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♪♪

Okay, this place is Richards Variety Store.

It was the best place we shot.

They are not joking about variety.

They sold everything,

so literally any crazy product I came up with

immediately is believable.

For my niece who's, like, gonna be 10 or 11.

What is cool these days?

The -- This stuff.

-We keep it up here. -What is it?

-Liqui-stiff. -What is it?

Does she like to blow bubbles?

-I don't know. -You don't know?

We don't hang around her very much.

-She lives in Savannah. -Oh, she lives in Savannah?

So, what happens?

Oh, it's like...

It was made by a glassblower.

Uh-huh.

And it's a special mixture.

And...

Apparently you can kind of bounce them.

-Boop. -Oh!

-And you can grab them. -[ Gasps ]

And then if you can get it right before it hardens completely,

you get a little tip on it.

And then, uh... Yeah.

You make little ornaments out of them.

[ Gasps ]

Yeah. Kind of fun, right?

Oh, my -- I am definitely getting one of these.

Yeah.

-It's cool, right? -Hell yeah!

They're really cool.

It's originally how they made contact lenses.

Oh, my God.

Yeah. It's just...

-Huh? -Can I see?

-What? -Look at these.

-Look at this. -It's little, uh...

He just made that.

There we go.

Then you can catch them.

-There you go. -That's ridiculous.

That's really ridiculous.

-Yeah, and these are glass. -Does it tell you how to do it?

No. There's instructions online for it.

-Okay. -It's just -- Yeah.

-That's totally... -It's really easy.

-I mean, you just blow and grab. -...totally ridiculous.

-Wow! -Yeah.

Could I try it?

Yeah. Sure. Come and try. Here, you both try it.

You see, oftentimes when I walk away,

it's to run to video monitors in the back room

where I can watch the people react after I left.

I'm usually not watching their faces during the trick,

so this is really fun for me.

See? He made it look so easy.

I knew it wasn't that easy.

All right.

-Wrapping paper. -Mm-hmm.

And... let's put it over here.

Okay. Having a party?

Mm-hmm. My daughter's birthday.

-Oh, very fun. -[ Chuckles ]

A lot of people love the sticker fish...

-Oh, cool. -...at birthday parties.

-Have you used them before? -Unh-unh.

Oh, you haven't seen these before?

Unh-unh.

-This is really great. -Yeah.

Yeah. Here, let me show you.

Here, slide your stuff over here for a second here.

I'll show you. Yeah.

Use a bowl of water,

and you just peel off one of these little fish.

They're, like, dried out.

There you go.

And you see how, like, the fins are sort of translucent

but the body is still sort of intact?

-Mm-hmm. -Yeah.

I don't know how they do this, but you touch them to water.

Kids love to do this. And they just, like...

What?

Yeah. They animate back to life.

What?

-Yeah. -That's a live fish?

Yeah.

What?

-Yeah. -Did that really just happen?

-Yeah. -Okay.

Okay.

Like, and then you feed it, and it's alive?

Yeah, you feed it, and it's alive.

-How much do those cost? -25 cents each.

-Stop it! -No, I swear.

Yeah. They're from Indonesia.

Oh, my God!

Yeah. I'll take, uh...

Oh, my God. 25 cents each?

Yeah.

I'll take 10 of those.

-10 of them? -Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, my hands are wet, so let me be careful.

Yeah, don't start animating them.

No.

Can I have a plastic bag to put it in?

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Excellent. Wonderful. Thank you.

Great.

So, this woman's reaction was amazing.

But the shocking visual of a sticker coming to life

got everyone,

and with that, I'm pleased to show you

these never-before-seen reactions.

And you just touch them to water.

-[ Gasps ] -Yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

-Oh, my God, that's so cool. -Yeah.

-Is it a live goldfish? -It's activated.

No, it's just a sticker fish.

No -- Oh, my gosh.

-Yeah, see? -Can I have one?

This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

It, like, activates in the water when you go like that.

-Are you crazy? -What the [bleep]

-Are you serious? -What the [bleep]

-I know. -No.

Yeah, the Japanese sticker fish.

That's crazy. They look real.

Like, I want to touch it and grab it out.

I know. It looks real.

-Oh, it's not real? -No.

Look, it's a sticker. [ Laughs ] How's it real?

Oh.

Yeah.

-Get out of here. -Yeah, it's really cool.

Are you serious?

Yeah.

25 cents each?

25 cents each. Yeah.

-Did you see those, Chris? -What?

This. You put it in water.

-Yep. -And it comes back to that.

Oh, my God. Well, give me four of those.

They're only 25 cents each.

And you just touch it to the water.

-Oh, it's a real fish. -Yeah.

Now, that doesn't seem right.

Really cool, right?

I don't know.

So it's a real fish?

Yeah, they're, like, flattened out.

They dry them out in, like, a clay oven.

Oh, my word.

Yeah.

Pull them off like that.

You can see part of it's solid

and the other part, like, where the fins are.

-Oh, my goodness. -Yeah.

Oh, my goodness. How long do they last?

As long as you feed them and take care of them.

This is a real fish.

God, that's too much.

I'll get 10 of them.

10 of them. You got it.

How you doing?

Good to see you.

All right.

Oh, yeah, those are just a penny each because they're almost out.

Oh.

They don't have that many bounces left in them.

That's why they're trying to get rid of them.

Oh. [ Laughs ]

-Yeah. -No bounces left.

Bring it over here where you can...

Yeah. Does it bounce?

-Oh, yeah. -That's pretty good.

-That's a penny? -Yeah, a penny.

If you're gonna buy it, though, then don't bounce it now.

Why? It keeps going down and down?

Yeah. Yeah, they're running out

of bounces.

They have, like -- Each one has like --

Let me see. One...

-two... -Does it recharge?

No, no, no. That's the thing.

That's why they're so cheap.

Bill, they're running out of bounce.

-Never heard of such a thing. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Try it again.

Oh! It just did a dud.

-It did? -Yeah.

-So, it's done? -Well, is it done?

-Yeah. -[ Laughs ]

He doesn't understand the concept.

I never thought a ball would do it that quickly, though.

That's why you see, like, in the sporting games,

they're always -- they come back out and change the ball.

-Like in a basketball game? -Yeah.

There's a guy counting the bounces?

Yeah. That's the guy that comes out and changes the ball.

-Man, I don't want that job. -Yeah.

Yeah. So, you want the one with no bounces?

Sure. And then I just

want you to know --

-As long as it rolls. -Yeah.

These will -- These will only have like 20 or 30 bounces.

-That's fine. -And that's okay?

-It rolls -- all we need. -Yeah.

Okay. You got it. All right.

Okay. Little helper broom set.

And just keep in mind, though,

these brooms only have a limited number of sweeps.

Yeah.

Did you call about the Eco-Form-It stuff?

-No. -Oh, okay.

Yeah, we're not supposed to sell it as of midnight last night,

and someone just called, and they want the rest...

See, I often say we legally can't sell things

because it hooks people in.

They always want to know why something has been banned.

You know how you make a candle?

-Yeah. -It's this sludge stuff.

Okay.

You use like 15cc of it.

Okay.

See, you inject it in here, like an injection mold.

Yeah.

But it's crazy because the stuff,

it solidifies so quickly. Okay.

They give you this light,

and it pulsates with, like, the frequency of like a frog.

-Yeah. -It creates the heartbeat,

and then you see how, like, the colors change?

Oh, my God.

-[ Laughs ] -Yeah.

-That's so crazy. -And it looks really...

-It looks like a freaking frog. -Yeah.

-Yep. -Oh, my God.

And then there it is.

[ Frog croaks ] [ Gasps ]

Yeah. Oop. Sorry.

-Oh, my God. -Yeah, here.

-That's not a real frog? -Yeah.

No, it is. It's a real frog.

Are you kidding me?

No, no, no. It's like a...

[ Croaking continues ]

Yeah, it's this stuff.

Did you just pop a frog out of a can?

-Yes. -No. It's a mold.

-[ Laughs ] It's real. -Wait, wait, wait.

-A real one? -Wait. What?

-Yeah. -Can we buy one?

No. It's being recalled.

I'm technically not supposed to sell it as

of midnight last night.

-This is, like, sci-fi. -I know.

-Anybody want this? -No, I want a frog.

-Is it only frogs? -5 bucks.

They had a salamander one that sold out really fast.

There's a frog in here right now.

There's a fr-- Well, in here.

-In here. -In here, yeah.

Literally, he squeezed this green gunk into here,

closed the lid, put this little...

Yes, after I show someone the trick,

I love watching them explain what happened to somebody else.

-That technology is frightening. -Yeah, it's --

Put it down, pulsed a light on it.

We need to be using this

-And it turned into a frog. -That's what people are saying.

So, what do you do about the frog now?

Woman: Yeah. Do you have to feed him?

You could feed him, or it microwaves for 30 seconds,

and it will go back to the sludge stuff.

You're a real frog. I don't understand.

All right, the frog from goo fooled everyone who saw,

but in this previously unseen version,

I made a science teacher second-guess herself.

It creates the heartbeat of the frog.

Oh, my goodness.

-So once it reacts to that... -Uh-huh.

[ Gasps ] Oh, I can see all different colors.

Yeah, you see the colors start to form.

Oh, my God. You see little legs.

-Yeah, and it looks -- -That was quick.

-Yeah. -You're getting one of those?

No, but you should get it for your classroom.

-You're a science teacher. -Yeah, but we --

-It went from that to that. -Yeah.

For the life-science teacher.

Yeah, and then look at this. Look.

See? You peel that.

It was just like seconds. It went from that --

-Yeah. -[ Gasps ] Oh, my gosh.

-It looks real. -Yeah.

-It is. -It is real?

-It is? -Yeah.

It becomes a live frog.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God, Theresa come over here when you're done.

See, I teach earth science.

So nothing's alive.

Oh, I didn't know it was gonna come to a live frog.

Yeah, there's some genetic debate about it

because it's still a little unknown

how it's going from the tadpole sludge to the live frog.

-Theresa, look at this. -Oh, my God.

I can't believe it.

Well, she's in the science world.

She could probably explain it better than I could.

But it's a real frog from that sludge there.

He just made it like in seconds.

It's not a toy. It's a real frog.

-Yeah, he's a real frog. -What are you gonna do with it?

Well, you can heat him in the microwave.

-What? -Yeah, for 30 seconds.

And it will turn back to the sludge.

Oh, that's disgusting. You thought he was

gonna say eat it.

-Yeah. -Oh! Ooh!

Yeah, ooh. There he goes. I'll get him.

Yeah.

Yeah, ooh. There he goes. I'll get him. in the gym

so that I could perform the vanishing knot.

[ Blows ]

All right. That's a wrap.

-Hey. How are you doing, man? -Hey. How are we doing today?

-Great. How are you? -Right.

I heard you're into fitness.

All right, you see that weird-looking belt

thing on his chest?

I told him it was a heart monitor,

but that's really where we hid his microphone.

You've worked out with these before, I'm sure.

Right, right, right.

There you go.

So, you go ahead and step right in there.

There you go.

Get your big feet in there, right?

All right. Yeah.

Let me get some sticks.

All right, and you're gonna want to put that about,

oh, eight inches in front of the box there, right?

Yeah, a little closer to the box.

Good.

Take your left hand

and put it on top of the stick like this, right?

And just use your hand.

Relax your other arm down.

Now, if I were in front of this stick, I could pull my body up.

But I'm off-balance, and that's why you're in the isolation box.

Right. Okay.

So I have to use my spine

to be able to pull from the center of my body

and pull myself up and down.

Can you do that?

Up and down.

Okay.

Okay.

You feel your spine?

Yeah, I don't think I'm engaging my spine.

Yeah, you feel your spine. That's exactly right.

Yeah. Do it again.

That's good, really good.

Now just concentrate on that spine going down.

Yeah, spine down, body up.

Right? Okay. Here, let me take that.

-Okay. Okay. -Stay in the box.

We'll try one more thing. This is a little bit easier.

Grab on to the cables.

All right. Okay.

My cables got twisted here. That's okay.

And now what you want to do

is you're thinking about pulling the box up, okay?

Now, obviously, you can't pull your own body weight.

Right, right, right.

But now, if I engage my spine,

right, I'm able to pull just...

Almost...

Just get it to go up for a second, just for a second.

Can you do that?

You just pulled yourself off the ground.

-Right. -Okay.

Can you do that?

Don't even think. Just go for it.

♪♪

Y-Y-Y-Yeah.

Um...

[ Chuckles ] Okay.

No.

Do you mind kneeling down, or do you want me to get a mat?

Okay, I have literally been freaking people out

with this trick since I was a kid,

and I knew that it would fit perfectly

in a personal-training session.

And you're pushing your weight on it just about like that.

Good.

And start to just wiggle your right hand back.

Just kind of inching it along the bench there.

Okay.

As far as you can get that to go.

That's great. That's great.

Where's it stop?

-I think it stopped. -Right there?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

That's the muscles in the way, right, and some bone?

-Mm-hmm. -Is there, though?

N-N-No?

Look. Watch.

This isn't just about my wrist.

It's about my arm.

See what I'm saying? It's the shoulder.

It's the wrist. Can my arm twist?

Take the whole arm and twist.

-Ohh. -It's from the shoulder.

Yeah? See that?

Go ahead. Grab on to that and grab my wrist.

Go ahead and twist it.

-Is it gonna hurt? -No. Turn it this way.

Yep. Grab my arm and say, "I'm twisting his arm."

I'm twisting his arm. Oh, my God.

-See that? -Oh.

Go right around.

So, when's the last time you worked out at a gym?

Um, really... I don't really go to the gym.

Perfect. I don't know if I'm the right...

Okay, it was the end of the day, but I had two tricks prepared.

So at the last minute, I decided to try them both on one person.

All right, Adili, I'm gonna have you lay down right here

with your head on that side.

Okay. Stomach down or back down?

-Back down. -Okay.

Yeah. It's real relaxing. Yeah.

You just sort of feel your spine press into the floor.

And now what I want you to do

is turn your head to the left just a little bit.

Okay. And turn your head back.

Good, good, good, good.

And now sit up for just a second, okay?

Sit up right here.

'Cause we're gonna keep repeating that action, okay?

-Okay. -I'm gonna show you.

I just opened a brand-new sponge for you.

Okay.

It's an electrolyte sponge, okay,

so it's super-absorbent and totally dry.

-Feel it. -Yeah.

So, we're gonna just press that right here for a second, Adili.

Turn your head to the side. Yep.

Good.

And now watch this.

I'm gonna give it a squeeze.

-Are you serious? -A little bit.

That's a little bit. It's not much, not much.

-Not much. -That just came out right now?

Just a little bit. It's not sweat.

It's potential energy.

W-What do they use that thing for?

'Cause that's like...

There is kinetic energy, right,

and that's energy that you are using, okay?

Then there's potential energy.

That's energy that you can use, right?

And then there's aquios energy,

and that's energy that you're storing

that you're never gonna use.

It's inside muscles you didn't even know you had, okay?

You must be tired. Let me get you a towel.

Get you a little towel. There you are.

Catch that. That's for you.

Good job.

-You know about that? -No.

Oh. It's a spray-foam towel.

Oh, so you just spray it?

Yeah, it's like a little bit --

Here, hold out your finger a little bit.

It'll come right out and...

Got to shake it.

You have to shake it. Sorry.

-Okay. -Hold on.

Yeah, it just sprays like this. Look.

[ Squeaking ]

Right? There.

It's a little spray towel.

I've never seen anything like...

Let me show you.

You can blow air into it. Look.

[ Blows ]

-While you do it. -Yeah.

[ Blowing ]

You can make, like... Did I?

Yeah. I make socks with it.

Wow.

I feel like I'm in another world.

waiting around. Wow. of people

It's like a sting.

Here comes a lady.

Would you help me out for a second?

Could you just watch my bike for two seconds

while I use the port-a-potty?

Sure.

I don't have a kickstand,

and I'm afraid someone's gonna take it.

Yeah. No problem.

All right. I'll be two seconds, okay?

-Yeah. -I really appreciate it.

♪♪

Thank you so much.

-Oh [bleep] -Oh, my gosh.

Okay. This is too weird.

Why? Did someone --

No, but how did you get from there to there?

I'm sorry?

You -- Somebody who looked like you asked me,

who went into that port-a-potty, but you came out of there.

It's me.

It's someone who looks like you.

I just asked you to watch it to use the port-a-potty.

All right, so many people didn't notice or care

that I walked up behind them.

I tried this trick 18 times until lucky number 19.

-And I went in here, yeah? -Right.

Then I came out and I'm coming to get it.

No, you didn't come out of there.

You came from here.

I think you might have been jogging

a little bit too long today.

I can't give you this bike. I'm sorry.

Because whoever owns this bike is in there.

In here?

I just used the port-a-potty.

This is creeping me out.

This is too weird.

♪♪

Whoo! [ Laughs ]

-Is this for you? -Oh, my gosh.

Yes!

-Were you here last night? -I wasn't.

I literally just got here, but I heard about last night.

I heard about it. How are you?

Oh, my God! I can't believe it!

Whoa!

I've never won anything in my life.

-Nothing? -Nothing. No.

And I never play anything.

This is not bad for winning something

for the first time, huh?

Twenty -- I paid $20.

One ticket I played. Oh, my gosh!

This is crazy, crazy.

I walked here from my house. Can I get it turned over now?

Yeah. I just need your driver's license and your ticket number.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, I have all these shenanigans right here.

There is my driver's license right here, okay?

And -- Yeah.

'Cause we didn't do it by name. We did it by...

You can check that. Yeah, the number, right?

-And you have a ticket? -Yes, I do.

Oh, my God, I'm so excited! I can't tell you.

Oh, my gosh.

This is...

Oh, wait. That's not it.

Wait a minute.

One second. I got it.

-Take your time. -Okay.

Okay, you know what? I...

You can't give it to me without the ticket?

-They told me that... -Really?

Yeah. I need the ticket number.

All right. I'm gonna...

I'm gonna just run and see if I have the ticket at my house.

Take your time.

♪♪

What the [bleep]

Huh?

Huh?

Huh?

What the [bleep]

♪♪

Do you have the key?

Chad: The key's in the box.

It's the gray box on the table.

Chad, I'm looking in the box now.

Th-There's no key here.

Look in the glove compartment of the car.

There's another key in there.

Chad, the car is not here.

What do you mean?

The car -- Literally, the guy came and was talking to me.

The car is not here, Chad. Can you come here?

The car is not there? Oh, the guy came to pick it up?

He came to pick it up, and as he was looking for his stuff,

as he was looking for his ticket, he ran.

He said he was running to go home to grab his ticket.

He didn't have his ticket.

And I turn around, and the car's not here.

[ Horn honks ]

♪♪

Michael: Hey.

I found it. It was at my house.

-You found it? -Yeah.

-Oh, my gosh. -Where was the key?

-I knew I had the -- -How'd you get the key?

-Huh? -How'd you get the key?

I -- No, this is it. This is the winner.

Yeah. But how'd you get the key?

-Huh? -The key to the car.

-I have the ticket. -I know. I understand that.

I just need to know where you got the key from.

I didn't hand you the key.

Handed me the key?

-The car... -Mm-hmm?

Who handed you the key? I didn't hand you the key.

I came up to you, and I gave you my driver's-license number.

Uh-huh. And then you said I needed

to have the ticket.

Yes. So I got the ticket

at my house.

-And you ran back. -I got the ticket.

At that time, wasn't the car still here?

Yeah, the car was here, but you wouldn't let me have it.

When did the car move?

I don't know what you're talking about.

I'm just trying to wrap my mind around...

'Cause I'm confused because everything happened so fast.

This is what I'm saying. I was here talking to you.

Yeah.

I was here talking to you.

And you ran back.

-To my house. -Yeah. Yeah.

And I turned around, and the car wasn't there.

It was there when you were talking to me, right?

That's right. Yeah.

And I turned around, and it wasn't there.

Right.

If I'm sitting in front of the car,

how can somebody pull the car out

if I'm sitting in front of it?

That's what I'm trying to figure out.

-Oh! -You see what I'm saying?

-Right. -I'm trying to figure out --

-'Cause you were guarding it. -Yeah.

I was sitting in front of it, so I'm trying to figure out

how the car came out this way if I was in front of it.

-I don't remember the car... -Yeah.

I get that way, too, when I get overly excited,

like I was when I won.

I was, like, missing pieces of this story.

Like time is missing. You know what I mean?

You know that thing that happens,

it's called the Carbonaro Effect.

I've heard. I've heard.

I'm not too versed on it, but I've heard.

It's also the name

of a hidden-camera magic TV show...

like the one you're on right now.

[ Laughs ]

I'm Michael Carbonaro. I'm a magician.

Nice to meet you.

And you're on my show, "The Carbonaro Effect."

All right. That was good.

I don't know how it happened.

But I don't try to question too much.

I just know...

-Mm. -[ Laughs ]

That was good. That was good.

[ Laughs ] That was good.