(rap music)
(chillhop music)
- Hi I'm Daniel Madison,
welcome back to the Madhouse.
In today's video, I'm going
to talk to you a little bit
about these playing cards,
the Madison Advocates.
I'm gonna tell you about all the secrets
that are hidden within
these decks, as standard.
And, we'll talk about the
future of Madison playing cards
in general, but before we get to that,
I wanna show you a few improvements,
a few things have changed at the madhouse,
little bit of progress, check this out.
Red, in case we're working with
some of those red Advocates.
Green for the green Advocates, which,
you don't know about those
by the way, just yet.
Blue works well for now
and we have a really nice
light blue for the sky
Advocates, more about those soon.
Now I've blacked out
the windows through to
the next room because I wanna keep
a serious sense of mystery
throughout the madhouse.
I love the idea of
having that mystery that
you don't know what's
coming behind that door,
until you've opened it.
We don't want to spoil the surprise
for people stepping into this room,
as it transforms into what it's gonna be.
And this area is gonna be, soon to be,
the madhouse shop, we're
actually gonna have a shop
on site and we're gonna fill it
with rare items that you can only ever get
by coming directly here to the madhouse.
And by the way, if you wanna come here,
you have to have an
invitation directly from me.
We'll talk about that very soon.
So as well as a shop, kind of a store area
this is gonna act as a really
cool chill out place as well.
Let me show you something.
As serious as I take
the practises of slight
of hand and deception
with playing cards, magic,
when I'm sat at my desk
I fell like the headmaster, and you know,
this is the old school after all.
There's no school like the old school,
and I'm the mother-flipping head master.
But I needed a place in
here, a part of the madhouse,
where I can just kick back and chill out
and relax, and just talk to you on a more
intimate level. My big, black,
comfy corner couch has arrived,
and I've created the perfect setting
to just, chill out with you and
spend a bit of time with you.
Charlie, that feels... good.
So first and foremost, these
are the pink Madison Advocates,
these are the Madison Standards.
This is the one deck out of all
the decks that I'm gonna make,
this is the one that's
gonna keep printing,
these are always gonna be available,
when the stock runs out
I'm gonna get more in.
Mainly because it's my
personal favourite deck
and considering how much I truly,
madly deeply love the
pink Madison Advocates,
I'm gonna make sure
they're always in stock,
and they never. Run. Out.
So to anybody who's ordered these,
who's picked some of these up already,
and you're still waiting
for them to be delivered,
(claps) thanks so much for your patience,
for your understanding, for your faith,
there's only two of us at the minute
taking care of fulfilment and shipment
and that includes me, I
will be filling the madhouse
with enough staff to take
care of everything but
the initial run out of the
door with all of the orders
we're focusing on all of the pre-orders.
So if you're still waiting, don't worry,
it won't be much of a longer wait
and it will be worth
the wait, I promise you.
So if you missed out
the first time around,
we just got a fresh
batch of these bad boys
so, link to these in my
website, can go get them now,
and I'm gonna keep that
subscriber discount going there,
just for you, just for now.
My career in the world of playing cards
is over twenty years old, and that
makes me feel like a
really old man, Charlie.
But that career for me is a journey,
and it's not about a destination,
it's about what happens on the journey
and what you experience, and
what you develop and create.
I like something that David Bowie said,
and forgive me if I misquote,
if I get this wrong,
but he said "I can't tell
you where we are going,
but I can promise you
one hell of a journey".
If you put your focus on the journey,
then you keep yourself in the moment.
Living in the moment for me
in a world of playing cards
has put me at many points in my career
where I've stopped and said, this is
the best deck of playing
cards I have ever used,
and obviously that changes
because we grow older,
and we develop and so does
technology, and so do finishes.
And there are a few specific moments
where I remember saying
that, the first time was when
I was with illusionist, and
we started using double crush
finish on a traditionally
cut deck of playing cards,
and it was like discovering a miracle,
it was truly truly
beautiful, a wonderful thing.
I remember feeling the same
thing when I first discovered
and worked with Carta Mundi, in Belgium,
and they printed the BO9 finish.
And it was much thicker
than what I'd been used to
with the double crush,
but there was something,
something beautiful about that,
that more of a casino feel,
more of a real card table
deck of playing cards,
especially with the texture being
different on each side of the deck,
which isn't something that really got
picked up or thought
about in the industry.
I'm sat here right now
with the Madison Advocates,
thinking and feeling the same thing.
Thinking that this is the best,
the best quality of deck
that I've ever felt.
And I know that that's
gonna sound like marketing
or bias, which, obviously I'm biassed,
it's my deck of playing cards,
but the point I'm making here,
I would not settle for anything
less than the absolute best
for my playing cards, I really wouldn't.
Obviously Charlie, I'm gonna
big up my own playing cards
and talk about how good they are
because it's impossible to not be biassed
when it's something that
I've spent my whole lifetime
working on, and trying
to find... (rotor noises)
Bloody hell Charlie, that
helicopter is a bit close!
Just before I share with
you some of the secrets
that I've hidden in the Madison Advocates,
remember the neon lights
that I showed you?
Well I came back and night
time to check them out.
(claps) Wow. Check this out.
Yo. I've come back in the dark,
specifically so that I can reveal to you
what the madhouse looks like
with the new neon lights.
Professor, wait 'till you see
this, you're gonna love this.
Man, that's really
freaky, the professor just
stood there, dark in the corner.
Check this out. You know,
when I first installed these,
I knew they'd look good, I
just knew they'd look good,
but boy, boy boy Charlie, I
didn't know it'd look this good.
This is like some kind of
Blade Runner futuristic
kind of, look at that. Wow.
Alight, I think we're gonna
start working night shifts
at the madhouse Charlie,
what do you think?
So every deck of playing
cards that I create
and print from the madhouse is
gonna have secrets and tools
and weaponry to aid your
magic and deceptive practises,
the pink Madison Advocates,
every single deck of these,
comes with a few different things.
First of all, you're gonna find in there
two double faced playing cards.
One has the Madison Advocates
ace of spades on one side
and the king of diamond on the other,
the other one is nine of club with
a four of heart on the
other. This, in my opinion,
is the most unassuming,
underrated weapon of deception.
Every single deck of
Madison Advocates is printed
in the Madison Advocate order.
If you don't know what the Advocate is,
it looks like this, its a
secret that goes in your pocket,
not gonna expose it
right here on this video
but you can find out
about it on my website.
It's arguably the most devastating,
powerful too-on, tool, too-on?
What does that mean, Charlie? (meow)
Tool of deception that
you can possible have,
that you can possibly use.
Any card, anywhere, anytime.
So the deck comes printed in that order so
when you take it out of the box,
all you have to do is
up-jog all the hearts,
twist them to the side, tear the sag off,
put them back in, put them in your pocket,
and you have an Advocate
straight away in your pocket.
Also, this is the new
Madison standard order
of printing playing cards, so
all the aces, all the twos,
all the way down to the kings.
So it starts spades, clubs, diamonds,
hearts, all the way through,
we have two nine of clubs
in our every deck of Pink Advocates,
there's two nine of clubs. Again,
another very very powerful,
very very devastating
weapon of deception, every single deck
of playing cards that I have
used in my entire career
has had a duplicate playing card in it.
Pink Advocates, and the same
with all the Advocates in fact,
are printed and created
on what I'm calling
a type one finish, which
is the Madison-ist finish,
type two, which is called
the Charlie Finish,
is when you pick up a very special project
like the Devil's Advocate,
which is sold out, gone.
Anybody familiar with the remedies,
we packed them full of secrets,
and it's no different with this deck.
So there's a reveal on the tuck,
nine of clubs, there's a
reveal hidden inside the box,
so you have to rip the
box open to find it,
we'll do a video dedicated to that trick.
Queen of spades, she's very familiar,
you will recognise her from the remedies,
anybody who got the
remedies, and she's holding
the four of hearts, four
of hearts reveal in there.
I don't wanna keep talking about my deck,
I'm bigger than my playing cards,
because it's just gonna
sound like I'm blowing smoke
up Charlie's, uh, swear word, haha!
So I'm gonna stop talking about
how good these are, frankly.
Pink Advocates back in stock,
link in video description,
discount codes are not
gonna be there for long
but I've extended it for a few more days
just for my subscribers, we're almost at
80,000 subs and I can't believe it.
Now, you remember my
promise for 100,000 subs,
I can't wait for that Charlie!
Got a few more surprises on the way, too.
I'll be back soon with
some more dope tutorials,
all I ask in return,
make sure you subscribe,
so your notification
bell does a ding ding,
every time I drop a new video.
For everybody who already picked
up some Madison Advocates,
look out for a shipping notification,
emailed directly from me,
thanks for spending some time
with me today, I do appreciate it.
I am Daniel Madison, See you next time.
