cause.
He could pass for chinese because back then the world was still black and white.
"Back then"? Lol, as an Asian, I'm pretty sure the world still only sees black and white
It was also usually in a lower resolution. Except for landscapes.
@@thatterenceguy95 the world just saw you miss the joke.
@@Chomp-Rock What am I an idiot? Who wouldn't get the joke? I'm just saying its funny, cuz people still see things in "black" and "white".
@@thatterenceguy95 As another Asian, I think you're perfectly correct in your assessment of today's world. Black and white are joining forces to discriminate all other races.
If the Black lives matter people and companies really do support the notion that all lives matter , they would be publicly denouncing China's systematic persecution of Tibetans, Hongkongers and Taiwanese, and stop doing business with China.
Too bad money matters more than lives.
All lives matter.
Love megaprojects, Today I Found out, Biographics, Business Blaze, Highlight History, Simon Whistler Show, Top Tens, Visual Politik EN, Geographics, and any I may have forgotten. You go Simon.
Sandy Lloyd Sr. Geographics
Its good to see Johnny Sins branching out into other platforms as well.
Harambe Mc lovin, I added it, there’s so damn many. I couldn’t decide if I should leave out Highlight History because he hasn’t posted one in a long time.
@@harambemclovin8347 ...he mentioned that...at the end of the list...
Sideprojects
“It’s like the Prestige but more racist”
While at he caught the bullet.
The way he wrote Chung Ling-su (程連蘇) in Chinese characters is just three surnames thrown together... The last one happened to also be mine.
My mom is also a Su. 蘇 🙏🏽
It can be a Chinese name. I don’t see any problem with it.
Are you sure it isn't robinson? Lol
The American museum of magic in Marshall Michigan features the story of Chung Ling Soo’s death. They have hundreds of vintage magic posters and a lot of Harry Blackstone’s original equipment. Great place
"don't people know how Chinese look like?"😂😂
Go watch American and European movies from that era. Actual Chinese people were not allowed to be the actors in films about Asians. Instead, it was white people with taped eyes. If that's what you've been told Asians look like. >shrug< Well, that's all you know. Also - racism. Better to see some white guy making fun of another culture than to be forced to learn and be respectful. Sigh.
Apparently not... they assume Chinese all look like one race.
Imagine if he heard about Allister Crowley
have you ever read Moonchild?
Or worse, Julious Evola.
Yeah, but Crazy Uncle Al would have come after him with a knife and made even better headlines. LOL
Chung Ling Soo: "Watch me catch this bullet"
Crowd: "Well he did catch a bullet"
I wonder if, and how much, of this story inspired The Prestige.
The book mentions Ching Ling Foo quite a few times, and the movie mentions Chung Ling Soo.
The Victorian Era, the golden age of magic, has a rich history of intellectual property theft and cultural appropriation... and people dying doing the bullet catch. As for the latter this happened often enough that among magicians it is considered cursed.
I was thinking the same thing.
Snap, Chinese guy and Fish bowl = the prestige
Very interesting movie!
@@TheGreatCigma only in magic can something that would seem to be a stupid idea in general be seen as "cursed"
"I must be cursed or something. Everytime I shoot myself in the foot, I lose a toe!"
Teller of Penn and Teller wrote a very good book about him and covers several other magicians.
Best example I've ever heard for why you clean your damn gun after EVERY use! Oops!!!
What if, you and Michael switched places for a video? Like whole video just go on like it's your normal channel and content. Him acting like you, shouting out your other channels as if they're his own. You, doing the same. Never mentioning the swap as if it never took place.
That's what they did a few days ago. Did you miss it?
I like this idea a lot.
John Wayne as Genghis Khan is actually more comical.
This beg the question: are scams easier in pre-internet era or in the internet era. Like most people living in London at that time had never seen a Chinese guy.
well with the internet you can talk to thousands of people at once so in my opinion the internet era
@@twoheadedchicken7904 True, but still it is super easy to fact check... so people wouldn't be so gullib... Oh, nevermind!
One of the nice advantages of the Internet era (if you're a scammer) is that almost all activities can be automated - and if you turn other people's computers into an involuntary bot net, you even don't need a good computer net of your own.
So less manpower, less manhours for a potentially worldwide scam scheme - making it more effective.
LMFAOOO@ “You’ll meet him and he’ll be...you” 😂😂👍🏼
I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU DO SIMON! THANK YOU!
Please sell some keychains with your sayings! CRACK ON!
This kind of sounds like the inspiration for the Dr Who episode: "The Talons of Weng Chiang". The white actor who played the chinese magician was in yellow face.
*Today I Found Out :*
About the Bizarre and magical duel between Colonel Sanders and General Tso.
Neither man showed up............turns out they were both "chicken" 🤔......🐔........😏
*The More You Know🌈🌟©*
*"NUFF SAID"™*
General Tao...terrific cook, only a mediocre military man😎
Lol
Literally made me LOL thanks!
To be fair the ability to observe and replicate magic tricks is a pretty impressive skill itself.
Victorian London at the height of the bad Chines stage acts ,...
Mr. T Said it best, "I pitty the Foo!"
underrated comment
Are they sure it was an accident? Perhaps his assistant just got tired of pretending to be Chinese.
“My name is Golden Pu. But my friends call me” ‘Shiny Shit’. 🤣🤣🤣
I love videos where Simon goes off script when he reads out something absolutely crazy or dumb
Hanging around him was dangerous because he would eventually be you. TV show: Pretender.
This story makes THE PRESTIGE a little bit tamed (with hilarity for good measure) in comparison. It's like the guy failed to open his SHARINGAN before doing the bullet-catching illusion.
Legend has it that IP is still ignored by the Chinese as revenge of the Golden poo.
1:38 That name is so white, it just invited me to brunch.
Wow! This story seems a lot like inspiration for The Prestige movie by Christopher Nolan!
That story just feels all too real, to be 'just a film'.
Thank you!
Yup, even the Chinese magician and his fish-bowl trick are in the movie. Although I believe in the movie it's the actual Chinese magician and his "trick" is pretending to be a weak old man whenever in public so nobody would suspect he would be able to physically hold the giant bowl of water between his thighs.
It's always a win whenever Simon gets flabbergasted within the first 3 minutes
Wasn't that bowl trick in the prestige? I knew that was a documentary!!!
This video can give you an idea for a new channel. Call it in Vs. They're pretty of stories of people, companies, states, schools, and groups that have rivalries that go back for several years.
You are correct when you suggest that Americans did not know what Chinese looked like. From 1868 to 1943 , Chinese immigration to the US was more and more restricted, until indeed the average American would have had no idea what a Chinese person looked like.
I adore light-hearted Simon
G'day,
Yay Team !
Thanks for posting this.
I saw a version of that "Bulletproof" trick done in the Tent of a Magician at the Glen Innes Agricultural Society's Annual Show, in about 1972...
It featured the Magician's female Assistant standing between two Dinner-Plates held up vertically on metal Stands, one in front & one behind her....
The Gun was a .22 Rifle, a Pump-action Repeater with a Tubular Magazine under it's Barrel..., and the Brass Case of the Bullet was marked with Ink by an Audience-Member before being loaded into the Rifle.
When it fired, both Plates broke simultaneously while the Assistant between them was unharmed, and the Projectile was supposed to have passed harmlessly through her..., and afterward the Audience member udentified their mark on the fired Cartridge.
One surmises that the underslung Tube-Magazine may have fired a Blank Cartridge featuring a Wax Bullet - which broke the front Plate, while the metal Stand holding the rear Plate "must have" been tricked up to smash the second plate while everybody was fixatedly gazing at the bare abdomen of the Assistant.
Presumably the Magician palmed the marked Cartridge and duplicated the mark on a fired Case - via prestidigitation while the Audience's attention was misdirected onto the assistant...?
Or, the Ammunition may have simply featured a Grey Wax Bullet masquerading as Lead & fired through an unmodified Weapon - with the Audience-member being a "Dummy/Ring-In"...?
Years later I heard that the same bloke accidentally shot the Assistant on stage, when an Audience-Member cunningly palmed the Cartridge they were asked to mark & replaced it with a regular .22 Cartridge from their own pocket - and marked the regular one before passing it back to the complacent "Magican".
Under modern Gun Laws, it's probably illegal to attempt to perform the trick...?
Such is Life.
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
I love yore Chanel's thanks for the amazing content.
Personal Illusionist to the Emperess of China....
Does that include windshield time, retirement benefits, and not being trampled by wild elephants? I'LL TAKE IT!
The problem comes if she asks the illusionist for the elixir of immortality... if you do not provide.... well, your life will be cut short.
I don't think elephants were insured back then
Another new channel?! Soon this website should just be called SimonTube! Lol ❤️
He wad Cauc-asian, duh.
Kudos for the very polished and professional take on reminding people to "like and subscribe." Subtle and effective! --and wonderfully NOT obscuring anything on the screen! I hope that you influence others!
It's always fun figuring out who wrote the article they're making a video on, they've been doing a good chunk of vids on mr. Smallwood's articles lately
You mean Karl Abnormally Largewood?
Ever since you have fully committed to the BLAZE⚡ all your videos have been more light-hearted and it's working wonders. 👌
I think this story (or one inspired by it anyway) was in a scene from the movie "The Prestige."
Absolutely love the pic of Simon in the megaprojects thumbnail. He looks so happy
Ok, this needs to happen, 3 channel crossover with Simon, Babish, and Michael all doing each others show.
So that was the blueprint for "The Prestige"...cool
Simon had too much fun making this video.
Ahhh i see some elements of The Prestige in here...
ERB idea: Simon Whistler vs. Michael Stevens vs Matthew Santoro.
This obviously inspired the writer of "The Prestige"
"Or maybe it would.." I see what you did there.
Aleister Crowley probably had a good chuckle at that last trick lol.
The moment I saw the title I was very intrigued. In the end the biggest entertainment came from Simon's reactions of unbelief and astonishment during the whole video :)
3:24 What? you aren't vsauce?
:O
He’s the British Vsauce. BritSauce
Im always impressed at the amount of channels but was really blown away when Simon delivered my grandmothers eulogy out of nowhere (sponsored by Nord VPN)
As always subscribed💯 keep up the great content
3:31 Oh come on editors! That was the perfect "hmmmmmmmm" (swirling face) moment there
I don't know if it's the subject matter, or the beard...but your charisma has increased ten fold! I like this version (not so effectively holding in a chuckle) much better! Thanks for the free short classes, as yours are among many TH-cam personalities that have aided my overall knowledge. Is there a historical evolution of philosophy coming some day???
There was a secret compartment in the gun the bullet was suppose to drop into, there was no slight of hand in loading. He was so secretive about the gun he wouldn't let anyone see or service it and it was said to work perfectly, only needed to be cleaned.
It's a shame. He's shows we're said to be beautiful.
So Robinson was the original Foo fighter. I DID learn something today!
Every Simon video start: I have a new channel!
How many channels do you have???? My goodness!!! Keep up the great work
Business blaze Simon keeps peaking through. Lol
Thanks Karl! That was awesome!
I remember quite a few of those tricks referenced in the Prestige. The bowl trick as well as the catching a bullet
I was really hoping the conclusion of this story was Foo sabotaging Soo when he challenged him and getting him killed.
Did anyone notice the "COOLER THAN ROOF GARDENS" at 6:11. What the fuck could be cooler than roof gardens?
"Chain firing" was (is) always a concern with multi-round black powder (pre-metallic cartridge) guns. This is when the burn from the intended fired charge, flashes over and fires one, or more, of the other loaded chambers, at the same time. So this trick could be done with any revolver, both modern metallic cartridge types, or older style percussion cap. Just make sure the chamber with the "live" round is NOT the one that gets fired, and all other chambers filled with blanks. Using a percussion cap revolver was (is) not a good idea !
Lesson: clean your props well.
The guy was like Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat, he could change form and identity to mimic others, his real power!
Did anybody else lose it at the Golden Poo bit and had to rewind at the end of it like five times in order to continue the story because you just kept laughing at that whole exchange? Just me?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂💩
I had to watch this three more times because I was laughing so hard I was missing details! Haha
You kind of look like him cut your beard and mustache LMAO
Fanfreakingtastic video, I really enjoy it Mr. Goldenshit. Keep up all the great work and thank you for it. Take care and stay safe, Peace.
if I sub to another 1 of your channels ill have no other feeds to see lol...keep it up Simon
We need Vsauce video hosted by Simon, acting like Michael. AND a Today I Found Out video hosted by Michael acting like Simon
Been subscribed for months and never commented, amazing content Simon and team 💯
When you laugh it, tickles my funny bone SOOOOOOO MUCH!!! Simon I just Love to see you laugh!!! 🤣😂❤️
Great episode, Vsauce!
Damn. I was hoping this would have been more like the epic magic duel between Egg Shen and Lo Pan. So disappointed.
I don't know which is more impressive. Simon's subscriber count, his amazing voice, or his epic beard.
The fish bowl act was in "The Prestige"
Simon just keep adding more channels
Your business Blaze Corona virus was amazing lol . I gave it the full 10 minute watch time ROFL.. One of the 1st videos I enter deuced my wife to Simon. perfect!
I should start a magic act and bill myself as KO VID FLOO .
Anyone else notice this dude is Simon's doppelganger . If he grows out his beard that is :)
Been a magician for 30 years and a tifo fan for well awhile so this is my jam!♤