 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at Meet the Jack from Alakazam and Jorge Garcia. No, not the Jorge Garcia from Lost. This is a magician. He's a mentalist. And he goes by his stage name, which is the Jack. Alright, so what is Meet the Jack? Basically, it's an hour-long performance. It's an hour-long, parlor, mentalism show that the Jack teaches you both by allowing you to watch the entire performance and then a back of the studio with Peter Nardi. Jorge Garcia, better known to many as the Jack, has performed and lectured in over 20 countries. He's a regular face on television in his native Argentina and has been booked to perform at a world-famous magic castle no less than six times. On this, his first DVD, the Jack shares eight of his favorite and most powerful mentalism creations and performance pieces, including to Lovecraft, Jorge's brilliant and acclaimed version of the classic Pegasus Page Effect. Each effect is performed in front of a live audience and together we dissect and explain every effect in great detail back at the Alakazam studio. My name is Peter Nardi and it's time for you to Meet the Jack. Alright, so a couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is, what is in the box? What's in the box? It's pretty much just the DVD. It's the DVD in the sleeve. The DVD is broken down into two parts. You're going to get the performance, which is about an hour-long, and it's fully shot, no edits, so you get to watch the entire thing. And then you're going to get the reveal back in the Alakazam stage and then the Jack and Peter Nardi go over an hour and 46 minutes of explanation. Is it what I thought? It is what I thought, only because the ad copy tells you what it is, that you're getting a performance and you're getting the reveal. There's nothing extra to it. There's really not a lot of things to build. It's pretty much just a straightforward mentalism show. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? Alakazam always makes good videos. So you have a full live performance. It's filmed at The World of Legend, which is a fairy tale storytelling theater out in the UK. It's really cool. It kind of looks like a little parlor. Maybe even like a little parlor that you'd find at the Magic Castle or it's like this little mysterious library. It has a curtain behind it. You have a live audience. You get to watch all the pattern, all the reactions. There's no edits. You get multiple camera angles, and it is well-microphoneed. Alright, so what's taught on the DVD? There are eight effects. Eight total effects. It's the Jack and Peter and Artie back in the Alakazam studio, like I said, with almost two hours of explanation and theory. You're going to get an effect called Two Lovecraft. Two Lovecraft was originally a release that the Jack put out on its own. And so just the fact that you're getting that along with the rest of these, it's a great, great, great deal. This is the Jack's awesome take on the classic book test. He's using a variation, his own variation, of Art Emerson's Pegasus page effect. So it's really cool. Lots of stages to it. You get to use a regular paperback book that you can find readily available at any bookstore. And the cool thing is you get to give it away. You get to give the book away along with the torn page at the end of the trick. You're also getting an effect called L-Mental. It's an effect where you have three people on stage, and each one holds either the paper, the rock, or the scissors. And then you play rock, paper, scissors with the three people behind you. And even without looking at what they're doing back there, you're always able to tell who wins each battle. Then there's an effect on there called Project Fear. It's a bunch of cards that list out different phobias. And then you're able to mentally select which phobia belongs to your spectator. There's another trick on there called a Think and Stop card trick. This is a beautiful borrowed deck effect that you can do for any card at any number. And then there's a trick on there called One Head, which is basically a one-ahead effect where you have three choices and you just walk through a simple one-ahead routine. Then there's an awesome five-minute blindfold act that literally uses an authentic blindfold and a real un-gimmick to deck of cards. You get to watch Jorge Garcia teach you this five-minute routine. It goes through multiple phases and each phase increases in impossibility. Then there's a trick on there called Mind Track where you're able to introduce a tablet and a pen and do a spirit writing reveal with your spectator that's very creative. And then you're going to see what the Jack's version of the Haunted Key effect is. He takes you through that classic key effect and gives you some very interesting and original tips. Also included on the DVD is a 44-page PDF. You know, sometimes you watch these DVDs or especially with mentalism and there's so much to remember. Just a quick run-through of the DVD. Watching it one time, you might forget some things. So it's beautiful that this 44-page PDF is on there. It looks just like a set of lecture notes. It's a great, great thing to have. All right, so positives, positives. What are the positives to meet the Jack? The Jack is giving you an entire hour-long mentalism show in a box. You've got strong material, no filler, and it's fully entertaining to watch. Is it worth your money? It's $30. $30 for eight tricks. It's about $3.75 a trick. So like I said, no filler. All real world workers. Who would like this? I think people who already do mentalism, people who are fans of the Jack and Alec exam, I think would definitely get a kick out of this. Anyone that's looking to put together their own parlor show, I think would definitely like this. Even just to watch as a performer, just to see how the Jack interacts with his audience, I think there's a lot of great tips in there for you. All right, so that is Meet the Jack from Jorge Garcia and Alec-Azam Magic. I want to thank Murphy's Magic for allowing me to have this so that I can do the review for you. And if you'd like to purchase this for yourself, you can find it from your very favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks, bye.