 Alright everybody, we're here with Ben Pratt from Massachusetts. Ben, how are you? I'm fantastic! First time, first time. Crazy. Very nice. Now Ben, I've known you for a little while, I should say, in full disclosure format. And you are a magician. I am. I am. Just turned full time. Been doing it pretty much my whole life, but full time officially. Very nice. And obviously, TAM is a place for magicians to congregate. And this is your first TAM though. This is my first everything. First Las Vegas, first TAM. Definitely shaking like a leaf on a tree. But it's been really crazy and amazing so far. It really has. Very nice. So first time in Las Vegas for a magician, I thought it was like a pilgrimage that you guys all had to do. It's a pilgrimage and I'm missing out when you live in a tiny little town of a thousand people, you know? And with no money, it's the way it is. So would you mind showing us something? Yeah, sure. Chris, what's your favorite color? Let's go with blue. Oh, yellow. Perfect. That's good. It would have been said yellow because it's the only color I have, but that would have been a trick, by the way, if you said yellow. But fine. You can check it out if you want. Sure. That's fine. It's like super squishy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So cool. You've sort of, like, the sawing lady in half, you've heard of that? Sure. Yeah. So if you take the ball like that and if you squish it and you saw it with your finger, all that is crazy that there's actually two balls there like that. That's a weird thing. That's a weird thing. Pretty much, if you take this ball, you place it inside of this hand, this one goes like this, you blow it and it actually transfers over to that hand. I know. Can you hold out your hand like this? Sure. Yeah, that's good. We're going to take the ball, we'll shove it inside of this hand like this. Take this one, squeeze it nice and tight. Don't let it get away. You've got a, got a, got a squeezy death grip there. I won't touch you already. Watch. It vanishes from the hand. Open your hand. Check it out. You got the two. Oh yeah. That totally just happened. That totally just happened. And if you ever want to get rid of one, it's really cool. Hey, I'm going to throw it. Souvenir. Okay, never mind. Yeah, you can keep that one. All right, so let me ask you, what are you looking forward to at TAM this year? Well, I've been to one thing so far. I went to the Dr. Google thing and actually that was really fascinating to me because I know a lot of people that have been through chemo and stuff like that, personal family members and stuff. And, you know, I've heard both ends of the spectrum now and it's really cool. It's really interesting to know and understand a little bit more than I did. And it's great. Like I'm learning all kinds of stuff here all the time. Very nice. And you got a deck of cards in your hand. Are we going to get treated to one more thing or are you just, is that just like a nervous habit that you shuffle with the deck of cards? Oh no, I shuffle. No, no, no. Here, we'll do something here really cool here. Very, very good. Make sure the camera can see. Yeah, yeah, well here, we'll go like this. Can you take one for me? It's not a full deck, but it's okay. Go ahead, show it to that one, look at it. All righty. Are you got it? Yep. All right, good. We're going to use a couple of the cards here. Now, do you like Snapple? Yes, I do. I love Snapple. I love Snapple like nobody's business. Actually, I love collecting little caps underneath my real facts. It's what they're called. Real facts. And actually, I have a whole ton of them in my office with the whole jar. And if I find a really good one, I'll totally post it as a status on my Facebook and I have no shame, but my favorite one to this day is real fact number 847. A Venus flytrap can consume an entire cheeseburger. I thought it was stupid. I call shenanigans on it, but I thought it was random and cool, so I made a cartridge out of it. Can you go ahead and place it back anywhere you'd like? That's perfect. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm not a hard guy to work with. You have to use your imagination for this. I use a lot of imagination. It's like the flytrap. Let's see if the flytrap can find your cheeseburger. Okay. It's kind of hard to do, but I'll let it explain for itself. Should I step back? Am I in danger? No, I think you're okay. It caught one card in between. What was your cheeseburger? I believe it was the King of Spades. Sure enough, there it is. The King of Spades, just like that. There it is. That's all I got. Ben, thanks for joining us. Have a great time of your first time. Hope to see you back next year. Let's do the regular. Thank you.