 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 Double Take from Jason Knowles and Magic World. All right, so Double Take. Double Take, what is this effect? Basically, it's a three-way transposition. It's cards turning into money, turning into cards. There's a lot going on and there's a couple different ways you can do this effect. There's the card underfoot effect and then there's also an ambitious bill effect. But basically the effect is the spectator selects a card and returns it to the deck and then the magician tries to find the card but finds the wrong card. They find the wrong card and then to eliminate that wrong card, the magician then places the wrong card under their foot. Then the magician pulls up their wallet and says, hey, let's put some money on this and then that's when all the different transposition starts to take place. All right, so what's in the box? What is in the box? What are you going to get? You're not going to get a whole lot. It's kind of a puffy pouch, cardboard pouch that you get but then inside you're not really getting a ton. You're getting the thing that you need to match your current currency and this is also available for a euro. It's also available for GBP and so depending on what you need, make sure you buy the currency that matches your country. Then you're going to get some very familiar material to most magicians, okay? You're going to get that and then you're going to get the video download code and you're also going to get a download to a two-page PDF. The video is about an hour long. Is it what I thought? Is it what I thought? Kind of, it is. I mean, I used to, I've seen effects like this. It's inspired by other card-to-money effects. You know, you got Risky Bet by Henry Evans. You have an extortion by Patrick Kuhn, C.M. by Qashon Wallace but this one is a little more to it. I think the gimmick is a little bit more advanced and of course it allows for denominations. It allows for bills from other countries. How are the angles? How are the angles on this? You know, one of my very first gimmicks like this was a bill to card. It was like a flash transposition of a bill to a card and it was based on this same principle. It was John Kennedy's Dollar Monty. But this, like I said, this gimmick has way more bells and whistles than this. So this is similar to John Kennedy's Dollar Monty if you've ever used that before, okay? It's similar to that. However, I would say this gimmick is kind of like on steroids. This one, this one is like bionic, this one has bionic implants, okay? So this is way more involved. But I think the angles on this are really clean. Can it be inspected? Of course, no. It is a gimmick so you cannot pass this out, cannot pass it around. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? It does have multiple locations used for different things in all the presentations. Most of the video is a studio shot over the shoulder where he's at the table and he's constructing the gimmick. So there's a lot of gimmick construction in this. You're going to get a studio performance, which is nice. And like I said, you're going to get the construction shot and the explanation shot. It's all HD camera using video and it has adequate sound. All right, so what's taught on the video? Well, like I said, it's going to begin with gimmick construction, all right? And then I kind of skipped past that because I really wanted to see how the effect worked. So I was a little disappointed that the construction was at the beginning. So I wanted to see the secret so that I knew how to build the construction. Like sometimes I don't like it when the construction comes first before they tell me what the secret is because as I build it, that kind of helps me know how to build it. Okay, so maybe watch the whole thing through first before you start building. And ultimately he's going to teach you how to build two different gimmicks. So this is another reason why I would watch it all the way through. One of the gimmicks is more complex and it uses a real dollar bill. So it uses real money, okay? And the other one is much simpler and it just uses the materials that he gives you in the pouch, okay? So watch everything before you decide what you want. And like I said, half of the video is gimmick construction. The rest of it, like I said, 30 minutes of presentation, which is more than enough to give you everything you need to know. Is it well made? You make it, so it's as well made as you make it. How much practice does this require? You know, it's nothing too gimmicky. It's nothing too difficult that wouldn't work in the real world. I think that once you build the gimmick, the gimmick will do a lot of the work for you. And I think this is great for street magic, where your spectators and you are standing and everyone can see your feet. How much setup and reset is there? It pretty much resets itself. Like I said, the gimmick kind of does all the work for you. Positives, all right. So what are the positives to double take? Double take is simple to learn and you can add in your own pattern, whatever you like to make it your own. And I think it works well for street magic and strolling, and it's going to get great reactions. Negatives. All right. So what are the negatives? You know, like we say around here, there's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. 30 bucks. And we'll just throw this in with, is it worth your money? It's $30. So it's a little more than maybe I would have liked to have spent. 30 bucks is a lot for this effect. But I think that was because, you know, there's an hour of material that they're giving you. And you know, you have to supply your own bills. I get that. But that's so that you can supply your own currency that, you know, they can't really make it for you because they need to know what currency you use. And, you know, because you could use whatever one you want in your own country. So it was just a little on the pricey end. But you know, I don't really do money magic. So maybe if you do money magic and you watch this trailer and you think, wow, this is, this is cool, you might find that it's the right price point. Who would like this? Like I said, people who do street magic, I think this is definitely people who do walk around, people where your spectators are standing, you're standing, you know, you kind of have that kind of like, look down at my feet kind of approach. This doesn't really work well if your spectators are seated and you're standing. Okay. So just maybe take that into consideration. Unless of course you do the ambitious bill routine, which I guess you could do that as well. All right. So that's my review of double take from Jason Knowles Magic World. I want to thank Murphy's Magic Supplies for allowing me to have this so that I could do the review for you. And if you would like to purchase this for yourself, you can find it from your very favorite Murphy's Magic retailer. Thanks. Bye.