- I'm gonna cut it all nice for you.
(men talking in background)
(people exclaim with surprise)
Woo, it's hot in here.
(laughing)
(mellow Parisian music)
- Alright guys, so we are
here at the Paris Jam.
I think there's a bunch of
people waiting upstairs.
We are with, my girl Anna,
and my most favorite people over here,
and we got a few that are...
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Alright, let's go upstairs
and see what's going on.
Ladies first, age before
beauty (chuckles).
(people talking in background)
Alright, let's see what we got here.
- [Anna] Hi.
- [Group] Hi.
- [Group] Hey.
(Anna speaks foreign language)
(laughing)
- What the heck was that?
(Anna speaking foreign language)
What the heck?
(Anna speaks foreign language)
Hey, what's going on everybody?
(group talking all together)
We are here at the Paris Jam,
and we're just gonna jam, right?
We're gonna jam.
- [Anna] Let's jam.
Who has the marmalade?
- What the heck, not that kinda jam.
Not that kinda jam.
Whatever turns you on.
Alright, good?
- Let's go.
- Let's go.
(hip hop music)
Dude you're so lucky, are these yours?
- Yeah, I think so, whoa.
- [Host] Man, that card, you
win for the best cards in town.
- [Man] It's your, it's his.
- Oh sorry.
- Yeah, it's mine.
- [Host] You lose.
(laughing)
Uh well, what've we got over here?
- We got a lot of cards.
- Huge box.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- [Man] Every thing you can--
- [Host] That's a Tupperware.
- [Man] Yup, yeah, yeah, exactly.
For cooking and
everything, but, for cards.
So, here it is.
- [Host] You know got more
cards than I do, to be honest.
(laughing)
- Yeah, I dig them.
- [Host] Oh whoa.
- [Anna] Am I allowed to show these now?
- [Man] Do something.
(men talking in background)
- I'm gonna cut it all nice for you.
(men talking in background)
(exclaiming with wonder)
Woo, it's hot in here.
(laughing)
- [Man] Whoa.
(Anna exclaims)
- I can see your act
is picking up, get it?
Picking up?
(laughing)
You gotta show them this.
(hip hop beat)
(laughing)
Wait, that's gonna be thumbnail.
(laughing)
That's good.
(hip hop beat)
(audience applauding)
Thank you so much, thank you Paris.
I'm very excited to be
here, very, very excited
for a few reasons.
Now, first and foremost,
before I even begin,
if you don't understand English,
I'm sorry, you can go.
(laughing)
I don't have a translator,
but you know, if of course,
if you don't understand,
please don't hesitate, raise your hand,
and say, please a little bit slower,
I go as slow as you want.
They pay me every hour
here I stay, so it's good.
(laughing)
This lecture is
important to me for a specific reason.
And I see a lot of young faces here,
which is very good,
it's right up my alley.
And it's important for me
because I love magic, right,
as all of you do,
and I hate magic at the same time.
I hate it, I hate magic tricks.
I hate certain tricks and gimmicks
and all the characteristics of magic,
like, please pick a card,
I'm gonna find it, okay.
So, my whole thinking along many years
of traveling the world, I've
traveled and I've lectured
all over, just not Paris, the
first time I lecture in Paris.
I've traveled 126 cities
and lectured all around.
And I performed and I
met people from all over.
And its very important for
me to make a difference,
and be different, with
everything that I do in magic.
Because everybody here is different, yes,
and everybody here wants
to do magic to stand out,
but then, we learn a
trick, we buy a trick,
we show it to somebody, we
make them laugh a little bit,
and then we think we're good,
and we stop trying to expand.
Alright, so my whole thinking,
is how do we take something simple
and make it as magical,
as powerful as possible
for the people that you're showing it to.
Does that make sense?
Alright, I'm not interested
to show you tricks,
and even though it is important,
I understand that we're a lot here,
and I thank you all for coming.
So the first half that we're gonna do,
we're gonna break it up into three parts.
First part, I'm gonna
show you easy things,
but still powerful, with
still some good moves
and slight of hand, and a lot
of people like slight of hand,
do slight of hand.
And the second part,
is a very short part, okay.
So first part, everybody can do
with just a little bit of practice.
When you go out the door
you can start doing it.
Second part,
is going to be a little
segment, five minutes long.
And it's gonna be five moves.
Five of my favorite little
moves, slights, whatever.
I'll try to do it in five minutes.
Right before the half,
we'd take a little break.
And then the third part,
is the second half, we're
gonna really concentrate
and we're gonna get close and personal
about how do we take card magic especially
and make it as strong, as powerful.
Alright, it's very, very important.
Good.
So, to begin, oh also, the
second thing with the five moves,
everybody here is gonna get
five free videos from me.
Yes?
- Yeah.
- Good, good.
I'm gonna give you free
things so you can be happy.
Good, and now we start.
Alright, so to begin, I
tell a knock-knock joke.
Knock-knock joke, you have knock-knock.
You have knocks right?
- Yeah.
- Show everybody the knocks.
Alright, I do a knock-knock
joke to lighten the mood.
Ready?
You know knock-knock, right?
- Yeah.
- Knock knock, who's there, okay, ready.
Knock, knock.
- [Audience] Who's there?
- Bicycle.
- [Audience] Bicycle who?
- Exactly.
(laughing)
It's stupid.
Okay, we start off with a blue
deck, with a mystery card.
This mystery card is mysterious
because it's red, that is blue.
That is blue, so put
that in my back pocket.
And we need a sharpie,
be careful it's sharp.
(laughing)
Do you guys use these, like,
corny lines in France also?
Really dumb, okay, take the sharpie.
You're gonna, with the sharpie,
you're gonna touch the
back of one of the cards.
Which one, that one?
That's a good one.
I get the marking, isn't there a mark?
I'm just kidding, tell me your name.
- Raphael.
- Raphael.
Six of hearts is good?
Yeah.
- Okay, sign your name
on the six of hearts.
Put it really nicely, oh, very, very good.
Oh my Lord.
Good, and we leave it sticking out.
Now, before we started I had,
in my back pocket I had a mystery card.
Mystery card is gonna find that card.
Okay, watch carefully.
I think you can sort of estimate.
It's about halfway.
How many cards do you think?
Maybe like...
(laughing)
- Put 22.
- 22, exactly.
That's exactly right.
(mumbles)
Alright, I try to find
it in the 22nd position
using the mystery card to find your card.
Watch, I do this, I do this,
and it's exactly 22 cards down.
We don't have to count 'cause we all are,
no that's not 22, but it's okay.
It's okay.
We're doing a different trick.
Above or below your card.
Above or below your card,
I think right here is,
what was the card?
No, but it had your signature right?
You didn't do a very, oh,
the six of diamonds that has.
The six of diamonds and then
the heart is the six of hearts.
- [Man] Whoa.
(audience applauding)
- Thank you.
Oh, what if we snap?
Because in magic, I
swear to God I hate this,
we snap our fingers and
it comes to the top.
Snap our fingers and
(hand claps)
I'll do it for this, but then
we're never snapping again.
Ready, I snap my fingers
and the mystery card becomes your card
with your signature on it.
(audience applauds)
(mellow Parisian music)
