WEBVTT 00:04.640 --> 00:15.280 Hi folks, James Harrison here in the confines of my house, wanting to help you all practice pickpocketing so we can all get ready for next year, because I can't wait to see you all. 00:15.640 --> 00:23.200 Now, for those who possibly wonder, why should I listen to this guy? 00:23.220 --> 00:27.240 Well, I pickpockets for a living. 00:27.600 --> 00:37.720 I have gone overseas to entertain and educate and all the rest of it, and I've brought all my equipment for you guys all to enjoy. 00:38.240 --> 00:51.280 But if it's all right, I'm going to get the Four Suits company here to help me out and present a little video, just for a refresher , of why I'm doing a talk on pickpocketing, if you don't mind. 00:56.400 --> 01:08.960 Ladies and gentlemen, all the way from Canada, after 10 years of us going back and forth, we finally got James Harrison, pickpocket extraordinaire, and somebody who just performed at the Rogue's Village in DEFCON. 01:08.960 --> 01:10.600 Yeah, it was a lot of fun. 01:10.740 --> 01:14.960 Not to toot my own horn, but apparently there was more people there at my show than yours. 01:15.720 --> 01:22.160 I used to think that this was something you only saw in movies, until I saw you do it last night. 01:22.160 --> 01:23.520 It was a total blast. 01:23.520 --> 01:30.480 We went to the Moon Tower Saloon, where we shoot a ton of Scam School, Scam Nation episodes, and it was so fun to just point and say, do the thing. 01:31.340 --> 01:36.120 So guys, we thought we'd try something out here, just something silly with my ring. 01:36.620 --> 01:38.440 Lane, do you mind double checking that for me? 01:39.020 --> 01:41.380 It doesn't bend or open or do anything silly? 01:41.760 --> 01:43.280 Just a normal ring to me. 01:43.280 --> 01:47.020 Fair enough, because in a moment I'm going to frustrate you, and I don't want you to blame the ring, I want you to blame me. 01:47.020 --> 01:50.020 So if I take my ring, throw it back on. 01:50.540 --> 01:52.020 Yeah, it gets really weird. 01:52.020 --> 01:53.420 Do you have one that comes off? 01:53.540 --> 01:54.040 I do. 01:54.040 --> 01:55.760 Pop it off, if you don't mind, for just a second. 01:55.760 --> 01:56.280 Sure. 01:56.340 --> 01:56.960 Awesome. 01:57.240 --> 01:58.440 You seemed a little hesitant. 01:58.960 --> 02:01.380 So I'll tell you what, we'll put mine in the pocket. 02:01.380 --> 02:01.860 Okay. 02:02.460 --> 02:04.440 And we won't put yours in the pocket. 02:04.500 --> 02:04.940 Okay. 02:04.940 --> 02:08.520 We'll take your ring, and if I give it a squeeze, now it's my ring. 02:09.600 --> 02:11.200 Do you know where yours went? 02:11.660 --> 02:14.180 Not in the pocket, because I told you I would never put it there. 02:14.860 --> 02:16.720 Lane, why don't you come over and give me a hand real quick. 02:16.720 --> 02:17.200 Come on up. 02:17.200 --> 02:18.200 You get to be my Vanna. 02:18.200 --> 02:18.740 Okay. 02:19.100 --> 02:20.920 Now, I can make it jump back and forth in my hands. 02:20.920 --> 02:22.920 Can you hold your hands open for me for one second? 02:22.940 --> 02:23.580 Excellent. 02:23.660 --> 02:25.960 I'm going to put my ring here, your ring there. 02:26.500 --> 02:29.340 I'm going to ask you to squeeze my ring as tight as you can. 02:29.640 --> 02:30.180 Excellent. 02:30.180 --> 02:31.240 Turn your hand over. 02:32.280 --> 02:34.720 Hold tight, because it might disappear from your hand. 02:34.720 --> 02:35.000 Okay. 02:35.000 --> 02:36.300 Squeeze this hand as well. 02:36.700 --> 02:39.520 And do you know this lady well enough she can hold your hand without it being awkward? 02:39.520 --> 02:40.040 Sure. 02:40.280 --> 02:41.360 Could you do that? 02:41.660 --> 02:42.200 Excellent. 02:42.200 --> 02:42.940 We're going to try and get... 02:43.560 --> 02:44.980 Now you made it awkward. 02:46.520 --> 02:47.160 That's fine. 02:47.160 --> 02:49.020 We're going to get this ring to join that one there. 02:49.020 --> 02:49.520 Ready? 02:49.560 --> 02:51.600 One, two, three. 02:51.900 --> 02:53.060 Did you feel it go? 02:53.060 --> 02:54.400 Drop my ring. 02:55.080 --> 02:56.320 Open that one up. 02:56.780 --> 02:57.720 I said I'd get it there. 02:57.720 --> 02:58.920 I did not say how. 02:59.340 --> 03:00.540 Not all of these are good tricks. 03:00.540 --> 03:01.560 Some of these are bad jokes. 03:01.560 --> 03:05.140 You can put your ring on for one second, but I'm going to borrow my ring. 03:05.400 --> 03:08.360 Because if I take my ring, I may jump around. 03:08.360 --> 03:09.320 Did you feel it go? 03:10.020 --> 03:10.820 Oh, sorry. 03:10.820 --> 03:12.800 That's your phone there. 03:12.800 --> 03:14.480 I don't want to play with your phone there. 03:14.660 --> 03:16.060 That's stuck in there. 03:16.060 --> 03:16.580 Good. 03:17.040 --> 03:18.400 But here's the funny thing. 03:18.980 --> 03:20.740 Did you feel me take that? 03:21.400 --> 03:23.140 I did not. 03:23.140 --> 03:23.520 No? 03:23.520 --> 03:23.800 No. 03:23.800 --> 03:26.380 If you didn't feel that, you probably didn't feel this either. 03:26.380 --> 03:27.380 No, I didn't. 03:27.480 --> 03:29.120 Thank you for not hitting me. 03:30.400 --> 03:42.780 So what really struck me is how important having a process, having a magic trick, the fact that you were pretending to be doing one thing, but actually grabbing the wristwatch was, because it bought you an inordinate amount of time holding their wrist. 03:42.780 --> 03:44.340 I mean, I knew you were doing it. 03:44.340 --> 03:48.020 Like after a minute, then I'm like, he's had his hand on that wrist for a long time. 03:48.020 --> 03:49.700 You don't have to be fast. 03:49.820 --> 03:51.400 You just got to be smooth. 03:51.500 --> 03:59.060 And if I can instruct you on something, that means that you're going to be nice and let me do what I need to do under the pretense of helping me out. 03:59.060 --> 04:04.360 Is that the most important fundamental, the fact that you need permission to be touching somebody for a long time? 04:04.360 --> 04:05.260 Oh, of course. 04:05.260 --> 04:11.640 If I just come up and grab you, there is no way that you're going to let me stay there longer than the fact that I touched you. 04:11.640 --> 04:15.140 Which is more important, manual dexterity or verbal dexterity? 04:15.140 --> 04:17.780 Oh, that's good for myself. 04:17.940 --> 04:25.620 I find verbal dexterity works way better because if I can distract you with my mouth, then I can take way more time with my hands to take things. 04:25.620 --> 04:30.400 Yeah, I guess the whole verbal dexterity thing is just don't arouse suspicion. 04:30.400 --> 04:32.820 It's only when they become suspicious that you run into trouble. 04:32.820 --> 04:42.740 Like if I assume that if I'm holding your wrist doing a thing and I'm like, yeah, and also if I don't have that, then people are like, what is happening here? 04:42.740 --> 04:46.940 And then they kind of do a self scan and we're like, he's really fidgeting on my wrist. 04:46.940 --> 04:54.240 You have to be dexterous enough and clever enough to create a good enough smoke screen for what you're actually wanting to do. 04:54.240 --> 04:58.100 A smoke screen is a perfect analogy because that's what I'm trying to do. 04:58.100 --> 05:07.100 Whether it's with my words or actions with my body or my other hand, that allows me the time I need to slip a wrist, watch off. 05:07.100 --> 05:08.160 Well, teach us the fundamentals. 05:08.160 --> 05:09.160 How do we start? 05:09.160 --> 05:17.980 We start with proving that I can do something really, really well. 05:17.980 --> 05:22.000 Yeah, when I know a magic trick's about to happen, then it happens and it tricks me anyway. 05:22.000 --> 05:22.480 I love it. 05:22.480 --> 05:22.860 I love it. 05:22.860 --> 05:24.000 I love how mad he gets. 05:24.100 --> 05:28.980 So it just occurs to me that once you do, all you need to do is that one decent trick. 05:28.980 --> 05:31.120 And after that, everything else could be a fake trick. 05:31.120 --> 05:35.060 Like you could do two minutes of grab these, swap these, who's got a coin? 05:35.060 --> 05:37.680 And then you could just end with like, oh, I guess it didn't work. 05:37.680 --> 05:40.100 Then you have a watch. 05:40.100 --> 05:45.540 We're going to use your watch, Brian, because this is a leather strap watch or a belt buckle watch. 05:45.540 --> 05:47.880 Leather's the best, especially if you're starting out. 05:47.880 --> 05:51.500 So I just realized that a very important part is finding a good target. 05:51.500 --> 05:57.180 You probably spend 20 minutes looking for the right wrist watch before you do the five minute performance. 05:57.180 --> 05:58.700 That's kind of suspicious behavior. 05:58.700 --> 06:01.720 He's casing you, just like casing a house, like we did on Hacking the System. 06:01.720 --> 06:02.820 Yeah, exactly. 06:02.820 --> 06:05.020 What you see is just tip of the iceberg. 06:05.020 --> 06:07.200 Everything else I'm doing is under the water. 06:07.200 --> 06:09.560 I'm casing, I'm looking for the right targets. 06:09.560 --> 06:13.200 I'm looking for people that don't have a problem with people in their personal space. 06:13.920 --> 06:16.780 They seem like they will listen to instructions. 06:17.260 --> 06:20.580 These are the people that oftentimes make good volunteers for magic tricks. 06:20.580 --> 06:29.240 You look for people who look you in the eye when you say hello to them or they're clearly engaged and distracted and on a date and looking for an excuse to have something amazing happen. 06:29.240 --> 06:32.880 All of these are the same traits that will make them, I assume, a good target. 06:32.880 --> 06:33.640 Absolutely. 06:33.720 --> 06:36.900 So first thing I have to do is I have to get you to hold your hand open. 06:36.900 --> 06:39.580 I'm going to make something amazing happen with my ring. 06:39.580 --> 06:40.180 Right. 06:40.460 --> 06:42.540 All I need you to do is just squeeze your hand. 06:42.540 --> 06:43.020 Okay. 06:43.080 --> 06:43.920 Perfect. 06:43.920 --> 06:45.500 This hand goes over top. 06:45.740 --> 06:49.700 My thumb goes right on the tongue of the watch. 06:49.700 --> 06:50.320 Okay. 06:50.540 --> 06:51.480 Right there. 06:51.480 --> 06:59.040 And when I grab this here, my thumb is going to use friction to push that through like so. 06:59.040 --> 07:01.120 This seems like such a dangerous moment. 07:01.120 --> 07:02.720 It kind of is. 07:02.800 --> 07:04.180 But luckily, this is also... 07:04.620 --> 07:20.060 Well, also when I'm doing this here with my motor functions, I'm asking, again, distracting with instruction, to open this hand and we're going to get into a moment of just a little bit of disconnect because you don't understand what to do. 07:20.060 --> 07:20.420 Okay. 07:20.420 --> 07:22.260 I'm going to ask you to hold your hand up like this. 07:22.260 --> 07:22.400 Right. 07:22.400 --> 07:24.680 And I'm going to tell you to close your hand. 07:24.680 --> 07:25.120 Okay. 07:25.120 --> 07:26.380 My thumb's in the way. 07:26.380 --> 07:26.860 Right. 07:26.860 --> 07:28.780 So I'm waiting for you to move your thumb. 07:28.780 --> 07:34.800 And so essentially you're handing me the awkward situation like, Oh, I'm sorry. 07:34.800 --> 07:35.240 Exactly. 07:35.240 --> 07:36.780 All of my attention goes right here. 07:36.780 --> 07:39.180 Because you're on his side now and you want this to work. 07:39.180 --> 07:39.400 Yeah. 07:39.400 --> 07:39.640 Exactly. 07:39.640 --> 07:40.660 You don't want to fail. 07:40.660 --> 07:41.020 Yeah. 07:41.060 --> 07:41.560 Exactly. 07:41.560 --> 07:43.500 And when I ask you to squeeze that tight... 07:43.500 --> 07:43.900 Okay. 07:43.900 --> 07:45.800 This is the moment that I squeeze over here. 07:45.800 --> 07:46.720 Oh, that's great. 07:46.720 --> 07:48.040 Because I'm 100% focused. 07:48.040 --> 07:49.880 And then there I pop the pin. 07:49.880 --> 07:52.720 The pin is now popped, ready to go. 07:52.760 --> 07:54.880 And then I turn this over like so. 07:54.940 --> 07:58.020 And again, this is all process that I assume is leading up to a magic trick. 07:58.020 --> 07:58.360 Exactly. 07:58.360 --> 07:58.860 Right. 07:59.100 --> 08:02.760 The thumb, again, does its job to push this all the way through. 08:02.760 --> 08:04.300 You can take your time with that. 08:04.300 --> 08:06.060 All the time in the world. 08:06.060 --> 08:06.360 Okay. 08:06.360 --> 08:08.000 And then when I'm ready, I'm just gonna... 08:08.000 --> 08:09.060 This is the one thing... 08:09.060 --> 08:17.180 The one thing you'll notice when I do this is when we're ready to pull the watch off your wrist, I give it a little extra squeeze. 08:17.180 --> 08:17.720 Okay. 08:17.720 --> 08:22.020 So I assume that's so that I won't notice the difference in pressure. 08:22.020 --> 08:23.400 Because there's always on my wrist. 08:23.400 --> 08:24.860 And it anchors in your mind. 08:25.120 --> 08:26.800 I feel my watch. 08:26.800 --> 08:27.340 Right. 08:27.340 --> 08:27.640 Okay. 08:27.640 --> 08:28.180 Okay. 08:28.180 --> 08:30.240 So I'm going to have you let go here. 08:30.800 --> 08:34.780 I reach under here just for the moment to drop the ring for my gag. 08:34.780 --> 08:35.600 There you go. 08:35.680 --> 08:36.860 I give it a squeeze. 08:36.860 --> 08:38.280 I say, open your hand here. 08:38.280 --> 08:38.700 Yep. 08:38.700 --> 08:39.200 Perfect. 08:39.200 --> 08:40.500 And then I've got your watch. 08:40.500 --> 08:42.540 That was very fast. 08:42.600 --> 08:46.580 You bother to do a whole routine at this point and keep everyone's attention. 08:46.580 --> 08:49.720 And then you get that time delay that is so important to magicians. 08:49.720 --> 08:51.840 Because you get the moments of amazement. 08:51.840 --> 08:57.340 In fact, it's probably even better if you lock that away and then do three or four other routines. 08:57.340 --> 09:01.660 And then finally, it's a guy who's been sitting down for 10 minutes for sure. 09:01.660 --> 09:02.560 The use of the ring. 09:02.560 --> 09:05.300 And this is something that really appeals to me. 09:05.540 --> 09:06.760 It's not an illusion. 09:06.760 --> 09:07.880 It's a trick. 09:07.880 --> 09:09.240 It really is a trick in this. 09:09.240 --> 09:10.680 And it doesn't require any skill. 09:10.680 --> 09:11.820 You're just saying, hold it here. 09:11.820 --> 09:12.620 Now hold it here. 09:12.620 --> 09:12.720 Yeah. 09:12.720 --> 09:16.660 You don't have to learn something else on top of how to do all of this. 09:16.660 --> 09:21.260 So the only bummer, I guess you have to practice with a friend. 09:21.260 --> 09:23.520 Because you can't practice on yourself really, right? 09:23.520 --> 09:24.500 You actually can't. 09:24.500 --> 09:24.900 What? 09:24.900 --> 09:25.780 You'll go blind. 09:28.040 --> 09:34.800 With the technique that I'm showing you, this thumb here, all you're doing is you're kind of like giving yourself a handshake. 09:34.800 --> 09:35.840 Oh yeah, you're right. 09:35.840 --> 09:38.260 So you can just sit there and practice it. 09:38.260 --> 09:41.640 Once you've got that part there, you just give it a little squeeze. 09:41.640 --> 09:42.140 Got it. 09:42.140 --> 09:45.860 And you're going to use the tongue to push the pin. 09:46.520 --> 09:46.720 Yep. 09:46.720 --> 09:47.520 Now this is important. 09:47.520 --> 09:49.600 You don't want the pin to fall back into the hole. 09:49.600 --> 09:49.920 Right. 09:49.920 --> 09:52.780 So you're just going to go on a small angle as this goes. 09:52.780 --> 09:53.500 Oh, that's great. 09:53.500 --> 09:54.860 So it's slightly off. 09:54.860 --> 09:57.220 And then now it's pretty much done. 09:57.220 --> 10:05.480 You give a squeeze, because even though it's still threaded through, that moment when it comes off, wow, that is shockingly easy. 10:05.660 --> 10:11.240 And so I assume that with this type of watch, there's different variations based on where they're positioned that you do. 10:11.240 --> 10:16.520 Yeah, when I'm standing in front of you, I have to use my thumb because that's just where everything lands. 10:16.520 --> 10:22.980 But if I found you on the other side of me, I would need to use my middle finger because that's my next strongest finger in my hand. 10:22.980 --> 10:24.420 Okay, what about this crazy one? 10:24.420 --> 10:26.520 He's got like a manacle on him. 10:26.740 --> 10:30.280 Well, when you're starting out, you don't use him. 10:30.280 --> 10:30.980 Okay. 10:31.160 --> 10:33.960 There's absolutely no way I can steal this watch. 10:33.960 --> 10:38.100 I even point out what I got to deal with here and turn it over like this. 10:38.240 --> 10:43.720 And I'm going to ask Jason, Jason, now that I've distracted you, did you notice that I might have taken your wallet? 10:43.920 --> 10:44.400 No. 10:44.400 --> 10:48.220 And then when you go to look for it, he pulls his hand right out. 10:48.240 --> 10:49.140 Oh, okay. 10:49.140 --> 10:52.400 So you, you get the proof that you can steal watches. 10:53.940 --> 10:56.740 Oh, oh, you actually thought he had taken the... 10:57.220 --> 10:58.660 This is not my wallet. 10:58.660 --> 10:59.960 I know this is. 11:04.620 --> 11:06.400 And I was watching you. 11:06.400 --> 11:08.240 I really should have put this back. 11:08.240 --> 11:09.680 There's not much to take. 11:09.680 --> 11:11.220 No, no. 11:11.280 --> 11:13.280 Patreon.com slash modern room. 11:15.160 --> 11:17.060 Oh, that's so great. 11:17.300 --> 11:18.560 Legit got me. 11:18.560 --> 11:20.120 I was watching for it. 11:20.120 --> 11:21.260 I was trying to help. 11:21.260 --> 11:23.260 You turned me into your confederate. 11:23.260 --> 11:23.880 Yeah, man. 11:23.880 --> 11:24.900 That's my job. 11:24.900 --> 11:26.160 Oh, that's so great. 11:27.160 --> 11:28.300 Very well done, sir. 11:28.300 --> 11:29.240 Thank you. 11:29.240 --> 11:31.500 Uh , so are we going to learn how to do that? 11:32.940 --> 11:34.840 We'll save this for part two. 11:35.380 --> 11:37.240 I want to learn that too. 11:37.620 --> 11:40.520 So let's come back and see part two. 11:46.480 --> 11:50.940 Okay, I hope you enjoyed the trip down memory lane. 11:51.480 --> 11:58.000 And what we're going to do is we're going to go over the basics of how to practice at home and by yourself. 11:58.320 --> 12:02.980 So we can get ready for next year because I got a lot of stuff planned with you guys with the four suits company. 12:02.980 --> 12:08.200 Okay, first thing you're going to have to do is have a place to practice. 12:08.200 --> 12:13.900 I have myself made a dummy out of PVC pipe. 12:14.300 --> 12:28.340 But if you don't want to go to Home Depot and make it, you can quite literally hang a big hoodie or jacket off a hanger and hang the hanger off some string off a ceiling or a doorframe. 12:30.440 --> 12:37.900 These are useful tools so you can go over the repetitive nature of practice with this. 12:37.900 --> 12:39.540 I usually have this set up. 12:39.540 --> 12:44.900 I have my TV over in the corner so I can just watch whatever I'm doing so I can go over the muscle memory. 12:44.920 --> 12:57.100 Okay, you want to be able to have, if you do go the dummy route, you do want to be able to have the arms move up and down so you don't want to glue the shoulders when you do this. 12:57.100 --> 13:06.500 Okay, but all you do is you make a frame like a square with two T's, sort of like what I have here for the neck. 13:06.500 --> 13:11.460 Okay, shooting up so you can make the legs and all the rest of it. 13:11.460 --> 13:13.720 Now you want to pad your dummy out. 13:13.720 --> 13:15.660 You don't want to just put clothes on there. 13:15.660 --> 13:24.040 So get some old towels and rags and wrap the legs and everything so you get a feel of weight and girth on your dummy. 13:24.280 --> 13:32.500 Okay, but once this is ready to go, or if you've gone the quick route with just the hanger, you need stuff to practice with. 13:32.500 --> 13:37.140 Okay, I've chosen a couple things to play with. 13:37.320 --> 13:49.600 We're going to choose a pen for hanging items, sort of like ID tags and Arabiners and stuff like that. 13:49.600 --> 13:59.380 Okay, usually there's some kind of important information on whatever those things are, whether it's an ID tag, a clearance card, that sort of thing. 13:59.380 --> 14:01.740 We're also going to be playing with a cell phone. 14:01.740 --> 14:06.220 Okay, mine is an old busted up iPhone 6. 14:06.700 --> 14:11.880 And these are going to let you practice out of any pocket you want to play with. 14:12.180 --> 14:16.780 Mainly because one, it's a lot smoother to have come out of a pocket. 14:17.200 --> 14:28.820 And two, not everybody is going to be wearing one, like have a wallet that they have all the stuff because we're all going digital now and all our stuff is going to be on our phones. 14:28.820 --> 14:34.140 Or three, the third item that we're going to be working with is a watch. 14:34.780 --> 14:36.200 We'll play with those things. 14:36.200 --> 14:38.700 And I'm going to show you how you can practice these at home. 14:38.700 --> 14:42.140 That way, we can go over all the different steps later. 14:42.140 --> 14:50.120 Because just like I was reminded by our good friends at Foursuits, I will be answering questions in the Discord. 14:50.120 --> 14:52.380 So write the questions down. 14:52.380 --> 14:55.040 I'll be happy to answer whatever questions you may have. 14:55.040 --> 14:59.840 So starting off with hanging items. 14:59.840 --> 15:12.960 I like to think of it like if you ever watched The Professional, how he was teaching how to assassinate from the furthest away to the closest. 15:13.280 --> 15:16.340 And we're wanting to practice that way, okay? 15:16.360 --> 15:22.580 You have the hanging items on the outside of the jacket or a hoodie or a shirt, case may be. 15:22.580 --> 15:27.100 You have the inside of the pockets and then you have the pants pockets, which are a little more sensitive. 15:27.320 --> 15:31.700 Right now, we're just going to be staying on the outside of the jacket, okay? 15:31.820 --> 15:33.840 We'll get to the inside in a moment. 15:33.840 --> 15:35.880 But right now, we just want to deal with this. 15:37.500 --> 15:43.260 So what you're going to want to use is your thumb and index finger and your middle finger. 15:43.260 --> 15:49.260 You're going to be doing a clipping motion like this and like this, okay? 15:49.260 --> 15:57.360 You put your thumb on the one side, you put your middle finger on the other side, your index finger goes on top, and you're going to lift. 15:57.980 --> 16:01.040 It's very simple, because it is. 16:01.240 --> 16:06.760 However, you can't just walk up to someone and just lift it out of their pocket. 16:06.760 --> 16:11.080 They tend to notice, especially because their eyes are going to follow whatever moves. 16:11.080 --> 16:13.260 It's what our eyes are designed to do. 16:13.600 --> 16:17.460 So you have to come up with a reason for your hand to go there. 16:17.460 --> 16:34.080 Nowadays, it's going to be a little difficult, but once we get used to socializing on a regular basis more normally, where we're having more physical contact, a lot of gestures tend to be the pat on the shoulder, okay? 16:34.220 --> 16:52.840 When you're going for the pat on the shoulder, like, hey, good to see you, I got to get going kind of thing, I find that if you pat the shoulder and let the hand just sort of come down, not touching, just in front of the person, and let your hand just sort of graze it. 16:53.140 --> 17:11.000 Once it's in position, you bring your other hand to push, and that way you're kind of clipping the shoulder underneath and on top, and then, oh, have a good one, and you're lifting this out and using the shoulder for cover, okay? 17:12.040 --> 17:17.020 There are other ways to do this, but I find for practice, you just want to work on that. 17:17.760 --> 17:21.640 Very simple, very beginner-esque kind of thing. 17:21.720 --> 17:26.700 And if you have friends, this is the perfect thing to play with each other. 17:27.340 --> 17:36.240 Believe it or not, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as my father used to do this in high school, and this was something that he would do with his friends. 17:36.240 --> 17:39.020 They would just bond into each other and take stuff. 17:39.600 --> 17:42.780 So I don't underestimate how important that is. 17:42.780 --> 17:56.860 It also gives you the hand-eye coordination to practice this, because you want to be able to play with different scenarios, because not everything's going to be in this pocket, not everything's going to be hanging out of here, but we've got to have a place to start, 17:56.860 --> 17:57.520 okay? 17:57.520 --> 18:03.740 So your hand comes here, tap, tap, lift, okay? 18:03.800 --> 18:09.720 Try and get a rhythm with it so it feels a little more natural, sort of like a dance, okay? 18:09.940 --> 18:16.860 But when you reach in, the hand just goes there to clip, you do your tap, bring it up. 18:16.860 --> 18:30.620 You can actually switch hands if you want to, but again, these are little motions and little things of rhythm that you're going to find work better suited for your body type and the way you move your body, okay? 18:30.620 --> 18:34.780 And we can go over that stuff in the Q&A, all right? 18:34.900 --> 18:46.300 The other thing, too, is that there will always be loose items in pockets that are put here, so when you want to reach inside, you're going to want to use a two-finger approach, okay? 18:46.620 --> 18:50.660 When this finger goes in, you're going to move whatever you need. 18:50.780 --> 18:56.220 If it's a pen, for instance, you're going to be clipping it like this, okay? 18:56.260 --> 19:04.120 However, if it's like an ID tag or a room card or any of that kind of stuff, I believe I have it here. 19:04.120 --> 19:05.280 Phone pocket. 19:05.820 --> 19:09.860 Too many things to worry about in the pockets of my dummy. 19:11.440 --> 19:14.620 But if you use a card, it can be any one. 19:14.620 --> 19:26.940 You can get these from stores, like any gift card will work because they carry the same kind of information or a capacity of carrying the same information, so these are fun to play with. 19:26.980 --> 19:29.780 A lot of people put them in quick pockets, okay? 19:29.780 --> 19:34.280 Quick pockets usually being the outside front pocket or hoodie pockets. 19:34.560 --> 19:48.400 And I don't want to get into hoodies right now, though they are important to play with because we find that it's a type of clothing that a lot of people wear, and when it's unzipped, they sort of hang in the same position. 19:48.400 --> 19:53.180 But for now, I want you to practice what we're going over for now. 19:53.680 --> 19:58.380 Everything starts with the first step, so we're working on those first steps. 19:58.380 --> 20:08.690 So when you go in here to get this, instead of clipping like this, you're going to do more like scissors, not like a cheerleader. 20:08.920 --> 20:25.020 You're going to go in here, push the pocket away from the body to create space so your fingers can clip the card and pull it out, okay? 20:25.020 --> 20:37.660 I find for something like this pocket here, when you're doing this, it is better to have this be the after effect of what's going on, if that makes any sense. 20:38.220 --> 20:45.360 What I'm trying to do is I want my fingers to go in here, but I don't want his eyesight to follow to this pocket. 20:45.360 --> 20:53.560 So just like in magic, a bigger motion works better so the smaller motion can be hidden. 20:54.940 --> 21:09.500 You're going to kind of reach across this person like they're in the way of what you're trying to get to, whether it's an object, person, or a local cafe, wherever we're doing the same. 21:09.500 --> 21:18.140 But you're reaching across this person to dip your fingers in, and you're going to continue going that direction, okay? 21:18.140 --> 21:30.580 So when you've put your body in front of them to sort of make them look the way you want them to look, these hands dip into this pocket and lift it out, okay? 21:31.080 --> 21:34.360 Now the same can be said for putting items back. 21:34.440 --> 21:36.640 Why would you want to put items back? 21:36.640 --> 21:41.500 Well, you want to put items back because you don't want them to think that you did anything. 21:41.520 --> 21:47.960 Because I know a couple people that I'm sure can get the information off these quite quickly. 21:47.960 --> 22:08.200 So if I'm able to lift one of these, feed it to one of my friends, and then come back later and put that back in the pocket without them knowing, I think you're going to have a much longer time period where you get to use that information without this person being suspicious. 22:09.280 --> 22:19.880 So, to be able to take it out is one thing, to put it back in is sort of a little different only because you can't hold it at the fingers. 22:19.880 --> 22:24.280 You can't hold it here to do this, okay? 22:24.280 --> 22:29.200 You have to hold it in more of this kind of motion. 22:29.200 --> 22:35.200 Your thumb is holding it where the muscle of the pinky is holding it right there, okay? 22:35.200 --> 22:40.240 You're going to take this, and again we're doing the pat, okay? 22:40.240 --> 22:47.580 Like we're hitting the shoulder, and then this hand comes down and just slides right in, okay? 22:47.580 --> 22:56.500 And then our ID badge is back where it needs to be, and we've got a much bigger window to work from, okay? 22:56.500 --> 22:59.100 So just boom, and in it goes. 22:59.540 --> 23:06.840 So when you are at home and you've got your jacket that you're practicing this on, this is what you're going to start with. 23:06.840 --> 23:13.680 So you're going to start with your pen, and you're going to start with a gift card, simulating our ID badges, okay? 23:14.220 --> 23:17.660 If there's any questions, again, please put them in the Discord. 23:17.660 --> 23:20.820 I'll be happy to answer them for you, okay? 23:21.060 --> 23:26.520 Now, the next item that we're going to play with is the cell phone. 23:26.520 --> 23:28.020 We all have them. 23:28.020 --> 23:30.120 We all like to take care of them. 23:30.120 --> 23:41.980 So this is going a little closer to the body, so we have to use a little more direction of attention to make sure that we get away with this, okay? 23:41.980 --> 23:54.300 Because it's on the inside here, this is going to be a little harder, and we have to create scenarios in which will allow us to have the opportunity to do this. 23:54.300 --> 24:03.520 So to go on the inside of a jacket, like this, to grab the phone, by itself is not good. 24:03.520 --> 24:05.920 We need scenarios to work with. 24:05.920 --> 24:12.180 It could be anything as simple as someone reaching up to put stuff away, say an airport luggage. 24:12.240 --> 24:17.780 It could be as simple as someone reaching for something in a store, okay? 24:17.780 --> 24:20.860 When they reach, this opens up, okay? 24:20.860 --> 24:26.920 Again, while we make sure that our dummy's arm can move, okay? 24:26.920 --> 24:35.540 When they reach up, this creates the space away from the body that allows us to reach in here, okay? 24:36.100 --> 24:45.770 Now, what you want to do is not just reach in when they're moving their body out of the way. 24:45.770 --> 24:52.970 You're going to want to be a help, but be a hindrance. 24:53.330 --> 25:03.570 And what I mean is you're trying to be helpful, but in reality, you're being a hindrance, and you're annoying them, and they want you to go away as quickly as possible, okay? 25:03.570 --> 25:13.570 So when the arm goes up, this arm is going to be under here to go for the jacket, because this is no longer near the body to be able to be felt, okay? 25:13.570 --> 25:15.050 And you're going to reach there. 25:15.050 --> 25:20.150 You're going to be putting your hand up here to be in the way, all the rest of it. 25:20.150 --> 25:28.170 And then these two fingers have clipped the foam, and you just slide it out like so, okay? 25:28.590 --> 25:30.570 It's a very simple technique. 25:30.570 --> 25:34.570 The two-finger technique is a workhorse, okay? 25:34.570 --> 25:37.450 You're definitely going to want to practice with those two fingers. 25:37.450 --> 25:40.290 And it's just repetition, okay? 25:40.290 --> 25:45.830 Now, if you don't have the arm movement, and you're just using the coat hanger, that's fine. 25:45.830 --> 25:48.470 There are other techniques, and I'll show you that now. 25:48.830 --> 25:57.330 All we're going to do is we're going to do sort of like a little bit of a ballet, okay? 25:57.410 --> 26:04.390 Your hand is going to go here and reach around the jacket, okay? 26:04.390 --> 26:08.730 So your hand goes like this as you reach into the pocket to grab the foam. 26:08.730 --> 26:15.050 But what you're going to do is, and I apologize, I'm going to turn my back to you for one second. 26:15.050 --> 26:24.510 When I turn, I'm going to look this person in the face, keep eye contact, so I can slip this out without him looking down. 26:24.510 --> 26:27.810 Because what's going to happen is I'm going to turn this way. 26:28.890 --> 26:40.550 I apologize for going out of frame, but what I'm doing is that I'm stepping out of his sort of view of the world, okay? 26:40.550 --> 26:54.150 Because as much as we want to think that we can see everything, when it's up close, you'll find, especially if you're looking at video, that's where I can't see my hand anymore, okay? 26:54.150 --> 27:00.670 So if it's up close here, I'm looking straight ahead, you've got a lot of window space here to reach in. 27:00.670 --> 27:05.990 So if I'm making sure that this gentleman is looking at me, I can easily... oh, excuse me, sir. 27:05.990 --> 27:06.670 I apologize. 27:06.670 --> 27:07.910 Let me get out of your way. 27:07.910 --> 27:20.230 And I can use that awkwardness and looking him in the eye, which is not a comfortable thing for people, and they want to get out of that uncomfortable situation as quickly as possible. 27:20.270 --> 27:24.650 So that facilitates us reaching into here because they're not going to be worried about this. 27:24.650 --> 27:27.850 They're going to be worried about this, okay? 27:27.990 --> 27:33.390 I have no problems about being awkward about stuff because I have a goal in mind. 27:33.390 --> 27:42.450 And that's the same thing that you guys are going to have to practice, is working for that goal so you guys can overcome the awkwardness, okay? 27:42.630 --> 27:49.930 And now all you're doing is you're just using those two fingers again to hold onto the phone, to put it inside. 27:50.230 --> 27:56.050 Last year, there were some people that were having difficulties with picking the phone up with those two fingers. 27:56.050 --> 27:59.830 We came up with solutions because their hands were much smaller. 27:59.830 --> 28:07.210 So if anyone in the Discord remembers this, please make mention because I remember us working on that. 28:07.210 --> 28:11.150 And I don't think I've seen anywhere in print about people using this technique. 28:11.150 --> 28:13.830 So I think we kind of came up with something on the spot. 28:14.510 --> 28:19.790 But what they were doing was that they were using all four fingers because they could get their whole hand in. 28:20.790 --> 28:31.690 And what they were doing is that they were doing this with the first and last finger down, middle and ring finger up, and they were gripping it like this. 28:31.850 --> 28:40.590 This allowed them to use more muscles in their hands to be able to lift a heavier object, like a phone with a case on it. 28:40.870 --> 28:48.770 But because their hands were smaller, they were able to reach into a pocket and pull it out with that technique, okay? 28:48.770 --> 28:51.110 So you have this technique here. 28:51.650 --> 28:59.750 There's usually a three-finger technique, but with smaller hands, we worked on a four-finger technique, okay? 28:59.750 --> 29:01.170 So try all of them. 29:01.170 --> 29:03.470 See which one works for you the best. 29:03.470 --> 29:06.130 That will be important, okay? 29:06.910 --> 29:13.030 Now, you can do this with the cell phone in almost genuinely any pocket. 29:14.590 --> 29:18.450 You can use the cell phone for the pants pockets as well. 29:18.550 --> 29:30.450 I would suggest avoiding the pants pockets for now only because it's a little more involved and it takes a lot more time to go over everything. 29:30.450 --> 29:33.970 And I don't want to do that with you guys right now because we only have so much time. 29:33.990 --> 29:39.170 I'd rather do this in person as well because I'm able to hit all the little minutia with it. 29:39.170 --> 29:48.490 So I'm trying to get everybody's baby steps going so when we meet up next year, we'll be able to do a whole bunch of cool stuff because we've got a lot of cool things in store for you next year. 29:48.490 --> 29:57.170 But when I've got it in the pocket, you're wanting to use those fingers to hold on to it, okay? 29:57.830 --> 30:02.510 Now, our last item is the watch. 30:02.510 --> 30:04.510 How do you practice that by yourself? 30:04.550 --> 30:15.370 Well, I've seen videos where they show you how to do a doweling rod, wrap it with towels and duct tape and practice and practice and practice. 30:16.130 --> 30:21.350 But we're just going to practice the buckle strap for now. 30:21.350 --> 30:25.330 There are other kinds to practice, but this is the kind that I want you to practice for now. 30:25.470 --> 30:28.930 There are the Apple watches and the Fitbits and all that kind of stuff. 30:28.930 --> 30:32.030 But again, we're trying to walk, not run. 30:32.670 --> 30:38.490 And all I'm going to do to do this, this thumb is going to do all the work. 30:38.750 --> 30:40.690 You're going to put your thumb right here. 30:40.990 --> 30:42.250 You're going to push. 30:42.870 --> 30:47.990 If I can get this right, you're going to push this up as high as you can. 30:48.790 --> 30:51.430 And if I can show you this, there it is. 30:51.950 --> 30:58.170 My thumb and my index finger are going to clip this and pull. 30:58.530 --> 31:06.510 Once it's pulled, the pin is popped and you can just practice letting it fall back out and pulling it off. 31:06.690 --> 31:12.090 Now, I'm going to move in place so you guys can see this a little better, okay? 31:17.340 --> 31:21.140 So, I apologize, I'm going to go out of frame so you can kind of see this. 31:21.140 --> 31:36.120 But this kind of watch, you're going to use your thumb on this part here, where your thumb is going to push, like so, to get it out of that there, okay? 31:36.620 --> 31:44.100 And if I get this part here, you're going to clip it with this part of your hand to get the pin to pop out. 31:44.660 --> 31:52.000 Push this over just to the side to open this up and then use this to kick that part out. 31:52.780 --> 31:54.480 And you're good to go. 31:54.500 --> 32:01.180 You can practice this on yourself as many times as you want until you get bored of it and then you can start again the next day. 32:03.020 --> 32:08.880 It is not the most advanced technique, but like I said, it is a starting point. 32:08.880 --> 32:14.820 There are far, I think personally, there are far better techniques, but they are more advanced. 32:15.080 --> 32:18.580 And this one, you don't have to set anything up. 32:18.640 --> 32:25.740 You can just practice again and again on your wrist, put it back on, so forth and so forth. 32:25.840 --> 32:30.060 The same goes for the other technique that is taught on watches. 32:30.160 --> 32:31.460 You can learn to do that. 32:31.460 --> 32:39.400 You just switch the band on the watch itself, where it would switch, so this is backwards. 32:39.700 --> 32:45.900 And then I can practice doing this on my wrist this way, as opposed to this way. 32:46.480 --> 32:55.280 Now, all the techniques I'm going to be wanting to show you guys right now, if you have questions, go to the Discord. 32:55.280 --> 32:58.020 I'll be happy to answer all those questions. 32:58.020 --> 33:01.660 I so wish I could see you guys in person. 33:01.660 --> 33:04.340 I'm really happy that you guys enjoyed everything. 33:06.000 --> 33:22.900 Oh, and if you don't mind, just to help us with next year's surprises, I have a, I believe we have a link for this, but there's a link for a Pickpocket shirt at TeePublic. 33:22.980 --> 33:25.440 Just look up Pickpocket, it's Thieves Den. 33:25.440 --> 33:28.820 I think there'll be a link that we'll share with you nice folks. 33:29.220 --> 33:35.860 But please, if you want to help support this so we can do some really cool stuff next year, go buy a t-shirt. 33:35.860 --> 33:40.280 And if I see a t-shirt, I'll be your best friend. 33:41.120 --> 33:44.780 So, if we are all good, I will see you guys in the Discord. 33:44.780 --> 33:49.520 I hope you enjoyed, and I will look forward to your questions. 33:49.660 --> 33:50.840 You guys have a great evening.