- So, this is awesome.
We have made it to the
warehouse here in Texas.
It's 250,000 square feet here.
So we're going to do a quick tour,
see where my playing cards are.
And then we're going to go sign some decks
and keep packing orders,
so everybody can get their orders.
(upbeat adventure music playing)
Now we're in the shipping facility,
where all the decks get packaged up
and shipped out across the world.
So we're going to do a package right now,
live on camera.
We're gonna get a lucky order.
This is the order that I'm
gonna personally sign on camera,
and send it out.
The lucky order is...
Minnie M. from New Port Richey, Florida.
So Minnie, you have your
decks coming at you.
I'm gonna sign them right now.
(background sound of
packing tape being used)
So there you go, these are the
first decks that I've signed.
I have about a lot more to go.
We're gonna package them now,
so we're gonna see the
process of packaging the decks
and sending them out.
We printed out the
order, we have the decks,
I've signed the decks,
and I come up to this lovely
lady over here. Hello!
- Hi!
- How are you?
- [Woman] I'm fine.
- Here is the order.
Here are the decks.
Thank you.
What's your name?
- My name is (unintelligible).
- Nice to meet you.
We're putting them in
bubble wrap here, yeah?
- [Woman] Yes.
- Very good protection.
- [Woman] This is priority. Yes.
- You've done this a few times, right?
(woman chuckles)
Perfect. Thank you!
- You're welcome.
- So, we're gonna go
into the actual warehouse
where they do all the
production and everything.
So I gotta wear this.
Put that here, it's my new style.
How do I look?
Perfect.
It's like I'm going
into surgery (chuckles).
Wait, where are you taking me?
Whaaaat? Wow.
All right, so before I show
you and turn the camera around,
this is my first time stepping in here
where we've been shipping
things for years.
It's crazy. I'm gonna turn
it around in 3, 2, 1...
(energetic music playing)
So, this is awesome.
We have made it to the
warehouse here in Texas.
It's 250,000 square feet here,
and not only playing cards,
It's a whole bunch of other stuff.
Looking around, I see people
packing for American Airlines,
there's eggs in this corner,
there's, I don't even know
what's all of that over there.
So, I want to introduce
you to a few guys over here
that I've been working
with for a few years.
This is Eddie.
- [Eddie] Hello.
- What's going on?
Tell me your name and what you do here.
- Okay.
My name is Eddie, and I
manage Gambler's fulfillment.
I handle all the operations
as well as sales,
and I take care of all the
product orders for Alex.
- So, you do a lot.
- Yes, I have to (chuckles).
- And, we've been working
together for a number of years,
but we've never met until
last night.
- This is the first time.
- This is the first time. First
time that I'm visiting here,
and it's just awesome to meet you.
We have come!
- Sam!
- So we got Sam over here.
- Doctor Sam.
- Doctor Sam, what do you do?
You're the doctor on
schedule over here, right?
- I'm the doctor of playing cards,
taking care of all the playing cards.
I'm a supervisor at Gambler's Warehouse,
working with Alex too.
- If you don't know Gambler's Warehouse,
stop what you're doing, go visit them.
They have a lot of decks, right?
On playingcards.net?
So, on playingcards.net,
run by Gambler's Warehouse,
they're one of the biggest,
and they have so many decks.
More than we have.
If you want a variety of decks,
I'll leave Gambler's
Warehouse link down below,
and you can check them out.
(upbeat music)
So what you're telling me,
is that all of this is all playing cards?
- [Unknown Man] Yes, all of
that is all playing cards.
- Playing cards.
(upbeat music)
Hi, so, we're getting to the
Blue Crown and HOPC section.
As you guys may or may not know,
all the time my decks are out of stock.
So I see everybody else's decks here,
plenty of stock and everything,
but for us, we have these (chuckles).
Yeah, most of them are all sold out.
This used to be filled,
and now they're all gone.
Look what we found in
the back of everything.
These are the last remaining V3's ever.
V3 Summer NOCs.
That's crazy, the last
2 ever in existence.
Dude, I just saw--
So, this is the front end
store to playingcards.net,
one of the biggest
distributors of playing cards
here in The States.
I think I can take this off now.
It's super interesting
to see the evolution
of playing cards over all these years.
I started printing cards back in 2011
when I started the bluecrown.com,
and at that time there was
only a handful of people,
I could count 'em on my fingers,
how many people were actually
printing playing cards.
I think there was about 3 or 4 max.
So I was there for the
very beginning of custom,
the custom craze, and now
it's just unbelievable
how many decks there are.
- [Unknown Employee]
That David Blaine set.
I can't really rip a
lot of cards like this,
but if I do it my way,
I can rip through.
- [Alex] Jeez!
Strong man over here.
- I try.
- [Alex] Don't mess with him.
(electronic music playing)
So, these are all the
decks that I have to sign.
I got my wrist ready. Let's go!
(electronic music playing)
- [Alex] (muffled groan)
- [Unknown Man] Alex!
Alex! You have one more.
One more, One more.
- [Alex} Yo yo yo, Guys.
So we're here with a tutorial.
I was thinking we just
finished signing the decks,
we got the sharpies and everything,
what can I teach you guys?
And I remembered, on one
of my first lecture notes,
there was a name reveal that I did.
They were only found in my lecture notes,
so I figured I'd teach you guys this.
It's a way to reveal somebody's name,
without knowing their name.
It's an interesting idea,
and it uses something
that all magicians use all the time,
and that's signing cards.
Magicians carry sharpies,
please sign the card,
and that's the only card in
the world that looks like that.
Put it back in,
and you do your 36-phase
ambitious card routine
or card's impossible location
or something like that.
But I decided to think about
what else can you use a signed card for?
So I was playing around with this idea,
and of course it's just an idea,
you can take it much further than that.
Basically the concept is this:
you ask a spectator, "Look,
don't tell me your name."
If you go walk around, you say,
"Hi, my name is Alex."
"Don't tell me your name,"
you say to the third person.
I'm gonna try to do something.
And now, what I do is I
look for something that,
when they write their name on it,
it can be legible.
Usually it's the 2 of hearts,
or the 2 of diamonds, something like that.
Usually a red card.
4 of hearts is also good,
because they can write their name
in the middle over here.
Let's do 4. So they're
gonna write over here.
What you're gonna do
is get the 4 of hearts
to the second from top position.
The easiest way to do that is
literally while you're
looking through the cards,
I just push off one more card,
and you're gonna cut the deck like this.
Or at this point you can do
a turnover pass like that,
or cull the cards, so
it's second from top.
So that's the card that
you're going to force.
You have a shaprie, you
bring the sharpie out.
You say "look, take this
sharpie, and be careful.
It's sharp." (chuckles)
(sighs) Oh, god.
You get ready to do a riffle force,
or any sort of force that you want,
and you tell them to say
stop, so please say stop.
- [Unknown Employee] Stop.
- [Alex] Cut the deck.
Say, "Whatever card this is,
I want you to write your name
on it. Your first name only."
So you're gonna write a random name,
because obviously I know
your name, Beau. I know it.
- [Beau] All right.
- [Alex] So I'm gonna do a
double lift at this point,
and you show the 4 of hearts.
At this point what you're gonna do is,
turn your back and put
it behind your back.
You're turning around,
and you're gonna have the
spectator print their name here.
Now before they do, you
can do it one of two ways.
If you turn over the card
and you see the 4 of hearts,
you're not divining the card.
You're only gonna divine their
name from their signature.
Or, what you're gonna do
is, after they do this
as you come back, do the
double lift behind your back.
So you do a double behind
the back like this,
and then they're gonna
print their name here.
Of course you say "print your
name," you don't say sign.
You say print your first name,
and they're gonna do so here.
If you do turn the 4 of hearts
you can even underline or circle it
so they know that this is
where they have to print,
because they could be
weird and want to write it
in the heart or something.
I've seen weird things happen.
In any case, you tell 'em you're
gonna print your name here,
but I'm gonna turn around so I can't see
and I'll hold the deck like that.
So go ahead, just write a name.
Good.
So now, you go to do the double
lift if you have a break,
if not, you try to do
the push-off all fancy.
But in this case I wouldn't
have had a double lift
because that would be
hard behind the back.
I'm here, I have my break,
I take it, I turn it over,
I thumb it off and I push it face down.
So now, all attention is on here.
I put the card on the table.
As I place it on the table,
remember I've switched it
out for this right here.
I'm going to turn the deck end for end.
I say, "now you could have
picked any card, right?"
Now I'm going to do a gambler's cup.
From behind, this is
exactly what I'm doing.
I see the name Debbie, okay?
And once you've caught a glimpse of it,
you just put it back.
So at this point you divine the name,
and you take your time with it.
You don't wanna rush it.
So boom, "I think your name is Debbie.
Yes, Debbie, nice to meet you."
She's reacting, she starts
screaming, "Oh my gosh!"
She cries, she runs away.
Perfect misdirection to
come here and get a break.
Take this card, place it on top,
and then do a double lift to show Debbie.
Thumb it off by just thumbing
it off and wrist killing this.
So that's how you clean up.
Or, what I would just do is as I do this
and as they react, I just do a top change.
I do that, and now from here you can start
with an ambitious card routine
or any other routine that you
would use a signed card for.
I think it's interesting
to do this before,
because it just adds something new
to things that you're already doing.
Keep that in mind, make it your own,
and thanks for watching.
(electronic music playing)
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- [Alex] All right, guys,
so, it is around 7AM.
Back to New York City.
I want to thank you all for
purchasing the signed decks.
They are all going out,
being shipped out right away.
If you did enjoy this
video and the tutorial,
please hit that like button.
Subscribe if you haven't already.
Also share it to your friends,
we're on the road to 50.
Almost that 50,000, we'll get to 50,000.
Good things coming.
I'm gonna go take a nap.
I will see you guys next time.
Peace.
♪I ain't a man that you been lookin' for ♪
♪ Heart's beating darker
than a devil's soul ♪
♪ I ain't someone you
bring to mama's house ♪
♪ Do you believe? ♪
♪ Do you believe? ♪
