The Lift
Secret: This one is a win-win: The mark gets to experience an absolutely amazing effect while everyone else gets to laugh at the mark.
Start by facing each other. Have the mark hold two arms straight out in front of him. No bend at the elbows, arms parallel. Step forward and place his arms under your armpits, and ask him to try, as hard as he can, to lift you up off the ground without bending his elbows.
He won't even get close. The leverage is against him, and nobody has enough strength to overcome it. Make sure to give him ample opportunity to make it work... The more he realizes how impossible the task is, the more amazed he'll be when you pull it off.
Once he's convinced there's no way to lift you, switch positions: place your wrists under his armpits keeping your arms straight and parallel. Take deep breaths, put on a show of summoning all your strength and begin to push upwards. What he doesn't see is one of your friends sneaking up behind him, grabbing your fists, and pushing up on your arms lifting him several inches off the ground. To the mark it is simply as though you got freakishly strong instantly.
Summary: The reactions this effect gets are priceless. Some people will immediately want to lift you again, some people will believe you're that strong, and others won't know how to cope. Suggest they cope by buying you a beer.
Highlights
biggest concerns
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4:16, 4:16
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Pivotal
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0:59, 0:59
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loving one
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6:03, 6:03
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social engineering
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0:34, 0:34
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biggest concerns
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4:16, 4:16
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Pivotal
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0:59, 0:59
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loving one
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6:03, 6:03
)
social engineering
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0:34, 0:34
)
Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )
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" Yeah."
" I."
" no not the camera may do at -- that but you're right on -- and watch with your. With your life. One of the few people you just let that will not be graduated from damn school the only show dedicated to social engineering at the bar and on the street I -- but it. And today have a very special gift he would as the gift. Of -- awful strain. -- little routine recall. --"
" Snow leopard right."
" Pivotal wanted to -- you don't hold."
" yeah. Well I don't understand right here and colleges try to lift me up you don't yeah."
" Yeah thank you write it. Like I don't -- intelligent -- yeah I think I weigh about one about forty feet -- and you feel like you're close that you're about to get it. Somewhere high -- eligible yards on site. Government to -- if you -- excellent. --"
" What's causing -- ticket to farther -- he didn't care and yeah. They get them."
" keeping them farther out as -- keynote."
" Right it is Arafat's -- I don't know what they're -- activity on TV. No idea yeah. That legacy of the united didn't. -- I wonder how much for. For the other annual event state you know I got hit. Yeah. You like that at the list. Yeah. What you're holding your -- felt."
" I cannot understand it right here I don't want you try as hard as you can to lift me up."
" You can't I figured out and grateful not right I want you please pick. Us. --"
" He has got it is straight in just couldn't run on. Yeah yeah I want Clarence and that's a -- your pets."
" I -- you know they don't. Yeah. Yeah it. Asked. Is it a little bit else. -- and body parts the united uses. -- Jonathan's body parts. -- security we -- want to do it."
" Yeah. Yeah yeah. -- Yeah yeah we've been thought that this."
" The biggest concerns people have about trying to -- that they're all convinced that they're gonna notice somebody behind -- trust me nobody ever knows it the last that you would suspect. And the look on their face when he lipped about it absolutely right. Now I know you guys -- great footage of pulling it well like your friend better -- those videos that would be to dot com fights in school. If you you have some kind of trouble war."
" You want to tell me about what is your favorite -- on your friends send a letter at Bryant -- history dot com don't forget next episode it is on how to apply to congress."
" Killed and at school and right roughly. I ties that I win at about about 4200. Brigade -- how do you anyway and -- who have been didn't bid."
" And again and I'm gonna do all the way out you're always there until I have them all the time anyone reading this do agree hurt."
" Yeah. -- Anyone. To bring food."
" Yeah yeah I'd be. Oh. I'm about forty years in age and possibly lead off the ground. No girl at all no girl loving one you -- you're currently you know you can't really wanted it."
" Yeah."
" I."
Started discussion: April 24, 2008 @ 10:26am GMT
Episode 6 - The Lift [Discussion]
Effect: Defying all laws of leverage, you summon a ridiculous amount of strength.
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... Even better, it looks like Jonathan's quietly jealous!
