RICK LAX on FOOL US

My name is Rick Locke and I invent magic t

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, it probably didn't occur to them. I did it every day. I just go to coffee shops and invent new magic tricks. I'm a bit of a spectacle because everyone else is drinking coffee and I'm making flowers disappear. Eight years ago I graduated from law school and then went through bar school and drove to Las Vegas to write a book on deception and I just lost count. of time and here I am still. I was so close to being a lawyer.

I've spent so many years behind the camera coming up with tricks for other magicians and now is my chance to get in front of the camera and see what I can do, but depending on how he goes about tricking us, I could go back to the law. This next gentleman is a Renaissance man. I don't know if that means he has simple chapel ceilings like Michelangelo or he's an awesome Ninja Turtle like Raphael. Let's find out while Meet Rick lakhs, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage, Mr. your Penn & Teller, come on guys, I'm about to make a shuffled deck of cards magically appear inside mr.

Penn Jillette and this is going to happen right now Penn reaches in and pulls it out. I have a shuffled deck I'll take, so I'll take it, thanks. I'm going to shuffle the cards quickly and while I'm doing it, I'm going to let I ask you before I put the cards in your pocket, did you shuffle them too? Yes, I did well. Brilliant. I'm going to check the cards right now. I'm going to get those 12 out and when I do, oh boy, is it boring? I couldn't. be more boring, so I thought while this was going on one of us should entertain the audience by reciting a nice long poem, we'll get someone else to do it, ah, quill, is there any poem you like?

Well, there are some. I see the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness do you want to howl or do you want the perspective not to be bright what did it look like it was really an inch for the model night a score was 42 with Bunin aiming more to play and when Cooney died at first and Barrows did the same. A tragic silence fell on the game's sponsors. Some stragglers got up to leave and a deep despair, the rest clung to the hope that springs eternal in the human chest, they thought that if only Casey could get a better hit, now we put even money with Casey at bat, receive these cases matter in the step towards the place where pride in Casey's bearing is in a smile on Casey's face and when he responded to the crowd, Casey slightly tipped his hat, no stranger in the crowd could doubt that Casey at bat I told him.

You can see that I drew six black cards and six red cards. I'll ask you to wash those cards Vegas style, just shuffle them and when I'm done I'll look at the cards and try to memorize the order real quick and then after memorizing the order I'll try to separate them into two piles, one with red cards and one with cards. black, let's see if I can do it, so if I did it right, we should have all the red cards on one side and all the black cards on the other side, let's see, no, no, wait, wait, wait, no, no, I see .

I know it's nice, it's kind, but I can't accept so much applause for a mediocre display of memory, it's an insult. I'm going to

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them. I can't just do something that's difficult. I have to do something that is impossible. So I'm going to do the same thing again, but this time I'm going to do it with more cards and I'm going to memorize. the cards while I recite the poem and then I will do something impossible that looks like this where was my tea box? Yes, in the back, that's right. $10,000 for him while you rub hands with Dirk.

Five thousand tongues applauded as he cleaned it. in a T-shirt and as the squirming pitcher slammed the ball against his hip, a sneer gleamed in Casey's eyes. He curved Casey's left and now the leather-covered sphere is thrown through the air and Casey stared at a haughty grandeur. there near the sturdy batter the ball Keaton accelerated that in my style said Casey strike one the umpire said he begged him and when he signaled to the pitcher and again the guns flew out of fear and Casey stood looking and the umpire said it's true , so, so I have these cards memorized you can see there are about 19 of them maybe 21 there are 21 I'm counting ah and tell him that with your help I'm going to change the order of these cards so I can divide them into three piles of four piles five piles How many piles?

Close, but the cards are divided into five piles. So I'm going to try to get about a fifth of the cards here, that's stack number one, two, three, four and I got five and another four and five, so now I just have to keep count. which stack is which would have been easier if you had chosen three stacks five makes it harder now I'm going to put them back together in any order you want so if you point to a stack we'll put it in my hand go ahead and now Penn, uh, a number up to 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 cut them all the way down tell a number 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 so things are pretty simple from this point on all I have What to do is remember the order the cards were in remember how we changed the order trace each of the cards and then divide them into red and black piles as we conclude the poem hit two hit two I will continue from there the frog shouted the mad thousands in the echo They answered fraud but a disdainful look from Casey and the audience was amazed they saw his face turn cold and stern they saw his muscles tense and they knew that Casey would not let the ball pass again the smiles fled from Casey's lips his teeth are clenched with hatred , he hits his bat with cruel violence against the plate and now the pitcher holds the ball, now he releases it and now the air is destroyed by the force of Casey's blow.

Oh, somewhere in this favored land, the stars shine brightly. the band is playing somewhere and somewhere the hearts are light and somewhere the men laugh and somewhere the children scream but there is no joy in Mudville the mighty Casey has hit sit down now they're going to give too much to be here on stage because I think everyone who comes out is brave, but normally you've been behind the scenes, that's true, I usually create tricks for other magicians, so this is a very new experience for me, coming here and performing for each one. I think it shows you the enormous amount of college experience. that's here because we can get it because coming out here there's a certain bravery and maybe a certain

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ishness is what I don't know, I don't know, the appearance of the cashier, it's always hard to know what the cashier looks like, but he looks a little surprising mm - hmm, okay, let's move on to the impending thank you and not only that, it was a very, very flattering routine, uh, you know, take the bat case that we did on Broadway and on Broadway we were very flattered that you used everything. these Penn & Teller minutiae, all this trivia to make your performance so good.

I love it, I love the nervous, crazy energy. You have a little nervousness when you sell. This gives us a lot of information about it and we also take a couple of cards from the table and the cards could somehow be manipulated so you can figure out which one goes which direction all of that would be true if you hadn't tricked us but vaccinated the guys while you knit this down there you go where this is the year you fold them, you don't just leave, congratulations