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- James Randi: Performing a Magic Trick
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Close-up card magic by the master.
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JAMES RANDI:
James Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi began his career as a magician, but when he retired at age 60, he switched to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls "woo-woo." Although often referred to as a "debunker," Randi rejects that title owing to its perceived bias, instead describing himself as an "investigator". He has written about the paranormal, skepticism, and the history of magic. He was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and is occasionally featured on the television program Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Question: Would you perform a feat of conjuring?
James Randi: I’m a bit of an amateur at shuffling cards. Ho, ho, ho. But when a deck is as thoroughly mixed up as this one is, many people think that there’ll be a red, black, red, black. I’m not talking about suits, now just the color, you see. Red, black, but it doesn’t happen that way. For example here, we’ve got three reds; we don’t need the joker in there.
James Randi: Yes. And we’ve got oh, there’s another three reds. No, this is pretty good, the colors - I’m just looking at the colors now. The colors are pretty well mixed in here other than here’s another joker that we won’t use in there. All right. Now. What I’m going to do is, first of all. We suspect that the colors would be pretty well sorted, or alternated all the way through the deck. But I’m going to show you something rather remarkable. Here we have a well shuffled deck, very well shuffled deck. And I want you to come over here and just give me your hand, if you’d be so kind. Step over and join me on the set. Okay? Now just hold, like that with the palm up, a little closer-I see you have a rich future. Yes, well in any case. I want you to hold half of the cards for me, would you please. And I’ll hold the other half. And I’m going to show you something rather remarkable. Look at this.
When I turn the back over, watch this. One black card on the top and then all of the rest of them red. Every last one. Wow! And taking a look. Hold those for me, please. One black card on the top just to disguise it, but in this case, each and every one of them black.
Recorded April 16, 2010
Interviewed by Austin Allen
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Try not putting end cards over the fucking reveal, you idiot. 🤦♂
I think people talking trash about Randi don't know what they're talking about. Randi is a top grade performer who debunks all sorts of false psychics and the such by spotting lies, deceptions, and magic tricks said to be the supernatural. If you must blame someone, blame Big Think for not filming this correctly or bothering to zoom out, but don't blame Randi for this, because he doesn't know exactly how it's being filmed, and it's not his responsibility to care for that when he's not doing a live performance or filming his own show.
The camerawork in this video is amazing.
3 year wellness check? Funny comment and very true
😂🤣😂🤣
Randi: "Take a look at these cards."
Cameraman: Zooms in on face.
smh
Yep! The camera work of this was atrocious!
Terrible camera work for watching a trick. For all we know he could have put the one deck down and picked up another off a table in front of him. Since he's a world class magician I'd guess he's doing something better, but from that camera work entirely unimpressive.
+dragonfiremalus Have you seen Penn Jillette's view about TV magic on this big think channel?
No shit sherlock.
1:16 "I see you have a rich future" Hahaha XD
tmvk97 how is that even funny lol
yo yo Poking fun at "psychics" or palm readers in particular.
the camera guy sucks. he didn't follow the hands at all. and he was zooming in and out all over the place.
Yeah... that's part of the trick..
I was gonna say the same thing. It's annoying how the camera man centered on his face rather than his hands with the cards. How do we know he didn't just switch the deck out off camera.
Camera guy: "No need to show a magician's hands. That would be silly."
Go easy. This was my first ever cameraman role before I got the porn film job and really learned how to perfect those head and shoulder close ups.
That hand came like it's the ring ceremony !
Houdini died from internal injuries he received from being punched in the stomach. Part of his act was to brace himself and them let a large man from the audience punch him really hard in the abdomen, and he would not move or feel pain. Off stage, when he was unprepared, a zealous fan punched him, causing internal bleeding, which later killed him.
is this real... know you wrote this comment in 2013
@@AdamThoba2 Yes, to the best of my knowledge this is real.
right right right. Montreal, a student punched him and 10 days later he died halloween 26' i am sorry Osiris Malkovich..thats a name of a hot porn star mia malkkovitch..damn
My guess: The cards have different marks on the top and bottom. The order didn't change, but he turned the stack around.
lol close-up magic doesn't work well with the camera focused on your face... they should have angled it down for him.
Kragatar then you would see him either switch decks or him make a slip cut using a stripper deck
Thanks for the post; I looked up the info, and wouldn't have known about it otherwise.
I'm just really surprised that nobody noticed the sloppy camera work here. I mean, you'd think that someone would've commented on it by now.
Don't you love it when the final 15 seconds of the video showing the whole point of the video is completely blotted out with adverts!
Well I used to have a deck where you could shuffle all the cards and still show all reds or all blacks, depending on how you push them.
I read that as "crying his seed". I think i like that way of saying it much better
Amazing camera work...
He's the only person that can do real magic. everyone else is just a trick
0:06 Merry Christmas!
The answer lies in a split deck, namely one set of symbols at the top, another set on the bottom. He then false shuffles the deck. He reveals his half deck first so that he can play to the result. Let's say it's three black cards and the rest red, (so, a close to 50/50 cut). He could say "It's always the same, three black cards on the top, then the rest red".
rest in peace legend
What a simply lovely human being.
That was out of this world! ;)
Lot's of know-it-all puffs in the comment section. Half of them watched Penn Jillette's video on camera tricks and worked it all out. This is James fn Randi...the man has nothing to prove.
GREAT CAMERAWORK
Very impressive! He made a whole camera disappear!
The camera work here is killing me…
My dad would proclaim himself the worst magician ever. He had one magic trick. It was a slight-of-hand involving a small object, usually a coin. He had the one magic trick but he had so many variations on it that I never got tired of him pulling a nickel out of my ear, or out of my pocket, or dropping it out of his open mouth, or...
+Heather Watson The one trick with infinit variety? Damn your dad was God.
Well, he did have the cards below the screen, so we wouldn't know if he changed the cardstock
Rough and smooth, cooler or angle seperation ;)
rspace105 a winner is you! Always try to know more than one way.
I never knew a person could punch someone that hard to cause a death through internal bleeding.
That beard is just....amazing.
ANSWER TO TRICK: AT 1:19 HE SWITCHED DECKS UNDER THE CAMERA AND USED MISDIRECTION TO MAKE YOU FOCUS ON HER HAND...THAT SIMPLE
Amazing! I've absolutely no idea how he could have done this trick!
im imagining him doing card flourishes.
The only way he could do this that I can think of is by making the roadrunner cull. If that's the case, damn he's good!
Question is trees a memmory collector of activity that trees turn it to sand i heard that sand can be used and turn to computer-chip?
That's a different version of "the invisible deck" with a special deck of carts
correction: I'm fluent in seven languages, and yet I don't make any spelling mistakes.
It's called the roadrunner cull, trick in magic by the magician Kostya Kimlat
I know what big think is but the fact remains they asked him to do a magic trick so I would expect them to at least try and film the magic trick and not his face.
Wow,that's superb what a fantastic trick.
i second this notion, while wholeheartedly agreeing with the comment that preceded yours
Google translate his Turkish one ( the 3rd one) it says Ha! I'm not fluent in seven languages. And yet make no spelling mistake.
How did he seperate the cards perfectly into 25 sets of cards? you would probably have a 2% chance of doing that! Every deck has 25 blacks and 25 reds, not including jokers.
I like how "Camera Tricks Are Not Magic" is a related video.
I love that guy! He is magical ; )
How did he do it?
@TheCoughlm He switched the deck, under the camera vision range.
The best solution.. Is always the easiest one.
This guy is so good
"Big Think", I am thinking. Why, are you not showing the table by his side where he puts some of the cards down? And all hands with the cards all the time?
only watching this video cause of reddit. good job dude
@BeerHombre he actually talks just like my grandfather hahahaha
He had another pack of pre-sorted cards hidden in his beard.
You are rather remarkable, thanks for the card trick to.
I love this old cook.
James Randi is not a cook.
***** He is kooky, though. Not a cookie.
I love how the description sais close up card trick and most of the vid they have zoomed in on his face so you cant see the cards at all :p though I guess its close up xD lol
"Hah! Ich bin fließend sieben Sprachen. Und doch, ich mache keine Rechtschreibfehler überhaupt."
Yeah, nice try, but that roughly translates to "Hah! I am liquid seven languages. And yet, I make at all no spelling mistakes."
0:58~1:03 he already finish sort the deck to half black and red already
thanks for the ads for the next videos, I saw nothing
1:13
Here, you can have my hand palm down.
Don’t think he switched the deck just turned them the other way up - think it out for yourselves
Surely fluency implies no spelling mistakes?
How the f...? You rock bro! 👍🏼😎
man you need to see someone about that anger management...
The trick is actually rather simple. I don't think it is a deck switch, that would be to easy for the amazing Randy.
IMO, the focus here is not on the card trick itself but on the many manipulative ways of presenting it, like keeping his hands off screen, barely showing the cards to the audience etc. It's a sarcastic comment on con artistry.
anyone who sais 'It's a sarcastic comment on" is a prick trying to be smart
I have never known Big Think videos to be sarcastic in this way. Hmm... interesting point though.
John Doe A prick trying to be smart? In any case you shouldn't try to call someone a prick because of their choice in vocabulary. And if their choice in vocabulary is wrong, there is no need to be like that. Insults won't make people understand, explanations do.
Alejandro Dulché
fuck off
Sorry to disapoint you, that's not how internet works. Even if that guy made it and came out as pretentious, an evil doesn't justify another evil. Calling him like that would do nothing to your point. How can you call someone on something bad when you are doing bad yourself by insulting him?
Too bad the camera wasn't on his hands while he did the dirty work.
No I'm not talking about David Blaine. It would be cool if Randi can levitate a full grown human outdoors.
He HAS looked exactly like that for decades now...
I'm starting learn Italian and i can already recognize 70% of it ahhaha (I speak spanish and french)
@MysteryoftheGods Ah, there's the loathing. Music to my ears.
Red and black ♥
@thegyger Don't underestimate the science of deception. Magic is a psychology experiment at its funnest. James Randi is an amateur astronomer, free-thinker, and friends/ colleagues with some of the leading skeptics, scientists, magicians, and doctors in the world, including Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Penn Jillette, and Michael Shermer, just to name a small few.
He deserves to be on any venue of intelligent free thinkers almost more than anyone.
@redpola i agree..
I'm pretty sure that black card on the top was a mistake. Haha, well nice recover
I knew Santa was real! :O
I think he memorized a few cards at the start
Yeah right, we spanish talkers say "no cometer" ...
Correct: He is Merlin. He's an immortal wizard that goes around debunking hacks (as a member of the secret Wizarding Police). Don't believe me? Look how old he is in other videos (taken in the mid-late 70s); HE HASN'T AGED!!!!! haha
Exactly.
Oh, i like Grigor Dimitrov
There is a video on the side called Camera Tricks Are Not Magic
I'm pretty sure your keyboard doesn't contain all those letters from different languages.
@arseymcass - Hahaha true, but people on the Big Thing are usually talking about things with a little more substance :) They uploaded a second video after this one which was more in line with what they traditionally put up here, which was great.
James Randi is more than just a magician though ;)
if i were to do the trick, il switch deck, not sure what method randi used
You can't see his hands at 1:10, I'm sure that's where the trick happens, or something?
I'm not 100% sure but to me it looks like they are not all red/black at all, he just says so and this is the real trick. Pixelated video and "bad" camera work are on purpose.
oh my god...he's santa...just listen to him from 0:05!!!!
@Audrion And if you could people would go on about people manipulating the cards with computer software.
I'm french and you made a mistake in the french transaltion.
0:06
Santa?
@srushaggs
He should use dousing rods on the deck
ASTF.TK
I want a James Randi action figure!
Gandalf is alive!
*too
I missed the magic trick ^^
@kbplaya123 Wow! You must be a rocket scientist! Sorry, I couldn't contain my sarcasm.
Conan Doyle also believed in fairies.