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The Ultimate Magician's Travel Guide: Tips, Tricks, and Tales from the Road #188 · The Magic Guys

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  They're guys they do magic they are the magic guys.
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  Wow ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode 188 of the magic guys this is a
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  wonderful moment we're all in the house because to my left we got nick k welcome
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  to the show friends yeah we do and down Down below, we've got Doug Kahn.
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  Salutations to the kindred. Repping the new and improved Magic Guys t-shirts.
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  You can already see a button to purchase right there, which takes a lot to be
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  able to get access to, to doing that.
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  But I digress. Takes 185 episodes.
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  It only took, yeah, it only took hundreds and hundreds of hours of,
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  of chatting, chin wagging to get us here.
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  But Scott Link says, has it started?
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  Yes, it has. I'm guessing it hasn't refreshed on your page yet, but that's all right.
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  And you know what they're talking about? If you're listening to this,
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  They're saying this because we do this show live so we can answer your questions in real time.
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  You can feel the aura. I feel like this is the reason why it's worth doing an online podcast.
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  Like zoom style podcast is because we can interact with all our listeners at the same time.
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  Those stupid people doing in studio podcasts, can't talk to anyone.
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  So, you know, Rogan, what do
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  you got? I mean, come on. Live's where it's at, baby. Come on. Let's go.
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  That's it. That's it. Doesn't Rogan do Kill Tony though? Isn't he on that show?
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  Yeah. Well, actually, okay.
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  You're right. In person with a live audience might be the best version, but we'll get there.
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  You know, we are the pre-show to kill tony you know
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  so we got that going for us yeah and
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  kill tony did a collab with bloody chris ramsey they have their own kill tony
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  deck available like chris ramsey wasn't cool enough already what don't they
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  do has anyone got one comment comment below if you have one of those decks because
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  i'm yet to see any magicians do you know the asmr box opening are they out can i can
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  i buy that today i think if you go to
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  the kill tony merch that's where you buy them but you're
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  such an influencer norbita it might be the muggles buying them all i don't know
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  if magicians have even been able to get them of course they have well they're
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  the uber dorks let's get let's bloody get some okay our mission is in the next
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  couple episodes to be able to show
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  a kill Tony deck on this episode.
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  So we can technically have kill Tony on our show before you watch.
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  Look, what a, what a great way to shine on like the shorts, kill Tony cards.
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  You know, you're doing tricks for kill Tony cards. There's gonna be people like
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  those are kill Tony cards.
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  You know what, Doug, I'm gonna build on this. Yeah.
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  You do the trick with using the audio of that comedian with one of their best bits. Love it.
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  We have discovered
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  virality like you do a uh you do a oh my god you do a story deck routine but
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  about what cam patterson's talking about about the women he's trying to get
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  with and whatever and it's like this is good this is good nick how you doing man you're awfully,
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  you're absorbing what we're saying and something's about to spit out how you
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  doing bro I'm living the dream, man. It's good to be here.
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  We've been on the road for quite a while, so it's been a while since all three
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  of us have been into the room, as well as everyone else in the chat.
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  Thank you all for being here.
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  In fact, it was a really nice comment, but well before the show even began,
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  where Tom said that even Garfield would say he loves Mondays if he knew he had
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  a Magic Guys podcast every Monday to watch.
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  Isn't that queer? We love you guys.
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  We love you guys. We love all the guys who are here. Even if you're not here
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  at the moment, we love you. Tim, Thomas, Caden, and Gut Buster Mike,
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  and our good friend, Scotty P.
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  Scotty P. Speaking of Scotty P. Scotty P.
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  Scotty P is a big boy now, you know. The main event, Scotty P.
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  Oh, yeah. He's not approaching anymore.
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  Yay. Well, hey, we don't, that's not, well, actually, he has kids, so that is confirmed.
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  But we started this podcast really to chat about our lives as magicians,
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  but with the undertone that it would help you guys out there in the trenches
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  you know you're not going through it alone and even to inspire some new magis
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  or current magis that aren't going out there and performing to help you perform
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  more did you just say magis yeah magis did i did i say it wrong,
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  not for you well you know it's like there's that you can be a magician and if
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  there's more than one magicians there are magi,
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  And then if there's more than one Magi, there's Magis.
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  So that's fine. Oh, right, right. I shouldn't have said the S.
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  Okay. Oh, it's not Magis.
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  Trying to keep this professional, Morbido.
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  All right. So all of you conjurers and conjurettes out there.
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  Did I get that right? That's good.
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  We got Scotty sent in a speak pipe having just reflected on his first gig.
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  Now, given he's now since done one more gig after this sending in,
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  but what I love is he's captured his thoughts after this first one.
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  So how qualified to give all professional opinions on the magic cafe.
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  Now you are a professional magician, so you can give your own advice and start
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  your own. I should not talk for a while.
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  Let's hear what Scotty has to say. Here we go. I'm just excited.
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  All right. So this is Scotty P. Preface is he's just done his first ever corporate charity gala gig.
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  What's going on Magic guys? Just thought I'd check in real quick on how my first gig went.
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  If I had to summarise it in one word, it would be affirming.
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  To elaborate a little bit, it's hard to explain, but I didn't know that I had
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  doubts about being able to perform Close Up Magic at an event that size until
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  I took my first break and they were doing speeches.
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  Speeches I was doing some pocket management and I
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  had this sudden realization of where I was and what
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  I'd been doing for the past hour it was yeah
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  as I said affirming two key learnings have
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  a plan but be prepared to improvise I found
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  myself changing routines to suit what the guests
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  commentary were and their stories while
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  I was doing the effects and this might be a a bit of a hot take but stick to
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  the routines that you know well and that'll give you the head space to insert
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  your personality that's it overall the night was fantastic i want to do it again
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  i will be doing it again thank you everyone for your support and.
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  Scotty P on behalf of proud of you proud of you wait just say that again Nick
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  I'm sure it cut out your voice from that sound well just on behalf of magic guys, well done.
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  We are super proud of you and anyone else who's actually just using their magic
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  either to perform or just to make someone's day a bit better. Like, well done, my guy.
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  And those are very, very two key learnings. Most definitely.
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  No doubt. You summed up some great advice there. Like you're figuring it out
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  pretty good. Seems to me.
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  Yeah. I mean, how important is it just to know, like, you're just doing the
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  routine, but you allow the jazz to happen around that.
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  You know what I mean? Like, just knowing that, like, you can interact with people
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  because that's where that X factor is for me, I think.
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  When you meet people and it's that little moment of like someone makes a joke
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  or mentions a comment and then you sort of slide it in there you know either
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  into a prediction or this or that like it's just that's so important when you
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  know your routine and you can just focus on performing.
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  Well done buddy well done that's that makes me so happy well goddamn i could
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  i could end this podcast now you know being pretty happy you know what we could
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  but keeping in mind this everything
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  everything that we've learned right it's been through our
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  conversations okay you know with just
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  normal chats with our amazing people that we interview obviously
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  the wealth of knowledge that daddy doug has as well with reality history and
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  so forth but there's another entity about being a magician that a lot of folks
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  don't talk about and it's something that we've been doing quite a lot regularly
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  and that is travel so we thought let's get together and make a couple of key notes
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  on things that you guys should know as traveling performers.
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  Let's begin. I didn't make notes. I'll start there.
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  Hey, and also sidebar, Nick, can you tap on your microphone?
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  I just want to make sure you're speaking out of your...
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  I don't think you're speaking out of that mic. I think it's coming out of your
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  laptop. Be prepared to hear the voice of God, people, because you thought Nick's
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  voice sounded good then, but that's not even coming out of his. Oh, it's not.
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  I'll be back. It's not letting me choose it. All right. I'll chat for a second.
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  It's all good. I'm excited to be back here because I've been away.
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  And like Nick was saying, we've been taking turns at being away from the pod a little bit.
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  And last week i almost
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  was able to make the podcast i in fact said i'm gonna be
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  on it and we had a stream lined
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  up last week or the week before with
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  brennan dooley was going to come on but then but basically
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  like i was overreaching and it turned out you know
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  i probably shouldn't do a podcast the hour before we have to leave
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  for an international flight when i haven't packed
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  yet and so and where were you
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  josh norbido well drum roll
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  oh i don't have a drum roll sound isn't that
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  weird performing at the singapore grand prix which is their formula one night
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  race event in singapore it was it's such an epic like event to be traveling
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  to it's a big deal These Formula One races are no joke.
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  They are such a big following. They're such a big enterprise.
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  They take over the city, literally. They literally take the city over to run
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  these races, and you can't get to see it for cheap.
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  I mean, they'll block your window off before they'll let you watch out your
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  hotel window to watch this thing. I'm just saying, it's a big deal.
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  No, you're right. It's insane. Insane. Like the fans just crazy there and tickets
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  start from like $500, but they go all the way up to $5,000.
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  If you want a suite, a corporate suite to watch it in air con, it's like 10 grand.
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  It's like, it's, it's like nuts. And even as performers,
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  like they, they look after you really well, but they're also like,
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  you have full access to, you know, behind the scenes,
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  but you can't like watch the race and i still
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  did but the thing is i still went
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  wherever i wanted but they have to say that as
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  a rule because they have hundreds of people yeah from
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  like locals working for the event so i think that's like kind of a blanket statement
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  plus the power of a magician they want you know you're gonna get by with a little
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  more than like you know what do you do i'm the drummer i'm gonna go wander around
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  really you know but i'm the magician okay i gotta tell you doing magic for the staff,
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  like the security at the gates, you have to pass 10 times a day.
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  Man, if I can say anything, cause this was a night event, right?
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  I had one of those super bright thumb tips on me, D lights, the ones that are
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  like super, like a, like an iPhone light kind of brightness,
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  like the Prisma light or even light brighter than that. Yeah.
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  Like a Prisma light. Yeah. And I would just, you know, even something as simple
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  as that, I would just pull some light out of the, the, the night light that
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  was up in there, put it in that person's pocket and that's it.
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  And even that they're like, they love you. Cause they,
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  that thing lives in my pocket when I know I'm going to be out and about,
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  out especially for night events like at bars and such i
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  i maybe don't carry it for corporate events like walk around but
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  if i'm going out just to goof around have fun those lights are a great
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  time look we're going
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  to talk about traveling tips let's put this one first and
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  foremost as like you said you can use these little
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  moments of magic to ingratiate yourself to situations
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  that might not happen otherwise you know
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  you'll hear magicians talk about doing a trick at a travel agent's desk and
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  getting upgraded to first class things of this nature so as a magician always
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  be you know looking out for a moment to use your powers to better not just yourself
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  but their lives too because they're going to have fun watching the magic yeah i gotta tell you there.
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  Is one moment i now realize i should have not done magic and it was after the
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  event sandy and i spent a few extra days in singapore and we went on this thing
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  called the mega zip line line,
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  which is exactly what it sounds like, but you get hooked up to a giant flying
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  Fox and it goes down over a, sounds like a good time.
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  It sounds like a great time, but you know, I was getting sort of holiday happy
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  and I showed magic to the instructor.
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  Before we went on the mega zip line, he was so blown away that he kept losing
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  his train of thought afterwards when he was trying to hook us up.
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  And he was like, he kept, you know, going to check my thing.
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  And he's like giving us the safety instructions.
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  And he's like, so when you're up there, you want to, I'm sorry,
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  I'm just so blown away. Sorry. I can't think straight.
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  And then, but he, he did that like four or five times.
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  Like he was just so overwhelmed because he never experienced magic,
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  which, you know, I kind of forget sometimes like what it's like for the first time.
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  And so I was like, oh shit, is he like done everything properly?
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  Because he can't, he keeps having to stop what he's saying to catch his own
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  thoughts and be like, hang on, sorry, that was, I just, I'm trying to,
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  yeah, that, man, that happened so fast.
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  I'm like, yeah, no, thanks. Great. Please make sure this harness is not going to, you know, fall off.
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  So that was a funny part that maybe i should have waited till after but otherwise
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  it's always i when i'm traveling i always will make sure i have a deck of cards
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  in my pocket or double cross or yeah d light or rubber bands or a coin yeah
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  because it just comes up so much doesn't it.
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  When you're traveling nick let's do a mic test mic yeah well let me like before
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  we started selected this microphone
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  but it won't let me select any more microphone that i have only the Oh,
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  wow, okay. Must be another question.
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  The question is, do you hold the microphone just to feel natural or do you just
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  put it? No, you just tell me to talk into it so I can have it.
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  Well, hey, we were just talking about getting a mixer for Nick and maybe this is when you need one.
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  Let's get into it. Wait, you know, on Spotify, it's going to enhance your audio.
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  You're going to sound amazing anyway.
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  So we're talking about travel guide for magicians.
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  What hot takes should you know, should you think about, should you prepare for?
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  And so all we've covered so far, Nick, is that you should have some magic on
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  you for when you're traveling,
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  because moments always come up where it's kind of nice to show people magic
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  and sometimes it gets you some extra perks like at an airport, like yeah.
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  Also, just, just make sure you carry as much of your show as you can in your carry on.
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  There's several reasons for
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  that. One might be that your luggage can get lost and that does happen.
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  There is another thing in which I learned this before it became an issue.
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  Thankfully, I was flying with Virgin and they explained to me that if you fly
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  to two locations within a 24 hour period, they will send your luggage to the
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  final destination. nation.
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  So I was performing in two locations in this 24 hour period.
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  I was performing in Adelaide for the crows. And then I had to fly to Townsville
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  for the Cowboys, right? It was all a bunch of football based things.
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  And what happened during that time was they asked me, are you,
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  do you need your bag here?
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  And I was like, yes. And they explained to me that future reference that could happen.
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  So imagine how bad that would have been if I was doing my show and it didn't
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  arrive, or it It was all the way in Townsville. There is no way out of that.
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  So either one, carry a backup show or something that you can do.
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  But as much of your show on your carry-on is probably the safest way out of
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  that. So that's a pro tip.
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  That is a pro bloody tip and one that should, I've heard before and should be repeated.
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  Because yeah, without our gear being flown somewhere to perform,
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  it's not great. I was reflecting on a tip Jeff McBride gave right before you came back, Nick.
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  We were talking about like you might get an upgrade at an airport,
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  like a first class if you do magic for the ticket person.
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  Jeff also advises doing magic for the people you tip.
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  So if he's given a tip to someone, he might like pull a rainbow silk out of
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  the money he's giving or produce it for them or something of that nature,
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  insinuating that these are the people that can really make your life easier on the road.
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  Be it with a genuine bit of advice for the locale or upgrading your situation.
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  So as we're sharing our magic amongst, you know, employees and possibilities
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  to make our lives better.
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  Yeah. When you're giving a tip to people, think about that. Absolutely.
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  That's a good one. Yeah. Also, circling back to carry-on, having the correct
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  carry-on luggage can be very handy as well.
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  I happened to stumble upon an amazing product or bag made in Tasmania.
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  They're called Hentley, and they have a bag called the Co-Pilot.
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  And effectively what it is, it's a suit bag that wraps around like a giant tube.
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  So you can put your entire show in this tube and then wrap your bag or like
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  your suit around it, and then you wear it as a backpack.
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  Pack and it is something that i use on a
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  weekly basis and flying with it is magnificent because
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  it's got space for my laptop or ipad or anything else that i
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  might need for the trip but that is one
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  thing that is super duper handy to have so your
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  suit encircles everything is that what happens yeah
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  so imagine you have like a giant tube yeah about 15
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  liters of of space i don't know how many badgers that
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  is but because that's how we measure things in the u.s but the
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  cool thing about having in the badge the wraps around it is it prevents yeah
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  we only measure things in badges when it comes to the state so i think
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  effectively the suit that wraps around
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  it is several good things so one your suit's nicely pressed it's in a circle
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  and it's not being crushed the important thing about that is that when sometimes
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  you get to your gig you may or may not have time to iron it yeah so if you roll
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  it it's less likely to have visible creases correct this is genius advice Nice.
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  That's awesome. As far as costuming and suits go, another point, mohair.
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  I only wear mohair for several reasons.
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  It helps with my concealment. It's a very lightweight but very thick.
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  It's a bougie type of fabric.
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  Don't get me wrong. The reason being it's actually made from like Angora goat
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  and blended with alpaca wool.
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  It's quite a luxury item. But the beauty of it. I've never even heard of it.
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  How do you spell mohair? It's M-O-H-A-I-R, mohair. Oh, a suit.
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  Yeah. So all my suits are mohair for this reason, because they don't crease very easily.
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  And they basically like require next to no ironing. So that's super important.
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  Now, if you get to a location and you have the opportunity to iron your clothes, fantastic.
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  Outside of that, there is, I have travel steamers as well.
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  If I do need them, I bought one that was quite expensive, but it was super lightweight.
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  It weighs like 50 grams. And you just put a little bit of salt,
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  a little bit of water and you plug it in and it produces steam.
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  So you can steam your suits before you perform as well. So that's one of the
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  things that if you're performing at a level, you are traveling internationally
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  or interstate, there is sort of an expectation that you look good, perform good.
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  And that's kind of a tip that I wanted to share with you, Garth.
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  Maybe you don't even have a hotel.
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  Maybe you're hot to trot, just jumping off the plane, going to the event,
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  and you got to be ready to fix everything on the go. Not only is there no iron
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  in the room, but there's no room.
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  If you're going straight to the event, I think you have to wear,
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  basically wear your outfit.
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  But if you fly in, are you wearing the suit? Maybe not, you know, cause.
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  Yeah. Maybe you'd fall in half and put it in the, you know, the check thing.
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  But I remember back in the day, you could ask the host to hang your jacket.
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  Like back, back in the day when I would take a suit thing, they'd be like on
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  Qantas, they'd be like, oh, do you want, would you like me to hang that for
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  you? You gotta be like, holy crap, they have a suit like closet for that, for businessmen.
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  But if I can jump on with, uh, cause this has caught me a couple of times,
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  hotel irons shite and they're, they buy the cheapest ones and you know,
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  no one's checking 500 irons in their hotel rooms to check that they're good.
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  So sometimes what has happened in the past is it just basically burns a black
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  thing into to your sleeve of the, of the shirt you're about to iron.
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  And it's because it hasn't been used in a while.
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  You pump, you put some water in it and when it blasts out the steam,
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  it just blasts out all the dirt that's in there as well at the same time and
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  it burns all these little, these.
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  Basically the circles of the iron straight into the collar or sleeve of your thing.
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  So what I've learned now and what I always do is for the first like 20 seconds,
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  I will iron the ironing board like at the end there.
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  And that just gets out any of the crap that's about that. There's going to be
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  the immediate shot of stuff.
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  God, I love these hot tips. Yeah. Are you kidding me? So iron the iron board first.
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  Oh, good. good then sit the iron
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  upright because sometimes it'll it'll release pressure and shoot out a.
• 22:37
  Spud of water and and
• 22:40
  but do that away from you and then do it again and then
• 22:43
  iron like the the corner that's like
• 22:46
  tucked into your shirt that wouldn't matter if you got
• 22:49
  something on there i've just i've been caught out a couple of times over
• 22:52
  the years and so now that's like religious i even do
• 22:55
  that with my own iron so i don't like not do
• 22:57
  it yeah i also do it just because it tends to
• 23:00
  leak water when you first use it sometimes and it
• 23:03
  could just wet your shirt so you got to put on like a half wet shirt
• 23:06
  sometimes so it's always good to just do a little safety patch
• 23:09
  to begin with and then go all right now let's iron my stuff
• 23:12
  because nothing worse than being soggy before you even get on stage the iron
• 23:17
  guys podcast the iron guys i love it so yeah that's a great tip okay so many
• 23:24
  good tips you know it's like by the way if anyone has any specific travel guide
• 23:28
  questions, please let us know.
• 23:30
  One thing, there was something that came to mind that it's gone from my head,
• 23:35
  but let's, let's jump to.
• 23:38
  Okay, go for it. Noise cancelling headphones.
• 23:42
  Yes, you've mentioned this once before, but it's pertinent for this episode. Yeah, absolutely.
• 23:48
  Just a little bit of shut the hell up is really handy on a plane.
• 23:54
  It's, it's, it's handy. And especially if it's also just a little.
• 23:59
  Moment for everyone else to be like i i don't wish to be engaged as well so
• 24:02
  you can go into your own spot and you can rest being able to rest before a show is one of the most,
• 24:07
  luxurious wonderful things you get to have if you're anything like me,
• 24:10
  you know people like oh no i gotta be in a flight for 10 hours i'm like you
• 24:14
  mean sit still and watch movies for 10 hours yeah please yeah you know yeah absolutely yeah okay.
• 24:23
  Some practical things. Forks will get taken off you in security if it's in your carry-on.
• 24:29
  If you're doing liquid metal, you can't take your forks, okay?
• 24:32
  They just fucking get taken off you. It's really frustrating.
• 24:34
  You're like, you don't understand.
• 24:36
  I'm not using them to eat or stab people. I'm using them to,
• 24:38
  anyway, they take them off you.
• 24:40
  But you can take a lighter. So go figure. So you can, and I'd always not been
• 24:46
  sure about this. Magicians have asked me.
• 24:48
  You use some flash paper in your gig. You can take flash paper on a plane.
• 24:52
  Airplane airports don't know what it is just put it in your luggage
• 24:55
  i have had it in my pockets before it doesn't get
• 24:57
  brought up not even on the swabs when they're testing for bonds and
• 25:00
  stuff can i just say something off the back of that because i can't
• 25:03
  tell you the times i've talked to magicians they're just like yeah man i made
• 25:07
  this through with flash paper and i'm like i've literally gone up to the guy
• 25:11
  that tests for drugs and i said my man swipe this and tell me if i could bring
• 25:15
  it on the plane or not and he pulled up the screen and he showed me these tick boxes So he's like,
• 25:21
  this is where all the stuff we can check and the stuff that's thick is what we do check.
• 25:25
  That stuff does not come up as a no-no screen.
• 25:31
  And I was like, cool. So if you guys think that you're like scamming the system
• 25:36
  for like hiding your flash paper, you're wrong.
• 25:39
  There is like, you can do it. It's fine. It's totally fine.
• 25:42
  Yeah. Because technically, you know, if you have a lighter, you could light
• 25:45
  anything on fire. And a thing that ignites and is done in one second technically
• 25:49
  isn't that, you know, of a risk.
• 25:52
  So, yeah. So what I'm saying is you can take flash paper, just,
• 25:56
  you know, keep it somewhere that's not going to get lost in your luggage or
• 25:59
  like torn apart from other stuff. I put it in a book.
• 26:01
  Typically you can have a lighter. I took a lighter with me all the way to Singapore.
• 26:06
  You just, it just has to be on your carry on or like they want it to be on you,
• 26:10
  like in your pocket or whatever. So if something was to happen to it,
• 26:13
  you'd know straight away.
• 26:14
  So you can take a lighter. You can take flash paper. but you can't take forks
• 26:17
  so that's just got to go in your checked luggage but other
• 26:21
  than that yeah you can take most of the stuff which you
• 26:24
  should take as much as you can on the plane with you if you
• 26:27
  use an audio ape device like i do to run music if your audio ape which is just
• 26:33
  a sound music controller is what i'm talking about a remote controller if you
• 26:38
  put that in your carry-on they will have questions about it because it has so
• 26:42
  many wires and stuff and it comes up on their,
• 26:46
  So for me, I just put it in my check luggage, cause it's not worth having to
• 26:50
  stop every time, but you have to take the power bank and put it in your car.
• 26:55
  With you in your carry on, it has to be in your stuff that's with you on the
• 26:59
  plane, because obviously airports don't allow you to have power banks,
• 27:02
  but sometimes you don't think about it like a power bank.
• 27:04
  Cause it's just part of your show and check luggage, no power bank.
• 27:09
  Yeah. They, they don't allow it. And like that. So yeah, going on the plane,
• 27:13
  you check the carry on you can, but check luggage under the plane.
• 27:17
  Well, take it out. And I, I lost one, uh, they security. Security left me the
• 27:25
  pocket that I keep the power bank in.
• 27:27
  That was very nice of them, but they took the power bank out. Wow.
• 27:31
  And it was an AudioApe one, which is a high-powered one, so I can buy a new one.
• 27:36
  So power banks for your running your music or whatever, or gimmicks or whatever,
• 27:40
  whatever. Just keep it in your carry-on.
• 27:42
  I mean, the check what limits you can sort of fly with, because ultimately lithium
• 27:46
  batteries are a little volatile as far as with compression.
• 27:50
  And when they go bang, they go bang in a big way. the electrolytes in
• 27:53
  those batteries that that can make a bad burn for a
• 27:56
  very long time i think you can only have 1
• 27:59
  000 milliamps or
• 28:03
  100 million don't take it don't take me for it do your diligence and check how
• 28:06
  many milliamps you can take with you but yeah ultimately try to get the biggest
• 28:12
  one you can of course but you know power banks are a safety and they're important
• 28:18
  for For several reasons.
• 28:19
  You have devices in your show that you need, whether it be some kind of impression
• 28:26
  pad or anything of that nature, or you just need it to be able to run your audio.
• 28:30
  Yeah. Power banks are, are important. So that's the one I'm using.
• 28:35
  It's just branded. Cause I bought it with the audio weight. So it's just like,
• 28:39
  it will run for hours and hours and hours.
• 28:41
  I don't have to check that my things still working.
• 28:44
  And then, and this is what I mean by my, my music player. Like there's just
• 28:47
  so many things going on in here that, that going through an x-ray machine is
• 28:51
  just, they're just like, what the hell is that?
• 28:53
  So as far as like going on the plane, that would be my main practical tips.
• 28:58
  Did you guys have any others for the actual plane portion? So many traveling.
• 29:03
  So many, no one's mentioned, no one's mentioned air tags yet.
• 29:08
  We've had some great stories where magicians have used air tags to save their life.
• 29:13
  So when traveling with any luggage, something that you can, you know,
• 29:19
  ping it is invaluable in this day and age.
• 29:23
  You're prepared to fight for it if your name's trig
• 29:25
  watson yeah if you yeah if
• 29:29
  you haven't listened to the trig watson episode do your
• 29:32
  diligence and roll back a few episodes there is quite a story to be had it was
• 29:37
  half the episode i think correct but the value the value of an air tag and being
• 29:44
  able to keep track of your important bits of your show give Give that a listen,
• 29:49
  and that'll explain everything you need to know as to why you would actually need an air tag.
• 29:55
  But furthermore, being on the plane, I think that depending on what length of
• 29:59
  flight you're doing, just one of the things that I always want to keep in mind is when you arrive.
• 30:06
  Some people can arrive after flying pretty disheveled and so forth because they're
• 30:10
  either dehydrated, which is one of the key things you want to sort of keep in
• 30:14
  mind. Hydrolytes are key.
• 30:16
  You know like you for me like when
• 30:19
  i i treat performing as if i was going
• 30:21
  to go do a marathon or better go do it like a run like i
• 30:24
  make sure that like i'm i'm healthy and hydrated i'm fed
• 30:27
  i'm got everything i need i don't rock up to a gig being
• 30:30
  like i'm a bit hungry i'm gonna do half a show like it's
• 30:33
  just not gonna work in your favor so one
• 30:36
  of the things that a lot of folks don't invest in who I
• 30:39
  who I have traveled with is neck pillows I have
• 30:44
  a particular neck pillow which retailed about 100 bucks and it's more like a
• 30:49
  full neck brace and it's wonderful it's wonderful no matter how you black out
• 30:54
  you're not going to wake up with your head tilted and make and get there with
• 30:57
  a sore neck I can't recommend that in fact when I just recently flew back from
• 31:02
  Malaysia Malaysia on the way there,
• 31:04
  I saw one of the bridesmaids at the airport and she was complaining how her
• 31:08
  neck was hurting because she was head banging to the music the night before.
• 31:12
  And I actually gave her my neck brace. I'm like, try find one of these.
• 31:16
  They're going to save your neck. So yeah.
• 31:20
  Yeah. The neck pillows. There's even a thing now called a face cradle.
• 31:24
  If you're on a super long flight where you just hang your neck,
• 31:28
  your face literally is, it's like a hammock, but for your, for your head, that's cool.
• 31:32
  You look pretty weird using it, but I know my sister-in-law has one, but that's fine. Fine.
• 31:39
  Okay. So a little tip when you're traveling,
• 31:43
  you know, we always, a lot of us, including me, won't eat well when traveling
• 31:49
  because you kind of got to find whatever you can and something about like what
• 31:54
  Nick's saying, you don't want to perform hungry.
• 31:56
  You don't want to be off your game. So I will normally travel with,
• 32:00
  um, chalk chip muesli bars that are, you know, mostly grain,
• 32:06
  but they have chalk chips in there.
• 32:07
  And I've found for me, if I have to down two of them an hour before a show,
• 32:14
  because there's nothing available to me, except for like terrible food,
• 32:18
  like McDonald's or whatever, that will power me through.
• 32:20
  And I've done, I've had many a times where, where having some muesli bars on
• 32:24
  me has saved my life because I otherwise wouldn't have eaten for the next three
• 32:30
  hours or something like that.
• 32:31
  Take snacks with you because you don't know what's going to be available when you are traveling.
• 32:38
  To your point, I actually keep a couple of protein bars in my close-up kit for that reason.
• 32:42
  Sometimes you're just doing shows back-to-back and you don't have time.
• 32:45
  You might want to get one down while you're in traffic or typically I try to
• 32:49
  get to events 30 minutes prior.
• 32:51
  So I've got 30 minutes in my show.
• 32:53
  You can have a mouthful of something as you're kind of getting ready.
• 32:56
  That's kind of important. But speaking of food, if I may.
• 33:00
  Speak about it preach i well okay i always struggle with airline food because
• 33:07
  if you don't know airline food is designed to plug you up like it is designed
• 33:13
  to make you not take a crap,
• 33:17
  genuinely and the reason being is that if you've got a plane
• 33:19
  with hundreds of people on there and everyone eats and everyone's got to
• 33:22
  rush to the toilet take a dump at the same time because we've all
• 33:25
  eaten at the same time it becomes bad and bro
• 33:28
  i always like after
• 33:31
  eating any airline food i don't crap for like two days it's just
• 33:34
  the worst time and so can recommend a
• 33:38
  very mild laxative when traveling
• 33:42
  especially internationally and if you don't you'll end up like me and plug in
• 33:48
  the toilet lit at the motel room so well if no we're getting the real work tonight
• 33:54
  yeah man you know what's actually i actually brought these over i was like these
• 34:00
  are important these are called.
• 34:03
  This is the kind of information you're not just gonna
• 34:06
  get just anyway some magic podcast will
• 34:10
  cover this kind of information up but we're telling you right now it says it's
• 34:15
  got senna in it i don't know what that is but there is a famous formula one
• 34:18
  driver ever called santa so i thought it must work fast so i grabbed one you're
• 34:22
  supposed to take like six of these oh my uh and and i i only take like two just
• 34:27
  to be like i'm not going to struggle,
• 34:30
  when i'm there you know what i mean um yeah it's important dude like no no yeah
• 34:36
  you know what and so i have the opposite experience to that in which i was excited
• 34:42
  i had a revelation going on the Singapore flight and it was because the food clogs you up.
• 34:49
  I can enjoy an entire flight.
• 34:54
  So because I have Crohn's disease, I've talked about it over the,
• 34:57
  you know, over the years on the pod, it's all under control,
• 35:00
  but your bowels are like just more frequent than other people.
• 35:03
  So my thing is always like, am I going to be able to get to the toilet on a
• 35:09
  plane at the moment I need to, when the aisle isn't blocked by the staff serving or whatever?
• 35:16
  Because if like it's during landing or when they're serving,
• 35:19
  like you're in trouble. And when it comes to Crohn's, if you eat something your
• 35:23
  stomach doesn't like, it says, it will tell you, like, you have to go to the bathroom right now.
• 35:29
  But to show you that we're serious, you've only got, you know, two minutes.
• 35:32
  And it's like, I hope I have two minutes. And you need to make that decision
• 35:38
  to get there. So going on a plane, I'm like, oh my God, this is kind of very
• 35:42
  stressful and worrying.
• 35:45
  So, and I'll be honest here, I double up my underpants.
• 35:48
  I wear two layers of those bad boys just in case, you know, I just want to be prepared.
• 35:53
  I don't want to make it on the news as the guy who had diarrhea on the plane
• 35:57
  and they had to land suddenly or whatever.
• 36:00
  So I was, yeah, no, yeah.
• 36:03
  So I plan out the trip. I'm like, all right. It's like I picked seats that are
• 36:08
  like close to the bathroom. Like, okay. Always.
• 36:11
  Not a good idea. Yeah. And, but we get up, we get on the Singapore flight.
• 36:15
  It's going to be, you know, whatever it is, six and a half hours or something.
• 36:19
  Eat the food. I'm like two hours in. I'm like, if I was at home,
• 36:22
  I would have gone to the bathroom by now, but nothing.
• 36:25
  Three hours go by nothing. This is sweet. Four hours go in.
• 36:29
  I've watched two movies. I haven't gone to the bathroom. I love this flight.
• 36:34
  Anyway, I get through the whole flight. Didn't have to go to the bathroom at
• 36:38
  all. I'm eating everything.
• 36:39
  Every time they come past, you want a drink? Yeah, I'll have a drink. And I'm good.
• 36:44
  And so for me, it's bloody amazing.
• 36:47
  And then everything hits me early in the morning after the flight.
• 36:51
  So I've gone to the hotel, gone to sleep in the morning.
• 36:54
  That's when all, I don't need laxatives is what I'm saying.
• 36:58
  And then it happened coming home as well. I'm like, this is great.
• 37:01
  I can just watch movies, you know, lady that's on our seat by the aisle, you can go to sleep.
• 37:06
  I'm not going to wake you during this flight because I know I'm good with their clogging up food.
• 37:10
  So anyone who's worried about, you know, any bowel issues like with flights,
• 37:15
  you're fine. Just eat the food.
• 37:19
  Well, the airline is engineered for that. And you're the perfect example of
• 37:23
  what that's like when you don't actually worry about it.
• 37:26
  I need to get like a subscription to that food. I need that,
• 37:29
  like at home. That's what I need.
• 37:33
  Just sprinkle some, some like constipation.
• 37:38
  Suddenly I feel like we've had one tip too many. I don't know. Okay.
• 37:43
  Yeah. We might've gone too far. Okay. I discovered these in Singapore.
• 37:49
  This is a cool pack that is ready to go at any point.
• 37:54
  You basically take it out and you just pull off the strip and you stick it to
• 37:57
  your body. It's a, it's a gel that's sort of ready to use.
• 38:00
  And in Singapore, it's absurdly hot and humid all the time.
• 38:05
  But especially when I went there last week for Formula One, I'm wearing it.
• 38:09
  I'm wearing a jacket over a t-shirt and I'm wearing jeans and I did my rehearsal
• 38:15
  day and I'm like, holy crap, it's hot out here.
• 38:18
  Even though my act is five minutes, like Like doing this three times a day for
• 38:23
  three days, this is not great.
• 38:25
  So I didn't have access to a Arctic cooling vest, but at the 7-Eleven, they sold this.
• 38:32
  It's called Cool Fever. Anyone listening, it's K-O-O-L-F-E-V-E-R.
• 38:39
  And they sell these to put on your child's forehead if they have a fever.
• 38:44
  They're saying when they go to bed, you put this on their head.
• 38:47
  It will keep them cool during the night. but
• 38:49
  but really it's so that magicians can try
• 38:52
  and you put those in between the first and second layer of
• 38:55
  the underwear and it cradles and just keeps everything cool from the inside
• 39:00
  out absolutely so what this looks like when you take one out is you've got this
• 39:07
  as you can see this this uh that's going to be much too big for your underwear
• 39:11
  well speak for yourself and then you
• 39:14
  take one off let me peel it off and now
• 39:18
  it looks it looks like a used period pad from the commercial where it's all
• 39:23
  blue and and white yeah if it's those listening right now something yeah so
• 39:28
  it being peeled back this is so weird translucent almost light blue gel.
• 39:36
  Yeah so they're saying you put it on your forehead so
• 39:39
  so i didn't but i'll put it on my forehead for the moment yeah and
• 39:42
  now i can tell you this is instantly cold this pack
• 39:46
  even though it's just being put on here and you
• 39:49
  know so now i could just leave this here and you know look like a weirdo it's
• 39:53
  like chilly cold it's like cool it's like it's like it's like a damp cloth it's
• 39:58
  not ice but it's noticeably chilled so what i did was i would take two of them
• 40:05
  and i would stick them on the lower back on my lower back.
• 40:09
  And they would stay in place. Now, it's not cooling my body completely all the
• 40:14
  way down, but it is noticeably, I can feel it under my jacket in that hot heat.
• 40:19
  And it did help like 5%, which I'll take it, you know.
• 40:23
  These are like, it was like 10 bucks for this pack of six. If you try it on
• 40:26
  the back of your neck, see if that actually like does have any cooling.
• 40:30
  Because, you know, when you are overheating, you would typically put some ice
• 40:33
  or a bottle of water on the back of your neck to try to cool down.
• 40:36
  Down so it's about it's about cooling down like blood flow so if i was going
• 40:40
  to put it anywhere i'd put on the back of my neck or perhaps on my arms that's
• 40:43
  one of the quickest ways to cool your body down like if you were wet here and
• 40:47
  got air on like on your forearms or put ice on your forearms,
• 40:51
  because you have blood flow going through this portion of your body and the skin's relatively.
• 40:56
  Soft on the inside of your forearms it allows
• 40:59
  your blood to cool down and that's ultimately what are
• 41:02
  you trying to do you're trying to cool your blood down in order
• 41:05
  to be able to function so so putting it
• 41:08
  on my neck yeah it definitely hits that spot and and
• 41:11
  it goes boom this is cold it's not staying on very well because of the hairs
• 41:14
  on my neck but it is cooling i was using it more so that so when i was on stage
• 41:20
  and stuff it would be doing something to kind of slow down my heat up process
• 41:25
  which is why i just chuck them because my lower back is is your lower back is pretty
• 41:29
  sensitive it's like when you go to get in a pool and you're like oh my god but
• 41:32
  yeah the next good like if you're trying to cool down instead of
• 41:35
  i'm trying to like prevent from heating but if but if you're cooling
• 41:38
  down it's great so i don't know these are you know
• 41:41
  it's like i don't know if it's when you're wearing them for a long time i don't
• 41:45
  know if it is a placebo but it but even if it is that's still doing something
• 41:49
  you know it's a little travel tip i found them a little bit about this gig you
• 41:53
  were doing you said you were doing stage for five minutes several times a day is Is that right?
• 41:59
  Yeah. So, uh, the quick, you know, the quick format on that is,
• 42:04
  so they hit me up and it's formula one is over three days and what they were
• 42:11
  trialing was a new type of entertainment, which was to have an entertainment stage.
• 42:17
  So they have obviously the raceway, they have the whole racetrack.
• 42:21
  They have a big stage within the racetrack as well, where all like,
• 42:24
  if I guess, if you pay the most expensive ticket for a
• 42:27
  seat to watch formula one you would also be
• 42:30
  able to see this big stage which is where they had a lot of celebrities performing
• 42:33
  all right but they also have another mega stage in the entertainment district
• 42:38
  which is where they would interview the races and you know a thousand people
• 42:43
  would come and watch and they would also have big acts like one republic and
• 42:47
  carly minogue and lenny kravitz and all these guys performing on this big stage
• 42:51
  but then they They had a smaller stage,
• 42:53
  which they built to look like a ship. They called it the sail stage.
• 42:58
  And people could come and sit. It really drew a crowd in there because it was
• 43:02
  undercover and it's so hot.
• 43:03
  People could go undercover, sit down and they would have acts playing all day,
• 43:08
  whether it was a DJ or dancers, or they had some Cirque acts,
• 43:12
  which are, they brought in from Vegas.
• 43:15
  They had, I made friends with this guy whose performing name is black,
• 43:19
  but he's from Japan. He's a yo-yo champion.
• 43:22
  He used to perform in Curious by Cirque du Soleil and he was there.
• 43:25
  And just like the guy you did the short with with
• 43:28
  the vanishing guy i love that clip absolutely and then
• 43:32
  they got me from brisbane what a cool
• 43:34
  game man that sounds like a rock and roll situation except for
• 43:38
  the heat you know it was honestly amazing i was
• 43:41
  the only magician they had there okay in all
• 43:43
  the formula ones so they could have and i you
• 43:47
  know i'm gonna kill my ego here i got this
• 43:50
  gig because two other magicians said no before me one
• 43:53
  was jeremy tan because he lives in singapore and they
• 43:56
  ask him every year and he's always on cruises so because he
• 43:59
  was away in cruising that took that out dom chambers
• 44:03
  i got a shout out as well he did this gig last year
• 44:06
  and for his own reasons whether he's busy or
• 44:08
  not said no to it this year so it's too hot that's how
• 44:12
  i got it yeah but when dom did
• 44:15
  it last year they just had him doing they had him
• 44:17
  doing strolling magics throughout the that's what i thought you
• 44:20
  would be doing then i couldn't i couldn't think of you several times
• 44:23
  on a stage so when you said that i'm like what's going on it's
• 44:27
  way too hot to rove out in the sun so i understand exactly
• 44:30
  why dom didn't go this year and i
• 44:33
  think they learned from that so that's why this year they had a stage okay so
• 44:36
  what they would do is people come out in just five minute bursts because five
• 44:40
  minutes is short enough that you're not going to overheat so i essentially came
• 44:45
  out and did a i had to do so this is its own conversation and i'm trying to keep it as quick as I can.
• 44:52
  But they reached out to me and I sent them acts I could do.
• 44:57
  And my whole thing is being able to interact with an audience, right?
• 45:01
  That's kind of like what makes up my show is me talking, improving, that kind of thing.
• 45:06
  They're like, can you do that act, but without bringing someone on stage?
• 45:10
  And I'm like, well, I could, but why not?
• 45:13
  Because it's, I can do it in five minutes. And that's kind of,
• 45:16
  what's going to make me different to like the, the non-speaking acts you have
• 45:19
  on stage and they're like, oh, well in Singapore, you know, people are pretty,
• 45:24
  the audience is pretty nervous.
• 45:25
  So you, you probably, it might, you might find it hard to get someone on stage. And I'm like.
• 45:29
  I don't think I will. I think I'd be able to get someone on stage, but I also want the gig.
• 45:35
  So I'm not trying to fight them so much. So I'm like, all right,
• 45:37
  look, I can do my AGT act, the, the, the dance routine, finding cards,
• 45:43
  but I'll do it where I'm finding four aces.
• 45:46
  So now it's not like pick a card and let me find them.
• 45:49
  Let's just do like a dancing kind of manipulation act, you know,
• 45:54
  but it's just me finding four aces.
• 45:55
  So then they liked that but i still that
• 45:58
  doesn't feel five minutes so i had to make for the
• 46:01
  first time ever a five minute like visual non-speaking act that i could just
• 46:06
  do for an audience yeah and it essentially consisted of like and i used lots
• 46:11
  of flash paper because that's what i had on me i'm like flash paper to produce
• 46:15
  a coin then do a bottle production then i hate that i had to do this in Singapore,
• 46:21
  but I did the balloon swallow. So then I bring out the balloon pump.
• 46:24
  I walk out into the second stage to music.
• 46:28
  So I had to make this whole music track with sound effects and stuff,
• 46:31
  just balloon swallow, come back on stage.
• 46:33
  I'm like, you can hear the dog moving in my stomach, like all the little squeaks.
• 46:37
  I like bring it back up into a bag and pull out the balloon dog and then flash
• 46:42
  paper, produce the cards.
• 46:43
  And then I go into my dance act and I finish and it all happens in five
• 46:46
  minutes so they would have me do that throughout the
• 46:49
  day so three different points and then between the
• 46:52
  stage acts they would get me to do just
• 46:56
  per day one or two 30
• 47:00
  minute close-up spots in like the vip suite areas which is all aircon and indoors
• 47:06
  and very fun and everyone's like very gracious to watch magic because they're
• 47:11
  trying to you know enjoy their ticket as much as they can sure so yes the gig
• 47:17
  consisted of these five minute short spurts mixed in with like.
• 47:21
  An hour a day of closeup magic to very rich people that, that just love magic.
• 47:27
  Met a lot of Australians there as well. So many Aussies. Yeah.
• 47:31
  Cause these, this clientele is international, right?
• 47:34
  The people that are there spending 10,000 a ticket are not necessarily from Singapore.
• 47:38
  A hundred percent. And I saw like they had the, the formula one SIM racing and
• 47:43
  all I could do is think of Nick and our friend Kerry, the amazing Nigel and
• 47:46
  be like, man, you guys would have killed this.
• 47:48
  But i'm under appreciating what i'm seeing here and anyway so that's what happened
• 47:53
  i'll i'll leave it there if anyone has any other questions about it please reach
• 47:57
  out to me let me know if you want to know you know what about this question
• 48:01
  from tim asking will you be excited to do it again or will you be calling someone like dom did.
• 48:08
  I i will definitely do it again and now knowing
• 48:11
  what the format is yeah what i
• 48:14
  want to do is create an act for right
• 48:18
  that's involving cars or elements
• 48:21
  of cars this is the advantage of the minute back you know you
• 48:24
  got seven to nine minutes of silent visual magic you
• 48:27
  can really work the world you know there's a lot
• 48:30
  of guys who've done it yeah and they were right because
• 48:33
  sometimes there would be no one in that
• 48:36
  entertainment district because there's a famous person
• 48:39
  on the other main stage or a race is just finished so
• 48:42
  there would be i'm talking five people in
• 48:46
  an area that could fit you know 200 people but
• 48:49
  they still want us to do our acts so sometimes me
• 48:53
  and the other guys we're like all right let's go
• 48:56
  and give those four people the best fucking time of their
• 48:58
  lives and we would and we would just go and watch each
• 49:01
  other and like you know laugh about it later but it's so
• 49:04
  funny you never know those four people could be
• 49:07
  sheiks on the other side of the the planet and pay you
• 49:10
  a bunch to go and perform in their palaces you don't
• 49:13
  you're so right you're so right yeah but there there there is
• 49:15
  something to be said about it you know going out and doing that
• 49:18
  and like two of the people are not even then they're facing the
• 49:21
  other way because they're just like out of
• 49:24
  the sun and just on their phone and they're just not even
• 49:26
  yeah it's like a shopping mall we're here
• 49:30
  for the chair yeah it's like yeah so
• 49:33
  but such a good experience like i.
• 49:36
  Mean i'm i'm so honored to be paid to paid.
• 49:39
  Well to go and fly there and bring my partner as well it's
• 49:42
  like it's it's insane but i never thought i would do a.
• 49:45
  Silent act like it without talking and stuff
• 49:48
  and my god it's actually given me a reason to
• 49:51
  to look into it okay but.
• 49:55
  I guess it's relevant to talk about because it is traveling but nick what
• 49:58
  other travel tips do you have for us my friend well on the other underside of
• 50:02
  um you know with toilet issues uh was just the oh my god really we're not done
• 50:06
  with that just to keep in mind come back to it well you know if we're gonna
• 50:11
  talk crap let's talk crap i was gonna say gastro pills are important to keep on,
• 50:17
  you especially if you're going to be a cruise ship person gastro
• 50:20
  is one of those things that tends to sweep through the entire ship at any
• 50:23
  one time especially if you're in a sort of buff bay type environment so you
• 50:28
  know just layman's terms gastro pill what i don't know that what's a gastro
• 50:33
  pill oh i'd say so you know gastro can result in you having a very upset tummy
• 50:39
  and basically crapping your brains out anything that goes in comes out immediately,
• 50:44
  yeah um so they're the i i carry at any one time at least four gastro stop so
• 50:51
  you have go medicine and stop medicine you can solve any problem yeah life is great.
• 51:00
  Nick is well lubed both ways and you wouldn't think to to to pack something
• 51:05
  like that but But for a seasoned traveler, it's a necessity.
• 51:10
  The guy I know always carries them. Even Levent.
• 51:13
  I was lecturing alongside Levent, and he was like, always carry these. And I was like, right on.
• 51:19
  There you go. Yeah. Yeah.
• 51:22
  You need that stuff. All right. What about if you're driving?
• 51:25
  What about travel guide for driving to a gig?
• 51:27
  Doug, America is such a big place. I imagine you have to do some distance traveling
• 51:32
  sometimes. Boy, have I put some wheels on cars in this country.
• 51:36
  Yes, indeed. What comes up in those situations?
• 51:40
  Wow. I imagine you don't have, you don't have a green room to get dressed.
• 51:44
  You're just using your car. So it's not unusual that I might, you know, stop.
• 51:48
  It depends on, you know, how far you're traveling, but there's a lot of good
• 51:52
  like travel centers you can get a shower at, you know, and so you,
• 51:56
  you know, if you got to drive six, eight hours,
• 51:58
  jump in this place and freshen up and you get a full shower,
• 52:02
  stay in there as long as you want, you know, for like 10 or $15, that's an option.
• 52:06
  Also good for if you're a busker on the road, you know, this is commonplace
• 52:09
  knowledge, but but you know,
• 52:11
  yeah, I will, I will always, I always aim to get to a gig 30 minutes prior,
• 52:15
  but if I'm driving to a gig, that's, you know, like an hour out of town or so,
• 52:19
  or, you know, a couple hours out of town, I will aim to get there one hour before the gig begins. Yeah.
• 52:25
  Just, you never know what a flat tire could take, you know, anything of that nature roadblocks.
• 52:30
  I've actually, I, I, I sadly gone to events, you know, on, on open windy roads
• 52:37
  through, you know, through the rainforest.
• 52:39
  You have one called the black spur. and it's very popular for sports cars
• 52:42
  to go through and there was an accident in which somebody actually like
• 52:45
  and they blocked the road off and that added 40 and it
• 52:48
  added 45 minutes to my drive they were like it's a crime scene diaper
• 52:51
  and i was like i didn't want to complain about it
• 52:54
  you know thinking that like a car had been wrapped around and someone lost their lives
• 52:57
  but these things can happen and so you need to take a moment and go you know
• 53:00
  out and around same thing if you're going to be doing a fly in fly out type
• 53:04
  gig not to circle back to flying but i i will always catch the earliest flight
• 53:09
  possible because I've had scenarios where my friends have called me and said,
• 53:14
  I've got to get for Samsung and my flight's delayed.
• 53:18
  And I was like, why didn't you catch the first flight?
• 53:22
  Like if you catch the first flight, it's, there's very little that can screw
• 53:25
  up, you know, granted you can go waste half a day, but you're better off doing that.
• 53:30
  We should have named, it's worth naming this episode that get the early flight.
• 53:34
  Cause don't be the cool guy.
• 53:36
  That's going to fly in half an hour before the gig.
• 53:38
  And then the gigs 10 minutes away.
• 53:41
  All that has to happen is that flight is delayed or canceled and they put you
• 53:45
  on the next one and you're fucked. You can't do that.
• 53:48
  You've just lost thousands of dollars and can't do the gig now.
• 53:51
  So absolutely. I will try and get there. Like if my gigs at night,
• 53:55
  I'm, I'm getting there at lunchtime.
• 53:57
  I'm, you know, at least. And so.
• 54:00
  Yep. If it's a morning gig, cause I'm like, I would do keynotes with my magic of sales thing.
• 54:06
  So I would present like at a conference, like during the morning,
• 54:08
  you have to fly the day before you have to.
• 54:11
  And so that can definitely get you. If you're driving too, one thing that just
• 54:15
  caught me out once was if it's a place you haven't been to and it's a few hours
• 54:19
  away, just make sure there's no time zone change between you and that place.
• 54:25
  Because I had planned to get to this place called, um, Kyogle.
• 54:31
  And I didn't just didn't think to check that, uh, it's in New South Wales technically.
• 54:37
  So it's an hour earlier than my time.
• 54:40
  So i had planned to get there like an
• 54:43
  hour and a half before the show started and as
• 54:47
  soon as i went through these mountains which lost phone signal
• 54:50
  i popped out on the other side and my time just went you're not an hour and
• 54:55
  15 minutes early you're 15 minutes early and i'm like holy crap so that's a
• 55:01
  little tip yeah just you know i hope it helps one person at least because i was able able to do it,
• 55:07
  but I was insanely rushed and anxious now because I'm like no longer as early
• 55:13
  as I thought. Yeah. That's worth mentioning.
• 55:17
  Check your time zone. It might mess with you.
• 55:20
  Here's one that we didn't talk about, wheels. Keep everything on wheels.
• 55:24
  Your luggage, my show bag has wheels on it.
• 55:27
  I set this aside. I love this thing. I keep this in my car. This is like a portable dolly.
• 55:33
  So, you know, I can unfold this thing out and it'll wheel around 200 pounds.
• 55:37
  If I'm busking, this is what wheels around my keyboard stand and showcases and amplifies.
• 55:45
  Magna cart, if you're interested. They're really good. As this episode slowly draw us to a close.
• 55:52
  We're not always traveling to perform, for example, right? Sometimes we're going leisurely.
• 55:58
  I would like to share two tidbits as we wrap this up for how to enjoy a magic convention.
• 56:05
  I think that even though we're not gigging, this could be kind of essential
• 56:08
  for you guys. And I think there's two very important things.
• 56:11
  One of the things you're going to deal with at a magic convention is sleep deprivation.
• 56:15
  You are going to be up all night jamming. You're going to go to bed late.
• 56:18
  You're going to get up early to catch all the lectures and all the cool stuff, it's going to happen.
• 56:23
  I recommend getting pre-workout. If you don't know what that is,
• 56:29
  a little something that healthy people take, Josh, I'm sure you have one,
• 56:33
  and then you pop it in your drink, shake it up.
• 56:36
  It gives you a boost of energy, a little bit of mental focus,
• 56:39
  and can allow you to power through the day not feeling so exhausted.
• 56:45
  Let me advise the uninitiated to have some test runs with this.
• 56:50
  Cause you've given this tip before.
• 56:51
  And I was like, let's work out.
• 56:54
  And I was like, Whoa.
• 56:58
  Yeah. I take what Scotty P's just written down C4.
• 57:01
  It's not the one of the, it's not the most extreme pre-workout you can take,
• 57:06
  but it's a good middle ground and it's a good starting point for,
• 57:09
  into the drug world no yeah it's got lots of like healthy vitamins and stuff but it has a,
• 57:17
  high hit of caffeine and some stuff that'll make your body tingle if you don't
• 57:23
  start moving your body a bit it's great stuff it makes you want to do a thousand
• 57:26
  push-ups yeah i take pre-shred i don't i don't know is that is that before you do the never mind.
• 57:37
  No if you're gonna do drugs just don't worry
• 57:40
  about the pre-workout you don't even need it
• 57:46
  like you take that stuff and you just you're on
• 57:48
  it like it's really really what's the other one besides doing speed
• 57:52
  what's the other tip you have for if you're an aussie
• 57:55
  and you're coming to visit your friends in the u.s politely buy
• 57:59
  some tim tams it's a really nice gift for
• 58:03
  all your friends in the u.s that don't ordinarily have an
• 58:05
  opportunity to try that you don't know what a tim tam is it's basically
• 58:09
  a native biscuit that's one of the most delicious things you can have justin
• 58:15
  and i have spoken about how to actually eat these we have like a tim tam bomb
• 58:18
  in your mouth so it's just a fun experience to be able to give somebody and
• 58:24
  if you do that and give it to a couple of your heroes they will remember you
• 58:27
  it's a nice little way to make an impression.
• 58:29
  Yeah. Pro tip, David Regal loves Tim Tams. He was gifted when Christopher Wayne
• 58:35
  met him and they went to the magic castle.
• 58:37
  He fricking loves Tim Tams, which I learned.
• 58:40
  So yeah, it's, it's basically a chocolate biscuit engulfed in just more beautiful chocolate.
• 58:48
  It's like a finger biscuit kind of thing. It's like a long and narrow kind of
• 58:51
  chocolate and you've You've got to have it. It's great.
• 58:54
  They're great. It's great. We're great.
• 58:57
  And I think we have picturing coming. There it is. Boom.
• 59:03
  You can get these in the United States at the World Market. My wife used to
• 59:07
  put some time into this joint and bring home snacks.
• 59:10
  She would bring those home, and they are good. You're right.
• 59:12
  I can't believe our travel tips ended up with Tim Tam recommendations, but here we are.
• 59:18
  Right. And if they clog you up, you take the little round pills.
• 59:22
  Right, Nick? Is that the one?
• 59:25
  You take the out pills. The out pills. The out pills. Yeah. Okay. All right.
• 59:30
  Green means go. go i have two
• 59:33
  left scotty p
• 59:36
  is saying dip your tim tams in the pre-workout c4
• 59:39
  i don't know if that's a good idea but that that's interesting
• 59:43
  that that is interesting oh and here we have the kill tony custom playing cards
• 59:48
  does it are they still available on that site 2500 were printed get one now
• 59:54
  i edited the cart and proceeded to check out and it's letting me do that so So it's killmerch.com,
• 1:00:00
  22 bucks.
• 1:00:02
  The moment this ends, I'm buying some because that, that makes me very happy.
• 1:00:08
  Okay. So signing off, what else?
• 1:00:11
  Oh, this is going to be in my vlog, but I didn't talk about this at all,
• 1:00:15
  but I purchased the Ray-Ban Metas, which are the HD video glasses.
• 1:00:21
  And I was able to catch a lot of behind the scenes in Singapore because at Formula
• 1:00:26
  One, you're not allowed to take in pro cameras because they don't want people,
• 1:00:30
  you know, people love to film stuff in Asia, but particularly if they go to
• 1:00:34
  Formula One, everyone's going to have their pro camera.
• 1:00:38
  So they didn't really allow them, but I took these and was able to film a lot
• 1:00:43
  of behind the scenes and even going through security and stuff.
• 1:00:46
  So I'll talk about it in the vlog, but I was going to talk about it here because
• 1:00:50
  when you're traveling, this is such an easy way to get, um.
• 1:00:53
  Vlog footage and you know how when you go to board
• 1:00:56
  a plane and you're walking on the outside and you want
• 1:00:59
  to take that shot of the plane from the outside but the staff are always like
• 1:01:03
  you can't have your phone out on the tarmac or you can have your ray-bans out
• 1:01:08
  on the tarmac and you can very easily hit it and record you walking onto the
• 1:01:13
  plane from the outside to be alive i know so,
• 1:01:18
  obviously you know that doesn't change the world being able to get that shot
• 1:01:22
  but it is pretty awesome.
• 1:01:23
  So yeah, what can I say? You know what? I might do the final word today.
• 1:01:27
  I don't think I've done one for a while. Ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:01:31
  thank you for joining us. Here is the final word from Josh Nobito.
• 1:01:39
  So we're back and it's been another episode.
• 1:01:42
  I was so excited to come back to this podcast today and thank you so much for joining us in this time.
• 1:01:48
  I just want want to leave you with the fact that this was a travel guide,
• 1:01:52
  but travel can mean flying somewhere.
• 1:01:55
  It can also mean just driving somewhere that's half an hour away,
• 1:01:58
  you know, in which case I,
• 1:02:00
  the rule should be to get, aim to get to your venue an hour, 45,
• 1:02:06
  an hour early, because things always come up and
• 1:02:09
  you don't want to be the guy that shows up right
• 1:02:12
  on the moment you meant to start an event you want to show the the client that
• 1:02:17
  you care and you want to get there in enough time that you're not freaking out
• 1:02:20
  and rushing in so yeah i just want to leave you with that if you're not early
• 1:02:24
  you're late thanks for listening it's time for us to disappear now disappear now,
• 1:02:33
  but we'll see you again on the next episode of the magic guys.