Sleight of hand eyes.

The, uh I'm sorry.

I'm influenced by Jackie Chan.

Sow e like to combine my martial arts skill with with card tricks.

Uh uh.

Let's talk about it.

Sleight of hand.

You've got You've got a deck of cards there.

Yeah, I'm never anywhere without them.

This is how I defend myself.

But they're actually, uh, there's so many variants of what you could do with side event.

So let me start by showing you, uh, some flourishing concept.

Can I get you to just touch your card, touch a card, any card?

Anyone?

Okay?

That guy right there.

The jack of spades?

Yes.

OK, so now let's try to do something kind of unusual with the jack of spades.

This would be considered a manipulative, manipulative.

So one card of 52?

Yes.

The jack of spades.

This is tough is an opener.

The jack of spades.

Watch this.

Oh, my God.

Look at that.

Well, on my way to the luckiest night of my life.

Incredible.

And is that something?

Well, I'm not going to ask you.

I'm not gonna ask you.

That's something I could learn, you know?

Don't ask me.

Okay?

I wanna ask you that.

Incredible.

What else do you have for us?

Well, I could tell you something in a different way.

Why don't you take care of this time that I don't see?

Maybe some people consider this more difficult.

Okay.

Can I show you?

Why don't you show that up to the audience?

Yeah.

Okay.

You look away.

We'll wait.

There's a monitor everywhere.

I don't know how I want you Close your eyes.

I hate that.

Okay, close your eyes right there.

You don't like having your eyes closed?

What, do you think you're gonna be attacked or something, dear?

We go right there.

You can all see that right there.

Okay, We've taken care of things.

Yes.

Now you have to put it back.

I mean, that is important.

Eso so let's see, There are a number of things to do from this particular position.

So you've selected a card somewhere in the deck, and this is a more surreal approach, I suppose thio the concept of sleight of hand because I'm gonna ask you questions, and I'm gonna try to learn things that I couldn't possibly know as a clue to finding your card s so, uh, I'm gonna try to spell things.

Uh, yeah.

Here's what I'm gonna ask you things that I couldn't know in advance If I ask you your name or where you lived I know.

So what do your favorite fish?

You know, where I live?

E you creep.

My favorite fish.

Your favorite fish.

I love swordfish.

Swordfish s W O R D fish F I s h swordfish.

There's no way that I could have known that.

Swordfish.

Some people say the pen is mightier than the sword.

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All right.

And what is the card?

Which you actually took?

The one.

Can you still remember?

It was a long time.

The can I say yes, please four of diamonds, diamonds F Oh, yeah.

For u r o f d i a m o N d s the four of diamonds, Theo.

Only thing I know is you're a little slow on your spelling sometime on.

For a man your age, it's actually shocking.

You had trouble with fish, and I had that scared me.

All right, let's Z I wanna kick things up, and I'm I'm taking this from emerald, but I wanna knock things up a notch.

How so?

What's cook?

No, Uh, no.

I want to take it to the next level.

You can use cards.

I've heard that you can use cards almost as a weapon.

I wrote a book called Cards Weapons.

Well, there you go.

That's probably where I got the idea.

That's a martial arts device like the Sure again.

Yeah.

It's a martial arts device.

So this is something that Jackie Chan could learn something from.

I can't imagine that's the case, but I'd love for him to watch your Let's see this.

Tell me what you dio.

Can I walk over to the table over here?

No.

Yes, of course.

Thank you.

Where do I go?

Do I stay here?

I don't know.

Many of you know that I throw cords further and further than anyone in the world.

Thank you very much.

I'd like to do a brief demonstration of that.

Perhaps, you know, you'll understand that if I was going out of your head, I'm gonna get you.

Look at that.

He's blocking him.

That's a e.

Thank you.

Are you all right?

Okay.

I was frightened for you, Jackie, but I know what you're saying.

Sure.

This man could throw cards with incredible speed and kill inaccuracy.

But can he throw a card and have that card returned to his hand?

A simulacrum of the Australian Boomerang e know what you're saying?

Sure.

This man could throw cards and have them return to his hand.

A simulacrum of the Australian boomerang.

Can he defend himself against fruit?

Yeah.

Ladies and gentlemen, I will not waste your time with kumquats, pairs or prunes.

No, no, no.

The most prodigious of household fruits His Majesty the watermelon I'll attempt to penetrate the rich red interior of said Mel it with a few perfectly placed tosses from the ordinary pack.

Watch me work.

Yes, Yes, yes, yes, yes!

Yes.

Why is he still doing this?

Yes, Yes, yes.

E Think you give it?

Yes.

Ladies and gentlemen, please notice this.

My last two shots have landed in exactly the same slid in the watermelon.

Ah, feet so impressive.

I am forced to mention it myself.

E understand?

I could continue to throw coins in the same split in the melon all night long.

But it's too much fun for the Mellon.

Yeah, I know what you're saying.

You're saying?

Sure.

This makes it requires into the rich red interior of said melon.

Can he penetrate the even thicker Paki Derm?

Mattis Outer melon lair?

Yes.

No.

Who the hell to do that?

But encouraged by your approbation, I will attempt to penetrate the thicker peculiar Mattis outer melon lair.

This scares the melon.

Yeah, Yeah.

This'll wounds the melon.

Yeah, very nice work.

Thank you.

I should mention on the stem is now playing at the second stage theater right here in New York City.

Fantastic show.

People love this show.

Four more weeks.

We just added, and I'd love for people to come.

You're out of breath fighting a watermelon.

I think it was from that moment when you jump down and attack.

Yeah.

You also have a book out, Uh, one of your many books, but this This is the latest next week.

Yes, Dice, deception, fate and rotten luck appears in bookstores next week.

A real thrill having you here.

Thank you very much.

Less.

Ricky Jay.

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We'll be right back.