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Speaker 1 (00:16):
The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone. He
tells you the inside story of the Vanishing Pearls, and
right after the story, Blackstone will explain tricks that you yourself
can perform reveal the guarded secrets of the world's greatest
living magician. I'll stand by for Blackstone, Detective.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
There's another one.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I got it there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It grows into the boat with the others.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
How many have you there, Rod, And I'll get a
couple more. What the sun are you doing waving that
fish pole around Blackstone?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
He's fishing?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Don, Oh, don't give me any of that. He's standing
right in the middle of the room. He's not fishing.
There's nothing around him.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
But there you ought to know by now, Don Hancock,
the Blackstone is a very unusual man.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Anybody can catch fish in water, that's simple.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
But I catch fish out of the air. Look, I
think you do all kinds of tricks. But this is
too much.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh, I see doubting Thomas. Huh catch a fish crime Backstone?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
All right, here go there, I got him. Why Why
it's a gold fish? A live goldfish?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
What was I telling you?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Put him in the boat with the others.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I got him. See done.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
There are five fish in this bowl now, and Blackstone
caught them all.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We'll catch another one, Blackstone. I'm going to keep my
eyes on the bowl, all right. How do you like
this one? Done? Greats got another one? And you didn't
take it from the ball either, Curzy didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
He's doing aerial fishing.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, how do you do a blackstone?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Uh uh no, no, done? That's magic.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh you mean it's another of the magician's secrets, but
you won't explain.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That's right. Well, that's quite a trick.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It certainly is. Tell me about the time you used
it to trap a steep Blackstone.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, there's a story connected with him, Yes, there is done.
He missus Pip's Royal asked me to perform at a
party she was getting out of that country place. Rhoda
and I got there a little early so we could
run through the act. And after we were through the rehearsal,
we were sitting out in the patio. There was a
fishing pond in the center of the court, and Rhoda
was talking bits of food.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You might these fisher hungry. Look at the way they
snap up these bits of bread.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
There are rare species of carp roder, and they are
kept hungry on purple.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Why that seems sort of mean as a.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Matter of fact, it isn't. They're healthier when they're on
the papers.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh they're admiring my cars. Yes, there was, mister fitz Royal.
They're lovely.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm very fond of them.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
They're rare variety. I'm posting them.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh who are those men over there carrying that apparatus
into the house.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It looks like an X ray machine somebody else?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I don't know, nothing like that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Uh, they're testing my pearls. So testing your pearls? What
do you mean?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
But a few years ago my husband gave me a
pearl necklace and I have never.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Had it insured.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Setting of me, I know, but my husband always attended
to that sort of thing, and if he died shortly
after giving.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Me the pearls, I had just let it lie. But
what has an X ray machine got to do with
insuring the pearls.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You're trying to find out if the pearls are real
or cultured, isn't that it? Yes, a cultured pearl roady
is made by insetting a tiny bit of oyster shell
into the oyster. The pearl forms around me. Under an
next ray machine, the bit of oyster shell will show up.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Oh and real pearls haven't got that little speck in
the center.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And that's right.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I have no idea of putting My husband paid for
the pearls or wes assume they were real.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
But the insurance company wants proof.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, you can't bring them when you consider a difference
in value about.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Forty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Ooh that's some difference, it says he is.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh, missus Viz Royal, we're ready now to make the text.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Thank you Benton, Miss Brent, my secret Terry Benton.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
How do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Mister Blackstone?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Enter, how do you do? I'm glad to know you. Eh,
would you be interested in watching the test? Miss Blackstone?
Thank you, I'd love Hell.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Let's go in, shall we.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
May? I have the pearls, missus Ticks Royal.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
There you're wrong. Oh, I take it beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'll put them here under them sheet. And now if
you turn out the lights please, miss breath. The switch
is over there by the door, right, and mister Blackstone,
will you please draw the curtains? What a beautiful view
of the patio. Seems a shame to draw the shade.
Thank you. Now, I'll put the pearls in this tiny
(05:21):
spot of light.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Oh look absolutely perfect. There isn't a single second any
of 'em.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Your husband was rife. Missus sicks royal. Those are genuine pearls.
There's no mistake about there.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Without hand in the light.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Somebody's grabbed the pearl the pearls the car lights. Roader,
turn on the lights, sie off in the curtains. Someone
in his room has those pearls.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
They're gone.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What does a man coming over the patio wall here
call themselves and have them go after him? We must
be searched, Jason Stephens.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Come here.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Somebody bumped into me as I was going over to
the door and switch.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The light on it. I don't know who it was,
but if no one left the room.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Rotor somebody did bump into me though I.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Swear someone could have enter the room after the lights
spent our bright spode.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yeah, and stolen the pearls and made it get away
before the light went back on.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Uh that man that beaton saw who that jumping beat off?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Your heerd? It's the black stone are hunting the grounds
now and probably catched the collar doors.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Oh hope. So have they caught him, black Stone? Did
the servants find any trace of him?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Not a sign of him, and they've searched everywhere. I
can't quite convince myself that there ever was, but your fellows.
I keep feeling we would've noticed the door opening.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But we were so intend on looking at the pearls.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
True.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
True, we know that none of us told him after
that searching we all went through.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Really, will you have a couple of teas, black own,
thank you, thank you very much, and a sandwich? I
thank you?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Here so to eat that samwich, Blackstone, and not feed
it to the car.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, I am sorry, I was thinking and rude. I
have it?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Oh what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Get me that fishing rod from my equipfment? Hurry, hurry, Okay,
but I I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Mister Blackstone.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
You mean that you've discovered who stole my next place?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
H here you are, boy, thank you. I'm going to
do a trick for you, missus Detroyal, A very interesting trick.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I'm afraid I'm not exactly in the mood for.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Tricks, mister Blackstone. I think you'll enjoy this one. I
hurled this fish line around my head like this and
then prestole out of the air. I've hooked a magic
car rot to take this fish inside, and showed to
Missus fitz Royal under the X ray machine. I'm going
to get fenters.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I don't understand what you're driving at, mister Blackstone.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I've found your pearls, Missus Fitzroyal, but I'm afraid you'll
have to choose between them or your golden car.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, where were.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Missus Fitzroyal's pearls, black Stone? I don't understand what you're
driving at either. Well, you remember that I absent mindfully
started peeding this at my sandwich through the cart. Yes,
I remember the cart that had been so revenuced a
few minutes before wouldn't even nibble at the sandwich.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
They eaten the pearls.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
What do you mean? Just that Denton had stolen the
pearls out from under the X ray machine, broken the
cord they were strung on, and plussed them into the
fish ponds when he drew the curtain, and.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The fish was so hungry that they swallowed them.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And under the X ray machine you could see the
pearl exactly. But why Benton, why did you suspect him?
He was the only one of us who had a
chance to get rid of the pearls before we were searched.
Oh me darn.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But how could you be sure that the carp had
swallowed the pearl so you hadn't seen one of them
under the X ray machine?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That was a long shot I had to take. But
it was he certainly did. And there wasn't any other man. No,
Benton bumped into Roder in the dark there so that
we we'd think there had been another person in the room,
and he did. The only one who saw the stranger
saw him in his imagination of color.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And anyway, there was no one else who would have
stolen the pearls. Missus Pittroyal wouldn't steal them from herself,
and Blackstone and Ice sicken he wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And so another mystery was solved by magic. Say he
wants that glass of water? Doing there? Blackstone? Are you
going to show us a trick with it in a wave? Get?
But Uh, what I really need for the trick is
an ice cube.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh, here's the whole trailer, and uh, nice black ice
cube coming up?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
No, that's a good one. Uh, dropped it in the
glass flow there? M y. Yeah, noticed that the glass
is very nearly pulled, so the ice cube is ploating
almost at the top. Yes, I've noticed that. Whyres a
just to make the trick easier, if it's easy at all. Now,
here's a piece of string about uh eight inches long.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Well, what are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Just there? I set the string across the glass so
that the string rests on the ice.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Cube, with the ends hanging over the sides of the grass.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yes. Now the trick is to take the ends of
the string and lift the ice cube right out of
the glass. Why are you going to do that? You
can't balance a cube of ice on the string. Oh,
I know.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Tie a loop in the string, make a lasso and
snag the ice cube.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Ole, Roder, You gotta leave the string just as it is,
then take the ends of it and lift the ice.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Cube right out about touching the ice cube with your fingers.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yes, study that one for a few minutes, Roder. If
you don't get it, I'll be back to explain it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh, you better be back.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
This is impossible. And now a black stone make the
(11:19):
impossible possible.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You mean lift the ice cube with a piece of string.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I mean just that, if you can do it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Do you think I can? Well, it's really very simple.
Hand me that salt shaker roller.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh what are you gonna do? Switch to another trip.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No, I'm just going to sprinkle some salt on top
of this ice cube like that.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh, what does salt got to do with it?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well? It speeds the melting of the ice.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Oh yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And the string begins to sink into the ice. Give
it a little time. Sometimes the more the better.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Oh, it's working very fast this time, I'll.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Say it is. What good does that do? Well? If
you give the ice a few moments longer, it begins
to harden the game after the effects of the saltware
is all. O, h we're doing that right now.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Al I see Now what is it? Why the string
is freezing itself into the eye.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
It's just about ready now, Rhode. I take the ends
of the string, I lift them.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Slowly, and the ice cube comes up with a string.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Right out of the glad. And I put it here
on the table and the trick is done. I hope
you like that trick, Ladies and gentlemen, and now until
next time. This is Blackstone saying good magic and good bye.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Be with us next time, when the world's greatest living magician,
Blackstone tells us the story on the Curse of the
Yogi and explains more tricks that you yourself can perform.
Listening again to Blackstone, the world's greatest living magician, m
The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone. He
tells you the inside story of the Vanishing Pearls, and
right after the story, Blackstone will explain tricks that you yourself
can perform reveal the guarded secrets of the world's greatest
living magician. I'll stand by for Blackstone, Detective.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
There's another one.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I got it there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It grows into the boat with the others.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
How many have you there, Rod, And I'll get a
couple more. What the sun are you doing waving that
fish pole around Blackstone?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
He's fishing?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Don, Oh, don't give me any of that. He's standing
right in the middle of the room. He's not fishing.
There's nothing around him.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
But there you ought to know by now, Don Hancock,
the Blackstone is a very unusual man.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Anybody can catch fish in water, that's simple.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
But I catch fish out of the air. Look, I
think you do all kinds of tricks. But this is
too much.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh, I see doubting Thomas. Huh catch a fish crime Backstone?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
All right, here go there, I got him. Why Why
it's a gold fish? A live goldfish?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
What was I telling you?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Put him in the boat with the others.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I got him. See done.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
There are five fish in this bowl now, and Blackstone
caught them all.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We'll catch another one, Blackstone. I'm going to keep my
eyes on the bowl, all right. How do you like
this one? Done? Greats got another one? And you didn't
take it from the ball either, Curzy didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
He's doing aerial fishing.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, how do you do a blackstone?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Uh uh no, no, done? That's magic.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh you mean it's another of the magician's secrets, but
you won't explain.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That's right. Well, that's quite a trick.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It certainly is. Tell me about the time you used
it to trap a steep Blackstone.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, there's a story connected with him, Yes, there is done.
He missus Pip's Royal asked me to perform at a
party she was getting out of that country place. Rhoda
and I got there a little early so we could
run through the act. And after we were through the rehearsal,
we were sitting out in the patio. There was a
fishing pond in the center of the court, and Rhoda
was talking bits of food.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You might these fisher hungry. Look at the way they
snap up these bits of bread.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
There are rare species of carp roder, and they are
kept hungry on purple.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Why that seems sort of mean as a.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Matter of fact, it isn't. They're healthier when they're on
the papers.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh they're admiring my cars. Yes, there was, mister fitz Royal.
They're lovely.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm very fond of them.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
They're rare variety. I'm posting them.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh who are those men over there carrying that apparatus
into the house.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It looks like an X ray machine somebody else?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I don't know, nothing like that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Uh, they're testing my pearls. So testing your pearls? What
do you mean?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
But a few years ago my husband gave me a
pearl necklace and I have never.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Had it insured.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Setting of me, I know, but my husband always attended
to that sort of thing, and if he died shortly
after giving.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Me the pearls, I had just let it lie. But
what has an X ray machine got to do with
insuring the pearls.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You're trying to find out if the pearls are real
or cultured, isn't that it? Yes, a cultured pearl roady
is made by insetting a tiny bit of oyster shell
into the oyster. The pearl forms around me. Under an
next ray machine, the bit of oyster shell will show up.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Oh and real pearls haven't got that little speck in
the center.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And that's right.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I have no idea of putting My husband paid for
the pearls or wes assume they were real.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
But the insurance company wants proof.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, you can't bring them when you consider a difference
in value about.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Forty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Ooh that's some difference, it says he is.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh, missus Viz Royal, we're ready now to make the text.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Thank you Benton, Miss Brent, my secret Terry Benton.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
How do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Mister Blackstone?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Enter, how do you do? I'm glad to know you. Eh,
would you be interested in watching the test? Miss Blackstone?
Thank you, I'd love Hell.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Let's go in, shall we.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
May? I have the pearls, missus Ticks Royal.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
There you're wrong. Oh, I take it beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'll put them here under them sheet. And now if
you turn out the lights please, miss breath. The switch
is over there by the door, right, and mister Blackstone,
will you please draw the curtains? What a beautiful view
of the patio. Seems a shame to draw the shade.
Thank you. Now, I'll put the pearls in this tiny
(05:21):
spot of light.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Oh look absolutely perfect. There isn't a single second any
of 'em.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Your husband was rife. Missus sicks royal. Those are genuine pearls.
There's no mistake about there.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Without hand in the light.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Somebody's grabbed the pearl the pearls the car lights. Roader,
turn on the lights, sie off in the curtains. Someone
in his room has those pearls.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
They're gone.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What does a man coming over the patio wall here
call themselves and have them go after him? We must
be searched, Jason Stephens.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Come here.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Somebody bumped into me as I was going over to
the door and switch.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The light on it. I don't know who it was,
but if no one left the room.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Rotor somebody did bump into me though I.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Swear someone could have enter the room after the lights
spent our bright spode.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yeah, and stolen the pearls and made it get away
before the light went back on.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Uh that man that beaton saw who that jumping beat off?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Your heerd? It's the black stone are hunting the grounds
now and probably catched the collar doors.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Oh hope. So have they caught him, black Stone? Did
the servants find any trace of him?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Not a sign of him, and they've searched everywhere. I
can't quite convince myself that there ever was, but your fellows.
I keep feeling we would've noticed the door opening.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But we were so intend on looking at the pearls.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
True.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
True, we know that none of us told him after
that searching we all went through.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Really, will you have a couple of teas, black own,
thank you, thank you very much, and a sandwich? I
thank you?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Here so to eat that samwich, Blackstone, and not feed
it to the car.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, I am sorry, I was thinking and rude. I
have it?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Oh what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Get me that fishing rod from my equipfment? Hurry, hurry, Okay,
but I I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Mister Blackstone.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
You mean that you've discovered who stole my next place?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
H here you are, boy, thank you. I'm going to
do a trick for you, missus Detroyal, A very interesting trick.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I'm afraid I'm not exactly in the mood for.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Tricks, mister Blackstone. I think you'll enjoy this one. I
hurled this fish line around my head like this and
then prestole out of the air. I've hooked a magic
car rot to take this fish inside, and showed to
Missus fitz Royal under the X ray machine. I'm going
to get fenters.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I don't understand what you're driving at, mister Blackstone.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I've found your pearls, Missus Fitzroyal, but I'm afraid you'll
have to choose between them or your golden car.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, where were.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Missus Fitzroyal's pearls, black Stone? I don't understand what you're
driving at either. Well, you remember that I absent mindfully
started peeding this at my sandwich through the cart. Yes,
I remember the cart that had been so revenuced a
few minutes before wouldn't even nibble at the sandwich.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
They eaten the pearls.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
What do you mean? Just that Denton had stolen the
pearls out from under the X ray machine, broken the
cord they were strung on, and plussed them into the
fish ponds when he drew the curtain, and.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The fish was so hungry that they swallowed them.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And under the X ray machine you could see the
pearl exactly. But why Benton, why did you suspect him?
He was the only one of us who had a
chance to get rid of the pearls before we were searched.
Oh me darn.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But how could you be sure that the carp had
swallowed the pearl so you hadn't seen one of them
under the X ray machine?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That was a long shot I had to take. But
it was he certainly did. And there wasn't any other man. No,
Benton bumped into Roder in the dark there so that
we we'd think there had been another person in the room,
and he did. The only one who saw the stranger
saw him in his imagination of color.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And anyway, there was no one else who would have
stolen the pearls. Missus Pittroyal wouldn't steal them from herself,
and Blackstone and Ice sicken he wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And so another mystery was solved by magic. Say he
wants that glass of water? Doing there? Blackstone? Are you
going to show us a trick with it in a wave? Get?
But Uh, what I really need for the trick is
an ice cube.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh, here's the whole trailer, and uh, nice black ice
cube coming up?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
No, that's a good one. Uh, dropped it in the
glass flow there? M y. Yeah, noticed that the glass
is very nearly pulled, so the ice cube is ploating
almost at the top. Yes, I've noticed that. Whyres a
just to make the trick easier, if it's easy at all. Now,
here's a piece of string about uh eight inches long.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Well, what are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Just there? I set the string across the glass so
that the string rests on the ice.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Cube, with the ends hanging over the sides of the grass.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yes. Now the trick is to take the ends of
the string and lift the ice cube right out of
the glass. Why are you going to do that? You
can't balance a cube of ice on the string. Oh,
I know.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Tie a loop in the string, make a lasso and
snag the ice cube.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Ole, Roder, You gotta leave the string just as it is,
then take the ends of it and lift the ice.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Cube right out about touching the ice cube with your fingers.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yes, study that one for a few minutes, Roder. If
you don't get it, I'll be back to explain it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh, you better be back.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
This is impossible. And now a black stone make the
(11:19):
impossible possible.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You mean lift the ice cube with a piece of string.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I mean just that, if you can do it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Do you think I can? Well, it's really very simple.
Hand me that salt shaker roller.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh what are you gonna do? Switch to another trip.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No, I'm just going to sprinkle some salt on top
of this ice cube like that.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh, what does salt got to do with it?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well? It speeds the melting of the ice.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Oh yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And the string begins to sink into the ice. Give
it a little time. Sometimes the more the better.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Oh, it's working very fast this time, I'll.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Say it is. What good does that do? Well? If
you give the ice a few moments longer, it begins
to harden the game after the effects of the saltware
is all. O, h we're doing that right now.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Al I see Now what is it? Why the string
is freezing itself into the eye.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
It's just about ready now, Rhode. I take the ends
of the string, I lift them.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Slowly, and the ice cube comes up with a string.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Right out of the glad. And I put it here
on the table and the trick is done. I hope
you like that trick, Ladies and gentlemen, and now until
next time. This is Blackstone saying good magic and good bye.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Be with us next time, when the world's greatest living magician,
Blackstone tells us the story on the Curse of the
Yogi and explains more tricks that you yourself can perform.
Listening again to Blackstone, the world's greatest living magician, m
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