From time to time, me­dia that wasn't in­tend­ed for the pub­lic, gets leaked. Some of the most mem­o­rable are Kim Kar­dashi­an's tape, Paris Hilton's in­fa­mous '1 Night in Paris' [film] and cell phone hack, David Has­sel­hoff's drunk­en an­tics, OJ Simp­son's slow-​speed chase, Vi­da Guer­ra's nude pic­tures and Alec Bald­win's threat­ning mes­sage to his daugh­ter.. While some wreck lives, oth­ers make house­hold names of rel­a­tive no­bod­ies and some even bring to light se­crets have been hid­den for many, many years.

Such is the case with out lat­est find. Have you no­ticed the barage of how-​to books, kits and DVDs that are sup­posed to teach you the se­crets of street ma­gi­cians and card tricks? If you're like us, you've have.

Let's be hon­est now... Who hasn't dreamt of hav­ing some sort of spe­cial pow­ers? Whether you want­ed to be in­vis­i­ble, see through ob­jects, lev­i­tate or per­form sim­ple card tricks to wow your friends and co-​slaves (er, we mean work­ers), you've def­i­nite­ly found that most true ma­gi­cians would nev­er share their card mag­ic. Ac­tu­al­ly, it's against ma­gi­cian code. We know. We checked!

So... if ma­gi­cians aren't al­lowed to tell their card mag­ic se­crets then why are there so many ma­gi­cian how-​to kits, books and DVDs?!

One rea­son could be that the "ma­gi­cian" isn't a true ma­gi­cian. An­oth­er could be that the ma­gi­cian put to­geth­er a col­lage of "safe" tricks which means they've kept all the great card tricks se­crets to them­selves! The last and most prob­a­ble (al­though it could be a com­bi­na­tion of all three rea­sons!) is that the ma­gi­cian is teach­ing the card tricks in a way that you'll nev­er be able to mas­ter.

We've bought our share of DVDs and were down­right dis­ap­point­ed. The card tricks were ei­ther too com­pli­cat­ed or the ex­pla­na­tion was too vague to pull off on any­thing oth­er than an ed­itable card mag­ic video. Af­ter plunk­ing down $98 on a worth­less in­struc­tion­al video, we felt used... and that's al­so why we were ex­cit­ed when we were ap­proached by some­one who claimed to have a ma­gi­cians-​on­ly card tricks train­ing tape. We'll call this per­son "Ted" (this ob­vi­ous­ly isn't his re­al name).

We'll ad­mit, this guy found us and was ini­tial­ly in­ter­est­ed in a joint ven­ture deal. Ted was in it for the mon­ey and that made us doubt him but his sto­ry checked out and his video had some crazy card tricks that we were able to do in front of some friends af­ter just one view­ing with­out too much prac­tice.

While we're not sure about why he took the raw footage for 'The Ap­pren­tice Guide to Mag­ic' (not the re­al name, it had to be changed for le­gal rea­sons) and re­worked it in­to his own legal­ly hacked train­ing guide, we ac­cept that this stuff has to be shared. It's the re­al deal and there's no bet­ter way to learn RE­AL mag­ic card tricks in just a few short hours that'll im­press the pants off any­one.