Is Magic Real
i want you for a moment to
imagine in your mind uh you’re holding
on to a hand of a child
and i want you to close your eyes as you
do this that child
is you and as you hold on to that hand
of that child
i want you to feel for a moment what it
felt like
to be that kid that you’re holding on to
be that younger you on the count of
three i want you to go ahead and
open your eyes one
two three okay
so what we’re gonna do i have a bottle
here
in my hand and i have a bag all right
now i want everyone here to
imagine as if we can make this bottle
here disappear
i’m gonna try to put in the bag great
keep it right here in full frame so you
guys can always see it
now if you’re watching this i want you
to hold your hand
up holding your hand up will signify
you believe that i can make this bottle
disappear
out of the bag okay so here it goes
check it out look
ready all right perfect i see some hands
up
boom it’s gone it is completely
gone the bottles disappear
and it’s not gone because some of you
guys didn’t hold your hands up so we’re
gonna do this again all right here we go
check it out
all right here we go watch this hold
your hand up
if you believe we can make this bottle
disappear from pure imagination great
see some pants season hand season
here we go check it out look i’m gonna
turn it over turn it over turn it over
turn it over turn it over turn it over
and it’s gone it’s gone
great okay some of you guys probably
don’t believe me
probably don’t believe me we’ll do it
one last time let’s just see if it works
i really need everyone to put their
hands up i know we’re watching and they
have their
phones down or their laptops down and
keeping their hands right to their side
so we’re gonna do this one more time
all right here we go check it out
[Music]
hold your hand if you believe to
disappear great great
great great great awesome
and it’s gone
voila now let’s for a moment
just talk about what just happened when
you were a kid did you ever have
a thought an idea that was so crazy
in your head you just knew it was
achievable
if you can convince enough people that
it was possible
maybe you could be a rocket scientist
maybe you could be
a football player or maybe you could be
the first person
to cure cancer you had this crazy idea
in your head if you just convinced
enough people
it was possible you could achieve it
well that feeling is the feeling of
magic
the native americans used to uh do what
they call a rain dance
and with the rain dance they would use a
tool called the rain stick
this would simulate rain falling back
and forth
going back and forth stimulating their
imagination with sound
as they would chant and all believe that
rain would soon
come this energy here is something
i like to think about as magic
but what is magic when we’re children
our parents sometimes
when i watch children uh they go through
these
immense struggles with this great big
idea of what life is and as they go
throughout life progressively
they start to wing off this
crazy idea of what’s possible simply due
to the people around them
losing that faith and magic that they
had
now what is faith faith is
believing something without any
evidential proof
and when it comes to a 12 year old
hey what do you expect i don’t expect
for a 12 year old
to have any physical proof they’re
only 12. so many of us these big crazy
dreams and aspirations
seem like something that are a one in a
million chance that only the few
will be able to obtain what if i told
you
it’s not necessarily true what if i told
you
magic was actually real just for a
moment think about this
it was a one in a million chance you
as a sperm cell made it to the egg
manifested in your mother’s belly
and now you’re here on this earth you
battled for a competition and you made
it
you made it all the way here
a beautiful story nonetheless
now what if i told you that you also
cast spells as well too now
when i say you cast spells let me go
ahead and explain this
saying that you cast spells when you
speak what are you using
you’re using letters and when you
arrange these letters
and configure them in the proper way you
form what they call
a word and a word has to be spelled
by letters the word spell pops up and
then you
cast what you have spelled out of your
mouth
you’re casting a spell
this is the power speaking life or death
when it comes to us speaking about
people’s dreams and ambitions
i feel like sometimes we can speak
amazing events into people’s lives
or we can completely kill people’s
dreams and never know exactly
what was the blossom in the thing that
we’re witnessing unfold
in front of our very eyes
let’s go ahead and talk about alchemy
transmutating one thing changes from one
thing to the other
i have something here for you guys i
want to show you something
i was playing a little bit of games
before i went ahead and uh hopped on
and i want to go ahead and uh show this
so i’m going to go ahead and bring the
camera down here
to my little table oh oh okay all right
there transmutation
here i have a rubik’s cube watch
and it turns into skittles
as you can see
now as a kid growing up uh
if you would have told me that some kid
in chicago right would have became one
of the most iconic magicians
you would have been kidding me growing
up as a kid um
i found magic at the age of eight and
when i found it it was something about
me while i believed that
it was just 100 real
i i actually thought that all of it was
real
and it was the feeling that made me
enthusiastic
more than it was
the curiosity of knowing if it was
when i became 12 years old i would do
magic inside the boys and girls club
and i would show all my friends the
magic with that being said
i ran into a very horrible occurring
event
at eight i mean at 12 excuse me at 12
i got diagnosed with crohn’s disease and
when i was diagnosed with crohn’s
disease
it really put my life at a setback
i had many wonders in my head would i
ever be able
to become the person i seen in my head
this invisible being of where i wanted
to be
with no proof but i just had to have the
faith to get there
was it even possible was it even
achievable
could i ever actually be there many of
you probably don’t know what crohn’s
disease is
crohn’s disease is a disease that
upsets your stomach and sometimes you
spend about maybe
60 of your day inside of the bathroom
and traveling can become
very very hard because you have to find
a restroom so when it came to playing
outside with
my friends or traveling with my family
to go somewhere to
visit relatives i wasn’t able to do it
and at the age of 12 it felt like
everything was stripped from me
it’s that old saying you don’t know what
you got until it’s gone
and as a kid i always said if magic is
real
then if it proves itself and i’ll keep
believing
it i’ll take this career and do
the most with it that i possibly can
being a spitting image and a
representation
to show people that it is
moving forward in my life i move forward
and
fooled pin and teller two of the biggest
magicians
in las vegas who have done magic for
years and years
on their hit tv show pin until they fool
us and came on there with
tricks that were original that i created
and also tricks that i put a spin on
using my creativity i’ve also
met 50 cent uh kevin hart
and many other celebrities whom had me
around to just do magic for them
and to show them some amazing things my
life has led me to
a very great place where i was able to
go from
this kid where it wasn’t much happening
for me in my life and also it got a
little darker
to now i’m probably living the most
happiest life i ever have at the age of
25
and who’s know what comes for the future
a kid such as me exists
in all of us in my search for magic when
i was looking forward i would always
look outside
of myself i would always look left
right up down i would look in the river
and probably drown but nonetheless
i found out that magic actually lies
with inside all of us we’re all magical
you have magic that lies inside of you
at this very moment
and it’s how attentive you are to it is
what makes it grow
water that seed even the concept of a
tree
is transmutation you place a seed into
the ground
water it and then blossoms this great
powerful strong image or
figure that can provide substance to the
world
i want us to talk about invincibility
invincibility is real
we hear about it in many mythological
stories but
i think it is still relevant to this
very day
let me explain when i say
i have a dream you probably think about
martin luther king if i took
this piece of paper right here and then
tried to
shoot it into like the trash can
and yell kobe you would think of kobe
bryant their names still live on
to this very day
magic is a force that is
unseen but has an effect on the world
and i take this definition from the
egyptians their depiction of god
is a stick with the piece of claw
because the piece of cloth
is blown by when the invisible force
that you can’t see but you cannot deny
it has an effect
on the world and even though they’re not
here in the flesh
the mere fact that their presence is
still felt
to this day years after months after
you can’t deny now
let’s talk about what is magic
by the definition of magic is magic is
the prediction
or the producing of marvelous events to
unfold
in front of you and also having great
influence
i think about magic
and with having the great influence
martin luther king had an
amazing influence on us and predicted
something
in the future that we’re living in today
kobe bryant
as well too a mere influence
onto an industry and the world in
general
that we cannot not
i want to go ahead and depart with you
guys
with some encouraging words uh
something to leave a mark on in terms of
my invincibility uh this digital age
gives us the ability to
leave these footprints everywhere we go
in the day that i may not exist
i wanted to say this to my future
children
and grandchildren i want you to know
that
anything is possible and don’t let
anyone
convince you otherwise
if any if at any moment you ever feel
like it’s not
i want you to go ahead and look at me
and say
if he can do it i can too
there’s no difference between me and you
i could be missing a limb i probably
still get these things done
why is that i believe it’s the invisible
force inside of me
that gets it done not the mere fact that
it’s who i am in the physical flesh but
who i am on the inside
the magic that lies with inside
and with those words i want to say
goodbye and i love you all