Magician Dan White Freaks Out Jimmy and Questlove with a Time Traveling Card Trick

Dan White performs magic with Jimmy and Questlove using one random deck of cards and an old clairvoyant Instagram photo.
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Magician Dan White Freaks Out Jimmy and Questlove with a Time Traveling Card Trick
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[@racchi122]

that smooth ig plug though

[@lumiya4596]

Janis Fuh the reason why he took a photo with quest

[@dhruvganeriwal8240]

1000th like

[@CantStayAway]

I love it when he freaks out Questlove, it's always like his sole mission when he comes on the show :)

[@NamelessAzn388]

lol my favorite part has to be the collective head shake of the band in the background at the end

[@NamelessAzn388]

You care SO much that 3 years ago my favorite part was watching people being mystified by magic?

[@athariksa6427]

YEAAAAAA

[@abdibarre1]

this is how he did the trick .. he first took the card and then spreads it when he does that if u look closely u can see that you're wasting your time and just enjoy the video stop looking for how he did it

[@lumiya4596]

But if you actually want to know how he does it, you can look up the tutorial of this trick;(trick is called chaotic prediction)

[@AndrewsCookin]

It's called Jeopardy

[@chescie_]

💀💀💀💀

[@cheerfuljuan]

THANK YOU!! lmao, all these detectives in the comments section

[@cleohedin6199]

omg I totally get it now, thanks!!! *0*

[@Colorincheonfire]

I absolutely ❤ Quest's reactions! he makes me laught so hard 😂

[@michaeldoran4367]

GIRTHY KOCK

[@natalie_kendel]

Honestly, the best part of this trick was Questlove's reaction. I live for his freakouts, man!

[@vincentrangel5655]

quest love's reactions always make the magic tricks way better

[@bradenator9603]

A magician should go on the show and make Jimmy's *mustache* disappear.

[@aronarnarson]

I quite like it

[@Surgequake7]

Bradenator That magician is called a barber.

[@CharlieAUS]

no

[@xanlysphynx8839]

Bradenator seriously that mustache is a joke

[@tylerrandall5119]

Bradenator he gives your mom mustache rides

[@LastBastion9999]

7:25 And thus, a meme was born.

[@LiveWire134679]

No.

[@spongeman1512]

Nope

[@schmactor]

Magicians know that the most amazing part of the entire trick was his first shuffle at the beginning.

[@stillakilla]

this dude and Blaine are ethical immortals

[@NateKyng]

*Shin Lim enters the chat*

[@miniwolfearts]

8:16 why tf did the entire band decide to shake their heads all at once lmaooo that's the real magic here

[@kobedunksonyou440]

Anyone else waiting for the comments that reveal how he did the trick?

[@abhishekjain6452]

Kobedunksonyou some mathematics and 3 of diamonds I think he snugged in a bit while we weren't looking. This is a very impressive trick though. His knowledge of maths with his adept hands! God's he is unreal!

[@ColinPoole]

Time travel. Obviously its already been invented in the future, so he watches the sequence of the cards before he writes the lines for QuestLove and wears the shirt with the odd card out. Not really hard.

[@dagelijksedosisinternet3591]

*he switches the deck of cards at ****3:25****, you can see it at 0.25 speed*

[@abhishekjain6452]

Colin Poole You honestly think that he time travelled!? Don't be an idiot.

[@ColinPoole]

Abshishek Jain - Oh my god dude, you must be one of the dumbest people on the planet. Of course I don't think he time travelled. He will be dead long before time travel is invented! Someone else time travelled back and cut him a deal of some sort, probably a life of wealth and fame behind the scenes. You are so stupid.

[@jordanc9856]

I love it when Dan White comes on and each time I find myself asking "How did he do that?!" 😳

[@dikiseptian455]

Mind Blowing Card Trick, You're the Best Dan 👏 ..

[@TungVu-jm1eo]

6:04 lol , that was the best part, i can see how funny he is!! I laugh everytime i watch this , Gotta love that guy.

[@tonyle5443]

I got goosebumps at the end of the show. How can it be that magical

[@showbizroxs]

Is no one else talking about Questlove's smooth hair? Like DAMN....

[@Aniishankar]

Finally a trick that feels completely original! I really enjoyed that!

[@jp95able]

WOWWW EPIC TRICK. considering all the planning that must have been involved. wow. truly amazing. DAN WHITE!

[@ultrasound2376]

I love how the whole band is just shaking there heads at the end made me smh lol

[@summerboyfun]

You spelt their wrong you deserve to be insulted

[@ultrasound2376]

@@summerboyfun Hahah to true, good catch

[@mikebizz1263]

@@summerboyfun It's "spelled" so I guess you deserve to be insulted also.. Piece of advice..If you're going to try and make someone look stupid in your reply, at least proofread it first..🤷‍♂️

[@summerboyfun]

@@mikebizz1263Google: American English and British English. Also, points of ellipsis require 3 periods not 2...

[@summerboyfun]

🤦‍♂️

[@MsDirtyQwerty]

Quest's reaction was amazing

[@briancherry8088]

love the blocking at 2:34 and the "put them right here"

[@JahazielCastillo]

Much better than last visit. Way to go dan! Can't wait to see the backstage footage of dan performing for the roots.

[@maryp992]

Questlove's face at 7:25 😂😂

[@ArsonComplex]

How come these guys never hit the lotto.

[@khadijayunus7949]

Marwan Ratiug beause the mafia that run those will kill them.

[@TheBorwig]

Marwan Ratiug cause they're playing in Illinois

[@nestormelgar4403]

Marwan Ratiug because you can't actually hit the lotto

[@saeedvazirian]

because these are tricks. he's not a wizard you dumbfuck

[@Mastas2]

Because his comment was a hilarious joke you dumbfuck....

[@neeln827]

Amazing!!

[@janetttx]

Lol the roots all shaking their heads at the end!

[@dagelijksedosisinternet3591]

*this was actually really impressive*

[@joeseph2367]

Its just math

[@5-meo-dmt299]

Joe Seph yeah, but it‘s by far the best performance using this math Principle I’ve ever seen

[@duhbid6870]

5-MeO-DMT Dude, 5 meo dmt will show you God

[@ImpressiveFuture]

Would've been more impressed if he made Jimmy's mustache disappear.

[@varunnarayanswamy8084]

I was about to like this but it has 69 likes so I don't want to break that

[@daywalker0082]

Yep

[@argimara1]

yesssss hahahahahahahahahahhhaa

[@QueenofWheels]

Dude you need a life.

[@FromAgonyToLight]

I downvote you for unoriginality

[@bradsdrumcovers]

WOW!! All I can say is, WOW! How amazing is he?!!! 😳👏👏👏

[@TatiP]

That was amazing! I love card tricks!

[@GamalKevin]

_"Put those on top of mine, and Imma put mine on top of yours."_

[@______jsh______]

I almost cringed when he was wrong, but what a comeback haha! it was all part of the magic show!!! amazing!

[@galacticus7098]

Dude, that was a MASTER'S trick!!! 🙌

[@KellyVance22]

that was the most impressive card trick I've ever seen. 👏

[@Mastas2]

While this trick may have been as simple as a deck swap. The preparation and his delivery of this bit is genius. Using his Instagram to post the photo of him and quest and then being able to perform in front of the hottest late night star in the game. Well done sir. Fucking amazing bit.

[@facundotortora687]

Mastas2 it is amazkng, even more when you realize theres no deck switch

[@Mastas2]

Okay MacGyver....

[@topnotch3232]

suspectblack deck switch actually happens when they are showing the 52! Numbers

[@ChrisWilliams-pw6gw]

Agreed. Dan White knows how to get a lot out the different elements of a trick.

[@magic_jannik]

@@suspectblack there is no deck switch in this trick.

[@jessicatavi116]

This was amazing. I’d love to see him on penn n teller. Is that still on?

[@NasAfter]

Usually I hate card tricks they are constantly repeated and boring.. But this one woooha!!! It's mind blowing

[@BabyBoiAaron]

i would love to see someone revealing this trick, this is something else! omg!

[@joeyb2946]

Search on you tube for..."the card trick that cannot be explained"....you re welcome

[@vKeeko]

Damn you have some good hair my friend.

[@taboo7tatoo257]

Dan himself doesn't see this as magic. He calls it illusion, but for me I see real magic. I saw what he did in Nepal and it was wonderful and inexplicable. I think he has some powers which help him to do what he's doing.

[@sunrisky7557]

That moment when Questlove runs away hahaha love it!

[@MDefender22]

Such a simple ploy fascinates the masses

[@Houligans]

3:09 9 of hearts is turned over to be face down but at 4:16 you can see 9 of hearts face up. Stellar deck swap Dan!

[@Carlo-dp9jp]

When did he swap the deck

[@stuthecockatoo361]

He flips the whole deck over again at 3:25

[@user-cz2iv8rt1e]

Doesitlooklikeiwasleftofbadandboujee?

[@iamnotgrootcodm299]

Zias's Cup Whatchu' say?

[@vicevelocity9026]

duh e luh lie i wuh leff on badn boohie?

[@BetYouIdid]

So cut it short then

[@vicevelocity9026]

what

[@Obsessivemind]

Hahahahahahahahha

[@zedo0]

Wow man!!! Just wow!!!

[@crtboys3005]

Awesome Magic Trick 😍😍😍

[@angelroberts4451]

I'm so happy today!!😊😊🙌

[@HELL-po8if]

why

[@themagicman6965]

You know youre on KZbin not Facebook?

[@themagicman6965]

Tyler , damn, I got another channel in which my name is Tayler durden, because Tyler was already given away. Now I found you!!!!! Give me my name back please!!! :D This is years ago by the way...

[@HurriShane00]

Every minute I was asking myself...."Where's he going with this?"

[@brettscrima8257]

Favorite is the reaction at the end

[@jaimicottrill2831]

He is amazing!

[@GTanya07]

niceeeeeeeeee 👏👏👏

[@danielgranola]

@2:15 He grabs a certain face down card and purposefully makes it the second card from the top @3:15 The 3 of diamonds is face up. If you follow the card from 2:15 it would have to be face up too. He makes sure the face-up 3 of diamonds is the second card from the top @4:18 He makes sure the order of the face-down red cards do not change as they are counted. The face-down 3 of diamonds is the last red card to be counted.

[@benjaminfranklin4149]

Everything you just wrote, while mostly correct, has absolutely nothing to do with how this trick is done.

[@PaulBaarn]

Gotta love Quest and magic!

[@redhwanariff7047]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE QUEST'S FACE, LIKE THE REALIZATION DAWNED ON HIM AT 6:51

[@snehabhandari9022]

first Questlove was like "Just Get It over with" later "wait what ?"

[@sinenomineadinterim]

Really simple card trick, but the performance was brilliant. A couple twists that were very well executed.

[@FlappyBelly]

How was that simple?

[@joannapetrus]

eaaaarly!!!!! love your show jimmy!

[@user-fx4qf3xu6f]

Oh oh oh The Roots! New Jingle ✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾yes!!! Love you the Roots ✨✨✨

[@romilrh]

8:16 All The Roots shaking their heads like "whelp. Questlove's cursed now. Gotta kick him out of the band"

[@sunny806]

I know how he did the trick. Switched the shuffled deck with a set up deck. Afterwards, the faced up and faced down cards did not mess up the order of the 17 cards, 6 spades, hearts and 3D.

[@PhilRaso]

Nope

[@benjaminfranklin4149]

Not even close

[@Kay-th7hk]

no words to describe this

[@EL-qg3qp]

I LOVE THIS SHOW

[@kaiking1873]

Why did he grow a mustache 😫

[@brunodossantos2786]

What is the name of the Song that plays at the end? 8:32

[@andrewdickens7016]

Busts rhymes woo haa

[@SadeWithTheReceipts]

WHOOOO....THE ILLUSION!!!!

[@sisenergy]

THIS SHOW JUST ROCKS

[@nimaplier]

nobody: not a single soul: Dan: but wait there is more

[@lolo5nono]

He should change his last name to black so his instagram would be @danblackmagic 😂

[@rashmicp4356]

Ha ha.. that's actually pretty cool 😀

[@irehman7]

brilliant !!

[@Ines-ps2hm]

this is amazing!!

[@kage7445]

At 7:48 he tries liking the photo

[@AgentDerevko]

Questlove is THICC

[@001hawaiian]

That was awesome!

[@OGpapaHood]

Incredible!!!

[@MrMarkme7]

This guys been playing some league of legends haha

[@mikkiwhistler7769]

"shuffle the cards in a unique way" means "shuffle the cards in such a way to make the bs hypothesis works" lol

[@j.p.6864]

Love your show

[@whatsthechord2783]

This is my favourite trick of his

[@bruce88lee]

To do this trick you simply have to shuffle 2 out of 3 packs while hiding a fourth one, you bring the unshuffled one out then you take the fourth one and you shove it up your butt!! HAHAHA -Stanley

[@IsaacTeo411]

bruce88lee I understood that reference

[@fadiemad2041]

😂😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@sandramartin8203]

Same here fuuuny

[@Knil11]

I actually just figured out it's not that difficult it's card manipulation and counteracting what jimmy chooses by doing the oposite with the other cards, like the deck it's flipped at the end right before jimmy puts his hand over it.

[@PatrickburkeTVComedy]

That doesn't take the random shuffle into account.

[@PatrickburkeTVComedy]

I was thinking that too tho. That's definitely at least part of it.

[@sumangiri2885]

I feel so lucky to share screen with you danwhite❤️❤️

[@ACEKING26]

I love this trick and i know how this works but i still enjoy the video very much

[@christophervalentin1486]

We need Will Ferrell to shave that mustache off Jimmy face like he did Conan's beard

[@umarabbouchi3964]

should be on penn and teller fool us

[@christiangrijalva1176]

This trick was on pen and teller

[@christiangrijalva1176]

yeah because Pen and teller had another variation they had known of before he did his own take the plots are almost exactly the same. His is just a little more jaw dropping of an act compared to Kostya's. Everyone has a little different take on tricks so yeah they are different but are meant to have generally the same effect. Another take on this trick I've seen before while watching videos recommended from watching Pen and Teller.

[@Danceofmasks]

Why? He spent half the video on the effect, when the whole trick only requires one deck switch

[@victorvalenzuela9174]

edward mcloven If there was no deck switch he would've let jimmy count the cards at 5:00

[@quintopia]

Teller would already know this one. It's a standard. (everyone saying there is a deck switch is dead wrong)

[@coco4859]

AMAZING!!!!!!

[@skltfz4997]

lovely setup

[@MarissuhhDee]

My OCD was triggered

[@rayackerman5705]

He must have switched the deck with one of his own arrangement. Maybe around 3:15 to 3:25, but very well hidden for sure.

[@drojuice]

3:26

[@erickf9636]

Ray Ackerman he's not switching them, he's straightening then out🙄

[@rayackerman5705]

Figueroa Pictures sleight of hand my friend

[@egdiroh]

Figueroa Pictures no he switched them. remember Jimmy flipped that 9 down, but it wasn’t one of the down cards at the end

[@davidshareefChTPhD]

No he did not switch the deck I do this trick myself but I'm telling you for sure there is no deck switch it's the same deck of cards

[@firstavina]

Wow... Just... WOW...

[@quintopia]

Dan, that's the way you take Jeopardy to the next level!

[@addivf2911]

You mean the 6th of December 2017?

[@ethancheng5947]

Hi jimmy

[@lesleabandtlow7392]

I got the CHILLS when the numbers made the day they took the picture!

[@Lucas-GR]

this has to be the most impressive magic trick I've ever seen

[@eypliu]

some find out how he did this please ...

[@phobos2631]

He used mathematics to guarantee the number of cards that would be down, and colors, as well. I personally know a far more rudimentary card trick that has the basics of this in it. When you split the cards up, a certain amount will be statistically up and down. Manipulating this knowledge allows him to take pretty liberal steps with Jimmy to shuffle the cards. Usually it works in such a way, so that as long as he maintains that the cards are shuffled/cut in such a manner, it will mathematically work out that way each time. Forgive me for the poor explanation, but I'm no card wiz. I just know the one trick, and it's eerily similar to this. It's all math, though.

[@facundotortora687]

Phobos there was only this possible card order for the trick to work, otherwise the amount of spades, hearts and the appearence of the 3d wouldnt been possible.

[@themagicman6965]

Nope its not incorrect. He did not do a deck switch.

[@KathleenFeliciano]

Dude, there's no f*cking logic. This is black magic. *cues Little Mix*

[@v1d300]

Questlove's reactions were amazing.

[@EmpatheticOne]

What ever happened to jimmy's finger made him grow a mustache lol. Great vid!