Michael Karl

Michael Karl

New York Magician/Mentalist

Michael Karl @CWA-Monterey

Michael Karl @CWA-Monterey

Observation Test

Observation Test

AMADC

AMADC

2014 MK Demo

2014 MK Demo

Michael Karl Promo

Michael Karl Promo

Workshop with Michael Karl

Workshop with Michael Karl

Team Building

Team Building

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  • @jeremyreid9582
    @jeremyreid958228 күн бұрын

    Easily done. Prior to the show he had prerecorded the message with three ‘blanks’. Then he also recorded his voice whilst stating each of the colours, shapes and words (that were to be flashed). Whilst the show was being aired he had somebody elsewhere observe each of the three responses and then that person recorded his voice-mail message but with the correct answers included. This work could be done at a remote location, or behind the curtain.

  • @tonik1222
    @tonik1222 Жыл бұрын

    He got is all wrong. I picked Indigo, Cello & Melody :)

  • @SpyroTheEternalNight
    @SpyroTheEternalNight Жыл бұрын

    as a lay person, the code is always my favorite part of any of these. it makes sense but on a level i can't begin to grasp so it's always just Michael: reads people's minds Penn: POLICY. JOURNAL. PARAGRAPH. Michael: oh no they figured out the trick

  • @stable_davefusion
    @stable_davefusion Жыл бұрын

    Get our largest set of scales, and a duck.

  • @jalontf2
    @jalontf2 Жыл бұрын

    Thought just because P&T aren't as good with technology they couldn't figure out the obvious...still, balls for trying man

  • @AsitGamingOfficial
    @AsitGamingOfficial Жыл бұрын

    Nice performance!

  • @xpndblhero5170
    @xpndblhero5170 Жыл бұрын

    I think he fooled them but all the "keywords" from Penn were all threats... Did anyone else pick up on, Punch Destroy Arrow etc. 🤣🤣

  • @ashypines
    @ashypines2 жыл бұрын

    I just smoked a bowl, at 4:06 I thought "phobia" then Penn said it... I am scared

  • @pinkCEO
    @pinkCEO2 жыл бұрын

    God I hate tech magic lol

  • @sensen9900
    @sensen99002 жыл бұрын

    that illusion would be great if it would be an actual Voicemail and not something playing on his Phone.... IF only alison could have listen to that, because it was a real Voicemail which reacted on her Call it would be way more believable.

  • @AB21
    @AB212 жыл бұрын

    Sorry but there was absolutely no magic in this performance

  • @emeemmanuel
    @emeemmanuel2 жыл бұрын

    The real question, how can I leave such a long voicemail?

  • @beablue2777
    @beablue27772 жыл бұрын

    Best tricks to get the host phone number, and she isn't some random chiqs 👍❤

  • @goodmaro
    @goodmaro2 жыл бұрын

    The trouble with magic acts involving electronics like this is their opacity, which tends to spoil them for both entertainment and fooling purposes. I like mentalism and predictions, and I'd probably go for a lot of other stuff you'd do, but when the presto is via electronics, it's blah. Didn't Penn & Teller do a Bull's Hit on subliminal advertising? If not, they should.

  • @ArelMoodie
    @ArelMoodie2 жыл бұрын

    This was an incredible performance!

  • @tamirerez2547
    @tamirerez25472 жыл бұрын

    One of the simplest tricks I've seen. I'm not a Pen and I'm not a Teller but even I can think of at least 4 ways to do this cheap magic. Not a proper trick at its level for a show of this kind. The only trick he managed to do was get Allison's phone ...

  • @stephenspackman5573
    @stephenspackman55732 жыл бұрын

    Sadly, the only question left open by this trick is whether the programmer was competent enough to completely avoid the need for a human assistant. Quite the disappointment.

  • @Poxell91
    @Poxell912 жыл бұрын

    As is the case with all passe mentalism tricks, Penn was *pissed*

  • @zoofit5604
    @zoofit56042 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I don't think I've seen Penn so angry when giving the magician his answer to how they did their trick. I know he doesn't particularly like Mentalists or using terms like ESP, and yes, this trick had some issues, but he seemed REALLY agitated! Yikes.

  • @Poxell91
    @Poxell912 жыл бұрын

    Penn & Teller famously hate mentalism tricks. Especially if they can grasp it outright. It's a low-level style of magic.

  • @BrokeTheSeal
    @BrokeTheSeal2 жыл бұрын

    Mentalism acts are so cringe

  • @AUXdrone
    @AUXdrone2 жыл бұрын

    🟨✌️relaxed

  • @freshfalcon3996
    @freshfalcon39962 жыл бұрын

    Deserves a trophy for lamest non-trick ever. How did this even make it into the show? Must’ve been slim pickings.

  • @medarametlapraveen
    @medarametlapraveen2 жыл бұрын

    As..I have been watching Penn and teller...I could easily guess how he did it ..even I understood the code language of Penn..

  • @jeffe861
    @jeffe8612 жыл бұрын

    If I were to do this specific trick, I'd record every possible combination. I'd give them a PBX phone number where I can upload an MP3 directly to the voicemail. And I'd have a friend listen for the choices and pick the proper corresponding MP3 to upload right before the call. I'm not saying that's how he did it but that's probably why Penn said "Provide friend bench password technology recording" I would be providing a friend on "the bench" the password and using technology, change the recording. Idk this "illusion" feels cheap to me.

  • @Morgan423Z
    @Morgan423Z2 жыл бұрын

    I don't think you'd even have to record every combination. These are simple variables, and you'll notice that every time a choice is provided in the voice mail message, it's at a comma pause point in the sentence, making it ideal for separately recording each one in a way that makes it sound like it is flowing naturally and unbroken. So he records one main message with correctly timed pauses where the variables go, and then records each variable as it would sound in its spot. There has to be a tech solution now where a standard message can have its pauses filled with a bunch of prerecorded variables. I could see it being useful for multiple types of businesses that have quickly changing conditions to advise customers who could only get to a phone but had no data to get online. So when they call at the end of the trick, they reach a phone app that just does this and he just set the variables during the trick as they chose them. Or it's an actual voicemail box, and there's enough time between the last variable and the call for this tool to call the box and record the correct message. Some variation of that, but X,Y,and Z chosen by the participants are just plugged in so that they are read in the message.

  • @Kempington92
    @Kempington922 жыл бұрын

    @@Morgan423Z Just to answer your question around tech solution of using recorded variables - I work in Telefony designing call flows and it definitely exists. I make it all the time, commonly for repeating customer's input back to them or reading account balances etc.

  • @korana6308
    @korana63089 ай бұрын

    @@Morgan423Z I was actually thinking of a more funny and simpler solution... ehh, just call to your voice double (or autotune it to sound like you) and just have that guy read out anything you want live for you.

  • @martinramirez9647
    @martinramirez96472 жыл бұрын

    This is not entertaining, I'm here thinking, where is the magic?

  • @EdwardHowton
    @EdwardHowton2 жыл бұрын

    Just... no. I get that it's an act, I get that it's part of setting up the mystique and all, but.. polygraphs are glorified voltmeters. All they do is measure skin conductivity, and the "lie detector" part is entirely based on the assumption that someone who is lying is going to sweat more. "Hokum" was putting it nicely. Now, again, part of an act, alright, great. If the audience is all clueless rubes. Which, sure, magic tricks, ideal audience, and that's fine! It's entertainment, and usually pretty harmless fun! So far, no huge issue, just hard to suspend disbelief. The subliminal stuff isn't as bad; the entire idea is proven nonsense, but most people don't know that and it persists just like the 'we only use 10% of our brains' thing, no issues there. But the phone. My highest level of technical aptitude is programming knowledge of QBASIC from high school 25 years ago and modifying sound files in Team Fortress Classic. The pauses around the keywords, the slightly altered audio quality... honestly? this trick's payoff feels _lazy._ I'm flat-out incompetent at both those skills and I can think of ways to get this done. It's more difficult than anything I could possibly do without months of learning new programming languages, sure, but the bones are there. Sorry to say it, but while it would've taken more effort, an index of shorter messages would've done the same with a better ending. Take it as constructive criticism; this could probably work in front of a real audience, but the message sounds like an automated voice reading individual numbers out, and everybody's familiar with how that works.

  • @ChubbyTheChecker
    @ChubbyTheChecker2 жыл бұрын

    Polygraph operators are essentially mentalists with less integrity. The polygraph does nothing except convince the person attached to it that it provides the operator the ability to detect deceit, which it does not.

  • @The_Bit_Player
    @The_Bit_Player2 жыл бұрын

    Green, Elephant, Reject. I'm impossible to read.

  • @DL-kc8fc
    @DL-kc8fc2 жыл бұрын

    All prediction methods have already been invented in magic, and the involvement of technology unfortunately does not add another dimension to them, but significantly reduces the existing one. But I rather wanted to point out the so-called mental magic, which really exists, but it is possible to apply it in a close circle of friends and after the preparation of an "experimental" individual long before the performance itself. So "Berglas" may work, but it's a lottery bet. Therefore, it is never applied to the audience and classical magic is always preferred so that the result is one hundred percent. By the way, no flickering film with subliminal images like from Colombo it does not exist, even though it was believed in the 70-80 years. :)

  • @mootpoint7053
    @mootpoint70532 жыл бұрын

    I would’ve messed up his truck because I had “green lipstick error”

  • @zoofit5604
    @zoofit56042 жыл бұрын

    No, it wasn't a force, he had something prepared to send to an app or set up voicemail that would play the three words said by Alyson, Penn, and Teller. They could have picked Indigo, Umbrella, Mommy, and it still would have "worked".

  • @ku8721
    @ku87212 жыл бұрын

    Penn's words include "Friend, intention, punch, and enjoy" Followed by "Did you pick up my subliminal message?"

  • @thedivachannel3790
    @thedivachannel3790 Жыл бұрын

    And the words "technology and recording". It's more of using technology to manipulate the outcome of the voice recording.

  • @Blinkation
    @Blinkation2 жыл бұрын

    It's 2021 and there are still magicians thinking that technology tricks are impressive. We have self landing spaceships you know.

  • @Reversion1970
    @Reversion19702 жыл бұрын

    yes in 2021 we have movie studios that can conjure up photo realistic moving images of anything you can imagine real or fantasy, yet some believe we have self landing spaceships.

  • @SpimeTV
    @SpimeTV2 жыл бұрын

    @@Reversion1970 What? You can literally go to Cape Canaveral and see it, it´s nothing special

  • @mefunnyknow
    @mefunnyknow2 жыл бұрын

    That’s what you for doing crap tricks

  • @willthegrete4276
    @willthegrete42762 жыл бұрын

    I've only heard Penn tell two people to get off his stage. 😲

  • @BlielPol
    @BlielPol2 жыл бұрын

    Who's the other?

  • @willthegrete4276
    @willthegrete42762 жыл бұрын

    @@BlielPol the other guy was running a trick that had a seance feel to it. The technique is used to make money off of grief. Penn was as polite as he was here but it was clear that he wasnt fooled or entertained.

  • @grigorescuanghel9931
    @grigorescuanghel99312 жыл бұрын

    How the fuck does this work bc I chose the same things for Alison and Pen. I got violet and phobia. Is that just a coincidence maybe?

  • @zoofit5604
    @zoofit56042 жыл бұрын

    Yes, that's just a coincidence. There were several thousand combinations possible, but the trick would have worked no matter what they had chosen. It wasn't a "force", it was some technology or friend that helped him get his answer.

  • @stoneysdead689
    @stoneysdead6892 жыл бұрын

    Anytime a phone is involved I'm not really impressed because I'm suspicious it's just technology- not magic. Taking advantage of ppl's general ignorance communications technology is not magic. Anyone could perform such a trick- it doesn't take any skill.

  • @meffsyep3797
    @meffsyep37972 жыл бұрын

    That's a long ass voice message recording

  • @mattbosley3531
    @mattbosley35312 жыл бұрын

    This act starts off with a lie. Subliminal messages weren't even introduced until around 1957, yet he claims they "became popular in the forties and fifties."

  • @M3NTALMAGIC
    @M3NTALMAGIC2 жыл бұрын

    its an APP

  • @mr.popoiscool
    @mr.popoiscool2 жыл бұрын

    He fooled them all, the main trick was to get Allison's number. Well played sir, well played.

  • @goodmaro
    @goodmaro2 жыл бұрын

    OMG, could that be what Penn was getting at by "record, unlawful,...intention,...punch"? Seriously? What if Penn said, "Privacy, invade, hostess, burner, futile."?

  • @4dMiNi5Tr4t0r
    @4dMiNi5Tr4t0r Жыл бұрын

    She called without caller ID :)

  • @wamrainc176
    @wamrainc176 Жыл бұрын

    Yes but too bad she is happily married….but then again so was many divorce

  • @b.a2102
    @b.a21022 жыл бұрын

    The weird part is that I also guessed violet and teapot

  • @clarencelee7216
    @clarencelee72162 жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @usablefiber
    @usablefiber2 жыл бұрын

    I agree with Penn, I usually groan when i hear “comedy magician” but this guy was actually hilarious. good stuff!

  • @giuliobi7406
    @giuliobi74062 жыл бұрын

    I choose the same, violet, Cup and phobia.

  • @vinnierodriguez5226
    @vinnierodriguez52262 жыл бұрын

    Whoaaahh… that was sick!

  • @insideoutsideupsidedown2218
    @insideoutsideupsidedown22182 жыл бұрын

    They still dress Alyson like a retired librarian…

  • @purplekingroger
    @purplekingroger2 жыл бұрын

    Every season that have the host wear the same outfit every episode, so that when they film it all they can compile the tricks to make each episode balanced. So I expect Alison was told to bring some options that she’d be comfortable wearing every day and could wear regardless of what she was asked to do.

  • @spaceshido6124
    @spaceshido61242 жыл бұрын

    The worst thing about this trick is that the recorded voice was not even recorded on the phone it was just played by the producers on stage.

  • @FoxxMulderr
    @FoxxMulderr2 жыл бұрын

    Garbage

  • @mrdibujante
    @mrdibujante2 жыл бұрын

    This one is too easy, he had 4096 phones in his pants, with a mechanism to pick one depending on what Alison and Penn chose. The one for teller was obvious. They he just unmute the selected phone, trying at the same time to disguise the other 4095 phones vibration so that he is not looking weird.

  • @mrdibujante
    @mrdibujante2 жыл бұрын

    Either that or hiring Troy McClure voice actor to mimic his voice. That also explains why he speaks do funny...

  • @grnphroggy
    @grnphroggy10 ай бұрын

    @@mrdibujante You may not be aware that the Troy McClure voice actor was murdered in 1998.

  • @mrdibujante
    @mrdibujante10 ай бұрын

    @@grnphroggy murdered? Or carefully hidden as a part of a plan for a magic show some years later?

  • @4547466
    @45474662 жыл бұрын

    Why did you pick up the phone and still go to voicemail? Unless of course, obviously it wasnt voicemail at all.

  • @andrewdickens7016
    @andrewdickens70162 жыл бұрын

    Subliminal messaging doesn’t work like this no matter how much you guys think it does. All these mentalists etc it’s just tricks with a mentalist gimmick - you can’t read or influence people in that capacity