Someone should invent some way of making tiny little cakes. You could even have each small cake enclosed in a paper cup to keep the inside moist and allow easy handling.

Digging through the YouTube comments followed by a little further searching, yeah, apparently the basic idea is he's sorting the cards face-up/face down underneath as he fans them out near the end. A description which probably doesn't do justice to the amount of dexterity & concentration required while also keeping up the patter.

Inevitably you can also buy the technique video from the guy's website: http://kostyakimlat.com/roadrunner-cull.html

Upvoted for the punchline at the end.

Scarfs!

The second half where he explains the joke possibly isn't necessary and the first half could have been tightened down to 4-5 minutes, but otherwise this was beautiful satire.

It's also a good example of why I hate people who post online about how they built up a successful business or whatever and poor people would be fine if they just did the same. Hard work improves one's odds, certainly, but you're still mostly at the mercy of chance and that's why I think societies should have a strong safety net for those who do everything "right" but still fall down.

Plus the barrel of liquid Nitrogen you have to carry around is a little inconvenient.

That's got to be a new record for length of "click on our other videos" junk at the end.

You can make a cube appear mixed up with surprisingly few moves, so given how practised he is with one hand (wink wink) I think most if not all of his tricks could just be being very good at memorising cube positions and then doing the moves needed "blind".

It doesn't hurt that people are unfamiliar with the cubes compared with cards for tricks either.

God bless the Nazis! Certainly easier than bumping it.

If it was me I'd be more surprised at how he'd suddenly sprouted a camera crew.

It always amuses me that the strongmen competitors never look like bodybuilders.

Every few years a spectator or three does get flattened, but not much ever gets changed so I figure it's deemed acceptable losses.

Rally is the only motorsport I have any time for, but I've never wanted to see it in person - standing watching them go round one corner can't compare to the televised version with its in-car, helicopter and crane-mounted cameras.

With his celebrity status it's sometimes easy to forget Hadfield is a (albeit retired) astronaut and so is super healthy and technically competent.

They should have skipped the convention and just talked suit engineering instead!

I fully agree with what she's saying, but all slam poetry must come with the obligatory http://videosift.com/video/Anything-can-be-a-slam-poem-if-you-say-it-like-this

I also enjoyed her clearly having picked up little bits of native accents so each word sounded like she was from somewhere else.

Subtle!