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Get Slap Happy with the Static Shot

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 – running time 08:26
This effect has everything: it's fun to do, it looks impressive, it makes you feel like you've got superpowers, and most importantly... it lets you make someone look like an idiot.

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The Static Shootout

Brian shows the Static Shot trick using static electricity from beard stubble... but is the real trick just making someone slap themself in the face?

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Here's How!

The Setup

Tear off the edges of a sweetener packet and dump out the contents. This should leave you with a sheet of thin paper with a crease down the middle. This will be your "target." Set up your target a foot or so away from your outstretched arm, making sure to keep it as precariously balanced as you're able (the easier it is to knock over, the better it works).

Next, put on a show of slapping your face and rubbing your cheeks to "build up a charge", and finally, after rubbing your left cheek with your right hand, keep your hand wide and flat as you swing it in a wide arc from your face, eventually ending up pointing at the target.

If you do the move correctly, you will have generated a gust of air that will take a couple of seconds to reach the target. Once you have your timing down, it will appear that you simply point and "fire" your finger gun to knock over the target. It'll take some practice to get it down, but once you've got it, it's a blast!

Here's the best part: your friends will want to know how it's done. Explain that it's all about the static electricity generated by rubbing and slapping their face. The harder they try, the funnier it gets.

04:05

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Trick Review

Just be sure not to give the trick away too soon, or before you get a free beer out of it!

07:05

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Highlights

megaphone: 3:09
domain: 3:23
wanna: 3:36, 4:19, 6:01, 7:02
coolest: 1:05

Automatically Generated Transcript

May not be 100% accurate

" War. This week harness that energy in your face to move an object. Yes really."

" This upsets in school brought to you by those evil geniuses. -- Welcome to the show that knows the meaning of 793 point eight do you. Welcome to Scam School the only show dedicated to social engineering at the bar and on the street."

" rails Brian -- and this week's effect is one of my new favorites it's fun to do -- you feel like your magical powers it fools people and best of all it makes somebody."

" Look like an -- Welcome to the static shoot out."

" Did get a say did you really thought -- I don't they have -- into the -- is always. I get this thing I don't know how this works or why but it is the coolest freaking thing happened to do with static electricity. They get rid of all of this jump in here but only -- is to -- any sugar packets when this case -- Linda. We're gonna tear. -- into. Just this part right."

" Step aside."

" I I don't know actually how it works entirely. But I think -- it just static electricity if you build -- which -- that would better -- but this will be good experiment we'll find out if not. Do you build a charge tickets now. -- You blew down you they hit us would definitely the simplest and if you're gonna. You hold your camera right out of my face that way he would be the idiot if you feel you'll be able to feel yeah yeah -- get a little it's against your name. Right now -- take a look now what now they feel it. There are entirely the static charge. He needed a blow yeah. Yeah the goods -- anchor I think the I guess the question which when he got to do it I think Rubin's got humans would have looked over. Look at the -- the -- Hey you run run desire Jake. Disaster better."

" And it really activated activities left. Bring up any appointment by."

" Try to -- build build build a good evening and part."

" We give you that he's -- yeah. -- dialogue and -- yeah."

" They did that is let's get -- due to."

" Yeah that's that's the right -- back I don't know if they've got would have been good morning I don't know what what was that -- gotten behind volume on how you actually megaphone and welfare as we got to thank our small."

" Six. Times. You know what it remains -- is by now domains are so ridiculously cheap to our sponsor godaddy.com. That you can register I'm just to make fun of people we college domain smacking. For example we've got -- Goodwin who registered the domain. Experts sex change dot com imported it to. Experts exchange dot com -- just to make life even more difficult for them. If you wanna pull up your own domain -- head on over to godaddy.com. And use the code scam thirtieth check out we'll get your domain for only seven dollars and 49 cents. And even point it anywhere you want. Absolutely free. Okay here's the way it works first of all you're doing there's nothing to do it did they did provide enough cover to. For why you move your hands the way you do. Second of all it does dvd excuse to make somebody else lock themselves similar to I don't know there is great and then yeah. He repeated his copyright keepers -- second and when you lose in the you're gonna bring your hand there. On. You know thank -- emotion which is gonna close -- there that will blow it over but you don't wanna make it obviously got to come. He got here. You come there. -- empire and he you do it right it's like a total shootout."

" And now thank you don't really argues -- our pilots that was great that was when you're going to be moved you you didn't have them copied doing last."

" Then why didn't point anybody comes out there's no way they're gonna generate. And -- reading your -- you don't tell policy about the way you can do for -- I look at the shots."

" I like that you know dealer selling -- yeah. --"

" That's right when you come down this time you try keeping it's just not even -- the bar got into and go a little bit pastor didn't even slightly to the right. It's a bad."

" You really have a life."

" Yeah. We hadn't really thought yeah that's actually it's not just feeding people think that you really have to blow hard right -- sort of is sort of on time. I guess kind of a casual motion."

" To read you got you down or. I don't. I didn't -- arguing you feel like you're the foreperson you're just like I'm. You try to -- farther brotherly. Right and other than desired and very good -- and many government and yeah wanted on the -- and."

" didn't do us all night long I love is next. It's not and it's good there was nothing there you go you gotta sell us."

" But you don't want and yet know which it is you did last night's game yeah and then just give an obvious win. You wanna have -- be like down on my hand happens to be here -- I wanna be down here."

" Wow yeah. There it was I -- you don't have this double did you get out you know."

" Senator -- That's right you can actually gather the hook. You can get. I clearly can."

" Yeah it did."

" Preemptive strike."

" Now because this is so -- to do you're gonna do it over and over again just make sure you don't give away the secret to orally or without burning a free beer first. Second of all if you wanna get maximum distance actually do it on the -- the farther the flat surfaces the better the effects gonna look. By the way you get good video of you pulling this off I want to have posted up the boards. At revision3.com. Slash scam school at three could see all the episodes right back to our very first one. You wanna suggest your favorite bars them right directly at Brian at revision3.com. You're doing this Twitter thing you have followers have skip school -- follow me personally actually. Next week we're gonna be doing something magical we're gonna learn how to actually capture elephant gun. And Robin Belli Italy France three -- It'll be magically delicious."

" Yeah."

" War. This week harness that energy in your face to move an object. Yes really."

" This upsets in school brought to you by those evil geniuses. -- Welcome to the show that knows the meaning of 793 point eight do you. Welcome to Scam School the only show dedicated to social engineering at the bar and on the street."

" rails Brian -- and this week's effect is one of my new favorites it's fun to do -- you feel like your magical powers it fools people and best of all it makes somebody."

" Look like an -- Welcome to the static shoot out."

" Did get a say did you really thought -- I don't they have -- into the -- is always. I get this thing I don't know how this works or why but it is the coolest freaking thing happened to do with static electricity. They get rid of all of this jump in here but only -- is to -- any sugar packets when this case -- Linda. We're gonna tear. -- into. Just this part right."

" Step aside."

" I I don't know actually how it works entirely. But I think -- it just static electricity if you build -- which -- that would better -- but this will be good experiment we'll find out if not. Do you build a charge tickets now. -- You blew down you they hit us would definitely the simplest and if you're gonna. You hold your camera right out of my face that way he would be the idiot if you feel you'll be able to feel yeah yeah -- get a little it's against your name. Right now -- take a look now what now they feel it. There are entirely the static charge. He needed a blow yeah. Yeah the goods -- anchor I think the I guess the question which when he got to do it I think Rubin's got humans would have looked over. Look at the -- the -- Hey you run run desire Jake. Disaster better."

" And it really activated activities left. Bring up any appointment by."

" Try to -- build build build a good evening and part."

" We give you that he's -- yeah. -- dialogue and -- yeah."

" They did that is let's get -- due to."

" Yeah that's that's the right -- back I don't know if they've got would have been good morning I don't know what what was that -- gotten behind volume on how you actually megaphone and welfare as we got to thank our small."

" Six. Times. You know what it remains -- is by now domains are so ridiculously cheap to our sponsor godaddy.com. That you can register I'm just to make fun of people we college domain smacking. For example we've got -- Goodwin who registered the domain. Experts sex change dot com imported it to. Experts exchange dot com -- just to make life even more difficult for them. If you wanna pull up your own domain -- head on over to godaddy.com. And use the code scam thirtieth check out we'll get your domain for only seven dollars and 49 cents. And even point it anywhere you want. Absolutely free. Okay here's the way it works first of all you're doing there's nothing to do it did they did provide enough cover to. For why you move your hands the way you do. Second of all it does dvd excuse to make somebody else lock themselves similar to I don't know there is great and then yeah. He repeated his copyright keepers -- second and when you lose in the you're gonna bring your hand there. On. You know thank -- emotion which is gonna close -- there that will blow it over but you don't wanna make it obviously got to come. He got here. You come there. -- empire and he you do it right it's like a total shootout."

" And now thank you don't really argues -- our pilots that was great that was when you're going to be moved you you didn't have them copied doing last."

" Then why didn't point anybody comes out there's no way they're gonna generate. And -- reading your -- you don't tell policy about the way you can do for -- I look at the shots."

" I like that you know dealer selling -- yeah. --"

" That's right when you come down this time you try keeping it's just not even -- the bar got into and go a little bit pastor didn't even slightly to the right. It's a bad."

" You really have a life."

" Yeah. We hadn't really thought yeah that's actually it's not just feeding people think that you really have to blow hard right -- sort of is sort of on time. I guess kind of a casual motion."

" To read you got you down or. I don't. I didn't -- arguing you feel like you're the foreperson you're just like I'm. You try to -- farther brotherly. Right and other than desired and very good -- and many government and yeah wanted on the -- and."

" didn't do us all night long I love is next. It's not and it's good there was nothing there you go you gotta sell us."

" But you don't want and yet know which it is you did last night's game yeah and then just give an obvious win. You wanna have -- be like down on my hand happens to be here -- I wanna be down here."

" Wow yeah. There it was I -- you don't have this double did you get out you know."

" Senator -- That's right you can actually gather the hook. You can get. I clearly can."

" Yeah it did."

" Preemptive strike."

" Now because this is so -- to do you're gonna do it over and over again just make sure you don't give away the secret to orally or without burning a free beer first. Second of all if you wanna get maximum distance actually do it on the -- the farther the flat surfaces the better the effects gonna look. By the way you get good video of you pulling this off I want to have posted up the boards. At revision3.com. Slash scam school at three could see all the episodes right back to our very first one. You wanna suggest your favorite bars them right directly at Brian at revision3.com. You're doing this Twitter thing you have followers have skip school -- follow me personally actually. Next week we're gonna be doing something magical we're gonna learn how to actually capture elephant gun. And Robin Belli Italy France three -- It'll be magically delicious."

" Yeah."

travislopes

Started discussion: August 19, 2009 @ 8:26pm GMT

Episode 75: Get Slap Happy with the Static Shot [Discussion]

This effect has everything: it's fun to do, it looks impressive, it makes you feel like you've got superpowers, and most importantly... It lets you make someone look like an idiot.

Watch and download here.

RoziC
3 months ago
wow this is so good =) hh i cant wait to try :P
techgadgetsteve
3 months ago
this is deffinatly going into my favorite scams, i just cant wait to have a go. this is one that my mates will definatly not guess.:)
Capotasto
3 months ago
By the power of Grayskull!
Druakara
3 months ago

Irish Midgit:

Do I smell a bit of Film Riot going on here?

Great scam.
nextgenxbox
3 months ago
Hilarious!
rabidbadger
3 months ago
Brian, you know I love ya. But this ep seemed like "filler" to me. Too easy, too easy to figure out.

I'll try to pull it on friends before final judgement, though, I guess. I could be wrong.

edit: But of course, getting folks to slap themselves silly might make up for it. ;)
bgappleguy
3 months ago

;(

I do EVERYTHING right, and yet I seem to NEVER get it right. Either the thing moves too early, not at all, or something else. I also can't do it from as far away as Brian and his on-air students.

I don't want to be :confused: or :(, just :D.

RyanJ
3 months ago

static shot

Just out of curiosity what did Garcicles say when you asked him for this one?
shwooddotcom
3 months ago
In reply to ryanj:
Just out of curiosity what did Garcicles say when you asked him for this one?


Last year at TAOM in Ft. Worth I asked Danny if he had any suggestions for Scam School bits, and for the remainder of the evening he exploded my brains with clever ideas. This was only the first one he showed me, and if I get my way, we'll figure out how to get him on the show to share some more ASAP.
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