This is how the internet works - you download an old Ricky Jay TV special and then remember watching his awesome 52 Assistants show on HBO years ago, featuring his deft and deadly card throwing skills. From there you Google "card throwing" and read up on Jay's influence, the current Guinness record holder [Rick Smith Jr] and proceed to fall into a YouTube spiral. And here you go. Welcome to the awesome.
Rick Smith Jr on the Wayne Brady show. [I don't care what you say, Wayne Brady is funny.]
Ricky Jay chopping a pencil in half with a playing card.
Ricky Jay wins a bet. Way cool.
An excerpt from the exceptional Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants. His skills are awesome, but his patter is superbly sublime.
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