David Blaine performs magic on Armchair Expert

The fact that David's going to do magic for you. Wild. Okay. Okay, so hold on. You said you know how to shuffle. Yeah. You can put it to the test. I'm going to mess it up. Well, first I'll show you all the cards. Okay. You can see from there, right? I sure can. So maybe just, if you want, you can give it a good shuffle together. So shuffle it into each other. Give it a good shuffle. Like right here? Yeah. Like a real shuffle. A real nice shuffle, Monty. Yeah. Really shuffle the ---- out of it. Give it a good shuffle. You can use that. Oh, wow. That's a good shuffle. Okay. That's a good shuffle. A little wussy-goosy. Yeah, but it's still a good shuffle. She gets jettisoned out the side. They don't move. I'm going to show you the thing that I was telling you about. So here. You take that. Okay. And choose any card that you like. Take it out. Okay. That's a good one. Okay. Can you tell me what card that is? Yeah. Ace of diamonds. Really nice. I would have gone ace of spades. You can put your name on it as well. M-O-N-I-C-A. Is that it? M-O-N-I-C-A. Okay. I-C-A. Got it. I-C-A. Not K. Now look. Here. I'll take this. Okay. So this is your card. Uh-huh. And you see your card really looks like it's going. You see how it looks like it's going inside? Uh-huh. No. It doesn't move. It's right here. I'll do it again. Watch. What the ****? No, but I'll do it again. Really watch carefully, Monica. So here. So you believe that you see the card really going in, but it doesn't move. No! Why? How? I'll do it again. So this is your card, right? It's like watching a six-year-old watch magic. This is your card. And you see it really going inside, right? It is it! You guys, it's it! No. It's right here. It can't be. No! But wait, look, Monica, I'll put it here. Right? And then I drop these like this, and see how one card pops through like that? Oh, what the ****? How is it how? Get the **** out of my garage! Now the deck is missing a bunch of cards, right? Yeah, yeah. So here's what I want you to do. Not. Not this card, but try to see one inside, but don't say it, and he's gonna guess it. Okay. You have one? No, can we do it again? Yeah, yeah, just not this card. Yeah. But try to see one. Okay. You have one number in suit? Mm-hmm. Look at me. He doesn't know what you're thinking, right? Mm-hmm. It's impossible. Correct? Yeah. But hold on, you didn't do your card, right? Right. No. So you didn't do your... Actually, can you put it under your leg? Put it underneath. You're gonna take one out. Can you lean forward? Absolutely. I'm very flexible. Don't see your card yet. Here, take one out. Hold on. Yeah, don't look at it. What was the card? 10 of spades. Would you be impressed if out of all the cards in the deck that he could have taken, he took your card? Yes. Because he could have had any card, right? Yes. And I just, I willy-nilly. You know when you're trying to pull to see what spade you're gonna get? Yeah. And you go, God, show me? That's what I did. Okay. Show us the card. No! What? Oh! Oh my God, so Monica put her card. Ace of diamonds under her leg with her name on it. ICA. And then I just pulled it out. It's definitely, it's my handwriting. But the main question is what card is under your leg and is it the 10 of spades? Well, that I don't. You can't promise that kind of, that's too much. Yeah. Something tells me that's not too much. Yeah, cause it might be one of the ones down there, though. Should I look up? Yeah, but I don't think it's gonna relate. Oh my God! It's so scary! Now I see why you got her a magician for her birthday. Yeah, yeah. She's like a four-year-old. It's the most innocent, pure I ever see her. Wow! How? Do you have an idea of how? We've been through this. I know. When I identify something that I can't figure out, I don't waste one second. But that's what I'm saying is that's two tricks that I've loved forever, but I never realized that they could be combined. And it wasn't until recently that I put those two together. That I would have pulled her card? Which two do you combine? I'm combining two separate tricks that are my two favorite card tricks together. And I never thought that they could go together. And then all of a sudden I was like, wait. And I just recently. You saw the math. After 30 years of doing these two tricks. Yeah. Hundreds of thousands of times, I would guess. Suddenly I realized that you could combine them. I was actually in a hospital and I started doing the magic to all the people working there. And I was trying it out. And it was because I couldn't really do the normal stuff. So I routined it and now it's my favorite thing to do. That's wildly impressive. I'm saying it's a constant tweaking, learning. How could it possibly come out from under my leg? No, you like do the order of it and it's not possible. None of it's possible. Monica, are you going to frame this card and keep it behind your head on the show now? Oh, I should. That infinite item, indefinitely? That's a good idea, yeah. Wow. Maybe you could sign it. That's really mind blowing. That was, no, I don't understand. How could it have hopped out from under my leg? I don't know. I think you're a wizard. See, I do think sometimes people are meant to hobble. Also, he was flipping the card so scatty wampus. The fact that I just pulled one. I know. And it was that. He must shove it in my hand somehow and I didn't even notice. And get under my leg? He was under your leg. He was all up and under your body. When people say sleight of hand, no. There's no, how? Well, when he handed you this card to put under your leg, I don't even want to do this in front of him. It feels disrespectful. No, but let me hear it. When he handed you this card to put under your leg, it was that card. But how? He didn't go over and get under your leg. But I put it under my leg. I saw it. You saw it and then put it? Yes. Well, now I don't have it. See, this is why I don't waste my time thinking about it. I did it. Wait, let me see. Will you hand me the other? Yeah. What was on the floor? God. This is going to get even scarier. No, but here, I'll show you one that's based on just simple. Here, let's see. Can you shuffle these a little more? Just do a better job this time, Monica. Yeah, I will, I will. You can add these if you want. Yeah, let's add those. Yeah, so shuffle them. Give them a good, firm shuffling. I am. Is that being stubborn? Dax, why don't you cut it? You just fucked up the whole thing. Why do you want me to cut it? Oh, yeah, let him do it. Actually, let's put them here. Get your hands on them. Yeah, we'll actually let you do it here. Oh, yeah, good idea. Okay. So maybe, here, we'll do it in front of you, so. Okay. Okay, so that stack is 19, but a year ago, it was 18. And next year, it's 20. Wow. Okay, what's happening with these stacks? I'm very scared. Point to one of the piles. Point to a pile. Okay. It doesn't matter. Okay, that pile? Can you slide it off of the table? Yeah. Slide the whole thing off of the table and hold it face up under the wood, but don't flash any cards. Okay, so you agree, she shuffled, and we broke them into about four piles. And I would keep it even deeper, just, yeah. But don't drop them, just keep them under the table. You know, you're hitting the limits of my limbs. So now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to look through the table. Okay. And I'm gonna try to tell you the color of the card that's right against the wood. Sure. I don't know if I, this is a thick table. Yeah, really, it's good. You have them about here, right? Yeah. So that first one is black. So just pull that one with your other hand, just slide that one against the wood up and put it here face up. The one against the wood, yeah. That's your card. The next one is red. It's gonna be my name. It's red. Oh my God. No, no, just put it here. No, it's not, okay. But it's still correct. That next one is black. The next one is red. That next one is black. That's black again. Oh my God. That's black again. Kind of warlock green. That's red. Hogwarts. Oh boy. That's black. Oh. That's black again. What in the world? That's black again. Black again. And hold on, wait. There's one more left, right? Don't show it. I'm not. It's red, but wait. It's a heart. It's the five of hearts. Monica, buckle up. It's the five of hearts. I'm so scared. Now we could really get in a wormhole of like, this is just like a baseline difference between us. Like you like, now you'll enjoy trying to figure out what happened, right? No. You won't. No. I don't need, that is the difference. I don't need to know. I mean, I like being shocked by it, but I'm not going to try to figure out how he did it. Yeah. Like, do you enjoy not knowing how something works? I can't stand it. And I think that's why I have an engineering mind. Like I look at a telephone pole. Oh, how's that? How's that electricity traveling? You know, I need to know. No, I don't. But if I assess that I don't know, and even worse, I can't figure it out. Yeah, you hate that. I gotta go like, I can't even think about it because it's so uncomfortable to not know. Yeah, I don't have that. I just think, oh, Hogwarts is real. Hogwarts, yeah. Yeah. That's preferred. Yeah, like what house were you in? David, that was so fun. Can we do one more? Yeah, well, it's up to him. Yeah, here, well, I'll show you one here. Do you see how he's dancing these cards all over him? Yeah, well, that's a fun thing, but I like playing. Yeah, just the way they flip. And then also with two, you know, if you do it. Yeah, this is just stuff that you spend lots of time working on that just has no real. This is like skateboarding, actually. This is just like physical tricks. So this way, there's two. And then, of course, the demonstration of that in a magic way would be you show a card, then you do that, and then it's, you know. Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. Well, what's funny is like, you know, humidity and everything else affects the cards. You could see the cards like bending, kind of like based on the humidity. Yeah. Do we drop the one? Yeah, it doesn't matter. Oh, it doesn't matter. Here. His OCD has boundaries. Yeah, I told you, it's not like you think. He doesn't mind being messy. What were you gonna ask? I was gonna ask, David, do you feel unethical about theorizing on how a trick worked someone else's? No, I mean, I think about things like that all the time. Take one out, take one. Don't let me see it, but let him see it if you want. Yeah, you can put it back. So here, as soon as it goes in, let's do like this. Here, if I go here, immediately, that's a simple control where I bring your card to the top, right? But no, no, but that's just a simple control. Okay, that was simple. No, no, but here, so here, so hold your hand, Palma. So we'll also use this card. So we'll use the Queen of Hearts. Okay. The Queen of Hearts I put here, and then your card goes here. If I do that, it's already done, see? I have the Queen here. And turn over here. No, no! Yeah, it doesn't make sense. That's nonsensical. But it's here, I put it here. I saw it. Wow. I was a witness. If this went to trial, I would have to take the stand and say, your honor, he did not touch the card. This is the stuff that, you know, just what I was saying about the way they just feel, like the way they, and the way cards feel is so relevant, too. You're probably an HSP. Highly sensitive. Have you gotten any diagnoses in your life? I know I have auditory discrimination. Tell me that. I know that when I hear information, it doesn't register the same way as when I read it or see it. Okay. So I know, you know, so everything for me is more, it was easier to read and learn than to listen and learn. Opposites. So often I say what, but I hear it like a minute or a few seconds later. Demonstrate. So I say what? Females in your life, absolutely ******* nuts. Anyone crazy. Well, David Blaine, this was incredible. This was so fun. You know, you're a modern day Houdini and we got to talk to you. Everyone watch Do Not Attempt. I want to say, we talked about how glorious, it's a ******* awesome show. It's beautifully shot. It's a very, very cool show. I think this is going to be wildly popular. We worked three years on it. And we all worked around the clock on it and everybody was amazing. We had the best team and there, you know, we all gave it our all. I can tell you that. Yeah, that's very obvious. And also when we went into these places, I wanted to show not like the fancy beaches and resorts. I wanted to show like the things that most people never get to see. So we went into places that nobody would go or would want to go or things nobody would want to do and showed the beauty in what they do. And all the things that you're seeing, it's like they really put their thousands of hours into those feats that they're doing. And that's why to me, it's magic. It's because of the invisible work that goes in that you don't equate for. You don't think about the amount of work and faith and diligence and practice and failure and repeating that they put into it to make it look so simple. Yeah, yeah. And so that's why I think this is, you know, kind of like a discovery of people that are, they're constantly a student. They never see themselves as masters. They're searching for the next learning curve, the next thing, the next challenge. And they keep pushing themselves. And it was pretty amazing to have a glimpse into that world. Yeah, it's admirable. It's really neat. Yeah, you're looking at someone who has funneled thousands of hours into five minutes, eight minutes, nine minutes, whatever it is. That's right. And you're like, wow, they just funneled it and refined it and pointed it. And so yeah, it was very cool to see that. Do you have a favorite episode? For me, it's like more like the characters. So it's like I have so many of them. It's like so many of them were, we don't show this, but I'm like in tears every time. I'm so excited and I'm so like amazed by everybody that I'm meeting. So I would say it's not a favorite episode. For me, it's like favorite. The people you love. Oh yeah, favorite, like the things that I saw and witnessed and was given like an insider into their world. So it's like there's so many things in each thing. You know what I mean? Yeah. Ramesh, the guy who built his fire act, but he's a rickshaw driver by day, but his passion is fire. David puts fire all over his head. That part's beautiful. Yeah, that part's great to watch. And I've seen him before and I was blown away by his acts. So then going and meeting him real time and then having him give me like crash course was, yeah, it was like a kid in a kid, yeah. All right, well, good luck with the show. It's truly great. I can tell you guys spent so much time on it and it's a pleasure meeting you. Yeah, thanks for coming. Thank you. Yay. Now you guys want to see the real magic? Turn this off and I'll show you the good stuff.