Magic show played with students' minds
Nicole Pinto
Issue date: 11/10/04 Section: Features
Jim Karol and his associates entertained Lock Haven students with their Mind, Magic, and Madness Show last Wednesday, sponsered by HAC and SCC.
Audience participation was a big part of the show. Jim Karol started the show out with two volunteers and the host Mike in handcuffs. Jim told the audience that one of his Guinness Book of World Records is for the fastest escape from handcuffs.
Jim also stated that he had seven records total and has been on the Rosie O'Donnell Show. He said he made a lot of money in his line of work and held up the wallets of the two boys who had been on stage. The audience was laughing as the boys ran up to get their wallets back. Even when the one got his wallet back, Jim showed him he had taken the money out, which caused the crowd to laugh even more.
He has another Guinness record of throwing cards two hundred feet. He picked Josh, Jed, and Randy from the audience to participate in his next trick. He made Josh be Spok from Star Trek with a big deck of cards, picking one. Jed's job was to be Uranusm and hold a balloon, which made the audience snicker. Randy was to hold two cantalopes in front of her to represent a warship. The audience was really roaring by now. The three were to work together and put the ripped card in the balloon by beaming it. It didn't work out until Jim suggested it could be in a melon. Jim faked the audience out by letting Randy hold one melon above an audience member's head while he said he would throw the knife at it. He then brought the melon back on stage and cut it in half and inside was the card. Jim tricked many people during his show.
He also pretended to let an audience member cut the microphone cord and put it back together. But, while trying to put it back together, he pretended to be electrocuted with a spark button. The audience, shocked, learned it was a wireless microphone the whole time.
After this excitement, the audience was introduced to Mike Dubois and Chris Chelko from Penn State who joined Jim's show. The two have appeared on Jay Leno's Tonight Show. Chris made a thin balloon go through his mouth and nose at the same time. Not only that, he would squeeze the air from one side to the other. Chris even had an audience volunteer rip up the Eagle Eye, which he put back together.
Audience participation was a big part of the show. Jim Karol started the show out with two volunteers and the host Mike in handcuffs. Jim told the audience that one of his Guinness Book of World Records is for the fastest escape from handcuffs.
Jim also stated that he had seven records total and has been on the Rosie O'Donnell Show. He said he made a lot of money in his line of work and held up the wallets of the two boys who had been on stage. The audience was laughing as the boys ran up to get their wallets back. Even when the one got his wallet back, Jim showed him he had taken the money out, which caused the crowd to laugh even more.
He has another Guinness record of throwing cards two hundred feet. He picked Josh, Jed, and Randy from the audience to participate in his next trick. He made Josh be Spok from Star Trek with a big deck of cards, picking one. Jed's job was to be Uranusm and hold a balloon, which made the audience snicker. Randy was to hold two cantalopes in front of her to represent a warship. The audience was really roaring by now. The three were to work together and put the ripped card in the balloon by beaming it. It didn't work out until Jim suggested it could be in a melon. Jim faked the audience out by letting Randy hold one melon above an audience member's head while he said he would throw the knife at it. He then brought the melon back on stage and cut it in half and inside was the card. Jim tricked many people during his show.
He also pretended to let an audience member cut the microphone cord and put it back together. But, while trying to put it back together, he pretended to be electrocuted with a spark button. The audience, shocked, learned it was a wireless microphone the whole time.
After this excitement, the audience was introduced to Mike Dubois and Chris Chelko from Penn State who joined Jim's show. The two have appeared on Jay Leno's Tonight Show. Chris made a thin balloon go through his mouth and nose at the same time. Not only that, he would squeeze the air from one side to the other. Chris even had an audience volunteer rip up the Eagle Eye, which he put back together.
