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Close-up card magic by the master.
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JAMES RANDI:
James Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi began his career as a magician, but when he retired at age 60, he switched to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls "woo-woo." Although often referred to as a "debunker," Randi rejects that title owing to its perceived bias, instead describing himself as an "investigator". He has written about the paranormal, skepticism, and the history of magic. He was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and is occasionally featured on the television program Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.
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Question: Would you perform a feat of conjuring?
James Randi: I’m a bit of an amateur at shuffling cards. Ho, ho, ho. But when a deck is as thoroughly mixed up as this one is, many people think that there’ll be a red, black, red, black. I’m not talking about suits, now just the color, you see. Red, black, but it doesn’t happen that way. For example here, we’ve got three reds; we don’t need the joker in there.
James Randi: Yes. And we’ve got oh, there’s another three reds. No, this is pretty good, the colors - I’m just looking at the colors now. The colors are pretty well mixed in here other than here’s another joker that we won’t use in there. All right. Now. What I’m going to do is, first of all. We suspect that the colors would be pretty well sorted, or alternated all the way through the deck. But I’m going to show you something rather remarkable. Here we have a well shuffled deck, very well shuffled deck. And I want you to come over here and just give me your hand, if you’d be so kind. Step over and join me on the set. Okay? Now just hold, like that with the palm up, a little closer-I see you have a rich future. Yes, well in any case. I want you to hold half of the cards for me, would you please. And I’ll hold the other half. And I’m going to show you something rather remarkable. Look at this.
When I turn the back over, watch this. One black card on the top and then all of the rest of them red. Every last one. Wow! And taking a look. Hold those for me, please. One black card on the top just to disguise it, but in this case, each and every one of them black.
Recorded April 16, 2010
Interviewed by Austin Allen
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Try not putting end cards over the fucking reveal, you idiot. 🤦♂
I think people talking trash about Randi don't know what they're talking about. Randi is a top grade performer who debunks all sorts of false psychics and the such by spotting lies, deceptions, and magic tricks said to be the supernatural. If you must blame someone, blame Big Think for not filming this correctly or bothering to zoom out, but don't blame Randi for this, because he doesn't know exactly how it's being filmed, and it's not his responsibility to care for that when he's not doing a live performance or filming his own show.
the camera guy sucks. he didn't follow the hands at all. and he was zooming in and out all over the place.
Yeah... that's part of the trick..
I was gonna say the same thing. It's annoying how the camera man centered on his face rather than his hands with the cards. How do we know he didn't just switch the deck out off camera.
Camera guy: "No need to show a magician's hands. That would be silly."
Terrible camera work for watching a trick. For all we know he could have put the one deck down and picked up another off a table in front of him. Since he's a world class magician I'd guess he's doing something better, but from that camera work entirely unimpressive.
+dragonfiremalus Have you seen Penn Jillette's view about TV magic on this big think channel?
Agreed.
No shit sherlock.
The camerawork in this video is amazing.
3 year wellness check? Funny comment and very true
😂🤣😂🤣
Randi: "Take a look at these cards."
Cameraman: Zooms in on face.
smh
Yep! The camera work of this was atrocious!
1:16 "I see you have a rich future" Hahaha XD
tmvk97 how is that even funny lol
yo yo Poking fun at "psychics" or palm readers in particular.
lol close-up magic doesn't work well with the camera focused on your face... they should have angled it down for him.
Kragatar then you would see him either switch decks or him make a slip cut using a stripper deck
Go easy. This was my first ever cameraman role before I got the porn film job and really learned how to perfect those head and shoulder close ups.
Lot's of know-it-all puffs in the comment section. Half of them watched Penn Jillette's video on camera tricks and worked it all out. This is James fn Randi...the man has nothing to prove.
Houdini died from internal injuries he received from being punched in the stomach. Part of his act was to brace himself and them let a large man from the audience punch him really hard in the abdomen, and he would not move or feel pain. Off stage, when he was unprepared, a zealous fan punched him, causing internal bleeding, which later killed him.
is this real... know you wrote this comment in 2013
@@AdamThoba2 Yes, to the best of my knowledge this is real.
right right right. Montreal, a student punched him and 10 days later he died halloween 26' i am sorry Osiris Malkovich..thats a name of a hot porn star mia malkkovitch..damn
eh... waste of a trick if his hands arent on camera the whole time.
He's God, of course he can do magic.
What's the point of this video? The cards aren't visible most of the time in a rather obvious way. With that kind of camera work anyone could have done this trick in many many ways.
The video "Penn Jilette: Camera tricks are not magic" is right next to this video.
He's the only person that can do real magic. everyone else is just a trick
My guess: The cards have different marks on the top and bottom. The order didn't change, but he turned the stack around.
I'm just really surprised that nobody noticed the sloppy camera work here. I mean, you'd think that someone would've commented on it by now.
rest in peace legend
Too bad the camera wasn't on his hands while he did the dirty work.
IMO, the focus here is not on the card trick itself but on the many manipulative ways of presenting it, like keeping his hands off screen, barely showing the cards to the audience etc. It's a sarcastic comment on con artistry.
anyone who sais 'It's a sarcastic comment on" is a prick trying to be smart
I have never known Big Think videos to be sarcastic in this way. Hmm... interesting point though.
John Doe A prick trying to be smart? In any case you shouldn't try to call someone a prick because of their choice in vocabulary. And if their choice in vocabulary is wrong, there is no need to be like that. Insults won't make people understand, explanations do.
Alejandro Dulché
fuck off
Sorry to disapoint you, that's not how internet works. Even if that guy made it and came out as pretentious, an evil doesn't justify another evil. Calling him like that would do nothing to your point. How can you call someone on something bad when you are doing bad yourself by insulting him?
Amazing camera work...
but if you're just a believer and not a doer, then you should really look up things like cold reading and such, there are many non supernatural ways these people get information and often it's just a bunch of quick vague guesses, most often in the double digits.
you may not remember it as such but this is a well documented thing that happens in the brain where it forgets all the wrong and focuses on what the psychic got right. i suggest next time you go to any reading, bring a recording device
The camera work here is killing me…
But then again, you'll probably cook up some excuse or try put a spin on it etc. Yeah its trendy now to atheistic and not believe in survival of spirit. Don't know you and wouldn't to know you really but if you're fortunate maybe you'll experience it in the future but you will surely agree upon your ''death''. What if a relative died who was close to you suddenly. You being skeptical, attend a seance anonymously and then see your relative manifest and reveal info only that person knew?
Maybe you should think about a BIGGER view, horrible camera work ever hear of zooming OUT and moving to the left?
@dude7709 At first glance I thought I was going to have to write a strongly worded reply to a homophobic dude, but by the end of your comment I was frantically clicking the "like" button. Yes indeed, James Randi, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins should be knocking up biddies left and right
Spotting fake magic tricks: if the subject takes the prop or card out of the camera's view, then a switch was likely made. yawn. Go back to debunking spoon benders James!
How did he seperate the cards perfectly into 25 sets of cards? you would probably have a 2% chance of doing that! Every deck has 25 blacks and 25 reds, not including jokers.
Why do people complain about the other Big Think videos put up today and this one gets voted up? The video is kind of pointless too no matter how much you love James Randi. I love his work too but I can see when the Big Think is having a hard time finding gems in their video libraries. Looks like a cult of personality is to blame for the majority of 'up votes' on this one.
If you have JAMES RANDI in the room, in front of a camera,why not ask him to talk about something important??? Sheesh!
Put h ttp in front of the link I gave. RUclips will not allow inclusion of full web addresses. This legal blog does not contain any gay-baiting that I'm aware of, but does refer to Randi's sworn testimony of complicity in a couple of decades of idenity theft. I don't suppose my quote from Randi's blog would be considered biased AGAINST Randi, but I merely wanted to point out his extreme hipocrisy and anti-humanist views in regards to certain subjects. Is his own testimony biased as well?
Ok, idenity theft:
triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/10/update-on-identity-theft-case.html
Does that make you happy? Here's this from his blog: "I think that people with mental aberrations who have family histories of inherited diseases and such, that something should be done seriously to educate them to prevent them from procreating. I think they should be gathered together in a suitable place and have it demonstrated for them what their procreation would mean for the human race." Dig it?
@thegyger Don't underestimate the science of deception. Magic is a psychology experiment at its funnest. James Randi is an amateur astronomer, free-thinker, and friends/ colleagues with some of the leading skeptics, scientists, magicians, and doctors in the world, including Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Penn Jillette, and Michael Shermer, just to name a small few.
He deserves to be on any venue of intelligent free thinkers almost more than anyone.
"Big Think", I am thinking. Why, are you not showing the table by his side where he puts some of the cards down? And all hands with the cards all the time?
I know what big think is but the fact remains they asked him to do a magic trick so I would expect them to at least try and film the magic trick and not his face.
do you relise that every one of Houdini's tricks can be done with the smarts, knowhow and materals. If he was really a psychic i would think he would do things that were imposable to do if he didn't have psychic powers. If houdini was psychic he was the dumbest man on earth. Because he never used any of his powers during his tricks.
@thegyger Why so much hate? He is a cute guy and darn smart too. Go watch the other video of him that was just put up. I bet they uploaded it first but was longer and thus showed up later...
You have to understand that this is a link bait and a search bait. Anybody searching for Randi's tricks might stumble upon this one and become a BigThink fan! :)
Cheers!
you mean the same Conan Doyle who believed the photos of the pixies that was later admitted to be a hoax and became obsessed with spiritualism after the death of his son in war and was desperately trying to reconnect with him, also stopped writing Sherlock Holmes stories after the obsession set in?
What the hell is with the horrible camera angle(s) and the nonchalant card holder? Have they never filmed, let alone seen a card trick before?
He is Darwin. He changed his name to draw attention away from his immortality. Still can't seem to suppress the urge to be a skeptic though...
Wow he messes up the trick, no surprise there then. Randi always was a crap magician. Don't quit your day job!
I think he might have fucked up a bit, cutting the deck one short and instead of all black/ all red, the reds had one black card. Nice cover though, saying "one black card on top for cover and the rest red" lol Still an amazing magician and Amaz!ng Man!
Correct: He is Merlin. He's an immortal wizard that goes around debunking hacks (as a member of the secret Wizarding Police). Don't believe me? Look how old he is in other videos (taken in the mid-late 70s); HE HASN'T AGED!!!!! haha
@TheCoughlm @ImAleXD @pedrokobuti It wasn't a deck switch. Its much more likely it was a stripper deck.
Look it up for those that are interested. Don't want to ruin the trick for anyone here who just wants to appreciate some magic.
Cheers!
What a simply lovely human being.
So ehh... was this an actual trick that he did, a sort of 'Hey mister, do a trick' conjuring type of thing, or did he swap the deck or something out of view to show us something about assumptions and perceptions?
@fcukausername Well, if you're a genius like him: when he looks at how mixed up the cards are, he can know how to shuffle them to manipulate where the colors go. Or he could have done something else similar.
@RubenChacaturian - LOL I don't hate him, I hate the fact that James has so many insightful things to say that this is almost a waste of time. I didn't think about search bait before though, you might be right :)
You're refering to me about that ignore thing? Cause I saw it today for the first time(I don't check my inbox every day). don't understand why you got so angry about a comment on youtube thou.
Interesting to see what he does when he's not making a list and checkin' it twice to go and find out who's naughty and nice.
ANSWER TO TRICK: AT 1:19 HE SWITCHED DECKS UNDER THE CAMERA AND USED MISDIRECTION TO MAKE YOU FOCUS ON HER HAND...THAT SIMPLE
My dad would proclaim himself the worst magician ever. He had one magic trick. It was a slight-of-hand involving a small object, usually a coin. He had the one magic trick but he had so many variations on it that I never got tired of him pulling a nickel out of my ear, or out of my pocket, or dropping it out of his open mouth, or...
+Heather Watson The one trick with infinit variety? Damn your dad was God.
I'm quite flattered to be considered ignorant by someone who honestly believes that Houdini's illusions were made possible by psychic powers.
sensibility doesn't come through genetics.. it comes through parenting. we need better parents out there.
Et oui j'suppose que t'es pas pire à cause tu parles 7 languages de différentes sortes,mais j'sus pas rendue à ton niveau encore, ça fait juste deux âns que j'apprends et que j'étudie les langues
TAYEULE J'fais des érreurs sur les voyelles sandassin, jfais pas des erreurs à cause j'sais pas comment écrire, j'fais des érreurs à cause que j'alterne entre porto-espagnol-français-anglais
no? that is the most irrelevant anything that has ever been written by anyone who has somehow, and sadly so, developed the ability to write
@ImAleXD i don't think he did. The cameraman did a terrible job, but i'm sure Randi's trick works even if you keep your eyes on the deck.
@polancot1 If you are getting excited at the sight of a woman's hand then you need to turn off your computer and go talk to a real woman!
Close up card magic where the cards and the performer's hands leave the frame. I'm a huge Randi fan but find this pretty disappointing.
@kbplaya123 Omg! You've figured him out! It's indeed a trick, and not real witchcraft.
Google translate his Turkish one ( the 3rd one) it says Ha! I'm not fluent in seven languages. And yet make no spelling mistake.
is this some kind of parody on magic? it's barely magic if we don't get to see hes hands thru half of the video. is that the point?
Question is trees a memmory collector of activity that trees turn it to sand i heard that sand can be used and turn to computer-chip?
You're cool, you understand what google translate is. By the way, your friend google has incorrect structure and grammar.
I hate cards ... this old man should stick the cards on his face , and make himself look invisible ... That be magic ...
i'm sorry maybe i got it wrong, i don't understand what you mean, and is Mr Randi really gay? :D i didn't know that :O
Good trick, not filming your hands holding the cards half of the time
I got a great idea......why don't you put all the ads over the video at the end of it so we can't see any of the cards you're holding up?
Oh wait, you already did that.......
Im.god
Hi German here. Fluent in 3 Languages. And the German Sentence is wrong. Sry.. Google Translate doesn't cut it.
.... the camra wasent on the cards the whole time, u fail.... plus the angle sucked u cant en see... no offence
T'apprendras les vielles dialects du français et de toutes les langues basées sur le latin et là tu vas commencer à mélenger tes voyelles
Quack!
@kbplaya123 Wow! You must be a rocket scientist! Sorry, I couldn't contain my sarcasm.
its bullshit the camera doesnt show the cards and what hes doing with them at all time
Very impressive! He made a whole camera disappear!
I dont understand bragging about knowing 7 languages with google translate. Shouldn't it be 71 languages?
wtf is this guys area of expertise....one vid hes a skeptic another hes gay and now a magician im confused
Most comments R turned off. Why?
RANDY, IF U BELIEVE IN REVEALING THE TRUTH, WHY, AS A HOMOSEXUAL, DID U STAY IN THE CLOSET 4 SO LONG?
Tapered deck maybe? I don't know, all his handwork is off screen :/ Apparently just like his sex life.
@Audrion And if you could people would go on about people manipulating the cards with computer software.
I knew Santa was real! :O
I think even the most liberal adoption agency would hesitate to let James Randi adopt. Guy's like 84.
You cant even see the deck at all times... Magic trick 10/10, Performance 7/10, and Believably 0/10
His hands were hidden from the camera almost all along, they just could've given him a another deck of cards. Not really that impressive, I was waiting for something that could be more fascinating.
What a wonderful nice lovable person Tommy Cooper was compared to this person.
He faked magic for a living while Tommy Cooper was magic bless him.
I pray to Jesus that amazing Randi was saved in Christ john3:16 and his whole family tree and friends also and everyone on planet earth NASA international space station and those in stealthy leark mode space stations also
how do the atheists explain THIS without god? huh? yeah thats what i thought. God 1 Atheists 0
Well, he did have the cards below the screen, so we wouldn't know if he changed the cardstock
The only way he could do this that I can think of is by making the roadrunner cull. If that's the case, damn he's good!
I'm pretty sure your keyboard doesn't contain all those letters from different languages.
7 launguages, skill set a marine would want.. yet you waste your poor life on minecraft?
Read also about Arthur Conan Doyle's Cottingley Fairies case. This guy was very gullible.
"Hah! Ich bin fließend sieben Sprachen. Und doch, ich mache keine Rechtschreibfehler überhaupt."
Yeah, nice try, but that roughly translates to "Hah! I am liquid seven languages. And yet, I make at all no spelling mistakes."
@dude7709 Congratulations, your comment is on the front page of Reddit.
i second this notion, while wholeheartedly agreeing with the comment that preceded yours
Check his YT history, after five solid minutes of scrolling down; it's all Randi videos.
This Mogley52 guy really looks desperate. Flag for spam please.
IT'S A TRICK! Don't believe him! He's a witch!
I love you James Randi.
correction: I'm fluent in seven languages, and yet I don't make any spelling mistakes.