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Gig Ready: Inside a Magician’s Bag #221 · The Magic Guys

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They're guys they do magic they are the magic guys,
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yo yo yo ladies and gentlemen we're in
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the flow of the show here we go to my left for
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episode 221 we got nick k i'm gonna go
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that hi i'm nick k and joining us this week also is
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daddy doug say what up daddy look i
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busted out the green lucite mylar magic
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wand for this episode but that's a point
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that gives me like green goblin vibes or
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ivy from batman or you know also from
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this is a unique wand green blue site with mylar tips yeah that's a great looking
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one man i bet you it's perfectly weighted as well because it's that sort of
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solid like liquid all the way through that's beautifully solidified that's really
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important is if it strikes the noisy child properly.
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Doesn't leave bruises on kids when they're heckling at a show.
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Of course, my friends, this is episode 221 of The Magic Guys.
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I'm Josh Nolbedo. I don't think I've said it before, but who cares?
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This is the show where we as professional magicians share our lives as working
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pros or shenanigans that go with it, interview wonderful guests.
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And today we show you what we've got in our bags, which would be interesting
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to see what type of bags we carry too.
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We've got some friends in the chat, Nick, who's stopped by today.
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Yeah, we've got some good friends. Gary Davis, good to see you,
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friend. Hope you're in good health. We have Tim Askin, Scotty Link,
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Dragoteer. And we have, oh, Ireland, Colin.
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We have Kian Lafford. Good to see you, friend. Thanks for coming and joining the show.
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I love it. Mike, one of our lovely locals. We love seeing him.
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Gahan, good to see you, bud.
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Michael cool guys thanks for being here in the chat
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as you guys know this is live unrehearsed unprepared
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we're relatively prepared and we mean it i'm not well i'm definitely not prepared
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yeah but the thing is when you've been good as long as you've been good doug
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you don't need to be prepared you're always ready you know you can open up a
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fridge door and there's a spotlight and you're like i could do 20 minutes with
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this you know what i mean like it's just like that so So.
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In theme of what we're talking about today is we thought it would be cool to
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talk about what we have inside our gig bag.
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Starting off with my gig bag. If you want to get into it, say yes.
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Let's do it. This bag, Mary Poppins looking bag. I got this for 15 bucks about
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15 years ago off eBay. Ooh, look at this.
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This is like my regular sort of bag.
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In there is a whole heap of crap. We're going to go through it one by one.
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I'll talk you through it. The main crux is this thing there.
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What this is, is like all my bits, I keep everything in Tupperware containers, okay?
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And there's a reason for that. Even all my stage shows are all in large scale
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Tupperware bags or in storage containers.
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So that when I got to do a show, I open up a suitcase, I grab the container
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with all of its bits that pertain to it, throw it in, zip it up,
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and I catch a flight and I go do my gig. I don't need to think.
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Everything is prepared and always ready to rock. And that way I don't have to
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ever worry about going to a gig that something might be missing.
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Okay? So this thing here, it's like a food container effectively,
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okay, with lots of different compartments.
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In it, I have chapstick naturally.
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I have some of these little rubber gimmicks, which if you're a part of my lecture,
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you would know what they're about.
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I do a type of blown up and broken and restored balloon effect, which is very fun.
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I have a hearing aid because what's that behind your ear?
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And if you find someone really funny to do that to, sometimes you go,
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what's that behind your ear? and they go, huh?
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And I speak into it and I'm like, Gavin, Gavin.
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And he's like, what? And I'm like, and then I just like pretend to put it back in.
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I have a slinky, a little slinky, which I love using ever since we met Rick
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Holcomb. He does a really cool trick with the slinky.
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And I use it in the context of doing a gravity pass, like a muscle pass.
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So coin goes up and down and everyone's like, oh, did you not see how it works?
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It's this thing that makes it go bouncy bounce.
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And then I give them back coin and I just finger palm that off and throw it in my pocket killer.
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Yeah, it's a really good bit. I have an abundance of coins.
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I won't get into it individually. I've got Chinese coins. I've got Morgan dollars. I've got shells.
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I've got jumbo coin, jumbo Morgan naturally. I have a Zippo lighter.
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Zippo lighters are important and the reason I do it is that whenever I'm performing,
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either put it on the table or I have somebody do this and hold out their hand
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with fingers, and I ask him to hold onto the lighter, typically by.
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The lid like so so the zippo lighter
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can then just be suspended up and i just say hold on
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to that don't freak out about what happens next i light
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it up i then use flash paper to produce a back of playing
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cards or produce whatever i want to produce so it's a very good
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strong way to grab the attention as an opener when you're
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performing from table to table and that's why i always carry a zippo
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lighter i do like your commitment to a zipper lighter
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like i think you're the only guy i know that rocks one as opposed to
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just a little big one yeah i've never considered one of
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those zippos that like themselves like i
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i have i have but
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then i kind of feel like i don't really know what else
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i'd use it for than getting someone to hold it like this you know
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what i mean like yeah but while they're holding it you zap yeah
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i've also got the other zippo lighter which you
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use to put someone's ring in you can vanish
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someone's ring then you actually open up the it by lighter and it's
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inside another very cool effect yeah
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i would suggest if you got yourself a green lucite
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mylar tip one you don't need fire anymore they
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just they're with you right away okay especially for mylar packs of playing
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cards four decks i always have four decks always have two red two blue reason
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being is that i can do up i can do as many as four gigs a day that's why whenever I'm roving and so forth.
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So I always have four decks plus backups and away you go.
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Also on the back of them, so I have like my standard deck, but on the back of
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them, I make stickers and I put it on every single card. So when I'm performing
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away, it says, follow me on Instagram.
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They can scan the QR code and just follow me. Baby, that is fire.
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It's just a really good way i also do effects that where the revelation is on
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my instagram and i did this whole bit where it's like i knew you were gonna
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do that because i wrote it down.
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On my instagram where's your instagram scan the
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qr code then all of a sudden you build your following and away
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you go this is another banger i've gone
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too fast that's okay you just let me down but paper cream
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paper cream is what a bank
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tellers use to count money and it's also what.
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I use i just it's just like a little putty like
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this you put it on your thumb all right
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and then you rub it across the tips of your fingers so you
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just rub it like you just you do your thumb across your tips of your
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fingers like this once they're all rubbed in your card
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work is bulletproof your second deals
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me some of that yeah you can you can get
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it from amazon your second deals phenomenal like
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you just nothing bothers you i buy this for
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all my friends who do magic or like magic but
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also do like physical labor so i
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got friends who like are prop builders for example so i give
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this to my friend val of magic universe who makes all
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the props for all the illusion that's in town and so forth as
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well as like you know even andy who's like my myotherapist
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you know what i mean he's a card guy as well and i'm giving one of those every
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now and again this is called
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a secret savant made by sean good
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goodwin is that his name sean goodwin this
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is what i used to hold coins in my in my business i
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know i'm i'm sort of showing you what it looks like but i have his permission
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for my lectures where i said to him hey i love your product can i tell people
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about it so they can buy it and then at people after lectures it sits in your
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jacket like this there is a magnet i've just reinforced it with tape it normally
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looks prettier than that i promise but this goes in your pocket.
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Like the the magnet goes in your pocket and then it just hangs like
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in your jacket underneath your jacket and then when you want to remove coins
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you just push up like this and it's straight god damn
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it and what if you want to get rid of coins you do it the exact same way so
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i typically will go like take all three out and while i'm chatting to people
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and then i start producing i'm like oh that's the first one which is great i
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can split there's two bloody hell that's good And then from here,
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I go, there's one, two, here's three.
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I take it, I'll catch, squeeze, and it slowly starts to appear over there.
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I got to take notes of what I'm buying after this episode. Hang on.
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But what pocket are you putting that in just for the viewers?
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Is this the little coin pocket? Yeah. I'm sorry if I'm going really fast.
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I just know there's a lot of shit in my bag, man. There's a lot of stuff.
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And I don't want to take the whole episode about me. So the magnet goes in the
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pocket and then this goes on the inside of your jacket. Okay.
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So it's called a secret savant. Gotcha. Gotcha.
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Sean Goodwin. Is it Goodwin? I'm pretty sure it's Goodwin. Sean spelled S-E-A-N.
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Well, it's hanging about here, right? It's like over here somewhere.
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I put it in my right. In the outside pocket is the magnet.
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Outside right jacket pocket. Oh, so it's at the bottom of your jacket.
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So the jacket hangs about here, so no one sees this, right?
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I see. It hangs at the hem of your coat at the bottom.
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It hangs at the hem of your jacket, and then you just reach your hand under,
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and just by pushing up, you've now got it into finger palm.
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And what I like about it most, other than being able to get things directly
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in and out of finger palm, I love that it frees up a pocket.
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I carry three coins in a shell in that.
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Right there. So that is an absolute banger of what's, what's in that one. Yeah. Damn.
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Yeah. I have a couple of other gimmicks that I might be releasing. So I can't show you that.
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And I just got a series of like Bobby pins and, and cause you never know,
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like your jacket might tear or something like that.
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I got topics and stuff, but yeah, so that's everything in that container.
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That was nine minutes already. Jesus Christ. Moving on to the next one.
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People have questions. People. Sorry. Yeah. So.
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For the paper cream, is it any good for coins or is that too much? It helps with coins.
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I typically use very large coins to make them easier to work with.
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But every now and again, depending on humidity, I will rub a little bit on my palms.
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If I've got to do a routine with half dollars, there's some routines that I'm
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trying to upscale to use with Morgans.
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But I have an effect that I do with like a coin and a glass.
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It's a seated parlor effect.
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The the glass that i need for the
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has to be a certain size like it's very particular with
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how this routine works yeah and sometimes yeah
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you'd like just using smaller coins you want to have a little bit more grip
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it's not sticky it's not like an octopalm it's
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nothing like that it's just to give you
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moisture on your fingers so that you can do second deals and not
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miss anything like it's just yeah was
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lucky ladybug in that case we'll get
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to that that's a different case yeah we'll get to that yeah okay this one oh
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right okay there's more to it yeah there's a whole bag of shit in there caps
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wallet all right i use this to write revelations in and whatever else and a
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zip compartment i normally vanish if you've if you've seen my videos i vanish someone's phone,
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that phone appears inside of this. Okay?
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Yeah. I've also got some gimmicks inside of this that I do effects with where
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you take a 50 and then you wave your hand over it, it turns into 100.
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And then from here you can split it into two 50s.
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So that's a cool gimmick of mine. I call that splitting the bill.
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Lighter fluid lots of pens magnum
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sharpies especially okay these are for when i'm doing my
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stage shows and i've got to write revelations i have a
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ring flights the ring flight i use is the prop dog
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ring flight i got this for my 30th birthday
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i'm 40 now this has been gone for 10 years it's
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never let me down absolutely amazing so i
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love that however he's only performed it three
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times yeah all right yeah flash paper
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all my flash paper is broken up into
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little pieces in advance i basically fold it and
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fold it and fold it and fold it until they're kind
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of like one inch by one half inch and then i just tear them
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up all in advance and i roll balls and
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then i put those little balls in my pocket so whenever i want to do a production i
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just pull out one little ball from like that and you can see and
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i just put them in a ziploc bag and that's what they look like nothing sus yeah
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business cards i mean well these ones to write stuff down on i have a but this
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is my backup ladybug by deuce gala in here oh you got a bag for yours how yeah.
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Yeah i got bags for mine and i've got lots of pens i've got heaps i've got a
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knife which i always forget whenever i'm flying i always forget that i have
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this knife cutting open lemons etc et cetera, popping balloons, whatever it might be.
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Tissues for blowing your nose. Very important. I needed that so bad the other day.
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And then I got a series of golf balls. So I have a golf ball act working at the Holy Moly.
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I have a whole bunch. And then I have this crystal one here.
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You've probably seen this performance on my Instagram.
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That's a good one right now.
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Next container. Oh my God. There's more.
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All this is on my person when I perform as well. Right. Right.
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Handkerchief goes in the right pocket. I need that to produce a bottle.
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So it opens it up and I produce a bottle. So that's why I need that.
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Lady bug, ready to rock, always with it in the top corner, ready for the first load. Okay.
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As well as lots of little baggies of this, which is all the lady bugs. You need all that.
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Here is an index, which I'm not going to show. I have one of my best kept secrets,
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but I have a 52 card index.
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I'll give you a quick glance. There. That's all you're getting.
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That's all you're getting. Okay. This is an amazing effect. It's called foiled again. It's bizarros.
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If you are unaware of what this is i produced a
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jumbo coin for the kids the kids fool around with it they're like blah blah
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blah oh is there chocolate in them like yeah there's totally chocolate in there
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you just got to peel it back and you can have a bit of the chocolate and then
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you can take it back and give it to the kids love love this i think we have
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one of those in the cabinet i haven't looked at it yet it's nice to know what
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that the it's called it's called Foiled again.
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I have two of these. You have a part of all the local Vegas magicians who produce
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products, but I haven't got to all of them yet.
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Yeah. So that's called Foiled Again by Bizarro. It's like a 20-buck gimmick
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or something. It's just the best.
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That bill change you did was also shades of Bizarro, right? His bill breaker
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would have been the prepassory change.
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Yeah, correct. When I created it, I said to him, I go, hey, man,
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is this like yours? And he goes, it's kind of more like a this,
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but you can use it. And I was like, thank you, Biz.
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So that was very cool of him to give me that permission.
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All right. So now there is a whole bunch of random shit that's not too important in here.
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But I'll just say at a glance, this is a gimmick of mine for a coin and bottle,
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which I took my lectures.
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I've got a whole bunch of random bits that aren't that important.
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Gaff cards, gimmicks, gimmicks is all stuff that I teach in my lecture.
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But the last thing I'll make mention is, oh yeah, Rubik's Cube, flash paper.
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What stickers were on that Rubik's Cube just then? Is that? It's a Hijinx Hotel,
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Rubik's Cube. Oh, that's cool. I got some.
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Some of the people I work for, they have these. They're awful,
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but they're great in the same sense as well. If I were 50 cents, you'd be stoked.
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I have ears. You can pull an ear from behind someone.
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When you were doing the hearing aid gag, I thought silicone ear would be good to hear too.
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I've got that. I also have clean underwear. You never know. You just never know. Okay.
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You know what? You know, what's really funny is I also carry spare underwear in my case.
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Like if I'm traveling, especially, but like, I wasn't going to bring it up,
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but you're very brave to bring it up.
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And I think it's, it's worth noting. You just never know.
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Yeah. This is full disclosure. Again, another, I bought a backup,
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bought a backup pen just in case the other day. What the hell are you guys eating in Australia?
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I've never traveled with spare underwear in my gig bag. Maybe I'm just...
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Maybe i'm just ignorant you're just
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living on the edge i didn't know you never
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know if you don't know three more things i want to share i've got this is a
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well this is the pokemon doesn't matter it's just a gift i keep meds i always
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keep meds in here is it's almost like a first aid kit but what's inside is sinus
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sinus meds rubber gloves like headache tablets things of that nature
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sometimes when you're performing you never know what's going to happen gastro pills
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the pills i take they're called gastro stop because sometimes
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you're performing away you might and then all of a sudden you're like i got to use the
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men's room and you just flush that literally happened to me on friday and i
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was just like okay it took a couple of gastro pills and i was just i've managed
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to make it through the gig no worries so i actually had two gigs that day so
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i had to make sure that i don't poop all over my audience that and some pseudo
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fit which is a sinus a sinus sinus relief pill.
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I, as someone mentioned earlier, I sound sick. I am a little under the weather.
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I'm just, I think I'm just exhausted and there's a big change of the weather.
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But sometimes I do a lot of gigs, a lot of weddings, especially they're all
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out of town and they're all in like country Victoria.
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So there's lots of like hay bales and outdoor.
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And, and the last thing I want to do as an MC at a wedding is be sneezing the
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whole time and not be able to speak.
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So I always keep sinus medications for that reason two more
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things this like a lint remover if you
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like especially cat hair or dog hair or whatever else
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sometimes you're doing a gig and you just go through something your suit gets ruined
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and you just want to give it a quick one of these and then
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you're all cleaned up again so i always keep one of these like these they're
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from ikea they're like a buck each so always keep one of those in your kit and
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the last thing i keep is this is another container naturally this container
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has all like a bunch of different cards from all the the different people I work for.
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So like all the different agencies that are in here.
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So like at a glance, I've got a Megan entertainment.
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I've got top dog entertainment. I've got applause entertainment.
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I've got just all the folks that I work for. I have all their cards in there.
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So that when I'm performing, if I'm working for top dog, I open it up.
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I put five or six cards in my breast pocket.
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So when someone says, can I get a business card? You just give them that agent's card immediately.
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Cause you obviously want to promote whoever you're. Yeah.
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So I do that immediately. so that is another hot tip that I've never heard before
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so we're learning today yeah I mean like each one and that's lovely advice yeah
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so it's just you know like I got my own cards in there I've got.
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And megan i've got top yeah just whoever whoever i'm
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working for i just keep little chunks of their cards in
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this container so it's ready to rock and just
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to make sure that i can represent them so yeah very minor but pro tipish and
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again like i've got see this is like another gimmick that i use for a trick
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that i created and it's empty because i've used all the gimmicks and i got to
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make more so there's that is everything you need to know as to what's inside nick k's gig bag.
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I love the sectional tupperware container
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the the tupperware with all the sections that's
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a sweet thing if you had just showed us a toothbrush as well we would have seen
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everything you own i feel like or everything you need to survive in general
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let alone a gig you know yeah that's great yeah i was expecting i was expecting
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some body deodorant at some.
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Point are you not sharing that part of the don't you
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have something you roll all over your maybe that's maybe that's before
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you leave the house technically and he's
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like oh the episode's only an hour so i probably won't
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go into all that not sweat stuff on
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don't you isn't that in the bag correct yeah that's
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not in the bag it's all done before the show so i have a separate
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bag that if i'm traveling one thing you always want to make sure
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you do have is tooth floss like for
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flossing not only like for oral hygiene
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which is what i use it for you also want to make sure you have
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it so that it doubles as a sewing kit
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as well which i also have a sewing
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kit yeah so if you if it's your jacket if you
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sew it on the inside they'll never see that
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and that that thread is stronger than any
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cotton thread so you can really at a
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pinch you can really get through that because every now i mean like i wouldn't
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use it for a button i've got a separate little kit inside of this at the very
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bottom which is for if a button falls off my jacket then i'll just sew up that
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button again um jesus holy shit i'm realizing how fast and loose i am when you see my bag in a second.
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Yeah yeah i've even got i got
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like i mean there's a very minor kit in here but like eye drops
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things like that you know it's all it's all
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in there but again man like sometimes i'm there all
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day i got band-aids yeah and sometimes it's just because like i'm performing
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and then you know the the groomsman has a tumble and i'm like come here dude
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and i put a band-aid on him i'm like all right go do your speech now like it's
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just but tell me you make it appear from flash paper first like yeah yeah yeah good dude good dude,
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Yeah. Well, that was great. Someone said that's the, this is the episode I didn't realize I needed.
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And, you know, sometimes you just need to know what people are rocking in their case.
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Millions of products available to buy, but you know, what are guys doing gigs
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actually bringing with them, you know?
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All right. Look, dude, that was awesome. Thank you for sharing.
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And you can take your seat at Magicians Anonymous now.
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And, you know, if we move along, We also had a message earlier from a past guest
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of ours who's been on the show.
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And I mentioned, hey, if you want to be in the episode, just send me a video.
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So we actually have a sneaky guest appearance from one of our past guests, one of our favorite.
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We love them all, but especially this guy.
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So let's hear from our friend.
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Hi, guys. It's James Brown here, all the way over from the UK.
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My apologies for leaping into the middle of your Magic Guys podcast.
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But I thought I'd let you know what was inside my bag. And here's the little beauty.
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In my bag, I have the classic cards, coins, bits and pieces,
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elastic bands, because crazy man's handcuffs is a must, and a little miniature pot of jam.
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And for those of you who know my work, you'll know why I never go anywhere without it.
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I also have a double cross Sharpie pen.
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And mentioning the double cross Sharpie pen, And I suppose this would be a good
23:41
moment to let you all know about my new book, Building Worlds, available from Amazon.
23:46
That's Building Worlds. It's nine effects from my working repertoire plus four
23:51
magical essays covering how to practice, my thoughts and feelings about why
23:56
magic matters, how to make really great deep connections with the people around us.
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This is 30 years of my life condensed in. So please do go and buy it.
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And with that, I'll send you back
24:07
to the boys because they're really worth listening to. So, tata for now.
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Ah, so cool. So cool.
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You know, James sent us a little sneak peek of his lecture notes last time he was on.
24:20
And it blew my mind the way you could think about using different types of effects
24:24
like Double Cross, for example.
24:26
His version of Double Cross is so different of an experience to the audience
24:31
that someone actually said to him, I saw someone do something where,
24:36
you know, they just grabbed my hand and did a little thing and there was a thing on it.
24:39
But that's nothing like, but I've never seen this before. And it's like,
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it didn't matter that everyone else in this city was doing that same effect.
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It's, um, anyway, and I, and I believe that is included in this new book he has.
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So the, in the link of where you're listening to this or watching this is the,
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is his book. So do go check it out, support him.
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And yeah, it's just cool. Yeah. And what's, sorry, go ahead.
25:04
I'm going to reference, um, what episode number that was.
25:07
You go ahead, Doug, I'll dig it up. no i just was going to reflect on
25:10
how enjoyable his visit was when he was here last time and
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i really dig the vibe he's going with with his magic certainly
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and as he matures and highly recommend james you know thought process be in
25:23
your world just you know yeah i think of james brown lately yeah if you want
25:29
to see that previous episode it's on episode 197 with james brown yeah and And just, I mean,
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James Brown is the literal reason I actually do magic.
25:39
I was terrified to meet him because meeting my heroes is one of those things
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that I'm always scared about.
25:44
I could not be happier meeting him and being able to call him a friend of the
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show. It is the greatest. So please support our friend James.
25:51
I'm getting a copy of that book. For sure. Thank you.
25:55
Nick and I both actively use his box clever routine in most shows.
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I just used it on the weekend.
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And yeah, a lot of his effects, right? Coin to eye, coin under watch,
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card under watch, all that, all the good stuff.
26:10
So we need to, everyone peer pressure James to come back.
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The Magic Guys, because that would be great. One second, I'm just going to go buy the book.
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No, all right. Should we continue? I would love to show it to my bag.
26:22
Mine's not as comprehensive, but still, it's what I use.
26:26
It's what I can get through all my gigs with.
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And I guess I have different variations of what bag I take with me,
26:33
because at the Theatre of Magic, I've been really liking using this,
26:37
similar to the style of NYX, where it's a flat bottom bag and it opens up.
26:42
This one looks very nice, but it's so cheap from China that I wouldn't take
26:47
it anywhere else other than just to sit on a table at a show.
26:50
But aesthetically, it looks really nice, you know?
26:53
Okay, so simple stuff. Rubber bands. I personally love doing rubber band magic
26:59
and I incorporate it with my stack magic as well with cards.
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But these are the ones I love using from penguin magic
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their size 19 and a
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half from memory about 19 and a quarter which
27:11
is like the standard size that can go around your wrist and
27:14
not be like too tight or anything like that and personally
27:18
i like using different colors because because if you do a linking rubber band
27:22
routine for example it's pretty cool when they're different colors and they
27:25
can obviously see that they're different it's the same band going through and
27:30
it's not like you're weirdly wrapping it round or something,
27:32
making it look like the same band, you know?
27:35
And so I love using them. Then obviously I do have my DC as well.
27:40
Not used very much, but I do have it since James mentioned it as well.
27:44
A new addition is this glass has been a bit of fun to play with.
27:48
I got this from Vanishing Ink and it's just a glass, but it's a glass that's
27:51
made to specifically be able to hold a Rubik's Cube.
27:55
So that if you're doing a matching routine, for example, so like,
27:59
you know, it's really funny.
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Hold it up with, with, with the, with the, take the cube out the light,
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take it out and then just hold it up. Doug, does it look like it's got googly eyes?
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If I go like, uh, like this, that's funny.
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Hey, how can I, does it, is there any other way to play with it?
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No, that's pretty funny. Yeah.
28:21
And so I guess the idea is, you know, you could poetically pull this away with
28:25
a silk with the cube in it.
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And then after you've had someone mix it up, you can just sit this on top of it on the table.
28:31
So it's kind of fun, you know, because then it's like implying that the cube is not touched again.
28:36
And so I was playing with this at the Theater of Magic on the weekend.
28:41
And that's real glass? Oh, of course.
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No, no. No, no. Yeah, you know. It's acrylic.
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Oh, yeah, it looks great. Because it looks glass to me. That's really nice, that one.
28:54
Right, right. No, very much plastic. And so you can chuck it in your gig bag
28:58
and not worry that it'll break. Did you get that from like a camping store or
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did you just happen to find it at like Kmart or?
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No, this is actually from, I think this is actually from Henry Harrius's website. Great.
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Sorry, I said Vanishing Inc. before. Oh, my God. Henry Harris sells it.
29:19
I guess probably, he probably got it from Kmart, but, you know,
29:22
he recognized that it's hard to find a glass that can fit a Rubik's Cube in.
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So it's only like, I think it's only like eight bucks or something.
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Yeah. Sorry, $50 Australian. But yeah, you can fit a glass in it and it's a nice image, you know.
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Is it wide enough for a deck? Let's have a look. I don't know.
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Yes, it is. It's actually not too bad.
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Ooh, I like that. I want that now.
29:47
Yeah look at that's actually yeah pretty cool and
29:50
then if you're doing your you know your it'll you
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know the rising card works great in
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a glass like that as the finish you put it
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on a shelf it rises out of the day
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yeah yeah yeah all right bloody
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hell there you go henry just sold you i'm getting one of those for
30:09
sure uh but if anybody's trying to find something a little more locally i know
30:15
that like there's if you look up camping supplies like wine glass camping or
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picnic or something of that nature that's where i found mine i got a i got four
30:23
of them in a single thing i use one for gimmicking trying to do this whole like,
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thread thing but don't worry about it like but you can just get those like many
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different types so yeah look look look that up if you need it,
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Or support our friend Henry. That's it. I'm sure you can find them everywhere.
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But I guess if you are buying Rubik's Cube paraphernalia, you can just click, you know, add to cart.
30:46
Same with the bags. Like the bags that he sells, I just get them because like,
30:49
I'm already there at the site buying the stuff anyway. Yeah.
30:53
One of my favorites that, you know, we don't see so much mainstream, Tiny Plunger.
30:57
I love rocking a Tiny Plunger because I will take with me a,
31:02
What I've found is that if I take a bandana with me, this is more like a silk
31:08
one, but if you fold this up enough,
31:11
it basically becomes the soft base you need in order to do this routine.
31:17
So at a table, I might sit this down saying that, oh, let me just sit this down
31:22
so my cans don't get wet or destroyed.
31:24
You know, you never want to know what's happening at parties.
31:27
Sit this down and then you can do your routine or sometimes like a lot of events,
31:31
there's enough of a covering on the table that you can just do it anyway.
31:37
Now I'm not doing this all the time, but especially if it's like a private party
31:40
where there are only like 20 or 30 people and I'm there for a while,
31:44
this is like a fun bit that it's a routine that goes for a while.
31:47
And it's like, it brings people in. It's really, people love seeing this because it's like.
31:51
Not really about the cards. It's great when a card trick has some other anchor to come onto it.
31:58
Anyway, I think the bit where you do the mind reading, where you stick it to
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the forehead, that is so fun.
32:06
It's just so funny. And if this is the first time you're ever seeing someone
32:11
pull out a tiny plunger and you don't know what this is, look up John Armstrong tiny plunger.
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Or if you're subscribed to me on YouTube, just type in Josh Nobito.
32:22
I don't know what I've called it. Probably the plunger card trick or something.
32:25
So the Theater of Magic, I did that routine and I'm sure it's documented in
32:29
there. I think for at least one video.
32:31
I keep this with me. This is a velvet cord for ring on string.
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And I got to say, I don't always use this, but just every now and then someone
32:41
will say like, can you do magic with something I'm wearing or that I give you?
32:46
And if they have a ring on, boom, ring on string, it's organic, ready to go.
32:50
And this cord is like, it's just like a plush velvet that's just perfect for it.
32:55
It's like soft and looks nice. It's not a shoelace, which I feel for me fits a bit better.
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You can look up and find, I did purchase this from a magic site,
33:05
but it's really, it's just called velvet plush cord, I think.
33:08
And you can find it anywhere.
33:10
And yeah, but you could probably message me and I could probably find where
33:14
I got this one from, but I keep this. So I keep this in my pants pocket and
33:17
then I sit my Bic lighter on top of it.
33:19
So this is, I always know this is in my pocket, ready to go.
33:24
And then it also makes it easier for me to grab my lighter at a gig because
33:27
now it's sitting on top of this.
33:29
So it's always in there is the point.
33:32
And then my coins, I keep in a little grandma coin purse.
33:38
And, but now I have to go and get myself the secret savant. And in here,
33:44
because in here, what I'm mainly keeping is just a couple of our Australian 50 cent coins.
33:49
And I also keep two.
33:52
Of these pennies so I can do a transpo, which for me, it feels very much like
33:58
a card changing in someone's hand.
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But when you can change a coin in their hand, they love it.
34:03
And so, yeah, keeping my coins in this when I'm traveling to a gig.
34:08
I also have a knife, but mine's not as impressive as Nick's.
34:12
This is just for when I go to some dangerous areas for gigs,
34:15
obviously, and keep that locked up like this.
34:18
I'm just kidding. This is for when I do a routine that I know if I accidentally
34:23
break it during the show, I can use this to still reveal the thing I need to reveal.
34:29
My wallet is the, what's this one called again? The J-O-L wallet, I think.
34:34
And in here, this is my, and mine's just for cards really.
34:37
But in here is where I'll actually keep my lucky ladybug cards as well.
34:43
Similar setup, but I just keep mine in here just in case there is someone with
34:48
a kid with them or like it's just a nice moment to use it.
34:51
I love that style wallet, the J-O-L that loads from the outside,
34:56
no slide, that load is smooth as butter.
34:59
That's really worth noting too, yeah. It's no setup. You don't have to go in
35:05
and do a thing and it's just boom, ready to go.
35:07
It's like, it's great when you're just in the trenches, you know.
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I guess in here is where I also keep my loops.
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So my loops are always in my wallet as well, ready to go.
35:17
Not that i'll use it all the time but um i have been having fun doing like a a named card,
35:25
coming out of the deck haunted style again just with stack work so they name
35:29
a card and it's and then that's what you know floats out and then last you ever
35:35
use the plunger with that do you integrate the plunger and the name a card over.
35:41
You know i haven't yet but i love but i love that
35:44
yeah i haven't yet the plunger is its own
35:46
routine for you it's a standalone yeah i
35:50
would say i haven't workshopped it enough to like change it
35:53
enough to be yeah fitting stack work
35:56
but it's like because what it is is like so and i
35:59
this leads into perfectly so when it comes to decks of cards like
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i'll have two decks with me a red and a blue
36:05
deck and i will have them in the
36:08
arrangement that i prefer both of them so that eventually
36:11
one of them will get shuffled by the audience eventually and
36:14
then I'll go into all of that material that's with a shuffled deck and that's
36:18
normally when at some point I'll bust out the plunger if I'm going to and then
36:22
I also keep a double blank deck with me as well for the double blank ambitious
36:29
where you just have them sign it and now you're just doing magic with their signature,
36:33
and these cards are also really good for doing billet work because if you have
36:37
someone write info down on this fold it up it's it's great for
36:40
peaking that and and also you just do so
36:43
much stuff with it like you can do most card tricks with
36:46
a blank deck because the cards that need to be seen you can just write the info
36:51
on it or you can use this for doing i know my buddy adam maxford will do a drawing
36:56
duplication that uses a method that this would be great for too so this stays
37:01
in one of my extra pockets at gigs.
37:04
And yeah, the last two things are, I always keep an ice cream with me.
37:11
Nice. That's always just so fun to catch people off guard.
37:14
And if I'm at the theater of magic, I'll just keep one of these with me,
37:19
which looks like a deck, but it's really a box. It's a deck box.
37:22
It's a coin in a box. And these are from Jeffrey Wang.
37:26
If I had a dollar for every person that messaged me about where did I get the
37:31
box from, I would be able to retire, honestly.
37:35
I think that's it, friends. Yeah, I don't have any chapsticks or...
37:40
I mean, I honestly do travel with underwear and an extra shirt or whatever,
37:46
but it's just not in here. But that's essentially...
37:50
My TED talk. Very civil. Very nice.
37:54
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and just a little shout out. I've started, I did get this.
37:58
I want to start playing with this for when you borrow a bill from someone,
38:01
you can play the harmonica with it.
38:03
So that's, I'm just showing it cause I only just got it. So I'm not going to try and use it now.
38:08
It's not electronic either, which is fun. No, really?
38:13
Yeah. It's a manual. It's a gimmick. So it's sleight of hand basically.
38:16
And then it lets you play the harmonica and then give the note back or,
38:19
or then use it for routine or a business card or a, I mean, you can do it with
38:23
anything, but the idea is you hold up an object that they've given you,
38:26
you play the harmonica, you give it back.
38:28
Yeah. You got to show me that afterwards. Cause I, I'm using the one from,
38:31
I think N, N2G, which is electronic based one.
38:35
And so that's great. Yeah. I want one of them too, but yeah,
38:38
this, you know, it's always fun when you can not rely on tech, you know?
38:42
Yeah. Look, we take a quick break before we press onto Doug,
38:45
cause we've got a couple of questions for you josh first one from alex lamb
38:48
i'm not sure this pertains to but the knife the knife,
38:53
all right okay line is yeah a rough line central yeah what does this mean does
38:58
it still have a smell does it still have its smell what the underpants or the.
39:05
The box the the
39:09
ice cream they smell like chocolate when you get
39:11
them you got the deuce gala man we're getting
39:14
we're plugging the deuce gala today with the ladybugs and
39:17
the pop stickles you know i think because
39:20
i've had this out of its case for a little while it
39:23
doesn't but the the orange one i have still does have a
39:26
smell but yeah yeah yeah good question
39:29
though gown said what do you write on with your
39:32
sharpie's giant notepad question mark i use a
39:35
foam board a four size foam board and
39:38
what i do is i print my logo and
39:42
then basically sticky it to the back so that
39:45
whenever i'm writing something on stage i'm holding
39:47
up my branding so while i'm writing you can see my by branding so that's what
39:53
i got yeah yeah nice yeah yeah i mean it's it's all we need so we need right
40:00
all right look i want to know what doug's choosing The thing with Doug is,
40:05
I know you don't have to do as many gigs as Nick and I do, and you can pick and choose a little bit.
40:12
And also in your busking style, busking, obviously you need to account for a million other things.
40:17
What I've also realized is that I've come from the roving aspect.
40:21
You've come from the parlor aspect.
40:23
And then we've got Doug performing in the more stage slash street aspect.
40:29
So this is going to be really interesting to see the dynamic between the three
40:31
of us. Yeah, 100%. Thank you.
40:34
Doug, can we see what's in your case?
40:37
I just banged my microphone. Can you hear me? Can you hear me now?
40:41
We can hear you. Yeah, I think we can hear you better, actually.
40:43
I want to talk about the case itself, which, is there a Magic Guy sticker here?
40:48
Ooh, yeah, we got one. Right there. Yeah, I see it. Nice. Yeah,
40:53
it's back on the other side.
40:55
So, this for me allows me to do a close-up parlor, stage, anything you want.
41:00
The whole show is in here.
41:01
It's on wheels, which is great.
41:04
You know, anytime you could put things on wheels and it's got the extendable handle.
41:09
And this bag also has outside pockets. So there's like a pocket here and here.
41:15
And like in the front, there's one. Like I keep my rope up here, for example.
41:20
And what this does is it makes the props instantly accessible compartmentalty,
41:26
you know, from, you know, if you're working a stage and you need your rope,
41:29
you know, it's right in the front.
41:30
They can go back in there, in there when you're done. So highly advocate the catalog case.
41:37
I've been using these for 30 years and the inside of these are really well compartmented.
41:43
My closeup cases in here pop into this if you want, but like there's my wands
41:48
and my Sharpies and another bag where I keep thumb tips and sponge balls.
41:53
And then like I do a ring routine, there's dividers in here where the rings
41:57
are kept separate. Great.
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Yeah. This is the Martin Lewis one to six spot card.
42:05
You know, you can do this for a thousand people. I can do the rings for a thousand
42:08
people. I can do the ropes for a thousand people.
42:11
So if I need to entertain a thousand people for 20 minutes, this bag allows me to do that.
42:16
You can do all of those routines close up or parlor as well.
42:20
I generally have a hat in here and some signage if I'm busking as well.
42:25
And you know what's missing from my bag today is my, I call it a toiletry bag
42:30
where you have the sun scene and the nail clippers and the sewing.
42:34
We went to the pool today and my sunscreen was in there, so I pulled the bag out.
42:39
Yeah, I have to change the catalog case on wheels.
42:42
As I'm rambling, I'll note that this case allows me to transport that DJ laptop
42:50
stand. I use bungee cords and strap it to it.
42:54
So now I'm rolling into the gig hall with a table and enough to entertain five people or a thousand.
43:03
I was just looking at that case. I bet you could fit an instand in that case
43:08
as well, because they're so thin.
43:10
I'll tell you what I used to put in there. I have upgraded since,
43:14
but a small amplifier when I was using just like a happy amp situation,
43:18
you could have a whole nine yards in that catalog case.
43:23
You know, the act, the amplification.
43:25
And then if you're able to carry a table in with you,
43:28
it's a one trip in and out, which you
43:31
know is is important if you're working a lot of the you know these convention
43:36
halls and stuff you don't want to be making two trips to the car to load in
43:39
yeah the catalog case i don't know amazing that's um great i've just been looking
43:46
it up whilst you mentioned it and what a.
43:49
Great great solution in almost like almost every
43:52
way like can you leave the what like
43:55
when you have it on stage can you kind of leave it open like can you
43:58
leave the mouth of this open like this reason i very much
44:01
so yeah generally stays up and
44:04
then when josh busted uh his case out i'm like i'm
44:06
in the same ballpark but you know this case it's been
44:10
around the french quarter a couple dozen times and if you get a
44:13
good one that holds up you know yeah the design for guys
44:16
back in the day they used to have to carry catalogs to
44:19
sell their products so they needed a good sturdy solution for
44:23
transporting these heavy things damn that's
44:27
good it is not a cheap bag for the folks out
44:29
there looking at it yeah you're the cheapest one i
44:32
can find 150 on that one you know yeah so
44:36
and that's probably 300 bucks aussie which is what i'm looking at about here
44:40
but it is look when it's making you money every weekend it's a great solution
44:45
i'm actually really tempted to go and do that myself because um i've seen them
44:49
in second hand stores so if you get to the goodwill and stuff like that,
44:52
you might have some luck over there finding a nice bag at a good price because
44:55
people don't use them anymore, but they do have value to magicians.
45:01
And I think, yeah. And I love the idea of just being able to like,
45:03
cause once the handle goes down, it's so unnoticeable. Like you don't even think
45:07
there's a thing in there.
45:07
And I love that especially, but for me also what the, the, the big selling point
45:12
is being able to leave the mouth open, like to leave this bit open because I
45:16
do stuff in my act and then I roll it up and I just throw it into the bag and then I move on.
45:22
And then when it comes time to get off stage, I close the bag, grab my crap and I'm off.
45:26
So you can carry that traditionally like this doctor's bag and wheel it around.
45:31
Yeah easy peasy on both the counts yeah that's
45:34
great so this is the close-up case
45:37
that i keep inside there this is the tcc close-up
45:41
case i don't know how much of this y'all want to get into
45:44
the players i'm doing walk around magic i'm
45:47
doing sponge bunnies i'm doing eight ball production hard
45:51
to wallet i use the real man speed loader plus this
45:54
is a tony miller design is what i go with it's a
45:57
hip pocket front loader and no no no
46:00
slide either it's an interesting flap design uh
46:03
you know half a dozen decks i got a couple gimmick ones brainwave unshuffled
46:08
i've got a color changing knives here i
46:10
was going to really enjoying performing that and then
46:13
up here i've got slideini silks there's my ears i.
46:16
Got some backup sharpie markers thumb
46:19
tip and silk that's a jl magic
46:22
wand this is great for work and walk around if i'm not
46:25
using the street wand and yeah that's
46:28
about it you know sponge bunnies card tricks i always have coins
46:31
with me and uh here's here's what i do
46:34
for coins i use different size and or colored purses
46:37
so i can feel by color or sight which
46:40
coin routines are in my pocket as needed and you
46:43
know not have to open a purse and dig through a different different
46:46
one you know to get a different coin thing
46:49
any questions on that it's
46:52
kind of quick but you know i feel like we've
46:55
seen enough tricks today where's your
46:58
underwear i know i've been
47:01
missing the underwear i'll have to put that in the toiletry bag
47:04
with the sunscreen someone said no one mentioned a towel always have a towel
47:10
with you at least a hand towel for mopping sweat or you know maybe a spill happens
47:14
and no one said that i don't go anywhere without throwing a towel in my bag
47:18
before i leave I actually have something a little more discreet.
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I have a napkin, like a cloth napkin. So it looks almost like it can be used for whatever else.
47:29
Like it can be used for a silk production or this or that. It's not quite as
47:33
abrasive as like a towel.
47:35
Well, I'll tell you what I use is a, as a, a washcloth and I use it in my back
47:40
pocket. And what that does is
47:42
elevate the eight ball so that when I do the steel out of my back pocket.
47:46
So now I have this washcloth serviceable in my back pocket as needed,
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you know, if I need to do a little touch-up if I'm sweaty, and then it serves
47:54
as an elevator for the 8th hall steel. Yeah.
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That's great. It makes a lot of sense. And then now that you're in the shop
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all the time, are you seeing stuff in there and you're like,
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oh, it would be good to have, but we're limited with pocket space.
48:11
So are you seeing stuff that are almost maybe making it into your set instead
48:15
of something else? Yeah.
48:19
It's like every day I see something new I want to put into the rep.
48:23
I think the most recent thing, the one that's really going to make it
48:26
is the ox bender the coin bender you know
48:29
you guys use one of those anyone use up
48:32
the ox bender i bought the
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ox bender at magic live and never
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used it but i do own i do
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own david david penn's coin vest
48:43
and i do think it's
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fantastic i still have it and
48:49
it's so good it just
48:52
doesn't fit my character anymore it makes no sense for like a sleight of hand
48:57
character to then mentally bend a coin so for me i just made the choice to not
49:03
use it anymore but i have it and i recommend it and the ox bender when i saw
49:07
it damned for american coins like pennies and stuff just seemed like.
49:11
Amazing to use but like have you done yeah have you done coin bending routines
49:17
and if you have what is the audience's response when you do it they've seen you do knuckle busting,
49:24
magic and then what happens when you bend a
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coin honestly i have not i'll tell you what turned me
49:29
on to it i was watching the firefly tutorial last week
49:32
and they suggest integrating that and maybe even
49:35
with the smoke gimmick and i don't know if you need to do all that but the
49:39
the host of the tutorial is enthusiasm for the
49:43
ox bender had me look in that direction and
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i took one home and played with it and it's not a
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cheap buy so well i'm just going to demo it at the shop till
49:51
i like good enough and then when i got my routine down i'm
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gonna buy one get back
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with me in a couple weeks after i've had some reps with the
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thing you know what i never ended up using nick
50:04
the year that we went to magic live when i was there as well
50:06
2018 the big hype at the time was a signs bill to sharpie effect yeah you got
50:15
the you got the whole gimmick that basically the the the note It vanishes and
50:20
almost goes straight into the pen for you. Like it was a really cool utility.
50:25
I've not used it a single time. I still have the box and I was so hyped when
50:32
I saw it and I've not seen anyone performing it and I haven't used it. Is that the same for you?
50:40
Did you play around with it? I was working on an effect with it entirely where,
50:45
cause I do this whole, like, you know, the old traditional thing.
50:48
You know, the coin pen effect where you do this type of thing you put behind your ear.
50:52
Like I actually do that in my roving set, but it's a whole thing with,
50:55
and then I produce like a jumbo coin and a jumbo pen at the end of it.
50:58
And I was like, I'd be so cool if you could like ask someone for a bill and
51:02
then just like strike, vanish, vanish the bill. And that bill,
51:04
that's what I was going for with it.
51:07
It is just so, I think
51:09
the problem is that it's difficult with Australian in currency
51:12
because we have the polymer plasticky stuff i
51:16
think that was what made it difficult for me yeah the
51:20
thought of in real time yeah because at home when we're
51:22
folding the bill yes you can get it in the thing easily but you're right like
51:27
in the heat of the moment would it get would it get stuck when you're trying
51:32
to do the last little load bit yeah with our money but but even in america like
51:37
i haven't seen anyone any clips going online of of dudes doing it with.
51:41
Us notes even i know nicholas einhorn bought
51:44
out his own version which i feel like might be more of a workable
51:47
i've heard that's a good one yeah it
51:52
might also be because we are you know after covert leaning
51:55
into that cashless society and getting a hand on
51:57
some unabill is quite difficult at times but you
52:01
know it's probably a myriad of reasons why it's not as popular as
52:04
it used to be but it's it's just interesting like i
52:07
bought it with all these intentions of yes i'm going to do an
52:09
effect that like you know no one's seeing being
52:12
done and then i think for me what it was is
52:15
the gimmick is just too chunky of a thing to add
52:18
to my suit and stuff you know yeah you know it probably actually alex makes
52:24
a good point that it could be a good idea to talk about things called the junk
52:28
drawer in which we've gone i'm gonna get my hands on this i'm gonna do stuff
52:34
with it, and then you never do a damn thing.
52:37
It might be worth, yeah.
52:39
You know, one thing I wanted to touch on today is the bag that I keep in my car.
52:44
It's an emergency bag that has rope, set of Professor's Nightmare,
52:48
two sponge balls, a deck of cards, and a big coin in it.
52:52
So now I'm ready to do a show anytime, anywhere that my car is close by.
52:56
Forget your bag? No problem. You're at a bar, you need to do a set? No problem.
53:01
You know, you've got a gathering?
53:03
Ready to like a go bag like yeah
53:06
it's a magic show it's in my glove compartment it
53:09
takes up this much space and you know if you're a magician you should be ready
53:14
to do a show anytime that's my thought yeah that's great oh yeah a go bag seth
53:21
says that he keeps altoids there you go ready to go in it.
53:29
Yeah, I do keep a deck, like a good deck ready to perform, like a full deck.
53:34
It just sits in the side door of my car, but it's really just,
53:36
I don't know, for safety or if I'm bored.
53:39
My wife talked me into one of these man purses, and this for carrying around
53:44
magic stuff has been great.
53:46
You get your cards, coins, they got some tip in here, a Sharpie,
53:50
and then you can also put your weed in here in Las Vegas, and it's all just street.
53:54
You know but no for me as opposed
53:57
to carrying around everything in your pockets you
54:00
know the cards and it gets bulky and if it's hot it's doubly
54:03
a problem and yeah so this is a good solution too
54:06
if you're a magician a man purse a merce a merce
54:10
satchel is it a satchel indiana jones has one
54:13
you guys use the merce no either
54:16
of you sport in a bag i personally well yeah
54:20
go ahead josh because i carry as little as possible like for me it's
54:23
just i and my phone like even the keys to my house it's
54:25
all digital my i don't have car keys because i have
54:28
a tesla it's literally that's my car keys that's my house keys
54:31
everything i need is just here like yeah i don't rock immerse even at a gig
54:36
like for my i've talked about this a billion times but my rubik's cube that
54:40
i'll i'll do a rubik's cube routine in roving and i'll and i'll carry the the
54:45
cheap one which is I sat it down somewhere. Oh yeah, this one.
54:48
So yeah, we talked about these. I found these, they're 50 cents each at the
54:52
store I found them at in Australia, but I will not even keep this on me.
54:56
I'll sit it down on a cocktail table at the gig and I'll just eventually come to it and then do magic.
55:02
So I try to not have like bulky stuff on me, but I love the idea of it.
55:07
And I know like my friend Adam Axford, our friend,
55:10
he, he'll rock like the gun holster type thing where he's
55:13
got like this the thing on under his jacket
55:16
with the the holster so he can put stuff in those pockets too
55:19
what about you nick what oh you said
55:21
you try to have as little as possible i yeah i don't
55:25
carry a thing man like when i'm day to day like if
55:27
someone says like show me something i'll be like like if i'm at a cafe i'm like
55:30
give me just three coins give me three coins from the from the
55:33
counter yeah and i'll do something like okay just bring me something bring me
55:37
stuff and i'll just do like that's what i'm like you know it'd be a good idea
55:41
maybe this has been done already but has anyone made a top hat that you can
55:46
just take off and it has all your stuff your roving stuff in it because it has
55:49
like individual sections inside it that are pockets maybe.
55:53
You know i wonder that's a great idea anyone's thought of that that's kind of
55:58
fun yeah i will i will carry stuff in like in my jacket pocket at most like
56:03
because i'll have like my i put a deck in my breast pocket because you know
56:06
that's how i got into magic i used to have cigarettes in there And so instead of having cigarettes,
56:10
I keep purposely keep packs of playing cards and my cigarettes used to go as
56:13
a little reminder of like, that's where you came from.
56:15
You don't know where you're going. So good.
56:19
You know, what's cool is like every bag we've just gone through is different.
56:23
So there isn't like any one right way to, why is the, wait, Alex has said,
56:29
why is this guy's head shaped like a Rubik's cube? Oh, cause you're putting it in the hat.
56:35
Well, it's not going in this kind of hat. Like I'm not doing like,
56:38
you know, this kind of thing, which, you know, you could almost rock,
56:41
but it's not really, it's kind of floating pretty lightly there.
56:45
But actually that would be an effect on its own to reach inside and pull out
56:49
what they think is an actual Rubik's Cube.
56:52
That's kind of fun. So many options, so many, you know.
56:55
So what I've learned is I need to go and buy a catalog bag, a tub of paper cream,
57:03
a secret savant, another pair of underpants, a toilet paper roll to fit in my bag.
57:10
Someone mentioned earlier, that's, why didn't we think of that?
57:13
I eat the tissue. um yeah there's little
57:16
travel tissue numbers the only
57:19
thing i didn't mention is i carry with me michael
57:22
amars ceiling card to ceiling wax but
57:25
i the way i keep it is i just take a playing card like one of the advertising
57:30
cards from the deck that i've opened i cut i tear it in half and then that is
57:35
what i stick a ball of wax onto and then i close it and i just i just put a
57:42
rubber band around the middle.
57:44
And I, and that's just, if I don't already preload this, if I look,
57:48
if I walk in the gig and I see it's got a good ceiling, which I did on the weekend.
57:52
And then it, when I know I'm going to do the routine, like while they're signing
57:56
the card and I turn around, I will just grab the wax out and stick it on my belt buckle.
58:00
And then I can easily grab it later. But if I need to, the rubber band is there.
58:05
So I can say, you know, like I can just build it up.
58:08
Like in the way that Michael Lamar says he has his box of secrets,
58:12
I'll just pull this and be like, ah, do you know what this is?
58:14
And they're like, no. And I'm like, ah, this is a high-tech tension dispenser.
58:18
And I give it to them and now I can just grab that off.
58:21
So instead of taking the whole tub, I will just put two balls of wax on a torn card.
58:27
Now we have a use for our advertising cards and...
58:31
I know if you're listening to this, which most of our listeners do,
58:34
that sounds weird, but you can watch the video.
58:36
It's basically a ball of the Michael Marwax stuck onto a card.
58:40
And that takes up no space now. It just goes in my left outside jacket pocket.
58:45
I like it. And we're good to go. Great trick. That trick's killer.
58:50
Yeah. It's killer. It lives on. It's a frozen moment in magic.
58:55
Always make sure you have a high enough ceiling, obviously. Cool.
58:58
Well, it's been an hour, friends. without a quick chat oh gary
59:01
gary's just cuts where can i purchase paper cream amazon that
59:05
is the only place i've been able to get it from it might
59:08
be sold i i was trying to get some recently i think it might
59:11
have sold out or someone was complaining to me but didn't have
59:13
a lot buy it in bulk man seriously and what's
59:17
really funny is that like out of all my friends they're like you're the only
59:20
guy i know who gets to the bottom of it like generally to the bottom of it i'm
59:24
like scraping the sides of it like this so like because i use it every gig and
59:28
so they're just like you're the only person i know like they always lose them
59:31
and then just grab a fresh one but they're like you're the only guy i know who's
59:34
ever gotten to the bottom of it like several times so.
59:37
Gary davidson just said out of stock but yeah look keep your eyes on that stuff
59:41
there is some other stuff out there i know my friends have tried it they're
59:45
all being like deeply disappointed,
59:47
my advice just write it out but guys as we come to a close thank you all for
59:52
listening i hope this was of some value to you guys we have no idea what we're
59:56
going to talk about next week although it might be fun to go through a whole
59:58
bunch of stuff and go the junk drawers,
1:00:00
the things that we thought were going to be exciting and then go, never did it.
1:00:05
And then actually it might be a good idea because there's probably stuff that
1:00:08
I bought 10 years ago and gone.
1:00:11
And maybe it's like, maybe now's the time it's been 10 years.
1:00:15
Yeah. Yeah. You know what? Let's put out a preempt here. Let's,
1:00:18
let's include some, some gig stories next week from you guys.
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