Great episode, although quite dangerous to be listening to it on the treadmill.
Here’s the clip of Harrison Ford watching a David Blaine magic trick:
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I really want to know how this works. Youtube comments are all over the place but some sound plausible.
Yeah but how did he get Ford to think exactly the 9 of hearts?
Definitely a good episode. Having seen Random Hearts when it was new: no idea what Sean’s fascination is there. It sucked.
People are also way too nice to Air Force One. Garbage movie. The quintessential movie that sympathizers would call “entertaining.”
okay so he exchanged all the fruit in harrison ford’s house with prop fruit. that’s possible because harrison ford is famously high as fuck all the time. he’s super high in that video i’m sure of it. but how the hell does he know about the 9 of hearts??
I’m not sure but I’ve seen other tricks where a mentalist forces or seems to force the volunteer to think of a particular image or card.
He’s got to have multiple outs if Ford thinks of something else.
Maybe it’s Ford’s trick.
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Air Force One slander ITT
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RIght at the beginning Blaine is holding the cards and tries to fan them out and get Ford to pick a card. That is often the point when mentalists try to “force” you to select a card of their choosing, but I’m not an expert by any means. There are ultra basic techniques like making one card more prominent than the others, but Blaine is awfully good and may have more surefire ways to do it.
Of course the ultimate way to guarntee this trick works is to do it dozens of times and only put the successful one up on YouTube. That’s a meta trick.
The best scientist is Darwin. /thread.
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I’ve been watching This Is The End over the last two nights. Weird movie—a few really funny moments wrapped in long stretches of nonsense. Is it me who’s out of touch?
Its a force, there are a ton of different tricks magicians use to get people to choose a specific something.
I mean, if you don’t like absurd, over the top, gross-out humor, then it’s not for you. I, personally, thought the movie was hilarious.
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Listening to The Rewatchables episode of This Is The End (which is what prompted me to watch the movie in the first place), I’m like, “Yeah, that was pretty funny. Oh yeah, that part was really funny, too.” Over and over again. So now I feel like watching it again.
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