we get going on to this one
which I call the scientific
It's a jape. It's a humorous
anecdote, but it's part
about magic, illusions, and
presentation skills. Now before
method, the word of the
day is Gag. Now gag is a joke.
instructor here at the
Evergreen Cultural Centre.
and I'm your instructor here
for this five lesson series
Evergreen Online: Your magical
adventure. My name is Michael
Hideehodee everybodee and
welcome to lesson two of
Hideehodee everybodee. My name
is Michael Charrois, and I'm an
of what I do. Because you see
I'm not a tremendously skilled
Evergreen Cultural Centre, and
the website, which are at right
now and download the patter, the
words for scientific method. And
is what I like to call the
scientific method. So go to the
the next two. Put those together
with one of your own routines
comedy in the way that I
present what I present. And this
and make your own show. Send it
to me. I'll mark it, I'll grade
right now is a routine about
the scientific method.
of course, the challenge is for
you to memorize the words for
No no, what science is:
It's a way or a method of
that as well as the technique thar
you're using in this trick and
Science is not a big book of
knowledge. You walk up to the
it. I'll give you a certificate.
But today what we're gonna do
magician, but what I do have is
I have humour and I have a
big book open it up, it says.
That's true, That's false.
believe with an experiment, and
the experiment tells you the
your hypothesis. We need to do
step number one observation. So
have a question. Hypothesis: your
best educated guess what you
conclusion, whether what you
think or believe is right or
wrong. And using science to find
out what you think or believe
everybody we use our five
senses. One of our senses is
to find out what you think. Is
right. Now the question that we
are going to apply the
scientific method to today is
is wrong is just as important
as using the scientific method
this regular string or is this
magic string? Oh note the
think or believe is going on.
Then you test what you think or
testing whether what we believe
is right or wrong. And there's
your five senses to notice
things around you when you
four steps to the scientific
method. Observation: you use
fallacy. But wait before you go
half cock with step number two,
regular string to me. 4. The
only sense we have not used is
string or magic?
to me. I'm gonna vote another
regular string, not magic.
vote magic. I vote regular.
One okay. So we use our hearing. Sense
Regular. another sense. Oh touch it
feel it, feel it, touch it. Your
it moves around and that just
looks like regular old string
string. Okay. Another one of
our senses is hearing is...ah, look
Regular string. I'm gonna vote
regular. I don't know if you
at it up close and personal.
Looking. I'm looking, it wiggles
you feel it, you touch it. Oh
yeah, that just feels like
of smell. Smell it, sniff it, sniff it
smell it. Woof. It just smells
like regular old string to me.
I'm gonna vote for regular
largest sense organ covers your whole
body. You touch it. You feel it
our sense of taste and let's
not put things in our mouth
our sense of hearing so shh! Listen,
does it sound like regular
our five senses. Four of our
five senses, say man, that's
two separate individual pieces.
However, if our hypothesis is
nothing in the bag, I spy with
my little eye right through the
incorrect and it is magic
string, when we put it in there,
where we don't know where
they've been. We'll use four of
believe with this experimental
magic bag. As you can see
what I think too. So now we're
gonna test what we think or
or magic string? Regular, magic, regular, magic, REGULAR! That's
middle there. We'll close that
up here and then if the
hypothesis is correct and
that's just regular string.
When we put it in the bag, it
will come out and it will be
believe? What's your best
educated guess? Regular string
not magic string. That's just
regular. So here we go step
number two: your hypothesis.
What do you think? What do you
have this set up too. So it's
open right right? Through there
and you can see right through
there. There's nothing in
in the special secret pouch
right? And you close it up. You
the secret pouch all along. So
the set up for this. The
set up is you have it? You have
this, Tide, the joke, the gag in
it. It just wasn't funny. I get
it. Okay. So here we go to make
this work you need to have this
specialized piece of equipment.
there. Can you see it? You can't
see it and it's in there. It's
little diddly thing here in the bottom,
you pull it and it opens up a
little secret pouch right? Now,
Oh there it is right? It was in
those two separate individual
pieces will be tied.
It's called the change bag. the
change bag, well it's got a
Oh, look everybody. they're
tied. Get it Tide?. Oh, you got
there. I can see you can see me.
You put your arm all the way
materials for that just a deck
of cards for an incredible
they're tied. It's always good
to do this, make people think
good to go. Then you do all
your stick with the lines.
bamm. Oh look at that. Oh,
where did they go? They turn
display of my psychic
abilities.
back for episode three. You
don't need any special
"Oh they're gonna be tied one to
the other" and you go like this:
to Tide. Oh my gosh they're
tied. BOOM! I know crazy right? Come
pieces go in when they come out
they're tied. You have to say
They're nothing, right? The most
important thing 2 individual
through nothing in there and
then when you close it up, it's
