Shin Lim

In terms of, like, something dangerous happening?

Dangerous, yeah.

No, I don't think I've seen it live.

I've seen it, of course, on, like, YouTube and stuff, especially this trick where they, like, stab the nail right through their hand.

Painful.

Oh, my God.

Is that a trick?

Like, what exactly is it?

Yeah, it's a trick.

But what can go wrong is the magician...

either doesn't see the mark properly or some sort of technology thing goes wrong.

And so then they don't know where the real spike is.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, and so all of a sudden, they just legitimately stab their hand.

Because you have to, like, go really hard because they either use paper bags or a paper cup.

And so with those things, you have to really smash.

You can't... There's no, like...

let me see the needles right down there you have to go all out and so if the technology thing goes wrong the magician has to leave it up to chance at that point wow and and i and i've seen the clips where they just bah jeez yeah actually i think i think blaine he does it at his show he does a show and at one point he actually genuinely stabbed his hand oh yeah i closed my eyes for that one

And then he continued the show, apparently.

I didn't see it live, but apparently he took it out, he walked away, and he came back and he's like, all right, let's keep going.