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  • -Jimmy, tonight we are going to --

  • -How did you know my name is Jimmy?

  • -Tonight, we're going to attempt to find order in chaos.

  • -Order in chaos. -Love it.

  • -This deck of cards represents chaos, okay?

  • These cue cards represent order.

  • Quest, what I need you to do, if you wouldn't mind,

  • just hold on to those cue cards, and whenever I point to you,

  • I just want you to return to the next card.

  • -Okay. -That's all you got to.

  • And, Jimmy, all you got to do is just read whatever

  • the cue card says, okay? -I'm good with that, yep.

  • -So, like I mentioned, this deck of cards represents chaos,

  • and we're going to make it chaotic by...

  • shuffling the cards.

  • -That's talent. -Shuffling the cards. Yeah.

  • Those cards have been shuffled,

  • and I want you to see how they've been shuffled.

  • And I'm gonna spread them out so you can see

  • that they indeed have been shuffled together.

  • -Beautiful. -I'm gonna push these together.

  • And, Jimmy, if you wouldn't mind,

  • push them together with me, push them together.

  • Very good. Perfect. -Is that good?

  • -Perfect. Nice. Very good.

  • Now, whenever you shuffle a deck of cards,

  • it creates a unique sequence that has never --

  • probably never happened before in the history of mankind.

  • Seriously. The amount of combinations is 52 factorial,

  • which is -- Quest, turn over the next one.

  • -Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  • That number actually equals -- Turn it over.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Okay. There we go.

  • 8 with 67 digits, but we're going to make

  • an even bigger number than that tonight here together, okay?

  • And the way we're gonna do that

  • is by shuffling the deck in a really kind of unique way.

  • I'm gonna split it into three piles.

  • Now, again, remember, the next thing we have to do is...?

  • -Shuffle. -Exactly. Okay.

  • Shuffle the cards. -These cards are great.

  • -We've got three piles here, Jimmy.

  • I want you to point to two piles.

  • Whatever two piles you point to,

  • we're going to shuffle together, okay?

  • -Uhh, that, that!

  • -Those two? Those two. -Yes! Those are the ones.

  • -Jimmy. Watch this. -The secret ones.

  • The ones you didn't want me to do.

  • -We're going to mix these together.

  • Jimmy, I want you to do this with me.

  • Do this with me. Very nice and gently.

  • Push those together. Very good. Those have been shuffled.

  • That's fair, okay? But we're gonna take it further.

  • Again, we need to make a bigger number.

  • So, to do that, we're going to change the order a little bit.

  • And to change the order, we're going to turn

  • some cards faceup and some cards facedown.

  • Jimmy, which packet do you want to turn faceup?

  • Your choice. -That one. I don't really care.

  • -These? -Yeah, just for fun.

  • -Okay, we're gonna turn this. It's your choice.

  • This is your choice. -I'm very happy.

  • -Again, we're gonna mix these cards.

  • Faceup into facedown.

  • Mixing them. -There we go.

  • -Do you want to do that? Do you feel comfortable with that?

  • -No, I like you're doing it. I think it's good.

  • -These cards are mixed faceup into facedown,

  • creating a really random, really...

  • -Chaotic, chaotic order. -...chaotic mess.

  • But we're gonna make it a little bit more chaotic.

  • So, here's what I need you to do.

  • I want you to, with both hands, lift off about half the pack.

  • Lift off about half the -- Yeah, perfect.

  • Lift off about half. -Mm-hmm.

  • -Great. About half. You got all of them?

  • You got all of them there? -Is that more than half?

  • -No, that's about half. Make sure you got them.

  • I want you to put them right there. Perfect.

  • Okay, so, you've actually got more than half, but that's okay.

  • That's okay. Put them down. Put them down.

  • It's okay. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine.

  • -Nitpicker, nitpicking. Yeah.

  • -To make it a little bit more even, though,

  • I want you to lift off some cards from your packet

  • just like this, just like you did before.

  • -Yep. -With both hands. Good.

  • Now I want you to turn them over.

  • -Mm-hmm. -Good.

  • Now I want you to put those on top of mine.

  • -Mm-hmm.

  • -And I'm gonna put mine on top of yours. Okay?

  • So, we're actually gonna mix these two piles together.

  • But before we do that, one more choice --

  • which one do you want to turn faceup?

  • Which one do you want to turn facedown?

  • It's your choice. Think about it.

  • -Uh, lucky number 9. I think flip that upside down.

  • -Flip this packet. -Right.

  • And then mix that that way. -Okay, I'm gonna mix those

  • into each other, faceup into facedown,

  • creating, again, a really, really random, nasty mix.

  • Now, it would be fair to say through all those shuffles,

  • through all of your choices that what you did there

  • was you created a bit of chaos, right?

  • -That's correct.

  • -Put your hand on top of that deck.

  • And it would also be fair to say that there's no way

  • I could know the order of those cards

  • or which cards are faceup, which card -- Right?

  • That would be fair to say? You did all of that.

  • -Yeah, this is why I love magic.

  • Yeah, of course, not. Of course not.

  • Of course, there would be no way you would know the order

  • to what I just did and switched it all around,

  • and they were flip-flopped.

  • There was no way that you did in something is under my hand.

  • And gosh darn it. I'm gonna freak out.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Freak out right now. I'm gonna freak out.

  • -But what if I told you that actually Quest

  • had all of the answers here?

  • [ Laughter ]

  • -What's up, man? -Quest, turn over the next card.

  • Turn over the next card.

  • "17 cards will be facedown."

  • Jimmy, lift up your hand.

  • We're gonna spread these cards out.

  • And I want you to count with me. Count with me.

  • -Okay? Here we go. -Yep.

  • -1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

  • 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11...

  • 12, 13, 14...

  • 15, 16, 17.

  • [ Cheers and applause ]

  • ♪♪

  • -[ Laughs ]

  • See? This is me.

  • I would be happy with that,

  • and I would leave and go, "You're the best magician."

  • But yet, there's something else. Something else is gonna happen.

  • You're holding more cards.

  • -Quest still has some more answers.

  • Next one, please. -I do?

  • [ Laughter ]

  • -12...

  • -"...of the facedown cards will be black."

  • -12 of the facedown cards. Count with me, Jimmy.

  • Every time you see a black card, I want you to count it. Ready?

  • -1, 2, 3...

  • 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11...

  • -12 black cards.

  • [ Cheers and applause ]

  • ♪♪

  • But there's more, Jimmy. There's more.

  • Quest, turn over the next card. Turn over the next card.

  • "6 of those black cards will be spades."

  • 6 of them spades. Again, count with me. Ready?

  • -1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

  • -6. 6 spades. -6 spades.

  • [ Cheers and applause ]

  • ♪♪

  • -But there's more. There's more.

  • Again, remember, you shuffled those cards.

  • You mixed them up. You made all of the choices.

  • If you had chosen to do one thing differently, it would

  • have changed all of this. -I know! I know!

  • -One more card.

  • -"All of the red cards will be hearts."

  • -Jimmy, spread them out. -Oh, no!

  • I just looked at them now. I didn't realize this.

  • Look at this. They're all -- No. Oh. Sorry, Dan.

  • -Well.

  • -O-kay.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I mean, that's still pretty impressive, right?

  • I mean, that's --

  • -It's fairly impressive. Yeah.

  • -I got a whole deck! -The whole deck, yeah.

  • -But wait, wait, wait. There's one card left.

  • We got everything right except for the 3 of diamonds.

  • Quest...

  • [ Laughter ]

  • -It's not going to explode or anything, right?

  • -Instagram. Instagram.

  • Uh, Jimmy, you got your phone on you.

  • -Yes. -Can you go to Instagram

  • to my page, @DanWhiteMagic?

  • You can do this at home. If you're at home, check it out.

  • My Instagram, @DanWhiteMagic, pull it up.

  • Again, Quest, you know, a few weeks ago,

  • you and I were together.

  • We were actually at the Eleven Madison Park party,

  • and we took a picture together at like 4:00 a.m.

  • -No, man! No, man! -This was weeks ago!

  • -No! -This was weeks ago!

  • -No! No! No!

  • -It was June 12th, to be exact.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • -No, I know you were at the Eleven Madison Park party.

  • -Jimmy, go a few lines down, a few lines down.

  • It's me and Quest. -I see you and Questlove, yeah.

  • I see the photo of you. -We got everything right

  • except for the 3 of diamonds on my T-shirt.

  • -Oh, yo! -Show that to the camera.

  • -Yo.

  • His T-shirt says "Except the 3 of diamonds."

  • [ Cheers and applause ]

  • ♪♪

  • -No! Wait! Wait, wait, guys! Come back over here!

  • Come back over here! -What?!

  • -Come back over here! Come back!

  • -Wait! Wait! -We posted that. We posted that.

  • -Is that why y'all were laughing at me?

  • -No, I wasn't laughing at you ever.

  • -You guys were laughing like...

  • -We didn't set that up, though, right?

  • -No! -No. Exactly. So, look.

  • On that day -- I posted this on June 12th.

  • Let's pull the date up there. June 12th.

  • I posted that on June 12th.

  • Remember, we did all these things.

  • This all seemed really random, but nothing is really random

  • because through this whole thing,

  • we got a 6 spades, right? -Yes.

  • -And 12 black. -Uh-huh.

  • -And 17 facedown.

  • 6/12/17.

  • June 12th, 2017.

  • The exact date that we posted that together.

  • Altogether. Completely random.

  • -[ Laughs ]

  • Dan White, everybody!

  • How the heck do you do this, man?

  • For tickets to "The Magician," visit NoMadUpstairs.com.

-Jimmy, tonight we are going to --

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