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I'd like to start my performance by saying
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90 percent of everything is crap.
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It's called Sturgeon law
and what that means
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is that the majority of anything
is always bad.
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I have a giraffe here.
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I'm going to throw the giraffe
behind my back
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and whoever catches it is going
to help me with this next thing.
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Sir, you caught the giraffe.
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I have a playing card in my hand.
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Freely name any card in the deck.
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Audience member: 10 of hearts.
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Helder: 10 of hearts.
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You could have named any card
in the deck,
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but you said the 10 of hearts.
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90 percent of everything is crap,
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so there's this to prove that
Sturgeon was correct.
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(Laughter)
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(Applause)
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Sir, this is not your show.
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(Laughter)
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Keep the giraffe for a moment, okay?
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Jesus.
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Crazy people.
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Well, the truth is,
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why is the majority of everything bad?
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And my answer is: I think we stop
thinking too soon.
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I'll give you a clear little example,
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something that people used to do
around the turn of the century.
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This--not this century, the other one--
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the idea was to take a piece of paper
and fold it inside out
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using only your weaker hand,
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in my case, the left hand.
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Something that would look like this.
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By the way you reacted, I can see
your lack of interest.
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(Laughter)
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But that's okay, I understand why.
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We stop thinking too soon.
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But if we give it a little bit more thought,
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like a paper clip.
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A paper clip makes this a little bit
more interesting.
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Not only that, if instead of using
my hand with the fingers,
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I use my hand closed into a fist,
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that makes this just a little
bit more interesting.
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Not only that, but I will impose myself
a time limit of one second,
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something that would look like this.
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Now -- no, no, no.
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Sturgeon may be correct.
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But he doesn't have to be correct forever.
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Things can always change.
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Sir, what was the card?
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The 10 of hearts?
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There's this to prove that things
can always change--
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the 10 of hearts.
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(Applause)
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Secrets are important.
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And secrets are valuable.
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And this is the best secret
I've ever experienced.
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It starts with a deck of cards
onto the table,
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an old man a the claim,
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"I will not touch the deck till the end."
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It doesn't matter who the man was,
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all that matters was that sentence
ringing in my head,
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"I will not touch that deck till the end."
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Now during all this time,
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he was holding a small notebook
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that sometimes you'd open
and flip through the pages
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and look at something.
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But I was not really paying attention
to the book
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because I was paying attention to
deck and the claim he had made before,
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"I will not touch the deck till the end."
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Now, Sir, you have the giraffe.
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Go ahead, throw it in any direction
so that you can find someone else at random.
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Perfect, Sir, you're going to play
my role in this story.
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The old man turned to me and he said,
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"pick a red card or a black card."
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My answer was,
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Audience member: the black card.
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Helder: Indeed!
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It was a black card.
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He said, "It could be a club or a spade."
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Audience member: Spade.
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Helder: Indeed! It was a spade.
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He said, "It could be a high spade
or a low spade."
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And my answer was,
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Audience member: a high spade.
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Helder: Indeed! It was a high spade.
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Since it's a high spade, it could be a nine,
a jack, king, queen, or the ace of spades.
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And my answer was,
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Audience member: king.
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Hedler: The king of spades, indeed.
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Now sir, let's be fair.
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You selected a black, you selected spades,
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you selected the high spade,
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and you selected, what, sorry?
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Audience member: king.
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Hedler: King of spades.
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Did you feel I influenced you in any decision?
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Audience member: No, I just felt your energy.
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Hedler: No, but it was a free choice, correct?
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Because if not, we could start all over again.
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But it was really fair?
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Audience member: Oh, absolutely.
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Hedler: Now, the old man turned to me
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and he asked me one more question,
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"a number between 1 and 52."
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And the first number I thought of was,
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Audience member: 17.
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Hedler: Indeed! It was the 17.
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The old man only said one more thing,
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"this is the end."
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And I knew exactly what that meant.
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I knew that he was going to touch the deck.
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Everything that you're about to see
is exactly as it looked.
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He took the deck out of the box.
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Nothing in the box.
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He counted, "one, two, three four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten."
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The tension was building.
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(Laughter)
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"...11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17."
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And on the seventeenth, instead of
the king of spades,
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something appeared in the middle of the deck,
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that later I would realize
was actually a secret.
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The old man stood up, he left.
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I never saw him again.
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But he left his notebook,
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that was there from the beginning.
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And when I picked it up,
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that was the best secret I've ever experienced.
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We are defined by the secrets we keep
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and by the secrets we share.
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And this was his way of sharing his
secret with me.
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(Applause)
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Crazy shit!
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Now, I believe that amazing things
happen all the time.
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I really do.
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And the reason why we don't see
them as often,
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it's because we don't place ourselves
in a position
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to search for those amazing things.
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But what if we decided to search
for those amazing things?
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For those small coincidence in life
that are truly amazing.
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So you have the giraffe,
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go ahead, throw it in any direction
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so you find one last person at random.
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Sir, I'm going to ask you,
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do you have, with you, a United States
one dollar bill?
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Audience member: I think so.
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Hedler: Yes, you see? A coincidence.
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(Laughter)
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Let's make sure you have it.
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Do you have it?
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Audience member: Yes.
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Hedler: Yes? Perfect!
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Now, I want you to do the exact same
thing I am about to do,
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I have a dollar bill here to explain.
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I want you to take the dollar bill,
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and fold the Washington part inside, like this.
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So you get this kind of big square, okay?
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Now I want you to take the bill
and fold it like this, lengthwise.
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So it becomes like a rectangle,
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and then again--really fold it, really crease it--
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and when you have it, please fold
the bill again
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into a little square like this
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and let me know when you have it.
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Do you have it? Perfect.
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Now, I'm going to approach,
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and before we start,
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I want to make sure that we do this
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in very, very serious conditions.
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First of all, I want to ensure that we
have a marker, we have a paper clip.
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First of all, take the marker
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and go ahead and sign the bill.
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And this is the reason why:
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later, I'm going to be doing a bunch
of stuff on stage.
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I don't want you to think,
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"Oh, while I was distracted by Hedler,
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someone came on stage and swapped the bill.
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So I want to make sure it's exactly
the same bill.
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Now not only that,
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I want you to take the paper clip
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and put it around the bill.
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Even if no one comes onstage
and switches the bill,
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I don't have the time to come open
the bill and close it
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and see what I don't want to see.
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Is that Fair?
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Now you can give me the marker back,
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and just like that, very clearly,
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I want to make sure that we place this
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in full view, from the beginning of this experience
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and to make sure that everyone
is going to see it,
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we're going to actually have
a camera man onstage.
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Yes, so you can see--that's your signature?
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Yes?
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Now, we're going to use also a deck
and a glass for this.
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And we're going to put ourselves
in a position
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to search for an amazing coincidence.
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Do you mind, can you help me with this?
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Go ahead and take some cards and shuffle.
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Go ahead, take some cards and shuffle.
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And do you mind, can you
take some cards and shuffle?
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Go ahead, take some cards and shuffle.
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You can take some cards and shuffle.
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Go ahead take some cards--
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You can shuffle cards in a variety of ways.
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You can shuffle cards like this.
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You can shuffle cards
in a more messed up way,
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something like this.
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You can shuffle cards in the American way.
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As a Portuguese, I don't feel entitled
to teach you guys how to do it.
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But the important part is after shuffling the cards,
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always remember to cut and
complete the cards.
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Do you mind doing that for me?
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Please cut and complete.
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And when you have it,
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place the cards up in the air.
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And you too, cut and complete
and up in the air.
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Up in the air.
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Up in the air.
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Up in the air.
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A deck of cards cut and shuffled by
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one, two, three, and four and five people.
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Very clearly, I'm going to gather the deck togeher.
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And just like that.
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I'm going to search for a coincidence
in front of everyone.
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I'm going to try.
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I have some cards that maybe, maybe
they don't mean anything.
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But maybe that's because we are
not paying close attention.
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Because maybe, maybe they mean a lot.
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Before we start,
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Sir, you have me a dollar bill.
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Is that your signature?
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Audience member: Yes it is.
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I want you to see very cleary
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that I'm going to open your bill
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and reveal a small secret
that we created.
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And the secret of this dollar bill
is the serial number.
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Madame? Can you take the dollar bill?
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In the serial number, there is a letter.
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What is the first number after the letter?
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Audience member: seven.
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Hedler: Seven.
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Seven.
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But, that's maybe just one coincidence.
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What is the second number?
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So after the seven,
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we have