- Uh, just a quick note
before we get started,
this week has been a pretty eventful week
in terms of magicians and their deaths.
There's two that I wanna bring light to,
two of 'em that I don't
know, one of 'em created
like the TV magic Daken,
and some other things.
One of 'em is Johnny Thompson.
Johnny Thompson has been
around for a long time,
he has a (laughs) he had
quite an amazing career.
He's made some really big
impact on the magic scene
and the magic community.
He's consulted for TV
shows, most recently,
he was the big boy on
Penn and Teller's Fool Us.
But he's worked with pretty
much everybody and anybody
that is in magic today.
He's lived a full life, it's
not like he was a young guy,
but it's a shame to see
somebody like him go.
I had the pleasure of hanging
out with him a little bit
while I was in Vegas a few times,
and there's no kinder man
with so many accolades
to his name, and although
it's a shame to see him go,
it was a pleasure to have
met somebody who is so,
honestly, I don't even know the word.
So, to Johnny Thompson, and
his family and his friends,
I mourn your loss, but what an honor
to have met somebody like him.
The other person who is
also a beautiful, kind soul
who happened to have passed
away, is a good friend of mine
named David Pepka, he was a local guy,
he wasn't super well known
in the magic community,
but to those who knew him, his
heart was one of the biggest
and the best you've ever met.
Super kind guy, he ran into
some health issues a while back,
had some heart problems, and
recently it kinda came back
and he didn't make it through.
He was another guy that, you know,
I was lucky to have called a friend,
and I'm sorry to see him go.
So to David Pepka, and
his family and friends,
I mourn his loss as well as we all do.
It's not just about magic,
it's not just about magicians,
it's about the people, you know,
and these two people that I
had the pleasure of knowing,
were amazing.
Uh, to be fair, I didn't know
Johnny Thompson that well,
I've only met him a few times
but he still had that aura
and David Pepka, there
was no better person.
We've had our disagreements
like we do with everybody,
but even still, he was
such a pleasure of a human,
and I'm sorry to see both of them go.
I just wanted to say that quickly,
I didn't mean to bring the mood down,
but I also wanted to
say something about it.
Because these were people that I knew,
and one of 'em was a good friend of mine.
So with that being said, let's
just get to the tutorial.
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What's up guys?
Welcome back to another (volcano effect)
So today, I'm gonna be teaching
you a little card trick.
Makes the cards change colors.
There's a few different names
for this, some people call it
Red Hot Mama, some people
call it Chicago Opener.
It was originally called Red
Hot Mama, and it was created
by a guy named Len Searless in 1951.
It was later called Chicago
Opener and some other names,
but it's basically all the same effect.
It's one card that's chosen,
changes color, and then the
second selection turns into the
first selection that changed
color originally.
I explained it like a boss.
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So that's it for the
history, you've seen what it
looks like.
Let's just go down to the
tutorial and teach you how to do
this, it's super simple,
all you need is just two
decks of cards, so grab
those now, and we'll get
right into it.
So, here's what you need
to do the Red Hot Mama.
Two decks, two different decks.
You wanna try to make the backs
pretty contrasting, so these
cards are the As Is cards
from Anyone Worldwide that my
friend Ben put out for his bar, As Is.
And this is the Trics deck
that was put out a while ago,
and I just like it because
the cards are actually very
contrasting as you can see.
So that's it.
So whichever card you take out
from this deck, you're gonna
need a duplicate of it, so
here's the card from that back
and here's the card from this deck.
And this is your setup.
You're gonna take the one from
the deck you're using, you're
gonna put it on the face, and
then you're gonna take the
duplicate from the extra deck
and you're gonna put that
on top of it.
That's your set up.
The rest doesn't matter.
So you start by having somebody
pick a card, let them take
a look at it or whatever.
Lets see, the king of spades.
And now, you're gonna wanna cut
the deck so that these cards
go on top of that selection.
Now, you don't have to do
this on a table, I did this on
a table and I just dribbled
it and showed the cards and
then I cut it that way.
I'll just do it like this so
let's say the three of spades,
three of cloves, I'm sorry,
that cards gonna go right here.
And then you spread through,
and you're going to cut at the
card that is different, so right here.
So what that's gonna do, is
it's gonna put the duplicate
on the bottom to do your Hindu
fourths of a second, and it's
gonna put you in a position
to do a double lift, so that's
exactly what you're gonna do.
So you're gonna do your double
lift, you're gonna show that
their card is now the card
with the different back, okay?
And then you're gonna put the card down.
What you want to do is make
sure this duplicate stays
at the bottom.
So that's it.
Now you pick up the deck,
and you're gonna do a
Hindu shuffle, a Hindu shuffle
force, which is a very easy
thing to do.
You're just gonna hold
it like this in a ...
And grip from the sides, and
now you're going to strip cards
off the top like this as you
instruct to say stop somewhere.
When they say stop, you're
going to tap, and then show
the bottom card.
It's a little counter intuitive,
but it really does work,
believe it or not.
So we'll run through that again.
Just kind of strip off cards
off the top of the deck like
this, wherever they say stop,
you do this, and now you
show them the card.
Now you just drop it in the
deck, and you go through the
same actions you did before.
You wanna wave or blow on the
deck or anything like that,
and you spread through the
deck to show that nothing that
nothings happened, maybe
you made a mistake, you
square it up.
You do it again, show them that
nothings happened, and then
you point to the card that's
already changed once and you
turn it over, it's now
the second selection.
Now the original handling of
this was basically blue deck,
and then you would blow on it
and the heat from your breath
would turn the card red because
back then it was just red
and blue, but with all these
different cards, you can do
pretty much whatever you want, it's fine.
So we'll just run through it
one more time at full speed,
so let's say here, take a
look at the card, the four of
diamonds, it goes into the deck.
Blow on it, there's a
card right here, it's a
little bit of a different color.
What was your card, the four of diamonds.
We'll do it again.
This time, just say
stop wherever you want.
They say stop, okay the queen of hearts.
You spread out the cards, and
of course nothing changes.
And when you turn it back
over, that is the selection.
It's a very strong effect,
believe it or not, and it's
fun to do and I'm sure you
could play around with some
other ideas.
Color changing decks, color
changing cards, all can be done
with one extra card.
In fact, there's a routine by
David Williamson called Color
Funner Stunner that is a color
changing deck routine and
a triumph using only one different card.
So if you take this principle
of having one extra card, a
duplicate, you can do some
really, really amazing things.
All right, so that's it.
That is the Chicago Opener, Red Hot Mama.
I hope you enjoyed, it's
really not that hard.
All you really need to do
is a double lift and a Hindu
force, it shouldn't really
take that much to figure out.
The presentation is something
you can figure out, too, it's
super simple.
But that is about it.
The next video that
you'll see from me will be
another review, actually
I'm going to be reviewing
two products this time.
Also, I stream on Twitch, so
you guys can follow me in the
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streams, which are pretty much all
the time, but whatever.
I like to have fun there.
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You know what?
Tell me something about somebody
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they passed away, let's
keep some of these peoples
memories alive.
And I'll see you guys in the next video.
Peace out, guys.
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