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We chat to illusionist extraordinaire, Cosentino! · Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast

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  Speaker 1: With the John and Ben podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Cheers to Dilma making the world a bitter tea.
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  Speaker 1: Having good to see you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't seen you for a few years. Actually,
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  Speaker 3: we had a TV show last time, and like Magic,
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  Speaker 3: that disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: But then like Magic, you disappeared, but all of us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So coming back to newsyeal ten shows around the
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  Speaker 3: country November December at the end of the year. It's
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  Speaker 3: kind of like your so your best tricks.
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  Speaker 1: Ever, right, It's called Dyscenium.
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  Speaker 4: It's a celebration of my life in magic over the
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  Speaker 4: last ten years. So it's ten effects in the show
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  Speaker 4: ten tricks. It's only ten shows for you, guys, and
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  Speaker 4: it's a decade ten years.
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  Speaker 5: Excuse my uneducated ignorance. Is decinium? Does it represent ten
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  Speaker 5: in some way?
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  Speaker 1: Correct? Yeah, it's laden for ten.
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  Speaker 5: I should have paid.
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  Speaker 1: I love your numbers, don't I do.
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  Speaker 3: Like I saw something with you doing an interview I
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  Speaker 3: think on the AM show, and you were talking about cards, correct,
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  Speaker 3: and how they kind of the fight. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 3: really interesting, though I can't remember exactly what you see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 4: There are fifty two different cards in a pack. The
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  Speaker 4: cards originally made it as a calendar, and they represent
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  Speaker 4: the fifty two weeks in a year. The four suits
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  Speaker 4: represent the four seasons, black cards, red cards, night and day.
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  Speaker 1: As Auto had, the king is thirteen.
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  Speaker 4: You add them together three hundred and sixty five. So
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  Speaker 4: when you pick a card, it's really I got married.
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  Speaker 4: I was with my wife for eleven years. We got
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  Speaker 4: married on the eleventh of the eleventh. Belie, this is
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  Speaker 4: so numbers for me are a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. And do you make important life decisions based on numbers?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: I do, Yes, Yeah, Lucky I walked past you, guys,
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  Speaker 4: I felt like a good numbers that lot of come
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  Speaker 4: in and do the interview.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I die, but I do like numbers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't base. I don't. I don't sit at
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  Speaker 1: home and so well, we can't go ab out that day.
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  Speaker 3: You've had, you know, huge TV specials, you've traveled the world.
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  Speaker 3: What sort of tracks can people expect to see?
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  Speaker 5: Like?
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  Speaker 3: What are we talking? When they went?
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  Speaker 4: And it's my favorite effects, my favorite tricks people appearing, disappearing, levitating, teleporting, crazy, death, defying, escape,
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  Speaker 4: so knives dangling above my heads. People come up, they
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  Speaker 4: examine everything, they check everything out, They make sure it's
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  Speaker 4: all real. You can participate as much as you want,
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  Speaker 4: or just sit and watch it observed. Because I'm the
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  Speaker 4: kind of person who goes to show. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to get evolved. I don't want to be on stage
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  Speaker 4: when I'm watching a show. Right, But other people you'd
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  Speaker 4: be surprised you want to get up that way.
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  Speaker 2: But then if you have someone in an audience who's
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  Speaker 2: like me, do you steer away from that? Yes, I
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  Speaker 2: need to look the other way.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be like, if you look the other way, then
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  Speaker 4: i will select you. Just be normal, Just be normal.
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  Speaker 4: Kids do that and then they get up on stage
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  Speaker 4: and they freeze you.
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  Speaker 1: Probably.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, seeing it in person, We've seen you do some
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  Speaker 3: tricks before. It's amazing, and it's amazing seeing it with
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  Speaker 3: your own eyes through TV. That where you kind of go.
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  Speaker 1: On TV, right, you go, that's an actor that's set
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  Speaker 1: up crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And people ask me afterwards, they're like, tell us about
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  Speaker 2: it to get pecked.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, no, it blew my min.
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  Speaker 1: It's better live.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you get to just sing it with your own eyes.
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  Speaker 1: It's very very powerful. It's much more potent. Magic needs
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  Speaker 1: to be performed live.
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  Speaker 2: You seem levitating, right.
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  Speaker 4: People levitate, disappear, teleport, I walk through a steel plate.
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  Speaker 3: What's the most nervous you are before a track like
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  Speaker 3: one trek in particular that you've done that, You've gone Jesus,
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  Speaker 3: this could go wrong. I mean all the time. It
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  Speaker 3: could go wrong.
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  Speaker 4: During the stunts, the underwater escapes. You've done a two
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  Speaker 4: hour show. You're crazy, You're like energy ah, and then
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, ive got to jump in a
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  Speaker 4: tank and lower my heart rate, be calm. It's like,
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  Speaker 4: how do you become after two hours of energizing the audience,
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  Speaker 4: having to deal.
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  Speaker 5: With mean.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff correct? And then you've got to lower everything down.
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  Speaker 1: So that's really really challenging. So this is you.
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  Speaker 5: You would chain yourself up and go into a tank
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  Speaker 5: and have to WOWE, that is a real gear change
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  Speaker 5: for you. Have there been moments we've been in that tank,
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  Speaker 5: locked up and you're like, has it ever gone a
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  Speaker 5: little too long?
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  Speaker 1: Yep?
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  Speaker 3: Did you know hospital after one?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I got slashed by knife, I got toss stitches in
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  Speaker 4: my chin, hit my head, my forehead, I got seven
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  Speaker 4: in there. I blew my ear drum going underwater. I
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  Speaker 4: cracked two ribs. I broke my ankle hanging outside down.
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  Speaker 4: That's that was all in one week, so it sounds
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  Speaker 4: like I don't know what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 5: The huge element of danger.
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  Speaker 3: It was the first trick because I think magic. He
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  Speaker 3: got a book as a kid, right, it was the
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  Speaker 3: first trick.
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  Speaker 4: I made a coin vanish for my father, who's a
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  Speaker 4: structural engine. You're thinking that's not impressive, right, all kids
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  Speaker 4: make money disappears.
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  Speaker 1: That's not really. It was a trick and.
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  Speaker 4: The coin vanished, very simple slide of hands called the
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  Speaker 4: French drop vanished. But my father hadn't seen magic, and
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  Speaker 4: he said to me, how did you do it?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 1: As a kid? Can you imagine? To me?
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  Speaker 4: He was My father was this genius who made bridges
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  Speaker 4: and buildings stand up using mathematics, and I managed to
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  Speaker 4: baffle him for him And there's a huge amount of
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  Speaker 4: power that happens as a kid who I was really
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  Speaker 4: struggling with school or things were problematic. So I could
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  Speaker 4: do something that nobody else could do. And that's where
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  Speaker 4: the obsession began.
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  Speaker 1: I started.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, were your family supportive of your career?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: In the beginning, because magic helped me to come out
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  Speaker 4: of my shell and read and be better student at school.
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  Speaker 1: My mother was a school principal, so that was.
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  Speaker 4: Very happy, and my father was happy because now I
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  Speaker 4: was being a normal human and I was talking to
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  Speaker 4: people and not being so shy. And then it becomes
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  Speaker 4: a Dad, I really want to do this, and he's
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  Speaker 4: like no, no, Now it starts to change a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Seventeen He's like, yeah, this was just a hobbit, correct,
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  Speaker 4: I've got this engineering for a Mother was very encouraging,
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  Speaker 4: father not so much.
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  Speaker 1: And then so there was always this so I had
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  Speaker 1: to prove myself, prove myself for myself.
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  Speaker 4: And I remember finishing high school, going to university for
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  Speaker 4: a year, and then I said, I got this offer
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  Speaker 4: to be on a cruise ship as a headliner, and
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  Speaker 4: I said to my father, let me just give it
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  Speaker 4: a shop for a year. I'll take a leave of
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  Speaker 4: absence from my studies and I'll come back and I'm
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  Speaker 4: still absent from the studies.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing, that's cool, that's how it happened. That's how
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  Speaker 1: good for you two.
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  Speaker 4: And then he backed it in the end, and then
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  Speaker 4: they couldn't be more more more proud. Now my father, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he introduces me every to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, this is my son the magician.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, now you're going to do a bit of a
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  Speaker 5: trick for us. Now is an audio trick or more
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  Speaker 5: of a visual one.
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  Speaker 4: It's a visual cameras rolling you can describe and cameras
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  Speaker 4: are rolling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll do it.
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  Speaker 5: But we are shocking at painting pictures with words. But
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  Speaker 5: we'll give it out.
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  Speaker 3: But you can see it on social as well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll check it out. Yeah, ok I've got an iPhone
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  Speaker 1: Yeah there as well. Okay, so what have we got.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a packet of tick texts. Yeah, you can
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  Speaker 1: have the real tic texts. Would you like one?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Megan offering.
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  Speaker 3: I always feel like I'm going to screw up the
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  Speaker 3: track somehow, but just him telling me I've got baby, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: maybe yeah, take one? Okay, yeah, yeah, real okay, real
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  Speaker 3: tic texts.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, in the mouth his mouth and on the end
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  Speaker 5: of his tongue. Yeah, it looks like he's swallowing it.
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  Speaker 4: He's made.
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  Speaker 1: Are you impressed? Yeah you didn't even sure it impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's standing up now okay, breathing in through his nose.
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  Speaker 5: No, no gonna come.
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  Speaker 6: It's underneath his right now coming out, it's out, it's out.
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  Speaker 1: Did he put me out of his eye? I can't
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  Speaker 1: do eyes. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: It's peppermint flavor and it has made your eye water.
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  Speaker 2: I guess because it's minty fresh.
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  Speaker 1: You swallowed it and popped out of your your right eyeball.
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  Speaker 1: Oh dig, that was horrific to what isn't that fun?
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  Speaker 6: Wow, that's a mad press.
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  Speaker 1: You go along and see Costentino.
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  Speaker 3: You're incredible. Ten shows around the country November December this year.
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  Speaker 3: You can get all the details that endeavor dot live
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  Speaker 3: slash Costantino. So nice to see you again. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: very much for wowing us once more.
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  Speaker 5: How many tic texts leading around your body you lasted
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  Speaker 5: along the way