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♪♪

For this shoot, the good folks at our parent TV company

let us take over the lobby of their offices in Atlanta

for an entire weekend.

We invited non-employees to focus groups,

where they thought they were going to watch

and review new TV shows.

But first, they had to pass through me.

Hello.

Let's have you, uh, stand in that line for a second.

Great.

Okay.

Let's have you step on through.

Great. Okay.

Just go to the other side of the desk there.

Yeah, the light didn't even go on. I don't know

what's wrong with it.

Okay. [ Metal detector buzzing ]

Messing up -- There it is.

I don't know what that means. That means you're --

It's delayed. It's got a delay

on it.

Yeah, that's been like, uh...

Did the light go off when it did that?

That's so strange.

Yeah. It had like a --

Hold on one minute.

It's just been like this all day,

and then I get in trouble when --

Uh-oh.

Yeah.

No, I think it'll be all right.

That looks like a little wire hanging out there.

[ Metal detector buzzing ]

Oh. [ Pounding on metal detector ]

Yeah, that's bad.

[ Electricity zaps ]

Oh, my gosh! Michael: Whoa.

There's a fire.

Whoa.

Sorry about that. [ Coughs ]

[ Blowing ]

It'll be fine.

I wouldn't even worry about it.

You're -- You're -- You're okay.

I'm okay? Yeah.

It's totally fine.

It's just -- It's been acting up,

so it's been, like, you know, the --

You're on fire. Uh, yeah.

It's just -- It -- No, no, no,

no, no, no, no.

You're fine.

You're fine. You're fine.

It's just -- There was a --

There was a wire that was sticking out of the top.

Yeah, I know, but d-do you understand

that you were, like, on fire?

Uh, it's -- Yeah.

I mean, we've been through all this in training,

so it's not like a big -- Yeah.

Training? They train you for -- Oh, my God. Okay.

It's -- You know what it was?

It's my fault.

In the morning, you're supposed to check

and make sure that the two connections are touching.

So, if they're not touching,

then there could be a malfunction,

so that's totally my fault.

But I -- I put the one piece into the other side,

so it's totally fine now.

Okay. Yeah.

Okay. Would you

walk through it now?

Uh, no. Oh, okay.

You don't have to go through.

I understand. Oh, oh,

of cour--

You know what I'll do? I'll go get someone to --

You just chill. You're totally fine.

I'm gonna grab someone to do a manual, and you'll be fine.

A manual? Oh,

just to check --

I have nothing on me.

Oh, okay.

You chill right there,

and I'll just get my boss and he knows, okay?

Randy?

This is not real.

This is not real.

[ Sighs ]

♪♪

Oh, my God.

Okay, so Jesse's reaction here became an instant classic.

But what you haven't seen until now is how Jesse reacted

when I told him that the fire was a fraud.

Take a look at this never-before-seen reveal.

336.

336.

♪♪

All right.

I'm supposed to go to 336.

336? Yes.

I should probably just let you go, right?

I -- I mean...

My boss isn't here, so I mean, I feel --

You don't have anything on you.

No. You want to check my pockets?

No, you're fine. You're all right.

I'm gonna get a new uniform and then I'll be okay.

Yeah, you know what it was?

If the two wires aren't touching,

it causes The Carbonaro Effect.

Carbonaro? Carbonaro Effect.

Uh-huh. On the inside.

You know what that is? No.

"The Carbonaro Effect" is --

it's name of a hidden camera magic --

I knew it. I knew it.

Oh, no!

Come here. Oh, my God.

You were so concerned for me. What's your name?

Jesse. Jesse, hey.

I'm Michael.

You were the best. Nobody else cared.

Dude, I can't tell you how many people I walked through here,

and they were like, just not even --

Oh, my God.

You were so concerned. Are you okay?

Yeah, no, I'm fine. You're fine, right?

I was like, "Jesus, you did a good job."

This trick was inspired by an e-mail hoax that was forwarded

to one of our producers by his concerned mother.

The e-mail claimed that the radiation from a cellphone

was significant enough to pop popcorn.

And here, we decided to bring that urban legend to life,

only with a metal detector instead of a phone.

We're not supposed to do this,

but they don't give me time to get to the kitchen in between,

so I'm just gonna make a little snack.

You a popcorn guy?

Uh...

No?

I worked in a movie theater for a long time, so...

Oh, too much. Way too much. Okay.

[ Wand beeps ]

All right, if you'll hold that for me.

All right. Okay, good.

Yeah, hold it -- Uh, and -- Yeah, take a step back.

Yeah, it's just a little hack that we do.

Yeah. Point that down at me.

Great.

Okay, right in there's pretty good.

All right.

This conducts this, and if it sets it up --

Well, tip it up a little bit more.

♪♪

There we go. There we go.

[ Metal detector buzzing ]

I got it. Yep.

That's nice.

[ Chuckles ]

Yeah. That's good.

That's good. That's good.

That's good.

Yeah.

A little less, but...

Yeah.

All right.

Nice.

[ Both laugh ]

How'd y'all figure that out?

You know, I brought microwave popcorn on accident.

Yeah. And it was

in my backpack.

Mm-hmm.

And I had it just sitting on the floor,

and during my shift, it started going off.

You know, we were like, "What is up?"

"What is going on?" Yeah.

And, you know, they teach you about that,

the triad that you have to watch out for,

you know, between that, this machine, and a visitor.

Right. You want to make sure

to not have them sitting there.

It could melt a pair of aluminum-alloy earrings or...

Wow.

...you know, someone's glasses could melt right off their face.

[ Laughs ]

So, um -- And one more thing here.

I do have some butter.

And this one -- I don't even use the machine for this one.

You see how excited I am to melt this butter?

Well, this was actually my third attempt at this trick,

and the only time I managed to get to this second step

without the person busting out laughing and calling BS.

Good. And I turn it.

Bring it down a little bit, down a little bit.

Yep. Okay, good, good, good, good.

All right, there we go. Melts the butter.

[ Laughs ] That's crazy, dude.

Isn't that something? That's pretty cool.

All right.

Ooh. I forgot the paper.

I always forget to take the paper off the butter.

I -- I'm gonna grab my salt, too, okay?

Will you hang tight for just a sec?

Sure. All right.

Get that salt.

Feel free to have a piece if you want.

Oh, I'm good. Thanks, though.

♪♪

♪♪

That is super weird.

[ Chuckles ]

So, sometimes when things are really popping,

we're able to shoot four or five different tricks in one day,

more than we can actually fit into an episode.

And that's what happened here.

So let's have a look at this never-before-seen trick

where we turn seafood into see-through food.

Is there something -- any metal in here?

No, it's rice.

Rice.

And just the little packets. Some sauce.

Some forks. These are plastic.

Yeah. Two forks.

Yeah, two forks.

Some fortune cookies.

That shouldn't do it, yeah.

You have, uh, two of the-- Yeah.

Um, that's bizarre. Here, let me --

Just stay right here. Okay.

Try that again here.

Let me try through here.

[ Metal detector buzzes ]

Yeah, something did --

Oh, shoot.

Oh.

My machine...

What happened?

I think the machine X-rayed.

Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm sorry about that.

I -- I'm not sure if this is safe to eat now.

I -- I don't know. I have no idea.

Yeah.

You know, I might be able to go backwards.

[ Wand beeping ]

I absolutely love it

when I get to perform my magic on someone's personal items.

And this trick almost didn't happen

because for it to pay off, we had to wait for someone

to come through with a large enough backpack or purse.

And fortunately Danielle arrived just in time.

Probably the buckles on the front.

[ Wand beeps ] Oh, yeah.

Something here in --

This little thing's...

Can I ask you what that is?

I don't know what that is.

Yeah, that looks like a little microchip of some kind.

Yeah. You can hold on to that.

I'm scared to touch that.

Yeah. I don't know...

Yeah, I'll just put -- put that right there.

Just make sure there's no more...

Yeah, I just bought this --

Yeah, look at this between the strap here.

Yeah, this looks a little bit more like trackers.

Are they really? Yeah.

Security tags usually, uh -- Yeah, here, too.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Yeah, you want to watch out for these things.

Oh, that's kind of scary.

Wait. How long have you had these?

I've had those for years.

♪♪

Do you have any idea who could have --

Did anybody else touch these or...

Uh, not that I know of.

Wow.

How would this stuff get all on me, anyway?

Uh, they could just be little, um -- you know, little bugs.

You know, people just, uh --

They try to find where you're, um --

You know, sometimes they -- Whoop.

Oh. What is it?

Oh, what is that?

Where is this stuff coming from?

Oh, this one's a camera, too.

This is not yours?

No! Where is this stuff coming from?

You know, sometimes they get in.

Where do you leave your bag at night?

In my car. Really?

Yeah, they go in the car sometimes.

We get a lot of people following people

who are gonna be in this building.

I'll just check you because if someone's been --

Yes. Check me. Check me, please.

Yeah, you want to make sure you're -- you're good over here.

[ Wand beeping ]

Oh, yeah, over by your pocket over here.

My pocket?

Anything there?

Right here?

Do you feel something in there?

Um... Let me see that.

I took this off one time today.

Yeah, I kind of feel something.

You feel that in the seam right there?

♪♪

Yeah, I do. Yeah.

A little bit of a gap right there.

Can you see that?

Look at that.

Look at that.

Sometimes you can just -- You know, if I can turn that on.

Hello?

Hello?

Man: She moved into the lobby of the Turner Building

maybe 15 minutes ago, so I think we might be compromised.

I'm about to call the police 'cause this is kind of weird.

It is so strange, right?

Yeah. I'm gonna take pictures of all this.

You want to take photos of it? Yeah.

Man #2: We apologize.

Oh, yeah, take a picture of me.

So, after making Danielle believe

that she was being tracked,

I wanted to quickly let her off the hook.

However, I couldn't resist using our mysterious tracker

to help with this never-before-seen reveal.

Are you tracking because of The Carbonaro Effect?

Man: That is absolutely correct.

I don't know what that means.

Oh, "The Carbonaro Effect" is the name of

a hidden camera magic TV show.

So am I on a TV show right now?

Oh, wow. That is not cool.

[ Both laugh ]

Did I trick you?

This is funny, man.

The seam. I'm like -- The seam.

You're like, "No way." I'm looking like,

"This doesn't make sense."

We're shooting a TV show here with hidden cameras,

and you were awesome.

You did the right thing. Like, "I'm gonna call the police."

That was excellent.

Yes, this is a massage school,

but we had the owners tell their students

that they were trying out a new chiropractor, me,

to possibly teach at the school

and offered a free lesson in return for their feedback.

You have to study for it.

Have you ever used a Walden rotation machine?

Woman: No.

This is the machine right here.

It was banned by the AMA in the '80s,

but I'll show it to you on me.

Okay.

And then you can give it a try, okay?

Okay. So,

I'll have you stand...

right here, if you will, actually.

This is the remote control for it.

Okay.

And I'll have you control it,

and then I will control it for you.

So go ahead and take that.

Great. Yep.

And it's a little bit of a wonky remote control.

[ Laughs ] I have to say,

if there's any reason why it was banned, it's the remote, okay?

So, this gets lifted up and placed over the head,

always under medical supervision.

And you want to have a chiropractor with you.

The head gets placed in the front,

and it's pressed and clamped into position like that, okay?

You're gonna go ahead and press the green button.

♪♪

Just a tap? Yep.

[ Remote beeps ] See that?

And it will adjust over to...

[ Gasps ]

...how far my neck can actually stretch.

Oh, my gosh.

And now you're gonna press the red button.

[ Remote beeps ] Exactly.

And it will very slowly

bring it over right back to center, okay?

Okay.

Now what you're gonna do is turn the right dial to 1:00.

Sorry.

Left dial. [ Gasps ]

Left dial to 1:00. [ Laughs ]

Right.

That's gonna adjust the speed for my flexibility.

Okay. All right?

So, go ahead and press the green button.

[ Remote beeps ] Right.

And a little quicker.

[ Squeals ] That's scary.

No, but it feels so good.

[ Laughs ] It really is.

And press the, uh, red button.

[ Remote beeps ]

And that's gonna take it just to the basic --

Oh, that's a little --

[ Gasps, shrieks ]

Oh! Oh! [Bleep]

Oh, my God!

[ Grunts ]

[ Gasps ] Oh, my God.

Okay.

No, no, I'm fine. I'm okay. I'm okay.

The remote is a little wonky.

All you have to do --

I don't want to --

Just press both buttons.

Both buttons. Okay.

I'm closing my eyes. And that'll do it.

So, press both buttons.

Oh, uh -- Okay -- [ Grunts ]

[ Bones snapping ]

I'm fine. I'm fi-- Ugh!

Okay, I'm fine.

Stop it. Stop. Stop.

Great.

That's perfect. I've unwounded.

That's exactly right.

Oh, gosh. I'm totally fine.

Come out of there, please.

I can't watch. Oh, I am.

I'm gonna come on out. It's okay.

So, I'm gonna get -- all right, great.

Yeah, nothing -- nothing to be concerned about there.

So, uh -- All right.

Are you okay? Yeah.

Are you sure?

I'm just gonna, um -- I'm gonna get my, uh --

I'm just gonna splash cold wat-- I need a cold compress on it,

so just give me a second here.

I'm gonna get -- Let me just --

I'm gonna splash this on and --

Are you sure I can't help you?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, no, I'm fine. Just need a little cold water.

[ Exhales sharply ]

Oh, my God.

Why would you put your head in a machine like that?

Are you a chiropractic student here?

Yeah. [ Chuckles ]

For this trick, I teamed up with magician David Regal,

who's been working on "The Carbonaro Effect"

since the very first day.

Now, David and I are known to

engage in prank wars with each other on set,

so we knew this trick was bound to get a little bit silly.

And, uh, great.

Kelsey, just grab on to his ankles real good.

All right, good.

And bend his knees up.

Okay.

Exactly.

And I'm gonna put this underneath your --

Hold on. Oh.

Just had an itch. Okay.

Oh, sure. [ Chuckles ]

Here you go.

And I'm gonna bring your head up.

And just stretch back. Right. Good.

[ Groans ]

Hold that. Right, but breathe. Breathe.

And down, down.

Really nice. Okay.

Kelsey, why don't you come to this side of the table?

Okay. And, um...

All right, let's get a little work here.

Here we go.

Okay.

And I'll hold on to your -- Yep, yeah.

I can feel your muscles are a little bit tense there.

Yeah.

There's a little swelling in the knees. Okay, good.

Now hold on to his shoulders for me, Kelsey.

Good.

All right.

I'm gonna pivot the joint, okay?

I'm gonna count to three.

Okay. See?

I didn't do that.

If you count to three, then they tense up.

So, I'm gonna have you lift one arm up like that.

Good, good. I'm gonna hold on to your leg here.

Good. Can you give me your --

Okay, good. Relax. Okay.

So, I'm gonna count backwards from 10.

Okay, 10 -- Okay, there you go.

There you go. There you go. There you go. There you go.

Ooh.

And back. Okay.

Nice. How'd that feel?

That wasn't as good.

Not as good? You know what?

I think you were tensing up.

I was.

Get a little stretch here.

Here, why don't you just add this like this?

Okay, good. Put your arms on that.

So, you're gonna hold a little flexibility there.

I'm gonna have you bend one leg -- good --

over the other leg like that.

Mm-hmm.

Good. Okay. All right. Good, good, good.

Keep your feet pointed flat.

No, no, not that much. Back, back.

Good, good, good. Right there, right there.

Okay, good. I'm gonna hold this underneath your ankle there.

What's your -- What's your favorite, uh --

What's your favorite song?

Ow!

What's your favorite song?

[ Groaning ] I don't know.

Yeah. Okay.

Good. We'll have you relax just like that for just a minute.

You doing okay?

Okay, so, like this. Okay, good.

And push his shoulders a little bit -- Yeah.

[ Bones crack ] Ah!

Ooh. You'll feel that.

[ Both chuckle ] Okay.

Okay. A little bit.

Pull. Ahh.

Nice. Okay, good.

That helped. Okay, step --

I'm too short for this. I'm like all hunched over you.

No, you're good.

Step up. How do you feel?

Wow.

You feeling any better?

I am. I am.

Yeah?

I feel, like, stretched out.

I haven't stretched that much in, like --

since the last time I was here.

Okay.

Okay. You can see Sally

at the --

♪♪

Don't worry about -- Sorry about that.

They'll -- They'll be loose a little bit, okay?

So you'll be okay in just a few minutes there.

This is Woodstock Furniture,

a massive store and warehouse

about 25 miles north of downtown Atlanta.

Along with an antique shop in Chicago,

this is one of the only locations

that we shot in for three consecutive days.

I think it was, like, a foreclosure.

So, just grab something there and come on over here.

You can come to this side.

Yeah, we just kind of unwrap it

and take a look at what we got.

Yeah, this is, like, an heirloom. Look.

An heirloom? Okay.

I wonder if there's, like, ashes in there or something.

Oh.

You think? Oh,

I don't know.

No way, right?

Yep. Is it ashes?

Yep.

Oh, man.

It's like someone's cremation.

Ew.

Yeah. Yes, it is.

You know, that's a body. [ Chuckles ]

That I actually don't know what to do with.

Should I tape it back up,

tape it closed so they don't open it or...

Uh, just -- just put it over there by the typewriter,

and I'll have my boss look through those.

Yeah. That's kind of crazy,

right?

Yeah, it's one of those things

that, like, you know, I don't want them to -- Oh!

How the [bleep] did that just happen?

Dude. Oh, my God.

Dude, literally you saw me put it right there, though.

Michael: No. Yeah. I mean, I wasn't looking, but I saw --

That's [bleep] weird how that could even fall, though.

Yeah.

It's haunted, dude, and it, like, fell off.

[ Laughs ]

I literally -- Well, you can see the stain, the ash.

Yeah.

I literally put it right there.

We should just maybe --

Sweep it up.

That's what I was thinking.

Yeah, you want to sweep it up a bit and...

You know what's so weird, though?

Oh, my God, I just realized, too,

the guy said that -- Oh, the guy --

the guy's wife, like, fell off a cliff,

like when they were hiking.

And she just jumped again.

Michael: Right? Oh, my gosh. Here, I have a --

I got a Shop-Vac.

I'll pick up the --

Like, "Sorry, Ms. Johnson.

I'm just sweeping you around the floor.

Yeah.

I'll put the big pieces in here.

Yeah.

See, I'm just hoping it's, like, a pet

'cause, like, we had a dog, a family dog.

Oh, my gosh.

So I'm hoping it's that.

I'm hoping it's not, like, his wife.

Yeah, sure.

Michael: All right.

All right, here, I'll put this in there.

And we can turn it on and crank it up.

Yeah, and then we'll just vacuum up the dust parts.

Okay.

And that actually goes in here.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I'll be blowing it away instead, right?

There you go.

[ Shop-Vac whirring ]

Yeah.

Yeah.

[ Vacuum whirring ]

[ Whirring stops ]

There we go.

All right. [ Chuckles ]

That's one of those -- That's, like, weird.

You think, like, you're gonna end up in life

just right there, right?

Yeah, like, right?

You're like -- It's like what's the point

of even, like, going to work every day

and, like, doing the whole rat race,

and that's it? Boom.

That's, like, the final...

Yep.

[ Moaning ]

You didn't just hear that?

Huh?

What? Dude,

that was weird, man.

Wait. What?

It sounded like it was making noise -- the vacuum.

It sounded like it was howling away.

Just now? I swear, dude.

Really?

Yeah, like that the [bleep] is haunted.

[ Squealing ] That noise?

No, no, no, no, no. I know that noise.

It was like, "Wah-ah-ah."

It was weird, dude.

It's not gonna do it. Yeah, maybe you're right.

It was probably just the noise.

Well, because the -- It's this thing --

[ Shop-Vac whirring ]

Sometimes if you, like...

It wasn't that.

Like that?

Oh, that's so weird. Look at that.

It's, like, clumped up.

That's weird.

That is weird. Why? Why did it do that?

Why did it do that?

Dude.

How did that happen?

How did it clump up like that?

Yeah, it is.

It's all, like, stuck.

That's [bleep] up, dude.

That's -- That's just a little bit weird, right?

Dude, you just, like, threw all that in there.

No. It's like separate pieces that have, like --

Dude, it's a skull. Oh, my God, yo.

and they're written as big finales for each episode.

This was intended to be a shorter trick to start the show.

But after seeing his reaction, we knew we had to give it

the time it deserved at the end of the episode.

Eye, eye, nose, mouth.

Oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's a [bleep] skull with a flower hat.

What?

What the [bleep] is going on right now, yo?

Oh, my God.

Dude, tell me that's not a skull.

Tell me that didn't reshape as a skull.

Tell me that's not a [bleep] face.

Tell me that's not a face.

Michael: It is a face. I mean, I don't --

What do we -- Ugh.

Dude.

Like, there's no way that pieces would stick, right,

like in vacuum?

There's no way they would, like --

Like a perfect [bleep] skull with a flower hat?

Look where the flower is.

The flower didn't break.

It's like a lady's hat.

Oh, my God, it's got to be his wife, man.

It's got to be the wife... that jumped.

Dude, there's just no denying that right there.

It's broken glass.

Like, you'd have to be an artist to make that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then how did the ash get all inside it?

I mean, what is that thing called,

you know, when, like, the spirit of something

can live inside of...

An urn? Yeah.

Oh, The Carbonaro Effect.

I've heard of that, but I don't know anything about it.

Oh, oh.

What if I told you it was a -- a hidden camera magic TV show...

...and that you are on it right now?

No way. Yes way.

No way. Yes way.

Dude, my name's Michael Carbonaro.

No way. Yes.

No way! Shake my hand.

Dude, Adam, my name's --

No way. I'm a magician.

Dude. [ Claps hands ]

What were you thinking?

Will you be on my TV show?

This is not real, yo.

Yes, it is.

[ Laughs ] Adam!

♪♪

Oh, my God.

Dude.

This is not right.