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The Assembly Convention Highlights! #212 · The Magic Guys

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What's up fellow Magic Guys? We are here at the Assembly Convention.
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This is a convention we've been talking about on the pod for a while,
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but it's here in Brisbane, Australia.
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And there's a lot of fellow magicians around the place that listen to the podcast.
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So I'm going to show you a couple of them now and let's have a look around.
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Scotty P here, Magic Guys viewers, putting a face to the name this time because
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I'm here at the Magic Convention, the Assembly, and I'm learning a lot,
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taking a lot of notes, spending a little bit too much money,
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but that's how it goes here. On to the next.
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Good day, this is Matt. We're here at the Assembly 2025 Magic Invention in Brisbane.
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Just here to be inspired by local and international talent.
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It's a great opportunity to see some new ideas, get the creative juices flowing
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and be really intentional about investing in ourselves as magic as a hobby and a profession.
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I've got a joke for you. Do you hear about the magic tractor?
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He went down the road and turned into a field.
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Hello, my name is Chi Han. I'm here to show you a quick card trick here with the four aces, I think.
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No, that's not an ace. There we go. I need the four aces for this.
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And one last one right over here. The four aces. What's going to happen is they're going to disappear.
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Maybe next time. Hey, hey, this is Brendan Dooley, comedy magician from New
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Zealand. I am here at the assembly convention in gorgeous Brisbane and I'm about
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to go and open the gala show for magicians.
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Now people often, well Josh and I were just talking about what it's actually
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like to perform for magicians and I was just thinking about it.
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And it is absolutely the motherfucking freaking worst thing on the absolute planet.
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I question my life choices. I mean, take two, take two. I am so excited.
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This is probably the most exciting opportunity of my career.
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It's so great to perform in front of my peers. They're such a supportive audience.
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I'm not lying at all.
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They're guys. They do magic. They are the magic guys.
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Ah ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode 212
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of the magic guys i hope you enjoyed our
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little intro which is a big uh foreshadowing of
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this episode but to my left i have my twin from
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melbourne nick k hello brother man it's
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nick k from melbourne but this week
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we were brothers in the same city it was
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actually it was funny because we were going
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to talk about it but we did a show together and you know
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we both were the main feature act
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in different sessions but it almost looked like
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it was the same person in both because you know we had
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nice shiny heads and great magic extremely handsome
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and extremely talented it's yeah
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and also a lot we should do like wasn't
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there a movie wasn't there a movie with von jean cole van damme double
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exposure or something i'm sure there was yeah all this arnold schwarzenegger
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you know total recall i think was at that one when he's like yeah he actually
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has a clone but you know what we're talking about my friends is the assembly
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convention wait let me do that like it should be done.
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And that happened in brisbane which we talked about
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in the weeks leading up to it and we
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had a whole series of events happen which
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we're excited to talk about starting from friday through to
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saturday to sunday and nick was in town so it
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was just a whole weekend of shenanigans firstly
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nick i don't think you slept much how are you feeling
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now at the end of it before we start the
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stories finally rested and today is definitely going to be a rehab day of just
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like doing laundry and pulling my life back together in preparation to do it
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all again on the weekend i suppose with performances but oh yeah it is so great
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just to like i so i flew down on the friday so it's a weekend event in a sense.
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So on the Friday, I caught up with a bunch of magicians. We had really good sessions at the bar.
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We played a really fun game where, I don't know, I should give it a name or
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something, or maybe even like try to implement it in the show.
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But the idea was that we had like 10 of us at the table.
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And I said, all right, new challenge. We're going to do controls to the top of the deck.
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One at a time in a circle and you
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have to do as many as you can right taking a
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turn at a time you cannot repeat one that anyone
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else has done and and if you do you're
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out of the game and it's last man standing let's play bro we
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were playing for 45 minutes and nobody was out like
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there was so much hell yeah there was so much talent at the
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table and we just went like all right enough of this let's
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let's do forces instead oh my god
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like it was so and because what happens is you go in this
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circle and then all of a sudden someone does something you go whoa whoa stop
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the game the hell was that show us and then they give you a tutorial and so
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it's this really cool way of sort of exchanging ideas but making it quite fun
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right that's such a great game you start reaching into these like corners of
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your mind that you like i totally forgot that i knew how to do a control like that.
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Super fun. So that's what my Friday was like.
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That's cool, man. I didn't even. Wow. I had to.
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Well, yeah. So everyone was flying in on the Friday. For me,
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I had a gig, you know, which is wonderful to say on a podcast for magicians. I had a gig. Yeah.
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It was about two hours away. So I had a late night, but just from performing.
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And Nick, are you familiar with the band Thirsty Merc? Absolutely.
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So they were headlining this gig that I did.
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So I was doing all the roving and then they came on stage and played for this
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corporate event, private company.
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And I wonder if our viewers know who Thirsty Merc are as well,
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like in the US and stuff. Because they had some mainstream songs. Yeah, they sure did.
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Yeah. Anyway, that's all. So that was my Friday. And then we get to Saturday.
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So Saturday was an absolute banger because that was the day that the Theatre
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of Magic was holding their two shows, one an early session and the evening session.
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The sessions were, the acts that we had rather, were our two international guests
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who were part of the assembly.
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We had Christian Grace all the way from the UK.
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If you don't know who Christian Grace is, I'm surprised
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because he is one of the greatest card guys i've
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ever seen he's affectionately known as the
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uh evil genius of card magic it was actually and
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rightly so he's not like you know
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i i've seen his stuff i've seen it
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performed and i thought to myself like that's that different level like
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i'm not at that level then that sort of pond to the smith coin
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stuff you're like i'm gonna look at that that's the way i feel
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about christian grace's stuff but it's actually genius very
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clean stuff it doesn't look like he's doing any moves or
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anything when he performs and we can both contest to that after seeing
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it live and more importantly seeing his lecture which we'll talk about
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a little little bit later on so really cool to watch
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him do his thing that was beautiful we also had martin braises amazing magician
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from argentina who performed really beautiful spanish style stuff you know what
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i mean i say spanish style because it's that european beautiful style of magic
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and you know lots of sort of singing along i love it yeah.
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And his stuff was beautiful and his lecture was even better.
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So it was really, really awesome to see that.
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So these two guys were performing their sets at the beginning.
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And then afterwards, Josh headlined the show. I got to say this before we go any further.
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Josh, it is the best. It is the best I've ever seen you perform.
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That was so killer what you did in that set.
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He was absolute fire, you guys. And it was such a pleasure to watch.
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Like I was just, you were like a laugh every 10 seconds. You had a laugh,
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an interaction or something, and your cube routine slays.
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Oh, my God. Can we talk about that?
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Thanks, man. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It's funny because I knew we had
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two acts before and Christian went longer than we had planned for.
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So I actually did a tighter set than I normally might, but it worked out great.
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Taken a few things out it like let the individual effects I did in in 35 minutes
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I do only do like three sets I'm like a coin stuff some cube stuff card stuff
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but that audience was like,
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they just seen like two international acts
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by the time I get there they're just like their minds are blown I'm
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like all right let me just you know add to that it was
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a fun night man yeah it was it was red hot
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but yeah so the the cube act right you had
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a bit that you wanted to share from that right yeah so
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we have we have two clips i thought i would grab one from myself
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from my show and then one from nick in his show and i'll
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get mine ready so mine goes for it's a two minute clip essentially it's just
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me solving a cube right i'm just doing an instant solve and back in the day
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i would do that in the intro of my cube set i would come out and you know to
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show like skill I would say, look.
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There's whatever, 43 quintillion different ways you can mix a cube,
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but we all want to see the one that looks like this and I just solve it.
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And it would get a little, and so over the evolution of doing probably over
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a hundred shows at Theater of Magic,
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like my challenge has
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always been to get more out of that first
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time they see it solved and to see if I can make the audience care
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about wanting to see it solved like almost like a movie add this arc of like
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tension and conflict before the release to make the reaction bigger if they're
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going down here not thinking i'll be able to do it anyway i won't say any more
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this is me riffing with the audience just to solve a bloody cube.
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Here we go are you ready now wait how will you let me know that you're going
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to start obviously we're trying to do this as quickly as i can but how will
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you let me know you're going to start accounting.
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You'll go, okay, you'll just count.
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That makes sense. That makes sense.
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Hell yeah. Are you ready?
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Wait, hang on, hang on.
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Okay, so you're going to say go and then, okay, one more thing.
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Are you familiar with counting in Mississippis?
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Okay, never mind. Never mind, never mind, never mind.
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50 seconds, all right. Go.
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Wait, wait, wait, sorry, I can't hear because they won't shut up. No.
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Sleep.
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The show's normally over in two minutes, but I love your enthusiasm.
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You guys are great. Get out. I'm kidding. You're kidding.
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All right, are we ready? Hassan, are you ready? Yes. I'm ready. Go. Go. Go.
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I can't. Hey, I'm just...
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Martin. Martin. Martin, okay, watch, ready?
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Just say go, don't even count, okay? Just say go and say it.
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Okay, perfect, we got the green. But we also got the orange and the blue and
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the red and the yellow and the white. Every color it is for you!
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Jesus, okay, that was awesome, that was awesome.
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Ta-da! See what I mean? like a laugh every 10 seconds fooling around and and
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that's the thing right like so many people,
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rush to do the magic you know and there's nothing more painful than when you watch a performer,
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who's saying their script only so they can just get it out as quickly as possible
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to do the bit they want to do which is the magic you know whereas you're just
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connecting with them so perfectly and they're bouncing up you and they're in
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your corner and they're going like this is funny you're having a hard time we
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see the humor in it it's such a good set my guy and and thank Thanks, man.
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And the real secret for a magician is to make the audience think that that's
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an off-the-cuff moment that's off-script and they want to see how you handle it.
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But really, this happens in every single show.
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Like I've learned how to make the spectator initiate this off-the-cuff seeming moment.
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And when you can make the audience think this is impromptu, that's the real trick. Yeah.
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I think it was Tommy Cooper that said that the most impromptu moments are actually
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rehearsed or the best impromptu moments are rehearsed.
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It was somebody comedy-based who'd said that, but there's a lot of truth in that.
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There are some things that obviously...
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The beauty of what you're saying is that like, it's really nice when you feel
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like the only time I'm ever going to see this is because I'm here.
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Like this will never be repeated again. When you have those impromptu notes,
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for example, when you do your, how would you like me to find the cards?
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You did this bit and you were like, I want it to be under my seat.
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And you're like, well, fine, bring your seat up here. And you did.
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And it was, and it was great because it's the type of thing where like,
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if you go to the next show, you know, it's going to be different.
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And I love seeing shows that did that.
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There was a comedy duo called max and evan that
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did that in a show called the con men i think it was called and they
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improv this whole bit in their show and then
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like did a bit of a confab at the end of it like you know
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nice they tied it all together in this storyline it
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was a comedic show not a magic show at all but i've
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been in love with that aspect ever since because it
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made me want to watch every single show or if there was an ability to watch
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like the improv moment across the 20 shows like in a compilation i would i would
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die to see what that is and how they handled it you know and that's the strength
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that routine has and then there's other situations like mine was.
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Yeah that's right so i did the first show which had a few more kids in it you
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know it's earlier in the day it's 4 30 p.m by the time i go on stage it's like
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five o'clock and no one's drunk yet essentially.
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Now, in the past, we used to have a nine o'clock show at the Theatre of Magic,
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but we stopped it because there was just a few too many times where people were drinking,
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enough that they're a bit too chirpy in the show when you need them to be quiet
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in certain moments for certain magic. Magic's very delicate.
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So we actually moved the show times to earlier so that that wouldn't happen as much.
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So it's 4.30 and then we have a 7.30 show, which is when Nick was headlining.
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Unfortunately, and this is the time that it happens, sometimes a work group
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will come to the show and it's the boss who's bought tickets for their staff
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and their staff have no prior investment into the show.
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They just know they're going out to have drinks with their colleagues and that's
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where problems come up. And that's what happened on Saturday.
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To foreshadow this video you're going to see, these people came in with two
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cocktails each in hand, and you know they've been drinking beforehand.
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So I'm like, I try to warn Martin and Christian, like, hey, just so you know,
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like, this is a little different to the first show that we killed.
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Like, these guys may give you problems.
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And so this clip is...
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Everyone's done magic we've had halftime we've had to kick some
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of them out as well and the four that are left
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have just been chirping throughout the show and and
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yeah like annoying everyone can i can i can i add to that yeah by saying like
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in the first set it was so full-on that like our good friends brendan dooley
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sitting in the back and and a bunch of other magicians who were kind enough
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to come to the show were quite literally saying to this group like they were
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shushing them They were like,
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shh, like in the middle of the set, like just shh, trying to get them to hush.
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They were that out of control. And they weren't like, they weren't necessarily
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like disrespecting the act. They were just talking amongst each other.
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Yeah, that's right. They kept talking and just getting.
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It was like this energy was like, we got to sit here for 45 minutes when we
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could be sitting at a bar. It was just that energy, you know?
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Absolutely. They didn't know they're coming to the show and they maybe shouldn't
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have if they're going to drink that much and chat away.
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So at this point in the show, everyone's had enough of them.
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And Nick's gone, I need four people to help. And it just so happens that the
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four hecklers that are left are the ones that want to get involved. And then here we go.
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Yeah. If you want to play, do this. Okay. You two can play. That's great. And anyone on this side?
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Just the four. The ones in the middle. Okay. the ones that we affectionately
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call the ones in the middle okay,
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madam you got a name everyone say hi jordan what do you do jordan uh i wait
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for my mother what does mom do sleep wait sleep scientist amazing what does
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it mean lucky that's so sweet,
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no that's hilarious because my comedy brain was just like now he's awake.
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Well he was asleep jordan you're going to choose a card say stop,
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Okay, we'll try that again. Summer in the middle, Jordan. Okay, here we go. Say stop.
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Good job, kiddo. Jack, you're playing? Yeah. Okay, you say stop,
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Jack. Stop. What do you do, Jack? Polish heads.
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It means he's a mechanic.
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Sorry, we don't allow soliciting in our building, Jack. We're going to have
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to ask you to leave. I'm very... Don't worry about it.
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What is your name, Your Majesty? Ondra. This is Andra, everyone. She meant that. Andra!
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Hello, Andra! What is this? She really meant it. What's your hustle, Andra?
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I'm a sleep scientist. You guys are? Oh! Really? Okay, so apparently studying
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sleep makes you wild. Okay.
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Go with that. Okay, Andra, tell me about this dream I had.
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It's coming from the moon.
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She's like, not unless there's an invoice attached. You shut up, magic man.
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Andra, say stop. Right there. You want to go on more? You want to stay?
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I feel like I rushed. Yeah, as long as you're... As long as you're... Nope. I'm good.
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What's your name, Mr. Buzzity Butter Language? What is this? What's your name?
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Andrew. Andrew feels a little... Like an attack. Make him feel welcome.
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Say hi, Andrew. It's okay.
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Loosen up. Loosen up, Andrew. No one's going to get... Just okay. Just loosen up, bud.
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AA meeting. Yeah. Yeah. I think I speak on behalf of all of us when I say you should go more often.
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Thank you. Good night. I can't get better than that.
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That's what happens when you come to a Nick K show. Yeah.
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And knockout.
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Now, the whole thing about that is after that routine, they were putty. They were one of us.
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It dissolved all the unpleasantness that the audience had because at that point,
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I was basically representing the audience, pulling them apart,
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and then we all became one, and we all got along after that.
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And even when the show had ended, we got outside,
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we thank everyone for coming, and and every single one of them like
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literally hugged me in fact jack who's the biggest
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douche bag of all of them yeah jack talking to you grabbed my
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butt cheeks when he hugged me like which yeah not
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polite but he did but that would just like that will they absolutely loved me
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and like in and the boss lady like full gave me a hug and kiss and yeah like
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it was it was really interesting to be able to turn that around but what was
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really lovely was having my peers and And other people come to me and say,
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you saved the night. Like, you saved the show.
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Yeah, because what's most impressive is it shows how seasoned you are and everyone
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else in the night was trying to do their show and ignore them talking, you know,
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or make little gestures. Like, hang on, wait, wait, wait.
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But you just, like, went straight for them and showed, hey, wait,
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like I have control here.
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And then by the end, like after that routine, they did just like let you do your thing.
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And, and so essentially in that routine, like it's so funny,
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but you really told them three times, like you guys are talking too much and stop.
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Cause you said, ah, the group that we call the group of four.
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And then you, you know, gave them the line of, ah, this is what happens when a work group gets wild.
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And then you said, ah, the AA meeting, you guys should go more so like three
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times you put them in their place while just having fun and not directly saying
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it yeah it's very very cool.
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Yeah, it's really, you know, I wish there was more of a science to it.
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I'm very organic in situations like this. But I think the only takeaway for
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me is that sometimes there's certain things that you can't hide.
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And I'm reminded of a thing that Gregory Wilson said, if you can't hide it, highlight it.
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Now, he was talking about method
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when he said that. If you can't hide a method, highlight the method.
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You know and he does he's like a really ugly pass uh to like
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get away with it was like it was something of that nature but like we couldn't
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hide the fact that this group was out of control that they'd over drank and
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that they were behaving improperly so i had to highlight it and you know when
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i had old mate go and mind you there was a few more people down that line that were,
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equally bad but they were the particular work group we're talking about and
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scotty painter said if there's an elephant in the room nick k is writing it.
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So good stuff yeah and so it was just good to end especially
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that moment when it's like this was like an aa meeting i was like yeah you should go
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more often like how perfect by the way that he
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said that like yeah obviously amazing that you
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clocked that and used it but how funny that he said that
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for this moment it was too good and there's
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like there's so many other moments where nick heckled
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back at these guys in the show but this is just like the one where he
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took on all for at once and it's
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just too good and this is something that will happen when you're performing
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even if it's roving i mean roving even more people give
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you less authority sometimes if they're drinking and stuff and so
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sometimes there's this moment where as magicians we feel like if one person
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if we're if we tell off one person it's gonna ruin our career like words gonna
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get around that we're mean to people and like you know i can't tell that person to stop talking but.
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The whole the rest of the audience appreciates it
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and so sometimes it's required even though it feels
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like because the last thing i want to do is create conflict in a
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show it's meant to just be fun but it is required and i would say in a year
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and a half of doing theater magic it's probably only happened three times that
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we've had to directly in the show say hey we will have to ask you to leave if you don't stop talking.
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It's so rare, but it happened on the convention weekend, of course.
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And yeah, Nick took it like a chimp.
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Otherwise we got two standing ovations in our shows thanks to the magicians
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and the amazing nigel and what a night so that was saturday and you know what
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just on a little just a personal note what was really cool was meeting martin
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and meeting christian and as i'm meeting them,
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they're saying to me oh i've seen your videos i love your stuff great to meet
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you and we already had this instant rapport because obviously I already adore
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them, but they've seen my stuff.
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And Christian was like, Christian's such an instant bro.
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He's like, bro, I love your stuff. Oh, this is going to be great.
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And that was, I'm not saying to post more videos, guys, but I'm just saying
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it helps breaking the ice sometimes. And it did. And it was great for that reason.
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Anyway, I just wanted to say that. That was great. And you did a fantastic performance.
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When you're headlining a show, there is this huge responsibility.
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And we'll wrap up by saying this, if I may. It's just that I genuinely turned to my peers.
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I turned to people like the Dooley and Byron and people I was hanging out with.
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And I actually said to them quite openly, I said, this is the first time in
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forever that I've actually felt nervous for a performance.
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And I had to reflect as to why that was. And it was like, well,
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I'm going to be in front of my peers.
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I'm following world champions of magic and international magicians.
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And I think that what I was most nervous about was that I had a set list that,
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made me feel like I was locked in.
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And then I made the decision before the show to go, okay, I've got a plan, but deviate.
25:15
And I wasn't going to do those routines to control those audiences.
25:18
I was going to do other stuff, but I had to change.
25:22
And the stuff that I didn't do and the stuff that I threw in,
25:24
because by reputation, Christian was like, you need to do this phone vanish thing.
25:29
And I was like, I wasn't gonna, but now I will.
25:32
So I had to change. so i changed my whole set in order to keep everyone
25:35
happy and and that's when i felt like
25:38
at peace before i did my set i'm like i got a couple of things i'll try
25:41
and then i'm gonna freestyle and see
25:44
how it goes there it is and so theater magic
25:47
night wrapped up we had an awesome night hooray us round of applause good job
25:52
boom do i even have the applause oh yeah there you go then taking it to the
25:58
next day the happy sunday everyone went to church nobody went to church And
26:02
then we ran to this convention. Yeah.
26:06
The day kicked off. It was great. Firstly, what I loved is that I met so many
26:10
nice people who listened to the pod. Did you meet Gregory?
26:13
Yeah, of course. Gregory. Yeah. Yeah. I had a meeting before, but that was so cool.
26:17
Dave, Mr. Perfect met him as well in a lot. He was like, Hey man,
26:22
like you make my drives home, like so much more bearable.
26:25
And I'm like, thank you so much, man. Like, that's so cool.
26:28
Yeah. And then hanging out with Scotty P as well. And he was like,
26:32
did a paid gig last night. And I'm like, my boy, you know what I mean?
26:35
Like it was just. Actually.
26:36
Yeah. If we get time at the end, we have a speak pipe from him.
26:39
I made him send in a speak pipe about his first paid gig, but whether we play
26:43
that now or next time, it's okay. But that's in the bank.
26:47
We'll do a dedicated speak pipe episode the week after like that.
26:49
Either way, we'll figure it out. Heck yeah.
26:51
Yeah. Yeah. We'll maybe just send it down.
26:54
You want to do it now? Yeah. We're doing it. No, no, no. I was saying that like,
26:58
send through your speak pipes.
26:59
Next week we're doing speak pipes. Sorry. Do we have anyone coming to interview?
27:03
Not yet, but someone pretty exciting is in the works right now.
27:06
But, you know, we'll leave that for now.
27:10
Also, just while it's in my brain, next week in Brisbane, if you haven't got
27:15
this email already, we have Jeff Hobson coming to lecture in Brisbane at our
27:21
Theatre Magic venue, but obviously through Piper Magic.
27:24
And that's crazy. I've heard people have messaged me saying already that they're
27:28
going to fly in to come and see this. It's a one-off lecture because he's here doing a show.
27:33
He's part of a big performance at QPAC, I think.
27:37
And he's going to be here anyway. So the next day when we do the podcast,
27:41
we'll be coming off of just having seen his lecture.
27:44
So I'll be able to report back on that as well.
27:47
Tim's asking, how many people were in attendance? How many people do you reckon?
27:51
Well, they're both sold out shows. What's the capacity? Oh.
27:57
I think it was limited to like 150, wasn't it?
28:00
Yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah, yeah. Which is a lot of people to have
28:03
in a Brisbane magician convention.
28:07
Like to have in Brisbane that many years, great. Yeah, exactly.
28:11
So, yeah, so circling back to the convention, we kicked off the day with some
28:16
performances, which was really cool to start off with that. So there was two
28:19
rooms that were separated.
28:21
The room's up, really well seated, and then the act circulated performing.
28:26
It was awesome, you know? So you see Martin Bresos go up there,
28:31
do his set, killer stuff.
28:33
Then you see same thing with Christian Grace. He was awesome.
28:37
And then we had Card Genius.
28:41
Sean Taylor? Oh, Sean Mergaard. Well, no. Well, that's about his storytelling.
28:46
Oh, Andrew Wimhurst. Andrew Wimhurst did a bit.
28:49
And man, watching the mechanic work proper is pretty cool.
28:56
Like he's he's doing things that that i
28:59
see done with breathers and so forth and he
29:02
wasn't doing no breathers man like he wasn't doing any of that
29:05
like it was just the the the most perfect cheating method used to achieve magic
29:11
effects watching him do that it was very very cool watching him work was quite
29:16
quite lovely and but yeah let's talk about sean murgaard real quick because
29:20
I have been dying to meet him forever.
29:24
If you don't know who he is, he's like, let's just, he's one of Brisbane's best
29:29
kept secrets is the way I'm going to paint him. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.
29:34
He's affectionately known as the storytelling magician, which is,
29:37
I think, a difficult thing to be able to achieve.
29:41
And he gets up, he tells really interesting, meaningful pieces.
29:47
And when he speaks, he has this kind of gravity, this magnetic sort of acting
29:55
ability that I've only ever seen in someone like Edward Norton.
29:58
And he has that energy. and when he speaks and
30:01
he's telling his stories of during these performances man i
30:05
was just so suck it in and the guy had
30:07
my full attention and he performed really cool stuff like just really really
30:12
cool stuff and i was so happy to finally meet him so i just wanted to sing his
30:15
praises while we had an opportunity while and more importantly while he was
30:19
on topic yeah you went around for the first portion of the close-up show where
30:22
are you josh you would I had to sleep in,
30:25
like in classic magician fashion.
30:27
I needed a sleep in after Theater of Magic and my event on Friday.
30:31
So I missed the close-up show. But what Nick's talking about is the convention
30:35
started with a close-up show where the audience is split into two different
30:40
rooms and you watch people do close-up magic.
30:42
Then everyone would switch to the other room. Yeah.
30:45
And then they'd see the other show that, you know, the first audience saw.
30:49
So Sean Mogar's been a good friend in Brisbane. been
30:52
he's like so well researched in his
30:54
magic and and yeah great storytelling he
30:58
was a mentalist for a long time but yeah his magic's just so well thought out
31:03
so i'm glad you got to see him in person so stoked and yeah if there's an and
31:07
he'll be performing with you this weekend at the theater of magic so if you
31:11
guys are in town i implore you go scope it out if it hasn't sold out already
31:15
because he is fantastic.
31:17
Now, moving along. First lecture, Christian Grace.
31:22
Bro. I think Martin went first, but that's okay. I'm just going off what the program said.
31:29
Yeah, that's fine. I love it, Christian Grace.
31:33
Sure. Great. Well, yeah, Christian, I love his energy, man. Like, it's so funny.
31:39
His character, if I had to describe it, would be a guy that just got,
31:44
you know, it's like Peter Parker just being bitten by the spider and discovering
31:48
he has magic. And he's so excited to share with everyone this magic that he's like, able to do now.
31:53
Like he, he just seems like a normal dude at the bar, but he can just fucking blow your mind.
31:59
And then he can even like, give the power to someone
32:02
else in the audience and make them have magic powers like he
32:05
just and he's having so much fun in the meantime while
32:08
doing it and then of course we
32:11
start to learn about some of his thought process
32:14
for how he's doing his magic and he just kept
32:17
frying us and then he'd teach us how we
32:20
did it and we're just so impressed and then he'd fry us again then
32:23
he'd borrow a deck and like fry us
32:26
with someone else's deck and like and not
32:29
only is he an amazing card magician but he
32:32
is also the creator of the cog is
32:35
it cognito cognito app the that
32:38
was called enigma that's sorry that's what i meant to say that
32:41
was my second yeah the enigma app as well yeah
32:45
as well as his magic monthly it's you
32:48
know what it is i i almost feel like he's like
32:51
one of the world's best mentalists disguised as
32:55
a card guy because he has this psychological
32:58
process in what he does that
33:01
is so convincing and it's really nice that people
33:04
take the time to think about that they think about the actual psychological experience
33:08
they're having and and the premise is very interesting he did this particular
33:12
effect it was called paradox the paradox yeah the paradox routine and i'm going
33:18
to do my best to describe this quickly so you could appreciate it and i the
33:22
reason i bring this up is that he has a online forum.
33:26
A monthly magic thing that he does, where if you were to join,
33:30
there is already 100 plus routines that is created, and you have access to all
33:35
of that should you join tomorrow.
33:38
And we might even do our best to try and bring him on the pod so we can have
33:42
an opportunity to tell you himself about it.
33:44
So I won't say much more about that. But I will say there was one particular
33:46
routine where a card is selected in the most fairest condition.
33:52
And then there's this visual image that he wants to lock in everyone's mind
33:55
in which there is one card in front of you, the spectator.
33:57
And he, the magician, there is a deck of playing cards.
34:01
And then he just starts, without going near them, other than giving them some cards to shuffle.
34:05
They shuffle their card into just packs
34:08
of cards and he has them take cards and
34:11
take cards until there's only like three or four left and he's like
34:14
choose one take one top middle or bottom great and they make
34:16
all the choices and then they now have shuffled their
34:19
card you haven't touched the deck once and there's
34:23
one card left in his hand and it's on the table so then
34:26
there's this beautiful reverse paradox moment where in the
34:29
beginning of the routine he had the pack they had one
34:32
card at the end of the routine without going
34:35
near their selection which they still have they now
34:37
have the pack and their card in that pack
34:40
and he's got one card in front of him only he
34:44
doesn't he turns the pack over spreads through
34:47
their selection is gone and the one card in
34:50
front of him is their selection like it
34:53
is so cool man so cool
34:56
because it's this it's just so cool and
34:59
the method's even cooler like it's even method is really
35:02
cool and i watched i watched him do
35:05
that twice at the theater of magic in both shows
35:08
and then in his lecture and every time
35:11
like i'm fooled i was fooled like tremendously
35:15
the first time i saw it second time i'm still
35:18
pretty fooled and then even by
35:21
the lecture i'm still like i still couldn't go on perform this i.
35:24
Still don't know x1 like and then
35:27
he reveals it and you're like oh my god i wouldn't even think that you would
35:29
be doing that yeah it
35:34
was yeah juggling liam is saying yeah christian was amazing
35:37
yeah his thought process is so good and he even taught an effect using someone
35:43
else's deck where they just peek at a card and then you can cold read them and
35:47
divine what their card is and you're actually doing cold reading for a good
35:52
portion of it to genuinely find out what parts of their card is.
35:55
And he just, and then he taught it. And I'm like, oh my God, this is so great.
36:00
Yeah, we'll definitely get him on the pod, I'm sure. I mean,
36:03
why wouldn't he want to come on and promote Magic Monthly?
36:06
So I'll shoot him off a message. We will beg him. Beg him, absolutely. Come on.
36:11
Yeah, yeah. So good. So then he shared a myriad of wonderful things.
36:16
We could talk about him for the entire episode almost, you know,
36:19
but the thing is there's so much more to talk about.
36:20
So after that, we had a lunch break. That was great. And then we pop back into the next lecture.
36:26
Martin Braeces, amazing magician from Argentina.
36:30
His lecture for me was the best
36:33
thing about the assembly for me personally because he
36:38
had so many ideas and beautiful thoughts that
36:41
i wanted to implement in myself
36:44
and i knew the methods out there but i didn't want
36:47
to use those ones and then he just come forward and goes well i
36:50
do these methods and these are my solutions check them out beautiful stuff
36:54
absolutely beautiful oh do we need a reference um what's just popped
36:56
up yeah absolutely matt matt sigmeyer
37:01
thank you for the ten dollar donation to the magic guys that will get us some
37:05
sweet sweet couple of decks of bicycle bicycles thank you my friend his question
37:10
is i mainly do close up but i've been hosting a local trivia night on the mic
37:15
and want to try a parlor style trick for a group of about 30 to 40 people,
37:20
Why am I scared out of my boots and how do I work through it?
37:24
Ooh, you've come to the right place, my friend.
37:27
And thank you. These trivia nights, you know, I have another friend named Max
37:31
in Brisbane who does the same thing.
37:33
He hosts a trivia night because Magician's a great showman, naturally.
37:37
Trivia nights, you know, no piece of cake. But you know what?
37:41
This is a great place for you to start trying magic because you're not there
37:44
predominantly to do a whole show.
37:46
You can just start with one piece at a time. So Nick...
37:50
How does he work through it, being scared? Well, here's one thing you might want to do, Matt.
37:54
If you do close-up magic and you're obviously more comfortable performing what you know.
38:00
One thing you want to sort of understand and consider about close-up magic is
38:04
that it's performed like typically on a table flat in what I guess this is the horizontal plane.
38:11
If you have a way of performing the same routine, but think about presenting
38:16
it in a more vertical plane, right?
38:19
Like in front of you, you might be able to do the same stuff you already know,
38:23
just present it on a different plane, which means that you don't need to feel
38:28
worried or frightened about it because you know the routine.
38:31
You're already working an existing repertoire.
38:33
You're just doing it up high where people can see it a bit better as opposed
38:36
to holding it down here on a flat plane where they would look at it from the table above.
38:41
So go through your repertoire and see if there's anything there that you might
38:46
be able to perform in a stand-up position as opposed to flatten the table.
38:50
That's my first thing to advise. Josh?
38:53
Yeah, that's exactly right. Find the thing, a routine that you're most comfortable
38:58
doing. You've done a thousand times.
38:59
Find a way to present that standing up. If card magic is your jam,
39:06
then learn the homing card, the cards to pocket.
39:10
It's ambitious, but you can do it standing up. The audience can understand something
39:14
was here and now it's here.
39:16
And that's it. You're always going to feel comfortable.
39:20
You're always going to feel scared because of the unknown.
39:23
Like you just haven't done it yet. That's all. But you're being scared of something
39:26
that hasn't happened yet. So why be scared?
39:29
You know, once you do it, you'll feel great. You'll learn from it either way.
39:32
Just make sure the thing you're doing isn't, if don't do something new,
39:37
like completely, completely new that'll make you more worried.
39:40
But yeah, confidence comes from preparation. So just rehearse it a lot,
39:45
standing up. Do something quick, like just do something that's like.
39:49
Quick prediction or something fast, then the next trivia night you host,
39:54
do something that's a little bit longer.
39:57
Yeah. I think you'll have fun with it. I think you'd be okay.
39:59
And I look forward to hearing, send a speak pipe of you giving it a go. Tell us what happened.
40:04
Absolutely, buddy. Best of luck with it. And yeah, lean in, of course,
40:07
if we can be of any help. Yeah.
40:08
A hundred percent. I love it.
40:10
So Martin, now I, yeah, watching Martin's lecture, I could, I loved it.
40:15
I loved it. And I could see it being down your alley, Nick, especially with some of his methods.
40:24
And like, he did this one tidbit, just the effect, like what I saw happen.
40:29
How cool is this? He takes flash paper and he takes a lighter.
40:33
He lights the flash paper and it turns into the lighter.
40:37
He just lighted the flash paper with and he turns back and now there's nothing in his hand.
40:43
Like, like discombobulate someone's brain for
40:46
a second like what did i just see happen yeah and
40:49
he's explaining that this is something he would do casually where
40:53
he hasn't said he's gonna do magic he's just with his
40:56
friends or at a bar or people don't know
40:58
he's being like that he knows they're watching him he'll
41:01
just do it and it's the lighter like that's and
41:05
that's just the tip of the iceberg but i was the
41:07
first person to get in line to buy what
41:11
he was selling because that it's typical when a
41:14
magician lectures if you haven't been to a convention that they'll
41:17
actually talk about some things that they will sell like
41:20
because some things will require props or gimmicks or whatever and
41:24
and he did and man like the line was i think
41:27
every single person that i've talked to so far left
41:30
with a martin breces effect because it's
41:34
so good he has this beautiful gimmicks in
41:37
which you let me describe
41:40
the effect and when you purchase the gimmicks it allows you
41:43
to do this so there's a candle and he
41:47
basically hand palm down touches the
41:50
candle and turns his hand up and he's holding fire he is holding fire one more
41:56
time he is holding fire okay he then closes his fist to put the fire out and
42:02
when he opens his hand he's got a coin on his hand and then it's Takes the coin, does it again.
42:10
He's holding fire, closes his hand, fire goes out, opens it up,
42:14
another coin. He produces three coins in this manner.
42:18
Sick stuff, man. And then he shows how you can adapt the gimmick where you can
42:22
produce billiard balls.
42:25
You can produce like all manner. You can produce a cookie from the event. Yeah.
42:31
Like you can have firing, turn into a cookie, take a bite out of it.
42:36
Yeah. He made a sponge ball appear
42:38
from fire. That was impressive because sponge balls don't like fire.
42:41
And he's like, and then it's a red sponge ball. Yeah. Like...
42:46
Just so cool yeah i immediately find
42:49
that intriguing to use more
42:52
than flash paper for certain items because it's just
42:55
so cool to be able to come up to like how many times at events
42:58
are they little those little bowl candles on
43:01
tables and if you can just come up to it and
43:03
instead of doing flash paper throwing it
43:06
to your hand for whatever you just come over it they
43:09
see you pick up the freaking flame and then you close your hand
43:12
and it's an item it's so great it's
43:15
unreal uh yeah yeah very
43:19
good Liam was saying he had an electric fire wallet
43:22
yeah those are pretty epic yeah in fact it's so red
43:25
I even find those nowadays he had he actually has
43:27
some stuff that he hadn't even demoed yet but that was available at his merchandise
43:31
stand that really cool thing with the silk which is not his but he had access
43:34
to it there was a particular gimmick deck that he had this this this blank deck
43:39
effect that he was performing and that was that was really special And so I
43:43
bought the deck because I like having utilities.
43:46
I like things that you can create your own stuff out of it. You know what I mean?
43:50
If someone said, look, there's a saw you can build houses with.
43:53
Great, I can build my own house with this saw.
43:55
I like that manner of thinking. So it was really cool. He is lecturing here in Melbourne.
44:01
Any Melbourne listeners out there, if you haven't got tickets.
44:04
It's not just a dedicated boring card lecture. It's not my advice.
44:09
You have to see it. Like I said, for me, it was my favorite thing of the whole
44:12
convention because it speaks to me in my style of magic.
44:17
Go see it. If you haven't got a ticket yet, please go get one now.
44:21
So after that, we had dinner. Oh no, we had Sean Taylor's lecture.
44:29
Come on, Sean Taylor. He is now originally from the UK and now an Australian
44:37
national treasure. That's what this guy is, honestly.
44:41
His accolades are phenomenal.
44:45
He's worked on so many things. One of the best routines that were part of the Penn and Teller tour.
44:50
You might recall when we went and saw Penn and Teller, how he did this effect
44:53
with these balloons and so forth.
44:55
Sean Taylor had a very big hand in that. And a lot of people don't know that,
44:58
but it goes to speak to the volumes of knowledge this guy has.
45:03
And he's released so many books, Minecoaster and the other one, was it Minefields?
45:08
Mind i know he has mind storm or
45:12
his mind storm and that was my coaster that's the right right
45:15
the two main books his thought process
45:18
on the mentalism game is very good very practical and
45:21
it's genuinely things that he performs himself and i'll
45:25
talk about his performance in the gala later but the
45:28
lecture was so good and one thing the me that stood
45:31
out he has this deck of cards that
45:35
emulates the esp thing never really
45:38
liked where people go like i have these esp cards and
45:42
they only have six cards but he has this
45:45
genius thought process where he's taken esp
45:48
cards and literally converted them into a proper pack of playing cards where
45:54
you have four different colors representing four different suits and each value
45:59
is represented by an esp symbol that is extremely easy to remember with a very
46:04
good marking system and a whole bunch of other stuff.
46:06
I cannot tell you how good this is. If you are a mentalist and this is not in
46:11
your kit or you don't own one of these, you're doing yourself a disservice.
46:16
It is so good. So, so good.
46:20
Yeah, it was great to see a pro that just like, he's released so many effects
46:23
over the years because he's just so great at creating magic while performing.
46:28
And he just, yeah, like, yeah, he just banged out like so much magic in the
46:32
lecture. He's like, here's another thing I created. Here's another thing.
46:35
And yeah, his ESP deck, to have an entire deck of essentially different ESP
46:40
symbols because there's different colors and variations.
46:44
Now you can do card effects, but it's not a card effect because you're,
46:50
Using symbols, reading their mind, and totally different.
46:54
And yeah, he fried us with a good bunch of effects.
46:58
Yeah. His work on the envelope was awesome. That's him texting you right now, I think.
47:03
He goes, yeah, he could tell. I was talking shit about him. He can tell.
47:07
Yeah. Yeah. So it was the envelope stuff that he did as well.
47:13
You know, he did this beautiful, I'm getting sent nudes, I'm sorry,
47:15
from Sean Taylor. I'll mute that.
47:20
So, yeah, his envelope work was really, really cool. Like, really, really cool.
47:25
And it's not something I mess with, and I regret it now. Like,
47:29
it's definitely something that I'm now going to mess with.
47:32
Yeah, scope out his work. Yeah, his envelope, real quick, like,
47:36
for example, he showed, instead of doing a coin flip where you have a whole
47:40
audience standing up, this macro effect, you do a heads and tails game until
47:45
you whittle down to one person,
47:47
he has a way to do it with envelopes, and it's asking questions like what do
47:51
you prefer, A or B, and just freely just ripping this envelope open, taking out the answer.
47:58
You can whittle down and predict who will be the final person.
48:01
And now you're not relying on can I sense which way up or down this coin is
48:06
or in the moment you forget or accidentally say the wrong one.
48:09
It's a very surefire method that you can tailor to have.
48:14
Like if you're at a company event, The questions can be tailored to the industry you're in.
48:20
It's very, very, very clever. Definitely search it out.
48:23
And yeah, he's a pro. You can tell he's a pro. He's done it forever.
48:27
So we could yeah oh oh and we'll like we'll circle back
48:30
to his oh let's can we move on to the gala now and talk about
48:33
like what that was like yeah so after that amazing lecture
48:36
which again we could talk about for a whole episode we had
48:39
a gala show in which we had a
48:41
bunch of a mixture of our international guests and
48:45
of course our local talent performing there one of which of
48:48
course was our good friend the amazing nigel who took the night
48:50
out doing his signature pieces which are amazing but
48:54
the night kicked off with our mc who is
48:57
an absolute hero of mine
49:00
if you don't know him his name
49:03
is darren carr and he oh my god
49:06
if he's not one of the funniest people on the planet christ almighty christ
49:12
almighty yeah darren carr please i need to i need to see that i need to say
49:19
because this is my first time I'd heard of Darren Carr because he'd been on
49:23
one of the earliest seasons of Australia's Got Talent.
49:26
And I knew he was working the scene doing corporate gigs.
49:29
I'd hear about him talking and stuff like that. Scotty P is saying in the chat,
49:34
Darren had me peeing my pants. Absolutely. And that was even before the show.
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I'd never seen Darren work in person. So anytime I met him, he just looked like
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a very polite guy because he wasn't, you know, in show mode.
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So I assumed he was good, but I, you know, that was kind of it.
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But seeing this guy work was freaking mind-blowing.
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Unreal. His timing and writing ability for jokes and callbacks and his tonality
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and like the silence before he continues to make you laugh. Like he'd make you
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laugh by not saying anything.
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And then obviously he's a comedian, but his act is...
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Ventriloquism.
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Throughout the show, mixed up amongst his comedy. And, you know,
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when sometimes when you hear us talk about magicians, you know,
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we, we sing them praise because, you know, we're nice guys and they're nice guys.
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So we'll sing them praise, but this is not that this is genuinely,
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this fricking guy had 150 magicians losing their shit every single time he came on stage.
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Like Nick, what was the first thing
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he did and and by the way he's quite
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a chunky dude and he uses that in his act so we can
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say that right like he's a big dude so you see a big dude come on stage and
50:55
then what happens nick yeah he's a heavy set dude super stocky looking but more
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like a cuddly wholesome thing right and he comes out he's got his suit on he
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grabs the microphone and then he says.
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He grabs the microphone he then grabs the mic
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stand and says let me get this out of the way
51:15
so you can see me that hit
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so that hit so well
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just to start things off you know
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especially when he's this heavyset dude and it's like we can
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see you buddy we can see you and it's
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so rather with the single line that everyone goes
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like he hits so fast and so hard
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as far as a laugh goes yeah like it is crazy and then he gets up he does this
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opening bit everyone's red hot from the laughs he's a proper good vent like
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it is just he's just he's just a master and and this circling back to the first
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time i saw him and the first time i also saw a good friend the amazing nigel.
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He headlined the show when we first, this was back in Rudy Hill at the GenieCon convention.
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And everyone was like, no, no, no, I'm not going after Darren.
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And because everyone refused, I am not going on after Darren.
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Like, that's it. And I'm like, who is he? And then he actually ended up like
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headlining. And I went, now I know why.
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Because it was the first time when you see those like, oh, this will have you
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rolling in the aisles, genuinely rolling in the aisles. I was literally on the floor.
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I was laughing so hard that I had tears in my eyes and I was trying to wipe
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them because I didn't want to miss anything. I was like trying to hold my eyes open.
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And the beautiful thing is because he's ripping on himself first,
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like he makes lots of jokes about his weight and his life.
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So that gives permission to now rip on the audience or, you know,
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like he did some great digs at Piper Magic who organized. Yeah.
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And you. what did he say to you he's like why do you have nothing on top it's
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like you're upside down you got hair at the bottom and nothing on top he was
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like how come you're bald but you got a beard looks like your face is upside
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down that's right that's right and he's like you know it's a pleasure to be
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here so glad that i'm not getting paid today you know but you get to come for free.
53:15
But his delivery is so good and and
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his ability to let the audience laugh just
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long enough and then he's like anyway and then
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he just has another killer line ready to go we need
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to have him on this podcast why the hell have we
53:32
not had him on yet we let's that i'm sending
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a message to him let's beg well he probably needs to recover
53:37
but this week i'm definitely sending him a message you guys
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need to see how great this dude is i understand why you
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don't see videos of him going up and promo and
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pushing media and stuff because he doesn't need to he's just
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fucking funny so it funny proper yeah
53:53
just just for reference there is like this particular award i
53:56
forget what it's called but it's quite prestigious to the point where john
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farnham who is i don't know what you want to the
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australian icon yeah he's an australian icon he's kind
54:05
of like the i don't know he's like the bruce springsteen or something of you
54:08
know like like he's he's affectionately known to
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us as australia as the voice like he isn't that voice
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he's won this award like seven times
54:17
darren cars won an eight of like
54:21
being australia's best entertainer like just for reference that's how good that
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sounds right that's how good he is so anyway so he opens up following him is
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my friend and yours brendan dooley all the way from new zealand and he performs
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his killer bit uh hoop and glass routine which man rock rock the room.
54:41
Like he does this bit like, and, and I half wonder if he did it on purpose because
54:45
you know that thing where jugglers do, it's like, they're going to do their
54:47
final trick and they screw it up once or twice. Yeah.
54:50
Sometimes wonder, I should have asked him, but it's this whole like flip on
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the front, flip behind the back, flip this and that, catch it,
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toss it in the air, grab the drink and then skull. Like it was.
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I've never seen it in, in real life. It was crazy to see.
55:05
And Brennan's a tall guy and the roof is a low roof.
55:08
So he even had to, for the finale, so we're just talking about a little wooden
55:13
hoop and a glass of water that's balancing on it and you're spinning it around
55:17
and he like does a double, he throws it and it spins around twice in the air.
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Catches it, throws it up, catches the glass.
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And yeah, he dropped it once or twice, like, which what, like what to Nick saying,
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sometimes you have to stuff it up to let people know what you're doing is real.
55:34
Because like for a second i'm like how is
55:37
that water not coming out when you're flipping it around like maybe it's
55:40
a gimmick glass but the fact that it did spill on one
55:44
of the early ones maybe go oh holy crap okay this is
55:46
all as it is yeah and then when you see him
55:49
nail the the big finale i mean
55:52
every version he was doing was amazing but then when you see him
55:55
do it it's like holy crap this is insane absolutely
55:59
he followed up with a killer card trick and then he finished
56:02
with his killer piece of he's just a bill
56:05
a bill inside crunchy bar it's one
56:08
of the cleanest things you'll ever see credit to him on the
56:10
method for that super genius stuff and and then yeah
56:13
people were talking about it like consistently afterwards so like well done
56:16
to him oh yeah yep then our good friend martin he also performed a set as well
56:21
again just beautiful spanish magic yeah that's it found a way martin's found
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a really nice way of like you know he's English is great,
56:32
but it is, he does have a Spanish accent, obviously being from Argentina.
56:36
So, but he uses that to his advantage. Like he will say things and like how
56:42
you say, you know, cup and ball.
56:44
And it'd be like, ah, you know, this saying is better in Spanish.
56:47
Yes. And then, you know, he, he, and he, he uses his Spanish style of like very one time.
56:54
It's like, do this and chat and da, da, da, da, da, like shuffle the deck.
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Like, can you, instead of saying, can you shuffle the deck? Like,
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he's like, can you cha-da-da-da-da?
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Great. And then as they're shuffling, he's like, cha-da-da-da-da.
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He's just like having fun and there's no like dull moments.
57:08
And like, he's like teaching some Spanish words throughout the show.
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And it's like very unique to any of the other acts.
57:15
Like everyone else that came on stage is trying to be funny and trying to be
57:19
like, you know, comedy magic.
57:21
But he's, he's stood out as being so, so different, but really engaging.
57:26
He does this really funny bit where he's like, my English is not so good.
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Your name is? And he's like, I'm Liam. He's like, can I call you Martin?
57:32
Good. And then goes another person, what is your name? And he's like,
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Martin. And then he goes to the third person. He's like, and your name is?
57:38
He's like, Gavin. He's like.
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And after an awkward pause goes Martin oh good Martin yeah and then he gets
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a woman and then he gets a lady he's like in your name Martina good come on
57:51
Martina and then there's a beautiful piece of magic with them like just really fun,
57:55
really really fun stuff so and again he's a pleasure to watch he slayed yeah
58:00
then we took a short break after that which I had to pee because Darren's so
58:04
funny Sean Taylor I've got to talk about Sean Taylor's set he's mentally in peace bro,
58:09
what are you going to say about it okay so he did the thing with the balls like
58:15
okay you know that thing where it's like all these bags go in a ball you grab a ball and then you say.
58:20
Like there's there's one black ball one miscolored ball in amongst
58:23
all these white balls and you got to guess which color the ball is and then
58:26
you saw like no magnets no
58:30
none of that jazz like just really really cool
58:33
and i'm like this was this was awesome this was really really awesome and
58:36
what i loved about watching his act as well is that it's fun
58:39
watching the process like i i say
58:42
this i don't say this with any beguilement but it's
58:45
that type of thing where like what is mentalism it's a
58:48
one minute routine crammed into 30 minutes you know and that process or watching
58:54
people attempt to make it look like a process can be so laborious and so like
58:59
can you do the magic already or can you do the the moment already and you're
59:03
like oh but watching the way sean does it master.
59:07
It's just beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
59:10
And so that was great. Then he did this awesome...
59:16
Lottery prediction and i loved
59:19
that because i'm working on a lot of predictions myself and his was
59:22
so clever like so clever and and
59:25
i just thought it was brilliant i just thought his set was absolutely killer he
59:28
knocked it out the park and yeah i just don't
59:31
have enough good things to say about him it was such a pleasure to watch him like work
59:35
it was just great yeah and
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then i think rounding it out was our good friend uh the amazing
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nigel to close the night right yeah the amazing
59:45
Nigel you know he's so seasoned and he
59:48
just like he was the perfect guy to close the show
59:51
because he even after the audience watching magic
59:54
for an hour and a half or an hour and 50 minutes he just came up with such energy
59:58
like he always does like a champ and he loves doing magic that's like weird
1:00:03
and peculiar and funny and so good so he did a routine with cheese which if
1:00:09
you've seen him perform you'll know what it is if you haven't you should just
1:00:11
come to see him perform because is at the theater of magic every week.
1:00:14
And so he's getting people up. He's like having people throw slices of cheese
1:00:19
into the audience and putting them, they're putting cheese down their pants
1:00:23
and all this hilarious stuff.
1:00:24
And then, and that's great. And then he closes out the convention like a fricking champ, man.
1:00:35
Like he, as people are coming in and sitting down, he walks about the place,
1:00:39
he shakes your hand. He says, what is your name?
1:00:42
You tell him, and he goes radio and remembers it and then at the end of the show.
1:00:48
He thanks every one of you by name to show that he remembered every single.
1:00:52
And not only that, there was people who were like, you moved seats.
1:00:54
You were over there before.
1:00:55
Yeah, that was so good. Like, we all know he can do this.
1:00:59
Like, he's the only person in Australia I know of that is a memory expert in
1:01:03
this way. And that's why he's had such a long career.
1:01:06
He's the only person that can freaking do it. So we all know he's going to do
1:01:10
it. Like, we know it's going to happen.
1:01:12
We know he can do it. but yet seeing him
1:01:15
recite 150 people's names
1:01:18
is still so incredible to
1:01:21
watch and when he said you were
1:01:24
sitting over there you change your name and like oh you
1:01:27
gave me this name but your real name is this name and like
1:01:31
he's throwing in jokes as he's naming every single
1:01:34
person in the convention we have another sean there's a
1:01:37
sean there sean there sean there and sean there and
1:01:39
a sean there
1:01:44
you know and like scott p is saying a
1:01:46
lot of complicated names too like there are a lot of like asian
1:01:49
names that had that phonetically in australia is hard to pronounce but he not
1:01:53
only pronounced it but remembered it and yeah and what's funny is like i think
1:01:59
his record is 300 names so for him at the theater of magic when he does this
1:02:04
50 people is like a walk in the park for him but But for me to remember 50 names,
1:02:09
freaking impossible in an hour.
1:02:11
So yes, and then 150 names is still not even maxing out his CPU and his brain.
1:02:17
But like for us, it's incredible. So that got a standing ovation to end the gala show.
1:02:25
And it was just like the perfect placement to have him there and to have Darren emceeing.
1:02:29
For me, Darren and Nigel were the highlights because I'd never seen Darren work.
1:02:34
And it's just so, so funny. It didn't even have to do magic And then Nigel's
1:02:40
always going to be a favourite Because like.
1:02:42
That's a skill no one has. I don't know a single person personally that does it.
1:02:48
And yeah, to me, it's Harry Lorraine and the amazing Nigel. I can't remember names, you know? Yeah.
1:02:53
Now we have interviewed Nigel once before on episode 178.
1:02:58
So if you do want to listen to that, you can, thank you, Google.
1:03:03
You can listen back on your favorite platform or of course, go back and scope it out on YouTube.
1:03:08
If you just look up memory master, the amazing Nigel, that's
1:03:12
episode 178 so yeah if you
1:03:14
i revisit that episode it is
1:03:17
brilliant yeah all in all the assembly
1:03:20
convention was unreal there's talks of
1:03:23
it coming back next year sean throughout
1:03:26
he throughout the line maybe next year so
1:03:29
maybe it's a time to consider coming
1:03:32
and visit australia and checking out a cool lecture because
1:03:35
there's always top tier guests coming along
1:03:38
to it and now i'm just more excited even
1:03:41
more excited now for magic live in august because
1:03:44
this was like such a great time such
1:03:48
a great weekend and now
1:03:50
i look forward to doing more of that convention-y stuff indeed it
1:03:54
was great but you know the good thing about conventions as well friends is not
1:03:58
only what happens in the convention but the moments in between the moments that
1:04:01
you make friends there are so many people that i met i met harry i met lewis
1:04:06
amazing hassan he was just these guys these guys have hands,
1:04:09
man. These guys have hands and it's like.
1:04:12
That's the beauty of these sort of situations. You meet these people,
1:04:14
you set up these friendships and you watch them do stuff. That,
1:04:18
that, that's where the magic is. Those moments in between.
1:04:21
Unfortunately, we're at an hour and seven minutes now here on the YouTube.
1:04:25
So it's at the point where we sort of need to wrap up and we could talk about
1:04:28
all that stuff, but I implore you have an opportunity to be a part of a convention
1:04:33
and learn some knowledge.
1:04:35
I highly suggest you do it. And again, we will keep pushing to ensure that Piper
1:04:39
does these again in the future and And we'll do everything we can to be a part of it as well.
1:04:43
And everyone who came and said hello and listened to the pod,
1:04:46
hey, man, so cool to meet you.
1:04:48
Again, shout out to Dave and Gregory, who I hadn't met before.
1:04:51
And of course, to catch up with good friend Scotty P, who we love immensely.
1:04:56
It was great. So I think as we take out the episode, is there anything we want to make mention?
1:05:01
Look, I'm saying this to the universe. We want to have Christian Grace on the
1:05:05
pod. We want to have Darren Carr on the pod.
1:05:07
But otherwise it was just yeah it was great to see
1:05:10
fellow magicians people that listen
1:05:13
to the pod people who don't listen to the pod but just
1:05:16
you know just great guys and yeah it's
1:05:19
great to watch my fellow brother nick work at the
1:05:22
theater of magic as always we're gonna do more of
1:05:25
that and yeah all around such a fun weekend
1:05:28
so that's it my friends i
1:05:30
hope you could live a little bit vicariously through us yeah in
1:05:33
fact everyone out there message christian grace on instagram
1:05:37
and go please go on the magic guys podcast just shoot
1:05:39
him that and i'll i'll do the rest thank you
1:05:42
yes and we will see you next time on the magic guys thanks for listening it's
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time for us to disappear now disappear now but we'll see you again on the next
1:05:57
episode of the magic guys.