What The Audience Sees:

"Jamie walked in on Friday holding a pack of playing cards so we knew it was going to be good. Big Ted loves card tricks (as we all do) and he was almost crying in anticipation. Jamie asked Big Ted to select any card he liked and to write his name across the face. Good thing Jamie asked him to write his name. Anything else and we would have been scr*#^%d. So Big Ted does, and Jamie returned it back to the deck (the card, not Big Ted, ha ha). Nothing crazy. But then Jamie hands the deck to me and asks me to find the card. I can even do it face up! Well you won’t believe this but the card wasn’t in the deck anymore! I swear! And Jamie says, “Of course it’s not. It’s in my shoe.” BOOM! Big Ted faints! Jamie hasn’t even proved it yet and Big Ted drops like a #^^^%$&. Anyways, Jamie takes off his shoe and, sure enough, there’s a card inside. He shows the shoe all around and then slowly pulls the card out. AND IT WAS BIG TED’S CARD! Too bad he didn’t see it! It was amazing!”

How It Went:

One of the first card tricks I ever learned back in elementary school was the selection of a card, and the subsequent discovery of it in the card box. It basically consisted of a little kid making you do an extremely complicated series of tasks to select a card and then you returning it to the pack (the card, not the kid). The little kid would then search for about five minutes because half the time he couldn’t remember the card you were supposed to have selected. He would the pull out three random cards and lay them face down on the table and tell you that one of cards was yours. While you were looking at those, the little kid would pick out your real card and put it into the card box. No palming, no machine made hold outs. He would just grab it and stuff it in there. And it would kill you, lol. You would be shocked. Every time!

I still do that trick. Shoe’t is basically the same thing. A card is discovered somewhere crazy. But unlike the card box, everyone knows how even more impossible (can we have different levels of impossible, lol?) it would be to get a card into your shoe without anyone seeing. I mean, it pretty much is impossible. And it destroyed people all day. The fact tat you can slip off your shoe and show it, while it’s still on ground, is absolute craziness as well. Seriously. And the great thing is, is that no one wants to grab it out for you, lol. We all know how specs can sometime’s be super grabby. Not a single person reached for the shoe, obviously. And it was a clean shoe and sock (that’s an early JDG Tip for you, by the way, lol). There’s just something about the shoe.

Best Lines:

Let’s see your other one!!!!
-I guess they wanted to see what would show up in my other shoe, lol.

No way that’s my card...ACK!!!!!!
-It was.

Angry Bob Rating:

For those of you reading this article for the first time, Angry Bob is a co-worker who has an understanding of some magic because his uncle was a magician. Angry Bob knows that TT’s exist, for example, but he has no desire to become a magician himself. He also has an anger management problem that can be experienced first hand if he can’t figure out how a trick is done. A high rating means he has no idea.

”Do I look %^#^^ stupid to you??!...Don’t answer that!!! That’s just some other card you put in there before!! ...Wha?!? It’s signed!?!! Go f^$& yourself Grant!

5/5.

My Rating:

You know this is going to be pretty high. I would even say 9/10 simply because it costs you nothing. I’m not talking about price of the effect but rather set up, pocket management, etc. Here we have a trick where we can walk out the door and never have to worry about setting it up. As long as you have a deck of cards, you’re ready to go. That’s worth a lot to me. And, as a testament to the fact, I have Shoe’t on me right now. Now, is pulling as card out of your shoe always appropriate? Not always, but then just don’t do it at those times. That doesn’t mean you can’t be ready to rock it out when it is time, though. And there’s always a time, lol.

The JDG Tip:

Read it here!

Closing Thoughts:

It was w really good day and I’m happy about this effect. It brought me back to those first days of stuffing a card in the box but with much more stringent conditions. And any day I can blast Angry Bob is a good day, lol.

Have a great week everyone!

jamie d. grant
http://www.whatizit.net

This Magic Friday, in particular, (as was last week’s) was kindly sponsored by Murphy’s Magic. note- sponsorship in no way affects reviews.