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Hair Is Bullsh*t #262 · The Magic Guys

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  They're guys. They do magic. They are the Magic Guys. The Magic Guys.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 262 of the Magic Guys.
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  I am Sir Josh Norbedo and to my left we have Nicholas Kay.
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  I am Nick Kay and joining us is also...
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  From the land down under big daddy d doug con how y'all doing technically i'm
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  down under you guys are on the top i'm the bottom today douglas conilus ladies and gentlemen,
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  From the Las Vegas. Tricks apply. Go see him. Go see him. Tell people that all
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  the time. We have fun here.
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  I don't doubt it, man. Like, the amount of people you have coming in there is
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  phenomenal. Who recently came in?
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  You know who was in this week that I absolutely love? Paul Draper.
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  Do you all know about Paul Draper?
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  Yeah. Paul Draper. Man, he is like one of the top-tier professionals,
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  I feel, in this country, out there on the streets, absolutely killing it.
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  And he was in Portland at the Magic Jam last week where he also delivered a
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  lecture that was killer.
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  He does a lecture where it's choose your own path. So he asked the audience, what can I teach you?
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  And he knows all the things because he's such a great pro and then he just delivers
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  the information the audience wants.
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  Damn. So yeah, Paul, but there's been other guys. I could talk about a bunch
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  of guys, but Paul's the one.
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  We should get him on this show. would be great to pick his brain you're
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  right jasmine yeah i will do that
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  we should start sending out
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  little stickers that that doug puts into people's
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  trick supply bags when they leave like if they're a notable magician
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  yeah yeah like an open
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  invitation like to come be on the show well like
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  i told you the other day magic crasher was in here he's going out he
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  was about to head out and film with uh matt franco and
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  pete serrano and he's like i want to be on the podcast so
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  he should be booking in soon you know he's been
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  on social streets since vine was popular
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  i think we can all agree since since winning this
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  wonderful fism accolade that folks are actually like
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  i was waiting for you to ask me and it's like
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  well motherfucker like just come like we should yeah we should ask more people
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  yeah we really should ask people yeah that's on us kid like we'll definitely
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  make an effort for that but you know it's almost i feel like we're almost going
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  to become an entirely exclusively interview show, which,
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  How dare you say that? You know, do we worry? We do everything,
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  though. We do it all good.
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  We are the general practitioners of magic podcasts.
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  Bad boys of magic. We are an exclusive interview show, except for today,
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  where we have no interview.
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  And that's okay. We are one of the shows that can go with no guest and still
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  have 11 people tuning in. Like, that's the kind of talent level we are.
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  Yeah. And I mean that in a good way. because we
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  could we can just chat for days with
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  no guest i think it's it reminds me
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  of in australia we have the hamish and any podcast notably
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  famous for not ever having guests but
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  having segments you know and i
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  like to think we're the hamish and andy and mandy because it's three of us of
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  the very niche magic fism award winner you know who was in here like 15 minutes
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  ago patten gillian he's been on our podcast before he was picking up a few things
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  for his mentalism show tomorrow.
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  Yeah if you don't know who he is do check out his previous interview on the
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  show he's an he's like the sweetest guy in magic with this amazing he actually
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  called me last week oh he mentioned that actually he said i was wondering what
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  time it was enough he told he had told me that,
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  so what happened guys was it was it was about 8 p.m melbourne time i think it
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  was a saturday Cause like I I'm, I've, if you're listening for the first time
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  at a tonsillectomy a week ago, so my, my throat has been rubbish and I haven't
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  performed for, for two weeks now.
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  And so I was just home on a Saturday night, which is very rare because ordinarily I'm performing.
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  I'm just sitting here on my lonesome board and missing performing magic.
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  Then all of a sudden the phone rings and it's Patton Gillian all the way from
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  Vegas. And he's like, calls up with his beautiful, enthusiastic voice he has.
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  And he's like, it's 2 AM here. And I was thinking about you.
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  And I'm just like, if you were any sweeter, Pat, and you'd give me diabetes,
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  I swear to God, I have nothing but good things to say about you.
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  What a sweet guy. He's a sweetheart. He pointed this book out to me.
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  He was looking in our bargain bin items, and he goes, you know what that is, huh?
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  You guys know about Daydreams from Lubor Fiedler?
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  Daydreams by, I don't even know the name. Who's Lubor Fiedler? What?
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  Who's Lubor Fiedler? You just got a demerit, Mr.
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  Nick. Okay, guys in the chat, I don't want to be alone in this.
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  If you know Lubor Fiedler, please let us know in the chat. Josh,
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  full screen this book again.
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  We're about to get some Lou Bore Fiedler magic right here. This is his daydream
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  book, and this is filled with all the things that a magician might want in his life.
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  In fact, if you concentrate on what you want, the daydream book will provide it. Let me try it.
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  Oh, it's working. Look, it's working.
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  I'm daydreaming. Oh, I might have seen too much. Our viewer retention just doubled. Let's go.
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  Taking this home for some fun later.
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  But if you look at the cover of the book, it kind of foreshadows what's coming now that you know.
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  Nice. Yeah. If you use your imagination. And if you come into Trick Supply over
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  the next day or two before some other smart person comes in here for $7, you too can daydream.
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  Wow. That's a buy for $7. Isn't that, look, if I was a teenager,
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  that is the exact book I would buy to not get caught looking at pictures.
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  But now they have the internet down, Norbida. You don't have to do that.
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  It's not like the old days where I used to have to bust into my dad's Playboy stash.
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  But aren't you familiar with me? I'm from the 1500s. Oh, yeah.
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  I would need a Shingali book. For the viewers at home today,
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  Josh is in colonial mode.
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  He actually has a wig on, if you can imagine that. What do you mean?
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  You'd be like, where's Josh?
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  Where's Josh? Oh, he's in the shed again painting. This is just our Rogaine sponsor.
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  I'm just pointing out how effective it is. It's working. You know?
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  Yeah. It's working. But the short story of it is I was sent this deck,
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  the Baroque Bicycle Designer Series, by the actual designer, which is Mark Stutzman.
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  And for those who don't know who Mark Stutzman is, he's the gentleman that designs
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  David Blaine's playing cards and posters.
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  And so in the designer world, he's pretty well known. And I was...
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  Almost like star shocked when he messaged me for making
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  a few other card video reviews and he's like
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  i would love to send you mine and see what you can do
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  with it and not only did he send me one but he sent me a deck that was signed
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  as well so i've got one to keep that's signed and one that i could play around
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  with and i just thought you know he went to that effort so i'm not just gonna
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  like do a trick with this deck i'm gonna so i went online on amazon and i bought an actual.
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  Baroque era outfit so i had the whole costume the wig and okay now i'm admitting
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  it's a wig and then i made them here and to my surprise bicycle collabed it
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  on their like the main bicycle instagram on their profile as well as mark and
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  myself and it's like one of their,
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  better viewing i think it's like the most viewed video on mark's instagram page
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  apart from the one that david blaine himself collabed with him on so anyway
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  i'm all i'm here to say is that yeah people do favor
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  magicians with hair so if you all now
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  i got to keep the wig real talk though
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  real talk right hair and
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  showbiz like there is there is a visual entity to it like
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  if we take someone like i would say luke luke jimay who who took it took it
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  upon himself to have a beautiful hairline he looks great another very close
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  friend of ours from new zealand i've been saying to him like you you've got
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  to commit to it because him him bold just doesn't work for his aesthetic i'm
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  like you've got to get your hair back like go and do it.
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  It really is a commitment and a choice for sure the question for the three of
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  us like if if there were a magic genie and yes and it was it was it was two
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  chances like you can either one have your hair back or stay as you are,
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  would you take your hair back?
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  Am I dreaming here? I mean, yes. If I can get my full hairline head of hair back.
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  Thick. Barely get a comb through it. Like full thick head of hair.
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  Not afro, but like nice thick head of hair.
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  Look, I mean, I'm very content with my hair.
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  With my actual bald head. With your head? Not covering it up with because I'm insecure.
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  But, you know, I'm actually happy with my hair. But, yes, if I could press a
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  button and it instantly be back, then I personally would do it.
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  Are you saying you wouldn't, Nick? Are you saying you wouldn't do that? I would not.
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  I genuinely like this existence very much.
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  Right. I agree. If nothing else, it's a huge time saver.
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  And if you add those hours up, just imagine how many more days of life you get
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  from not having to comb hair or condition it or go to the barber.
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  And now we're all so much better magicians for using that spare time to practice
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  our bottom deal. instead of combing hair. Totally agree.
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  Yeah. And then you can't like get a scooter on the way to a gig because you
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  got to, like you'll get helmet hair.
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  That's true. You know what I mean? That's true. Or it's like a stool rock up, you know?
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  I mean, someone is asking what is our bold upkeep routine. Boy.
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  Yeah. Do you guys use the electric game to keep your heads shaved or are you a razor guy like myself?
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  I wish I knew this was coming because I have the handheld skull shaver,
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  the one that has like five different heads on it and it curves with your head
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  so you can just go around and and it collects the hair within it so it's all
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  it's an all-in-one very easy to to maintain,
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  is what i use doug what are you rocking i use something similar to that it's
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  the three dial deal with the big handle thing you know so i'll run over that
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  it's got a it's multi-purpose thing but similar to what you're using yeah i
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  feel like i'm naturally bald more than you are though i don't want to shave it as much,
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  you know, it's growing slower and there's less of it.
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  Multi-purposes and you can do head and balls like it's
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  got like like one edge of
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  it is just a straight razor where it's like and then it's got the three little
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  dials so it's got a couple things going there okay i will say time yeah for
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  time efficiency it is way quicker like even having this wig on i gotta say like
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  when i was filming like stuff like this would happen and i'm like God damn it.
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  This is actually annoying. Bullshit.
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  Hair is bullshit. That should be the title.
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  That's the title of this episode. Hair is bullshit. Hair is bullshit.
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  I love it. Well, speaking of hair being bullshit, we do have a speak pipe and
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  we have two. But first one comes in from Seth.
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  Let's see if we can answer Seth's question. hello friends hope y'all are doing
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  well i was wondering if you had any words of advice for going up on stage cold
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  i just had to do that for the first time last week and it was kind of,
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  awkward i the way i handled it i just sort of said like
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  hey guys did y'all know you were about to see a magic show and everybody
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  said oh no i had no idea i was like well you guys are
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  in for a treat and then i sort of just went into it from
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  there but i'm wondering if there is a a better approach
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  yeah thanks coming in
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  from seth oh see there's that hair again god damn it now
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  it's gonna bug me all episode but i've committed all right let's go around the
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  room let's start with doug what did you ever have to deal with that so i guess
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  i'm a little confused by coming in cold like you're going on stage where people
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  don't know a show's happening or it sounds like there's no MC,
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  you just have to walk up like during the event and shit.
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  It sounds like every day of my professional career street performing.
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  It's like, you know, yeah, thank you what it sounds like.
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  But yeah, yeah, I guess, you know, but.
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  I guess the standard rule of hit them hard and fast is a good way to get a show
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  going right off the gate if they don't know you're going to be magishing.
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  Magish quickly and impress them. A good example would be like when I'm on the
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  street, I want to convince someone I'm good, I do brainwave.
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  So it's real quick. I hold a card up, I say, name a card, and it's just a passerby.
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  Four diamonds, and I turn over the 52-on-one card. So yeah, it's right there next to the three.
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  So right away, they get a banger joke, And then I'm going to hit them with the B wave, the brain wave.
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  That card's going to be upside down and different colored. All of that happens in less than a minute.
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  They're loving me right away with a killer joke and a great trick.
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  Yeah, the busk is one of you. That's kind of interesting.
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  They would laugh at a stage magician. Like, what do you mean you have someone
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  introduce you and have the audience warmed up? Yeah, I don't know what that's like.
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  Tell me what that's like. That's so interesting. So from your point of view,
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  that is, goddammit. That is just the norm for you.
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  Like that is like the, okay, let's do a thing quickly, Sean,
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  we're good, build it up. That's interesting.
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  And I wonder if that could be applied before we go into like actual methods
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  for staging, like, could that be a method for,
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  To apply the Busker rule, but for a stage show in a stage environment,
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  like I think of the singing waiters is like a roving act that where they surprise
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  the audience by becoming an act, but they start as waiters and they slowly start to do stuff.
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  And one person, one waiter ends up on stage accidentally and he's like,
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  excuse me, I dropped my da da da.
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  And then they basically make this show start happening and people just start
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  realizing something's happening.
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  I wonder if that's like a magical like you go on stage
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  and you touch the mic stand and it sparks and you're like
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  oh i'm so sorry and you maybe you're the tech guy like you look like a tech
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  guy that stuff starts floating or sparky abner the eccentric comes out sweeping
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  the newspaper and then he picks up the pieces of the newspaper and boom it restores
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  itself you know something like that would be cool like an organic segue like that's actually,
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  kind of fun yeah all right now let's go to some proper sense nick what's um what are your thoughts.
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  Well you can always announce yourself is one piece of advice i'd like to give
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  you so for example if there is no mc but you are mic'd up you know you can just
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  stand side of stage announce yourself and then walk on stage and you can you
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  know make the joke of like well you know you're a big deal.
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  Side of stage. And even if they can see you side of stage, you can make a little
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  joke about that and go, hello, my name.
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  And then you start your shows normal, you know, and you know,
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  the, the cover, those three important things that I think are important with
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  almost every performance when you first grace the stage.
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  And that's, who are you, what are you doing and why are you worth my time?
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  And those are the three things taught by Max Maven in his book, Prism.
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  And I teach that in my lectures as well. So I think those three entities are kind of covered.
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  So one option, announce yourself that'll work
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  just fine you know think i mean
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  ultimately every time you approach a group or a table it's
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  a cold opening you know they're not expecting a
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  magician to come forward at the restaurant or at the corporate you know so yeah
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  don't be too frightened about it is what i'm saying like you've just got to
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  have the scripts and the know-how to penetrate those groups and those audiences
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  and i think that you know i think what you did was fine by approaching the audience and saying like,
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  you may not have known this, but it's time for a magic show.
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  I'm like, oh, is it? Yeah.
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  And so even if you just get on stage and have the authority to do that.
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  So one of the things that's kind of important when you're on a stage or playing
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  a persona, if you've ever read, what's his name?
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  Johnson's book on improv, the very first thing you want to do is establish status.
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  So there's nothing wrong with you getting on stage and saying,
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  you're probably unaware, but we're supposed to be doing a magic show.
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  Everyone, right? for giving your attention. All right, everyone turn around.
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  Come on up. Stop talking. Sit down. Everyone sit, sit, sit, sit.
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  And just take that moment and get the whole room under control.
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  You know, if they're kids or even if they're adults, you can still approach it the same way.
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  So yeah, I mean, they're very unorthodox ways to do it as opposed to the traditional
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  sense, but there's still methods and either one of those will work.
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  And I think what you did was also a great job as well.
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  So give yourself a pat on the back, Seth. You did great.
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  Curious. Yeah, go ahead, Norbido. No, I was going to also say like,
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  That's a totally fine thing you did Seth.
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  Like, and then you get into the show and that's totally fine.
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  I'm thinking, yeah, all of what Nick said is fantastic.
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  I know other things that can help is our friend Brennan Dooley actually has
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  his own audio recorded intro that plays instead of an MC introducing him.
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  Or even if an MC introduces him, he just assumes that the MC is not going to do a great job.
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  So that audio will still play. and it's a full-on Vegas-sounding intro with
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  a voiceover guy and please welcome Brennan Dolly.
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  And he comes on and so that's something you could do too, just have your own pre-recorded one.
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  And then if you're using a handheld
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  mic and that's why you had to go on stage to talk to the audience,
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  like if you can't do a side stage self-introduction, like we were saying,
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  what you could also do as a bit of fun is go up to the stage,
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  grab the mic but just pretend like
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  you're here to introduce the act that's going to come on who's the
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  magician you know and like hey ladies and
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  gentlemen we're going to have an act come on stage how's everyone doing
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  are we good yeah here's a little warm up thing blah blah blah are you ready
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  for magic yeah alright I want to introduce this magician he's you know the most
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  handsome magician I've seen in a four mile radius and blah blah blah blah give
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  him a big round of applause and then you run off stage and you quickly come
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  back on like that's another just another whimsical thing.
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  That you could do because you're kind of establishing that like
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  you'll handle any situation and a bit
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  of fun right but um yeah i think
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  that covers most things i mean the easiest way is just to in advance make sure
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  the client obviously knows that someone is going to intro you and here is the
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  script to intro me but i think yeah yeah pick any and if you do want to actually have a voiceover made,
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  you can create one on 11, it's called 11labs.io.
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  And you can choose what type of voice you want to have. And you can actually
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  have it be like, it's like a, it's an AI generated voice.
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  So you can actually have it be a bit more showbiz, a little bit more reserved.
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  And every time you generate a speech, like it changes it just slightly until
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  you find what kind of fits just right.
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  So my advice is that when you do play with that,
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  like literally just write it one line at a time don't
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  write a full paragraph and dump it at once just write one
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  line at a time and then piece those audio files
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  together to give you one coherent introduction you
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  know even and even just and even just your last night or your name
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  if it was like seth the magician seth the
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  magician seth the magician like it'll
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  change every single time so just write like that
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  one name hit generate until you find the one that kind of like hits for
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  you so that's one really cool way you can do that
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  and then just apply that to some music that you that you have in the background
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  wow curious if you guys have intros on like a printed page to hand mcs and things
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  like that i've heard of guys using that approach where you know you have something
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  on you that you give to someone to read is that standard for you.
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  Well, the last thing I'll say too is the other way you can do it,
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  if you want to get an intro like the one we use for the Magic Guys,
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  I used a voiceover artist on Fiverr.
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  So that's also the other super easy ways. You go to Fiverr, you pick a voiceover
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  artist, and you give them the script and the energy you're going for,
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  and they'll send you like three variations of it, is the other thing too.
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  But yeah, I do have a script, Doug, so I'll send that along with like the stage requirements.
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  So like it would be like tech requirements stage requirements intro
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  for the emcee and then i'll like
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  chat to the emcee before i like when i
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  get to the venue make sure they have that because often they don't
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  have it well that's what i'm saying i was asking if you carry it
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  with you because i wouldn't rely on them to have the
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  foresight to print it yeah yeah i
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  well i i have one which is just a pdf that i
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  made some years ago this was actually on the advice from
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  david hira after seeing his penguin lecture and
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  i basically used the template that he provided and did that i've
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  just shared my pdf that i give in our
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  discord under the podcast talk chat
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  so you guys can look at it for your reference and it's nothing groundbreaking
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  by any means but all i did was that i just i have it written down as
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  my introduction i explained it like 10 minutes prior make
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  this happen two minutes prior make sure nick is backstage
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  and ready and then show time and then it's what I want them to say with things
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  like wait silently for 20 seconds then you know then say this okay yeah I have
• 22:13
  things like please like get them to turn their chairs towards the stage wait
• 22:17
  for 20 seconds like really try like I give them advice on how to get them.
• 22:22
  To shape themselves for the for the actual show show and
• 22:25
  and then what's kind of funny is sometimes when they're reading that script i'll be
• 22:28
  like a side of stage and and
• 22:32
  i'll just do jokes i'll be like our next guest is
• 22:35
  an award-winning multi multi award yeah
• 22:39
  i'm amazing and and i'll just and
• 22:42
  i'll just be laughing as i'm doing from side of stage my guy you guys
• 22:45
  are gonna love it and then i would like hide back but and then they would
• 22:47
  announce me and i come out like yeah this guy's kind of fun and i
• 22:50
  would play around you know and that that really
• 22:53
  sets the tone of my comedy show wow that's
• 22:56
  really interesting to go so detailed on the before the show i love it and it
• 23:02
  also reminds me of uh eric leclerc's intro do you remember when eric performed
• 23:07
  at the theater of magic not not one performer like normally at our theater of
• 23:12
  magic when we intro ourselves or another performer,
• 23:16
  they usually come in from the back of the room or side of stage.
• 23:20
  But Eric is the only magician to walk behind the curtain.
• 23:25
  That's like, there's nothing back there. It's like a curtain and then the back of the building.
• 23:30
  He's like, yeah, I'm just going to stand here for like the 15 minutes that an
• 23:34
  audience comes in to sit down.
• 23:37
  I'm just going to freaking wait back
• 23:39
  here and then while we're reading out his accolades you
• 23:43
  can just hear you can hear eric going every time they
• 23:45
  say like he fooled penn and teller wow and
• 23:50
  he just like progressively gets louder and holy crap was it funny oh that guy
• 23:58
  it was good it was good hey we had another speak pipe if yeah i was just gonna
• 24:02
  uh before we wrap this up yeah the reason i have say things 10 minutes prior and two minutes prior,
• 24:08
  make sure that I'm ready is because there's been times where.
• 24:11
  They've just, you know, there's always been some like, oh, she's,
• 24:13
  she's going to organize the show. And then you're backstage and they go,
• 24:16
  ladies and gentlemen, Nick Kay.
• 24:17
  And they go, what the hell are you? And I'm like, waiting for you to come and get me.
• 24:21
  So the very fact that that's there is just the safety to make sure that I am
• 24:25
  actually backstage and I am actually ready to walk on because that has happened
• 24:29
  once before because they weren't doing what they were supposed to. That's so detailed.
• 24:36
  That's actually a fantastic point. how many times has that happened
• 24:39
  where like the emcee just reads the next thing on the sheet
• 24:42
  they have no idea if like that's something
• 24:45
  that needs to be checked or whatever first yeah
• 24:48
  bloody hell that just brings back and the
• 24:51
  last thing is uh that reference i made to the improv book it was
• 24:54
  keith johnson if you ever want to read that book on how to do improv
• 24:57
  it's keith johnson's book called improv banger book
• 25:01
  and speaking of improv i've been
• 25:04
  obsessed with ben schwartz lately who is
• 25:07
  like a long-form improv god and also
• 25:11
  the voice of sonic in the movies as well
• 25:13
  as many many shows parks and recreation he's like
• 25:16
  a full-on hollywood celebrity actor but
• 25:19
  he does these touring shows of of long-form improv
• 25:22
  where you can go and see any show and it's always different
• 25:25
  and he has big famous improv comedians
• 25:28
  from tv shows that you would all know coming along
• 25:32
  anyway there's a special on netflix called uh middles
• 25:35
  middleton and schwartz and i recommend checking it
• 25:38
  out it's great for magic like just seeing the different
• 25:41
  choices they make in situations to make things funny when there's literally
• 25:45
  nothing freaking impressive as anyway that's all i'll say so that book is that's
• 25:52
  gonna get you started and it was what was it called again improv by keith improv Love, baby.
• 26:00
  All right. I'm going to play this. This is from Scotty Link,
• 26:02
  who's in the chat as well.
• 26:04
  Nice. Scott, I haven't vetted this yet, so this better not be about what you
• 26:09
  told me yesterday. Here we go.
• 26:12
  Hey guys, it's Scott Link here in Charlotte, North Carolina.
• 26:17
  I was wondering, have you seen
• 26:20
  any interesting card to impossible location props lately? Thanks guys.
• 26:27
  Have I seen any interesting to location props lately?
• 26:35
  Props. The big hype was the red button, right? That's what I was doing.
• 26:42
  Yeah. that was a big hype did men do you get many sales of that in your store
• 26:46
  is that something yeah we sold those pretty well when they came out i sold one
• 26:51
  last week they're still selling great prop you know i feel like that's a good
• 26:56
  parlor approach to doing that effect,
• 27:00
  yeah yeah true true for a long time i used to use and i still do for different
• 27:05
  things was David Penn's Mystery Solved.
• 27:08
  Very good. But I think the one that is the latest and greatest and one we want
• 27:13
  to mention is the one Nick has here.
• 27:17
  Yeah, I came across this one kind of recently. Oh, the policy.
• 27:22
  And Scotty, thanks for sending in that speak pipe. Nick, who is that effect by?
• 27:28
  I have no idea. Some guy.
• 27:33
  So scotty link sent us these guys oh scotty oh yes what are the odds that we
• 27:39
  would talk about this from your question and someone with the exact same name
• 27:43
  created it this is fantastic.
• 27:47
  It is a very durable, so you're going to get hundreds of performances out of
• 27:52
  this, I imagine, as long as you respect your props, which I do.
• 27:56
  Yeah, I think this is going to be- Let me talk a little about this thing.
• 27:58
  I've had the pleasure of having this piece in my bag of tricks for a couple of years now.
• 28:04
  Scott's an old buddy of mine going back a couple of, holy cow,
• 28:07
  40 years. We've known each other just about.
• 28:10
  But what we have here is an impossible revelation of a selected card entwined in a flexig.
• 28:19
  It's a flexagon, which is, it's kind of hard to describe verbally,
• 28:23
  but this piece of paper opens more times than it should.
• 28:28
  Now here you're showing some of the puzzles that Scott offers at elephantpuzzle.com.
• 28:33
  He has a few approaches to using flexagons for magic.
• 28:37
  The policy is specific to having a card revealed in its innermost compartment
• 28:44
  after a standard presentation of the insurance policy,
• 28:50
  which is a classic trick of the magician being in trouble.
• 28:54
  The magician can't find it he says let me pull
• 28:57
  my policy out there's gags in the policy and
• 29:01
  with scott's policy you get the added impossible moment
• 29:04
  of a flexagon where the thing opens and
• 29:07
  opens and opens and then the card is found
• 29:10
  in the center that's the yeah that's the
• 29:15
  elevator pitch for the policy yeah all
• 29:18
  right i'm sold i'm sold and scotty
• 29:21
  was very gracious and and sent nick and i one of
• 29:24
  these and so being i'll be honest being so busy as a magician it's so hard to
• 29:30
  find time where you can actually enjoy magic and learn something new but i but
• 29:37
  you know what this does solidify that this has to go into my set and it's like be learned and.
• 29:44
  I feel a fool, good sir. I flick my head to you.
• 29:49
  Here's a good quote. Bill Malone bought one for me back when I was running Conjure.com
• 29:56
  when Scott released this thing.
• 29:58
  And then Bill quickly reordered them, loving it a million.
• 30:01
  And it's in Bill Malone's repertoire.
• 30:04
  I know it's in a lot of working professionals' repertoire. I haven't heard anyone
• 30:08
  that got this thing say anything bad about it.
• 30:10
  So if you're considering the policy in your world, you'd probably like it.
• 30:14
  Oh heck yeah oh wait there's oh i
• 30:18
  didn't want to split this one yet the the envelope itself is gimmick allowing
• 30:23
  secret entrance into the policy as scott developed a unique way to get a card
• 30:29
  inside a sealed envelope and then it works its way into the inner sanctum of that policy,
• 30:35
  which i might have had a little something to do with.
• 30:40
  I was a brief creative consultant on this project,
• 30:44
  All right. Did you find the inside yet, Nick K? Do you even know?
• 30:49
  Open it from the back. Squeeze the back together. Squeeze the back together.
• 30:54
  Now keep folding it. The other way, though.
• 30:58
  Now fold it all the way against itself. Keep folding. Keep folding.
• 31:01
  Keep folding. Back, back, back, back. Now open it again. Boom.
• 31:07
  Whoa. I'm going to sit in here. Let's go. So there's a 3D revelation hidden
• 31:13
  in the inside of this flexagon.
• 31:16
  Damn. That's a hard thing to navigate verbally.
• 31:20
  Holy cow. It must have. This would have looked amazing on Apple Podcasts.
• 31:26
  Thank you for bearing with that for a second.
• 31:29
  You know what? We'll come back to this and show you properly.
• 31:32
  Maybe one of us will learn it properly and then perform it at Theater of Magic
• 31:37
  and we'll like watch that clip on here or something.
• 31:40
  One week yeah do that make scott a nice vertical video
• 31:43
  performance at the theater of magic that'd be
• 31:46
  yeah yeah yeah yeah the problem
• 31:49
  is scott it's not that we haven't wanted to
• 31:51
  learn it it's because we're an idiot and we're trying to figure
• 31:54
  out how to follow the damn thing at least for me
• 31:57
  so yeah let's learn it properly and then if it doesn't
• 32:00
  use a mem deck norbido doesn't do it mem deck
• 32:03
  riverband rubik's cube that's it that's what
• 32:06
  i'm wondering is there think of a card presentation on
• 32:09
  this policy because that you know now we're talking now
• 32:13
  name a card oh i can't find that one let me get my
• 32:16
  policy out there you just wrote it for
• 32:18
  you norbida thank you so much you can also put a rubik's cube in it if you want
• 32:23
  to go crazy with it so go ahead make yourself happy inside the flexagon you
• 32:27
  got rubik's cubes and rubber bands and the card you know what watch out this
• 32:31
  is gonna i'm gonna bloody fool pennantella with this and then now who's laughing you.
• 32:39
  Anyway but doug will be backstage going no no fold it again now squeeze.
• 32:47
  Doug what what other props you got going on at trick supply do
• 32:50
  you have anything fun at the moment we could this is fun when
• 32:53
  i was talking about portland magic jam a little bit i ran
• 32:56
  into louis fox up there he's another great professional that's
• 32:59
  working the the streets of america i
• 33:02
  guess he kind of leans into the college crowd and maybe some
• 33:05
  family shows we've added his product line to
• 33:08
  trick supply i had the pleasure of chatting with him on our live stream
• 33:11
  at trick supply a couple weeks ago but this is
• 33:14
  his these are remote control chattering tea remote control yeah so tell us this
• 33:21
  is one of the timeless comedy props i think that you know everyone can see and
• 33:25
  recognize as being fun and funny and then they can be amazing because they will
• 33:30
  start going clack clack clack clack clack clack clack on their own,
• 33:34
  And Louie's demo, he has this doing this with some kids.
• 33:37
  But I surmise that there's some fun routines that can be done with a prop like
• 33:41
  this in the Louie Fox universe.
• 33:46
  Wow. What with the ranges on it?
• 33:49
  It's six inches. So you have to work for the Lilyputian. But aside from that.
• 33:55
  I don't know. Let's see if he talks about it.
• 33:57
  I get the sense that y'all aren't as enthusiastic about remote control chattering
• 34:00
  teeth as I am, but, uh, no, I think it's a good, I think, look, look, okay.
• 34:06
  Maybe it's something where like, if you put it on someone's hand and then it
• 34:10
  starts remotely chattering, you know, maybe that gets a kind of like,
• 34:15
  you know, the spider on the hand kind of thing.
• 34:17
  Like if it starts chattering all that kind of freaked them out,
• 34:20
  that's something, or maybe like you've carved out a reveal on a card.
• 34:25
  So in the bag you put the chatterbox and while they're thinking of the thing
• 34:29
  you hit the button and it starts cutting out the thing maybe.
• 34:32
  That's what I've seen revelations where you cut up a newspaper and it's got
• 34:36
  a message or it's got a design of a card or something like that in it.
• 34:40
  I would suggest that that's a good option for this prop as well.
• 34:43
  You know, the teeth go in there like you just said they start chomping up and the thing's messed up.
• 34:48
  It'd be funny if you did like a thing where you talked about having maybe like
• 34:52
  a poker night but in one particular poker player was, uh, he had a tell, everyone has a tell.
• 34:57
  And whenever this guy had a good hand, his teeth were chatter.
• 35:01
  And then he was like, oh, I'm totally going to win this because he actually
• 35:04
  took his teeth out and put them in a glass.
• 35:07
  And then he just had them in the glass because that audible noise in the glass
• 35:11
  going, chattering in the glass could be so funny.
• 35:14
  Like if you had this story around that.
• 35:17
  I guess you could use spirit, spirit bell presentations in general.
• 35:21
  Anything you might use a spirit bell for, you could now have the spirit.
• 35:25
  My grandpa's spirit is here. I brought his teeth. Jerry's passed away.
• 35:29
  It's a shame, but I have his false teeth.
• 35:33
  I did have a client buy one. He said he was going to dirty them up,
• 35:36
  so they looked like teeth teeth. Put some stains on there.
• 35:41
  That's the artistry I want to see. I'm going to dirty up my chattery teeth so
• 35:46
  they look more believable.
• 35:47
  Yeah and now that we're moving you can work that in with that wig you're wearing
• 35:51
  and have a whole skit look honestly there's hair getting in the way it honestly
• 35:54
  is sucks I take it back I don't want hair ever this is actually pretty annoying but,
• 36:01
  Taking the chattering teeth into the mentalism world is now I'm interested,
• 36:06
  you know? Now I'm interested.
• 36:07
  Like, yeah, if, like you said, every time they, so think of your card,
• 36:12
  if it was red or black, oh, black, okay, think of, you know, like, that's funny.
• 36:17
  Yeah, it's like everyone has a
• 36:19
  tell. Tim Askin said you acquired Houdini's teeth. See, that's funny too.
• 36:24
  Oddly enough, we have a trick here called Houdini's tooth. It is the weirdest presentation of the...
• 36:31
  Grandmother's necklace. You know, the trick with the beads where you put the
• 36:34
  double loop in and it penetrates through the beads, you know,
• 36:37
  this thing, someone decided, and this trick has Jay Marshall's name on it.
• 36:41
  It was a magic ink production from like 1960 called Houdini's tooth.
• 36:46
  And it's a big ass tooth. And you thread a cord through it.
• 36:50
  I don't know who thought this was a good idea. Like what about a tooth instead
• 36:55
  of a bead? I like it. Call it Houdini's tooth.
• 36:58
  You can escape from that cord through it. Maybe it's, maybe it's a new Orleans
• 37:02
  thing. Like a very voodoo esque type, um, presentation.
• 37:06
  Yeah. It could be that I had someone call me up happy as a clam.
• 37:10
  You got Houdini's tooth in stock. I was like, yes, sir. We have that.
• 37:15
  I'm going to get two of them. We can't find it again.
• 37:20
  Literally one of the weirdest magic products. And that's saying a lot.
• 37:23
  Cause I seen a lot, a lot of weird shit in here.
• 37:25
  Gonna Houdini's tooth. I wonder what takes the cake of the weirdest.
• 37:31
  Magic trick slash prop. I wonder what would be a contender.
• 37:35
  I feel like there's got to be one more use for the chattering teeth that we're
• 37:39
  not thinking of that could be a really funny routine.
• 37:44
  Agreed. Yeah. All right, moving on. Obviously, you've got to marriage the Houdini's
• 37:49
  tooth with the chattering teeth to make it the optimal teeth magic trick.
• 37:55
  Yes. Or not. Yes.
• 37:58
  Yes. Because is it funnier to put the teeth into a bag with something and you hear it going off?
• 38:06
  Or is it funnier to see the chattering teeth be somewhere and it goes off like in full view?
• 38:14
  You know, it'd be interesting if you did like, what's the, what's the silent
• 38:19
  one where you have your mouth, you know, with the, but yeah.
• 38:24
  So like the idea is that like, oh, my, my teeth, like I chatter my teeth,
• 38:28
  so I'll remove them and then you just take that and you play this off, you know,
• 38:34
  you put them in, you then tape your mouth and then you can do this whole bit where money.
• 38:41
  Yeah and then like whenever they're doing stuff like it's like
• 38:44
  they're they're gonna find your car but there's and there's a tell like they're
• 38:47
  gonna guess and whenever they're close like it chatters you know like it is
• 38:52
  it could be the type of thing where it's like you're gonna guess my card and
• 38:55
  you can be holding the sign and the sign can say like is it high or low boom
• 38:59
  and your teeth start to chatter and you're like oh crap i'm giving it away.
• 39:03
  You know, it could be something like there's a hundred dollars.
• 39:05
  And if you can guess what my card is within five questions, which I have here,
• 39:09
  you win, you win the card.
• 39:11
  Like you just need to, you just need to find the card and win.
• 39:13
  Then what happens is they know what the card is.
• 39:15
  And then the last, like, so let's say it was like red or black, boom.
• 39:20
  Right. And then it was like a heart of diamond, higher or low.
• 39:24
  And then they got to guess the number and they, then they guess it.
• 39:27
  And then the last one is like, now find the card inside the deck.
• 39:31
  And then they go to find the card inside the deck but that
• 39:34
  card's missing and then your mouth
• 39:37
  chatters again then you undo the
• 39:41
  tape and then you spit the card out folded and now
• 39:44
  you've got this whole variation on that routine
• 39:48
  which just gives me the name right now heck yeah
• 39:51
  look this is becoming the most valuable prop on the
• 39:54
  market now and and while you've been talking i
• 39:57
  just thought of another take what if because somebody here
• 40:00
  wrote this would be great for a dental convention
• 40:04
  right so okay what about this you go on stage and
• 40:07
  you like you have this novel new toothpaste like right like as a joke you go
• 40:13
  look this toothpaste makes your teeth as strong as iron I can your teeth will
• 40:20
  be able to chomp through anything you take out a glass bottle put it into a bag,
• 40:25
  take the chattery teeth, apply the toothpaste.
• 40:28
  Look, I can put the chattery teeth in the bag.
• 40:30
  Look, and look, it'll start firing off. It'll chomp away at that glass like it's nothing.
• 40:36
  Today, only a thousand dollars a tube, CS at the back, blah,
• 40:39
  blah, blah, blah, blah. And look, if I take out the teeth, they are completely intact.
• 40:43
  And then you just crumple up the bag, throw it away.
• 40:46
  He's consumed the whole glass bottle.
• 40:49
  That's the wrong sound effect. Hell yeah. Or the other thing is, imagine this.
• 40:54
  I don't imagine there'll be a new plot like this coming out soon,
• 41:00
  but imagine if you're doing, let's say, a cards across and after someone's thought of like,
• 41:06
  card from this pack you sit the pack down you put the chattering teeth on top
• 41:10
  and the chattering teeth supposedly are eating away at the card that they thought
• 41:14
  of so that when they name their card and they fan it out their card or even
• 41:18
  it would be impossible to do this with three cards but,
• 41:22
  their card has disappeared and then you
• 41:25
  reveal it in some entertaining way yeah what do
• 41:28
  you think nick yeah teeth teeth marks
• 41:31
  in the car could be interesting yeah or
• 41:35
  like i mean even the plot itself like do you like cars across i feel like we're
• 41:40
  due for a new i feel like we're due for like a new version of it at some point
• 41:43
  right tricks for losers wouldn't it be cool if someone made a version of it
• 41:48
  that was so amazing that's about to come on what i think we know who's lagging now.
• 41:58
  There is a product on the market that's going
• 42:00
  to be coming out called cards across spelt with
• 42:04
  a k created by professional mind blower nick a it is a cards across version
• 42:10
  that requires no palming at all it's yep and it's with three thought of cards Bam.
• 42:21
  So can't say much more than that at this very moment.
• 42:25
  So when I get the green light, I'll be sure to reveal all to...
• 42:29
  I can say I saw it in person live in Las Vegas. It's a banger.
• 42:33
  So yeah, it's a killer trick. And if you buy it from Trick Supply,
• 42:37
  you can get it in the combo with the automatic chattering teeth.
• 42:42
  We're not carrying Nick's trick to screw that shit.
• 42:45
  Okay. You can't.
• 42:49
  I think you'll be able to get it through Murphy's, so you should be fine.
• 42:53
  I fucking give up. Still not carrying it.
• 42:58
  Yeah he's got too many more important effects
• 43:01
  to uh to to have in stock i'm
• 43:04
  gonna go to magic live and when i every time i see a copy of my trick on someone's
• 43:08
  table i'm just gonna sign it and be like you can charge 10 bucks more now i
• 43:11
  just walk away yeah yeah yeah you know what oh you bloody hell i was at the
• 43:17
  airport and i saw you guys familiar with the book the let them theory and the,
• 43:23
  and the five second rule,
• 43:24
  very famous author of which her name is Mel.
• 43:31
  Robbins. Mel Robbins. Mel Robbins.
• 43:35
  Mel Robbins. Yeah, no, that's it. And I was at the airport and in Auckland and
• 43:41
  in the bookstore, she must've come through there for a keynote or something.
• 43:44
  Cause they were all hand signed on the front of the book.
• 43:48
  So fucking clever because i almost i
• 43:52
  would say i was like 70 percent almost going
• 43:54
  to buy one for the fact that i would have a signed version
• 43:58
  of her book so clever to sign the front so people
• 44:01
  see it that's very cool anyway yeah no doubt all right i feel like we need some
• 44:07
  gig stories nick have you been able to do any gigs while you've been getting
• 44:12
  your transgender surgery oh okay no okay no until i until my voice starts to
• 44:17
  feminize i have not been able to speak.
• 44:20
  Yeah it's yeah i've taken a whole bunch of
• 44:23
  this uh throat numbing spray in order to be able to function today so
• 44:26
  no nice must be weird
• 44:29
  for you to not be doing 20 gigs a week or whatever you do
• 44:32
  it's like how do you adjust to that from having the
• 44:35
  normal i had to turn down six gigs just
• 44:38
  last week in order to do this
• 44:41
  yeah but you know
• 44:45
  what about you norbido you you all in on
• 44:47
  the theater of magic you've been doing some gigs or what what's happening in
• 44:50
  your world oh thanks for asking i i haven't done any gigs at the theater of
• 44:55
  magic for a couple of weeks i've had some other guys in there and i was away
• 44:59
  for my sister-in-law's wedding and stuff but i have been doing some actual regular the gigs.
• 45:06
  And one thing I've noticed is I have been implementing RZWIN's XY deck lately,
• 45:14
  which is a principle you put into your deck so that you can perform some routines
• 45:19
  that you otherwise wouldn't be able to do so cleanly.
• 45:22
  And I've always been a little bit standoffish about doing stuff with decks that
• 45:27
  have been altered because of the fear that maybe people will notice it, right?
• 45:31
  It's the same reason why I don't use a marked deck personally,
• 45:34
  because I'm just worried of that one guy that does...
• 45:38
  It's so surprising that you do so much memdeck, but no markdeck.
• 45:43
  People don't care. They don't look for it, like ever. They really don't.
• 45:48
  But I, well, it just happened. It just happened. Really? Like two days ago.
• 45:52
  That never, ever happens to me, ever.
• 45:54
  In the magic shop, all the street shows, I never hear that.
• 45:58
  I know. Like, the moment you do, like, real magic, they want to check if it's
• 46:03
  spotty. Oh, I got to do good stuff. Never mind.
• 46:07
  I'm glad you got the joke because i didn't want to be rude no no well yeah it
• 46:13
  does happen to me sometimes especially if it is someone who does play cards
• 46:16
  and because you've got to understand like i'm trying to create the feeling that like,
• 46:23
  This thing that just happened could only have happened now in the fact that
• 46:28
  they made all these choices and they just made this impossible thing happen.
• 46:32
  So they're really trying to rack their brains on like, how the hell is this even possible?
• 46:36
  And so there's always one guy every now and then that's like,
• 46:39
  oh, let me see the cards and they'll check or they'll do the riffle check or something.
• 46:45
  But here's what I want to say. The XY deck, which
• 46:48
  you can message me about or get Ozzy's book
• 46:51
  or get it on his website or whatever it's just a way to
• 46:54
  separate the deck into either reds and blacks
• 46:57
  or there's other principles and stuff but um
• 47:01
  i had both of these people that were
• 47:04
  really crucial about my decks like checking it for markings and stuff did not
• 47:08
  pick up that there was that in the deck for them to for me to maybe have the
• 47:14
  upper hand so i had two people scrutinize the decks didn't pick up that the
• 47:19
  XY deck was in there because a layman wouldn't know how to use it anyway.
• 47:24
  But for those who use XY, this message is for you really, because you'll know what I'm talking about.
• 47:29
  And maybe now you'll be like, okay, maybe I will actually employ it and use it.
• 47:34
  So what I've been doing is having the deck in stack, but once the stack is broken
• 47:38
  at some point in the gig, then I'll go into XY material with that same deck,
• 47:42
  because now I can just use it like that.
• 47:45
  And a little gig story i was on
• 47:48
  a yacht last weekend for this
• 47:51
  birthday party and i've really been enjoying sitting
• 47:55
  down with the guests to do like some tabled
• 47:58
  work and where you can really set things up and
• 48:01
  you're at the same level as them at like a conversation level
• 48:04
  but i'll just say this like crazy moment that happened i'll say yeah i'll say
• 48:10
  one of them so i'm doing this name a card thing right think of any card and
• 48:14
  this person happens to go like okay I'm really going to think of one that no
• 48:18
  one would think of and they say eight of hearts and,
• 48:22
  I know that the one group I just did this exact routine to just said eight of hearts as well.
• 48:30
  So, and it was a kid. So as this kid walked by, I'm like, hey,
• 48:33
  remember we, I asked you to think of a card and think of the most difficult card you could.
• 48:37
  What did you say? And they're like, he's like, oh, eight of hearts.
• 48:40
  And so I had this effect happen before any effect had happened because now they
• 48:44
  just, by happenstance, freak themselves out for naming the same card.
• 48:49
  Then I have them like think of any person they
• 48:52
  want and they spell that person's name out and they're
• 48:55
  like oh how should I spell their last name and I'm like however you want I'm
• 48:58
  like all right I'm gonna choose a random spelling because that doesn't matter
• 49:01
  to me but they they choose a random spelling and then the last letter spells
• 49:05
  exactly to the eight of hearts so now they freak themselves out by accident
• 49:09
  again because they were going to spell it with an an instead of a I-O-N or something like that.
• 49:16
  And then during this routine, and this is something that I need to do more and
• 49:20
  I want to say out loud, so other magicians do this.
• 49:23
  But whenever you have someone name a card, sometimes you'll have people say,
• 49:28
  well, that is random because I would have said this card.
• 49:32
  And that happened. And I just so happened to take that information in.
• 49:36
  So in this case, it was eight of hearts, but this person said queen of diamonds.
• 49:41
  And I just took that in my head for later i'm like okay so after
• 49:44
  we revealed the eight of hearts i just top changed it for
• 49:47
  the queen of diamonds and left on the table and waited like a
• 49:50
  minute and then said like it's
• 49:53
  crazy that you said the same card as this person even though
• 49:56
  you tried to be as difficult as you could and of course you even would like
• 50:00
  this would have gone totally different if i had asked anyone else because what
• 50:03
  card would you have said and that and it seemed like to everyone else this person
• 50:07
  made it up in this moment even though i knew it was from a minute ago and they're
• 50:11
  like Oh, I would have said like the queen of diamonds.
• 50:14
  And now there's a third miracle just from me listening.
• 50:18
  And I'm like, all right, yeah, and we would have had to make that card the Queen
• 50:20
  of Diamonds instead. And then they flip it over and it's like just murder.
• 50:25
  And then because that happened, this group went and told this other group,
• 50:30
  which had the guy that was really scrutinizing with the deck of cards.
• 50:35
  They're like, oh, you have to show this guy stuff because he watches a lot of
• 50:38
  Ken and Teller and blah, blah, blah.
• 50:40
  So they bring me over to this other guy and now I'm like, oh,
• 50:42
  crap, he's really going to see this XY thing. But so he looks through the deck.
• 50:47
  He's like, yep, this is good.
• 50:49
  A few false shuffles and we're good to go. And I tried to do one of Chan Canaster's
• 50:54
  routines where you have the spectator cut the deck behind their back and then
• 50:59
  put their top two cards, like sit on the top two cards.
• 51:03
  And I said to this guy, like, you're going to cut the deck. Can you do this?
• 51:06
  And I show him cutting the deck.
• 51:08
  And he's like, yeah, yeah. I'm like, great. So because you know at a casino,
• 51:11
  they won't let you shuffle, but they will let you cut. And so you're just going
• 51:14
  to cut just like that, right?
• 51:16
  Give it a try. So I've shown him three times. I give him the deck and what does he do?
• 51:20
  He fucking shuffles it. He goes, oh yeah, I can do that. And he just goes,
• 51:23
  boom, and ruins the stack essentially.
• 51:27
  I'm like, okay, that's a shuffle, not a cut.
• 51:31
  But anyway, try just cutting it. He's like, oh, did I mess up your thing?
• 51:35
  It became a whole thing for a moment.
• 51:37
  But when someone does one shuffle, there's still a chance you might get a hit
• 51:41
  if you do the cut and take the top card, you might still be able to notice what this card is.
• 51:46
  So he goes behind his back, does the whole thing, takes one card out,
• 51:51
  sits on it, brings the deck back. And I realize...
• 51:56
  I look at this card that should tell me what the next card is,
• 51:59
  but I see that the next card. For the folks listening, the bottom card.
• 52:04
  Yeah, absolutely. So, thank you, Nick. Yeah. So I look at the bottom card,
• 52:07
  and that tells me the next card should be the four of clubs.
• 52:10
  But I look in the, well, I spread the deck out, and I can see the four of clubs.
• 52:14
  And I'm like, God damn it.
• 52:15
  So I have one more chance, and that is to look at the top card,
• 52:20
  and just minus one card in the stack, and go, okay, it could be this card,
• 52:24
  which would have been the ace of spades.
• 52:26
  And to my luck, I don't see the Ace of Spades in the deck.
• 52:31
  So this all happens within about 10 seconds.
• 52:34
  So I'm kind of a bit screwed here, but I want to still make this a miracle.
• 52:38
  And I know there's a very high probability if I say to someone,
• 52:42
  name a card, they could say Ace of Spades.
• 52:45
  So a person walks past and I say to them, hey, name any card you want.
• 52:52
  Now, there's also music playing.
• 52:54
  There's like a DJ playing and stuff. So the audience sees me say,
• 52:57
  hey, name any card, but I lean a bit more closer to him and say like,
• 53:02
  and I speak a bit quieter and I'm like, you know, one that would be good to get in a poker hand.
• 53:09
  And then he goes, oh, like an ace of hearts or spades.
• 53:13
  And I don't think the audience heard him say that bit. So I'm like,
• 53:16
  oh, the ace of spades. And he's like, yeah, the ace of spades.
• 53:20
  And then the person who did the shuffling and cutting that supposedly messed
• 53:25
  me up goes, oh, that's crazy. I was going to say the ace of spades as well.
• 53:29
  And I'm like, oh, so the ace of spades was in your head? Just in your head?
• 53:33
  And I let him figure it out. He's like, yeah, in my head.
• 53:37
  No, I'm not sitting on it. And it built up this whole moment,
• 53:40
  which I was worried about in the beginning because he shuffled my bloody dick.
• 53:45
  But he checks his butt, boom, it's the ace of spades.
• 53:49
  And also, I remember the card that this lady said she would have said in that
• 53:54
  moment, because he goes, I thought of the ace of spades.
• 53:57
  And this woman's like, oh, I would have thought of seven of hearts. That's so weird.
• 54:00
  So they freak out. I set up the seven of hearts again.
• 54:03
  Look, I left that yacht feeling like a god. I was like, this is crazy.
• 54:09
  These are just card tricks.
• 54:10
  But when you take those opportune moments, God, magic feels fun.
• 54:15
  And I want to say I had this wig on as well, which is how I got the gig,
• 54:18
  obviously. It's fantastic.
• 54:22
  And look, that story went way too long, but we're going to chop it down in post.
• 54:25
  So you just hear the good bits.
• 54:27
  But that was my gig story. It felt just fun to put all that work into practice
• 54:32
  and just like have it actually work out because, you know, you've done it a thousand times.
• 54:37
  And god damn it it was fun perfect storm
• 54:40
  perfect storm is a great way to put
• 54:43
  it and i was dressed as like a retro hippie too i wasn't even in a suit which
• 54:49
  is which was something weird this this yacht party had very rich people on it
• 54:53
  but they were all dressed up in 80s themed things like back to the future and
• 54:57
  all this kind of stuff so i wore this vest which see if i can grab it i i wore this vest,
• 55:03
  which I would never be caught in,
• 55:05
  but because it was a theme, I wore this like very bright colored,
• 55:10
  spotted, like tie dye looking vest.
• 55:13
  And you know what? Sometimes you just can't take yourself too soon.
• 55:16
  I feel like, I feel like Norbido has a whole closet full of costumey things,
• 55:20
  you know, I've seen you in one too many get ups through the years.
• 55:25
  Like he's like, yeah, I had to get this because...
• 55:30
  It's slowly happening. Yeah, Tim Askin said, very Doug Henning.
• 55:34
  Yeah, that's actually the costume I probably could have really committed to
• 55:38
  now that I think about it.
• 55:40
  Okay, that's my TED Talk. Thank you. All you're missing is the cape of many
• 55:44
  colors, which I have in the back. Sadly, we don't have enough time for me to go grab it.
• 55:48
  Even my, for those watching, even my dog has a costume.
• 55:52
  Here he is. His costume is a bear, a little bear jersey. It's fantastic. Say hi, everyone.
• 55:59
  And he's a bit camera shy. He didn't
• 56:00
  sign the waiver. We can't have him on here. All right. There you go.
• 56:05
  Nick, what's coming up for you this week, my friend? Are you back?
• 56:07
  People going to see you back in the in the in the flesh i am hoping for it i was,
• 56:14
  yeah like i've just had a bit of a dip with the pain in
• 56:17
  the throat there's a lot of nerve so it's the way it's described like is like
• 56:21
  imagine you had like a burn on your skin and then you've just got the thinnest
• 56:25
  layer of skin growing back and you know then then you're trying to like stretch
• 56:28
  it or you know if you were to pour alcohol on it like it would suck so i'm I'm kind of not 100%,
• 56:34
  but I'm in good spirit.
• 56:37
  So I'm hoping that I can get back to work this weekend is where I'm at.
• 56:40
  I just think that I could struggle is all, you know, performing in loud, you know.
• 56:47
  That's right. Especially, yeah, three hours of yelling, essentially. Exactly. Yeah.
• 56:54
  Yeah. Yeah. So I'm just wondering whether or not I want to go through that.
• 56:57
  So, yeah. But Doug, what's on the agenda for you this week?
• 57:01
  I'm just down here in the retail streets, throwing down daily, man.
• 57:04
  We've had some of the biggest, not some of the biggest weeks we've had in the last year.
• 57:09
  So I'm just happy to be in a space where my efforts are, you know,
• 57:13
  doing what they're supposed to do.
• 57:15
  And I continue to meet the best magicians in the world, go see the greatest
• 57:19
  magic shows, hang out with some cool cats at the local clubs.
• 57:23
  You're hiring? Did I see that correctly? Yeah, we're, you know.
• 57:29
  We're expanding this business and we're about to expand it in a big way.
• 57:32
  I can't say too much right now, but yeah, I'm looking to bring on another really
• 57:36
  full timer and you'll be hearing some interesting things from the trick supply universe soon.
• 57:41
  Wow. What a massive opportunity for the right person.
• 57:45
  Full-time position at trick supply learning the ropes learning to dem magic
• 57:50
  work alongside people like doug con i mean and then see the best in the world
• 57:56
  they all come in here one at a time.
• 57:58
  That's true damn and uh
• 58:02
  we need a work visa we can move
• 58:05
  there yeah come on quit doing those
• 58:07
  dumb gigs and come sell some sven galley decks with me
• 58:10
  in las vegas and then we can say that we perform in
• 58:13
  vegas every week we have a full-time job performing in
• 58:16
  vegas baby yeah doug have
• 58:20
  you guys 100 i'm just
• 58:23
  curious are you guys doing tiktok live shop was
• 58:26
  that ever a thing that made sense to do or what i tiktok was it was originally
• 58:31
  when i moved here an important part of my business model for this company but
• 58:36
  it's become less less so over the last year and i I actually just put the shop
• 58:40
  on vacation to focus my energies elsewhere.
• 58:44
  It just wasn't really worth the all-in kind of attitude.
• 58:48
  And I'm seeing so much promise from other efforts that I'm devoting more time there.
• 58:53
  I also feel like TikTok over the last few months has turned into a hot mess.
• 58:57
  You know, they did an algorithm reset and they sold the company to America and
• 59:01
  they screwed it up pretty good.
• 59:02
  So I'm not interested in spending a lot of time and energy on the platform, but I do Participate in,
• 59:08
  like, I'd rather develop the YouTube shopping at this point,
• 59:12
  you know, with a qualified platform that can provide more possibilities and
• 59:17
  just treats their user base generally better than, you know.
• 59:22
  The now very much Americanized TikTok. Yeah.
• 59:25
  Yeah, well said. Okay. And maybe we won't have that as the final word.
• 59:31
  No, but, you know, hey, follow Tricks to Play on YouTube. We're all happy there, you know. There we go.
• 59:36
  All right, guys, we'll see you next week with a guest that I can't wait to show
• 59:40
  you. Nick, anything you want to leave the parting people with while I fix it?
• 59:45
  Stay in school, drink milk, and don't run with scissors.
• 59:51
  Thanks for listening. It's time for us to disappear now.
• 59:56
  But we'll see you again on the next episode of The Magic Guys.