Emerge & See Contact

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This is a bad idea that you probably shouldn’t do. It comes to us by way of Eli “Quarter Horse” Bosnick.

Long ago, I posted another trick you should never do: Bill to Woman’s Vagina. That’s something I didn’t think anyone would actually ever try—most magicians can’t get close to a woman, much less a vagina—but I still put the disclaimer not to do it just so I didn’t get sued by some dumb oaf who tried it and ended up getting a bill riddled with god knows what up the vagina of the prostitute he pays to pretend to be his girlfriend.

This is an idea that may already be out in the magic community, but I haven’t seen it, nor has Eli. And, while I don’t think you should ever use this technique, I’m putting it out because at least if you read it from me, you’ll be reading it from someone who is straight-up calling you a creep if you misuse it, rather than someone who is like, “Here’s a good idea. Go nuts.”

Here’s the idea as Eli wrote it up to me…

So this peek/preshow thing is for a very specific situation that mentalists/magicians find themselves in quite a bit. You ask to borrow an  iphone, praying to whatever dead gods you worship that it picks up the nfc chip you hid wikitest or inject in only to discover that the phone is locked.

Now what usually happens at this point is you go “Oh it’s locked. Can you unlock it?”, they say “If you're a magician can’t you just guess the password” and then you fake a laugh while trying to kill Myke Philips with one of your three wishes. [A comment so inside magic that even I don’t get it.] Well THIS is what you can do instead. 

You swipe up. Tap “Emergency” in the bottom left corner of the screen, then tap “Medical ID” in the same place. You’ll be presented with a screen that looks like this:

Now I should point out a couple things: 

  1. That black spot is the emergency contact’s phone number. I’ve blacked it out in the screenshot for obvious reasons

  2. What you're seeing here is about the MINIMUM amount of information you’ll see here. Most med ID screens also include blood type, medications, allergies etc. The vast majority will also include birthday.

Best of all the chances that MOST iphone users don’t have this on their phone are relatively slim. Med ID is part of new iphone set up that very few people skip. Of the 10 people I called after figuring this out every single one of them had some information on there. 

There you have it. Any time you’re alone with someone’s phone, or you have some excuse to be futzing around with it in front of them, you likely have access to some information about them.

That information might be pretty basic. For instance, if I got a peek at Eli’s info I could later “intuit” his age, his wife’s name, and that he weighs as much as 1/4 of a horse.

Getting this info is, I think, sort of ethically ambiguous. But the problem becomes that the info could possibly veer into stuff that’s clearly none of your fucking business.

Here are the fields people might fill out in the Medical ID section…

  • Legal Name

  • Date of Birth

  • Medical Conditions

  • Medical Notes

  • Allergies & Reactions

  • Medications

  • Blood Type

  • Organ Donor

  • Weight

  • Height

  • Primary Language

  • Emergency Contacts

A more fully filled out ID screen might look like this:

Now, the truth is, you probably wouldn’t be very interested in the more sensitive data here anyways. At least, you wouldn’t be interested in those things for magic purposes. You probably wouldn’t be saying things like: “Yes… yes… it’s becoming clear to me now… I’m getting the sense you… hmmm…you take… Prevastatin. It’s all coming into focus for me now. You put it…wait, no… you don’t shove it up your asshole… you put it in your mouth, I’m sensing.”

So if you could control yourself and just do this to peek someone’s birthday and maybe get their spouse’s name or something like that, then I think that could be morally justifiable. That information is publicly available, and if you were to research someone to find those things out for the sake of a trick, I wouldn’t see an issue with that. So I don’t really have a problem with obtaining that information this way. But that’s assuming you can keep your eyes on those things and not go digging through their digital medicine cabinet.

Thanks to Eli for sharing this and empowering creep magicians everywhere!