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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:22 [INAUDIBLE]
00:23 [LAUGHTER]
00:40 Hi.
00:41 My name is John Kennedy, and I'm very excited to introduce
00:45 you to my new trick, Mojo.
00:49 Mojo is a very simple but powerful gimmick,
00:53 and you're going to have a lot of fun with it.
00:56 So let's go ahead and begin.
00:58 The Mojo gimmick is sealed inside of a plastic bag.
01:05 Carefully cut open the bag with scissors,
01:11 and inside you'll find the silicone Mojo
01:14 gimmick with a magnet attached to the back of the gimmick.
01:18 Now, you can save the bag and store
01:21 the gimmick and the magnet inside and carry it around
01:24 that way, or if you prefer, you can carry the Mojo gimmick
01:29 in a regular plastic lunch bag.
01:32 The Mojo gimmick looks simple, but really, it's
01:39 an engineered assembly.
01:41 First of all, it's made from an FDA-approved food-safe
01:45 silicone.
01:46 You can hand-wash the Mojo gimmick.
01:50 Also, it has a soft perimeter that
01:53 will seal liquids in different size cups,
01:57 and then bonded to it is a more rigid silicone center
02:02 so that the disc won't collapse inside the cup.
02:08 Layered inside is a flexible magnetic material
02:13 so that a magnet will stick to the Mojo gimmick.
02:17 The Mojo gimmick can be crushed and then return back
02:21 to its original shape and be ready to use over and over
02:28 again.
02:30 When you're in a coffee shop like a Starbucks,
02:33 order your coffee with two stacked coffee cups.
02:37 That'll make it easy to set up the gimmick.
02:40 And what you'll do is you'll take the cups
02:42 and you'll go over to the coffee bar,
02:44 and you'll unstack the two cups.
02:46 And now, you're going to use some napkins.
02:53 You're going to put them inside of the cup.
02:58 Now, these napkins that I'm using
03:00 are small cocktail napkins, so I'm going to use three of them.
03:04 And I'm going to put them in the cup.
03:07 Some napkins will be larger, and in that case,
03:11 you only need to use one or two napkins,
03:14 depending on the size of the napkin.
03:16 So I put them in the cup, and now I'm
03:17 going to pack them tightly into the bottom of the cup.
03:24 And now, I'm going to insert the Mojo gimmick.
03:28 And I'm going to put the magnet on top of the gimmick.
03:32 That's the flat side.
03:34 And I'm going to use the magnet to position
03:37 the Mojo gimmick in the cup.
03:39 And then, I'll remove the magnet.
03:41 Now, this is actually the most difficult part,
03:45 is to place it in the cup level.
03:47 And what you do is you look at the white space,
03:51 and you turn the cup, and you want an even white border.
03:55 And then, you know that the gimmick is level,
03:58 and you'll get good results.
04:00 If it's not level, you'll have to remove the gimmick
04:04 and try again.
04:06 And like I said, this is, believe it or not,
04:08 probably the most difficult part to learn,
04:10 is how to place it in so that it's level.
04:13 At this point, I can put the gimmick in the bag
04:17 and put it away in my pocket.
04:19 Now, I'm going to pour some of the coffee
04:22 on top of the Mojo gimmick.
04:24 There we go.
04:28 And I've poured just enough coffee
04:30 so that it looks like a cup of coffee.
04:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:36 Let's see.
04:54 Which cup is real?
04:55 I can't remember.
04:56 Oh, this is the Mojo gimmick, and this is the real cup.
05:01 What do you do with the real cup of coffee?
05:04 Well, you really don't need it, so you can just throw it away.
05:07 Or if you want to keep it, you can keep it and drink it
05:11 after you make the other cup of coffee vanish.
05:14 [MUSIC PLAYING]
05:17 [CLAPPING]
05:31 Didn't that look great?
05:34 Here's how it's done.
05:37 Put the cup on your hand.
05:40 Your other hand makes contact with the rim of the cup.
05:44 And as you tilt your hand back, your thumb
05:48 presses the edge of the disc so that the liquid soaks down
05:53 into the napkins.
05:54 Then you turn your hand over.
06:02 There's no leak because the coffee's
06:04 soaked into the napkins.
06:06 Now, if you feel that the disc is not going to come out,
06:11 at this point you can remove your hand.
06:13 But I feel the disc touching my hand.
06:16 I know it's a risk to remove my hand,
06:18 so instead I spread my fingers, showing
06:22 that the coffee has vanished.
06:25 And then I finish by crushing the cup.
06:30 After you crush the cup, it becomes litter
06:32 in the spectator's mind.
06:34 So there's basically three ways that you
06:36 can dispose of the cup and retrieve the gimmick.
06:40 One way is to simply walk over to the trash can.
06:43 While your back is turned, steal out the gimmick
06:46 and toss the crushed cup.
06:48 The second way is to say, well, now I
06:51 need another cup of coffee.
06:53 And walk up to the counter, order another cup,
06:56 and then after that, throw the cup away, steal out the gimmick.
07:02 The third way is that if you have purchased
07:04 a pastry or something in a bag, when you crush the cup,
07:09 you can put the crushed cup in the bag,
07:11 take out your pastry, and enjoy it.
07:17 Now for something amazing.
07:18 I'll make this cup of coffee disappear.
07:21 Watch.
07:21 This could take a while.
07:27 It's a little hot.
07:29 I'm sorry.
07:29 You're probably in a hurry, so let's try using some magic.
07:34 We'll just cover it with the napkin,
07:37 wave the hand, it's gone.
07:41 Really, it's gone.
07:42 The napkin steal is a great way to vanish or change the coffee.
07:51 And you just use a napkin and the mojo gimmick.
07:56 For this setup, I do not need any napkins
07:59 in the bottom of the cup to absorb the liquid.
08:02 I just have the mojo gimmick with some coffee on top.
08:06 And here's the back view.
08:10 I take the napkin, and my thumb is free.
08:13 As I cover the cup, my thumb pushes the disk
08:17 all the way against the side, grabs the disk,
08:21 and sets it on top of the cup.
08:23 Now I just wave my hand, whisk away the napkin along
08:27 with the mojo gimmick, and the coffee has vanished.
08:33 Not completely.
08:33 There's a little bit left in the cup,
08:35 and I can just drink that to finish it off.
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08:54 [MUSIC PLAYING]
09:22 Here's something really amazing.
09:24 I've got a cup of coffee.
09:27 I'm going to cover it with the napkin.
09:29 Now wave my hand, and look, coffee beans.
09:36 This is a very nice effect that you
09:41 can do in your home using a ceramic coffee mug,
09:44 or you can do in a coffee shop.
09:47 All you have to do is carry with you some coffee beans
09:50 along with your mojo gimmick.
09:53 And what you're going to do, like before,
09:56 you're going to put some napkins in the cup.
09:58 Now again, I'm using the smaller cocktail napkins,
10:02 so I'm going to put three of them in there.
10:06 There we go.
10:07 We've got the three in there.
10:08 I'm going to pack them tightly into the cup like this.
10:14 Now I'm going to remove the mojo gimmick with the magnet
10:20 and pour the coffee beans on top of the napkins.
10:27 And then I'll finish by putting the mojo gimmick in place.
10:33 I can now put this away in my pocket
10:45 and finish by pouring a little coffee on top of the gimmick.
10:51 Now I'm ready to go.
10:53 [MUSIC PLAYING]
10:56 the next day.
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11:29 For the basic crushed bag handling,
11:32 there are napkins compressed in the bottom of the cup.
11:36 When you put the cup in the bag, you
11:38 tilt the gimmick so that the napkins absorb the coffee.
11:42 And then you just crush the bag.
11:44 But what if you want to be able to leave
11:46 the bag for examination?
11:48 Well, here's another handling.
11:51 You have a bag with a napkin inside.
11:54 And you hold the bag with the napkin clipped by your thumb.
12:02 Now you take your cup of coffee and you sip most of the coffee.
12:08 When you place it in the bag-- here's the back view--
12:11 you actually tilt the gimmick, clip it behind the napkin,
12:17 place the cup in the bag.
12:20 Then you remove the napkin from the bag
12:23 and place it down on the table.
12:25 Then you crush the bag.
12:27 And you leave it on the table for examination.
12:33 Yes, there's a small amount of coffee.
12:35 But it just makes it all the more mysterious.
12:39 Well, that's it.
12:43 I hope you've had a good time.
12:45 And now it's time for you to practice.
12:47 Then go out and have some fun with Mojo.
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