Justin Kredible: I don't know if you guys knew this, but I was actually reading that the second leading cause of aging is artificial sweetener.
Speaker: Oh yeah! What's the first?
Justin Kredible: Time actually. I mean seriously this stuff is actually made from real sugar and you can actually make it revert back to its original state with just a little bit of rubbing. Am I crazy? Take as the souvenir. Cool! There you go. What is going on? I am Justin Kredible, welcome to Turning Tricks. I am going to teach you how to do some professional caliber magic including the trick you just saw. I am telling you no place lends itself better to magic than the dinner table. We eat 3 square meals a day, we have a captive audience. So as you learn these tricks what I encourage you to do is pause, rewind, watch it over and over again so you master the moves and they seem extremely natural.
Today we are just going to scratch some of the things you can do at the dinner table or when you are out with friends. You are going to need a salt shaker a paper napkin, a coin, a butter knife and sugar packet and an artificial sweetener packet or you can just be at a restaurant. Alright, get those things ready, we are going to turn some tricks.
Alright so the trick you just saw me perform in the intro is called the sweetest thing and it is my new favorite dinner table magic trick, kind of came to me in the other day. I was eating dinner and just kind of what I do a lot of times just kind of mess around and what would be a cool trick you could do and the color changing sugar packet just came to me. And that's what awesome about magic is you can really be creative. You can come up with an idea and once you know all these moves and kind of the building blocks that I am trying to basically that I am trying to basically pass onto you, you can come up with your own tricks.
This trick uses the lapping principle which I am going to refer back to a lot in the series what is right about the lapping principle is that it can be used to make things disappear, in this case make something change into something else you can make things to through the table, I mean the possibilities are endless. So, here is how it is done. Basically the whole trick is a color change and it has two parts. There is the lap and then there is a switch. So let's walk through the lapping portion first. We are going to use the pink sugar packet; we want to have good contrast between the two. You want to mimic this motion where you are taking the sugar packet and actually picking it up. That's what you want people to think you are doing. Okay and in and all of magic you really want to believe what you want them believe. So we want to get really good at feeling what that feels like.
Drag it off the edge, your thumb kind of catches it, totally natural and when you are doing it, when you are going to do the magic move you just drag it off and you just drop it right into your lap. Okay, so that's the lapping portion. The other portion is you want to have the sugar packet you are going to be making the first one change into palmed in your left hand and you can kind of really relaxed with this. What is great about using the brown sugar packet is it kind of matches the skin tone and then start talking about, did you guys know that they make the artificial sweetener out of real sugar.
You see what I mean and let's do that whole process really slow. Alright, we have got the brown packet powder in the left, talk about the pink, drag it off to the edge of the table, pulling the hands together, rub it and there we go.
Alright, let's review the key points of the sweetest thing. What is best about this trick is to play it conversationally. You don't want them to expect that a magic trick is about to happen, just let it happen, catch them off-guard. You want to rehears and get comfortable with this kind of finger palm, cupping of the brown packet in your left hand make is seem natural, get comfortable with it and lastly you want to really master the lapping move. Take it slow; let the magic happen right there in front of them and it will be great.
Alright so I was watching this random cable show the other night, it was like a travel show and they had this -- they were in Indiana they had this guy who was like swallowing swords, you have seen the stuff. It is crazy, so it kind of got me thinking I want to try that. So we are going to use the knife, we are going to do baby steps here and check this out, roll up the sleeves. Okay, it takes a little mental preparation and then kind of go into this deep meditative state for a minute. Alright, here we go. I am going to try and take it, I am just going to swallow it down and don't laugh when I do this. Alright here we go.
And this trick uses the most common of dinner table utensils the knife. And this trick also uses the lapping principle, that's how it works, the lapping principle, it is in my lap. How do they get there? I will show you. Much like the sugar packet trick, this actually uses that same magic moment instead of doing with one hand, we are going to do a variation of it with two hands and in order to do that you want to hold the knife in a certain way. It is like this, with the thumbs behind and the hands held in a way that when you view it from the front, people can't see the knife when it is there or when it is not there. And what is great is that when you do this move basically you are going to do the lap by just gently releasing the thumbs and from the front they don't see that at all.
So when the knife is there, when the knife is not there it looks identical. It is very important. I am going to walk you through it, here is what happens. The lapping move is covered by a very, very clever misdirection that kind of has three elements to it. I start this ritual, I say I am going to swallow this knife and then I am like, wait don't laugh, I physically relax and I make eye contact. Okay, so my body relaxes, I say don't laugh as if basically to stop the trick listen I am telling you don't laugh while I do this, you can say whatever just like healthy clause of something like that and you make eye contact. And what it does is it makes people -- takes people totally off the guard. They look at you and your eyes when you make eye contact and they think the trick is paused for a second and nothing is happening and that's when the magic happens.
Okay, so here we go. I am going to swallow this knife, it is going to be red watch this and don't laugh when I do this, okay. I drop the knife, keep the hands in the same position, alright and then what you will do is you just do a little bit of acting, you kind of play the theatrics. I look at the knife it is not really there, as if it is still there and I kind of adjust it a little bit, clear my throat, bring my hands up and then do the fake swallow which just looks like this. Swallowing it, show the hands empty, that's knife swallowing.
Alright let's recap the key principles of the sword swallowing trick. First off and this goes for all the lapping principle tricks, you want to have a napkin in your lap. You don't have to but it is just good especially when you are learning it to keep whatever you drop in your lap in one spot. Now, the position that you hold the knife and the other key thing is you want to make sure that where the thumb is behind, that your hands look the same when the knife is there and after the knife is gone and very important when you are doing this misdirection and you come down and you say, don't laugh and you make eye contact you really want to make that natural offbeat. So people are looking in your eyes and not expecting that a magic move is happening. There you go.
I am going to show you something weird. We are going to do a magic trick and I am actually going to tell you when it is going to happen before it happens. Most magicians don't do that, but I am pretty confident in this one. we are going to make this quarter disappear and to make it even tougher, I am going to put the salt shaker on top and we are going to put the napkin on top of that. These are impossible conditions, here we go. Alright, it is going to happen on three; one, two, three. Okay, the coin has to be heads down tails up; it is very important. Okay, here we go, one, two, three. Okay, my bad, it has to be heads up and let me try it again. Watch here we go. One, two, three. I forgot it is not the vanishing coin trick; it is vanishing salt shaker trick. That's a way more impressive.
I love this trick, I mean in the sense I was a little kid I remember reading this on one of my magic books and this was kind of like my signature trick as a little kid magician, versatile lapping principle, the salt shaker ends up in my lap, I just love the lapping principle. You can do it with the salt shaker in this case, you can do it with a pepper shaker, you can do with a ketchup bottle. I mean the possibilities are endless. So master this move and then just one with it. Here is how we do this. We take the coin; we have a napkin and the salt shaker. Tell the people what you are going to do before you do it. It is a big not known magic, but in this case you are doing it and you are just lying about it and that's when it is okay.
So we are going to put the salt shaker on top of the coin, we put the napkin on top of the salt shaker. Now you can use a cloth or paper napkin. Paper napkin works a little bit better because one of the factor in this trick that aides you in the whole misdirection process is that when you wrap a napkin around a salt shaker, they can see it there and looks like it is there even when it is not there; clever okay and that is going to be very important in the second. So that after you lap the salt shaker, it still looks like it is there and what that does is it delays that magic moment from the point where you do the move to the point where you make the salt shaker disappear and people can't retrace it.
Alright just the sugar packet, just like the knife, it is the same basic concept. Let's walk you through it, alright. We put the salt shaker on top; we put the napkin on top of that. Alright we are going to make the coin disappear and that happens on three; one, two, three. Okay you act like you messed up. Alright, they can see the salt shaker there, it is just a real subtle thing and you say my bad it has to be tails up. Okay, I should have remembered that, tails up, let's do it again. Oh, my bad it is actually supposed to be heads, okay. What happens, that's right at the edge of the table, it drops acts like nothing has happened. They still think the salt shaker there. You don't want to run when they are not chasing you.
Alright so we put this back on top and here you can take your time. One, two, three and we kind of lift it up, oh my bad; it is the vanishing salt shaker trick. Alright let's recap the key principles of the vanishing coin trick AKA the vanishing salt shaker trick. Most importantly you really want to sell this natural repetition, oh I messed up once, let's turn it over, oh I messed up twice, let's turn over and you ditch it. It is that natural repetition that is making you look the same every time that is going to catch them off-guard and you also want to get really good and after you make that second mistake catching that natural moment of kind of relaxation where you flip the coin over and you watch the coin and that's the moment you drop the salt shaker into the lap. And it really sell the false concept of making the coin disappear, so that over the time you make the salt shaker disappear that will be full.
So in this episode we got to learn my three favorite dinner table magic tricks I hope you enjoyed them. They all use the lapping principle so take your time and really master that move. Let's recap, we do the sweetest thing which is a great trick you can be creative with and kind of present it as a part of conversation people don't really need to know a trick is coming and that's the best time to do magic. And then we did sword swallowing which I love because you always have utensils around you and it is a perfect time you use them and make something impossible happening. And then the vanishing coin AKA vanishing salt shaker trick is a killer dinner table magic trick and it really play up the whole false plot of making a coin disappear. So when that salt shaker vanishes, they will be stunned.
And this episode is really like your local video store, be kind and rewind. Watch is over and over again, that's the best way to master the tricks. Now I first got started doing a lot of dinner table magic tricks. I would perform regularly in a restaurant so I am going to show you guys one of my signature tricks. Can you guys help me out real quick? Okay, we are going to do a little magic trick. Tia you got a hair sticking straight out. Hair, get it LOL, no? This is Mojo the bunny, say what up Mojo.
Female Speaker: What up Mojo?
Justin Kredible: We are going to try to make him disappear. Josh, do me a favor, just blow on my hand. Okay that was spit, let's try that again, blow dry. That's cool, here we go, watch. Perfect it flies up a sleeve back down around, lands in my pocket. It gets better, watch this. We take Mojo if I rub him right here in the middle, the right spot we can actually split it here. Oh, I can split it here. Okay, this is Mojo, hold Mojo for me. Awesome, Tia hold your hand flat, there is Alice. Mojo -- wait that's Mojo, my bad Alice. Okay, check this out, I am going to put Mojo the bunny in my left hand, Alice in my right. Tia say go Mojo.
Female Speaker: Go Mojo.
Justin Kredible: He jumped. Hold on, I am going to do this in Josh's hand. So do me a favor, Josh open your hand for me, the clean one that's okay. You are right, perfect. I am going to squeeze Mojo, you squeeze Alice for me nice and tight, hold it up in your fist. Okay, here we go, I have to get the positioning right watch this. Open up your hand, check it out. Look at that crazy. Here I want to get you in the action here. Tia, open up your hand for me, excellent. Squeeze tight in both bunnies, put your other hand on top and shake them like that, Josh with your fingers, say Go Mojo Go.
Male Speaker: Go Mojo Go.
Justin Kredible: Tia, slowly, slowly open up your hand. They had babies. That is just wrong. Remember never reveal the secret; never repeat a trick and practice. I am Justin Kredible I have turned my secrets over to you, it is now up to you to turn some tricks. If you watch more episodes of turning tricks not only will you learn a bunch of great magic to amaze your friends, it will also blow your mind. Hold it up in your fist. Say I feel the power.
Male Speaker: I feel the power.
Justin Kredible: Don't worry it won't hurt.
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