MrBeast hosts a magic competition with Chris Ramsey, Alex Boyer, and Franco Pasquale competing for $10,000. Alex Boyer wins with his fork-bending and card-bending routine. Chris Ramsey's final act uses a hidden walkie-talkie to reveal the 4 of spades.
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Welcome back to Season 38 of Beast Got Talent. In this episode, I invited some of the world's best magicians to come down and perform magic for me and my friends. But what they don't know is after their warm-up round, they're actually going to be competing for $10,000 in cash. It gets pretty intense.
What's up guys, uh, nice to be here. I'm super honored to be on the 38th season of Beast Got Talent, to be honest. And I'm a magician, my name is Chris Ramsey. Maybe we'll do some card stuff later, but I'm actually I'm gonna do something with this book that I just bought. Do you mind if I come down there, you guys? Yeah, bring it on down. So before we begin, I bought this book at the airport, The Dry.
The Dry?
Yeah, sounds like my bank account. I have with me a cryptex. You guys ever see Da Vinci Code?
Yeah.
So this is like a puzzle, like where one word unlocks this thing. Here you go, just try to unlock it, put any word in it. Obviously it's locked, right?
Yeah, it's—
Cool.
So those things are known for holding a secret. You can hold on to that, I won't touch that anymore. I'm actually gonna use a playing card and we'll try it this way. Um, here, moisture boy. I'm gonna get you to say stop wherever you want, and I will place the card no matter where you want. And if you're not happy with it, we can do it again, okay? So go ahead and say stop.
Stop.
Right there?
Nah, I'm not happy with that.
All right. I stop.
Right there?
That one's good.
Okay, perfect. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to remember the first word on this page. I'm gonna turn around, and the page number.
All right.
Can you do that?
I'm gonna try.
Have a look, have a look. First word and the page number. You got it?
Okay.
Now commit this to memory. Put this in your head, all right? You got it?
All right.
Turn to that page. What was the page number? Tell everybody. 202. Go to that page.
What's up?
It's missing. I didn't touch—
where's the page at? What'd you do?
I didn't touch the page.
So how'd you see 202 if it's not there?
Wait, let me see.
It's not there.
202 is what you said?
Yeah, 202.
All right, MrBeast, wait, you've been— MrBeast, you've been holding on to this cryptex the entire time. I've not went near it, right? Okay, he saw page 2.
No, it's not in here.
For the first time, what was the word? Truth. You know they say about truth, right? The truth will set you free.
Oh my goodness, no way.
Oh Okay.
Wait, there's a page in there. No. Now you gotta make sure that's the same page that he saw.
'Cause is this the same page you saw?
Line it up, line it up. Oh my gosh. What is this?
Line up the tear marks.
No way.
Is this what you saw?
That's what I saw. That page is in the book.
No.
Yep.
My name is Chris Ramsey. Thank you so much.
I don't wanna waste all my tens yet. That was insane, but I feel like he has other crazy stuff.
I know, right?
So I'm gonna throw out an 8 for that one.
Thank you.
Thank you. Wait, really?
Don't you think that's a little harsh, Mannequin?
I'm supposed to be the mean judge.
Come on! Unlike my counterparts over here, it's clearly a 9.
Nobby snogged the mean one. No idea how he did it.
Dude, super honor, thank you guys!
Awesome, so here I've got 2 forks, uh, number 1 and number 2. Which one do you prefer?
I like number 2.
Okay, I'll start with 2. So here, uh, examine it for me, just make sure it's a normal one. You can take it out? Yeah, just take it, then, uh, normal one. Here, watch this, get a close-up look on that one. Watch that. I'm gonna take the fork and just try to bend it a bit like so. So watch the end right here.
Just like that.
Oh wow.
Oh! Make sure it's solid.
Make sure it's solid.
Don't chuck.
Don't chuck.
No, it is.
Okay.
This is a real solid, yeah.
Step number 2, just gonna take the fork and rub it a bit like so.
Mmm. Chicken sandwich.
And you could try it as well. Take your finger, place it here, and just rub it. See that?
It's bending, bro. It's actually—
oh my goodness.
Yeah, it's bending.
Touch it, make sure it's real.
Is it real, Chris?
I can't, I can't do it without his magical abilities. It's real.
So here, watch this. Put your hand like this, MrBeast. Okay, I'm gonna take the other one and close your hand around it. Okay, and squeeze really tight, right? I'm just gonna try something really cool. Just like that. I'm just gonna twist it a bit and tell me when you feel something.
Yeah, I feel it.
Feels like something. Yeah, bring your hand slowly.
Oh dude, hey!
You're so strong.
Wait, play that back.
Was it like that when he put it in my hand?
Close your hand around it and squeeze really tight, right? Okay, last one with the fork now. Here, watch this. I want you, all of you guys to point the fork like that with your first finger, right? And just focus on the fork and especially you. Yes. Okay, so here, watch this. Focus on it, focus on it. Something crazy is gonna happen.
Just—
No.
No!
Examine it and make sure it's real.
There you go, buddy.
That was pretty cool.
That's like a clean, that's a cut right there. I have no idea how you made that fork completely fall. That was—
it went from an 8 to a 9 at that point, so solid 9.
Awesome.
I can't think for myself, so I'm gonna go with the 9 as well.
That's it. All right.
I'm a big advocate of eating dinner, so I was actually kind of upset when you cut the fork in half. Oh my God, I can't do it. I'm trying. I guess I'm not— trying to make it a cut in half to stare at it.
Hyah! Soccer Dad, could you join me on stage?
Yeah! Woo! Yeah, we're actually using our stage!
2 decks, 2 colors, all the same, whichever one you prefer. That's all that matters.
This one.
This one's for you.
So here's what we'll do.
I'm gonna take this, and I know you're standing, but of course we gotta give him one of these. Keeping in mind this isn't the deck that you took a look at before, so all different, you can see that as well. Yeah. Take the cards in your hand just like that. Now I want you to take the cards. I want you to cut the deck anywhere that you want and complete the cut. Tell me when you did that.
I did it.
You did that?
Yeah.
Do you want the top card or the bottom card?
Bottom card.
Don't look at the bottom card, but take the bottom card and place it in your back belt. You have no idea what the card is, right?
I have no idea.
6 of clubs.
Bro, are you serious? I didn't even know what it was.
Getting too confused now.
How is he doing this?
What do we even I mean, this is the final round. We're not going to use the mannequin anymore because he's clearly biased. The winner of this next round gets $10,000 in cash. We don't care which one wins, it's just whichever one blows our mind the most. And instead of showing our scores, what we're actually going to do is to keep it a secret and to keep it a little more competitive, we're going to text Jake our score, and at the end he's going to add up all the scores and we'll determine who won the $10,000.
Hold this.
All right.
Don't show me.
Hold it up to you.
Do you remember how old you were when you had your first kiss?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, type in just the age, just the digits for the age. Okay, now hit the multiplication button once. All right, pass it to our friend MrBeast over here. I want you to write a 3-digit number between 500 and 600. Okay, the first one that pops to mind, go for it. Okay, hit the multiplication button once.
Multiplication.
Okay, did you hand it to— you're the wild card. Okay, I want you to hit 4 random numbers. Have you done so?
Yeah. Hit equals.
Oh, it's a big number.
Do you think it is?
Uh, and hold it face down on the table.
Perfect.
We're gonna get to that later. Could you take the cards? It's important that you touch them. Hold them in your hand. Cut off a packet of cards and drop them onto the table. Just drop— just like that, right there.
Perfect.
Take the rest of it in your hand and mix them up. Just move them around, doesn't need to be professional shuffle. Cut off another packet and drop it on top of these, just like that. Shuffle the rest of those in your hands, mix them up as best you can, and then drop the rest on top. Now we're gonna make some groups of cards. Let's say something like this, something like this. MrBeast, okay, point to any two packets. Keep in mind, we're gonna— these two like this?
Yes.
Which one gets turned face up? This one. From this moment on, nobody gets to change their mind. That gets turned face up. That means these get shuffled just like so. Now which two of these packets get shuffled into this one? I want you to choose everything. This one?
Yes.
And which one gets turned over? This one like this? Yeah.
Perfect.
Can you just take these and you just push them together?
Perfect.
I want you to do everything. Look, last one. Which one gets turned over?
Uh, this one.
This one like this. Look, like that.
Boom.
And just squeeze them together. Squeeze them.
Yeah, yeah.
Push them in.
Push them in like so. Great. We're gonna take these. All right, you shuffled at the beginning and you cut, but what's interesting is that you chose every card that you wanted to be face up.
Yeah.
And you mixed mix them yourself. So the fact that— here, what do we have? So the fact that we have whatever cards are face up now is merely circumstantial, right? But what's very circumstantial is the random numbers that you all put in that phone, the phone that isn't mine. Could you turn that phone over? What's the number? 8, 1, 8, 2, 9, 8, 8, 7.
Wow, that was really good.
Oh, name again?
Katie.
Katie, come on down. Give her a big round of applause. Come on, don't be shy. Drop the tool. Yeah. Just ask you to please take one card, anyone that you—
go ahead, pick one.
Okay.
Ready?
Take my marker for me and just like maybe write your name across the face of the card. Cool, thank you. And show it. Good stuff.
Perfect.
Can you see it? Yeah, sure, it doesn't matter. Ace of Diamonds, perfect. So I'm gonna take the ace and I'm gonna bend it a bit like so.
I'm gonna fold it in half.
And again, and I want you to do something a bit awkward, but trust me, please. All right, I want you to take the card and bite it like this and keep it there. Perfect. I'm gonna take the top card and I'm gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna write my initials on it just like that, right? And watch, I'm gonna do the exact same thing. And yours was the ace of diamonds. I'm not gonna touch it.
Look, right? What?
Now I have your card. Look in your mouth. Show it to the boys.
Come on.
Oh, that's good.
That's good.
Where'd this boat come from?
That was amazing.
Thank you, guys. Thank Can I just get my deck back, please? Uh, yeah, it's under the mannequin.
Uh, is it really?
Yeah, give me my deck back.
What? What?
Thank you so much.
It's over, stop doing magic!
Guys, for my final act, I'm gonna actually invite two of you up on stage to make use of this thing here. So, uh, MrBeast and SoccerDad, come on up. Moisturboy, if you want, you can come here and have a look to make sure everything's cool. Uh, so first of all, I want you guys to verify there's nothing in that envelope.
Yes.
It's pretty dark. Yeah, camera can have a look if you want. Ah, got him! MrBeast, without looking, I want you to take a card. Do not look at it. Slide it towards you, whatever card it is, and I want you to place it in this envelope here. All right, so place it in the envelope.
All right, perfect.
Nobody's seen that. And I want you to hold on to that, leave that in your pocket. Um, I'm gonna actually have you guys switch places here for a second.
It's in my pocket.
Perfect. We'll get back to that card in a second. I want both of you to hold your, hold your, uh, your left hands out like this. Perfect. Okay, I need you to close your eyes for this, and I need them to be closed. You cannot look or the trick will not work, right? You got to keep them closed. You got to trust me.
We're gonna—
we're gonna try to test connection here, and I'm not sure if this is gonna work or not, but it's based solely on you two. All right, so in a second I'm gonna touch you. You're gonna feel something. So for instance, if I touch you here, here, or even here, I just want you to take mental notes of what I'm touching. Keep track of it in your mind only. Is that cool? All right, here we go. Did you feel something?
Yes.
Where did you feel it?
My hand.
On your hand.
Can you open your eyes?
Yeah.
Is this what you felt?
Yeah, that's what I felt.
Did I touch him with the cigarette at all?
No.
You, you, you sure?
I wasn't looking. I swear. I swear I felt it 3, 3 times.
Okay, okay, so that— now that we've established your connection, this is actually really good. You put your hands down, John. Thank you. You chose a card. I did, absolutely at random.
Yeah, I haven't seen it.
He doesn't know what the card is. Okay, I want you to think of— just think of a playing card in general with no— with no face on it, no numbers, just a blank card in your mind. So here's what we're gonna do. You got this card, you're thinking of a blank card. I'm gonna try to mind control you into telling him what the card is that he should think of. Alright, and hopefully that works. So I want you to close your eyes, I want you to plug your ears, I'm gonna place my hand on your head, and I want you just to, just to concentrate on whatever you hear or see, okay?
Your card is the 4 of spades.
Okay, you had your ears plugged the whole time, right? Can you tell him what just happened?
Smoke through the back of my head. My ears are plugged.
Did you hear like a radio?
Yeah.
And you had your ears plugged?
Yeah.
Did you guys hear anything?
No.
Are you serious? Take that envelope out.
Take that envelope out. You're thinking of a blank card. He told you what card to think of. Okay, pop it open.
Yep.
Wow.
Hey, I want to experience that, bro.
It was a radio.
It said—
whoa, it said your card. 'Your card is the 4 of spades.' And I was like, 'It is.' He was like, 'Repeat after me.' It was a walkie-talkie coming from the back of my head. I can't even describe it other than it sounded like he, like, it was a walkie-talkie that said, 'Repeat after me, your card is the 4 of spades.' All right, that's it.
That's my final act, guys. Thank you so much.
And the judges' scores are in. Here is our $10,000 winner.
Coming in second place with 27 points, is Chris.
Oh, yeah.
OK. That means you don't get $10,000.
That's a boo.
And for our first place winner—
For $10,000.
—with 28 points is Alex. Oh, Alex!
Thanks, Mom. Thanks, Mom.
Thank you, Dad. I wanted to thank Mom.
Congrats, Alex. You can finally buy your ticket back to Canada. Yeah, exactly. I should, yeah.
Your chicks are really good.
On camera. That was insane.
Yo guys, subscribe to my YouTube, Chris Ramsey. Uh, just type Chris Ramsey on YouTube.
Okay, I'll be linked in the description.
All my Logan Paulers, yeah. Yep, Alex Boyer Magic on Instagram.
I'm starting YouTube right now, so just type my name Alex Boyer and you're gonna find all about it.
What's up? Not a YouTuber, but Instagram, Franco Pasquale, if you like magic.
24,000 followers, Franco, come on. What, 24? Let's get it higher, guys. We're now gonna expose this magic trick. I know it's really hard to tell, but they're not actually connected. So—
Ah!
Stirring up the pot. Chris, tell your legs to be quiet. They have growing pains.
All the way through. Ta-da!
I'm gonna hold you like this. You just pull.
I got you.
Hey, huge shout out to Chris Ramsey, Alex, and Franco for all coming down. Their Instagrams will be in the description. If they have a YouTube channel, it'll be down there. I demand you guys go check out them, follow them, and if they have a show anywhere near you, it is mandatory you go. Like, trust me guys, it was insane watching them perform magic. Like, it was one of the coolest experiences of my life, and I promise you, if you ever go to one of their shows, you won't regret it. So make sure you follow their Instagram and go to a show if it's near you.
