The Trick That Fooled Brian Brushwood!!

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This episode of Scam School was made by:
Brian Brushwood
Brandt Hughes
Bryce Castillo
Roberto Villegas
Jeff Schuessler

Shot on location at The Rusty Mule in Austin, TX

[crazytater]

I love how he titles this "the trick that fooled Brian", but every scam school, he says "this fooled me"

[jonathanhikes]

Seeing Shwood short circuit for a second was gold.

[studentofmagic]

Hello there. I'm outing myself as the guy in the video. (Maybe I really am him, maybe I'm not.) You all are so nice: I wanted to reply to some of the comments.

First, a big thank you for all the kind words.

And now some comments/answers.

Something I learned, watching the video, is to also pay attention to where the cameras are. I had all of my angles and timing focused on Brian and mostly forgot about the cameras. That's how you can see the bottom of the box early on as well as the bottom of the deck during the hindu shuffle. Lesson learned: the cameras are also your audience, don't forget about them.

Things I would do differently, having watched this:

(1) I would have waited until the very end of the trick to casually put the hat back on my head. Instead I did it while his focus was on looking through the deck. Not only did that make it a bit jarring when he looked back up, but also it was outside the frame. In my mind, when I was planning the trick, it was going to be something you all saw while he was busy looking at the cards. So, not bad editing at all. Instead just something I didn't think all the way through.

(2) Brian's comment about a little too much noise was solid advice. It would have been just as good without odd lift-split move at the end. The "lift-split" was there because it is a way that could have been used to get the card into the targeted pile (under the double-lift ruse), however I agree with Brian: it is more noise than signal. Variations: do the same fake move without the lift tilt, or just cut into two piles and point at the "wrong" one.

Thanks again for the kind reception. I've enjoyed reading the comments and am grateful to the Scam School crew for being able to perform the trick.

[eGwolfPREDATOR]

Brian, you're easily my favorite person on YouTube. Your tricks have made it easy for me to socialize in public places which put me in the career that I'm in now. Oddly enough I'm a car salesman (lol). I still use a lot of your tricks to entertain customers and it makes closing deals easy too. Thanks for everything, man! I look forward to seeing more of your videos in the future!

[WagnerMusic]

This is a great video. I find myself leaving most card trick videos because I've learned so much already. So I'll see them do a double lift or false shuffle and already know what's going on. We need more tricks that make us experienced card magicians THINK we know what's going on and then we get fooled

[btdragonmm]

The real magic happens at 2:44 when he makes a hat appear.

[justsomeawesomeperson]

After getting out of bed at 5:45am after 0 hours of sleep, because i need to work in 45 minutes. Watching scam school with a nice big cup of coffee is very nice...

[MansMan]

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a series of aspiring magicians inspired by Brian going back to him to showcase their own original tricks?

[VGScreens]

The greatest scam of all time: Brian reveals there is a C is Schwood.

[kellyembrey]

Probably one of the best vids. Student becomes a master.

[wverms]

I just loved how frustrated Brian seemed, or rather curious.

[HectorGarcia-nrbq]

It scared me because I thought he messed up in front of Brian and emberessed himself.

[No_Named_Nobody]

"Wait... what did you do?' I love confused Brian! That's the best!!!

[LokiDeth]

Brian, all truth. You should totally make a "fool us" type show. :)

[devansh_bhawsar]

this is really a great effect for a magician

[fatmaninparadise]

Last time I was this early I ended up becoming my own grandpa.

[dwatts]

I love that this is a trick that is a decent trick for schmucks, but it's also a trick that another magician could love lol

[brians.]

oh my god!!!! Someone actually fooled Brian

[aidanbrumsickle]

I love these sorts of "tricks for magicians"

[AlaskaBlueCat]

This is cool. I could watch more of these type videos. :-)