Male: What I am going to ask you to do is just examine that rope, pulling it. And it is just an ordinary cotton, white rope. Can you examine the scissors please?
Awesome, good! Alright, what I am going to ask you to do Kevin, do you have experience in cutting rope?
Kevin: A little bit.
Male: A little bit of experience. What I am going to show you is I am going to show you both ends of the rope just like this Kevin. I am going to take the center of the rope and I am going to bring it right up to here. What I am going to ask you to do is just cut the center of the rope, just like that. And we are almost there, there we are.
Alright Kevin, you missed the center by just a bit. That could partially be my fault, but I am not going to take any blame for it but we will give you another chance and we will start again with the same piece of white cotton rope.
Now what I am going to ask you to do Kevin is we are just going to even this rope out because obviously, we did miss it by a bit. Can you give that a little slice right there?
Okay, can you hold on to this end Kevin and cut right there?
Kevin: Right here?
Male: Yes, the rope base of the finger, please. Be careful, there you go. Okay, what I am going to ask you to do again here is we are going to—you can put those in your pocket, lottery winners every time and what I would ask you to do is just cut the center of the rope again. Take the center just like this, go ahead and give it a slice, just like that.
You know what Kevin, we will put those scissors aside because you kind of get in dangers with those. You missed the center again, but this time what we are going to do is we are going to tie the ropes together, just like this. We are going to make a knot so everyone can see at home and not just like that, okay?
Now what is going to happen here Kevin is you are going to hold one end of the rope and I am going to hold the other end, just like that. Do you want to hold that up, just like that? Perfect!
With you free hand, can you point to the center of the rope from my hand to your hand without letting go of the rope, just point to the center, right there. Can you do that again for me? Alright, right there and can you do that again for me? Perfect and right there now, can you do that again? Perfect! Okay.
What we are going to do now, we will do this again, but in slow motion, okay?
That is what I do with the trick. I just like doing it and embarrass people, okay? We will go—I can do this one last time where the center of the rope, right over here. Okay perfect, and where is the center of the rope now? Right over here, and where is the center of the rope now? Right over here, and how about now? Right over here.
Why don’t you take the center, try this at home. Thank you very much Kevin!
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