The Trick That Left Brian Speechless
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This episode of Scam School was made by:
Brian Brushwood
Brandt Hughes
Bryce Castillo
Roberto Villegas
Jeff Schuessler
Shot on location at Rusty Cannon Pub in Austin, TX 
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To this day "If someone hands you a brick of gold, you say, "Thank you I've been expecting this." " Is a phrase I live by.
6:28 - "If somebody hands you a brick of gold, you say, 'Thank you, I've been expecting this.'"
This was the absolute BEST reaction in all of Scam School. Brian's reaction at the best coincidence ever was absolutely priceless.
Petition to have a new series called Scam School: Deceive Brian
or Brian Brushwood : Deceive Me
Kusane Hexaku thats actually a way better title
That's bc it's a copy of "Penn and Teller: Fool Us" a show on mainstream tv that Brian was on.
King Kasper oh wow i DiD nOt kNoW tHAt
hahahahahaha i totally read that last part in oldschool Bobcat Goldthwait's voice hahahahahaha
I just wish I could have held it together when I did something like that. I accidentally got the right card once but I lost my MIND!
I accidentally did something like this, wasn't even supposed to be a magic trick. I just finished eating at a Chinese buffet with my girlfriend at the time. When we got the fortune cookies, I took them both, put one in each hand, and held my hands under the table. I made a big deal out of making her pick a hand, then another big deal out of if she wanted to trade fortunes. I wasn't even trying to do anything, I was just being silly and making a big deal out of something stupid. We both broke open our fortunes, and I when I read mine out loud, she said "No way." And when she showed me her fortune, it was the exact same as mine.
It was just coincidence, and I really wish I played it off like I knew that was going to happen. But I was too busy laughing my ass off
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@@AverageFlamethrower
I did something similar once. We make it a game to guess the other person's lucky numbers. She had already read her fortune though, and so I knew she had the same one I did. when It came time to guess her numbers, I got 100 percent of therm.
She was amazed.
My dad once amazed my entire extended family by doing insane card tricks all night, we were all in disbelief as we'd never seen him do any before. The trick was, there was a huge mirror on the wall in a frame behind the dinner table and none of us realised the whole time. It was hilarious. He went full out, like saying what card we had, without even looking at the cards and stuff like that. I always think about that.
Lol it wasn't really a coincidence....... the trick is called ACAAN, Any card at any number, their are several methods to pull your card at any number. But hes not just gona give a gem like th as t to laymen
That he turned exactly to that random card is amazing, but that it happened to be the one time it was on camera like this is true magic!
the chances against him are astronomical, he just wanted to show his trick and keep the explanation to himself, if you want my take i think he got the target card on top of the deck before he started counting and then when he starts counting the cards he uses sleight of hand to deal the second card from the top each time, instead of the top card.
that implies he was able to basically unshuffle the deck after getting it back to get that card to the top.
2vain4u, astronomical? You mean 1/52. There's a 1 in 52 chance almost a full 2%, that any random card you choose will be the one, even less than that when you consider people are very much more likely to choose cards towards, but not quite in, the middle.
In fact, if you perform this trick 52 times, or even just randomly pick a card, you have about a 2/3 chance of having done this. Like Brian says, there are so many times in magic when people say "Of course it's not your card. But that would have been a great trick, wouldn't it?!"
@Robert Szafarczyk No need for a duplicate. Without saying too much, he is forcing the card and there are a number of ways to prepare a card to be able to find it instantly in a deck, and then be able to move it to a where you need it (there are camera cuts so you don't see him doing anything).
He's giving a false explanation of it being a coincidence (false explanations are a common presentation in magic). Other than the force, his "random coincidence" has no relation to the trick he actually taught. If it was a lucky coincidence, the force was completey unnecessary and what he did would be a strange lead in (considering it would almost certainly fail) to teaching the Cut Deeper force.
Except the force was related to his pre-prepared pin. The original trick was going to be exactly as his second demo, except instead of the top card not being the 5 of clubs when turned over it would have been card 32 turned over not being the 5 of clubs and him saying, 'i never said that would be your card' then go into the build to the pin reveal.
I know the feeling of getting lucky like that and oh man does it feel good. Once one of my friends was performing a card trick at a table for a couple of us, and he was like "name a card" (i later found out that it was completely unrelated to the trick) and then flipped over a random card in the deck for the whole "that would have been a good trick" and I jokingly said "Yeah, but what would be an even better trick? If this was it" and I flipped over the next card in the deck and it was the named card and I have to say the genuine shock on his face was priceless. I think he was convinced it was black magic for a second ahaha
Reminds me of the Penn&Teller April Fool’s episode where the “magician”s volunteer was the real magician every time
"DARK MAGIC!" Wish someone would exclaim that whenever I pulled off a wicked trick. More practice I guess.
ShadowStryker88 Pull off a good ACAAN in front of a magician and they will.
ShadowStryker88 Get someone in the crowd to yell "dark magic!" Have an inside man lol. You might be subsequently burnt at the stake, but at least it'll be fun!
I like the trick but honestly nothing can look good after that amazing start
I saw the force...but the reveal got me
That first reveal... Top Notch.
I feel so proud I caught the force on the first trick, all these years of scamschool and finally getting a passing grade
You didn't see the force, you knew the force, since there isn't any sleight of hand to it
But what we didnt see is us looking at his crotch twice lmao
i got the force too, it was pretty easy to catch that, but the reveal... oh boy
You spoofed.
The Max Headroom. Channel intrusion.
For this ad.
I'm on the floor of my office laughing uncontrollably.
Good job!
I'm sorry what? I was just super confused about the ad
@@kutsen39 They parodied this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
The double crotch reveal was perfect, and the badge is 10/10!
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8:46 You’re welcome.
Brian: "You're lying. You're LYING - Shifu didn't teach you that!" Me: "No. I figured it out"
Tzisorey Tigerwuf nice
SKADOOSH!
Holy crap! An episode that's more than 8 minutes long? How long has it been, welcome back Brian!
I knew the force and when it came to the reveal i was like wait theirs no way he's that good at second dealing it must be something else... Even after that was the case I still didn't believe it. *Round of applause*
You know your image is a part of a magician's trick for America's Got Talent
I had that happen before. I had my uncle shuffle the cards and I was going to jokingly pretend I made the card come to the top without doing anything, but it was the correct card. Everyone looked at me so shocked because nobody could think how I did that. My favorite moments in magic are when the joke reveal ends up being the real one. If you can keep your cool, those moments can make the best reactions. And that's also why a magician should never say what they are going to do before they do it. The trick could end better and sooner than you thought
And it allows for the originally intended effect to still be played out later on too!
Possibly my favorite Scam School video of all time.
1:09 "I love your hair". Very random but very honest and definitely with deeper meaning.
This is without doubt my favorite episode... Watched it four times... And I still grin my ass off several times watching it.
I literally come back to this video like once every 3 weeks because luck or not it’s just the perfect fucking trick. If someone could pull it off, it’s just so fast and impossible and absolutely perfect.
dude same, i just spent like 45 minutes searching for this video. I saved it so now I can never lose it lol
im so glad you guys do these videos, they are just fun
I did this the other night and had the exact same coincidence happen. I even got myself for a second. LOL
Brilliant. So funny. 😂 The look on your face Brian is priceless.
I absolutely love your videos. Keep them coming Brian.
I always pause the videos after the trick is performed to try and see if I can work through it and solve it myself. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure it out... I'm glad I finally gave up and heard how it was done!!! Haha also was happy though to see the real trick performed. Alex is so good!
Just did this for family, but made it printed on my chest instead. So much fun. Thanks for the lesson!
I enjoy watching Brian's head explode... It never gets old! Great job Alex! 😎
This has to be my favorite eposide. Like. Ever!
Brian Brushwood's "Fool Me!"
In fact ... imagine THIS happening on Pen and Teller. Sure win because they would also immeadiately jump to technical ideas instead of sheer luck. :D
YouTubsel actually funny enough, this one guy who went on Penn and Teller practiced one specific trick his entire life, literally, and Penn and Teller called him out on being that good and sure enough they were right. So he ended up not fooling them
I doubt it.
This was literally the first force I ever learned to do because I didn’t have the manual dexterity to do anything too crazy. It’s nice to see it come back in a new trick.
For me, this video only boosts Brian's magic-credibility.
"I just got fooled on my own goddamned show."...
I submit to you all that it is a testament to Brian's supreme level of expertise that this trick (at least the "version" we see inside of the first four minutes, anyhow) is "the one" that left him speechless, because-- no different from Penn & Teller, who famously defy you to fool them-- he's simply seen/performed *so many* card tricks in his career that he can easily spot known trick components/techniques (such as forces, false deals, patter that deliberately misdirects, etc) along the way as they're happening...
Considering only that 1) the VERY lucky, random "32" deal that miraculously produced the participants' chosen card left Brian completely dumbfounded, and 2) he could "tell by the look in his eyes" that the trick was successful due 100% to luck & coincidence is because Brian, the loveable goofball-barfly with your trick-of-the-week, is a legit & top-notch professional with a mind every bit as sharp as some printed, magician's almanac.
Summarily/"tl;dr": this trick (once again: specifically the *lucky* one that transpired in the first four minutes) had NO right to work, hence it triggered all sorts of confusion in Shwood because it flew in the face of all his wisdom, and *that* is how we can tell Brian is quite legitimately a professional and an expert, and-- I further submit-- he is therefore one of our all-time living greats.
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I just felt compelled to finally recognize & give kudos here to Brian Brushwood after all the countless Scam School/-Nation hours I've ingested ungratefully in silence, as he is (clearly to me anyhow) the unsung hero of this video. And no, I'm not some relative/paid sponsor or anything. :)
~JM
[Disclaimor/post-script: Not that I'm proud, but-- much like this show-- the length & intensity of this post was fueled greatly by alcohol, and I suppose I was feeling apologetic for some reason, and hereby shall that be known to posterity].
I never would have expected someone to use a Max Headroom reference for their ad. Bravo. You sure as hell got me to watch it.
One of the best card tricks I've seen on Scam Nation.
best scam school episode, ever.
So I grabbed a deck of shuffled cards just to look at the mechanics of cutting and then cutting deeper and when I cut deeper...it was the 5 of clubs. No joke! The coincidence is strong with this one.
SimplyPaul whoa!
Loved that the camera happens to catch him with the card hidden in his hand right before he supposedly grabs the right one, you can even hear the card flick as he moves it into the right position
Wow, that is so amazing how well Alex played it off when it was actually the card! I was so mind blown, I had no idea it wasn’t supposed to happen like that! Great trick!
I perform this at every show and have had two times where the counted down to card did match in the last three years. It does happen. There are so many different kinds of reveals you can end this with, but this illusion always amazes.
This force was so good, I think I might cry!
I got completely fucking fooled with the first trick ... i thought he used like some master card force or some shit and then he says it was a coincidence...😂😂😂😂
I love the fact that the original show of this trick here managed to just by coincidence to get the right card at the right location!
I did this trick last week. Second performance managed to get their card by coincidence, didn't need to do the back up reveal.LMAO Super satisfying.
I'm pleased that I was able to pick out the two important bits! I knew it had to be important to show it twice. And then the force, I immediately thought, "but that's the same card!" But it's a great trick!
This chann just keeps getting better,Thanks Brian....sooo cool...
I once did something that worked that probably shouldn't have. I did the trick where you get them to think of a card and just repeat black, red, black, red then do the suit and so on. You look for when they blink, now obviously this is highly unlikely to work...but it did....once....still remember the card was 7 of hearts....
That double shuffle increases the craziness of the result 100 times! Brilliant trick!
I come back to this video sometimes just to see Brian's flabbergasted face
I like the headroom broadcast themed ad, Brian, it was very nice!
That was great :D I love how he did the Penn and Teller method of doing it twice, like the Cups and balls they do.
cheers! this was both the badassest scam school, and domain. com ad, ever.
I've been performing for over 50 years, with cards being my specialty. I'd guess I've correctly gotten a spectator's card by accident maybe 10 or 12 times in my career, and it's reputation making when it happens.
Terrific episode!
You guys rock!
I've been practising these great tricks during lockdown and today I performed this trick for my nephew's birthday. I have absolutely no previous experience and to my absolute delight exactly the same thing happened, before the actual reveal I got him to choose a number, counted through the pack and there it was, the card he had picked. Legendary status engaged 😂
Put a shrinky dink on my dink. Makes sense
Chris Robertson send photos
I didn't understand how does the shuffle didn't get card away from it's actual position.
I think this is the golden scam school. The best of the best.
Amazing episode
I just tried this on my wife. It happened just like the gag on here. She picked 36 AND IT WAS HER CARD!!!
I do a version of the first part where it's "pick a card. Any card as long as it's the jack of clubs" and when it fails I go, "one day that's gonna work" and then just use their chosen card for the next trick. I nailed it once and the SPECTATOR went "yeah, so what? It's the jack of clubs"...I wasted my one time of it probably ever working on someone who didn't understand the magnitude of what just happened... LOL
Rvezz28 Bet he knew how to spell SPECTATOR though.
oh jeez, that's not even a typo. That's a completely different word.
Rvezz28 😂 Just blame it on predictive text 😉
That's what we call "too perfect." You see, there comes a point in magic where when a trick is "too perfect" it often times gets discounted. The audience needs some little bit of reality to hold onto... for them to be amazed. They're amazed when your hand is faster than their eye, or when you've somehow pulled a crazy card assembly together. But... when there is no chance for sleight of hand, and no chance for any "funny business" you're essentially shutting them down... because the REALITY of it is that you'd truly have to be possessed by spirits (for real). Most people are okay believing that when it's part of a routine or patter... but they don't actually want to believe that someone possessed by spirits is standing right next to them. It's creepy and it's not fun at all. Since there is nothing for them to guess, nothing that they missed, and no perceived "skill" involved... it's dismissed. The only way for a trick like that to work, is if it's intermixed into a larger routine of more traditional card handling... so they get the impression that you're simply a master manipulator and also know them well enough to figure out what they're most likely thinking. I'm guessing when you showed this, and it worked, it wasn't part of a larger or more complex routine, and that it was simply "too perfect."
Wow that was amazing!
I.....need....more....scamschool
making Brian speechless, DAMN SON! lol
WIZARD POWWWEERRRSSS!!!
legit, one of the best card tricks I've seen in a long time!
I like this a lot, it's simple, it's funny, it's got a lot to teach. It's impact is directly related to one's timing and participant selection, but also it reminds me of the Max Malini quote. Malini was know to produce a brick from under his hat, when asked by magicians how he did it he said "First you put a brick in your hat and then you wait." They asked how long and he said "some times I wait a week." You put the pin on and then you wait for the right audience and moment and that can take some time.
legitimately awesome
Now that's an episode!!!....
I had a moment like that once in a bar, my mind was self blown but i completely owned it in front of the audience then i told my friend later and highfived
that gag when he did the ok hand i died and cryed of laughter
I love the Max Headroom-esque commercial.
Love you Brian!! 😂
That 5 of clubs is realllllllly hard to see on the hand
That sponsor ad was a great reference
Gifts like that are true treasures and when that happens take it and run with it. That was fantastic!!!! I had the same look on my face when he made the first reveal. I also was like, "wait! ... how the F*** did he just do that..."
brian getting fooled his face was gold
Erwin Broekhoven solid gold.
I had to watch it again because I was so fooled the first time, but when he counted 32 cards it really was just an INSANE coincidence that it was his card. That only happens like once in a lifetime lol.
You guys have been going in on the Max Headroom references.
I saw how he got them to just choose the top card while thinking it was random, but I didn’t see how he did the second part with the random number
Edit: Ok well never mind 😂
5:52
Dude that was my reaction 😂
where is the answer?
@@guilhermecalheiros73 it wasn't suppose to appear at 32, it was pure coincidence, its suppose to be "Oh you would think this is a great trick?" and proceed to do whatever your ways to reveal their chosen card.
Lmao sooo many people really think he got lucky and it was a coincidence. The trick us called ACAAN.
“I just got fooled on my own goddamn show”😂😂😂😂😂
Dude! Love your Show!
I feel like the mark of true expertise in any field is not when you can tell what's possible, or when you can tell what someone's doing, but when you can look at something and _correctly_ tell that it _isn't_ possible. As they say, "Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge." And, "The usefulness of a model is not what it can explain, but what it can't."
Legend.
brilliant !
I have my entire class convinced that I am the patron saint of card magic because of a moment like this. Just do enough tricks with a random card and it will happen eventually.
Dope man
these ad breaks are fucking awesome. on here and on modern rogue. especially the outtakes of them
Are y'all going to sell that point again? I really want it!!
I came back here to watch Brian be happy. I know he is in a bit of a tough position right now, so I just wanted to go back here.
Love it.
I have been doing a card trick for years that works everytime without fail but, I have no idea how it works. I have broken it down but I cannot for the life of me figure out exactly how the card gets to where it is supposed to be everytime.
Maybe magic is real?🤔
😂😂
50th viewer, new record for me, great videos keep it up!
Mean things!
I truly love how just by looking him in the eye Brian could tell that it was pure chance.
Bryan has 100% had that happen to him 100 times 😂
Holy shit. That was fucking great. I'm commenting before the explanation. Lol
Awesome trick is there a place online to buy the pin ?
He just made a masterpiece for all the world's greatest news nerds
"I just got fooled on my own goddamn show"
Penn and Teller have a show specifically TO get fooled! You were on it!!
:-)
So much force!!! What's funny is that that card probably wasn't 32 cards deep.
I was hoping so badly that this wasn’t just a coincidence
that 2 time tricked make my day legit XD
The only downside that everyone may have noticed is that counting down can be slow and boring. When dude said 32, the boring moment made the reveal that much better because it was accidentally the right card.