 Hello, everybody! Welcome back to the channel. Today, we have a very special video. This is Jack. Hello. Say, oh, you just said hello. I was supposed to say hello. You know, I said it, I pre-umped everything because I'm a ventriloquist, so I'm like always thinking double, you know. So, the whole video, the whole video, they had no idea, by the title or the thumbnail. Today, I'm learning how to be a ventriloquist. If you've been on TikTok, which none of you have been on TikTok, did you know that this year, apparently, this might be wrong, that TikTok was used more than Google this year? I did hear that, yes. That is crazy. Very weird. Like, I see somebody with like 10 million likes on a single video, and I'm like, It's crazy. I don't even understand. Like, you're just doing like a lip-sync, you know? Yeah. What I was showing my girlfriend earlier was you doing the delayed speech thing. Like, how often do you fuck with people in public with that? Um, not as much anymore, just because I'm like a very like, shy guy. I think when I first started doing it, it was just because of like a high demand from my audience. Well, for the people who aren't familiar, will you do a little bit of delayed speaking? Yes, yes. No voiceover. This is it. Hi. Hello. How's it going? Good to see ya. My name's Jack. It's so interesting. Okay. So before we get into it, into it, let's talk about how you got into ventriloquism and what your first experience was actually trying it out and everything like that. Yeah, I was, I believe 11 or 12 years old when I first discovered ventriloquism. I was watching an episode of Goosebumps and had the ventriloquist dummy slappy in it. That was his name. Yeah, slappy. And I was watching with a buddy who was terrified of it. And instead of me being afraid, I just like looked at it and I was just like, I want one. And so I went home that night and I asked my dad, I was like, Dad, do you have a ventriloquist dummy? And he just looked at me and he was just like, yes. And he actually had it. Wait, really? Yeah. That's so funny. Yeah. Why did he have one? It was just from his childhood that he like kept away in the garage. So he just kept it for all these years. And it was just this old ventriloquist dummy. And I just started practicing with it. And that's kind of how I got into it was just scaring my brother and just scaring people around the house with this dummy because I thought it was just a funny thing to do. Yeah. And eventually, and this is when it starts to get into like this strange territory, I would say is because eventually I found out when I was probably like 13 about a ventriloquist convention where there's about 500 ventriloquists that all gather in one spot. And I always say to people, like, if you have a fear of dolls, like, don't go there. I don't like dolls. Yes, exactly. You would hate it because it's just like a bunch of just like lifeless kind of mannequins everywhere. And so I started going to that convention consistently every year for about six or seven years straight. And that's really how I started getting into it, was just seeing other ventriloquists do it. And a lot of people are not good at it. Yeah. It's just more of like a hobby. And I would say only like about 1% of ventriloquists actually pursue it as a career. And I maybe know only like two or three other people that do this. I think I can only name one ventriloquist. And I think you probably know who I am about to say who is Jeff Dunham. Yes, of course. Yes. The granddaddy of ventriloquism. The granddaddy of ventriloquism. Well, I would say actually the granddaddy-granddaddy is a guy named Edgar Bergen, who I've heard that name before. Yeah, he was probably the most famous ventriloquist in the 50s and 60s, I believe. And he had a dummy named Charlie McCarthy. And he actually did a radio show where people thought that the dummy was real because it was on the radio. And then they'd see him in person and they'd be like, oh shit, that's just a puppet. I thought this was a real thing, you know? Oh, I understand what you're saying. That's so interesting. Yeah. That seems like it would kind of defeat the purpose to do ventriloquism on the radio. Exactly. I know. You can't even see it, you know? But yeah, that's honestly how it got started. And I just started posting TikToks last year and just doing it consistently, doing kind of... And you hit a million recently. Yes, just a million. It's definitely a big milestone. I did not think I would hit that this quickly for sure. Well, you brought some gifts today. Yes. Yes, I brought... Well, first, do you want me to teach you how to do ventriloquism or do you want me to get the puppets out? What do you think is the better... Well, I think is I teach you some things and then I get a puppet out and I give you a puppet to work with. You know what I mean? Yeah, let's see that. Okay, so the basics of ventriloquism is all about using your tongue. So, you know, you use your tongue for every syllable. You don't really use your lips for that many letters. The main letters that you use your lips for are P, B and M, right? Because you have to touch your lips together, especially B, like a B. That's probably the hardest letter. So you want to replace that letter or just not use it. Okay. That's what I do is I try to stay away from P's and B's, really. Yeah, because I've seen a lot of your really popular ones are people giving you tongue twisters specifically with P's and B's. Yeah, exactly. And a lot of people call me out in the comments. They're like, you probably use this practice every morning. And I'm like, yes, that's really what I do every morning. That's probably why I'm good at it. Why would they call you out? You probably do this all the time. Yeah. So everything you say is with your tongue and you put it on the roof of your mouth. And what I'd say for a beginner is you put your teeth together like this, right? So you're using your tongue and you're putting your teeth together like that. Teeth together like this. Yes, exactly. And then you slowly put your lips together. And usually for a beginner, what I'd say is you want to leave your teeth together because it really helps with lip control. So you're saying everything like this. Everything like this. It might not sound natural at first. I feel like I sound better when I do a character's voice than my own voice. So you can practice that and you're like A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, N, N, L, P. Just relax and stuff. Wait, so how do you make the P noise without the lips? With P, what you want to do is you want to replace that with a letter T. And you're thinking P, but you're saying T. So it's confusing. So you're like P. And sometimes I roll my tongue. P. Basketball is like Dasketball. Basketball. You know, I'm thinking B. Wait, so you replace B with T also? B is with D. D, okay. Dasketball. No, no, no. I think B really hard. Dasketball. Dasketball. Dasketball. Dasketball. Dasketball. It's sounding better. Nope, that's B. Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. It's really hard. It's also like when I'm doing it, I feel like my lips are slowly just like closing so you can barely hear me. No, no, it takes a lot of practice. I would say like to even be able to do that, maybe I can start something different. Like saying the word, like a name like Sally. You don't have to really use it. Sally. Yeah, see exactly. You see you didn't move your lips there. No, I didn't. Lips. Lips at all. Lips is a hard word. That's one of the hardest words for me. Sounds like lits. Lits. Okay, so I think you've got the basics of ventriloquism. There it is. You're already a pro. Yeah, he's a pro. Yeah, man, I can give you a puppet to use. Yeah, let's do it. I don't really have a voice for this guy, but his name's Buzz. Whoa. And yeah, he's kind of, he's made out of latex. How many puppets do you have? I've got a couple. Yeah, and you just want to put your hand like right in here. You know, that's kind of the awkward part. Yeah. And there you go. Wow. Yeah, you can try saying sally with him. Sally. Wow, that's good. Sally. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It like becomes kind of creepy. Yeah. Where like I forgot for a moment that it was my hand. Yes, exactly. Does that ever happen to you where you're like, I'm assuming that when you do your shows that you have like a planned act? 100%. So when you're rehearsing that, do you ever just kind of like forget and just like kind of talk to the puppet? Not in a creepy way, but you're just like, Oh yeah. You just kind of forget that it's a character. Sometimes those are like the best moments is when I'm just going off randomly like off the script and I'm just talking to the puppet. It's not nice. And so yeah, when you have him, you can kind of like move him around like this, especially the neck. You want to be like, you want to be like that. Exactly. Like how birds have like sharp movements. Yes. That's kind of how I think of a puppet. Like how would this thing act? Yeah. So I'll get out the one I use the most. This guy's name is Foster. He's like a dirty cast away from. What was your first puppet? That one that my dad gave me. So that was the first puppet that I really used. And then they actually, the second one that I used a lot was this guy. But you know, How old is this guy? Probably like 10 years old, I would say. Yeah. So he kind of held up well. Hello. He's so depressed in the eyes. I'm so excited to be here. You could tell by the look on my face. What I'm very excited for is the editors now editing this video as if the puppets are another person in the video. Yeah. So you'll get your own comedic zooms. Oh, I love that. Look at this. Just the gang hanging here, huh? The gang's all here. Yeah, man. The gang's all here. Put this on a postcard. Nice. That's right. Right on a postcard. Yeah. Right on a postcard. It's giving me like the hardest words to say. Man, I love that. Postcard. It makes me hungry. Once you have the puppet in your hand, because I feel like this is so foreign to me that I just like, I don't even really know how to coexist with you. You know, you gotta be isolated. You gotta have no friends. You gotta spend a lot of time just thinking to yourself, man, why am I doing this? Called an alarm? Yeah. You're called an alarm. Hey, what's your name, buddy? Oh, I'll give him a really good British accent. A really good British accent. All right. All right. What's your name? Grace. Grace's mom. I'm moving my lips a lot. No, it's okay. It's okay. It's, you know, I'm moving my, that has a P in it. I'm not gonna say that. Lips. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Is that like a good ventriloquism trick to like fall back on yourself to sort of make a meta joke about it? Oh, yeah. For sure. If you want, I can show you the more interesting ventriloquist dummy. Yeah. I can put foster back. Yeah, back in a bag. Yeah. Oh, it's back in the... Ah, it's a B. Say it. Bag. I'm gonna put you in the egg. I'm not moving this at all. It's just me sitting here talking. It's a lot of multitasking. Yeah. Oh, multitasking. Yeah. That was good. That was very good. I saw a TikTok, which this was the first thing that I thought of when I was like, I should see if I can do a video with a ventriloquist. Because I saw a TikTok of this girl. It was really creepy, but also funny, where she just went... Daddy, daddy, I'm stuck in the... That was actually that, yeah. That was actually really good at that. Well, foster. It's great eating you, mate. It is. Thank you so much for coming out here. You saw an old fight by Mike. It was a pleasure meeting you. I would shake your hand if I could move it. Let's try this again. Nice. Nice. Nice. Got it. Get sweaty in here, huh? Yes, exactly. That was another thing I was gonna say. It's not fresh. Yeah. It's what you and me knew. It's because it's just like pure latex. Yeah. So there's no cushion. It's very wet in here now. Dude, what's the care like for the puppets? How much maintenance do you have to do? See, this guy, I feel like this guy is kind of like supposed to be dirty, so I kind of just, I don't like care with him. Yeah. On other puppets that I use, I usually try to just keep them in like a bag or something. I can put them away after I'm done using them. And that's another thing is like some people just think I have like the puppets all out and they're like staring at me while I sleep. And I'm like, I don't even know if I could do that. Yeah. You know, just like have them in my room like looking at me. I'm like, you know, and that kind of leads into the person I'm gonna show you, whose name is Marv, Sugar Daddy Marv, kind of the name speaks for itself. Is he the classic ventriloquist puppet? Yes. Yes. You will see it's a little bit different. Great. I would, Yeah. I'm a little bit terrified. What is the classic ventriloquist puppet cost? That guy would probably be like about $120, $150. That's like the average like pro-puppet. Okay. This guy would probably be around $2,000 to $3,000 new. Wow. So yeah, it definitely varies for sure. The dummies are more. The dummies are more. Hello. The eyes. It's the eyes. It's the eyes. That beautiful eyes. Wow. Wait, so can you just quickly walk through and I'm sorry if this is breaking character for you, but walk through sort of the features of the puppet, because with this one it's basically just my hand. Yeah. So this one definitely takes like a lot more practice to manipulate. You're controlling me. Yeah. But everything he does is very like, it's all in a control stick, which I'll show you. It's, you know, this is kind of the breaking of the ventriloquist code, but you know, that's the whole video is just kind of explaining ventriloquism. So he's got moving eyes like this. He's got eyebrows that go up and down, you know, for like things like that. And he can actually individually blink each with his eyelids. That's like I do that all the time. Yeah. Just blink with one eye. He likes Elizabeth. Like Elizabeth. Yeah. Exactly. And I'll show you, this is kind of a scary part. He's going to de-capitate me. So I'll show you this. Oh, whoa. So this is kind of how I operate him. I don't know if you can see that, but that's right here. I'll get a closer up shot real quick. So this is him. This is Marv. Super cool. I love a body. How old is Marv? When was Marv made? I don't know. I would say I'm 25. Don't I look it? No, but I'm 25. Oh, hey. Yeah. 96. He probably is like 20 years old. He was actually woodcarved by a guy named Tim Selberg who makes like some of the best like puppets like top of the line. You have to wait eight years for them to be produced just because they're so intricate. And Buddy of Mine actually gave this puppet to me kind of just out of niceness, you know? It's crazy. Sorry. I don't mean to interrupt you, but it's crazy how you're having an actual conversation with me and you're still moving him and making him just like naturally have these, like personality. Yeah. It's like a real human. I'm a real boy. I assume it's just kind of like second nature. Now where it's just kind of like muscle memory. Oh yeah. In like the interim of you speaking versus him speaking, you're just like, okay, these are the things that my hands do and you don't even really think about it at this point. That was like the first thing that I was taught, I would say at the ventriloquist convention was to always like keep the puppet alive because if he's not looking alive and he's just, if I just kind of like let him go. Exactly. It's just going to be like this and I'm like, he's dead. And then he comes to life. He's like, ah, I'm alive. Oh, it's really nice to meet you. Oh, it's really nice to meet you. Are you a cockney bird? It's my cockney bird. Where's your cock? Oh, he has little feet. Yeah. But it's right here. Yeah, exactly. You can like perch him up. Well, I don't have any, get it, oops, you have to bite. Yeah. Premium. I'm saying a lot of P's and you can really see my lips move. Got that puppet premium, huh? Ah, that's right. Oh man. Everyone go to my OnlyFans. Would Mark make an OnlyFans, do you think? Probably. I think they would just be like very like, you wouldn't know really how to work a camera. They'd be like just too close, like really like close up shots, you know. Hey, you talking shit? Yeah. Right here. When you were making Marv, when you were bringing him to life, did you order him or did you see him and he was at somewhere? So, I don't know how the process goes at all. Yeah, it's one of those things where like finding a ventriloquist dummy is very hard, especially with a good one, because it's such a small community. So usually you have to find somebody on like Facebook or something like that. It's a good way to get good ones, just because there's so few, you know. And I would say with him, he was a figure that I knew and that's what a lot of ventriloquists call the more professional ones, they call them figures. Some people take the term doll offensively. I personally don't care. I'm a doll! I gotta scream everything. Sorry. But yeah, it's one of those things they call figures and I got him through a friend who I knew... I got him through a friend who I knew had him and I was like really interested in using him in my act and he was actually used by this female ventriloquist named Nina Conti, who's a big... She's one of my favorite ventriloquists and she's based out of the UK and she has this little monkey puppet named Monk who is just hilarious and she used him in her act I believe for a little bit and she used him in a documentary too. So he's got a lot of history actually so it was really cool to be able to use him he's not very liked on TikTok because everybody just assumes like, you know, scary like I'm gonna get ya! You know, that kind of thing and you know, people get scared because it's mostly like kids on TikTok but I do mostly like live shows with Mar and he's more of like an adult friendly figure even though a lot of adults probably are afraid of him too. Mar, can I ask you a question? What are your hands, Mar? You know, just experience. Experience? Those are hard workin' hands. Yeah, I got them Voldemort hands. He does have like... a vada katara kind of... Why are you holding me? Oh, sorry. I like your track suit also. Thank you, thank you. I stole it off the kid! Ah! Off the child! Yeah! Nice. Give me! Mar, what's your favorite part of... My body? Of your body? Of being a figure. I would say... a figure. You're learning all these terms. Learning all the terms. Learning all the terms. Me or what? So I will spoke out of that. Oh yeah, favorite part about being a ventriloquist dummy? Is that offensive to say? Ventriloquist dummy? What do you think? I would say yes. I mean, you're talking to me like I'm real. Yes. Yeah. Looking at me like... I mean, what is real? Yeah, I mean... When you think about it, I'm perceiving you. Imagine he just took his hand out of there and I just started talking. How would you react? I don't know if I would react the same as I'm reacting now. Yeah, it would be kind of scary. Well, because if you have the same personality, I think it would be fine. You know, realistically, he doesn't even need to be here because it's just you and I talking now. Yeah, exactly. Shut up. Yeah, you're just kind of in the background. He's just kind of a pawn in your chess game. Exactly. He's like a prop. Yeah, he's now the prop. Yeah, I'm the real eye candy. Uh-huh. When they put up posters to promote the shows, it's all you, baby. It's all me. It's all you. I can do a 360. Can you? Yeah, look at this. Like an owl, Marv. Yeah. Marv, have you ever had different haircuts or anything? It's funny. Haircuts. You know, I got a lot of hair. Yeah, I got all this hair. Yeah. Yeah. Marv, do you ever change your clothes? And also, if you do change your clothes, how do you go about getting your clothes? Do you buy children's clothes? Oh. Also, I love your socks, by the way. Thank you. You know, it's funny. He actually has Tims, but they're super heavy. So he's very, like, fashionable. That's really cool. It's easier. It's lighter to, like, manipulate him just with the socks. What are you touching my feet, huh? Going to my only thing instead of that. Okay. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, do you do, like, shop or, like, how do you get your clothes? You shop. Oh, don't need to, because I'm, like, a bird. Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah, a little trick I did. Kind of scary. Little bitch. Spooky, you know. All right. Okay. Um... I would say shopping, it goes like this. He takes his hand out of my asshole and then leaves my body on the ground like this. And then I pretty much just go, you know, to a kid's store and then I... A baby gown? Yes, exactly. Or, like, a good will or something like that. And, you know, I put the clothes back on him and I put a new outfit on him and then I put my hand back in and, you know, he goes back to... I got new clothes. Oh, look at that. Do you dress up for shows? Or do you still wear the tracksuit? Tracksuit every day, baby. Yeah. Okay, there you little guy. Hey. You want to taste my neat hand? Yeah, I'll take a little. Yeah, take a nibble. What does it taste like? It's a lot softer than I thought it would be. What does it remind you of? Oh, those little, what are they called? Vienna sausages? Oh. Vienna sausages. Yeah, I know I got a sausage somewhere. He's talking about his penis. Yeah. My penis. How do you do M's? It's just kind of an N. It's N, basically. Mommy! I don't know what... Does Marv have a lat's name? It's a 90's Marv sugar daddy Marv. Like the sugar daddy, yeah. I like to go to Costco. Do you ever get the, like, the crazy, like, foot long hot dogs at Costco? I mean, I got one in my pants. Ah, Marv! That was a little too much. This is good too. Yeah, Marv, can I shake your hand? Yeah. Ooh! Yeah. Chris, you're right. That is way softer. Let me give you the secret. That's real human skin. Oh, real human skin. This is great, Marv. Yeah, we talked for an hour. Thank you so much for giving out and showing me the basics, Marv. I really appreciated it. This guy didn't really have anything to do with it. No, I just kind of sat back and just kind of watched. You know, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's Marv. That's Marv. Bye, Marv. It was really nice to meet you. Chris, it was great to meet you, pal. Yeah. No, I shouldn't have met you. It was great meeting you. That's the cue. Yeah, yeah, that's it, yeah. That's it. Marv turned it off. Well, Chris, great meeting you. Great bringing you live. Thank you so much for watching the video. Thank you, Chris. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. You're coming out. I'm sorry if your insides are now really wet. Yeah, really? Right, Chris. I'm going to take you off now. Thank you. Yeah, he's very wet. It's very wet. It's really wet. It's very, very wet. Wet sock. Yeah. Well, I guess the light went out. So, dude, this was really cool. Thank you so much for teaching me the basics about ventriloquism. I have not only a new respect for ventriloquism, but I think it's less creepy seeing him in real life because I feel like seeing puppets and stuff on TV, specifically like the ventriloquism puppets. Yeah. It's very uncanny valley, so it's like, ooh, it's a little off-putting. But once you're in the vicinity, it's like, oh, that's so bad. Yeah, you're not nice. I like this guy. Yeah, it's all in the personnel. Yeah. Probably. But yeah, dude, thank you so much for coming out. Is there anything you want to promote? Yes. Do people see your shows? Yes, my shows are all in LA. I might be doing a tour soon, who knows. But, you know, you can follow me on YouTube, TikTok's my main thing, Instagram, allpuppetjack underscore. Cool. And that'll be in the description, too. Well, thank you so much. Does Foster want to do an outro? I feel bad because he's just going, yes, I already know. You can do whatever kind of outro you want, Foster. I just wanted to bring you back out one last time I felt bad for you. Well, thanks for watching and enjoy our sweaty hands. Yeah. Was that good? Yeah, it was really good. Subscribe. Like. Yeah. That's all the things, right? Share. Yeah. There's comment, too. Comment. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a brain. I just have a hand. Yeah.