August 17, 2025 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
H Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone. He
tells you the inside story of the Riddle of the
(00:21):
Talking Skull, 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. Now stand by for Blackstone
the Magic Detective. Now to Blackstone's magic studio. You know, Blackstone,
(00:56):
every time I come to your magic studio, I see
something different.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You've got some darn many So that's all the stuff
he uses in his act.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
That's right. It's taken me years to build up a
magic collection like this one. I say, what's that little
horror you've got purchased on that shelf over there? Well,
that skull, I'm quite fond of that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well I'm not. It gives me the creeps just to
look at the darn thing. Ooh, so for ghoulish.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Lda hates me to work and act with that skull,
She says, it reminds her of the time it really tall.
You say it, Paul, that sounds like a story. Yeah,
when I'd like to forget Oh, Colonroller, I wanna hear it.
What happened Blackstone, I'll tell you if Rhoda doesn't mind.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh well, I'm your stuge blackdown.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Remember well, it all started after one of my shows.
Rhoda and I were packing up the equipment when all
of a sudden there was a knock on the door.
Who the devil?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh, well, come in, hello Blackstone memo.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I never expected to have you come backstage at one
of my shows. It was a very good act tonight, Blackstone.
Why thanks?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I uh, I.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Have a better escape act than that one, though, Oh
you have, have you? Oh, miss Brenda, I didn't see you.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
I do a mean disappearing act myself from time to
time and then whoop, I'm back there you do?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Oh yes, I come, I go.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Uh, I came to see your employer, mister Blackstone, if
if you don't mind, Miss brand.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Of course not.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
I can take a hint as well as the next girl.
As I was saying, I come.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And I go, And what's on your mind? Nemo?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Eh, that escape act of yours?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So what about it?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I've got a better one.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
What makes you think?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
So?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I don't think. I know.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I've come to make you a proposition, Blackstone.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, what is it?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Well, mister Blackstone You're supposed to be the world's greatest musician,
and I thought that if you'd be willing to try
to escape from this cabinet of mine.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You want to see if I can do it? Is
that it?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That's it, And frankly, I don't think you can.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
I think that I'm the only person who can get
out of this particular cabinet.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Oh, it's sounds interesting. I'd like to take a crack
at it.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
If you fail, Blackstone, you realize, of course, that that
that makes me a better magician than you are.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm willing to take a chance, Nemo.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Huh, take a chance on what I want to see.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
If Blackstone can escape from the cabinet that I've constructed.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Of course he can. He can escape from anything.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Huh, my press agent the game. Well, shall we be
on our way out to your place? Nemo?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Ad Well, here we are.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Uh, we'll just go down these stairs. Hit on my
magic grotto.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Magic grotto. That sounds fancy.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It is Huh.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
My whole magic workshop is hewn out of the solid
rock under this land.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Uh watch the stairs there, miss Brindle, Right, do I
have to.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Dig myself out of this cabinet of yours? Nemo.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Well, then the ordinary man might have to, but you
may be able to take of something cleverer than that.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Uh after all, or a magician as I am. Is
he any good as a magician? Blackstone?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Ohly fair? But he's such a nice old fella I
like to do. I don't be all those that yet anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They go downstairs much farther will hit.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
China have very practically there at the careful you don't
trip on this step.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And now the light switch my magic grotto.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, you have quite a layout here, I'll.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Say you have.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I think my magic equipment is one of the most
complete collections in the world.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
They're not copping yours, of course.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So where's the cabinet? I suppose not to be able
to get.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Out of it?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Well, it's it's not really a cabinet, Blackstone. It it's
more a cell here. It is right over here, cut out.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Of cellard rock, like the rest of the grotto, isn't.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It except for those huge bronze doors. You think you
can get out of that Blackstone?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Mm, it will be quite a trick.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I can get out of that, I figured away. It's well,
it's my life work a Blackstone. I've always wanted to
figure out a cabinet that only I could get out of.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Well, this should be the test.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
May I look around inside, go on inside?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Call him Blacks to me, nobody could ever get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
No, there must be some way, Nemo says, there is
hum Hey, he shut us in it.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Nemo cut us out, neame one. What's that noise?
Speaker 8 (05:22):
It sounds like a a hornet.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Evidently these dry stores have an electric clock of some kind.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
That means you can't pick it, doesn't it? Well do
you think the old Fellaw's idea was locking.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Issing like that?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
It's a test, Blackstone. I had to lock you in
before you could look around. That's that's the only way
it could be a true tests.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
To backs, don't look. That's come over there against the wall.
It's talking. It's it's Jaws, a movie, a.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Very usual magician's trick. Broder, you oughta know that Nemo
evidently has some sort of wire hook to it so
we can hear him talk. We couldn't hear a sound
through these wall.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Else tried to call me black Stone. Uh, these walls
are too big. I couldn't hear you.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Guess you were a right boss.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What do we do now we try to get out.
Got any ideas you're the magician.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I just work here.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Look, I hate to bring up anything as every day
of breathing at a time like this, blackst me his
place is the air tight.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That means we've got a hurry before we use up
all the air in here.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's getting off his stuffy already, think fast.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Blackstone had to pick an electric block, no hinges on
the doors to lift off no window.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Yeah, sure, Nemo doesn't just want to get us out
of the way so he can be the greatest magician
in the world.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Well, of course not. He just testing his cell that's all.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
H could be a sort of expensive test if we
both end up dead.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Or something impossible to buy it down. The doors can't
dig our way out through cellar drag.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
I can't breathe, Blacks, don't I I gotta get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Lie down road there, take very shallow breaths. It'll save
the octyple for a fool I under stunt like this.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Are you making out all right, Blackstone? Or am I
the greatest escape artists in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The ten minutes and then.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It will be yeah, oh, I haven't out of here
getting the skull. Hurry the talking scull.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Why you can't break the.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Door open with the uh?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It saw the brother stop the talk, Holly, I found
the way get us out here. But how did you
get out, mister Blackstone? I I don't get it. It
was very simple once I got the combination.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh, yes, a mere nothing. A child could do it?
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Do what?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
It was? A skull? Really, I knew from past experience
that the jaws of the skull were operated by a
very powerful magnet. So I took the magnet out and
used it to pick the lock. Picked the lock with
a magnet.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Using the magnet, he moved the tumblers of the lock
through the brass door, just the way a burglar would
do it with a pain.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It was simple, really, it only took me a few
seconds once I got started.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Poor old Nemo he was so disappointed when he saw
that door swinging open.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And saw another mystery was solved by magic. Tell me, Blackstorm,
do lots of magicians use talking skull? Quite a few?
Could you tell me more about them? No, they're fairly
complicated and a magician's secret. But here's a trick I
will explain to you.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh, what is it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's a mental trick that anyone can do. Of course,
it's takes power of concentration. Uh. How good are you
at concentration? Broder?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Good enough? You don't ask me to spell it?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Well, you will have to do some spelling, but none
of the words are as difficult as concentration. Could you
spell pencil for instance? Or cigarette? Of course? All right,
here's a pencil and a cigarette anymore? Yes? Now? A
hat and a watch? Uh? Your lipstick? Thank you? Now?
An ashtray? Anything else? Suppose we put a book on
the table too. That makes uh seven objects, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
H pencil, cigarette, ha, watch, lipstick.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Ashtray and book. Yes, that makes sense now, Rhoda, I
want you to concentrate upon one of those objects, but
don't tell me what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I taken one.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Good. Now. I want you to turn your back, and
when I say go, you are to think of the
first letter in the name of the object that you choose. Okay,
Each time I say go, you are to add another
letter mentally, of course.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And what happens when I reach the last letter?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Then you say stop and turn around? Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Alright, I'm touching an object. On the table so we
can start our spelling. Go. Uh do you touch an
object each time? Yes?
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Go and go go stop, I've stopped write Where I am?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Where? Where?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
What is it? Roda?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
W you're touching a book and that's what I was
thinking about.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You mean you were spelling the word book? Yeah, clever,
aren't I rotea?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
No uncanny? Good?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Holy Think it over a few minutes, my dear, and
we'll try it again. Oh well, Rhoda, ready for another try?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I certainly am. I'll turn my back and you can start.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Alright, go go go stop.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Right here, Rhoda, I'm pointing to the hat.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Who well, that's what I was thinking of.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Alright, only Blackstone. Can't you ever miss not with this trick? Can?
I'll show you why? You see I point to any
object the first two times I say go, But the
third time I point to the hat.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
To why the hat?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Because it has three letters, Rhoda, So when you were
spelling hat, your account ended with mine.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Who well, that's right, so it is.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And for the fourth letter, I point to the book.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Because there are four letters in the word book.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
But you hit that one too, and I can hit
all the rest of 'em. After book comes watch with
five letters, pencil with six and ashtray with seven, the
lipstick with eight and cigarette with nine. You can't miss
when you choose objects with a different number of letters.
Half book watch. Yeah, but suppose nobody has a watch,
then use a clock or a knife instead. Anything with
(11:16):
five letters and for eight.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Letters you could, well, you could use a magazine instead
of lipstick.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
That's right. For that matter, you can leave an object
out and just touch anything on that number because it
won't count. But there's one thing you must be careful about.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Never to have two objects with the same number of letteries.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
That's right. Make sure they're all different, and keep count
of the letters in each word. You will always end
on the chosen object. I hope ladies and gentlemen you
enjoy that trick. And now until next time, this is Blackstone.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
Saying good magic and goodbye.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Be with us next time, when the world's greatest magician
Blankstone tells us the story of the Whispering Buddha and
explains more tricks that you yourself can perform. Listening again to Blankstone,
the world's greatest living magician,
H Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone. He
tells you the inside story of the Riddle of the
(00:21):
Talking Skull, 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. Now stand by for Blackstone
the Magic Detective. Now to Blackstone's magic studio. You know, Blackstone,
(00:56):
every time I come to your magic studio, I see
something different.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You've got some darn many So that's all the stuff
he uses in his act.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
That's right. It's taken me years to build up a
magic collection like this one. I say, what's that little
horror you've got purchased on that shelf over there? Well,
that skull, I'm quite fond of that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well I'm not. It gives me the creeps just to
look at the darn thing. Ooh, so for ghoulish.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Lda hates me to work and act with that skull,
She says, it reminds her of the time it really tall.
You say it, Paul, that sounds like a story. Yeah,
when I'd like to forget Oh, Colonroller, I wanna hear it.
What happened Blackstone, I'll tell you if Rhoda doesn't mind.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh well, I'm your stuge blackdown.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Remember well, it all started after one of my shows.
Rhoda and I were packing up the equipment when all
of a sudden there was a knock on the door.
Who the devil?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh, well, come in, hello Blackstone memo.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I never expected to have you come backstage at one
of my shows. It was a very good act tonight, Blackstone.
Why thanks?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I uh, I.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Have a better escape act than that one, though, Oh
you have, have you? Oh, miss Brenda, I didn't see you.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
I do a mean disappearing act myself from time to
time and then whoop, I'm back there you do?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Oh yes, I come, I go.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Uh, I came to see your employer, mister Blackstone, if
if you don't mind, Miss brand.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Of course not.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
I can take a hint as well as the next girl.
As I was saying, I come.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And I go, And what's on your mind? Nemo?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Eh, that escape act of yours?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So what about it?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I've got a better one.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
What makes you think?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
So?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I don't think. I know.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I've come to make you a proposition, Blackstone.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, what is it?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Well, mister Blackstone You're supposed to be the world's greatest musician,
and I thought that if you'd be willing to try
to escape from this cabinet of mine.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You want to see if I can do it? Is
that it?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That's it, And frankly, I don't think you can.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
I think that I'm the only person who can get
out of this particular cabinet.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Oh, it's sounds interesting. I'd like to take a crack
at it.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
If you fail, Blackstone, you realize, of course, that that
that makes me a better magician than you are.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm willing to take a chance, Nemo.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Huh, take a chance on what I want to see.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
If Blackstone can escape from the cabinet that I've constructed.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Of course he can. He can escape from anything.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Huh, my press agent the game. Well, shall we be
on our way out to your place? Nemo?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Ad Well, here we are.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Uh, we'll just go down these stairs. Hit on my
magic grotto.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Magic grotto. That sounds fancy.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It is Huh.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
My whole magic workshop is hewn out of the solid
rock under this land.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Uh watch the stairs there, miss Brindle, Right, do I
have to.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Dig myself out of this cabinet of yours? Nemo.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Well, then the ordinary man might have to, but you
may be able to take of something cleverer than that.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Uh after all, or a magician as I am. Is
he any good as a magician? Blackstone?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Ohly fair? But he's such a nice old fella I
like to do. I don't be all those that yet anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They go downstairs much farther will hit.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
China have very practically there at the careful you don't
trip on this step.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And now the light switch my magic grotto.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, you have quite a layout here, I'll.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Say you have.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I think my magic equipment is one of the most
complete collections in the world.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
They're not copping yours, of course.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So where's the cabinet? I suppose not to be able
to get.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Out of it?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Well, it's it's not really a cabinet, Blackstone. It it's
more a cell here. It is right over here, cut out.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Of cellard rock, like the rest of the grotto, isn't.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It except for those huge bronze doors. You think you
can get out of that Blackstone?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Mm, it will be quite a trick.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I can get out of that, I figured away. It's well,
it's my life work a Blackstone. I've always wanted to
figure out a cabinet that only I could get out of.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Well, this should be the test.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
May I look around inside, go on inside?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Call him Blacks to me, nobody could ever get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
No, there must be some way, Nemo says, there is
hum Hey, he shut us in it.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Nemo cut us out, neame one. What's that noise?
Speaker 8 (05:22):
It sounds like a a hornet.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Evidently these dry stores have an electric clock of some kind.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
That means you can't pick it, doesn't it? Well do
you think the old Fellaw's idea was locking.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Issing like that?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
It's a test, Blackstone. I had to lock you in
before you could look around. That's that's the only way
it could be a true tests.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
To backs, don't look. That's come over there against the wall.
It's talking. It's it's Jaws, a movie, a.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Very usual magician's trick. Broder, you oughta know that Nemo
evidently has some sort of wire hook to it so
we can hear him talk. We couldn't hear a sound
through these wall.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Else tried to call me black Stone. Uh, these walls
are too big. I couldn't hear you.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Guess you were a right boss.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What do we do now we try to get out.
Got any ideas you're the magician.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I just work here.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Look, I hate to bring up anything as every day
of breathing at a time like this, blackst me his
place is the air tight.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That means we've got a hurry before we use up
all the air in here.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's getting off his stuffy already, think fast.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Blackstone had to pick an electric block, no hinges on
the doors to lift off no window.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Yeah, sure, Nemo doesn't just want to get us out
of the way so he can be the greatest magician
in the world.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Well, of course not. He just testing his cell that's all.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
H could be a sort of expensive test if we
both end up dead.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Or something impossible to buy it down. The doors can't
dig our way out through cellar drag.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
I can't breathe, Blacks, don't I I gotta get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Lie down road there, take very shallow breaths. It'll save
the octyple for a fool I under stunt like this.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Are you making out all right, Blackstone? Or am I
the greatest escape artists in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The ten minutes and then.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It will be yeah, oh, I haven't out of here
getting the skull. Hurry the talking scull.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Why you can't break the.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Door open with the uh?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It saw the brother stop the talk, Holly, I found
the way get us out here. But how did you
get out, mister Blackstone? I I don't get it. It
was very simple once I got the combination.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh, yes, a mere nothing. A child could do it?
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Do what?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
It was? A skull? Really, I knew from past experience
that the jaws of the skull were operated by a
very powerful magnet. So I took the magnet out and
used it to pick the lock. Picked the lock with
a magnet.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Using the magnet, he moved the tumblers of the lock
through the brass door, just the way a burglar would
do it with a pain.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It was simple, really, it only took me a few
seconds once I got started.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Poor old Nemo he was so disappointed when he saw
that door swinging open.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And saw another mystery was solved by magic. Tell me, Blackstorm,
do lots of magicians use talking skull? Quite a few?
Could you tell me more about them? No, they're fairly
complicated and a magician's secret. But here's a trick I
will explain to you.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh, what is it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's a mental trick that anyone can do. Of course,
it's takes power of concentration. Uh. How good are you
at concentration? Broder?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Good enough? You don't ask me to spell it?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Well, you will have to do some spelling, but none
of the words are as difficult as concentration. Could you
spell pencil for instance? Or cigarette? Of course? All right,
here's a pencil and a cigarette anymore? Yes? Now? A
hat and a watch? Uh? Your lipstick? Thank you? Now?
An ashtray? Anything else? Suppose we put a book on
the table too. That makes uh seven objects, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
H pencil, cigarette, ha, watch, lipstick.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Ashtray and book. Yes, that makes sense now, Rhoda, I
want you to concentrate upon one of those objects, but
don't tell me what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I taken one.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Good. Now. I want you to turn your back, and
when I say go, you are to think of the
first letter in the name of the object that you choose. Okay,
Each time I say go, you are to add another
letter mentally, of course.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And what happens when I reach the last letter?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Then you say stop and turn around? Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Alright, I'm touching an object. On the table so we
can start our spelling. Go. Uh do you touch an
object each time? Yes?
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Go and go go stop, I've stopped write Where I am?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Where? Where?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
What is it? Roda?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
W you're touching a book and that's what I was
thinking about.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You mean you were spelling the word book? Yeah, clever,
aren't I rotea?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
No uncanny? Good?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Holy Think it over a few minutes, my dear, and
we'll try it again. Oh well, Rhoda, ready for another try?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I certainly am. I'll turn my back and you can start.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Alright, go go go stop.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Right here, Rhoda, I'm pointing to the hat.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Who well, that's what I was thinking of.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Alright, only Blackstone. Can't you ever miss not with this trick? Can?
I'll show you why? You see I point to any
object the first two times I say go, But the
third time I point to the hat.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
To why the hat?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Because it has three letters, Rhoda, So when you were
spelling hat, your account ended with mine.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Who well, that's right, so it is.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And for the fourth letter, I point to the book.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Because there are four letters in the word book.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
But you hit that one too, and I can hit
all the rest of 'em. After book comes watch with
five letters, pencil with six and ashtray with seven, the
lipstick with eight and cigarette with nine. You can't miss
when you choose objects with a different number of letters.
Half book watch. Yeah, but suppose nobody has a watch,
then use a clock or a knife instead. Anything with
(11:16):
five letters and for eight.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Letters you could, well, you could use a magazine instead
of lipstick.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
That's right. For that matter, you can leave an object
out and just touch anything on that number because it
won't count. But there's one thing you must be careful about.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Never to have two objects with the same number of letteries.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
That's right. Make sure they're all different, and keep count
of the letters in each word. You will always end
on the chosen object. I hope ladies and gentlemen you
enjoy that trick. And now until next time, this is Blackstone.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
Saying good magic and goodbye.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Be with us next time, when the world's greatest magician
Blankstone tells us the story of the Whispering Buddha and
explains more tricks that you yourself can perform. Listening again to Blankstone,
the world's greatest living magician,
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