Original subtitles

♪♪

There's a thrift store near our production office

that's full of weird merchandise,

and we're always in there seeking new inspiration

for tricks.

Nobody questions the crazy stuff you find in a place like this,

which makes it a perfect backdrop for the show.

You like to collect stuff?

Some stuff. Yeah?

I like antiques. You like antiques?

I have something that we just got in from the '70s.

Are you a hunter at all?

There's too many trigger-happy folks out there

that hunt nowadays.

Well, let me show you what I have.

Hang tight right there. You might be interested in this.

All right.

So, how are you doing, young lady?

Pretty good. How are you?

I'm doing all right for an old man.

I'm doing all right for a young man, too.

That's good.

This...we just got in.

Have you ever seen one of these before?

It's a duck.

Well, it's like a decoy, yeah.

I've seen... Yeah.

Put it up on there. Yeah, but it's a...

It's like a -- well, it's one of the most realistic ones.

You got the feet here.

Put the little foot on there.

And when they attach, 'cause it has batteries in it,

it looks pretty good.

Let me just put the head on here,

and you just give him a little shake, I think, like this.

It's one of the most realistic decoys.

I've never seen anything like that.

-Yeah. -It looks so real.

Yeah. Is that real?

No. It's a decoy.

[ Duck quacking ] Is it?

-Yeah. -Oh, my goodness.

That's crazy!

It is!

How does it feel?

It feels just -- Oh, careful.

It'll do everything that a real duck does.

It's programmed to do everything that a real duck would do.

It looks so real. It scratches like a real one.

Yeah, it does a waddle, a scratch.

That's amazing. Oh, my goodness.

Does it do anything else like that?

It'll just keep on a cycle like this for about 10 minutes,

and then it will just fall over because the batteries die.

It takes a lot of batteries.

-Oh, my goodness. -Yeah.

Once you get the head in place...

I can't believe that.

And you put your fingers... He'll bite you?

Probably. Whenever they feel something,

he'll move his head to where they feel --

see, that looks fake. Did you see that?

That looked fake.

Is it a robot?

-Yeah, well -- -I mean, it's animatronic.

It's animatronic. Yeah, it works with clock parts.

-It's from the '70s? -From the '70s, yeah.

-That is valuable, then. -It's not real?

-Oh, my gosh. -Can you pull it apart?

I have a tool in the back

I got to take him apart with, but, yeah.

Well, I'll be.

Yeah. A lot of people would just buy them for toys for kids,

but they stopped making them.

They stopped making them? Yeah.

Why? Well, because hunters

were using them as decoys, and they would put them out,

and then other hunters were shooting them

because they looked so real.

And then there was a choking hazard

because people were taking them home and cooking them.

Cooking this?

Yeah, because they thought it was real.

-This is amazing. -Looks good, right?

It acts real.

It doesn't look fake at all -- the movements.

Yep.

What company designed it?

Carbonaro.

Carbonaro? Yeah.

Carbonaro. It's American?

Italian, I think.

Italian. Okay.

I tell you, I've never s-- I mean, it's awesome.

♪♪

Usually, when I tell my team

that a trick is too ridiculous to work,

my instincts are spot on.

In this case, I admit that I was wrong.

But I don't like to be wrong,

so I ran the trick again to see

if the first success was a fluke.

They used to make them in the '70s.

The head goes on, and then you'd just give it a shake like this,

and then it's like -- it looks really real.

Wow. Yeah.

It's the best decoy they have.

That's interesting.

Yeah, because they look so real

that people were actually shooting the decoys.

Wow. This is amazing!

-It's eerie. -Wow!

It looks really real, right?

-Yeah. -It does.

Woman: That's not real?

No, it's a decoy duck from 1974.

Oh.

So it looked like a duck.

Next thing you know, other bird come close to it,

and they boom! -- and shoot whatever.

Well, yeah, it -- If they trying

to get a deer.

Yeah, it's a male duck.

Oh.

I got to come back and get some of that.

They're the best decoys around,

but they just don't make them anymore.

-I cannot believe that. -I know.

I got to have that. Can I buy that?

Yeah, you could buy it. You want to get it?

Yeah. It looks so real.

Absolutely. What a great gift.

Yeah. Okay, here.

I just can't believe that.

Yeah. Let me get the tool in the back,

and I can take him apart.

When I don't know how to respond,

I just say, "It's in the back," and excuse myself.

It's perfect for when they start asking too many questions or,

in this case, when they want me to dismantle a live duck

on the spot.

Uh-huh.

It's programmed to move like a duck.

♪♪

When I pose as an employee at a store,

I can try out my magic on all the different shoppers

who wander in.

But when I pretend to be a customer, it's a challenge,

'cause I've really only got one shot

at tricking the employees who are working that day.

Yeah, I think I'll get that and these.

Got a shirt here. Okay.

Thank you. Yeah, the tags.

Good.

And could we -- do we get to keep the hangers?

I'll ask about the hangers.

No, usually -- No, yeah, I've shopped here before.

Oh, really? Okay.

Yeah. And you can always keep the, um...

Oh. How did these, uh...

Do you know if that comes apart?

That's weird. I was holding the, uh...

Oops.

What the...?

Does it, like, unclip?

Yeah, would you get that apart?

Can I help you? Makes sense.

Yeah.

But I don't have a tap-in. I'm sorry.

No, it doesn't look like it possibly can...

[ Chuckles ]

That's weird, right? -You want me to figure it out?

That's what I was just thinking, yeah.

I'll be right back. How does this...?

Yeah.

I'm looking for, like, maybe...

Well, here. Wait.

In the middle. In the what?

Most times, it's got, like, a little open place in the middle.

Yeah, that's what I was looking for, but these --

look at -- this thing just got...

Yeah, they got...

No. You know what it is?

Look, I just saw this piece here.

How does that...?

That's one.

That's how the other one is gonna happen.

Yeah.

But there's no ho-- there's no...

Uh-oh. Just turn it to the side right here.

There you go.

How did you do that?

It's gonna be the same way with this one.

That's why I kept moving, turning it around.

You get to keep the hangers when you buy clothes here.

My thing is, would you really want these hangers?

Not if they're gonna be doing this, right?

If you do, hang one on this side of the closet

and hang the other one on that side of the closet.

That's a good idea. I'm not gonna take the hanger.

I'll take one hanger.

Employee: Did you figure out the hanger?

And just the bird cage here. We figured out that one.

We haven't figured out this one yet.

I just want to get -- Yeah, I don't think I want the shirts.

I just want to get the cage, but I don't want to...

Okay. You do want the cage?

Can you get that? Yeah.

Okay. Wait a minute.

Now, how did this [bleep] just happen?

I just -- I was just reaching down for that.

Really? You figure it out.

I think -- I think I'm good.

[ Chuckles ]

I think y'all need to throw this in the trash.

How are you doing?

We're doing good. All right.

We want to take advantage of our senior-citizen discount today.

Senior-citizen discount today, huh?

That's exactly what. Really?

Let's see here.

A little security tag on there.

In case you buy clothes and then, all of a sudden,

the person did not take this off and you take it home,

what do you do?

Bring it back. Okay.

Yeah. You've had that happen before?

Yeah.

I'll make sure to get it off for you.

Yeah, that's why I always check.

-Yeah. -I check and double-check.

I say, "Hurry up. I'm getting ready for work."

Yeah. See, there's a security sticker here.

Get that off, too. -I know.

We made these security stickers on an inkjet printer

the morning of the shoot.

Well, we've had a lot of theft.

Oh, really? Yeah, so...

This one here.

Oh, my God.

Okay, good. That should be good.

And on the inside.

For a pair of tights.

Well, you wouldn't believe it.

There's one down there. One more again.

Here? Got another one

and got another one.

Oh, another sticker?

Good that you caught it.

That's too many for one pair of tights, though.

Yeah, but, you know, this way, we don't have to have people

following other people in the store.

That's the whole point of it.

But I'm just saying, why not just one?

Well, because, you know, people are used to having just one.

So, the people who really -- yeah, just the stickers.

And another one.

Yeah. Hold on one second here.

That should be it, but I'm just gonna pull -- oh, no.

This one.

-Oh, my God. -All right, now.

Yeah, this tag -- this is one of the tags

that actually has its own tag.

The security tag is tagged.

This way, if you try and remove the security tag from the tag,

then the alarm will go off right when you're just trying it on.

One last little coating. [ Alarm blaring ]

-Ooh! -Okay.

That was in there, too? Yeah.

Where? What are you

talking about here?

Yeah. There you go. That's good.

-[ Laughs ] -Perfect.

Oh, my.

Sorry about that. Would you grab that one?

Yeah. So, where were those?

Do it one more time again.

No, I think that's it.

You sure? Yeah.

Yeah.

They put them on the inseams,

you know, because people don't...

...seven, eight. Eight?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, with the stickers.

Yeah. That should be it.

Tights is nine tags, nine stickers?

Man: Yeah.

All right. Yeah.

We got them all.

Okay.

Cost $2.

I'm gonna get you a bag.

Those tights cost $2.

So, what do you got going on here?

When I was setting up this trick,

we all wanted to see if a thrift-store employee

would let me walk all the way out the door

with an old briefcase that mysteriously filled with cash.

Oh.

That's nice. This is nice.

Let me see.

I wonder if we can put a computer in there.

A computer can go in here?

I wonder. No, it's...

Yeah.

It's got a couple scratches on it, though.

Oh, it's 20 bucks?

You can get it for $17.

For $17?

Yeah. I love it.

I'll give you, like, 5 bucks.

No. Can't do that.

Sorry.

No? No, I can't do it.

Come on. This isn't even real leather.

This is, like, vinyl.

All right, give me $10.

$10? Yeah.

All right. 10 bucks.

Here you go.

I think I got myself a deal.

Thanks, man. Okay.

♪♪

After we wrapped the shoot,

I came back in and offered the guy half the cash just for fun.

He turned it down.

♪♪

[ Imitating air hissing ]

This show requires me to take on all sorts of odd jobs

and act like I know what I'm doing.

Although it looks easy enough, working the wine counter

at a liquor store was a real challenge,

because I know absolutely nothing about wine.

All right. Let me check that.

Kelly Foster.

This says Atlanta. Is that where you're from, Atlanta?

No. I just moved here from Chicago.

From Chicago originally? I'm from Long Island.

Oh. Yeah.

So, there's, like, 25% off, 10% off.

There's a 50% off, and then there's,

like, liquor prizes, so, if you drink.

I'll shuffle them up.

What do you got?

Vintage prize. Oh, my gosh!

That's the manager's prize. We just stocked that thing.

Are you a wine drinker?

I am. Oh, my gosh.

That's, like, the best bottle of wine we have.

Yeah! Yay! Yeah!

It's like 500 bucks.

Are you serious? Congratulations.

All right. I'm gonna get it.

Oh, my gosh.

That is crazy.

That is insane.

That is insane. Wow.

Look at you!

This is great. Yes, it is.

Is it a red?

Yeah.

♪♪

Okay, how did you...?

Do you know that says "K. Foster Vinyards"?

K. -- I don't really know the brands or whatever.

My name's Kelly Foster. That's my point.

My name's Kelly Foster.

Your name is Kelly Fo...

Yes. Oh, that's so strange.

And it's from Chicago.

Okay. Are you -- Are you...

Are you, like, a rep for this company?

No! No. What?

This is just kind of weird.

That is so weird.

Is it like a family vineyard you have?

No! I swear.

Believe me, if I had a family vineyard,

I would not be living in Atlanta.

So, you're not familiar with Foster's of Chicago Vinyards?

No.

Well, that's certainly meant to be.

During production, we called this trick "Family Business,"

and we shot it six times.

Here's a never-before-seen look at another person

who didn't know they were associated with

a well-known and fictional vineyard.

Look at this.

-Wow! -Can you believe it?

-And it's in a red velvet... -You're a winner today.

I know.

Look at this. Ooh.

You got to be kidding me.

Look at the name on it.

That is my last name.

Isn't that crazy?

Salinas Family Vineyards?

Have you heard of them?

No. Where are they...?

Sacramento?

♪♪

Sacramento, California?

They say it's one of the best wines that you can get.

Wow. This is so crazy.

I mean, that's my name.

That's your name.

That's where I'm from, Sacramento.

And does your family have, like, a business in wine?

No. That is just so weird.

Whoa. That's just, like...

♪♪

How weird is that?

Want to taste something new today?

Sure. Why not? All right.

If you're offering, I'll take it.

It's a Portuguese red. Okay.

And this is good stuff.

It was not permitted in the U.S. for a long time.

Open up a fresh bottle for you.

Sure.

Doesn't have any details on it, does it?

No. They're imports, so it doesn't even have a back label.

But smell that cork. [ Sniffs ]

Smells good, right? Yeah.

I used to work at a Spanish restaurant.

Oh, you've probably seen this before, then.

You dunk the cork in the wine.

You ever heard about that? No.

I'm not buying it, but go ahead.

It's a Portuguese cheese cork.

Oh, okay. Yeah.

Yeah, look here. I'm gonna cut a piece.

See that?

Oh, all right. And then you eat it?

Yeah. In Portugal, when they weren't able to bottle wines

with cork because of the cork shortage...

Can I try that? Yeah. Go for it.

That's nuts. Yeah.

I've never heard of cheese corks before.

Yeah. That's crazy.

I've been in the wine business for quite some time.

Cheers. Cheers.

All right, man. All right, man.

I like your style.

-Hey. How are you guys doing? -Good. How are you?

We're giving away a free bottle of Baton de Lola today.

Oh, okay.

Do you like white wine?

Yes, we do, actually, very much.

So, what varietal is it?

It's a chardonnay. Okay.

But what's really cool about it...

Here, I'll show you. I'll pour a glass.

Is that the trouble with white wine, obviously,

is it has to be chilled.

No! Yeah.

Otherwise, it's not good.

But you feel the bottle there?

You can feel how it is?

It's, like...

-Whoa. -Yeah, it chills over.

Before each shoot, I study a list of key words and phrases

about the subject at hand.

Then, in the moment, I forget what they mean

and blurt out anything I can think of.

The way they make it is with the grapes that are frozen.

So, like, iced wine, how they kind of do it

after the first frost?

Exactly.

And then once it hits into the oxygen,

that chill returns.

Oh. That's cool.

It's hitting the air here, and it's just going right to ice.

Okay, and then it just automatically goes to that?

Well, I guess it'll probably melt in time to drink it,

and it'll be, like, the right temperature.

That's so crazy.

These girls were actually the last attempt at this trick.

But our frozen wine also gave us this previously unseen version

and an equally great reaction.

You feel the bottle?

It doesn't feel that cold in the bottle.

No.

-But it's a self-chilling wine. -Oh, interesting.

Yeah, it's 'cause it's made with frozen grapes.

Oh, wow, I see that. Oh, that's --

Wow. That's so weird.

Yeah.

Well, does it melt? Oh.

It just went, like, to a total...

Oh. You know...

[ Laughs ]

Yeah, 'cause Russia is the coldest location on Earth,

and that's where they produce this,

and it's made with frozen grapes.

It's so weird how it, like, right away, it goes into the...

Interesting. Yeah.

They make it for pouring in Russia,

so it's already cold there,

so when it comes to a warmer temperature here...

Yeah, that's interesting. ...it gets too cold too fast.

That's really cool. It's an import.

Cool. Well, I'm excited.

But the best thing to do is just pour it, and then...

Just wait. ...wait.

Yeah, cool. Thank you.

♪♪

Michael: Okay.

Okay. Here we go.

Do I need to update my headshot?

Are you, like, an artist? Is that why you're...

-No. -[ Chuckles ]

I could give it a shot.

I mean, what are they asking?

To price the pieces?

"Something has been mislabeled.

Do your best to determine the title of each piece

before it moves to the next destination."

We actually shot two days in this location.

One day, it was supposed to be a museum warehouse,

and on this day,

we were packing and returning priceless artwork.

He's like, if you look at part of it,

you're supposed to be able to see --

like, he called the woman Dolores

or something like that. Like, if you...

Huh. I don't know.

So you kind of section off the art?

Yeah. Like, that --

Bring out certain pieces that wouldn't normally stand out?

And if you see it, you see it,

and if you don't see it, you don't see it.

Okay. I see it. You see it?

It's a girl right in the middle.

She's naked. She's got [bleep] hanging out.

You don't see that? I don't see it.

You got to get back here to look at it. It's weird.

I just saw, like, instantly.

What? Yeah.

What are you talking about?

You'll see it. The further back...

Just try not to focus in on any particular,

you know, shading or whatever.

Right.

Here, let me point it out to you, dude.

Woman going like...

this. Arms like that.

She's kind of tilted. Wait. Do that again,

do that again.

I can see it.

She's kind of tilted over this way.

And then, uh...

Her head's kind of tilted to the side.

There's a breast. There's another breast.

Are you making this up?

I swear to God. I don't really see it.

I see, like...

It's like 3-D imaging.

So, okay, this one would have to be "Lust at the Pond."

I just see, like, shapes.

[ Laughs ] Maybe it's my brain.

You can see it from back there?

Yeah. I mean, I can see it there or here.

Well, you saw it when I, like, blocked part of it.

Yeah.

Now it's hard to see now that I kind of have trained my --

I hadn't looked at in a second.

Now I'm kind of losing the image.

That's weird.

Do you not see it?

No. I don't. How is that?

Oh, wait a minute. I...

Her arms are here. Yeah.

Is that what you're seeing? Yeah.

Oh, my God, that's so weird.

I can totally see that.

Now I can't see it, though.

How crazy is that? [ Laughs ]

That is really creepy.

Yep. That's art.

Are you normally alone, or...?

Yeah. I worked the night shift for the past four nights.

We had, like, stacks and stacks of photos and, like,

some old documents and, like, some checks and stuff.

So this is, like, nice stuff.

Yeah, they deliver a whole bunch of stuff over.

Photos and, like, original artwork stuff,

and we just run it through this scanner.

[ Scanner whirring ]

It goes really, really slow, apparently.

It might not look like much,

but that scanner you see on the table,

specially built for us by an engineering team.

Took two weeks to develop,

and at that point, it was the most expensive prop

we'd ever commissioned on the show.

Unfortunately, several times, the photo got stuck in it,

and we had to end the trick earlier than we expected.

That's actually signed by him?

You're talking about maybe $80,000 to $100,000.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

Which side, do you think?

I'm guessing this side.

This side? Okay.

We'll get that.

Yeah.

Does look good to you, you think?

I think so.

[ Whirring ]

It's shredding it.

Shut it off, shut it, shut it, shut it, shut it!

Oh.

[ Whirring stops ]

Oh, my God.

It just shredded it.

Here on "The Carbonaro Effect,"

when I see someone start to get a little too upset

by what they're seeing,

then I know it's time to change course

and get the trick to a happy conclusion.

...bad, so...

Hey. What's going on there?

We're walking through the, um, the scanner,

and one of the pictures kind of, like...

Abraham Lincoln.

Signed.

[ Whispers ] $100,000.

That's not good.

[ Normal voice ] What do I do?

Where? A spray? Yes.

Yes. Historative.

He said hold this up -- hold it, spray it with this stuff.

Just spray it?

Okay.

Yeah. From, like, 12 inches away?

It's not just, like, ripped.

He thinks it's just ripped.

Okay. What light?

Hold on.

Okay, I have a light.

Hold this, hold this, hold this, hold this, hold this.

Close it? It's in a -- yeah.

Close it and put the light on it, like an iron.

Okay, no, but that thing was, like, completely shredded.

I'm not talking about it being, like --

A rip. It's, like, shredded. It's, like, shredded.

It's not like we scratched it.

[Whispers ] Open it up.

[ Normal voice ] I'll call you back.

What the --

It just made it go right back together.

What in the world...

[ Laughs ] ...just happened?

It...

[ Laughs ]

What is this?

How is that even possible?

This says, "Restores broken photographs

using the Carbonaro effect."

Have you heard of "The Carbonaro Effect"?

No.

Yeah, it's the name of a hidden-camera TV show.

I'm Michael Carbonaro, and you're on

"The Carbonaro Effect" right now.

No way. Yes way.

What?

What is going on right now?

[ Laughs ]

What?

[ Laughs ]

[ Laughs ]

Dude, I am mind-blown right now.