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This shoot took place on one of the rainiest days of the year.

Roads were flooded all around the location,

and we considered canceling because we didn't think

anybody would be out buying flowers.

Fortunately, a few brave souls made it to the shop,

and I got to magically brighten up their day.

Michael: How can I help you out?

I'm looking for a small, little centerpiece

where I can just put it on someone's desk at work.

Yeah. You know what's good?

We do these adorable little --

For desktops, it's really cute.

It's inside of, like, a coffee mug.

Okay.

You know, like, you choose one of these mugs,

and it's a bloom inside.

Oh, wow.

And, you know, this is them.

They're really cute. -Oh, that is cute.

-Isn't that great? -Oh, the roses are pretty too.

Roses are pretty, yeah.

Let's do the tulips then.

-You want to go tulips? -Yeah.

Okay, sure.

Now, I have a choice of, um, mug for you, too --

the colorful mug, or the... -Mm. I mean, the bird is cute.

-Yep. -Yeah, the bird.

-Want to go bird? Okay. -Yeah, I'll go bird.

So, we'll do tulips with the bird mug,

and I'm going to get that set up for you right here.

In fact, this is funny

because I was just mixing some of the mud.

-Oh, wow. -Yeah.

So, that's the mud that you pour it in?

Yeah, you know, I like to keep the bottom of it --

-Oh. -I put in the bottom like this.

Okay? That just keeps it real fresh.

It provides the nutrients for it.

-Mm-hmm. -So, versus, like, you know,

cut flowers that are only going to last a few days...

-Mm. -...this will keep nutrients

inside of it. -So it'll last longer.

Yeah, so it'll last longer.

Okay, so, we said tulips? -Mm-hmm.

So I've got some tulip petal popper seeds here.

I'll put those in for you.

Okay.

And, you know, what looks really nice with that

is hydrangea.

So I'm going to put some of that in with there.

Just a few of that -- Try and get it in the front.

When it bursts up in the front, it looks really good.

Oh, okay.

And maybe just a few, you know,

Florida rustic thistle sprigs

cause that'll just give it a little something.

-Mm-hmm. -Okay.

So, you can set that up tonight.

You can do that yourself, or, um, if you want to --

So, wait. I have a few questions.

-Oh, yeah. -Do I add water?

Oh, no, you do it in the microwave.

-Oh! -Yeah, yeah.

So I just put it in the microwave,

and it'll just go up?

Yeah, yeah.

I can do it for you here if you want.

-C-Can you? -Yeah, sure, sure.

-I want to see that. [Laughs] -Yeah.

These seeds were all cross-pollinated

with popping corn.

-Oh, wow. -So, in the same way

that a corn kernel pops up... -Uh-huh.

...you know, the flowers are infused the same way.

So that goes in there.

-That's cute. -Okay, and take a look.

-That's crazy. -I'm going to set this...

[ Microwave beeps ] ...for 10 seconds.

-Uh-huh. -And we'll start that up.

And we'll watch it.

Just 10 quick, little seconds...

[ Popping ]

-[ Gasps ] -...and it activates quick.

The water comes through. [ Microwave beeps ]

If you water it, it can last for months.

[ Gasps ]

Oh, my goodness. That is so --

[ Laughs ]

Yep.

And so -- [Sniffs] so fresh.

I mean, freshly popped flowers are...

Mmm, that -- yeah.

...totally the rage at weddings now, too.

-That -- -It's crazy, right?

Yeah, the idea -- It's funny 'cause so many people --

Everyone knows microwaved popcorn.

-Mm. -And it seems like

a fascinating thing, but if you think about it...

Yeah, same thing.

Yeah, it's a plant. You know, corn is a plant.

Yeah.

So, it's just, you know, infusing the seed work.

Oh, wow.

-Oh! You know what? -What was that? [ Laughs ]

One was un-popped.

[ Laughs ] That's crazy, though.

You can just put it in your other one.

Mnh-mnh, I'm good. -Yeah, sorry about that.

You know, how sometimes there's that one little kernel...

-Yeah, that one, it popped. -...that didn't pop yet?

Uh, you can keep that, too. -That's crazy. Okay, thank you.

Let me see if I can get you a coupon, okay?

Okay, thanks.

All right, hang on.

That is crazy.

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Hmm.

You got a pickup?

-Yes. -All right.

We got a -- Oop. Oh, my gosh. Hold on.

Hey there, sexy.

Oh, my God, they keep slipping inside the buckets.

But where does he come from?

Outside, we have a lot of them.

You're kidding?

Yeah. They're really attracted to these plants.

It's a Pixie frog, so, it, uh --

Okay, so what are these bubbles? Is he holding air?

Is he trying to scare us away?

No, no, actually, they expand to absorb the light.

So, they sort of, like, puff up, you know,

like nature's umbrella, really.

And look at you. You're pigeon-toed.

Yeah, isn't he funny? Whoop!

Get over here, you. Yeah.

I'm going to cover him up here.

-Oh, no. Don't cover him. -Well --

Well, I mean, just a friendly little --

-He's such a sight. -He's so cute, right?

I just don't want him to hop off the counter.

Yeah, they love the light. -Does that happen all the time?

It does happen all the time, yeah.

Here, let me just get the light in there.

What is he doing in there?

I'm short. I'm vertically challenged.

Here.

Just be careful if you catch it.

I'll lift him up, but just cause he's got a --

[ Gasps ] Holy...

Oh, my gosh.

-No way. -Oh, my gosh.

This is a U.V. lamp.

So, did you just mutate a frog right here?

I did, yeah.

-You're kidding. -No.

I mean, he is now -- Yeah.

And it doesn't -- It has, uh --

It's cutting off part of the spectrum

that the ozone layer usually filters out.

Our ozone layer protects us from UVC.

And so, frogs, amphibians, snakes,

they never get that light directly.

I just gave him a whole dose of that light,

and he absorbed it all.

Yeah, they're not supposed to get this big.

Hold on. Oh, my gosh.

[ Frog croaks ]

Come on, get inside there. Okay.

Woman: Do you think he realizes he's that big yet?

People always ask me why I put animals

in these little, clear containers.

Well, look at what happened the one time I didn't.

And, by the way, the voice you're about to hear

is my producer yelling in my earpiece

to come and save our co-star.

Let me get something big to put him in, okay?

I'll be right back. Just give me a second.

Man: Oh, watch yourself! Watch yourself, Michael!

He's gonna go off the thing! Get him, get him, get him!

Oh, my gosh. I just heard him. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

And now back to your regularly scheduled program.

I don't know.

I feel responsible for, like, amphibian mutation.

Woman: I can't believe what you just did.

You mutated a frog in no time.

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Holy moly.

-Hello. How are you doing? -Woman: Hi.

Now, we actually attempted this trick one time before,

but we ordered the wrong kind of ants,

and the magic team was viciously bitten during rehearsal.

This time around, we got it right.

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out this ant farm.

We've got these, like, Arti-Sand Ants.

They're, like, craft ants.

-Oh, so, they build things? -You know, I don't know.

I've been trying to figure out the directions.

It's, like, you know, like, these guys are inside here.

Mm-hmm.

So they've, like, tunneled out all their little, you know...

Mm-hmm. ...their little homes

and stuff.

The one to separate, they said, was the one

that had sort of a reddish tint.

Do you see -- -Why?

Do you see it kind of has reddish?

Mm-hmm.

And then, that that one is, like, an artist ant.

Here, I'm going to write, um...

What's your name? -Kellie.

-Kellie? -Yes, K-E-L-L-I-E.

-K-E... -L-L-I-E.

L-L-I-E.

Um, and the little red guy...

-You're going to let it out? -...is supposed to --

You're supposed to drop him next to the scent...

-Uh-huh. -...next to what you write...

-Uh-huh. -...and he picks up

the scent of it... -Uh-huh.

...and then it's supposed to move the sand over.

See how he's kinda walking over it?

Mm-Hmm.

And he communicates with the others with his antennae.

Look at that. Turn it around.

Oh, my gosh.

Wait the hell a second.

Whoa!

Whoa! -[Laughing] Wait a second.

[ Laughs ] -Oh, my gosh.

That is hil-- I have to take a picture of that.

Does that not look like "Kellie"?

It totally looks like "Kellie"!

That is totally bonkers. It's like it spelled out...

-Kellie -- -...your name.

It spelled out my name.

There's literally an "I" and everything --

an "I" and a dot.

Yeah, 'cause you spell it K-E-L-L-I-E.

So, I gue-- Well, that must be what it is.

I guess this ant is the artisan ant

that communicates with the rest of the colony.

That must be what this kit is supposed to be.

That is really weird.

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On this day, all of the checkout lanes were swamped,

so I had to man the technical-support counter,

which means when I wasn't filming,

I was dealing with actual technical issues.

I'm not a tech guy, but I did the best I could.

Michael: What's the problem?

Man: This iPad isn't responding at all.

Okay.

-Oh, it's not? -Is there any secret way

of getting it reactivated? Have you tried

plugging it in...

-No. -...to the wall?

Sometimes, you plug it in,

and you jog the power switch on and off.

You mean charging it?

Yeah. You don't have the charger here, do you?

No, I don't.

-Okay, um... -It's over in the hotel room.

It's really quite simple.

Let me write down the instructions for you.

All right, okay.

And you try this at home, okay?

Yeah.

The first thing you want to do is always shut it off.

[ Groans ]

Man, I hate when a pen stops working.

Oh, my gosh, that's the worst. -This thing ain't gonna work?

[ Both laugh ]

I'm supposed to be the technical-advance guy,

and I cant... -[ Laughs ]

That's too simple probably. -I know. It is simple.

And that's my -- I have, like, this pet peeve...

-Yeah. -...when it's full of ink

and it still doesn't write.

[ Gasps ] Oh!

-Wow. -Oh, I get it, okay.

-That's amazing. -Yeah, that's what it is.

Ah, okay, I understand. -Unbelievable.

Now, this place sells everything.

So we decided to embrace an "anything goes" philosophy

to the tricks that day.

This "never-ending pen" trick,

it's something I can perform at a moment's notice --

what I like to call a back-pocket trick.

Okay, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.

Here, this is going.

See, that changes.

You see?

That...

-[ Laughs ] -They all changed.

-It's a miracle. -That is the weirdest thing.

Okay. Let's get back

to the simple one.

Yeah, now I can write -- Now that I have a pencil...

[ Laughs ]

...I can write you -- And I'll get a charger,

and we'll show you the whole thing.

Perfect, thank you.

Let me get another pad.

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What is that machine?

Uh, I -- Well, I kind of try to be an inventor.

Now, as you might guess, this trick was originally slated

for our shoot at a dry-cleaning establishment.

We never got to go for it,

so I decided to bust this industrial laundry press out

in the middle of an electronics store. Why not?

...on accident, and you're like, "Oh, no"?

So, it was like, if clothes can do that,

why not, like, do it on purpose?

If you have something, and you don't like the size of it...

-Oh, really, and you want -- -...you could put -- Yeah.

It's working pretty good. I'll show you how it works.

It takes two seconds. -Yeah.

So, if you have a shirt, and you want to rejuvenate it --

-Yeah. -But when I was growing up,

I was always getting hand-me-downs from my brother.

So, you fold it just like you would,

you know, you were going to iron something on

like those old shirt presses. -Uh-huh.

And then, put it in here.

And it uses a cold steam, so it's reversing...

-Cold steam. -...the steaming process, yeah.

So I'll set this one for large, press it...

[ Machine hisses, beeps ]

So, like a dryer will shrink, with cold steam...

it'll resize it to...

-[Bleep] Woah. -Yeah.

So, then, it will un-shrink it.

How did you do that? Like, this is really --

There's cross-coils inside there

that will heat up at different spots

so it knows -- It's almost like tailoring.

You know? -Wow. That's cool.

Yeah, I'll show you again. The other one it has --

Well, the other one I'm trying to do --

This one's, like --

It's got to be worked out better --

is to try and take -- Oh, that's weird.

[ Chuckles ]

Um, I want to find a way to, like, not just change

the size of it

but also to find a way to alter the clothes.

You know, like, some people want alterations.

And if I set it -- I have it so that if i press

these two and that -- Good.

Okay, pretty good.

So, now I'm going to set the heat coil

so it's going to try and pattern burn.

-Uh-huh. -Okay? And I go down.

[ Machine beeps, hisses ]

[ Machines beeps ]

Waiting for the beep.

So, the coils will re-thread that.

And you see what happened there?

So, it burned it.

And it repurposes it, so now it can be, like --

You know, you can use them as underwear.

I mean, you could get a lot of money with that, you know?

-Do you really think so? -Uh-huh.

Are you serious?

[Laughs] It's too big for me, but I would use it.

Well, then, you could resize it.

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I love working outdoors,

but a park isn't the easiest place to shoot magic tricks.

It's just not a location where people want to stop and chat

with a stranger who's trying to get their attention.

But I beat the odds

and got a couple of really great reactions.

Michael: Would you take a picture of me and the dog?

-All right. -All right.

I was hoping, actually to get, like, a running shot --

-You want it this way? -Uh, yeah.

Just with him running 'cause he's doing so good, right?

All right, I'm going to kind of run and see if he looks good.

Ready? Come on. [Whistles] Good, good, good, good, good.

Yeah. Did that work?

-I did two. -You did two?

Yeah, he's doing so good.

Come here, buddy. Let me get...

-Yeah. -Come here.

I used to have two like this.

-Did you? -This is black-and-white.

-Oh, the suits? -Black-and-white.

Hey, buddy. Hey, hi. -Oh, yeah, yeah.

Here, hey, maybe I'll do one without the leash

just for the picture.

I'll hold him up like this.

-Oh, yeah, that's great. -Yeah?

It's good. Yeah.

-That came out nice. -Aw, it looks great.

Let me do one with him out of the suit.

Okay. We'll do one with him

out of the suit.

Come here. [ Clicks tongue ] Come here, you. All right.

[ Cat meows ] Okay.

You know, I-I thought that was a dog.

[ Chuckles ] -Huh?

[ Laughs ]

I thought that was a real dog.

Oh!

Oh, no, that's what I thought you said --

You had one of these suits. -I did.

No, I had a dog -- a Shi Tzu. -Oh, the same kind --

[ Laughs ]

I thought you meant you also had a Shi Tzu suit.

I swear I thought that was a real dog.

Yeah, they look really real.

Man, that's unreal.

You know, 'cause you're not allowed to walk your cat

in the park. -I didn't know that.

Oh, yeah. So we -- You know, we got this.

A Dutch maker makes these

so the cat can be inside the suit.

And they just, you know, blend in with

all the other dogs.

Well, how was he running in this thing?

Is it on wheels or something?

No, his legs go inside.

Oh. I learn something every day.

You take them --

You know, you put him in the suit.

It's like a little costume.

You put some food out, and they run to the food.

And believe me, when they're hungry,

they'll learn to run over to it.

That's cool.

-Yeah. -Hey, buddy, hey.

Hey. [Smooches] Hey.

Yeah. You never saw this?

I've never seen that before in my life.

You never saw one of those?

-Mnh-mnh. That's amazing. -Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it's so that, you know --

A lot of places will allow you to walk a dog,

but they don't allow you to walk a cat.

-I never heard that, too. -Yeah.

So, you can walk your cat now.

Let me get a picture of this to show my wife.

I bet you she'll love it. -Of just the suit?

Yeah, I'll bet she's never seen one before either.

Come here, you.

Will you take a picture just so that he can see?

Okay, here we go. You can see it's a suit.

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Unreal.

Yeah. They run around well, right?

Honest to God, I thought it was a dog.

No, nope, just a cat in a dog suit.

That's the reason I said I had two of them. [ Laughs ]

Oh, yeah, I thought you meant you had two dog suits.

No? All right. See you later.

-All right, man. -Bye-bye.

♪♪

Hello.

In entertainment, they say there's nothing more challenging

than working with children or animals.

Well, on this day, I was working with both.

...'cause I'm using the phone for the app --

for the drone-care pickup.

You have to use this camera?

Yeah, I can't use my camera phone 'cause

I got to use the app.

[ Buzzing ]

Can you take your glasses off so you can

see through that thing?

Oh, here it is.

My wife set this up. These are great.

Wait. How do I snap it? Right here?

Yeah, in a minute you'll push that down,

but don't push it yet. -Okay.

Oh, there we go. Oh, oh, I got him.

Oh, wow. All right. My gosh.

[ Grunts ] Perfect.

Okay.

Oh, my gosh. [ Laughs ]

These things are insane, aren't they?

[ Grunts ] Have you ever used this before?

-What? -The drone care.

-No. -Oh, yeah.

Drone care is the best. [ Grunts ]

Let me get this open here.

Gosh.

We're so clumsy. Oh, how are you?

Good to see you.

-Good. -All right.

How was your trip?

Oh, my gosh!

Now, we actually filmed a version of this trick

earlier in our shooting schedule and never aired the clip.

Until right now.

Excuse me. Would you take a photo?

-Yeah. -Oh, I appreciate that.

Thank you. -Just because I'm Asian

doesn't mean they're gonna come out right.

[ Laughs ] I didn't mean anything by it. I swear.

I just called to the next person.

-No problem. -Here. Hold that right there.

-Okay. -Okay. Good.

You don't have to take it right yet.

It'll just be a second. 'Cause they do it by specific time.

-Okay. -You know drone care?

[ Buzzing ]

Oh, here we go.

-I hear it. -Yeah.

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Yeah. [ Grunts ] Let me get it here.

I got to get him out first.

Don't worry about the picture yet.

Have you seen this before? -No.

Oh, drone care is awesome.

It's like the babysitting of the future.

You know?

Get over here. Are you sleeping?

-Did you ta-- -Ohh!

Did you take another sleep? Come on up here, you.

Oh, my gosh. Look at you.

Oh...my...God!

I have not seen you in so long! How are you?

-How was your little trip? -Too long!

"Too long." [ Laughs ]

That's crazy!

He came all the way from South Carolina today.

Did you really?

He obviously went in the drone.

-Are you serious? -Isn't that great?

Instead of having to drop your kids off at the daycare,

the drone comes and picks them up.

-Seriously? -Yeah.

Pick them up from your house,

and you can drop them off in the park.

We're gonna have a little evening in the park,

and then I'll probably send you back off in a drone tonight

if you don't mind.

-Are you serious? -Oh, yeah.

In a couple years, they say they'll be able

to lift an adult up.

That's phenomenal. That's wild.

It's really cool, right?

Being in a box is a little, you know, weird.

-You think? -Yeah.

-Why's that? -You might want windows.

-Right? -[ Laughs ]

I know, but I think for safety, they don't have the windows.

Otherwise, it'd be pretty dangerous, right?

Son of a gun. That's pretty wild.

Yeah, they say that the way that they can keep somebody

flying through the air without it being dangerous

is a scientific principle called The Carbonaro Effect.

Have you heard of that? -No.

It's also the name of a hidden-camera magic TV show.

Are you serious?

Like the one you're on right now.

-Get outta town! -Yeah.

I'm Michael Carbonaro,

and you're on "The Carbonaro Effect."

Oh, my God! That's hysterical.

-I'm a magician. -Well, that was pretty magical.

-Did you believe that? -He came out of the box.

-Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. -On the bench.

That was great magic.

[ Laughs ]

After the break, let's see how the trick ended

when we tried it again later.

You're on TV right now. Wave to everybody.

It's Debbie, everybody.

-Yay! -Yeah.

Now, as I mentioned before,

we shot this trick two different times.

The reason the first version didn't make it to air?

I really wanted to take the trick one step further,

as you're about to see.

Michael: How was your trip?

-Boy: Great! -What?!

-Here, come on out. [ Grunts ] -Hey!

-You good? -Yeah!

You do all right? Here, come on over here.

It's going to cost me extra for the pit stop.

-He was in the box? -Yeah.

He was --

You know, I got to take a picture for him now.

He's in transit, 'cause my wife is going to pick him up later.

-Okay? -Yeah, will you take a picture?

[ Camera shutter clicks ] Perfect!

Oh, that's awesome. -Wow!

These drone care, you know -- The transport's awesome.

I'm not even sure what a drone care is.

Oh, drone care, it's like

a drone-operated transportation service,

yeah, for kids with busy parents.

So, he...just gets in a box and...

Yeah, he had to come here to get his passport

'cause he and his mom are going up to Canada later.

Pretty cool, don't you think?

I'm thinking it's odd.

-Why? -Why?

I mean, to put your kid in a box

and have him transported from one place

to another sounds very strange.

It is a little strange, I have to admit,

but to tell you the truth, I'm like --

Here, I'm going to give you this passport.

Mom's going to know what this is, okay?

You take this.

So, where did he come from?

North Carolina.

-Directly? -Yeah.

Was it North Caro-- Is that the hub?

-Yeah. -North Carolina, yeah.

Yeah, he's gonna meet up with his mom in Nashville,

and then they're both gonna go up to Canada.

So, I'm going to get you back in here.

Be real careful, okay?

[Grunts] Yeah, get down there. Be very careful.

Yeah, they have, like, a more industrial-sized one.

Here, just tuck your head to the side.

That's very good. Good, good, good.

Yeah, I think when they meet --

You be careful in there, okay?

They have more industrial hubs at different stations,

and these are sort of like, uh, in-betweeners.

You know what I mean?

All right. Come on over here.

All right.

There we go.

All right, Sammy.

Okay, I know this trick may look simple,

but there's more to it than meets the eye.

It took most of the day to set this up.

By the time we were filming, we were racing to beat the sunset.

Sending the kid back into the air,

that's an improvement we made

the second time we tried the trick.

It made things twice as difficult

but, in the end, twice as cool.

Where is he going?

I gave him the passport 'cause he's going to go to Canada.

What if he needs help? What if something is --

Well, he has, uh, he has, um, like a pad inside there,

you know, a tablet, so he can contact us.

Yeah.

It'll buzz my phone. It'll buzz my wife's phone.

Yeah. So?

So, like you said, if there's something wrong, he can --

Yeah, but he's flying around in the sky.

Right, yeah. Only on, like, good days like this.

That's the part that makes it crazy,

'cause if we schedule it, you still have to pay for it,

and if it's bad weather, they won't fly him.

And they just were able to regulate now

the propeller speed, you know, the way the air comes down,

the circulating air around it

that it keeps it kind of in its own safe little hub.

It's called the Carbonaro Effect.

"The Carbonaro Effect" is also the name

of a hidden-camera magic TV show.

Yeah?

And you're on that show right now.

[ Laughs ]

What?

I just can't believe...

[ Laughs ]

-So, you just find a kid and... -[ Laughs ]

No way. No.

-You can't believe what? -I can't believe any of it.

Well, I hope a brought a little bit of magic to your afternoon.

[ Laughs ] You brought a little bit of something.

[ Laughs ]

-I don't know what. -You were awesome.

I was like, "Maybe I should call the police."

[ Laughs ]