00:00I'm going to count to three. I want you to tell everybody the friend that you're thinking
00:15of and their reaction will tell you if I got it right or not. One, two, three.
00:19I am a psychological illusionist. I mix modern magic with traditional psychology
00:35and when I fuse the two, I try to give the illusion that I read minds. I'm doing it right now.
00:49Put your hand on your head. Gently do that. Put your hand on your head. Put your hand
01:10on your chest. Gently do that for me. And now put your hand on your wrist. Gently do
01:15that for me. A lot of people would end up putting their hand on their elbow because I put it on my
01:21elbow. But I say put your hand on your wrist. And they've seen me put my hand on my head and
01:25my hand on my chest. So they just sort of follow along. If I ask people to think of a number between
01:32one and ten, a lot of people automatically end up thinking of the number seven. And the reason
01:37that would happen is because I go think of a number between one and ten and I literally flash
01:42the number seven to them when I do that. The most obvious thing that 95% of the people in
01:58the world would do is this. Or this. Just a hand to some part of the face. So you sort of swallow
02:07your own spit. So you look out for that sort of Adam's apple moving. So if you see someone do that,
02:14either they're very nervous about something or they've just told you a lie.
02:18Because you're nervous, your breathing will be heavier. So if you see them,
02:24the shoulders just going up and down, you know they're nervous about something or they've just
02:28exercised. I wanted attention from somewhere. Trying to get attention because I thought
02:39people who play sports get a lot of attention in school. So I tried to play football, didn't work
02:44out. I tried to play a bunch of instruments, didn't work out. And the reason that didn't
02:48work out is because all the cool kids are playing either the guitar or the drums. I was playing the
02:53flute. Magic was the first thing that sort of got attention. So I used to dress up in a suit,
03:08them thinking that I'm doing a corporate show. I reached there and I was told to dress up as a
03:13Disney character. So for two years, every weekend, I dressed up as Aladdin with a vest and a dhoti.
03:20And I used to perform little card tricks and coin tricks for kids.
03:27Drunk uncle would come up and say, oh, you're a magician. Can you make my wife disappear?
03:38So there have been people who've come up to me and says, oh, we have a severely handicapped child
03:43and he or she can hardly talk. So can you take a private session and try to figure out what
03:50they're thinking and tell us? But I know that would be unethical. And I have to very politely
03:55say that no, at the end of the day, I am trying to entertain you. That's not something I want to get
04:00into. People are drunk and that only happens because they're not following instructions.
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