 So ya, it's that time for us to do some little tricks and with me I have YC the Magician He'll be telling us about himself, about his craft and some of the challenges he has experienced in this industry that is so tiny, right? Ya, so welcome to the show. Thank you. So introduce yourself to our audience and tell them a bit about yourself. Who is YC? YC, YC is the Magician. Okay, people call me Magician but I'm not sure if I'm a Magician because I also don't believe in magic that much. Oh wow. Wow. Okay, I know it's real but the kind of magic I'm doing see the one what I'm expecting when I find out people think we can have special powers out of space and something so that... So that is the kind of magic you don't believe in? I don't believe in that magic. Is there that kind of magic? Do you have special powers? I'm not sure, I don't know. What really happens in fiction films? Ya, maafra cinema. But it's real, it's real. Whatever you're doing is real. Ya, sure. Alright, so tell us how long you have been doing magic. Oh, I've been doing magic for 7 years. 7 years, ya. And I'm only 23 so I've been back in high school. Okay. In Fremont. And then professionally I've been doing it last year. After that I've been doing magic profession so I took it serious. And then here we are. Here we are. Alright, so maybe you can start us off with one trick before we continue. Before we continue, ya. Ya. I usually work with my staffs. You work with your props? With my props, ya, sure. And they're real. For example, these are just a piece of cloth. I'm a bit crazy about this stuff. I do confirm if it's real. Please don't make me disappear. I need to finish the show. Okay, you said it's real. Okay. You just confirm if it's real. It is. Can you change color? No? It's orange. It's orange. It's orange. And then mostly what we've created is jackets which are way too small. Ya. I'm not going to use the jacket. Just a piece of cloth. And here you go. Why is my heart racing? Why? You don't have to know that. Ya. Yes. Breathe in, breathe out. Okay. So here, give me that. Look at this. Nothing else in my hand. Just a piece of cloth. So I'm going to put this inside my hand like this. Put this inside my hand. Trust me. I'm so deceptive. Everything I'm telling is a misdirection. It's a misdirection. Ya, sure. That's what's going on. Reminding me of that movie few minutes ago. Now you see me. Now you see me. Ya. I can't stop producing. Please find me. Okay, so here. It's here. It's going inside my hand. And then I'm going to make it. Disappear. Like it's gone. It's gone completely. Ya ya. But it's not here. We're here. It's completely nothing. Do you know what it is? You won't believe it. It's inside my body. Inside my body. Here. Sometimes it's hard, but not always. Okay. I'm going to repeat that one. We're not supposed to repeat any magic trick. Why? Why are you not supposed to repeat a magic trick? It's a rule. Magicians, they have our own rules. Ya. And the magician never tells. And you have to abide by them. Ya. So I'm going to repeat. I'm going to break the rules of magic. Ya. And there's a bounce. Ya. Let me say this one. So basically what happens, I push a piece of flesh inside my hand like this. Ya. And then when I'm done, I say abra kadabra, I make it disappear. It's just simple. So can you take it out of another place? Ya, sure. Okay. This is your purse. Ya. Do you have anything inside? Ya. Okay. Just check. Anga lia kawineza kwa ponda niju. It's now, it's somewhere else. It's not inside my body. Apa akuna? Akuna anything? Ya. Can you show the camera? Akuna kitu. Apa akuna ma coins too? The only coins. Ya. Never take out everything. And then back it down. Okay. Okay. Now give me that. I give you empty. Ya, sure. Okay, look. Remember, my hands are empty. Nothing. Nothing in my hands. Give me that. Watch inside here. What do you have? It's not here. I tell you I'm so deceptive. Okay. Ya. That's magic. Ya know, I'm the only person who is supposed to be lost of words here. But I am. So simple. But it takes years. I've done this. Years of practice. Years of practice. Tara practice. Mew practice magic like 4. Like 4 to 6 hours a day. On a daily basis. And then I follow the routine. So like, umesema people think that you have special powers or out of this world. But it's practice, right? It's practice. So where do you learn this tricks? Do you like watch other magicians do the tricks? Or how do you learn new tricks? Okay. I think there's a time. I have a magic book. But the more I get deeper into magic. I create my own magic. In fact, I prefer the ones. Me mo ya ni mi create. They are more lively. Okay. I know how to interact with people. So there are many success journals, social media, books. Alright. Speaking of interacting with people. Where can people find you? You know, doing tricks and everything. Like, you know, village na semanga. Misani ya ta fanya concert. Ya. Where do you do your crafts? Okay. Mostly I perform in hotels and events and schools. Specifically, I'm employed at a place called Kamelea Gardens. It's across Kiyambu. No, no. On your way to Limuru from Kiyambu. Okay. There you can find me every Sunday. I perform magic there for adults, for kids. And then I'm just beginning my career. So I'm not so much into magic. So you're just beginning and you've been doing this for so many years. Okay. Professionally. Professionally. Alright. Is it something that can anew a living? Like, does it actually anew a living? So far. So far, but do sigiazaku na magic. Okay. See that. See that much. Ya. But I know people. I know other magicians. Like in Saudi mentalist. I think there are only five magicians in Kenya. Ya, there are only five. Five, I think. I think I've interviewed your third magician. Your third magician. Yes. But I'm planning to maybe, I'll open a magic school na takahi, spread cargo as well. Like you're a bigger industry. Alright, on to our next trick. Our next trick. Again, don't make me disappear. I need to do my job. Now go for bana. So today, in taku patia, Ability ya kufanya magic pier. Okay. You gotta do magic. It's gonna be interesting. So I have two red balls. Two red balls. You can confirm if they are real. Ya. Ya. Just some two balls. Okay. So what happens here, you check a single ball. So I check. This one, for example, you go first. Pick any ball. That's all. Ya. I will exchange mine. See me the same. Both of them are the same. They are both red. You check that one. I will check this one. Okay, press it inside your hand. And then remember, just press it. Like this. Okay. Remember, the color is red. And then it cannot change color. Can you confirm? Cannot change color. Okay. Just red. Let me show them. Let me show the camera. It's red. It cannot change color. Now I'm going to check this one. You hold onto this. I'm having one. Now watch. Abracadabra. I can make mine tanka. It's not invisible here. And I cannot say it. But it's actually here. Can you say it here? Okay now, I'm going to do something funny. I'm going to throw it inside your hand. And then you'll feel like some tickle. Have you felt anything? I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm nervous. Okay, I don't know. I have. Even don't know. I don't know. But you can feel the ball inside your hand. Yes, it's still here. It's still here. Can you just open your hand and show the camera what you have? Do you have a ball? No. Come on. There you go. Okay, funny thing. I'm not the one who did that. Who did that? How? I didn't do anything. I'm going to explain it. How we did it. So we head to ball. I'm just too fast. It's only speed magic. I think about speed and misdirection. So I hit the two balls and then I pressed them together. So they're two here. I pressed them together as one. You didn't know. So you're holding onto these. I was holding onto two balls. Yeah, two balls. But remember, I'm not supposed to reveal magic. How we do it. For me to be a good magician, I have to... A magician does not tell. Yeah, sure. I've just told you it's not a cube. You don't have any balls. You don't have any balls. I have the balls. I have any balls, baby. What did you just do? Okay. Again, I'm not supposed to be speechless, but I am. Okay, let me ask this question. I know you have experienced challenges in your line of work, but have you ever done a trick and it backfired? Yeah, I think the last time I was here. The last time you were here? Yeah, okay. Lakin ni mostly what you have noticed. It's only a magician can notice. I can make... Nezafanya maji ke bounce, and then I change it to another trick. Another trick? Yeah, sure. So I think mostly what you have noticed is your bounce, madam. I've even seen other magicians who bounce lakin ni, and only one notices you. Who notices you. We do the same shit. Okay, no casting. Strings. All right. The producer is asking, how did the ball turn into a cube? You want me to explain that? That's beyond science. I mean, cannot explain magic any more. What do you mean? I don't know how to explain it better. I don't know how to explain magic to me, and as you are true, it will happen. Kini says, explain how it happens. Right. So other than having tricks that backfire, what other challenges do you experience? I might not have gone through a lot. Magic. Rejection, church. I say, right now. One of the women in kuchawi. Yeah. Like, right now, I don't know how to explain it. I don't know how to explain it, but it's easy to bring your topic to me. They don't understand magic in the perspective of art. But I don't know how to direct it. Uchawi and stuff. It's, it's, it's... Yeah. So good. But I don't understand them. If I explain it, I think it's easier to explain it. I don't know how to do it. I don't know how to do it. I don't know how to explain it. So, mostly church. And then, mostly, and then, that's why I don't know how to explain it. I don't know how to explain it. I don't know how to explain it. I don't understand. Now I don't understand it. I don't know how to explain it. And when people go there, it's difficult. So it's easier to bring magic to a woman. So I normally do it in town. It's easier to bring magic to a woman. Because you as a family that has a little... When you go to a skinny girl and say, there's a kid, there's a kid in the room. and they had a baby. When you go to a skinny girl and you have a baby. Yeah. When you go to a skinny girl that's a bigger problem. I really have to do this to prove some people that it can be done Kuna wato wa they don't believe in me, they don't believe in magic So we just have to do it to prove them To prove to them Alright, other than those two challenges anything else? Anything else, I think lack of finances Laki na jwa later on tako powa So finance mostly His staffs na kaa normal Laki ni mostly Ntsuna zi toa angelik Kenya they don't know anything about magic So we have to go to China To import your props So they take time, they za kwa na shows na sina props Okay, so any sikita mbaka wa ida? Inaka normal, laki ni Kuna some element of magic in it But magic is real Okay, magic is real, jyusu na navitu zina happen Bato ukian so lisa ma magic is real You don't even believe in magic I make things look real But they are not That real Should I be saying this? Should you be saying that? I don't think I should Alright, noli zwa kamba ni za nini Kamba Oh, I'll do a certain effect here It's called the Scandinavian effect The professor snipe me actually I don't know what to do I don't know what to do But before that I don't know anything about magic Hold it right there Before atatwa nio trick I want us to take a short break Very short break, we'll be back We need to take a break We prepare for the next trick Don't you go anywhere We are ready for our next trick now Yeah, good We are getting to know that kipandana tempo Yeah, tricks, right? A gas So sayi ni kali zita tu shitu wa mo zan Iso zinkine I don't know Let's see Let's wait and see Alright We want to be a kamba ni za nini Oh, kamba Have you ever touched a snake? No You wanna see a snake today? No, no, no You want to create a snake with these ropes That's interesting Yeah, it's not scary That's scary, that's real magic That's real magic I have these three ropes It's not equal in size I can't do it, I can't do it I wish I could do that But I can do something But you can't do it No No, it's not bad We are going to go to the next kipandana Yeah I'm not that bad Everybody Everyone has gone away I'm ready I'm ready to go I'm ready I feel superior I'm so powerful We need to be ready So we need to be ready I'm just kidding My jokes are not funny You're a magician Not a comedian Okay, let's do this We proceed I came with three coins over here This is half a dollar Half a dollar, check that please Half a dollar It will cost a lot Let me show you That's half a dollar I have three coins here It's one, the second and the third So before I do any magic trick Can you confirm it's real? It's real, they're not metallic They're not any special Yes, they look real They look real Now I'm going to make you see something Look at this coin I'm going to buy it Right now I'm going to buy this coin Half a dollar It hurts sometimes There you go It's not half, can you see that? It's not a chocolate Wait, watch It's not back how it was These are real coins I swear they're real coins I don't have to repeat that It really hurts a lot You want to try? No, I don't It's metallic, I swear Okay, I don't want to try to buy it But you can prove it's metallic So I'm going to make this coin disappear one at a time So the first one My sleeves are up, remember I'm not going to hide them inside my sleeves The first one over here I check it, give it a little wave Abracadabra it's gone Okay, it's here It's there I make way others disappear The other ones This friend of mine called Scrabik You really have to seek Scrabik Magician as well? He's a magician and he's in the other day He's so good at coins It's so therapeutic You can reach out to Scrabik for coin tricks and then Musaw, Musaw the best In mentalism Musaw It was amazing Ha, let me tell you I honestly get so nervous Even right now I'm so nervous I don't know why But I'm just nervous It's normal Can you get to the ropes? To the ropes? I want to try something new I want to try some mentalism I'm not a mentalist But I can try one Are you ready? Here we go I'm going to write something here I'm not going to show you I'm going to write something Hey Do you know what I'm writing? Can you tell? I can't tell Maybe camera person on camera 3 can see you I'm about to zoom in Let me show them I've written something here I don't want you to see But I've written Let it remain there Back to mentalism Can you spell A to letter E A to E Spell A B C D A B C D Can you do it faster? I want you to think of something I want you to think of an animal An animal? No I want you to think of a name It can be of a car A place A person And then you can change your mind And then I'll try to Know what you're thinking of I tried it once And then it failed So I want to try it again If it fails, I'll never come back here again So we're good I want you to think of a name And then Have you thought of one? Any name Can you change your mind severely Before settling a ton You're good You have a name So I wrote something here Before you thought of that And I want to show the camera Can you see that Can you zoom in Here you go And then I'm going to ask you To name The name you thought about If it's not this one I'll end my interview here If it's this one Such a great magician In fact the best Is not of a name Kindly don't lie This is a moment of truth Don't ruin my career please Don't change your mind again You have a name Does it start with letter T? No Leta S Leta S Yeah Leta H You're thinking of that Sharon You're thinking of that Sharon Yes it's Sharon I wrote it here It's here That was so simple I can read it in your brain Let's go home Let's go home We are done I'm done for the day I didn't know that it would work out So incredible We could have been doing something Okay someone asked that If you could make someone disappear Yeah I want to research on that I think by the end of the year And disappear I don't have to use means of transport I'm a magician I don't have to use teleports I have to think of it I really have to clear my own money I have to make people disappear I have to make people disappear I don't know where they want to go But they really want to disappear I want to go to Mombasa I want a vacation right now Please just do your thing In the best hotel in Malindi I want to go to Mombasa I want a vacation right now Please just do your thing I want to go to a hotel in Malindi I want to go somewhere Okay one last week Before we For the ropes This one This is called Slite of Fun So it came with three ropes Can you see the first one Different sizes obviously The first one is small And then the second one is medium And then we have the longer rope here So basically what I want to do Is using magic I don't have any knife with me You want to resize them I am ready by the way I am ready to run That's how I am seated in this position Okay I have been in Jifunza for 7 years I take time So here Still they are not equal And then we confirm here Here is the stretch past Just confirm they are normal ropes In Okuanazo for like 2 years So Let's do this The first rope, the second rope And the third one over here So I am going to bring the first one up The smaller one The smallest one And then the medium one And then the third one And then I say the magic words Abracadabra But we have one, two and three Equal sizes look at the first one over here And the third one But something funny That's not hard Kusiru deisha how they were That's the whole thing So are you going to I'm going to try to Take them back how they were Wait Please Okay I'll pull them there later Let me finish this first The three ropes here So you can see the equal sizes right now They seem equal sizes So I'll take out the first one over here And then the other two Back to how they were The short one here The long one there Magic It's that amazing It's amazing Yeah Again I'm honestly speechless By the way Everywhere people I am I'm even out of question I don't know how to say it But unfortunately We don't have time for that I wish we had more time So maybe you can share your socials And how people can reach you out for Functions to perform at their functions I really do Man, you people should give me events But I can make your events even Better They can reach me out on My social medias at Instagram YouTube Facebook Snapchat I see black But I'm thinking of another name Because Mekwaniki changed Gina L And then I'll settle on one finally In Afikadu time Needed a name So now It's I see black Everywhere I see with a Y Y C W E Black Alright, so thank you so much for coming through We appreciate your time And me I don't know I'm just shocked honestly Everything we have done I did not collaborate on anything Like everything we have done is Very real Nasiyu chawi Just practice years and years of practice So in case you see Y C or any other magician Nia yu usufkirian yu chawi This takes years and years of practice It's just like any other job Like you perfect it over the years In fact they can also learn magic Ya ya ya You can check Kama kuna kuna dekulal magic If they can reach out to me I offer classes At least once a week or twice And then we create more magicians So we are still waiting For that magic school, right? Magic school Sooner or later We'll be there Alright, so any shoutouts? Oh special shoutouts to my Lovely parents Back at home And then Muass my manager Hussein, my real G Ya you know Hussein ya Awa Hussein Awa Panyuusan Hussein You are Hussein Such amazing person Well Oh my home is All of them man I really love him He mean a lot to me And every fan of me Every fan of mine Ya Thank you so much again Y C for coming through We appreciate your time And your magic And your years And years of practice To perfect this Thank you so much And all the best Ya Alright so we are about to get into Our request hour So send those requests And remember to keep them Kenyan To me those selfies We need to see your beautiful faces Your handsome faces And remember we said We are making our selfies Extra extra special today So if you have a selfie With your mother To celebrate mother's day tomorrow Just send it on our socials And then we shall be showing them On our screens As we sample the comments So don't you go anywhere Up next request hour