I'm Justin Flom and I've been doing magic since I was a little kid. Performing magic is all about illusion and it's not real. But what is real is wonder. Magic can happen anywhere, even right there in your own house. Join me as I show you a few tricks for you to share wonder with the folks in your life. Are you ready? Let's do it.

When you're doing the tricks and everything, Yeah. How? Like, you're so fast at it and you're so quick. I mean you've done it for

You've got to be quick.

How do you like, how does your brain keep up with that?

Well, I've been doing it since I was a little kid. So like, I've been So, since I was a kid I've been making different magic tricks happen or whatever. I'll even show you one right now. If I've got, uh, yeah, this will be cool. So first of all, this is the the red squishy ball trick. Uh, so you get a dog toy, kid's toy, whatever you like. And when I push it into my fist like that, we're going to make it change colors, okay? And look at that, it changes to yellow. Now, I'm going to show you the secret to the trick, uh, because it is just a little bit of sleight of hand.

How do you have the red one in your pocket?

Listen, you just need two squishy balls, okay? So I'm going to teach you how to do this trick and, uh, and it's pretty cool. So now, first things first, you got to put these squishy balls together like this and all of that goes in your hand, okay? So now you don't know it, but I did this before we turned on the camera and everything. And then when I want to do the trick, I just pull out only the red one, okay? And I keep, uh, I keep my fist closed. If I open up my fist, it'll ruin the trick. Yeah. So you got to keep this fist closed. And then you can push that red one through your fist and you take out that other one, the other color, that, uh, they don't know about, you just take that out of your fist and it looks like they've changed colors. Now don't ever let the audience see that you've got the other little squishy ball. If they accidentally see that, then the trick's ruined and you actually have to start the trick over. In which case you push it through and you actually change the color. Now that's, that's how it's done. It happens very quick and it's all because you have an extra ball. Sorry. The extra ball's supposed to be red, okay? That's, that's on me. So when you push it through, yeah, it should be red like this. Now, that of course sets you up for the big surprise ending which I love. And that's, uh, that's a new trick for you right there.

When you're doing the tricks like in real life with people, do you ever, not that you may confess up to it, but do you ever mess it up and have to play it off and come up with a new magic trick on the spot?

All the time. All the time. You never know where the magic trick's going to go. It's like, I don't know, it sounds artsy fartsy, but it's jazz. Look here, let me see if I got one of those. Uh, yeah, this will be, this will be cool. There's no way, uh, that I can change this one, okay? I'm locked in.

Okay. And you're going to make the magic happen on this. Okay, so I'm magic, okay.

You're, yeah, this, this relies 100% on you. If it messes up, this is your fault.

So I feel the pressure.

No pressure. I, I, before we started up the cameras and everything, I put something, uh, in this card box. Now here's the thing. When you have people name a card, they always go for like the ace or maybe the queen because, uh, you know, beautiful women, they like to choose the queen of hearts or the queen of diamonds. I don't want any of that. I want you to go random, okay? Crazy random. And in your head, before you even say it aloud, change your mind a bunch of times because we didn't pre-interview this, right?

No, this is my first time in my life. You have no idea

Yeah, you have no idea what's about to happen.

No. So name any card from a deck of cards. Make it random, obvious, not obvious something that I could never predict. Do I tell it to you?

Yeah, you can tell me.

Okay, Seven of Clubs.

Now if you want to, you can change your mind. It's totally up to you. Or you can or you can stick with it. It's up to you.

I want to stick with it.

Okay. Seven of Clubs. Is this thing? Seven of Clubs. In this deck of cards, I put an X through one card, just a big old X like X marks the spot. And I flipped it over the other direction in the deck. I'm going to leave this in frame the whole time, so there's no cheating. It's not like I got a little ninja, you know, running around helping me out. I'm just leaving everything in frame. And besides, you made the choice and you could have changed your mind. I want you to see this. Look, none of these cards have an X on any of them. None of them. And no other cards are backwards in the deck. Only one card was backwards and it's got a giant X through it. You could have said any card.

I don't like that. I don't like that.

Yeah, that one messes with your head, doesn't it?

It is because you have the marker. You you literally the marker is on the Seven of Clubs. I don't like you don't have a marker. I know. I know.

I love it. Like that's the sort of stuff that just gets me going. Uh, when you're doing magic, uh, there's classics of magic. Like, uh, oh, there's this old one where you take these big silver rings and you'd link them together. Right? Yeah. Have you ever seen one of the old magicians do that sort of trick?

Probably. It sounds really cool.

You've heard of it. You've heard of it. But the thing is, uh, nobody has big giant rings made of metal. That's not like a normal object. But we do have, uh, light sabers. So, I picked these up at the store before the interview and this will be cool. Uh, so if we take out a light saber there. Hang on. Oh, you can take out two. This will be cool. Like this. Oh my God. These create our our rings. I want to make sure that the camera

They're not put together, I swear.

Well, listen, it's it's a challenge. Now, there's only these two rings and you can see the whole ring. That's that's the important thing. But if we bring them together like this, you can actually link them together. It really it's this weird optical illusion and almost looks like they're linked. I don't know how it looks on your end. That looks pretty crazy on my end.

Pretty linked. And you didn't bite off a thing in your when you put it in your mouth.

No, the biting happens when it gets a little bit weirder. The biting happens like this. Watch. If we just Yeah. separate 'em like that, so they're separated and then, hang on. If I get it in the right space, um, these are my AirPods but the old school ones

Yeah.

are these, uh, regular headphones. And with these, we can kind of do a little fishing. Let's see. Like that. There it is. All right. Right about

No. I don't understand and I really want to understand. What is the craziest reaction you've ever gotten?

I did some magic for 50 Cent once at a party.

Oh, what'd he do? Where? So what was crazy about it?

So he had some, uh, I may, I made his one dollar bills change into one hundred dollar bills. Right, like that. Okay. He brought out, not going to say where he was coming from, but he brought out a like a wad that big of singles, okay? So Like, okay. convert this. You can, you can take what you want from that. But he was at a party with a, with a wad this thick of singles. And, uh, and I had him take a handful of them and we turned them into one hundred dollar bills. And now here's what was interesting. His crew like exploded. They're like running around, yo. But he was like stoic and quiet and he's just staring at the money. Uh, it was, it was really cool.

Wait, I want to do one. Okay. I want to be magic. Yes. Can do you have anything that you can do or do you want to learn one?

I want to learn one, but I have a deck of cards. You have a deck of cards. This is perfect. I'm going to teach you one with a deck of cards. Now, we don't have any friends around us right now. But this is one that you'll be able to do for your friends, okay? This is, uh, First I'll I'll this is a stupid one and then I'll show you the cool one. Uh, so here we go. Name

This is amazing.

Just think of any card in the deck. Any card. Just think of it, okay? And I want you to just to don't say it yet. But just send, let's see. Send that thought to me. Just send it to me. I don't want to hear the card. Oh my goodness. One card's like floating up out of the thing. What card are you just thinking of?

Three of hearts. No. Stop. I don't like that.

All right. So now here's how you can do a trick. Here's how you can do a cool trick. This is really fun. When the when this is the setup for the secret thing for the trick. You're going to put any card. Okay. It doesn't matter what card. You just put a card on the bottom of the deck backwards, okay? So you've got the whole deck of cards and there's one backwards right here, okay? Now, this is your secret setup.

You hold this deck of cards in your hand with that upside down card on the bottom. Nobody knows about that, okay? That's the secret to this trick. So you're only starting with this one is You can't see this.

Yes.

The audience doesn't know that that's there. So then you go up to your friend and you're like, hey pick a card, whatever. And they can take out any card. Let's say they take out, I don't know, the ten of clubs. Anything, doesn't matter. They're looking at this card and you tell them like show all of your friends and all that. Secretly, you're going to flip these cards upside down. You don't have to do it all fancy like me. All you have to do is just turn over these cards. So that your secret card there is now on top. This is what that means. Watch. Now, you got the deck of cards like this. Yeah. And when they go to put their card back into the deck, they're putting their card in the wrong way.

upside down.

Yeah, it's the wrong way. They don't know that yet. They're they're totally clueless because they're a muggle and you're a magician. So now, you take that card and you push it all the way in. And now you go, I'm going to find your card instantly behind my back. And I just go like this, boom, it's done. Now all I did behind my back was take that secret card and flip it back over so that the deck is normal again. That's all I did behind my back. But now I can say, look, one card in the deck is backwards. What was your card? And they go, no way is that the ten of clubs. And then there it is, the ten of clubs. And that's the secret to the trick.

How much Cool trick, right? do you spend on magic a day?

All the hours. I mean, anything any time I'm not on TikTok or Facebook, then then I'm doing magic.

You're around the house are your wife? Are you with your wife around the house? You ever fool her?

All the time. I love doing that. She's around it. She doesn't trust me at all because, uh, everything I do is a silly trick. So, uh, by the time it by by the time I'm trying it out on her, she's like, get away from me with whatever you're about to try. I don't want, I don't want any part of that.

Is it hard to resist doing magic? Like when you are like when you see the golden opportunity and you just know it's not the right time?

I'm always it's I got like I've got one last trick over here and I'm like, oh I'll do this one last trick before we're done because I like, I love, I love doing doing the stuff.

Well, thanks for hanging out. Yes, thank you so much too for trying to teach us magic, showing us some magic. We can't wait for the new uh, the new episodes to come out now that you told us about them. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Justin. love that.

My pleasure. See you, uh, next time. Thanks for hanging out.