First of all, don't go telling everybody what you figured out. Nobody cares.
Second, if you had even a shred of respect for Danny, you would buy the effect anyway.
Third, reverse engineering is strongly frowned upon. No one can fault you for hearing of a concept and coming up with your own method (Morgan Strebler and Sean Fields both came up with different methods for turning bottled water into mouthwash). But don't sit there and try to be clever by reverse engineering somebody else's work.