A magician performs various magic tricks with a deck of cards for an audience. The tricks include randomly selecting cards, making cards disappear and reappear, and predicting the outcome of shuffled cards. The magician also engages with the audience, asking them to participate in the tricks and making light-hearted jokes throughout the performance.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The speaker is at someone else's house, not their own.
2. The speaker is performing magic tricks.
3. The speaker mentions Casey Stoner, a motorcycle rider.
4. The speaker is using a deck of cards for their tricks.
5. The speaker has someone else choose a card and then attempts to find it.
6. The speaker performs a trick where they make a match disappear in a box.
7. The speaker asks someone to think of a number between 1 and 20.
8. The speaker uses a technique to guess the number correctly.
9. The speaker performs a card trick where they make all the cards face up except for one.
10. The speaker thanks their audience and mentions having dinner next month.
11. The speaker mentions a professor and a story about shuffling cards.
12. The speaker performs a final trick where they make all the cards face up except for one chosen card.