Thank you. I agree. I am happy as well to call him my friend.
A form of entertainment, playing with deception. Deception's expected in the act, but not, perhaps, in other parts of life. I hope you share a strong ethics.
My kind play with words. I wish we shared a stronger ethics.
At a surface level, magic is a form of entertainment that plays with deception.
The Spanish school of magic (which is what we're discussing) deeply relies on psychology, that has nothing to do with deception.
It involves the fundamental aspects about how humans behave. That is useful in all aspects of life, and has nothing to do with deception.
For some reason I'm not very interested in magic and I don't especially like being fooled. But this... this is well beyond anything I have ever seen. So thanks for that.
At the point where he’s tearing up a card, it’s chosen at random and he’s just taking the <2% risk that it won’t ruin the trick
I get what you're saying though. I get why you're saying it.
He's very good at what he does, and it's hard to spot in real time. Amazing card scanning, too.
(start around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_KcQt0z-eE&t=229s )
On the other hand, Penn was asked to name a card which was then shown, an alternate card destroyed, and the named card shown again. If a further name a card was attempted on the 51-card deck, you'd have the chance of naming the destroyed card.
It's random in the context of the trick, it's not like he specifically chose that card because he knew he could avoid it later
Right after the guy to his left said 21, Dani made a cut, so Dani knew exactly where the middle of the three cards he gave Alyson was, because he knew how many cards he gave to the two guys on his left and the other guy on his right. Dani made sure Alyson never shuffled her cards and only reversed the order when she put them one by one in the deck.
This one from 2022 for Penn and Teller is amazing: https://youtu.be/5_KcQt0z-eE