My name is Austin Janik and I'm from Simi
Valley, California. My personal style is youthful
energy cause I am only 16 years old. I first
got into magic through my dad, who early in
my life would show me small magic tricks.
Aside from magic I also am involved in a lot
of other activities. Speech and debate, robotics,
as well as competitive diving. Even from the
youngest age, I would go around to restaurants
performing magic for the patrons there. At
first when they see this young kid, they don't
expect it to be any good. But what was really
impressive was the moment when they realized
that they were being fooled they were being
amazed. I don't know if I will fool Penn and
Teller but I definitely hope to impress them.
Will you please welcome, Austin Janik.
Because magic relies on misdirection a lot
of people think of it as sort of a dishonest
endeavor. However, it was actually american
magician Karl Germain who said that "Magic
is the only honest profession, a magician
promises to deceive you, and he does." So,
to illustrate this i'm gonna have Jonathan
come up and join me here. Sure, nice to meet
you Austin. Thank you so much Jonathan. What
i'm gonna have you do is as I go through the
cards just say stop at some point. Stop. Right
there? We are going to take the next card
from where you stopped and we can all take
a look at what it is you have the Queen of
Spades. So i'm gonna let you hold on to the
Queen of Spades and I want you to take it,
hold it horizontally, and then tear it neatly
in half. All the way neatly in half. Perfect.
Now what I want you to do is take one piece
and just place one on top of the other. And
then your going to tear it in half again along
the side. And you know what? We're gonna do
it again You know you really called the wrong
guy up here feel that there is nothing. I
know. Ok. One more time put all the pieces
again tear it one more time you get eight
equal pieces with the card. Almost. (laughter).
Alright there you go, round of applause for
that perfect show and feat of strength. Go ahead
take the pieces and place them face up there
on the table. And I also have a few paper
clips here. Go ahead and just select one of
the paperclips. Alright now I'm going to paperclip
all of these pieces together. But I'm going
to let you hold on to one of your pieces first.
The rest get sealed with the paperclip. Take
you piece show it up to the camera so the
audience can see the distinct tear you have
created. That tear is only matched by the
rest of the pieces locked in the paper clip.
But from the right light and angle, we can
get something else sealed in the paperclip.
And this is my student I.D. Now, the strange
thing is all of the pieces are gone and i
normal keep this I.D. in my wallet so if what
was in my wallet is now here in my hands maybe
we will find all of your pieces inside of
my wallet. Inside, I don't have a bunch of
pieces but what I do have is one single card.
Now you selected the Queen of Spades. I'm
holding the Queen of Spades. But, it's missing
one piece. So I want you to verify for proof
positive identification do the two cards match
perfectly? They really do look at that right
single ridge on this card makes it a perfect
match with the other piece. In the same way,
it is the small details of our signature that
make it so unique. So, i have a marker here
what I want you to do is go ahead and sign
your name across your Queen of Spades that
will make a secondary mark of identification.
Excellent. Now i'm gonna take the marker and
i'm going to also put my initials on here
on the Queen of Spades like that. Now theoretically
as a magician I could restore this final piece
on to the card, but that would remove the
tear that's proof of the magic. Instead, it
would be far better to turn this piece over
and restore it backwards. So we get your initials
on the front, my signature on the back. You
can hang onto that. Thank you so much for
helping me Jonathan. Wow. Wow. Thank you everybody.
Austin Janik ladies and gentlemen. Come out
to the front here. How long have you been
studying magic for when did you start. Well
my dad would show me magic tricks back as
long as I can remember when I was probably
five but i picked up my first book on slight
of hand when I was nine years old. And since
then I performed everywhere I had the opportunity,
restaurants, gestations, wherever. You've
been homeschooled by your parents I believe
is that right? Yes, homeschooled all the way
through. When your homeschooled if you want
to not go to school where do you go when you
don't that's what I (laughter). that's the
draw back. I'm stuck. When I'm grounded I'm
still in school so detention forever I guess.
Let's find out what they thought Ladies and
Gentleman over to Penn. I am absolutely amazed
that at 16 years old, on stage, in Vegas,
This many people, this many cameras around.
No uh's or stammers or um's or but's or "you
know's" Just clean patter all the way through
spoken beautifully. I was as impressed with
that as any of the magic just a kind of style
and a way of carrying yourself that was just
beautiful I just thought it was a great performance.
(applause). And then your slight of hand was
the same way. Everything was just clean well
rehearsed. The twisting the aces which is
I think a Derek Dingle Trick which you had
a little "kicker" at the end that you changed
on there. Yeah. Was done beautifully. The
mis-maid card the corner turned around and
then it is hours and hours and hours of work
to learn how to handle that. So although you
did not "Fool Us" you absolutely amazed us
and blew us away you just destroyed us. Thank
you so much. Since you have something you
can buy in a shop, here is something else
you can buy in a shop. This is the Penn and
Teller magic kit. And i think you probably
know everything in there but it's a chance
to have our picture, you can cut it out put
it on your wall there. Thank you so much Penn
and Teller. Austin Janik Ladies and Gentleman.
great work young man. Fabulous stuff.
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