♪♪ There's a thrift store
near our production office that's full
of weird merchandise, and we're always in there
seeking new inspiration for tricks. Nobody questions the crazy stuff
you find in a place like this, which makes it a perfect
backdrop for the show. You like to collect stuff? Some stuff.
Yeah? I like antiques. You like antiques? I have something that we
just got in from the '70s. Are you a hunter at all? There's too many trigger-happy
folks out there that hunt nowadays. Well, let me show you
what I have. Hang tight right there.
You might be interested in this. All right. So, how are you doing,
young lady? Pretty good.
How are you? I'm doing all right
for an old man. I'm doing all right
for a young man, too. That's good. This...we just got in. Have you ever seen
one of these before? It's a duck. Well, it's like
a decoy, yeah. I've seen... Yeah. Put it up on there. Yeah, but it's a... It's like a -- well, it's one
of the most realistic ones. You got the feet here. Put the little foot on there. And when they attach,
'cause it has batteries in it, it looks pretty good. Let me just put the head
on here, and you just give him a little
shake, I think, like this. It's one of the most
realistic decoys. I've never seen
anything like that. -Yeah.
-It looks so real. Yeah. Is that real? No.
It's a decoy. [ Duck quacking ] Is it? -Yeah.
-Oh, my goodness. That's crazy! It is! How does it feel? It feels just --
Oh, careful. It'll do everything
that a real duck does. It's programmed to do everything
that a real duck would do. It looks so real.
It scratches like a real one. Yeah, it does a waddle,
a scratch. That's amazing. Oh, my goodness. Does it do anything else
like that? It'll just keep on a cycle like
this for about 10 minutes, and then it will just fall over
because the batteries die. It takes a lot of batteries. -Oh, my goodness.
-Yeah. Once you get
the head in place... I can't believe that. And you put your fingers...
He'll bite you? Probably.
Whenever they feel something, he'll move his head
to where they feel -- see, that looks fake.
Did you see that? That looked fake. Is it a robot? -Yeah, well --
-I mean, it's animatronic. It's animatronic. Yeah,
it works with clock parts. -It's from the '70s?
-From the '70s, yeah. -That is valuable, then.
-It's not real? -Oh, my gosh.
-Can you pull it apart? I have a tool in the back I got to take him apart with,
but, yeah. Well, I'll be. Yeah. A lot of people would just
buy them for toys for kids, but they stopped making them. They stopped making them? Yeah. Why? Well, because hunters were using them as decoys,
and they would put them out, and then other hunters
were shooting them because they looked so real. And then there was
a choking hazard because people were taking them
home and cooking them. Cooking this? Yeah, because they thought
it was real. -This is amazing.
-Looks good, right? It acts real. It doesn't look fake at all --
the movements. Yep. What company designed it? Carbonaro. Carbonaro?
Yeah. Carbonaro.
It's American? Italian, I think. Italian.
Okay. I tell you, I've never s--
I mean, it's awesome. ♪♪ Usually, when I tell my team that a trick
is too ridiculous to work, my instincts are spot on. In this case,
I admit that I was wrong. But I don't like to be wrong, so I ran the trick
again to see if the first success
was a fluke. They used to make them
in the '70s. The head goes on, and then you'd
just give it a shake like this, and then it's like --
it looks really real. Wow.
Yeah. It's the best decoy
they have. That's interesting. Yeah, because
they look so real that people were actually
shooting the decoys. Wow.
This is amazing! -It's eerie.
-Wow! It looks really real, right? -Yeah.
-It does. Woman: That's not real? No, it's a decoy duck
from 1974. Oh. So it looked like a duck. Next thing you know, other bird
come close to it, and they boom! --
and shoot whatever. Well, yeah, it -- If they trying
to get a deer. Yeah, it's a male duck. Oh. I got to come back
and get some of that. They're the best decoys around, but they just
don't make them anymore. -I cannot believe that.
-I know. I got to have that.
Can I buy that? Yeah, you could buy it.
You want to get it? Yeah.
It looks so real. Absolutely.
What a great gift. Yeah.
Okay, here. I just can't believe that. Yeah. Let me get
the tool in the back, and I can take him apart. When I don't know
how to respond, I just say, "It's in the back,"
and excuse myself. It's perfect for when they start
asking too many questions or, in this case, when they want me
to dismantle a live duck on the spot. Uh-huh. It's programmed
to move like a duck. ♪♪
