energy cause I am only 16 years old. I first got into magic through my dad, who early in

my life would show me small magic tricks. Aside from magic I also am involved in a lot

of other activities. Speech and debate, robotics, as well as competitive diving. Even from the

youngest age, I would go around to restaurants performing magic for the patrons there. At

first when they see this young kid, they don't expect it to be any good. But what was really

impressive was the moment when they realized that they were being fooled they were being

amazed. I don't know if I will fool Penn and Teller but I definitely hope to impress them.

Will you please welcome, Austin Janik.

Because magic relies on misdirection a lot of people think of it as sort of a dishonest

endeavor. However, it was actually american magician Karl Germain who said that "Magic

is the only honest profession, a magician promises to deceive you, and he does." So,

to illustrate this i'm gonna have Jonathan come up and join me here. Sure, nice to meet

you Austin. Thank you so much Jonathan. What i'm gonna have you do is as I go through the

cards just say stop at some point. Stop. Right there? We are going to take the next card

from where you stopped and we can all take a look at what it is you have the Queen of

Spades. So i'm gonna let you hold on to the Queen of Spades and I want you to take it,

hold it horizontally, and then tear it neatly in half. All the way neatly in half. Perfect.

Now what I want you to do is take one piece and just place one on top of the other. And

then your going to tear it in half again along the side. And you know what? We're gonna do

it again You know you really called the wrong guy up here feel that there is nothing. I

know. Ok. One more time put all the pieces again tear it one more time you get eight

equal pieces with the card. Almost. (laughter). Alright there you go, round of applause for

that perfect show and feat of strength. Go ahead take the pieces and place them face up there

on the table. And I also have a few paper clips here. Go ahead and just select one of

the paperclips. Alright now I'm going to paperclip all of these pieces together. But I'm going

to let you hold on to one of your pieces first. The rest get sealed with the paperclip. Take

you piece show it up to the camera so the audience can see the distinct tear you have

created. That tear is only matched by the rest of the pieces locked in the paper clip.

But from the right light and angle, we can get something else sealed in the paperclip.

And this is my student I.D. Now, the strange thing is all of the pieces are gone and i

normal keep this I.D. in my wallet so if what was in my wallet is now here in my hands maybe

we will find all of your pieces inside of my wallet. Inside, I don't have a bunch of

pieces but what I do have is one single card. Now you selected the Queen of Spades. I'm

holding the Queen of Spades. But, it's missing one piece. So I want you to verify for proof

positive identification do the two cards match perfectly? They really do look at that right

single ridge on this card makes it a perfect match with the other piece. In the same way,

it is the small details of our signature that make it so unique. So, i have a marker here

what I want you to do is go ahead and sign your name across your Queen of Spades that

will make a secondary mark of identification. Excellent. Now i'm gonna take the marker and

i'm going to also put my initials on here on the Queen of Spades like that. Now theoretically

as a magician I could restore this final piece on to the card, but that would remove the

tear that's proof of the magic. Instead, it would be far better to turn this piece over

and restore it backwards. So we get your initials on the front, my signature on the back. You

can hang onto that. Thank you so much for helping me Jonathan. Wow. Wow. Thank you everybody.

Austin Janik ladies and gentlemen. Come out to the front here. How long have you been

studying magic for when did you start. Well my dad would show me magic tricks back as

long as I can remember when I was probably five but i picked up my first book on slight

of hand when I was nine years old. And since then I performed everywhere I had the opportunity,

restaurants, gestations, wherever. You've been homeschooled by your parents I believe

is that right? Yes, homeschooled all the way through. When your homeschooled if you want

to not go to school where do you go when you don't that's what I (laughter). that's the

draw back. I'm stuck. When I'm grounded I'm still in school so detention forever I guess.

Let's find out what they thought Ladies and Gentleman over to Penn. I am absolutely amazed

that at 16 years old, on stage, in Vegas, This many people, this many cameras around.

No uh's or stammers or um's or but's or "you know's" Just clean patter all the way through

spoken beautifully. I was as impressed with that as any of the magic just a kind of style

and a way of carrying yourself that was just beautiful I just thought it was a great performance.

(applause). And then your slight of hand was the same way. Everything was just clean well

rehearsed. The twisting the aces which is I think a Derek Dingle Trick which you had

a little "kicker" at the end that you changed on there. Yeah. Was done beautifully. The

mis-maid card the corner turned around and then it is hours and hours and hours of work

to learn how to handle that. So although you did not "Fool Us" you absolutely amazed us

and blew us away you just destroyed us. Thank you so much. Since you have something you

can buy in a shop, here is something else you can buy in a shop. This is the Penn and

Teller magic kit. And i think you probably know everything in there but it's a chance

to have our picture, you can cut it out put it on your wall there. Thank you so much Penn

and Teller. Austin Janik Ladies and Gentleman. great work young man. Fabulous stuff.

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