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Watch the Magician Who Appeared on Glenn Beck’s Show Blow Blaze Editor’s Mind With an Amazing Trick

Jan. 23, 2013 8:13am Jonathon M. Seidl

If you were watching Glenn Beck’s Misfits Ball episode on Monday night (and a lot of people were, since it trended #1 on Twitter), you were probably wowed by magician Christopher Alexander doing a few tricks on the politically incorrect guests. After the show was done, we decided to pull Alexander aside and have him do a trick on us. And wow — he blew my mind.

It started off with a deck of cards:

Then involved tearing one of them:

Soon it was disappearing into thin air:

Of course, we couldn’t find it:

And when we did, I was blown away:

I won’t give the rest of way, but suffice it to say that you’ll never believe where it turns up. Watch below:

So do you know how he did it? I don’t. Let me know in the comments.

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BlaiseCarlisle
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:19pm
I’m certainly not going to expose another magicians secrets, but if I’m ever in the US, I’d be happy to put on a show for the staff. It would be interesting [url=http://www.blazemagic.com.au]Blaze the Magician[/url] performing for everyone at The Blaze! :)

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magicsoup
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:15am
Many magic routines are simple when you know how they are done. That’s what makes them great! I think using this forum to expose a secret is bad form. It sounds like you like this magician. Why would you want to expose him? Maybe you should go further. Find as many clips of him as possible and challenge your readers expose his whole show? /sarc off. Just enjoy the show. People will talk in the comments anyway but asking people to tell you how it’s done seems like a low thing to do.

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sckimbershot
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:25am
ah–2 decks of cards–then set up suites of cards under a number system–and pick your number-duh

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ronin_6
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 1:40am
He tore it. He palmed it. He put it in his mouth. He walked to the cafeteria. Put his hand up to his mouth placed it between two fingers and slid it into the pack of gum.

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tomcat11767
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:33pm
Every day this site resembles Yahoo more and more.

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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 2:08pm
  The following should be “blowing the minds” of Glenn Beck and his people. The Glenn Beck from the not too distant past would be advocating the “disappearance” of the evil regime of North Korea. Glenn … what’s going on?
  
  North Korea vows nuclear test, rocket launches after new UN sanctions
  Published January 24, 2013
  
  North Korea warned Thursday it plans to conduct more long-range rocket launches and carry out a “high-level” nuclear test targeted at the United States in response to a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning its December rocket launch and expanding sanctions.
  
  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/24/north-korea-warns-that-nuke-test-may-be-imminent/
  
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Redrivermma
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:28pm
Too bad he couldn’t make the audio disappear…at 1:41 he reaches into his left pocket with his left hand and pulls the gum pack out then as he acts like he’s looking at something on the table you can hear the pack of gum hit the table as he tossed it.

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- navydoc2008
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:14pm
  nope @ 1:22 package is already on the table.
  
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bbyrdhouse
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:36pm
Sigh … anything important happening today?

Must be a slow news day.

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ConservativeCanucklehead
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:24pm
Completely simple, childish. Another headline that totally over-promises. Another ‘story’ that isn’t.

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tonypro
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:02pm
YAWN ……….

Ho Hum…….

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mrmikejohnson
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:54pm
This trick was revealed on YouTube years ago.

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GoodStuff
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:16pm
Can the Blaze not afford better audio equipment?

Well I guess when the megalomaniac wants to build a $2 billion city because he thinks he’s Walt Disney, ya gotta take money from somewhere else.

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- PublicArtillery
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:46pm
  Sounds like someone is jealous he doesn’t have 2 billion dollars, of his own money not the companies money, to spend on an amusement park.
  
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- ArchaicSEAL
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:56pm
  Wanting to build a 2 billion dollar city doesn’t make you a megalomaniac. Wanting to rule over your subjects (read: peons) in such a city, however, would.
  
  Moreover, on a side note, doesn’t David Blaine and that other dude whose name I can never remember do these kinds of tricks all of the time? Why is this so special? What I mean is, why is this special enough to be on the Blaze when so much more important things are happening in the world that need to be or should be discussed. If I wanted to watch magic tricks I would click on my youtube button and go watch thousands of them. Stop wasting time Blaze, or, create an entertainment section and put all this kind of crap in there and let the END USER decide where they wish to spend their time.
  
  I mean, really? Is THIS what the “shining beacon and fire of truth” of the Blaze really amounts to? Because so far I have seen nothing special. I get more from the dialogue in the comments section of each article here than I do from the “meat.” And, honestly, the comments section really does suck in its format. Even ZeroHedge’s comments/discussion section, which I am not too fond of either, is better than the coding, stability and presentation of this one.
  
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grimmster
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:48pm
Well i see encinom was bury posting on this one under a ton of new names, f-n idiot…..

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cackyy
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:46pm
hahaha, simple force. Pretty easy to pull off.

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Corporal_Hicks
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:16pm
the guy needs to join the US Senate…..they have misplaced the last 4 budgets and spent the last 4 years doing nothing but filling their faces with coffee and donuts….the magician could teach the democrats how to magically pull a budget out of their asses

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:34am
My mind was not blown……do it again.

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chale955
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:24am
Easy trick to understand. He is doing what is called a Hindu shuffle. If you notice when he is “shuffling,” all he is doing is taking the top cards and moving them to his other hand. In the end, his aim is to just show him the card on the bottom of the deck. Notice that no matter when he tells him to stop, he will ALWAYS show him the bottom card. In other words, the 7 of clubs was always on the bottom, and would have been the card no matter when he said stop.

All he had to do is prep the coffee bar with the corner of the 7 of clubs. Fairly easy trick.

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- cackyy
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:48pm
  Exactly :D
  
  Simple force.
  
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- mcmeador
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:22pm
  That and we were never shown the deck, so he could have actually shuffled them if the deck was full of nothing but the same card lol. What a lame trick to get so worked up over.
  
  And please stop it with these screenshots of videos. They never show anything of value. Anyone who doesn’t want to watch the video won’t take anything away from a series of random screenshots, and anyone who does want to watch the video has to waste their time wading through the screenshots to get to it. Just post the video!
  
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Glytch
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:24am
While he hid it well, and it was a nice slight of hand… The only issue is that it was rather obvious what he did. If you watch he touches his faces just after he hides the piece of the card. As he walks into the back room to find it again, he has his hand over his mouth where he retrieves the cards shard back into the very hand that picked up the item that he then placed it into.

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Grim Spirit
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 10:43am
Nice presentation…but the only part that was slight of hand was making the torn part ‘dissappear’. The rest was pre-set.

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txshepherd
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:35am
The selected card was a ‘forced card’ and the corner was already torn off, but hidden by his hand. The act of tearing the corner was an illusion. Thus the act of making it disappear was also an illusion since it was not in his hand to begin with. The original ‘torn off corner piece’ was planted in the lunch room before the show began and then pretended to be found at the end.

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NinjaJuice
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:23am
The audience in the camera is usually in on the trick too. Lame…

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Eric Window
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:57am
Actually, not that difficult a trick to do with a bit of preparation and practice. To see a version of it, search “Card to Lemon/Orange Trick Revealed ” on YouTube. The trick is not exactly the same, but the mechanics are.

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- cackyy
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:47pm
  haha yeah, simple force.
  
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Notarichboy
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:53am
Cool trick, but kill the banjo music!

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Supah_Patriot
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:40am
“Blows Blaze editors mind with an amazing trick,” eh? What was the amazing trick, did he show them how to run spell check?

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- Melika
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 10:23am
  Or how to finally write a coherent and concise headline?
  
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- Supah_Patriot
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 10:53am
  LOL, you nailed it.
  
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Matrix22
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:38am
No idea. But that was pretty cool, even with the less than perfect video quality. And for all you cynics out there…just enjoy it for crying out loud.

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- Justone View
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:57am
  Amen. It’s just fun. I have a friend who hates magic as he can not figure it out. I love it. I have another magician friend that drives him nuts. I love it. I still have my inner child in tacked. (or is it tack?) Oh well you folks will correct me I am sure. Or not. Enjoy the magic and we need to laugh more and be angry less. Life is really short. Anger is a poison that it seems we are all feasting on these days. Oh, and I know the trick but I ain’t telling. It’s MAGIC!
  
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PoliticallyRightUs.Com
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:33am
He is good but lets see is he can make “You know who” Disappear!

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- joey g
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:47am
  who…harry reid…chuck u schumer…hillary…bill”bj: clinton…boxer…feensten…cris matthews…kerry..any kennedy…squaw warren…any demcommunist…any repukin….waxmen..peelosi…all california poloticos…there are too many to mention…Lord help us!
  
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